The_Rambler_1952-02-15

              THE RAMBLER
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Long Island Agricultural and Technical Institute—Farmingdale, N. Y.
VOL. XXIII, No. 2 February 15, 1952
Country Life-Open House Show Coming
Deferment Test
To Be Given
The Selective Service has an-nounced
two methods by which
college students may be consid-ered
for deferment.
i.iit: iJiai iiieuiou is by laKia^
the Selective Service CoiiegL;
(qjuaiiiicaiion Test. Ali siuaems
WHO wisn to taKe the test snouia
acquire an application bianKirum
ineir L,ocal urait Board or troin
tne Guiaance (Jllice. Along wita
the application you will receive a
J.1L1U giving various points
inroughout each state where tne
test will be given. A sampie
test is included describing, in
detail, the sort of question which
will appear on the test.
The second method requires
that a student ranlc in tne lOU up-per
half of the male members of
nis class. The method of rank-ing
students will be determined
by the individual school. In the
case of the Long Island Agricul-tural
and Technical Institute the
ranking will be determined on
the basis of the weighted numer-ical
average. This means that a
four credit course, wherein a
grade of 90 is received, will be
added four times and a one credit
course of 90 will be added once.
This should encourage working
for higher grades in your major
subject areas.
All applications for the April
24, 1952 test must be postmarked
no later than midnight Monday,
March 10, 1952.
Slinlenl (Council
The Tech student council has
acquired peimission to operate
the library on the down town
campus, three noon-times a W';ek.
The library will be open iMon.,
Wed., and Thurs. from 12:00 -
1:00 P. M. Books may only be
used in the library at this tune
and under no circumstances can
a book be removed from the li-brary.
The deciding factor as to
w iiether this program shall oe ex •
tended will depend upon your
attendance and co-operation With
the Student council
Annual Program
February 21-23
The Institute will present to
the public its 33rd annual Coun-try
L,ife-Open House Program,
on Feb. 21st, 22nd, 23rd.
On the main campus will be
found a presentation, by the stu-dents
in Agricultural and Horti-cultural
fields, of exhibits and
(^tmuiiaiidtions of tneir tools,
knowledge, and mechanisms
wnich are used daily in the dif-ferent
occupations. Among the
uAjiiuus will oe tractors ana oth-er
types of farm machinery which
will be highlighted for farmers
and growers. A hay crusher, a
potato combine, and new irriga-tion
equipment will also be
shown.
The poultry representations
will include turkey, duck, and
chicken ehibits. A demonstra-tion
hatchery will be kept in per-sistent
operation, so all visitors
aud students may watch baby
chicks emerge from their shells.
The livestock barns will be
open for all visitors and demon-strations
in selecting beef cattle
for home meat supplies and in
slaughtering hogs w i l l be
shown. Students in the Dairy In-dustry
Laboratories will test milk
and milk products, while an ex-hibit
of yoghurt will be present-ed,
giving a true picture of its
real value.
Special events will be the
Dairy Cattle Fitting and Show-manship
contest, the Student
Theater and the Country Life
Antique Show, all being unusual
features.
To attract the amateur gar-dener
there will be a vegetable
garden, showing wide varieties of
beans, beets, lettuce and cabbage,
also an exhibit of tree and small
fruits grown at the Institute. The
frozen foods students will submit
baked and precooked frozen foods
for the home freezer.
Exhibits in Ornamental Hor-ticulture
will include a woodland
garden, house plants, and floral
arrangements.
The Technical division will
have on hand for the visiting
public, aircraft equipment in op-eration,
the Technical Secretarial
exhibit and Television construc-tion
and repair operations. The
radio class will attempt to oper-ate
five ham stations during the
open house program, besides
their regular short wave radio
station WINYM. The Art dept.,
as far as it is known, will present
Advertising Art exhibits and
commercial demonstrations.
Last year the Country Life
Open House Program drew a
crowd of over 28,000 people. This
annual Long Island event has
been in progress since 1919.
March of Dimes
Campaign Is A
Great Success
As we all know, the March of
Dimes Campaign is over. Al-though
the campaign is over, the
money collected will continue
through the entire year.
We also know that the Institute
participated in this nationwide
drive to raise funds for the vic-tims
of this dreadful disease.
Coach Allard, who is assisting
Mr. Rudolph Weber, local chair-man
in Farmingdale, turned the
task of collecting contributions
from the Institute students over
to the student council. The Stu-dent
Council, in turn, appointed
two members from each campus
to handle collections on their
campus. The two Tech. repres-entatives
were Jim Hotaling and
Felix Masiello, while Rina Pol-etti
and Charles Case were ftp-pointed
representatives on the
Ag. campus.
The representatives of the Tech,
Campus collected donations by
distributing collection boxes from
section to section. On the other
hand, the representatives of the
Ag. Campus distributed collec-tion
boxes to the dorm councils
to collect donations. A minimum
goal of one dime per person
was set, hoping everyone would
contribute one dime before the
deadline of February 6.
The money collected will go to
help thousands of people like the
1952 March of Dimes poster boy,
seven year old Larry Jim Gross,
who was crippled with infantile
paralysis. Much of the money
care, and equipment needed to
goes to pay for the treatment,
help polio victims back to the
iof(d to recovery.
If a person would stop to think
for a minute that the money he
gives may go to help care for a
friend or even someone in his
own family, he would not hesitate
for a minute to contribute to this
very worthwhile fund.
The "Rambler" would like to
tnank the student body and fac-ulty,
on behalf of the Student
Council, Mr. Weber, and the
March of Dimes.