WEDNESDAY. SEP' EMBER 30. 1959 Job In For Jc lerviews to Begin Hilary Graduates Job interviews for January graduates and graduate stu dents start today as the first of 200 interviewers arrive on campus. A master list of all representatives of business, industry and government planning to visit the campus this fall is Distribution Of Grades Stays Same Students today aren’t mak ing any more A’s or any more F’s than students did five years ago, according to a study made by the Office of the Registrar. The distributions of grades re ceived by undergraduate students during the spring semester was essentially the same as the distri bution a year ago and also five years ago. Warren R, Haffner, assistant to the registrar, and Mrs. Evelyn Homan, who made the study, re pot t that of the 80,356 grades, A through F, recorded in the of fice last spring, 18.8 per cent were A's; 53 per cent A’s or B’s; and 84.4 per cent were C’s or better. The corresponding percentages for 1958 were 18.8 per cent, 53.3 and 84; for 1954 they were 19.6, 54 1 and 85.3. The percentages of F’s (which were recorded as -l’s and -2’s in the 1954 study) for 1959, 1958, and 1954 respectively were 4, 4.2 and 4.1 per cents. The study shows that the num ber of grades recorded increased by 43 per cent in the past five years. IFC Workshop Date Set for October 20 The Interfraternity Council workshop will be held Oct. 20, 21 and 22 Richard Haber, workshop chairman, announced Monday. The workshops will begin on the evening of Oct. 20 with a banquet at the Nittany Lion Inn. The keynote address will be given by Robert Kelly, an of ficer of the National Interfrater nity Council. On Oct.' 21, a new program of after-supper fraternity-f acuity talks will be held at each fra ternity house. The guest faculty member will speak on some as pect of fraternity, faculty and town relations. On Oct. 22 the actual work shops will begin at the fra ternity house of each committee ' chairman. This year's 10 workshops have been planned to discuss the areas of presidents, treasurers, pledge masters, house managers, cater ers. social chairmen, scholarship activities, public and alumni re lations and rushing. A meeting of all fraternity of- Frosh Council Elect Student Council elections for freshmen will be held November 8 and 4, David Epstein, chairman of the Intercollege Council Board announced. Freshmen interested in running for office should watch The Daily Collegian for announcements *PO 'Xppwnij], Atquiessy ¥ q S posted on the bulletin board in side 112 Old Main, Donald Cook, director of the Placement Service, announced. Three weeks before a com pany's scheduled visit, an an nouncement is posted on the bulletin board m the lobby oL Old Main, just outside the Place ment office. The announcement indicates the date of the visit, the curriculums in which the company is interested and de gree requirements. The first week after an an nouncement is posted, students can read the literature file on that company which is available in the Placement Office. Students may schedule interviews two weeks before the visit by arrang ing a specific date and time at the scheduling desk. Besides its company literature file, the Placement Service also has a government service file, an employers’ address file, a staff for personal guidance for students and current information about government service exams. The three government exams being given this year are the general entrance exam for all desiring government employ ment except engineering and science students, a foreign serv ice exam and the National Se curity Agency exam. Announcements of all sched uled interview visits and the dates of government service exams will appear in The Daily Collegian as well as in the Place ment Office. ficers, committees and new pledges will be held at 7:30 to night in 10 Sparks to familiarize the pledges with the operation of the IFC. According to Ronald Resh, IFC vice president, the purposes and functions of the Junior Interfraternily Council and a resume of’the jobs of the var ious committees in IFC will be given. Robert Ritchie, president of the Interfraternity Council Purchas ing Association, has announced the names of staff members of IFCPA. John Goodhart, a retired Army Master Sergeant, is the new office manager and Mrs. Barbara Mael horn is the office secretary. ions Set about self-nomination procedures in the various colleges. ICCB also decided last night to hold a mixer for new faculty members Oct. 29 In Simmons lounge. Refreshments will be served and a program will be presented by ICCB. ONII3HW NldO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Wd O VL LAST WARNINGS —Campus patrolmen were posted along Pol lock Rd. yesterday to give all student drivers their last warning before issuing them tickets for driving on Pollock Rd. Tickets will be given starting today. Officials to Compile Activity Procedures Do you know how to schedule a room for a meeting or how much it costs to reserve the Hetzel Union ballroom for a social function? Students may be able to get this kind of information in printed form sometime in the on Student Affairs decided yes terday to ask various administra tive o'ficials to compile a list of rules, regulations and “how-to’s” which concern their office func tions. Many ~of Ihese methods of procedures have not been writ ten down for students' use in the past. They have been "passed on from student to stu dent," Committee Chairman Monroe Newman, head of the Department of Economics, said. When the list is compiled, he said, it will enable students to know more cleaily, the rules which affect student activities, Newman said the final list may not be ready for students’ use for a few years. The actual time lim it could not be determined, he, said, because of the nature of nature. The Senate Committee the required information. "Many of fhe offices have not written these things down them selves," ha explained, "and it will lake some time to gel a complete listing." Newman stressed that the in formation concerned is entirely separate from the University Senate Regulations. The listing to be compiled would contain administrative pol icies which are created by offi cials as they see a need, he said. Officials to be contacted to con tribute material will include the dean of men, the dean of women, the coordinator of student activi ties, the manager of. Associated Student Activities, the coordina tor of scholarships and the spe cial assistant to the president on student affairs. Gazette American Chemical Society, 7 j» ui, 117 American Society of Mechanical Engineer!, /iiembi'r*ihii> meetitij?. 7 t> m , 110 I.E 7-10 pm, 20.> mm Camera Club, 7 40-10 pot, 214-216 Him Career Day Committee, 7-0 p m , 217 HUB Che«s Club, 7-10 pm , HDD Cnniroom Christian I’elJowshii), 1U:15'.16 pm, 218 HUB Men's. Debate Squad. ptehmiiiAty ttyouU, b 10 p m.. 214 Uoucko Delta Nu Alpha, rushing smoker, 7 $0 P m , Alpha Chi Hho Eng Council, p.m . 21.*21'? HUB b.F.A. Leadership, 8 a m-5 p.m., 212*213 HUB Clee Club, Hi-Lo seel ton, 7 pm, 100 Car* Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences. 7 p m., 105 Meeh Eng Interlandia Folk Dance, 7.30-11 pm, 3 White Nittany Grotto, orient.ition meeting, 7 p ni , 111 Boueke Riding Club, picnic. 5 pm, riding atabla Sports Car Cluh, B.IS j> m , 212 HUH Women's Chorus, 6.d0-9:di) tun,, HUB As* semV)i> Hall World Unhersit} Service, 8-9 30 pm, 218 HUB WRA Dance Club, 7pm, Danco Studio Hocl.ev Club, 4. I.j-o .15 pm.. Holmes Field Penny Candy— (Continued from page four) that a pure hearted Europe was pointing the finger of contempt at Little Rock. And some of us were a tittle shocked to find similar racial problems there. We learned that the Al gerians, as a minority group in France, were scorned and of ten treated with real cruelly. But whether we brought home paintings or wine skins, dined on filet mignon or bread and cheese, we all loved Eu rope—ana the luckiest summer of all. Now that you’re on your own... 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