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VOL. 54, No. 6
Joint Customs Day
Decreed by Board
Joint freshman customs day will go into effect at 8 a.m. today as
decreed by the Freshman Customs and Regulations Board.
According to this change in customs program, upperclassmen
may enforce customs on freshman women and upperclasswomen may
enforce customs on freshman men
Regular customs regulations
Schott Asks
Scholarship
Increase
Thomas Schott, Interfraternity
Council president, last nig h t
called upon fraternities to raise
their scholarship standards and
eliminate initiation practices
which are morally and physically
degrading.
Schott, speaking before the
first IFC meeting of the fall se
mester, told fraternity repreSen
tatives that "common sense"
should be the watchword during
fraternity activities. He reminded
fraternities that a list of worth
while community projects is
available to all fraternitieS for use
during their "help week" pro
grams.
Schott also asked fraternities
to remind members to conduct
themselves in a proper manner
Oct. • 3 at the Penn State-Penn
sylvania football game in Phila
delphia. Kent Forster, faculty
adviser, reminded the council a
renewal of the Penn football con
tract depends partly upon student
conduct at games.
Alan McChesney, secretary
treasurer, announced IFC official
pledge cards will be available
later this week at the Student
Union desk in Old Main. 'No man
will be recognized as officially
pledged until IFC receives a
pledge card for him, Schott said.
Pledge cards must be turned in
with - a $2 pledge fee by Oct. 9,
he said.
After a request from the floor,
SchOtt agreed to look into the
possibility of making the Belle-
Hop Ball weekend a "big week
end." This would allowimports
to be housed overnight in ap
proved fraternity houses for that
weekend.
Hostetter Defends
College Work Policy
S. Hostetter, Comptroller of the College, released a detailed
reply to the technical and service employees .yesterday and said
that working conditions were at an all-time high.
"The Pennsylvania State College has lived up to every commit
ment it has made to its employees, and has, indeed, exceeded them,"
Hostetter said in comments addressed to Local 67 of the American
Federation of Labor, State, County, and Municipal Employees Union.
He added that, "Working con
ditions - of technical and service
employees of the College have
been greatly improved during
the, past two and a half years.
Thus, the average increase in
wages in this period had been
more than $5O a month."
The '.President's office has re
mained silent on the request of
the union to confer personally
with. Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower.
The request came at a special
meeting'Monday night and called
for the conference by Friday.
Conference Could PreVent Strike
At the meeting, George L. Fink,
local president, and R. A. Calla
han, international representative,
said that the conference could
Prevent another strike such as
last fall's which seriously ham
pered the College. The two and
one half day work halt last year
was terminated when the College
agreed= to consider the grievances
Of the employees.
In his statement Hostetter said
that he felt therehad arisen `fcon
siderable misunderstanding" re
:: College - policies. That
STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24: 1953
will also be in effect, and upper
class men and women may haze
either men or women.
Upperclassmen Enthusiastic
The change in customs will be
in effect today only. Standard
customs enforcement will be re
sumed tomorrow.
Upperclassmen especially have
voiced anticipation of joint en
forcement day. "It's a lot more
fun than regular customs," one
senior said. "When you see a
pretty girl on campus, it's hard
to remember she can't talk to
you!"
Freshman women aren't quite
so sure how they feel about the
day. "It'll be fun, I guess," one
frosh said a little uncertainly
yesterday. However, they seem to
have no fear of joint hazing.
1800 Get Handbooks
No customs violations charges
were made yesterday, according
to Thomas Farrell and Joyce
Shusman, co-chairmen of customs
board. •
Approximately 1800 freshmen
and transfer students hg.ye re
ceived Student Handbooks. Hand
books may be picked up at the
Student Union desk in Old. Main
until the supply runs out, ac
cording to Richard Rau, editor.
Enforcement Stronger ,
Increasing spirit , among fresh
man women was voiced Tuesday
night when over . a hundred frosh
Jiving in McAllister Hall sere
naded upperclasswomen's dorms.
Led by several girls, the' group
visited Atherton, Simmons, Mc-
Elwain and Grange, singing and
cheering at each dorm.
Stronger customs enforcement
was made yesterday by hat
w omen and upperclasswomen.
