FRIDAY. MAY 11. 1956 Literary Magazine Will Go on Sale The University's reputation in the world of letters has grown in recent yers and much of the credit has been ac corded to Pivot, th annual campus magazine, which comes out today. The magazine sells for twenty-five cents a copy and will be sold at the Corn i er Room, the bulletin board, on the Mall, the Hetzel Union desk, Keelers Book Store, and the College Book store. The reputation of the seven year-old magazine has spread rapidly, ,as requests for copies have. come from English depart ments of schools all over the.coun try. Requests have even come from Otago University in New Zealand and a library in Maudrai, South India. Last year's copy of Pivot prompted a remark in the New Campus Writing, an annual book about college writing, that "there is much promising literary activ ity" at the University. Published Annually Pivot, which is published an nually in May, has a unique po sition among "little magazines" produced on college campuses in that it has been self-sustaining since its beginning and sales have continually increased since the first issue. • Last year's centennial issue sold 800 copies and included for the first time, contributions from faculty members and student po ets other than those in the poetry workshop and English composi tion 13 class. Poetry Workshop The poetry workshop was founded seven years ago by Jo seph L. Grucci, assistant professor of English composition, so that students would have an opportun ity to write poems for publication. However, as there isn't a wide market for poems and at that time there wasn't a literary magazine on the campus, Grucci decided to organize Pivot. In the workshop, held every Thursday night in 216 Willard, studenis write their poems on the blackboard. Then each student criticizes the poems on the board. Grucci then sums up the criticisms and adds his own. The best of these poems are contributed to Pivot. Written in Blank Verse The poems in Pivot are written about modern topics in blank verse. Two former Pivot editors, Re nee Kluger, who graduated in 1952, and Loa Joan Packard, who graduated in 1955, have found their training in poetry here a PA. HIT PARADE These records now in stock at the Music Room PHILADELPHIA I. Poor People of Paris, L. Baxter 2. Juke Box Play, P. Como 3. Blue Suede Shoes. C. Perkins 4. Lisbon Antigua, N. Riddle 5. Why Do Fools Fall in Love? Teen-Agers 6. My Blue Heaven. F. Domino 7. Heartbreak Hotel, E. Presley 8. Wayward Wind. G. Grant 9. Hot , Diggity, P. Como If/. Mr. Wonderful, P. Lee PITTSBURGH I. Heartbreak Hotel, E. Presley 2. Moonglow and Theme From "Picnic" Stoloff 3. nit in Love Again. F. Domino 4. Hot Diggity, P. Como 5. Ivory Tower, 0. Williams G. My Little Angel, Four Lads 7. Moonglow and Theme From "Picnic" G. Cates 8. Ivory Tower, C. Carr THE MUSIC ROOM 203 E. Beaver AD 7-2311 TRACTOR DRIVING CONTEST Saturday, May 12 COED DIVISION MALE STUDENT DIVISION 3:00 P.M. 1:00 P.M. - TROPHIES Parking Lot Between Forestry Building and P.I. Sponsored by Ag Eng Club Entry Blanks at Student . Union Desk , . and First Floor Ag Building By PAT O'NEILL vital asset in other fields. Miss Kluger has recently been named winner of the annual Av ery Hopwood Award for creative writing at the University of Mich igan and Miss Packard was on the Mademoiselle college board of editors in the summer of 1954. They both belonged to the poetry workshop and hold '—heir exper ience there as invaluable. According to Grucci, the work shop training brings a profession al approach to poetry which is generally considered the weakest spot in most campus literary pub lications. Motor Program Closes Today The conference for motor fleet supervisors being held at the Uni versity by the General Extension Service will finish its program today.. The conference is under the I supervision of the Institute of 1 Public Safety, which is also con ducting the sixteenth annual Traf fice Officers Training School now underway at the University and which will continue until May 18. Other projects sponsored by the General