. .•. , -:- 4 8 1 ; . - . ..'"` t * 44 :-.., _ C i f ir TODAY'S WEATHER: • ! ,t . .. ..: --•••%„. 4 . ' 'tatty ~,,-..-., E. ottegiau Observe • , 1. ~.:'ll, Pennsylvania Week Partly Cloudy and Mild "..t. .1 , - . • . VOL 51— No. 24 Party Cliques Organize For Coming Lion Preliminary Nominations Held For Frosh, Sophs By 808 SCHOOLEY • Preliminary nominations were held by the Lion party Sunday night for officers for the fresh man and sophomore cliques. • Huber Stevens, Lion party chairman, stressed the need for party unity in order to win the coming fall elections for fresh man and, sophomore class offi cers. He introduced the all-College clique officers of the party to the approximately 200 persons pres ent at the meeting. To Meet Sunday Final nominations and election Of freshman and sophomore cli que officers will be held next Sunday night. The following week there will be nominations for class officers for the two class es. Clique officers to be elected Sunday night will be chairman, vice-chairman, an d secretary: treasurer. In answer to a question from the floor, Stevens said that cli- que officers would not be eligible to hold class offices. Asks Aid Ray Evert, chairman of the public relations committee, asked all members of the party and es pecially the new members of the party to do a major share of the party work. • Nominated from the floor Sun day night for freshman clique officers were: chairman, William Clym e r; vice-chairman, John Biltz, Ronald Zylkoski, Robert Funke; secretary-treasurer, Ann Skapik, Cathryn Lloyd. Sophomore clique officers nom inated were: chairman, John Don nal, Paul Sappie, Richard Flown; vice-chairman, William Blomker. There were no nominations for secretary-treasurer at this meet ing. Further nominations will be held this Sunday night. Classes To Hold Meetings Tonight Three...daises are meeting to night for the first time this year. Sophomores will meet in 121 Sparks at 7 p.m., juniors in 105 Willard at 8 p.m., and seniors in 3' White Hall, at 7:30 p.m. Orienting new students in elec tion procedure for the coming elections will be the main task at the sophomore meeting, Sally Shoemaker, vice-president of the class, and in charge of the meet ing, announced. Present at the meeting to ex plain the political •setup of their respective parties will. be Jack Barron, secretary-treasurer of the class, Harry Cover, clique chair man of the State party, and Hu ber Stevens, clique chairman of the Lion party. The sophomore class is assisting in the Pennsylvania Week cele bration opening on campus today. • Carlson To Report Donald Carlson, vice-president of the class and chairman of the prom committee, will re port at the junior meeting. The establishment 'of a. Junior Executive Board to aid class offi cers in policy forming and the handling of administrative details will be considered by the junior class. Exempting eight-semester stu dents from examinations will be discussed at the senior meeting, as announced .by the executive committee. of the class last Wed nesday. Revival of the Lion coat tradition will• also be discussed at the sen ior meeting. Several committees will be named in order that more students may take an active part in class .activities STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1950 Campaigns Clique Members Learn Setup For New State Party By ROSEMARY DELAHANTY Newly-elected chairman Harry Cover explained the administra tive setup of the reorganized State party and outlined its ob jectives to over 150 clique - mem bers in Osmond Sunday night. ' A committee headed by Cover formulated the new State party program last spring. In addition to the standard clique officers it involves the appointment of ward leaders in every living unit to serve as middle-men between the students in that unit and the party's candidates for office. To Help Students This system, Cover believes will enable every student to be come acquainted with those who are running for office, and at the same time will give candidates the opportunity to meet the stu dent body in small groups and discuss controversial issues with them. Other officers elected at Sun day's meeting are Walter Sachs, vice-chairman, and Br ys on Craine, ward leader chairman. At the next meeting of the party, scheduled for 7 p.m. Sun day in 119 Osmond, a run-off election will be held between Charles Ammond and Samuel Kinkead to determine the party treasurer. Neither of these candi dates received the necessary ma jority of votes at the last meet ing. Cover is expected to fill the party's appointive 'posts at next Sunday's meeting. These include secretary, campaign chairman, publicity chairman, and member ship chairman. Nominations Set Nominations will also be held for sophomore and freshman class clique officers. These offi cers, chairman, vice-chairman, and secretary-treasurer, work in conjunction with All-College cli que officers and the party steer ing committee in determining moves and 'policy. The Steering committee is composed of all party executives and others whom they appoint. British University Debaters To Meet State In Schwab On UN Question Alwyn Smith Honorary's Awards All members of Pi Gamma Mu, social science honorary, who were initiated last spring may pick up their shingles,' membership cards and key permits in the office of the Liberal Arts school, 132 Sparks. Forum Speaker . Colonel Limb Korean Minister Speaks At Forum As an added feature of the Community Forum program -this year, Colonel Ben C. Limb, for eign minister of the Republic of Korea, will speak in Schwab aud itorium tomorrow night. Col. Limb, at present chief of the mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, will speak on "Korea and the United Nations." 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 The PSCA will sponsor a re ception for Benjamin C. Limb, foreign minister f r o m South Korea in the McElwain lounge from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednes day. The reception has been ar ranged by Dean Pearl Weston. