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VOL. 53, No. 113
ISCB to
Council
Fee Plan
- Siiggested::,
By •
.Cot,i4c4.
The elimination of the College's
collection of fees which are not
• paid by all students was recom
mended last night by Engineering
Student Council.
Council President Robert Wat
son will carry the suggestion—
passed by a straw vote—to the
Inter-schoOl Council Board, which
is studying fee consolidation.
To find out how student-oper
ated book stores are managed, let
ters will be sent to other colleges
and universities, the book store
committee reported. Investigation
of possible establishment of a Col
lege book store was proposed at a
recent council meeting.
An engineering school smoker
and mixer to build up interest in
the engineering open house will
be held May 1. Skits will be pre
sented by students in each depart
ment and by faculty members at
the coeducational affair.
Nomination Dates
Council voted in favor of es
tablishing a blue book file for en
gineering students. Watson will
appoint a committee to work on
this project.
Nominations for council mem
bers will be made April 23 to 25,
Watson announced. Elections will
take place Aprit 29. The outgoing
council will elect the next presi
dent:April 21.
Drawing rooms will hereafter
be open for student use during
class hours, the drawing room
committee announced.
Contributes to PSSSF
Letters have been sent to 1400
parochial and schools in the
state, the open house publicity
committee reported. Another let
ter will be sent to each school
principal requesting publicity on
open house.
Council. voted to contribute $5
to the Perin State Student Schol
arship Fund.
A committee was •n am e d to
study the establishment of schol
arships ,to be awarded to engi
neering majors as an incentive for
better scholarship and as recogni
tion of achievement.
Under th e fee consolidation
plan suggested by council, extra
curricular fees which do not af
fect all students would be col
lected privately by the extra-cur
ricula groups.
Council will next meet at 7 p.m.
April 14 in 107 Main Engineering.
'Farmer' Features
Benson Message
A personal message from U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson will be featured in
the Penn State - Farmer, which
goes on sale today.'
In his message to the Farmer,
Secretary Benson clarifies • his
position on such issues as parity
prices, farm payments, and con
sumer price levels as they affect
northeastern United. States.
TODAY'S
WEATHER
COLDER
WITH
SNOW
FLURRIES
Offer New
Constitution
A constitution for the new
Business school council will be
presented to All-College Cabinet
tonight, according to John Lau
bach, All-College president.
The constitution will be pre
sented by Douglas Schoerke. of
the Inter-khool Council Board.
The board was given the job of
writing, a constitution for the
council which will be formed
when the Business school begins
operation, Laubach said.
The Inter-school Council Board
will not present a report on the
proposed fee consolidation plan
until probably the first cabinet
meeting after the Easter recess,
Lincoln Warrell, chairman, said
last night.
Roll call
Minutes of the previous meeting
Reports of officers
Adoption of agenda
Reports of committees:
1. Student exchange with New
York University
,2, Sponsorship of Indian stu
- dents
3. Judicial investigation
Old Business:
1. Financial' report discussion
New Business:
1. Business school council con
stitution
Announcenients
Appointments
Adjournment
The fee proposal, suggested by
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of
student affairs, was referred to
the board lagt week and was ex
pected to be brought before
.cab
inet tonight. The proposal sug
gested to cabinet asks that a
standard student fee, applicable
to all schools, be established to
facilitate collecting fees at regis
tration.
Cabinet will also hear reports
tonight on a student exchange
plan with New York University
by Richard Stanley, sponsorship
of Indian national students at the
College for a year by James Ply
ler, and a report on the judicial
investigation by Walter Sachs.
Laubach said that cabinet will
discuss finances for the annual
report. Appointments to next
year's Campus Chest committee
and the student encampment com
mittee will be made.
Hogeland, Israel Elected
To Top Leonides Offices
Hilda Hogeland, sixth semester
home economics major, wa s
elected president of Leonides, in
dependent women's organization,
yesterday.
Phyllis Griffith was the other
presidential candidate.
Ruth Israel defeated Sarah De
vita to become the new vice pres
ident. She and Miss Hogeland will
represent the Council at the Na
tional Independent • Students 'As
sociation Convention at Purdue
University April 22-25.
Recording secretary is Shirley
Pritchard, who won over Doris
Longwill and Myrtle Thomas.
Jeanne Maxwell defeated Sherry
Kofmann and Theresa Hess to be
come corresponding secretary.
Susan Crumley is treasurer as the
result of her win over Althea Rec
tor.:.....
Approximately 15 per cent of
the independent women voted,
according to Eleanor yoyvodich,
elections chairman. • McAllister
Hall led the other doirmitories
withan almost 100 per cent vote.
Vivian Peterson, outgoing pres
ident_will install the new officer
,:at 0:30. tonight in the main study
1011.11& - ' Simmons Hall. The in-
STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1953
AGENDA
FOR A BETTER PENN . STATE
Schott, Kohn Win
Top* 2
..IFc Offices
—Photo by Schroeder
OUTGOING INTERFRATERNITY Council president Arthur Ros
feld (left) congratulates newly-elected president Thomas Schott.
