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IFC to Sponsor
Nine Workshops
Nine Interfraternity Council workshops will be held Oct.
18, 19, and 20, Samuel Wolcott, IFC workshop chairman,
announced yesterday. The workshops are sponsored every
year by IFC to provide a sounding board for fraternity prob
lems-
The workshops will be divided Into nine groups presided
over by discussion leaders. Each
group will deal with one phase of
fraternity life. The groups will
be composed of representatives
from each fraternity at the Uni
versity.
The groups will meet at the
fraternity house of the group
discussion leader Oct. 18. If the
group feels they need more time",
they will meet again on the fol
lowing night, Oct. 19.
Topics Chosen
Play Night
Scheduled
For Tonight
Women’s Recreation Associa
tion will hold a play nigh 4 from
7 to 9 tonight in White Hall.
White Hall facilities will be op
en for use by coeds, including the
swimming pool, basketball courts,
volleyball equipment, and the
playroom.
WRA has announced the fol
lowing schedule for the opening
meetings of its clubs:
Hockey Club will hold its first
meeting at 4 p.m. Monday on
Holmes Field. Other clubs meet
ing Monday are Freshman Bowl
ing Club, 7 p.m. in the White Hall
bowling alleys; Badminto- Club,
7 p.m. in White Hall; and Bridge
Club, 8 p.m. in the White Hall
playroom.
The Upperclass Bowling Club
•will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday
and Thursday in the White Hall
bowing alleys.
Golf Club will meet at 6:15 p.m.
Tuesday in 1 White Hall. Tennis
Club will organize at 7 p.m. Tues
day in the White Hall gymnasium.
Modern Dance Club will meet at
7 p.m. Wednesday in the rhythm
room in White Hall.
Swimming Club will meet at
7 p.m. Thursday in 105 White
Hall. The club is open to begin
ners and advanced swimmers.
Plunge hours are held Friday
and Saturday evening from 7 to
9 p.m. in the White Hall pool.
Coeds must bring caps only; suits
are provided.
The WRA clubs are supervised
by members of the physical edu
cation faculty. The clubs are open
to all women students unless oth
erwise specified.
Banker's Grant Set
The Pennsylvania Bankers As
sociation has established a grad
uate fellowship to aid students
studying banking or finance in
the College of’ Business Adminis
tration. -
The fellowship," which pays $l
- is being offered for the first
time this semester to a student
who is a graduate of an accredit
ed college or university and who
has been admitted to the Grad
uate School of the University.
ICG to Meet Monday
The Intercollegiate Conference
on Government will meet at 7:30
p.m. Monday in 103 Willard. Dr.
Wallace B. Brewster, professor of
political science, will talk on
“Patterns in ’56 Campaign Is
sues.”
Cosmopolitan Club to Meet
The Cosmopolitan Club will
meet at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in
214 Hetzel Union.
The Great Pulitze
Prize Drama
"THE SHRIKE"
Jose Ferrer
June Allyson
'Httfat* D o °;s
1 p.m.
John Wayne
"RIO GRANDE"
with Maureen O'Hara
In previous years, topics for
the group discussions were chos
en from questionnaires sent to
each house. This year, discussion
leaders will meet at 7 p.m. Tues
day in 217 Hetzel Union to dis
cuss possible topics for debate.
After the two days of debate
are finished, the representatives
will attend a banquet at 6 p.m.
Oct. 21 in the HUB Ballroom.
Each fraternity will send three
representatives to the banquet.
Guest speaker at the affair will
be Horace Nichols, vice chairman
of the National Interfraternity
Council.
Recorded in Book
The entire workshop project is
recorded in an IFC workshop
booklet and sent to fraternity
councils at universities and col
leges all over the nation. Editor
of this year’s workshop booklet is
Roger Alexander of Delta Tau
Delta.
Topics discussed at last year’s
workshop ranged from “How to
Run Open Houses” and “Influ
ences on Fraternity Scholarship”
to “Sorority Entertainment” and
“House • Managing.”
Discussion groups and their
chairmen are William Landis,
Theta Chi, presidential; Richard
Seng, Phi Delta Theta, rushing;
Richard Jamieson, Delta Upsilon,
social; Robert Frankes, Tau Kap
pa Epsilon, scholastic; Verge
Volpe, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, pub
lic relations; Hugh Cline, Phi
Gamma Delta, treasurers; Donald
Woods, Lambda Chi Alpha, alum
ni relations; Fred Montanari, Phi
Kappa Sigma, house managers;
and pledge masters, unchosen.
Reds Free 32 POWs
BERLIN, Sept. 23 W—Thirty
one prisoners, including two
women, were released today after
being imprisoned in Russia since
World War 11.
The group included 14 Ger
mans, 12 French citizens, two Bel
gians, two Dutch citizens and one
person described as “stateless.”
Narcotics Smugglers
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (JP)—
Sen. Price Daniel (D-Tex.) today
urged much stiffer penalties—up
to and including the death sent
ence for convicted narcotics
smugglers.
St. Helena, a volcanic island
in the South Atlantic about 1200
miles from the west coast of
Africa, is famous as the place of
exile of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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New Shelves
Installed
In Library
Pattee Library is undergoing
minor decorations completing a
program started last year to paint
and “clean-up” the entire build
ing.
Two reading rooms are being
painted and wall shelves install
ed, and painting in two basement
rooms, a conference room, and a
room housing the Penn State Col
lection is included in the plans.
The walls and ceiling of the
large reserve book room to the
left of the main entrance has just
been painted. Also 24 sections of
shelves are to be installed.
Painting in the reading and
newspaper room to the right of
the main entrance is just about
completed, . with the window
frames yet to be finished. Some
38 sections of wall shelving is to
be installed in that room. Each
shelf section is three feet wide
and has six movable shelves.
