New Staff Sets Its Policy— See Page 4 VOL. 52, No. 1324 Bell to Give Final Forum Talk Tonight What American parents can do about the "crisis in e ducation" in this country will be discussed by Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, na tionally known lecturer a n.d writer on education, when he gives the final Community Forum lecture at 8 tonight in Schwab Auditorium. The critical,view which Dr. Bell takes towrd this country' educational facilities is presented in his most recent book, "Crisis in Education," published last month. Dr. Bell's latest conten tion is that the blame is not the teachers, who he says, are not falling dawn on the job. He says that the job, ridiculously ex panded, has fallen on to them. Dr. Bell contends , that the ex cessive expansion of the educa tional program in this country which places more burdens on -the , teacher is the crux, and the truth,- of the entire problem. " Dr. Bell was graduated from the University of Chicago, at tended the Western Theological Seminary in Chicago, and re ceived his Litt. D. degree from Columbia University in 1929. He was a professor of ' religion at Columbia University from ' 1930 to 1933., The forum lecturer is presently consultant on education to the Bishop of Chicago. Dr. Bell has written 19 books,, including ."Be yond Agnosticism" and "The Church in Disrepute." He has lec tured in this country and in England. A limited number of tickets for the lecture. are still available for $1.20 at the Student Union desk in Main. Inter fraternity Council Heads To Be Installed New officers of the Interfra ternity Council will be officially installed following the annual IFC banquet at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Nittany Lion Inn.. Stanley Wengert, retiring presi dent, will preside at the• instal lation of Arthur Rosfeld, Phi Del ta Theta, president; William Hirsch, Tau Kappa Epsilon, vice president; and Thomas Fleming, Pi Kappa Alpha, secretary treas urer. Each fraternity will be repre sented at the banquet by its IFC representative, house president, and adviser. H. K. 'Wilson, Dean of Men, will be guest speaker and Jack Flannigan, Sigma Chi, will be toastmaster. Guests of honor will include Harold W. Perkins and Daniel A. DeMarino, assistant deans • of men, and Luther H. Harshbarger, College chaplain. Other ret i r ing officers are James Wharton, vice president, and John Allison, secretary treas urer. The new officers were elect ed April 7 and will assume their duties immediately following in stallation. MI Honorary to Meet 'Sigma Gamma Epsilon, mineral industries honorary, will• meet at 7 tonight in Willard Hall. Edwin J. Anderson, professor of agriculture, will speak on• the study and culture of bees. TODAY'S WEATHER FAIR AND MILD j r 4 a t g0(,;.---.;:k.:'l n 1( STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 29, 1952 StudenU, Alunmi,.. Prexy Get Honors Laubach Takes Oath JOHN LAUBACH, new All-College president, being sworn in by Tribunal chairman, David Mutchler, at the Honors Day cere monies last night in Schwab Auditorium. Two Debate Team's Place in Tourneys Two Penn State debate teams placed third and seventh, and• another lost' out in the - quarter-finals in two tournaments last week end. The men's team placed third and the women's seventh at the Carnegie Institute of Technology Tartan Tournament. Debating af firmatively for the men,_Eugene Kolber and Mark Unger went un defeated. The negative debaters, John Baron and Thomas Durek, won two and lost'two The women's affirmative team, composed of Audrey Rothschild and Marjorie Kahn, and the neg ative debaters, Barbara Mena pace and Peggy Fahringer, each won two and lost two debates. The undefeated men's affirma tive • team beat University of Pennsylvania, Geneva College, Houghton College, and Univer sity of Pittsburgh. The negative team won over Xavier University and Carnegie Institute of Tech nology but lost • to Kent State University and the University of Pittsburgh Heidelberg College of Ohio, won the championship. Wins from the University of (Continued on page eight) 'Miss State' Finalists Chosen Patricia Hathaway, Nancy Queer, Louise Robertson, Nancy Scofield, and Joann Terhune have been' chosen as finalists in the Miss Penn State contest, James Geffert, chairman of the Spring Week committee, an nounced yesterday. • Geffert also. announced that the deadline for applications for Spring Week carnival booths and the All-College He-Man .contest has been, extended to noon Sat urday. The deadline for these events was originally set for noon today. Geffert said he had received sev eral requests to extend the dates for applications. 