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Educated in this country, he has returned several times in of ficial capacities from the Korean government. He went to school at Mt. Hermon and Ohio State University, and since has been connected with government in Korea. Col. Limb took part in the or ganization of the Korean revolu tion against . Japan in 1919 and was Dr. Syngman Rhee's aide when Rhee was elected president of the Korean Republic in exile. at Shanghai. In the 1930'5, he served in the Korean Commission in Washing ton D.C., seeking to establish Ko rean independence. From 1945 to 1948, he was chairman of• the Korean Commis- (Continued. on page two) British debating talent will be put on display tonight at 8 o'clock in Schwab auditorium. A Corn bine3 British universities debate team has come to argue with the Penn Staters about the United Nations. Ernest Alwyn Smith, Uni versity of Birmingham, and John Gwynn Williams, University Col lege of North Wales, Bangor, will be the English representatives; Marlin Brenner and Clair George will argue for Penn State. Brenner and Williams will argue the affirmative on the question, "Resolved: That the United Nations is a good inter national debating society, but a poor pattern for' world govern ment." George and Smith will argue the negative. Teams Experienced • Both Englishmen are ex perienced debaters. Smith is De bating Society secretary, and de bates in Inter-Varsity debates. Williams is a member of:. the British labor party and spoke frequently during the General Election. He has taken • part in numerous programs in the 8.8. C. Marlin Brenner, Penn State team captain was a member of (Canaan:4 es page two) College Participates hi Pennsylvania Week The College this week joins other organizations all over the commonwealth in the observation of Pennsylvania Week. The theme of this, the fifth annual observance, is "Pennsylvania Has Everything." . Governor James H. Duff will tour the state in a special Pennsyl vania 'Week train, carrying the governor and other high state offi- Discrimination Clause Removed By AKPsi NaYI Alpha Kappa Psi, national pro fessional commerce fraternity, whose request for a charter at the College caused campus-wide. re action last March, has removed the discrimination clause from its national constitution. The clause was thrown out by the delegates to the 1950 Alpha Kappa Psi convention in Minne apolis in September. The vote was 66 to 44. William! Molloy Jr., president of the . Gamma Epsilon chapter here at the College, said that the chapter is now in the process of setting up its program for the coming year. "I hope that Alpha Kappa Psi, with its change in policy, will be able to work in close relation with the other campus organizations," he said. Previously, qualifications for membership in the national con stitution stated that the candidate had to "be of the Christian faith and Caucasian race." Clause Attacked When the request for a charter last March' was granted by the Senate Committee on Student Welfare, the discrimination clause was attacked by a number of or ganizations on campus including the Penn State Christian associa tion and the National Associa tion for the Advancement of Colored People. The senate committee passed the petition for a charter on the grounds that the petition had been granted by the College 20 years ago. At that time, the Col lege had no commerce depart ment and the local petition to the national organization was with (Continued on page eight) Gwynn Williams Na Lead. On Theft Police said there are no leads on the car theft reported Tuesday midnight by Jay England. The car is a 1950 dark green Ford sedan with license number 104E3 PRICE FIVE CENTS dials, who will speak in 29 com munities along the train's route. In connection with 'the theme, a new . . physiographic map •of Pennsylvania.. showing "known sources of primary wealth" in the commonwealth is being exhibited in the Mineral Industries Building. The model measures 8 by 13 feet. Film Shown A College-produced film deal ing with the extensive research program here had its state debut yesterday when it was shown in the Sparks Building. The movie, soon to be released throughout the state in connection with Pennsylvania Week, will give the general public an inside view of at least half a dozen research projects in progress on the cam pus. An unusual feature of the cur rent Mineral Industries art col lection is a painting of an early Pennsylvania foundry, discovered in a second-hand store in Phila delphia by Dean Edward Steidle of the School of Mineral Indus tries. The picture, executed by George Caleb Bingham, a Missouri artist, in 1846, shows the rolling of steel ingots in the Richards Foundry in Philadelphia. Professor Comments H. E. Dickson, professor of fine arts, says of it: "The Bingham picture is rich in both artistic and historic interest" The College Library is contin uing its exhibit of books and pictures dealing with the Penn sylvania Germans. Photographs of buildings, copies of designs, and samples of their textile production are being shown in the.lobby. On the second floor is a display of their achitec ture. Leonidas Adopts New Amendment By CAROLYN BARRETT The Leonides constitution was amended last night as the new representatives and their alter nates met for the first time. The amendment will state that the president and vice president of Leonides, the executive coun cil, will be elected from members of the general council who have served one term of • office as a representative. The remainder of the officers on the executive council may be elected • from either old or new council mem bers. Nominations for offices on the executive council were held. Joan Wentzel, who is now acting presi dent, and Joan Burlein were nominated for the presidency. Run For Vice-President Vice-presidential nominees are Elsa Paseline, Doris Sher, and Sally Greenberger. Sorley Sny der and Janet Magrini were nom inated for corresponding secre tary. Nominees for recording secre tary are Eleanor Miller and Yvonne Carter. Ann Burlingame and Elizabeth Green will run for treasurer. Additional nominations may be made at the election meeting that Leonides will hold Monday. The new council members are Ann Sp aid e, representative, Louise Penfield, alternate; Mari lyn Meade, representative, Elsa Paseline, alternate; Lee Aitoeffer, representative, and Joan Wentzel, alternate, representing McElwain hall. Women's Building representa tives and alternates are Diane Miller, representative, Jean Wy (Continued on page two)
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