, t. I' latlg ® (EoUpgtan _ TOR A BETTER PENN STATE" VOL. 50 NO. 33 Parties Announce Platforms NSA Seeks Opinion On Chest Fund Drive Referendum forms to determine student opinion on a campus chest fund drive will be distributed this week through the local committee of the National Student Association, Joel Bachman, form er chairman of NSA announced yesterday. Purpose of the fund, Bachman said, is to eliminate, duplication involved in separate fund-raising for various charities, organiza tions and special student relief projects. Each student would then be required to make only 6ne con tribution per year, he continued. Distribute Forms • Forms will be distributed to representatives of Pan-Hellenic Council at a meeting tonight. Members of Inter-Fraternity. Council and the Association of Independent Men will receive bal lots at meetings tomorrow night. Leonides’members received them last night. * Freshmen and sophomores will return ballots at. their regular class elections to be held Nov.-14- 15. The . election committee mem bers. working in the balcony of Old .Main will collect the forms Return Copies Since not enough copies of the forms are available for all stu dents, it is important that those ,who vote return them, Bachman said. If the referendum is approved, the NS A .chest committee has designated the following features for its operation: - , ■lf Approval by All-College Cabinet would be necessary for the inclusion of' any charity, or ganization or project. ”' " ' 2. Contributions will be made at the time of solicitation and not through pledging. - : 3. Allocation of'receipts would be on . a prorated basis to be estab lished :by All-College Cabinet. ' 4. Time of the.drive would be during Spring Carnival week, which will probably be about the first week'in April.' - Bachman said he did' not think such a-drive would lessen, the in dividual student’s ‘responsibility to support worthy causes but that it would be a psychological ad vantage because of an “aroused' school spirit directed toward making the drive a success.” Book Refunds ' Refunds for books sold to Pitts burgh book store agents are now available at the student book ex change in the TUB. Students may secure their rfe funds from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday. No refunds will be made after 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Receipts must be presented to ob tain a refund. FOR Karl Rorish. promotion manager, and the entire pro motion staff of The Daily Col legian. Karl and his' brainstorming crew are responsible for the political mixer to be held in the TUB tomorrow night at which all the candidates of both par ties will be introduced and free entertainment provided. The Lion , lets out a big gust of wind for the promotion san ies with the wild least one.of which will be carried to. fruition tomorrow,. . . . STATE COLLEGE, PA.,. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1949 College Offices Transferred to New Locations Opening Willard Hall Makes Space Available The administration has approv ed a plan for the reorganization of offices in Old Main, necessitat ed by the new space available in Willard Hall. The new offices in Old Main are as follows: Room New Office 109 Dean of Men and Division of Intermediate Regis tration. 110-11 Accounting 112 Placement Service 204 Student Government room 205 Counselor of veterans and foreign students 209 • , Personnel services divi- sion 303. Penn State in China Room 309 Addition to public infor- mation Navy Cost Inspector Mew offices in Willard Hall are: 6 Bursar 7 Central registration exten sion and records 110 College senate Secretary to foreign stu dents , 116 Dean of the Graduate School .. 4 Recorders . 2 Scheduling office ■ 4 Transcripts ( V . ' Froth Cover Girl The second issue of Froth will hit the campus tomorrow sport ing the humor magazine’s first Girl of the Month on the cover; Jeanne Reist will be featured on the frontpiece, which was de signed by Sam Vaughan and Don Maclntire. 1 Besides the usual assortment of jokes, cartoons and other “Froth isms,” the magazine will high light a story on • the ups and downs of football coach Joe Be denk. Student Government Granted Location The College has approved 204 Old Main as a location for the student government, Wilmer E. Kenworthy, executive secretary to the president announced yesterday. Several other rooms had been considered, including the student employment office in the TUB, which was rejected as being too small, noisy, and stuffy for meetings. Room 305 Old Main, which was a student government room before the war, was considered undesirable because not enough students would observe its opera tion at that location, Investigation The building boom which has been taking place at the College for a number of years, necessi tated using the old student gov ernment room for othet purposes. Last year All-College cabinet started an investigation on the possibilities of again using the room through the office of Sam uel K. Hostetter,' assistant to the president in charge of business and finance; The first act of this, year’s Ani- Debater Oxford-State . »■ Debate Pleases Capacity Crowd Scintillating humor and spark ling repartee were the standouts as two Oxford University stu dents and two students of the Col lege met in a debate before a ca pacity audience at Schwab Audi torium, 8 p.m., Friday. There were enjoyable devia tions from the proposal of the evening, “Resolved: That the pub lic ownership of basic industries is in the best interests of a demo cratic society.” Neither side won since the debate was not judged. Geoffrey Johnson Smith arid Robin Day of Oxford University advanced the affirmative side of the proposal, while Richard Sch weiker and John Fedako of. the College took the negative. Dr. Robert T. Oliver, professor and head of the department of speech here, was chairman of the inter national debate. Public Ownership Public ownership can be an ef fective weapon to guarantee full employment and insure efficiency in a democratic society, said Johnson Smith. He also pointed out that a publicly-owned cor poration is not a government cor