PAGE W 0 Chi Omega, Alpha Zeta Make Top Averages Chi Omega and Alpha Zeta had the highest averages among sororities, fraternities and groups for the Spring semester 1954, according to statistics released by the Dean of Admissions’ office yesterday. , 1 Chi Omega’s average of 2.08 Ag Hill Party To Be Tonight In Hart Woods The Ag Hill Howdy Night par ty, sponsored by the Agriculture Student Council, will be held at 7 tonight in Hort Woods, George Williams, Council president,' said. The party. will be held in the livestock pavilion in case- of rain. The purpose of the party is to provide the agriculture freshmen an opportunity to get acquainted With their professors and other students in the college. The party will feature five speakers. These are President Mil ton S. Eisenhower, Dean of Men Frank J. Simes, Dean of Women Pearl O. Weston, Lyman E. Jack son, dean of the Agriculture col lege; and Russell B. Dickerson, associate dean of the Agriculture college,. Each will give a brief speech welcoming incoming students. Hot dogs, doughnuts, and cider will be served. Entertainment will consist of music and games. All agriculture students and faculty members may attend. Ad mission is free. Customs Board Tries Cases Of Four Frosh A meeting of the Freshman Customs Board last night tried four freshmen for customs yiola tions. The violations were failure to wear dr.ess customs and to carry freshmen handbooks. As penal ties, the majority of. violators will be required to take part in the performance of the freshmen “band” at halftime during the Syracuse football game. One violator, because of what the board ruled was “poor atti tude,” was referred to the Office of the Dean of Men since it felt his case was beyond its jurisdic tion. Another Joint Customs Day has been set for Friday, and upper classmen were urged to take a more active part in customs en forcement, by co-chairmen Hugh Cline and Ann Lederman. The next meeting of the Fresh man Customs Board has been set for 1 p.m. Saturday in 204 Old Main. Cline asked freshmen not to regard customs as just a “big joke” but rather as a program designed for enjoyment and aid. There will be a meeting of the freshman “band,” for those viola tors who were asked to partici pate, on Monday night in Nittany English Debaters to Be Benjamin Sinclair, seventh se mester arts and letters-major, and David Meckler, seventh semester pre-medical major, will meet a team from Oxford University, England, in a renewal of 20-year debate rivalry Dec. 9 in Schwab Auditorium. The debaters from Oxford will be Derek Bloom and Peter Han nay Bailey Tapsell, both Conserv atives. They will take affirmative of the topic, “Resolved: That the permanent exclusion of Commu nist China from the United Na tions would be a negation of the purpose of that organization.” Sinclair and Meckler will debate the negative. Non-Decision Both sides will present a 15- minute constructive and a five to seven minute rejoinder or rebut tal speech. The debate will be a non-decision meeting. Richard C. Maloney, assistant to the dean of the Liberal' Arts college, will monitor the debate. The traditional Penn State-Ox ford debate , was interrupted last was the highest average for any 1 placed first among fraternities and fifth among all groups with a 2.01. In second place were Alpha Omieron Pi, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Delta Gamma, all with a 2.02 average. Runner-up for fraternity hon ors—-but finishing sixteenth be hind fourteen sororities and Al pha Zeta—was Delta Theta Sigma. Both sorority women and the All-University women’s average were higher than fraternity and independent men. The sorority average was 1.9, while the All- University women’s average was 1.7. Fraternity men were third with 1.53 and Independent men were fourth with a 1.3 average. The complete averages are as follows: Chi Omega, 2.08; Alpha Omieron Pi£ 2.02; Delta Gamma, 2.02; Kappa Alpha' Theta, 2.02; Alpha Zeta, 2.01; Gamma Phi Beta, 2.01; Delta Delta Delta, 1.99; and Beta Sigma Omieron, 1.97. Phi Mu, 1.97; Zeta Tau Alpha, 1.97; Sigma Delta Tau, 1.98; Alpha Epsilon Phi, 1.91; Phi Sigma Sigma, T. 91; Pi Beta Phi, 1.91; Alpha Xi Delta, 1.9; and Delta Theta Sigma, 1.9. Sorority women, 1.9; Alpha Gamma Delta, 1.89; Kappa Delta, 1.88; Tau Phi Delta, 1.81; Omega Psi Phi, 1.8; Alpha Rho Chi, 1.79; Sigma Sigma Sigma, 1.78; Theta Phi Alpha, 1.70; Delta Zeta,. 