Hew Senate Disciplinary Policy Set Two changes in procedures for handling disciplinary cases have been made by the Senate com mittee on student affairs, Harry S. Brunner, ■ chairman of the committee, has announced. Two student members will be added to the subcommittee on dis cipline which will hear individ ual cases—the . president of the student council of the college in which the student is. enrolled and the All-College president or Wo men’s Student Government Asso ciation president depending on the sex of the student involved. The membership of the sub committee will include seven per sons. In addition to the two new members the • committee is made up of the chairman of the senate committee on student affairs, the director of student affairs, the dean of the student’s college, the dean of men or women, and the chairman of Judicial or Tribunal. The student, may be accompanied by an adviser of his own choos ing. A subcommittee for hearing cases of group discipline has also been established, Brunner ■ said. The committee on student affairs has heard cases of discipline in which student organizations are involved. The new subcommittee has been set up as the result of a suggestion made at the Student Encampment in September that the committee devote its time to constructive matters and that some other group might handle discipline. The subcommittee for group discipline will include the chair man of the senate committee on student affairs, the director of student affairs, dean of men, dean of women, chairman of Judicial or Tribunal, All-College or WSCA president, and president of. the “parent” organization—lnterfrat ernity Council, Association of In ependent Men, Panhellenic Coun cil, or Leonides. The spokesman for the organization may be ac companied by the group’s adviser. Vietminh Reds Continue Drive; Wilson Sees French Victory LUANG PRABANG, Laos, Feb. 9 (A*) —Spearheads of the ; Communist-led Vietminh rebels ad vanced to within eight miles of Luang. Prabang today. The French-Union defenders dug in deeper to meet any all-out assault of the royal Laotian .capital. The bulk of Vietminh’s crack Division' 308, slicing across Laos toward the Thailand border, was reported about 30 miles away. No direct attack on the city was foreseen for several days. ÜBA to End Book Collection Today at TUB Today is the last day students may bring books -to be sold at the Used Book Agency in the Temporary Union Building. Books must be. turned in before 50. m., Howard Gile~, chairman, said yesterday. ÜBA will continue to sell books 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. through tomor row, possibly Friday. Yesterday about 1200 books were sold by the agency, bringing the . total number sold to 5500: . Books are still needed for Eng lish Composition 5, and for psy chology, sociology, literature, commerce, and economics courses, Giles said. The student may set his own price on his book. The ÜBA adds a 20 cents per book service charge. Money for the books may be collected from the ÜBA repre sensative on the TUB stage as soon as the books are sold. TODAY'S WEATHER CLOUDY WITH FLURRIES VOL. 54. No. 76 Ice Skating Rink Planned Traffic Ticket Fines Due Within One Day Students receiving tickets for traffic violations will be required to appear in the Campus Patrol office within 24 hours of the violation to pay their fine or to be scheduled for a hearing before the Traffic Court, the court decided yesterday. The purpose of the plan is to end an accumulation of unheard violations which has bogged-down the court. Dean of Men Frank J. Simes and Capt. Philip A. Mark, head of the campus patrol, agreed to' the new plan at a conference in Simes’ office. The plan will go into effect immediately. Under the plan, students who appear' before Mark can pay a $1 fine for first offense and $4 for second offense or can appeal their case to the traffic, court. If they appeal, an appointment before the court will'he scheduled by the patrol office. Third, violation offenders will be automatically sched uled for a hearing before the court. Simes told the court yesterday to “stick to” the penalty for the third violation as prescribed by All-College 'Cabinet when it established the court. The' penalty asks the court to recommend that the violators’ automobiles be sent home. All third offense cases should be sent to the Dean of Men’s office, he said. The name of any student failing to appear to the patrol office within the 24-hour per- Some military leaders expressed belief the Vietminh may not at tack Luang Prabang, despite the menacing advance of the last week. They view the rebel cam paign as having more of a po litical than a military purpose. The rebels advanced toward the royal capital last May, only to pull away without attacking. French Victory Predicted Secretary of Defense Wilson, commenting on the Indochina situation, predicted that French and loyal native forces will win a military victory unless there is intervention by the Red Chinese or a similar change in the situa tion. “The war is going fully as well as we and the French expected it to at this stage,” Wilson told a news conference, adding that he had no reason to think Indochina would become another Korea. The secretary said he thought military victory, rather than a negotiated peace, “.would be per haps both possible and probable.” Newsmen interpreted his re marks as meaning that he saw no need for sending extensive Amer ican forces against the Red Viet minh army, as was done against the Communists in Korea. No Chance Seen « « Military men believe the Viet minh has no chance of taking Luang Prabang with the esti mated 12,000 men committed -to the offensive. They believe the rebels may have two other ob jectives: 1. Make the French pull back the forces with which they have been operating for two months in the Hou and Suon<- River Val- (Continued. on page eight) Wp iailg® toll STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10. 1954 - iod will be sent co the Dean of Men, and will be questioned by the Dean of Men on their failure to appear. Students failing to appear before the Traffic Court will lose the right of appeal, and the fine will become auto matic. If a student cannot ap-,; pear before the Traffic Court when it meets, Tuesdays at 7 p.m., an excuse must be ob tained from the Dean of Men’s office. . „ Violations of traffic regula tions which were not tried by Traffic Court will not be con sidered this semester unless a new offense against the viola tor is reported. In that case the violator will automatically be sent to Traffic Court and pre vious violations will be _ con sidered in the court’s decision, A student having one of fense last semester and one of fense this semester will be fined $5 by the patrol, the total for the first and second viola tions. . Simes said in this in stance some sacrifice to fair ness was being made in order to. solve the' problem. . Coble Warns Fraternities About Pledging A reminder that fraternities are not allowed to pledge second se