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"FOR A BETTER PENN STATE"
VOLUME 48-NUMBER 29
Campus Politicians Prepare Liberal Arts Council Election Blocked'
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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
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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.