Weather— Fair and Cool VOL. 54, No. 39 Holiday Cut D Suggestions Submitted •Recommendations aimed at re ducing the number of pre- and post-vacation class cuts including one calling for quizzes in the last class meetings within a 24-hour period before a vacation were re ferred to College Senate members for possible consideration at their December meeting. The proposals, presented by Dr. R. Wallace Brewster, professor of political science and chairman of the special committee on vacation absences, had been given to the Senate in June of 1952 hut noth ing had been done. They were asked to reconsider in the light of surveys conducted by the Regis trar’s office which show cutting to be a serious. problem. Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, said that no special steps had been taken by the College to punish those ab sent from classes before and af ter vacation and that no study of absence records would'be con ducted. He urged students, how ever, not to cut _ their classes because of its serious affect to the academic schedule as a whole. Committee members, in making recommendations to the Senate, said they hoped to improve the situation without compulsive measures based on College rules, but by administrative and co operative measures. If a non-com pulsive plan can effectively estab lish ‘ a tradition of satisfactory class attendance, the need ’ for adopting formal regulations can be avoided, they said. The recommendations included having the faculty of each school consider the feasibility of adopt ing a school-wide policy of giving .quizzes in the last class meeting in each course which occurs within the 24-hour period before a vaca tion. These tests, they explained, should only cover a relatively small part of the course but should carry sufficient weight in the final course grade to make it advisable for the students to be there. Additional plans call for. hav ing the Student Government As sociation attempt to secure stu dent cooperation in maintaining good class attendance. Also the group would have the President or Provost of the College call to the attention of school deans, de partment heads and instructors the need for meeting their classes and impressing their students with the necessity of attending. Coed Released From Infirmary A first semester coed found un conscious in d snowbank early Saturday morning on the south side of Hamilton Hall was re leased from the Infirmary Sun day, Herbert R. Glenn, director of the College Health Service, said yesterday. The coed’s condition . was de scribed as an “emotional state,” rather than frostbite, which was the earlier diagnosis. Glenn said the coed “seamed to be all right” when released Sun day morning. ' . Dean of Women Pearl O. Wes ton declined to comment on the case. Ford ham Game? Film To Be Shown Tonight Movies of the Penn Siaie- Fordham football game will be shown at 7:30 tonight in Schwab Auditorium by An drocles, junior men's hat so ciety. A member of the coaching squad' will narrate the film. Ronald Safier, vice president of Androcles, will be in charge. elii 1 Daily ||| (Hall 1 'TE igging for Grass . .. —Photo by Schroeder ABOUT 200 STUDENTS answered a call by Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the Physical Education and Athletics school, to clear Beaver Field and the stands Saturday morning in preparation for the Penn Siale-Fordham football game. Despite a light snowfall and cold winds during the game, 15,000 fans huddled together in the stands. Few stayed throughout the game. The Nittany Lions, playing a ground game, won, 28-21. - Thomas Criticizes Communism Fight Americans are fighting the .threat of Communism by the wrong methods, Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist candidate for president, .asserted -last night, r ßy,-enacting criminal-laws -and by investigation' procedures, the hard core of Communism is being driven under ground, Thomas said. ' v TKe only way to successfully combat the forces of totalitarian ism of any kind is through con fidence in democracy and a strong belief in freedom, he said. The tall white-haired man firm ly voiced his convictions to an audience of about 500 students, faculty members, and townspeo ple in Schwab auditorium' as he presented the last speech in the annual colloquy on politics and religion. The Communism of today, which adopts the advancement of the party as its moral code, must be recognized as a threat because it opposes the basic American democratic beliefs, the speaker said.' The issue- should