Approval of Student Union Plan Foreseen By TOM MORGAN Barring unforeseen changes, final plans for a permanent Student Union building at the College will probably be ap proved soon by the College’s Board of Trustees and con struction . of. the edifice . may be gin on one of two proposed cam pus sites before the end of this school year. This was disclosed last night in a report to All-College Cabinet by James' -MacCallum, chairman of the undergraduate Student Union committee. MacCallum is also one of five student members on the 'Beta Temple! VOL. 50 NO. 36 Both Parties Revamp Campaign Platforms 'Undesirable' Planks Are Dropped, Modified Alumni To Hold Smoker, Ball This Weekend A pre-game smoker and a Vic tory Ball, both sponsored by tlie Penn State Alumni Club of Phila delphia, will highlight the- off campus activities for students and alumni during the Temple game weekend. Both events will take' place l in the ballroom of the Bellevue- Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia; students as well as' alumni are inVited to attend. Tickets for=the smoker to be held tonight night may be purchased at the door of the ballroom for $1 each. ' Blue Band To Play Music for the Victory Ball on tomorrow night will be provided by Clyde Emerson and his orches tra; and dancing will be from 9 to 12. Tickets for the dance; priced at $1.50' each, are now bn sale at the Student Union desk or can be purchased ,at the.' door of the ballroom; Master of ceremonies at the tonight’s smoker,' which be gins at. 8:30, will be Kenneth D. Loeffler ’24. The Blue.. Band will be present. Other musical enter tainment will be provided by a male chords and' a’ jazz outfit, both; composed of members of the. band' and trained by Ray Fortunato ’47. Chorus Members Listed •Members; of the male chorus will be George Black, ,Harold Brown, Charles Crispen.Leo-Gur to,-Raymond Dombrowski, Harry Endres, Frederick’ Hughes, Don ald Mattern, Rex Horton, Thomas (Continued on page, eight). Today . . . The Nittany Lion Roars FOR the International Rela tions Club and its advisor,. Dr. Larry Leonard, of the political science department. The club, will stage a- model UN Security Council discussion in 121 Sparks Sunday after noon. AH students are invited to attend the mock debate on the Spanish question, first pos ed by . Poland in April. To those students who will give an invaluable'demonstra tion of the UN at work, the Lion dutifully, . gives .his - daily College’s Student Union Commit tee— composed of faculty, admin istration and students, and chair ed by Samuel K. Hostetter, as sistant to the president in charge of business and finance. In the planning stage for many years, the proposed . building would answer a need pointed out by students, alumni and College officials. As on many other college campuses, it would.be a focal point for students’ activities and would offer many campus ser vices. It would replace the Tem porary Union Building, now lo cated on Shortlidge Road. Final decision on the site of the proposed multi-million-dollar tTltr latlu STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING,. NOVEMBER 11, 1949 Candidates for Sophomore President Independents Top Sophomore Ballot Two independent - men' will .face each other in the battle for presidency of the sophomore class in class elections next Tuesday. And, in both the State and Lion parties, the other male candi dates on the sophomore slates are pledges to fraternities. The third candidate,' on both slates, is a woman student. Both are sorority pledges. Giving the top spot to an in dependent man by each party probably is a good index of their realistic approach.- Both are ang ling for the ballots of the'inde pendent men, who far outnumber fraternity men and, • should they go to the Spoils en masse, easily. IRC To Present Model Of UN Council Sunday The International Relations Club will present a model of the United Nations Security Council in Room 12l Sparks, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Discussion topic will be the Spanish question, filed by the Polish government before the U. N. group in 1946, which stated that the existence of Franco’s government was a threat to world peace. ' . ' > This is the first time that such a discussion has ever been held on the campus. . Dr. Leonard, - advisor of the club, says that the discussion is not a play, although each stu dent will be simulating an actual occurrence which took place in the U.N. Security Council at the time. Each student representing one of, the eleven .member-coun tries of the' Council is studying the actual speeches made by each in an effort to recreate the origi nal meeting. Everything will be established as similar to the actual settings as possible. Besides the represen tations of. the eleven countries, there will be a representative of the.. Secretary General, stenotyp ing, .secretaries, a large , round Student Union building will rest with the Board of Trustees. Be fore Cabinet last night, MacCal lum listed two possible locations for the long-awaited permanent Union: (1) Adjacent to McAllister Mall and next to College Avenue, ap proximately where the Textile Chemistry building is now locat ed. (2) At the junction of Pollock Road and U.S. Highway 322, . on the present site of the varsity tennis courts and a huge parking lot behind the Sigma Chi and Sig ma Nu fraternity houses. According to MacCallum, sev eral members of the College’s Un- ”FOR A BETTER PENN STATE” Iharles could vote down any party show ing, preference to fraternities. Active In Clubs - Joseph Arnold, sophomore president candidate for the State party, a forestry major hailing from Townville, already is a . (Continued'on page three) table, and flags of the various nations. Those taking part in the dis cussion are Christine Altenburg er, Rosemary Delahanty, Charles Edwards, Max' Einenkel, David Fitzcharles, Frank Flannelly, Al len