The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, March 06, 1952, Image 1

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    Change Could Hurt
Student Gov't.=
See• Page 4
VOL. 52, No. 100
New Parking Mari.. Announced
Co6iedy'Open't ; R.O
At Schwab Tonight,
Fireworks, kittens and . the whole %lovable • Sycamore family wir
-be on the Schwab Auditorium stage tonight as Players open "You
Can't Take it With You," a comedy "by George Kauffman and
Moss Hart. ,
Sche d lAA e d to begin at 8 p.m. for a three-night run, the
play is the first comedy to be presented at Schwab this year.
Tickets for tonight's perform
ance, priced at 60 cents, are on
sale at the Student Union desk in
Old Main. Seats for tomorrow
and Saturday night cost $l.
The play is under the direction
of Warren S. Smith, associate pro
fessor of dramatics, whose last
production was "Tartuffe," a Gen.:
ter Stage show.
The ',live for today and have
fun doing it" philosophy of snake
lover Grandpa and the rest of the
eccentric Sycamores is at the root
of the play, which was first pre
sented by Players in the spring
Altvl Delays
Diinking
Resolution
By ANDY'
.McNEILLIE
The AssoCiation of Independent
Men last night referred to com
mittee the West Dorm resolution
that .the AIM president request
an All-College Cabinet study' of
the drinking ;problem on campus.
John Laubach, AIM president,
appointed Charles Brewer to head
a•committee tp take up the matter
with the administration and draw
up a more definite resolution.
Brewer had introduced the reso
lution• to the West Dorm. Council
Monday night.
In its original form, the West
Dorm would 'have asked cabinet
to study the problem of drinking
by minors and women at social
affairs at the College: '
Th e drinking resolution was
voted to be referred to committee
after members of the board de
clared the resolution, in its pre
sent form, did not make any dif
ferent approach to solve the prob
lem than had been previously at
tempted• by cabinet. Cabinet dis
solved the drinking colloquy last
week.
'AIM also approved cabinet's
preferential seating committee
proposal to seat volunteers in sec
tion EH of Beaver Field to estab
lish a flash card system for the
1952 - football season. The ap
proved means that Laubach' will
vote for the proposal at the ,next
cabinet meeting.
Robert Schultz,• AIM 'publicity
chairman, was nominated as the
AIM entry in Alpha Phi Omega's
Ugly_Man contest to be held later
this month.
Laubach appointed Brewer tem
porary social chairman of AIM af
ter the resignation of William
Cole.
Politics Poll Starts Today
Penn State students, will have
a chance to express their ,prefer
ences' in this year's Presidential
race by. casting a ballot in the
political poll now being conducted
by the Daily. Collegian.
The ballots may be in the
The ballot to be used in the
Daily,: Collegian's Presidential
Preference Poll appears on page
2 of today's. newspaper.
ballot boxes either today or to
morrow. The boxes are located at
the Student Union desk in Old
Main, in the lobby of the ,West
Dorm lounge; and in 'the lobby of
the Agriculture Building.
Results of the poll will be
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of 1939, two years after it was
first produced in New York.
Mesrop Kesdekian has a double
job for the production. He is tech
nical director and also holds' the
role of Grandpa; the head of the
family. Grandpa, who delights in
attend ing Columbia University
commencement exercises, went to
work one day many years past
and gave it up as a waste of
time. Income tax is also a bother
to him —so he simply forgets
about it.
Mary Alice Hodgson will porr
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printed as soon as final tabula
tions are completed.
Boxes Open at 9 a.m.
The poll will be one of a series
conducted, to determine .student
preference In the coming Presi
dential elections. Another poll is
planned for later this , semester,
and 'a third just before the No
vember elections. In this way the
trend of • student thinking as the
campaigns swing into full opera—
tion will become evident.
The ballot boxes -, will be open
from 9 a.m. to noon at all three
locations and from 1 to 5 p.m. at
the' West Dorm lounge and the
Agriculture Building, Th e Stu
dent Union ballot box will be
open in the afternoon from 1:30
to 5 p.m. All boxes will be open
both today and tomorrow.