1.74; Kappa Kappa Gamma, 1.74; and Triangle, 1.73. All-University women, 1.7; Alpha Gam ma Rho, 1.66; Alpha Chi Omega, .1.64; Beaver House, 1.63n0n-sorority women, 1.61; all-fraternity, 1.63; Acacia, 1.52; Tau Kappa Epsilon, 1.51; Delta Chi, 1.5; and Beta Sigma Rho, 1.48. Phi Gamma Delta, 1.48; Phi Epsilon Pi, 1.48; Alpha Chi Sigma, 1.47; Alpha Kappa Alpha, 1.46; Phi Sigma Delta, 1.46; Alpha Epsilon Pi, 1.45; Alpha Phi Delta, 1.44; Phi Mu Delta, 1.44; Phi Sigma Kappa, 1.44; and All-University, 1.43. Sign?* Phi Alpha, 1.43; Delta Upsilon, 1.42; Alpha Chi Rho, 1.4; Sigma Pi, 1.4; fraternity men, 1.39; Lambda Chi Alpha, 2.38; Beta Theta Pi, 1.37; Alpha Tau Omega, 1.36; Theta Kappa Phi, 1.36; Alpha Sigma Phi, 1.35; and Delta Sigma Phi, 1.36. Sigma Nu, 1.34; All-University men, 1.33; Phi Delta Theta, 1.32; Sigma Chi, 1.32; Theta Xi, 1.31; non-fraternity men, 1.3; Phi Kappa Tau, 1.3; Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1.26; Chi Pjri, 1-25; Phi Kappa Sigma, 1.25; Delta Tau Delta, 1.23; Zeta Beta Tau, 1.23; and Pi Kappa Alpha, 1.22. Kappa Sigma, 1.21; Theta Delta Chi, 1.21; Theta Chi, 1.19; Pi Kappa Phi, 1.17; Phi Kappa Psi, 1.16; Kappa Alpha Psiv 1.14; Kappa Delta Rho, 1.13; Sigma Phi Epsilon, *1.12 ; Phi Kappa, 1.1; and Alpha Phi Alpha, 1.04. University Hospital Reports 25 Cases Twenty-five students including three football players, Jesse Ar nelle, Roosevelt Grier, and Wil liam Straub, were reported as pa tients in the University Hospital yesterday. Arnelle is suffering from a se vere charlie horse, Grier has a sprained knee and ankle, and Straub has bruises of the right knee and ankle. The remainder of the patients have infected toes, sore throats, or colds. 20. The organization of the “band” will then be explained. Freshmen were urged once again to save their dinks or ex emption cards for the first two home football games. year because the traveling sched ule of the British team did not permit a trip to the University. Sinclair and Richard Kirschner, June graduate, debated a team from two universities in India at last year’s international col legiate debate. Sinclair on Cabinet Sinclair, men’s debate manager, represents the Board of Dramat ics and Forensics on All-Univer sity Cabinet. He is also president of the Centre County Young Re publicans Club, chairman of In tercollegiate Conference on Gov ernment, president of the 1955 Pennsylvania Interstate Debaters Congress, and former Lion Party clique chairman. He is a member of Pi Lambda Sigmr., pre-legal honorary. Sinclair placed fifth among 100 speakers at the University of Pittsburgh cross examination tournament, received a certifi cate of distinction at the Eastern Forensics Tournament, and a cer tificate of merit at Boston Uni versity. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA "niversity group, and Alpha Zeta 9 Programs Are Added To WDFM t Nine new programs, one of them a guest disk jockey show, have been added to the program list of WDFM, student operated radio station, this year. The disk jockey program, “One Night Stand,” will enable any in terested student to take a turn at the turntables. at 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday. Application for the show may be made by postcard, con- Schedules of WDFM radio programs for October. are now available. Interested persons may send a postcard with name, and address to WDFM, Sparks Building, and the program list will be mailed to them. taining name and phone number, addressed to the program, WDFM. Sparks Building. Another new program, “Pro gressions in Rhythm,” will feature music of the past, present, and future at 8:30 p.m. Mondays. “Be hind the Lectern” will present a talk by faculty members of varied departments at 8 p.m. Tuesday. At 9 p.m. Wednesday another new show,. “House Parties,” will be aired. This program features tape recordings of combos heard at fraternity houses at the Uni versity. “Concert Cameos” at 8 tonight will present top records in class ical, semi-classical, and popular music fields. At 9:30 tonight “Symphonic Notebook,” featuring a different composer and his work each