TtittADAY, MAY 27, 1952
IFC Commended
For Pi Lam Stand
The suspension of the charter of the Omega
Gamma chapter of Pi Lambda Phi was not a
pleasant piece of business for the Interfraternity
Council, or for any other group concerned. The
council„ aware that stern -disciplinary action
had to be' taken, never faltered once in its de
termination, to cooperate with the College to
see that appropriate action was taken. T h e
group is to be highly commended for its stand.,
With the average age Of college students now
once again pretty well back to its pre-war nor-
Mal; the council realized it was faced with a
now-or-never decision. If the IFC -had turned
its back on the infractions committed by the
fraternity, it would not only have weakened its
Position with the College,. but would undoubt
edly have lowered its effectiveness as a spokes
man for the fraternitieS. As it is, the IFC has
firmly established itself as a force among the
fraternities.
The suspension of the Pi Lam charter for
nearly One year is a harsh penalty, but in
committing its offenses the fraternity must
have realized what the consequence could be
if Caught.' .11 decided to take the risk, and
lost. But even .so, some leniency was shown
the group.
Permission was granted for the members to
operate as a local club outside -the chapter
house. and to select club members on a basis
to be determined by the national office, the
chapter adviser, and the College administration.
In addition, the way was left open for the
fraternity to eventually regain its former stand
ing on the campus. -
• A representative of the fraternity has stated
that the members of the group will show an
active and sincere interest in campus acf_vi
ties next year. We hope they will, and hope
that once their penalty period is up,• they will
- have no trouble in rejoining the - national or
ganization.
It is too bad that Pi Lambda Phi must be held
up to other fraternities as an example of what
- can happen , to them if they step too far out of
line. The Interfraternity Council has shown it
means business. We hope
,the warning is heeded.
Class Gifts Chosen
Through the Years.
Each year the age-old controversy appears on
almost every-campus in the country. The ,sen
ior class is faced with the decision of finding an
.acceptable, practicable, and unique present to
give their soon-to-be Alma Mater.
This spring the discussion of what was to be
the 1952 senior class gift aroused many and
varied feelings. It is probable that similar dis
cussions and arguments have occurred since the
first gift was given to Penn State in 1861.
The Penn State senior class gifts have ranged
from a sundial located on the front campus, a
gift of the class of 1915, to the elevator in the
Infirmary donated by the class of 1934. A steel
wireless tower was contributed by the class of
1912, but was removed in 1924 because of fire
hazard.
Many of our familiar traditional campus sights
are owed to preceding class gifts. The class of
1900 is responsible for the benches on campus.
Class Ivy on Engineering Building, the Aud
itorium, the tower of the Armory, Carnegie Hall,
and Mac Allister Hall was a gift of the classes
of 1908 through 1912.
The terrace in front of • Old Main and the
drinking fountain at the Old Willow were do
nated by the class of 1913 and 1914, respectively.
Memorial gates to the campus were given by
classes of 1916 through 1918 and the classes of
1925 and 1926. The class of 1937 is to be thanked
for their donation of the :Westminster chimes
in the tower of Old' Main. The famous Lion
Science Helps Catch Criminals
By HELEN LUYBEN
With only blobs •of red paint
found on a wrecked car to go on,
Dr. Mary L.
.Willard, professor of
chemistry and well-known expert
in criminalistics, can, pin-point
guilt onto one of two trucks ,in
volved in a tragic three-car col
lision.
Here's the Story. It was 8 a.m.
on a January day,. as a mother
stgod combing her six-year -old
daughter's hair by a window in
their, home. On, the highway in
front of the house,
two men in a
green car traveled slowly north.
A new red truck followed the.
green car. An older truck, re
painted red, approached the two
froth the other. direction. Inside
the little girl said, "Mommy, the
red truck is getting awfully close
to the green car." ,
Dr. ,Willard was telling this
story, illustrating it with little
drawings in this repoiter's note-'
book, in an interview in her offiee
`laboratory.
Short and white-haired, Dr. Wil
lard sat amid comparison micro
p6opes, and More microscopes,
ex
plaining work with scientific
,deteetioir which, has 'made
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1952
Shrine was given to the College by the class
Of 1941. .