Favored Dewey , in• '4B
In .a similar poll conducted in
1948, 53• per cent of the students
questions- favored Thomas 'E.
Dewey over President Harry S.
Truman and other candidates. The
students •at Penn State . weren't
alone, however, in picking the
wrong man. In seven other col
leges • and universities, where a
similar poll was conducted, Dewey
was preferred by 73 per cent of
those. surveyed..
FOR ,A BETTER PENN STATE
Senate May
Discuss Cut
Plan Today
The plan to add one credit to
the normal graduation require
ments" as a penalty for cutting
classes immediately before and
after vacations . may be taken
from the table when the College
Senate meets ,at 4:10 p.m. today
in 121 Sparks. -
Dr. B. A. Whisler, head of the
Civil Engineering department
and sponsor of the plan, indicat
ed yesterday that he would at
tempt to reopen the plan to con-
sideration. It has lain on the table
the required period of one month:
The tentative College calendar
for 1953-54, tabled by the Senate
at its February meeting, , is also
expected to be brought up for
consideration.
A committee report on "func
tions and purposes of the Senate'
is also due to be presented a
the meeting.
Slepin to Take
State Workshop
Chairmanship
William Slepin will take over
as the chairman of the State
Party workshop program at its
meeting at 7 tonight -in Sparks
building.
Slepin was elected vice presi
dent of the party at a cliq
meeting . Sunday night. In the
future, the party vice president
will automatically bg the work
shop chairman:
The meeting will be adjourned
in, . time for the participants to
attend the All-College Cabinet
meeting scheduled for 8 p.m. -in
201 Old Main, Slepin 'said. "
The ward committee of the
workshop ' program, with Ernest
Famous as head, will meet in •11
Sparks. Joseph Simone and-Mel
vin- Rubin will co-chair the plat
form meeting in 12 Sparks. The
publicity section will be led - by
Robert Kritt in 13 Sparks. ,Rae
DelleDonne will conduct the
membership meeting in 14
Sparks. The campaign group will
meet in 124 Sparks under the
direbtion of Irvin White and the
distribution section will meet in
125. Sparks with Franklin Reese
in charge.
The workshop meetings count
toward the two meeting attend=
ance requirement for clique
membership.
Radio Guild Presents
Corwin Play Tonight
"The Voice of Norman Corwin,'.!
an original script, written and di
rected by John Price, will be pre
sented` at 8 tonight over WMAJ
by members •of the Radio Guild.
' The script tells the story of
Norman Corwin, radio writer,
director,' and producer, and con
tains
,excerpts from several of his
best known programs,
5- en WSGA Vote
Of the five voting members
at the Women's Student Gbv
ernment Association meeting
last night, three voted against
and two voted for the proposal
to 'the All-College Cabinet con
stitution requiring a statistical
poll of student sentiment on
changes ,in fees in ,the event
of the appearance• of a petition
asking for the poll signed by
ten • Ter cent of the - student
body. -.
The number who voted does
not constitute a "quorum of the
eleven eligible members.
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totatt More Care Needed
In Forum Choices=
See Page 4
Campus Driving Limited
While Classes in Session
A new parking plan that will prohibit students living in the
borough from driving on campus duririg class hours and will re
strict driving ,of on-campus and commuting students was released•
yesterday by the All-College traffic committee.
The committee intends to put the plan into operation around
July 1 for staff members and at
the start of the fall semester for
students.
" The plan is designed to alleviate
the overcrowded parking con
ditions on campus. There are only
2562 parking spaces for about 4000
student and staff cars.
The plan will include registra
tion of - all student and College
staff member cars, designation of
restricted parking areas, and is
suance of special parking stickers.
Enforcement Periods
According to Walter H. Wie
gand, head of the committee, stu
dents living on campus who have
cars will 'be given stickers that
will permit them to park in desig
nated areas but not to drive on
campus during the ho ur s the
regulations will be in effect.
The plan will be enforced be
tween 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, and from 8 a.m.
to 12 noon on Saturday. • There
will be no restrictions for other
periods, Wiegand said.
