Lion Party Sweeps Election
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VOL. 50 NO. 122
Erickson,
Mutch ler
Class Heads
By JACK BODDINGTON
The Lion party stormed in
to power in the senior and
junior classes as 49 per cent
of the class members handed
the entire Lion slate an over
whelming victory as two days
of voting ended yesterday.
John Erickson and David Mut
chler out-polled their State party
rivals to gain the senior and jun
ior class presidential posts, carry
ing with them Wallace Miller
and Donald Carlson, vice-presi
dents-elect of the classes, and
Lois Kenyon and Ann Porter,
Lion candidates for senior and
junior secretary-treasurer.
The greatest margins of victory
were had by Erickson and Carl
son who each polled 63 per cent of
the votes cast for their. offices.
Lowest-margin went to Lois Ken
yon with-56 per cent. Nearly 60
per cent of the 2,628 eligible jun
iors voted, while only 40 per cent
of next year’s 2,752 seniors cast
ballots.
Erickson Grateful
Commenting on his victory,
Erickson said: “We’re humbly
grateful to those who supported
the Lion party. -We’ll do our best
to give Penn State good student
government.” His opponent, Otto
Grupp, remarked: “It was a ter
rific campaign and I guess the
better man beat me. I have the
highest regard for John and I
know he’ll make a capable presi
dent.
Echoing his senior counterpart,
Mutchler, newly-elected junior
class president, stated: “We’re
very grateful for all the fine sup
port we received. We hope this
will be the greatest year ever in
student government.” Other can
didates were not available for
comment.
Defeat Marks Reversal
For the State party, the defeat
comes as a direct reversal of fast
fall’s freshman and sophomore
elections in which all State clique
candidates' were swept into office.
Marian Whitely, freshman presi
dent, and Joseph Arnold, sopho
more,head, will continue to rep
resent their classes on All-College
Cabinet until new officers are
elected next fall.
Newly elected officers will as
sume their posts sometime next
month, though no official date has
been set. .
Allen Calls Appointments
To WSGA Judicial Illegal
.By JOHN R. ASHBROOK
- The legality of appointments to the Judicial Committee,
women’s counterpart of Tribunal, was questioned last night
by Ted Allen, all-College president. Cabinet, by an 18-3 vote,
supported Allen’s stand.' /
Allen declared Judicial’s action in recently appointing
new officers “unconstitution
al” since the action was not
approved by a Cabinet committee.
According to the All-College
Constitution, “nominations to Tri
bunal and Judicial shall be made
by a committee composed of the
presiding Tribunal chairman, the
presiding Judicial chairman, a
representative from WSGA Sen
ate, and the all-College presi
dent.”
It states that “nominations for
the successors to the*post of Tri
bunal or Judicial chairman must
be approved by Cabinet one
"FOR A BETTER PENN STATE”
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1950
After a Hard Campaign'
The new All-College President, Robert Davis of the Lion
Party, (left) shown above smilingly shaking hands with his op
ponent Blair Green of the State Party. Davis yesterday led the
Lions to a clean sweep of the Spring elections. '
Lorch Case Proposal
Defeated by Cabinet
All-College Cabinet last night defeated a motfon to ask
the Board of Trustees to renew the “Lorch case” and to dis
cuss with Dr. Lee Lorch “their, misunderstandings.” Three
voted for the motion, presented by Earl Schaffer, Liberal
Arts Student Council president; 18 voted against it.
The motion prompted an
hour-long discussion on the
floor of Cabinet, concerning
the,case of Dr. s Lorch, who is not
being tendered a permanent,
teaching agreement at the Col
lege.
Joel Fleming, Jay Goldstein,
Julian Cook, Herbert Arnold,
Charles Philips and other students
in the Cabinet gallery upheld
Schaffer’s ” contention 'that Dr.
Lorch’s dismissal appears, through
publicity initiated by the Pro
gressive Party of Pennsylvania,
to be based on Dr. Lorch’s .activi
ties in opposing Negro discrimina-
month before the end of Spring
Semester.”
Never Made
Dean of Women Pearl E.
Weston told Cabinet that the Judi
cial appointments never have been
made in the fashion stipulated by
the All-College Constitution, and
that Women’s Student Govern
ment Association, operating Under
its own' constitution, has taken
legally correct action.
According to provisions of the
WSCxA constitution, the chairman
of Judicial “shalj be appointed by
Senate from the' two junior mem-1
(Continued on page eight)
tion in Stuyvesant Town, a New
York housing project.
Outgrowth of Protest
Schaffer’s motion was an out
growth of recent LA Council ac
tion in protesting the Trustee ac
tion through letters sent to the
Trustees, the New York Times,
Gov. James H. Duff and others.
Ted Allen, all-College presi
dent, reported that a five-man
impromptu Cabinet committee—
of which he was. a member—had
“discussed the case thoroughly
with Mr. Morse and concluded
that the College was justified in
not tendering a-permanent con
tract to Dr. Lorch.” '
Allen pointed out that Dr.
Lorch’s contract was a one-year
temporary agreement which most
new teaching employees sign
when coming to the College. He
also said that the College has
never revealed publicly why any
prof’s contract is not renewed.
“This is a policy used by many
colleges and is primarily for the
benefit of the individual prof,” he
declared. He added that this same
policy applies at. Penn State in
regard to dismissed students.
Senate Heard Case
Allen pointed out further that
the College Senate, faculty legis
lative body, had heard “the full
Lorch case” and had not objected
to the Trustees’ action.
