Lions ,Drop West 'Va., 84-65 • Tliir Battu Tutttgttttt VOL. 52, N'o. 93 Penn State-in-China Chapel Offerings Halted Since contact with Canton Christian College (Lingnan Uni versity) is no longer possible be cause of new Communist restric tions added recently, the Penn State-in-China committee voted yesterday to discontinue using the Chapel offering to support that institution after June 30. For over forty years the Chapel offering, amounting to about $4500 e.a c h academic year, has been contributed to the Ameri can Bciard of Canton Christian College to be used as part of their annual three million dollar bud get: Plans Discussed Recent news that the president of Canton Christian College had confessed to "erroneous thinking" was among the developments that forced this decision, Dr. Henry Br un n e r, committee chairman, told the committee. He said there • seems to be no hope of establish ing contact With the college in the near future. Among the plans discussed for using the Chapel offering 'after June 30 were finding another uni versity somewhere in the world and - helping 'to support it, work ] ing toward establishing an Inter national House at the College, or planning for the building of a chapel at the College. Work in Florida C. Weidman Groff, of the class of 1907, returned to the College after working three years at Can ton Christian College to tell his classmates of the need of facilities there. Students and faculty voted to contribute the Chapel offering each week to the support of the college. This was the beginning of Penn State-in-China. After the Communists took over • China, Groff and Richard Pride, another alumnus, came to Amer ica to work in Florida on ex changing plants with China and to study Oriental plants and coin pile a book on them in three lan guages English, Chinese, and Latin. Nine Debaters Go to Lehigh For State Bout 0 Four women and five men de baters travel to Lehigh Universi ty today to participate in the an nual state debate and forensic tournament. Penn. State's temporary posses sion of the• state trophy will be at stake, for the cup must-be won e three years in a row before it be comes a permanent trophy. The men's team won it for the first time last year, T • Ethel `Brown and Guyla Wood ward will debate affirmative for the women, and Marian Ungar, manager, and Joan Dobson, will form the negative team. Miss Woodward will . compete in the extemporaneous speaking contest, and Miss Ungar is en tered in the oratorical contest. Gene Kolber and David Lewis will debate' affirmative for the u v emen. Robert Alderdice and man ager Clair George' will take the negative side. David Swanson will take part in v.oratorical contest. h * TODAY'S WEATHER • PARTLY A' • CLOUDY FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., 'THURSDAY MORNING; FEBRUARY 28, 1952 New Beaver On Cabinet A proposal to set aside a part of the student section of the east stands of Beaver Field to enable the establishment of a flash card system will be presented to All-College Cabinet tonight by James Wharton, chairman of the preferential seating committee. Also on the cabinet agenda is a report by John Stoudt, chair man of the drink colloquy com mittee, which will recommend that the colloquy be permanently discontinued. Stoudt said yester day that lack of sufficient funds has twice before forced a cancel-. lation of the colloquy. Cabinet has allocated $3OO for that pur pose. Walter Sachs, chairman of the Central Promotion Agency com mittee, said yesterday that the agency will not be able to go into operation this- year because no arrangements for office space could be made. He said that all other problems confronting the ALL-COLLEGE CABINET Agenda Roll Call Minutes of the previous meeting Adoption of the agenda Reports of officers Reports of committees 1. Drink colloquy 2. Preferential seating 3. Central Promotion Agency 4. Student directory supplement 5. Emergency student relief fund . Old Business 1. Constitutional amendment New business 1. Appointment of committees agency have been overcome. How ever, he added, that the corn mittee will continue to operate, with a view toward putting the agency into operation early next semester. - Other committee reports to be presented will be made by John Laubach, president of ,the Asso- Seating Agenda ciation of Independent Men, on the student directory supplement and by Marvin Krasnansky, chair man of the Board of Publications, on the emergency student relief fund. . The second reading of the pro posed constitutional amendment regarding the changing of student fees will be given. The amend ment requires a third reading be fore a final vote can be taken. ACE Code Called 'Not . Practicable' Representatives of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools have labeled as "not practicable" the proposal of the executive committee of the American Council on Education that regional accrediting associa tions enforce its newly-formulat ed athletic code, the Associated Press reported yesterday. ' The disclosure was made by the Eastern College Athletic Confer ence following a meeting between representatives of the M i d dle States group and its New Eng land counterpart and the ECAC executive committee. These are the academic accrediting agencies fOr the area covered by the ECAC, to which Penn State also belongs. The educators told the athletic leaders, in effect, that it "is not practicable" for them to become enforcement agencies governing athletic practices although they can and do consider basic athletic policies in evaluating a college