U.S.S.R. Absorbs
Four Provinces,
Acheson Claims
Secretary Warns
U.S. Against
Angering Chinese
WASHINGTON—Secretary of
State Dean Acheson charged
yesterday that Russia is incor
porating four North China prov
inces into the Soviet Union. He
seemed to hint that if left alone
Russia eventually will cut her
own throat.
Acheson implied that the one
chance the Russians have to
avoid disaster in China is to ob
scure the issue by turning the
Chinese against some other na
tion. He warned that the United
States must do nothing that
would help the Russitns direct
Chinese anger toward our coun
try.
No Coal Emergency
WASHINGTON Presid en t
Truman told White House news
men yesterday that no national
emergency in coal exists at the
present time. The President's
statement amounted to a rejec
tion of Congressional demands
that the Taft-Hartley 'law be
used to restore full coal produc
tion.
Ship, Leaves Shanghai
WASHINGTON—The Amer i
can freighter, Flying Arrow, has
left the Shanghai area under
American• destroyer escort for
the mine-free port of Tsingtao
The Isbrandtsen. line vessel
which had planned to run the
Nationalist blockade of Shang
hai still has aboard the ten mil
lion'dollar cargo that was in
tended for the Chinese Reds.
British Sub Lost
WASHINGTON A Britis h
submarine was reported yester
day lost in a lollision with a
Swedish vessel in the outer • Tha
mes River estuary. Five surviv
ors were reported to have been
Picked up, by a Dutch freighter.
A search is underway for other
survivors of the submarine which
normally carried a crew of 59.
Vets To Lock Mail Boxes
WASHINGTON Postmaster
General Donaldson yesterday
warned veterans to keep their
mail boxes locked, if possible,
starting next Monday. That's the
day the first G-I insurance
checks will pour into the mails.
IFC Approves
Rushing Code
The new rushing and pledging
code, with a special section .deal
ing with the rushing and pledging
of freshmen, was without opposi
tion by the Interfraternity Coun
cil.
IFC vice-president Jack Senior,
who headed the committee that
prepared the, new code, presented
the plan to the 50 IFC representa
tives• present at the regularly
scheduled meeting. Only one ar
:tide in the. code, Article 111, Sec.
3, which states that no fraternity
shall pledge a student who does
not have an all-college average
of 1.0 for the preceding semester
received any opposition. Two rep
resentatiVes were opposed to the
i provision'.
%. Major provisions of the new
code prohibit fraternities from
pledging freshmen for the first
semester of their stay on campus,
prohibit freshthen from living in
the • chapter houses until they
have lived in the dormitories for
. ;one year and prohibit pledging of
men not receiving resident in
struction on campus.
Pledge Breaking
A man breaking his pledge to
l a fraternity may not stay over
might nor pledge another. house
'for a period of 30 days. This does
knot apply to action taken by the
fraternity itself. Fraternities must
Pay annual $lO dues to the IFC
1 before its pledges are officially
recognized by the IFC.
The new code provides that a
'second semester freshman may be
pledged beginning in the spring
•semester on .a date to be depend
ent upon availability of grades.
The pledge must 'still complete
'the second semester in the dormi
tory;
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VOL. 50 - NO. 65
Leo Houck Fund Goal
Efl]
Cabinet Criticizes
Students Asked
To Contribute
On Houck Night
Over $l,OOO Realized
To Date in Campaign
Dovetailing with a • campaign
titled "Friends of Leo Houck"
that has been running several
weeks, students at the College
will be asked to contribute to a
Leo Houck fund tomorrow dur
ing "Leo Houck Night" in Rec
reation Hall.
This was announced. last night
by Thomas 'Morgan, "Houck
Night" committee chairman. He
explained that "Friends or Leo
Houck" was begun at the Col
lege and in town by a self-ap
pointed 12-man committee of
College personnel and towns
people bent on raising ,a Houck
fund of $5OOO.
