Dattg STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 19, 1957 FIVE CENTS VOL. 58. No. 'TWAS A LONG NIGHT in the ticket line at Rec Hall, but these pledges were first to get their Penn-Penn State football tickets when the office opened at 8 a.m. yesterday. George Felton, sophomore in general agriculture from Darling, and Gilbert Sergeant, sophomore in Sordrity Rushing Will Begin With Open House Monday Informal sorority rushing will begin Monday, instead of Sept. 28, as originally sched uled. • Panhellenic Council has voted the change because an away football game at Pennsyl vania University is scheduled for Sept 28. Open houses will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. informal socks, skirts and sweat ers. Rushees need not have an invi tation to visit a sorority. A meeting for coeds interested in sororities will be held at 8 p.m, Monday in 121 Sparks. Grace An tes, president of Panhel; Barbara Billing, Panhel rush chairman; Pearl 0. Weston, dean of women; and Mrs. R. Mae Schultz, assistant dean of women, will explain sor orities to the coeds. Average Requirement Second semester freshmen with a 2.3 all-University average and upperclasswomen with a 2.0 all 'University average are eligible to rush. Registration for rushing will - be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3 at 105 Old Main. There will be a $1 fee' for registration. . Invitations from a sorority to a rushee:will be issued from Oct. 7 through Nov. 1. The invitations will be delivered by the sororities. -Rushing will be held from 1:30 to 5 p.m. and 6:30 to 8 p.m. Mon days through Thursdays, and from 1:30 to 5 p.m. on Fridays. • Replies to invitations- by rush ees will come to 105 Old Main to be distributed to sororities at 1:30 and 4:30 p.m'.-'each day. The rush ee must return her invitation by noon following the day she re ceives it. Bids to Be Sent Bids may not be sent out before 8 a.m. Oct. 16. Bids may be given a rushee after she has'been to a sorority three times, not including open houses. ' A rushee' must return her an swer to a bid to the dean of, wo men's office, 105 Old Main, with in three clays of receiving it. Fol lowing the! issuing of a bid, a Strict silence period will be ob served. ' Peanuts Makes Debut Tuesday You can laugh at the antics of Charlie Brown and his friends every morning beginning next week when The Daily Collegian starts carrying the pint-sized Peanuts strip. . The nevi Collegian feature, de signed for intellectual college stu dents and professors living in ivory towers, will join Prof. Snarf 1 and Wort al daily in this news paper. rot - '` - sr.4l ' - ..:-•.-- I . ' 4-,-;1 , - •,..4 , ' - c :s . • t'A FOR A BETTER PENN STATE —Daily Collegian Photo by George Harrison psychology from Sodus, N.Y, were in the line at 7:30 p.m. Jack Behler, sophomore in psy chology from Bethlehem, arrived a short time later. Other fraternity pledges joined the - line as the night progressed. About one-third of the tickets were sold yesterday. 315 Concert Tickets Remain For Sfeber Rerformance Approximately 315 tickets remain for the Eleanor Steber con cert, the first of the newly-established Artists' Series, to be held at 8:30 p.m. Sunday in Schwab Auditorium Nine hundred student tickets were issued from noon on Tues day until noon yesterday, when they were made available to non students at $1.75 per ticket. Non student tickets will be sold at the Hetzel Union desk until 4:45 p.m. today. Tickets left will be issued to students from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. tomorrow. None of the tickets is transferable and tickets sold to non-students will be different ,from those issued to students Ewing Hall to Open This Weekend Crowded residence hall con ditions will be eased this weekend—at least for women stuOnts—with the opening of .Ewing Hall, another of the new women's dorms. Otto' E. Mueller, director of housing, said , women will begin on Saturday moving into the new hall which is located directly east of Haller-Lyons building. Mueller said he expects the housing problem to be settled within 10 days. Many of the girls have moved into permanent rooms and others have received notice of the rooms they will oc cupy. The accommodations for men also have eased. Mueller said 61 male students do not have perma nent housing, while 37 vacancies exist. The vacancies will be filled as soon as students are contacted. Most of the male students are liv ing in study lounges in Hainilton and McKee Halls. " Mueller said the University ov erloads the dorms because of the large number of students who drop out of school between the beginning of the semester and Christmas. Some students are housed in dorm lounges and in the infirmary. Tattrgiatt Monday and Tuesday. The dress will be Since the series is sponsored by a student fee of $2 per semester, students have had first chance to obtain tickets for the program. Graduate students who have paid the full fees of $175 per semester also have priority, and should present fee receipts at the time of picking up the tickets. Undergraduate st udents will need the stub with the