• . —Photo by Harrison SOME OF THE more than aro students who will Undertake the task of soliciting Campus Chest contributions from all the students at the University during the next three days get their equipment at a rally last night. The 'drive starts today and ends Friday night. Annual Drive Launched At Campo Chest Rally Over 400 Campus Chest solicitors held a rally last night to launch the annual three-day fund raising campaign which begins today. National and local welfare. organizations will share in the distri bution of money raised during the drive. This year's goal is $7250. The solicitors met in the. TeMporary Union Building to receive last minute instructions from Ells worth Smith, general .chairman, and John Robinson, solicitations chairman. Students' names have been di vided into four groups, independ ent men, independent women, fraternity men and sorority wom en. The group contributing the largest amount of money in rela tion to the total number in that group will be announced in the Daily Collegian on Saturday. Eight local organizations will receive 57 per cent of the funds collected by the Chest. Thirty eight per cent will be given to seven. national welfare groups. The remaining five per cent is retained by the Chest itself for operational expenses. The Penn State Student Fel lowship Fund, which will receive eight per cent of the chest total, l is the only scholarship fund set up for the students by the stu dents. Scholarships are awarded on the basis of need, academic standing and student activity'. The two.-per cent given to the Women's Student Government As sociation will be divided among the Mifflin. County Child Welfare Service for Christmas presents, l American Women's Hospital As sociation:for medical aid to men and' women in the United States and foreign countries, and the Ralph Dorn 'Hetzel Loan Fund which grants loans to students at the University. The State College Welfare Fund which is given two per cent of the Chest proceeds is a commun ity . organization granting aid to such groups as teen-age clubs, boy and girl scout troops and the Crippled Children's Society. The . Centre, County Heart As-1 sociatigp and the, National: Schol arship Society for Negro Students which -receive three per cent and (Continued on page two) Senate to Act On Social Pro For Sigma Pi The Senate Committee on Stu dent Affairs will act today on the four weeks social probation which was recommended Nov. 22 by the Interfraternity Council Board of Control for Sigma Pi for a pledg ing violation. Ellsworth Smith, chairman of the board of control, said last night that he will present the recommendation to the senate committee. If approved Sigma Pi's proba tion will begin Jan. 3 and end at the close of the current semester, Smth said. Sigma Pi has also been fined sso' for their violation. Fines lev ied by IFC do not require the ap proval of the Senate committee. Sigma Pi is charged with in viting a man lacking the proper average to live in their house. IFC rules state that pledges must have a . 1.0 All-University average or a 1.0 average in the semester preceding their entrance into the house. A fraternity is not permitted to invite men lacking such an average to live in their house as a guest. Smith said the fraternity presi dents agreed to strict enforcement of this rule at their workshop meeting. The presidents believed; Smith said, that pledging a man with out a 1.0 average was in direct violation of the IFC code and was detrimefital to the fraternity_ sys tem. Faculty. Directories. Faculty directories are, on sale today and student directories are stilt on sale at the recorder's office in the basement of Willard. Faculty directories are 35 cents and student directories - are 50 cents. TODAY 'S WEATMER: 101 : 4 P 6)011 'By JACKIE HUDGINS Military. Ball Tickets on Sale There are still tickets on sale or the Military Ball, which may be, obtained at one of the /three Reserye Officer Training Corps offices. The Military Ball will be held December 'lO and Ralph Marterie will play for the dance. The finalists for the Queen contest are now being picked by the brigade commander of the U.S. Military Academy and will be announced shortly. Members of the Military Ball committee include William Ham ilton, chairman, David Hiestand, Richard Gramley, John Seddon, Jon Friedman, William Re a in, Gordon Fee,' Pani Boyd, and Gary VOL. 55, No. 51 . STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 1, 1954 FIVE CENTS 3 Dorms May Get New Transponders By DOTTIE STONE Plans have been made by _campus radio station WDFM to install transponders in-No mars.Building, Grange, and Nittany dormitory units after further testing has been done on existing transponders, unofficial sources told the Daily Collegian last night. These transponders, which change the station's FM signals to AM signals which then can be received on ordinary radio sets, will not be installed until transponders already in. un its are in better working condition, according to two station engineers. Moorhead To Appear For Forum Agnes Moorhead, an actress well known in four mediums—radio, television, movies, and, the stage —will .be the second„personality presented by the State College Community: Foium at 8 p.m. Mon day in Schwab. Auditorium. Miss Moorhead will appear in the. Paul Gregory production, "That Fabulous Redhead," a ser ies of portrayals and readings compiled from her , more memor able , performances. . , . Most famaliar portrayal of the evening will be Miss .Moorhead's rendition of `!Sorry Wrong Num ber," by Lucille Vetcher. This dramatic sketch was', written for Miss Moorhead, and was origi nally done on a "Suspense" radio program. Since._ then Miss Moor head has repeated it 'eleven times on radio. The program alsolncludes works from such variecUsOurces as James