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"FOR A BETTER PENN STATE"
VOL. 50 - NO. 142
Dance, Houseparties
Highlight Weekend
Weather Fails to Halt Activities
Of Annual Gala . Spring Festival
Staggered by yesterday's downpour, Spring Weekend :will at
. tempt to recover its steam with tonight's Senior Ball. ,
Weekend merry-makers are destined to be burdened by rain
coats, however, if the weather man can be taken for' his word. Al
. though fair weather is expected for today and tonight, showers are
•expected, for both tomorrow and Sunday.
Today and tonight are expected to be cloudy, but warm and
fair. Considerable: cloudiness;
warm, humid temperatuies, and
showers are expected to prevail
tomorrow and Sunclay.
Miss Penn State' Named
The festivities of the gala week
end were opened Wednesday with
the naming of Mary Anne Hanna
as "Miss , Penn State of 1950."
Miss Hanna, crowned in Schwab
Auditorium following a huge
parade through town, will reign
over Spring Weekend.
Charlie,Spivak, the man who
plays the. "sweetest trumpet in
the world," will provide the music
for several thousand Penn Staters
and their guests who are' expect
ed to attend. the :Senior • Ball in
Recreation Hall :tonight, Dancing
will start at 9' o'cicick and Mr.
Spivak and his' cohorts ,will play
until I am.
Mad Hats To Go
On View Today
Want to win $5 for Senior Ball
tonight?
All yob. have to do is wear a
screwy, novel, or Springish hat
today,• and you have a good
chance to walk away with one
of three 'ss cash prizes.
Elliot' Krane, who is in charge
of "Mad Hatters Day" said yes
terday that judging of the hats
will be decided on the .basis of
cleverness, humor, and Spring
Week motif.. Make or buy a hat
to fit one or all of these three
categories, and then do this:
By Old Main
Wear your hat all day, but be
sure to pass in front of Old Main
sometime between c 10 o'clock this
morning and 2 o'clock this after
,noon. You will be reviewed by a
group of judges who will decide
'whether or 'not ..your lid has. the
necessary qualifications to •be
considered for the final judging.
If your hat is considered out
standing, yotr will be presented
with „a tag, and then you re
turn to Old Main at 2 o'clock
this , 'afternoon.. There a four
member board of judges will
give, all the hats a final once
'over and"award the three cash
prizes.
Final Judges
Krane announced the final
judges as Dr., Margaret H. Zook,
associate, professor of clothing
and textiles,.at the College; Mrs.
Betty .C. Dela.van, instructor 'of
clothing and • textiles; and two
wives' of ne*spapermen who will
be . attending the PNPA conven
tion here this weekend.
In 'case of rain; the judging
• (Continued on page. sixteen)
C - 01 . 0ge::Cabin . et.GiiiOti
Announced by Davis .:'•
.Tribunal appointments, com
mittee chairmen and members of
stand in g All-College Cabinet
gimps were announced by Rob
ert Davis, All-College president,
at the first meeting of the new
Cabinet last night.
The list of appointments:
Tribunal: Neil See, chairman;
Edward Sykes, secretary; Richard
Schoenberger, Carlton Durlin4
George Demschock, Raymond
Evert, Bryson Craine, and Harry
Cover.
All-College Elections Commit
tee: Edward Barnitz, chairman;
George Glazer, Mary Foucart, Al
lan Woolford, Victor Fritts, Joyce
Baer,• Frank Lewis, Mardi Chris
tensen, Jean Davidson, John Vas
ilakis, Jane Ashenfelter, and Jos
eph Lenchner:
BX Board of Control: Robert
Fast, Hugh Stevens, Milton Bern
stein, Clair George, Walter Miller,
and Otto Grupp.
Orientation Week Committee:
Harry Kondourajian, chairman;
Harold Leinbach, Nancy George,
Richard Bard, Rose Eifert, Ed
ward Piddlebock, James Kohl,
Toros Simonian, Clair George, Ro
bert Sabina, John Stout, John
. ‘fiCooiWind' ow,. page sixteen) .
