PiktrZ TWO
ivil Rights Committee
Passes Lorch Petition
A petition requesting the College administration to re
consider its dismissal of Dr. Lee Lorch recently was passed
by the executive committee of the Union-Northumberland
Civil Rights Committee.
The resolution of the committee, which is "dedicated to
the struggle against discrimination," reads:
'lt has been reported in the
newspapers that Professor Lee
Lorch, assistant professor of
mathema tics at Pennsylvania
State College, bps 'been denied
reappointment to the faculty of
the college because of his activi
ties in working to eliminate the
ban against Negro tenants in the
Stuyvesant Town housing devel
opment in New York City. These
reports further state that no
criticism has been made of Pro
fessor Lorch's teaching record
and in fact he was recommended
for reappointment by the faculty
committee in charge.
Combats Discrimination
"T h e Union-Northumberland
Civil Rights Committee as an or
ginization devoted to combating
all forms of discrimination based
upon race, color or religion,
earnestly protests against the pe
nalizing of those who like Pro
fessor Lorch are active in that
same good cause, and we urge
the administration and trustees
of Pennsylvania State College to
reconsider their action in this
case."
A copy of the resolution was
sent to James Milholland, acting
president of the College and
chairman of the Board of Trus
tees, the committee reported.
The Union-Northumberland com
mittee headquarters is in Lewis
burg. Jacob Quat, of New Berlin,
is chairman.
Annual Band
Concert To End
Spring Week
Penn State's Concert Blue Band
will close Spring Week in custom
ary style with its annual spring
concert before the Library at 3
o'clock Sunday afternoon. Prof.
James W. Dunlop will conduct.
Bad-weather site of the per
formance is Schwab Auditorium.
Opening, with the Star Spangled
Banner, the band's hour-long pro
gram will include Alford's ar
rangement of "The World is Wait
ing for the Sunrise;" Von Flotow's
"Stradella" Overture, and Hardy's
"The Grenadier," with a baritone
horn solo by Richard Criswell.
Sousa March
The band will also play Sousa's
"Liberty Bell March;" a Leidzen
medley of Rodgers and Hart
songs; Creston's "Legend;" Ost
ling's "Brass Pageantry;" Colby's
"Headlines; Arndt's "Nola," with
a xylophone solo by Kennetta
Peters and Evans' "Lady of
Spain." It will close with a Leid
zen-arranged "South Pacific"
medley.
The concert Blue Band's Spring
program is a traditional part of
the College's Spring. eek festivi
ties. It is the final event of this
year's celebration.
One number on Sunday's pro
gram is of particular interest. In
Headlines," the composer at
tempts to picture in music a clat
tering newspaper city room, with
its ceasleless reports of human
violence. Program notes tell of
headlines of "war, fire, earth
quake, scandal, crime, murder,
life, love, religion, death..."
Closing Medley
The band's closing number is a
medley of top tunes from the fab
ulous musical "South Pacific."
"Balihi," "Some Enchanted Even
ing," "Happy Talk," and "Wonder
ful Guy" are some of the Rodgers
and Hammerstein hits featured by
the band.
Unlike the famed marching
Blue Band, the concert band is
made up of men and women stu
dents. Uniformed like the march
ing band, it is of far greater size,
with 100 members.
Newspapers
Non-delivery of Sunday
Philadelphia Inquirers by the
Student News agency Sun
day was due to the railroad
strike, agency officials re
ported yesterday. Refunds are
to be made this Sunday.
Debaters Conclude Best Year
By HERB STEIN
No matter how you look at it
the debaters this year covered a
lot of ground.
Prof. J. F. O'Brien, men's debate
coach, estimated the 30-men squad
traveled more than 6,000 miles
since last fall to compete, in 119
debates, the highest figtires in
Penn State history both for
mileage and number of contests.
Besides this, the debaters, who
recently closed their official sea
son, can review this year as one
of the most triumphant campaigns
in 51 years of debating at the Col
lege.
"No doubt the most succesStil
season we've ever had for the
number of debates held," was the
way Prof. O'Brien termed the sea
son, 1949-50.
"Proud of Them"
"We're proud of them," he said,
"because we're not a -two-man
team or a four-man team, but our
tournament victories have been
carried by a nucleus of 14 men."
The team this, year captured
first place in four tournaments,
which, is more than any other
team has won in one year for the
College. Two of the firsts, at Wash
ington and Jefferson and Mt. Mer
cy, were undisputed. The other
two, the Old Dothinion Debate
Tournament at Richmond and the
Grand National at Fredericksburg,
Va., ended in ties with other
schools.
