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Top Averages
Chi Omega and Alpha Zeta ranked first in fall semester scholastic
achievement among University sororities and fraternities, accord
ing to statistics released yesterday by the Dean of Admissions' office.
Chi Omega, with a 2.06 average, surpassed the 1.65 average for
women students and the 1.85 average • compiled by sorority women.
The group had the fifth highest
average among sororities for the
spring semester of 1953.
Alpha Zeta Leads Again
Alpha Zeta regained its posi
tion at the top of the fraternity
scholarship list with a 2.04 aver
age. The fraternity was second
among fraternities for the 1953
Spring semester, but previously
had ranked first for four con
secutive semesters.
' The average for men students
was 1.27 and for fraternity men
1.35. The combined average for
fraternity men and sorority wom
en was 1.49.
Independents Get 1.32
Independent students, with a
1.32, ranked below the All-Uni
versity average of 1.37. Non
fraternity men obtained a 1.24
average and non-sorority women
1.56.
The complete list of group aver
ages follows:
-Chi Omega, 2.06; Alpha Zeta,
2.o4;'Delta Delta Delta, 2.01; Delta.
Gamma, 1.95; Alpha Omicron Pi,
1.9; Gamma Phi Beta, 1.9; Kappa
Alpha Theta, 1.9; Phi Mu,
1.88;
Alpha Gamma Delta, 1.87; Alpha'
Xi Delta, 1.87; Kappa Delta, 1.87;
Beta Sigma Omicron, 1.86; Phi
Sigma Sigma, 1.86.
Sorority women, 1.85; Zeta Tau
Alpha, 1.83; Sigma • Delta Tau,
1,82; Alpha Gamma Rho, 1.81;
Kappa Kappa Gamma, 1.81; Pi
Beta Phi, 1.77; Delta Theta Sig
ma 1.76; Delta • Zeta, 1.76; Alpha
Chi Omega, 1.74; Alpha Epsilon
Phi, 1.72; Tau Phi Delta, 1.72;
all-University women, 1.65; Tri
angle, 1.6; Acacia, 1.59; non-soror
ity women, 1.56; Theta Phi Alpha,
1.56; Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1.5.
.A.ll-fraternity and sorority, 1.49;
Alpha Phi' Delta, 1.49; Phi Gam
ma Delta, 1.49; Sigma Pi, 1.49;
Beta Sigma Rho, 1.48; Alpha
Kappa Alpha, 1.47; Alpha Chi
Sigma, 1.46; Beaver House, 1.44;
Omega Psi Phi, 1.41; Phi Kappa
Sigma, 1.41; Sigma Phi Sigma,
1.4; Phi Sigma Delta, 1.39; Phi
Sigma Kappa, 1.38; All-Univer
sity, 1.37.
Alpha Tau Omega, 1.37; Beta
Theta Pi, 1.37; Delta Chi, 1.36;
fraternity men, 1.35; Phi Epsilon
Pi, 1.33; Phi Mu Delta, 1.33; non
fraternity and sorority, 1.32; Pi
Kappa Phi, 1.32; Delta Upsilon,
1.31; Sigma Chi p, ,1.31; Phi Kappa
Tau, 1.3; Theta 'Kappa Phi, 1.3;
Theta Chi, 1.29; Zeta Beta Tau,
1.29; Alpha Sigma Phi, 1.28.
Sigma Alpha Mu, 1.28, all-Uni
versity men, 1.27; Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, 1.26; Alpha Epsilon Pi,
1.25; Kappa Delta Rho, 1.25; Delta
Sigma Phi, 1.24; non-fraternity
men, 1.24; Phi Delta Theta, 1.23;
Theta Xi, 1.22; Chi Phi, 1.21;
Lambda Chi Alpha, 1.21; Sigma
Nu, 1.2; Alpha Chi Rho, 1.19;
Kappa Sigma, 1.19; Delta Tau
Delta, 1.17; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1.13;
Sigma Phi Alpha, 1.13; Phi Kap
pa, 1.11; Phi Kappa Psi, 1.11;
Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1.09; Kappa
Alpha Xi, .92; Alpha Phi Al
pha, .67.
Traffic Court
Fines Vidators
Traffic Court last night charged
eight student traffic violators a
total of $l5 in fines. Suspended
fines totaled $2.
Two dollars was paid to Traffic
Court. The remaining $ll will be
paid to the Dean of Men.
Two students received general
recommendations to see the Dean
of Men, which will probably re
sult in their being placed on Traf
fic Court probation, Thomas
Claypoole, acting court chairman
announced.
Six students, out of the 15 who
were scheduled to appear, did
not report to the court for hear
ings. Unless legitimate excuses,
which are acceptable to the Dean
of Men, are offered by these stu
dents, they will, be guilty as
charged. Claypoole said. One case
was dismissed by the court.
Senior Gift ideas Due
Suggestions for th e $9OOO
senior class gift may be sub,
milted until Friday at the Stu
dent Ur ion 4:1? . k in Old Main.
