PAGE TWELVE WS<jA Forms, Interprets Rules Rules and regulations for women students at' the University are formulated, interpreted, and enforced by the Women’s Student Government Association. The group, formed in 1915 and reorganized in 1921, is composed of the Senate, House of Represenl man Regulations Board, and Judi cial. Each dormitory is divided into units, with a housemother in charge of each section. This is the basic governing body. Hostesses act as advisers at the regular house meetings. Each unit elects a president, vice president, and a secretary-treasurer. Senate Top Body The highest governing body of WSGA is the Senate. It is com posed of four officers, seven sen ators, and representatives of Leonides, Panhellenic Council, and Women’s Recreation Associa tion. Nominees' for offices are select ed from the names of women who apply at the Dean of Women’s of fice. A screening board determine those eligible on the basis of scholarship, leadership, and ex tra-curricular activities. Applicants may not have a major judicial record or less than a 1.5 average. All women vote in the primary and final elections for Senate officers and represen tatives of their class. Ellis Heads Senate Patricia Ellis, WSGA president, presides over senate meetings. She is an ex-officio member of all WSGA committees and governing bodies. She is WSGA’s represent ative on All-University Cabinet. Kay Kingsley, WSCA vice pres ident, presides over the House of Representatives. Within the first two weeks of the academic year, she organizes the upper class houses. She is chairman of May Day. The WSCA secretary, Arlene Borgeson, posts all minutes of meetings in women’s dormitories, and assumes the duties of the president, in Miss Ellis’ absence. Treasurer's Duties Treasurer Sue Hill has charge of the finances of the Association, the disbursements being subject to the approval of senate and Dean of Women, Pearl O. Wes ton. She is an ex-officio member of all WSGA committees which have a budget. - Senior senator Gail Smith is chairman of the coed coordinating committee and is responsible for the “Tea for the Coeds.” The two junior senators are re sponsible for WSGA guest speak ers and the activities scrapbook. The sophomore senator is chair man of freshman council, while one freshman senator is chairman of the freshman tea. WSGA Activities Activities planned by WSGA are the annual May Day, Mother’s Day Weekend, activity cards in the Dean of Women’s office, or ganizing units in dormitories, helping with Orientation Week, sponsoring clothing drives, and the junior-senior faculty recept tion. Town women select a WSGA senator, and WSGA has provided a special study room in Woman’s Building for town women. House of Representatives is made up of the president of each dormitory unit. It discusses ques tions brought up at house meet ings and makes recommendations to be carried back to the unit meetings. Freshmen Problems Freshman Council acts as co-or dinator between freshman women and the WSGA senate. It is com posed of the president and vice president of freshman living units and one town freshman The two freshman senators act as ex-officio members. Martha Michiner. sophomore senator, is chairman of the group. The council discusses freshman problems, and if necessary, refers them to the Senate. Before any regulation affecting freshman women can be made or appealed, it must be passed by Freshman Council, then freshmen regulation board, and be approv ed by the dean of women and the WSGA Senate. Members of Freshman Council are elected in second or third By DOTTIE STONE ;atives, Freshman Council, Fresh- 4 Hat Socset Three-Fold Purpose Four women’s hat societies are organized at the University to give recognition to women for their leadership, scholarship, and service. Mortar Board, oldest national Scrolls, established at the Univers: women. Chimes is the junior society, and Cwens was founded for sophomore women . Mortar Board taps sixth se mester Women in the spring se mester. An average of .3. above the All-University women’s aver age is required for membership. Mortar Board Pin The pin, shaped like a mortar board, holds the words Pi Sig ma Alpha to signify service, scholarship, and leadership—the objectives of the society. Each year the group sponsors the Mardi Gras—an indoor carni val in Recreation Hall. Profits go to the Charlotte E. Ray schol arship fund. Other activities of the group include assisting with Orientation Week and acting as hostesses for various receptions with women from other honoraries. Eligibility for Scrolls, the sec ond senior honorary, is based on one major activity in which a student has been active for at least three years and has obtain ed a substantial position, and two minor