Commuting students will be
given a different type of sticker
that will permit *them to park
in certain areas and• to drive on
campus. A commuting student is
defined as one _coming from an
area outside the corporate limits
of the' borough.
1562 Spaces for Staff
Wiegand said the latest ,count
of campus parking space shows
2562 spaces available, including
about 500 in the Nittany-Pollock
area where on-campus students
may park.
"Another 500 have . indicated
that they • need cars to commute
to campus, leaVing about 1562
spaces for staff members," Wie
gand said. "In the survey last fall
to clarify what the demand was
on our parking facilities, about
1900 staff members indicated they
drove their cars to' campus."
Wiegand said the various deans
and department heads will be al
lotted ' quotas of parking spaces,
and' they •in turn will designate
which staff members will be given
parking stickers. These stickers
will bear a parking area number
in which the car is to be parked.
Wiegand heads a five-man corn
mittee that worked out the de
tails of the plan. He said a larger
committee has •been studying the
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Amendments on Agenda
The final reading and vote on
the proposed amendment to, the
All-College Constitution regarding
the change of
. student fees and
the presentation of • an amend
ment to Article 8 of the consti
tution pertaining to the Board of
Publications are :on the agenda
for the All-College Cabinet meet
ing at 8 tonight in 201:Old Main.
• The fee amendment, presented
by David Olmsted, senior class
president, provides for a statisti
cal 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 after a proposal to change
student fee has been made.
The new amendment to be pro
posed by Marvin Krasnansky,
chairman of the Board of Publi
cations, would change Article '8
to. read: "The Board of Publica
tions shall. _consist of the _editor
and managing editor of Collegian,
editor and, managing editor .of
La Vie, editor of Froth, editor of
Inkling, editor,•_ of the Penn State
Engineer, editors of the Penn
State Farmer, Forester, and Sci
entist, and their respective busi
ness managers. Additional mem
bers shall be determined by a two
thirds vote of the members of the
Board of Publications present and
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Union Votes
To Set Date
For Strike
By JIM GROMILLER
Nearly 200 service employees
of the College, members of local
67 of the . American Federation of
State, County, and Municipal Em
ployees. (AFL), last night voted
unanimously to call for a special
meeting to set a date for a work
stoppage.
Union officials indicated that
the special meeting will probably
be held March 19.
The union membership has
been .variously estimated at from
between 300 and 800 of the 1800
employees of the College.
The action came after a union
spokesman indicated that the Col
lege apparently had no further
plan under consideration- to iron
.out the union's grievances.
The union opposed the variable
raise granted Feb. 1 and instead
is advocating an across the board
increase.
The College has explained that
the wage adjustment• which gave
increases of from $5 to $2O a
month was designed to eliminate
inequality M. salaries.' -
The raise of f ere d ,by the
College in the February pay
amounted to an average of $l5
monthly, and raised service em
ployees wages about $32 a month,
on the average, over what they
were July 1, 1951.
Sunday Collegians
Copies of the Sufiday Sports
Extra of the Daily Collegian
are needed for binding and
other filing purpose. Students
who have extra copies of the
paper are requested to leave
them in the editor's office of
the Daily Collegian on the
ground floor of Carnegie Hall.
at two consecutive meetings."
Under the constitution, a pro
posed thnendment must be read.
and discussed at three consecutive
cabinet meetings, with a final
vote after the last reading. A
three-fourths vote of cabinet is
required to- pass the amendment.
• According -to Barr Asplundh,
cabinet parliamentarian, 18 of
ALL-COLLEGE CABINET
Agenda
Roll Call
Miriutes of the previous meeting
Adoption of the agenda
Reports of officers
Reports of committees
Old business:
1. Preferential seating
2. Constitutional amendment .
New business: '
1. Freshman an d sophomore
class dances
2. Constitutional amendment
3. Appointment of committees
the 23 voting members of cabinet
will have to approve the amend
ment to put it into effect. As
plundh yesterday retracted his
statement to a Daily Collegian
reporter that'absententions would
not be considered as votes, adding
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