Lorch Case Defended By College The College yesterday denied that its decision not to reappoint Dr. Lee Lorch, assistant mathe matics professor, was based on Dr. Lotch’s inviting a Negro couple to live in his apartment in Stuy vesant Town. The College also de nied that its decision was based on Dr. .Lorch’s political views, as an earlier statement of the Pro gressive Party allegedly implied. Text of the College’s complete statement, released by James Mil holland, acting College president and president of the Board of Trustees, follows: “Each year the Pennsylvania State College appoints ■ a number of new teachers on a one-year contract and, at the end of this probationary period, reappoints some and does not reappoint others. Because, it does not wish to jeopardize the professional ca reer of anyone, no announcement is ever made of the reasons for not reappointing. Progressive Party . “In' a release to the press, the Progressive . Party of Pennsyl vania, basing its statement on a report from Dr. Lee Lorch, con demned the College for not re appointing ■ Dr. Lorch to the de partment of mathematics. The confusion which this statement has caused makes necessary an exception to our practice. . Dr. Lorch was appointed for one year. After thorough considera tion, the Trustees decided not to reappoint him. The decision was not based on his action in inviting a. Negro couple to live in his apartment in Stuyvesant Town, as the statement of the Progres sive Party implied. The attitude of the College toward the Negro is well and favorably known. Nor was the decision based on his poli tical views, as was also implied. The long record of Penn State in respecting the personal freedom of its faculty, has been an im portant factor in the excellent re lationsbetween faculty and ad ministration. 'Rumors' Scotched , “Dr. Lorch was not reappoint ed because in. our judgment he does not have the personal quali fications which the College desires in those who are tq. become per manent members of its faculty.” Meanwhile, A. O. Morse, assist ant to the president, yesterday scotched “rumors” that he had made a statement to any press representatives ' concerning Dr. Lorch’s activities in Stuyvesant Town. In a statement to the Collegian, Dr. Lorch attacked an article which appeared in Thursday’s is sue regarding College Senate ac tion. He said: “I should like to point out that the story was run without consul tation of any kind with me. The remarks ascribed to me were not checked with me. The Senate did not give consent to the Trustee action, as alleged in your edit. It was not called upon to take action, nor did it take any action, nor die. it discuss the matter. “Your statement that I regard Mr. Morse’s report to the execu tive committee of the Board of Trifetees, as he read it to the Sen (Continued on page six) College Will Graduate Over 2300 On June 12 The largest graduating class in the history of the College—over 2300—will receive degrees in two separate commencement cere monies in Recreation Hall, Monday; June 12. • The Senate Committee on Public Occasions decided on this plan for the second consecutive Spring. Graduates will receive di plomas in morning and afternoon exercises, according to Prof. Louis A. Richardson, chairman of the committee. Morning Exercises Prof. David H. McKinley, Col lege marshal, reported that 2364 are listed at present, to be gradu ated in June. Last June more than 1900 were graduated. OTiis year the morning exercises Will begin at 10:30 a.m. Those re ceiving degrees at this time will be seniors graduating in curricula in the Schools of Liberal Arts, Education. Home Economics, and Physical Education and Athletics. Graduate students doing their major work in these schools will also receive degrees at this time. iatta © I 'SS' i*» 1 ■ " 1 ' ' —«—< VOL. 50 NOA24 Six School Elections Set New Collegian Editors . . . —Photo byMonis Manning NEW TOP EDITORS of the Daily Collegian talk over problems of putting out next year's paper. Left to right are John Dalbor, man aging editor; Stanley Degler, news editor, and'Dean Gladfelter, editor. The hew staff under their direction will take over opera tion of Collegian Monday. ' ' WJ. Sweeney To Speak At Priestley Lectures Dr. William J. Sweeney, noted chemist, is the speaker for the 24th annual series of Priestley lectures at the College this week. The lectures are on the general subject “Petroleum and Its Products.” They are scheduled for 7:30 tonight and Wednesday night and at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in 119 Osmond Laboratory. The first lecture was last night. Dr. Sweeney is vice-president of the Standard Oil Development Co. Born in Boston, Mass., he attend ed Massachusetts State College where he obtained his bachelors degree in chemistry. Later he was appointed research assistant in the Institute, of Animal Nutrition at Penn State. He transferred to the department of chemistry and taught general chemistry from 1920 to 1926.- Oblained Doctor's Degree In 1926, he went to the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology to obtain his doctor of science de gree in chemical engineering in 1928. Returning to Penn State in 1928 as' assistant professor of chemistry, Dr. Sweeney resigned in 1929 to accept a position with -The afternoon exercises will be *gin .at 2:30 p.m. 