. . •Btiying Plan Needs. .Sei, Page 4 VOL: 52, No. 108 colloge i .Unio . riQojet, Stdike OpOrs College, and service union officials apparently were waiting each other out yesterday as the date for the union's special strike meeting • 1 • approached. The union, local 67 of the American Federation of State,'County, and Municipal Ethployees (AFL), has set Wednesday as the date for a special meeting to vote on a work stoppage unless the College complies with its grievance de mandS. That date was set at the last regular meeting of the local, near ly two weeks -ago, 'and since then, there has been no announcement that ' the College . had altered its stand on any of the union's griev ances. Protests Merit Basis Debaters Pick Headly As Veep Jay Headly, a senior in arts and letters, was elected vice president of next year's Pennsyl vania State Debate Convention Saturday. The over 100 delegates to the 17th annual convention voted Wil liam McCartney,. of Allegheny College, president, and Ruth Bun tich, of Mt. Mercy. College, sec ond vice-president. Miss Buntich was a candidate • for Gavel Girl. A member of the College men's debating_ team will be appointed convention secretary next year. The convention, judged' by par ticipation of delegates, was ,"very successful," according to Clair George, manager, although it was one of the smallest held so far at the College, he said. - Delegates approved a mock-bill Saturday -morning that• would provide for a federal divorOe and sex education in secondary schools, to combat lowered moral standards. It also provided that, the De partment of Internal Revenue be selected completely by Civil- Seiv ice; each state's bar association conduct crime investigations; _and Congressional immunity be waived if the Federal • Court of Appeals finds a Congressman guilty a second time of making untrue statements. Any person found guilty • of accepting financial or material bribes, according to the bill, would be fined three times the amount of the bribe and/or 20 • years in the federal penitentiary. After the delegates , were un able to agree on amendments to Committe I's bill against in flation Friday night, committee ll's bill, based on a report by John Baron,- was accepted. WD Plan Code For Lounges Plans for a dating code for the three West Dorm small lounges were set in motion last night by the West Dorm Council. The proposal, which will follow the general line of the dating code of the Interfraternity Council, was described as .an effort to obtain College .aPproyal. for unchaperon ed dating in the. ment - j ounges. At present dating in the small lounges is ' prohibited to special occasions when chaperones ar e present. Mixed dating in area lounges is allowed_ only in Thompson lounge s . as - it is in all women's lounges,- 'and in the West ' Dorm main.ldunge. • Ralph :Griffith, Herbert Hollis-. ter and Arthur Simm Were named to a committee to investigate and draw• up the. proposed :code by Council President Richard Mills; Mills also, announced that a dance rs . scheduled for the main loupge- Friday 'night with music by the -Campuseers. - TWAT'S • WEATHER CLOUDY - AND WARK„. . - ~ '' - 7 -., , ~ 4 o)::• .. 1 . ...•_ . --''.--.. Tott . . r . ~.., . ~,,.,.. . l . , 40 The union submitted to the Col lege on• March 6 a: list of five demands designed, the union said, to bring wages into line and prove working conditions. The union is protesting, mainly, wage increases made on a merit basis to some College employees. The raises amount to an average of about ,$32 over what salaries were last July 1. - The College_ never answered the list of union grievances with a' public 'statement, nor has there been any known meetings be tween the - union and College ad ministrative officers •since the special strike meeting was. set. - 200 Attend Meeting Spokesmen for the union, on the other ' hand, have repeatedly stated that action to avert a work stoppage is now up_to the College. • Nearly 200 attended the meet ing March, 5 when the:unanimous vote • to, call the special meeting was made. Just what proportion of the total union membership thIS represents is doubtful. Union claims have set the total member ship of the local as high as 800, but - a high - ,:College official 'has estimated 'that it represents no more than - 300 of the 1800 service employees. - A claim that suppo'rt for the union's action-.is -general among 'service employees "was made by the union last week, but it is not (Continued on', - page . eight) Overflow To Hear By ,LEE. STERN An overflow crowd last' night packed 121 Sparks and spilled over to the steps and doorways to be "voluntarily c o rn e re d" •by• Welsh poet Dylan Thomas ; and, judging by the prolonged . ap plause at tile end of the program, they enjoyed every minute of it. The npet is 'possessed of a firm, clear voice 'capable of • unusual range and expression, and this he used to great advantage. The fore most consideration in the read ings, he said, was to preserve the original intent of the authors. Thomas, . speaking' ,in his res onant British-tinged voice, - cap tured' the- fancy of the audience with his ,quiet wit and excellent readings • of works by modern poets and some of his own "early ones, hurly-burly ones, lament ing• ones, and lamentable ones." But the selections of-his own works he chose for the readings were anything but lamentable. He started with two war poems, "A Refusal' to Mourn a Death - by Fire of a Child in LOridon," and "Ceremony . after a' Fire-Raid," both of them filled witha-brood ing, Old Testament kind of faith. "After the first death; there is no other," 'he says in the final line of the first of these poeths.• According 'AP the' bushy-haired Thomas:Am.:writes -two 'kinds. of poems, loud ones and soft• ones. His next reading frOm his own works- was •that-of a lender "soft" poem, "This Side-, of ; `. the -Truth," written ; for ,•his*six=year-old, son. - He -concluded with his, familiar pciern .of, strength a.ndlaith, "And Death Shall Hay.e....No..Dominion.'