toa . 4. Weather Beat Penn _ . B a it g Totigglatt Cloudy With 414 . Showers "FOR A BETTER PENN STATE" VOLUME 48-NUMBER 29 Campus Politicians Prepare Liberal Arts Council Election Blocked' I For Forthcoming Election Both the Lion and State 13artiesnofinated candidates for sopho-3 Representatives Br eak Quorum more class officers Sunday night. Final nominations will take place at party meetings Monday and Sophomore elections are scheduled for November 16. State Party Final State party nominations will take place at the next meet ing, 405 Old Main at 7 p.m. Mon day. Candidates named for the three offices are William Dietz, Kenneth Rolston, and Jerry Sheehan, for president; Barbara Niesley and David Schmuckler, for vice-presi dent; Robert Longnecker, for sec retary-treasurer. After unlimited nominations are taken at the Monday meeting, nominations will be closed and voting representatives will vote on the candidates. Representa tives will vote on the candidates. Representatives are allotted two to each fraternity and one to each 15 independents. Representatives must have their clique membership cards before next meeting, said Jack Bodding ton, clique chairman. Among topics discussed Sunday was the desirability of creating a "more cooperative attitude" be tween fraternity and sorority members and independents. The party will try to lead these seg ments of the student body to work together without "group distinc tion," Boddington said. Platform The State party platform, pre viously adopted, pledges backing of the slate on which last year's State campaign was conducted. In addition, the platform prom ises support, a the Association of Independent 'Men, and the Inter fraternity Council, and it calls for a revival of the "traditional hello spirit" on campus. A student press, activities of CORE, and efforts to replace the TUB by a permanent union build ing were planks in last year's State platform. Smoker Opens Penn Weekend A pre-game smoker in the Bel levue-Stratford Hotel Friday at 8 p.m. will open the Penn-weekend Pot/gram being planned by the Penh State Club of Philadelphia. The program for the smoker in cludes movies of the Penn State- Michigan State game. Cheerlead ers and Blue Band will be there to lead the cheers and songs. Tickets may be purchased at the door at $1 each. Saturday evening, Clyde Emer son and his band will provide mu sic at.an informal dance to be held in the ballroom of the Bellevue from 9 p.m. until midnight. Tick ets at $2 per person are now on sale at the Alumni Office, 104 Old Main, or can be purchased at the dance Saturday night. Late AP News Courtesy Station WMAJ Presidential Rivals Confident As Nation Goes to Polls Today As the presidential candidates rest, the voters of the United States go to the polls today with fair weather predicted. Political observers are almost unanimous in their opinion that Governor Dewey will receive the majority of the votes. At present, the Republicans hold a majority in both houses of Congress, which they are confi dent they will retain. Democratic party officials are equally confi dent they will pick up enough votes to dominate the Eighty-first Congress. Anne Expecting DENMARK—Sources here have announced that former King Michael of Roumania and his Wife, the former Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, expect a baby next spring. DC-3 Expfodos MULDROW, Okla.—Twelve Air Force members were killed when 111441. 01411- enilliee DC4 Air Force STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1948 Lion Party, The Lion party also approved a five-point program of work, in cluding investigation of College ticket distribution policies with an eye to revision. Lion party nominees and the sophomore offices they seek in clude Harry Kondourajian, Tho mas McDermott, and Lewis Shall cross, president; Lois Kenyon and Cyrus Sporkin, vice president; Barbara Brice, Martha Ericson, and Patricia Starrels, secretary treasurer. Further nominations may be made at the next party meeting, 121 Sparks, 7 p.m. Monday. Party candidates will be elected at the same meeting. To be eligible to vote, party members must attend two meetings. Charging that the method of distributing tickets for athletic and other events has not kept pace with the "added signifi cance" now attached to them, the party calls for a poll of the stu dent body and an investigation to find the "most practical sys tem." (Continued on page six) Poll Indicates Dewey Margin Over Truman on Campus Slim Only 53% of students at the College prefer Dewey as our next president compared with 73% in seven other colleges which sur veyed their campuses on the current political situation. Truman's stock was up 19% more here than the 10.7% found at the other institutions. The other questions asked did not differ so sharply in the results here compared with the