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Cabinet Gets Proposal
-'or New Traffic Court
A constitutional amendment providing for the organization of a student traffic court
to handle violations of the campus traffic code was read for the first time before All-
College Cabinet Thursday night. Cabinet also approved a resolution establishing a system
of penalties for violations of traffic regulations.
The amendment to Article 111, section 9 of the All-College Constitution, will be voted
upon after two more readings in cabinet.
College Places
Third in Dairy
Stock Show
Penn State placed third in dairy
cattle judging Monday at the East
ern States Livestock Exposition in
Springfield, Mass., for the Col
,ege's finest showing since 1930.
Thirteen college teams com
peted in the contest with Cornell
and the University of Maryland
topping Penn State to win first
and second places, respectively.
Only 95 points out of a possible
2250 separated Cornell and the
local team, according to Gilbert
Porter, graduate student in dairy
husbandry, team coach.
In the Jersey division Penn
State was second with Harry
Roth 6th high individual. The
team also was runner-up in the
Guernsey division. Harry Roth
and Levis Phipps placing sth and
9th respectively in individual
competition. Edger Fernel was
second high in the Ayrshire judg
ing. Penn State won seventh
place in the Holstein division and
was eighth in the Brown Swiss
competition.
The team spent a week prepar
ing for the contest by looking
over top herds in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and New York. The
team will travel Oct. 5 to Water
loo, lowa, to participate in the
contest with 30 teams from all
over the nation held in conjunc
tion with the National Dairy Cat
tle Congress.
Four Research
Grants Created
President Milton S. Eisenhower
recently announced the establish
ment of four research grants to
the College.
Shell Development Co. granted
$5OOO for the study of fine-grained
materials with an electron micro
scope. Dr. Thomas F. Bates, as
sociate professor of minerology,
will direct research.
A study of petrographic con
stituents of certain coals and their
utilization potentials has been es
tablished with a $4OOO grant by
the Island Creek Coal. Co. Dr.
William Spackman Jr., assistant
professor of paleobotany, will di
rect the project.
Robert H. Olmstead, professor; Chem Society Is Open
of dairy husbandry extension,
will direct work in compiling a, To Junior Women
Dairy Herd Improvement Associ-t lota Sigma Pi, national honor
ation report with $3lOO provided ary. society -for women in chern
by Pennsylvania Association of istry and allied fields, is open to
Artificial Breeding Cooperatives. fifth semester women with an
Dr. Donald Satchell, assistant average of 2.0 or better who have
professor of soil technology, will completed 20 hours of chemistry.
conduct research on cprn-soil-fer- The group sponsors the Marie
tilz e r-management interactions. Curie lecture and offers an an
under a $2OOO grant by the nitro-Inual prize of $25 to the senior
gen division of Allied Chemical; woman showing the greatest
and Dye Corp. I achievement in chemistry.
Changes Made in LA Faculty
Faculty changes in the School
of the Liberal rts have been an
nounced by President Milton S.
Eisenhower.
Richard C. Maloney, former ad
ministrative assistant in the Pres
ident's office, has been appointed
assistant dean of the school. Ma
loney, who joined the staff in
Sept. 1950, succeeds Seth W. Rus
sell, who resigned to accept the'
deanship of applied arts and sci
ences at North Dakota Agricul
tural College. Malone y, who
served as principal of the Cyrus
Peirce School in Nantucket, Mass.,
taught in the public schools of
New . Hampshire and Massachu
setts for 14 years.
In 1942, he entered active duty
as a lieutenant commander in the
U.S. Naval Reserve and served as
aviation gunnery officer and of
ficer-in-charge of the combat air
crew training unit at the Naval
THE DAILY COLLEGIA'N, STATE' COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Thomas Farrell,. Tribunal chair
man, presented the proposal, as
follows:
"Student Traffic Court shall
try students charged', with vio
lating the College parking , and
traffic regulations, and after a
just trial may affix such penal
ties and fines as are authorized
by All-College Cabinet.
"Any student may appeal a ,de
cision of traffic court to 'fribunal.
"Traffic Court shall be com
posed of seven male students ap
pointed for terms of one year by
the All-College President _with
the consent of cabinet. Appoint
ments should be made with the
recommendation of the chairman
of Tribunal and must be made
two weeks prior to the end of the
spring semester.
