PAGE TWO 8 Suspended For Misconduct Eight residents of McKee Hall have been suspended by the Sen ate committee on student affairs’ subcommittee on discipline for set ting off fireworks, Dean of Men Frank J. Simes, said yesterday. Five were residents of second fiior McKee and had been given a hearing before the Association of Independent Men’s Judicial ©rand Jury indicts Ryan For Assault Charles Ryan, former student at the University, was indicted on charges of assault with intent to rob by a grand Centre County court house, 'Bellefonte, District Attorney Edward L. Wi 1 - lard said yesterday. Ryan will be tried February 22, Willard said. Ryan was arrested Dec. 1 by State College policeman Donald E. Benner, 12 days after the de fendant allegedly assaulted Jack Whigham, 73-year-old State Col lege resident, outside a borough taproom. According to Benner, Ryan either struck or shoved Whigham, causing him to fa*l and cut his head. Ryan had followed Whig ham after Whigham' had exposed a large sum of money at the bar, Benner said. Formerly a fourth semester stu dent in DIR, Ryan withdrew from the University on Nov. 30, the day before he was arrested. He gave military service as the reason for his withdrawal. One thousand dollars bail was posted by Ryan’s father on Dec. 6 after he had spent six days m Centre County jail, Bellefonte. 35 Promoted By Collegian The Daily Collegian has an nounced 35 promotions to the sophomore editorial board. ’ Those promoted are Marilyn Ambler, Ruth Barnard, Cynthia Bell, Marjorie Blank, Susan Conk lin, Francis DiPipi, Francis Fan ucci, Rodney Felix, Stanley Fro lic, John Gatehouse, Carole Gib son, Barbara Hendel, Virginia Hudgins, James Jacoby, Alfred Klimcke. Earl Kohnfelder. John Law rence, Margaret Lieberman, John Melder, Michael Miner, Anita Op rendek, Margaret Pearce, Phyllis Propert, Marilyn Pysher, Carlene Samuels, Joyce Savaga, Marjorie Schenck, Theodore Cemll, Nancy Showalter, Joan Snodgrass, Shir ley Stewart, Sarah Sykes, Roberta Weinberg, Addie Winnick, and Joanne Wohleber. Fuel Technology Professor Dies Calvert C. Wright, professor and chief of the Division of Fuel Tech nology, died Feb. 1. He was 48 years old. Centre County Coroner John H. Weber of Milesburg listed coro:- ary occlusion as the cause >■ death. Wright was stricken in the Min eral Sciences Building while working on a motion picture pro ject. He died before he could be moved from the building. Wright had served on the fa? ulty at the University since 19?: and had been head of the Divisio' of Fuel Technology since 1945. Construction Worker Released from Hospital George Salack, construct:;, worker who was confined to Cen • tre County Hospital, Bellefont? for 66 days following a 40-foe fall, has been released from the hospital. Salack was working on the con struction of the new Student Un ion building when he fell. He re_ ceived fractured ribs, a fracture.', pelvis, a cracked shoulder blade and internal injuries. Traffic Court to Meet Traffic Court members will meet with Dean of Men Frank J Simes at 4 p.m. today in the dean of men’s office to discuss changes in the operation of the court and the payment of fines for parking violations. Board of Review before they were referred to the Senate group. The other three were students who were involved in an inter-' floor “war” using firecrackers as a weapon to harry other floors in the dormitory. The students may petition for readmission to the University Monday, Simes said. Letters from their parents must accompany their requests for readmission, he said. If they are readmitted, they will be placed on disciplinary pro bation for the remainder of the semester, Simes said. The five who appeared before the AIM boaru had been warned that any repetition of their ac tion would bring them before the Senate committee. John Ball, board chairman, reported the de cision to the. Dean of Men’s of fice. He was informed that the Judicial board, contrary to his belief, could recommend the five to be sent before the board. Al though Ball failed to secure the board’s recommendation, the case was sent to the committee by the Dean of Men’s office. The students admitted to the graduate resident counselor that they set off several firecrackers and applied iodine crystals to the dormitory’s floors and the key hole of the counselor’s room, dur ing the week following the Christ mas vacation. lodine crystals ex plode when friction is applied to them. Joe Somers, AIM president, said last night that he believes men in the dormitories will “buckle down” this semester and there will be no future violations of this type. He said the fact that the five were repeaters and that both groups had violated a state law were justifications for the penalty. 