Forum Shotildn't Ban Close— See Page 4 VOL. 52, No. 98 Students Desire Present plans for the proposed preferential seating plan call for students to indicate their desire to sit in the special section during spring pre-registration, James - Wharton, committee chairman, said yesterday. Under the plan presented to All-College Cabinet last week, sec tion EH in the student stands of Beaver Field will be set aside for a preferential cheering section to be used primarily in the opera tion of a •flash-card - system. The plan was tabled for furthgr con sideration and is scheduled ,‘ for another hearing Thursday. • As now envisioned, the plan would give seniors first prefer ence, juniors next, and so on down the line, Wharton said. When students return in the fall those who had been selected to sit in the section on the senior priority basis would be issued special Athletic Association books. Wharton said. These books would entitle them to sit in section EH, Wharton • explained. There are some 780 seats in the section, Wharton said, of which about 140 seats will be used by the Blue Band, he explained. Ap proximately the same number of seats will be set aside for mem bers of hat societies in order to even off the flash-card area and to • place hatmen in a location where they will be able to fill any vacancies that might occur, he said. • • Students who sit in -the section will have a seat reserved for them' so that they. may come to the game just prior , to ;kickoff and still be - guaranteed a good seat, Wharton said. If a seat is empty or if the student fails to cooper ate in the flashcard system; he said, the seat number will be noted and the student will be compelled to turn •in the special book for his regular book, Whar ton said . 'You Can't' Tickets Go On Sale Tickets for Players' "You Can't Take it With You," which opens Thursday in Schwab Auditorium for a three-night run, are now on sale at the StUdent Union desk in Old Main. Opening-night seats -are 60 cents. Tickets for the weekend performances are priced at $l. The George Kauffman-Moss Hart comedy concerns the philos ophies of an eccentric family which includes a snake-lover, a ballet dancer, a playwright and a character who spends all his time dabbling in fireworks. Over forty students are work ing on crews for :the show. On the sound crew are James Simp son, Dona Hooper, and John Rep pert. Richard Patterson, Frank Baxter, Margaret Altoeffer and Harold Astrich are working on lights. The advertising group includes Sally Johnson,• Thomas Owens, Raymond Ferguson. Cathy Keis ter, Elizabeth Lacock, Ruth Mc- Sparran, Theodore Matlow, Moy lan' Mills, Terese Moslak, John Phillips, William Raymond, and Lynn Kahanowitz. The makeup crew is Nancy May, Barbara Sil berman. and Alma Gratz. Polly Williams, Pearl Kane, Wilma Jones, Carol McKrell, Vir ginia Rogers arid Harriet' Rakov are on the costume crew. The technical crew includes Richard Speiser, Frances Stridinger, Dan ield Loucks, Mar y Carstensen, Margaret Roberts, Mary Melvin, Cordell Murtha, Mae Moses and Donald Dalton. Renee Kluger is property man ager, and Ruth Wehofer is book holder. Shirley Gallagher is stage manager. sedings were designed by Mi chael Forgacs. The play is being directed by Warren S. Smith, of the; Dramatics department; Mes rop Kesdekian is technical direc tor. Collegian to Conduct Political Race Poil Penn State students will get an opportunity to express their pre ference in the Presidential race Thursday when the Daily Col legian will conduct the first in a series of political polls. The, poll ballot will, be printed in Thursday's Daily Collegian and ballot boxes will stay open that day as well 'as Friday. The boxes will be located, at the Student Union desk iii Old Main, the lobby of the West Dorm lounge, and in the lobby of the Agricul ture:Building. The ballot will list the names of eight men in both the Demo cratic and . Republican parties who have declared themselves candidates for th e presidential TODAY'S WEATHER WINDY AND RAIN ise %, 0' r 4 attg .-.;:„,,:::,,,,‘ ~• r at irg i att . Pitt oac Proves 111 - - '---'• I' tie's a ClOwtr 7lee Page 4 i . to Indicate Seating, Glenn Reports Infection Quieted The upper respiratory infection that hit the College last week has "passed its peak," according to Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, College physician. The infection is quieting - down and is not quite as severe , now as it was last week, he said. The,, infirmary reported 12 stu dents hospitalized with the infec tion yesterday. Last week's re ports showed up to 34 in the in firmary with the malady. Glenn said • "around 100 stu dents a day" were passing through the dispensary. Totals were running higher last week. nomination or have been promin ently mentioned as possible can didates. In addition, space will be left for write-in candidates. The eight whose names will ap pear on the: ballot are Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, Sen. Robert Taft, Gov. Earl Warren, Harold Stassen, President Harry Truman, Sen. Estes Kefauver, Gov. Adlai Stevenson, and Sen. Richard Rus sell. In an effort to provide material for an analysis of the results, students will be asked to fill in answers to three other questions. •Participants will be asked: , Are you a Democrat, Republi can, or independent? What is your family income; under $5OOO per year, between $5OOO and $lO,OOO or above $lO,- 000? What is the size of your home town: under 5000, between• 5000 and 500,000, or above 500,000? Ballot boxes will be open from 9 a.m. to noon at all three • loca- Vans and from 1 to 5 p.in. at the West: Dorrri lounge and the Agri culture Building. The• Student Union ballot box will be open in the afternoon from 1:30 to 5 p.m. FOR A BE STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH •4. 