PAGE TWO Political Parties Favor Expanded Medical Aid State Proposes Town Doctor House Calls The full text of the State Party platform, released by the All- College elections committee yes terday, is printed below: The State Party, conceived up on the principles of service to you, the students of Penn State, now ■offers you the opportunity to elect sincere and competent stu dents, who, with your continued cooperation and support, will en able us to preserve student gov ernment. In order to fulfill this respon sibility we pledge to investigate fully and take all steps necessary to accomplish the fulfillment of the following proposals: 1. To work for the establish ment of a student press to print campus publications. 2. To hasten the expansion of the facilities of the College hospi tal in order to insure a more adequate health service. 3. To conclude an agreement with town doctors to provide for house calls to dormitories and fraternity houses in cases of emergency. 4. To establish a men’s housing bureau for all off-campus rooms in order to provide for improved and safe living conditions. School Council Election Dates Set by Board . Student council elections will be held in all schools except Agri culture and Engineering April 28, 29 and 30 the Interstudent Coun cil Board decided at a meeting recently. Edward Shanken, board presi dent, said that nominations will be made between April 21 and 25. Shanken said that the Engin eering Council election will be held on April 28 and 29. The Agriculture council will be chosen by the various student organiza tions in the School of Agriculture. The council rejected a proposal of Donald Herbein that the school council elections be held at the same time as the All-College elec tions. Most of the board members felt that it would involve the councils in politics and a better student response within -each school could be attained if the elections were held separately. The council also decided to ask the inter-class finance committee for $5O in the new All-College budget. Shanken said the money would be used to coordinate the work of the various student councils. , Fines! Nominees For IFC Named The final list of nominees for Interfraternity Council offices was announced at last night’s IFC meeting. Elections of the officers will be held April 7. The nominees are: president, Arthur Rosfeld and William Dor sey; vice president, Clifford Ste wart, Thomas Geffert, William Hirsch, Thomas Judge, and Jos eph Brown; secretary treasurer,. Richard Bunnell, Thomas Flem ing, and Hudson Samson. Richard Gibbs was* appointed to look into cost reduction for big weekend photographs. He will report his findings at the next meeting. Stanley Wengert, IFC president, announced that the Outstanding Fraternity Trophy has been revived and will be awarded this year. Forms have been given out for fraternities to list activities and their members in important jobs on campus. Copies of the Work Shop dis cussion booklet are now avail able at the Dean of Men’s office. Only one copy per house will be given out. Additional booklets will cost $l. Floral Agency Issues Last Call Today is the last day for stU' dents to order corsages through the Student Flora! Agency, which represents the three floral shops downtown McMullen’s, Wood ring’s, and the State College Flor al Shop. The agency enables students to order flowers in the dorm areas from 5 to 7 p.m. during the week preceding a big weekend. Offices are at the West Dorm mail room and the Nittany-Pollock dining hall. Members of the agency include Joseph Sutovsky, manager, Wal ter Service, James Ramsay, and Thomas Kraynak. Eight Leave For Eastern Debate Meet Eight debaters, representing the men’s and women’s debate squads, left yesterday to compete in the first annual Eastern Intercollegi ate Debate Tournament at Prince ton University, The tournament is sponsored by the eastern division of the Ameri can Forensic Association. Nancy Nelsen and Peggy Crooks will debate the affirmative for the women, while Susan Holtzinger and Greta Weaver will be debat ing the negative. For the men, Eugene Kolber and David Lewis will uphold the affirmative, with Clair George and Robert Alderdice supporting the negative side. All debates are on the national intercollegiate debate topic, Re solved: That the federal govern ment should adopt a permanent program of wage and price con trols. Miss Weaver and Lewis will also enter the extemporaneous speaking competition at the tour nament. Lewis recently placed second ip the state extemporan eous contest, while Miss Weaver placed third in extemporaneous competition at the state tourna