be faced, he said, by making a primary distinc tion between heresy and conspir acy. Heresy, he maintained, can not be suppressed because there is no standard of infallibility by which truth may be determined in political and religious matters. Conspiracy, which Thomas de fined as the surrender of will, (Continued on page eight) Lodge U rges Soviet UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Nov. 9 (/ P) American Chief Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. urged the rulers of the Soviet Union today to change their mind and attitude and negotiate honestly for gen uine disarmament. At'the same time, V. K. Krish na Menon, Indian delegate, pre sented 'to the 60-nation U.N. Pol itical Committee a watered down version of his peace plan outlined in a speech to the Assembly in September. Urges No Mass Destruction Menon proposed that the As sembly express its desire for the elimination of atomic, bacterial and chemical weapons and all such means of mass destruction. He also urged that the United 'States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union and Canada conduct pri vate and secret talks on disarma ment. Speaking.in the Political Com mittee, Lodge attacked the Soviet proposals for disarma m e n t as “discredited nostrums.” He pledg STATE COLLEGE, PA., 1 TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1953 FOR A BETTER PENN STA : v::'<s • • v ” wr: :#r v^rw~w»siMTO»saßi '"• '' O „ - < Offices Close For Holiday Offices at the College will be closed tomorrow In observance of Armistice Day. Classes will be held as scheduled. A brief ceremony will be held at. 11a.m. on the campus in front of Old Main. Air Force and Naval ROTC units will participate. Taps will be sounded by two Navy buglers and the flag will be lowered ■to half mast. After one minute of silence dedicated to World War I dead, the Star Spangled Banner will be played by the Navy band. The flag will be returned to the top of the mast, ending the ceremony. Art Exhibit to Close The “States of Mind” collection of paintings on exhibit in McEl wain Hall, will be taken down to morrow. ed the United States to dedicate itself with renewed vigor to all efforts in the disarmament com mission to achieve agreement on a comprehensive disarma me n t program. . “If all members of the Disarm ament Commission, and particu larly the Soviet Union, concretely demonstrate an e qual desire •to negotiate/ honestly and sincerely on the substance of these disarm ament issues, then we can make progress,” Lodge said. Security Needed “Disarmament is impos sib 1 e without international security and once international security has been achieved disarmament can not be conducted without proper safeguards. “The existence of international security depends on a change of mind and attitude oh the part of the rulers of the Soviet Union. So long as they believe that they have the only good idea for con ducting human affairs which idea they must impose on the rest eg tan F.rbS'k, Soph Nominees Start Stretch Drive Lion and State Party candidates for freshman and soph omore class officers move into the stretch drives of fheir campaigns today, continuing visits to dormitories and fra ternities. First, second, third and fourth semester students will vote Thursday in Schwab Audi-' torium for president, vice pres ident, . and secretary-treasurer of the classes. Freshman State Party candi dates will visit MacAUister dining hall at noon today and Nittany- Pollock dining hall during. supper tonight. State Party candidates for soph omore class offices will visit Ath erton Hall dining hall at noon today and fraternities from 6 to 8 tonight. Lion Party candidates will visit McElwain Hall dining hall, Sigma Phi Sigma, Theta Xi, Alpha Sigma Phi and Phi Kappa at noon today, and the .College Cooperative, Phi Mu Delta, Phi Sigma Kappa, Phi Kappa .Psi and Delta Theta Sigma at supper to night. Barbara Stock, State Party can didate for sophomore class secre tary-treasurer, will tour McElwain tonight. Marilyn Seltzer, State Party candidate for freshman class secretary-treasurer, will tour Mac Allister Hall and Ather ton Hall tonight. Virginia Hance, Lion Party candidate for freshman secretary treasurer, will begin a two-night tour of Thompson Hall. Shirley Mix, Lion Party sophomore sec- treasurer candidate, will tour McElwain Hall. James Musser, Lion Party fresh man class presidential nominee, and Robert Bennett, vice pres ident candidate,- will continue a tour of the West Dorm area to night. Steven