TUESDAY. OCTOBER 19..T954
55 Women Register
For Infqfipa! Rushing
Fifty-five women registered in- the'Dean of Women’s office for informal sorority rushing, which
began yesterday and will continue '.for: the rest of the school year.
Coke dates may be held from Ito 7:30 p.m. every day in sorority suites. The Panhellenic rushing
chairman will see that the sororities receive her name.
Women interested in informal. rushing of sororities should sign up immediately at the Dean of
Women’s office, Norma Reck,
Panhellenic council rushing chair
man, has announced.
Strict Silence
During informal rushing there
will be no planned entertainment,
refreshments, or favors. Bids may
be issued two weeks after rush
ing begins. Rushees will be al
lowed one week to return the
answer to the dean’s office. There
will be a strict silence period be
tween the rushee and the sorority
issuing the bid,
Legislators
Predict Win
For GOP
Congressman James E. Van
Zandt and State Senator A 1 Letz
ler said last week that the Demo
crats would do well to stick to
their issues on both the national
and state levels.
The two candidates spoke to the
members of the Young Repub
lican Club. Letzler took the con
troversial state sales tax as his
topic.:
Van Zandt, discussing the na
tional election scene, said “It is
unfortunate that during this cam
paign one hears mostly dirt and
very little about-the. accomplish
ments of the 83rd Congress.”
Later in a question and answer
period Van Zandt said that the
bird-dog remark of Secretary of
Defense Charles W. Wilson and
its treatment by the Democrats
was typical of the way the opposi
tion avoided the issues of the cam
paign.
Van Zandt said the answer to
the unemployment problem in
Pennsylvania and elsewhere is di
versification of industry. He said
that, the administration’s program
is' designed to restore economic
stability based on a peace-time
economy.
Letzler pointed out that the
Democrats still had not said how
they were going to raise the 135
million dollars for educational
purposes if they fail to reenact the
sales tax. He said the Tax Insti
tute. Conference at Princeton stu
died the sales tax before it was
enacted and decided it was the
only fair solution.
Both Van Zandt and Letzler
predicted victory for the Repub
licans in Pennsylvania, although
Van Zandt said, “We are working
hard and running scared.”
Theta Sigma Phi
Theta Sigma Phi, national wom
en’s honorary and professional
journalism fraternity, will meet
at 7:30 tonight in 202 Willard.
By DOTTIE STONE
Panhellenic Council will meet
at 6:30 tonight in the Beta Sig
ma Omicron suite, 129 Mc-
Elwain. The president and rush
ing chairman of each sorority
should attend the meeting.
The number of rushees who
were ribboned in comparison with
the number registered for formal
rushing dropped this year, ac
cording to Mrs.' Jean H. Dubois.
Last year 407 women registered
and 277 were. ribboned, making
68.1 per cent. This year 456 regis
tered and 286 were ribboned,
totaling 62.7 per cent.
These statistics were the basis
for sending the complete rushing
figures to a statisticision to see
if the quota of 50 women to each
sorority should be increased. A
report will be made at the Novem
ber meeting.
To Present Cup
The rotating scholarship cup
will be presented to Chi Omega
sorority at the Panhel meeting
tonight.
The rushing chairman will make
a report on informal rushing and
distribute - lists, of women who
have registered for informal
rushing. A list will be made of
the sororities who are going to
rush informally.
A group of sorority women,
Panhel, have bought
and taken coffee and doughnuts
to the men guarding the Lion
shrine at the last two home foot
ball games.
to Meet
The Young Republican Club
will' meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in
,202 Willard to work out cam
paign strategy for state Republi
can candidates.
THE DAILY. COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Pike f© Give
Mission Talk
The Rev. James A. Pike, dean
of the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine in New York City, will
speak. on “What’s Unique About
Jesus?” at 7 tonight in the Mineral
Science Auditorium.
The Rev. Pike’s lecture will be
the last of the University Chris
tian Mission series, “Roadblocks to
Faith,” sponsored by the off-cam
pus Protestant church groups and
the University Christian Associ
ation.
The lecture is ■ open to the pub
lic. An informal social will be
held in the Thompson Hall play
room following the talk.
Omicron Nu Taps
Thirteen Women
Thirteen women were tapped
Thursday by Omicron Nu, nation
al home economics honor society.
They are Shirley Decker, Suzanne
Helm, Marianne Herrold, Jane
LaCoe, Suzanne Morgan, Miriam
Olander, and Arlene Smith, sen
iors; and Joan Allen, Leona El
gin, Georgia Hallibruton, Louise
Hamilton, Adeline Hoffman, and
Evelyn Miller, graduate students.
Students are chosen on the
basis of superior scholastic
achievement and promise of fu
ture professional contribution.
The tappees will be pledged to
morrow and initiated Oct. 27.
Demos to Hear Stewart
John Stewart, Democratic can
didate for the state legislature,
will speak at a Young Democrats
Club meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday
in 217 Willard.
W3YA Celebrates
45 th A nniversary
By ED DUBBS
W3YA, the University's amateur radio station, is celebrating its
45th year of service to central Pennsylvania.
The station, designed to serve 'as a training ground for future
electronics and communication experts, is a vital part of central
Pennsylvania’s civil defense program and the official station of
Pennsylvania for State Net Con
trol of MARS (Military Army
Radio System).
Gilbert L. Crossley, assistant
professor of electrical engineering
and adviser to the station, said
that the Amateur Radio Service
All students holding amateur
radio operators license and
wishing to become a member of
the staff of assistant operators
of College Radio Station W3YA
should send a letter of applica
tion to Gilbert L. Crossley, as
sistant professor of electrical
engineering.
The letter of application
should contain experience, sta
tion call letters of your own
amateur station, the grade of
amateur license you hold, and
any other pertinent facts.
Joining the staff is not limited
to engineering students, but any
student, faculty member, or em
ployee of the University, hold
ing an amateur license is eli
gible.
is a means by which interested
persons may engage in nonprofes
sional radio communication and
experimentation as a hobby.
Name is Spread
The station has brought the
name of the University to many
persons throughout the world by
its frequent contacts with other
stations.
Early in 1947 the Chief Signal
Office of the Army and the Nor
wegian Embassy in Washington
requested the University station
to serve as official contact be
tween the United States and the
“Kon Tiki" scientific expedition.
The famous raft left Peru on
April 28 and landed in the Poly
nesian Islands August 11.
Contact was maintained every
day at 3 a.m. except when weath
er conditions prevented all radio
communications.
All official government and
Norwegian Embassy traffic," as
well as messages between the ex-;
plorers and their families, were
died through the University
station, under the Army call
ALMA.
Assisted Weather Bureau
During the expedition the sta
tion also assisted the United
States Weather Bureau in making
propagation studies.
The station also served as the
official Army traffic station for
the Admiral Byrd Expedition to
“Little America” in 1934.
Besides handling all official
traffic for the Army, the station
handled many personal messages.
Among these were messages from
the brother of Mrs. Adrian O.
Morse, wife of the University’s
provost.
Also, the station was used in
connection with the Rachel Tay
lor murder case in 1939, the Penn
sylvania-Ohio flood of 1936, the
assimilated flood in the Susque
hanna Valley in 1954, and others
to numerous to mention.
“It can be assured that when
W3YA is called upon for public
service in the future, it will try
to respond as efficiently as it has
in the past,” Crossley remarked.
Ed Council fo Meet
The Education Student Council
will meet at 7:30 tonight in 204
Burrowes.
Collegian Ad Staff
Members of the advertising staff
of the Daily Collegian will meet
at 6:30 tonight in 9 Carnegie.
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