week, may be heard. Tomorrow, “Starlight Sere nade,” two hours of dance music starting at 7:30 p.m. will be fol lowed at 9:30 p.m. by “The Mas ters’ Palette,” which will attempt to draw pictures with music. “As You Believe," an interfaith program dealing with the drama and music of various religions can be heard at 7:45 p.m. every Thursday. Wherry Named Head of Commerce Department Ralph H. Wherry, associate pro fessor of insurance, has been named head of the Department of Commerce at the University. Wherry, a graduate of Penn State, has served on the faculty since 1947. He has . been acting head of the Department of Com merce since the College of Busi ness Administration was estab lished. Met Dec. 9 Meckler placed third in East ern Forensics and also received certificates of distinction at the Eastern tournament and certifi cates of merit at Boston U. Meck ler is a member of Phi Eta Sig ma, freshman scholastic honor ary; Alpha Epsilon Delta, pre medical honorary; and Phi Kap pa Phi,.-national scholastic honor ar. He is treasurer of the Foren sic Council and on the governing board of B’nai B’rith Hillel Foun dation. Both representatives from Ox ford have already received bache lor of arts degrees from that school. Bloom has a B.A. in phil osophy, politics, and economics. Tapsell was a first class honor student in modern history. Both served in the Royal army and are active in national politics. Bloom is a member of the Nation al Speakers’ panel of the Conserv ative party. Tapsell, originally an Independent, is assistant secre tary to the Conservative party’s parliamentary committee on health and social security. 'Stormy Weather State Theme Song There are plenty of unpredictable things at Penn State, but by far, the weather in the hfittany Valley, beats most of them. A typical example of said weather occurred at last year's. Junior Prom, whiqh was supposed to have had music provided by Ralph Flanagan and company. With much anticipation, this year’s gradu ation class planned for their an nual event, and where was Ralph Flanagan? Stranded in Altoona, or Lewistown, or some other exotic locale. Ail this in Novem ber, rnind you. However, when ever anyone does .want snow to ski on, it’s a different story. The next day was .pretty mem orable, tooi No one actually saw Penn State beat Fordham in foot ball up at Beaver Field because of the snow. It was amazingly thick during the first three quarters, and by the last 'quarter everyone had left, or was snowed under. The factor in Penn State weath er which never ceases to amaze one is its changeability. You can be ous in the yard getting a sun tan, and suddenly be hit' by a hailstone. Going swimming at Whipples in June Is almost a sure bid for pneumonia, too. One can always swim ,\in the chlorine drenched Glennland or White Hall pools, though. A suggestion for a new name for State College, contrary to the proposed Mount Nittany and Froth’s Eden, (no one was al lowed to sin there, either!) would be Rain, Pennsylvania. Shades of Rita Hayworth. It seems to rain here three days out of four. Save that beanie, Frosh, it will be a life-saver when one of our famous monsoons hits campus. Rumors are flying about some one taking bets down at Gra hams’ on the possibility of the' Dorseys coming by Chinese junk for the prom. Just a final word of advice— have Mom send down your mos quito net, and your Admiral Byrd outfit, and you’ll be perfectly at ease to meet anything that Mount Nittany-State College-Rain ' digs up. Haller Granted Leave George L. Haller, dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics, will aid in the organization of a new advanced projects laboratory for the . electronics division of General Electric Co., Syracuse, N.Y. He has granted a leave of absence from the University for the fall semester. Puerto Rico is 1750 miles from New York City. 96 Men Selected For '54 Blue Band Ninety-six men have been selected for the Penn State Blue Band for 1954. Of these, 32 are freshman, 33 sophomores, 26 juniors', and 14 seniors. Besides the regular marching unit, there are eight alternates and one drum major. James W. Dunlop, associate director of the band. George Black, sixth semester music edu cation major, is drum major. The band will play