Coordination A im Qf Custom's Plan— See Page 4 VOL. 52, No. 99 Close Past Poll Shows Staters Picked Wrong President • If the past is any indication of the future, Penn State students are going to pick the wrong man to win the coming Presidential elections. According to the results of ' a poll conducted by the Daily; Collegian 1948, '-53 _per cent of the students questioned preferred Thomas E. Dewey over President Harry S. Truman and the other candidates in the field. A similar poll will be conducted by the Frosh Okay Major Part Of Proposals About 40 freshmen, who at tended a meeting last night to discuss customs changes,, ap proved all but two of the ma jor points in a group of sugges tions which were presented to the freshmen class last month. The freshmen did not approve the proposal for stronger fresh men punishments for customs violations nor did they approve the proposal which would ask customs enforcement for all stu dents who transfer to the Col lege as freshmen. , The basic tenets of ,the sug gestions, including a male-female customs enforcement board, oc casional coed customs, the set ting of a definite time limit for customs, and set periods for song-cheer sessions, we r e ap proved by the group. The original suggestions, with the exception of those rejected last night, will be presented to Tribunal and Judical by the chairman of the freshmen cus toms committee, Thomas Kidd. The 40 students also approved a suggestion by, one of the group that the "no smoking" ruling now in customs be removed, al though there was some discus sion as to whether such detailed analysis of customs was the in tention of the meeting. Group to Probe Cost of Glazing Pollock Council last night laid plans to investigate the cost to area students for replacing brok en dormitory windows. Council members • reported that Pollock residents were being charged varying amounts for similar re pair services. Theodore MacDonald, cha i r man of the council's public wel fare committee, was appointed to head the investigation. The council voted unanimously to reject the serving of cocoa in the area dining hall. The food committee reported that serving of cocoa would, necessitate the re moval of coffee and a 'half pint of milk from the menu for a day a week. Joseph Hain es, recently re elected president of the cop.ncil, named Emery Richardson to work on the food committee. Frank Schrey was appointed parliamen tarian, the last office to be, filled this semester. All other officers were elected and appointed last week. TODAY'S WEATHER CLOUDY WITH SNOW It f • 41 , .1 ‘ atilt . WAP t S 4 f • STATE COLLEGE,_PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, '1952 Retained Daily Collegian tomorrow and Friday to give Penn State stu dents an opportunity to express their' preferences in the Presi dential race. The 1948 poll, which was sim ilar to those taken in other-- col 7; leges and uMversities, showed that Penn State studenti weren't the only. ones wrong, however. In seven other colleges which were surveyed Dewey was pro ferred by 73 per cent of those questioned. Ballot Box Locations Ballots , for the current poll will be printed in tomorrow's Daily Collegian. The ballots will list the names of the eight men in both the Democratic and Re publican 'parties who have de clared themselves candidates or have been mentioned as possible candidates for the . Presidential nomination. Space will be left for write-in candidates, as well as for those who are undecided. Ballot boxes, will be located at the Student Union desk in Old Main, the lobby of the West Dorm lounge, and in the lobby of the Agriculture Building and will be open tomorrow and Fri day. The boxes will be open from 9 a.m. to noon at all three lo cations and from 1 to 5 p.m. at the West Dorm lounge and the Agriculture Building. The Stu dent Union ballot box will be open in the afternoon from IAO to 5 p.m. Poll Includes Other Questions Th e Presidential preference poll :will be the first of several political polls planned by the Daily Collegian. -Another Presi dential poll may be held near the end of this semester, and an other just before 'the elections in the fall. The three polls will show the trend of 'student thinking as the campaigns become more vig orous. The poll ballot, in addition to asking the students' Presidential preference, will also include questions on national political party affiliation, family income, and size of hometown. The an swers to these questions will pro vide material for an analysis of the poll results. Cabinet to Vote. on Fee Amendment By DAVE PELLNITZ Th e proposed amendment to the All-College Constitution re garding the changing of student fees will come before All-College Cabinet for the last reading and final vote tomorrow night. The amendment, first proposed on Feb. 7 by David Olmsted, sen ior class president, provides a sta tistical poll of a representative cross-section of the student body upon the presentation to cabinet of a petition signed by ten per cent of the student body within one week .a fte r• a proposal. to change student fe es has been made. .The poll w,o u.l d -not -be con ducted by , the All-College 'elec tions committee with the acrtrice of the Psychology d..epartment. -It would be taken within 30 days after the petition was submitted, and the results presented to cab , - inet ,for• `consideration before the final`. vote :the change in stu 7 dent fees - .was taken. ' - • On. Feb. 14,_01rasted. withdrew FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Will Speak_ Union Close Junior Class To Dedicate Gift Records A special dedication ceremony is planned for next week when the 28 record albums bought for the library by the junior class are released for student use. • The albums are now being pro fessed by the library and will be ready for use next week, ac cording to Robert Sherman, pro ject committee chairman. Th e collection of records, all of which are of 33 1 / 2 r.p.m. speeds, is to be called "The Greatest Shows of the Century." They are all recordings of musical show tunes. The records will be available at the reserve book room of the library and will circulate on a three day basis. Fines will be as sessed when an album is kept over the three, day period. Break age charges will be made if any part of the album is lost or dam aged. These charges will be at the album's regular list price. • Among the albums in the col lection are "Call Me Madam," "I'll See Yo u in My Dreams," "Song of Norway," "The Vega . - bond King," "The Desert Song," "Kiss Me Kate ," and "Sweet hearts." Players' Show Tickets Tickets for "You Can't Take It With You," th e Players' show which opens tomorrow night at Schwab Auditorium for a three-night run; are on sale at the Student Union desk in Old Main. They are 60 cents for opening night, and $1 for Friday and Saturday night per formances. the amendment as Article 13 of the constitution and resubmitted it as an amendment to Article 'l, Section 8 of the constitution. The withdrawal did not ,change the essence of the amendment. Under the constitution, a • pro posed amendment must: be read and discussed at three consecu tive cabinet meetings, with• a final vote after the last reading. A three-fourths mote of cabinet is required to pass the amendment. , According to Barr Aspluridh, cabinet parliamentarian, the thtee-fourths vote means-three fourths of the cabinet must. vote for the- measure ,if •it •is. to pass.. Abstentions -are, as a result,, - con= sidered as negative votes: . • fourths of the members and' vot- - ing. Abstentions are not 'consid ered as votes and will not be counted- for or against the amend: • meet. The _amendment as. cabinet :will rgt an U. S. Overrun By 'Mugwump?