Other members of the five-man
Cabinet committee besides Allen
were Morton Snitzer, Robert-Kel
(Continued on page eight)
Famous Grid
Quotes
"A coach in lime will save
nine (games)."
—B. Franklin
Davis Is New President;
Record 3671 Votes Cast
The Lion party swept all nine offices to win a stunning
victory in the two-day All-College and class elections com
pleted yesterday. v
A total of 3671 students went to the polls Wednesday and
yesterday in the largest turnout of campus voters ever re
corded. Of the 8722 eligible to vote, 42 per cent cast ballots.
Election Results
ALL-COLLEGE
President
Royert Davie (Lion) —2829
Blair Green (State) —842
Vice. President
Harry Kondourajian (Lion) —2230
Pelton Wheeler (State) 1222
Secretary-Treasurer
Emerson Jones (Lion) 2285
Robert Fast (State) 1122
SENIOR CLASS
President
.John Erickson .(Lion) ———6B2
Otto Grupp (State) 388
Vice-President
Wallace Miller (Lion) 663
William Raymond (State) _j ....420
Secretary-Treasurer
Lois Kenyon (Lion) - 617
Jnne Ashenfclter (State) 483
JUNIOR CLASS
President
David Mutchler (Lion)— - 882
Ropert Sopper (State) —587
Vice-President
Donald Carlson (Lion) 990
Edward Clery (State) 563
Secretary-Treasurer
Ann Porter (Lion)
Eleanor Chanko (State)
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
President
Homer Barr 1381
Louis Lamie ...... '502
Rudolph Valentino i 665
Secretary
Henry Albright 392
Victor Fritta 589
Patrick Heims - ! 1028
Owen Landon 481
AA Presidency
Goes To Barr;
Valentino VP
Homer Barr, Penn State’s
champion heavyweight wrestler,
was named new president of the
Athletic Association in the two
day balloting completed yester
day.
Although he faced two other
candidates—-Louis Lamie, basket
ball, and Rudolph Valentino,
swimming-gymnastics,—he won a
clean majority, getting 1381 of
the 2548 votes cast.
Valentino, who received 665
votes, became the new AA vice
president by virture of coming in
second in the presidential race.
Patrick Heims, boxing, defeated
three other candidates with 1028
votes to become the new AA sec
retary.
Of the 6675 undergraduate men
eligible to vote, 38 per cent cast
ballots.
Barr had 54 per cent of the vote,
with a plurality of 716 votes over
Valentino.
Valentino drew 26 per cent of
the vote, and was 163 votes ahead
of Lamie, who got only 20 per
cent.
With 41 per cent of the vote for
secretary, Heims had a plurality
of 439 over Victor Fritts, track,
who ran second with 589 votes.
In the same race, Owen Landon,
tennis, was third with 481 and
Henry Albright, baseball, was last
with 392.
All-College Hike
Set For Sunday
The All-College hike sponsor
ed by the Association of Inde
pendent Men is the first’ one to
be held since the war. The last
aU-College hike was held in 1942
and was sponsored by the Penn
State Christian Association.
AIM will provide a lunch for 35
cents. The deadline for picking
up these tickets -is 5 o’clock this
afternoon. Chairman Richard
Mills of the planning committee
has announced that the hike
will start at 1:30 p.m. Sunday
in back of Old Main.
The hike will be to Mount Nit
tany, a distance of three miles
each way. -
By DEAN GLADFELTER
Robert Davis, who paced
the entire Lion slate, was
elected the new All-College
president, gathering in 77 per
cent of the vote to give a sound
drubbing to Blair Green, State
party standard bearer.
Second Clean Sweep
The Lions made it look almost
easy as they made a clean sweep
of All-College and senior and
junior class officers for the sec
ond time in a row. Coming after
the setback they suffered in the
Fall election of sophomore and
freshman class officers, when
the State party made a clean
sweep, yesterday’s victory was
especially sweet.
Harry Kondouraj-ian was elect
ed the new All-College vice
president, and Emerson Jones is
the new secretary-treasurer.
Davis, who is currently presi
dent of the Association of Inde
pendent Men, garnered a total
of 2829 votes and had a margin
of 1987 votes. Green received
only 842 votes, the lowest polled
among the three Staters running
for All-College offices.
Victory Stronger’
It was an even stronger vic
tory than the Lion win in last
Spring’s elections. At that time,
Ted Allen, current AU-College
president, had a margin of only
1192 votes over his State op
ponent.
At that time, however, only
37 per cent of those eligible
voted, a total of 2936.
Kondourajian, present junior
class president, had the lowest
Lion vote in the All-College race,
but still managed to get 65 per
cent of the votes. He received a
total of 2230, with a margin of
1008 votes over the 1222 that
went to Pelton Wheeler, his
State party opponent.
Jones Wins Easily
In the race for AU-College
secretary-treasurer, Jones receiv
ed 2285 votes, easily defeating
Robert Fast of the State party,
who had 1122. Jones won 67 per
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Today's Weather:
Today . . .
FOR Robert Davis, newly
elected AU-College president,
and all the rest of his fellow
Lion party members who swept
their second consecutive Spring
ele'ction.
The lion also offers a growl of
consolation to the losing State
parly, which also conducted a
clean, upright campaign.
A hearty roar of confidence is
extended to the new All-Col
lege, senior and junior class,
and Athletic Association offi
cers, who the lion sincerely
hopes will continue to strive in
the coming year "for a better
Penn Stale."
Partly cloudy
and cool