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FRESHMEN FEED fuel to flames in the West Dorm courtyard
custom's riot Monday night. It did. them no good, however, as
customs continued. Approximately 50 customs violators were
caught in two separate raids on Nitiany-Pollock and West Dorms
by batmen yesterday.
Comes the Purge
Hatmen Cr ek Down
On Frosh Customs
.Over 50 freshmen men were charged with customs violations
yesterday as a result of raids by hat societies. Androcles, junior
men's hat society, raided the Nittany-Pollock dining hall at noon,
and by Skull and Bones, senior men's hat society, the West Dorm
area in the evening.
The raids were the second attempt by batmen at mass enforce
ment of customs. Thirty violations were reported during a similar
raid made Friday on the West
Dorm area.
Violators will be called before
Freshmen Customs Board some
time next week. •
May Send Representative
CUstoms Board will meet at 7
'tonight, in 204 Old Main to take
action against Monday's West
Dorm rioters.
Thomas Farrell, co-chairman of
customs board, said the demon,
stration spoiled' goo effects of
customs shown at pep rallies and
mixers.
Chairman Says
State Party's
Funds in Order
There are "no financial dis
crepancies" in the State Party
Kenneth White, clique chairman
said yesterday.
White replied to charges made
by Lion
_Party temporary clique
chairman, Benjamin Sinclair, who
charged at a party meeting Sun
day night that $B5 had been with
held from an inter-party cam
paign fund last year. He said the
money was taken from the sale
, of Bibler cartoon books, a project
which was used by both parties
to collect campaign funds.
Thomas Kidd and Ernest Bou
chet, Lion and State Party treas
urers at the time of the . campaign,
knew of the misunderstanding,
but others "jumped - to ionclu
sions which were not well
fouhded," White - said. He said he
had paid a check to the fund for
885.
Under the plan for the sale of
the books adopted by the parties,
each party was to sell the books
on their own initiative, submit
the money through the clique
treasurer of their party to a joint
fund. Money remaining in this
fund after expenses had been
paid would' be equally divided
between parties.
Sinclair charged that 885 was
withheld from the joint fund fOr
State Party publicity purposes.
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Baker . to Speak
To Veterans Club
Penn State Veterans Club will
meet at 7:15 tonight in 110 Elec
trical Engineering. Richard H.
Baker, coordinator of veteran's
affairs, will speak on veterans'
educational benefits. Applications
for membership will be accepted
at the meeting. -
He said freshmen who want to
speak in behalf of ending or
changing customs may either
send a representative to customs
board tonight or contact the board
through James Bowers, freshman
class president.
Customs violations charges
were made against .two men and
four women yesterday.
Lifted for Penn Game
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Three violators were penalized
earlier this week for talking to
men, not wearing full dress cus
toms and not having handbooks
filled out. This week they are
compelled to wear signs printed
with offenses and will be given
further penalty at the Penn State-
Syracuse football game.
_Restrictions on freshmen leav
ing campus during the .custom
period will be lifted for the Penn
Game this weekend, .JOyce Shus-•
man, - co-chairman of customs
board, announced yesterday.
Several complaints of rough
treatment by hatmen have been
made to customs board, Farrell
said. Attempts at customs en
forcement not listed in- the hand
book fall into the class of "haz
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Wilson Wants 'Lid
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (fP)— incident, he said, could touch off
Secretary of Defense Wilson indi- a war.
cated today his department is-.try- Wilson reiterated his belief that
ing to put a $4O billion lid on- its the 'Russians are capable of mak
spending budget for the next fis- ing hydrogen bombs of various
cal year—about two billion below sizes, but he commented: "I don't
the current figure. know they are so much ahead
Speaking with Wilson at a news of schedule."
conference, Assistant Secretary of Newsmen asked Wilson if he
Air Roger Lewis said it may. be thought Russia, like the United
possible to haVe a 120-wing Air States, had .solved the secret of
Force by next July, when the new exploding a hydrogen bomb with
fiscal year' starts, instead of the out 'using standard atomic bombs
114-wing "interim" force first con- as .the trigger.
sidered under the Eisenhower ad- "That. is getting into technical
ministration's economy, program. matters which- . I don't think" I
Wilson told newsmen he 'doubts should talk about," he replied.
very much' that the Russians have
a policy for starting .a war right
now, but he cautioned against
complacency. Some unforeseen
-VOL. 54, No. 10 STATE COLLEGE, PA., - WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 30, 1953 FIVE CENTS
AIM Will Enforce
Dorm Dress Rule
The Association of Independent Men Judicial Board of Review will handle violations
of the new dress rule for dormitory dining.
The ruling, as passed by -All-College Cabinet, states that men in both the West Dorm
and the Nittany-Pollock area "shall wear collared shirts and slacks for all evening meals
and coats and ties for Sunday dinner and co- educational dining.
Although no definite procedure has been outlined, Joe Somers, AIM president, re
ported, dining hall checkers will be asked to help in the enforcement. There probably will
Interviews
Scheduled
By Firms
Over 140 representatives of
business and industry have sched
uled dates to interview graduat
ing seniors, according to College
Placement Service.
Approximately 50 of the 140
companies will visit the campus
during October and November to
recruit students who will receive
undergraduate degrees in Janu
ary. and students who will receive
advanced degrees in 1954. Ninety
companies have shown interest in
students graduating in Jun e.
Their interviews will be conduct
ed from Feb. 22 to May 14.
`Although only eighth semester
students are eligible for inter
views, placement officials said it
would be wise for sixth and sev
enth semester students to take ad
vantage of the information avail
able in the Student Placement of
fice, 112 Old Main.
Dates for each company's inter
views are announced on depart
mental bulletin boards and on the
bulletin boards outside the Stu
dent Placement office, Old Main
lobby.
