...... . . .. • .. . • . • . • - ' - : •. t, • • - TODAY'S WEATHER: 41§,• • FOR A BETTER SCATTERED SHOWERS . . . CLOUDY AND MILD: )...' . . f -1.-..,;•....zi Ociiiiir i tti pr ::,:::-...--ra*- Titiltglan q PEriN STATE , , : VOL. 51— No. 96 Helping The PSCA RUSSELL ORNER. publicity chairman for PSCA's current fund drive. displays a shirt to Mrs. Milton S. Eisenhower. Students aiding the PSCA are working in the College Sportswear stork. this week. Ten percent of the week's gross receipts will go to PSCA. PSCA Tries Stelling To Get Out Of Red "The customer is always , right," the businessman's proverbial maxim, has become the by-word of nearly 100 members of the Penn State Christian association who are currently operating the College Sportswear store. John Baldwin, owner of the store, suggested that the PSCA op erate the store for one week as a means of partially overcoming the IPSCA's budget deficit. Ten per cent of the gross receipts for this week will go to the PSCA. Free Flowers The first 25 customers at the store this morning will receive flowers with their purchases. Publicity committees have been hard at work advertising their business ventu r e. Yesterday afternoon two students, accom panied by a Great Dane, paraded on campus and through town. The students wore signs adver-, tising the PSCA's sales efforts. A parade of cars filled with PSCA members honked, through the campus and through town yesterday advertising the special sale.' Officials OK PUB Dating For Coeds Women will be permitted in the Pollock Union building dur ing certain hours this week-end, it was announced yesterday by the dean of men's office. Daniel A. DeMarino, assistant dean of men, said that his office and the staff of the dean of women's office had conferred on the problem of allowing women to date in the. PUB and decided that coeds would be allowed in the area on Friday, from 8 p.m. until 1 a.m., Saturday, from 1 p.m. until 1 a.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m. Council Proposal The conference came about from a proposal to the dean of men's office by the Pollock Circle dorm council quite some time ago. President Milton S. Eisen hower's office released no state ment on the proposal, but it was understood that he was in favor of giving the men in Pollock- Cir cle a social building of their own. DeMarino pointed out that the dating privileges are not restrict ed to men of the area. One of the chief blocks to mix ed socializing in the area' was removed when several of the Pol lock dorms were closed this year. Previously, it would have bee necessary for the women to pass almost through the center of the (Continued on page two) Inkling Candikstes A meeting of all candidates for Inkling, the College's lit erary magazine, will be held tonight in 2 Carnegie hall at 7 p.m„ Florenz Fenton, manag ing editor, announced yester-: day. Samuel Vaughan, editor, will explain the aims and pro gress, of, the magazine. - • STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 7, 1951 —Collegian Photo by McNeillie Transcribed broadcasts of stu dents interviewing customers at the Sportswear store will be giv en over WMAJ at 5:45 tonight (Continued on page two) Debaters Outline 4 Exam Changes Four courses of action were outlined by affirmative debaters to change the_final exams situation for eighth semester seniors, during the Liberal Arts debate last night. They wed: 1. Complete elimination with the student fully responsible for keeping up his „marks throughout the semester. 2. A choice of the individual professor to have or not have a final, 3. Student's decision to take or reject a final, 4. Maintenance by the student of a certain average in the course which will eliminate him from finals. Debate Sides The affirmative was taken by ,Marlin Brenner, All-College cab inet parliamentarian, and John Erickson, senior class president. Negative debaters were Harry Kondourajian, All-College vice president, and David Lewis, mem ber of the varsity debate team. Joseph F. O'Brien, professor of public speaking was moderator. He was introduced by Edward Shanken, president of the Liber al Arts student council. The affirmative stand was Proposed Eastern . Athletic . Conference Is Discussed By School Officials; Pr'esident Eisenhower Backs Plan DP's Tell Abut In Soviet Russia Four Russian displaced persons told of their experiences ,behind the Iron Curtain in a forum discussion in 121 Sparks last night. Father Constantine Auroroff, instructor in Russian, Captain Gre gory Gagarin, assistant professor of physical education, and William Edgerton professor of Russian, were interperters. The discussion was sponsored by the Greek Catholic Orthodox Students club. Questions were asked by the interpreters and audience. One Goes To Jail One of the displaced persons, Prof. Yatsenko, a teacher of Rus sian literature, told of being sent to a concentration camp because of an incident in one of his class es. One of his students asked if it would be possible to write stories whilb in a Communist prison and have them published. When Yatsenko refused to an swer the question, he was sent to jail. A. Sergeev, a . former teacher in Kiev, told of being arrested while teaching in a military school and being accused of a plot against the _government. When he was not allowed to sleep in his cell for several days and his captors threatened to have his wife undergo the same tor ture, Sergeev confessed to the plot. He was sentenced to "five years in a Siberian labor camp. Collective Farms N. Irgizov, former electrical enginetir and now co-editor of the American-language magazine, "Challenge," was asked if only the richer peasants objected to working on Russian collective farms. He replied that this