Looking on are new vice president Edwin Kohn (to left of Schott)
arid new secretary-treasurer Alan McChesney (right). All three
new officers were elected at an IFC meeting last night, attended
by all but one fraternity. -
Wolff Named Mr.
At Honors Program
Boyd Wolff, an eighth semester dairy husbandry major, was
named Mr. Agriculture of Penn State at the first Ag Hill Achieve
ment Day in Schwab Auditorfum last night.
The winners of the first Paul R. Guldin Agriculture Speaking
Contest, Edgar Fennel and Lawrence Hart, were presented prizes
of $5O and a gold medal - and $25
and a silver medal.
Recognition was given to out
standing leaders in agriculture
activities. Recipients of the Skin
ner, Sears Roebuck and Agricul
tural Limestone Division of the
Pennsylvania Stone Producers'
(Continued on page eight)
ME=
Hilda Hogeland
To Lead Independents
stallation is open to all indepen
dent women, Miss Peterson an
nounced.
Ethel Wilson, Luella Heineman,
Barbara Easter, Eleanor Robb,
Carolyn Malsch, and Barbara Rey
nolds served on the elections corn
mitte.e.'
By MARY LEE LAUFFER
Picture on page two
History Prof
To Lecture
In LA Series
The third in a series of four
Liberal Arts Lectures will be
given tonight - when Dr. R. F.
Arragon, professor of history at
Reed College, Oregon, speaks at 8
p.m. in 121 Sparks.
Dr. Arragon has chosen the
topic "Total Vision in the Hu
manities" to carry out the general
theme of the lectures, which deal
with the problems of integration
and 'mutual understanding be
tween the various fields of sci
ence arid learning.
The Saturday Evening Post re
cently carried an article describ
ing Dr. Arragon's experiments in
bringing together the themes and
skills of the various humanistic
studies such as literature, history
and art..
Dr. Arragon was graduated from
Northwestern University and re
ceived his doctorate at Harvard.
At present he is on leave of ab
sence from Reed College to serve
as visiting professor -at Haverford
College.
He is the author of "Transition
from the Ancient and Medieval
World" and "Technique of Group
Discussions."
The lecture is open to the public
Junior Class to Meet
The Junior Class will meet
at 7:30 tonight in the TUB. A
report on Junior Class Week
will be made, and records for
the class gift to the College will
be presented.
rgiatt
Politics
Picking Up—
See Page 4
3d Post Taken
By McChesney
On 2d Ballot
By MARSHALL 0. DONLEY
Thomas Schott, of Phi Gamma
Delta, was elected Interfraternity
Council president last night by a
majority of 32 votes from the 49
fraternities present at the IFC
meeting. The new vice president,
Edwin Kohn, Sigma Alpha Epsi
lon, also received 32 votes.
Alan McChesney, of Phi Kappa
Sigma, became the new IFC sec
retary-treasurer on th e second
ballot, receiving 26 votes:
Each fraternity is allotted one
vote in IFC elections. Voting is
done by secret ballot. Sigma Phi
Alpha was not present for the
voting.
Newly elected president Schott . ,
said he was "looking forward to
working with the: fraternities and
the administration for a better
Penn State." Outgoing IFC presi
dent Arthur Rosfeld described
Schott, Kohn, and McChesney as
"three fine men" for the job.
Defeated Candidates
The new officers will be in
stalled at the IFC-Panhellenic
Council Banquet to be held during
Greek Week.
Defeated candidates for the
three IFC offices are ' Richard
Gibbs of Chi Phi, candidate for
president; Bruce Nichols of Delta
Tau Delta and John Flanagan of
Sigma Chi, candidates for vice
president; and George Richards
of Sigma Nu, Richard Altman of
Beta Sigma Rho, and Merice
Nelles of Alpha Tau Omega, can
didates for secretary-treasurer.
Chaplain Meeting
The outgoing officers of IFC
are Rosfeld of Phi Delta Theta,
president; William Hirsch of Tau
Kappa Epsilon, vice president;
and Thomas Fleming of Pi Kappa
Alpha, secretary-treasurer.
Rosfeld announced at the meet
ing that all fraternity chaplains
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Speedy Action
On Chesterman
Bills Expected
The state Senate yesterday gave
first reading to 16 bills covering
a number of the suggestions of
the Chesterman committee, the
group which has said its recom
mendations will save the Com
monwealth $1 billion by 1960.
Speedy action is expected on
the bills.
Among th e bills introduced
wee three affecting state teach-.
ers colleges and one concerning
subsidies for all schools in the
state. A 17th Chesterman bill,
dealing with state-owned hospi
tals, was introduced to the Sen
ate yesterday.
One bill would give the De
partment of Public Instruction
general direction and control ov
er the 14 state teachers colleges.
Another would abolish the boards
of trustees of the colleges and re
place them with advisory boards
composed of nine persons.
Another of the bills would com
pel all graduates of state teach
ers colleges to. - spend two of the
five years immediately following
their graduation in Pennsylvania
schools or, if they did not, to re
imburse the state for tuition.
The subsidy bill would revise
the school subsidy laws and re
vamp educational departmental
procedure to bring about more
than $9 million lin economies ev
ery two years.