Weather— Fair and Warm VOL. 53, No. 27 Colleije . Seeks.. Name Change Mil For The Military Ball has been declared eligible for classification under student regulations governing late permissions along with the Junior and Senior Proms and the Interfraternity Council Ball. The ruling, delivered by the Senate Committee on Student Af fairs, drops the freshman and sophomore class dances and adds the Autumn Ball To Feature 'Wonder' A surprise feature of this year's annual Autumn Ball will be the "Tenth Wonder of the World." Few hints of the attraction have been given by William Shifflett, decorations co-chairman. The informal dance, is sched uled to be held from 9 to 12 p.M. tomorrow in - Recreation H a 11. Sponsors of the ball are the As sociation of Independent Men and Leonides, independent women's organization. Featured will be Gerry Kehler's band and two vocalists. The "Tenth Wonder" attrac tion, Shifflett said, is something that has never been used before at a College dance. It is the new est thing, he said, on any campus. A 21-inch loving cup will also be presented during intermission I time to the winner of the Penn State-Texas Christian University game. Presentation of the bronze cup will inaugurate a new tra dition between the rivals. The autumn theme of the dance will include a false crepe paper ceiling, real trees, leaves and colored_ spotlights. Tickets are on sale at the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main, and may be obtained from elected representatives in Leonides or AIM. The price is $2.50 per couple. Ed Students Will Elect 2 Freshmen to Council Two seats in Education Student Council will be filled by fresh men in the elections Monday and Tuesday. Freshmen may obtain nomina tion blanks at 10 5 Burrowes. Forms must be returned tomor row. Candidates may be self-nom inated, or may be nominated by any student in the Education school, Sarah Lessig, elections chairman, said. Community Concerts To Start Monday St. Paul's Cathedral Choir of London, which will open the Com munity Concert series, at 8 p.m. Monday in Schwab Auditorium, in cludes a repertoire of composers from the 16th century to the present clay. In the program the choir will sing the works of Thomas Weekes, Heinrich Schutz, Ave Verum, Wolfgang Mozart, Samuel Sebas tian Wesley and John Sebastian Bach. The choir is composed of 30 choristers or "Children of Paul's" and 18 men called the Vicars Choral. . The choir's history dates back more than 800 years. As far back as .the 14th century the ,choir is mentioned as producing scriptural plays. In 1876 a school was founded for the choristers. Until the school was, founded, customs officers "pressed" boys into the Royal Choirs of St. Paul's. More than 20 boys now apply for each vacancy in the choir. • - VI . 4r v A ,q,.. , „ die 1 r i ttt g L:,,ez.4,1 0 14. .2Q,0 , -..„..5.1N..,.? Se s 3 Ball Eligible Late Hours Military Ball. Late permissions are "overned by Rule Z-2c of the Senate,Regu lations for Undergraduate Stu dents which says: Without spe cial permission from the Commit tee on Student Affairs, social functions, except class and All- College dances, shall not continue later. than 12 o'clock midnight. Consideration of the matter was brought up by a petition from Douglas Kosan, chairman of the Military Ball committee, who re quested late permissions for that dance. The study was under the direction of Richard Lemyre, All- College president and student member of the student affairs committee. • Lemyre said that in investigat ing the dances to see which quali fied for late permissions, data considered included attendance figures, if the dance features a name band, the price of tickets, the place held, and the people in vited. All of the four dances classified have attendance records of equal standing, all over 2000, while the other ones have been drawing less than 1000. These four- are also the only ones hiring national- name bands. While the Military Ball limits the number of tickets sold, Lem yre said, anyone may- purchase a ticket, and ROTC students come from all schools of the College and represent a large percentage of the student body. Thief Nets $lOO From Fraternity A fraternity was robbed of over $lOO in a mid-morning burglary Tuesday. The robbery occurred in the major fraternity area of the town. 0. Edward Pollock, assistant to the dean of, men in charge of frat ernity affairs, stated that many fraternities invite robbery when they continue to leave doors and windows open during the night. Special precautions should be taken by individual fraternity men during Homecoming Week end, he said. There will be many people wandering in and out of the fraternities whose identity will not be known by everyone. I The choristers attend school 40 weeks of the year. Most leave school at the age of 14 ,when they enter universities and professions. During their school year the boys sing for 500 services and take part in royal celebrations. In June the choir was one of two selected to sing with the Westminster Ab bey Choir at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11. The choir will tour in the Uni ted States and Canada until Nov. 25. It is the first_ tour the choir has made in this country. The purpose of the trip is to pay tribute to 28,000 American servicemen who died in Britain' during World War 11. FOR A.BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1953 JOAN ZIEGLER, third semester elementary education major, sits on her throne after she was proclaimed queen of 1953 Homecoming activities. She was named queen last night at the first performance of the Thespian show "Let's Face It." Flanking Miss Ziegler are Ann Skapik and Alfred Klimcke, actors in the first skit. Joan Ziegler Hom.ecoming Miss Joan Ziegler, third semester elementary education major from Mt. Lebanon, was crowned 1953 Homecoming Queen, last night at the first performance of the Thespian show "Let's Face It." Miss Ziegler, a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, was sponsored by Sigma Chi. She was chosen