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
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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,
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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.
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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
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