Senate Committee Revokes Sigma Nu's S* S B*% ® . S- - l ... ociat Privileges Social privileges of Sigma Nu fraternity have been suspended for the Spring semester and the organization will be on probation for the Falk semester. “ The action, taken Jan. 28 by the Senate committee on student affairs, came as the result of a violation of Rule W-4 of the Senate Forum Talk =lB Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science -Monitor, will address the State College Com munity Forum at 8 p.m. Feb. .18, in Schwab Auditorium. The talk was originally. scheduled for Thursday, but was postponed due to difficulty in scheduling Sch wab, Dr. Kent Forster, program chairman said yesterday. Canham, the third speaker in the current forum series, will be introduced by President Milton S. Eisenhower. His topic is as yet un announced. A coffee hour, open to the public, will be held following the speech. Canham began his newspaper career as a reporter on the Chris tian Science Monitor in 1925. He, covered the annual sessions of the League of Nations Assembly in 1926, and 1928. He became head of the Washington bureau of the Monitor in 1932. In ,1939 he was named general news editor and managing editor in 1941. In 1945, he was made editor. Canham. has also been a delegate to the United Nations General As sembly and was United States delegate to the UN conference on freedom of information in 1948.. He received his A.B. at Bates College and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, England, in 1936, -where he received his B.A. and M.A. the same year. Canham is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Gridiron Club. Board Waives Frosh Customs First semester freshmen will not go through a customs period this semester, according, to Joyce Shusman, co-chairman of the joint Freshman Customs Board. Miss Shusman said customs will not be in effect because there are no first semester freshman wo men on campus. Proposed revisions to the cus toms regulations are being con sidered by All-University Cabinet. If approved, they will go into ef fect in the fall. 5 O'clock Theater Will Open Today “If At First,” a one-act comedy written by Barbara Simonds, sixth, semester arts and letters major, will begin the series of Five O’clock Theater productions at 5 p.m. today in the Little Theater in Old Main. , The series ,of the annual spring semester productions is sponsored by the Division of Dramatics. The first play is a product of the ex perimental laboratory theater which produces one-act plays usually written by students.. The plays are open to the pub lic free of charge. - Candidates to Meet Students interested in learning control operating for Station WDFM. will meet at 7 tonight in 312 Sparks. TODAY'S WEATHER WINDY WITH FLURRIES regulations for undergraduate students. This provides that"'alco holic beverages shall not be served at any social function in which students are participating. An investigation was conducted by the committee after two girls were observed returning to their dormitory from Sigma Nu under the influence of intoxicating drinks'. - - O. Edward Pollock, assistant to the dean of men in charge of frat ernity affairs, explained that with the removal of social privileges no women are allowed to be enter tained at the fraternity. He added, however, that the organized rush ing program of the group may continue. During the Fall semester, Pol lock said, the fraternity will be permitted to resume its normal social functions but that extreme caution must be used in carrying out University and Interfraternity Council rules to the letter. He pointed out the semester of pro bation will be a period of “good behavior,” and the, social chair man of the house will be expected to work very closely with. the Dean of Men’s office. Pollock said the Senate commit tee has decided against fines in this case and, any future ones and will let the IFC, handle this form of punishment since it is in its power. The penalty was the second of the school ‘ year for. Sigma Nu which had its social privileges re moved for three weeks and was fined $5O last semester. The last penalty was also for violation of Rule W-4. The violation was dis covered when an accident involv ing several members of the frat ernity was investigated. Men Debaters To Compete At Dickenson The men’s debate team will op pose Dickenson and Gettysburg Colleges tomorrow in a triangular forensic debate at Dickenson. The topic for the debate will be Resolved: that the United States should adopt a policy of free trade. Representing the University will be Carl Saperstein and