activities. Tapees must have a 1.5 All-University average and be sixth semester standing. . Members of Scrolls act as ush ers for the Community Forum and assist in the -Orientation Week activities. The purpose of Chimes is to honor junior women who have THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE; PENNSYLVANIA Scrolls' Activities •Sociai Cjazette Frosh Women's Mixer, 8 to- night, dormitories. Convocation, 6:15 p.m. tomor row, Schwab Auditorium; 7 p.m., campus tour; 8 p.m., Recreation Hall; and 10 p.m., Hall Unit Meeting Rooms. WSGA Program, 6:45 pirn. Tuesday, Schwab Audito rium; 8 p.m., College Meet ings (as listed) and 10 p.m., Hall Unit Meeting Rooms. es Serve l honorary for senior women, and iity one year ago, recognize senior shown loyalty to the University by giving their service and lead ership to the advancement of its interests, welfare, and unity. , Chimes taps women in the spring of their fourth or fifth semester. It requires an average ot .3 above the All-University junior women’s average, and stresses participation in two ma jor activities. N Chimes’ pin is a small gold bell—the clapper being a cluster of three pearls. “To lead with knowledge, to follow with in telligence, to seek the worth while life” is the group’s motto. Chimes' Program Chimes assists in the orienta tion program in the fall, at pep rallies, and with the Women’s Student Government Association and Women’s Recreation Associa tion elections. Each year the group decorates one of the floats for the Miss .Penn State parade, a part of Spring Week activities. Cwens, the sophomore hat so ciety, was set up to recognize women .outstanding in their freshman year. Members must show outstanding ability and scholarship. Every fall Cwens sponsors the Dungaree Drag, a girl-ask-boy dance. The funds raised by the dance are placed in a scholarship fund. Cwens are also active in the orientation program. Dormitory Problems Confuse New Coeds The idiosyncracies of campus life—particularly when it comes to dormitory life—are . probably overwhelming the freshman women by now. It’s a confusing mess. All you can do is read every bit of •information available for clarification of problems and ■ hope that in the meantime you don’t make any fatal blunders. Perhaps the most puzzling issue of dormitory life is that of regula tions. After a life at home where sign-out tables are unheard of and late returns of two minutes after a curfew are forgotten, it is difficult to become accustomed to strict dormitory ’•egulations. It' is, how ever, one of the necessary evils of dorm life. Every time you leave the. dorm after 5:30 p.m., freshman women must sign out. This in volves signing your name, room number, and the lime that you leave. When you return, you must again sign your name and the time at the moment when you sign in. No one may ever sign in or out for you. During freshman customs fresh man women are allowed to stay out until 9:15 p.m. Late returns are punishable with a 1 o’clock removal for lateness of 5 to 20 minutes on a 9:15 p.m. A 1 o’clock removal means that no dating is allowed from 6:30 Saturday until the fol lowing morning. _f you are late, you may not enter the dormitory unless you are let in by the check er (the girl thai, checks the returns of the women of your dorm.) A late bell,' usually located, near the door is rung by a latecomer, which sounds in the checker’s'room. She will then admit the late coed into the dorm. Blackmarks, marks which are given to a coed for breaking rules, are another necessary evil. Black marks which might affect you this Welcome Coeds to and f< The junior love—the jumper is very much at home on campus or dance floor. This empire-princess jumper by JONATHAN LOGAN is made of fine menswear flannel and boasts a baby-checked gingham lined bodice to match darling baby-doll blouse. S. Allen St, SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 1.2, 1954 week are given for extreme noise; untidy room; failure to sign in or out;not signing out properly; stay ing in the lounge with a date without signing out; wearing ex posed curlers, bandanna, bedroom slippers, or bluejeans in the dining halls; calling out a window; enter taining men in the dormitory be fore noon; not having men out of the dormitory at closing hour; sign ing out some one else, and being signed out. Other blackmarks may be given, but the circumstance which they penalize probably will not occur this first week. A coed may not smoke m the dining halls, on campus, or in the streets of town. No coed is allowed to 'drink. O.ut-going and in-coming tele phone calls are terminated at 10 p.m. on week-days, and at mid night on— Friday and Saturday nights. 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