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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