"Traffic Court shall be com
posed of two sophomores, four
juniors, and one senior. The soph=
omores and juniors shall be.
equally distributed as fraternity
and independent men. The senior
must be a member of Tribunal
and will act as chairman of traf
fic court."
Penalties for traffic violations
authorized by cabinet will be ad
ministered by Tribunal whether
or not traffic court is established.
If the amendment is approved by
a three-fourths vote of cabinet,
Tribunal will continue to deal
with violators until the new court
is in operation, Farrell said.
Penalties will be 'imposed as
follows: first offense. $1 fine and
a warning; second offense, $4
fine; third offense, the violator
will be referred to the dean with
a recommendation that the stu
dent's car be sent home.
The traffic court will apply to
male students only, Farrell said.
Eighth semester women may
have cars on campus, but of
fenses will be handled through
Judicial, as at present.
The penalties were adopted to
give the enforcement the proper
sanction of student government
as a legislated rather than a judi
cial decision, to have a definite
publicized - system of fines for
clarity and thereby discourage
violations, and to impress upon
the student body the principle
that the rules of the College are
to he obeyed.
The main point behind the traf
fic court proposal, Farrell said in
his report, is that Tribunal be
freed of handling traffic cases
that have kept it from being the
court it should be—a court for
'hearing cases of conduct detri
!mental to the College.
Air Station, Whid b e y Island,
Wash.
Following World War H, Ma
loney was appointed instructor in
English at Kansas State, and in
1946, was named assistant dean of
the School of Arts and Sciences
there. He was named registrar
and assignment officer at Kansas
State in 1948.
Dr. Franklin B. Krauss, profes
sor of Latin, and acting head of
the Department of Romance Lan
guages, has been named head of
that department.
A native of Quakertown, Dr.
Krauss received his 8.A.,M.A.,
and Ph.D. degrees at the Jniver
sity of Pennsylvania and also
studied at the American School
of Classical Studies in Rome.
Appointed to the College facur
ty in 1931, he was promoted in
1940 to professor of Latin.
Dr. James W. Markham h a s
New Date .
For Housing
Switch Set
The deadline for an exchange
of students entering dormitories
and students moving into frater
nity houses has been extended
to noon Monday. .
At that time names of men de
siring to transfer to dormitories
and those to be released from
contracts to affiliate with a., fra
ternity must be submitted to the
Dean of Men's office, Edward
Pollock, assistant dean of men
in charge of fraternity affairs, re
ported.
The housing and food service
application and contract must be
signed by 5 p.m. Monday, and
men being released must have re
ported. to Nittany Dormitory 20
by this time, Pollock said.
Two things that must be kept
in mind during this process, how
ever, Pollock said, are no one is
permitted to withdraw without a
replacement, and all replacements
must be willing to be assigned to
Pollock dormitories.
If no substitutes are available,
he said, a release may be effect
ed at the end of the first semes
ter if a request is submitted to
the Department of Housing, 108
Old Main, at least one month pre
ceding the first day of registra
tion for the spring semester. •
Without such notice, the con
tract remains in force, he said.
This is not applicable to the West
Dormitories, he said, where con
tracts are for the full academic
year. No release is provided for
at any time during that period-in
these contracts.
'Farmer' Staff
Meets Monday
The staff of the Penn • State
F arm e r, agricultural magazine,
will hold its first meeting at 7:30
p.m. Monday in 109 Agriculture.
Candidates for the writing, adver
tising and circulation staffs are
needed, according to Edgar Feh
nel, editor.
The Penn State Farmer's staff
publishes about six issues during
the school year, the first to be
available Oct. 25.
The magazine is financed by
subscription and advertising as
well as subsidization by the Agri
cultural Student Council and by
l agriculture students who paid 50
cents during registration at Rec
reation Hall.
There are almost a million dead
and dying juniper trees in Ber
muda, because of the blight of the
juniper scale.
been appointed as associate pro
fessor of journalism. Markham
has served on faculties of the
Schools of Journalism at the Uni-1
versity of Texas and the Univer
sity of Missouri.
