Eittitg ottrgittlt VOL. 50 - NO. 115 Debaters Capture . Notional Tournament Instead of taking an Easter vacation, ten College debaters went to the Grand National Tournament at Fredericksburg, Va., last Week and won the National Championship, the National Women's Championship, and five individual nation al championships. Affirmative speakers Clair George and Marlin Brenner and negative speakers Peter Giesey and Richard Schweiker of the Men's Debate Squad tied with the University of Vermont and Carnegie Tech for the 1950 national championship. Squad Members They defeated . Washington Col lege; Dartmouth, Youngstown College, and Ohio Wesleyan Uni versity, and lost to the University of South Carolina, in addition to atie contest with Carnegie Tech. Members of the Women's De bate Squad, affirmative speakers Shirley Gallagher and Barbara Schiffman, and negative speakers chTistine Altenburger and Rose mary Delahanty, are the Grand National Women's champions. All teams at the tournament competed with each other, with no special division for women speakers in debate. The. College women and the Carleton College men • were next in line after, the . , three top teams. Individual Ranks The women's squad defeated Carnegie Tech, Mars Hill College, Wirigate College, Syracuse Uni versity, and University of Roches ter, and lost to Carleton College and the ;University. of Vermont. In the individual ranks, Clair George is the national champion in after-dinner speaking, David Lewis in declamation, Joel Flem ing in discussion, Shirley Gallag her in address reading, and Rose mary • Delahanty in impromptu speaking. Thirty-six teams competed in the tournament, which was held at Mary Washington College. The College Men are coached by Prof. J. F. O'Brien, the wo men by Prof. Clayton H. 'Schug. Phone Contest Begins Tonight If • your phone rings tonight around 7 o'clock, be prepared to answer a question pertaining to the College. A correct, answer will win you two packs of Chesterfields. A telephone quiz contest, sponsored by the • Chesterfield Cigarette Company and conduct ed at the. College by_ Leonard Allen and Seymour. Barash in connection with the Daily Col legian; will start tonight and continue every Wednesday night until the end of the present se mester. Three names will be selected from the Student Directory, and these students will be contacted by phone. In the event that any of the persons called are not at home, other names will be se lected. Three persons must be contacted each week. According to Allen, the ques tions asked will not be difficUlt, nor will there be any trick ques tions. In case the student con tacted cannot answer the ques tiort the prize of two packs of Chesterfields will be added to the next week's prize. Winners names will be pub lished in the Daily Collegian each week. The prizes may be picked up in the Collegian of fice. *Today's Weather Partly Cloudy, Windy, Colder "FOR A BETTER PENN STATE' STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 12, 1950 Two Students Hurt in Crash Outside Easton Two College students were in jured seriously Tuesday when their car left the road and struck a telephone pole four miles north of Easton ..at 2:30 a.m. Joseph Garbrick of Bellefonte, a sophomore, is in Temple Uni versity Hospital with a fractur ed skull. William Lesko, a. sen ior •in Journalism from Easton, is in the Easton Hospital suf fering froth general body con cusions and internal injuries. His condition was described as critical. The accident occurred while the two were returning to school after spending the Easter recess at Lesko's home. The car left the road when Garbrick ap parently lost* control' while pass ing a i light truck on an open stretch of road , ori ... ioute 611. The car struck a pole which I it broke in three pieces, struck a bank, - flew into the air and landed on its roof in the center of the road. It came to a stop right;side up on the left side of the' ro.id. - "The car was demolish ed. St. John'To Speak At Forum Monday Robert St. John, newspaper and radio teporter, author and lecturer, will present the final Community For u m program Monday night. His subject will be "Tito vs. Stalin." St. John replaces Senator Sty les Bridges, who was forced to cancel an earlier engagement be cause of illness 'and has - not been able to schedule another date. The talk Monday will be St John's third at the College. Tickets for the lecture are on sale at the Student Union desk in Old Main. i They are priced at $l. Season ticket holders will use stub "E" marked for the April lecture. Wahl, Friedman Star In Players' New Show Anne Wahl and Regina Friedman have received the leading roles in Players' production of "Yes, My Darling Daughter," to open Friday at Center . Stage. The Mark Reed romantic sophisticated comedy will run Friday and Saturday nights for six weeks. Tickets now are on sale at the Student Union desk. . Miss Wahl, who plays "Mrs. Murray," a woman writer with modern propensities, previously appeared in "Kind Lady" and has worked with the Town and Nine theatre group. Milts Friedman, who portrays "Ellen," her daughter, also work ed with Players in "Kind Lady." Kesdekian—Male Lead . The male lead of "Mr. Jay wood" has been assigned to Mes rop Kesdekian, a graduate as sistant in dramatics who appear ed last Spring in "John Loves Mary." Last Fall he presented William Saroyan's "Beautiful People' as his thesis production. Bryson Craine, a chemistry ommittee Hea Joel Fleming College Plans Pan-American Week Activities The eighth annual celebration of Pan-American Week, to be ob served throughout the nation, will begin at the College and will continue until next Tues day. The committee includes San dra Marks, Virginia Miller, Doro thy Leine, Alvano Chaparxo, Frank Lucia, Ray Evert, Edwin Norton, Harry Kondourajian, Robert Davis, William Heinz, Gerry Roth, Jeannine Bell, Lyn Levitt, Eileen' Bonnert, Kenneth Peters, and David Ludwig, . At the first meeting of this group, Joel Fleming was elected chairman, and Pat Bender sec retary. t A banquet at the Allencrest at 7 o'clock tonight will open the week at the College. Major George S. Denithorne will dis cuss "Good Neighbors All," and Fleming will act as toastmaster. Tickets for the banquet can be obtained at Student Union. Two Spanish plays will be vre sented by the Spanish Club Thursday, and