• Chapel Funds Put To Good Use— See Page 4 VOL. 53, No. 93 jCommittee Will Ask Election Dates OK i The All-College election's committee w 0 ask approval of April <22 and 23 as. spring elections dates by All-College Cabinet tonight, ! according to Ronald Thorpe, chairman. •- | Thorpe will also ask approval for party clique meetings, pre lliminary clique nominations, final nominations, and the campaign ■ j - ■ period set by the committee. f K \ W - The committee is ‘calling for I nirt ATfl clique meetings on March 15, 22, I■ l T Ulv and 29,- preliminary nominations .. . March 22, and final clique nomin f k i _ ations March 29. Candidates names ‘Change May u - ■ . g - elections committee March 30 for Be Asked Theodore Kimmel, senior class president, indicated yesterday that he may ask for the senior class gift vote to be counted by the All-College elections commit tee. The vote previously has been counted in secret by the senior class gift committee and the re sult not. announced Until Class Night. Ronald Thorpe, elections com mittee chairman, said his com mittee would be willing to count the votes. Thorpe went a step further. He said he will recom mend that the results become known immediately after the vot closes. Last year votes for the senior class gifts were cast when seniors picked up their LaVies. The vote was counted in secret and the gift choice was riot released until Class Night, which was June B—the day before commencement. The number of votes cast for each class gift suggestion as well as the total number,of votes cast never were released to the student body. Last year the vote, according to the class committee, decided that the senior class gift, an $BOOO fund, should be divided between a student press and a student ra dio station. 2d LA Lecture Will Feature Midwest Prof j Dr. Benjamin N. Nelson, asso ciate professor in the School of [General Studies at the University [of Minnesota, will deliver the [second of the series of Liberal [Arts lectures at 8 p.m. Monday tin 121 Sparks. J The subject of the lecture will •be “Socal Science and the Human iization of Man.” ! Dr. Nelson formerly taught in the general education program at the University of Chicago and >is now serving as visiting profes sor of history at Columbia. Uni versity, where he holds a. Carrie | gie fellowship in the Department ,of Contemporary Civilization, He is the author of the book, “The Idea of Usury,” a study in , social and moral history; Dr. Nel son is senior co-author and editor of “Introduction to' Social Sci ence.” This publication is designed .to give an. over-all.picture of.so cial problems, for the student' in technical fields as well as in lib eral arts. r\ Dr. Henry C. Finch, associate professor of philosophy;, will in troduce the speaker: The lecture is open to the [public. r ——_—___ TODAY'S (J WEATHER CLOUDY COOLER ©ltr lath* Collegian w ßsrT > FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Roll call Minutes of the previous meeting Reports of officers Adoption .of agenda.. Reports of committees: 1. Enrollment committee 2. Elections committee 3. Junior class week . 4. Encampment committee on student leadership Old Business: New Business: 1. College calendar policy Announcements: Adjournment. The campaign period to be ap proved by cabinet will start 8 a.m. April 9 and continue until 8 a.m. April 22. Thorpe said the commit tee will present several changes in the fall semester elections code for approved. He did not reveal what these changes are. Other business slated for tonight will include a discussion on the College calendar policy by cab inet, John Laubach, president, said yesterday. Laubach said pos sible resolutions on the calendar policy may.be adopted by cabinet-. Other committee reports sched uled for tonight are the enroll ment committee report by Andrew McNeillie, chairman; junior class week committee report by Rich ard Lemyre, chairman: and the encampment, on student leader ship report by Robert Smoot, chairman: Soph Class Dance Committees to Meet The publicity and decorating committees for the sophomore class dance will: meet tonight to make final plans before the class meeting Tuesday. The publicity committee wiU meet at 8 -tonight in 204 Old. Main. The decorating committee, which decided last week on “Shanty town'Shuffle”, as the name of the dance, will meet at 7 tonight in 409 Old Main. Excuse Me, Please .. • Mark Marks Cars Incorrectly Parked If the average Penn State student has nothing else, he certainly has plenty of imagination. That’s the:conclusion of Captain Philip A. Mark of,the Campus Patrol after hearing from ten to 100 excuses a day from students who incur parking violations. “You can dream up any excuse, and if it sounds completely im probable) . biit slightly plausible, I’ve probably heard it,” Mark recently said. -Kiss-Excuse Valid He cites as an example the most unusual excuse he’s heard to date: A student who had gotten a. ticket for illegal parking neiar Thompson Hall 'explained he had driven his girl home. When she kissed him goodnight he forgot everything and just wandered away. Said Mark: “After hearing that I just ripped up his ticket and congratulated him.” At ..other : times Mark isn’t so lenient’ ‘with • • violators. Appeals from students who were late for classes or ignorant of the regula tions fall on deaf ears. 50,.d0 ex cuses from students who- lend. STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1953 AGENDA By MIKE FEINSILBER AIM Board Rejects Proposed Change 2 Debaters to Enter Boston Tournament Richard Kirschner and David Swanson will leave tonight to defend a College debating championship at the Grand National Bos ton Invitational Tournament being held tomorrow, and Saturday at Boston University. • ... As holder of the Freeley Championship Cup, Penn State will seek to defend its title against the 31 colleges competing in the tourn aments. The cup was won last year by Robert Alderdice and David Lewis. _ , Speaking on “The Loss of Moral Conscience,” Swanson will deliver an eight minute oration in the national oratory contest. Kirsch ner will be assigned a topic from a back issue of Time magazine to prepare a five minute speech for the extemporaneous speakmg trials. .. „ . , Calls Tourney 'World Senes They will compete as a team on both the