Tickets At 'SII
Tickets, which sell for $4 per
couple, can, beat the
Student UniOn desk in the lobby.
of Old Main, today from b. a.m.
to 12 noon and from 1:30 to 4:30
p.m.' Tickets will; also be on sale
at the door. . •
With the, -g`Town and Gown
Carnival" the,
out,•,`,lGrad` Hat:
ter's Day will Provide sonrie Cf the
comic relief. The event, directed
by •Elliot Krane, Rimier editor of
Froth, will award three $5 Prizefs
to, those wearing the, cleverest,
most original, and.daring
chapeaus. '
The Carnival has been re
scheduled for next Friday. :
There are some tickets •remain
ing for tonight's performance of
the Players production, "Yes; My
Darling Daughter" at Centre
Stage. Tickets may be purchased
for tonight's, - performance at the
Student Union desk. Admission is
90 cents. ' •
House Parties •Saturday •
Saturday will be replete with
house parties, -picnics; athletic
events, a Players. production,, and
an Association of
: Independent
Men dance. • ' • •
(Continued on page five)
Masse Meeting
To Hear. Lorch
A mass meeting, in which both
sides of the controversy over the
dismissal of Dr. Lee Lorch would
be heard, is tentatively scheduled
for Tuesday night.
Plans for the meeting, to be co
sponsored by the student and the
faculty committees for academic
freedom, were disclosed last• night
by Seymour Schuster.
Schuster, chairman of the stu
dent committee, also' announced
that approximately 1000 signa
tures have been counted on a
student 'petition which .requests
the administration to reconsider
its dismissal of Dr. Lomb. He said
that not all the petition . blanks
have been returned and that tabu
lations will not be complete until
early next week.
Neither the administration nor
Dr Lorch hasbeen approached
yet in connection 'with the mass
meeting, the ' student committee
head said. He explained- that in
the meeting "each'side would pre
sent its stand and be' subject .to
question& froal the • audience."
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1950
Cabinet Hears Proposal
For 'New Appeal Court
Why,so sad , and wan, fair ladies? These cute coeds, disappointed
'with yesferdaY's weather, nevertheless have ventured _ forth equip
pad' for, the occasion; and hoping for better on the big ,weekend.
They are (left to right) Pat Owen, Nancy -Anderson,. ,and Lois
Pondy. . .
Rain ~:ptits DaMOr--;..
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It rained.
And it rained.
And it rained some more.
For the second consecutive year, old Jupe Pluvius scowled dark,
ly . on the Spring Week ,Carnival yesterday.. An,, early' mOrning-doWn
pour augmented' by intermittent showers throughout the day forced
postponement, of the big event..
Next Friday has been set as
the tentative date for another go
at. the Carnival.- Over 55 organ
izations had entered the Carni
val yesterday and will be forced
to wait until next Friday for the
big affair.
Spring, Week opened under
ideal conditions Wednesday night,
but the good weather just didn't
hold out for the second big
Spring Week event. -
Will Continue
Spring Week, however , will
continue as planned. Today will
be "Mad -Hatter's Day," followed
by the Senior Ball tonight. To
morrow afternoon's agenda will
indlUde several athletic events
with -houseparties in the even
ing. 'Sunday afternoon the Blue
Band will present a .concert in
in front' of the Library.
The big event - ,opened Wednes
day night with a colorful parade
of campus and town organiza
tions, ' which was witnessed by
several thousand town and Col
lege people.
.Shortly after the parade dis
banded, the "Coronation Review"
opened in Schwab Auditorium
formally' to initiate the big week.
Mary Anne Hanna was selected
and crowned as Miss Penn State
for 1950. She will reign over the
entire week •of festivities.
Other Finalists.
The other three finalists, Candy
Griffith, Jane Mullen, and Joan
Marshall, ,will be her attendants.
The 'winning coed was' selected
by the five-member board of
judges at the end of the gala
show.
Sidney Manes directed the
program and Henry "Hank"
Glass was emcee. The climax of
the show was the coronation of
Miss Penn State by Marlene Car
ozzo, Miss Pennsylvania of 1949.