'Those to be graduated at this time are seniors in curricula in the Schools of Ag riculture, Chemistry and Physics, Engineering, and Mineral Indus tries. Graduates majoring in these schools will also receive degrees at this time. Military commissions for graduating students in ROTC, NROTC, and Air ROTC will be conferred at the program. Prof. Richardson announced that there will be a student-facul ty procession, weather permitting. "FOR A BETTER PENN STATE' STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1950 the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana. He became director of the research laboratories of the company at Baton Rouge in 1934. Transferred to the Esso Labora tories in Linden, N.J., in 1936, he was director until 1945. Dr. Sweeney’s next position was assistant manager of research and development and in January, 1947, he was appointed vice-presi dent and a member of the execu tive committee and the board of the Standard Oil Development Company. Member of Air Force Board He is a member of the . Scienti fic Advisory Board of the U.S. Air Force; a director of the Co ordinating Research Council, Inc.; a member of the Automotive Re search Committee of the Ameri can Petroleum Institute; a mem ber of the Research and Develop ment Board Panel of Fuels; and a member of the American Chem ical Society, Society of Automo tive Engineers, American Insti tute of Chemists. Dr. Sweeney was chairman of the Advisory Committee on Fun damental Research on Composi tion and Properties of the Ameri can Petroleum Institute from 1944 to 1949. Caps and Gowns Any senior who has ordered e cap and gown and finds that he will not be using it must cancel his order at the Student Union office no later than Friday, Mas 12, to receive the total amounl ($5.00) he placed as a deposit. Those who cancel their ordei after that date will forfeit the $2.50 rental fee, but will receive the remainder of the deposit. Three tickets for admission te the commencement ceremonies will be given to each senioi when he picks up his cap and gown at the Athletic Store. An. nouncement for the pick up date will be made later. Balloting To Be Held T omorrow/ Thu rsday Students of six schools will select new members of their respective school councils in elections, to be held tomorrow and Thursday. Elections will be held in the Schools of Education, Chem istry and Physics, Home Economics, Engineering, Physical Photo Lab In Carnegie Ready For Use m A photographic laboratory in the basement of Carnegie Hall is now ready for use according to Richard Byers, a member of the journalism faculty, The lab will be used for on-the-spot de veloping of' Collegian, pictures and for the newly opened press photography course. The laboratory will include two developing rooms and one printing room. It will have com plete equipment including fa cilities fors several enlargers and 4x5 Speed Graphic press cameras. Although the lab is to be used at first only for black and white photography, it also has pro visions for c~lor equipment. The Collegian, which now owns one Speed Graphic press camera, will establish its own photog raphy staff. This will mean that Collegian pictures can be ready for publication if necessary with in a few hours with the aid of the Fairchild engraving machine. This -machine can produce an en graving in about 15 minutes. Collegian will be operating its own photo staff for the first time. The journalism department will use the dark room for a new course in press photography, open to journalism students only for the present. This course has been planned for several years and has been, established as one more step toward a complete journalism curriculum. ■ Hey, You • • • Grass Signs Say, 'Please' Bump into a sign lately? If so, it was probably one of those little white signs, bearing pictures and captions, all designed to ask you, “Please Keep Off the Grass.” These signs, placed at the be ginnings of paths cut across cam pus, are there to discourage stu dents from tramping on newly seeded grass. This campaign was planned by the All-College Cabinet “Keep- Off-the-Grass” Committee. Alpha Phi Omega, men’s service frater nity, was responsible for the work done on the signs. Walter*W. Trainer, supervisor of landscape construction and main tenance at the College, pointed out that an individual walking across the grass, within the next six weeks, can destroy as much of it as he tramples. He added that after the latter part of May, individuals walking on the growing grass will cause less harm, although forming paths will leave scars. Hillel Institute The. Hillel Foundation will be host to 60 rabbis and student lead ers from 12 colleges this weekend at the Regional Hillel Institute. Services will begin the week end Friday night at 8. There will be a discussion all day Saturday, and a Saturday night reception which will be open to the public l at ff. PRICE FIVE CENTS Education and Athletics, and Liberal Arts. Because of con stitutional- provisions, there will be no elections in th< Schools of Agriculture and Min eral Industries. Election polls will be opei from 8:50 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days, William Shade, all-College elections committee chairman, announced. Incumbent council members will regulate voting under Shade’s supervision. School council elections were first synchronized last fall when six schools held coordinated elec tions. The school councils co ordinating committee recently was set up by All-College Cab-- inet to handle future council elections. Election polls will be located in the following places: Chemistry-Physics—lobby of Osmond Lab. Education—lobby of Bur rowes Building. Engineering—lobby of Mam Engineering Building. v Home Economics—lobby of Home Economics Building. Liberal Arts—lobby of Sparks Building. Physical Education—Recrea tion Hall, White HalL Chemistry-Physics Students running for the sen ior council seats in the School of Chemistry and Physics are Craig Archer, Victor Bird, Ange lo Campanella, Harry Graham, James Grimm, George Kline, Ted Pritsker, Joseph Soltis, Robert Thomas. Candidates for the junior po sitions are Charles Amend, Jos eph Bard, Ralph Craine, David Fix, William Greenwalt, Robert Luckesavage, James Ramsay, Derle Riordan, Jesse Tarleton. • For the senior posts, one stu dent will be selected from the chemical engineering curriculum, two from the pre-medical arid science curriculum, and one (Continued on page six) oday ... FOR Loraine S toller fbe coeds' choice for May Queen, who will reign over the May Day ceremonies on May 13. Blue-eyed, brunette, and beautiful Loraine, a campus active English education majotv will be enthroned amid a bevy of beauties in one of the love liest traditional ceremonies at the College. Our friendly leo proudly roars his tribute to one of his most attractive and accomplished daughters.
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