Frosh women seemed persistently
unsure of the location of Patter
son laboratory, according to one
group of upperclasswomen.
News and Views Staff
The staff of News and Views
will meet at 7 tonight in 14 Home
Economics.
was the reason for the extensive,
point-by-point reply to / the union
demands.
• Difficulty Explained
Hostetter said the program for
service and technical employees
approved by the Board of Trus
' tees exceeds its commitments to
the union and also what was in
cluded in the program the College
proposed to the 1953 legislature.
To explain the difficulty in the
rotation on off-days under the
new 40-hour week of five eight
hour days, HoStetter said that
some confusion must be exper
ienced until the system is estab
lished. It is the aim of the Col
lege to share Saturday and Sun
day work equally, he said.
In reply to the request for over
time for all Saturday and Sun
day work, he said that it is not
sound policy to pay time and a
half for regularly scheduled work.
The added pay is already given
for work exceeding the 40 hours,
he added.
Hostetter also mentioned the 12
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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Cabinet Will
Encampment
EnCampment resolutions from five workshops will be presented to All-College Cabi
net at its first meeting of the semester at 8 tonight.
Cabinet approval will, be sought on the requirement that men living in College dormi
tories wear coats and ties for the noon meal Sunday, and that men living in the West
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Dorm area wear coats and ties to dinner nightly.
Resolutions from the encampment include a proposal for the reorganization of Cab
inet Projects Council; proposals
for improving students participa
tion in the Community Forum;
Honors Day, and local religious
activities, and the men's dress pro
posal mentioned above.
Three Tribunal Appointments
The proposal for a traffic court,
which originally arose from the
encampment's judicial workshop,
and a report from the Campus
Chest workshop will also be pre
sented.
Three members of Tribunal, a
sophomore, junior and senior, and
additional campus chest commit
tees will be appointed by All-Col
lege President Richard Lemyre.
Reports f rom• the Orientation
Week and Fun Night committees
will be presented to cabinet by
Charles Gibbs and Gerald Mau
rey, committee chairmen.
Edward Haag, All-College vice
president, will present the stu
dent leadership workshop report.
Proposals from this group adopt
ed at the encampment ask for a
committee to be formed to study
and . rewrite the constitution of
Cabinet Projects Council. Under
the new constitution, CPC's name
would be changed to College Sec
retariat, and its functions would
be to make studies, and adminis
ter projects assigned by cabinet.
An executive .secretary, appoint
ed by the all-College president
and approved by cabinet, who has
worked on the Secretariat for at'
least one semester, will head the
organization.
Cultural Recommendations
The committee will also recom
mend to cabinet that membership
in the National Student Associa
tion be retained, and that cabinet
review its policy on the number
of delegates to be sent to the
national and regional conventions
of NSA. Cabinet voted last spring
to limit its regional delegation to
one person. Robert Smoot, . cam
pus NSA coordinator, was the
only delegate from the College at
the National Students Congress in
Chicago this summer.
Recommendations from the cul
tural 'aspects committee will be
presented to cabinet by John Gar
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Hot Group
To Sponsor
Pep Rally
A pep rally at 7:30 tonight will
send the football team to its open
ing game at the University of Wis
consin. The rally, sponsored by
Hat Society Council, will be held
in front of the Lion Shrine.
The Blue Band, led by James
Dunlop, will leave Carnegie Hall
at 7:15 p.m. and proceed through
the West Dorm courtyard to the
Lion Shrine. At the same time,
hatmen and hatwomen will enter
dorms to round up freshmen for
the rally, not to raid dormitories
as frosh have feared in past years,
Richard Gibbs, Hat Society Coun
cil president, announced.
Hours to Be Announced
The entire cheerleading squad,
headed by Bruce Wagner, will
lead students in songs and cheers.
A feature of the program will be
a short talk by "Rip" Engle, head
football coach, to introduce Tony
Rados and Don Malinak, team co
captains.
Following the rally, the team
will leave by _ bus for Altoona,
where they will entrain for Wis
consin.