!. _-_As -art- encor e,-he .read Ahd FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, ;1952 Tickets on Sale For Kentucky Game Reserved tickets• for the Eastern Section games of the NCAA tournament went on sale. yesterday morning at the Athletic office in Old Main. Tickets for Friday. and Sat urday nights are $2 each. Penn State plays Kentucky an d North Carolina meets St. Johns of Brooklyn in the semi-finals Friday. The winners play Sat urday for the• sectional cham pionship and the losers also meet in a consolation game. Pep Rally To Send Off Cage Team Penn State's Raleigh-bound bas ketball team will receive a' noisy send-off tomorroiw night with a pep rally scheduled for 8:30 p.m. on the steps of Recreation Hall. The rally, the second staged for the team this season, will be sponsored by Hat Society Coun cil. The ten man traveling squad will leave- 8 a.m. Thursday for Raleigh, N.C.,• to play Kentucky in the opening round of the NCAA playoffs Friday night. Penn State last played in the NCAA's in 1942. Coach Elmer Gross and the team •which won 20 games will appear at the _rally according to Richard Rostmeyer, president of Androcles, junior men's hat so ciety. James Worth, All-College pres ident, and Louis Bell, director of public information, will be among the' speakers. The master of cere monies has not yet been chosen. 'The cheerleaders will be at the rally. Rostmeyer said he hoped the turnout would be greater than at the February rally staged to wel come the team home from 'a road Crowd Packs Sparks Poet. Dylan Thomas beautifUlly : =descriptive and nos talgic "Fern - He also read selections from Auden; .Yeats: and others. Of • his education, Thomis 'said that . it was "the liberty.' I I had la rgiatt Frosh Council Approves Joint ,Custoiris Board Freshman. Council voted last night to accept the proposal for a joint men' and women's freshman customs board as its recommenda tion 'to the Women's Student Government Association Senate. The proposal, submitted by a special committee of the council, . , passed by a 11-1 vote. In accepting the plan, the council made seven changes. These are:. . 1. The persons sitting as chair man of 'the board shall be a.vot ing .member. 2. In base .of a 'tie vote, guilt of an accused violator will be de cided by the. Freshman Customs and Regulations Board,,not by Judicial as 'provided in te origi nal proposal. No Dating Rules 3. The boar d must consider recommendations for. - changes in customs made ,by WSGA Senate . 4. Customs must be worn .from Saturday morning until Saturday noon. The original reads "the dress customs holiday starts at 5:30 p.m. each - .-Friday and ends at 70-a.m. Monday morning, with the one exception- 1h a t freshmen must wear .the customs, until noon on Saturday." 5. Rules on no dating will, be enforced during the whole us toms •period; including' weekends. 6. All- customs will end. at the same time. . Dual Approval:Asked . 7. Written and signed.. charges of violations of customs must be submitted to, the board within 48 hours. These charges mu s t be acted upon by the board within a - week after-the charge is made. Several changes were• made by the committee before submitting its report. Among these are' that women members of the" board -are subject not only to the approval of All-College Cabinet, but - WSGA Senate•• as well. The committee also inserted' a clause saying that the chair Man of -t h e Freshman Customs and Regulations •Board will be. a (Continued on page eight) . ~ read. whatevet - 1; wanted t 0.",: His work, acccirding „to him, is "al ways expetirnental and always completely. imsatisfactOry.!' _ • The expression ppetry•is the (Continued: on- page, eight) . Chapel Fund Should Stay At Home— See Page 4 PRICE FIVE CENTS Lion Class Chairmen Selected Vincent Yakowicz was elected senior class clique chairman of the Lion Party at a meeting Sun day night in 10 Sparks, as the Lion Party chose senior and jun ior class clique officers. Yakowicz was unopposed ,for the chairmanship. Allen Marshall won over Donald Douglas for the office of senior class vice clique chairman, while Howard Mason was unopposed for senior class campaign manager. Ann Jones and Douglas were elected as senior class representa tives-at-large. They edged out Henry Pitt. Richard Kirschner beat Thomas Pyle for the position of junior class clique chairman. By defeat ing Jerry Kintigh, James Hand became junior class vic.e clique chairman, while Fiorentino Feraco won over Pyle for junior class campaign mana g e.r . Ann Skapik and Roseann leonack• are junior class representatives-at large by virtue of being unop posed. - Over 100 persons attending the meeting received voucher cards making them eligible to vote. These cards were given to per , sons who have attended at least two clique meetings. At 'next week's clique meeting opening nominations for All-Col lege officers will begin. The Lion Party will also elect a new chair man from the freshman and soph omore. classes as required by the new party constitution, Ray Evert, party chairman, announced. The Lion Party also held a party Saturday night at Kappa Delta Rho. The party, under the chairmanship of John Haines, was open to the public and featured carnival games. A combo pro vided music for dancing. Haines was assisted by Thomas Kidd and Charles Obertance. Book. Agency Will Return Funds Today The Used Book Agency in .the TUB will be open today, tomor row, and Thursday to reimburse students whose books have been sold through .the agency, Robert Spragg, manager, said. The agency will be open from 8:30 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. each day. Students should bring their re ceipts with them, Spragg said.• Spr,agg also said that students who have unsold books.• at the agency, with the exception of graduating seniors and students who do not intend to return to Penn State • next fall, may leave their books at the agency during the summer. The agency will keep the books and try to sell them in the fall, Spragg said. This procedure would save the student the trouble of picking up his ' books this spring and bringing them back in the fall. • This ,method will also give the agency a reserve of . books with which to start operating in the fall.
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