WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1961 Pledge Quota Set For Formal Spring Panhellenic Council last night unanimously adopted a recommendation to set the pledge quota at 21 and limit the entire chapter quota to 56. Under the new quota-limitation system, the pledge quota represents the number which a sorority may pledge during a rushing period. The chapter limitation is the total number of members which a sorority may include. AWS May Hold 'Women's Week' To Honor Coeds Plans for a possible “Wom en’s Week,” to be held this spring, were discussed at a meeting of the Association -of Women Students Executive Board yesterday. The “Women’s Week,” still in the planning stages, is designed to honor the women of Penn State and their interests, according to Margaret McPherson, AWS pres ident. • Some of the possible high points of the week are a ca reer day, a dinner honoring hat society women and new AWS officers, a lecture by some out standing off-campus speaker and a turn-about weekend. During the turn-about weekend, coeds will invite their dates to functions sponsored by various sorority, independent and resi dence hall groups. Miss McPherson announced that any ideas concerning this week may be turned in at the AWS office in the HUB. In other business, the possibility of a Penny-a-Minute Date Night was discussed. On this night, a Saturday, two o’clock permissions will prevail, provided each girl’s date pays a penny for each min ute after 1 a.m. This will possibly be sponsored jointly by the women’s hat soci eties, Miss MsPherson said. Fletcher Named Advisor To Safety Committee Harry D. Fletcher, specialist in vehicle fleet training in the Uni versity’s Institute of Public Safe ty, has been named an adviser to the Executive Committee of the State’s Inter-Department Safety Committee. HALL'S TAILOR SHOP complete alterations Sc repairs 9-5 (evenings by appointment! AD 7-3275 478 E. Beaver• Men & Women at 21 Rush According to Marcia Hamm, Panhellenic rush chairman, the pledge quota figure was reached by considering the total number of women registered for formal rush, the number of dropouts ex pected during the rushing-period and the total number of sororities on campus. Miss Hamm said that since past records showed that from 20 to 30 per cent of rushses dropped out of rush by the end of the first round of chatter dates, the total number of rushees registered this time, 726, was reduced by 26 per cent and divided by the number of sor orities on campus to reach the final figure. The chapter limitation figure, 56, is the same as the number pre viously set by the council. . Miss Hamm suggested that since the quota is considerably higher than the number sororities would pledge under the old sys tem, that sororities consider this number as the total to- be pledged for the semester. However, during rush next fall, all sororities with mem bership under the limitation of 56 will be permitted to pledge 21 plus the number necessary to ; fill the chapter to limitation, | Miss Hamm said. I In other business, the council ! changed the time of rush Coffee, Hours on March 3 from one hour to one hour and 15 minutes after heated discussion. The purpose of the change is to provide the soror ities with more time for the func tions without inconveniencing rushees who must return to the Hetzel Union Building after the coffee hours to fill out preferen tial cards. The new times for coffee hours are from 6:30 to 7:45 p.m. and from 8:15 to 9:30 p.m. 1 You Are Cordially Invited To Attend ISRAELI FOLK DANCING Date—Every Wednesday Time—7:3o - 10:00 p.m. Place —Hillel Foundation 224 Locust Lane Everyone Welcome Come and Bring Along a Friend THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Charles Hits Top Despite Great Odds Ray Charles, who will be featured in the Jazz Club’s sec ond concert at 8 p.m., Feb. 19 in Recreation Hall, has led an amazing life, according to Alan Pollon, Jazz Club president. The story of this man who has overcome several obstacles to be come almost tops in his field, be gan 28 years ago in Albany, Ga. j Six years later his family was living in Greensfield, Fla., and |Charles became totally blind with out hope of recovery, j Charles was only 15 when both jhis parents died. He was blind, orphaned and without relatives. It was at this point that the 1 'rapid development of the Ray I Charles career began. He left school and went out on his own. Within two years he had acquired the reputation of a good side man. Then, at 17, he decided that jthe time had come to do some i thing on his own and he organized jhis first trio with a bass and jguitar to blend with his piano land his saxophone. i The trio got as far away from its Florida beginnings as Seattle, Wash., where Charles had what he describes today as his biggest thrill in the music business. The group was sponsored for a regu lar radio show. Shortly later they became the first Negro act to have a sponsored TV show in the Northwest. Charles said that the first trio sounded more or less like Nat “King” Cole’s. “But,” he added: “I knew I had to change if I was going to get anywhere. I. knew I had to develop a style of my own.” The basis for what he did develop was his conviction that music should express people’s true feelings. Valentine Day Dinner Valentine’s Day will be ob served at the -Terrace Room of the Hetzel Union Building at din ner oh Monday. A special menu and suitable decorations will be provided. Russia Leads U.S. In Educational Films The United States is several years behind Russia and other European countries in the pro duction of educational films, according to Clarence R. Car penter, director of academic research and services. Educational films may be used as an aid to teaching in nearly every subject matter from so ciology to biology, according to Carpenter, but their potential has not been neared in the United States or, specifically, at Penn State. As an example of Jheir use fulness, in the sciences an in structor may use films employ ing time-lapse photography to speed up a process in nature, such as a flower bud opening. Or, he may use motion films to slow down a chemical reaction. In sociology, short films may be use fo depict group action. The main reason that education al films have not been used exten sively in the United States is that we have no central control for films, Carpenter said. In Germany, the Scientific Film Institute produces scientific films for universities, using state LIBERAL ARTS LECTURE SERIES Sponsored by The Liberal Arts Student Council Tuesday February 14,1961,7:30 p.m. SPEAKER: D. L. H. Laitman, Associate Professor of Goo morphology SUBJECT: Panoramic View of Scientific Thought PLACE: HUB Assembly Room All Faculty and Students Invited Lancaster, Pa. MISS UNIVERSE CONTEST Sponsored THE Restaurant VILLAGE & Lounge All single LANCASTER girls who desire to enter please contact the "Village" 18 E. Chestnut St., Lancaster, Pa. You must be between the ages of 18 and 26. Winner of the Pennsylvania contesl goes to Convention Hall in Flor ida for the Miss Universe Contesl. LANCASTER CONTEST STARTS: February 16, 1961 A, Ml aid. An individual professor or university has neither the time, equipment nor money to produce films effectively for classroom use, he added. The advantages of using ed ucational films for teaching aids are numerous, he said. If used properly they can improve the quality of leaching, reach larger numbers of students and lower costs. Instead of using expensive chemicals and equipment, Car penter explained, a chemistry instructor could show a film de picting an experiment at a con siderably lower cost. According to Carpenter, 'the United States should have five or six instructional or learning material production centers to produce films for universities. WFBG-TV Will Carry 'Meet the Professor' “Meet the Professor," a new television network series, will be carried live over the facilities, of j WFBG-TV Altoona,, beginning .Sunday. j The series is designed to in jtroduce today's outstanding eol jlege teachers to the American jpublic. It is carried nationally at inoon by the ABC network. PAGE THREE
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