AIM president-elect AIM Board Elects Somers President Joe Somers, sixth semester mining engineering major, was elected president of the Association of Independent Men at a meeting of the board of governors last night. APhio Delays 'Ugly Man' Identification Because of difficulties in sched uling pictures for the Ugly Man contestants, the starting date for the auxiliary identification con test will be delayed until' tomor row. All pictures should be taken by tonight unless further diffi culty is encountered, according to Hampton Huff, chairman of the Ugly Man contest. The composite picture of the contestants may be displayed in the downtown win dow of Western Union Co. tomor row instead of yesterday as pre viously announced. The rules for entering the iden tification contest are unchanged. Entrants must identify as many contestants' pictures as possible and list their names on a piece of paper with -the number corre sponding to their picture. The en trance fee for the :contest is 10 cents which must be attached se curely to the entry to be turned in at the Student Union desk ia Old Main. The student who iden tifies the most ugly men correctly will receive a ticket to the Senior Ball. Any student may enter the con test except brothers and pledges of Alpha Phi Omega. The dead line for the contest is Tuesday. Blood Pledges Due Tomorrow Red• Cross blood drive _pledge slips and release .slips for minors must be • turned in at the College Placement office, 112 Old Main, by 5 .p.m. tomorrow. The drive, sponsored by the campus Red Cross unit, will begin May 11 and extend through May 13. Donations will be Made from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Temporary Union. Building. Persons donating blood should have at least one hour, and pref erably two, free at the time blood will be donated, according to Red Cross officials. Pledge forms and release slips may be obtained from dormitory presidents or from the _College Placement office. Ed Senior Nominations Nomination blanks for the out standing senior in the Education school will be available in 105 Burrowes until Tuesday• and at the election stands next Wednes day and Thursday. TODAY'S WEATHER MILD WITH SHOWERS VOL. 53, No. 133 New Budget Proposal Drops BX Compensation Other newly elected officers of AIM include Robert Harding, sec ond semester chemical engineer ing major, vice president; Andrew Jaros, seventh semester arts and letters major, secretary; and Shel don Odland, second semester arch itecture major, treasurer. In winning the presidency, Som ers included, in his program of action for next year, subscriptions for members of the AIM Board of Governors to the Daily 'Collegian in which would be posted the agenda for coming meetings. This would coordinate the activities of the four councils, he said. He also proposed that the AIM and . individual council constitu tions be mimeographed and dis tributed to the independent stu dents. More coordination of the execu tive council of AIM is needed, he said, to help present a firm stand in cabinet. A more extensive pro gram of freshman activities is also needed, he added. It was also decided at the meet ing to give all assistance possible to Cornell, where next year's Na tional Independent Student Asso ciation convention will be held. Independent council members may • still, purchase tickets to the AIM-Leonides Banquet, which will be held tomorrow at the Autd port. Finch to. Speak Tonight Dr. Henry A. Finch of the Phil osophy department will speak to the Psychology Club at - 7 tonight in 317 Willard. His subject will be "Our Knowledge of Other Minds." The meeting will be open to the public. Few Vote as Councils Gen Elections Only a small percentage of the eligible students voted in the seven student council elections Which opened today. Voting will .continue today for council repre sentatives and election results will be announced tonight. Present freshmen are eligible to vote for sophomore council representa tives, and juniors for senior rep resentatives. Miner al Industries Student Council elections are being held in the foyer of the Mineral In dustries Building. Two sophomore, two junior, and two senior posi tions will be filled. Only a small !percentage of the Mineral Indus try students voted yesterday ac cording to Fred Becker, president of Mineral Industries council. Chemistry and Physics students voted yesterday fOr ten council positions for which' 53 students have been nominated. Elections will continue today in the lobby of Osmond. Students voting for Engineering Student Council membership may write in names on the ballot. At least two persons must be nomi nated for each council position, so that in some cases write-in votes are a necessity. If fair wea•• ther continues today, the voting station will again be set up on the Mall .in front of Main Engi neering and in case of bad wea ther will be in the Engineering Library in Main Engineering. Liberal Arts students will-Con tinue voting today for 23 positions for council membership. Weather permitting, the voting station. will - •',. • ,• - ' . ~ ._ ..• 1 . . - 4 B u n g _ ._,„, • .A.,„ . ~,....