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VOL. 50 - NO. 75
Student Union
Building Plans
Made Available
Structure To Include /
Basement and 5 Floors
Multi-purpose ballrooms, loun
ges, dining rooms and. recreation
faCilities. will feature the Col
lege's Student Union Building
now in the offing, according to
tentative plans made available
to the •Daily .Collegian. It was
learned that present plans may
yet be modified before actual
construction is begun.
Students at the College have
clamOred for the building for
many years, and the College
Trnstees have indicated a "real
•ization of the need for such a
building."
Four Times Old Main
The structure Will tentatively
cover over 80,000 square feet of
ground space, or about four
times as Much as does Old Main.
It will be about 320 feet long
in -one • direction, while measur
ing • 250 feet in another.
• PreSent plans call for a base
ment, ground floor, 'main, sec
ond, third and fourth floors. Fol
lowing a partial list of things
to be
.included tentatively in the
Student Union Building, floor by
floor:
Basement
Eight bowling alleys and a
sales counter for refreshments.
Storage room.
Control room for all utilities
in the building, such as electri
city and heat.
General receiving room for
food and other supplies.
Service and public elevators
extending from basement to
fourth floor. •
Ground Floor •
Coat rooms
Coffee shop, cafeteria-style.
Main kitchen—servifig sales
counters, coffee shop, three pri
vate dining rooms upstairs, and
soda and snack bars throughout
the building.
Snack bars and sales rooms.
Large game room for table
tennis and billiards.
'Large game room for cards,
chess, checkers and the like.
Huge section devoted to hobby
crafts and student art develop
ment, including a design and
painting room, a pcittery room,
and a metal and woodworking
room.
Art exhibition lobby.
Book exchange.
Photography, room.
A . general shop for motor and
lathe work, etc.
' A' practice radii) station, con
trol room and studio, with broad
cast limited to the studio capa
ble of seating. about 100 'persons.
Two ballrooms extending up
(Continued on page , six)
Cabinet To Give
Service Keys
All-College Cabinet has de
cided 'to award service keys to
deserving members of Cabinet- -
appointed committees. A plan for
their distribution was proposed.
by Allen Baker, chairman of the
service key committee, and
adopted, by Cabinet at its last
meeting. . •
A•three member committee is
to be , appointed by Cabinet to
award• the: keys to members of
committees not receiving pay.
Not all persons who serve on
committees will receive awards,
however. Cabinet members are
not • eligible, and committees of
more than 12 persons are limited
to six keys. Only half • the total
number of persons on commit
tees shall' receive keys. •
Cabinet will adopt an official
design for a key not to cost more
than-1547--No individual may re
ceiVe'mOre than one.
The. Purpose of the•award is to
provide .an inCentive•for service
on . *Cabindt - lOmmittees, . which
4 perform -many - usefur. functions
each-year. .- • s • .
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1950
Senate in Registration Deadlock
Dorm Group To Seek
Hearing by Trustees
The Cabinet-appointed dorm committee will again ask All-
College Cabinet for permission to approach the Board of Trustees
concerning who will live in the new west dormitories now under
construction. Robert Keller, committee chairman,, announced the
decision yesterday.
The College's decision to house 1,000 freshmen and about 650
upperclassmen in the west dorms
next fall was released recently.
It prompted creation of the stu
dent committee.
At its last meeting, Cabinet
turned down a committee request
to visit .the Trustees, deciding
after a report by Robert Davis,
that "more work needed to be
done." Davis filled in at the last
minute for Keller. who was hos
pitalized at the time. /
Collegian. Statement
In a statement to the Daily
Collegian yesterday, Keller out
lined the purpose of the Cabinet
dorm committee, pointing out "the
entire work of the committee
hinges on what points haven't
been presented to the Board and
what *can now be presented con
cerning new occupancy.
"Our prime function," he said,
"is .to point out to the Board that
when the College decided who
would be housed in the new
dorms, nobody consulted those
students who would be directly
concerned upperclass indepen
dent men living in Tri-dorms,
Nittany-Pollock and downtown.
"Secondly," he added, "the com
mittee feels that it should point
out to the. Board the relative,
merits, of two important factors.
On one hand is providing the best
available living conditions for the
freshmen to facilitate a good col
legiate start, while .on the other
hand, there is the satisfaction of
upperclassmen achieved from the
right to live in the best available
dorms on campus."
Opposes Frosh In. Dorms
He declared that the committee
feels "very little",,can be gained
by assigning the frosh to the new
dorms rather than to Nittany-
Pollock. "We believe it will be
better fo rthe frosh to be housed
in the old dorms, where they will
be in smaller living groups and
can be better counseled," Keller
said.
He , maintained that before the
committee can approach the Trus
tees, it needs the backing of the
group—Cabinet—which it rep
resents. "I don't know what else
the committee can, do now." he
Rec Hall Raided by . Town' Boys
During Early-Season Game
What was termed an "attack"
was staged on Recreation Hall
the night of Dec. 7, 1949, by about
40 young town boys, the Daily
Collegian learned yesterday. The
group reportedly tried to force
entry, damaged at least one en
trance door, barricaded at least
four entrance doors from the
outside, , and in addition, was said
to have "raised merry hell."
At the time of the "attack,"
about 5,000 students at the Col
lege were inside Rec Hall wit
nessing a Penn State-Susque
hanna basketball game.
Rec Hall officials and 16 stu
dent patrolmen were reported to
have had little luck in quelling
the "attack." No town 'children
are permitted to athletic events
in Rec Hall because of space
limitations which rule out virtu
ally everybody but students at
the" College.
