Ann Mitrauer (Eltr iathi STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 13. 1957 FIVE CENTS VOL 57. No. 126 —Dailr Colleziin Photo by Bob Thompson UGLY MAN Izzy "Spider" Schwab and his court. 'Ugly" Contest By Phi Sigma Amid singing, dancing, and shouting, Israel Schwab, Phi Sigma Delta’s monstrous spider, was named the ugliest man on campus as the Ugly Man contest closed last night Second place winner was Phi Kappa. Sigma’s Gene Fos ter, who was “hanged” in the wild finale of his fraternity’s skit. Seven fraternities competed in the finals. Schwab was given the 24-inch winner’s trophy by John Hunt, president of Alpha Phi Omega, men’s national service fraternity and contest sponsor. He clutched the trophy, tightly in • his eight black arms, as he was surrounded and carried from the Hetzel Union ballroom by his deliriously happy fraternity brothers. The winning skit was centered around the reformation of Izzy Spider, who scared Little Miss Muffet and teased little children. The members of the chorus, each wearing a grey T-shirt imprint ed with a spider web, watc-hed the proceed ings in shocked silence. The skit , ended with the chor ussc'r earning “Change Your Ways” at a re pentant Izzy. Second-p lace winner Fhi Kappa Sigma and the black-shrouded members of Chi Omega tried and hanged ugly man Gene Foster. Dragged in byi (Continued on page five) - I Prison Escapees Get Longer Term The three Rockview inmates who were' recaptured Monday night near Stroudsburg alter a chase through Easton, were given four-to-eight ■ year additions to thejj present sentences after they pleaded guilty to escaping. The • three were transferred to the. correctional, diagnostic .and classification center at Western Penitentiary yesterday. ' The three i convicts are John Welty, burglar; Earl Eehr, rapist; and William Richter, burglar and receiver of stolen goods. Lion Party Will Meet The Lion Party Steering Com mittee will hold ah open meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 121 Sparks to discuss the future of student government. John Godayte, clique chairman, , said any student may attend. The group will discuss - the aims and achievements of student govem -ineni,..! . - Ann McKnight FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Won Delta Joan Kauing flMegtan Post Offices Will Close Doors Today The University Park and State College post offices will not be open today. The Saturday closing is part of a moratorium which went into effect at midnight on almost all mail services throughout the country. The “economy measures” were ordered by Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, who said the Post Office needs $47 million dollars more from Congress to operate normal service through June 30. To Open Later Under orders from the depart ment, the University Park post office will not open until 9 a.m. weekdays, instead of 8:30 a.m., and the State College" post office will not open until 8:30 instead of 8 a.m. tyone of the 38,000 post offices in the U.S. will stay open for more than BVi hours per day. Monday mail deliveries to downtown busi ness districts will be limited to two per day. One Pickup Set Today One mail pickup will be made today on campus, but no deliver ies will be made on campus or downtown. Although the House Appropri ations Committee recommended an extra $4l million for the post office, according to the Associ ated Press, Summerfield said his economy cutbacks “musf go into effect as scheduled.” Summerfield said the service cutbacks will continue until the post office has the money on hand to restore normal service through June 30, the end of the fiscal year. Sigma Delta. Chi to Meet Sigma Delta Chi, men’s profes sional journalism fraternity, will meet at 7:45 p.m. tomorrow at Phi Kappa Tau. - Kappa Alpha Psi Placed on Probation Kappa Alpha Psi has been] placed on social probation by! the Senate Committee on Stu dent Affairs after, the frater nity’s scholastic standing fell to a 1.97 average for the fall semester. Social privileges, including par ticipation in Spring Week, have been suspended for the remainder of the semester. University Policy .The policy of the University is to suspend spring semester social privileges of a fraternity or sor ority if the group falls below a 2.0. Last spring Delta Tau Delta, Pi Lambda Phi and Pi Kappa Phi were placed on social probation for scholastic reasons. This Tall, Sally Lou Ralston Five Selected To Vie for Title Of 'Miss State' Joan Kassing, Barbara Kinnier, Ann McKnight, Ann Nitrauer and Sally Lou Ralston were selected Thursday night as finalists from 33 