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VOL. 51— No. 86
LIU Cancels Games,
Ends Collegiate Play
NEW YORK, Feb. 20—(!P)—Long Island university 'tonight
cancelled its remaining basketball games and said it is withdraw
ing from intercollegiate athletics of all kinds.
A special meeting of the university's trustees decided to re
turn all snorts .at LIU "to the status of intramural competition."
NEW YORK (?P)—Four Long
Island university stars, drawn in
to the greatest scandal in college
sports history, were charged to
day with taking $18,500 to fix
seven big-time basketball games.
It was the fourth and largest
cage scandal since 1945.
Three of the LIU players were
arrested today, bringing to eight
the number of local college play
ers or ex-players who allegedly
sold out for an overall total of
$25,000 in gamblers' bribes.
The fourth, who played last
year but not this year, already
was charged with taking part in
an earlier bribe attempt the
broke the fix wide open.
Seven Games Fixed
Authorities said the four play
ers admitted fixing seven games
—three last year and four this
season, and one of them in the
National Invitation Tournament.
They said the last game they fixed
was on Jan. 4 when' LIU played
Bowling Green.
Finally, the players were quoted
as saying, they sickened of the
deal and shrugged off further
tainted money to go straight a
month ago.
The latest three players nabbed
in the spreading betting coup in
cluded Sherman White/ 22-year
old Negro forward and the na
tion's leading scorer. The gang
ling star was regarded as a, cinch
for All-America lionorg this year.
Charged wit h bribery along
with White were LlU's other star
forward and team captain, Adolph
Bigos, 25, and Le Roy Smith, 21,
a classy Negro guard.
They were held in $15,000 bail
each.
Questioned All Night
District attorney Frank S. Ho
gan said the three cracked under
night long questioning and fin
ally admitted their part in the
LIU fixes.
The fourth LIU man involved
was Edward Gard, said by Hogan
to have been bribed first when
he played * on the LIU squad last
season.
He is accused of drawing his
three teammates into the setup.
Then, with his playing days
over, Gard was accused •of acting
as a go - between to help bribe
players from other schools.
Besides the four LIU players,
four from other schools have been
arrested since the scandal broke
Sunday.
Seized then were three mem
bers of City College's "cinderella"
(Continued on page five)
Council Aids
Voting Petition
The move for state legaliza
tion of absentee voting gained
further support Monday night
when the Education Student
council voted to send a letter to
Harrisburg where the bill is now
being considered.
Other business at the meeting
included the announcement that
the revision of the council's con
stitution is now complete. How
ever, Clarke Young, president of
the organization, proposed an
amendment which would give
presidents of several clubs and
honoraries a seat and a vote on
the council.
Items on the budget included
a student council-faculty mixer to
be held in conjunction with the
Future Teachers of America, two
student council awards, and fi
nancial help for Edits.
Also discussed was the advis
ability of aiding an FTA project,
"Books for Kids." It was sug
gested that money be approp
riated for supplies and athletic
equipment to aid these' children
attending school in one-room
schoolhouses.
STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1951
Bulletin
Fix Expose
Shocks Lion
Cage Coach
By ERNIE MOORE
Disappointment, shock, and a
cry to bring college basketball
back to the campus was the re
action of the Penn State cage
coaches and players to the big
"fix" expose in New York city
which has rocked the entire
sports world.
Penn State's Coach Elmer
Gross said that he was "very
much surprised" at the sudden
turn of events which has drawn
CCNY, NYU, and Long Island in
to the biggest scandal yet to in
volve* college sports.
'Tremendous Shock'
"It must have been a tremen
dous shock to the coaches of the
teams. You hate to think of it,
but that money is a. big factor,"
he said.
"The boys probably don't have
much money and when someone
flashes a couple of thousand dol
bit' in your face, it looks pretty
big. The trouble is that the boys
think they won't be caught. Now
their lives are ruined," he con
tinued.
Favors Games .On Campus
Former, Lion cage coach John
Lawther stated .emphatically, "I
(Continued on page five)
Atwater Cites
Discussion Need
Better techniques. of .mediation
and, negotiation within the Unit
ed ations would help it to sur
vive the Korean crisis, according
to Dr. Alton Atwater, associate
professor of political science.