Since 1948, he has taught at
Missouri where he served as
placement officer for the School
of Journalism. His job will be - to
assist in developing the graduate
program in journalism, according
to Franklin C. Banner, head of
the department. Along wit h
teaching, Markham has worked
a§ a' reporter for the Fort Worth
Press and as a special writer for
the Dallas Journal.
Three new faculty members
have been named to the depart
ment of speech. They are Dr. Or
dean Ness, assistant professor of
speech; and Dr. Edward J: Len
non Jr. and William J. Lewis, in
structors in speech..
Elimination of Finals
Judged Unfeasible
The possibility of eliMinating finals for graduating seniors 'ik‘ as
judged unfeasible by the College Senate at a meeting this summer
after a semester of research by a student committee studying the
problem. .
Polls, ideas, and material were presented to the Senate, committee
on edUcational policy by Gail Shaver, head of the student ressarch
group.
The proposal was to eliminate
the final examination in each
course in which the graduating
senior had maintained a 2 aver
age or better for the semester.
Harold K. Schilling, education
al policy committee chairman, re
ported his committee • could not
4ustifiably grant the request be
cause it believed that:
I. Motivation and study habits
were related to achievement de
manded at the end of the course.
2. The reorganization and syn
thesis of study at the end of the
course is a valuable type of learn
ing experience which should not
be denied the senior student.
3. Disruption of work and un
favorable attitudes might follow
the excusing of seniors from
classes partially composed of oth
er class groups.
4. If students with course
grades of 2 or better were ex
cused from final examinations,
some pressures might be exerted
on faculty members to mark a
little higher in senior, courses.
5. If senior examinations were
eliminated, there . would be the
possibility that "bluebook quiz
zes": would be increased toward
the end of the semester.
The idea of substituting a sen
ior comprehensive examination
for course examinations was. dis
cussed by . the committee but was
considered impractical because of.
cost and labor.
Council Names
7 Chairmen
The roster of chairmen appoint
ed to standing committees of the
Chem-Phys Student Council was
announced Wednesday by Niel
Yocum, president.
Douglas Ayer, seventh semes
ter chemistry major, was appoint
ed to the c our s e evaluation
committee; Barbara Foss, fifth se
mester science maj o r, to the
Newsletter committee; Ger ald
Lougran, ninth semester chemical
engineering major, •replacement
committee, and Donald Kempfer,
seventh semester chemical en
gineering major, elections com
mittee.
George Tice, fif th semester .
chemical engineering major; was
appointed to the suggestion box
and tours committee; Harry Ross,
seventh semester chemical en
gineering major, coke machines
committee; and Ronald Ferguson,
seventh semester chemistry ma
jor, mixer committee.
Open House committee chair
manship will remain open.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1953
500 Pint Goal
In Blood Drive
On. Campus Set
A goal of 500 pints of blood
has been set for the campus blood
drive Oct. 13 - to 15 when the
Johnstown Red Cross bloodmo
bile arrives on campus, Marie
Wagner, student -Red Cross com
mittee chairman has announced.
General distribution of pledge
cards and minor release forms
begins today: Students between
the ages of 18 and 21 must have
release forms signed by their
parents, Miss Wagner said, and
turned in by the Oct. 5 deadline
to allow for scheduling.
A schedule will be compiled
and donors will be informed of
their appointrhents by mail.
Students, when filling out
pledge cards, should signify
choices of at least two tines when
they will be able to give Wooed.
This is necessary to insure against
I too many donors being signed up
for the same hour. The complete
blood-giving process takes ap
proximately one hour.
Any Korean veteran who has
received blood ', overseas and
I would like
,to take part in a 15
Iminute panel discussion on radio
next week is asked to contact
Miss Wagner at 44 McElwain.
Two Staff Members .
Elected to Ag Posts
Two College staff members were
elected to posts in the Pennsyl
vania section of the American So
ciety of Agricultural Engineers at
a recent meeting in New York.
Harold V. Walton, .associate pro
fessor of agricultural engineering,
was selected chairman, and James
B. Kistler, agricultural engineer
ing instructor, was selected secre
tary.
Newman Club ;
e Business Meeting
Sunday, Sept . 27 ;:1
8:15 p.m.
405 Old Main
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