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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 (
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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.
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