PAGE TWO ;:::,a-:.*inet Drops ':nroilm.,, , nt Unit The All-University enrollment committee was abolished by All- University Cabinet Thursday night. The cabinet action followed a report by John Speer, committee chairman, in which he stated the committee had outlasted the University's need. In his report, Speer explained that the enrollment committee was Honoraries Will Present Joint Concert The Louise Homer Club, wo men's music honorary, and Phi Mu Alpha, men's national music honorary, will present their an nual combined concert at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Schwab Auditorium. The prograth is open to the pub lic, free of charge. Included in the concert will be a woodwind quintet, flute trio, brass quartet, string quartet, pi ano duet, and a mixed chorus. The works of early composers will be featured in the program. Mozart's "String Quartet No. 19" will be played by the string quar tet. The flue trio will play Mo zart's "Titus" and a Bach fu guetta. "Fantasy No. 1" (Jenkins) and "Paduane VI" (Posch) will be pre sented by the brass quintet. The woodwind quintet will play a lar go from the string quartet "Opus 76, No. 5" (Haydn) and "Joyful Dance" (McKay). The first movement of Mozart's "Piano Concerto" will be played in a piano duet. The combined chorus of the Louis Homer Club and Phi Mu Alpha will sing "Crux Fidelis" (John IV, King of Portugal), "Welcome Sweet Pleasure" (Weel kes), and "An Evening Hymn" (Purcell). PiKPhi Basement Damaged by Fire A fire Thursday night in the basement furnace room of Pi Kap pa Phi caused slight damage. The fire started when pledge Don Ziegler, fourth semester busi ness administration major, lit a cigarette which caused floor wax fumes to ignite. Ziegler received minor burns on the hand. Alpha Fire Co. was summoned, but members of the fraternity were able to extinguish the flames before the company arrived. Monday Is Deadline For Washington Trip Students may sign up until Mon day for the Young Republicans' Washington trip, March 8 and 9, Benjamin Sinclair, club president, said yesterday. Students on the trip will have lunch with Sen. Joseph Martin, Sinclair said, and will also meet Senators James Duff, Irving Ives, and Joseph McCarthy. Interested students may con tact Carl Saperstein to sign up for the trip. Solution Reouires No doubt, at least once, when a Penn Stater has picked up the the telephone to call that important friend the answer has been, "Sorry, no lines are available right now." According to Robert Sigworth, Supervisor of Utilities, there cannot possibly be enough equipment installed to handle all the calls people want to make during the period from 6:30 to 10 p.m. each night. The answer to this problem seems to be common courtesy, since for every half hour a stu dent takes to make a phone call, 30 others are being deprived from a one minute call The phone service here at the University differs from that of other large institutions in that there are fewer restrictions placed upon the women students in using the telephone, and dormi tory switch boards are not used. The switch board system was set up in 1925 when the dormitory and adro'nistration boards were combined. This system was con- formed by the student body five years ago at a time when the University was having trouble at tracting new students. Speer reported he had dis cussed the future of the commit tee with C. 0. Williams, dean of admissions. During the course of this talk these points were brought out: 1. No new publicity booklets are available which contain in formation on the new University status and the recently established College of business. 2. Last year, some members of the enrollment comtnittee gave false information to high school teachers and students due to their inadequate knowledge of the Uni versity and its activities. 3. Many high school administra tions are hostile to students corn ing to the schools and asking for time to meet with students. 4. During the last two semesters, Williams has spent many weeks visiting high schools in Pennsyl vania interviewing students in terested in the University. In view of these facts, Speer stated, Williams and the commit tee agreed the best way for stu dents to help the Admissions of fice was to talk to high school friends about the University on an entirely informal basis rather than through a formal enrollment committee. Deadline Is Set For Soph Queen Contest Entries Entries in the sophomore class queen contest may be submitted to the Student Union desk in Old Main until noon March 12, Janet McK e e, co-chairman, has an nounced. The contest is being run in con junction with th e semi-formal sophomore spring prom, March 20. Any sophomore woman sponsored by a campus organization may compete. Postcards will be mailed this weekend to fraternities, sororities, and other campus groups urging their participation in the contest, Miss McKee said. The minimum size for photos of contestants is 2% by 4 inches. Five finalists will be chosen to appear at the dance where the queen will be selected. Names of contest judges will be announced later. Language Examinations To Be Given Monday Examinations for candidates for advanced degrees in foreign lan guages will be given from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday. The Spanish exam will be held in 127 Sparks, Ger man in 228 Sparks, and French in 316 Sparks. to Phone Question Common Courtesy By ANN SAYLOR tinued until 1938 when a separate dormitory switch board, was in cluded in the construction of Ath erton Hall. After Simmons and McElwain Halls were built in 1950, the board was moved to the basement of Simmons where it is today. Five regular and 13 part time operators are employed to handle the campus phone calls made by students. During the busy eve ning hours, students' wives who have had previous Bell Telephone experience substitute for the reg ular force. During the busy periods, an extra operator is on duty to han- THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Ag Speech Tournament To Be Held The Paul R. Guldin Agricultur al Speaking Contest, open to un dergraduates in the College of Agriculture, will get tinder way with an organizational meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, in 103 Agriculture. A student who wishes to par ticipate in the contest may chose his subject as long as it is about agriculture or rural living. The subject must be original and the speech must be in the student's own words. Topics will be ap proved and recorded at the pre liminary meeting. Two speeches about the same topic will be required from each entrant. The first talk should be five minutes long and will be de livered in the semi-finals which will be held on March 