affirmative and negative sides of the national intercolle giate topic, Resolved: That the Congress of the United States should enact 9 compulsory fair employment practices law. According to Thomas Farrell, debate manager, the invitational tournament is the biggest in the East and the “World Series’ of debate. Teams from Army, Brook lyn, Dartmouth, Princeton, Navy, and Yale are among the colleges competing for the trophy. Joseph F. O’Brien, professor of public speaking, will accompany the team to Boston. Two men’s teams will leave to morrow to debate in the Tri-State Tournament at Mount Mercy Col lege. To Debate National Topic • Benjamin Sinclair and Alexan der Stamateris' will represent the College on- the affirmative team. On the negative team are Myer Bushman and Donald Prepstein. Both teams will debate the na tional topic. Edward Gilkey, as sistant speech coach, will accom pany the team. . About 15 teams from Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia will participate in the tourna ment. Four new members have been added to the men’s squad, Farrell has announced. Joseph Galen, Ot to Hetzel, David Meckler, and Joseph Rebek were chosen for the team following spring semes ter tryouts. their cars to friends who then in cur . violations. Student Has Ticket Hook Mark turns the ticket over to Tribunal, men’s judiciary commit tee, which hails the violators be fore it and passes judgment on each case. Penalties and fines passed, down by the nine-man stu dent' body generally get more severe as the number of viola tions the defendent has incurred increases. The student who recently re ceived five or six tickets within a week received no mercy from Mark. The student, who had parked in visiter’s spaces all over campus, had the tickets collected on a straightened paper'clip taped (Continued -on page .eight) Chesterman Cuts College In Report The Chesterman committee, ap pointed by Gov. John S. Fine to recommend means of economy in state government, yesterday stat ed it will make no recommenda tions concerning Penn State ex pansion programs. College construction measures are a matter for the legislature to decide, the committee said. A report made by the commit tee Dec. 4 expressed concern over the building plans; at the College and described 'them as detrimen tal to the overall education plans of the state. In a printed - address recently, Governor Fine declared that the College’s expansion was no longer of concern to the com mittee. The final report of the commit tee, headed by Francis J. Ches terrrian of Philadelphia, made no mention of the College. Governor Fine has asked more than 20 bullion dollars for . the College this year. Neither the House or Senate has acted yet on the recommendation. Since 1949 the General State Authority alone has spent more than 10 million dollars in construction and reno vation at the College. Forms for 3 Scholarships Ready Today Applications for three $5O stu dent scholarships will be avail able at the. Student' Union desk today, according to Edward Feh nel, chairman of the Penn State Student Scholarship Fund com mittee. The three scholarships will be awarded on the basis of financial need to students' who apply and who. have a 1.5 All-Col lege average. Applications will be available until March 6. A. committee con sisting of the dean of women, the dean of men, the College comp troller, and the All-College presi dent will choose the recipients of the stipends. Fehnel said preference will be given to students who are required to work part-time to continue their education and who have made some contribution to stu dent activities. LATE SPORTS Details no Pages 6 and 7 WRESTLING PENN STATE 18 MARYLAND 11 BASKETBALL PENN STATE 77 WEST VIRGINIA 57 6th Semester Plan Squelched By Majority The amendment to the As sociation of Indepen dent Men’s constitution providing that presidential candidates be sixth semester students was defeated by a convincing ma jority at last night’s AIM Board of Governors meeting. The change, which would re quire the nominees to be in their sixth semester during the spring- AIM elections, had already met with the disapproval of the Nit tany and the Pollock dormitory councils. The Town Council had rejected the amendment as stated but recommended that one re quiring a fifth or sixth semester student be substituted. The board also voted against an amendment to the original amendment providing for the sug gested change to read fifth or sixth and left the position open to any independent man with a 1.0 average. NISA Conference The arguments in favor of the sixth semester amendment had been to remove the possibility that the AIM presidency would be used as a “stepping stone” to other offices. Also having a sen ior in the office would put him on an equal footing with other major campus leaders and make him eligible for honors given only to seniors, such as Lion’s Paw. -The group also voted to send two delegates to the Eastern Re gional Conference of the National Independent Student Association to be held tomorrow through Sunday at Cornell University. William Shifflett, president, named Thomas Kidd and Robert Smoot representatives. ' The convention will be of the same type that the local AIM group was to host at the College last Nov. 7 and 8. The plan was canceled when the local AIM board found a lack of housing fa cilities and a misinterpretation of the cost to individual delegates. Harding Appointed A spring independent’s dance sponsored by AIM was discussed and the date was set tentatively for April 25, in Recreation Hall. Smoot was named to head a com mittee in charge of the dance. A price of $1 per couple was recom mended for the dance. Shifflett appointed Robert Harding, president of the Nittany dorms, to head a group in charge of the annual spring banquet where the new officers of AIM are sworn into office. Shifflett said that- the possibility of having a joint banquet with Leonides will be investigated. Peter Prinzivalli was appointed to head a committee to investi gate keys for independent group officials. IRRA to Meet Tonight The Industrial Relations Re search Association will meeteat 7 tonight in 208 Willard Hall. Mem bers will vote on a revised consti tution for the organization. FIVE CENTS
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