Sidney Goldblatt on the affirmative and Nicholas Stamateris and Gilbert Offenhartz on the negative. The second half of the annual debate with Mount Mercy College was held yesterday, according to Benjamin Sinclair, sixth semester arts and letters major. The question for the debate was Resolved: that the continual movement of- women from the home into industries and profes sions does more' harm than good. James Dunlap and Irvin Weiner debated the affirmative. Communist Forces Near Laos Capital LUANG PRABANG, Laos, Feb. 8 (./P)—Advance columns of the Communist-led Vietminh today were hammering at the outlying defenses of Luang Prabang. The French Command warned that the battle for. the city, royal seat of Laos, was imminent. The French, estimating that the bulk of the rebels were only a few days’ march from the city, said they had completed their major defenses against the ex pected onslaught. Earlier today, the leading rebel columns had been reported with in 37% miles of Luang Prabang: Vietminh’s crack Division 308, cutting across northern Indochina toward the Thailand border, is. heading toward this pity of about 142,000 where Laos’ aging King Sisavang Vong has his royal pal ace. VOL 54. No. 75 STATE COLLEGE. PA., TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 9. 1954 FIVE CENTS Enrollment Totals Total registration for the spring semester has reached 10,573 students, according to figures re leased yesterday by C. O. Williams, dean of admissions and registrar. ' The final total of 7,886 men and 2,687 women should match or surpass last spring’s enrollment of 10,781 wlien final registration figures are compiled, Williams said. _ The new system of paying fees in advance has resulted in fewer late registrants, he said. In addition to the 400 new stu dents admitted, the total enroll ment includes 75 students who have been readmitted. 120 New Frosh , ~ A, total of 120 freshmen men are among the new students on campus. Ninety-five men and 45 women have transferred from Penn State centers. Transfer stu dents from other colleges and uni versities total approximately 100 men and 50 women. . More than 130 freshmen have Been admitted for the spring se mester to Penn State centers at Altoona, Dußois, Erie, Hazelton, Ogontz, and Pottsville, Williams said. 72 O f clocks For Spring Women students will have regular 10 o’clock permissions for Spring Carnival May 12 and 13, Harold S. Brunner, chairman of the Senate committee on student affairs, said yesterday. Brunner said the committee believed that consideration of Wo men’s Student Government Association’s.petition for two 12 o’clocks was “not in order” because the committee did not anticipate a re- quest for late hours when it ap proved Spring Week plans in No vember. The petition was submit ted' to the committee ‘‘an. 28. Upperclass women may take special 11 o’clock permissions for the carnival as part of the quota of late permissions granted to them each semester, he said. During each semester sopho more women are entitled to four 11 o’clock permissions, junior wo men to six, and seventh semester women to eight. Eighth semester women, have 11 o’clock permis sions nightly. Brunner • also said the commit tee felt that Spring Week is an other study week and not a holi day. The heavy schedule of ac tivties during the week has had a disrupting effect upon classes and studying in the past, he said. Nancy D. White, president of WSGA, said the group had been notified of the committee’s deci sion. .George Richards, Spring Week chairman, said the carnival booths will remain open as long as the women’s hours permit. If it is necessary to close the carnival by 10 p.m., Richards said, the pro ceeds of the carnival will be les sened considerably. Women received 12 o’clock per missions for the 1953 carnival. The late hours were approved by the committee on May 7 last spring. Lions to Meet Ohio State Penn-State and Ohio State have agreed to meet on the gridiron in 1956. This will renew football re lations for the first time since 1912. World at a Glance Nine Are Indicted, Brownell Reveals WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 UP) Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell to day announced the indictment of former'Rep. Joseph E. Casey ID- Mass.) and Aristotle S. Onassis, fabulously wealthy “King of Mon te Carlo,” along with seven others on charges' of conspiring to de fraud the government. ' The indictment, kept secret since last October,. is based oh allegations that corporations con trolled by Onassis bought U. S. surplus ships after World War II by falsely claiming that the com panies were owned by American citizens. The law authorizes such sales only to American citizens. The 47-year-old Onassis, whose rags-to-riches career led to a for tune estimated at more than 300 million dollars, voluntarily sur rendered in U.S. District Court this morning. