p Sfkl y (UltF |||| (StfU VOL. 54, No. 46 350 Tickets Available For Forum ' . Approximately 350 tickets will be available today at the Student Union desk in Old Main for to night’s Community Forum pro gram by Charles Laughton. Tick ets, priced at $2, will be on sale from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m., the time of the performance. Dr. " Brice Harris, head of the English Literature department, will introduce Laughton. „ Selections from American, Eng lish, and Biblical literature will be read by the actor. Since Laughton walked on a Members of Scrolls, Senior women's hai society, will meet at 7:45 p.m. in Schwab Audi torium to usher for tonight's Community Forum program. stage three years ago carrying his “props,” an armload of books, American audiences have been calling for more. And Laughton has been complying with their demands. The British-born actor has ap peared before more people on his tours than either of last year’s presidential Candidates. Up to now he has appeared in between 150 and 200 American cities and towns, and he hopes in the next decade to increase this by at least 500. Laughton spends about ten weeks , a year on his tours. The rest of his time is spent' before the movie camera and the foot lights. His movie career has in cluded top roles embracing Shakespeare, piracy,, and comedy. As his stage career progressed, his screen roles multiplied, and now Laughton claims he has more film jobs than he can handle. His home, however, is the stage where he recently read the role of the devil in “Don Juan in Hell” with the First Drama Quartet. His first serious turn at directing came with this reading board pro duction. In addition, he has taken on the assignment of directing “John Brown’s Body” based on Stephen Vincent Benet’s epic poem. Reading had always been one of Laughton’s favorite activities. For many months he gave a regu lar course in Bible readings to the faculty of Occidental College in Eagle Rock, Calif. UN Urges Powers Speed Disarmament UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Nov. 18 (/P) —The UN Political Com mittee urged the big powers today to step up efforts for disarma ment and atomic control and suggested- that private talks might help them reach agreement. The committee voted 54 to 0 for a much-amended resolution backed by the Western Big Three —the United States, France and Britain—and 11 other countries. The Soviet bloc abstained. Bur ma did not vote because the Bur mese said they saw no prospect f. of agreement among the major powers. Today’s vote did not, in UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Nov. 18 (JP) —The Big Three Western powers today formally demanded that the UN Security Council vote the "strongest cen sure" against Israel for the kill ing of 53 Arabs,last month. fact, change one particle of the long disagreement between the East and West on disarmament. The committee defeated Mos cow’s pet project. It voted 36 to 5 against a Soviet-proposal for the 12-nation Disarmament Commis sion to submit plans by March 1 for reduction of armaments and immediate prohibition of atomic and hydrogen bombs. After a long fight on procedure in which Soviet delegate Andrei Y. Yishinsky angrily charged that House's Social Suspended for Practice Makes Perfect... STAFF MEMBERS of WDFM participate in a dry run operation to prepare for actual broadcasts. During the practice session last night, conditions of a regular broadcast day were simulated. Sealed .at the table are Sandra Greenspun, music librarian and Doris Berkowiiz, station manager. Standing are Joe Varholy, production manager; Emily Snyder, assistant program director; and Has Simm, sports director. One Man Casts Vote In 2<d Town Election By BILL SNYDER One person turned out to vote last night in the second Town Council election. This unidentified town independent appeai’ed from ward 13 to break a tie between Marvin Bollman and John Phillips, both of whom had petitions competing to represent the ward on the council. Bollman won. Some 2200 independent town men were eligible to vote. Quorum -Elected A quorum was elected to the council, though, President Ches ter Cherwinski said. He said he was basing his decision on the fact that ten' wards had petitions signed by 20 independent men. Nothing in the council constitu tion says that a man has to re ceive any votes after being legal ly nominated, .he added. Only for the representative of ward 13 was there competition. Cherwinski said he blamed the non-appearance of voters on the “confusion” that has prevailed since the first elections were de clared illegal Nov. 2. These elec tions, held Oct. 21-23, were pro claimed void because nominees did not bring in signed petition, in violation of the council consti tution. WDFM Class to Open For Writers Tonight . Students interested in prepar ing scripts for Station WDFM will meet at 7 tonight in 312 Sparks. Writing, format preparation, and typing instruction will be provided. the majority was trying to smoth er the minority, the delegates re fused 36 to 5 to vote on a Mos cow proposal that the first coun try using atomic or hydrogen bombs would be judged guilty of a crime against humanity and deemed-a war criminal. Instead, the committee approv ed a 14-power proposal ''saying that aggression with any weapon was the gravest crime against peace in the world. The size of the vote assured pas sage of the 14-power resolution by the General Assembly and also served as a spur to the Disarma ment Commission to resume meet ings on the general subject of re ducing and limiting the world armaments. The Political Committee will turn tomorrow to Moscow’s peace package calling for prohibition of atomic weapons; a one-third cut in the armed forces of the United States, Britain, France, China and the , Soviet Union; measures -to avert a new war, and a demand for elimination of military bases on foreign soil. STATE COLLEGE, FA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1953 Association of Independent Men elections ■ committee chair man, Byron Fielding, in charge of last night’s elections, said he had nothing to say about the turnout. Wards five, eight, ten, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 