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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