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE (Editorial on .page 4) By TAMMIE BLOOM Milholland Is Trustee Head For Bth Term James Milholland of Pittsburgh was re-elected to his eighth term as president of the Board of Trustees of the University in Jan uary at the board’s annual meet ing in Harrisburg. Other officers also re-elected to one year terms are George H. Deike of Pittsburgh, vice presi dent; Samuel K. Hostetter, comp troller. of the University, treas urer; and President Milton S. Eisenhower, secretary. C. S. Wyand, executive assist ant to the President of the Uni versity, was elected to succeed Adrian O. Morse, University pro vost, as assistant secretary of the board. Members renamed to the ex ecutive • committee are Kenzie S. Bagshaw, Hollidaysburg; Deike; Howard J. Rowland, New Castle; George W. Slocum, Milton; and Edgar C. Weichel, Scranton. 475 Get Degrees ; Diplomas Delayed The first graduates since the University had its name changed got their degrees on Jan. 27—but they’ll have to wait for their di plomas. New plates will have to be made to print the new name on the diplomas. President Milton S. Eisenhower explained. He said the diplomas will be mailed to the 475 graduates later. Big Four to View Treaty for Austria BERLIN, Feb. 8 (/P)—' The Big Four Foreign Ministers agreed to night to sidetrack the deadlocked Germ an reunification question and move on to the Austrian in dependence treaty “not later” than Friday. A terse four-power communique said the four ministers “discussed matters arising on Item 1 of the I agenda.” This was the Soviet bid! for a springtime Big Five confer-1 ence including Red China, and rival. Soviet and French resolu tions for a world disarmament conference. It also said: “They (the min isters) further discussed also by previous-■agreement the question of procedure for opening the dis cussion by the conference of Item 3 (Austrian independence treaty) of the agenda. Denied Week 4b i Registration Improved Registration for the spring se mester showed considerable im provement over past years, Harry A. Sperber, assistant scheduling officer, has reported. He attrib uted the increased efficiency to the extra two hour period allotted for juniors and seniors Thursday morning and the new method of numbering registration cards. Fewer students attempted to register illegally, Williams said. However, approximately 25. stu dents were caught attempting to enter Recreation Hall, by falsify ing their semester classifications. These students were compelled to forego their regular period for registration and register Saturday morning. New Fee Plan Approved David C. Hogan, University Bur sar, expressed approval of the new system of paying 7 fees prior to registration instead of three weeks after the semester starts. Adopted last semester, the new system facilitates early payment of fees by allowing students to make payments in advance by mail or in person at the Bursar’s office. More than 7000 students paid fees before Feb. 2, Hogan said, and the remainder were handled with little difficulty immediately prior to registration. 'Bloomer "Girl 1 Tryouts Tonight Final preliminary tryouts, for Thespians’ production “Bloomer Girl” will be held at 7 tonight ic 409 Old Main, Moylan Mills, gen eral director, has announced. Final callbacks for dancers will also be held tonight. Final call backs for actors and singing leads will be posted on the front and back bulletin boards tomorrow morning in Schwab. Callbacks will be held at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Schwab. Non-singing actors will have final callbacks at 7 p.m. Thursday in 121 Sparks. Final callbacks' for glee singers will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday in Schwab. Collegian Candidates Will Meet Feb. 17 Editorial staff candidates for the Daily Collegian and old can didates may attend the first can didates’ meeting of the semester at 7 p.m. Feb. 17 in 1 Carnegie. 'Who's in the News' Copies Are Available Copies of “Who's in the News at Penn State" are now avail able at the Student Union desk in .Old Main for students whose names appear in the booklet, Charles Obertance, president of Sigma Delta Chi, men's na tional journalistic fraternity, announced yesterday.
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