1952 Forum Committee To Reconsider Close Debaters Lose Trophy Opportunity Penn State's chances of per manently winning the state de bate and forensic tournament trophy went awry this weekend as the men's team was defeated in the semi-finals at Lehigh Uni versity, and ended up in third place. Entrants in individual contests went no higher than second place. David Lewis was runnerup in the men's extemporaneous speaking contest on the subject "Should the French 'change their policy in Tunisia?" Marian Ungar, women's debate manager, received a bronze medal for third place in the wo men's oratorical contest. Her speech, "Prince's Palaces," dealt with man's inability to translate his thoughts into moral actions. In preliminary bouts the men's negative- team of Clair George and Robert Alderdice. beat Cedar crest College, Seton Hill College, Swarthmore College and Juniata College. Lewis and Eugene Kolber, the affirmative team, scored wins over the University of Pittsburgh, -Lehigh University, - and Dickin son College. They lost to Carne gie Institute of Technology. - A loss to St. Joseph's-College in the semi-finals took the Penn State men out of further competi tion. The women's negative team in cluding Joan Dobson and Miss Ungar, beat the University of Scranton and lost to Wilkes Col lege, Temple University, and Grove City College. The women's affirmative team, composed of Guyla Woodward and Ethel Brown, defeated West minster College at College Miser acordia, Dallas, Pa.; St. Joseph's College, and Slippery Rock State Teachers College. BX Opens Tomorrow To. Return Dividends • The Book Exchange in the TUB will • be open tomorrow and Wednesday to return a 20 per cent dividend on all receipts on items purchased before Jan. 21. The 13 . X office will be open each day from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon and, front 12:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., but will close from 11:00 a.m. to noon on Wed nesday. TER PENN STATE The Community Forum's general committee will meet in special session tonight to reconsider the naming of the controversial Upton Close as bonus forum speaker April 7, it was learned yesterday. - The action is being taken folloWing the uncovering by Daily Collegian reporters of the fact that Close has been labelled as anti-Semitic by 't h e B'nai B'rith, Friends of Democracy, and other groups, and individ uals. A forum official, who refused to be named, admitted that Close had been engaged without 'any knowledge •of his questionable record. "We knew he was a con troversial figure," the of f i ci al said, but there was no knowledge of his allegedly anti-Semetic rec ord. Would Pay Speaker's Fee It was known that seve r al members of the committee and local B'nai B'rith and Hillel offi cials are now opposed to Close's appearance under forum sponsor ship. It is reliably reported that the committee will consider can -ceiling Close's engagement. Should 'the committee vote to cancel 'Close's appearance, it would probably be necessary to pay the speaker's fee, since the contract has already been signed. ' Close has been dropped from the radio at least three times, the Daily Collegian learned. He was removed by the National Broad casting Co. in 1944 in what NBC chief Niles Trammel described as a move to balance coverage. Close Denied Charges The Mutual Broadcasting Sys tem dropped Close without ex planation in 1947, according to a report issued by B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League. Phila delphia's independent WI B G dropped him in 1946. Close has repeatedly denied that he is anti-Semetic, but the ADL labels him as "the kind of bigot who always finds it neces sary- to -deny his anti-Semetism." In its 1950 report, A Measure of Freedom, ADL cites such Close quotes as: "The greatest sorrow in my career and which may become America's greatest tragedy is the communist control of the Jewish minority. Only in a few cases do the better minds among the Jews do anything about this menace to America." (Cleveland Univer sity Club speech, 1945). ' 'Truth Being Suppressed' "Thirty million Americans of German descent should arise united and fight the present ad ministration and the B'nai B'rith and Anti Defamation League." (Milwaukee Steuben Society speech, 1949). "The small anti-communist seg ment• of our Jewish community (Continued on page eight) PRICE FIVE CENTS No Action Slated for Parking Lot The proposed Hort Woods park ing lot plan, which would con sume one-sixth of the woods, can not go before the March meeting of the College Board of Trustees, Samuel K. Hostetter, comptroller, said yesterday. The plan cannot go before the trustees because more discussion among administration heads is needed concerning costs and suit ability of present plans, Hostetter said. The parking lot plan was first introduced at th e Agriculture Student Council meeting in Jan uary, where it was given ap proval.. Plans call for construction of a 181 car lot along the fringe of the woods by Beaver Field, be tween Park avenue and Curtin road. The lot's construction would necessitate removal of 79 trees in the woods, the Forestry depart ment reported in January. The departmr...nt classified only 13 of those as "good risk" trees. The new lot is the first step in a long-range plan that would make the woods a natural park, Walter W. Trainer, supervisor of lands construction, said. Last year, a similar proposal to construct a parking area in the entire Hort Woods area brought strong protest from portions of the students and faculty, result ing in abandonment of the plans. College Student Begins Fight, Is Suspended A student was suspended from the College last week after being involved in a fist fight which grew out of a snowball battle, the College disciplinary committee re ported yesterday. The suspension came about after the student admitted snow balling a car and then beginning a fight with its driver on Feb. 16. The student was suspended under regulation W-6 of the Senate Regulations for Undergraduates which pertains to moral conduct of students. The fight took place near the corner of Pollock and Burrowes roads. The suspended student was snowballing another student's car. When the second student stepped from the car and protested, the suspended student beg a n the fight. The digciplinary committee said the suspended student may seek reinstatement by submitting a pe tition to the committee and giving evidence that he should be re admitted to the College. Collegian Candidates To Meet Tonight Candidates for the Collegian business staff will meet at 7 to night in 1 Carnegie Hall, Carolyn Alley, personnel manage r, an nounced yesterday. Anyone interested in advertis ing, promotion, circulation, classi fied advertising, or office work may attend. Men 'are especially needed, Miss Alley said. Candi dates do not have to be advertis ing majors.
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