The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, March 11, 1952, Image 1

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    Strikes Hurt
Food Problem—
See Page 4
VOL. 52 No. 103
A4j: Coiii i na. Itgi, fripar. : ,_ : : Fee Plan
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State ond7Lion.•:Parties
Select - Clique 'Officers
Lippert Named
Clique Head
Of State Party
Jules Lippert was elected sen
ior class clique chairman of the
State Party at its meeting Sunday
night, when senior -and junior
officers of the party were choSen.
Robert Sherman was voted in
as vice chairman, Marion Morgan
was elected secretary, and Terese
Moslak defeated Albert Lucidi‘ foi
the job of treasurer. -
Workshop Chairmen Named
In the 'junior , clique elections,
Charles Gibbs defeated Jerome
Feinburg for the position of chair
man, Ernest Stahl beat out John
MoOre and David Slepin for the
vice chairmanship, Jane L'arpen
teur was elected secretary over
Corinne Janssens, and Stanley
Hirsch won over Mario Valentino
in the _treasurer's spot. Anne
Quigley, who had been nominated
for junior class clique, withdrew
from the contest before the elec
tions.
Permanent workshop commit
tee chairman were announced at
the meeting by, Thomas Farrell,
State Party clique chairman. Er
nest -Famous was , named ward
chairman; Rae •DelleDonne, mem
bership; Myer L Bushman, public
relations; Irvin White, campaign;
Robert Kritt, publicity; and Mel
vin Rubin and Joseph Simone,
platform. Miss Quigley and Mor
ris Singer were named co-chair
man of a party mixer to be held
Friday night.
Self-nomination
Farrell said that final votes on
new steering •committee repre
sentatives will be made Thursday
night after the workshop meeting.
Under the proposed plan for ex
pansion of the steering commit
tee, representatives for 'e a,c h
school and for independent men
and women, fraternity men, and
sorority women will be added to
the group.
A student interested in becom
ing the party representative of his
School must nominate himself for
the position. Nomination blanks
may be obtained from party sec
retary Beverly Morgan.
Sophomore Dance
Tickets Available
Tickets:for:the sophomore class
dance on March'22 are available
tb all sophomores at the Student
Union desk, George Donovan,
manager of 's t u d e n.t activities,
said -yesterday. Sophomores may
pick, up their tickets free of
charge by presenting their ma
triculation cards.
The dance will be held in Rec
reation Hall from 9 p.m. to 12
midnight with Jack Jenkins and
his orchestra providing the music.
Ed-its Out Torncirrow
Ed-its, the School of Education
publication, will be. out. tomor
row. It can be obtained at the
education of f ice in 'Burrowes
Building. ,
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Taylor to 'Judge
Mis.s Penn State'
Photo Entries
Photograph entries for the Miss
Penn State contest are now open,
Janet Herd, Spring Week corona
tion' chairman, announced' yester
day.
Don Taylor, 1942• graduate of
the College, now in 'Hollywood
on a movie contract, will judge
the, photographs and narrow the
entries to five.
Miss Penn State, who annually
reigns -over Spring Week activi
ties, will be selected from among
the five finalists at a program
in Schwab Auditorium.
Photos - should - be - five by seven
and may be left at the Student
Union desk in Old Main before
noon April 5. -.-
All candidates - must ..be ..under
graduates ai the College and
must be entered by some organi
zation.
Nine Enter
'Ugly Man'
Contest
Nine entrants in the 1952 Ugly
Man • contest sponsored by Alpha
Phi Omega, national service fra
ternity, were named yesterday.
Contest officials said they will re
lease another list tomorrow.
Entrants in the contest and their
sponsors as of noon Saturday were
Deadline. for submitting pic
tures for the Ugly Man Contest
is noon Thursday, according to
William Slepin, chairman of the
contest.
All candidates whose pictures
have „not been taken will be
taken 'from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Thurs
day in 411 Old Main.