s educational program. Regulation of the conduct • of Break Rec Hall Scoring Mark, Tie Total Win Record at 18 The Nittany Lions set a Rec Hall scoring mark as they walloped tenth-ranked West Virginia 84-65 before a capacity crowd last night. The loss was only the visiting Mountaineers' third of the season against 21 victories. State now has a 18-4 record. The 18 triumphs tied the College total for one season established during the 1941-42 campaign. The Nittanies' win was believed to have kept them in contention for a bid to the National Col legiate Athletic Association tour nament, although College athletic offiicals said they had received no communication fr o m NCAA tournament officials. The Mountaineers' All-Ameri can center, Mark Workman, was charged with three personals early in the game and was held to a lowly three points. The gang ling six-nine visitor was one of five players who left the contest via fouls. Teammates Al Becker and Mac Isner left the battle in the fourth period. State's Jack Sherry and McMahan went out in the third and fourth periods respectively. Makarewicz Breaks Mark No one was outstanding for the Lions, but big Jesse Arnelle was the top scorer with 20 points. Co- Captain Tiny McMahan did some brilliant shooting before he fouled out at the start of the fourth period. The six-seven senior bucketed 15 points. Whitey Makarewicz for the sec ond time this season broke the team scoring mark. Makarewicz tapped one in to break the rec ord last night, and dropped a foul to break the mark against GeorgetoWn earlier in the season. But the top scorer of the eve ning was Becker the visitors' sharpshooting forward. Becker amazed the huge throng with his accurate set shooting from the cor ner which netted 'him 22 points. Harry Moore was runnerup for the Mounatineers with 19 tallies. West Va. Sinks 61 Per Cent The first quarter was one of the most thrilling ever staged on the Rec Hall boards. Each side sdored 24 points, and the lead changed hands 11 times. After Arnelle opened the scoring Beck er evened the count with the first of his five buckets in this frame. Coach Red Brown's quintet made a remarkable 61 per cent of its shots in the opening period. Stattk managed to keep pace by sinking 46 per cent. Neither team (Continued on page six) Lion Party Meeting Set for 7 p.m. Sunday The Lion - Party will hold a meeting at 1 p.m. Sunday in 10 Sparks, John Stoudt, act ing chairman announced yesterday. The meeting is being held to approve the proposed party constitution which was co written by Clair 'George and Alan Maloney. athletics, they indicated, is the responsibility of the individual in stitutions, the conferences and the National Collegiate Athletic As sociation. These opinions were expressed by Dr. E. Kenneth -Smiley, vice president of Lehigh and chair man of the Middle States asso ciation's commission of institu tions of higher education, and Drs. Niles Y. Wessell of Tufts an d Roger Hamilton of Northeastern, representing the New England as sociation. The last two cautioned that their report was informal. They declared that their groups "are not prepared to dictate spe cific points in intercollegiate ath letic policy, like the. dates of bas ketball practice, spring practice, or bowl games." A smilar opinion recently was expressed by Dr. Guy Wells, pres ident of the Southern Associa tion of. Colleges and Secondary Schools. The executive committee-of the By DAVE COLTON ormer President Dr. John Martin Thomas Progress Seen Under Dr. Thomas Dr. John Martin Thomas, who died Tuesday at the age of 82, served as president of Col lege from April 1, 1921 to Sep tember 1, 1925, progressive years for the College. In the four years after his in auguration, administered by Rob ert Von Moschzisker, chief jus tice of the supreme court, Dr. Thomas helped achieve his goal of one , day making Penn State a great university "of 10,000 or more students." Dr. Thomas was a leader in fund drives that characterized the 1920's at the College. Partly as a result of these campaigns, a substantial part of the funds for the infirmary were raised; the Grange contributed much of the money for Grange Memorial Dor mitory, and Irvin, Watts, Jordan, Recreation Halls, an d several other units on campus were built. During the term of President Thomas, the Senate was estab lished as a representative group of the f a cult y; the Graduate School was established in 1922 under Dean Frank D. Kearn, and in 1923 the School of Education was formed with the late Dr. Will Grant Chambers as dean. Aware of the many obstacles hat were making the realization (Continued on page eight) American Council of Education, in, approving the report of the special committee on athletic pol icy, stated "the regional accredit ing agencies have an especially important role to play, because they represent the point of view of education, as a whole, include secondary-schools as well as col leges in their purview, and can apply sanctions w,hich all insti tutions respect. Acting in concert, the regional agencies can do much to bring about nationwide adher ence to sound standards of con duct in athletics." The ten-point program recom mended by the A.C.E. special committee, headed by President John A. Hannah of Michigan State, included such things as eliminating bowl games and post season tournaments, barr i n g freshmen from competition, strict ly limiting practice seasons 'and eliminating spring football prac tice, and, specific controls on re cruiting and subsidizing -prac tices.
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