iomething's Wrong ... A FEW STUDENTS strolling through the lobby of Sparks pause to consider the old "College" Seal. They're wondering just whai the administration will do about this and similar plagues scattered over campus. If they all are changed, the University Maintenance Staff is in for a lot of sculpturing., Board Revises Dating Customs Freshman Joint Customs Board took its first step in customs revision Saturday morning when it suspended customs regulations on dating and association with members of the opposite sex. - • The change must be submitted to Freshman Council, Freshman Regulations Board and Women’s Student Government Association Senate, and Undergo ■ final ap proval by All-College Cabinet be fore it becomes, effective. - If the suspension is approved, freshmen will be permitted to talk with members of the opposite sex and date on weekdays until 5:30 p.m. and on the first weekend during the customs period. Late, Permissions Under the suspension, freshman women will receive one ten o’- clock and one one o’clock permis sion the first weekend of customs. The present regulation that freshman women must be in then dormitories by 9:15 p.m. on week days remains unchanged under the proposed plan. Present customs regulations for bid dating during the customs period except on Friday and Sat urday nights after the first week end, and state that freshman wo men must be in their dormitories by. 10 p.m. on Fridays and Satur days after the first week of cus toms. Rules Forbid Conversation Present regulations also forbid freshman association with mem bers of the opposite., sex other than “Hello” within a three-mile radius of Old Main, except dur ing dating holidays. The change was proposed after much dissention on dating regula tions was voiced by freshmen and upperclassmen in essay anal ysis of the customs program and recommendations submitted to the board. The board said present regula tions hindered freshmen from be coming properly orientated to campus life. The number of viola tions against the rule indicated general disapproval of it. -Late Permissions Valuable Ann Lederman, third semester journalism major, said approval of “late” permissions might dis courage frosh from dating on week nights. Miss Lederman said since the purpose of customs is to orient new students, freshmen should be subject to rules ap proximately similar to those un der which they will be living their first year on campus. The board will complete cus toms revisions after Thanksgiv ing holiday, Thomas Farrell and Joyce Shusman, co-chairmen, said. TODAY'S WEATHER FAIR WARM By PEGGY McCLAIN Below Grades Due Mis-semester below grades are due today in the deans' offices. Class Elections To Be Studied By Lion Party A committee to study- results of last week’s sophomore and fresh man class elections has been es tablished by Lion Party, Benjamin Sinclair, clique chairman, said yesterday. Voting records of campus groups will be studied and . correlated, Sinclair said. Results of the sur vey will be furnished to State Party, All-College elections com mittee, and Lion Party. Virginia Moore, clique secretary, will lead the survey. Robert Segal will be in charge of the freshman class survey and Joan Alfieri will direct the sophomore survey. Sinclair said sophomore election lists will be broken down between independent, fraternity, and sor ority groups and an analysis will be made of each. Independents will be studied by living area groups while fraternities and sor orities will be studied by a corre lation of pledge class lists with the official voting lists, he said. Freshman study will be con ducted by subdividing dormitory areas into floor and dormitory units, Sinclair said. West Blasts Russian WASHINGTON, November 16 (VP) —The Western Powers accused Russia today of seeking to avoid negotiations on Germany, Aus tria or anything else “w hi c h might have positive results.”. In separate, but identical, notes delivered to the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow, the United States, Britain and France also rejected as “totally unacceptable” Russia’s price for entering into a Big Four foreign ministers con ference on Germany. Two Russian Demands Officials h e re regarded these latest notes as winding up an ex change with the Soviet which be gan last July on the possibility of a Big Four meeting on Germany. In the course of this exchange the Soviets developed two major de mands. One was that before the Rus sians joined a Big Four confer ence there should be a Big Five QJltp Sailtj VOL. 54, No. 44 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 17, 1953 FIVE CENTS Harriers In IC4A Running under the name of The Pennsylvania State University for the first time, Chick Werner’s hill-and-dalers finished third in yesterday’s 45th annual IC4A cross-country- title run at Van Cort landt Park, N.Y. Big 10 champion Michigan State successfully defended its crown and Pittsburgh’s highly underrated harriers came in second. Captain Red Hollen finished third, barely missing second place. Lamont Smith was fifth, Doug Moorhead 23rd, Ted Garrett 33rd and Jim Hamill 48th. Boston University’s pint-sized John Kelley, a 5 foot 6, 125 pound senior, copped the individual laurels. Although he was not con sidered one of the top threats, Kelley was near the front for the full five miles. His time was 24:51.7. Syracuse, which had been tabbed as one of the teams to watch, was fourth with 139 points. Karl Schlademan’s Spartans were tagged with 82 markers. Pitts burgh had 84 points, Penn State 88, and fifth place Cornell 147. Ray Osterhout, who finished second to Georgetown’s Charley Cappozzoli last year, and who was tabbed as the favorite to cop the individual crown, finished fourth. Hollen, Smith Finish Fast Villanova’s Joe Barry held off Hollen’s bid for second place and finished with a time of 24:58. Hollen, who together with Smith, ran a fast last half-mile, missed the No. 2 position by one second. Smith’s time was 25:18. Although the Nittany runners failed to win the title, they man aged to improve on their fourth place finish of last year. The Lions last won-.the titlp.in 1950-51. Michigan State copped the championship for the second straight year. The Spartans estab lished themselves as one of the outstanding threats when they took the Big 10 honors Friday for the third consecutive cam paign. Before their Big 10 vic tory, the Spartans had possessed a dismal record and had been all but written off as one of the contenders. Werner’s harriers defeated the (Continued on page seven s 'News and Views' issue Notes Clothing Trends The fall issue of News and Views, Home Economics student magazine, features an article on changing trends in men’s cloth ing. The magazine is now available in the lobby of the Home Eco nomics