"The 'Friends of Leo Houck'
campaign," he said, "has already
netted ogler $l,OOO through res
ponse to a letter sent out by this
committee to nearly 3,000 alumni
and townspeople."
Purpose of "Friends of • Leo
Houck" and of student contri
butions made in Rec Hall to
morrow, Morgan said, will, be to
try to `,`give Leo or his family a
substantial fund for their future
security." • •
The condition of Houck, who
was responsible for starting box
ing as a varsity- sport 'at Penn
State,. • was still . reported 'last
night. as "unchanged." He is•:,in
critical condition at his .Lancas
ter home, declining rapidly over
the last three weeks. Houck -was
stricken in mid-August 1949
while conducting an: snnual one
week boxing clinic on carnpus,
and underwent an abdominal op
eration Aug. 22.
Exhorting•, student help, Mor
gan declared' yesterday:- be
lieve students at the College are
the kind Who can appreciate
what Leo Houck's worth has been
to them and" tothe College. They
will want 'to buy a share' 'of the
Houck ,tradition by ccintribtiting
to the 'Friends of Leo. ,Houck'
campaign tomorrow on. ;Leo
Houck Night':"- -
"Houck , Night"-..in Rec • Hall
will feature' a wrestling ,meet
with Cornell and• the '5O• boxing
'(Contintied on page •eight)
Milholland Denies
Rate Reductions
There will be. no •reduction in
room and board 'rates in the.Nit
tany-Pollock area.
.immediately,,
according to a letter from acting
College President, James
land, which was presented to the
Nittany Dorm Council Monday
night.
The letter was an answer to
a request sent by •the council to
Mr. Milholland before the Christ
mas vacation. Mr. Milholland said
that the administration is at pres
ent checking rates at. other Penn
sylvania colleges and will come
to a decision on reduction later
in the year.
The program investigating the
possibilit3r of having five day and
seven day meal tickets for the'
male dorm area ,was outlined ',at
the meeting by John Mezaros,
chairman of the all-college com
mittee.
The committee now has two
plans under consideration. The
student would get a 'choice of a
five day or seven day ticket, at
the beginning of the semester,
or he would get a choice at the
beginning 'of each month. The
present system requires the stu- .
-lent to take a seven day ticket.
Mezaros asked the Nittany
Council for additional. suggestions
to.how to pig-the vian.inefteci.'
'FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1950
PI T is.
presenting suggestions for choosing persons for the peisonalities
section of LaVie before All-College Cabinet last night. Ted Allen,
All-College president, and James MacCallum, secretary-treasurer
look on.
Wertz Proposes Change
In Beaver Field Seating
All-College .Cabinet last • night tabled a proposal on a new
Beaver Field seating arrangement that will be presented
next semester to the College's Athletic Advisory Board, which -con
trols seating at football games.
The plan, offered by the All-College student committee on,seat
.
ing arrangement, would switch seniors from the east side '.50-yard
line tci the west or "home" side
50. The remainder, of the student
body Could be seated in adjoining
sections around the curve
_at the
north' end 'Of the field.
"Student •Viewpoint
Richard Wertz, committee
chairman, .said:' "From the genr
era]. :student Viewpoint, the pres
.ent seating 'arrangement is not
good.. This change proposed by
the - comtnittee• is not the best
solution, but we think it's a cor
rect step.
"In the face of the College's
desire -to pay for the new stands
and to raise money to guarantee
good' ichedules, we feel this pro
posed- arrangement is what we
shoUld seek before the. Athletic
Advisory Board.' We feel it will
not tax -athletic finances, yet it
is a better .studerlt ,plan than
that .existing. now," he said.
Other members of Wertz' seat
ing' arrangement committee were
Harry Kondourajian, junior sass
president;. Harry McMahon, all-
College vice-president, and
Thomas Morgan, Daily Collegian
editor
Discontent
The committee was appointed
last October by Ted Allen, all-
College president, following indi
cations of -discontent on seating
from many. student quarters. Fol
lowing .is the committee report
presented by Wertz; it will next
be presented to the Athletic Ad
visory Board, consisting of stu
dents, faculty •and alumni, pend
ing final approval by Cabinet..