Jordan, State Party candidate for freshman class pres ident, and Joseph Ferko, vice presidential nominee, will con tinue a tour of the Nittany-Pol lock dormitory area. Hugh Cline, State Party soph omore class candidate, and Rich ard Allison, vice presidential can didate, will visit town rooming houses between 8 and 11 tonight. Robert McMillan is the Lion Party candidate for sophomore class president and Robert Hard ing is running on the Lion ticket for the vice presidential post. Six persons helping with the Lion Party campaigns have been announced by Edward Goldston, campaign manager. They are Jac queline Loikrec and Barbara Nichols who will assist Miss Hance’s campaign in MacAUister Hall and Maurine Leonard who will help in Woman’s Building. Charlotte Lutinski, Ann Hosfeld and Joan Alfieri will assist Miss Mix in McElwain, Simmons and Atherton Halls. Change of the world whether it likes it or not—and so long as they live in' baseless fear that the rest of the world seeks to destroy their idea, just so long will Commu nist imperialism continue in all its manifestations: subversion of peaceful governments by force and violence, mendacious propa ganda on the germ warfare model, and even promoting acthal war fare as in Korea and Indochina. Safeguards Lie Wifh Russia “Proper safeguards .for con ducting disarmament , can only take place when the Iron Curtain no longer exists so that we will know what they are doing as they can know what we are doing.” Lodge concluded by telling the committee that in spite of every thing “we still hope.” Fourteen countries, including the United States, have intro duced a resolution calling on the Disarmament Commission to con tinue efforts to reach agreemer • Menon put up a series of amend znents today. Congratulating The GOP— See Page 4 Weatherman Explains Snowfall The College meteorology de partment staff —which trusted its instruments rather than instincts in predicting only light snow flurries over the weekend—of fered its explanation yesterday as the clean-up of the record 13 inches of snow which fell on campus neared completion. Dr. Charles Hosier, meteorolo gist in charge of the College weather station, yesterday de clared “The odds were in favor of the southern storm slipping past the cold mass so that’s why we—and every other forecaster —■ said what we did.” “I really felt terrible about giv ing Hum Fishburn a bum steer on Band Day,” Hosier said. “I had to dig out too. I trusted my map instead of the feeling I got from looking out the window,” he added. ... . . , The snow brought about the last-minute substitution of Jack Huber’s orchestra at the Junior Prom in the place of Ralph Flan agan’s, snowbound outfit. Four automobiles carrying band mem bers were wrecked on the way to the College. Only two mem bers got through. Band Day, too, was snowed out. James W. Dunlop, director of the Penn State Blue Band, arranged for .'the State Police to send a message over its state-wide tele type network asking police to inform bands enroute to the Col lege that the program had been called off. Eight of the scheduled 60 bands did arrive. They each performed before the Penn State-Fordham football game. The football team was 20 minutes late in arriving from “Hate-to-leave-it,” practice camp near Bellefonte. About 200 students,, including most of the 98 members of the Blue Band answered an appeal from Ernest B. McCoy, Dean of the School of Physical Education and Athletics, to shovel off Bea ver Field Saturday morning. Stu dents at the prom, in dormitories, 'and at fraternity houses were asked to clear the field and stands. Despite the snow, a Pennsyl vania Interschool Athletic Associ ation cross-country meet was held here. Mount Lebanon High School successfully defended its cham pionship. The 13 inches of snow which fell is equivalent to 1.24 inches in rain. Previous snowfall record for a November was set in 1892 when 11.7 inches fell. Refunds ora Prom Start Tomorrow Refunds of $1.50 will be re turned on Junior Prom dance programs for 10 days starling at 1:30 p.tn. tomorrow at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Programs will be stamp ed, and those requesting re funds will sign a master list. Refunds will not be given to holders of complimentary tick ets or those without programs, Joseph Barnett, junior class president, said. Tickets for the prom sold for $4. Ralph Flanagan's orchestra Tailed to arrive because of im pairing weather conditions. FIVE CENTS
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