'The five Miss Penn State final ists • and Barbara Klopp, Miss Penn State 'of 1951, will be en tered; in .the . national ',! `Max Fac tor Girl" contest. College graduate. and film star Don Taylor,.picked the finalists. Taylor • wrote; "that of the 55 girls entered, there are about 55 beautiful women." Taylor hopes the girls he picked will meet the approval of the student body. When speaking of the "55 beautiful women" Taylor added, "this particular b r a'n c h (the (Continued on_page eight) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE —Photo by Cohen New Senior Board Starts Staff Duties The new senior editorial board of the Daily • Collegian with David Pellnitz as editor and An drew McNeillie, as 'managing edi tor, takes over publication of the paper with •this issue. The new senior board of the advertising staff, headed by Franklin Kelly, business man ager, and Phyllis Kalson, local advertising -manager, will take over Thursday. The Daily Collegian's Asso ciated Press news wire was con verted to teletypesetter operation on Saturday. All Pennsylvania papers carrying the AP wire -now receive • the teletypesetter copy. Five Finalists • •• "i , • , • . —Photo by Austin MISS PENN STATE will be chosen from among these five contest finalists, picked by Don Taylor, an alumnus of Penn State. They are, (left to right), Joann Terhune, I Robertson, Nancy Queer, Patricia Hathaway, and Nancy The winner will be named Marla rgiatt Day Awards While 12 students, five alumni, one sorority, and one frat ernity were being honored last night at the Honors Day pro gram in Schwab Auditorium, James - Worth, retiring All-Col lege president, presented a surprise awa r d to President Milton S. Eisenhower. John Laubach, newly elected All-College president, was sworn into office by David Mutchler, chairman of Tribunal, following Worth's presentation of a student government key to the Prexy. Such a key is ordinar ily given only to students. Individual's Role In presenting the key to Presi dent Eisenhower, Worth said the Prexy had aided student govern ment even to the extent of breaking previous engagements. President Eisenhower, in pre senting the introductory address, charted the role of the outstand ing individual in a democratic so ciety.- "We are doing more than ex pressing admiration for unusual competence," he said. "We are recognizing essential qualities of leadership and, through this con vocation, ,we are trying to em phasize the vital importance of the outstanding or uncommon person in a democracy." 8 Get Pugh Medals Robert L. Weber, chairman of the Senate committee on scholar ships and awards, presented the John W. White Medal, awarded to the highest ranking senior, to Jean Black. Ralph Clark re ceived the John W. White Fel lowship of $6OO to do graduate work. The President Sparks Medal, awarded to the student making a 3.00 average each semester arid showing the great est degree of improvement, was given to Richard Grostefon. The Evan Pugh Medals, pre sented by Agnes R. McElwee, president of the Honor Society Council, went to Julian Gordan, James Prete, Jean Richards, John Jeffries, Robert Sor t h, Guy McKee, Rocco Narcissi, and George Alleman. These are awarded to high ranking stu dents who do not receive the White awards. The Sigma Chi Scholarship Trophy, given to the fraternity showing the greatest improve ment in • scholarship, was pre sented to Robert Gray, president of Phi Gamma Delta, by . James Wharton, vice president of Inter fraternity Council. Marilyn Levitt, retiring Pan (Continued on page eight) Rooster Ruckus Brings Protest— See Page 4 By MIMI UNGAR Elections Continue in Six Schools Council elections in six schools will continue today and tomorrow. The Liberal Arts school has re ported that 23 per cent of the eligible students have voted so far. Other figures are unavailable as yet. All participating schools will complete balloting tomorrow; ex cept for the Engineering school, which will end its voting today. The Agriculture an d Physical Education schools are not holding elections. Voting stations have been set up for Chemistry and , Physics students in the lobby of Osmond laboratory; Education, Burrowes building; Engineering, on the Mall in front of Main Engineering, weather permitting, otherwise in the Main Engineering library; Home Economics, the lobby of the Home Economics building; Lib eral Arts, outside south door of Sparks building; Mineral Indus tries, main lobby of Mineral In dustries building. Nittany, Pollock Group Housing - Deadline Now Applications for group assign ments in Nittany and Pollock dormitories will continue to be accepted until 5 p.m. today, Russell E. Clark, director of housing, announced yesterday. Individual junior applications will be considered from 7 to 9 to night in 108 Old Main. Sopho mores will be processed tomor row and freshmen Thursday. All reservations will be accepted be tween 7 and 9 p.m. About 14 groups have already been assigned rooms in the East dormitories in accordance with the group housing plan, Clark said. Under the group p 1 a n 12 upperclassmen may apply in a body for reservations in Nittany dormitories and 16 may apply for rooms together in Pollock. Froth to View 'Things to Come' "The Shape of Things to Come," a look into the year 1972, is the theme of the April issue of the Penn State Froth which goes on sale today. "One of the lovely young rea sons the men raided Thompson Hall," Beverly Dickinson, is pie tured as Fr oth's girl-of-the month. Featured . in. this month's issue of the humor magazine ar e "Quarter Classics," illustrating the. pocket book editions of the classics 20 years from now; "Wall Street Women," Lenore Fein berg's description of women in '72; and " '72 Olympics," by Max Talus. Dick Neuweiler's "The Slime Drops Show," a radio script, shows that not everything in the American way of life will be changed in '72. FIVE CENTS
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