others. Ninety-one per cent nationally be lieved the New York governor Would win while only 88% thought so locally. There was greater variance in the no opinion and Truman fig ures. Only 3% were optimistic for the incumbent and 5% had no opinion in the national sur vey while 10% believed the President would be reelected and 2% had no opinion. Favor GOP In the questions dealing with the congressional contests, the figures for Penn State again differed with the national results. Local ly, 52% would like to see the Republicans gain control of the legislative body and 43 feel like wise about the Democrats. Na tionally the consensus is 66 and 21, respectively. The national results were com piled by the National Institute of College Opinion Surveys. The polls were cross-sections of stu dent bodies totaling over 28,000 students in the East, Midwest, South, and Far West. transport exploded in the air. Of ficials have not announced the home base of destination of the plane. Strikers Beat Miners CRANSAC, France Strikers beat several miners at work in the coal pits, the only incident marring observance of All-Saints Day. The French government is preparing to take over the last stronghold of the Communist-led strikers in northern France. Clare Luce Robbed NEW YORK Clare Boothe Luce, former Congresswoman and wife of magazine publisher Henry Luce, was robbed of jewelry val ued at $20,00, including an 18- carat diamond ring worth $lB,OOO. Smog Defense DONORA Residents met to discuss defense plans against a possibly recurring smog such as that which was partly reponsible for the deaths of 19 persons re cent*. Student Wins Car, Expects Calls From Coeds Doug Bruce used to deplore the five-to-one coed ratio by declar ing to his Phi Kappa Psi fra ternity brothers: "You can't get a date at Penn Sate without owning a car." But the phone in his Johnstown home. rang Saturday to mark the beginning of a new era for Doug. The six-foot-three senior was certain his fraternity brothers had manufactured another whop per when they told him he had won the State College Lions Club drawing for a sparkling new four door sedan. Now that Doug has verified thdo tale, he'll tell you one thing, "It pays to get a haircut." The Phi Psi bought five chances on the car while in a downtown barber shop. Who's Who To List Bigwigs Who's Who In The News at Penn State, a yearly publication published for the purpose of giving recognition to the outstanding students of the College, will include approximately 250 names and biographical sketches this year, said Arnold Gerton, editor. A Selection Committee consisting of Selma Zasofsky, associate editor, William Lawless, All-College President, Janet Lyons, WSGA President, Lew Stone, Collegian editor, and Joe Colone, Men's Athletic Association President, will choose the names of students who have made outstanding achievements and have been leaders in life at the College s Published by Honoraria' s Who's Who, published by Sigma Delta Chi, mens' national journalism fraternity, in cooperation with Theta Sigma Phi, womens' journalism honorary, has for its purpose, not the making of reputa tions, but to search out the in dividuals who have already made hem and give them proper recog- Windcrest Elects 6 Men to AIM Windcrest council yesterday submitted the names of six men who will represent Windcrest in dependent men on the AIM council. Corbin Kidder, George Mac indoe, Donald Peoples, Daniel Sheath, Byron Smathers, and Jesse Smith have been appointed to fill the six seats allotted to Windcrest boro. Names of five more representa tives elected last week by inde pendent men living in town were made available yesterday. H. Lawroski, ward 1; Eric Brown, ward 3; Victor Caphtch, ward 6; H. K. Fitting, ward 12; and James Lindemer, ward 24. Representatives from wards 2,4, 7, and 9 have not yet been released. The AIM councilmen elected from those wards are requested to call Donald Little,. phone 4332, immediately. Plans have been made to hold a combined mixer and business meeting for all AIM representa tives tomorrow night. Place and time of the meeting will be an nounced tomorrow. •Names of the independent men living in each of the town wards will be mailed to the AIM repre sentative concerned later this week, Little, chairman of the AIM committee, reported yester day. Parliamentary law clashed with what could be termed the de• sire to curtail machine politics at a meeting of the Liberal Arts Student Council Saturday afternoon, incurring reverberating rumbles through the LA student bosy and campus political groups. Three members of the Council, Michael Deckman, Robert Keller, and Robert Leeper, walked out of the meeting when nominations for Council officers arose, breaking the quorum of members present and preventing nominations. Protest Minority Basing their action on the desire