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VOL. 51— No. 41
AIM Governors Dispute
Charges Of Inefficiency
The four officers of the board of governors of the Association
of.„ Independent Men, in a carefully worded statement, disputed
charges of inefficiency and lack of organization which Francis Turk,
former president of the Nittany dorm council, made before the
West dorm and Nittany dorm councils Monday night.
The statement said that "Mr. Turk is neither interested in the
betterment of AIM here on cam
pus nor the successful operation
of the board of governors but that
his remarks are calculated only
for his personal aggrandizement."
The statement was signed by
Richard Bard, chairman; William
Zakor, vice-chairman; Richard
Mills, secretary; and Howard Fit
ting, treasurer.
Replying to Turk's charges that
no services have been offered by
AIM even though AIM is receiv
ing 25 cents dues from each in
dependent man per semester, the
board listed the activities spon
sored so far this semester by the
group. The statement says that
"Mr. Turk's biased and limited
memory has completely forgot
ten" the all-College dance spon
sored by AIM during the first
week of school.
AIM Activities
The statement mentions the
part AIM played in President Eis
enhower's Inaugural ball where
AIM and Leonides presented the
President with an inscribed silver
bowl; the "very successful" West
dorms open house to which all
campus women were invited to
see the new men's dorms; and
the hou.separty which AIM will
sponsor at the University club
Saturday night.
The statement reminds Turk
that the 25 cent fees have not yet
been transferred to the AIM ac
count and therefore are not avail
able for :use. The expenses in
curred so far this semester have
been partially deferred by the
balance in last year's treasury.
Turk Charges
Turk charges that the Town
council would not be organized
for another month, therefore the
board would be without the offi
cers of the council. AlM's state
ment replied that if "Mr. Turk
had been zealous for the 'efficient'
functioning of AIM as he inti
mates, he would have volunteered
his help to the present board in
organizing the council."
The statement continwzd that
"Turk" has continually harassed
and badgered the present officers
by means of 'representatives
speaking for him'."
explaining why the Town
council was not yet organized,
the statement said the elections
committee of AIM had waded
through 7,000 schedule cards filed
in the office of the Dean M Men
to get the names of the 2,000 men
living in town.
'These cards were not available
until three weeks after' the term
had begun, the statement said.
Also, 'there were few volunteers
for the work of sorting the cards
and Turk was not one pf them,
according to the statement.
Blue Key Considers
Constitution, Change
Changes in the constitution of
Blue Key, junior men's hat so
ciety, to provide a more - diverse
membership for, the organization
were considered at a meeting
Monday night, David Mutchler,
president, announced.
Other business at the meeting
included the pledging of full sup
port of Blue Key behind the
flashcard system and election of
Jerry Gibson as new secretary.
Perrine To Speak
Dr. J. 0. Perrine, assistant, vice
president of the American Tele
phone and Telegraph company,
will give a demonstration-lecture
on telephone and radio transmis
sion in Schwab auditorium to
night at 8 o'clock.
The lecture is sponsored by Sig
ma Pi Sigma, national physics
honorary society, and is open to
the public.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 9, 1950
GSA Finances Work •
On ME South Wing
ConstructiOn work on the
south wing of the Mechanical
Engineering bUil din g—first
project under a $9,000,000
building program sponsored by
the General State authority—
began this week.
The parking lot west of En
gineering F has been closed to
College employees to provide
space for construction traffic
and for workmen, according to
George W. Ebert, director of
the physical plant.
Engle To Speak
Al Rally Tonight
A program of speeches, cheers,
and comedy acts will highlight
the West Virginia game pep ral
ly tonight at 7:30 on, the steps of
Old Main.
The rally will be preceded by a
parade forming at the Nittany
Lion shrine at 7 p. m. The parade
will move along Curtin road , to .
Shortlidge road, and down Short
lidge to Pollock road. It will turn
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Rudy Valentino, head cheer
leader, needs members of the
student body to help arrange
flashcards for the West Vir
ginia football game. Those who
wish to help should repast to
Rec hall after the pep rally.
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left on Polock road and move
across campus, ending at Old
Main.
Speeches at the rally will be
presented by football Coach
Charles A. "Rip" Engle, and foot
ball players Vince O'Bara, Earl
Mundell, and Owen Dougherty.