building. Tickets for Pitt Game On Sale at AA Office Tickets for the Penn State-Uni versity of Pittsburgh foot ball game Saturday at Pitt Stadium are still on sale at the Athletic Association ticket office window in Old Main. conference on international ten sions with Red China participat ing. The other demand was, in the words of todayjs American note, a Western Europe rendered “de fenseless” by the abandonment of whole anti-Soviet security, system. May Reject Talks Russia has been so insistent on bringing Red China into great power councils that there is some belief among the experts here now that Moscow has committed itself to avoid any important meeting until the Chinese, are- in cluded. If this is true, it would appear that Premier Georgi Malenkov would not agree to the kind of top-level talks which Prime Min ister Churchill of Great Britain may push in the forthcoming Ber muda conference of the Big Three, and which President Eisenhower considers unwise. The U.S. note was released by FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Finish 3d Titie Race By HERM WEISKOPF Penn Game Investigation Deferred The Senate committee on stu dent affairs, subcommittee on dis cipline, has heard evidence re garding the conduct of six stu dents at the University of Penn sylvania-Penn State football game, and has deferred action un til a later meeting. A statement issued by Frank J. Simes, dean of men, declared that the committee is “deferring ac tion until a subsequent meeting in order.to give consideration to the facts.” The charges against the six students arose last month in a letter to the University from Ben nett E. Tousley, manager of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Phila delphia, depicting severe damage to hotel property following the game. • The students involved in the charges were unable to receive clearance from the hotel absolv ing them from responsibility for the alleged' damages. The hotel reported to the Uni versity the student in whose name the damaged suite was registered. The other five students volun tarily submitted their names to the Dean of Men’s office as having stayed in the suite. Simes would not comment on any contemplated disciplinary ac tion of the committee. Group Names To Be Revised • All-College President Richard Lemyre said yesterday names of All-College Cabinet and commit tees such as the All-College elec tions committee will have to be changed since university status was granted Friday. Lemyre said the probable pro cedure for changing names will be to set up a committee to study the All-College constitution and to recommend amendments which would change the word “College” to “University” in each case. Present names will be used un til such steps can be taken, Le myre said. Evasion the State Department here after it was delivered by the ranking American diplomat in Moscow, Elim O’Shaughnessy. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen is in Western Europe temporarily'. Last Note Ignored The note briefly reviewed earl ier proposals from the West and Russia’s negative replies to the idea of a foreign ministers’ meet ing at Lugano, Switzerland, to consider German unification and an Austrian independence treaty. The last previous note came from Moscow Nov. 3, ignoring the Western proposal to meet at Lu gano Nov. 9. In this note the So viets formulated more clearly than they previously had their major demands for entering into nego tiation. Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles reacted with state ments that the Reds had put forth “impossible conditions.” Elections Ultimatum Discarded The Association of Indepen dent Men elections committee last night disregarded last week’s ultimatum concerning Town Council petitions until a meeting can be arranged within the next two days, Byron Fielding, AIM elections commit tee chairman, announced. The ultimatum said 13 out of 19 town wards would have to have nominating petitions in by yesterday. So far only eight peti tions are in, according to council treasurer, Robert Schoner. To Discuss Way Out A meeting to discuss a way out of the predicament, according to Fielding, will be held between council president Chester Cher winski; AIM president Joe Som ers; and Fielding. Town Council constitution pro vides that petitions are necessary for nomination to lt reads as follows: “Nominations for ward. representatives shall be by petition which must be signed by 20 or more district electors. Fetitions shall be submitted to and approved by the AIM Board of Governors election commit tees.” The first election of Oct. 12 to 23, which elected 19 representa tives and 16 alternates, was de clared illegal Nov. 2 by Fielding because mypetitions were used. In many cases, according to the rep resentatives and alternates them selves, the men who turned out at the polls voted among them selves to see who would be on the council. Phone Survey A representative phone survey last night among these 19 repre sentatives and 16 alternates indi cated none contacted had peti tions for the new election, which is set for 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in 103 Willard. The declared “sensationalism” of the first elections was found to have discouraged a number of the men, and killed a great deal of then- former interest. It even “embarrassed” one representative. The general consensus was that the council was not worth the time it took. Calvin Cerva, who was an al ternate to ward six, said, “I’m a seventh semester electrical engi neering major, and mighty busy. I don’t think I’ll even get up to the election Wednesday if they are held because I’m too busy. When I went up for the first elec tions, I only went to see what was going on. I was sort of drafted into serving on the council.” No One Interested Joseph Stras, who was an al ternate to ward seven, said few town independents seemed to be interested in the council, as evi denced by the 80 out of 2300 men who turned out. “I’m just as busy as any of them,” he said. But Oscar Darlington, who had represented ward eight on the first council, said he was still very much interested in the coun cil and serving on it. He said the reason he didn’t have a petition in was that he had thought they had to be in by last Tuesday. . Now that he knows his petition can still be turned in to either Chewinski or Fielding, he said he will try to get one ready. Radio News Style To Be Explained Candidates and staff members of the Daily Collegian, Station WDFM members, and other stu dents interested in writing news for the IJniversity radio station will meet .at 7 tonight in 316 Sparks. An explanation of radio style and radio script writing will be given by William Jost, Daily Col legian radio and wire editoc.
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