• - . .. ~- . - , . 6 ,0411 A 4 i • 41. , Winning 4r , 4, : .. Prorn Highlights 4 ~--,,..,- 0 Candidates— Ju . nior Week— •. p jeb •i tt i- n ..,,,,,...„.;:„..4, : ,. Trittratatt See Page g . . See Page 4 i l . „ VOL. 53, •No. 46 4 Win 400 Attend Pre-Rutgers Pep Rally Approximately 400 student s braved numbing autumn weather last night to cheer on their team, represented by' junior players, at the•pre-Rutgers pep rally in front of Recreation Hall. Dean Ernest B. McCoy, intro duced by emcee " Gerald Maurey as the "real McCoy," expressed the hope- that the Lions will win tomorrow and go on to knock Pitt's Sugar Bowl expectations in to a "cocked hat." After more cheers led by Head Cheerleader Alan McChesney ,and his squad, Maurey, a junior, in troduced, another "junior," head football Coach Rip Engle, who has been on campus three years. Engle told the crowd, "No one feels worse about losing a %game than the team and coaches. ,Now we're b ac k for a -home game. We're going to give Saturday's game everything we've got, and we hope we'll do a wonderful job for you." Engle jokingly expressed the hope that he won't "graduate" for at least another year. Other foot ball juniors cheered by the crowd were Pete Schoderbek, defensive line backer; Dick. Jones, offen sive left halfback; . .Jack Milsom, reserve backfield player; Keith 1 Vesling, wingback; and Matt Yan osich, offensive fullback. Maurey declared the team will do battle tomorrow as the "Q'u e ens men" when presenting Junior Queen contestants Mari lyn Porter, Carolyn Pelczar, Jane Montgomery, Mary Petitgout, and Nena Moses. Frothy represented the "Beat Rutgers" spirit. A torchlight par ade and a motorcade rounded up stragglers before the rally, spon sored by .the junior class. Al though the rally got off to a late start, the Blue Band helped at tract a crowd. . The cheer squad was :imitated by students armed with an ampli fier in McKee Hall. They enter tained the waiting crowd and de tained stragglers by . playing 45 rpm recordings at 78 rpm and leading the crowd in Penn State cheers. 150 Forms Sent to 'News' More than 150 applications for 'Who's in the Ne w s at Penn State" have been turned in, Charles Henderson, edit or, has announced. The deadline for ap plications is Tuesday. The booklet, sponsored by Sig ma Delta Chi, professional journ alistic fraternity, and Theta Sigma Phi, women's journalism frater nity, will be ready for distribution by early January. Appearing for the seventh year; the publication lists, biographies of students who are outstanding in 'scholarship, leadership, and ac tivities. Selections are made by a committee composed of the All college president, editor of the Daily Collegian, and th e eight student council presidents. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 14, 1952 —Photo by Austin FOUR MEMBERS of the All-College elections committee, (L to r.) Leon Williams, Chairman Ronald Thorpe, Sally Jones, and William Slepin, count ballots for freshman and sophomore class officers. Lion Party candidates took four out of six offices. Frosh Elect Bowers As Class President Lion Party made a clean sweep of the freshman class offices yesterday when .frosh elected James Bowers 'president and Philip Lang vice president. - Barbara . Bransdorf won the post of secretary-treasurer. Bowers collected 202 more votes than his opponent Michael Mur phy, State Party candidate. Mur phy received 531 votes to Bowers' 733. This gave Bowers 57.9 per cent of the vote and Murphy 42.1 per tent. Lang won 56.2 per cent of •the votes, while Forrest Miller, State Part y candidate, received 43.8 per cent. Lang, who received 712 votes, collected 158 more than Miller, who received 554. The contest for secretary-treas urer was the closest for class offi ces. Miss Bransdorf defeated Ann Lederman, State Party candidate, by .19 votes.