WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 1 Registration Dates Set For Sorority Rushing Registration for formal sorority rushing will be held Friday and Saturday, Feb. 3 and 4 at the Panhellenic Post Office in Woman’s Building. Rushing will officially begin Saturday afternoon, Feb. 4, with the first open houses in the suites. It will continue for ~' two and one-half weeks, ending with ribboning in the suites Teb. 20. Second semester women stu dents with a 2.3 AU-University average under the new system, and upperclasswomen with a 2.0 average are eligible to rush. A meeting for rushees will take place at 11 a.m. Feb. 3 in 121 Sparks. Registration will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Feb. 3, and from 9 a.m. to noon Feb. 4. It will take place only at these times. Every woman desiring to parti cipate in the rushing program must register. A transcript (for second semester students only) and a $1 fee must be presented at registration. Panhellenic Council will meet at 11 a.m. Feb. 4 in the Hetzel Union auditorium. Open houses in the suites will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Satur day, Feb 4, and Sunday, Feb. 5. No personal invitations will be is sued, but all rushees may attend each open house. Barbara Ni cholls, acting president of Panhel, said. S All rushees whose last names fall between A-L will attend open j houses in the suites of Group A [on Saturday. Group A suites are Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Kap pa Alpha, Alpha Xi Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Zeta. Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Mu, Sigma Sigma Sigma, Zeta Tau Alpha, and Sigma Delta Tau. Rushees whose last names begin with M-Z will attend open house in the suites of Group B, namely, Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Omicron Pi, Beta Sig ma Omicron, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Delta, Pi Beta Phi, Phi Sigma Sigma, and Theta Phi Al iha. C?o-£diti Newly elected officers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon are Merl Gerdes, president; James Culbertson, vice president; William- Rem ey, re cording secretary; Steven Jordan, corresponding secretary; Richard James, treasurer; Harold Barette, chronicler; Albert Brahm, •ward en; and William Boca, chaplain, cal education and a member of Theta Chi. Phi Sigma Sigma has initiated Harriet Levine, Ronna Press, Joan Reuben, Charlene Rubin, Arine Sovelove,. Nancy Weinstock, and Adelaide Winnick, Newly elected officers of Phi Sigma Sigma are Marian Busti koff, president; Hedy Grossman, vice president; Helene Cohen, cor responding secretary; -Millicent Krapin, recording secretary; Mur iel Moldawer, treasurer; Gail Ros enbloom, social chairman; and Marjorie Friedland, rush chair man. Beaver House has elected the following new officers: Houston Elam, president; Stanley Kolod jeski, vice president; John Hig gins, secretary; Ralph Vernot, treasurer: Caryl Newitt, caterer; Walter Filmore, house manager. New officers of Sigma Sigma Sigma are Barbara Van Matre, president; Rita Mayemik, vice president; Kay Powell, secretary; Janet Stohl, treasurer, Mary Dean, corresponding secretary; and Elaine Shaffer, scholarship chair man. Raydelle Brown, Elaine Hard ing, Ann Hadesty, Sally Sloan, Eleanor Mitinger, Jane Bastow, Nancy Bortz, ..Nancy Horst, Mar jorie Harris, Elizabeth Savidge, Joyce Gouger, Sally Coltrin, and Dorothy Hughes have been ini tiated into Phi Mu. . 1956 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Sparks 1 Exhibit Will Present Indian Relics A new exhibit, “Archaeology of the Americans,” will be put on display tomorrow in one of the showcases in the lobby of Sparks building.. The display will include ma terials which show the ways of life of the North American In dians: weapons and tools, chisels, hammers tones, clubs, arrowheads, pottery, and a woven water bag used by the Indians in the South west. Other materials are clay balls which were used to heat water and may have been used in sling shots, wampum or shell money, shell gorgets used as ornaments, a jade necklace from Costa Rica, and a copper spearhead. •Dr. Frederick R. Matson, pro fessor .of archaeology, said these materials'collected from the east ern United States, the Midwest, the Southwest, Alaska, British Columbia, Mexico, and Costa Rica were obtained from excavations and private collections. The display is connected with an archaeology course being of fered next semester on the North American Indians. The other showcase in the lobby contains an exhibit on the Rural Pottery of Pennsylvania. Official Says— (Continued from page one) eliminate any, discrimination in the town. It has no legal or moral right to enter into the private lives of the townspeople, ne said. However, he added, the Univer sity does not practice discrimina tion in any form. Students are given cards for religious affilia tion at registration, but they are filled out voluntarily, Kenworthy said. The cards are forwarded to the local church groups, and the Uni versity keeps no record of race or ' religion, he said. Leap Year Plague Haunts Males Again Tighten your track shoes! Leap year has rolled around again and every member of the male species is fair game for any member of the weaker sex who will decide to “pop the question” throughout 1956. Fortunately, for the stronger half, this fatal period occurs only once every four years. The leap year principle of adding an extra day to all century years evenly divisabje by four except those divisable by 100, but not 400, was set forth by the Gregor ian calendar in 1582. The new calendar replaced the Julian calendar which had, due to an oversight on the part of some one, moved the vernal equinox in the 16 th century back to March 11 from March 21, its date in the 4th century. The Gregorian calendar is still used, although it is not completely accurate, the calendar year being 26 seconds longer than the tropical year. However, the difference will not amount to one day until over 3000 years have elapsed. Origin in Myth. History The origin of the gallant privi lege which is extended on leap year to the fairer half of creation cap be attributed to both myth and history. Myth has it that St. Patrick, of Emerald Isle fame, was informed by St. Bridget that the women in her nunnery were unhappy be cause they were disbarred from proposing marriage. In that day celibacy, although approved by the church as the proper life of the religious, was not enforced as a general and absolute rule. St. Patrick Conceded St. Patrick, an avowed single man himself, offered to concede to the ladies the privilege of pro posing one year out of every sev en. St. Bridget held out for more and St. Patrick finally extended the privilege for every leap year, the longest of the four. Whereupon, its being leap year, St. Bridget proposed- to St. Pat rick. He turned down her offer, but compensated her by giving [her a kiss and silk gown. And ever since, concluded, the legend, By BECKY ZAHM (which, it is needless to say, is not found in Butler’s “Lives of the Saints”) if a man refuses a leap year proposal he must pay the penalty of a silk gown. Historically, laws were enacted in Scotland in the 11th century and a few years later in France which required the refuser of a leap year proposal to pay a stiff forfeit in cash. And as late as a century ago it was an unwritten law that during leap year a silk dress was paid to an unsuccessful suiter. So, if you’re eyeing the dia monds of your friends brought back from vacation and reading Modern Bride, on your mark—get set—go! Westminster Sets Date for Retreat Westminster Foundation will hold a communion service at 6:20 p.m. Sunday. A cabin retreat has been planned I for Feb. 3,4, and 5 at the Forestry Cabin. Students interested in at tending should register at the foundation before mid-semester vacation, it was announced. Leaders of the retreat will be Dr. Richard Ruder, student min ister of the Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. Hal M. W. Leiper, program associate of the Univer sity Christian Association. Company President Dies NEW YORK, Jan. 17 <JP) Charles J. Hardy, 89, corporation lawyer who became president American Car and Foudry Co., now ACF Industries, Inc., died today. PAGE FIVE
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