John Albarano, boxing team cap
tain, Theta Kappa Phi; Milton
Bernstein, , BX chairman, Phi `Sig
ma Delta; Roger Clinton, editor
Interfraternity Council , workshop
magazine, Kappa Sigma; Peter
Fairchok, vice president of Min
eral Industries Student Council,
Theta' Chi; Ralph Griffith, vice
president of West Dorm Council,
sponsored by the council; William•
Hockersmith, varsity football, -Al
pha Chi Sigma; Richard Mormon,
secretary Pollock Circle Council,
sponsored by the council; William
Park, Penn State Glee Club presi
dent, College Co-op;, and Stanley
Wengert, IFC president,' Panhel
lenic Council.
Contestants .inust be eighth se
mester students sponsored by a
College organization.
The Ugly Man contest is a- type
ofi popularity contest, William.
Slepini contest chairman, said last
week. "He — said that for this' rea
son it is desirable that entrants
be well-known campus personali
ties. r
Voting for the contest will take
place March• 26 to ,28 on the Mall
at Pollock road. Proceeds' of the
contest will go to the Campus
Chest.
Candidates to Meet
-Candidates for the Daily Col
legian • business. staff • will meet
at 7: tonight in 1. Carnegie Hall.
Anyone interested in advertising,
promotion, •• circulation, ''classified
advertising,;-or:;4fice -woric 411 gY
afteriirra.ltoPdriik' la=
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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE,. PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 11, 1952
250 Re-elect
Evext Leader
Of Lion Party
Ray Evert was re-elected .All
" College party' ehairman . of the
Lion Party by the approximately
250 students who attended the
party meeting Sunday night.
William Walters was • - elected
vice party chairman, Judith Cal
let' was elected secretary, and
Alan Maloney was elected 'finan
cial chairman. All four candi
dates were unopposed.
, . Walters to Take Over
, Nominations for junior an d
senior class clique officers were
opened, but no nominations were
,made: Next Sunday the party will
elect class clique oficers and open
nominations for All-C oil eg e,
junior, and senior class candi
dates.
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Evert, - a senior, has been chair
man of the party since the fall
elections. Walters, a junior, will
take over 'the party for the fall
cathpaign,
On March 4 the Lion Party
approved a constitution written
by 'Clair George and Maloney.'
The _constitution cuts the pow
er of — the party chairman, mak
ing him responsible for many of
his actions 'to the executive com
mittee, which is composed, of the
four party officers and the heads
of. each class.
Must Attend 2 Meetings
Under the constitution an y
party member may belong to the
platform committee. The steer
nig committee nominations shall
be given no different reception
than others from the floor and
shall not be stated as having the
approval, of the steering commit
tee. •
.Evert urged all members and
all those interested in joining the
party to attend Sunday's meet
ing. A student must attend two
party meetings in order to be
come a party • member. Only
members may vote- for candi
dates.
'lke
Taft
If the Presidential preference poll conducted among students at
Penn State is any criterion; (but from the results of a similar poll in
1948 it seems it may not be) Gen. Dwight D.. Eisenhower will be the
next President of the United States.
. General Eisenhower received 86 "of the 223 vote's cast in the poll
conducted last week by the Daily Collegian. He had almost three
times as many votes as his -nearest
Republican rival, Sen. Robert A.
Taft of Ohio, who received only
30 votes
Percentage wise, Eisenhower
got only 38.6 per cent of the total
votes. cast, but received a larger
number -of votes in each • party,
including. independents, than any
other candidate. Of the 91 Re
publican ballots cast, Eisenhower
got 42 (46.2 per cent), while he
took 25 of the 74 independent -bal
lots (35.2 per cent), and 18 of the
51 Democratic ballots (35.3 per
cent), 'beating President Truman
by one vote.
Senator Taft placed second in
the ,poll. with 30 ,votes. Twenty
of these - Were. Republican ballOts,
and teri independent. He received
no Democratic- votes. • •
Third. , prace ,went f to• President
Truman,. who - received 25 votes.
Seventeen•. of: these were . Demo-
Cratic ballots,• three• were Repub
his= closest •Dernocratic rival, Sen':
(Continued on ,page :eight)
Takes First Place,
Is Second in Poll
rvatt Women Neglect
Right to Vote—
See Page 4
10 Cent Raise Proposed
As Aid to Judging Teams
The School of Agriculture Student Council will hear a
propOsal tonight to raise student fees ten cents a semester to
help pay the expenses of Penn State's nine judging teams.
