PAGE TWO 2 Coeds, 3 Imports to Compete For Military Ball Queen Title Five Military Ball queen finalists—three imports and two coeds—have been selected by Cadet Captain W. F. Dunkelburger, Regimental Commander at Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., and his staff. One of these will be selected to reign over the Military Ball, Dec. il at Recreation Hall. Finalists are Jouette Eifert, Shillington, Priscilla Gatchell, Arlington, Mass., and Nancy Lee Garber, Philadelphia, imports; and Elaine Kloures and Mary S. Walker, coeds. Navy Training Program Exam Set for Dec. 12 The eighth nation-wide compe titive examination for the U.S, Navy’s university training pro gram, open to male citizens be tween the ages of 17 and 21, will be held Dec. 12 at the University. High school seniors or graduates within the age limits may get ap plications at high schools, col leges, and Navy recruiting sta tions. T. R. Kemmerer, principal of the College Area Joint junior senior high school, is the civilian representative in this area. Information may be obtained, from the NROTC offices in En gineering “E.” Candidates who pass the apti tude test will be interviewed and given physical examinations. If they qualify, their names will be submitted to state and territorial selection committees. Students selected by committees and accepted by the college or university of their choice will be appointed midshipmen. They will receive financial assistance of $5O per month for board and room expenses, with tuition, books, and other expenses paid by the gov ernment. About 2000 students will begin the program next fall. Engineers Plan Open House Plans for the annual Engineer ing Open House were discussed at last night’s regular meeting of the Engineering Council. No def inite date was set for the program pending investigation of a time suitable to the departments in the Engineering school. Letters have also been sent to high schools asking their prefer ence of a date for the program. Replies received from the schools show they prefer a date in April or May. The possibility of cutting down on the size of the program in order to make it more effective was also discussed. In other action, the council de cided to take steps to establish a memorial to the late Harry P. Hammond, former dean of the Engineering school. Barr Named Chairman Of Research Group William L. Barr, professor of farm management, has been elect ed chairman of the Northeast Farm Management Research group. Dr. Barr helped to draw up a regional project on the economics of forage production and utiliza tion. Each of the agricultural colleges in the 12 northeastern states is represented in the group by one or more agricultural economists. Barfhol Will Speak Richard B. Barthol, assistant professor of psychology, will speak at the Industrial Relations Research Association mixer at 7:30 tonight at Sigma Pi, 303 Thomp son street. Today Is Deadline For LA Pictures Today is the last day Liberal Arts seniors may have LaVie pictures taken at the Penn Stale Photo Shop. Seniors in the Schools of Mineral Industries and Physi cal Education and Ahllelics may have photographs taken today through Friday. Miss Eifeft is a nurse at Read ing Hospital, and a graduate of the Reading Hospital School of Nursing. Her escort will be Jack Guerin, seventh semester arts and letters major, an Army cadet. Miss Gatchell is a second se mester liberal arts major at Ce dar Crest College, Allentown. John M. Hyslop, third semester hotel administration major, an Air Force cadet, will be her es cort. Miss Garber will be escorted by Donald R. Fischer, fifth se mester business administration major, an Air Force cadet. Two Frosh Compete Miss Kloures, first semester music education major, will be escorted by Raymond J. Carpen ter, first semester chemical engi neering major, a Navy midship man. Miss Walker, first semester ed ucation major, will be escorted by Otto Hetzel, fifth semester arts and letters major, an Air Force cadet. Finalists were chosen from 25 entrants submitted by Army and Air Force cadets and Navy mid shipmen. Intermission Crowning Scheduled The queen will be crowned at intermission time at the dance following a military escort through an honor line to the band stand. The honor line will be formed by members of Pershing Rifles and the Scabbard and Blade sabre team. The queen will be selected by three professors of military science and tactics. The finalists will receive en graved loving cups and bouquets of roses. The queen will receive an engraved crown. Ed, Eng Seniors May Order Gowns Seniors in the. Schools of Edu cation and Engineering who will graduate in January may sign up for their caps and gowns today and tomorrow at, the Athletic Store. Deposit for the caps and gowns is $5. Invitations and announce ments may be ordered on the same days at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Students who will graduate in military uniforms need not order caps and gowns. Physics 100 Professor Believes Technical Courses Can Be Fun By ANN LEH “This class is more fun than a three ring circus!” “Now there’s one prof who’d do well in vaudeville!” “Where does he get those ideas?” Wander past 119 Osmond about 2 p.m. any Monday or Thursday afternoon and you’re likely to hear these and other similar comments from students leaving their Phy sics 100 lecture period. Cause of these remarks is Dr. Ralph Knerr, professor of phy sics, who decided even a subject as technical as physics can be fun. Since physics 100 is a required course for psychology majors and is an elective science course for liberal arts students, the technical aspects of physics are made sec ondary to more practical applica tions and a broader understand ing of the principles of physics. However, to keep the students’ interest during lecture hours when some technical aspects must be presented, Knerr has devised a series of experiments which pro vide amusement along with edu cation. For instance, in one experiment on the speed of projectiles as re lated to the speed of freely fall ing bodies, Knerr used as his THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Two Stags DONALD McCANDLESS, one of the many University students who took to the woods in search of buck this week, guards the six-point. 