Additional features of the rally,
emceed by Robert - Davis, All-
College president, will be the
presentation of a skit by Sam
Vaughan, the "foolish gentleman"
and a visit by the Nittany Lion..
The Blue band and the cheer
leaders will be on hand for the
rally, which was planned by
Parmi Nous and Cwens in con
nection with the cheerleaders.
GOP Sweeps Important
County, State Elections
Republicans swept the most' important posts in county and
state elections held Tuesday.
James H. Duff defeated Francis J. Myers by 125,000 votes in
the race for U. S. Senator, and John S. Fine scored an 83,000-vote
plurality, over Richardson Dilworth in a bitterly-contested guberna
torial battle.
Incumbent Rep. James E. Van Zandt defeated Arthur H. Reede
professor of economics at the Col
lege, in the fight for the 22nd
Congressional district seat in the
House of Representatives. Van
Zandt had an unofficial majority
of 14,194 votes over his opponent.
Democrats did, however, man
age to make firm inroads in the
State Senate. They captured five
more seats, reducing the Repub
lican majority from 35-15 to 30-20.
The Republicans now have less
than the . 34 votes needed to con
firm appointments by the gover
nor, Only 26 votes are necessary
to pass legislation, however, so
they should have little difficulty
in the passage of bills.
A record 74 per cent of Centre
County's registered voters came
Campus Politicos
Open. Campaigns
Representation Is
Key Stale Plank
In Ne'w. Platform
By ROSEMARY DELAHANTY
Key issues which State party
candidates will push in the race
for sophomore and freshman class
posts center around a proposal for
sophomore representation on Tri
bunal and Judicial and a plan to
improve transportation to an d
from State College.
Six planks constitute the State
platform, which was released by
the elections committee last night.
Campaigning Begins Today
Clique chairman Harry Cover
said he believes the platform to be
in line with major student inter
ests which State party candidates
will act upon if elected.
Councils
The party intends to cooperate
with Nittany and Pollock councils
in their efforts to obtain laundry
service in that area, and hopes, by
working in conjunction with the
West Dorm council, to improve
parcel post, facilities in the new
dorms.
Another plank proposes to in
vestigate the possibility of instal
ling more telephones in the lob
bies of the women's living units.
• State party candidates have al
so pledged their support to All-
College - cabinet in itspreservation
program for Hort woods.
Speech-Making
Candidates will begin campaign
ing today with speech-making in
fraternity houses and dormitor
ies.
Glenn Wiggins is the State par
ty candidate for sophomore class
president; Joseph Simone for vice
president; and Nancy Showers for
secretary-treasurer.
Freshman class candidates are,
for president, Gerald Maurey• for
vice-president, Bernard Kelley;
and for secretary-treasurer, Neida
Fralich.
Union Speech Tonight
Arthur A. Elder, director of the
Training institute of the Interna
tional Ladies Garment union; will
speak before the Industrial Re
lations Research association at an
open meeting in 110 Electrical
Engineering at 7:30 tonight. its
topic will be- "Unions and The
College Man.'
to the polls. At the last general
elections the presidential race at
tracted only 69 per cent of the
voters.
A total of 3,422 votes were cast
in State College.
Elsewhere around the country,
Republicans captured four more
U. S. Senate seats, boosting, the
senatorial lineup to 47 Republi
cans and 49 Democrats. Twenty
five contests are yet .to be de
cided.
Student interest .in the elec
tions seemed to be slight. Few
students applied for excuses from
class for voting, and PSCA-spon
sored rides home for student vo
ters attracted only four persons.
Axford Asks 'Pledges
Herbert Axford, campus
chest chairtnan, yesterday ask
ed all students not yet con
tacted by solicitors, to sign a
pledge card in the PSCA of
fice, 304 Old Main.
Members of Alpha Phi Ome
ga. national service honorary,
canvassed town twice but were
unable to contact everyone.
Students who do not have a
pledge card, but want to do
nate, should 'sign their names
and matriculation numbers on
paper and present them at the
PSCA office before .Friday.
Students are- warned not to
give a donation unless they
are given a receipt.
The drive ends Friday, and
$B,OOO has been given. The
goal of the drive is $14,000.
torch Is Denied
CCNY Position
Dr. Lee Lorch, former mem
ber of the Penn State faculty,
has been denied reinstatement
to the staff of the City College
of New York by the state's Board
of Higher Education.
