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VOL. 54, No. 43 STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. 14, 1953 FIVE CENTS
IFC Calls New Dating
interpretation impossible
The Interfraternity Council yesterday informed the University administration it is
impossible for fraternities., to comply with the recently announced interpretation of the IFC
Unchaperoned Dating Code. This action followed a special meeting of the IFC held Thurs
day night at Beta Theta Pi.
This meeting was the result of week-long discussions by fraternities concerning a
recent letter sent to all Penn State fraternities giving the University’s interpretation of the
dating code.
In the letter, Frank J. Si:
dating only. This means that
Reds Want
Big Power
Conference
MOSCOW, Nov. 13 (JP) —Soviet
Foreign. Minister V.' M. Molotov
declared tonight the reduction of
international tension is the. prime
subject for any big power confer
ence and Communist China must
take part.
After that subject is discussed,
he added, the foreign ministers of
the United States, Britain and
Russia could take up the problem
of Germany, “a matter of urg
ency.”
Molotov made his views kn-own
at a news conference—the first
held in Moscow by him or any
other high ranking Soviet offi
cial within the last six years in
volving foreign correspondents.
Easi and West Newsmen
Dressed in a dark blue, double
breasted suit, Molotov stood under
a portrait of Stalin as he met with
newsmen from both Western and
Eastern countries in the confer
ence room of the Foreign Minis
try.
Molotov accused the Western
Powers, of blocking a foreign min
isters’ conference by failing to
agree on putting the subject of
international tension on the
agenda.
He said meetings such as that
being held next month in Ber
muda, to-be attended by Prime
Minister Churchill, President Ei
senhower and French Premier
Laniel “tend to put certain states
in opposition to other states and
can lead to directly contrary .re
sults and even increase interna
tional tension.”
Must Establish Aims
Molotov said this could “not be
just a matter of speaking aboiut a
conference, but it is also impor
tant to establish the aims of such
a conference.” He would not elab
orate further.
The Soviet Union and the West
ern'Powers have been exchang
ing notes oh a meeting of foreign
ministers. Molotov charged that
Eisenhower was wrong, in saying
the last Soviet note to the West
“manifested no intention to get
together but an intention to cre
ate more difficulties.”
UNIVE
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
By JACK REID
es, dean of men, stated the dati
tearly all fraternity social func
The IFC had previously con
sidered functions participated in
by the majority of the members
of a house as the only social
events needing chaperones.
Simes Silent
Simes had no comment yester
day concerning the results of
Thursday’s meeting.
Three courses of action were
discussed at the meeting. The first
was to enforce the University’s
interpretation of the dating code.
This would make it necessary to
have chaperones for all orchestra
and record dances, pledge dances,
exchange dinners, regular Friday
and Saturday night parties, theme
parties, functions- on house party
weekends, and for all other simi
lar affairs.
It was agreed. that it. was im
possible for any house to secure
the necessary chaperones for all
these events. The group also con
cluded that the presence of chap
erones at all such affairs would
be undesirable.
35 Oppose Housemothers
Fraternity representatives pre
sent at the meeting were also
polled on the subject of house
mothers. Thirty-five houses voted
against having housemothers in
the immediate future while four
houses indicated that they were
willing to have housemothers. Af
ter a discussion period it was de
cided that housemothers were im
practical at the present time.
The main. . objection voiced
against housemothers within the
near future was the inability of
most fraternities to meet the add
ed financial burden and the fact
that most houses do not have ade
quate quarters for housemothers.
The third, alternative considered
was the reinstatement of the un
chaperoned dating code as it was
formerly interpreted.' The group
voted 39 to 0 in favor of this al
ternative. This action was the
basis of the IFC’s statement to
the administration.
Legend Grows at Penn State
As College Becomes University
By MARCIE MacDONALD
Every college has a' legend,
and a new event has been add
ed to the Penn State legend.
Yesterday Penn State became
The Pennsylvania State Uni
versity.
In its 99-year history, Penn
State has had three previous
names—The Farmers’ High
School of Pennsylvania, The
Agricultural College of Penn
sylvania and The Pennsylvania
State College.
Each of the names has been
suited to the school at the time
it was used, but recently, stu
dents, adminis trat i o n and
alumni felt 1 that Penn State
was truly a university and
should bear that name. And
so’ the necessary legal proced
ure was begun to change the
name to The Pennsylvania
State University.
ing code applied to “incidental’
'tions now require chaperones
Bandleader
May Give
Jazz Show
An attempt has been made to
secure Ray Anthony and his or
chestra for a jazz concert the af
ternoon of the Military Ball,
Dec. 11.
Eugene Nepa, music committee
chairman, said he wrote to An
thony last week and . requested
that the band arrive here early in
the afternoon to play from 4 to 5
p.m. in Schwab. No response has
yet been received from the band
leader.
A similar concert was ■ held at
West Virginia University last year
by the Anthony orchestra. Re
cordings were made of the con
cert.
A highlight of the Military Ball,
the only formal All-College dance
this year, will be the crowning of
a queen who will be selected by
a panel of three judges. Five
queen finalists will be chosen
by military officials, at Virginia
Military Institute, Lexington, Ky.
Deadline for entries in the
queen contest is 5 p.m. Thursday.
