Lions Given NCAA Cage Bid
Toledo Set
As First
Opponent
By DICK' McDOWELL
Penn State has accepted an in
vitation to play in the National
Collegiate Athletic Association
basketball playoffs March 9 at
Fort Wayne, Ind., it wa s an
nounced yesterday.
An at-large bid was extended to
the Lions yesterday afternoon and
the team's participation was ap
proved by the Senate Committee
of Athletics.
The Lions, sporting an 11-5 rec
ord with three more games re
maining on the regular season
schedule, will play the University
of Toledo at the Fort Wayne Col
iseum in the first part of two
games scheduled there in the first
round eliminations of the nation
wide tourney. Notre Dame and
Loyola of New Orleans will meet
in 'the other contest.
Toledo Conference Champ
The two winners at Fort Wayne
will advance to the eastern. re
gional playoffs. Should Penn State
beat Toledo, Mid-America Con
ference champion, it will meet the
yet undecided Big-Ten champion
March 12 at the University of
lowa field house.
Rumors of a possible Penn State
bid to the tournament began cir
culating three weeks ago when
Coach Elmer Gross took his team
to Pittsburgh to meet .Pitt. The
Lions lost the game and talk of a
possible bid was apparently for
'gotten.
Bid Rumored This Week
However, Penri State was men
tioned again this week as possible
entrant in the tournament. The
invitation came at the heels of
the Nittanies' easy 76-62 wi n
against Gettysburg Wednesday
NCAA tournament play is noth
ing new.to Gross or to the hulk of
his team. Gross took his 1951-52
'quintet to Raleigh, N.C. where
they lost to powerful Kentucky in
their opening game, 82-54. The
Lions also dropped the consola
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Students Urged
To Exchange
Tickets Early
Edward M. Czekaj, assistant
business manager of athletics,
again urged students yesterday to
get their exchange tickets at the
Athletic Association Office in Old
Main.
Only 2000 tickets `have been
handed out so far for tomorrow's
double event sports program, he
said. Students can get their ex
change tickets by presenting their
AA books at the ticket window
of the Athletic Association Office.
"If students wait until the night
of the game to get their tickets
at Recreation Hall," Czekaj said,
"We may not have sufficient per
sonnel to handle the crowd effi
ciently."
Czekaj said another reason be
hind his request is that the num
ber of tickets placed on sale to the
public depends on how many stu
dents get their exchange tickets
before going to' Recreation Hall.
If students wait until the night of
the event to get their tickets,. the
Athletic Association has no way
of knowing how many tickets to
put on sale.
A capacity crowd is expected
Saturday night by Czekaj. The
Nittany wrestlers will oppose
Pittsburgh in the opening event
at 7 p.m. and the basketball team
will battle Rutgers at 8:45 p.m.
VOL. 54. No. 88
Town lions
Tabled by
Cabinet Gives
Name. Change
Final Approval
By GEORGE BAIREY
All-College Cabinet officially
became All-University Cabinet
last night with cabinet approval
of the third reading of the con
stitution name-change amen d
ment. Seventy-five other changes
in the constitution go into effett
immediately.
The amendment changed the
word "college" to "university"
and the word "school" to "col
lege" everywhere they appear in
the constitution.
The amendment was approved
at two previous cabinet meetings.
In other business; Cabinet voted
to. loan $5O to the Central Pro
motion Agency- for materials
needed to get the agency started.
Myron Enelow, a promoter of the
organization, told cabinet the
money would essentially be a loan
and it would be paid back, pos
sibly by next semester.
According to plans outlined by
Enelow, the -Central Promotion
Agency will aid organizations
which have no organized pro
motions staffs. The agency will
operate on a non-profit basis and
will handle the entire promotion
al campaigns of organizations uti
i lizing its services.
The high school enrollment
committee was abolished by unan
imous cabinet action after recom
mendations by John Speer, chair
man of the enrollment committee.
Speer, in his report, said the com
mittee had outlasted its useful
ness since its organization • five
years ago. Cabinet accepted a
recommendation that an informal
enrollment committee replace the
formal cabinet-sanctioned com
mittee.,
Cabinet accepted the fresiiman
customs revisions report for the
second time.. Included in the pro
posed amendments is a revision
that provided that appeal cases
be referred to Tribunal where
male is involved and to the Fresh
man Regulations Board where a
female is involved. The action of
Tribunal and of Judicial, if the
case has been appealed fr b m
Freshman Regulations Boar d,
shall be 'considered final, subject
to an - appeal to the Senate com
mittee on student affairs' sub
committee on discipline.
Under the freshman customs
amendments, freshman men will
not be required to wear black
bow ties during the customs
period. Both freshman men and
women will be required to wear
blue din k s, according to the
amendments.
Stevens Blasts Karthis 'Abuse'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (W)—
Secretary of, the Army Robert T.
R. Stevens, with the backing of
President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er, served notice tonight he will
"never accede" to any abuse,
browbeating or humiliation of
Army witnesses by Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy or other investiga
tors.
Stung by the practically uni
versal belief that his "peace pact"
of yesterday was a surrender to
the Wisconsin Republican senator,
Stevens issued his statement at
the , White House after a day of
huddling with high officials, in
cluding Eisenhower.
The White. House declared Eis
enhower had read the Stevens
Tim 4 1 aity
—Photo by Molinari
ROBERT SMOOT, campus coordinator of the National Student
Association, present, a report on that organization to All-University
Cabinet last night. Behind Smoot is Charles McClintock, parlia
mentarian. Smoot's report was on the student leadership training
program.