Gracey, Blair Green, Peter Hammer, Stanford Hertz, Fred Hopkins, Jean Israel, John Jones, George Keenan, Robert Keller, Phyllis KJessler, William Klisan in. Leonard Kolasinski, Paul Krit sky, Kua Hao Hu, Jerry Laconis, Lynri Lapp, Drew Malka, Sandra Marks, ja c k Palmer, Lamar Southan and Richard Zahner. ion' Committee “tend to believe that the Textile Chemistry loca tion is more favorable, because it would be a better crossroads among student dorm areas.” Financing Building The new Union is expected to cost about $4,500,000. Because the building is not “of an academic nature,” state subsidies would not be available to finance construc tion. Therefore, MacCallum said, Penn State would probably fol low many other colleges’ financial plan. Many colleges which boast a Student Union have paid for it through income realized from its services; from gifts from alumni Extensive revision of both the Lion and State party platforms for the sophomore and freshman class elections Tuesday have been effected by the All-College Elections committee and the two parties. Seven planks in'he two platforms have been struck out by the parties as “undesirable” and two others have been modified for the same reason, Chairman William Shade 'of the elections committee announced yesterday. Shade also reported that po Mattie Cards " T e tn p o r a r y matriculation cards may be exchanged for permanent matriculation cards at the recorder's office, room 4, in the basement of Willard Hall. Three-Year-Old Livens Up Rally ,A little boy, a dwarf among the football giants present, cap tivated the hearts of the small crowd of students who attended last night’s pep rally at Old Main. Three-year-old Barry Suther land, stepped and strutted, whirl ing his wooden baton through three numbers rendered by the Penn State . Blue Band! Richard Clair, head Nittany cheerleader, called the crowd the “worst one we’ve had this sea son,” and certainly one of the smallest ever to attend a rally in the last few years. -A crowd of about 250 heard numbers by the Blue Band, two novelty songs by the Harmon aires, composed of Eugene Myers, Robert Potter, Leonard Landis and William Elmore and speeches by line coach James O’Hora and backfield coach Frank Patrick. Following the coaches, Robert Keller, last night’s MC, brought Kenneth Bunn, Charles and Jos eph Drazenovich.'and co-captains Negley Norton and Robert Hicks forward to say a few words to the crowd. All felt that the squad was in good shape for tomorrow’s game (Continued on page six) State .College Vote Opposes Bonus The Pennsylvania veteran bon us bill,-although passed in the state by a ratio of almost 4 to 1, was defeated in State College. This was one of the few towns in the state to return a majority of votes in opposition to the bonus. The bonus will be paid to vet erans of World War 'll on a scale of $lO for every month in this country, and $l5 per month for overseas service. The cost of such a bonus is estimated to be half a billion dollars, and a system of meeting this outlay has not been decided as yet by the state. • and friends of the college, and from a continuing student assess* ment of possibly $5 to $lO a sem ester. All-College Cabinet last night appointed a new 13-man Student Union committee headed'by Mac- Callum, who has chaired student committees on the Union project for the past three semesters. On the new committee, besides MacCallum, are Ted Allen, Ro bert Davis, Robert Gabriel, Shir ley Gauger, Peter Giesey, Robert Keller, Joseph Lane, Thomas Mor gan, John Senior, Lorraine Stot ler, and the sophomore and fresh man,class presidents, to be elected Tuesday. Today's Weathers Partly Cloudy and mild PRICE FIVE CENTS itical posters of both parties have been destroyed in Atherton Hall, where freshman women reside, and warned that penalties could be inflicted upon the offending parties. The action was taken at a meet of the committee and the heads of the two parties Wednesday eve ning after Shade’s committee de cided that the planks in question were “too shaky,” and were “misleading or beyond the power of student government.” Action Taken Basis for the move are two sections of the All-College Elec tions Code: 1. “The Elections Committee re serves the right to act upon any campaign method which it consid ers to be a violation of the spirit of the Election Code.” 2. “The Elections Committee re serves the right‘to alter this code in the case of emergency.” “By the changing of these planks, both parties have shown a sincere interest in furthering stu dent government here at Penn State,” Shade commented yester day. ‘This should in no way cast any reflection on the merits of either party.” Posters Destroyed Concerning destruction of pos ters in Atherton Hall, he added: “Both parties are reminded that penalties up to 100 votes may be inflicted upon each and every candidate if her party is found guilty of this act.” Posters of both parties have been reported de stroyed. Chairman Joel Fleming of the State party, six of whose planks were dropped, issued a statement, as did Walter Vilsmeier, sopho more chairman of the Lion party. Said Fleming: “One thing that we don’t want the students to think is that 'the State party has thrown away its ideals; however, we think that, the course of ac tion we have taken is in the in terest of student government.” This was Vilsmeier’s comment: “The policy of the Lion party, in regard to the construction of a platform, has always been along practical lines, with the various planks adhering to considerations that are within the scope of stu dent government.” The Lion party plank on a stu dent government handbook was ruled out because Cabinet already has appointed a committee for this purpose and has appropriated money. Lion Plank Changed The Lion plank favoring “fair distribution of poking permits” (Continued on page ttmeei
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