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
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'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.