Innumerable scholarship and memorial, funds
have been class gifts over the, years. Funds for
further construction on campus have been given
by various classes. Loan funds have been given
by six senior classes. Such practical presents as
the Beaver Field scoreboard, money toward a
Student Book Store, an organ and two pianos,
a telescope, and a fund to buy more books for
the library have been donated by various
classes.
The class of 1952 has not yet announced what
their gift to the College is to be. Their decision
will contribute a gift which in fifty years will
undoubtedly be another tradition on the Penn
State campus
Safety Valve
Physics Libeary Closes
File of Old Blue Books
TO THE EDITOR: After five Years of trying
to provide students in the School of Chemistry
and Physics with a file of old "blue books," the
Physics library feels compelled to withdraw and
discontinue the effort. Th e experiment has
failed largely because of the irresponsible atti
tude of a few. students. The books have been
mutilated and some have been removed from
the room for keeps. These books cannot be re
placed, for such numbers of tests must be ac
cumulated over a period of years.
This service has been provided through the
generous efforts of Dr. R. L. Weber and the
secretaries in the Physics department. The li
brarian has tried every means possible to keep
the books in good order and available to all
students. But this has been defeated by a few
who tore whole sets from the books or took
the books away altogether. It
. is with regret
that they have brought this about for the many
conscientious and worthy ones are denied a
valuable source of reference.
If students through their governments can
arrange a method for keeping such a file, all
assistance will be given them in the project.
However, it will require tears to accumulate
any substantial number of such tests. These
file,s covered , all tests from 1946-1950 in
clusive.
Gazette ...
DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB, TUB, 6:45 p.m.
OMICRON NU, Home Economics living cen
ter, 7 p.m.
CATHAUM: Tuesday—lndian Uprising 1:58,
3:53, 5:48, 7:43, 9.:44 Thurs day— Son of Dr.
Jekyll, Friday—The Marrying Kind.
STATE: Tuesday—Flight to Mars 1:54, 3:47,
5:40, 7:33, 9:25, Wednesday—The Green Glove,
Friday—Red Mountain:
NITTANY: Tuesday Death of a Salesman
6:00, 7:54, 9:48, Thursday—Room for One More,
Saturday—Trail Guide
STARLITE DRIVE-IN: Tuesday Ten Tall
Men, plus The Highwayman 8:30
STUIENT EMPLOYMENT
Woman for evening clerking.
Man to work for part of rent of downtown apartrmlnt. No
children.
Work on college farms any time during week.
Clerking 20-30 hours per week during summer. •
Work for room rind board for summer or for summer and
' fall.
Opportunity for foreign student to work in western section
of country. Housework. Room; board, transportation,
and 'good salary offered.
Couple for local summer employment.
Wife-to do office work on weekends for rent of apartment.
May have one child.
Husband for work in exchange for apartment for couple.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
The Vulcan Soot Blower division of Continental Fofindry &
Mtchine Co. will' interview Tune graduates in M.E."
May 28.
her famous throughout the United
States.
She continued. As the trucks
approached each other, the green
car spun around on a small bit of
ice in front of the house and
crossed in front of the southbound
truck. Both 'men were thrown
from the automobile and killed.
Here Dr. Willard came into the
picture. Her job was to determine
whether the new truck had started
the grden Car into its skid, or
Whether the whole resptintibility
was on the older truck:
Large blObs of red paint on the
license tag and the back fender of
the detholished car, examined un
der a spectrograph, were found to
be the same as the paint on the
old truck. The 'new truck was
cleared from all guilt.
. This is just one example of the
kind of work Dr. Willard does
each' day in her laboratory on this
campus. A native of State College,
she began her work ,in the field of
criminalistics by, testing for al
cohol content in the blood.
Since then she has.gone on to
develop many new methods , of
chemical analysis, forensic
tick; 'and blood identification, to
—Bev Dickinson
—Mrs. R. U - . Blasingame
Asst. in charge of
Physics Reading Room
Tuesday,, May 27
AT THE MOVIES
Mention only a few.
Picking a small piece of wool
from this reporter's sweater, Dr.
Willard held it between her small
fingers and eiplained, "You know,
if a man hit you and he had on a
signet ring ? he'd catch some tiny
piece of wool in his ring.