mester freshmen was issued yes terday by Bruce Coble, Inter fraternity Council rushing chair man. " Coble' said the IFC has received complaints reporting several fra ternities have told rushees that they have a bid from that house “in the bag” and to stop rushing other houses. ' He urged these men to ■ dis regard these informal bids and to continue to go to other houses and attempt to see as many as possible before making a choice. The practice is definitely against the wishes of the IFC, he said, but nothing could be done to the offenders unless they procured the written consent of a rushee to accept pledgeship or the rushee was given a pin. There have been no cases of this nature, he added. Second semester freshmen will be eligible for pledging at 8 a.m. Feb. 20. Coble also reported that, a list of 200 men interested in joining a fraternity will be available Thursday in addition to the list of 400 already circulated among the fraternities. Lists are available in the Dean of Men’s office. Water Safety Course Women’s instructor’s course in water safety will begin at 7 p.m. tomorrow in 3 White Hall. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE To Be Completed by Fail In Nittany Recreation Area An outdoor refrigerated ice skating rink accommodating 800 skaters will be built on campus by mid-November, according to plans announced yesterday by Walter H. Wiegand, director of-the University Physical Plant. . Construction of the rink, to be located in the tennis court area east of Nittany Dormitory 44, willl get underway early this spring. The rink will have a skating sur face 100 by 200 feet. It will be in use about four months of the year, according to Ernest B. McCoy, director of ath letics. The rink will probably be open from Nov. 15 to Mar. 15. Admission prices, McCoy said, will be held as low as operating costs will permit. Price of ad mittance has not yet been de termined. The project will be op erated on a self-supporting basis. I On the western edge of the rink a two-story heated building will provide club facilities for skaters and will house refrigeration equip ment. On the main floor, of the 32-by -65-feet building will be a club room, a ticket office, and a con cession .booth serving light re freshments. A skate sharpening room, refrigeration equipment, storage facilities, and lavatories will be located in the basement. “From what I have heard of skating rinks on other campuses,” McCoy said, “this will be one of the largest outdoor artificially frozen rinks, in. the United States. When completed it will accom modate from 600 to 800 skaters.” Olla Ann Horton, secretary of the- Outing Club, said last night, “We are glad to hear that the rink has been approved. We -are sure, the whole University will profit from it.” The club has been active in promoting the project. The plan now under consider ation calls for building the rink on top of the macadam surface of the 'tennis courts, Wiegand explained • yesterday. On top of the hard surface, stones and sand would be placed. Over this base, one-inch' piping would be placed .at three-inch intervals. More than 10 miles of piping will' go into the rink’s construction. .. Chilled brine would be - run through the pipes. Water would be sprinkled on the surface, and would freeze. Ice only one inch, deep would be necessary to main tain a uniform skating surface. The rink will be used for both recreation and instruction of class es in 1 physical education, McCoy said. The rink will be open to both students and townspeople. The University Board of Trus tees gave approval to the plans for building the rink at its Jan uary meeting. Preliminary ap proval had been granted at the December meeting. Froth’s valentine issue, avail able at usual distribution points today, features a theme cover by Phil Steel, fourth semester archi tecture major, and a. poetry con tribution by the Campus Patrol. Lorraine Chaban, fourth se mester bacteriology major, is Froth’s valentine girl of the month. The issue also features pictures taken at parties for the Swedish gymnasts at Phi Delta Theta and Beta Theta Pi. UN Representative From Iraq Will Speak Sayid Awni Khalidy, Iraq rep resentative to the United Nations, will discuss “The UN and the Problem of Asia and Africa” at the fourth Liberal Arts lecture at 8 p.m..Feb. 16 in 121 Sparks. Valentine Issue Of Froth is Out pgtatt Exchange AA Tickets Available Students may pick up exchange tickets for. Saturday’s athletic events today through Saturday by presenting their AA books at the window of the Athletic Associa tion office in Old Main. Edward M. Czekaj, assistant business manager of athletics, said yesterday that separate tick ets will be needed for the Satur day afternoon wrestling match with Syracuse and the double event program in the evening. The Athletic Association office will remain open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Fridav and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday. Tickets will be placed on sale to the public Saturday. -The number of tickets that will be placed on sale will depend upon how many students pick up exchange tickets. Czekaj has asked student co operation in connection with tthe last point. He urged students to get., their tickets at the Athletic Associaion office rather than at the ticket booth in Recreation Hall on the night of the event. He pointed out that several thousand students got tickets , at Recreation Hall Saturday night for the gymnastic and basketball events. Czekaj explained that he does not have sufficient personnel to handle such a crowd efficiently and as a result many students had to wait in line to get tickets. WSGA Drops Infirmary’ Plan The plan to seek a change in Infirmary visiting hours suggested by the House of Representatives of Women’s Student Government Association has been dropped, ae cording to Norma Reck, sixth se mester education major. Miss Reck, appointed to see Herbert R. Glenn, director of the University Health Service, and Elizabeth Elngel, sixth semester arts and letters major, planned to sjnoq ui agueqo a qsas and permission for men to visit women and vice-versa in the In firmary. In a statement issued by Glenn earlier this year he voiced his op position to the plan, explaining that it would create disciplinary problems that would be hard to take care of because the staff at the Infirmary has too much other work. He also stated the possi bility of spreading infections through visits. White Resigns Post As State Party Head Kenneth White,. State Party clique chairman, has resigned his position . effective Sunday, White announced yesterday. An election to replace White will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Pi. Kappa Alpha fraternity. The executive committee of the party will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at Pi Kappa Alpha. White said he was forced to re sign because of a. heavy scholas tic schedule. He has held the posi tion since he was elected last May. 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