Monday night by secret vote of the football squad. Other finalists *ere Juliana Fees, Louise Justin, ICU Pep Rally To Feature McCoy Ta I k Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the School of Physical Education and Athletics, will be guest of honor at the Penn State-Texas Christian game pep rally at 7:30 tonight in front of Old Main. The-rally is sponsored by Blue Key, junior men's hat society, and Cwens, spohomore women's hat society. The Blue Band, led by James Dunlop, will form at the corner of Prospect avenue and Locust Lane at 7 p.m. and march through town to Old Main. Head Cheerleader Bruce Wag ner and the cheering squad will lead songs and cheers at the rally. Emcees will be Fred Owlett, fifth semester psychology major, and Robert Piper, fifth semester in dustrial engineering major. Hatmen and women will rout frosh' from the dorms at 7 p.m. Parmi Nous and Skull an d Bones, senior men's hat societies, will meet at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the entrance to Beaver Field to guard senior and junior bleacher sections against "invasion" by un derclassmen. According to Hat So ciety Council, underclassmen sat in the sections reserved for upper classmen at. the Syracuse game last week. The senior men's hat societies and Mortar Board and Scrolls, senior women's hat societies, will' meet at 1:45 p.m. tomorrow on the track around Beaver Field to form the cordon before the game.. Ed LaVie Deadline Education seniors have until 4 p.m. Tuesday to have pic tures taken for LaVie at the Penn State Photo Shop. Coed Voting: Eye 14 44 rgt. 4 to the Future?— See Page 4 Named Queen Nancy Hagy and Jane Mason. They will serve as members of her court this weekend. The five finalists were selected from 94 entries by Ray Fortunato, director of Thespians; Ridge Ril ey, alumni secretary; Louis Bell, director of public information, and Frank Morriss, director of personal services. The queen was crowned during the first scene of the show, "The Team Picks a Queen." She was escorted to her throne by Alfred Klimcke and Ann Skepik, who played the parts of the coach and the head cheerleader. The origi nal song, "They Know How to Pick a Queen" was sung by the Gleesingers after she was seated on the throne. Miss Ziegler and the other fi nalists will be introTluced to the alumni at the annual luncheon. Thespian Production Amuses Audience A large Homecoming crowd was amused last night as Thespians presented "Let's Face It" in Schwab Auditorium, but such tricks as rope-climbing and confetti-throwing were not enough to remedy the disorder and slowness of the show. Perhaps instead of attempting to parody everything imaginable, the-- Thespian dialogue and song writers should concentrate their attention on either serious scenes or straight comic acts as these seemed to be primarily among the few worth seeing. One of the best skits in the orig inal revue ' was "Tonight I'll Not Forget," a romantic song and dance act with Roderick Perry and Betty Love. As a newcomer to Thespians, Perry performed surprisingly well, his main attri bute being his fine voice. His singing, combined wit h the rhythmic dance movements of Miss Love, produced an act which would be well-received in any , show. University Status Asked By Trustees Formal action to , change the name of the College to The Penn sylvania State University has been ,started by attorneys for the institution as the result of an unanimously approved order of the Board of Trustees. In making the announcement, Judge James Milholland, pres ident of the Board, said, "Fre quently during the past it has been proposed that the name of, the College be changed, but ac tion- was always postponed for reasons no longer operative. The College has now reached a stage in its development where the change of name would foster work of the institution in at least three ways. Three Advantag e s "1. Penn State has long been a university in terms of size, aca demic standards and program, organization, and function. Nor mal recognition of that fact would properly identify it for. all per sons interested in or affected by its services. "2. The change of name would permit more effective administra tive organization of the institu tion. . "3. The change of name would be an additional inducement to top-flight scientists to join the Penn State faculty when they are needed." In elaborating on these reasons, a release from the Board pointed out that by definition, a "college" is an undergraduate institution doing little or no research. A "university" offers both under graduate and graduate instruc tion and maintains a well-de veloped research program. The Board, in explaining the change, said that, although Penn State was created by, a special act of the Legislature, any change in the corporate name or charter is made only with the approval of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County. This was done when the name was changed from. the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania to the Agricultural College of Penn sylvania in 1862 and subsequently when its present name was adopt ed in 1874. The procedure in volv e d is: Since the proposed amendment to the charter involves change of corporate name, counsel for the College first clears the proposed name with the Secretary of the Commonwealth. After that, the College requests the secretary to (Continued on page • eight) By EDMUND REISS Phil Wein lived up to his repu tation as he delighted the audi ence with his ventriloquism act. Doing a comic set with his two wooden roommates, Sylvester and Elmer,. Wein effectively proved himself to be the talented veteran performer he is. However, each of the other skits was marked by dialogue which tried so hard to be funny and to satirize something, that all struc tural unity was either forgotten or disregarded. There were a few instances when individual performers stood out. Pat Marstellar as "Cool Little (Continued. on page eight) Procedure Involved
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