WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 1956 Fossil Mon Exposed As Scientific Hoax Dr. J. S. Weiner, of Oxford University, speaking to an overflow audience last night, explained how he and his col leagues discovered that the Piltdown skull and jaw was not really a discovery. . Dr. Weiner's talk, the first in the Graduate School lec tures, prOduced such a turnout that the closed-circuit tele vision system in Sparks had to be used. Cabinet Unit On. Publicity Suggeste t Editorial on Pagt (Secand of a Ser'• The establishment o an All- University Cabinet p blic re lations standing corn ittee to coordinate student govern ment information an.' an in vestigation to elimin•te final exams for eighth semest • r seniors were recommendations stemming from student encampment.' The workshop, "Making Stu dent Government More Effective," also suggested that Town Inde pendent Men be given a seat on Cabinet and the problem of stu dent 'compensations be turned over to class advisory boards to' consider. . Consult NSA The student leaders agreed that the National Student Association be consulted to gather ideas from other campuses regarding student faculty relations. Cabinet issues, they said, should he presented to students by a representative of Cabinet expressing the group's views through The Daily Col legian. Th e educational standpoint concerning the elimination of exams for seniors is valuable and ,should be explored, it was de cided. However, since psycho logical and academic factors may play a part, the workshop recom mended that the problem be placed in,the hands of a qualified student-faculty committee organ ized through Cabinet. TIM Requests Seat A seat on Cabinet was requested for TIM because at the present time approximately 6000 inde pendent men are represented by the president of Association of In dependent Men. This total far out weighs the representation of oth er Cabinet seats. If TIM would win a Cabinet post„ it would rep resent about 3800 men, thus di viding the responsibility of the AIM seat. The problem of student compen sation, the leaders suggested, should be turned over to a com mittee representing class advisory boards and faculty. This group can investigate the distribution of funds as used now and also plan a long range program for the awarding of compensation scholarships upon a competitive basis. Players Will Sponsor Program for Freshmen The Penn State Players will hold a "Curtain Raiser" for fresh men and other-interested students at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Little Theater of Old Main. A backstage tour, designed to acquaint students with the differ ent aspects of Players, will be included as part of the informal get-together. Two passes for the first semes ter play, "My Three Angel s," "Heartbreak House," and "Ruddi 'gore," will be given as door • prizes. Red Cross to Sponsor Pre-Natal Care Course The first class of the pre-natal mother and baby care course sponsored by the State College Area Red Cross will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Associ ated Services Room, 330 W. Bea ver avenue. The course, taught by Marjorie Rix, community nurse, consists of seven two-hour lechire demon strations with films and a trip to the Centre County Hospital ma ternity ward. The course is open to interested women, without charge. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Detective Work By laboratory detective work Dr. Weiner collected enough evi dence to prove that the Piltdown Man, first believed to be 500,000 years old, was not only much younger but also part ape. The discovery of Piltdown Man was first announced in 1912. In 1953, Dr. Weiner examined him at the British museum and began his research. The jawbone and skull were found in a gravel bed in Pitt:- down, England, along with fossils of extinct animals. Dr. Weiner said that• it was possible for sci entists to believe at that time that the jaw and cranial pieces [really belonged together. At that time there were few fossils for the Piltdown hones with which to be compared. Fit Together Well It appeared anatomically pos sible for the pieces to belong to gether, Dr. Weiner said. An exact fit of the skull and jaw was not possible because a piece of the jaw was missing. As more fossils were collected over the years to compare with the Piltdown fossils, the Piltdown man began to look peculiar, Dr. Weiner said. Flourine Tests Made Flourine tests were made on the bones which proved them to be much younger than 500,000 years, he said. The first evidence that the skull and jaw bones were not the same was found when chemical tests of the skull pro duced a sandy looking