a round table dis cussion will be given over Sta tion WMAJ on "Must We Have Pan-Americanism?" Friday will be %devoted to mu sic of Pan-America. The feature of the day will be a dance from 9-12, - sponsored by AIM, Leo nides, IFC, and Panhel at the TUB Phi Mu Alpha, music hon orary, will sponsor a half hour of Pan-American music o n WMAJ. An open meeting of Centro Interamericano will be held Sun day night at 7:15 o'clock in Mc- Elwain Hall. The motion pic ture "Don Quixote" will be shown in Spanish at the , Nittany theater by the International Film Club Monday and . Tuesday. major who was seen recently in "Liliom," will have the other leading male role of "Doug Hall." Abram Bernstein, who was in "John Loves Mary" and "Ah, Wilderness" and who has had experience with Thespians, will portray "Mr. Murray." Richard Powdrell is under study for Craine and is schedul ed to appear as "Hall" in some of the performances. Virginia Laudano will portray the maid, and Francine Toll will play "Connie." The production will be under the direction of Warren Smith, assistant professor of dramtics. $8,000,000 Building Program Approved By State Authority Emphasis to be on Facilities For Agriculture, Engineering Provision for construction of 14 new buildings on the campus was made by the General State Authority Tuesday, April 4, when it approved an $8,000,000 building program at the College. At the same time, another $582,000 was ear marked for the purchase of equipment for the newly-con structed Plant Industries and Mineral. Science buildings. Estimated costs for the ap prdved building projects in clude two new wings to the mechanical engineering build ing, $1,162,000; laboratory, work room, and greenhouses for ag ricultural research, $294,000; and completion of the fourth floor of the Main Engineering Build ing, $157;000. , The Authority .gave precedence to facilities which will augment College re search and training in agricul ture and mechanical 'engineer ing. . Appropriations Other appropriations were ap proved as follows: addition to Recreation Hall, $1,108,000; com pletion of Buckhout Laboratory, $758,000; completion of Burrow es Building, $1,275,000; addition to the main library, $1,408,000. Chemistry storage • building, $123,000; chemistry laboratory building, $1,357,000; addition to Pond Laboratory, $67,000; mod ernization of two 20-year-old boilers in the College's heating plant, $128,000; . extension of steam lines to new, buildings, $32,000; extension of electrical distribution lines, $58,000; and enlargement of sewer. lines, $39,- 000. The $582,000 for furnishing the Plant Industries and Mineral Science buildings was granted because these buildings have been standing idle since comple tion due to lack of furnishings, the Authority stated. Original Request College authorities originally requested $15,000,000 for build ing projects, but ;this was sliced to $8,000,000 by the General State Authority. This body gave precedence to the construction of new greenhouses because a ma jor part of the instructional and research work of the Agricul= tural School is concerned with techniques in improving the fruits, flowers, vegetables, and field crops of importance to Pennsylvania farm er s. Three greenhouses will be built for use in floriculture and two for (Continued on page two) Honorary Mails Grid Feast Bids Invitations have been mailed for Penn State's tenth Gridiron Banquet given by Sigma Delta Chi, profession a 1 journalistic fraternity, Jack Reen, president, said today. The banquet was an annual event before the war, and was last presented In 1942. It will be held at the Nittany Lion Inn at 7 p.m., Monday. Included on the invitation list are prominent male undergradu ates, faculty member s, and townspeople. Deadline for those receiving invitations /to procure tickets at the Student Union desk in Old Main is noon Sat urday. The banquet is strictly non profit in nature, Reen said. Dress is formal. Theme of the banquet is "The Year One, B.E. (Before Eisen hower)." Skits satirizing campus and town situations and person alities will be presented by mem bers of the fraternity between courses. Annually staged by Sigma Del ta Chi chapters all over the country, the Gridiron Banquet is patterned after that given by the National Press Club in Wash ington, D. C. Profs Dismissal Raises Academic Freedom Issue Albert Einstein Raps Firing of Lee Lorch Decision of the College board of trustees not to renew the con tract of an assistant professor of mathematics involved last year in a fight against discrimination in a New York apartment pro ject has raised the question .of academic freedom here and has drawn criticism from several quarters. Lee Lorch, hired last Fall was told April 1 by Dean Ben Eu wema of the School of Liberal Arts that his contract would not be renewed next year. No of ficial reason was given. Lorch charged in a statement drawn up with the help of friends and other members of the math department that A. 0. Morse, assistant to the president, ques tioned him on March 24 on be half of the trustees concerning his participation in an anti discrimination committee at .the Stuyvesant Town project in New York, and Lorch's allowing a Negro family to sublet his apart ment there. Einstein Protests Morse said the trustees decided not to renew Lorch's contract after the interview, and bound him to make no further comment for the College. Physicist Albert. Einstein has sent letters of protest to Morse; James Milholland, president of the trustees, and Milton S. Eisen hower, president-elect of the College. The Progressive party of Pennsylvania also has pro tested the dismissal. The New York Times yesterday comment ed adversely on the situation. Lorch's statement .said Morse asked him if he were a member of the Communist party. Lorch said he refused to answer be cause the American Association of University. Professors con siders the question irrelevant to academic freedom. Termed "Damaging" He said Morse told him sub letting his apartment to Negroes (Continued on page four) Today ,• • • ••44 1 "' • • 15v' • • • •••• • : • • The Nittany Lion Roars FOR Joel Fleming, newly named head of the Pan-Ameri can Day Committee. The Lion licks his chops in anticipation of the fine cele bration he expects Fleming and his committee to plan.
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