to see that a student supported by a minority group should not be elected to office, Keller explained rumbles through the LA stusent body and campus political groups. should cast votes to insure a clean election, and one that would not be decided by a small bloc. Forum Tickets Still Available Half of the more than 1200 gen eral admission tickets available for this year's Community Forum series have been sold to date, said Dr. Edward B. Van Ormer, chair man of ticket sales. The 600 remaining tickets will be available at Student Union desk up to 5 p.m. Thursday, the day of the first lecture. Single ad missions, which sell for one dol lar, will be available at Student Union up to the time of the lec ture at 9 p.m. Thuisday evening, Dr. Van Ormer pointed out that since a public address system is being used in Schwab Auditorum all seating will be equally good acoustically. Any member of the ticket sales committee who has not yet turned in his report is urged to do so at once. Two copies of the completed book will be allotted to each stu dent whose biographical sketch is included, with distribution be ing made to all fraternities, sororities, independent organiza tions, departments and adminis trative officials of the College, as (Continued on page three) Scalper Receives Cool Reception Long-range ticket scalping hit higher. His counter proposals in- State College yesterday. eluded willingness to sell "all you Operating at a 200-mile distance want" at $lO each. from his base in the Philadelphia Reports of other transactions in area, a representative of a resale recent days went up to $3B a pair syndicate offered to purchase for seats in student sections, tickets for Saturday's Penn-Penn Little Success State football game from all corn- The Philadelphia operator ap ers. parently had little success in part - ing students from their ducats for Saturday's classic. During the twenty-minute rush period in which he was obseved, only two serious offers were made him, and neither of those consummated in agreement. Most frequent answers to his "I'll buy your tickets, -boys" invi tation were "Not mine," and "Wish I could get some." Many students ignoed his proposals en tirely. and some eturned hostile stares. The tout indicated his dissatis faction with the volume of trade by insisting he was only waiting for the first bus out of town, say way. . The operative, a story-book character with down-turned hat brim, "sharp" suit and tie, and husker's voice, loitered near Co op Corner on S. Allen street and made his proposals to likely-look ing students who passed during the after-lunch rush yesterday. "Ridiculous" Offers The syndicate evidently re quires a considerable profit-mar gin for successful operation at the long distance, for the scalper laughed off feelers put to him in the $3O to $4O dollar bracket as "ridiculous." When pinned down to an offer for two itt section NE, he offered ;.50 each, and mimed to PRICE FIVE CENTS According to constitutional election provisions, the nomina tions could have been carried out under parliamentary law, which provides that a quorum of mem bers must be present for nomina tions to be conducted. Keller's suggestion that the elections be suspensed until the entire group could vote was over ruled, and it was then that the three left. "The trouble does not concern campus politics," said Keller. "Since there were political ma chines present within the Council, it was our opinion that all 25 members should vote, perhaps preventing the installation of an incompetent president." Of the 25 members elected to the organization, 18 were present. Seventeen was the number need ed to constitute a quorum, Selma Zasofsky, retiring president, said. Of those absent, four had notified officers of the fact that they would not be able to attend, and were excused. The meeting was held under the chairmanship of R. Wallace Brewster, associate professor of political science and the group's adviser. The advisability of in cluding eighth semester students in the group was also discussed. Another meeting will be held in 415 Old Main 10 p.m. Thursday for further consideration of nom inations, according to Miss Zasof sky. Fellowship Offers Discussion Series The Penn State Bible Fellow ship, chapter of has added a third section to its sched ule of discussion studies on "What Does the Bible Say About Mis sions?" The group will meet in 410 Old Main at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays. All students are invited to at tend any of these informal dis cussion studies about world mis sions. Other sections meet in 410 Old Main at 4:10 p.m. on Tuedays and Wednesdays. The Bible Fellowship will add more sections to accommodate all interested students who are un able to attend one of these three meetings.
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