| (ifyp (3Coii£l£t£ttt Soph VOL." 54, No. 42 By Lion Party Nominees Sophs Elect 2 Candidates * Of State Party By TAMMIE BLOOM State Party candidates won two Of the three sophomore class' of fices yesterday, when Hugh Cline and Barbara • Stock, candidates for class president and secretary treasurer . were elected. Harding,'. Lion - Party candidate, won the vice presidency. Twenty seven per cent of • the eligible sophomores voted' in the elections yesterday, sending the percentage below., last fall’s per centage of 32.7. Out of 2672 eli gible voters in the class, 724 cast ballots yesterday. Cline Gets 365 Cline received’. a- total of 365 votes, defeating Lion Party can didate' Robert McMillan by.,six votes. McMillan compiled 359 votes, giving the winner 50.4 per cent of the total votes for. presi dent. In the vice presidential race, Harding was victorious over State Party’s Richard Allison by a 28- vote margin. Harding - received 375 votes and Allison 347. Miss Stock received 401 votes for class secretary-treasurer to de feat Shirley Mix, Lion, Party can didate, by 80 votes. Miss Mix com piled 321 votes. Thanks Expressed Cline, said last night he wanted to thank everyone who had, any thing to do with the elections for their support. “I consider it a great honor,” he said, “to win over, such a worthy opponent as Bob McMillan; and I hope that' throughout the entire year I receive the. same support from the class, as I did during the campaign.” . Harding expressed thanks to all the voters .who backed .him, and added, “Both parties made this a good selection.” Miss Stock said she was “very happy” about the election. “AH that remains for me how, is to do a job that will justify the , soph omore • class’ confidence in . me,” she stated. Opponent Commended; “I would like to commend Shir ley Mix, who proved a capable candidate . and will more than likely help the College in .the future,” she continued. “I would also like to thank the members of the State Party who did so much work.” Cline Will succeed Robert Ho man in his position as class presi dent and as a member of All- College i Cabinet. Harding will succeed William Rother, and Miss Stock will replace Nancy Sco field. Both Homan, and Rother were candidates on the State ticket last fall. ' Froth Still on Sale The Labor issue of Froth will be sold today at th e Student Union 'desk in Old Main and at booth at Carnegie Hall and at the Corner Room. STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 13, 1953 Hugh Cline Soph President Far tell- Explains TrihiMal Changes Tribunal chairman Thomas Farrell last night reported to Ai. College Cabinet a change in Tribunal’s, procedure which will insure a fair hearing to those who come before it and eliminate its position as both a judge and prosecutor. Cabinet also approved ;proposals setting the membership of the Senate committee on student af fairs, subcommittee on discipline and p a's se d a constitutional amendment making .them the ap peal body for students' judged by Tribunal or Judicial A motion by Richard Crafton, senior class president, calling for a selections, committee to choose candidates for Who’s Who Among Students in American- Universities and Colleges was passed, ■ The revision' of-the setup..for Tribimal, - men’s" judicial body, calls for. the creation .of a tribunal marshal and assistants .to present charges. against students appear ing before the group. Farrell, said the marshal must be a senior qual ified in Tribunal procedure and interested in- justice above per sonal attainment, and that he will be appointed-.by the All-College president upon the recommenda tion of the Tribunal chairman. Farrell’s plan also creates- the post of Tribunal counselor who will assist a student charged with conduct detrimental to the' Col lege in preparing his case for pre sentation. He will inform him of Tribunal procedure, maximum fines and penalties, rights of the accused, and gather witnesses and sworn statements. An accused student may take I HST Spurns House Subpoena ■WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (JP)— Harry S. Truman spurned a sub poena from the House un-Ameri can activities committee today and -maneuvers . to .force the for mer President to testify on the Harry. Dexter White “Soviet spy” case collapsed. - In polite yet strong terms, Tru man told the committee by letter that for him to obey the subpoena would shatter the constitutional doctrine of'presidential independ ence of Congress and make the chief executive “a mere -arm of the legislative branch of the gov ernment.” Chairman Velde (R-Ill.) said the committee has no intention of FOR A BETTER PENN STATE advantage of this counselor to act in his defense, or, Farrell reported, he may act as his own defense or'have some -other student act as his defense; providing he meets with, the approval of Tribunal. Crafton’. made his motion for a selections committee to pick stu dents for possible mention in Who’s Who on. the basis of what he called the common dissatisfac tion expressed with the work of the present selections group. He said he felt the request was well founded in that no definite quali fications seem, to exist for mem bership. “Whose buddy are you?” seems to be the only basis followed, he said. He added, that he questioned the responsibility of the selections committee " and .the • eligibility of some of those selected.. Cabinet carried. the move to : set up -the committee- but no members were named. . Selections were made this year by a committee composed of mem bers of . the Interschool Council Board. Nomination does not guar antee the names will appear in the' book, ’however. In.setting: up the Senate com mittee on student affairs, sub (Continued on page three) trying to compel the ex-Presi dent to appear, though he said the ex-President has “a sacred duty to cooperate in all respects where the public safety and pub lic welfare are concerned.” The committee voted at a two hour session late today to invite