Top Seven
Prof. O'Brien singled out seven
men from the nucleus of 14i who
competed in all of the big tourna
ments. They were: Marlin Bren
ner, Clair George, Peter Giesey,
David Lewis, James McDougall,
Riclirard Schweiker and Richard
Schultz.
The other seven who, he said,
participated in major events were:
Prof Contrasts
School Systems
Firsthand observation of the
English university system by Dr.
Clarence R. Carpenter, professor
of psychology, after attending a
conference in Paris recently, re
veals great contrast with the
American setup. .
In England administrative re
sponsibility is shouldered by fac
ulty committees, he said.
Universities in Britain - are also
experiencing acute problems of
expansion, he .continued, but ed
ucational men there prefer small
enrollments in order to main
tain a high quality of education.
Dr. Carpenter was particularly
interested in the impact of gov
ernment in the field of research.
Fundamental research, he said,
is carried on by the universities,
but the actual work in solving
the detailed technological prob
lem is the job of the government
or industrial institutes outside
the university.
While in England, Dr. Carpen
ter worked with . the British
Broadcasting Company in pre
paring a 40-minute program on
Instructional aids in education.
He discovered at that time that
the BBC uses its facilities for
regular educational and cultural
programs pointed directly to a
more intelligent audience.
Dr. Carpenter went to Europe
to attend an international con
ference at Paris devoted to the
discussion of the structure and
physiology of animal societies.
From France Dr. Carpenter
traveled to Holland, where he
delivered a lecture at the
Uni
versity of Amsterdam on pri
mate behaviour. He is now on a
lecture tour of colleges in, the
United States and will resume his
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COMM
Scholarship Winner
Eugene M. Zorn, of Dawson, Pa.,
has been named winner of the
Borden agricultural scholarship at
the College, Dr. Russell B. Dick
erson, vice-dean of the School of
Agriculture announced recently.
Zorn is a senior in agronomy, a
member of Phi Kappa Phi, all-Col
lege honorary, and a member of
the Clover Club and the Ameri
can Society of Agronomy.
The Borden award provide.; one
of the largest monetary scholar
ships at the College.
and coach respectively of the
men's debate team, are shown
proudly viewing the trophy,
which the College team won'
from Washington and Jeffer
son College for the second con
secutive year.
James Dente, Nathan Feinstein,
John Kelly, John Mezaros, Char
les Petrie, David Schmuckler and
ponald Yenko.
State College May Get
Big Recreational Lake
Borough officials of State College are now considering plans
for the construction of a large recreational lake to provide swim
ming, boating, and fishing for Centre Countians.
Present plans would place the lake in the flat land of the Mill
brook-Puddintown-Houserville locality, near the College farms.
;ed. One calls for a 97 'acre lake,
Various plans' have been present
another for close to 130 acres.
Mayer To Talk
OnCornmunism
Dr. Herbert C. Mayer, engineer;
educator, and president of Ameri
can Viewpoint, Inc., will address
senior engineering students today
at 4:10 p.m. in Schwab 'Auditor
ium. Because of the popularity of
the speaker and his subject, "It
Might Happen Here," the lecture
will be open to the public and
faculty.
With relations between the
United States and communist
controlled Czechoslovakia strain
ed, the talk will be extremely
timely. Dr. Mayer, who will ex
plain how the communists took
control of Czechoslovakia, was in
Prague at the time the commun
ists took control. He also will
speak on his experiences as dep
uty chief of plans and directives
for the Information Control divi
sion, American Military Govern
ment in Berlin following World
War 11.
There will be no charge for ad
mission.
The final lecture of the series
will be presented next Friday,
with H. N. Muller, of the West
inghouse Electric Corp., as the
peaker. "The Young Engineer in
t" will be hie -subject.
Voting Complete
For Senior Gift
'Seniors on campus cast their votes in the past two days
for the class gift and the 11 traditional awards to outstanding
men and women of the graduating class. Voting was reported
"light." About 3,000 seniors were
eligible to vote.
Results of the Vote will not be
announced until postal card bal
lots sent to February graduates
are returned and tabulated, ac
cording to James Balog, senior
class president, and gift commit
tee chairman. ,
The three proposed gifts con
sidered were: A College ambu
lance, contribution to a student
press, and erection of a Hall of
Fame in the proposed Student
Union building.
Those nominated for the tradi
tional men's class honors of Spoon
man, Barrel man, Cane man, Pipe
Orator, and Class Donor were:
Ted Allen, Robert Keller, Rich
ard Wertz, Peter Geisey, James
Gehrdes, James Balog, John
Senior, Thomas Morgan, Wilbert
Lancaster, Robert Gabriel, Charles
Beatty, Joseph Reinheimer, James
MacCallum, Morton Snitzer, and
Richard Schweiker.
