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"FOR A BETTER PENN STATE" •
VOL. 50 - NO. 52
Groves Withheld .
Secret Bomb Data
Late AP News Courtesy . WMAJ
NORWALK, CONN.—Lieutenant General Leslie Groves de
clared yesterday that he withheld some secret reports which norm
ally would have gone to the then Vice:President, Henry A. Wallace.
Asked for a reason, Groves• replied, "I preferred not to."
The general also stated that the IThssians had obtained some
of our wartime secrets, but, he added, how much, nobody knows.
In the Washington investiga
tion of wartime shipments of atom
bomb ingredients to Russia, mem
bers of the House Committee on
Uri-American Activities said they
will push their inquiry until , every
angle - is exhausted.
In Ottawa Trade Minister C. D.
Howe told the House of Commons
that a 1,000 pound shipment of
uranium went to the 'Russians
through normal trade channels in
1943.
Tribunal Head Indicts
For Indifference; Lists
By STAN DEGLER
Robert Keller, chairman of Tri
bunal, charged All-College Cabi
net with indifference last night.
He says that Cabinet has been
acting as a buffer between stu
dents and administration.
Keller named specific matters
in Which he feels Cabinet has
been lacking. He said that no
one knows where the College
stands on. a student book ex
change. What students want. ac
cording to Keller, is a store which
sells new books, but Cabinet has
not received any satisfaction in
this - respect.' He implied that
there are pressures being exert
ed hy State College businessmen
to pi•event the organization of a .
student book store.
Literary Magazine
Cabinet approved a $6OO loan
to •paq part of the $lOOO debt of
the defunct • literary magazine
Critique. Under the motion
adopted, All-College Cabinet will
draft a constitution for a new
photographic - literary magazine
and • request a charter from the
College to replace the Critique
charter.
Cabinet, will set up a Control
Board of stUdents and faculty
members to govern the new mag
azine financially •and appoint the
editors. Profits of the new publi-
Late Permits
Ruled Out
For Mil Ball
After renewed consideraiion of
the problem of extending two
o'clock permissions to women stu
dents kir the Military Ball to.:.
night, WSGA took no action on
the matter at its meeting last
night and the regular one o'clock
permissions stand as before.
Suggestions were heard from
Marie Card, checker in Women's
Building, on how to help make
Judicial moire effective and to de
crease criticism of the group.
Illustrating all points with cases
of actual girls at the College, Mis,s
Card proposed:
1. That 'Judical should either
decide when a lenient weekend
campus or a strict weekend cam-
pus wil come according to a defi
nite schedule or should use its
own discretion in deciding. the
weekend a campus will come, but
in the latter case call the punish
ed person immediately.
2: That Judicial should have an
advisor.
Barbar t a Sprenkle, junior sena
tor, proposed to the group that
the agenda of WSGA meetings be
published for , the purpose . of Wl
parting agenda topics 'to,women
students who might desire, 'by at
tend meetings which are of Nita],
interest to theme .
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1949
Crash Victims Found
VALLEJO, CALIF.—A ground
search, party has recovered the
boilieS'of six adults and three chil
dren from the wreckage of an
airliner near. yallejo, California.
A radio message .from the scene
of the crash, about six miles from
Vallejo, • said that the plane had
not burned but that the wreckage
had spread over a wide area.
(Continued on page three)
cation would be applied to the li
quidation of the existing Criti
que debt.
•
NSA, Appropriation
Keller said that student coun
cil presidents should be asking
questions 'such as, "Where does
National Student Association
spend its money?" because it re
ceives a $lOOO annual appropria
tion from Cabinet, and student
councils receive only a base rate
of $BO varying with enrollment.
He criticised, Cabinet for not
investigating the refusal of the
Student Advisory. • Committee to
grant permission for. a teen-age
group to hold a mixer.in the TUB
during Thanksgiving vacation.
