University Park As Post Office To Be situated ;establishment of a campus post office station bearing the name "University Park," effective Monday, has been •offi cially approved by both University and postal department offi6ials. but while the campus post office will technically come into being on. Monday the fornial opening of the station on the main floor of the Hetzel Union Building will not take place until at leapt Feb. 22. It is hoped that the post office will be ready to open then to co incide with the University's birth day celebration planned for that date. Pollock Has NC:I Reports On Failures 0..' Edward Pollock, assistant to the dean of men in charge of fraternity affairs, said yesterday he has received no report of an ex cessive amount of academic fail ures among fraternity men last se mester. 4 !fhe University expects an av wage of two to three men in a fraternity to fail to make the grade during the course of year," Pol lock said. But he added there was no indication that the rate was any higher last semester. Pollock•said that failures among fraternity. men could not always be attributed to pledging. He said he has known cases where men did their best academic work dur ing their pledge period. "The mortality rate among pledges is high," Pollock said, "but this. does not necessarily reflect on the chapter." He explained that the Univer sity expects a certain amount of men to , fail after their freshman year irregardless of whether or not they pledge. He said no study has'been made of the number of fraternity men who fail out after their freshman year, but he cited a recent study which. showed. that 27.6 per cent of the total number 'of men en rolled as freshman in 1950 did not -return'; for their senior year. . Pollock also said he - had re cOved .no reports of thefts from fraternities over the semester va cation. I Home Ec College To Hold Conclave The• College of Home Economics Iva h ol,d a convention for all home-economics students at 4 to morroVrafternoon in Schwab Auditarium. Grace M. Henderson, Dean of the College of Home Economics, and representatives of several stu dent activities will explain the piirposes of the Home Economics Spring Weekend and outline the duties of students for Spring Weekend. Music will be provided by an orchestra composed of students in the College of Home Eoconomics. Beard Contest Planned By PHYLLIS PROPERT A beard-growing contest will be sponsored by the Uni versity Student Centennial Committee. .Tentative plans were made for the contest last night at the ,first meeting of the commit tee. The plans include a period of registration, a system of classifi cation, goatee, full beard, etc., and a judging period. The 12 members of the commit in discussin: the .ossibilit TODAYS WEATHER: COLD. POSSIBLE SNOW ET MIKE MILLER D. A. Myers, regional operations director of the postal department, has promised that the station will be equipped as soon as possible and every effort will be made to activate it by Feb. 22. Oficial postal department sanc tion for the campus station was quickly obtained by the Univer sity following • the ,Board of Trus tees' decisionwon Jan. 22 to name the station "University Park." Representatives of the postal de partment visited the campus with in the week and the !business de tails of the operation were ironed out and agreed upon by Tan. 31. While plans are still tentative, State College Postmaster Robert .1. Miller said postoffice personnel will probably be on duty daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. except Sat urday and Sunday. Saturday hours were tentatively set at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. The station wi II occupy some 1200. feet of space on the ground floor of the HUB. Window services which will be made available upon opening the new station will 'be stamps, regis tered mail, parcel post and money orders, Miller said. Postal savings will be the only service not of - fered, he said. Miller explained that there will be litle or no change in the hand ling. of incoming mail, outgoing mail, whether picked up at pre sent campus stations or deposited at the HUB postoffice, will bear the "University Park, Pa." cancel lation. The Hetsel Union Building will unofficially open March 15 instead of Feb. 22 as previously planned. The HUB was origi nally, scheduled to open at the beginning of the fall semester but labor problems during the summer retarded construction and a NoVember opening date was then set. Only exception to present prac tice, Miller said, will be the re ! (Continued on page five) Photo Staff to Meet The photography staff of the Daily Collegian will meet at 7:30 tonight in the city room of the Daily Collegian, basement of Carnegie Hall. Students with basic lmowledge of photogra phy. who wish to join the staff may attend the meeting. of such a contest decided that although onl y' a few hundred students would probably grow beards, their bearded appearance would add to the Centennial spirit and thus directly affect all stu dents and be rightly considered an All-University project. The Reserve Officers Training Corps students, however, are not permitted to grow beards, accord ing to the rules of the service . . ' Robert 'Allison, fourth semester hotel administration major, and Robert Heck, fourth semester arts and letters major, were appointed by Diehl McKalip, eighth semester journalism major and chairman of the committee, to organize the contest. The committee said that if any organization felt that it would like to sponsor its own contest within its own organization, it should feel free to Co so since it would encourage Centennial spirit. Tentative plans for a Centennial song contest, exchange dinners for the students on Feb. 22, the night of the University's Birthday Party, OK'd Name; in HUB Xite Elaitg VOL. 55. No. 76 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 8, 1955 FIVE CENTS Icy Roads Blamed For Coed's Death Werner, Injured , See Story on page eight Penn State track coach Chick Werner, his two daughters, and three of his team members returned home yesterday afternoon and night following an autg i accident which inflicted injuries on the six when their car was rammed by another on Rt. 22, near Strauss town. Werner's car was rammed by Officials Deny Room Shortage; Help Offered Two University officials said yesterday that there is no student housing shortage, but offered the services of their departments in helping students secure rooms. James W. Dean, assistant to the dean of men in charge of inde pendent affairs, pointed out that a listing of approved rooms for rent in borough areas is maintained by the dean of men's office. He offered to . - .elp men find downtown rooms if they are in neec of a place to live. Dean said no housing shortage exists. Downtown rooms were scarce last semester. • Otto E. Mueller, director of