Weather-- Windy and Cold VOL. 54, No. 65 Recess Cuts To. Remain Unpublished Students absent from classei in the College of the Liberal Arts immediately before and a f ter Christmas vacation will not face any disciplinary action, Richard C. Maloney, assistant dean, said yesterday. Absentee lists will be given to the dean's office for use in com piling statistics to determine fu ture action on cuts. Official figures on the cuts have not yet been released. The Registrar's office ended cut tabulations on Dec. 9. C. 0. Williams, dean of admissions, said enough information was available for the Senate to take final ac tion at that time. The College of the Liberal Arts had the highest percentage of ab sences preceding and following last Easter vacation; according to Senate tabulations; Of the 9878 stu dents taking liberal art courses, 24.9 per cent were ab sent, including 1491 unexcused students. Before the Easter vacation, 19.1 per cent of the students missed classes, and 8.6 per cent missed classes following vacation. Ben Euwema, dean of the Col lege of the Liberal Arts, asked department heads on Dec.' 11 in the college to collect a complete list of absentees for each class immediately preceding and fol lowing the Christmas vacation. The liberal arts list was com piled because the College's ad ministration .wanted,, more infor mation regarding the, problem of vacation absences. The list was to be used to determine any fu ture action, Maloney said. Gilbert Shows No Change The condition of Harold R. Gil bert, assistant director of ath letics, was unchanged yesterday, according to his office. Gilbert 'was stricken ill Sunday morning while attend church services in State College. Members of his family reported results of a. cardiogram taken earlier reveal Gilbert's illness is not the result of a heart condition Gilbert was recently named chairman of the finance commit tee of the Eastern College Confer ence. He is credited with devising the system by which the group hopes : to achieve a sounder fi nancial basis for this year. Art Shows Begin Today,. Tomorrow Art exhibits will begin today and tomorrow an d continue through Jan. 20 in the lounges of McElwain and Simmons Halls. Both exhibits are - open to the pub lic. Watercolors, oils, and drawings by University students will be displayed in McElwain from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. tomorrow. The exhibit is sponsored by Pi Gamma Alpha, fine arts; and Scarab, architecture, societies. • Paintings and drawings by Sy bil D. Emerson, associate profes sor of art education, will be placed on exhibition from 8 to 10 tonight in Simmons. Miss Emerson has been affiliated with the Univer sity for :the past ten years. WDFM to Program Music During Finals The last regular day of pro gramming for Station WDFM for the remainder of the se mester will be Jan. 15, accord ing. to John Price;. assistant general ,manager. During final examinations, the' station will program only classical and semi-classical mu sic. Broadcasting will recess from Tam 27, until Feb. 3. . . ~.,. _. Tilt . Bail. (. .„..--,-,•,:,) T o tt rn i att OW Ming Appropriation— See Page 4 - ' 176 ? TE . Ticket Exchange JAMES SPONSLER, third semester home economics student, stands at the Athletic Association window in Old Main, waiting to exchange his AA book ticket for a ticket which will admit him to the basketball game in Recreation Hall tonight. Students stood in lines which often reached the main lobby of the building. Cooperation Urged For Seating Plan Edward M. Czekaj, assistant business manager of athletics, yes terday called for student cooperation in connection with the new Recreation Hall seating plan. . He said he felt the plan might be de stroyed unless proper i cooperition is received from the student body. Two faults in the setup which might weaken the plan were stressed by Czekaj. One of the sore spots, he said, is that several students came to the Athletic As sociation office in Old Main yes terday with AA books from friends and/or fraternity broth ers. Gym Meet TV To Be on Film Televising of th e gymnastic meet between Penn State's na tional collegiate champions and the Swedish national gymnastic squad Jan. 16 at the University will be by film, and not by live telecast, according to James Coo gan, assistant director of Public Information. • Coogan said the meet will be filmed• by Tel Ra Productions, Philadelphia, and the film will be edited to a two •to five minute telecast of the' highlights to be used on sportsreels throughout the nation. This procedure has been used for several years to telecast parts of the' University football games, Coogan said. The only television station near enough to make live telecasts from the University is WFBG TV at Altoona, and the station lacks necessary equipment, he explained. McCarthy Denies Probe Curtailments WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (11 ) ) Sen. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) today brushed aside reports of adminis tration pressure to curtail his Red-hunting probes and served notice he hopes to make Com munists "bleed very badly" in 1954. The Wisconsin senator said no body in the administration "from President Eisenhower on down" has asked him to abandon his in vestigations of alleged Commu nists. McCarthy said he expects some senators will try to curb congres sional investigations "especially where treason is concerned." He said, however, his Senate Investi gations subcommittee "will con tinue roughly in the future as it has in the past." "When we find a Communist or an espionage agent in the govern ment or. in. a defense installation, STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1954 FOR A BETTER PENN STA None of these students was turned away yesterday, Czekaj Record dances will not be held in ecreation Hall follow ing athletic events +his year, Raymond M. Conger, associate professor of physical education, said yesterday. The dances which were held lasi year were unsuccessful and as a result the idea has been dropped, Conger said. said; however, he added that he felt 'many of the students who were having friends get tickets for them probably would not at-- tend tonight's game. Czekaj said that -this would result in an in accurate count in the number of students who would be attending the game and in turn would re duce the number of tickets that he would be able to place on sale to the public. If students would come individ (Continued on page eight) we will expose him. Period," the a study of what he called some senator told newsmen. unusual tax settlements by the Declaring he expects no con- Internal Revenue Bureau. test with other committees in the The latter field has been a mat matter of investigations, McCar- ter of particular interest to Sen. thy said: John J. Williams (R.