Keliei also said that Cabinet
should. be , concerned about get-
IFC Rules Out Frosh Pledges
With freshman men being as
signed next fall to campus resi
dence halls, a fraternity rushing
policy is now being , prepared by
a five-man committee.of the Inter
fraternity council, , Association of
Fraternity Counselors, and the
Dean. of Men's office. Freshman
men will not be permitted to live
in fraternities next year, accord
ing to Wilmer E. Kenworthy, as-.
sistarif to the president in charge
of student , affairs:
Peter Giesey
rester" aay:lialled' the no-frosll-41-
fraternities . .deisiQn' as "gocid for
both - the fraternities and the fresh
men." He declared:
„
"It will. provide more , time for
11:19re..- selective pledging by the
houses, and will actually' give
fi-eshmen who ' are prcispective
fraternity.men a better opportunk
ty462sprveyi4the frOerntty.' field
at Penn State? •
The five-man r,uotiipg. pppnit
tOcK'jx4.o46l?-:Gaii.64;,likbia.ltatili;
Military Guard To Honor
Five Queen Contenders
Yearbooks Here
For CSTC Sophs
All sophomores who attended
California State Teachers College
for two semesters last year have
been urged to pick up their copies
of the 1949 Monocal, CSTC year
book, at Student Union in Old
Main this afternoon, beginning at
2:30.
Wilbur Stanford, editor of the
Mbn'ocal, informed the Daily Col
legian that he will have the year
books here at that hour. He urged
ex-CSTC sophomores to "have a
friend pick up the book if they
can't come in person."
Cabin at
Points
ting answers to the question of
why a permanent president has
not `been chosen. He said he
thought that Cabinet members
should go to the members of the
Board of Trustees to try to get
the answers for the student body.
Dorm Policy
Keller stated that .students are
interested in the alkswers regard
ing the dormitory 'policy. "The
least we can do . . . is ask them
for the reasoning back of these
things," he stated.
He also criticised the Panhel
lenic Council system of rotation
of office among sororities, and
the InterfraternitY Council, dat
ing code. He said that this year's
Cabinet has beeri marked by a
lack of controversy.
member of the IFC executive
committee; John Senior, IFC vice
president; Harold W:. , Perkins,
assistant dean of. men,. and Prof.
Luther T. Bissel, AFC president.
Undergraduates, as well as grad
uate ' members of fraternities at
the College, were consulted orig
inally.. two years ago by Arthur
R. Warnock, then dean of men,
concerning future f;raternity
freshman relations. .
Kenworthy early this week an-•
nounced .that about 1000 fresh
man men will be admitted to the
main carripus . and will be assigned
to fill' part of the .west dorms,
three ,units of which are now in
construction: •
Of the three major- dorm units
beine.built south and west of the
Tri-dorms, unit number one
located near Sparks will be an
:ektensiori,of Jordan Hall and will
house 442 men. Unit two—an ex
tension of. Watts Hall near the
phi , Gamma Delta fraternity
house will have facilities for
615.' Unit number three, which
Read To Give
The recent Quaker report on
American-Russian relations will
be discussed at an open meeting
here Sunday by Dr. James M.
Read, foreign service secretary of
the American Friends Service
committee,: who was a member of
the wdtking committee which
prepared the report.
Sponsored jointly by the State
College. Friends Meeting (United)
and the Penn State Christian As
sociation, the talk will be held in
405 Old 'Main at 7:30.
At 3:30• Sunday afternoon, Dr.
Ileac' will speak in 304 Old Main
on opportunities• for overseas
service with the,Friends and simi
lhr grOlaps. • •
.The Quaker' report, published
by. Yale' UniVersity Press last
11104414 - hati:ralieed disciatsicin
By HERB STEIN
Through an arch of sabers form
ed by an honor guard from Per
shing Rifles, Scabbard and Blade
and the Quarterdeck Society, a
procession of the five contenders
for queen of the Military Ball will
march to the bandstand during
the intermission of tonight's
dance. •
The finalists are: Lois Kenyon,
Marjorie Kepler, Eleanor . Mori
suye,• Margaret Riley and Ruth
Schultz. Master of Ceremonies
Capt. J. H.. Jacoby of the Air Forte
ROTC will present the queen with
an appropriately inscribed silver
crown. •
Judges wh6 will select the queen
are Col. Ben-H. Chastaine, .USA,
Capt. John L. Woodbury, USN,
an d Lt. Col. John E. Stewart,
USAF. Finalists were chosen by
ROTC personnel at' Lehigh. Uni
versity. Photographs of the. five
appeared in the window of the
Commerce Club on E. College
Avenue this week.