19 Fraternities
To Participate
In Meat Plan
The Fraternity Marketing As
sociation's meat purchasing plan
goes into effect today.
Under the plan, 19 fraternities
will pUrchase meats from three
jobbers at 10 and 5 per cent re
ductions• in the prices charged
non-participating groups. Harold
W. Perkins, secretary, reminded
participants that meat must be
purchased from these jobbers for
the reductions to be made. Con
tracts bind participants to pur
chase all meats, fish, and fowl
products from these three job
bers.
Jobbers have been supplied
with a list of participating fra
ternities. Jobbers will supply the
fraternities with U.S. choice and
producer's choice grades of meats.
Fraternities must deposit mon
ey equal to one-half month's meat
bill by Monday, Robert K. Mur
ray, president, has reported. This
will be used to pay the jobber's
first bills.
Under the program, participat
ing fraternities will buy meats
from the jobbers. The jobbers will
bill FMA at the reduced rate,
and FMA will pay them. FMA will
then bill the participants, charg
ing a 2 per cent handling charge.
Participants may deal with any
of the three jobbers.
Inkling Circulation Staff
Circulation staff and candidates
of Inkling, campus literary mag
azine, will meet .at 6:30 tonight in
108 Willard.
'Class Scraps' Were Popular
Among Frosh 40 bears Ago
By AL KLINICKE
Forty years ago, freshmen who
Wanted to rid themselves of both
ersome customs were really given
a workout by their sophomore
contemporaries. In fact, bruises
and bloody noses were common
results of the attempt.
One of the most popular of
these "Class Scraps" was a "push
ball contest," which occurred an
nually during the spring semes
ter. The two classes, frosh and
sophomore, faced each other on
opposite sides of Old Beaver Field.
Between them was placed a large
ball, about six feet in diameter.
The object, of course, was to push
the ball into the opponent's ter
ritory, and the melee which re
sulted was deemed great sport.
Should the freshmen win, they
were awarded various concessions
in customs.
Predecessor to the "push ball"
scrap was an even more reckless
activity called the "flag scrap."
Each .class had its own colors, in
cluding the freshmen. But before
being allowed to claim the colors
for their own, frosh had to with
stand a siege by the sophs. On
the fateful night, the frosh would
steal out en masse, erect their
colors on a 30 or 40 foot pole in a
distant corner of the campus, and
await the onslaught, which was
never long in coming. The sophs
tried to pull their opponents away,
or climb over them to reach the
pole. If the flag still stood in the
morning, the frosh had "won their
colors."
Contemporary to the "flag
scrap" were many other forms of
inter-class skirmishes such as the
picture rush, the hall rush, the
bowl fight, the corner fight, the
pants scrap, tug of wars, wrest
ling matches, football games, and
even a molasses feed. A variation
of the usual clash was the "ban
quet rush?'
•A day was decided upon spon
taneously, and word was passed
among the f r o s h, who imme
diately rushed out of their classes
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENW/WANIA
'Salve Grass'
Campaign
Will Begin
The annual Keep-Off-the-Grass
campaign sponsored by Alpha Phi
Omega, national service honor
ary, will get underway today ;
Over 20 signs will be erected
on campus reminding students to
"spare, the -grass," according to
Ernest Famous, committee chair
man.
The signs will be made of card
board this spring, instead of
wood, Famous said. The signs
will be replaced each week, Fa
mous said, or sooner, if neces
sary. In the past, the signs lost
their effectiveness when students
saw them in the same location
day after day, he said.
The signs generally will carry
the same comic message as in
previous campaigns, Famous said.
Signs like "Don't Tread on Me"
and "Ouch, That Hurts" have
been used in the past.
According to Walter W. Train
er, supervisor of landscape, con
struction., and maintenance, over
$3500 will be spent this spring
on turf rejuvenation alone. This
figure is over and above the
money the physical plant spends
each year on maintenance, Train
er said.
$4OO Grant Offered
By Metals Society
The American Society for Me
tals Foundation for Education and
Research has established a $4OO
scholarship to be available next
year to students enrolled in metal
lurgy at the University, President
Milton S. Eisenhower announced
yesterday.
Similar awards have been es
tablished by the foundation at
each of the universities in the Uni
ted States and Canada having
courses of study leading to a de
gree in metallurgy. The awards
are designed to stimulate in
creased enrollment of highly qual
ified students in thege curricu
lums.
in search of any possible means
of transportation to the predeter
mined destination, usually Wil-.
liamsport. The sophs again had to
stop them, and if one third of the
freshman class reached Williams
port they were termed victorious,
and treated to a banquet there.
Perhaps the granddaddy of all
class scraps was the "cider scrap,"
popular around the turn of the
century. A cider barrel, guarded
by the sophs, was placed on
.j a
certain spot between 6 and 11 in
the evening, and the freshmen
were declared the winners if they
managed to deliver some of the
cider to a member or members of
the junior class.