housing, also said there is no hous ing shortage this semester, either downtown oc in the dcirrnitories. Rooms are , available in the Nit tany and Pollock a:• .as, Mueller said. However, there are no va cancies in the West Dormitories. Two Pollock Circle dormitories are closed this semester, but there are 120 empty beds available. Weston Says Rushees Must Prove Average . Al! women students planning to either be initiated into or rushed by sororities this semester must show' that they have acceptable All-University averages, Dean of Women Pearl 0. Weston said yes terday. These women must obtain their official transcripts from their ad visers before beginning rushing or initiating, Dean Weston said. Women planning to rush should tak_ their transcripts to their rushing chairmen, while those go ing to be initiated should take them to the dean of women's office, she said. and an envelope with a cachet were also discussed. A song written along the line's of the "Alma Mater" and not a march-type such as "Fight on State" had the committee's en dorsement during the discussion on the possible song contest. The committee also felt that exchange "birthday" dinners• for students would give students a part in the birthday celebration, if such a pro gram was practicable to attempt at this date. Plans for an envelope with a cachet; that is an engraving with the tower of Old Main, the seal of the University, and a few lines below about the University, to be mailed to friends as souvenirs of the Centennial year were also dis cussed. McKalip said of the committee, which will meet again Thursday night to formulate some concrete plans, "The Centennial Commit tee is primarily an idea group. Its aim is to put students in the Cen tennial and the Centennial into student affairs." FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Trackman in Crash the car of Mrs. Emma R. Seyfert, 60. Bernville, which slipped out of control while it was going down an icy hill and hit Werner's car as the group was returning to State College from the New York City's Millrose Games Saturday night. 011ie Sax, senior quarter-mile star, most seriously hurt of the athletes, returned home last night with assistant track coach Norm Gordon from the Good Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon. Sax Dislocates Shoulder Sax suff e r e d a dislocated shoulder and cuts of the face. Rod Perry and Art Pollard, two of Werner's top track runners, re ceived lacerations of the face and legs. One of Perry's wounds re quired eight stitches. Werner suffered cuts of the face, arms. and legs, and his daugh ters, Nancy, 18, and Patricia, 13, received similar injuries. Although Gordon went to Leba non yesterday to bring the two girls, Pqrry, and Pollard back to State College, it was decided that he remain with Sax and return with him last night while Werner bring the others back yesterday afternoon. In University Hospital Sax is now recuperating from his injuries in the University Hos pital. Werner reported that when he saw Mrs. Seyfert's car slip out of control he attempted to stay out of her path. But when he saw the two cars would hit he swerved sharply to the right, taking the crash on his car's right side. His car went through a deep ditch and turned around once without upsetting. Thrown From Car All but Werner and Patricia were thrown from the car. The three athletes were asleep in the back seat. Pollard and Perry said that when they awoke they found themselves sliding along the ground on the snow. The auto's gasoline tank was ripped off and slid along with them, drenching them with gasoline. U.S. Planes Shelled During Evacuation TAIPEI, Formosa, Tuesday, Feb. 8 (/P)—fled ground guns yes terday blazed away at U.S: 7th Fleet planes but otherwise the first day of the momentous withdrawal from the Tachens passed without incident. Peiping radio said, however, that U.S. planes flew over Yikiang shan and other islands near the Tachens in "a military provocation gravely encroaching upon China's territory and sovereignty." It as serted the U.S. craft left when Red planes took to the air. "If the U.S. Air Force ventures to intrude into China's territorial air again," said a broadcast heard in Tokyo, "the U.S. government must bear all serious consequen ces arising therefrom." Civilians Evacuated Nationalist sources said the first persons off the islands 200 miles north of Formosa were Chinese civilians. They were brought off by Nationalist landing craft under cover of the powerful 7th Fleet. To&Alan 6 Students Are Injured In Accidents By TED SERRILL One coed was killed and six students were injured in auto accidents between semesters, according to reports which reached the Daily Collegian last night. Icy road conditions accounted for the deaths of Adrienne Kle vansky, sixth semester arts and letters major, and a New York salesman who was returning her and two other students to campus to register last Tuesday. Injured in the accident were Phyllis Steifel, sixth semester journalism major, and Leonard Frankel, seventh semester arts and letters major. Ride Offered William Berkman, Brooklyn N.Y., salesman, had earlier of fered to bring Miss Klevansky, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Klevansky of Lock Haven, and Miss Steifel to the University when he stopped at the Dolly Shop in Lock Haven, a store operated by Miss Klevansky's aunt. According to an eye witness, Malcolm Myers, Beech Creek gar ageman, Berkman's car was driv ing on Rt. 220 between Mill Hall and Beech Creek while snow was falling. The car went off onto the shoulder and then in t o a spin when the driver attempted to bring his car back onto the high way. Then, Myers said, the car spun around once on the highway and went into another spin carrying it off the highway where it rammed into a large apple tree. Both Miss Klevansky and Berk man were pinned beneath the car for nearly half an hour. Later they died at the Lock Haven Hospital, Miss Klevansky of a fractured skull and internal injuriei. Students were also involved in seven other accidents: Broken Ankle 1. Dorothy Parks, fourth semes ter arts and letters major, recived a broken ankle and had the tip of a finger cut off when the auto she, was riding in coming to the University last Wednesday tipped over coming down a hill. (Continued on page thirteen) In all, 41,000 soldiers, civilians and guerrillas will be taken from the Tachens and nearby islands. Despite tough talk from the Red China radio, all advices from the Tachens indicated that not once did the Communists dare to oppose the mightiest U.S. fleet to be massed in the Far East since the Inchon landing in the fall of 1950 during the Korean War. No Red Action The Communists still moved nervously in the area. Torpedo boats were reported cruising 17 (Continued on page five) Rams Tree
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