entrants for the Miss Penn State contest. The judges, 10 townspeople, held three to five minute informal interviews with each of the contestants. They selected the finalists, on the basis of poise, speech, carriage, person ality, attractiveness and grooming. Miss Penn State will be selected from among the five finalists at the Coronation on April 29 at Rec reation Hall. Miss Pa. lo Judge Miss Pennsylvania, Loma Ring ler, will be one of the final judges] for the Coronation. The names of] other judges have not yet been released. • Miss Kassing is sponsored by Alpha Xi Delta and Lambda Chi Alpha, and is a junior in arts and letters from Bridgeville. Miss Kinnier, junior in educa tion from Danboro, is sponsored by Beta Sigma Rho. Miss McKnight, sponsored by Phi Kappa Sigma and Chi Ome ga, is a junior in education from Mt. Lebanon. Miss Nitrauer, sponsored by Sigma Alpha Mu and Upperclass Independent Women, is a junior in education from Stroudsburg. Miss Ralston, a junior in educa tion from Harrisburg, is sponsored by Alpha Sigma Phi and Kappa Kappa Gamma. Winner Gets 15 Points The winner of the Miss Penn State contest will receive 15 Spring Week points for her spon soring group. Each .of the other; four finalists will receive eightj points and the other 28 contestants! will receive one point for enter-1 ing. Trophies will be given to Miss Penn State and the four finalists. The townspeople who acted as judges for the preliminaries were Mrs. Herbert Imbt. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Porter, J. Rdwirr Bamitz, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Flynn, Rob ert H. Breon Jr., Peter Nastase, John Dale, Frank Dashbach, Eu gene Fulmer and James Kenney. (however, Delta Tau Delta jumped to 20th place from 52; Pi Lambda Phi to 16 from 53; and Pi Kappa Phi to 41 from 54. Petition Approved The Senate Committee also ap proved a petition presented by Sigma Phi Alpha, the oldest local fraternity at the University, to merge with Alpha Kappa Lambda national fraternity. With Sigma Phi Alpha obtain ing national affiliation the num ber of local fraternities at the University will be reduced to two —Pi Sigma Upsiion and Beaver House. Celebration Planned The Sigma Phi Alpha house is located at 134 E. Foster Ave., and the fraternity has 30 members. A three-day celebration and formal presentation, of the national char ter will be held April 26 to 28. Barbara Kinnier IFC Will Hear 2 Final Reports From Chairmen The Interfraternity Council will hear final reports from two com mittee chairmen when it meets at 7:30 p.m. Monday in 219 Electri cal Engineering. Howard F. Thompson, past IFC vice president and chairman of the IFC-Panhel Ball, will present a final report of the dance held on April 5. . Sammy Kaye and his orchestra provided music for the dance. Tiessler Report David Tressler, chairman of the Outstanding Fraternity Awards committee, also will give a report. The fraternity award was pre sented April 4 at the annual IFC- Panhel banquet held at the Nit tany Lion Inn. Alpha Zeta took first place. The other top fraternities were Tau Kappa Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, Al pha Chi Sigma. Triangle, Alpha Gamma Rho, Phi Delta Theta, Beta Sigma Rho, Phi Gamma Del ta and Alpha Epsilon Pi, in' that order. IFCPA Officers James Hart, IFC president, will j announce new officers of the IFC i Purchasing Association. Elections [were conducted Thursday night. [The officers are Leslie Phillabaum [of Acacia, president; James J. Burns of- Theta Xi, vice president; Mrs. Ada F. Konhauser, home economist, secretary-treasurer. Dr. Ralph R. Ricker, instructor of physical education, will request fraternities to provide housing for athletes who are on scholarships at the University and for those who will be coming to the Uni versity next year. "One of the reasons we chose to affiliate with Alpha Kappa Lambda is because its framework and ideals are comparable to ours to a great extent,” said Leslie Hoffman, house president. Founded in 1907 Alpha Kappa Lambda was founded by 11 men in January 1907 at the University of Cali fornia in Berkeley, Calif. The fraternity has 17 chapters, the most recent ones established in 1955 at the College of the Pa cific in- Stockton, Calif., and at Millikin University in Decatur, HI. When_ the local group receives national status it will be the only eastern chapter of Alpha Kappa Lambda. Other chapters are at Stanford University, the Univer sities of Illinois, Wisconsin, Mich igan, Kansas, Purdue University and Ohio State University.. -
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