Wrestlers, Cagers Seek Wins Over Lehigh, Navy 1 11]® Hatlti fH (Eollrgimt | SSssr —— - J , FOR A BETTER PENN STATE __ - VOL. 54. No. 7.3 Gym Lions, Swedes Will Compete For Prestige By RON GATEHOUSE Editorial on Page. 4 . Gene Wettstone sends his gym nastic team against Sweden at 8 tonight in Recreation .Hall, when undoubtedly the biggest athletic event of the current semester will take place. Doors will open at 6 p.m. in view of the full house which is expected. The visiting European team ar rived on campus late yesterday afternoon at Beta Theta Pi. Fol lowing a short workout the gym nasts returned to the house to rest.' This morning they were treated to tea and a tour of the campus.. Dance io be Held Following the meet, the Swedes will return to the fraternity, where they will be guests of hon or at a dance. Dates have been ar ranged for members of the Swed ish team with Penn State , coeds. At 1 p.m. tomorrow the Swedes, along with 'the Swedish ambas sador, Wettstone, and his ace gymnast, Jan Cronstedt, will be guests of President Milton S. Ei senhower at a banquet at the Nit tany Lion Inn. The international dual meet be tween, Penh State’s National Col legiate Champions and- the Swedes, all of whom are either Olympic or. National Champions of their country, -will be the first of its kind to take-place in the United States. Six Olympic' Events The" one and one half hour event will commence with compe tition in six Olympic events fol lowing a . half hour warmup ses sion by both teams. The events will include, long horse vaulting, still rings, calis thenics, side horse, horizontal bar, and parallel bars. Three Swedish exhibition numbers, high table vaulting, lightning speed tumb ling, and synchronized calisthen ics, will immediately follow the meet.- Background music will be provided by the Blue Band' dur ing. the, warmup session, and by George E. Ceiga, University. or ganist throughout the meet. A .calisthenics duel is expected between- America’s 1952 . inter collegiate champion, Jan- Cron stedt, and Sweden’s 1952 Olym pic titlist, William Thoresson. The two standout gymnasts will face each other in at least two-events —calisthenics and parallel bars. (Continued on page six) • Reds Call Prisoner Move Peri B? The Associated Presa PANMUNJOM, Saturday, Jan. 16 Peiping radio said last night the Korean truce will be put in peril when the UN.-Command takes back from, Indian custody next Wednesday the. 22,000 Chi nese .and North Korean prisoners in an anti-Red camp. This first Communist reaction to India’s prisoner plan came as India renewed, its determination to go through with it regardless of whether the two sides want to accept the disputed prisoners. . ,Red Stand Not Clear '. Whether the Reds would refuse to take back 21 Americans, a Britr on and 325 South Koreans in a pro-Red camp was not made clear. The UN Command-was not only preparing to take back the 22,000 but to free- them as civilians one week from: today. An Indian spokesman said the prisoners will have tunity during the -transfer to STATE COLLEGE; PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 16, 1954 Champs Meet Tonight —Photo by Schroeder TAUNA, mascot of Beta Theta Pi, greets two members of the Swedish Gymnastics team, Olle Areborn (left) and Henry Allard on their arrival at the fraternity. The team, delayed enrouie. ar rived at 9 p.m. yesterday. ' - Juniors, Seniors To Register Feb. 3 Juniors arid seniors will begin registration for the spring.semes ter at 8 a.rii. Feb. 3 in Recreation Hall according to alphabetical list ings on the scheduling timetables, H. A. Sperber, assistant scheduling officer has - announced. . An extra two hour period from 8 to 10 a.m. on Feb. 4 has been given registration may be completed without overcrowding of facilities similar to that which caused delay and confusion in September, Sper ber said. David C. Hogan, University bur sar, has cautioned students to make fee . payments as soon as possible ,in the basement of-Wil lard Hall so that a bottleneck will not be created there during regis tration. . Alien Addresses Must Be Reported ' During January, foreign stu dents and non-citizens of the Unite'd States, must turn in alien address reports to any United States Post Office or Immigration and. Naturalization office, 1 The law requires •. that every alien who is in the United States as of Jan. 1 shall report his ad dress in this manner. Failure to turn in the annual alien address report may result in imprison ment, fine, and deportation. Information concerning the cards’ may be obtained at the Veterans and Foreign Students Registering office, basement of Willard Hall. change their minds-and be sent back home. : “There will be large numbers of Indian troops on hand,” he add ed. “The small numbers of pris oners involved in each group, plus the reassuring presence of the In dian, troops, should make it-., very easy for - , any man who wants to return, home to break away with safety. ” UN Is Willing - The UN Command - expressed willingness to take back custody of the 22,000 prisoners shortly af ter India announced Thursday its intention to free them three days ahead of the Jan. 23 deadline: ■ ' Red China kept silent until last night. Then Peiping radio beam ed a Chinese language broadcast to its own people. •As heard in Tokyo, the Red Chinese broadcast was couched in somewhat general terms. .. The broadcast' said . America's expressed intension to take. back A receipt showing payment of fees • will be necessary for stu dents, to register, and Hogan has warned students that they may not use the excuse that they were unable to pay fees in time at the bursar’s office. “We cannot possibly handle several thousand fee payments at the last minute without delay to students,” he said, “because many (Continued on page eight ) the prisoners made the Korean sit uation much more critical. But it did not say just what might stem from that. No Sign of War .. Thursday in Washington, the U.S. Army chief of staff, Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway said * the Reds appear to- have bolstered their air bases in Korea and to have a' ground force there of around a million men but there were no signs of Communist in tent to renew the war The Indian spokesman who,em phasized. India’s intention to go through with the prisoner trans fer plan said India felt a deep moral responsibility for seeing to it that every prisoner got a fair choice to go home or not. For that reason, ne explained, the transfer would take place in groups of not more than 25 under heavy guard so that any man can make a break for 1 repatriation if he so desires. 