Students To Honor Leo Houck , Contribute 011ro Baitg Tottrgiatt H L e e : Goal Toward Houck VOL. 50 - NO. 66 Cabinet Allocates $367 For Soccer Team Awards All-College Cabinet approved the expenditure of almost $6OO Thursday night. Awards for the soccer team, which swept through a 14-game schedule undefeated and then went to the. Soccer Bowl in. St. Louis. Mo., tying the University of San Francisco, were approved unani. mously. Individual trophies will be awarded to 16 players, a man• ager, and Coach. William Jeffrey at an approximate cost of $367. Approves Plague Harry McMahon, chairman of the committee to choose a mem orial for the Ralph Dorn Hetzel memorial room, showed sketches of three plaques for considera tion by Cabinet, and one costing $220 was approved. Ted Allen, all-college president, ha d an nounced earlier that the student government room will not be in operation until next ' semester. William Shade, chairman of the elections committee, offered reasons for not holding the spring elections in more than one place, as leaders in the Pol lock and Nittany areas have•pro posed. Cabinet took no action, pending further investigation by the committee. Francis Turk, president of Nittany Council, spoke in favor of placing ballot boxes in the dormitory, area. Cabinet, gave preliminary ap proval for a $3OO loan to the frishman class for a dance. Ad mission is to be charged and the loan repayed from the receipts after the dance. The loan was requP^,"ld by Marian Whitely, class oresident. Turn . Down Request After an unfavorable report by James MacCallum, all-college secretary-treasurer, for the In terclass Finance committee, Cabinet turned down a Blue Band' request for $144 to attend the Intercollegiate Band festival at Carnegie Institute of Technol ogy. Only three membeTs dis sented, Allen Baker, chairman of the service key committee, presented a plan for the purchase and dis tribution of the key's which would be given to des e r v in g members of Cabinet committees. The expenditure would be more than $lOO, so Cabinet must con sider the plan a second time at its next meeting. Ban Schaffer was appointed Cabinet representative to the committee for Negro H i s t or y week. William Norcross was add ed to the meal ticket committee. "FORA BETTER PENN STATE" STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1950 Collegian Makes Four Promotions • I Four promotions from the Jun ior board of the Collegian busi ness staff 'were voted at a senior board meeting Wednesday, Mar lin Weaver, business manager, announced yesterday. They will go into effect next semester. Those promoted are Roger Bartles, assistant business mana ger; Shirley Faller, classified ad vertising manager; Ruth Phillips, promotion co-manager; and Har old Wollin, promotion co-mana ger. Additional Stands Ease Rec Hall Overcrowcling Six hundred seats will be added to the Recreation Hall capa city for the wrestling-boxing meet to be held there tonight, Walter R. Hosterman, Jr., assistant graduate manager of athletics, an nounced yesterday. Four temporary sections, each seating 150 students, will be placed in the west end of the ground floor to accommodate the large crowd expected. The action was prompted by the overflow turnout for the sports program last Saturday. Then, a number of students were not admitted because of space limitations. Working together, the depart ment of physical plant and the Athletic association this week laid Plans for the erection of 'Additional Stands. Fire regula tions and requirements of the zarious sports were considered. The plans, Hosterman said, all for use of only three of the Aditional stands for future pro- Occasional rain, continued mild Penn State Selected Site of 13th Annual NCAA Ring Tourney . Penn State officially was named as site of "the 1950 National Collegiate Athletic Association Boxing Tournament at a meeting of the NCAA this week. The tourney, to be held in Recreation Hall, is scheduled from March 30 to April. 1. According to Walter Hosterman, assistant graduate manager of athletics, it was greatly due to the efforts of Harold 'lke' Gil bert, graduate manager of ath letics, that the tournament was, awarded 'to this college. Earlier, when schedules were made, the site of the NCAA's was pending, and the dates then set were April 8-10, but, since those dates fall during Easter recess, the tournament was moved up a week. NSA To Seek Absentee Vote The, College Chapter of the Na tional Student Association is planning to campaign for an ab sentee voting law for students from the Pennsylvania General Assembly, according to Hugo Mandes, -chairman of the NSA committee in charge. Since this would require a 'change in the state constitution, the committee will study all aspects of making such a change and then submit a report to the regional NSA convention next June. The regional organization in turn will take it before the General Assembly in the Fall. At the last regional- conven tion held at Albright College Dec. 16-18, representatives were interested in student govern ment organization at the College and took information back to their own school for the purpose of making changes in their stu dent governments. Rabbi To Speak Before Chapel Speaking on the subject, "The Judeo-Christian Ideals and the World's Uncertainties," Rabbi David H. Wide of the Congrega tion Rodeph Shalom of Philadel phia will be the guest at the Chapel service in Schwab Aud itorium at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning. While a student there, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Kap