The announcement that Dr.
Lorch's appeal for reinstatement
had been denied was made by
Dr. Lewis A. Wilson, New York
State Commissioner. of Educa
tion.
Dr. Lorch left Penn State at
the close of the 1949-1950 schobl
year when the College refused to
renew his one-year contract. Dr.
Lorch claimed that he was -dis
missed because of his activity as
.co-chairman of a committee to
eliminate discrimination against
Negroes in Stuyvesant Town, the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.
housing development in New
York City. The College , said Dr.
Lorch was dismissed\ because he
lacked the "personal qualifica
tions" it sought in faculty mem
bers.
Dr. Lorch is now a member of
the mathematics faculty at Fisk
university, Tenn.
Sophs To Petition
Cabinet For Aid
All-College secretary-treasurer
Emerson Jones will put before
Cabinet tonight the request of
the sophomore class for mqney to
finance their annual dance.
John Baron, sophomore secre
tary-treasurer last year, made
the initial reqwest last night at
a meeting of the inter-class fi
nance committee, of which Jones
is chairman. Cabinet will also be
asked to name a date for the
dance.
Baron is the official representa
tive of the sophomore class in
financial matters until new of
ficers are elected Nov. 16.
Cabinet will also take action
on elections committee chair
man Edwin Barnitz's request that
the offering of dance tickets and
ether prizes as voting induce-
Ments be banned.
Jones' amendment to the all-
College constitution concerning
payment of Cabinet bills and the
specifying of June 30 as the end
of the fiscal year will be voted
upon.
PSCA Radio Panel
The PSCA radio committee will
present "Breaking a Barrier" to
night at 8 o'clock over WMAJ.
The program will •be a panel dis
cussion of the social barriers be
tween sororities and fraternities
and independent men and women.
PRICE F.
Lion Party Bases
Fall Platform On
'Student Welfare'
By 808 SCHOOLEY
All-College elections committee
chairman Edwin Barnitz released
copies of the Lion and State par
ty platforms at a meeting of the. ,
elections committee last nitit.
Election campaigning begins to--
day.
In releasing the platforms, Bar
nitz said the platforms "seem to
be good" and termed them "well
thought out." The platforms per
tain to the freshman and sopho
more class officer elections to be
held next Thursday.
Interests And Welfare
The Libn party platform is bas.
ed upon the principles which, ac
cording to the platform, will "pro
vide for the interests and welfare
of the students at Penn State."
- Some of the main points of the
Lion platform are: to provide bet
ter recreational facilities for the
Nittany-Pollock residents; to pro
mote action toward the opening
of the PUB as a lounge where
women may be entertained on
weekends; to help expand the
services of the Student Dry
Cleaning agency; to work with
the All-College cabinet commit
tee to help preserve Hort woods
as a college landmark; to advo
cate that DIR students be allow
ed to vote in student council elec
tions; and to support present
plans to 'start a service for mail
ing packages at the West dorm
post office.
The Lion party also has drawn
into its platform plans to sup
port ways to have a better repre
sentation at class meetings, better
spirit at athletic events, and more
social functions for the freshman
and sophomOre classes.
[ . Lion Candidates
The Lion 'candidates for fresh
man class officers are Augustine
Ormrod, president; John White.
vice-president; and Guyla Wood
ward, secretary-treasurer. Sopho
more class candidates are William.
Bair, president; Arthur Rosfeld.
vice-president; and Josephine
Waterhouse, secretary-treasurer.
These candidates were elected
last Sunday night by the party.
The Daily Collegian will pub
lish complete platforms of both
the State and the Lion parties in
a future edition.
ROTC To Stage
Armistice Program
Naval, Air and Army ROTC
units at the College will partici
pate in a flag ceremony Satur
day morning at 10:50 to corn
fnemorate Armistice Day.
Members of the Army and Air
Force band along with a Navy
contingent and the Pershing
Rifle honorary society will march
to the flag pole in front of Old.
Main. The honorary group and
Navy men will escort the colors
to that point.
While the band plays the Na
tional Anthem, three ROTC stu
dents, one each from the sepa
rate services, will lower the flag
to half mast.
Taps will be sounded with the
flag in that position. Following
the sounding of Taps, the flag
will be raised to the top of the
mast.
After the ceremony the ROTC
units will " march from the field
Lo the• Armory.