c 'S° nd 33p BHtlif (Etfll VOL. 54, No. 51 Pitt Conduct Praised by Kenworthy Student behavior in Pittsburgh the weekend of the Penn State- University of Pittsburgh game was lauded yesterday by Whiner E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs. Kenworthy said there have been no unfavorable reports from Pittsburgh businesses, city offi cials, or individuals concerning the conduct of the students. The University officials are pleased nothing happened to harm the reputation of the institution, he said. It is time for compliments, he explained, because sufficient time has elapsed to assume nothing happened of serious enough na ture to bring to the attention of the University. All officials of the University appreciate the help of everyone who contributed in mak ing the weekend a credit to the institution and to the fine per formance of the football team, he added. He pointed out, however, that not just the administration should be proud of the conduct. The vic tory, he said, can be enjoyed by students and alumni. The reason conduct was better in Pittsburgh than Philadelphia, Kenworthy said, was because everyone realized the school’s reputation was hurt the weekend of the Penn State-Penn game. As a result, he said, those concerned discovered they were hurting none but themselves. As an outcome of the Philadel phia weekend, University officials received many complaints on con duct. Six cases are still pending action by University judicial agencies. Prexy to Speak At LA Lecture Milton S. Eisenhower, president of the University, will discuss “South America” at the third Lib eral Arts lecture at 8 p.m.. Tues day in 121 Sparks. In a recent report to the White House Dr. Eisenhower recom mended a nine-point program to solidify relations between the Uni ted States and the 20 other re publics in the Western Hemi sphere. His talk will be based on his 36-day visit to ten South Ameri can countries last summer as spe cial representative of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Player's Contest Will Close Today Posters for the “Juno and the Paycock” poster contest should be turned into the Dramatics office or to Cindy Fetterman, show ad vertising manager, before noon today. Cash prizes will be awarded. Student competitors are eligible for complimentary tickets to the show. Yar G. Chomicky, assistant pro fessor of art education, John Y. Roy, assistant professor of fine arts, and Kelly Yeaton, director of the play, will be judges of the contest. LA Magazine Staff Will Be Organized A meeting to organize a staff for the hew magazine to be pub lished by the Liberal Arts Student Council will be held 8 p.m. tomor row in 104 Willard. Norma Vollmer, co-editor of the magazine, asked students inter ested in working on the publica tion to attend the meeting. Art ists, writers, photographers and a circulation staff will be needed. Cabinet Canceled All-College Cabinet will not meet tomorrow night. STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 2, 1953 WDFM Progra Favors Musical Ist 'Dry Run' of WDFM Operation Experience to Station WDFM last night conducted the first in a series of “dry run” broadcasts to orient staff members with the workings of the station. . The trial broadcasts will continue nightly until the station actually goes on the air. There can be no definite broadcasting date set as yet because of the need for materials that have been deferred for defense orders. These materials include the translators which con vert FM signals of the station to AM, and electronic equipment for the control board. Steidel's Letter Urges Change In Town Name Edward Steidel, dean emeritus of the Mineral Industries school, urged yesterday that the name of the borough be changed to avoid confusion, in a letter to the editor of the Centre.Daily Times. Steidel suggested that the. bor ough be incorporated with the nearby community of Lemorit, and be called Lemont. The name of Mont Nittany was suggested as a second choice. “Now every time we step outside of town,” Steidel wrote, “someone asks how you can have a university in a town called State College.” Steidel urged the name be changed before the' University’s 100th anniversary in 1955. A poll conducted in October by the Times indicated that most res idents were not in favor of chang ing the borough name. Over 58 per cent of borough residents quizzed were against changing the name of State Col lege. Slightly more than 28 per cent were in favor of a change. Steidel’s letter refuted. the ar gument offered:at that time that the name go "unchanged because of sentimental reasons. “I, too, am a stickler for tradi tion,” he wrote, “but not at the expense of necessary progress.” Ist Jam Session Set for Sunday The first organized jam session of the semester will be held at 2:30 p.m.- Sunday in the Tempor ary Union Building, James W. Dean, assistant to the dean of men, announced yesterday. William Greenham, graduate resident counselor, is in charge of the sessions. Anyone interested in participating may sign up at the Student Union desk. Specialized instrumentalists or vocalists are in demand, Green said. Information Available On ,Grad Record Exams Bulletins of information -and application blanks for the Grad uate Record Examinations to be given on campus Jan. 30, 1954, may be obtained in Rooms 106 and 207 Buckhout Laboratory. Applications must be mailed to the Educational. Testing Service, P.O. Box 592, Princeton, N.J., no later than Jan. 15. Interfraternity Council Will Hear Reports The Interfrater'nity Council will hear reports from Bruce Coble, chairman of the IF C rushing committee, and Maurice Nelles, chairman of the IFC workshop, at 7:30 tonight in 219 Electrical En gineering. Young Republicans The Perm State chapter of the Young Republican Club will hold a group discussion on the Harry Dexter White case at 7 p.m. to morrow in the State College Ho tel. ' FOR A BETTER PENN STATE The evening’s schedule opened with a brief news and sports broadcast by Craig Sanders, third semester -journalism major. The regular programs got underway with Lest We Forget, a program for democratic education, and Faculty Forum, a. round-table discussion by faculty members. Staff announcer Marvin Margul ies, fifth semester arts and letters major, handled the broadcasting chores. Robert Abelove, seventh semes ter arts ' and letters major, fol lowed with his nigntly broadcast of Record Prevue, featuring the latest popular ’ recordings and re quests for pop records. A campus news report, the weather fore cast, and gazette 'notices were next with Hoke Bair, fifth se mester arts arid letters major, in charge. Dominic Landro, seventh se mester mechanical engineering major, took over proceedings as Seque. Session, a program, of un interrupted popular music, was in troduced. Call Card, a