"Early in October it became
evident to All-College Cabinet,
highest' student government body
on campus, that many students—
underclassmen and upperclass
men—held strong feelings on. the
new Seating arrangement passed
last May by the Athletic Advis
ory Board and instituted this
year for all home football games.
- ' stedest intererAs
Set at $5OOO
and pressed by leaders of a •nurn
ber of student organizations and
groups, Ted • Allen; all-College
president; appointed • a Cabinet
committee to study the seating
arrangement. T•h Is • committee
was chaired by Richard H. Wertz,
president of the Student Council
of 'the School 'Of Physical Educa
tion and Athletics, and included
Harry A. Kondourajian, presi
dent of the junior class, and
Thomas E. .Morgan, editor of the
Daily Collegian. • .
• Other Colleges •
"In the light of needs of ,the
College and wants of the stu
dents, the committee studied 'the
new seating arrangement , which
virtually, doubled the number of
seats in Beaver Field Stadium.
The committee studied football
seating arrangements - employed
by a number of other large ,col
leges and universities, arid found
that' relying on what
. others do
as argument either for or against
placing students in desirable
seats would hold little water.
Reason for this attitude' taken by
the committee is that, for each
instance of 'favorable student
seating at a certain school, an
"unfavorable" plan used by an
other school could be found to
match it.
"Examining suggestions an d
opinions from various students,
the committee found that the
students almost universally think
they benefitted in no practical
way from the additional seating
facilities at Beaver Field. Last
year the seniors were on the
home-side 50-yard line; this year
they are on the visitors' side at
about the 50-yard line. The jun
iors, who last 'year started at
about the visitors' 40-yard line,
are now at the visitors' 10 or
worse. After occupying seats last
year' that began at about the
fflouilaued . oim, pope three.
PRICE FIVE'CENTS
LaVie
Asks Board
To Hold '5O
Personalities
Kondoukajian, Others
Question Selections
By STAN DEGLER
All-College Cabinet requested
La Vie to hold up the 1950
"campus personalities" section
pending, a meeting betweenLa Vie
and representatives of Cabinet
to study ,the selections which
have been made this year, at a
Cabinet meeting last night.
The action followed a discus
sion between Ramon Saul, editor
of La Vie, and members of All-
College Cabinet who criticised
the present method of selection
and a number of those: selected.
At present the senior board of
La Vie makes ,selections without
the advice of any other body. The
motion, to request a hold-up or
the personalities section wat
made by Thomas Morgan, Daily
Collegian- editor.
The , campus personalities sec
tion is an annual feature of La Vie
devoted to pictures of leaders in
athletics, student government,
nublications, dramatics and other
fields, according to Saul.
Questions. Selection
Harry: Kondourajian, president
of the junior class, aroused the
discussion by questioning the
discussion by questioning method
of 'selection, _and the secrecy
which 'attends 'the selection be
fore publication. • '
Saul .answered• at some length
saying' that he favored Cabinet
members on an advisory board
next year which would assist
La Vie to choose . persons for this
section. • But at• 'the meeting - he
defended the right of La Vie to
make —selections arid keep this
year's section as • originally
planned. , He, cited production
difficulties ~which 'would "make
it irnpossible'? to 'add pages :to
La Vie:
: '
Groiips Slighted
However; other Cabinet -mein
hers and . people attending •added
criticism of this• Year's selections:
James MacCallum, all-College
(Continued on page eight)
The Nittany Lion Roars
FOR the two senior mens'
honoraries, Parmi Nous and
Skull and Bones.
These two organizations , are
taking a leading part in at
tempting to' mike "Leo Houck
Night," to be held tomorrow
night at Rec Hall, a success.
The Lion takes time out from
bemoaning the lack of a presi
dent at his institution to roar
for these two honoraries which
are belieing the assertion that
het societies servo no inotot
papaw on -annyno4,