In keeping with the military
Five Male Pranksters
Put on Probation
Five student pranksters who
broke the ',light • over the' Lion
Shrine in front' of Rec Hall were
put on probation for the rest of
the semester by Men's Tribunal
Tuesday night.
The five men admitted to the
Campus Patrol that they had been
intoxicated and agreed to pay for
replacing the light. •
Campus. Patrol' Captain ,Philip
will house 287, is being built along
the curve • where Burrowes and
Curtin Roads merge.
A terraced court facing Pollock
Road and the Mineral Industries
Building will thus be formed 'by
units number one and , two, and
the Tri-dorms. A three:part din
ing hall capable of: serving a total
of 1500 men is 'in construction
parallel. with Burrowes ROad. and
dorm unit number two. The•three
sections of the dining. halL will• be
supplied from a central kitchen.
According to Russell E. Clark,
director of, housing, the new
dorms will be "well appointed:
like the new women's dorms, but
in a man's :taste of decorations."
"They, will be distinctive with=
out being gaudy," he added, point-:
out
_that architeets are still being
consulted about interior decora
tion. Major construction items are•
already past the planning stage.
The ratio of single to double
rooms.in the new dorms now un
der construction• will be about
one to five. ' . ,
uaKer. Kepart .
throughout the country, by its sug
gestions on ways to improve
American-Russian. relations, . .
Dr. Read has taught history at
both Dickinson Junior' .College,
Williamsport, and at the Univer
sity of Louisville, and was assis
tant secretary to the Friends
Committee 'on National Legisla
ti on in. Washington before taking
up hiS present post. He is author
of "AtroPity Propaganda during
the Fir:it World War" and cur
rently • is engaged in a study of
the late Justice Louis D. Brandeis.
Dr. Read also was instrumental
in 'preparation of a confidential
memorandum to the. United
Nations,on the use . of atomic 'en
ergy'''. Submitted within- the past
few days, the memorandum is re
ported:tp have received favorable
oxisideratka ia 'U.N. clocks.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
theme of the formal ball, decora
tors from a New York firm have
arranged the setting to show in
signias of the three services. With
these will be a false ceiling and
rotating colored floodlights, to
gether with white drapes and a
gold 'eagle. •
Music for dancing from 8:30 td
12:30' will be furnished by Elliott
Lawrence and his orchestra. Fea
tured will be Vocalist Rosalind
Patton. Lawrence's band is noted
among popular orchestras for us
ing symphonic instruments.
Invitations may be secured by
any ROTC member in 7 Carnegie
Hall. They will be on sale until 3
o'clock this afternoon. None will
be sold at the dance. Approxi
mately 800 invitations have been
sold so far.
Members of the various dance
committees are: arrangements,
Thomas Luca s; entertainment,
Andrew Grasty; program, Rich
ard Manchester; decorations, Ar
thur Keenan; publicity, Robert
Miller; treasurer, John Skehan;
invitations, Henr y Schoenfeld,
(Continued on page three)
A. Mark indicated to Tribunal
that although only the car owner
was summoned, all five had vol
untarily identified themselves. A
Campus patrolman who had seen
the incident reported it by turn
ing in the license number of the
Car.
Robert Keller,. chairman of
Tribunal, told the five men that
a similar offense would bring a
recommendation from Tribunal of
dismissal from the College. Sudh
penalties do not extend beyond
the current semester, he said. No
further fine was added other than
paying for the light.
In • nine traffic cases Tribunal
levied a total of $8 in fines, sus
pended $3 in fines and
cl issued
warnings to two other drivers.
All of these involved violation of
regulations prohibiting driving or
parking on campus during day
light-hours.
The largest single fine was $4 in
a . case in which the defendent had
been fined $1 for a like offense
earlier in the semester. Fine rates
are graduated on a scale extend
ing from $1 to $lO depending on
the number of offenses.
Today . . .
The Nittany Lion Roars
FOR the brothers and
pledges of Phi Sigma Delta
fraternity.
Instead of the usual foolish
ness of childish pranks and
asinine trips, the Phi Sigs, as
part of their pledges' "Hell
Week" project, assigned 12 of
them to paint the kitchen of
the Bellefonte hospital.
The Lion sincerely salutes
the mature behavior of Phi
Sigma Delta, and hopes that
other fraternities, too, will fol
low the example of this house
in assigning projects worthy
of e•011ege• men their
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