at pep ral lies and all home football games. The band'will also travel to the Penn and Pitt games. The band disbands after the. last football game and new members are se lected by tryouts the following year. Officers of the Blue Band are George Black, president; Neil Andre, manager; Alexander Zer ban, assistant manager; Robert Jones, librarian; Stanley Michal ski, assistant librarian; and Roger Staub, secretary-treasurer. The Concert Blue Band, which has both men and women mem bers, has also begun practice. Its first appearance will be at the Swedish gymnastic team exhibi tion. at Recreation Hall in Janu ary. They will also give concerts on campus April 3 and May 29. Officers of the Concert Blue Band are the same as those of the marching unit. Dunlop is also con ductor of the concert unit. Members of the marching Blue Band are: 1 Piccolo—Arthur Bates, Kenneth Good man, Robert Miller, and Thomas Williams; , ill-flat clarinet —Samuel Moyer- THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 3©; Vm By JOE BEAU-SEIGNEUR Course Add Deadline Deadline for adding courses is noon Saturday, Students having their advisers' permis sion to add a course may do so in the basemeht of Willard Hall. A $2 fee will be charged. Courses may be dropped un til Oct. 16. Leader Wants Tax Rebates Made Public GETTYSBURG, Pa., Sept. 29 {fP) —Sen. George M. Leader, Dem ocratic choice for governor, to night demanded that the State Board of Finance and Revenue make public the names of corpor ations which received tax rebates in the past five years.. The board, he said, should “come clean’’ with the names and also tell its reasons for sancUoii ing each refund. “Federal tax refund data is re leased periodically for all to see but here in Pennsylvania we have a clandestine system, of handling tax rebates which shows complete moral laxity in the GOP adminis tration’s dealing with favored cor porations,” he said in a speech. The board recently asked the State Justice . Department for a ruling on whether it must make tax rebates public. Leader said there is “a sicken ing suspicion” that the Common wealth’s treasury is being “sys tematically looted by the big corporations in refund transac tions.” He added: “The money being funneled out in secret tax adjustments amounts to millions of dollars annually and nobody outside the Board of Fi nance and Revenue has any idea of where the money goes, who gets it, whether they are entitled to receive it and what strange pol itical motivations are behind these'furtive settlements.” professor 'of music education, is B-flat clarinet —Harry Blansett, Warren Davis, William Dzrboraw, Mitchell Haller, Norman Hedding, Leslie Hoffman, Allan Holland, John Jenkins, James . Jucker, George Kupsky, Donald Lotz, George Luse, Thomas Monitp, Bruce Moyer, Raymond Schulz, Malcolm Silberman, James Stitt, William Sullivan, James Valone, Richard Zarilla, Charles Zoi. Bass clarinet —James Benson, Ernest Torolc; Saxophone—Duane Beals, Harold Buery, Warren- Daugherty, Lawrence Ly ford. Robert Meahl, Charles Nycum, Thom as Powers, Paul Stoerker, Richard’ Stnck ler. Cornet and trumpet—John Apgar. Ray Bolze, Eugene DeMark, David Ernest, Peter Fishburn, Jere Fridy, Robert Funk, Edward Graham, Boy Grube, Addison Hawk, Paul Hazlett, Fredrick Heath, Carl Keim. Kenneth Lesight, Robert Marsh, Donald Matasick, Jerry Phillips, Charles Springman, Roger Staub, Larry Stetler, Noah Thompson, Darryl ‘ Wright, Alan Wyand. ' French horn—Neil Andre, Gordon Halter, Charles Harner, Robert Jones, Clair Krone, William Mills, Ronald Moss, Carson, Roth rock; Drum major—George Black, Karl Davidson, Francis Taylor, Robert" Travis. Baritone—Evans Goodling, Owen Miller, Eugene Sallack, William Stevens, Thomas Ulrich, William Watkins; Paul -'Wuest, George Zensen ; trombone —Richard Ander son, David Andre, Richard Brown, Robert Dombeck, Donald Fought, George Herbert, Donald Smaltz, John Sapper, William Wilson. . Bass—James Baker, Edward Kornowski, James Lawson, Stanley Michalski, Eugene O'Neill, Stephen Senft, Thomas Smouse. Alexander Zerban; percussion-—Richard Biery, Ross Fishburn,* RichaTd Gramley, Richard Hillsman, Barry Keizer* Thomaa Lewis, John Showalter, Frank Wood.
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