PAc.;E' Two taw 40 ff ry as uts e """-i n onight Fourteen fraternities and four sororities will compete tonight in the first round of tryouts for the Interfraternity-Panhellenic Council Sing contest. Tryouts will be held from 8 to 9:30 tonight and from 7 to 8:40 p.m. Friday in 110 Electrical Engineering. Contest finals will be held Tribunal Asks For Probation For Freshman Tribunal recommended disci plinary probation to the Dean of Men's office for a second semester civil engineering major last night. He was charged with "conduct detrimental to the good name of the University." The case was brought to the attention of the Dean of Men's office through a letter from Buck nell authorities, which charged the student with striking a stu dent at that University, and boist rous conduct in a dormitory. The student said he had gone to Bucknell to see a coed, and had waited in her dormitory lobby until she returned with her date for the evening. He admitted that he struck the student, but said he had apologized. Later in the evening, the stu dent and a friend were accosted in a hotel lobby by eight other youths. The Penn State student was unable to say if they were friends of the girl's date. He added that he had written letters of apology to both the girl and her date. The student was on office pro bation from a charge of drinking alcoholic beverages in a campus dormitory. Disciplinary probation means that the student cannot participate in any activities, and the probationary action will re main on his file until his eighth seemster, or when an appeal for removal is granted. Business Council Coffee Hour Set The Business Administration College student council will spon sor a second coffee hour for the school year to be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Thompson Hall rec reation lounge. The coffee hour is to be held for the faculty and Business Ad ministration students. Although all students are invited, this cof fee hour presents mainly an op portunity for juniors and seniors to establish contacts with profes sors for future reference. Thomas Bracher, coffee hour committee chairman, said. It also affords a chance for new faculty members to get acquainted with students. The time has been set at 3 p.m. to allow students in Army and Navy ROTC to attend, Brasher said. Petroleum Eng Society Elects New Officers New officers of the Petroleum Engineering Society are Charles McClintock, president; James Hartsock, vice president; Jack Schall, recording secretary; James Libertino, treasurer; and Roy Brunjes, corresponding secretary. Proxy's House Sees By CECILIA JOHNS Just what does the inside of the president's house look like? You may often have wondered this, especially during the past weeks when redecoration plans were in progress. • The plans mainly affected the living room and dining room. In these rooms the woodwork was painted white to highlight new gray wallpaper, carpeting, and wine drapes. Mrs. Eisenhower said the only remodeling, if it can be so called, done to the house since the Eisen howers have lived in it, is that the third floor was repapered and repainted and two b a th s were made from an old one. The president's house has a unique and memorable history. The house was built for Penn State's first president, Evan Pugh. at 7 p.m. Sunday in the State College High School Auditorium. Groups will form outside the room 15 minutes before they are scheduled to sing, Alexander Zer ban, sing co-chairman, has an nounced. Any group not ready to sing at their assigned time will automatically be eliminated, Zer ban said. Groups will enter the room from the east, turn right and go down the right aisle to the plat form, Zerban said. ,Groups will leave by the south aisle. Groups to Sing 2 Numbers Each fraternity , will 'sing two songs. One must be the Penn State Glee Club arrangement of Blue and White and the other a fraternity song. One is to be un accompanied. Each sorority will sing two sorority songs, one un accompanied. Fraternities with more than 25 active members must have at least 16 members and a director in their choruses while those with less than 25 need only have nine chorus members and a director. Eugene Fulmer, executive sec retary of the State College Cham ber of 'Commerce; G. William Henninger, professor of music; and Joan O'Hara, member of the State College High School facul ty, will be judges tonight and Friday. Fulmer, Miss O'H ar a, Frances Andrews, associate pro fessor of music education; Frank Gullo, associate professor of mu sic; and Raymond H. Brown, di rector of the women's chorus, will be judges Sunday night. WMAJ to Broadcast Finals Station WMAJ will broadcast the sing finals on the program sponsored by Phi Mu Alpha, na tional men's music honorary, at 8 p.m. Sunday. Jay Murp h y, eighth semester arts and letters major, will be commentator. Groups scheduled to sing to night and the time they will ap pear are Pi Kappa Alpha, 8:05; Sigma Pi, 8:10; _Chi Omega, 8:15; Alpha Sigma Phi, 8:20; Phi Kap pa Psi, 8:25; Alpha Gamma Del ta, 8:30; Delta Upsilon, 8:35; Phi Kappa