PAGE EIGHTEEN FROM UTTER EMPTYNESS TO UTTER CHAOS—These scenes depict something new in the life of a freshman, the ritual of regis tration. At the left is flee Hall before the hordes of students descend on it. At the right are the lines of students'waiting to pick up their number 6 cards, with the inevitable "I'm sorry, but that section is full," waiting for them. Answer' flan Can Be Found At HUB Desk Do you want a ticket to the Dink Debut? Do you want to bor row a deck of cards for a oridge game? Do you want to know at what time you can get a bus to Pittsburgh? If so, the man behind the infcr illation desk on the first floor of the Hetzel Union Building can help you for service is his main function. The lIUB desk is the main in formation center of the campus. It provides news of all campus events as well as time schedules for buses, trains and railroads. and student and faculty telephone directories. The HUB desk is the place to go for tickets to the Art:t-ts Se ries. Thespians and Plaver.s' pro ductions, banquets, dances and lectures. Approximately 40.000 tickets for University and local events are sold over the desk annually and this number does not include the tickets distributed by matriculation cards to stu dents. A Lost and Found Department is located at the information desk for the benefit of students, and it accumulates a large variety of such things as gloves, fountain pens and slide rules each seines r. The HUB desk also lends cc ords from its large collcztion, and playing cards and ping pong pad dles for use in the activities on f‘round floor of the building. Welcome... ~`,. -4 - . , rs, I 4. .s . r . 0 ' .1 , - --- - A „ ,-.. i ear, AL .4 0 J I-1 ' 1 t Stop S. , :7t.rt as ... 124 E. Ce!lege Ave MI Students Employ Hat Societies ,Counsel Frosh Exam Honor System Last spring 190 students were 'tapped for ten hat societies. They Students in the Mineral Industries College are gradually were chosen for outstanding serv replacing their instructors as exam proctors. ice to the University through This individual and group protoring by students taking work in such activities as student government, publications, dra-. an examination is known as the honor system. matics, forensics and athletics. , Dr. Howell, head of the geophysics-geochemistry de- All-University averages were also' partment says. "The honor sys- ; considered. tern tends to build„ trust and honor system came about as a, The hat men and women's main accord and create a seise of result, of investigations by the; job is the counseling of freshmen mutual effort and an atmos- Senate Subcommittee on Aca-!and transfer students during phere of cooperation and un- demic Honesty. This committeelorientation Week. They teach the derstanding." was organized at the 1954 Student school traditions, songs, rules, and To have an effective honor sys-,Encampment. supply information about courses tern, the students must be mature In its report it concluded that and activities. Customs are en and know and respect their class- faculty proctoring bred di s- forced through their efforts. mates. Its 'the responsibility of trust, suspicion and broke down' The senior- girls on Mortar each person to attempt to stop any the class' morale. A recommenda_ Board wear blue hats. Grey hats cheating during an exam and if distinguish members of Scrolls this fails, to report the (theater to tion was made for the adoption for seniors, Chimes for juniors, the honor council, which is com- of the honor system, the final and Cwens for sophomores. posed of students. .decision remaining within eachi The men's societies wear black The honor system is not new to college. To initiate the honor sys-'hats. Skull and Bones and Parmi, the University but has only re -, ;Nous recognize seniors; Andro-: cently been re-introduced after.tem, 85 per cent of all the upper 'cies, Blue Key. and Druids are far' an absence of 50 years. It was i classmen in the curriculum which .juniors and Delphi for sopho-1 first established in 1910 by elee - , (Continued on page twenty-one) mores trieal engineering for seniors only, and later extended to the entire Engineering College to include juniors. Since this proved to be a great success, it was adopted throughout the University. But the honor system wasn't in operation very long before it was dropped because of ex cessive amounts of cheating. The breakdown of the program has been attributed to the effect of World War I on the students' values and the inclusion of freshmen and sophomores who hadn't developed respect for the program. The idea of re-rstablishing an to PENN and to the beautiful new col legiate fashions waiting for you at CLEARFIELDS ... Skirts by College Town Junioi lie Therma-Jac Swerters by Darlene French Kit BleuEes by Ship 'n' Shore Helene Across horn Old Main THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA STATE Welcome to State College We invite you to visit us for your favorite (All the top recording artists to suit every (The most unusual and distinctively different selection of gifts and novelties.) GREETING CARDS (A large assortment of studio cards.) Delightfully air-conditioned for your shopping pleasure. The MUSIC ROOM 143 S. Allen St. (Next to G. C. Murphy) CLASS OF '64! RECORDS taste in music.) GIFTS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1960 Honoraries Recognize Scholarship The University has scholas tic honoraries in almost every course and curriculum. The societies, besides giving recognition for high general scholarship, often perform serv ice functions for the University and sponsor social functions. Phi Bela Kappa, the liberal arts society, is probably the best known. This 13 - Miami] honor group is the oldest Greek-letter frater nity in the United States. Its counterpart in the tech nical field is Tau Beta Pi, engi neering fraternity founded in 1888. It gives recognition to en gineering students with Dean's List averages. Alpha Lambda Delta for worn en and Phi Eta Sigma for men are the two freshmen scholastic honoraries. Both societies initiate students who have attained a 3.5 average or better during their first semes ter at the University. • Other major honoraries and the fields of study they represent are: Alpha Epsilon Delta, pre medical; Alpha Pi Mu, indus trial engineering; Chi Epsilon, civil engineering; Eta Kappa Nu, electrical engineering. Gam ma Sigma Delta, agriculture: lota Sigma Pi, women's chem istry. _ •. Keramos, ceramics; Omicron Nu, home economics; Phi Kappa Phi, general scholastic; Phi Lamb da Upsilon, chemistry; Phi Sigma lota, romance languages; Pi Gam ma Mu, social science; Pi Lambda Sigma. pre-legal. Pi Mu Epsilon, mathematics; Psi Chi, psychology; Sigma Al pha Eta, speech and hearing; Sig ma Delta Epsilon, Women's sci ence; Sigma Pi ,Sigma, physics; Sigma Tau, engineering; Sigma Xi. science; and Xi Sigma Pi, forestry. WELCOME FROSH
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