PAGE TWO Interfraternity Group Meets Swiss Athlete It Gave Grant Interfraternity Council last night was introduced to Gilbert Leu, the 26-year-old student from Zurich, Switzerland, it has awarded the Kent Forrester Scholarship. Leu, who arrived in this country Saturday, thanked council members for choosing him for the award and said he hopes his stay here will be “the nicest remembrance of his life.” Although he has studii 64 Sign For Course In Training Sixty-four students had regis tered for the proposed eight week leadership training program as of 6 p.m. yesterday. Registration for the program at the Hetzel Union desk will end today, according to James Muss e r, administrator of the course. If registration continues to be light, he said, it may be extended through tomorrow. The program will consist of eight 90-minute sessions which will begin at 7 p.m. next Wednes day at an as-yet unchosen room. Musser said more freshmen were expected to register for the program which will instruct stu dents in student government, parliamentary procedure, and the holding of various positions in student government and on com mittees. Invitations were sent Wednes day to heads of campus student government associations, editors of campus publications, presi dents of chartered organizations, fraternity and sorority presidents, apd presidents of independent living units. These students wish ing to enroll must also register at the Hetzel Union desk. All those enrolling in the pro gram must attend all sessions. Absence from a session will bar a student from completing the course unless he presents an of ficial University excuse. Three special classes will be held on one night after the com pletion of the main program. In them, the duties of secretaries, treasurers and parliamentarians will be explained. Hat Societies Council is ad ministrator of the program. Ag Students to Attend Barbecue Saturday A chicken barbecue will be held after the Boston University football game Saturday after noon in Hort woods for all agri culture students and faculty mem bers. Dr. Lyman E. Jackson, dean of the College of Agriculture, and Donald V. Josephson, head of the department of dairy science, will talk briefly at the affair, which is sponsored by the Dairy Science Club. Tickets are available in Dr. Josephson’s office and from the officers of the Dairy Science Club. The price 50 cents. Encampment University First of a series of two articles explaining Encampment By ED DUBBS “For a better Penn State,” student leaders, faculty mem bers and administrative offi cials, and representatives of the borough of State College met at the fourth annual Stu dent Encampment Sept. 7 to 10 at the Mont Alto Forestry School. Using informality as the key note, the some 125 delegates sat down in small groups to attempt to solve problems, ranging from academic in nature to social and cultural, common to all. The delegates were divided in to eight committees, each dealing with a particular phase of Uni versity life. The committees were: student government; regulations, controls, and their enforcements; student organizations and their 1 functions; communications; aca demic policies; cultural aspects; student relationships to State Col lege and the University; and rec :d electrical engineering abroai in the EE curriculum. He was a member of an European gymnast club and plans to try out for the University’s gym team. His par ents still live in their native Zur ich. Leu was awarded a scholarship by the board of trustees to cover his academic fees. The IFC schol arship provides $7O a month towards room and board in a fraternity. However, he may keep the difference if he selects a house with lower fees. To Reside in Fraternities For the first three semesters. Leu will live in three different fraternities. He may choose any three he wishes. In his fourth se mester, he may become affiliated with a h*use. Robert Bullock, IFC president, instructed council members to hand in a list of their room and board fees at the Student Union desk by 5 p.m. today. A motion to limit the fees at $5O a month, to prevent bidding for the poten tial member, was defeated by al most unanimous decision. Will Move Soon Leu will move into the first house he selects as soon after Oct. 1 as possible, Bullock said. He is now staying with gym coach Gene Wettstone. In other business, Bullock ad vised* the representatives to ob tain a letter of recommendation from Assistant Dean of Men Ed ward Pollock for their house mo thers. This is a requirement, he said, adding that only 14 houses have written so far. ÜBA to Accept Limited Quantity Of Texts Today The Used Book Agency will re ceive texts today for only ten courses. Today is the last time the agency will accept books, ac cording to John Knaff, ÜBA manager. Books that will be accepted are the ones used in English Compo sition 1, History 20, Philosophy 1 and 2, Economics 50, Sociology 1, Zoology 25, and Commerce 25, 30, and 31. The agency will continue to sell books through noon Friday. Knaff said the ÜBA has had to refund money to students who failed to check the book-list pro vided. "Many departments have changed books for different cour ses,” he added. Knaff advised students to check the original price of the text on the book-list in order to be sure the student isn’t selling the book for more than the purchase price of a new one. Refunds will be made from Oct. 3 to 8. Problems Aired reational and social program. After the committees finished their reports, the delegates as sembled in the center’s audi torium for two plenary sessions. Unlike former Encampments, there was no voting on the com mittees’ recommendations at the plenaries. However, the recom mendations were open for dis cussion. The committee on student government, headed by Robert Sturdevant, All-University vice president, recommended that All-University Cabinet "revise and reinstate the list of finan cial reinbursements." It sug gested that Cabinet appoint a committee to study the recom mendation. The committee also suggested that representation on Cabinet be eliminated for the Women’s Rec reation Association, Athletic As sociation, Board of Dramatics and Forensics, and the Board of Pub lications. Suggested as replacements were the president of the Graduate Student Council, as an ex-officio, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANtA id, Leu will start as a freshman Library tp Check Use Of Stacks The Fred Lewis Pattee Library is instituting a registration sys tem for use of the stacks, Ralph W. McComb, University librarian, has announced. Only faculty members and graduate students are permitted to enter the stacks and select their books. Regular students must make their requests to the librarians, who-in turn find their books for them. Since graduate students have not been asked to present identification up to this point, students and townspeople have passed into the stacks un noticed. The new registration sys tem will prevent this occurrence. Students with special permis sion from their professors or su periors may enter the stacks, af ter proper identification, but will be accompanied by a librarian. Anyone wishing to enter the stack area will be required to identify himself as a faculty member, graduate