The winner,. Mary Anne Han
na, went through an honor guard
formed by snappily-dressed mem
bera-ot Scabbard and Blade, boa-
orary of the advanced Air, Army,
and Naval ROTC units. Many
gifts from . various -local mer
chants were.,presented to her as
the grand finale closed :out the
show.
Parade Held
The parade which preceded the
Coronation Review - was an. • im
pressive array of local groups.
In addition'to. four 'decorated
floats for each of the queen
finalists, cars appeared' with each
of five past campus queens.
Cabinet Approves $l5 Fee
To Finance Student Union
BY . MARY KRABNANSKY
All-College- Cabinet last night
took the first step toward a $l5
student assessment for the com
ing scholastic year- as a means of
financing• the proposed Student
Union Building. The vote was 21
to nothing with 3: abstaining.
Cabinet will have to approve
the assessment at, its. next meet
ing before it becomes official.
The motion will come up for final
approval next Thursday.
As approved last night the mo
tion calls for a $7.50 assessment
on every student for each se
mester of the 1950-51 scholastic
year. The assessment then will
be upped •to ,$lO a semester "for
so long as it is practical."
The cost of the • building was
placed at between two and three
million dollars by James Mac-
Callum, former All-College sec
retary-treasurer, wh o recom
mended the motion. The motion
was put on record by Harry
Kondourajian, All-College vice
president. Final plans for the
building 'are ready, 'MacCallum
said, and construction should
start in the Fall. The building
would be complete, he said, by
the' following , year. • • • '
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Added Body
Would Review
Student Pleas
By GEORGE GLAZER
A constitutional amend
ment evolving from the re
cent controversy over powers
of the Women's Student Gov
ernment Association and All.
College Cabinet was given
first reading at last night's All-
College Cabinet meeting.
Ted Alien, ex-All-College presi
dent, brought in a recommenda
tion from a meeting of WSGA and
Cabinet representatives held pre
vious to the Cabinet meeting re r
garding powers of WSGA's Judi
cial committee and Tribunal.
In his recommendation, Allen
advocated the formation of anew
judicial body, the Student. Court
of Appeals. This Court would act
as, a supreme court on all appeals
by students of Judicial and Tri
bunal decisions, with the follow
ing exception: •
Student Appeals
•
In cases involving men's and:
women's living unit regulationsi,
men would appeal Tribunal decis
ions to All-College 'Cabinet; worn- ,
en, to the WSGA Senate.
On all decisions involving All
College regulations, final decis.
ions would be decided by the new;
Court of Appeals.
The . Court also would decide
what rules wili be considered All-
College regulations and what will
be known as living• unit rules. ..
•The members of the proposed
body will be the. All-College
President, ' chairman; the presii
dents of Interfraternity Council;
Pan-Hellenic Council, Association
of Independent Men, Leonides,
and 'WSGA, and the All-College
vice-president.
Women's Cases
• In cases involving women, the
head of Judicial will be present;
In the trying of men, the chair;
man of Tribunal will attend the
meeting. The chairman would vote
only in case of a tie.
The proposed change in the
judicial setup is' a' constitutional
amendment and must be passed
three times' by Cabinet before"it
(Continued on page five) ~
If the assessment receives Cabr
inet's approval next week, and
the approval of an alumni-Board
of Trustee committee, the pldn
will be submitted to the trustees
at their June 10 meeting. Trustee
reactioh has been favorable to
date, McCallum said.
The building will be financed.
by the floating of a loan, which
would be payed off by the stu
dent assessment, gifts from al
umni and friends of the College,
and dividends from the recently
innovatel insurance plan.
Refunds from BX
Available Now
The 20 per cent refund on all
cash receipts from purchases
made at the Student Book Ex
change from Feb. 7 until Monday,
May 29, inclusive, can be picked
up at the BX in the TUB now. Re
ceipts may be cashed in until May
29, when the BX will cease oper
ations for this semester.
Bluebooks will continue to be
on sale at the used book agency in
the TUB until June 7.
If those who have receipts fail
to present them by May 29, they
will not ,be paid.