. . . . TODAY'S WEATHER: v .o. ~ , .-- 6 SOME CLOUDINESS: o' Ei at t g rt..,.4.?4, T o tt rg i an iiirr FORA BETTER LITTLE TEMPERATURE 1. • 0 CHANGE .e 4 PENN STATE , . VOL. 51— No. 142 Radio Station, Machdire Fuml . Get Senior Gift The senior cldss gift fund will be used to put a campus radio station into effect and for a Donald Maclntire Memorial Scholar ship Fund, - John Erickson, senior class president, announced at the Senior,Ball last night. - . About $6OOO will be given to the campus radio station committee which is scheduled to have the station in operation by next fall. The, broadcast will be transmitted to campus buildings by the power lines. Off-campus living places can have special wires run into their houses to pick up the signal. The station will provide voca • tional opportunities for students in radio and speech work. The remaining $2OOO will be used for a scholarship fund which will be invested to accure interest for 20 years, when the College will give scholarships to the children of members of the class of 1951 with the highest averages and the most need. After 1991, the recipient will not need to be a child of a '5l graduate. The fund will be a memorial to Donald Maclntire, senior i n journalism, who was killed in an automobile accident Sunda y. Maclntire was president of Delta Sigma- Phi fraternity, advertising director of Froth, and art editor of Inkling. Seniors, voted for their class gift by preferential ballot earlier this month. The radio station was first. from the first ballot. The gridiron statue picked up second and third place votes to finish second. The ambulance was third. The senior class gift committee of Otto Grupp, chairman, William Barr, Jo Ann Esterly, and Jos eph Lenchner chose the seven best gift suggestions which also included a gateway project, scho larship fund, a student press, and a grand piano Carnival Nets Profits Despite Rain Despite inclement weather the 1951 Spring Carnival may net higher profits than either pre vious carnival. Although the exact tally of tickets has not been completed, members of the committee said that all refreshment booths were sold out and that the ferris wheel brought in additional profits over the previous year. The committee was unable to release the names of the winning booths because several booths had not reported their official earn ings. David Schmuckler; chairman of publicity, said yesterday that he • expected both gross and net prof its to be higher than last year. Last year's carnival netted nearly $BOO for the Campus Chest, and the first carnival, in 1949, earned approximately $5OO for the World Student Welfare Fund. Joseph LindsaY, sponsored by Kappa Sigma fraternity, was the winner of the Alpha Phi Omega "Ugly Man" contest. He was pre sented with a plaque and "Ugly Man" key at intermission of the Senior Ball last night. Almost 22,000 tickets were sold last year grossing $2.118.48. Proceeds from this year's car nival will be used to establish a Student Loan .fund under di rection of All-College cabinet. A special 30-minute radio show will be broadcast from the Cor ner Room this morning by the Spring Week committee. David Schmuckler and Peter Axford will interview students on the activities 'of the week. Arnold Taylor's orchestra and the "Four Flats and a Sharp" will provide music for the program. Marine Reserve Applicants For OCS Dueßy May 26 Applicants for enlistment in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve for assignment to the Officers Candidate course should apply before May 26, to 206 Engineer ing E, Lt. Col. Foley, USMC, asso ciate professor of naval science, said yesterday. The training of personnel en rolled in this officer candidates program will consist of two train ing periods; officer candidate training and basic officer train ing. he explained. General requirements are as follows: 1. The student must be a citi zen of the U. S. with a good standing as a regularly enrolled senior, or have a four-year 'bac calaureate degree. 2. He must be 20 years of age, on date of enlistment and not more than 27 years of age .on July 1. 1951. 3. He must not be a member of any state, federal, naval or military organization, including formal obligations to or enlist ments in Army, Air Force or Naval ROTC. Other specific requirements and information concerning de tails are available in 206 Engi neering E, where applications are avadabie. he said. Osborn Will Address Iron, Steel Institute - Dr. E. F. Osborn, professor of geochemistry and head of the de partment of earth sciences, will discuss "Fundamental Investiga tion of Steel Plant Refractories Problems" at a general meeting of the American Iron and Steel Institute, in • New York, N.Y. on Wednesday. . Carnival Patrons Vote Lindsay As Ugliest. Man On Campus By LYNN KAHANOWITZ Joe Lindsay is the ugliest man on campus. So said the posters and so said carnival goers Thurs day night as they voted Joseph Lindsay the Alpha Phi Omega ugly man. Five feet, nine inches tall with brown hair 'and hazel eyes, Lind say attended a Kappa Sigma fra ternity house meeting after lunch of the day a letter was received from Alpha Phi Omega request ing a contest for the ugly man contest. Someone said, "I nominate Joe Lindsay." Another brother sec onded the nomination. Then nominations were' closed. Lind say okayed the idea, "after all, it's for the house." And the house backed him. They distributed posters an d chanted "Joe Lindsay, ugly man" at the Spring Week parade. Bro thers Joseph Simone, Roger Clin ton. and Walter Conti, president of Kappa Sigma, were his cam paign managers. Henry Lozar served as make up man for the picture which frightened children. Lindsay's teeth were blackened, his nose covered with putty, and his eye lids turned up for the photo graph. Lindsay 'has latind that STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1951 Dorms To House 3 Frosh For Each Upperclassman WD Charge Unfounded, Says Galati Joseph Galati, West Dorm Council parliamentarian, issued a statement yesterday regarding an editorial which appeared in Thursday's Collegian. The