Dick Altman of Beta Sigma
Rho and Pat Marstellar of Tri-Vi
are emcees for the rally. Also
Joyce • Shusman, co-chairman of
the Freshman -Customs Board will
announce hours for frosh women
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Froth Offers
'Good Things'
In First issue
Esquire gets competition today
as Froth, campus humor maga
zine, goes on sale with a 64-page
"Good Things" issue containing
a 10-page Froth Girl Calendar.
Magazines are sold on the
Mall, at the Corner Room, and in
front of various dorms.
The calendar is guaranteed by
Editor Marshall Donley to satisfy
the most homesick freshman from
September to June. Froth Girl
of the Month is Helen "Minki"
Forbes of State College, a fresh
man in elementary education.
"Going Around in Circles" a
popular music column by Byron
Fielding, joins the regular Froth
features "Old Mania" covering
pinnings, engagements, and mar
riages, and "Dope Sheet" on com
ing movies and athletic events.
Cigarette Starts
Mattress Blaze
Fire resulting from a carelessly
placed cigarette caused total
damage yesterday to a mattress
and bed linen in a fourth floor
room in Simmons Hall.
The blaze, discovered by two
junior women, was believed to
have started about 9 a.m. when a
cigarette, left burning in an ash
tray, fell onto the bed.
Capt. Philip A. Mark of the
Campus Patrol was called. How
ever, dormitory residents had ex
tinguished the flames when fire
engines arrived.
'53
To
Class Gift Goes
Proposed Chase!
An organ, chimes, or possibly a stained glass window will be
installed, in the proposed meditation chapel as senior class gift of
the Class of 1953, Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs,
has' announced.
Theodore timmel, class president, presented the gift of ap
proximately $9OOO at Class Night exercises June 3.
The meditation chapel project
began last spring with the decis
ion by the Chapel fund commit
tee to divide weekly Chapel of
ferings between scholarships at
Silliman University in the Philip
pine Islands and a new non
sectarian meditation center.
Prexy Receives Gift
The committee's policy until
the end of this academic year is
to allocate $3OOO of the offerings
to two students attending the
university and offerings over
that amount to . the new chapel.
Approximately $2900 was collect
ed through 1952-53 Sunday of
ferings.
A gift of $5OOO to actually start
the chapel fund was received in
March by President Milton S.
Eisenhower. The alumni 'develop
ment fund supplemented the or
iginal gift by approximately $29,-
000. The class gift, selected
Hear
Ideas
AIM Seeks
Responsible
Dorm Chiefs
A group of the Association of
Independent Men, consisting of
the executive committee an d
committee chairmen of AIM, rec
ommended last night that respon
sibility for disturbances in dormi
tory areas housing independent
men be given to the area presi
dents.
. Thus, it was felt that the Nit.
tany, Pollock, and West Dormi
tory area presidents, along with
the various dormitory and level
presidents, should be notified of
this • responsibility while still
candidates for office, and not yet
elected.
The difficulty in reaching the
individual independent man with
news of AIM meetings and activi
ties was also discussed. On -big
ger occasions and for the larger
events of AIM, suggested Joe
Somers, AIM president, the dorm
itory and level presidents could
be invited to the Board of Gov
ernors meetings.
Opposition was voiced to a rec
ommendation that would require
coats as standard dress at evening
meals.
This was recommended by the
cultural aspects committee of the
Student Encampment -held this
fall and will go before Cabinet
tonight.
This suggestion would meet
with strong disapproval, especial
ly in the Nittany-Pollock area, re
ported Robert Harding, AIM vice-.
president.
Following a ruling of the state
legislature, it was also reported
that fire drills would be held in.
the dormitory areas during the
semester, and that dismissal from,
the College would be meted out
to anyone turning in a f alse
alarm.
through an election in the spring,
brought the fund total to approxi
mately $41;000. College officials
estimate the meditation chapel
will cost about $125,000.
Plan Weddings There
The new chapel, which will seat
100 persons, will include a tri
i altar, embracing the symbolism
of the Roman-Catholic, Protes
tant, and Jewish religions. The
plan also calls for a chimes tower,
memorial windows, small choir
loft, and an organ.
Serving principally as a "stop
ping off" meditation place for
students and faculty, the chapel
also will be used for weddings
and small worship services in the
three faiths. A daily worship
service program will be organ
ized as soon as the chapel is es
tablished, the Rev. Luther H.
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FIVE CENTS