- Miss Bransdorf col lected 639 votes for 50.8 per cent of the total, while Miss Lederman won 620 votes for 49.2 per cent of the ballots cast. Of the 2902 freshmen who are eligible to vote, 1279 freshmen voted. Forty-four per cent of the freshman class cast ballots. Last year only 27.5 per cent of the frosh went to the polls Totals include 15 votes deducted from , Lion Party candidates for receiving too many donations. When informed that he had won the class presidency, Bowers said: "I'm certainly happy to be elected. I'll do my best to carry out the platform. I'm sure the winning State sophomore _candidates can count on the defeated Lion can didates for assistance in any way possible." Only two sophomore class posts were taken by State Party candidates. Bowers held high . school offi ces as president of. the Junior Na tional Honor Society, treasurer of the Student - Council, treasurer of the junior class, and president of the Student Council. While in high school, Lang held the high school offide of Secre tary of the Student Council. Miss Bransdorf was a member of her high school Student Council. When notified of he r election, Miss Bransdorf expressed satis faction at the - number of fresh men who turned but to vote. Graduation Exercises Mid-year commencement ex ercises will be held at 2 p.m. Jan. 27 in Recreation Hall, ac cording. to Wilmer E. Ken- Worthy, director of "stnderit af • fairs.' FOR A BETTER PENN STATE on Lion By DICK RAU Lion Candidates Penalized Votes For Violation The All-College elections com mittee last night "penalized each candidate of the Lion Party 15 votes for the party's violation of th e All-College elections code. The penalty, however, did not af fect the outcome of the election. Lion Party's violation was es tablished when Clique Chairman Richard Kirschner presented the committee with an itemized list of donations to party funds to taling $124. Article seven of the elections code states: "Donations are included in the budget of $l5O and must not exceed $35." Kirschner previously said he did not understand the interpretation of the ruling: The committee earlier this week had been presented with , infor mation that students were wearing sandwich signs on campus adver. tising Lion Party. It ruled such action a violation of the elections code. ,There had also been infor mation that students were on campus wearing State Party signs. Neither party was penalized. The Lion Party penalty was is sued shortly after the polls closed last night, previous to the count ing of the. ballots. The committee released the election figures at 8:45 p.m. State Party was docked 15 votes in last year's spring elections when "Vote State" was painted on the Old Main patio. Members of Alpha Phi Omega, (Continued on page eight) Mathias New - Managing Editor of Independent Changes in the staff of the In dependent Newsletter have been announced by Richard Rau, edi tor. John Reid has resigned as managing editor, and Charles Mathias, former feature editor, ' , as taken his place. Feature story in the Independ ent, out today, is a sketch of Ar lene Borneman, president of Phil otes, by Evelyn Kielar. Sweep Frosh Offices; State Wins Cabinet Seat , (See page two for pictures of winning candidates.) By MARSHALL 0. DONLEY Lion Party maintained . itself as a political power at Penn State by sweeping four of its six candidates, including all its freshmen, into office yesterday. State Party won two. posts, the sophomore presidency and vice presidency. Both parties won an All-College Cabinet seat in their election of a class president. This is a gain of one seat for State Party, which lost both presidencies last fall. Lion Party, since its formation in 1948, has never completely swept a fall election. After losing four straight contests, Lion Party last fall copped the presidencies, but lost the lesser posts. Thirty-eight an d eight-tenths per cent of eligible freshmen and sophomores voted, topping last year's total vote percentage by 9.8 per cent. In the fall elections last year, 29 per cent of the eli gible voters turned out. Soph Vote Smaller Freshmen t u rn e d out in the greatest numbers yesterday, set ting a two-year record of 44 per cent voting. .Last year only- 27.5 per cent cast ballots from the freshman class. In 1950, 62 per cent of the frosh voted. Sophomores turned out in small er numbers, but still voted more heavily than last fall, when 30.9 voted. Yesterday 32.7 per cent of the sophomores voted-861 from a potential of 2609. In 1950 44.6 per cent of the sophomores voted. Presidential• Victors The 