PAGE FOLK Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings during the University year, the Daily Cnilegian is a student ouvrtaed newspaper. Entered as second-slaw matter July 6. 1934 at the that* College. Pa. Poet OW.. suader DIEHL McKALIP. Editor Managing Ed.. Mar, Lee Laurier: City Rd, Bike Feb. Asst. Bus. Mgt.. 001101111111111 Lowenstein: L• 1111,1 Adv. no, silher. Copy Ed.. Nancy Ward: Sports Ed.. Dias McDowell: Fop Geldstein: National Adv. Mgr. John Albrecht; Cia. Edit Dir,. Peggy McClain: Radio News Ed.. Phil Austin; See. calatien Mgr. Richard Gorden: Promotion Mgr.. litel/lt Ed. Marcie MacDonald: Asst. Sports ,Ed., Berm Welsh:pods Rieneh ftersousiel Mgr.. Carel Schwisots Office Mdr,, Podia Aria doe. Ed.. Mars Bolieh: Feature Ed., Mound Reiss: Trinelt Classified Ada. Mgr.. Dorothea inert: See., Gertrude Librarinn-Rzehange Ed., Ann Leh: Senior Board. Phil Pro. leisipesid: Reentreb and Rau Mgr- Vieth:la Conters. pert: Photon. Dir., Ron Hoopes. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Roger Beidler; Copy Editors, Sue Conklin, Marnie Schenck; Assistants, Dick Hufnagel, Larry Jacobson, Evie Onsa, Jane Casselberry, Gladys Woodward, Harry Kitzinger, Pat Herbster, and Audrey Sassano. Rushing Preview Freshman women will get their first taste of sorority "atmosphere" Sunday and sorority women will get a bird's eye view of next year's potential rushees. This is the general purpose of the Panhel lenic Council tea for freshmen on Sunday. While one afternoon definitely will not do the job completely, it will be worthwhile for all concerned to attend. This will be the first time Panhel has sched uled such an event for freshman 'women. In past years, most sorority women and rushees entered formal rushing with little or no "past acquaintance" with each other. Including second semester women to the rushing program next fall will greatly magnify this situation. Freshman dormitories, especially Thompson Hall, are so completely isolated from upperclass dorms that frosh women and soror ity women have little chance to get acquainted, except in the classroom. The tea on Sunday will compensate somewhat for this gulf between the two groups. Freshman women would be wise to attend this tea and get at least a glimpse into sorority living. Sorority women would do well, also, to circulate at the tea and help freshmen under stand the various aspects of sorority member ship. If Sunday's tea is a success, and if sorority and freshman women find it does fulfill its purposes, then Panhel would do well to schedule another series of these teas for first semester women next fall. Such a series would be the first step toward eliminating the backward alienation of fresh men from sorority women. Gazette ... HTLLEL, Sabbath Eve ServieW S p.m.; opening Hillel Re gional Institute; reception, following services, Hillel Foundation INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, 7:30 p.m., 405 Old Main NEWMAN CLUB. Daily Rosary, 4:30, church. Party, 8 p.m., student center UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL William Barker, Thelma Ching, Ann' Curtis, Philip Donk°, Joseph Erwin, Relia Evans, James O'Meava, Kenneth Paff, William Pro:es, James Rose. 'William Stoneman, lierle Um. stead, Donald Wise. Senior Gift Vote To Start Sunday At Class Mixer Preliminary voting for the sen ior class gift will take place at the Senior Class mixer to be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Hetzel Union ballroom. The Class gift will be discussed and lists of 12 possible gifts will be given each senior. Five choices arP to be made by each person, and the five gifts with the highest votes will be voted on again by the senior class when they re ceive their copies of LaVie, Faith Gallagher, chairman of the gift committee, said yesterday. Richard Hurlbrink, senior class vice president, will talk about the Senior Ball and play records of the Neal Hefti orchestra. Alexander Zerban, chairman of Senior Class Night, will report on the decisions of his committee. Entertainment will be provided by the Ken Lesight Quartet. Old Main to Get Passenger Elevator The freight elevator in Old Main is being replaced by a pas senger-type elevator, Charles A. Lamm, supervisor of building maintenance and operation, has announced. The elevator will be extended to reach the fourth floor, he said. The freight elevator previously went only to the third floor. Lamm said the elevator would be a self-operating push button type. but said he was not sure if use of the elevator would be re stricted. He said he did not expect the construction to be finished before the end of the semester. The ' a ho 1c tor is an instru rner t for measuring depth of The Batty Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. INN WILLIAM DEVERS. Business Manager —Peggy