VOL. 53, No. 101 Alumni Fund Drive Begin Today The first annual Penn State Alumni fund, set up by the College to solicit funds for non-state supportedjprojects, officially gets underway today with Fund literature being mailed to more than 40,000 alumni. 20 Quartets To Try Out For Contest Twenty costumed quartets will compete: in tryouts for the all- College barbershop quartet con test sponsored by the sophomore ■class at 7 tonight and tomorrow night at the TUB. ■ Four men’s and four women’s quartets will be selected from those competing- to try out for the finals at 7:30 p.m. in Schwab, March 18. Bronze trophies will be awarded to the first three winners. . The judges for Tuesday night are Frank Gullo, George E. Ceiga and Herbert W. Beattie, all as sistant professors of music. Judging Wednesday night are Elmer Wareham Jr. and William G. Noyes, instructors of music, and Hummel Fishburn, head of the music department. Organizations competing are Phi 'Sigma Sigma, Theta .Phi Al pha, the Mello-Aires and Alpha Tau Omega at 7 p.m. Tuesday. At 8:15 Phi Kappa Sigma, Sigma Phi Alpha, Kappa Sigma, Zeta Beta Tau, and Triangle will try out. Wednesday at 7 p.m. the Rollo Quartet, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Tri-Delt and Pi Kappa Alpha are competing. At 8:00 Wednesday Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Gamma Delta, the Collegians, and . Tau Phi Delta are trying out. Dance Planned By WD Council . A sweater dance will' be held from 9 to 12 p.m. in the West Dorm lounge, George Foresyth, West Dorm Council social chair man, announced last night. Dress for the affair • will be informal, and everyone has been asked to wear sweaters. Music will be on record. The council, is also planning a St. Patrick’s Day exchange din ner between Tri-Dorms, McKee, and Thompson next Tuesday. Following the dinner, a record dance will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m_ in the West Dorm ■ lounge. Men who wish to eat with a cer tain girl should report the girl’s meal, ticket number to their floor, president, Lew Goslin, food com mittee chairman, said. Last night’s regularly scheduled meeting of the council was. can celed because a quorum was not present to conduct business. The next meeting is set for Monday. Dickson to Complete Lecture-Reading Series Dr. Harold E. • Dickson, profes sor of fine arts, will present the last of a series of lecture-readings sponsored by the division of fine arts at 4:15 p.m. tomorrow, in the Mineral Industries Art Gal lery. 1 For his subject, Dr. Dickson has chosen John Marin, who is now 82 years old and regarded by. many as the most distinguished. living American painter. He will read from the .letters of Marin to. Al fred Stieglitz. ~ . The purpose of this first mail ing is to introduce the Fund to alumni who may not have heard of it through alumni publications. March 31 funds wiE start being sohcited in the form of personal letters mailed by more than 2000 class agents. The CoEege. has estabhshed the Alumni Fund as a means of get ting alumni aid for sorely needed projects that state and federal grants can not sponsor. Some of the projects that the CoEege hopes to get under this arrangement are: furnishings for the Student Union Budding, stu dent scholarships, fellowships, the building of an aE-faith chapel, and a museum for campus art ob jects. The Fund has been organized under aE nine schools, with each school soliciting its own graduates through class agents. The first Alumni Fund will continue during spring and end with class reunion in June. More than 2000 class agents and chairmen have expressed wiEing ness to help make the Fund a suc cess. Alumni . have contributed $25,000 to the Fund in unsolicited contributions. Bernard Taylor, director of the Alumni Fund, sees a bright future for the Fund at Penn State. In 1951 a similar Fund at Yale re sulted in more than $1,000,000 be ing contributed by alumni. Spectators See New Lion Suit At Army Meet A step ahead of the spring fash ion parade, the Nittany Lion dis played his new finery Saturday night at the Penn State-Army wrestling match in Recreation Hall. Bearing a sign,. “It’s here—the new 1953 model” and “Thank yo’ all kindly,” he pranced down the center of the floor pausing to pay his respects to Coach Charlie Speidel. Throughout the evening he rolled his eyes—and they do roll—at the gals and stopped to greet the Army team. The Lion’s new outfit arrived about a month ago. The $5OO suit was-designed by. Chenko Studio, New York costumers. In order, to produce a true Nit tany Lion, Chenko read in the New York Library about moun tain lions and visited the lions’ cages at a New York zoo. Contributions amounting to $599.25. were collected for the suit this fall in a fund drive initiated by Alex Gregal, who portrays the Lion. Jean Christoff 'Mentally Ilf' Jean Christoff, brother of the cloth belt strangulation victim, June, is mentally ill and in need of psychiatric treatment, a’ doc tor’s examination' disclosed Sat urday. He is. suffering from schizo phrenia—disintegration of person ality, Dr. S. Ben Meyers of Johns town, examining physician, said. Christoff was submitted to men tal examination on the request of Cambria County District At torney-Fred; J; Fees, because, he said, lie-detector tests on Chris toff were “inconclusive and in complete.” Christoff disappeared shortly before the. body of his. sister was found in her home near Frugality in northern Cambria County. She had a cloth belt from.one of her dressesknotted, tightly, around her neck.. As yet, no official ver dict on whether or not the death was suicide has been released by police. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1953 Malenkov At Stalin MOSCOW, March 9 (^P) —Prime Minister Malenkov placed Joseph Stalin’s body in the Lenin tomb today and declared the main task of Stalin’s successors is to preserve peace. There was no hint of any change in policy toward Korea, however. The new prime minister delivered the main funeral oration at Red Square services for the fallen leader. Expressing hope that peace may come to pass, he declared such peace must be “supported and confirmed by facts.” Dulles Sees New Chance For Peace Other world news' on page three UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., March 9 (IP) —Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today the removal of the “malignant power of Stalin” has given the world a better , chance for peace. Answering questions at his first conference here since becoming secretary of state, Dulles said Stalin’s desire to be a world-wide despot,put a damper on peace as pirations of peoples and nations. He said he did not. believe any successor to Stalin can be so ef fective a damper. Dulles also said the U.S. gov ernment does not at present plan any new tactics or strategy in the cold war. The secretary announced he hopes to make a fact-finding tour of. Middle East and South Asian countries in May. He said the U.S. has no plans to ask the UN to undertake any new action in Ko rea at this time; he hopes other UN members will continue to be aware of the need for general and equitable. participations in the Korean War; -relations between Moscow and Peiping would be de termined by those countries with there being little the U.S. could do to influence them. Dulles later told ranking dele gates of all Latin American coun tries at a private luncheon that he hopes to visit Latin America as soon as possible. He also assured the Latin American representa tives that President Eisenhower intends to maintain close and friendly relations with their coun tries. Pep Rally to Honor 3 Teams Tomorrow A pep rally honoring the wrestling, boxing, and gymnastic squads will be held at 6:45 p.m. tomorrow in front of Recreation Hall. The joint rally is being sponsored by - Androeles, junior men’s hat society. Alan McChesney, head cheerleader, will direct the cheering activities. Master of ceremonies and those who will supply the music for- the rally will be an nounced today . The three squads will leave at the end of the week for inter collegiate competitions. The wrest lers will leave Thursday morning for Princeton to compete in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association meet. The boxers will also leave Thursday for Syracuse to participate in the Eastern box ing championship competition. : The gym squad, which won the Eastern championship last Satur day afternoon by defeating Army at Rec Hall, will leave Friday for West Point. Each man. will try his. skill in competing for the East ern individual titles. ; Tags for the pep rally will be distributed at the Student Un ion desk in Old Main, the Ath letic Store, Metzgers, and an the main lounge of West Dorms. Printed, slogans, boosting the three squads, will be on the tags. Dean's Group to Meet ' The Dean of Men’s advisory committee will, meet at 7:39 to night in the Dean of Men’s office, 109 Old Main. What these words meant In terms of deeds the world did not yet know. But it seemed possible the new government might under take a series of actions soon to dramatize its policies and to show, how firmly it grips the wheel of authority. Noticeably, not a' word was said in any of the three funeral orations about “Anglo-American aggressors” or “w a r mongers.” From that standpoint, and from Malenkov’s repeated emphasis on peace, the addresses were