Extension Service are the Educational Secretaries Work shop on May 25 and 26 and ace tenth • annual Tax Seminar on May 27 and 28. The University's Labor Educa tion Service will hold the annual Pennsylvania Labor Education , Conference on June 5 and 6. Ceramics Scholarship To encourage outstanding high ,school graduates to enter the field of ceramics, the Stackpole Carbon Co. has established a $5OO scholar ship at the Pennsylvania State [University. NE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA -Approved gra lernitie3 1 1 i The following fraternities have been approved by the dean of men's office to entertain women tonight and tomorrow night. Acacia. Alpha Chi Rho. Alpha Chi Sig ma. Alpha Epsilon Pi. Alpha Caron,. Rho. Alpha Phi Delta. Alpha Rho Chi. Alpha Sigma Phi, Alpha Tau Omeza, Alpha Zeta, Beaver House. Beta Sigma Rho. Beta Theta Pi, Chi Phi. Delta Chi, Delta Sigma Lamb da. Delta Sigma Phi. Delta Theta Sigma. Delta riiilun. Kappa Alpha Psi. Kappa Delta Rho, Kappa Sigma. Lambda Chi Alpha. Omega Psi Phi, Phi Delta Theta. Phi F:psilon Pi. Phi Gamma Delta. Phi Kappa. Phi Kappa Psi. Phi Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Tau, Phi Mu Delta. Phi Sigma Delta. Phi Sigma Kappa, Pi Kappa Alpha. Sigma Alpha Ep.ilon, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Chi. Sigma Nu. Sigma Phi Alpha. Sigma Phi Epsilon. Sigma Pi. Tau Kappa Epsilon. Tau Phi De4a, Theta Delta Chi. Theta Kappa Phi. Theta Xi. Triangle. ami Zeta Tau Alpha. Pi Sigma Epsilon has been approsetl tor tomorrow night only. 'inspector' (Continued from page one) ties of the characters are reflected back upon the audience—it is a play of meaning. This may be, but it has no; more meaning or lesson-teaching; than most any other play and is done less effectively. This theme; may have something to do. with the intelligence and feel ings of youth over the pom posity and dullness of its parents; it may deal with the supposedly devastating effects of a person'sl deeds once brought into open light; it may leap to a higher level of religious feeling and brotherhood—we really can!t. care. The play did not push much of a lesson across to us. Action Underplayed And as entertainment, the sec ond great reason for writing a play, it left us cold. This was due mainly to the underplaying of the action—it could have been played on a more dramatic and exciting level—and the faulty act ing. Landro blustered and bragged as the prosperous head of the family. He was not as convincing as he could have been; he lacked even the little forcefulness he should have possessed.. As Goole. 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These gen eral actions put across the effect of a strange, powerful man who knew exactly what he wanted, what he was talking about, and what he was going to do with the information he gathered Erie is Mixed-Up i As the son, Eric, Sheldon Od land gave a fairly good perform !ance of a moody, frustrated. mixed-up kid who found in him iself the strength of some convic-i tion. For he and hir. sister. Sheila, played by Valentina Kopach, are 'the only strong persons in the play. Miss Kopach was not a typical lemotion‘l girl of 1912 England— she was a headstrong coed of Penn State. She had no feeling, Processing Film Laboratory no sense of character for the part. But she was good compared to Grace Bonnert, as Sybil, the mother, and William Warthling, as Gerald Croft, the boy friend. Miss Bonnert, who we couldn't imagine as anywhere near look ing like a complacent, selfish. headstrong, typical high-society mother, certainly didn't act like one. With a coed's voice and a distractingly stiff backbone she was a emotional as a fish. What she didn't do to a line like "Eric. I'm ashamed of you," was pa thetic. Warthling was no typical care free youth in a position of power in a "big' company; he was a sneering imp who always looked as if he would break into tears at any moment. David Thompson played Ed wards, the butler, with innocent taste. PAGE FIVE . 75c $l.OO $l.OO
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