Atty. Gen. Herbert ■ Brownell to testify on the White case tomor row. Velde said Brownell had ac cepted the invitation, but for some future date still to be determined. It was Brownell who -set the whole' controversy over White boiling ■ with charges last Friday that. Truman promoted him from assistant Treasury secretary to U.S. representative on the Inter James Musser Frosh President Lions Continue Vote Control In Frosh Class By GEORGE BAIREY .. Lion Party continued its yearly dominance of the freshman, class elections yesterday when Lion candidates Jam e s Musser and Robert Bennett were elected pres ident and vice president. Marilyn Seltzer, ' State Party, was- elected secretary-treasurer. It was the third time in three years -freshmen placed - three or at least- the top two Lion candi dates in office.' Last year Lion Party swept three. freshman posi tions and in 1951 the freshman class presidency and vice presi dency went to Lion Party. In 1950 and 1949 State Party swept all .freshman and sophomore posts. 35'Per Cent Vote Only 35 per cent of the fresh men eligible voted yesterday. This is a drop of 9 per cent from last year’s -total. Of 3023 freshmen eligible, 1063 voted. Defeated candidates are Steven Jordan, State Party presidential candidate;. Joseph Ferko, State Party vice presidential candidate; and Virginia Hance, Lion Party -ecretary-treasurer candidate. . Musser, in winning,: compiled . J 5 votes which was 53.2 per cent of the total vote cast. He held a 67-vote margin over Jordan. ’ Bennetf Compiles 595 Bennett received a total of 595 votes, a margin of 131 votes, over Ferko. It was the most one-sided victory of -the day. Miss Seltzer, who is the second State Party freshman candidate to be elected in three years, com piled a total of 547 votes. Miss Hance received a total of 513 votes. When informed he had won last night, Musser said he was “very grateful” to the freshmen for putting their confidence in him. “I hope we can all work to gether to make ours one of the best classes that Penn State has ever had,” Musser said. Bennett said he wanted to thank all the students who voted for him. “It really , makes a fellow feel great,” he said. Bennett said he would do his best to justify the freshman class’ confidence in him. BULLETIN Penn Slate's fraternities last night announced that it is im possible to enforce the College's recently announced interpreta tion of the IFC dating code, but that they would heed the code as formerly - interpreted. national Monetary fund in 1946 regardless of FBI reports that White was spying for Russia. . Democrats on the House com mittee had been demanding that Brownell be the first witness at any hearing, to put his charges on' the record before calling any persons he might accuse. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, Truman’s attorney general in 1946, is'. under subpoena for 10:30 a.m. tomorrow. The commit tee Republicans insisted, and carried _ their point, on going through with the meeting schecf uled for that hour. Clark has given no open hint as to whether he would show up. Office By 6 Ballots FIVE CENTS ; Lion and State Parties split six positions and two seats on All-College Cabinet yes terday in elections for fresh man and sophomore class of fices. Hugh ’ Cline, State, won the sophomore class presidency oyer Robert McMillan, Lion, by six votes in the night’s closest race. The vote was -recounted by members of the All-College elec tions committee four times at the request of Benjamin, Sinclair, Lion Election Summary SOPHOMORE CLASS President Votes Mar. Pet. Hugh Cline (S) 365 6 50.4 Rob’t McMillan (L). 359 .. 49.6 Vice President Robert Harding (L) 375 28 51.9 Richard Allison (S). 347 .. 48.1 Secretary-Treasurer Barbara Stock (S).. 401 80 55.5 Shirley Mix (L) 321 .. 44.5 FRESHMAN CLASS - President James Musser (L) ~ 565 >67 53.2 Steven Jordan (S).. 498 .. 46.8 Vice President Rob’t Bennett (L)... 595 131 56.2 Joseph Ferko (S) ... 464 .. 43.8 Secretary-Treasurer Marilyn Seltzer (S). 547 *34 51.6 Virginia Hance (L). 513 .. 48.4 Party clique chairman. The vote varied from one to six votes on. the recounts. James Musser, Lion, won the presidency of the freshman class 565 to 418 over Steven Jordan, State. Cline and Musser will re ceive seats on All-College Cab inet. Lion Party candidates for vie® president in both classes were vic torious. Robert Harding, Lion, won 375 to 347 over Richard Alli- (Continued on page three ) Neither Party Loses Votes On Violations The AH-College Elections Com mittee did not subtract votes from either State or Lion Parties after a meeting with the clique chair men early yesterday after the polls • closed. _ The only possibility of a viola tion arose from consideration of the fact that State Party had not read the election code at a party meeting. The committee decided the party officers had not “mal iciously” neglected to read the code, but had done so out erf a misunderstanding of the code. Benjamin Sinclair, Lion Party clique chairman,, said at the meet ing that he felt the failure to read the code was a misunderstanding. It was brought, out by committee members that the failure to read thp code had not led to any viola tions-by State Party. Failure to read the code by the State Party was the only possible violation discussed by the com mittee. Neither the committee nor the clique chairmen had com plaints of violations to present. Kick Black Cats Or Stay in Bed Forget it. Go back to bed. l ive it down. Today is Friday ihe 13 th. Don't take any bluebooks. Don't take chances. Don't take any wooden nickels. Kick black cats in ihe teeth. Chop up ladders. Spill no salt. Break no mirrors. Approach the obselisk with extreme caution. Knock on wood. Light one cigarette with one match, two cigarettes with two match es. three cigarettes with three maches. Today is the third Friday the ,13th of the year, and "the third time is the charm." Some luck, eh? ofe Wins By PHIL AUSTIN
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