McClain Shortlidge Road To Be Policed Campus patrolmen will be sta tioned on Shortlidge road from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. tonight and to morrow night, Capt. Phillip A. Mark of the Campus Patrol, has announced. This was done on a trial basis last weekend and worked suc cessfully. Captain Mark said. Just the presence of two patrol men had a "leveling influence" on student drivers bringing their dates back to the dormitories, Captain Mark said. The plan will go into effect in place of one suggested by All- University Cabinet— making Shortlidge road open to one-way traffic on Friday and Saturday nights. Both Captain Mark and Walter H. Weigand, director of the physi cal plant, had termed Cabinet's recommendation impractical. Officers' Names Due Names of new officers of frat ernities, sororities, clubs, honor societies, and other campus organ izations should be turned in no later than May 10 at the Hetzel Union desk to be included in the Student Union Directory. Applications Due For Hat Groups Applications for Parmi Nous and Skull and Bones, senior men's hat societies are due at the Hetael Union desk by 5 p.m. Tuesday. Letters should include the All-University average (1.0 is required), extra curricular ac tivities, and the reason fo r wanting to join a hat society. Eighty-six applications were received by A .drocles, and 45 by Blue Key. junior men's hat societies. New members will be announced Tuesday. ME DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Safety Valve— On 'Probation -- TO THE EDITOR: Having read of action taken against four students in the West Dormitory area as a result of the attempted panty raid incident, I am . . . confused as to the merits of the present disciplinary system. No doubt the authorities were justified in bringing.. . action to these students if they were really guilty.. . . From where I viewed the riot it appeared . . . action should have been brought against 40 instead of four • . The thing which dismays me most is the stipulations of disciplinary probation. When a student is placed on probation a notation is placed on the student's permanent record stat ing that he has been placed on disciplinary probation. However, no explanation will be made as to how or why he was placed on pro bation. Since probation could run from causing disturbance in dormitory halls to entertaining coeds in one's own room, it is . . . difficult to tell just how bad a student really is. Another stipulation of disciplinary probation states that a student may not partake of extra curricular activities. Here the administration is defeating its own purpose. In saying this the administration infers that . . . activities are bad for students on probation. How can this be so? Activities give a student the opportunity to release his pent-up energy. They give him a chance for self-expression. The administration would do well to heed the old saying, "The devil finds mischief for idle hands." .. . When a situation like last Tuesday's riot occurrs, many students are trying to catch some cheap attention. Instead of discouraging extra-curricular. activities, the administration should encourage delinquent students to enter activities os there won't be idle hands for the devil to find mischief for. •Letter Cut —Robert E. Thomas EDITOR'S NOTE:, The writer refers to disci plinary probation imposed for the rest of the year on the four students found guilty of instigating the demonstration in the West Dorm area. Chem-Phys Group Elects Childs New President William Childs has been elected president of the Chemistry and Physics Student Council. Other officers are Robert Neiman, vice president, and Joseph Eberly, secretary-treasurer. The council voted to amend the constitutions: ruling on the length of ter m s for representatives. Freshman, sophomore, and junior terms will expire at the end of the members' junior year. Terms of seniors will expire when their classes graduate. An amendment was also passed giving the president veto power. The president's veto can be over ruled by a two-thirds vote of the council. Gruber Will Head Pre-Med Group John Gruber, sixth semester pre-medical major, has been elect ed president of Alpha Epsilon Delta, national pre-medical hon or society. Other newly-elected officers are; Robert McMillan, vice presi dent; George Mauler, secretary; John Carlson, treasurer; Irvin Liebman, historian; and Francis Wachter, representative to Scapel, national publication of the so ciety. The society held its annual ban quet last night at the Eutaw House. Jane Metz, retiring presi dent, was in charge of arrange ments for the banquet. Sheldon C. Tanner, professor of business law, spoke to the group on the legal aspects of medicine. Today there are more than 58 million motor vehicles registered, one for every 700 feet of every lane in both directions on all streets and highways in the na tion. ltditortals represent NW viewpoint of the writer*, net necessarily the policy of. the paper. Umpired editorials are by the Itor. • •et of Morels 3. 