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PREPARING FOR PENN STATE—HuIa hoops are used by the Finnish women's gymnastics team
during outdoor drills before leairing for a two-month tour of the United States. The women's team
and the men's Olympic squad will perform Friday, January 9, in Recreation Building.
Finnish Gym Team to Appear
Jan. 9 in Recreation Building
• By MATT MATHEWS
Collegian Associate Sports Editor
Finland's Olympic men's and women's gymnastics teams will appear in Recreation
Hall Jan. 9 for competition with a Penn State men's team and an exhibition by the women's
group.
Tickets for the event
reation Hall. Reserved seats
- Penn State gymnastics coach
Gene Wettstone, who arranged
the entire two-month tour of the
Finns, said Penn State would be
the third stop on the nationwide
tour and the first actual compe
tition for the Europeans.
The Finnish men's team,
which hasn't finished lower
than thi r d in the last three
Olympics, will face a Welt
stone-coached Penn State team
under international rules.
"In fact it win be international
competition," said Wettston e,
"except for the fact that our team
(Penn State) is not a national
representative. But the compe
tition has been approved by an
AAU committee, and we will be
led by our own Olympian, Ar
mando Vega."
- -In addition to the gymnastic
exhibitions, the program will
haVe as special features Mrs. Elsa
Aro, a European concert pianist
and Yrjo Ikonen, an opera singer.
The two will compliment the
program by performing between
events. Mrs. Aro also will accom
pany the "New Rythmic Gym
nastics" style of the women gym
nasts.
But the main event of the
night will be the competition
between. a special Penn State
•a r sit y unit and the crack
Finns. Finland won- the 1948
gymnastics championship at the
Olympics and finished third, in
1952 and 1956. .
According to Wettstone, the
Scandinavians will pick their O
man team from nine of Finland's
best athletes—all of whom have
competed in other international
events. . -..
The competition will consist of
three Olympic events not seen in
collegiate - meets—long horse
vault, individual calisthenics and
stationary rings:The othir three
events will be the side horse,
parallel bars and horizontal bars.
In commenting on - the suc
cess of the foreign country
gymnastics exhibitions, Welt
stone pointed out that the Swiss
men's exhibition in flee Hall
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STATE COLLEGE, PA.. TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9. 1958
ill go on sale at, 8 a.m. Friday at the ticket office in Rec
cost $2 and unreserved, seats cost $l.
Les Elgart to Play
At IFC-Panhei Ban
The Interfraternity-Panhellenic Council Ball, to be held
March 13, , will feature the orchestra of Les and Larry Elgart.
James Hammerle, IFC---vice president and chairman of
the dance, announced the selection of the 16-piece Elgart
orchestra at last night's IFC meeting.
The dance will be held from
9 a.m. to I a.m. in Recreation
Building and will be the main
event of the annual IFC spring
weekend. Some' 850 tickets, priced
at $5 a couple, will be placed on
sale prior to the dance.
Hammed* said the costs of
this- year's .dance will he re
duced through the use - of less
advertising. Last year the event
lost money.
The sale of tickets will be pro
rated through the fraternities.
Tickets will be distributed' on 'a
Pledgin
Date
IFC Sets March 22
By BILL JA.FFE
The Interfraternity Council
last night set Sunday, March
22, as the formal pledging
date., for the spring . semester
Freshman students will be
gin open rushing Feb. 2 -and
will have mien weeks to choose
a • fraternity. Under the new de
ferred rushing System instituted
this.year, freshmen have been un
able to rush fraternities during
the fall semester. •
Tho , IFC defeated • two ,mo
tions before accepting the,cotn
profilist' March 22 date. Origi.
nally April 5 was proposed and
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
proportional basis of fraternity
membership. '
It will be the responsibility of
the individual fraternities to sell
the tickets. If they -do not sell
their quota, they will be charged
for them.
The new system of pro-rating
ticket distribution among the
fraternities was instituted last
year and roved successful.
Previously, tickets were sold at
the Hetsel Union desk prior to
the dance and at the door.
defeated and then the date of ing such a. rule should be left
March 8 was defeated. up to the individual 'fraterni-
The IFC sent to a committee ties.
the problem of whether the IFC If the IFC would recommend
should recommend to the Uni- the withholding of diplomas, the
versity that diplomas and grades recommendation would be sent to
of graduating seniors be withheld the Administrative Committee on
if they owe money to, the frater- Student Affairs for consideration.]
nities. In other business at the dinner
After a brief discussion, in meeting held at Alpha Gamma
Which both pro and con argu- Rho, the IFC executive commit
ments were heard, a committee tee set March 23 as the date for
was voted to study the problem election of officers. Preliminary
and to report at the Jane 12 meet- nominations will be held March 2
ing. • and March 16.