As the enrollment of the school
increased, greater safety measures
were needed for participants. This
necessitated a g r eat number of
- Transportation Notice
EASTER VACATION
Take a Tip and Make Your Trip
by
GREYHOUND
For the convenience of PENN STATE STUDENTS,
SPECIAL BUSES will be provided for the Easter
Vacation and will leave from the PARKING LOT, _
SOUTH OF RECREATION HALL at 1:00 P.M. WED
NESDAY, APRIL the 14th, 1954.
RESERVATIONS for the SPECIAL BUSES will be
made with the purchase of your ticket at the GREY
HOUND POST HOUSE. AL L RESERVATIONS
MUST BE MADE BY 10 P.M. TUESDAY, APRIL
the 13th.
For additional information, call the GREYHOUND
POST HOUSE, 146 N. Atherton Street Phone 4181
Faulty Violators - -
May Eie-t-f".englizeci
• The University will do something about "inequities" in penalties
for traffic violators, James Dunlap, Traffic - Court chairman, said
yesterday.
Dunlap will report to
committee had been set up to de'
and staff members for violations.
He said the group is considering
establishing a graduated system' of
fines for non-student violators,
The committee may also recom
mend that all staff and, faculty
cars be registered, he. said,
The University must approve
the suggestions before they are
put in effect,
Students Complain
The committee was established
after students had complained
they were being penalized for vio
lations while faculty and staff
members were, in effect, not af
fected by campus parking regula
dons.
Members of the committee are
Walter H. Wieaand. director of
AGENDA
Roll call
Minutes of previous meeting
Report of officers
Adoption of agenda
Committee reports:
1. B o o'k Exchange Board of
Control
2. Cabinet coffee hour - corn<
mittee •
3. Community Forum
4. Sophomore Class Dance
Old Business:
1. Traffic committee
New Business
Appointments
Announcements
Adjournment
the physical Want, chairman; Er
nest B. McCoy, dean of the Col
lege of Physical. Education and
Athletics; and Ossian B. MacKen
zie, dean of the College of Busi
ness Administration. The commit
tee was appointed by President
Milton S. Eisenhower.
Cabinet will also hear a progress
report on Community Forum.
Dunlap, chairman of the Forum
committee. will report on this
year's Forum and will tell of next
new rules, which eventually
eliminated the interesting features
of the scraps.
Whereas, in the early scraps an
absence might mean a cold dunk
ing, and academic deficiencies
were often attributed to too much
activity in the scraps, the later
scraps were very poorly attended.
This, coupled with the death of
a student at the University of
Pennsylvania during class scraps,
led to the abolishment of the
scraps in 1916, although milder
forms were carried on' for several
year thereafter.
Intramural s p or t s were later
substituted, and have continued
to the present day. But any die
hard graduate of the rugged class
scraps will still profess that these
are weak substitutes for the early
hard knocks and high spirits.
T - TURSDAY. APRIL 1. 195 . 4
versity Cabinet that a three-man
elop a method to penalize faculty
Year's plans. He said the Forum
committee is considering asking
actors Tyrone Power or Jose Fer
rer, as speakers for the 1954-55
Forum. Five speakers, instead of
four, may be contracted next year.
he said,..
Dunlap
Dunlap said the committee may
have $3OOO to spend for speakers.
Rates, range from $5OO to $l2OO,
he said.
Plans fcir next year's Penn State
Book Exchange , and Used Book
Agency operations in the new Stu
dent Union building will, be re
ported by' Charles Obertance, BX
chairman.
Obertance will recommend new
members of the BX Board of Con
trol. They must be approved by
cabinet.
Robert Harding, vice president
of the sophomore class, will report
on the class dance, and Jane Ma
son, president of the Home Eco
nomics Council, will present a re
port on the cabinet coffee , hour
committee.
Trustees Grant
Faculty Leaves
Leaves of absence for six fac
ulty members at the University
have been approved by the Board
of Trustees, President Milton S.
Eisenhower has announced.
Those granted leaves are
Hugh M. Dayison, professor, of
educational research, for the fall
semester; Brice Harris, professor
and head of the Department of
English Literature, July 1 to Jan.
31, 1955; Albert K. Kurtz, profes
sor of psychology, from Jan. 1 to
June 30; Emil W. Lehmann, asso
ciate professor of engineering re
search, Feb. 1 to Sept. 1; Robert
J. Hemman, associate professor of
engineering research, March 1 to
Sept. 1; and Robert M. Hoover,
research associate in the Ordnance
Research Laboratory, April 19 to
June 30.
Harman Is Named
Engineer Editor
Albert Harman, sixth semester
electrical engineering major, has
been named editor of the Penn
State Engineer. He will take over
the editorship with the May issue.
The April issue will come out
April 5. It will contain a feature
article by Harman on the atomic
battery.
Kathleen Stroup, second semes
ter business administration major,
will be the April Engineer girl of
the month.
CONCERT MARATHON
TODAY AT TOWN HOUSE
3 P.M. to 12 P.M.
Rudy Black - John Erdly
Fran Taylor - Dick Potter
Chuck Torrence - Chris Ebel
Gerry Miller - Tony Mignon
Skip Sensig - Dick Brady
Jay Cave