The Spoon man in the past has
usually been the class president;
but he must have a high• scholastic
average. Cane man is choSen on
the basis of popularity and leader
ship, while the Barrel man has
traditionally been an outstanding
athlete who is also active in other
fields and has a good scholastic
average. The Pipe Orator and
Class'Donor are usually outstand
ing campus personalities.
Candidates for women's honors
Were not listed. The voters them
selves decide who will get the
traditional women's awards of
Bow girl, Slipter girl, Fan girl,
Class Poet, Class Donor, and Mir
ror girl.
Schweiker, the team captain,
called the debate with Oxford
University last November, the
most interesting of the season. The
largest audience to witness a de
bate this year crowded into
Schwab Auditorium to watch a
team of Englishmen with the pic
turesque names of Robin Day and
Geoffrey Johnson-Smith.
"I didn't think much of them as
debaters," Schweiker said, a little
perturbed. "They acted more like
after dinner speakers."
Debated Nationalization
A great majority of the debates
this year have bben on the same
subject—nationalizing industries.
Often a team will have to switch
from affirmative to negative and
back again during, the course of
the same tournament.
One of the more embarrassing
experiences this year was an en
counter and defeat by a team of
women, which wouldn't be so bad,
but the women happened to be
Penn State women—Christine Al
tenburger and Rosemary Dela
hanty. The teams met through a
chance drawing at a state tourna
ment in Pittsburgh on March 16.
Favorite Tourney
The favorite tournament of all
the debaters, Schweiker reported,
was the Grand National in Fred
ericksburg, Va. He attributed this
to the "graciousness, hospitality
and beauty of the southerA mom
en." .
Besides trying, for first in the
Grand National, Penn State's team
had three individual speaking
winners. They were George, Joel
Fleming and Lewis. •Other indivi
dual speaking winners this year
were: Kelly, a third place in a
cross-examination at Pitt; and
Lewis, a second in an all-state
tournament at Pitt.
State Funds Available
Plans for the lake were begun
last Fall when it was learned that
state funds were available for this
type of project. Preliminary sur
veys have been made, but the
rest is. up to the borough. How
long it will be before the lake is a
reality depends a great deal upon
how soon final decisions are made
and proper steps taken, toward
securing financial backing.
While as yet there isn't much
'action underway to get the plans
into workable order, questions
are already being raised. Sports
men in the State College area feel
that' such a lake' would hinder
trout fishing in the cold waters
of Spring Creek.
Some think that a dam would
raise the temperature of the creek
and that would drive away the
trout, which like the colder
streams.
Town-Student Plan
However, others feel that while
some fishing may be lost, the
lake would more than compensate
with its wide facilities which
would provide more fishing of an
other sort.
Members of the Planning Com
mission would like a town and
student movement started to
back the lake, even though state
funds are available. n this way,
complete state suptiort, which
would probably lead to a park
plan that would bring people in
from all parts of the state, could
be avoided.
Everything at this moment,
however, seems to rest with the
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, officials.
FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1950
Honor Winners
Are Announced
The winners of the John W.
White Fellowship, the John W.
White Medal, and the Evan Pugh
Senior and Junior Medals, have
been approved by the College
Senate on recommendation of
the Senate Coinmittee on Scholar-.
ships and AWargs.
Harold Clark, a senior in
chemistry-physics, won the John
W. White Fellowship• of $6OO,
which is giVen each year to a
member of highest standing,in
the graduating class who possess
es the qualities of ability and
personality which will enable
him or her to- profit best by
graduate study. . ' •
Russell Hutnik
Russell Hutnil, a senior in ag
riculture, was awarded -tire John
W. White Medal, which is given
to. a member of the senior class,
for outstanding scholarship.
Five seniors and five juniors
Won Evan Pugh Medals, which
are awarded each year by the
Honor Society council to mem:-
bers of the senior and junior
classes who have been selected
by the Senate Committe on
Scholarships, and AWards for out
standing academic achievement.
Senior Winners
The senior winners are Lydia
Barradough, education; 01 e n
Kraus, chemistry-phyisics; Nor
ma n Pomerantz, engineering;
John Senior, chemistry-physics;
and Eugene Zorn, agriculture.
The junior winners are James
Haughwout, agriculture;• Russell
Herman, engineering; Betty. Sell
ers, liberal arts; Anthony Stem
berger, agriculture; and Franig
Szymborski, engineering.
Home Ec Has Fire
An overload transformer started
a small fire in the Home Econom
ics building at 2:45 yesterday af
ternoon.
Campus pattolmen called Alpha
Fire Company to put out the
blaze, which plunged the building
into darkness. The patrol report-