material. The tests on the jaw, however, resembled shavings that were similar to bones of an ape. The Piltdown Man was also found to have been stained brown in order to look like a genuine fossil. He also differed from other fossils in the amount of radio ac tivity contained in his bones. Real fossils were not as highly charged. The reason is not clear why early scientists perpetrated the fraud. Dr. Weiner said that the hoax is of value since new tech niques have been found to deter mine dates of hones and added that there is also a clearer picture of human evolution. co_eckb N Kappa Phi new active pledges are Gordon Fetkenhour, Lew Gar ber, Bert Heffner, Patrick Kinney, David Lynch, Michael Maxwell, Donald McFadden, John Moyer, Donald Patane, Hugh Patterson, John Rapchak, John Schmuckker, William Simon, Charles Skopic, Larry Snyder, John Yeosock. New initiates of Pi Kappa Phi, are Dean Moyer. Pat Thorne, John Minnie, Richard Spencer, Donald, Simmons, Emmett Miller, Paul; Wuest, Joseph Pellwoar, an d Vince Maggio. Newly-initiated members of Sig-, 1 ma Alpha Epsilon are Richard, Anggell, Jr., Christopher Kuebler,' Edwin Henrie, Thomas Goas, Jr.,i and James Saxe, Jr. Parmi Nous, senior men's hat society, tapped the following men: at the end of the spring semester: William Johnson, John Valentine, Arnold Hoffman, Ralph Kauff-' man, Tom Seeman, Irving Zlatin, Louis Camp, Jim Schultz, Dick Dollinger, Don Byerly, Paul Rob erts, Mike Moyle. Fran Fanucci, David Bavar, David Richards, Frank McFaden, John Kers h. Laurence McCabe, Frank Pod leiszek, Robert Martz, William, Hailman,, Edward Kievans, Jere' Fridy. Robert Parris, Don Patter son, Robert Segal. Allen Davies, and Forrest Crawford. Officers of Parmi Nous for the coming school year are: John Val entine, president; Frank McFaden, vice president; and John Kersh, secretary-treasurer. MI Colloquium Today A Mineral Industries Colloquim will be held at 4 p.m. today in the Mineral Science Auditorium. Professor E. N. Andrade, a con sultant of the British Broadcast ing Corporation, will speak• on Newton. Employment Interviews Representatives from 16 firms will conduct interviews for Febru ary graduates and advanced de gree candidates who expect to receive degrees this school year from Oct. 1 to 3 in the Placement Service Office in 112 Old Main. In future Collegians, the inter view schedule will be printed once, two weeks before the inter view date. The firms and dates are: Oct. I—Arthur Anderson & Co. —ACCTG INTERN; Cornell Aero nautical Laboratories—AEßO E, EE, ME, MATH, PHYS, MET; Emerson Research Labs—EE, ME, PHYS, MATH: Island Creek Coal, Co.—EE, ME, IE, CE; Sanders & Thomas. Inc.—AE. ARCH, CE, EE, ME; Semet-Solvay Division— CH E, CHEM, IE, ME, BUS ADM; and U.S. Radium Corp.—PHYS. CHEM. Oct. 2—Dow Corning Corp.— CH E, CHEM. EE; Ford Machinery & Chemical Corp.—CH E. CHEM; Ohio Power Co.—EE, ME; John A. Roebling's Sons Corp.—EE, ME. MET, 1E; and Touche, Niv en; Bailey & Smart ACCTG INTERN. Oct. 3—Baltimore Gas & Elec tric Co.—EE, ME, CE, CH E, IE; Columbia Southern—CH E, CE, ME, EE, CHEM. lE, PHYS; Ernst & Ernst—ACCTG INTERN; and Westinghouse Air Brake Co.— ME, EE, lE, PHYS. APhiO Smoker Set for HUB Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, will hold a rushing smoker at 7 p.m. Monday in dining rooms, A. B, and C of the Hetzel Union Building. The meeting is open to fresh men and upperclassmen interested in extending service to the Uni versity and community. The program for this semester will include assistance in explain ing voting machines during elec tions, aid with conducting the Campus Chest Drive, and working with various Scouting groups in the community. APhiO members will also conduct tours of the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Memor ial Chapel, work with the art de partment of the University with exhibitions in the HUB, and usher at Schwab Auditorium for the Penn State Jazz Club. Foreign Language Tests Scheduled for Graduates Graduate students who are planning to take one or both of the written foreign language read ing examinations at the next scheduled time, Nov. 5, should make appointments for the pre liminary oral tests. The preliminary oral tests will be given to determine the extent and adequacy of their preparation for these examinations. The oral tests are now being given and will be offered until Saturday. Students should make appoint ments for the French ot , the Span ish .tests in 300 Sparks and for the German tests in 229 Sparks immediately. JUST FOR THE RECORD SAVE TIME SHOP THE HARMONY SHOP FIRST where you will find THE MOST COMPLETE RECORD SELECTION IN THE AREA (trained musical personnel) The