Cadets or midshipment may sub
mit photographs of entries, to
gether with her name, statistics
and the name of her escort.
Weisman to Present
Illustrated Lecture
Dr. Winston Weisman, assistant
professor of fine arts, will give an
illustrated lecture on “Commer
cial Palaces of the Gilded Age”
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in 119 Os
mond.
It all began in 1851 when the
Pennsylvania State Agricul
tural Society was organized.
This ambitious group worked
determinedly for four years
and finally, received a charter
in 1855 from the state legisla
ture to establish an agricultur
al school.
Under the charter a board of
13 trustees struggled until 1859
to secure funds with which to
build the school. Finally, on
Feb. 16, 1859, the school was
opened.
Students lived a Spartan ex
istence in a half-finished main
building supplemented by sev
eral temporary houses. The
faculty numbered four and the
student body 119.
But the days of the Farmers’
High School, as such, were
numbered. On May 6, 1862, the
Board of Trustees gave final
County Court Gives
Approval to Change
A new educational threshold was crossed yesterday by
Penn State when its name was formally changed to The
Pennsylvania State University.
The action came about when Judge Ivan Walker of the
Court of Common Pleas of Centre County discarded the
old name, which has stood since 1874, and recorded a new
one which is in accord with the status of the institution.
In his order granting the change,
Judge Walker explained that the
formal articles of amendment
must still be filed at the county
recorder’s office in Bellefonte to
make the change technically ef
fective. A University official,
however, has called this a mere
“academic formality.”
Third Name Change
This name change marks the
third time the University has
had its corporate charter changed
to fit the standing of the institu
tion. It was done when the name
was changed from The Farmers’
High School of Pennsylvania to
The Agricultural College of Penn
sylvania in 1862, and subse
quently in 1874 when the name,
The Pennsylvania State College,
was adopted.
The change was completed \in
time to be incorporated in plans
President Milton S. Eisen
hower, now president of a uni
versity, expressed his pleasure
and pride in the new name
when he was informed of it at
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
The title is one "that reflects
more appropriately the stature,
function and character of the
institution," he said. He is in
West Virginia as the main
speaker of an industry-college
conference.
being made for the centennial of
the institution in 1955.
■ Proceedings involved in having
the name change made a reality
were begun early in September,
and the formal presentation of
the petition was made to the
county court three weeks ago by
Attorney Roy Wilkinson, Jr.
Slate OK'd Last Friday
Approval to the action was
given by the State Council of Ed
ucation last Friday, leaving Judge
Walker’s decision the only re
maining hurdle. It is from this
group that the petition is now
being sent to the county recorder.
In announcing the request for
the name change several weeks
ago, Judge James Milholland,
president of the University Board
of. Trustees, said Penn State had
long been a university in terms
of size, academic standards and
program, organization, and func
tion. He pointed out that normal
recognition of that fact would
properly identify it for all persons
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approval to changing the name
of the school to The Agricul
tural College of Pennsylvania.
This change was followed in
two months by passage of the
Morrill Land Grant Act, and
the college became one of the
first land grant institutions.
In the same year construc
tion was begun to complete the
main building, the original Old
Main. This building housed
practically the entire college
during the time of President
Evan Pugh. The new Old Main
was built on the site of the
original building in 1929.
During the Civil War, in 1864,
the first graduate course was
offered which gave a master of
scientific agriculture degree.
During the first decade of the
College’s existence, student life
was limited to class work, the
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By DIEHL McKALIP
Editorial on Page 4
Problems
Rise After
Title Change
By MIKE FEINSILBER
Well, how does it feel to have
your College days over?
The change of Penn State’s
name to the Pennsylvania State
University, which received offi
cial authorization yesterday, won’t
please some people, at least for
the time being. It creates prob
lems. For instance:
Is All-College Cabinet now All-
University Cabinet?
Those signs at the University’s
entrance still say “Welcome to the
Pennsylvania State College.” New
signs coming up?
How about the College Hospi
tal?
Are they now All-University
dances, and committees?
“The College,” a magazine pub
lished by the Department of Pub
lic Information, now has an anti
quated name.
Songs Are Inaccurate
And Penn State songs, too, are
slightly inaccurate today. “Every
college has a legend,” first line
of the “Nittany Lion,” isn’t speak
ing of the University, hair-split
tingly speaking. And unless the
words are changed, singers will
be hailing “The college that we
love so well,” when they sing
“Hail! Oh Hail.”
Penn State Blue Band uni
forms now carry shoulder tags
using the word “College.”
They probably wouldn’t get too
far, but student violators of under
graduate rules might have
grounds in appealing they are no
longer bound by the regulations.
Page three of the Senate Regula
tion for Undergraduate Students
declares: “The rules in this pham
phlet apply specifically to under
graduate students of The Penn
sylvania State College . . .”
Headline Space Sparce
The. length of the word “uni
versity” will probably bother
staff members of the Daily Col
legian. Headlines have space limi
tations. “University” is longer.
The Collegian has no plans to
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Today ...
The Nittany Lion Roars
FOR the newly-approved Penn
sylvania State University. Fri
day the 13th was a lucky day
for Penn State the CentrG
County Court of Common Pleas
approved its petition for uni
versity status. On the eve of its
100th anniversary, Penn State
takes another step forward in
the growth it has experienced
since 1855.