ment last year. Forty schools from the eastern part of the United States, from Maine to yirginia, will have dele gations at 1 the tournament. Elections Set For Chem-Phys Nominations for four senior, four junior, and two sophomore seats on the Chem-Phys student council will be received April 21 to 25, and elections will be held April 28, 29 and 30, Bryson Craine, council president, said last night. Craine also said that present council members would elect of ficers for next year at the April 30 meeting of the council. Charles Ferguson, a member of the Open House committee, ap pealed to members of the coun cil to visit their high schools dur ing spring vacation to help pro mote the school’s Open House which will be held May 10. In other action the Council ap proved the Freshman. Customs Board Amendment which'will be voted upon at tonight’s meeting of All-College Cabinet. FOR IFC WEEKEND YOU'LL WANT TO LOOiC NICE FOR THAT GIRL OF YOURS, SO . . HARTMAN'S BARBER SHOP THE DAILY CPLLEQIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Lions Advocate More Activity For Blue Band The full text of the Lion Party platform, released by the All-Col lege elections committee yester day, is printed below: The Lion' Party believes that student government at Penn State can be strengthened to the bene fit of all Penn State students. To accomplish this increase in the powers of student govern ment. the Lipn Party favors in creased student participation, greater cooperation among the governmental agencies, and fur ther-recognition of student gov ernment by the College adminis tration. The platform points stated be low are the immediate aims of the Lion Party. We propose: 1. A program of inspection of downtown housing facilities and the issuing of a list of recom mended houses through the. of fice of the Dean of Men. 2. Initiation of action to make personal property insurance avail able for campus and town stu dents at reasonable rates. 3. Establishment of a student press for student publications. 4. Encouraging the administra tion to ease requirements com pelling students living on campus to contract for College dining ser vices. ' 5. Expansion of College medi cal facilities and services. 6. The participation of part of the Blue Band at indoor athletic events, particularly basketball. Pugh, White Medal Winners To Be Named Winners of the Evan Pugh med als, awarded to juniors and sen iors for outstanding academic achievement, will be announced today by the College Senate as will the recipients of the John W. White fellowship and the John W. White medal. The Pugh awards are made by the Honor Society Council to stu dents who have been selected by the Senate committee on scholar ships and awards. The senior med als are gold; the junior medals are silver. The John W. White fellowship is a grant of $6OO awarded to a member of the graduating' class for graduate study. The White fgold medal is a sen ior scholarship award. A revised academic, calendar for 1953-54 is also on the Senate agenda. At its last meeting, ' a month ago, the Senate refused to accept the calendar committee’s recommendation because of the lack of sufficient time between final examinations and spring registration. ’Ernest W. Callenbach, chairman of the committee, said yesterday that his committee will be pre pared to present a revised calen dar at today’s meeting. No action is expected on the plan to increase normal gradu ation credit requirements as a penalty for cutting classes before and after vacations. That proposal was made to the Senate two months ago and at the last Senate meeting early in March the matter was referred to a special committee for extensive study. • FOR THAT ALL-AROUND WELL-GROOMED APPEARANCE GO TO HARTMAN'S WHERE THE SERVICE UNDER the CORNER ROOM IS THE BEST. Betz Wins Contest For Poster Design Fred Betz, junior in' architec tural engineering, won the first prize of $5 for designing a poster for the School of Engineering open house program. Second prize of $3 in the com petition among sophomores and juniors was won by Michael Sabo and third prize of $2 by Thomas Kearns. Honorable mention,, with prizes of $1 each, went to Robert Carr, Thomas Geffert, Donald Lenker, Cynthia Palmer, and Douglas Stender. Navy Professor Will Transfer To Sea Dufy Capt. John L. Woodbury, pro fessor of naval science, will be transferred to sea duty in early June, the Department of Naval Science has announced. * Captain Woodbury will return to sea in command of a trans port division amphibious force attached to the Atlantic fleet. He assumed his present position in July 1943, and Has been campus coordinator