„„... STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 30, 1953 TV Station Gets First Senate OK A bill authorizing the General State Authority to build an edu cational television station in State College was given preliminary ap proval by the Pennsylvania Sen ate Tuesday. The bill also authorizes construc tion of stations in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Erie. Channels for these stations have been set aside by the Federal Communications Commission. According to C. S. Wyand, as sistant to the President, the bill must be read two more times be fore final approval may be given. If the bill passes, he said, it will only authorize construction of the stations. The appropriation bill has not yet been released from the appropriation committee, Wy and said, and, nothing can be done until money is received. The Senate passed two other bills related to the educational tel evision system. One would em power the superintendent of pub lic instruction to supervise the educational program on a State wide basis. The other would give school boards the same authority on the local level. The bills were given approval earlier this week by the Senate Education Committee. They *ere sponsored by committee chairman Paul L. Wagner, (R-Schuylkill). Gov. John S. Fine said the bills have the administration's approval and recommended prompt:action. He emphasized that he believes educational television will be "one of the g r e at es t of modern-day boons to our educational system and to the children and adult citi zens of the commonwealth when it is established." BALLOTING .GOT UNDERWAY yesterday and continues today in the election of members of seven school councils. Casting his ballot in the Liberal Arts Student Council elections is Richard Gordon, fourth semester pre-law major. Larry Gedrich, fourth semester commerce and finance major, and a: member of the LA council, checks proceedings at the polls be set, up outside of Sparks. Other: Council membership will continue wise, voting will take place in today in the. major's activity the lobby of Sparks. classes. Freshmen, sophomores, Voting for Phys Ed Student (Continued on, page -eight) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE ISCB President, Council Heads Receive Salary Under Plan Compensation for the members of the Book Exchange board of control has been eliminated and $25 compensation has been allocated for the president of the Interstudent Coun cil. Board, and $l5 for each of the school student council pres idents in the 1953-54 budget which will be presented to All- College Cabinet at 8 tonight by Richard Rostineyer, retiring Four Attend NSA Meeting At Pittsbuigh Four students represented the College at the regional National Student Association convention last weekend at the Pennsylvania College for Women, Pittsburgh. ' Attending the convention were James Plyler, retiring All-College vice president; Walter Sachs, central NSA regional chair man; Irene Taylor, Judicial presi dent, and Robert Smoot, leader ship training committee chairman. The convention considered the leadership training program from Thursday until Saturday. At the meetings Saturday and Sunday, new officers for the Pennsylvania region were elected. During the convention items dis cused were principles and goals of student leadership, functions and responsibilities of student leadership, student-faculty-admin istrative relations, and parliamen tary and committee techniques. Mobile. X-Ray Unit To Airive Tuesday A mobile X-ray unit will give free X-ray service to all students, employees of the College, an d townspeople for diagnosis of tu berculosis Tuesday thro u g h Thursday., The mobile unit will be brought to State College by the Health Service. ..f.,:..: . :. : • - :..,;.,. : , ,., ...:,',1"'•V.:,;:!:•:',.•;',.;',1': -..a"~~. , P-.. ~`' .•. All-College secretary-treasurer. The budget, asking allocations of '512,300, shows an increase of $745 over the budget for the cur rent 1952-53 school year. Cabinet will also hear a report from Charles Gibbs on the eval uation of Cabinet Projects Coun cil by various campus organiza tions, and present recommenda tions for CPC. AGENDA Roll Call Minutes of the previous meeting Reports of officers Adoption of agenda Installation of officers Reports of committees 1. Proposed budget 2. Student Scholarship Committee 3. Cabinet Projects Council Old Business 1. Appropriations for an nual reports New Business Announcements Adjournment Compensation for the chairman of the Junior and Senior prom committees was lowered from $lO ' to $5 and compensations were in creased for commitee chairmen of Spring Week activities. Under the proposed budget, the Spring Week chairman will receive $5O, the business manager, $25, and the booth chairman, arrange ments manager, parade director, special events chairman, publicity director, hat day chairman, and coronation director $l5 each. The BX's compensation elim ination was made because its in creased volume of business and profits this year, has made it (Continued on page eight) Froth Gambles For 'Big Stakes' In Today's Issue 'Gambling undergoes Froth treat ment in •the "Big Stakes" issue of the campus humor magazine, which goes on sale today. For the uninitiated, Dick Neu weiler and Carl McGrew, have compiled a three-page illustrated "Gamesters' Guide." Ma r shall Donley, recently named Froth ed itor, has contributed "Seven Come Heaven." Froth girl of the month is Nancy Van Tries, a fourth semester journalism major from State Col lege. The cover, depicting gambling through history, is the work of McGrew. Tomorrow's issue of Froth is the last under the pres ent staff. One more issue will be published - this year. Chem Phys Newsletter To Feature Open House The latest issue Of the Chein- Phys Newsletter, a monthly pub lication slanted to the interests of students in the School of Chemis try and Physics, will feature the Chem-Phys open house to be held Saturday, William Deppe, editor, has announced. The newsletter can be obtained today in the lobby of Osmond Laboratory. FIVE CENTS
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