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
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