TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1 IFC S Quart Quartet competition will be included in this . year's Greek Week sing contest as well as the regular IFC-Panhel sing. Quartets are being included this year to "glye fraternities and sororities a chance to enter competition if they can't get the minimum 12 singers for regular competi tion together," said Stewart Bally, co-chairman of IFC-Panhel sing committee. Rules and entry blanks for sing competition were sent out last week. Groups entering quartet com petition will sing only one song. The choice of this song will be left up to the group. In regular competition one of the two songs will be chosen by_ the group and the other will be set by the corn mittee. "Aura Lee" has been chosen for fraternities while "Goodnight My Someone" has been chosen for sororities. Each group entering will re ceive two free copies ,of the re quired song. Additional copies may be purchased through the sing committee. Preliminary tryouts for the regular sing will be held from 6:30 to 9;30 p.m. on Thursday, April 9 and Friday, April 10 in Schwab Auditorium. Quarter preliminaries will be held on the same days; however, male quartet entries will dim pete on the night of the sorority preliminaries, and girlis quartet entries will sing on the night of the fraternity preliminaries. thus enabling them to sing with their respective sing groups. Fraternities acidsororities may enter in both the group sing and the quartet sing. Judging, which will be con ducted over three evenings. will be based on tone quality. intonation, interpretation and phrasing, balance of Parts, dic tion and general effects. Final competition will begin at 7:30p.m. on Saturday, April 11 in Schwab. Budget (Continued from page one) rate benefactors for operating funds are unproductive because it is looked upon legally as an agency and ward of the State, Walker said. "Only two courses of action are open to the University— either we cut the coat to fit the cloth or we seek additional funds," Walker said. Lawrence told Walker personal ly last week of his appropriation request for the University. He also told Walker that he would only approve of a legislative increase in the University's allocation if the Commonwealth's budget is balanced. As a last resort, Walker said that tuition fees and charges will have to be raised to make the ends meet. • In taking his request directly to the legislature, Walker will become the first University president to do so. In the past presidents have been called to Senate appropriations commit tee hearings to testify as to the University s needs. Walker pointed out that the $4.5 million increase will provide little more than enough money to take care of increased operating costs. Walker's budget request was a $l5 million increase over the $29.7 million the University re ceived two years ago. At that time Walker requested $3B mil- CIRCULATION STAFF MEET ING Tuesday, M rch 3 AT 7:00 IN COLLEGIAN BUSINESS OFFICE w. will be billing— promotions will be announced to Include This Spring ng - ts 'Gooney' Birds Cause Dilemma By KATIE DAVIS "How much farther can we ask a bird to go than to an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean?" Dr. Hubert W. Frings, professor of zoology, asked yes terday at the faculty luncheon club. Frings spoke to the faculty on "Civilization—The Bird's Dilem ma." He explained the plight of the albatross or "gooney bird" which has been living on Midway Is land for generations hut is now being forced to leave due to the armed forces bases there. "The birds settle on runways and get sucked into planes tak ing off." Frings said. "This is damaging to the planes and birds too." Frings pointed out that these fatalities' have not upset the re maining gooney birds at all. They are very tame and totally disre spectful of man, he said. Only two devices have been moderately successful in driving' away gooney birds. They leave upon hearing certain sounds played on a recording device and they will not fly into or near solid objects such as aprons placed above, runways. These devices are causing the birds to leave gradually. They can go to four other islands in the Midway area which have been established as bird re serves, Frings said. Frings also explained the prob lem of areas in the United States and England overpopulated by starlings. He said that they first became pests in the 1890's when lion from Gov. George M. Leader and Leader cut the request to $27 million in his budget message. The requests of the other . three big universities Temple University and the Universities of Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh —were not made public but there was strong indication that they would not get their full amounts requested: Pittsburgh would get $5.4 mil lion for maintenance, an increase of more than $700,000; and the Pitt- School of Medicine would receive nearly $2 million. Penn would receive $9.7 million for maintenance and for its schools of medicine and veterinary. Temple would receive $4.4 million. od (4,A i gi,,,N, Oaittl X44:,-;> , "•1 ...leitoo o ed ffid ix/ ? Ku' ow ~ sooto 1477 ..1 , ~... ktA m ~~ %//<, O`~+. Whit• cushion - foot crew sock that stretches to fit your'size. Blend of soft cotton and stretch nylon foot with a true rib all cotton top. WARREN - HOSIERY COMPANY ROUTE 1, BOX 29, NORLINA, N. C. Pleas, send ma pair My school colors Name • Address City ,Stete-- Seto feste r check or M O. *ludo THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA central heating in homes became widespread. The starlings, instead of going south in the winter, just settled on warm buildings. They also love towns with Norway maples and elm trees. "There is nothing better for star- I lings," Frings said. Distress calls of starlings re corded and then played back have been successful in driving them away for a season, Frjngs said. "We should ask what can we do to help• these birds and our selves," Frings concluded. "Often after we have let birds become extinct we realize how • much they mean to us." 140, iZ. as typified blow, habit has made bill coleman's a mecca of beautiful women for the past 150 years now you know . . . because of the deluge of girls asking if the weird picture on display was of their sorority president, we feel that the time is propitious for the great revelation. Ashamedly, we admit the picture was taken at a local auction lately. almost free ... we have about 200 _ extra party pix which we'll swap for the paltry fee of 50c each .. . to be turned over to ' the L.Sharp fund . . . today and tomorrow. • read on .. . should your face appear in our new display— , consider yourself one of the chosen ones indeed. The selections were made from over 500 recent sittings. If the prints appear • a bit misty or ethereal, ist simply some of our experimenting . . . to seek your approval or otherwise bill coleman's a very small studio on e. college avenue Bjoerling Proclaims Local Crowds Best By JEFF POLLACK Playing the role of the perfect international diploma t. Jussi Bjoerling called Pennsylvanians the best audiences he has sung to. (His only other Pennsylvania ap pearances have been In Philadel phia.) The Swedish-born tenor, who has sung in all the world's great opera houses, made the state ment when he arrived on campus Saturday. Bjoerling named the roles of Othello and Tristan as his favor ites. His accompanist was quick to explain they are two roles the tenor doesn't sing. Bjoerling said his enjoyment of, a role depended on what mood he was in, where he was singing and how he felt physically. I On a more serious side, Bjoer ling said that in some countries opera is the major part of the musical world. "It is not so in this country," he said. The tenor said he was not con sidering rock and roll. "I don't believe it is in the same field," he said. However, the man who made his operatic debutjn his late teens is, not opposed to other types of music. He said , he had heard Louis Armstrong in Stockholm and thought he was . very good. Arm- strong played "Jazz at the Phil harmonic." At his summer home in Swe den, Bjoerling said he has a col lection of things from his many world-wide tours. From the Unit ed States he has a 10-gallon hat from Texas as well as the keys to the city of Houston. Besides having been given the honorary degree of professor of music at the University of Hous ton he is an honorary citizen of our second largest state. Among his souvenirs are drums from the African tour and fishing and hunting equipment. Bjoerling said he probably got the most use out of the fishing equipment. He is an avid angler. Through the looking Glass with Gabbi Looks like the spring thaw has set in kids. Maybe I'm rush ing things a little, but I just purchased my season ticket to Whipples. Got yours yet? Speaking of rushing, why not rush right down to Ethel's and look over these items. To get you into the swing of spring, Ethel has imported from Italy all shapes and sizes of natural straw bags trimmed in mahogany lea ther. Best of all, there are matching straw belts to give that spring '59 look to last year's khaki shirt. - In the jewelry department are delicate gold bracelets—five on one clasp. Each set has a small dangl e—either a bell, whistle, or gold coin. These are specially de signed to drive professors crazy as they clank against desk and books. If you're puzzling over a gift idea, why not drop in and see Ethers beautiful selec . tion of table lighters. Some have flower designs, and others are in solid pastel shades. In the men's depart ment are leather lighters by Irice and Rolfs. One tall, tall two tone leather lighter is particularly striking. Say guys—this excludes habit ual wearers of dirty grey " sneakers. If you're short on time and need a shine (that little rhyme should qualify me for mention in Circa), why not look at some of the shine kits in the men's de partment. One which caught my eye is a soft leather pouch containing two brush es and a polishing rag. An other time and space saver is a clear plastic clothes brush with a manicure set built right into the top of the brush— Be seeing you soon. vi, , 4 t," PAGE FIVE