— . See Page 4 for. Forum Free Speech, Precedent Issues in Hour Debate By RON BONN Upton Close was retained last night as a bonus speaker for the Community Forum, by . voice vote of the forum general committee. • . The, action followed an hour-long debate on a motion that llvould thaye canceled the Close engagement. Close will appear on . April' 7. Only three, members of 13 pre sent voted, to drop Close. Close has been denounced as anti-Semitic by the Anti-Defama*- tion • League' of B'nai Vrith, as well as by other groups. Dr. Ger ald Stein, B'nai B'rith forum rep resentative and chairman of the 3-member committee which en gaged Close, emphasized that this fact was not known by the group at the_time Precedent Issue Debate centered around the is sue of whether it would be an infringement of free speech if the committee were to cancel the speaker after new • evidence on his views indicated he was not de sired. Several. members of the cona mitte raised the issue of the pos sible setting of .a precedent against speakers advocating • any extreme views. "Where are you going to draw the line?" C. W. Kallenbach, mein b e r at • large, asked. Clair George, All-College Cab inet representative, suggested that cancellation of Close might indi cate to outside observers that the speaker's conservative viewpoint was the .cause. No Endorsement Joel Milner, Hillel Foundation representative, said, "I don't feel we're benefiting the student body or anyone in the town by bringing this speaker." Kallenbach, speaking for the executive committee a f ter the voting, said there should -be "a clear understanding" that no member and no group represented on the committee agreed with an y anti-Semitic vie w s Close might have.' Might Have to Pay • Stein, arguing for dropping the speaker, s d , "The committee made a 'mistake in *asking- him," and that the mistake should be rectified "In the most-honest way possible." Clayton Schug, forum chairman and member of the hiring corn mittee,..indicated that cancellation of the contract might entail pay ing Close his full $3OO fee, but said that some settlement might be arranged. Milner made the motion which would have dropped the speaker, and Dr. Stein seconded it. Mrs.' S. Lewis -Land, Parent- Teachers Association representa tive, was the other member l of (Continued on page eight) vote on it tomorrow night . reads: "The cabinet shall have control over all student funds, including the establishment of class dues, the recommendation -of student activitieB fees, the approval of specific• budgets, the approval of expenditures. .R e c ommendations for subtractions from, or additions to, student activities fees', can be made to the administration only after cabinet /has passed such a recommendation - by a two-thirds vote on each of two consecutive meetings; if, however:. a petition signed by ien per cent "of - the - stu desit body is , submitted - to an of ficer of cabinet within one _week after the first vote, a statistical poll, conducted by the elections committee, with the advice of the Psychology 'department, must be taken within 30 days and the re sults•presented to cabinet for con , ' Sideration' before the final vote is taken on:the changein student fees." PRICE FIVE CENTS Tribunal Favors Poll, 4 -0 Tribunal last night voted 4-0, with one abstention, in favor of the. statistical poll amendment now before All-College Cabinet. The action was taken in a special session after the regular meeting of Tribunal. David Olmsted, senior class pr esiden t, who sponsored the amendment, last night asked Da vid •Mutchler, 'chairman of Tri bunal, who he was actually rep resenting on cabinet. (Mutchler was appointed by All- College president James Worth to sit in as a voting member to re place Harry Cover, All-College vice president, who resigned.) Tribunal took the vote on the amendment so that if Worth ruled that Mutchler was to represent Tribunal when he votes, he would have an opinion of the group to go on. Mulchler to ask Worth , Olmsted, contacted after the meeting, said that in his opinion, Mutchler would have to be bound by TribunalV decision. Since he cannot vote as All-College vice president, nor as a member at large, his voting, capacity must stem from his being Tribunal representative, Olmsted said. Mutchler said he would have to ask Worth who he was represent ing when it came to the question of voting: Worth, contacted last night, said Mutchler was appoint ed to his present position because he was an ex-officio member of cabinet as chairman of Tribunal. Worth said it was his opinion that Tribunal's vote last night bound Mutchler to vote for the statistical poll, which comes before cabinet again tomorrow night for the third reading. It will either be passed or dropped then. The amendment would- require a statistical poll to be taken, if a petition signed by ten per cent of the student body is presented to a cabinet officer within one week after- the first vote on an increase of student fees. The poll would be conducted with the ad vice of the Psychopgy depart ment within 30 days after the petition was presented. The re sults of the poll would not be binding on cabinet. Found Guilty In its regular meeting, Tribunal tried 12 student violators with seven being fined and two given warnings. Two fines were sus pended and one defendant was held over until the next meeting because of incomplete informa tion. All• ,the offenders were found guilty of parking or traffic vio lations. One student was fined three dollars because of reported offenses, and three were charged two dollars. Three violators were fined one dollar because of minor offenses. Two more , received suspended fines, and two were w arned against future violations. The case of illegal parking re sulting from the alleged expiring of a permit was held over until the next meeting pending closer examination and allowing the of fender .time to obtain a new per mit.
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