Harmony Shoi So. Frazier St. AD 7-2130 Open Evenings Till 9:00 P.M. Penn State Recorded One way to become well-acquainted with the University is to visit the Penn State Collection. Found in two rooms on the fourth floor of the Fred Lewis Pattee Library, it combines the past and present history of Penn State for both visitors and researchers. The purpose of the collection is to assemble, classify, preserve, and index historical material. Systematic collection of ma terials was begun in 1904 on the second floor of the Carnegie Li brary. The materials were scat tered throughout the building when more room was needed for library services in 1924. They were finally reasembled in 1941 after the completion of the Pat tee Library, when the present Penn State Room was set aside to house the collection. Theme Material Available Theme material, speech topics, and answers to pledge questions are easily obtained in the Room. Copies of the first directories, which were financed by adver tising, or the first catalogues, which listed all students and their grades, are available. Complete, or nearly complete, sets of Froth, the Penn State Engineer, Alumni News, the Daily Collegian, and other Uni versity publications are available. The LaVie' collection reveals the history of past Penn State classes. Material which is not suitable for shelving is arranged in the general vertical files. Author and biography, chronological, history, and program collections are more specific files along with the por trait and picture files. Museum Planned The room across the hall from the main room contains the nu cleus of a future Penn State mus eum. Books written, donated, and many of them personally auto graphed by professors, are shelved along one wall. President Dwight D. Eisen hower's 1955 commencement ad dress at the University with notes in his handwriting is displayed. Various pieces of furniture have been collected. The desk, chair, and bookcase of Fred Lewis Pat tee, a former librarian of the University, are kept in the room. A cherry desk used by the first president, Dr. Evan Pugh, Ralph Dorn Hetzel's desk and chair, and President Atherton's table are also in the room. Relic From Class of '95 A chest carved by a member of the class of 1895 is exhibited. The has and umbrellas used at their 1915 reunion are covered by a second lid which may be opened by members of the class only. . . Momentos of many occasions may be seen in the room, includ ing a 1908 cider can from the an nual freshman-junior scrap, the first diploma of the college, and the college key. A picture of Nita-Nee, the first sorority which was founded in 1922 and later became Kappa Al pha Theta, is shown. One of the recent additions to the collection is a tray presented to the University in March 1955 by the City Council of Pretoria, South Africa, honoring celebra tion of the joint centennials. History in Library AIM Band To Conduct Auditions Auditions for the Association of Independent Men band' wilt be held Tuesday and Thursday of next week in Hamilton Lounge. Saxophone, piano. base fiddle, guitar, drum, and vocal auditions will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Auditions for trumpet, trom bone. managers, and arrangers will be held at 7 p.m. next Thurs day. Interested students unable to attend the auditions may contact band director James Ressler. at AD 7-7777 or at the AIM office in 203 Hetzel Union Building. Ressler said he expects the band to be approximately the same size as last year's 18-piece unit. The band will play its first en gagement. the Autumn Ball spon sored by AIM. Oct. 13 in the HUB ball room. Ressler said he expects to es tab!ish a three to five member student committee to act as a liai son between the band and AIM. All dances will be scheduled through the committee, which is to be appointed sometime next week. Tentative plans call for the band to play at other colleges and universities, Ressler said. Permis sion has been granted by the dean of men's office. Plans are underway for the band to play an engagement at Lebanon Valley College in , Ann vine sometime this semester. Other plans call for one or two free concerts to be presented in spring in Schwab Auditorium. Last semester, the band played af the Lollipop. Ball, Shamrock Swing, Sweethearts Ball, and Snow Ball and several other dances in the HUB Ballroom. They also played at a dance held in Waring Hall Lounge. ONSON WINDLITE Po IT'S WINDPROOF! Y' LIGHTS IN A GALE! 1 , " LIFETIME WICK! 10 0 REMOVABLE• BASE for simpler filling! An outstanding lighter by RONSON .--mokers of the world's finest prod sion lighters! c k , ;A: Es P. .e .••• .te. PAGE FIVE