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.
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