The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, May 19, 1950, Image 2
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 • -- -the -Caw, Aine_L 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 • • •'. , 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-