film num ber which they were issued at registration or their matriculation card. CROWDED COEDS will find welcomed relief this weekend when this newest residence hall opens. Flu Hits Rumors On Campus Cases Thousands of cases of what is believed to be Asiatic flu were reported yesterday in New York, Mississippi and Texas, but the disease so far apparently has by-passed the University community, despite rumors to the contrary. The Associated Press last night quoted board of health reports showing 24.000 cases in Mississippi, with outbreaks reach-j • ing epidemic stages in 12 coun-I Registration Les. Five schools have been closed: by a flu epidemic in Hastings,, N.Y., and 90 pupils in Niagara' pen For Falls. N.Y., were reported strick en. Epidemics were -reported in' 1 I parts of Texas. 1 Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, director: . %, gly Main Dr. the University Health Service,' yesterday said no flu cases havej been diagnosed at the University! ;hospital and no patients are sus pected of having the flu. Rumors Cite 'Case ' A number of rumors circulated] on campus yesterday claimed the University had reported its first! case of Asiatic flu. Glenn also said there have been no reports of serious reactions to !the 636 Asiatic flu vaccinations administered Monday and Tues day. Although productions of the flu vaccine has fallen behind the initial goal, according to the As sociated Press, the U.S. Public Health Service estimates 85 mil lion doses will be produced by Dec. 31.- The University has ordered 75,- 1 000 doses, most of which are ex-' pected to arrive within 10 days. [The Health Service was forced to turn away crowds of students seeking the shots after the supply Iranr out Tuesday morning. The Public Health Service yes terday estimated there are about ;65,000 cases of Asiatic flu across the country. This represented an increase of •15,000 since its pre vious estimate on Sept. 12. Expect New Figures New figures will be made pub ' lic Friday. A spokesman said these' will doubtless be higher in view of reports now being received of flu outbreaks in states from New York to Texas. School-age children appeared hit hardest by the new outbreaks. Other states reporting signifi cant outbreaks in some communi ties included Florida, Missouri, , Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Oklahoma. The Public Health Se r vice 'spokesman said the number of cases so far reported was still in :the range of anticipated sporadic' outbreaks. He said they did not !constitute a nationwide epidemic. 3 States; Denied Fraternities and independent groups may register for the Ugly Man Contest until Oct. 7 at. the Hetzel Union desk. The contest, sponsored by Al pha Phi Omega, men's national service fraternity, will be held Oct. 22, 23, 24 and 25. In the past the contest was held in the spring, but it has been moved to the fall to avoid con gestion of the spring semester calendar. Registration at a fee of $2.50, is open to male students of a fra ternity or independent organiza tion. Only one representative from each group will be accepted- Donate Proceeds Previotisly proceeds of the con tests have been donated 'to the Beaver Darn Recreation Area, the Penn State Scholarship Fund and Campus Chest. APhiO has not determined the recipient of this I year's proceeds. Ugly Man contestants will be photographed in their contest cos ! tumes from 1 to 10 p.m. Oct. 9 and -10 at the Storch Plymouth- DeSoto Co., West College Ave. The Ugly Man parade, to be held Oct. 22, will be judged on five points; presentation of theme, group participation, originality, organization and whether or not the presentation is in good taste. Parade points, equal to money s will be given for the first five places in both divisions, fraterni ties and independent groups. Campaigns to 'Continue Individual campaigning may be held on the Mall from noon to 1 p.m. and from 5 to 5:30 p.m. on the days of the contest. Each pen ny donated for the contestants at the voting booth on the Mall will count as one vote. The finalists will be the five fraternities and the five inde pendent groups collecting the largest parade and money votes. Skits will be presented by the ten finalists to determine the Ugly Man and the first and second place winners in both divisions. An Ugly Man key will be given to the winner and a 32-inch tro phy to his sponsoring organiza tion. The first place winners in both divisions will receive 16-inch trophies and the second place win ners, engraved plaques. Lion Predicts Damp Weather The Nittany Lion crawled out of his damp den this morning and threw off his khaki raincoat. "Ah, it feels good to be an indi vidual again," he sighed as he looked up at the fairly clear sky. However, dur ing the later part of the morning he noticed clouds gathering an d once more don ned his coat.•"Oh well," he mused, "if you don't like the weather at Penn State .. . wait a minute." There will be increasing cloud iness this morning with a chance o.". rain sometime in the afternoon. The high will be between 75-78 degrees.
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