140-pounder he bag ged at 9:10 a.m. on opening day near the penitentiary. The fifth semester agricultural engineer had been in the woods' only about two hours. University Enters Livestock Contes? The University will be repre sented among 27 colleges and uni versities competing in the col legiate livestock judging cdntest at the International Amphithea tre this week in Chicago. Undergraduate students enter ed from Penn State are Marion Cullen, Peter Fenchak, Robert Herr,. William Krisher, William Sippie, Fred Sprenkle, and Paul Stone. The students will judge vari ous classes of horses, hogs, and sheep and are eligible for indi vidual and team honors. equipment a pool cue and two eight balls. One ball was filled with iron and was suspended from a plat form by means of an electra-mag net. The.second ball was placed at the opposite end of the plat form. When Knerr cued the first ball, it was supposed to roll down the platform, break the magnetic connection, and both balls were to leave the platform at the same time and hence reach ground at the same moment. When the experiment didn’t work out on the first try, Knerr was beseiged with comments from pool artists in the class on the proper way to bank his shots. Whether due to their sage advice or the infalibility of scientific truths, the experiment finally proved successful. One experiment to demonstrate the relation between mass and impact had some of the members of the class—those sitting toward the front—a little worried. A raw egg in its shell will not break when hurled against another ob ject, Knerr explained, if that ob ject will give. “If I toss one of you an egg,” he continued, “and if you catch it properly, it won’t break. But, if you don’t catch it right . . . Shall • we try?” I The faces of a good part of the 15 P.M. at PSU? Old Are Each night at 6 p.m. the Old Main hour chimes go seemingly insane, striking clearly 15 times. Jerry Grave, collegfe electrician, insists the chimes don’t need to be repaired; they’re just observing the Angelus, a religious ritual. . Have you ever noticed, it, this event, which you have doubtless heard every day of your college life? Probably most students and fac ulty members haven’t, for the chimes are such a familiar part of college life that they go un noticed- For nearly two decades Penn State classes have begun and been dismissed on the sonor ous tones of these chimes high in the steeple, to\ver of Old Main. Heard for 10 Miles On a cold clear morning the chimes can be heard sounding the time of day by people 10 miles) away. This awe inspiring per formance is started by small elec trically operated hammers, pad ded with rubber erasures, strik ing 5 metal coils.. The sound, be fore amplification, is so slight that it can hardly be heard in room 408 Old Main, where the chimes are housed ■ But the sound is immediately picked up by a 150 watt' ampli fying system, which trumpets it through eight loudspeakers in the Old Main tower—in all four di rections. Winds Cut Distance Interestingly enough it has been found that the sound penetrates further north and east because of prevailing winds from the west and south, which cut down the travel of sound. College maintenance men have found that the chimes need more amplification in summer than any other time of year, because nearby leaf covered trees absorb much of the sound. Perhaps you may not have no ticed it, but the pealing of the chimes is much more than just a reverberation of the same tone. One man worked out a pattern of musical scale which he insists can be discerned. Chimes Have Pattern There is a pattern of repetitions and variations blended together to produce a definite rhythm. Us ing this scale a verse has been worked out, which can be sung or recited to the clang of the chimes. “Ring out, O bells Your ancient chime Whose cadence tells The flight of time.” The quarter hour chimes don’t continue for a full 24 hours. At 7:15 in the morning the chimes begin and continue until 5 p.m. Then they are mute, except for Angelus, until 6:15 p.m. They be gin and remain pealing off the (Continued on page three ) class turned green as they thought of their athletic capabilities, and Knerr decided not to throw the egg at the class, but at a sheet suspended by a frame. Since the sheet moved back as the egg hit it, no matter how hard Knerr tossed the egg, it remained unbroken. ' One experiment which all in the class agreed was the demon stration to top all demonstrations, showed how to make sure an exe cution works. 1 The victim of this sure-fire exe cution was a large rag doll garbed in a red and yellow clown suit. The dummy was attached to a gallows by an electro-magnet and had a noose loose around its neck. At the opposite end of the demon stration area, a dart gun was set up with the batteries operating the magnet at the end of the gun. As Knerr blew through the gun, the arrow sailed forth, breaking the electric circuit and ending the magnet’s attraction. As the dummy fell, the noose, of course, snapped its heck at the same moment the dart struck its heart. Result; one doubly-dead dummy. As one student remarked while •leaving class one day, “Next se mester we can .always take Voo Doo 2 or Parlor Magic 329.” WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1953 Main Chimes Not Haywire! By BILL SNYDER Court Hears Five Traffic Violations Traffic court last night gave suspended sentences to three vi olators and fined two others. A third semester business ad ministration major was given a $1 suspended fine for parking vi olation. A seventh semester agronomy major, who was summoned on a second offense, received a sus pended fine. The student claimed that he was an employee of the student dry cleaning agency, and had parked his car in the Atherton service court on business. The court decided that a letter should be written to the Campus Patrol office, concerning this case, ask ing for special consideration. A refund card for $3 was given to a fifth semester business ad ministration major, who had been fined $4 for a first offense. A fifth semester arts and let ters major- paid a $1 fine for a second offense, parking in the Old Main service" drive. A first semester general agricul ture student, who was called be fore the court on two parking of fenses, had the first offense dis missed, and was fined $1 for the second. Failure to stop at the stop sign at the corner of Pollock road and the Mall drew a suspended fine for a first semester business ad ministration He said he thought the sign applied only to class hours. (Continued frorn page one) noon as their listening preference. Under the types of programs the students listen to most, music was again the favorite of 77 per cent. Special event programs are prefered by 14 per cent while 7 per cent tune in on dramatic presentations the most. In the dramatic field, 61 per cent of the students interviewed showed a preference for comedy shows. Serious or mystery pro grams are most appreciated by 35 per cent. Athletic programs obtained the greatest number of votes in the special events category with 39 per cent of the students in favor of them. News broadcasts were very close to the sports events in popularity with 35 per cent vot ing for them. Lectures, forums, discussions and other types of productions wefe evenly distrib uted with an approximately 6 per cent for each.
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