Lemyre Discredits
Parties' Statement
All-University President Richard Lemyre yesterday discredited
the joint Lion and State Party statement of Wednesday that neither
party would obey the fraternity-independent rotation provision to
the spring elections code approved by the elections committee.
Lemyre said All-University Cabinet is the lacy for student gov-
ernment, and all groups, includ
ing political parties, must abide
by what cabinet rules.
The spring elections code must
be finally approved by cabinet
before it becomes effective. The
code will be presented to cabinet
Thursday.
Election Code Pr -vision
The rotation provision in the
spring election code said that the
next All-University president will
be an independent man, the vice
president a fraternity man, and
the secretary-treasurer an inde
pendent man. The clause further
provides ,that a fraternity man
shall not oppose an independent
man in any election.
Edwin Kohn. elections commit
tee chairman, said yesterday the
rotation provision would be re
opened for discussion at the com
mittee meeting Tuesday. The
spring- elections code will receive
final approval Tuesday before it
is presented for cabinet approval
Thursday, Kohn said.
statement and "approves and en
dorses it 100 'per cent."
The McCarthy-Stevens fe u d
promptly- erupted anew. McCar
thy accused the Army chief of
making "a completely false state
ment."
Stevens said that at his meet
ing with McCarthy and other
members of the Senate Investi
gations subcommittee yesterday
he had received assurance that
"abuse" of witnesses would not
be permitted in the future.
These assurances did not appear
in yesterday's "peace pact" and
Stevens did not mention them un
til tonight. Labelling St even s'
statement about the assurances
"completely fa 1 s e," McCarthy
said:
FOR A
STATE COLLEGE. PA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26. 1954
Tatirgian
ETTER PENN STATE
Benjamin Sinclair, Lion Party
clique chairman, and John Fink,
State Party clique chairman, said
yesterday that as far as they were
concerned, the 'entire matter has
been settled. Sinclair and Fink
said they were in complete ac
cordance .regarding the provision
and, if they had to, they would
battle the,,provision even to cab
inet level.
_'ApprOve(l Without Consent'
Both Sinclair aria Fink said yes
terday that the provision was ap
proved by the. elections committee
without either consent or consul
tation of either party.
Sinclair said the parties should
be able to run their internal af
fairs and if mistakes were made.
then it would be to the opposing
party's advantage to pick up the
errors and exploit them.
Only in a case of a breach of
good faith between parties should
the elections committee step in
with such an edict. Sinclair said.
"Absolutely no concession was
made that any witness was
abused."
He said that to promise not to
abuse them in the future would
amount to admitting that they
had been abused in the past.
"We made it very clear," the
senator said, "that any witness
from the Army or anywhere else,
if he is not frank and truthful, will
be vigorously examined to get the
truth about Communist activities.
"If it will be unpleasant to tell
the truth, I can't be responsible."
The move by key GOP figures
was apparently designed to take
some of the sting out of Stevens'
feeling that he had been given the
rough edge in the "surrender"
episode.
ng
Ca
Plan
binet
Goodman Asks
Explanation
For Conditions
. By JACK REID
A proposal to form an All-Uni
versity committee to investigate
alleged inadequate housing accom
modations for independent stu
dents living in State College was
tabled by All-University Cabinet
last night.
The proposal, presented by
Leonard Goodman, eighth semes
ter arts and letters major, was
tabled on a motion by David Ar
nold, All-University secretary
treasurer, until it can be looked
into in more detail.
The proposal called for an in
vestigation of town living condi
tions consisting of a house-to
house survey to determine the
number of living units available,
conditions existing within the un
its, proximity of these units to
the campus, rents charged, and
the number of students which can
be housed in each room.
The proposal also recommended
the establishment of housing
standards by the Dean of Men's
Office and a cabinet committee,
and that these standards be• en
forced by the University.
These standards would be en
forced by publicity or the threat
of publicity and a program
worked out with the State College
Chamber of Commerce in the
cases of living units not meeting
the established standards.
The proposal also called for an
investigation of the advisability
of the University building more
dormitories before a class-room
building; the replacement of the
Windcrest trailers with low-rent,
pre-fabricated, quadraplex apart
ments for veterans, graduates, and
married couples; and the encour
agement of private investment
capital by the Universty in the
building of these or other apart
ment dwellings in State College.
Dean of Men, Frank J. Simes,
in arguing against acceptance of
the proposal, stated that an in
vestigation into living conditions
in private homes, as called for in
the proposal, would leave the Uni
versity open to criticism by towns
] people. Simes in turn recommend
ed a committee be set up to sur
vey the situation from an impar
tial standpoint. No 'action was
taken on his suggestion.
Robert Schoner, eighth semes
ter meteorology major, and treas
urer of the Association of Inde
pendent Men's Town Council, at
tended the cabinet meeting in or
der to read a report prepared by
the town council executive com
mittee concerning town housing
conditions. He was unable to give
the report because of the tabling
action on cabinet.
The report which Schoner sub
mitted to the Daily Collegian
stated that the problem of town
housing for independent men has
long existed in State College and
it is high time something is done
about it.
The report cited numerous cases
of alleged "inadequate housing
facilities." It acknowledged the
existence of a University housing
bureau which inspects housing
and comments upon their adapt
ability to student needs, but this
bureau, although well-intended,
falls far short of its objectives,
the report stated.
IRRA Elects Officers
New officers of the Industrial
Relations Research Association are
John Brunner, president; Eugene
Chomicky, vice president; Clay
ton Ost, secretary; and George
Holtin, treasurer.
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