the most conciliatory uttered here in a long time! But Malenkov spoke ap provingly of the stubborn battle of the “heroic Korean people” who he said are defending their independence, and of the “coura eous fight” of Vietminh. With the, stately funeral march of Chopin, Stalin was borne on a gun carriage in his red-draped cof fin from the Hall of Columns to a bier below Lenin’s tomb. In oppressive silence, except for the stomping of thousands of feet on the cobblestones in the 12- degree cold, Malenkov, Interior Minister. L. P. Beria and Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, in that order, pronounced eulogies. Molo tov’s voice alone appeared to break. At a signal the comrades and companions of Stalin descended from the top of the tomb, lifted the casket swiftly and carried it through the iron doors. A seven hundred fifty piece band again played Chopin, the chimes of Spassky Tower rang out at noon, and then a mighty 30-gun salute boomed out over Moscow and in all the principal cities of the vast Soviet Union. For five minutes the wheels of industry stopped and, factory and ships’ whistles blew, from War saw to the frozen wastes of Kam chatka Peninsula. (Continued on page eight) WD Applications Available Tonight Students who will be juniors next .semester and who have a 1.5 or better All-College average may apply for rooms in the West Dor mitories for next year from 7 to 9 tonight in 108 Old Main. Sixty applications will be accepted. Upon payment of the $35 room and key deposit, the student binds himself to room in the dox-mitories during the .next school year. Two students who wish to be roommates should apply togethei’, Allen C. St. Clair, acting director of housing, has announced. Ed Block to Give Skit The senior education block will present a skit and lead a discus sion entitled “Developing Moral and Spiritual Values” at the meet ing of the Association of Child hood. Education International at 7 tonight in Atherton Hall, lounge. Speaks Funeral LA Council To Sponsor Evaluation Richard Kirschner, chairman of the faculty-evaluation committee, reported to the Liberal Arts Stu dent Council last night that let ters and a sample evaluation test are ready to be sent to all the in structors in the School of Liberal Arts. - • The instructors are asked to re ply to the Council's letter by or dering as many tests as he needs. The use of the tests is up to the descretion of the individual teacher. The tests are made up of a series of questions pertaining to the student’s evaluation of the in structor. A Liberal Arts career talk, sponsored by the Council, will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in 317 Willard. The speaker will be Da vid H. McKinley, associate pro fessor of finance, who will talk on the subject “The Future of the College Graduate in the Field of Law and Finance.” The career talks are open to the public. Tentative plans for a joint mix er of the School of Liberal 'Arts and the School of Education were reported by Walter Back, chair man of the mixer committee. Robert Sherman reported that work is being done to compile recommendations of the Council for the reduction of dishonesty in final examinations. The LA Angles, Liberal Arts Student Council publication should be out around April 1. A list of study rooms in Wil lard- Hall and Sparks Building have been posted on the ground floor bulletin boards in both buildings. Nittany Council To Support Dorm Mixers Nittany council voted to give a maximum of $l5 to the Barons, Nittany-Pollock social organiza tion to help pay for refreshments at a mixer to be held March 19 at one of the women’s dormitor ies. If the mixer is successful, Barons will ask for more money to help in a series of planned mix ers for the Nittany-Pollock men and dormitory women. Sixty per cent of the money will be given by Nittany council and 40 per cent by Pollock council. Discussion on a proposal that the council give $lOO for a tele vision set to be installed in the TUB was tabled until further in-? formation could be gathered. The AIM judicial board of re view that was recently set up was explained by President Robert Harding. He said that forms had been distributed to dormitory presidents and could be used by anyone to report someone .who had violated a College law. Harding also set up a commit tee to investigate the disappear ance of irons in the Pollock Union building. The foods committee reported that they wanted volunteers for tasters of the food in the dining hall. Also it was announced that students have been leaving their food trays on tables rather than putting them on the proper tray stands. FIVE CENTS
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