If.approved by the council, the proposal will be present
ed to -All-College Cabinet,. at its next meeting. Cabinet ap
proval of 'the *fee increase would come in the form of a
recommendation to the College
Board of Trustees. The trustees
would have the final say.
The council.. will meet at 8 to
night in 103 Agriculture Build
ing
The proposal to raise all stu
dent fees ten cents a semester
will come in the form of a re
port to be presented by James
Gallagher, chairman of a special
committee which has been study
ing the problem. Included on the
committee is All-College Secre-,
tary Treasurer. Thomas Jurchak.
High ' Personal Cost
Students enrolled in the School
of Agriculture, the report will
point out, are now paying 75
cents a semester to support nine
judging teams which represent
Penn ,S ta t e in intercollegiate
competition. The increase would
raise the fees ag students are
paying to support the
.teanis to 85
cents a semester.
According to figures compiled
by the committee, members of
the judging teams are now spend
ing almost $l7OO per, year out of
their own pockets in .order` to
meet travelling, food, and insur
ance costs incurred on trips.
$3OOO a Year
"Often many students who are
eligible for membership on these
teams," the report says, "cannot
compete because of the high per
sonal cost which averages $44.80
per • member and is as high as
$87.20 on some teams.'•'
According to figures the corn
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Cabinet, Prexy to Meet,
All-College Cabinet will have
a social meeting at the home
of President- Milton .S. Eisen
hower at 8 tonight.
Current campus problems
will be discussed, All-College
President James Worth. said
yesterday.
Worth also announced that
there will be no 'meeting of
cabinet Thursday night.
First in Poll
pen. Dwight• D. .Eisenhow,er
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Notre Dame
Edges Out
Debaters
By a slim 11-point margin the
Penn State men's debate four
some dropped the Brooklyn Col
1e g e Invitational Tournament
this weekend to Notre Dame.
A 1 t h•o ug h both teams won
eight and lost two debates, the
Notre Dame speakers racked up
1012 points to Penn State's 1001.
Each speaker was rated numeri
cally by the judges, according to
Clair George, manager.
Gene Kolber and Mark Unger,
the affirmative team, won over
the University of Vermont, Navy,
Johns Hopkins University, an d
Kings Poin t Merchant Marine
Academy. They lost to St. Peters
College.
Nega ti v e speakers Thomas
Durek and George beat New
Yo r k University, New Haven
College, University of Pittsburgh,
an d Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and dropped their
bout with Georgetown Univer
sity. '
The topic was the national in
tercollegiate question, "Resolved:
That the f e der al government
should adopt a permanent pro
gram of wage and price control."
WD Council
Gets Apology
From Baker
Mildred Baker, director of food
service, has apologized to the West
Dorm Council for the delay at
Friday's lunch that brought a
storm of protest from students liv
ing in '‘Hamilton Hall and ended
at Friday's supper with a "food
strike."
' At Friday's evening meal, about
50 students did not enter the Ham.
ilton dining hall until 6:10 p.m.
The dining halls are scheduled
to close at 6:15 p.m.,
but as a re
sult of the strike, the doors did
not close until shortly after 6:30
p.m.
The apology was made in the
form of a letter read by Richard
Mills, council' president, at last
night's council meeting.
The living units of the area
split a proposal brought before
the council two weeks ago that
would have the council banquet
and keys for council members
financed thr ou g h the council
treasury. Constituents .d e c i d e d
that only the keys should be paid
for from council funds.
McGinnis Elected
TosCouncil Post
James McGinnis was elected
treasurer of the Nittany Council
at a meeting last night by a 10
to 4 'vote. He succeeds Milton,
Erb.
It was proposed at the meet
ing that the council sponsor a
booth for the Spring Weekend
party. Weston . Thomlison, coun
cil president, named Charles
Berryhill, chairman, Dennis Don
ovan, and' James Shultz to work
on the project.
Thomilson also named' Daniel
Fagan chairman of the athletic
committee.