1871 Little Man on Campus "I don't know what kind of line the Signa Phi Nothings give the rushees, but year after year they seem to snatch away the best boys." Looking Back at • I The P Station By PHIL AUSTIN By PHIL AUSTIN There comes a time in every college student's life when the ,grim reaper cometh, and he's after me now. Therefore, with a quick glance back at the happenings of the past year I'll go into seclusion until the reaper has reaped. There has been all kinds of news: triplets, transponders, name changes, opening of the Hetzel Union Building, politics, and so forth. Customs came in with the first day of classes, and like many students, weren't seen after the first day. They lingered on for two weeks, until all the available females were taken. Before long, controversy raged downtown over changing the name of State College to Mount Nittany. The townspeople decided to remain in a college rather than in a mountain. And on campus the first of several election codes was passed by All-University Cabinet. It was not until later in the semester that the "consti tutional revision" fad hit student government. Starting in September, aspir hip politicians tried to emulate Henry A. Wallace and start a third party. The Campus Party, eventual fruition of this move ment, proved to be a slightly better vote-getter, than Wallace, however. Politics continued to be a major campus Attraction until it was determined who would head the different patties. After ail, you can't have any fun if you have someone in charge. Cabinet took another step for ward in adupting a "Country Fair" theme for Spring Week carnival. This is apropos consid ering the location of the Univer sity. There's nothing like cele orating a centennial in the coun try. During the fall and winter the University's employees and the University held a panel to hear labor disputes. This improved the situation between the two, be cause now all they have to argue about is interpreting the results of the results. Student conduct came in for its usual criticism during the year. Fears that the students would break loose in either Philadelphia or Pittsburgh were unsubstan tiated. But in the spring (on home territory) . . . the fears were jus tified. And a hurricane hit State Col lege, the land of much rain and hot air. The wind blew like stu dents leaving the class of a Jong winded professor who didn't fin ish his lecture until 5:10 p.m. Later, it snowed and snowed, and finally some stuck on the ground. Chapel Choir announced that it would spend the summer in Europe. In this way, the Uni versity may be able to get some publicity abroad. /a such a cam FRIDAY. APRIL 29, 1955 By Bibler London will have a distinct ad vantage over Philadelphia. During the winter an ice skating rink was opened. This is a new method of putting stu dent's All-University averages on the skids. , A new grading system was adopted. and most students .re joiced. But the axiom is still true that a rose by any other name is still a rose. The Swedish gymnastic team provided . a record-breaking Rec reation Hall crowd with a lively and excellent exhibition of gym nastic feats. It also provided some' pointers on new ways of getting out of bed in time to make eight o'clock classes. The highlight of the Centennial was the Birthday Party held for some 600 persons from the State government and the administra tion. '" Stray persons from other categories also attended the party in the spic-and-span new Hetzel Union Building. On the solemn side of the Centennial celebration. ground was broken for the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Memorial Chapel and the atomic reactor was. dedicated. The weather held out for the Birthday Party: it didn't rain until everyone was inside the HUB. Plans for graduation were announced recently, and an other controversy was raised. Finally. it was decided that Commencement would be held inside if the weather was bad outside. In no other spot in the United States except State Col lege would this havie really been an important controversy. But everyone knows that periods of sunshine in the Nittany vale are as infrequent as those of rain anywhere else. That's a capsule-sized picture of what's happened during the past year. The future will add new chapters to the story of the Uni versity. Correction John Ifft, arrested for speeding by Pleasant Gap State Police, was not John Ifft, sixth semester for estry major, as erroneously iden tified in Wednesday's Daily Col legian. 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