15. The sec ond should be eight to ten min utes in length and• will be given in the finals to be held on March 16. Approximately 20 per cent of the participants will be chosen to speak in the finals. Judges for the contest will be Edward R. Gilkey, instructor in speech; Roy C. Buck, assistant professor of rural sociology; and Henry S. Brunner, professor of agricultural education. Speakers will be judged on their directness and bodily participa tion in delivery, selection of sub ject, audibility and understand ability, clearness and correctness. Winners will be announced during Ag Activities Night, March 17. First prize will be $5O and a gold medal while the second place award will be $25 and a silver medal. Prize Offered In Essay Contest Five hundred dollars will be awarded to the undergraduate college student who writes the best essay on "Communism and Academic Freedom." The essay, limit e d to 2000 words, must be submitted by March 1 to the Mathews Award Editor, the American Mercury, 11 E. 36th street, New York 16, N.Y. The winner will be announced Aprli 1. ' Student Teachers To Order Gowns Seniors being graduated in June who will be practice teaching dur ing the second eight weeks of the semester may sign up for _ caps and gowns Tuesday through next Saturday at• the Athletic Store. Invitations and announcements may be ordered during the same period at the Student Union desk in Old Main. FFA to Meet Monday The Future Farmers of America will meet at 7 p.m. Monday in 102 Agriculture Education. A mo vie on the silver anniversary of ,the F.F.A. convention at Kansas I City will be shown. dle requests for information. Since it is impossible to give out direc tory, information, such requests are often referred to the Regis trar's office, basement of Willard Hall. The switch board itself has posi tions for eight operators and is classified as hotel board by the Bell Telephone Co., so that a 10 cent charge is made for each out side call. To handle these town and long distance calls, 65 lines are connected to the State Col lege Bell Telephone board. Special regulations for the use of phones have been set up by the administration. These regula tions include, a 12 p.m. deadline daily for men' and a 10 p.m. dead line Sunday through Thursday for women. Women are given a 12 p.m. limit on Friday and Satur day nights. Long distance and emergency calls may be made at any time. 446 Students Vote For Campus Queen Four hundred and forty-six students have cast ballots for Penn State's queen in the Pittsburgh Press campus quedri contest. The deadline for voting is 5 p.m. Monday. Students may vote by showing matriculation cards at the Student Union desk in Old. Main. Ballots will be counted Monday night and the winner of the contest will be announced in Tuesday's Daily Col legian Penn State's queen will be chos en from six finalists—Alyce Chen ey, Maureen Flannery, Lou is e Justin, Mary Pera, Carlene Sam uels, and Marjorie Schenck. Pictures Posted Pictures of the finalists are post ed in the lobby of Old Main and in a window of the Athletic Store. `A special picture of Penn State's queen will be taken by the De partment of Public Information and forwarded to contest head quarters, in Pittsburgh. The Press will publish pictures of the candidates in the ROTO section of the paper 'April 11. Thirty colleges and universities are entered in the contest. Final Balloting Press readers will select a final winner by sending in ballots print ed in the Press. A full-color pic ture of the intercollegiate queen will appear on the cover of - the ROTO ,section sometime in May. Finalists in the University con test were chosen from 99 candi dates on the basis of their photo graphs. Contestants in the Press intercollegiate contest will be judged on the same basis. Coeds entered in the contest may pick up their pictures at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Council Favors, Grade Change The Mineral Industries Student Council this week approved a plan to change th e University grading system, but opposed the percentage system suggested by the Intercollege Council Board. An alternate system, based on a grade range from 0 to 4 rather than the present —2 to 3, was sug gested as a plan to be recom mended t 3 the board. The council, in a straw vote, disapproved th e possibility of electing council officers by popu lar election rather than within the council. The council also approved the election of a representative of. the Graduate School to All-Universi ty Cabinet. ENGINEERS CHEMISTS PHYSICISTS Career Opportunities with - UNION CARBIDE Representatives of these Divisions of Union Car bide and Carbon Corporation will be here to dis cuss work opportunities with interested seniors on • Monday; March 1 and Tuesday March 2 BAKELITE COMPANY CARBIDE AND CARBON CHEMICALS COMPANY ELECTRO METALLURGICAL COMPANY LINDE AIR PRODUCTS COMPANY CONTACT YOUR PLACEMENT OFFICE FOR INTERVIEW APPOINTMENTS UNION CARBIDE AND CARBON . CORPORATION 30 East 42nd Street New York 17, N.Y. , SATIRDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1954 Former Student To Go Free In Book Theft No 'Charges will be placed against a former eighth semester education major accused of steal ing books prom residents of sec ond floor McKee 'Hall, unleSs he returns to the University, Dean- of Men — Prank J. Simes has an nounced. According to James W. Dean, assistant to the dean of men in charge of independent affairs, the student used a pass key to enter rooms in, the building and took approximately $lOO wor t h of books. Some books were sold at the Used Book Agency, but mon ey was given to owners for them, Dean said. Approximately 18 books were returned. The student tried to enter an other college, Simes said, but was refused admission because of a "hold" the University had placed on his transcript. He informed the Dean of Men's office he was entering the service and declined to return to campus to face charges beforethe Senate commit tee on student affairs' subcom mittee on discipline. Dean said a clear-cut case was obtained against the stud en t. Samples of his handwriting on the book receipts were turned ov er to Mary L. Willard, professor of chemistry and amateur crim inologist, who reported all sam ples matched. Dean said cooperation of ÜBA members with the investigation was "wonderful." The student withdrew from the University voluntarily, Dean add ed. Hunter Will Address Architecture Students John Hunter, Altoona architect, will speak to the student chapter of th e American Institute of Atchitects at 8 p.m. Monday in 107 Main Engineering. - Hunter's speech will deal with school building design. It is open to the public.
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