editorial charged that Gal ati was involved in a scheme "to discredit'and undermine AIM ..." It also said that "there is good reason to believe that the plot is supported and was even ..in itiated by , a group of resident id visers in •the area." Galati's statement follows: "This is to clear up the point in Thursday's Collegian concern ing the advisers from the Dean of Men's office. I have never re ceived any information concern ing the" topic charged against them and have not even con ferred with the advisers from that office. "I want it completely under stood that the West Dorm ad visers and anyone connected with them are completely innocent of the charge that they initiated a plan to secede from the AIM for the West Dorm area, or even par ticipated in the charge. "I agree with the Collegian that the advisers' job is to advise and not to meddle in student government affairs; and that is all to my knowledge that they have been doing." Spanish, French Clubs Hold Picnic. Tomorrow The Spanish and French Clubs will hold their annual picnic to morrow at Black Moshannon. The cars will leave the parking lot behind Old Main at 1:30 p.m. To make reservations call Alice Doles, 27 Atherton or Toni Seitz, 350 McElwain. ugly man isn't as bad as he thought. Professors and class mates have kidded him, frater nity brothers woke him up in the wee hours yesterday morning to make a speech, but worst of all he missed seeing his fiancee, a school teacher in Midland, Pa., last night because he had to re •ceive a plaque and medal at the Before And After Approximately one upperclassman for every three fresh man will be assigned to the West Dormitories under a com plete change in the method by which - men are to be given dormitory rooms, it was announced yesterday. The same one-to-three ratio will be in effect in the Nit tany Dormitory area as well. The new plan includes a priority system by which upper classmen will be chosen for residence in the West Dorm area. College officials said assign ments for upperclassmen desir ing to live in dormitories will be made by a committee com posed of students and adminis trative officers. The members of the committee will be announced early next week. There are approximately 1000 freshmen and 600 upperclassmen in the West Dorm area now: Priorities After basic priority policies have been established by the committee, applicants will, in general, be given priority depend ing on the day and hour that the application is filed. Under the new policy, which will go into effect immediately, men students now living in Col lege dormitories will be " furn ished an application form early next week which they may use to request a room reservation for the fall. The forms will be issued through the 'dormitory post of fice system. Students not living in - the dor mitories, but who are now at the College, will be able to procure their applications from the de partment of housing, 108 Old Main. File Request Officials said the plan, which requires an applicant to file. his initial request through the de partment of housng, was adopted "to facilitate the initial assign ment; to consolidate the business nrocedures involved; and to en able the dean of men's staff to devote its entire time•to the coun seling program." The closing date for filing ap (continued on page eight) Senior Ball. "I don't know whether or not this is an honor," the senior in metalurgy said. Lindsay is a member of the American Society for Metals and vice-president of his fraternity. He transferred to the College in his junior year from Denison University, Gran ville. Ohio. PRICE FIVE CENTS Air Corps, ROTC U n its To Parade More than 2500 Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC students at the College. and 750 men enrolled in the Air Force school for clerk typists on the campus will par ade at 2 p.m. today with commu nity organizations as State Col lege marks Armed Forces Day. The parade will consist of five divisions with each Armed Serv ice being represented. The Ma rines will be represented by the Marine flag and a group of Naval ROTC cadets. Lt. Col. Foley, as sociate professor of naval science, will be the officer in command. A large crowd is expected to witness the second Armed Forces Day to be• observed throughout the country. Armory Dedication Following the parade, the dedi cation of the 'new armory of the 112th Aircraft Control and Warn ing Squadron, Pennsylvania Air National Guard will take place, as will series of films, demonstra tions, exhibits, and window dis plays by the Army, Navy, and Air Force Departments. Equipment which will be ex hibited by the 112th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron will be located near the Armory. A radio transmitter and receiver, through which the local squadron can keep in contact with other squadrons and also higher head quarters, is included in the ex hibit. Two other features of the dis play .are three types of vehicles employed by the squadron and a radar set on which the Air Force and Navy planes that will fly (continued on page eight) 22 Are Chosen Cheerleaders Twenty-two students, ten of them coeds, were chosen Thurs day evening for next year's , cheerleading squad, Harold R. Gilbert, graduate manager of athletics announced yesterday. Thomas Hanna was selected as head cheerleader. Seniors chosen for the squad are Lois Brown, Edwin Lefko with, Alan New, Shirley Thorn ton, and Robert Whitman. Jun iors are Peggy Mayberry, Alan McChesney, Jeanne Reist. Wil liam Shomberg, Nancy Wiant. Meredith Williamson, Andrew Wilson. and Howard Wright. Sophomores on the squad are Richard Altman, Florentino Fer aco, Rose Ann Monack, Donald Pripstein, Ann Quigley, Louise Robertson, Audrey Shultz, and Bruce Wagner. A committee of five selected the team from 64 students who competed in front of Old Main. On the committee were Carl P. Schott, dean of the School of Physical Education; Hummel Fishburn, head of the Depart ment of Music; Gene Wettstone, gymnastic coach; Rudolph Val entino, ex-head cheerleader; and Gilbert.
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