Two basement classrooms have
been painted, and the room in
the Penn State collection is yet to
be started.
Equipment is being installed in
the conference room, to the right
of the newspaper reading room,
to prepare for a rare book and
special collections room. The rare
book collections are presently in
the vault in the basement.
Librarian Ralph McCoomb said
the shelves are being placed in
the reading rooms in hopes that
reserve books will be placed on
them. However, he said, this plan
is not definite because some sys
tem of supervision probably
would have to be worked out
which would prevent students
from taking the books out of the
library.
Seoting--
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Seely also reminded the stu
dents “that the misconduct of a
few casts an adverse reflection on
the entire student body.”
AA officials have said that the
reserved seat plan, which was an
nounced Sept. 14 and, later
changed, would be put into effect
again if students continued sec
tion-jumping.
Description of Plan
Under the reserve seat plan,
students were presented special
tickets at registration containing
a certain section, row, and seat in
which they would have had to
sit.
Under the compromise plan,
which is in effect now, students
will have to honor only the sec
tion printed on the tickets, not
the row and seat. Students must
enter Beaver Field today through
the gate leading to their assigned
sections, AA officials have an
nounced.
Plan Followed Talks
The compromise plan - was
worked out after talks between
Seely; Harold R. Gilbert, AA di
rector; Ernest B. McCoy, dean of
the College of Physical Educa
tion and Athletics; and Douglas
Moorehead, AA president.
McCoy told Seely Thursday
night that exchanges for wrong
sections for seniors could be
made. McCoy was telephoned
during a Cabinet recess called by
Seely. Seely called the recess af
ter several Cabinet members
brought up the “wrong-section”
problem.
University Drops 519
At Semester's End
Five hundred and nineteen students were dropped from
the University at the end of the Spring semester, according
to C. O. Williams, dean of admissions and registrar.'
Combined with 236 flunkouts at the end of last fall’s
semester, a total Of 755 students were dropped for the school
year. This is more than 1.00 students more than the 623 who
were dropped during the aca
demic year of 1953-54.
Williams said that between se
ven and eight per Cent of the
student body is dropped during
the school year. The number of
flunkcats runs about the same
every year, he added.
Under Old Scale
All scholastic action taken
during the spring semester was
under the old grading system,
Williams said. The new grading
scale went into effect this fall.
In other scholastic action taken
at the end of the spring semester,
777 students were placed on aca
demic probation and 645 were re
ferred into the Division of Inter
mediate Registration.
The students were dropped
from the University for four rea
sons: holding an All-University
average below 1.0, under the old
system, flunking at least .50 per
cent of scheduled credits; on rec
ommendation by a student’s col
lege; and failure to enter a college
after two semesters.
Of the 519 drop-outs, 447 stu
dents were men and 72 were wo
men. Since the end of the spring
semester, 21 of. the 519 students
were reinstated into the Univer
sity, Williams said. Ten of the 21
entered the two year associate de
gree program.
Academic Probation
Eighty-two of those placed on
probation were women and 695
were i.ien. Academic probation,
which lasts a semester, can be in
voked if a student’s All-Univer
sity average falls below 1.65, if
he fails 35 per cent of his credits
for a semester, or if his college
takes special action.
Although students may volun
tarily enter DIR, only those hold
ing a 1.5 All-University average
by the end of their third semes
ter or referred by their colleges
are guilty of scholastic action. Of
the 645 accepted by DIR, 562
were men and 83 were women.
Young Republicans
To Organize Tuesday
The Penn State Young Republi
can Club will hold an organiza
tional meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday
in 212 Hetzel Union..
John Higgins, club president,
will • present a report of the
Young Republican National Con
vention held in Detroit, Mich.,
in June.
Students interested in the club
may attend the meeting.
Changes Okay —
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ty home economist in Lycoming
County, has been named associ
ate county home economist in
that county.
Jane L. Ifft, assistant exten
sion , home economist in Indiana
County, has been named associ
ate extension home economist in
Indiana County.
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Registration for Penn State
Evening Classes in...
e Elementary Accounting
e Elementary Shorthand
e Advanced Shorthand
e Parliamentary Law
e Elementary Typing
e Fundamentals of Good Speaking
TIME:
7-9 p.m. # Monday, Tuesday
tv;--
PLACE:
Extension Conference Center
(formerly the TUB)
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1939
Bidding-
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miles southwest of Altoona. All
the land except about 40 acres
was cleared and fenced. Blair
County citizens also offered to
guarantee $lO,OOO if the Baker
offer was accepted, and in addi
tion an offer was made to pur
chase 200 acres adjoining the
land in the proposed Baker gift.
David Blair offered to donate
200 acres near Shade Gap in
Huntingdon County containing
abou>. 130 acres of cultivated land.
U.S. Senator Simon Cameron,
leading a move to get the school
for Dauphin County, said he
thought $lO,OOO could be raised
there; and he offered to head the
subscription with $l,OOO.
Offers to sell land came from
George A. Bayard, Allegheny
County; James Bailey, Perry
County; William H. Easton,
Franklin County; and the estate
of a Mr. Moore in Union County.
Future Farmers of America
Future Farmers of America will
hold its first meeting at 7 p.m.
Monday in 112 Buckhout. Stu
dents in the College of Agricul
ture" may attend, the meeting.
HI GANG
Sorry I’m late but I didn’t
register until Friday af
ternoon and I just got
through Rec Hall. I’m
looking forward to see
ing all my old (and new)
friends’ again. First
"chance you get, come
down to Smith’s—l’ll tell
you all about my Ancient
Beetle Study course (it
was the only thing not
closed).
HOWARD T. SMITH
BARBER SHOP
210 S. ALLEN ST.
Across from lhe Post Office
(Next to Hartman Electric)