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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
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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.