pa Phi Kappa (education hono rary), the Biological Society and other honorary groups. The Chapel Choir will present a selection arranged by Wilous- Icy, entitled "Heavenly Light." grams which include basketball games and wrestling matches, since space must be provided for storage of the boxing ring when it is not in use. • Hosterman requested that students hold their coats and refrain from saving seats in order th p at all space can be utilized. Standing 'room again will be orovided on the north and south sides of the indoor track above the balcony stands. However, standing room will be eliminated on the ground floor. Prior to the addition' of the west temporary stands, the seat ing capacity was 5,500. The stu dent body exceeded this number by several hundred for last Sat urday's program. PRICE FIVE CENTS Plan Four Sessions The 13th NCAA tournament is divided into four sessions— Thursday afternoon, Thursday evening, and Friday and Satur day evenings. Last year the tournament was held at Michigan State College, and L.S.U. copped the team ,title. Penn State entered three men but all failed to survive first round battles. The last time the boxing NCAA's were held at Penn State was in 1941. That year Paul Scal ly copped the 175-pound title for the Lions. Had Five Champions Altogether Penn State has had five individual national champ ions. In 1932 David Stoop won 118-pound honors. Al Lewis won the title at 148 pounds the same year. / In 1936, Frank Goodman an nexed the '135-pound crown, fol lowed by Scally,in 1941. Last Nittany titlist was 130- pounder Glenn Hawthorne; he garnered in his crown in 1947. "It sure will be an honor for us to act as host for the tourna ment," said Acting Coach Ed Sulkowski yesterday. "It appar ently came to us as a reward for the progress Penn State has made in collegiate boxing under Leo Houck." Late AP News Courtesy WMAJ Russia Loses On China Bid LAKE SUCCESS—The United Nations Security Council yester day turned down a Russian de mand to oust its Chinese Nation alist delegates. Following the vote, with six against the motion and three in favor, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Malik made a short speech and the Russian delega tion walked out of the session. Significantly, India and Yugo slavia voted 'with Russia. There were two abstentions. Meanwhile, Deputy Undersec retary of State Dean Rusk pre_ dicted a future conflict between China and Russia, declaring in a Philadelphia speech that the Chi nese revolution was not Russian in essence. Conflict Deadline Students with conflicts in their final examination sched ules should file conflict cards in 2 Willard Hall by noon to day. said R. V. Watkins, Col lege scheduling officer. Seniors who have examina tions scheduled after Febru ary 2 should also file conflict cards. Of $5,000 Tonight is "L e o Houch Night" in Recreation Hall. Six thousand students all the College will honor the Penn State boxing coach what —will be missing at tonight's varsity boxing opener for Uw first time in 28 seasons. —initiated boxing as a varsilist sport at Penn State. —is, according to All-College President Ted Allen who pro claimed tonight as "Houck Nigkt," "a Penn State tradition of good sportsmanship and clean play, in and out of a sports arena." —was a national boxing figure while in his boxing prime. —is reported near death at his home in Lancaster. Highlighting "Leo Houck Night" will be a wrestling meet with Cornell and a boxing meet with Minnesota, The "Night" will begin at 7 o'clock when Head Boxing Man ager Fred Auch speaks. Praf. George E. Ceiga of the music de partment will play popular' and college songs on a Hammond organ before the mat meet, and also between wrestling and box ing. Draz To Speak Immediately after the -heavy weight wrestling bout, Boxing Captain Charles Drazenovich— who won two Eastern champion ships under Houck tutelage--will speak. He will be introduced bar William Shade, head boxing man ager. Students will be asked by Dra zenovich to contribute to a. Leo .Houck fund, purpose of which is to raise $5,000 "to give Leo Houck or his family a substantial fund for their, future security." Houck was stricken in mid-August, 1949, while conducting a boxing clinic on campus, and has been declin ing in health ever since. His ill ness has been diagnosed as cancer. $2.000 Collected The student collection will be applied to a town and alumni campaign entitled "Friends of Leo Houck." Nearly $2OOO already has poured in to College and town Houck friends who began the campaign. One of the top con tributions was $lOO from Lew Tendler, ex - outstanding boxer and Houck friend now operating a Philadelphia restaurant, Student contributions to the Houck fund will be collected by members of Blue Key, Skull and Bones, Parmi Nous and Druids— men's hat societies. on campus. Thomas Morgan, Hat s,ociety Council president, last night (Continued on page time Today . . . • = if. 4 ‘. ' , • k' ' ,„-ta t z.,4z t The Nittany Lion Roars FOR Leo Houck, a great guy. and a real friend to all the students. Houck, now near death at his Lancaster, Pa. home, started intercollegiate boxing at Penn State and was instrumental in promoting the sport to its present national stature. The Lion today gives a solemn roar for the ailing "Fred" who will be honored with a "night" at Roc Hall tonight, and expres ses his hope that all students at tonight's double-header will contribute to swell the fund designed to aid Leo's family.
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