As a result of the "attack,"
taken as a climax to "other simi
lar incidents around campus by
boys of grade-school and junior
high age," it was learned tha
drastic measures against use •of
College property' by State Col-,
said, referring to Cabinet's turn
ing down the recent request to
approach the Trustees.
Concerning a studentpoll taken
by the committee to try to deter- ,
mine how many ,upperc't. smen
would want to live in the west
dorms, Keller pointed out that
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, assistant
to the president in charge Qf stu
dent affairs, had disco - unted any
results of any poll taken at this
time. "The present situation being
what it is," Keller added, "the
committee agreed with Mr. KQn
(Continued on page three)
Gabriel States Purpose
Of Freshman Customs
Purpose of freshman customs—if they are re-installed on campus
next year—will be to instill in each newcomer a "true Penn State
spirit" that he will retain. This was pointed out yesterday by Robert
Gabriel, chairman - of - the-hat society council committee on frosh
customs.
Gabriel said the, committee
Robert Gabriel
lege high school athletes were
contemplated by some College
officials. These would have been
a ban on local schoolboys' play
ing ,football on Beaver Field and
taking part in Pennsylvania In
ter-scholastic Athletic events on
College property, and the denial
of use of Rec Hall for a town
Christmas party.
Contacted for a statement on
the matter, Harold R. Gilbert,
graduate manager of athletics,
said the \ drastic approach has
given way—at least temporarily—.
to "more educational methods."
He said that College officials
have met with the supervising
principal of the high school and
the president of the parent-teach
ers' association and have appear
ed at PTA meetings, impressing
them with the "growing serious
ness of the destruction of proper
ty and equipment."
Mr. Gilbert explained that PTA
officers have "taken steps to cor
rect the situation" by 'having out
standing athletes of the high
school make appeals to all grade
rchool and junior -high children
Through cla'ssroom visits to "de
(Cbntinued. on- page eight)
Morse To Appoint Group
With Power To Set Dates
Adrian 0. Morse
will meet soon after the second
semester opens, to draw up a ten
tative customs plan that will have
to be approved by Student Tri
bunal and All-College Cabinet
before it will be effected next fall.
Approximately 1,250 freshmen
are expected to enroll on campus
next fall.
In a statement to the Daily
Collegian, Gabriel declared: "If
frosh customs are put into effect,
their purpose centainly will not be
to humiliate anybody and to make
them kowtow and supposedly
feel inferior to upperclassmen.
That may have been prevalent
at. one time at Penn State and
othei colleges," he said, "but it's
not the thing we want now. I
think the average college stu
dent's outlook is too mature now
adays to make that kind of stuff
go.
"Main purpose of these cus
toms," Gabriel continued, "will
be to make the freshmen feel
and retain a .Penn State spirt,
and it will be to help mold a class
spirit which in past years has
been sadly lacking."
He concluded that "as a 'result
of the custom. which my com 7
mittee will propose, the freshman
will know more about the Col
lege and feel a greater respect
for, and sense of responsibility
to Penn State."
On tbe hat society council com
mittee 7 with Gabriel are Eileen
Bonnert, Rose Eifert and Peltdn
Wheeler.
Student Suspended;
Caught With 'Pony'
An upperclass student was re
cently suspended from the Col
lege for cheating in class, it
was learned yesterday.
The offense was described as
"using a pony during an exam
ination." A "pony" is a small
paper or card on which pertin
ent facts are sometimes written
and taken to class, to avoid
studying for a test.
, No other details about the
case were made available, but
the upperclassman in question
will presumably be permitted to
re-enroll at the
,be
in a fu
ture semester..
PRICE FIVE CENTS
The College Senate was un
able late yesterday afternoon
to agree when second-semester
registration will be held at the
College. As a result, the Senate
empowered Adrian 0. Morse,
assistant to the president in
charge of resident instruction, to
appoint a special Senate commit
tee to decide on the question, now
clouded with many conflicting
proposals. This committee will
have the power to, act. •
The scheduling problem arose
last week when it was discovered
that the College had intercollegi
ate sports events slated for the
afternoon and evening of Feb. 11
in Recreation Hall, conflicting
with registration taking two full
days--which .had been slated for
Feb. 10 and 11 in Recreation Hall.
• No Dates Exist
Pending a decision of the com
mittee, no dates exist at this
time for second-semester regis
tration. Royal M. Gerhardt, dean
of admissions and Senate' secre
tary, reported last night that the
Senate yesterday •defeated mo
tions to have registratiop on:
Feb. 13 • and- 14, with two
days taken off vacation later on.
, Feb. 13 and 14, with no days
taken off vacation. '
Feb. 9 and 10.
Feb. 10 and' 11. These two
dates are thte original 'ones plan
ned by the Senate. Since they
were defeated along with the
others, no registration dates now
exist pending action of the "spec
ial committee to be appointed by
Mr. Morse.
The Feb. 13 and 14 dates, with
no loss in vacation time, were
the ones urged most strongly by
Ted Allen, all-College president,
in a letter to the Senate. Mr. Ger
hardt said the Senate considered
many proposals and counter-pro
posals before deciding to leave
the matter to a committee.
He indicated that the committee
will probably be appointed today
by Mr. Morse, with a final deci
sion on registration dates an im
mediate possibility.
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The• LionNittany Roar
FOR dormitory committee
of All-College Cabinet head
ed by Bob Keller. ,
Th e committee issued a
statement to the Collegian
yesterday in which it express
ed a desire to lay its case put
ting upperclassmen into the
West dorms now under con
struction before the Board of
Trustees.
The Lion lauds the group's
efforts' to give the deserving
juniors and seniors an oppor
tunity to have at least one or
two semesters of plush living.
The majestic beast can only
hope the Board sees things in
the same light.