■JSSSJ.-' STirr Sfatttt ® (Koll See Page 4 ) v . — -: “ LJ ' . , FOB A BETTER PENN STATE VOL. 53, No. 96 Laubach Takes Poll On Calendar Plan A.poll of student opinion--khout'the''proposed College calendar plan is being conducted by All-College President John' Laubach. S Questionnaires about the calendar plan, to go before the College Senate Thursday, have been'mailed to 188 students selected from the student directory, one from each page. Dean Admits Final Exams Were Stolen Dean Ben Euwema last night told the Liberal Arts Student Council, there ; is definite evidence that final exams were in the hands of students before the tests were given and that in some cases these exams were sold at tremen dous profits. Commenting on the mass cheat ing, Euwema' revealed there, was evidence that. an attempt was made to break into the Mathe matics department office in Sparks during the final exam per iod. Students even , rummaged through the mimeograph rejects in the mimeographing room in an effort to obtain, copies of finals, he said. “This cannot be allowed to continue,” Euwema stated. “If this practice continues the degree which you work so hard to get won’t be worth anything;” he said. Euwema revealed the liberal arts faculty had made several suggestions to prevent a reoccur rence of this situation. These in cluded a deemphasization of the finals, and an increase in the se curity measures at Sparks build ing. Euwema said that in the future all finals will be stored overnight in a safe in his office or will be taken home by the individual professors. ' < \ An. increase in the number of proctors during finals and the numbering of each final are ad ditional measures which will be taken, he said. As a final suggestion to find a solution to the problem, Euwema suggested _ that the council pre pare a. list of recommendations which he in turn would present to the Liberal Arts, school’faculty. Douglas Schoerke, council pres ident, appointed Robert Sherman, Bruce Wagner, Betty Koster, and Donald Siegle to draw up the list. , *- 1 ' .11 , Christoff Found Asleep in Mind JOHNSTOWN, Pa., March 2 (51— Jean Christoff, 24, sought for ques tioning in the strangulation death of his sister and for burglary, was found asleep today in an abandon ed coal mine. Christoff disappeared Feb. 17, the day. his 21-year-old sister, June, was found strangled with a dress belt in their, modest mountain home at nearby Frugality. Young' Christoff told his father and two uncles he knows nothing about his sister’s death. The elder Christoff feels his daughter com mitted suicide, He said she-return ed home from Penn State-’College over a month ago in a highly nerv ous condition. TODAY'S WEATHER RAIN MILDER STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1953 The four-point questionnaire asks: 1. Which is more unfavorable to you: the one day Thanksgiving vacation or not having free time between semesters? 2. Would you stay at the Col lege on Thanksgiving Day if a football game or other important event were scheduled?. ; 3. Do you think that' cutting would be, excessive from classes scheduled on the Friday and Sat urday after Thanksgiving if a sports event were to be scheduled for Thanksgiving Day? . . . if a sports event were not scheduled? 4. Can you devise a better cal endar that the one proposed by the Senate committee on" calen dar? If so, describe your idea on the back of this questionnaire. A copy of the committee’s re port proposing the calendar policy is included with the questions. Also included are a letter ex plaining the poll and the calendar and a return envelope. Completed questionnaires are to be returned by Wednesday noon, Laubach said, so that the results may he studied and presented to the Senate ■ committee on' student affairs Thursday afternoon before the Senate meeting. The student affairs group will present the viewpoint shown in the poll to the Senate. Review Board To Hear First Case Tonight The Association of Independent Men’s Judicial Board of Review will hear its first 'case at 6:30 tonight. in the Student Govern ment Room in Old Main; Edward Thieme, chairman of the AIM law-enforcement' board, said the only case for the first session involves a disturbance charge. The complaint was lodged with the Dean of Men’s office by. the- Campus Patrol, who ap prehended the offender. The dean’s office, passed it on to the board. The board was set up to handle cases involving independent stu dents who incited complaints either on campus or in' the bor ough. The complaints may be filed by any student with his dorm or area president, his counselor, or may come from borough sources. The Dean of Men’s office may also submit cases it receives to the board. Temple Prof Suspended On loyally Oath Charge r Dr. Barrows Dunham, professor of philosophy at Temple -Univerr sity, was suspended by the uni versity president yesterday un der :the Pennsylvania loyalty oath law. Temple President Dr. Rob ert L. Johnson said Dunham had “deliberately. created a -doubt” as to. his loyalty to. America. „ Dunham failed to answer ques tions asked him last week by the United . States House of ‘ Repre sentatives un-American affairs committee. The committee- decid ed to/refer his case to "the-House and seek a resolution asking the Justice Department to-charge Dunham with , contempt. - Dunham w a s, suspended by Johnson when' news of . his refusal to testify reached Temple. John son/ was. recently . named head of the.: government’s overseas. infor Enrojlme Show SI Nelson Says Social Sciences Help Man The social sciences have con tributed to the domestication of man in a world which is not quite his own and have _ fortified him with an understanding of using art to fulfill his hopes, Dr. Ben jamin N. Nelson told a Liberal Arts lecture audience in 121 Sparks last night. The associate professor in the School of General Studies at the University of Minnesota cited the differences in solving the prob lems of science and the problems of society. In scienticism the as sumption that the models which apply, in. mechanical .science can be ■ transplanted to social thought leads to totalitarian politics, Nel son said. From the nineteenth century socialists came the theory that man could escape the problems of his society by a mastery of hu man, behavior . and cultural growth, Nelson said. He attacked the theory and said human regen eration cannot solve the