of military affairs since last year. Capt. Frahk P. Mitchell Jr. is expected to take over' the duties as naval science professor when Woodbury leaves, Comdr. Richard L. Billings, associate professor of naval science, said. At present, Captain Mitchell is commanding officer on the attack transport, USS Sarasota. Billings said Mit chell has a varied and w e 11- rounded sea, land, and executive record. Prexy, Steidle Praise Oroup Members of the Mineral Indus tries Student Council heard let ters from Pres. Milton S. Eisen hower and Edward Steidle,'dean of the MI school, commending their testimonial banquet honor ing John J. Forbes, head*of the U.S. Bureau of Mines. The letters commended the or ganization and management of the dinner which was held March 22. The affair was termed suc cessful by Millard Rehburg, pres ident of the council. Harold Mea bon, financial chairman of the banquet, gave a financial report and also called the banquet a success. Tentative plans for electio'ns of council, officers and sophomore and junior representatives were made. Officers will be elected shortly after the return from the spring vacation, while represen tatives will be elected late in the month. Debaters to Hold lalfrasquad Tourney The men’s debate squad will hold an intrasquad tournament this year for the first time,-ac cording to Clair George, man ager. . , ' \ Each of the 14 teams debated once last night' and will debate twice next week before the re sults will be announced. The win ning team from eac,h class will receive an award. All members of the squad ex cept those who regularly compete in ' intercollegiate tournaments were eligible to enter this tourna ment. CANDY A N EASTER E TREATS! • Ivory and dark chocolate molds • Fudge Eggs • Solid chocolate baskets and shells • Filled with quality candy . “Between the Movies” THURSDAY, APRIL 3; 1952 Candidates Seek Posts In PSCA Jane Ifft and Allen Marshall will vie for the presidency of the Penn State Christian "Association in elections which will begin to morrow; and last until' Tuesday. Voting will take place in the PSCA head quarters, 304 Old Main; between .9 a.m. and 5 p.m. tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday and between 9 a.m. and 12 noon Saturday. Approximately 400 students are eligible to vote, but each must' present his PSCA membership card to do'so. Competing for vice president are Robert James and Robert Keener; for, secretary, Patricia Jones and Elizabeth Bortz, and for treasurer, Char 1 e s' Douds, Richard Smith, and Warren Hom mas. Elections for Directors Running for committee chair manships are LaVonhe Althouse and. Shirley Pritchard, program; David Howell and Merritt Din nage, finance; Kirk Garber, Ruth Freed, and Joyce Gardiner, mem bership; Nancy Barth, LaVeme Applegate, and David 'Bain, new students; and Elizabeth Byrem and Dorothy Osterhout, public relations. Five will be elected to the PSCA board of directors for a _• three-year term. Dr. Ralph J. Garber, Dr. Merwin W. Humph ery, Norman R. Thielke, Dr. Mary L. Willard, Paul E. Lenner, Mac- Donald Heebner, Dr. William G. Mather, Ted C. Allen, and' Dr. Harold 'W> Perkins are the nomi nees. .3 Ministers on Board Board members nominated for a one-year term are Dr. M; K.’ Gingrich, Dr. John A. Mourant, Mrs. Dorothy C. Jones, John Tru by, Mrs. Lucey Doan, Dr. Henry W. Knerr, Dr. Charles M. Long, and John E. Nicholas. Four will be elected from thes^. Three ministers will be selected for board membership from among the Rev. Edwerth E. Korte, the Rev. Robert H.. Eads, the Rev. Frank W. Montgomery, the Rev. v, Andrew E. Newcomer, and the Rev. Albert S. Asendorf. Two students, Garry Norris and Martha Heckman, were nominated to represent students on the-board of directors. Physics Professor To Speak Tonight Dr. David H. Rank, research professor of physics, will give a talk on “Planetary Atmospheres” at 8:30 tonight in 119 Osmond Laboratory. The lecture, sponsored by Sig ma Xi, science honorary, will fol-' low the annual Sigma Xi initia- tion banquet to be held at the Nittany Lion Inn at 6:15 p.m. The lecture is open to the public. A' review of the present knowl edge of the planetary atmospheres and possible implications of this knowledge ■ with respeot to future work will be included in the talk. Attention! ROTC Cadets This Week Only Uniforms Cleaned & Pressed for 79c PORTAGE CLEANERS . Through , Student Dry Cleaning Agency 'The TAVERN MENU ■ Thursday ; April 3 ■ ITALIAN SPAGHETTI , BAKED STUFFED-PEPPERS. ROAST LEG OF LAMB PRIME STEAKS' DINNER 5 - 7:30 p.m. Reservations after 6:30'
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