16 Faucet Sets Stolen From WD Campus Patrolmen are inves tigating the theft of 16 sets of faucet handles in the West Dormi tories Saturday. Theft of the handles made it impossible for residents to draw water. Other fixtures were also taken. The thefts occurred in seven washrooms in the West Dorms, six in McKee Hall, and one in Hamilton Hall. LAST SEMESTER'S BOOKS GETTING DUSTY? THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Man Dies On Birthday In Rec Hail A Boalsburg man, attending the Penn State-West Virginia basket ball game, on his 66th birthday Saturday at Recreation Hall, col lapsed and died just before the start of the game. He was Rees W. Weston. The cause of death was. be lieved to be a cerebral hemmor rhage. Weston had not been ill, according to his brother-in-law, Burke M. Hermann, professor of history, with whom he was at tending the. game. Weston, had of nof feeling well when the two entered the build ing, Hermann said. Weston was taken on a stretcher to the physician’s office in Recre ation Hall. He died within a few minutes. He is survived by his wife. They had been living in Boalsburg with the Hermanns since 1952 when Weston retired as an architect. He was formerly associated with the federal government. A native of Taylor, Weston at tended Wyoming Seminary and Mercersburg Academy. He was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1914. Before working for the government, he was associated with John Russell Pope and Co., New York City architectural firm. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and the American Institute of Architects. ■ Services will be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Andrew’s Episcopal church in State College. Burial will follow at Centre County Memorial Park. No public view ing will be held and the family has requested that no flowers be sent. Plofnick Mamed Research Director Samuel I. Plotnick, part-time in structor in mathematics, has been named director of research for Mathematics Research, Inc., a cen tralized organization serving in dustry. Plotnick, a former assistant to the director of research of George Washington University, heads a group’ of more than 100 faculty members from more than a doz en universities engaged in the advanced study of pure, and ap plied mathematics. Main office for the organiza tion will be located in the Hotel State College. Why not sell them of KEELER'S when you buy books for the semester? Good, trade- in price! At Keeler's you can get new and used text books for all courses, slide rules, and drawing supplies. Stop and shop at KEELER'S the university book store St's a Bargain... —Photo by Bretts JOE SOMERS, eighth semester mining engineering major, an<J Richard Crafton, eighth semester arts and letters major, shop for texts at the Used Book Agency in the Temporary Union Building. A record-breaking 2500 books were sold by the ÜBA yesterday. 2500 T extbooks Sold Yesterday by ÜBA A record-breaking sale of 2500 textbooks was registered yester day by the Used Book Agency, a self-service student-operated or ganization located in the. Temporary Union Building. About 3700 books have been sold by ÜBA since it opened Thursday, Howard Giles, ÜBA manager, reported. Books will be accepted for sale until 5 p.m. tomorrow’. ÜBA will be open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. through- Thursday, or possibly Friday, Giles said. ' Under a new system begun yes terday students may receive mone.y from the sale of their books as soon as the books have been sold. They may receive the money, Giles said, by handing in their yellow slips to .. the worker on the TUB ballroom stage who will check to see if the books have been sold. Under the old system, money and unsold books were not returned until after ÜBA had closed. The yellow receipt will be nec essary to collect money while the ÜBA is still in operation, Giles said. Students who have lost these slips will be contacted later by the organization. Textbooks especially needed now for sale, Giles said, include ' ,'"'' , *v/v -'"''' -»«.' ' •"'• » -'•- ' v '*■*><'• *'* ifsa ® ' jt TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1954 By PADDY BEAHAN those for English composition 1 and 5, economics, commerce, mathematics, psychology, sociol ogy, philosophy, literature, engi neering, and agriculture. Lan guage books, which were not sold in the fall, will be accepted for sale. Giles reported that although ÜBA workers were, “swamped” today with the heavy sale the serve-yourself system was work ing fine. Until the fall of 1952 students waited in line and clerks brought the books. Now, books are displayed in the TUB ball room according to\the courses. Students who bring books to sell set their own price to which ÜBA adds a 20 cent per book service charge. Last fall the organization sold approximately 6000 of 7000 books handled for a gross sales total of $10,700. -
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