"We could take that little piece
of wool, examine it, and tell you
that it was green. We. could tell
yOu if it were new or reworked
wool, and even what kind of sheep
it carpe from. All froth that little
sample—that •little piece of fuzz:"
New• methods of crime detec
tion, Dr. Willard said, are making
not only the scientist, but even
the
_hardened criminal realize that
crime doesn't pay.
Dr. Willard's aim is to deVelop
the field of scientific crime inves
tigation beyond the hobbyist and
avocationist field. She would like
to see modern criminalistics lab
oratories, accessible to everyone,
in every state. .
"Dr. Willard's work takes her to .
testify in courts throughout the
state. Here she said she feels the
ordinary jurist is a. "little hazy"
about the use of fechniCal data in
laboratory - reports. .She believes
education would, be helpful.
Little Man On Ca
•
‘"Would you call back? Professor Snarf
is grading term papers right now."
interpreting the News
owers of President
15,f fluted 160 ears Ago
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
President Truman, the Supreme Court, Congress and the Ameri
can people are now going through a process regarding the steel dis
pute which seems actually to have been envisioned by the drafters
of the Constitution.
The evidence has been dug out of the long-hidden papers of James
Wilson, Philadelphia lawyer and member of the drafting committee,
by Richard Barry, former New
York Times reporter who is work
ing on the third edition of his
book, "Mr. Rutledge of South
Carolina,"
John Rutledge was chairman of
the drafting committee, which also
included Edmund Randolph, . the
governor of Virginia.
Rutledge was perhaps the only
man in America who had ever
been, by legisla ,
live authority, a
virtual dictator. .
During the revo
lution he had
been granted "all
power" by the
r t l / 4‘.
Assembly of
South Carolina.
He remained in
this position for
54 days, until on
his own motion
his right to inter
fere with trial by jury was re-,
moved, and he was required to
consult with the state council on
important affairs "when conven
ient." This sort of consfitutional
diCtatorShip had lasted. for two
years.
Years later this experience re
mained an important factor with
hini.
He assigned Randolph to write
the first draft of the Constitution.
Wilson and Randolph wanted the
powers of the President sharply
circumscribed even in wartime.
The third and controlling draft of
the docurrient is among the Wilson
papers, showing where Rutledge
struck out the timid phraseology
with'regard to wartime power and
made the President "commander
!n chief."
Then came the matter of peate
tinie poWers. Wilson wrote that it
required more debate than any
other clauses except those defin
ing the power of the judiciary.
Wilion submitted several drafts
closely defining tile President's
powers. Slowly he and Randolph
were worn down by Rutledge.
They boiled it down finally to the
single phrase about the President
being the Chief Executive.
Rutledge's argument, Wilson re
ported at the time, was that the
definition of "executiy,e" should
be made only when the powers
are at stake. "Anything less is
unworthy of the powers," he said.
If the President errs, there is Con-
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gress and the judiciary to correct
There, in the Wilson papers
which were not unearthed for 160
years, seems to be a dependable
statement of what was in the
minds of the Constitution's fram
ers. It is another marvel„in the
backgroUnd of one of the greatest
governmental documents
,in the
world, written in such a strangely
different America from that of to
day, yet written to encompass
even the storms of a modern na
tion.
The framers obviously foresaw
that the President should. have
the fight to act in emergency. The
definition of art emergency, and
how far the President might go
under it, was left for the day of
need. The President can apt, the
Congress and the court shall de
cide if he is right.
In the particular issue of today,
the steel matter, it will be recalled
that the drafters of the Constitu
tion, Rutledge in• his actions in
South Carolina both as clictator
and later chief justice, the .entire
fbundations of America, were
strongly predicated upon the com
mon law brought from England as
the basis of protection of both hu
man and property rights.
Aiumnus Wins
Editing Prize
Quentin FL Fehr, a graduate of
the Department of Journalism in
1941, has.been awarded first prize
in the annual Mass Transporta
tion Magazine contest for editing
the nation's best transit company
employees' newspaner for com
panies with more than 1000 em
ployees.
The award was made to Fehr as
editord of PTC News, a bi-weekly
oublication of the Philadelphia
Transportation Co.
Fehr has won two other na
tional prizes for his publications.
As editor of Youthadelohia, Phil
adelphia YMCA. monthly, he won
first prize for the nation's-best
"Y" paper in 1943. He received
the top national award in 1950 as
editor of the Philadelphia Poster,
Junior Chamber of CoMmerce
monthly.
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