Thurber, Ring' -Lordlier, Marcel Proust, William„Shakesp.eare, Bi ble passages, as well as anecdotes from Miss Moorhead's career. Appearing with Miss Moorhead in the two hour, show is Robert Gist, well known• New• York actor. Tickets priced ' it $1.50 •are on sale - at the Student Union , desk in Old Main and at Griggs Pharmacy on College - avenue. Sensate to Meet. The Univer.sity Senate Will meet at 410 p.m.., 'tomorrow' in 121 Sparks. Senate committees on courses of study and °educational policy will give their reports at the meet ing. Post 'Office Ballot— Sti.l4o.o,t'-.May -Suggest ,Name. Students will haye a chance to express their opinions today on a name for the proposed post office sub-station which • may be established on campus. Students may clip the ballot which appears in today's Daily Collegian and turn it in to the Student Union desk in• Old Main-Ballots mist be turned in by 5 p.m. today. The ballots will 'be considered by the University Board of Trustees when it meets here Fri day to, decide whether a campui sub-station would be desirable. • Ballots from townspeople _which appeared in last week's Centre Daily Times and questionnaires which were sent . to faculty and staff members, members of the Alumni Council and All-University Cab inet will also be 'considered. The results of the ballots • will be used by 'the trustees, only as suggestions for, the name_ of the sub-station. The final decision on Engnieering 'Student Council last night favored University Park-as the name for' the cam pus post offiee. Leonides se lected Mt. Brittany as. the ,post office name at its meeting Mon day night. the name rests with the board. Approximately 4300 question naires were included in those sent to faculty, alumni and cabinet. Up to yesterday, over 2000 of them had been returned. Louis H. Bell, direqor of Pub- (Costaitawd' poija: twos) 4: H. 4. ' .-tA )% *:?' 4.. Pi ...• FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Transponders are presently be ing tested in the West Dorm area, McElwain, Atherton and McAllis ter halls. While testing is being done on the transponders, students may be able to listen to WDFM on their AM radios. The purpose of the transponders in dormitories is for testing purposes only. The engineering staff of WDFM makes checks, studies problems and makes adjustments on the transponders. Students will not be able to receive WDFM con stantly until transponders are per fected and installed with the pur pose of enabling students to lis ten to the station. Transponders, the go-between for a FM broadcast and an AM set, are located in the boiler room of most dormitory units, enabling them to hook up to the main pow er line of the dormitory. This makes reception on AM radios stronger. However, being located in basements, FM waves are hard er to receive. Without good • re ception, good conversion to AM signals is impossible. WDFM must confine AM signals to individual dormitory power lines;because their license permits only FM signals to be sent through the air. The station is licensed to operate on. FM as a non-cominer cial, edUcation station, and is not permitted to send AM signals over the air. Since Pollock area is sparsely populated and may be closed soon, a transponder will not be installed for Pollock residents, station engineers said. They also said there might be some danger that AM waves would radiate into the• air. If tests prove successful, one transponder will serve both Mc- Elwain and Simmons dormitories, as they are electrically connected. Although McElwain has been get ting fairly regular reception, Sim mons reception breaks down about every other day. This has the elec tricians baffled, as no one touches the transponders except on week ends. The Wet Dorm transponder was built by student engineers last spring. It was removed during (Continued on page two) consider the name I have checked below (or writteti in) to be the most suitable for the University's post office. *-MII6)dOWL Centre Hillis Key tone Mt. Nittany Check or write in only one name and turn in to the Student Union desk in Old Main by 5 p.m. today. Post Office Name Ballot (014glittt Wilson Asks Pay Boosts, Draft Change WASHINGTON, Nov. 30' (?P)— Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson said today he will ask the next Congress for a four-year ex tension of the draft taw, includ including a provision for short term draftees to build up the're serve forces. He told a news conference thi4 a pay- boost for military person nel and an overhaul of . the gen eral military manpower _program will be other parts of a legisla tive program designed, he said, to strengthen the morale and ef fectiveness of both active and re serve forces. On other subjects, he: 1. Predicted military spending during the year starting next July 1 will be 'about 35 billion dollars, and the Defense Department's le -1 quest for new funds will be some where between 291 'and 34 1 / 2 .bil lion dollars. Funds appropriated for the present year total about 29 1 / 2 billion. 2. Commented that British Field Marshal Lord Montgomery is a "very brave man to come into an- other country and give some ad vice." Montgomery told a Los Angeles audience last night that more emphasis should be plaCed on air power, and _less on naval carriers and land armies. He said the day of the aircraft carrier is "approaching its end" but Wilson said he thought this co Uri t r would go on building carriers. 3. Said he was taking no part in arguments over whether ,stu dents at the service academies should be permitted to join in in tercollegiate debate on the assign.. ed question of recognition of Red China. Both West Point and 'An napolis have withdrawn their de bate teams from the competition. - University Centre - University Heights - Universiiy Park
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