were not represent ed on the council as of last night. Ward 19, containing all areas out side the town, is entitled to three representatives. Cherwinski said last night that any independent town men inter ested in representing one of these wards need only get a petition signed by 20 independent men from the ward. There is no re quirement that the representative need live in the ward, he said. Lo cation of the wards were pub lished in Tuesday’s Daily Col legian. v ■ The wards now represented on the council, according to Cher winski, are ward 1, Gilbert Offen bartz; ward two, Raymond Schultz, William Coll, alternate; ward three, Paul Krivak, Leroy Kromis, alternate;-ward four, Nor (Continued on page eight ) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE 'No Comment' Petition Needed wjiart Privileges 14 Weeks Theta Xi Fined $2OO, Two Officers Lose Posts Theta Xi will begin a three and one half month period of social probation today as the result of action by the Senate committee on student affairs. The action of the committee also included a $2OO fine, the re moval of the vice president and the social chairman from their house offices and required that they be given a hearing by the Dean of Men’s office to determine their individual responsibility. Dr. Henry S. Brunner, head of the committee, said the action came as the result of the recent case where a girl returned to her dormitory in an intoxicated con dition. Investigation conducted by the committee and the Interfrat ernity Council board of control proved that the girl was served alcoholic beverages at Theta Xi. Violates Two Rulings Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs and secretary of the committee, said that the house had violated two rulings and it was on those that the pen alties were based The first, he explained, was the disregard of the IFC unchap eroned dating code, _ section 3-c. This states that “Alcoholic bev erages will not he served to or used by members and women guests of a fraternity while par ticipating in dating under the code.” Also cited by' Kenworthy was the violation of a student affairs committee regulation prohibiting freshmen women from attending fraternity social functions that are not chaperoned. Office Probation Kenworthy explained that after the strict social probation is lifted oii Feb. 28, 1954, the fraternity will still be on probation with the Dean of Men’s office and their own alumni board. This means, he pointed out, all social func tions during the remaining months of the semester will be super vised by the Dean of Men’s office. Under the strict social proba tion going into force today, the fraternity may hold no social functions and no women guests (Continued on page eight ) Bonfire to 'Beat Pitt' Flames and history will scorch the campus tonight when a Maurey-Carruthers duo gather students around a bonfire to tell them the “Tale of the Plots.” Emcees Gerald Maurey, seventh semester arts and letters major, and Robert Carruthers, seventh semester journalism major, will tell pertinent facts about the Jordan Fertility Plots, site of the Penn State - University of Pittsburgh pre-game pep rally at 7 tonight. The rally, sponsored by Druids, sophomore men’s hat society, and] Cwens, sophomore women’s hat society, will be held in parking area 50 near the Jordan plots. This last officially scheduled of the year will climax Beat Pitt Week” events on cam pus. The Week is sponsored by Hat Society Council. Besides satirizing the Jordan plots, Maurey and Carruthers will also lead an informal inaugura tion of Penn State’s new Univer sity status at the rally. Senior football players Richard Jones, seventh semester physical education major, and Pete Schod erbek, seventh semester arts and letters major, will be introduced by the emcees and will give short talks, . Members of Cwens will high light the rally when th‘ey throw a mock Pitt football player into Simes Has No Comment On Dispute Dean of Men Frank J. Simes had no comment again yesterday concerning the unchaperoned dat ing code controversy. The Interfraternity Council and the Dean of Men’s office have agreed to follow the old interpre tation of the dating code in effect at the beginning of the semester until a more workable solution can be formulated, it was re [ vealed yesterday in a letter to the Daily Collegian from Thomas Schott, IFC president. Edwin Kohn, IFC vice presi dent, said yesterday this agree ment was reached' Friday after noon after he and Schott had conferred with the Dean of Men’s office concerning the IFC’s griev ances against the code. Impossible io Comply . The meeting with the Dean of Men was the result of a special IFC meeting called Thursday night to discuss the situation. At that time the IFC announced it was impossible to comply with the University’s interpretation of the code. Fraternities present at the meet ing voted 39 to 0 in favor of a re instatement of the dating code as it was interpreted at the begin ning of the semester. Under this agreement, the only fraternity social functions which require chaperones are those planned in advance and partici (Continued on page eight) Pep Rally By PEGGY McCLAIN the bonfire after a ceremonial dance around the blaze. In >their final performance at the University before graduation in June, Frothy, David Heckel, and the Lion, Alec Gregal, will go through their antics tonight. Three cheerleaders will also be participating in their final foot ball pep rally at the University tonight. Bruce Wagner, head cheerleader, and Fiorentino Fer aco, seventh semester arts and letters major, will graduate in June. Louise Robertson, eighth semester arts and letters major, will graduate in January. The Penn State Blue Band, led by James Dunlop, will march to the rally from Carnegie Hall at 6:50 tonight. Members of Cwens will route freshman women from their dorm itories at 6:45 tonight. . Beat . Pitt Week” activities will continue in Pittsburgh at the first annual Pitt-Penn State Grid iron Ball, to be held from 9 p.m to 1 a.m. Saturday in the Hotel Schenley ballroom in Pittsburgh. Vacation Quiz ■Discussion See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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