was true but that anyone who ob jected automatically became a "rich, peasant" in the eyes of the government. Paul Bugoch, who now lives with his wife and daughter in Bellefonte, told of not being al lowed to go to school because of a so-called crime of his father. His brother was imprisoned and denied this privilege because his father was a "capitalist" who owned horses and pigs. Bugoch (continued on page eight) that graduating seniors were un der stress and anxiety during the last days of their college careers and that practical plans can be produced to eliminate the finals. Brenner said nine out of 37 col leges contacted do not have finals, and six other schools have systems which .partially do away with the exams. Negative View The negative. view held that the finals are a review arid a nec essary element of education. Lew is said kudents ' would choose between professors who gave firials and those who did not. Erickson. said that grading fi nals for the eighth semester (continued on page eight) By LEE STERN Eisenhower Names 7 To Top' Posts PARIS, March 6 —(p)— Gen. D, w ight D. Eisenhower today picked seven relatively young of ficers, six of them Europeans,"to help him whip his Atlantic army into shape to oppose Communist aggression. The officers, all of whom learn ed their soldiering in action, took over staff jobs in Supreme Head quarters of the Allied Powers in Europe (SHAPE), which Eis;it hower commands. Their aver e age is 51. Four Jobs Vacant Four of the biggest jobs in SHAPE remain vacant. These are the job of deputy commander, for which British Field Marshal Lord Montgomery is rumored the like ly choice, and the commands of land, sea and air forces. Three Britons, two Frenchmen, an Italian and an American are the staff appointees. Two take 'over as deputy chiefs of staff and the others as assistant chiefs of staff in charge of five bureaus of military operation. All are direct ly under Eisenhower's chief of staff, U.S. Lt. Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther. They, are:7- Carpentier Named Lt. Gen. Marcel-Maurice Car pentier, 56, of the French Army deputy chief of staff for adininis tration. Air Vice Marshal E. C. Hudle ston, 43, of the British Royal Air Force, deputy chief of staff for plans. Rear Adm. Ferrante Capponi, 52, of the Italian Navy, assistant chief of staff for personnel and administration. Maj. Gen. H. H. Leavey, 57, of the U.S. Army, assistant chief of staff for logistics. (continued on page eight) Hatmen Plan For - Pep Rally • Androcles, junior men's hat so ciety, will sponsor a pep rally fo r Penn State's undefeated wrestliqg team on the steps of the West dorm dining hall to morrow night at 7 o'clock, ac cording to president Donald Cailson. arlson said that he had con tac ed Homer Barr and arranged for him to speak and bring the other members of the team to the rally also. He said that he would try to get wrestling coach Charles Speidel to attend th e rally as well as some of the cheerleading squad. Carlson said that the rally was planned as an indication to the team that the school is behind them in their quest for their first Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling association title since 1942. The 47th annual EIWA tourna ment will be held in Recreation hail Friday and Saturday. 'No Developments' Reported Yet From Informal Meetings Life A proposed Eastern Athletic conference, with Penn State as a possible member and with the backing of President Milton S. Eisenhower, has been discussed at informal meetings, Carl P. Schottodean of the School of Phy sical Education and Athletics said yesterday. "But as yet there have been no developments," he said . Earlier in the year, Penn. State had been mentioned as a possible member of a proposed Eastern Football conference along with Colgate, Pitt, Syracuse, Rutgers, N.Y.U., Temple, and Fordham. However, in a statement to the Daily Collegian, President Eisen hower said that Penn State was interested in the formation of an. athletic. 'conference, "but not one limited to football." The President pointed out that while Penn State was not a mem ber of a regional conference in football, the College is a member of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic conference, "which has regula tions governing financial aid to athletics." Dean Schott also spoke in favor of the proposed conference, the prospective members of which have not been mentioned. "We are interested in a athletic conference if the member schools are on a level with Penn State, academic as well as athletic," he said. Wouldn't Drop ECAC He said that if Penn State were to enter such a conference, it would not necessarily mean that Penn State would drop from the Eastern Collegiate Athletic con ference. He pointed out that member ship in an athletic conference would arouse more interest in (continued on page eight) Today... Pr;" 4,4 • ,cofs $ eg f tt„, . 44". 4tr ef \•• The Nittany Lion Roars FOR Homer Barr, who is still heavyweight wrestling king in the Lion's estimation. The Lion traditionally has roared for his proteges in victory only, but this time a throaty growl of pride is given for Homer's grueling struggle which end ed in defeat. However, the Lion believes there is more to wrestling and intercollegiate sports than mere victory, however important it may seem. Homer lost—perhaps to a better man, perhaps to Lady Luck, perhaps to circum stances. But regardless, the Lion roars a warning that King Homer, momentarily toppled from his throne, will come back with avengeance this weekend and once more reign as undisputed monarch of the heavyweight grapplers of the East., PRICE FIVE CENTS Earlier Statement
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