• Charles Afughes, IFC seers- Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity
tart'-treasurer end treasurer of . was , reinstated as an active
•D alto Chi, favored a recorn. member in the IFC. The fret
rnendation to the University entity became - inactive two
but _said the choke of exercis- (Continued on page eight)
rgiatt
Grad Apartments
Will Be Erected
The University expects to begin construction this spring
on 216 apartments on east campus for married graduate
students.
The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees au
thorized University officials to advertise for bids for the
apartment house project which is
expected to be finished late next
year or early 1960.
A c c or ding to preliminary
plans the project will include
2•floor residential type frame
buildings with brick exterior
veneer walls.
This is the first phase of a
projected plan to handle the grad
uate enrollment of 4250 expected
by 1970.
Of the first units, 144 will have
one bedroom and 72 will have
two. The apartments will be lo
cated on the rise east of Eastviei.v
Terrace and south of the new
Research Center.
Each apartment will be one,
floor with as many as 16 to 20 1
units in one building.
The 1-bedroom a p a r t ments
will consist of a living-diming
area, efficiency type kitchen
ette, a bedroom with two single
beds, a bathroom with tub
shower, lavatory and water
closet and extra closet and
storage space. The extra room
in the 2-bedroom apartments
will accommodate a single bed,
or serve as a study room.
Coin-operated laundry facilities
will be provided in the basement
of each building. Heating will be
included in the rental but elec
trical utilities will be separately
metered. One parking space will
be provided for each apartment.
A rental policy for the units
will not be announced until after
the project is near completion.
Radio Panel to Discuss
Future of UUiversity
"The Future of the University"
will be discussed on the Cabinet
Forum of the Air program from
9:30 to 10 p.m. tonight over WMAJ
and WDFM.
The discussion will be based on
the Long-R an g e Development
tudies.
Members of the panel will be
James Coogan, director of Public
Information; C. S. Wyand, vice
president for expansion; Jacque
line Leavitt, a student, and Louis
Phillips, moderator.
Conflicts Must Be . Filed
By S p.m: Tomorrow
Students . wishing to file final
Aamination conflicts must do so
by 5 p.m. tomorrow. .
Students having two simultan
eous examinations or more than
two exams in one day may file a
Conflict Examination Card in the
scheduling office, 2 -Willard.
Students graduating this semes
ter and having examinations after
7 p.m. Monday, Jan, 19, 1959, must
file a conflict card.
14 Shopping Days
Until Christmas
New Head
Of English
Appointed
Dr. Henry W. Sams, former
chairman of the Department of
English at the University of Chi
cago, has been named profes'or
of English and first head of the
Department of English here.
The department was created
two years ago with the merging
of the departments of English
composition and literature.
His appointment, approved at
the Sunday meeting of the Execu-
Dr. HENRY W. SAMS
New' English Head
tive Committee of the Board of
Trustees, will become effective
July 1.
Sams received his bachelor of
arts and master of arts degrees
from Oberlin College and his doc
tor of philosophy degree from the
University of North Carolina.
He completed graduate work at
Oberlin College and Syracuse Uni
versity before being appointed in
structor in English at Oberlin in
1936.
After teaching at Oberlin, the
University of North Carolina, The
Citadel and Queens College, N.Y.,
Sams served three years as a
lieutenant in the Navy.
He was then • named assistant
professor of English at the Uni
versity of Chicago. Since March
1952 he has served as Director of
the Summer Quarter there.
Since 1949 Sams has published
numerous papers in professional
journals an d has co-authored
three books. Early this year he
published the book, "An Auto
biography of Brook Farm."
He is a member of the National
Council of Teachers of English
and the Modern Language Asso
ciation.
Sams is now national vice presi
dent of the College English Asso
ciation and has served for two
years as technical advisor to the
Higher Education Commission of
the State of Illinois.
He was selected for this post
after a year and a half of can
vassing by a committee of the
English Department.•
Dr. A. Bruce Sutherland, pro
fessor of English literature, served
last year as acting head of the
new department. Dean Ben Eu
wema is now acting head.
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