Cabinet Passes Student Union Assessment firtti .: Z r Ifitg I.&x TotiNiatt VOL. 50 - NO. 147 Spring Carnival Arrives Today On South Allen and East - I ver The 1950 Spring Carnival is finally here. From 2 o'clock this afternoon until 11 o'clock tonight the gay fair' will operate on South Allen street and part of• East Beaver avenue. Fifty-seven entertainment tion to food booths and three Top Independent Actives Cited At AIM Banquet Outstanding independent men were given awards for achieve ments in athletics, publications, and activities at the first annual banquet of the Association of Independent Me n Wednesday night. Norman Duffy, banquet chair man, introduced William Nor cross who served as toastmaster. Charles M. Speidel, wrestling coach, delivered the main ad dress. He spoke on his exper iences in coaching as related to experiences in life. Homer Barr was presented the award for outstanding achieve ments in athletics, Jack Reen was given the award for service on publications, and James Mc- Callum was given the award for outstanding independent man in activities. Robert Davis present ed the awards. New Officers New officers were inaugurated by Norcross, . town vice-presi dent. They are Richard Bard, chairman of the Board of Gov ernors; William Zakor, vice chair man; Richard - Mills, secretary; and Howard Fitting, treasurer. Out going officers were also honored. Ross Lehman, advisor to AIM presented these awards. The re tiring officers are Robert Davis, preside nt; William Norcross, town vice-preside !II; Ralph Houck, campus vice-president; Corbin Kidder, secretary; and Howard Fitting, treasurer. The banquet was the last meet ing of AIM 'under its present con stitution. The new constitution will go into effect in the Fall. Protest Dismissal of Lorch, Candidate Tells Voters Republican Congressional Candidate Theodore 0. Spaulding has urged voters in his district to protest the dismissal , of Dr. Lee Lorch from - the College faculty by writing letters to Gov. James Duff and the Board of Trustees, the Committee on Academic Freedom in Penn sylvania has disclosed. Spaulding, who is seeking elec trict in Philadelphia, discuskd th , to the Negro community at a pub lic meeting sponsored by the North Philadelphia Civic League. -Larch Claims Lorch, assistant professor of mathematics, has made the claim that his dismissal stemmed from his participation in the campaign to end discrimination in Stuyvcs alit Town, a housing project in New York City. The College has replied that Lorch was fired be cause he did not have the "per sonal qualifications" needed to be come a permanent member of the 'faculty. Rev. Kenneth Ripley Forbes, re tired Episcopal minister, termed Lorch's dismissal a "clear-cut abridgement of academic free dom," according to the committee report. Dr. William H. Gray, editor of the Afro-American, and Attor ney E. Washington Rhodes, editor of. the Philadelphia Tribune, also Voice .at the meeting, as did Lorch. 'OR A BETTER PENN STATE" See Carnival Map on Page 3 booths of all varieties in addi icket booths will comprise the Carnival. This afternoon at 2 o'clock the Carnival will be officially opened when Mary Anne Hanna, Miss Penn State of 1950, cuts the rib bon to the entrance at the corner of Allen street and, College ave nue. After • a finfare of trumpets, a carnival barker will open each booth, and the day's' festivities will get underway. In case of rain the Carnival will be held tomorrow during the same hours. Jack Senior, head of the• Spring Week committee, said that every organization must count its own Carnival tickets tonight. The tickets must be returned in to the ticket booth at the corner of Allen street and College avenue at the close of the Carnival and must be accompanied by an itemized list along with receipts of expenditures for prizes and booth construction. ' One of the late booth additions is a bingo booth, which' will be sponsored by the Spring Week committee, but will be operated by Androcles, newly chartered junior men's , hat society. This booth will not enter the compe tition for the $lOO prize for most tickets turned in. Late Booths Other late booths are Sigma Nu with "Pigalle," Sigma Pi with "Pop-a-Pack" of cigarettes, and Froth, which will give Carnival goers a chance to win a kiss by popping ping-pong balls into beer mugs. The rest of the booths.and their sponsoring organizations: Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Gamma Phi Beta, dancing in the alley; Kap pa Delta Rho, "KDR Follies;" Delta Delta Delta and Delta Tau Delta, "_Critter Crawl;" Phi Gamma Del ta. "Fijiland;" Beta Sigma Rho, "Clothe the Peanut Chew;" Shooting Gallery Alpha Chi, Sigma, "Shooting Gal lery;" The Daily Collegian, "Esquire Girl;" Delta• Upsilon, "Roll-o-Bowl-a- Balir Alpha Sigma Phi, "Dumpa-Sud;" (Continued on page three) ion in the 4th Congressional Dis implications of Lorch's dismissal Conflict Exams The conflict examination schedule for this semester is printed on page 7 of today's issue of The Daily Collegian. President Named For Kansas State Dr. James A. McCain, now president of Montana State Uni versity, has been named presi dent of Kansas. State College to succeed Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, who will assume the presidency of Penn State on July 1. This announcement was made Tuesday by Hubert ~Brighton, secretary of the Ktitisai Board of Bagaihis. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 26, .1950 Carnival Opening To Count Tickets Gods Pleased By Last Night's Sun Ceremony By JOHN DALBOR The sun gods put in a brief, but blazing appearance last night in front of Old Main, to climax the Carnival Sun Dance, a ritual ceremony praying for good Carni val weather today. Over a thousand students gath ered on the lawn in front of Old Main shortly after 9 p.m. to wit ness the cold-blooded sacrifice of former All-College President Ted Allen's heart to the gods in hopes that they would sibile on the Carnival today. Flaming Brand The Indian high priestess, Gladdy Lou Miller, opened the ceremony by dashing in with a flaming brand, glowing wierdly in the darkness, as .she lit a circte of fire pots. Three other Indian maids followed her to the center in a dance of supplication. Then Allen was dragged, in by a dusky red man, who placed him on the sacrificial altar to await his doom. The high priest and his (Continued on page six) WSGA Approves New Amendment WSGA Senate approved the proposed amendment to Article II of the All-College Constitution immediately before last night's meeting of All-College Cabinet. The Senate reviewed