student, -.or person with special, permission to use these facilities, McComb ex plained. He will also register his name and the time of his entry into the stacks. On departure, he will be asked to present brief cases or packages for inspection and to record the time of his leaving. A system of doorchecking to cut the number of missing books reported to go into effect at the Pattee Library has not been used. McComb mentioned last spring that instead of this action, closer checking on central points such as thg reading room and open shelf area would be enforced. Corporation Establishes Graduate Fellowship A graduate fellowship has been established in the College of En gineering and Architecture by Curtiss-Wright Corp. The fellowship provides $l5OO for the student—s6oo for fees, and $9OO for the University. The recipient will be a stu dent enrolled for graduate study in fields related to the airplane or its propulsion, or in electronics related to the field of aviation. Selections will be made by the committee on scholarships in the College of Engineering and Ar chitecture, with the approval of the chief engineer of the Curtiss- Wright Corp. non-voting member, and a for eign student representative. Other recommendations includ ed reconsideration by Cabinet of Campus Personnel Interviewing Committee and the rewriting of a 1954' Encampment proposal which seeks further student rep resentation on University Senate. Dealing with another phase of University life was the commit tee on regulations, controls, and their enforcements. One of the largest problems facing the group was a cam pus parking. The group recom mended that "for longer than a three-week period" be deleted from section I-Al of the Motor Vehicle Code. The section now reads: "Each student who intends to operate a motor vehicle in or about State College for longer than a three-week period shall regis ter it with the Pennsylvania State University whether or not a permit to park on campus is issued." Other suggestions dealing with (Continued on page eight) Minor Nears Many minor construction projects, including the erection of fire escapes on Engineering A, B, C, and E, are in the near completion stage, a survey of building maintenance and op eration revealed yesterday. The fire escapes are being erected on the north and south sides of the four buildings. Last semester, the Engineering Newsletter termed the buildings unsafe v/ithout additional emer gency exits and called for the construction of fire escapes Work on the steel structures was started about three weeks ago by a central Pennsylvania firm. Charles A. Lamm, super visor of building maintenance and operation, said yesterday. Local workmen will cut doorways to the fire escapes in the second and third floors as soon as the steel work is completed, Lamm said. About other construction on campus, Lamm said the elevator in Old Main which was being converted from freight to passen ger use last semester has been in operation since mid-summer. A push-button type with automatic doors, it was reconstructed to go up to the fourth floor, he said. The 10-passenger elevator has a weight capacity of 2;000 pounds. It is equipped with a lock device which can be used for special purposes. Painting on the underside of the Beaver Field stands is about two-thirds completed, Lamm said, adding that the remainder of the job will have to be put off until next summer because of the weather. The top side was painted in the summer of 1954. Workmen are' converting part of the basement of Pattee Li brary for use by the division of audio-visual' aids.' The basement section, which used to be the re ceiving room for books, will be made into a main office where the division will operate for the public and into several work rooms. Chemistry equipment is being installed in Whitmore , Labora tory, the first floor of which' has been completed. Work on the second and third floors is about to start. Final completion date is set for the fall of 1956. Room 103 Agriculture is being converted from a classroom to of fices • for the agricultural exten sion service. Work, which includes painting and partitioning, is ex pected to 'be finished in about four weeks. * Workmen also are doing minor work' in the basement of Frear Laboratory. A space is being con verted for research work. The job, which i$ about one-half com pleted, is expected to be finished in about four -weeks. Fulton to Head Board io Fulton, junior in education from Appllo, has been named temporary chairman of Fresh man Regulations Board. She is replacing Suzanne Loux, junior in education from Drexel Hill, who is student teaching for eight weeks. WSGA Senate to Meet Women’s Student Government Association Senate will hold an organizational meeting at 12:30 p.m. today in the WSGA office in the Hetzel Union Building, Carolyn Cunningham, president, has announced. The Players # Annual OPEN HOUSE Come , if you're interested in theatre Schwab Auditorium THIS FRIDAY 7:00 till 8:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1955 Repair Work Completion News, Ad Heads Lead New School Dr. James W. Markham, head of the Department of News and Editorial Journalism, and Don ald W. Davis, head of the de partment of advertising, are act ing jointly as interim directors of the School of Journalism this year until a new director is appointed. George Palmer was named di rector of the new school last spring by the University Board of Trustees. On June 30 he declined the position which he was sched uled to take over on July 1. Palmer is doing research work for the Ford Foundation at pres ent. He prefers to go into news paper work when he completes his research, according to James H. Coogan Jr., assistant director of public information. Dr. Ben Euwema, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, was chair man of the cominittee which se lected Palmer as director of the school and also worked out the plans for the new school. Dr. Markham, a member of the com mittee said the committee is still functioning and plans more changes within the school. He said they' do not plan to add more courses. Markham explained that the committee would probably not hurry in appointing a director, but would wait until they could get someone completely suitable to-their wishes.' Coogan said that Markham and Davis would con tinue to act as directors until the vacancy is filled. ' Under the new organization the school is divided- in two de partments; news and editorial journalism, and advertising. Schiessler Named Research Director Dr. Robert W. Schiessler, whose resignation as associate professor of chemistry becomes effective Sept. 30, has accepted a position as director of the research divis ion of Socony Mobil Laboratories in Paulsboro, N.J. His new posi tion becomes effective Oct. 1. A graduate of the University, Dr. Schiessler received his M.S. degree at McGill University and his Ph.D. from the University. Dr. Schiessler, who has served on the faculty since 1942, was chosen for the American Chem ical Society award of $lOOO in petroleum chemistry in 1952. He served as director of the Ameri can Petroleum Institute Research Project 42, which was established at the University in 1940.
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