Sigma, 8:40; Delta Zeta, 8:45; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 8:50; Pi Kappa Phi, 8:55; Alpha Gam ma Rho, 9; Delta Gamma, 9:05; Alpha Tau Omega, 9:10; Chi Phi, 9:15; Tau Kappa Epsilon, 9:20; and Phi Delta Theta, 9:25. SU Construction is On Schedule Work on the ne w Student Union building is reported to be proceeding on schedule and work men are now installing air condi tioning, heating systems, an d plumbing as the heavy construc tion nears completion. A spokesman for the Irwin and Leighton Construction Co. said the schedule has been helped by good working weather during the past ten days. He said he could see no reason Why the project should not be completed in time fOr use when fall semester classes begin in September. Its history goes back to 1861, when Penn State's first president be came engaged to Rebecca Valen tine, daughter of a prominent and influential Bellefonte ironmaster. Following the engagement, Pugh and the trustees agreed to pay $3OOO to build a suitable home for the president. Construction was begun in 1862 with Pugh supervising the build ing and working overtime on the completion of Old Main. There was a close relationship existing between these buildings as there was an interchange of labor and building materials. Students Help in Construction At this time the labor rule re quiring students to work three hours daily was in effect. Pugh was noted for his strength and worked with students and faculty to dig the basement of the house. Pugh died on April 29, 1864. only three months after his mar- THE DA?LY COLLEGIAN STATE COILEGE PENNSYLVANIA Ag Council Nominates 4 For Office Four men were nominated for president of the Agriculture Stu dent Council at the council's meeting last night. Further nom inations will be received through April 13, elections day. The nominees for president are George Williams, fifth semester animal husbandry major; Howard Angstaadt, sixth semester horti culture major; John Hershey, sixth semester poultry husbandry major; and Daryl Heasley, sixth in se a m jo es . ter , agriculture education Those nominated for vice-presi dent were James Hay, sixth se mester agronomy major; Leslie Watkins, sixth semester agricul ture education major; and Fred Seipt, fourth semester dairy hus bandry major. Nominees for secretary are Mar garet Fleming, sixth semester horticulture major; Shirley Eag ley, sixth semester medical tech nology major; and David Morrow, fourth semester dairy husbandry major. Norman Melvin, sixth semester forestry major, and John Sink, fourth semester animal husbandry major, were nominated for treas urer. The council passed a recom mendation of the elections com mittee to set up a plan whereby each curriculum will elect one council memb e r to represent every 25 students. This plan will eliminate the present uneven representation and will give the larger curricula more representa tion, said Daryl Heasley, elections committee member. Students Fined $3B By Court Student traffic violators were fined a total of $3B by Traffic Court last night. Suspended fines totaled $B. Six dollars was paid to' Traffic Court. The remaining $24 will be paid to the Dean of Men within the next week, James Dunlap, court chairman, said. Five students received general recommendations to see the Dean of Men, which will probably re sult in their being placed on Traf fic Court probation, Dunlap said. Two students' cars reecived rec ommendations to be sent home. Four cases were acquitted and one case was dismissed by Traffic Court. Nine students did not re port to Traffic Court for hearings. Unless legitimate excuser which are acceptable to the Dean of Men are offered by these students, they will be guilty as charged, Dunlap stated. The number of student and fac ulty traffic violations is decreas ing, although many violations are still being made, Dunlap said. Heist to Talk Tomorrow To Chemistry Group Carroll E. Heist, assistant pro fessor of bacteriology, will speak on "The Nature and Significance of Immunochemical Reactions" at the meeting of Phi Lambda Upsi lon, chemical hoonrary, at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in 119 Osmond. Many Changes in riage. The bride for whom the house had been so carefully planned never lived in it. Nothing is known of the changes made to the house by the-succeed ing presidents until 1871 when President Calder moved into it. Calder worked on the general lay out of the grounds and made some plantings. He also added a road way which enabled carriages com ing from the outside to drive in front of the house. Athertons Add Fireplaces When the Athertons arrived with their five children in 1882 they added nine fireplaces which they later supplemented by stoves. In the 1890's, the original front porch was replaced by a larger porch. Five yearS later the roof was raised to accommodate four rooms on the third floor instead of two and reshaped to give the house ar 't7cture a Qu2on flavor. In 1908, when the Sparks were Coffee Hour TWENTY STUDENTS attended the Dean of Men's coffee hour yesterday afternoon in the office