Speaking before the Interna
tional' Relations club last night,
Atwater said that it sometimes
seems as if partisan forcei within
the U.N. are "more concerned
with victory for themselves than
with a solution at least partially
satisfactory to each side."
Cease Fire
"A cease-fire command was
given to North Korean forces in
June, 1950, when U.N. forces were
being badly beaten. But when
U.N. troops were crossing the
38th parallel for the first time,
there was no talk of mediation,"
he said.
Either the Korean war will be
localized or it will develop into
a third world war, according to
Atwater. And if it is not local
ized the U.N. wil probably be
come a wartime coalition .of anti-
Communist forces and lose its
original identity as an interna
tional organization, he added.
Atwater was formerly a mem
ber of the international relations
staff at American university in
Washington, D.C. He has attend
ed meetings of the U.N. organiza
tion in Geneva and has observed
sessions of the Security Council
regarding the Korean question.
Major Power Aggression
"The United Nations is not
equipped to handle aggression by
a major power," he said. As an
example he cited the two days
needed for the U.N. to declare
a small country, Northern Korea,
an aggressor in June, 1950. He
contrasted this with the two
months of negotiation necessary
before Communist• China was de
clared an aggressor after. its in
tervention in: Korea.- .
Debaters
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DAVID LEWIS, le ft, and
Harry Kondourajian, members
of the men's debate squad, dis
cuss their victory last weekend
in the Washington and Jeffer
son tournament. The two men
defended the affirmative side.
Winning a victory in the tourn
ament for the third consecutive
year, the College also won per
manent right to posession of
the W and J. debate trophy.
Taylor Says
World Not
In A Crisis
The West is not justified in
calling the present situation a
world crisis, Dr. Paul V. Taylor
said last night in the "Meaning
of the Crisis" colloquy of Re
ligion-in-Life week.
Dr. Taylor, recently returned
from Huachong university, China
said the WeSt is confused and
does not know what weapons to
use in its first struggle with com
munism. War is adolescent—not
mature—and the West is - showing
signs that it can be adult, he
said.
Dr. Carl W. Miller, professor of
physics, Brown university, said
the present situation should not
be called a world crisis but rather
world danger. He said it would
not last for a few years, but for
generations.
Industrial Development
The situation has arisen from
rapid industrial development and
scientific inventions. Miller said
the situation was inevitable, and
has come in God's purpose.
In the 18th century man tried
to give scientific answers instead
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Religion-in-Life
Week Schedule
Tomorrow's schedule for Re
ligion-in-Life week is shown
below. The program which
started Sunday as Penn State's
part in National Brotherhood
week will end with a closing
service tomorrow night. Joan
Ifutchon and Emerson Jones
are co-chairmen of the pro
gram.
Thursday's Schedule:
7:40-8 a.m. Worship-Penn
State-in-China, 303 Old Main.
8:30 ' a.m. Radio: The. Rev.
Homer V. Heisley, speaker.
9 a.m.-4 p.m. Classroom ap
pointments and personal con
ferences.
12 noon. Leaders' luncheon
meeting, Allencrest.
3 p.m. Movies, 119 Osmond.
3-5 p.m. School seminars.
5:30-8 p.m. Firesides in
dormitories and fraternities.
8-8:30 p.m. Radio broad
cast; The Rev. Samuel Proc
tor, speaker.
8:30 p.m. Closing service
with Joan Hutchon and Emer
son Jones presiding; College
Chapel choir; Modern Dance
group.
Drop Is Slight
In Enrollment
Enrollment at the College did not drop as much as expected for
the spring semester, according to figures released yesterday by Ruth
H. Gold, admissions office statistician.
A total of 10,342 students are enrolled in the College now, a drop
of 790 from the 11,132 students enrolled last semester. But the drop
New System
Lets Frosh
Enroll Early .
A new emergency acceleration
program enabling June high
school graduates to
_get an early
start on their college education
was announced yesterday by
President Milton S. Eisenhower.
Under the new program, the
new freshman classes will be ad
mited July 2 and "again Sept. 9,
Eisenhower said. The July ses-
sion will be of nine weeks dur
ation and will afford the new
comer an opportunity to initiate
his training in any one of the 57
courses of study now offered by
the College.
May Enter In Fall
President Eisenhower empha
sized that entering students may
take their choice as to whether
to begin their freshman year in
the summer session, or wait un
til the opening of the regular
fall semester.