259 Students To Be Admitted Next Semester More than 259 new students will be admitted on campus for the. Spring semester, according to Dean of Admissions C. O. Williams. There will be 203 men and 56 women including 33 readmissions and 41 students to be admitted with advanced standing. President Milton S. Eisenhower will welcome new freshmen and incoming transfer students from Penn State centers and other col leges and universities in an Ori entation Week address Feb. 2 in Schwab Auditorium. Orientation for new students from University centers, fresh men, and students admitted with advanced standing will begin 3 p.m. Feb. 2 when faculty advisers are assigned from the deans of each of the nine colleges. C. O. Williams, dean of admis sions, said last night there will be new freshmen on campus next semester, but he did not know how many. Thomas Farrell, retiring co chairman of the Freshman Cus toms Board, said in presenting recommendations for customs re visions to- All-College Cabinet Thursday that there were to be no new freshmen on campus next semester. Cabinet did not act -on the proposed revisions. Farrell said last night that he had been misinformed. He said he thought there should' be cus toms for hew freshmen, for three days or a week at most, under the old code. Customs Favored Joyce Shusman, co-chairman of the customs board, said last night she is in favor of customs for in coming freshmen, provided there are enough persons eligible to make the program worthwhile. Veterans and students over 21 years of age are exempt from cus toms, according to the code. Cus toms were not in effect during the spring semester last year be cause no freshman women were admitted and the number of men eligible for customs was small. The Book Exchange could sup ply dress customs, according to Ronald Lench, member of the Book Exchange Board of Control, but only green dinks could be supplied.- Under the proposed re visions dress customs would in clude the wearing of blue dinks with the University seal oh them. English composition, placement tests will be given all students who have scheduled English com position 1 at 8 a.m. Feb. 3 in 121 Sparks. Students with advanced standing will report to advisers for schedules at this time. Freshmen and all students who have not taken the psychology test will report for the first hah •of the test at 10 a.m. in 121 Sparks. In the evening women students will meet in Atherton Lounge at 6:45 p:m. while all men students are to report to student Orienta tion counselors according to the College' in which they are en rolled. Sous The second half of the psychol ogy test, will be given at 8 a.m. Feb. .4 in 121 Sparks, and regis tration for freshmen and sopho mores will begin at 10 a.m. Stu dents may take speech tests in the Speech Clinic in Sparks build ing during their first free period Feb. 5. New students will report for health examinations at the time arid location assigned by the University Health Service. By BETTY KOSTER Number Unkown Placement Tests Psychology Test Cold Front Greets Start Of Finals With a new cold front expected to hit the area this weekend fol lowing yesterday’s rise in temper ature, University classes will end at 11:50 a.m. today. Exams will begin at 1:20 a.m. The meal schedule for dormi tories released by the Department of Food Service announces ho change in the breakfast hour for women’s units during the exam ination perido. Lunch will be served from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. and dinner at 5:45 p.m. In 'the men’s units breakfast and dinner will be served at the regular time. Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The schedule will go into ef fect Monday. The last meal to be served in dormitory dining halls before mid-term vacation will be lunch on Jan. 27. Dormitories will ciose. at 5 p.m. Jan. 27. They will reopen 8 a.m. Feb. 2. The first meal served will be breakfast on Feb. 3. The University Library will maintain its regular hours during the examination period. No an nouncement of hours after Jan. 27 has yet been made by the li brarian’s office. Beginning Sunday, upperclass women will receive 11 o’clock permissions, and, freshman wom en . will receive 10 o’clocks on weekdays during the exam per iod, in accordance with Wom en’s Student Government Associ ation regulations. The Penn State Book Exchange, school supply store in the Tem porary Union Building, will re main closed until Feb. 2 when Used Book Agency will begin taking used books. Two Additional Typing Sections Scheduled Two additional sections of ele mentary typing have been sched uled for the spring semester, the College of Business Administra tion has announced. These sections, listed in the timetable, were added to serve students in all curriculums, the Business college said. More sec tions will be added if needed. Coliegian to Publish Special Sports Edition A special four-page sports edition of the Daily Collegian will be published tomorrow. The supplement will cover the international gymnastic meet with Sweden at 8 tonight in Recreation Hall, the Penn State-Lehigh wrestling match tonight at. Lehigh and the Penn State-Navy basketball game this afternoon at Annapolis. The Daily Collegian will re sume publication Feb. 9. FIVE CENTS
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