Interested students may regis
ter for interviews at 112 Old
Main. •
Panofsky to Speak
To Meteorology Group
The student chapter of the
American Meteorological Society
will meet at 7:30 tonight in 121
Mineral Industries. Dr. Hans
Panofsky _ will speak briefly on
services of the A.M.S.
Penn Ticket
Sates to End
' Tomorrow
Today and tomorrow are the
last days in which students may
buy tickets to Saturday's Univer
sity of Pennsylvania-Penn State
football gaine.
Tickets are, on sale for $3.90
and $2.60 at the ticket windows
pn the first floor of Old Main_
The windows, will •be open 8:30
a.m. to 5 p.m. on both days.
Harold R. Gilbert, assistant di
rector of athletics, yesterday re
ported 10,229 tickets have been
sold to students and alumni.
On another point, Wilson said
he• thought the MIGIS, the Soviet
made jet fighter, is "an overrated
airplane."
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
be a graduated series of penalties
for offenders, he said.
At present the governing board
of AIM has not been elected. AIM
elections have been tentatively
set for Oct. 18 with the first meet
ing of the governing board ex
pected a week later..
Little Opposition
The most promising possibility
so far, Somers said, would be to
have checkers take down matricu
lation numbers of students not
conforming to the dress ruling.
Offenders would then be brought
before AIM Judicial, he added.
"We have heard very little op
position to the ruling in dormi
tory areas," Somers said, "and
we expect very few, if any, vio
lations." •
"In fact," he said, "we have
found Positive support of the
plan among .dormitory men."
Original Resolution
The plan now under considera
tion would not refuse admittance
to anyone in• the dining halls, he
said. Cooperation, rather than en
forcement, .would be stressed.
The original dress . resolution
was formulated at the second an
nual Student Encampment at
Mont Alto. _lt • provided for the
wearing of coats and ties at every.
evening- meal in the West Dorms.
This was amended to its pres
ent forni by, AM-College Cabinet.
Arguments in favor of amend
ing the original proposal included
the fact that fraternity men
usually do not dress in coats and
ties for all evening meals, that
the enforcement of the 'original
proposal might be a financial
hardship to many Men, and that
T-shirts and dungarees would
still be eliminated if the revision
Were accepted.
The idea was originally formu
lated, reported James Dean, as
sistant to the dean of men in
charge of independent affairs, in
the hope that dressing up would
improve the sociability of the
dormitories.
2 Pre-Penn Game
Rallies To Be Held
Two rallies, one sponsored .by
Blue Key, junior men's hat so
ciety, the other by the Penn State
Club of Philadelphia, will high
light pre-Penn game activities
Friday night in• Philadelphia.
The Blue Key rally will be held
at 9:15 p.m. in front of the Belle
vue-Stratford Hotel. The Phila
delphia club will hold its rally
and a smoker at 8 p.m. in the
Empire Room of the Ritz-Carlton
Hotel. There will be no admission
charge.
on Defense
He was asked if he thought the
Russians are aware of American
air power. Wilson:referred to the
annual demonstration . ' of Ameri
can military planes, and he com
mented: "At our Dayton air
show, the Russian officers had
their cameras."
Questioned about reports that
the military spending budget next
year might:be :trimmed down to
33 or 34 billion dollars, Wilson
said that such a reduction would
mean "a very substantial' change
in -the military program.
He said -he didn't think - there
could be anything - like. a 25 • per
cent
.reduction,
.it
.probably would.i
be "on the order of Elie per cent,"
he added. •
Trargiatt
Tribunal
Inaugurates
New Policy
Following the resolution of All.
College Cabinet Thursday night,
Tribunal inaugurated a revised
policy for handling violations of
the traffic code last night.
According to the new plan,
each offense will mean a ticket
and a penalty. Thus, penalties
will no longer depend upon the
number of times a person appears
before Tribunal, but upon 'the
number of offenses committed.
For each and every traffic vio
lation, a ticket will be given. A
summons will then be sent, and
the violator asked to appear be
fore Tribunal.
The first offense will carry a
Ipenalty of a $1 fine, the second
offense,• -$4 fine, and the third
offense, a recommendation that
the car be barred from campus:
Since' there will be a time-lag
between a student's committing
the offense and receiving the
summons, reported Thomas Far
rell, 'Tribunal chairman, the high
est penalty will be considered if
any additional offense occurs dur
ing the interval. Tile third of
fense, however, he said, will now
carry the recommendation that
the car be sent home.
ÜBA to Begin
Book Return
Money and unsold books may
be picked up Monday through
Oct. 9 at' the Used Book Agency
in Temporary Union Building.
Unsold books •not claimed by
owners will become the property
of the ÜBA.
The ÜBA closed Friday after
doing a volume of business three
times greater than last year.
The. Penn State Book Exchange.
of which the ÜBA is a branch,
is now open Monday through
Friday from 8:30 a.m. to ,4:30 p.m,
and carries a complete stock of
school supplies.
During Orientation Week • and
the first week of the semester the
BX had a larger business than in
any other similar. period of its
history, Ronald Lench, treasurer,
haS reported.
Ag LaVie Pictures
Seniors in the School of Agri
culture will have pictures taken
for the 1954 LaVie before Oct. 6
at Penn State Photo Shop.
Radio Guild President
Named to Cabinet
Jay Murphy, president of
Radio Guild, has been elected
All-College Cabinet represent
ative by the Board of Dramat
ics and Forensics.
. Murphy, seventh semester
speech major, is station man
ager of the campus radio sta
tion.
The Board of Dramatics and
Forensics is composed of pres
idents of Players, Thespians,
Radio Guild, the Blue Band
and Men's and Women's De
bate teams.