and dis cussed each section of the pro posal. Section 8, Part B in the recom mended change in 'the constitu tion states that all students shall have the right to appeal decisions in cases conrerning All-College rules and regulations to the stu dent Court of Appeals. Senate members felt that All- College rules and regulations, if they are in existance should be defined for the students. President Barbara Sprenkle ex planned that the court would be a unifying agency between Trib unal and Judicial 'and would fos ter better relations. IFC Newsletter Names New Staff Frank Conte has been named editor and John Dinsmore, busi ness manager of the 1950-51 IFC Newsletter, Jack Lapos, gradu ating editor, announced recently. Frederick Sheridan and Char les Marsden were chosen as pro motion director and circulation manager, respectively. Other staff members include Edward Goldberg and Francis Bria, sports 'Writers; Jenny Knauer, sorority column; Jack Bauknecht, fratchatter column; 'and Carl Peterson, Mendy Frish bdrg, feature writers. Senior Invitations All seniors who have not picked up their La Vies or their invitations and announce ments should do so at Student Union as soon as possible. , Approves Plan Calling for $l5 Next Year, $2O Thereafter By GEORGE GLAZER All-College Cabinet last night passed the controversial Stu dent Union building assessment in a storm session that lasted nearly three hours. Fourteen Cabinet members voted yes. Three voted no. Four abstained. A two-thirds majority the motion on its second History Head Dies Dr. J. Paul Salaam Head of History Department Dies Dr. J. Paul Selsam, head of the department of history at the College, died at Centre County hospital Wednesday night. He was 51. Doctor; attributed his death to pneumonia and uremic poison ing. Dr. Selsam had been in the hospital since last Frilay. Two memorial funds in Dr. Selsam's honor are being plan ned. Phyllis Kistler, former vice president of the history club, has called a meeting of all in terested students in 121 Sparks at 5 o'clock this afternoon to consider a collection for a chari table fund to be named by the family. The history department is setting up a fund to buy books (Continued on page three) Appeals Court Set Up By All-College Cabinet The amendment to the All-College Cabinet, constitution which would establish a Student Court of Appeals was unanimously ap proved on its third and final reading by All-College Cabinet last night. , Under the new amendment, men and women will have the right to appeal Tribunal and Judicial decisions in cases concerning all- College rules and regulations to the Court of Appeals. Concerning living unit regulations; however, men will appeal Tribunal decis ions to All-College Cabinet, and women will appeal Judicial decis ions to the WSGA Senate. The All-College president will be chairman of the new body and other members of the court will be the Interfraternity Council president, Panhellenic Council president, Association of Inde pendent Men's president, Leon ides president, Womens Student Government Association presi dent, and the All-College vice president. The chairmen of Tri bunal and Judicial shall be pres ent at all ,hearings of students from their respective bodies. Court's Duties The new court will also "deter mine whether a rule is of an all- College or living-unit nature" and will "interpret all-College rules and - regulations and accept the cases involving all-College rules for retrial according to its decis ion." Robert Keller, past Tribunal head, in replying to a question as to why a joint body of men and women couldn't decide the judi- of those voting was necessary to pass reading. The abstaining votes did not • count. The final vote came after Cab inet previously had voted 17 to 3 with one abstaining to approve the assessment. Hugh Stevens, Home Econom ics president, said after the vote that he had voted under a mis taken impression and that he wished to change his'vote. A mo tion for a recount was then passed and the second vote was taken. The motion called foi $7.50 to be aszeszed each student for each semester next year, and for the fee to be raised to $lO a semester the following year. Stevens, sophomore class presi dent Joseph Arnold, and junior class president David Mutchler voted no. Heated Arguments Debate on the question lasted for more than two hours, with several hot verbal exchanges be tween members of the floor. Two petitions were presented to the Cabinet, one by John Clark, a student living in the Nittany-Pol lock dormitory area, and another by Clyde Michel, also a student living. in Nittany-Pollock. Clark's petition, signed by 740 residents in the dormitory area, stated in part that the undersigned "stand opposed to the question able tactics employed by All- College Cabinet regarding the contemplated SU building assess fent. . . .we further request the the issue be put to a referendum and that only those students af fected be allowed to vote." James MacCallum, former All- College Secretary-treasurer and a member of the SU committee, in a speech previous to the presenta tion of the petition, recognized the existence of the petition. MacCal lum stated that Alan 'Uhl, vice president of the Interfraternity Council said. he had been queried as to why it hadn't been circulated through the IFC, 'Uhl replying that he thought it wasn't neces sary since no opposition had been voiced. MacCallum said that these two factors puzzled him, since the group which would benefit most from the SU was the group on (Continued on page six) By MOYLAN MILLS cial decisions, stated that the Col lege has a necessary double stand ard forced by public pressure in connection with the men's and women's living units. He said that the separate men's and women's judicial bodies take care of cases involving the living units solely while cases involving' all-College regulations will be taken care of by Tribunal and Judicial and may be appealed to the new Student Court of Appeals. Gladfelter Questions Dean Gladfelter, chairman of the Board of Publications, raised the question as to whether the new court would he empowered to uphold the original punishment or change the punishment if an appeal case is upheld by the new court. Keller replied that the point depends on what was appealed, the case or the punishment. He said that if the case was appealed, the new court would be able to uphold the original punishment and that if the punishment were appealed, the court would be able to change the punishment, if warranted.
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