presenta tion of interpretive readings, and then Music for Studying, recorded semi and light classical music for easy listening, followed. News and sports highlights with John Price, graduate student in speech, announcing, brought the proceedings to a near close. The Third Program, iricluding dra matic presentations, poetry, and literature rounded out the pro grams for the evening. News headlines completed the broadcast. Walk Construction Starts Next Week Construction of a 540-foot side walk on the east side of Burrowes road extending from Pollock road south to Mechanical Enginering will begin next week, weather permitting, Whiter W. Trainer, supervisor of landscape construc tion and maintenance, has an nounced. Work on the concrete sidewalk will take from ten days to two weeks to complete,' Trainer said, depending on the weather. The temperature must be above 40 degrees before the concrete can be poured, he. said.. Dulles Hits McCarthy's Discusses Reds' Part in WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (JP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles came to grips with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy on foreign policy today with a declaration that the United States will not use blustering and domineering meth ods towards allies whose friendship it needs to deter a Russian atomic attack. Asserting he spqke with the knowledge and support of President Dwight D. Eisenhower Dulles took the position that arrogant attempts at coercion would weaken the free world in the face of the Soviet danger. It was the closest the Eisenhower administra tion has yet come to an out-and-out major tussle with McCarthy. In a speech last Tuesday, the Wisconsin Republican senator accused the Ei senhower administration of batting zero in some respects, and criticized some foreign policies as too soft. . - McCarthy demanded'a blockade of Red China to be carried out by serving warning on Britain (Continued on page three) wjratt Gives Staff Council to Poll On Lafe Hours For Ed Library Education Student Council members will poll students in the Education School to see how many would use the Education library if late hours were invoked, it was decided last night. The suggestion' for the poll was made by Dr. Florence. Taylor, pro fessor of elementary education, to decide if the late hours action would be justified. The council, meeting at 'the Chuck Wagon, selected Edward Crossley, seventh semester indus trial education major, as council representative on the United Nations trip to be held Dec. 10 to 13. Marilyn DuPont said candidates for the Education Student council newspaper will be invited to the next meeting of the council. Mary Glading found the senior mei-it plaque, which had been lost for two years, and was named by president Harry Shank to see that the names of Ralph Efeolf and Ter ese Moslak were attached to the plaque. Lynn Christy's orchestra was named to play at the school’s Christmas Party, the Mistletoe Mixer, on Dec. 10 in the Tempor ary Union Building. Patricia Mar stellar, seventh semester educa tion major, will act as emcee. Sue Wescott, committee chair man, said Russian Peapunch will be served at the party. Pollock Residents Urged to Decorate Pollock C o u n c i 1 President Joseph Ferko last night urged council members to decorate their dorms in preparation for the Christmas season. He an nounced that Pollock dorms would be in competition for prizes awarded to the best look ing rooms. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (JP) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles declared today the success of any Big Four conference will depend on Moscow’s willingness to permit any fresh br £t th of freedom behind the Iron Curtain. ihe United States is anxious to have a for eign ministers meeting with the Soviet govern ment to take up the specific questions of Ger many and Austria, Dulles told a news confer ce > b «t this government doesn’t know how „n5 us ? lans . will , res P° nd to the one real issue. The issue involved is: Are the Soviets willing to have any fresh breath of freedom touch any part of the area now behind the Iron Curtain’” DuHes went on. “If they say ‘No, 1 then I don’t see the chance of our getting anywhere. If they oof 7u lUing t ] ie risk of that, then I can se ® the possibility of an agreement.” The Soviet occupation zones of Germany and Austria are behind the Iron Curtain Dulles’ comments made it manifest that United States (Continued on page three) m Poll Shows Station to Use Results as Aid In Scheduling By ROGER BEIDLER Musical programs were pre ferred by the majority of 525 students interviewed in a re cent survey conducted by ra dio station WDFM. The poll was taken to find programs that appealed most to student lis teners. The survey was conducted four weeks ago by members of the station’s staff. It was taken from a cross section of independent and fraternity men and women, of students enrolled in various curriculums and students living on and off campus. Fifty-three per cent of those interviewed were men while the remaining 47 per cent were coeds. 70 Per Cent Favor Music The results of the poll, com piled by Charles Folkers, station business manager, revealed that music was the most popular type of preferred program with 70 per cent of the students interviewed. Special event presentations, sports, news, forums, etc., ran a distant second to music, polling 19 per cent of the votes while drama was desired most by II per cent. Popular music, compiling a vote of 43 per cent, proved the favorite class of music with the students while classical presenta tions were favored by 22 per cent. Modern or jazz stylings were next in line with 14 per cent prefering them and the semi-classics fol lowed closely with 13 per cent. The remaining 8 per cent was dis tributed among hillbilly and var ious other types of music. Listen Two Hours The survey showed that among the students contacted, 65 per cent listened to the radio for over two hours a day. Two hours was the listening time for 29 per cent and the three hours and above groups were broken up evenly with about 11 per cent each. Twenty-two per cent listen to the radio one hour daily. The time between 10 and 12 p.m. is the most popular listening time of 22 per cent of students polled, the survey shows. Approx imately 20 per cent prefer to lis ten- between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. and six per cent tune in between 7 and 9 p.m. Twenty per cent pre fer listening during dinner hours, that is, between 7 and 9 a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. Only six per cent of the students designated the after- (Continued on page two) Review Due On Mil Ball- See Page 4 FIVE CENTS Policy; Tof ks
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