of Franklin J. Simes, dean of men. Pictured here are (1. to r.) Gail Green, Nancy Ward, Edith Leßoutillier, Simes, Joseph Barnett, and Bernard Kleinstub. Stu dents are invited to attend the coffee hours which are held to acquaint them with the personnel of the Dean of Men's office. Dorm Merge Argued y Pollock Council Arguments for and against a proposed merger of Nittany and Pollock Councils raged last night at a meeting of the Pollock Coun cil. Council President George Co pella finally referred the matter to a committee for further study. A motion to merge socially with Nittany was wholeheartedly ap proved. This- will also be delayed, however, until the Pollock Coun cil constitution can be amended to officially kill the Barons, the old Nittany-Pollock social organ ization. Thomas Kidd led the support for the combination. He presented his own incomplete constitution covering the merger, which would erase the Nittany and Pollock area distinctions. It would provide for each dorm in the area to elect one representative to the new council. This council, to be known as the East Dorm Council, would have four officers on the Associa tion of Independent Men Board of Governors, plus three representa tives at large. At present, both Nittany and Pollock councils have four officers on the AIM Board of Governors. Some of the arguments against the merger were that any advan tages of the merger could be had by a combined social organization, that Nittany, with its larger pop ulation, would swallow up Pol lock, and that a combined council could not meet the individual problems of each area. Kidd maintained that such a merger is inevitable and neces sary. "If I could only repeat to you men what Dean (James W. Dean, assistant to the dean of men in charge of independent affairs) confided to me," Kidd said. Continued separation in the area is no more feasible than if the West Dorms should suddenly separate, Kidd said. He said Pol lock is on its way out, and that living in the house, much excite ment was caused by Mrs. Sparks when she ordered silver wallpaper costing $lO a roll. The silver paper indicated a sharp change in style from the dark tones of the Vic torian period to the lighter colors of the early 1900's. The social life of the Sparks was legendary. They entertained notables, out-of-town guests, fac ulty, and students at countless dinner parties. In World War I the parlors next to the Engineer ing units were turned over to Red Cross activities. Unde r Mrs. Sparks' direction, town women and campus students worked to gether for the men overseas. House Remodeled for He2zel When Ralph Dorn Hetzel ac cepted the presidency in 1926, he was promised a new house. In 1938, when the funds for the new house became available, Hetzel asked that they be turned over to the general college welfare and WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24. 1954 Ed Newspaper Sets April 5 As Issue Date Publication of the first educa tion newspaper will probably ap pear on April 5, Carol Strong, editor, said last night at the Education Student Council meet ing. A motion was passed by the council to give the editor of the newspaper a seat on the council with ex-officio powers. A big-little sister and brother program giving the freshman students in education a student adviser was approved with the suggestion that ußperclassmen who plan to student-teach the first eight weeks do not partici pate. Spring elections to fill six seats for each class will be held by the College of Education from May 5-6 in front of Schwab Auditor ium. Self-nomination blanks will be available April 28-30 at the Student Union desk in Old Main. The elections for council presi dent, vice president, and secre tary-treasurer will be held on April 27. in four years it would be torn down. Howard Saucier, vice president of the council and leader of the opposition council, said strong leadership, and not merger, is all that Pollock needs to increase its lost prestige and power. Kidd told the council it was too much concerned with "power" and not enough with service. He maintained that the two councils can better serve residents of the Nittany-Pollock area in a unified council. 93 Years the house that he loved, be re modeled. In 1939-40, the residence was transformed. The large kit chen was reduced in size, and the c a bin et s and cupboards rear ranged for greater efficiency. The Hetzels selected bright-col ored furniture for the downstairs. For privacy, a high woven cedar fence and shrubbery on the south shut the structure away from the walls of the shops. Flower beds were added .in making it a place of rare ,beauty. In 1947, Hetzel died and the Milhollands, who became known for their warm hospitality, next occupied the house. They made no major changes to the house. The 93-year-old house is full of memories. It is linked with the old Old Main and with the presi dents since Pugh. It has watched the institution grow from the Ag ricultural College of Pennsyl vania, to the Pennsylvania State University.
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