poration. Day, second speaker for the af firmative, asked if it isn’t just as inconsistent with democratic prin ciples to have a few men control society economically as to have a few control it politically. Speaking of the free enterprise system, Schweiker said that we have released the creative in terests within the individual and harnessed the urge to better our (Continued on page six) College Cabinet when it convened last May, was to pass a sipoo ap nropriation to equip the room. In September a committee of All- College Cabinet was appointed to investigate proposed locations. The members were George Oehm ler, chairman, Robert Gabriel, and Virginia Miller. Memorial Room On Oct. 27, All-College Cabinet decided to use $BO6 from the Hetzel Memorial Fund for the student government room. They also appropriated $595 ,for the (Continued on page six-) Mixer In TUB To Open Campaign's Final Week The State and Lion parties, announcing their campaign pink forms yesterday, have entered the crucial phase in the vote-getting battle leading up to the sophomore and freshman class elections next Tuesday. Candidates of both parties will go before the student pubti tomorrow evening in a mixer to be held at the TUB. The affail will be sponsored by the Daily Collegian in the interest o£ betta student government. ' With only a week remainin| before freshmen and ballot for the three officers cj each class, the State party vote{ on its platform in a meeting Sun day evening while Lion leader) were meeting privately to forma late campaign plans. In an attempt to make a come back sifter its stinging defeat i the Spring elections, the Stat party has listed 17 points in 3 platform, pointing up specif! areas of action in which the <m ganization hopes to be effecttei should it win the election. Lion Platform Burgess, Bonus Highlight Local Election Today Hoffman, Kaulfuss Face Tight Battle Veterans’ bonus amendment and an expected close battle for the office of Burgess will highlight the district, election today. Voters throughout the state will decide whether or not Pennsyl vania' World War II veterans will receive a bonus. Bonus Amendment The bonus amendment provides for payments up to $5OO to indi vidual veterans with the amount depending on length of service. If passed, the Commonwealth will have to create a bonded issue of five hundred million dollars. Veteran organizations through out the state are supporting this amendment. ' Vieiiig for the Burgess’ office of Stat 4 College are two college staff members. William S. Hoffman, ex-registrar and now dean of ad missions, is the Republican candi date. Mr. Hoffman is against the expensive method used in collect ing the wage tax, wants better streets, a youth center, more courtesy to visitors, and help in attracting major conventions. Police Enforcement The Democratic candidate, Julius Kaulfuss, professor of civil engineering, stands for teamwork between the council and the Bur gess to eliminate feuding, and wants more emergency police en forcement. Excuse blanks for students wishing to go home for the No vember 8 election may now be picked up at ,the Student Union desk in Old Main. PSCA To Hear Ex-Jap Captive Philip Egerton, former British commando, ambulance driver, and prisoner of the Japanese in the last war, will speak at a PSCA pieeting in 304 Old Main at 7:30 tonight. Mr. Egerton, who now devotes his time to foreign student work, will discuss student conditions in Europe and Asia. Mr. Edgerton has studied at London University and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Dur ing the blitz he served in London, then in China and Rangoon where he was captured by the Japan ese. After his escape he was with the British Army in India and Burma. Interviews Now a 'representative of the World Student Service Fund, Mr. Egerton will be available for in terviews at the CA office tomor row from 9 ia.m. until noon. The meeting tonight is open to all students as well as the Com missions and Roundtable of the CA. Aeronautics Films Latest aeronautics films will be shown in 203 Electrical Engi neering at 7:15 tonight, when the local chapter of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences will meet. Today's Weathers Fair and Mild PRICE FIVE CE] The Lion platform, on the ottß hand, is brief, covering broaq general areas of action. Uppen most are the pledge of support foi Student Union activity* and sud port for independent student! groups. The party also is sun porting ’a “fair distribution a parking permits” and is attempt ing to solve the on-campus parh ing problem. Making the freshman womei an integral group in the studerl body also is listed by the Lid platform.- , Rearrangement of seating a New Beaver field and a revival cl school tradition are among thj platform points put forward bj the State party, which also favon obtaining rooms in the new dcu mitories first for men now livin in dormitories. A better distribution of votin places also is favored by th party, as well as enlargement a the TUB and expansion of facili ties and activities for dormitop men. Mixer Wilbert Roth, managing editoi of Collegian, will serve as masta of ceremonies for the mixer ai the TUB at 7:30 p.m. tomor row. Thd Arni Taylor sextet wil provide music. The mixer will be held to gim the students a chance to meet thi candidates. Both parties announc ed Sunday that they were endors ing the program. A pajama party for freshmaa women, to be held n the south east lounge of Atherton Hall, p being planned for 9:15 p.m. Sun day by the State party. Irvi* Kricheff was named as idea com mittee chairman at the party*! meeting Sunday. Civil Engineers Mr. Clyde Grim from Gilben Associates, Inc., will speak at thi meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 219 EE at 7 o’clock Tuesday. If you lose your head over a pretty miss and lose your fraternity pin before you’ve had a chance to pin her, Col legian classifieds won’t guar antee finding your head but will help find your pin. Call 6711 and ask for the Collegian. COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIEDS GET RESULTS!
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