Student Activities
Centered in HUB
By BARB BUDNICK
The Hetzel Union Building, truly a hub of student activities, has been providing enter
tainment and relaxation for students and faculty since its opening on March 15.
The building, named in honor of Dr. Ralph Dorn Hetzel, president -of the University
from 1926 until his death in 1947, had been in the planning stage for 16 years before con
struction was started two years ago.
The HUB, which is located on Holmes Field, provides office space and meeting rooms
for over 25 campus organizations, serves as a recreational and educational center for stu
dents, faculty, and alumni, and has a complete food service.
Among the many recreational
facilities in the HUB are lounges,
a reading room, a music room
with a grand piano and seven
soundproof booths for listening to
recordings, an art gallery, a small
auditorium seating 200 people, a
game room with facilities for to •
ble tennis, checkers, cards and
shuffleboard, dark rooms for ama
teur photographers, and a televi
sion viewing room.
The Book Exchange, a non-pro
fit school supply store carrying a
complete line of school supplies
and stationery, is also located it
the HUB.
The spacious ballroom, located
on the first floor, will accomodate
700 couples for dances. It was the
scene of the Centennial Birthday
Dinner on Feb. 22.
The campus post office is lo
cated on the ground floor of the
HUB. It opened Feb. 22, when the
University established its own
post office as University Park.
The post office was the only part
of the HUB in operation before
the official opening of the build
ing on March 15.
The Lion's Den snack bar, the
Terrace Room cafeteria and a p,:i
vate dining room which accommo
dates groups from 50 to 200 con
stitute the eating facilities. Tha
Lion's Den is a popular meeting
place for students and is open
from 7:15.a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Mon
day through Thursday, 7:15 a.m.
to 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday,
and 8:15 a.m. to 9:30 p.m Sunday.
The Terrace Room cafeteria is
used for lunches and dinners only.
Serving time for lunch is 11:30
a.m. to 1:15 p.m. and for dinner,
from 5 to 6:45 p.m. daily and Sun
day.
Records used in the listening
booths of the music room may be
obtained at the Student Union
desk on the ground floor by show
ing matriculation cards. Tickets
for dances, plays and shows are
also distributed at the desk, as
well as campus publications such
as the Daily Collegian, Ag Hill
Breeze, the Penn State Engineer,
and Froth. The Student Union
desk was formerly located on the
first floor of Old Main.
The $2.75 million structure is
financed by a student assessment
of $lO a semester with the help
of faculty contributions and desig
nations from the alumni fund.
The HUB's functional design of
brick, stone and glass and modern
facilities makes it a building un
equalled by any other school in
the east, according to Gecrge L.
Donovan, director of associated
student activities. "The students
are proud of the new building
and think so much of it that they
are extremely careful of how they
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WDFM Programs
Begin Next Week
By GINNY PHILIPS
Campus radio station WDFM will begin its third year of
broadcasting next Monday.
After three years of training and planning by a group of
lion came into existance in
Guild, a student organization
under the leadership of David R.
Mackey, assistant professor of
speech and general manager of
WDFM, gave students training in
this field.
The 1951 senior class gift of
$9OOO, half of the gift of 1952 and
a 25 cent student assessment by
All-University Cabinet in 1953
helped establish the station fi
nancially.
Transmitter Is Gift
students and faculty, the sta
December of 1953. The Radio
Choir Tryouts
Are Scheduled
For This Week
Chapel Choir preliminary try
outs for freshmen and transfer
students will be held this week
by appointment. Interested stu
dents may sign for an appoint
ment in 216 Carnegie.
Preliminary tryouts for upper
classmen will be held Monday
and Tuesday next week.
Final tryouts begin the next
Wednesday to choose students to
replace June graduates of the
choir.
The choir sings at Sunday
Chapel services and presents spe
cial programs for Christmas and
on Palm Sunday. The group's
Spring Concert with the Sym
phony Orchestra is a culmination
of the year's work.
Mrs. Willa C. Taylor, director
of the choir for 13 years, Started
several traditions such as the
Christmas candlelight service, the
Spring Concert, and Choir Day
activities.
Choir Day is held the Satur
day of Orientation Week each
year, and the group rehearses for
the first Chapel service. Plans
are being formulated for a sched
ule of dormitory serenades to be
held throughout the year, accord
ing to Mrs. Taylor.
Fifty-nine choir members re
turned late in July from a six
week tour of Europe.
use it. We hope that the incoming
freshmen will follow the precedent
and help to keep the building in
the same condition for students,
faculty, and alumni many years
from now," he said.
The station received an FM
transmitter from station WFBG
in Altoona. In order to change
the WDFM FM signals to AM,
which can be received on ordinary
sets, transponders have been in
stalled in most of the dormitory
units.
These transponders change the
station's FM singnals to AM sig
nals. Students will not be able
to receive WDFM constantly un
til the transponders are perfected.
At present tests are still being
made.
Poll on Programming
Before WDFM actually came
into existance, a poll was taken
in order to find out what type
of program the student body
wanted. A program schedule of
musical and informative broad
casts was then drawn up, includ
ing Light Classical Jukebox, a
request program, and Open to
Question, a discussion of current
national events;
Other programs include World
of Music, produced by Dr. Philip
A. Shelley, professor of German
and Comparative literature; and
Behind the Lecturn, which is
used for faculty broadcasting. Dr.
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Students Operate
Downtown Co-op
The College Co-op, a national society which sets up living
faclities on college campuses, is completely student operated,
with the exception of a chaperone and cook.
The Co-op house on East Nittany avenue provides living
quarters for approximately 20 coeds and dining facilities for
50 men.
The co-op's purposes are to pro
vide room and board at minimum
expense, and to offer social and
cultural advantages to its mem
bers.
Students at the co-op take
charge of all duties of running the
house, except the actual prepar
ing of the meals. The members
have worked out a schedule, shift
ing duties each week.
The co-op students have their
own recreational activities and
also participate in campus activi
ties.
Several picnics, at least one
party, and special banquets are
held during the year. The co-op
has their own volleyball, basket
ball, and ping pong facilities. In
recent years the students have
added a new parking lot, basket
ball court, and porch furniture.
Last year the group entered in
six intramural sports, including
track, basketball, football, volley
ball, soccer, and golf. The co-op
also participated in the Ugly Man
contest and the Spring Week par
ade during Spring Week last year.
The co-op is making long-range
plans to expand their facilities to
provide living quarters for both
men and women. Plans have been
drawn up, although the plan is
still in the tentative stage.
Other plans include getting
more publicity for the group, as
its members feel that too few
students know anything about the
co-op.
The co-op has an alumni board
of directors which meet twice a
year to vote on measures pro
posed by the co-op students. The
board decides on matters concern
ing policy and the budget.
Officers of the group are James
Mt, president; . John Kenemuth,
treasurer; Alvin Corzilius, vice
president; Donna Kumpf. secre
tary; Donald Dawn, manager;
Dean Presnall, assistant manager;
Glenn Carter, work manager;
Mary Lou Hickok, kitchen mana
ger; John Ritchey, bursar• Harold
Pier, social chairman; John Mat
tern, recreational chairman; Dan
iel Watanabe, educational chair
man; and Joan Campbell, alumni
chairman.