. . . ~ . _•- _ , Seating Plans : - , Cansideied--. . See Page 4 • 4 4: ~., VOL. sa, No: 117 40np:.-,Gots: . ' - Ed'i#or Po s t On Collegian -David Jones, sixth semester .journalism major, has been named Daily Collegian editor for 1953-54, David Pellnitz, editor, has an nounced.• Marshall Donley and Charles Obertance, both sixth semester journalism Majors, have been named managing editor and 'city editor.. • Other promotions to the new senior editorial' board include Lavier Procopio, sports editor; Charles Mathias, copy edit or; Richard, Rau, editorial director; William Jost, wire and radio edi tor; Lynn Kahanowitz, society edi tor; Richard McDowell, assistant spprts editor; Eliza Jane_ Newell, assistant society editor; Nancy Meyers, ' feature editor; Norma Vollmer, exchange editor; an d Lorraine Gladus, 'librarian. Bruce Schroeder will retain his post as photography editor. . Jones was moved from city edi tor to editor and Miss Kahanowitz from assistant society editor to' society' editor. The new senior board will assume its duties April 27. Today!s is the last issue of the Daily Collegian before Easter va cation. Publication will be re stimed - April 9. , Firie Drops Research Lab, Highway Plans Plans to move the State High ways department district office and to combine.it with a research laboratory at the College have been dropped by Gov. John S. Fine and the Highways depart ment. Last, summer, Governor Fine decided the district office would remain in Clearfield. It was re ported recently, however, that he and E. L. Schmidt, secretary of highways, have been reconsider ing the original plan of moving the office to. the College.. According to Schmidt, the de cision not to move the office was "principally a matter of econom ics." 'No reason was- given for abandoning plans for the research laboratory. Because of the "economy and highway s afet y" measures in volved, a large group headed by the State College Area Chamber of Commerce urged Governor Fine to go. through with the plan. Trustee Board Approves 20-cent Semester Fee The 20-cent per semester stu dent radio fee was approved by the College. Board of Trustees Friday, President Milton S. Eisen hower announced yesterday. The fee will become effective in the fall. The 20-cent fee was recom mended by' All-College Cabinet and is designed to raise- $4OOO yearly froth students for partial support of the proposed station. The College will share the cost of the station by contributing at least $3OOO to the expense money. No proposal to raise the -College's TODAY'S WEATHER CLOUDY COLD Le To Shifflett Gets 2d _Nomination On State Ticket Richard Lernyre, sixth, sem ester metallurgy Major, was named State Party's candidate for All-College president Sun day night. William Shifflett, sixth semester hotel administration major, was named to th e All-College vice presidential candidacy, and Tem ple. Reynolds, sixth semester for estry majqr, was named All-Col lege secretary-treasurer candidate. All three , were unopposed for the candidacies. In other candidate choices, only one did not face opposition. He was Benjamin Sinclair, fourth semester arts and letters major, who was named junior class vice presidential candidate. Henry Windsor, sixth semester science major, • was named senior class presidential candidate for the State Party in the spring elec tions April 22 and 23. Senior class vice presidential candidate is Walt Back, sixth semester arts and let ters major, and secretary-treas urer candidate is Carolyn Pelczar, sixth semester education major. State Party candidates for jun.- ior class offices -are John Carey,' fourth semester commerce major, for president; Sinclair for vice president; and Joan Shierson, fourth semester - arts and ' letters major, for secretary-treasurer. The number of ballots' cast in Sunday night's nomination elec tions indicated `that about 325 students attended the meeting. In the senior class office nomi nation elections, Windsor defeated William Hassen for , president, Back , defeated Charles Gibbs and Warren •Haffner for vice president, and Miss Pelczar defeated Mari lyn Porter for secretary-treasurer. Miss • Porter was not present for the elections. In the junior class office nomi nation elections, Carey defeated George Wright for president, and Miss Shierson defeated Muriel Henderson" and Marie Wagner for secretary-treasurer. Barry Kay, who was a candidate for the junior class presidential nomination last week, dropped from• the race be fore Sunday night's meeting. share 'to $4OOO, as was done with the student share, was presented to the trustees. The fee is contingent upon the approval of the station's permit, which is now on file with the Federal Communications Commis sion. ) The station, with studios in Sparks, will broadcast on fre quency modulation to the entire State College area and on am plitude modulation in areas where converters are installed. Plans call for installation of these con verters in dormitory areas, and, in a smaller way, in fraternity and downtown areas. Equipment for the station was presented the College by George F. Gable of Altoona. Two classes of the College contributed nearly $lO,OOO to the stat i o n through class gifts. The non-commercial station•will be designed 'for student instruc tion in radio' broadcasting as well as' instruction .in other fields.l It will also serve. 'as a medium of communication for 'students. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1953 myre, Carruthers Head Party Slates Senate Health The College Senate committee on rules will present for Senate approval April 9 a recommendation which would allow the director of College Health Service to take sary" during crowded conditions Approval of the recommendat Glenn, 'director of the service, w. to students who are confined to their.beds- but not accepted-in the Infirmary. The committee's recommenda tion, however, will not entail any change in rule K-6, which allows the College physician to grant ex cuses if the student involved was in the Infirmary under the Col lege's care. The rule is considered adequate for •normal conditions, the committee said, and the new recommendation will handle cases under unusual conditions when the Infirmary is overcrowded. The committee on student af fairs recommended to the com mittee on rules that some action be taken on - the excuse problem. The committee on rules will pre sent the proposal to the Senate in this form: "It recommends, 'however, when the Infirmary is filled to capacity, the director of College Health Service issue statements' of fact prepared by the committee on stu dent affairs or take whatever ac tion is deemed necessary while the emergency exists." Lady Astor Sad, Can't Go to Jail She said it and she's glad! Lady Nancy Astor—Who's been hailed and assailed since 'she re marked "I wish it were poison" about a drink Sen.. Joseph R. Mc- Carthy was sipping at a party— won't go to jail after all. A Federal prosecutor last week ruled that Lady Astor committed "no criminal offense" when she expressed her sentiments. ' This' didn't particularly please the 73 year old viscountess. She had volunteered to spend a year in jail for her quip, if she could take McCarthy with her. She said it would be worth jailing-4n sep arate cells, of course—if she could get. the Wisconsin Republican out of the way and "let the President do his work." No :Riding Club Meeting Edna Grabiak, president of the Riding Club, has announced there will be - no meeting' of the club this week due to .Easter vacation. Meeting Postponed Joseph Gardecki, president of the Pollock Council, announced the council will not meet tonight. The next meeting will be April 13. Richard Lemyre State Party Candidate Robert Carruthers Lion Party Candidate to Consider Service Plan whatever action is deemed neces t the Infirmary. on will mean that Dr. Herbert R. be permitted to grant excuses Senate to Get Rule Additions Rules which make it illegal for students to register • for one an other, and set up disciplinary ac tion in such cases, will be present ed for College Senate approval April 9, C. 0. Williams, Senate secretary, announced yesterday. The two new rules have already been approved by the Senate com mittees on student N. affairs and rules. Both will become additions to College rules and will not 're place any old rules, if they are approved by the Senate. The two proposed rules are: C-4--"No student shall register for another student or permit any one to register on his behalf. W-7--" Any student wh o at tempts to register for another student, or who permits it to be done on his behalf, or who in any way attempts to falsify College records, shall be subject to dis ciplinary action." Five Pennsylvanians To Get Alumnus Awards The College's 1953 Distinguished Alumnus, Awards Will be pre sented to five native Pennsyl vanians, President Milton S. Ei senhower has announced. The men named recipients of the awards are Dr. Cloide E. Brehm, president of the Univer sity of Tennessee; G. Weidman Groff, agricultural missionary of Leaural, Fla.; James A. McCrory,. engineering .executive of Montreal, Canada; Arthur G. McKee, con sulting engineer of Cleveland, O.; and Edwin W. Nick, Erie business executive. Formal presentation of th e , awards will be made at the Honors Day program, April 27. Dr. •Brehm, Class of 1911, is a native of Newville, Cumberland County. Before accepting the pres= idency of the •University of Ten nessee, he was active in agricul tural work in the South. "Daddy" Groff, Class .of 1907, received his bachelor's and mas ter's degrees in horticulture from rgiatt Athletic Program Deserves Praise— See Page 4 Lion Names Haag, Arnold For Two Posts Platform story on page 2 Robert Carruthers, sixth se mester journalism major, will be the Lion Party candidate for All-College president in the spring elections April 22 and 23: His nomination was unopposed at a meeting Sunday with approximately 175 Lion Par ty members attending. • Carruthers was selected with other candidates in the final nom inations for All-College positions and posts in the junior and senior classes. Richard Crafton, sixth semester arts and letters major, was nom inated for senior class president, and Joseph Barnett, fourth semes tev chemical engineering major, was nominated for junior claSs president. Both nominations were unopposed. Name Senior Mate Others nominated to run for All-College posts ar e Edward Haag, sixth semester journalism major, for vice president, and David Arnold, sixth semester com merce major, .for secretary-treas urer. Haag won his nomination over Lewis Goslin, and Arnold won over Thomas Pyle. In senior class positions,' Fury Feraco, sixth semester arts and letters major, will run for vice president, and Betsy Siegler, sixth semester home economics majoil, will run for class secretary-treas urer. Miss Siegler won her nomin-; ation over Jane Montgomery. Fer aco was unopposed. Reynolds To Run Jesse Arnelle, 'fourth semester arts and letters major, will be the Lion Party candidate for junior class vice presidency. Ross Clark, who was nominated for the posi tion in the preliminaries, with-. drew his name. He does not have the required 1.0 All-College aver age necessary to run in an elec.; tion. For junior class secretary-treas-, urer, Katherine Reynolds, fourth semester arts and „letters major, won the nomination over Virginia Coskery. Patricia Shelly, fourth semester education major, was selected sen. for class vice clique chairman for the women. Her nomination was unopposed. the College. In 1907 he became'the first agricultural missionary to China and worked at Lingham University—known as Penn-State in-China. He moved to Florida in 1941. McCrory, who was also grad uated in 1907, is a native oflPitts burgh. He has been honored by Canada for his role in its indus trial development. McKee, Class of 1891, estab lished, a consulting, engineering, and contracting service in Cleve land under his own name. He is the son of the late James Y. Mc- Kee, for whom McKee Hall is named. Nick, Class of 1907, was largely responsible. for the establishment of . a Penn State undergraduate center in his native city of Erie. ISemester Below Grades Mid-semester below grades for the spring semester will be sub mitted to the offices of the deans today. Student below grade notices will be sent out early in April. FIVE CENTS
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