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