-Del.). "There was such a vast amount Long a target of criticism from of corruption, dishonesty, coin- those who disagree with his in munism and espionage going on vestigative methods, McCarthy over the past 20 years it would spoke out against• a background take 10 committees to give the of the following developments: public a true picture." 1. At least five major newspa- McCarthy scoffed at reports he pers published reports t h a t the had yielded to administration Eisenhower administration has prodding to shift emphasis from been urging McCarthy to turn his his Reds-in-government inquiries efforts chiefly to the investiga to other investigative fields. tion of waste and corruption—rlet "There -is not a word of truth ting other congressional groups to it," he said. "Either the report- carry on the task of exposing er was lying or he was lied to. I subversives. assume it is most likely the re porter was being lied to." His present plans, he said, call for early renewal of his search for Red spying on radar secrets at-Ft. Monmouth, N.T.,..and then Senate to Air Spring Permissions Late permissions for women during Spring Week will be reconsidered by the Senate committee on student affairs when Women's Student Government Association has sub mitted recommendations, Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, has reported. A recommendation seeking four 12 o'clock permissions for the carnival was sent Monday to the committee, Barbara alerts, acting president of WSGA, said. A mis understanding between the com mittee and WSGA was reported to have caused' the delay in the submitting of recommendations by WSGA. The committee had stated ear lier in the year that women would have optional late permissions for Spring Week. This action was ta ken, Kenworthy said, in - the ab sence of recommendations from WSGA. Late permissions were not considered necessary by the committee, he said. Four 12 O'Clocks Miss Werts said the Senate committee had told WSGA there would be no late permissions for this week. A vote had been taken by WSGA last fall to recommend the 12 o'clocks. A misunderstanding that sug gestions of WSGA would not be considered by the committee caused the delay in submitting recommendations, Miss Werts ad ded. George Richards, chairman of the Spring Week committee,- said there was a real need for late permissions: for the . carnival . to function effectively and success fully. The carnival must close ap proximately one half hour before the women leave, and an early closing would surely cut down gate receipts, he said. Profits for Scholarship Proceeds above the operating costs of the carnival go to the Penn State Student Scholarship fund. About $2500 was added to the - fund from the profits of last year's carnival, Richards added. The fund is distributed by the Senate committee on scholarships on the basis of need. The carnival was the first fea ture of _Spring Week to be es tablished five years ago by All- College• Cabinet. The week now includes the Mad Hatter's Parade and the He-Man contest. Prexy .to Be Speaker At Ed Convocation President Milton S. Eisenhow er will be the principal speaker at an eductaional convocation April 1 at Western Michigan Col lege, Kalamazoo, Mich. The convocation will assemble educators from the Midwest who will participate in the 50th anni versary celebration of the college. The theme of the conclave will be "The Teaching Profe ssi o n Comes of Age, 1904-1954." 2. Sen. Ellender (D.-La.) told newsmen he will ask the Senate to cut the McCarthy subcommit tee's 1953 spending budget of $200,000 "down to size" for the new-- year. Week AFROTC Test Scores to Be Available Soon Results of the eight-hour Air Force officers' qualifying test given to sophomores Dec. 5 will be r e ad y within the next two weeks, Lt. Col. Jack W. Dieterle, professor of air science and tac tics, has announced. The examination, which will be used as a qualifying factor in the screening of students for advanced AROTC, contained nine parts five for testing aptitudes and four for testing student interests. Tests in aptitudes included the pilot composite test measuring po tential ability as a pilot; officer composite testing potential offi cer and learning ability; verbal composite, ability to succeed in training for verbal skills. Observer technical composite, for predicting success in training in mathematical, scientific, and mechanical. skills; and the quan titative composite, for predicting success , • in. , training, - involving mathematics and computation..' The four remaining parts of the test provided for a study of the student's interest in flying, ad ministration, psychological war fare, and technical fields. The last part of the exam was a quantitative interest test in volving such fields as supply, fi nancing, and statistics. Fire Violator Faces Penalty Office probation was recom mended for a fifth semester chem ical engineering major by the Association. of Independent Men's Judicial Board of Review Mon day night for igniting a fire in a Nittany dormitory- waste pap e r basket. The. student admitted setting the blaze, but told the board he believed the blaze had been. ex tinguished. The basket was re moved from the dormitory when it blazed, a report from Dean of Men's office said. Office probation means a rec ord of the offense is not placed upon th e student's permanent record unless he commits another offense before the end of the dis ciplinary period. Final apprOval must be given by the dean of men before the punishment goes into effect. The period of proba tion will last until the end of the spring semester, John Ball, board chairman, said. Eng Magazine On Sale Today The January issue of the Penn State Engineer, publication of the College of Engineering, is now on. sale. Featured in the issue is "Foun dry, A New Science at Penn State" by John Hahn, and. "Penn State's Three-Two programs" by John Kray Jr., which deals with the plan of giving a student both a liberal arts and engineering education. Bernice Maier, first semester elementary education major, ki Engineer girl of the month. The issue will be on sale until Friday at the Student Union desk and at the Corner Room FIVE CENTS
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