THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22. 1960
Customs Change;
Frosh Life Easier
By ELLIE HUMMER
Which is worse? Wearing a dink and namecard or being
thrown by a mule?
Customs have been at Penn State a long time and have
become mild with the years
In 1859 is was the favorite
Jazz Club
Schedules
Ferguson
Maynard Ferguson and his 13-
piece band will kick off this
year's Jazz Club program when
they appear Oct. 23 in Recreation
Al Pollon, Jazz Club president,
told the 400 students who attend
ed the club's organizational meet
ing last night, that Ferguson Is
one of the finest trumpet players
of modern jazz.
Tickets will go on sale for the
Ferguson Jazz Concert Oct. 17 at
the Hetzel Union desk. They will
be available to non-members for
$1.50 and to members for $l.
The officers of the Jazz Club
for this year are; Pollon; Dave
Atkinson, vice 'president; Sue
Common, secretary; Howard Gale,
treasurer; and Mel Shulman, his
torian. Joel Roth, .Jack Marino,
and Mike Goberman are on the
executive board.
The next meeting will he an
nounced in The Daily Collegian.
1961 Grants Offered
The Danforth Foundation is
accepting applications for 1961
fellowships.
Senor men and recent grad
uates who are preparing them
selves for a career of college
teaching and are planning to en
ter their first year of graduate
school in September 1961 may
Applications are available from
the deans of the colleges and must
be completed by Jan. 15, 1961.
Artists Series Tickets
Marianne Moore, noted poet,
will open the 1960-61 Artists Se
ries Sept. 28 with a presentation
at 8:30 p.m. in Schwab.
Tickets for Miss Moore's perfor
mance will be distributed start
ing 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Hetz
el Union desk.
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"GUYS and DOLLS
Here's your chance
to mix in athletics !
Meeting 7 P.M. Today
In Rooms 214 & 215 HUB
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sport of the first class to chal-
lenge . all newcomers to ride one
of the mules kept at the school.
Unknown to the new student, the
one mule, named Lion, refused to
be mounted froth the left side. As
a result, many new students were
thrOwn headfirst into their first
year at Penn State.
Although there were no fresh
man customs listed in the first
handbooks, the 1896 "Bible" warns
the new student not to be tough,
to skip classes or to study on
Sunday. It also reminded the stu
dent to forget the girl back home.
The first official custom rules
appeared in the 1904 handbook:
Freshmen at that time were not
allowed to smoke pipes on cam
pus, wear the college colors or
carry canes during the first
year.
They were not suposed to walk
on the grass and were admon
ished never to speak back to an
upperclassman, "no matter how
great the temptation."
In 190 G, the upperclassmen vot
ed for the wearing of caps for ail,
freshmen. Instead of the familiar!
blue and white clinks pow worn',
for a short tinie, the freshmen;
wore green scull caps the entire,
year.
; The 1912 handbook states that
freshmen were not allowed to con- i
verse with or call upon young
ladies at any time during the first!
year. In 1912 this was changed tol
within a 'three-mile radius of Old;
Main and only at house party ;
time on campus.
At the same time it was de
cided that freshmen must wear
coats at all times except on cer
tain class nights, may not have
cuffs in their trousers, must
wear a plain black four-in-hand
tie and keep their hands out of
their pockets.
The custom of wearing name iika to Hear Talk
tags was started in 1923 with thei
specifications that the name belay Research Chemist
not less than one quarter inch[ Dr. George V. Tiers, research
high. ichemist with the Minnesota Min-
After 1939. at which time thOng and Manufacturing Co., St.
custom of "Button Frosh" wasiPaul, Minn., will address the first ! '
started, freshmen customs regula-Imeeting of the fall semester, oft
tions have remained very similar the Central Pennsylvania chap-i
to the ones of today. Only for a; ter of the America* Chemical,)
period following World. War ll, l Society at 8 tonight in 111 Boucke4
was the practice of enforcing Dr. Tiers will speak on "Protonll
freshman customs ever stopped at and Flourine Nuclear Magnetic
Penn State. !Resonance Spectroscopy."
Open only to members
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
of the
Bomb Shelters Make Building News
Instead of bomb shelters be-'
ing built and added to the na-1
tion's buildings as protection!
against nuclear attack, it may I
soon- be possible' for such ton
itructions to be included in the
basic functional design of the'
The "convertible shelter" proj-;
,ect under the supervision of Gif-,
ford H. Albright, director of the! In every building, there are
Shelter Research and Study Pro-'spaces which, in addition .to Tut
gram at the University, has re- filling jheir intended functions,
cently been devised to consider lend themselves for use as effec
the feasibility of this .proposal. hive shelter against nuclear at-
Albright, who has recenily been:tack, he said.
appointed to a national committee Albright explained that these
to work on a booklet entitled!spaces may be accessible as shel
"Civil Defense and Higher Edu- ters because of (1) location, (2)
cation," explained that the projecU type of materials normally sur-
Penna. Official
Will Address
,Grad Society
Dr. Charles H. Boehm, superin-I
tendent of, Public Instruction for:
Pennsylvania, will be the' guest
speaker of Phi Delta Kappa, hon
orary graduate educational so
ciety, on Monday, Oct. 3.
Following the 5:30 p.m. dinner
meeting at the Hetzel Union'
building Boehm will talk on the;
subject, "What You Don't KnovvH
About Your Schools."
Phi Delta Kappa is an inter-i
national organization of over 60,-.
000 members representing all
areas of professional education..
It is founded on the ideals of re-'
search, leadership and service.
Officers of the Alpha Tau chap-;
ter at the University are: Dr. J.'
McAuley, president, associate pro
fessor of elementary education; ;
Lt. Col. Robert Hayes, first vice,
president, assistant • professor of;
air science; Dr. Carl J. Schaefer,
second .vice president, assistant;
professor of industrial education,:
and Dr! A. V. Kozak, secretary
treasurer, associate professor of,
secondary education.
comprises one phase of a series of
studies relating to the planning
and design of buildings for ex
treme environments.
According to Albright, con
vertible shelter space could be
provided for in new construc
tions at little or no additional
expense. The architect, he said,
could automatically reduce the
number of possible fatalities in
the event of thermonuclear at
tack.
Matson Will Address
County Reserve Officers
Dr. Frederick R. Matson, pro
fessor of archaeology and assist
ant dean for research in the Col
lege of the Liberal Arts, will ad
dress the Centre . County chapter,
Reserve Officers Association to
day.
He will speak at 6:30 p.m. in
213 Hetzel Union building, fol
lowing dinner at 5:30 p.m. in
Dining Room "B".
His subject will be "Archaeo
logical Excavations of Iran and
Afghanistan."
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convenience to environmental
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power, etc.
These spaces would normal
ly be used for their intended
function but, in case of attack,
they would convert instantane
ously into shelters.
In order to provide maximum
shelter at the lowest possible cost,
Albright stressed the importance
of .making the convertible shel
ter an integral part of the build
ing. It cannot be "hung-on" or
"attached-to" the building, he
said, after the preliminary design
phase has ben completed. For
maximum effectiveness, emphasis
must also be given to detail in de
sign and construction.
Slides of African Trip
To Be Shown Tonight
Lurene Jochem, senior in home
economics from Pompton Lakes,
N.J., will show slides of her trip
to Africa at 7 tonight in 209
Home Economics South.
Miss Jochem spent the summer
in West Africa as part of her
summer .practieum. The talk is
being sponsored by News and
Views, the magazine of the Col
lege of Home Economics.
—lsn't it odd that the easier
a gal is to look at, the harder the
fellers stare?
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