problems of society. " • In recent years social sciences have taken refuge in mythical "conceptions,/ Nelsop said. An ex ample is the Soviet Union. They have become tied to a myth. The Soviet Union tried to abandon the concept that society is coordinat ed with law. In the beginning they set up a manifestation of rule over the people with the idea that British Dignity or French oo- la-la? Churchill Asked LONDON, March 2 (/P) —Seven pretty co-eds, their claws sharp ened for a fight,, marched on Prime Minister Churchill’s resi dence ' today in sequined tights, Bikini bathing suits . and black fishnet stockings. It was an eye-catching protest demonstration by the girls, from Reading -University, over what they called an “outrageous insult” from the men of the university. The men had invited three French' girls to lead the annual carnival tomorrow,. declaring brusquely that- Reading girls weren’t glamorous enough. They scared off the three French girls chosen “Ambassadresses of Goodwill,’’ for the French girls canceled their trip from Paris. Column on pftge four mation program, which includes the Voice of America. ’ > In a statement defending his refusal to answer questions, Dun ham said: “In an institution dedicated to truth, the relations between teach er-and student and between teach er and teacher ought to be pro tected. If teachers can be required by inquisitions to reveal the thoughts honestly expressed by their students or colleagues noth ing can be discussed in the class room and nothing learned:; I have ben defending the integrity: of this relationship.” Dunham called the House ques tioning an attempt at “public, de famation; intended to extirpate from the colleges not- disloyalty but dissent.” He said’xjs /'-ecord would prove his suspension to be “as unjust as it is. unwise.” nt Figures ight Drop Benjamin N. Nelson^ LA lecturer the state would wither away. In stead it has become a tragic total itarian. Man has built his society on a search for a dream—the millen ium and' the true Utopia, Nelsorf said. That dream has never been fulfilled. In the totalitarian society the (Continued page eight) Frosh to Plan Revue, Dancg I For Weekend Plans t for Freshman Weekend, May 1-2’, will be discussed at 7:30 tonight in 10 Sparks, Sanford ■Lichtenstein, freshman class pub licity chairman, has announced. An original musical revue is being planned for the first night of the weekend. Talent for the show will be selected from the freshman class. Freshmen may sign up for' tryouts March 9-13 at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Tryouts are scheduled for March 14 and 15, time and place to be announced later. Words and music for the revue are being written by a committee from the freshman class includ ing Michael Rosenfeld, Lyle Pel ton, Phillip Wein, and Lichten stein. A dance May 2 in Recreation Hall will oe another attraction of Freshman Weekend. Arrange ments for the dance have not yet been completed. Penn State Club Seeks Members New members will be accepted for initiation into the Penn State Club at 7 tonight in 405 Old Main. Any male independent student, with a All-College average of. 1.0 is eligible to join the club, Alvin Goodman, chairman of the initia tion committee, said. Four Students Compete In Floriculture Contest A team of four students com peted in the International Flower Judging contest yesterday in Cleveland, O. Team members include Rich ard/Bauer, Garth Becker, James Boodley, and Robert Roesler.' Peter B. Pfahl, instructor in flori culture, coaches the team. . - The College team placed third in last year’s contest in Washing ton,. D.C~ Campus Patrol Not Always Right — See Page 4 Ratio Declines To 2.98 to 1; 10,781 Register "• A downward swing of 6.6 per c.ent in spring semester enrollment has been indicated according to statistics released Saturday by C. O. Williams, registrar. Total enrollment figures for the spring semester list 8073 men and 2708 women for a total en rollment of 10,781. This figure reveals a decrease of 758 students from the fall sem ester enrollment of 11,539. En rollment for the spring semester of 1952 was 10,832. Men on campus can celebrate because the statistics show the ration has dropped from 3.02 last semester to 2.98 this semester. The ratio of undergraduate men to undergraduate women has fallen to 2.92 to 1. The School of Liberal Arts, al though it has less students than last .semester, is still the largest school with a total ■ of 2473 en rolled. The other schools and their en rollments are: Engineering, 1761, Agriculture, 1283; Education, 1110; Home Economics, 747; Chemistry and Physics, 684; Division of In termediate Registration, 478; Min eral. Industries, 430; and Physical Education and Athletics,. 246. The freshman class has the largest enrollment with 2680 stu dents registered. Other class to tals are: sophomore, 2396; junior, 2023; and senior, 2113. Graduate students total 1367 and special students 202. The arts and letters curricu lum, with 1160 students enrolled, is the largest curriculum at the College. The other top ranking curriculums are: commerce, 960; education, 809; home economics, 588; electrical engineering, 459; and mechanical engineering, 441. Show Chorale To Perform The Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra will be heard by mem bers of the Community Concert Association -in the third program at the current series at 8:30 p.m, Friday in Schwab Auditorium. The 30-voice choral group and 20-piece orchestra are both di rected by Shaw. Shaw started in the professional music world with Fred Waring in 1938, at which time he directed the Waring glee club. Shaw forifled his Collegiate Chorale in 1941 and later branch ed into orchestra conducting. He has appeared as guest conductor, for both the Boston Symphony and Philadelphia orchestras. The performance' by the chorale and orchestra is open only to holders of Community 'Concert membership tickets. j Sophomore Class To Meet Tbnsghi The sophomore class will meet at 8 tonight in 110 Elec trical (Engineering to discuss possible entries in the He-Man contest and a booth for Spring Week carnival. Final plans for the all-Col lege barbershop quartet con test and the class dance will also be made. Women's quar tets may still register for the contest this week, according to Otto Hetzel, publicity chair man. FIVE CENTS
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