Freshman week in the fall be
gins Sept.. 9 and- classes get under
way Sept. 17. The summer ses
sion, opening July 2, will end
Aug. 31.
Not Limited To Boys
The summer session will not be
limited to boys, according to
Eisenhower. Girls will be allowed
to take the courses offered in the
July session. Certain basic cours
es common to nearly all fresh
man prOgrams will be offered
during the special summer ses
sion.
"Students returning from the
last war," Dr. Eisenhower ex
plained, "insisted upon the ac
celerated programs. They were
older, and many of them had
assumed new obligations. The
important thing to them was to
get started on their careers. By
accelerating now, we believe we
will be rendering a service not
only to our country, but also to
those youngsters who sooner or
later may be drafted for defense
duties."
2500 Persons
Sign Petition
The National Student associa
tion's petition urging the' Penn
sylvania legislature to legalize
absentee voting has been signed
by about 2500 students, David
Fitzcharles, chairman of the NSA
l absentee voting committee, said
last night.
The petitions will be circulated
in the ,dormitories, fraternity
houses, and in town during meal
time for the rest of the week.
Edward Shanken, Thomas Far
rell, Leonard Wargo and 0 tto
Grupp are circulating the petition'
in town and at fraternity houses.
Joan Yerger and Joanne Esterly
are at Simmons, while Ella Louise
Williams is at McElwain.
Woodward At McAllister
Guyla Woodward is handling
McAllister. Fitzcharles and Wil
liam Klisanin will be at a table
in the Nittany-Pollack dining hall
today.
The petition will be at the Stu
dent Union desk in Old Main all
week.
The floor presidents of the West
dorms explained the petition at
house meetings last night.
Klisanin observed a lack of in
terest in many students under 21
who dop't realize that by the
time the measure goes into effect
they will be .old enough to vote.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
is only 43 from the 10,385 en
rolled at the beginning of th e
spring semester last year.
College officials throughout the
country predicted there would be
huge drops in enrollment in Feb
ruary of this year, but apparently
this has not been the case on this
campus.
While the enrollment did drop
from last semester's, to be accu
rate, the figures must be com
pared with enrollment of previous
spring semesters.
Of this semester's total, includ
ing graduate, special, part-time
and two-year agriculture stude:nts,
7,918 are men and 2,424 are wo
men, a ratio of almost three men
for every woman.
Semester Totals
Th e totals by semesters are:
first semester, 101 men and 37
women; second, 933 men and 370
women; third, 111 men and 31
women; fourth, 1577 men and 662
women; fifth, 237 men and 56
women; sixth, 1696 men and 481
women; seventh, 286 men and 56
women; and eighth, 1647 men and
405 women.
There are also 1184 men and
198 women enrolled in the grad
uate school; 94 men and 128 wo
men enrolled as special students;
and 52 two-year agricultural stu
dents.
By schools, the totals are Ag
riculture, 1710; Chemistry and
Physics, 823; Education, 1620;
Home Economics, 674; Engineer
ing, 1545; Liberal Arts, 2647; Min
eral Industries, 610; Physical Ed
ucation, 314; and Division of In
termediate Registration, 399.
Auto Traffic
To Be Checked
Stricter enforcement of • exist
ing Windcrest traffic regulations
will begin taking place soon, ac
cording to a release from the
Windcrest council. -
A regulation restricting traffic
in the Windcrest area to residents
only will be enforced by the coun
cil in cooperation with the Cam
pus patrol, the dean of men's of
fice, and Tribunal.
The council asked that all fac
ulty, townspeople, students, visi
tors, delivery trucks and workers
keep their cars out of the area
because of the danger of hitting
the many children at play.
Today.. .
The Nittany Lion Roars
FOR Lou Lamle, Penn State's
"Mr. Basketball," wh o has
broken the three-year Nittany
scoring mark by amassing a
total of 587 points. Lou, cage
captain this season. surpassed
Jack Biery's old total of 576.
The sports-minded Nittany
Lion was a little confused for
a while, but now that the rec
ord has been confirmed, he
roars with admiration and the
hope that "Mr. Basketball" will
scorch the hoops for the rest of
the season and break the one
year record now held by Marty
Costa at 299.