38.8 per cent vote yesterday —that was 2140 votes from a pos sible top of 5511—was higher than last year's 29 per cent, but fell under -the total 1950 vote, which was 50.7 per cent of the total eligible. The . winners of the presiden cies -were Richard Homan (State), who defeated R i.c ha r d Mercer (Lion) by 104 votes, and James Bowers (Lion), who was victorious over Michael Murphy (State) by 202 votes. Closest Victory Each Lion Party candidate lost 15 votes by decision ,of the All- College elections committee be cause of an 'election code violation. State Party was not found guilty of any violations. All figures given for candidates of Lion Party include th e subtraction of 15 votes. The closest victory of the elec tion was that of Barbara Brans dorf, • Lion Party candidate for freshman secretary-treasurer, who won over Ann Lederman, State Party candidate, by only 19 votes. James Bowers (Lion) won by the widest margin, taking the fresh (Continued on page eight) Card Section Moved to NE The flashcard section for home football gari - ies, formerly located in the EH section in the center of the senior seats, will be moved to section NF directly behind the goalposts in the freshman section for the last home game, Alan Mc- Chesney, head cheerleader, an nounced yesterday. The change is being made to allow more of the student body to see the designs worked out by the section. The change is on an experimental basi s , Mc- Cheiney said, and, if successful, w i probably be located there permanently next year. Upperclassmen who have spe cial AA .boOks allowing them to sit in the regular EH flashcard section will be allowed to sit in that section for Saturday's game. Any freshmen may sit in the section an d operate the cards, McChesney said. The flashcards will be used for the first three quarters of the game,-be said.:The section will be guarded by hatmen as in previous games. Ticket Homan Wins Sophomore Presidency By MIMI UNGAR Robert Homan and William Rother, 'State Party candidateg for president and vice president of the sophomore class, emerged as the lone State Party winners in yesterday's freshman and soph omore class elections. Nancy Scofield, Lion Party, won the secretary-treasurer position of the sophomore class over Mar cia Phillips. Hdrnan defeated Rich ard Mercer, and Rother beat Wil liam Brill. . . Homan had 474 of the 844 votes cast for the presidency, giving him a 56.1 percentage of the vote. He had a 104 vote margin. Rother won by 82 votes, polling 462 of the votes cast for a 54.9 percent age. Miss Scbfield, with 467 soph omore votes. defeated Miss Phil lips by a 92 vote mar gin, a percentage of 55.5 Lion . Party candidates w — e r e penalized 15 votes each because the party accepted tpo many monetary donations. In view of this fact, MiSs Scofield actually had the greatest vote margin be fore the subtraction of votes. She had 482 votes cast for. her. That gave her a 107 votemargin. Eight hundred and sixty-one of the 2609 eligible sophomores voted in the election. This represented 33 per cent of the• 'class. This same class,, however, polled only 27.5 per cent in last fall's fresh man election: In last year's soph more election, 30.8 per . cent of the class voted. Although the Lion Party swept the freshman class elections and yon the secretary-treasurer posi tion in the sophomore class, Ho man's victory gives the State Party an All-College Cabinet seat formerly occupied by the Lion's Donald Herbein. Homan thanked the students and the State Party for their sup port. He -said, "I shall, as presi dent of the sophomore class, work to the best of-my ability to make this a better year." (Continued on page eight) Election Results Sophomore Class Votes gin Cent R. Homan (S) 474 104 56.1 R. Mercer (L) 370 43.9 Vice 'President W. Rother (S) 462 82 54.9 W. Brill (L) 380 45.1 Secretary-Treasurer N. Scofield (L) 467 92 55.5 M. Phillips (S) 375 44.5 Freshman Class • ' President J. Bowers (L) 733 I'M 57.9 M. Murphy (S) 531 42.1 Vice President P. Lang (L) 712 158 56.2 F. Miller (S) 554 43.8 Secretary-Treasurer B. Bransdorf (L) 639 19 50.8 A. Lederman CS) • 620 49.2 FIVE CENTS President Mar- Per
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