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VOL: 54. No. 91
Senate Committee
May Resume Talks
On IFC Dating Code
The Senate committee on student affairs may discuss the Uni
versity social situation this morning, 'a member of the committee
said yesterday. However, he stressed that no rule changes would
result from today's meeting.
It was indicated that the discussion would center around the
Student Tickets
Still Available
At AA Office
Exchange tickets for basketball
games tomorrow an d • Saturday
with Georgetown and Temple at
Recreation Hall are on distribu
tion at the Athletic Association
office in Old Main.
Students ma y get exchange
tickets by bringing their AA
books to the ticket window of the
Athletic Association office.
Edward M. Czekaj, assistant
business manager of athletics, has
requested that students get tick=
ets before going to Recreation
Hall on the night of the event.
If this is done the Athletic Asso
ciation will be able to determine
fairly accurately how many tick
ets to place on sale to the public,
Czekaj said. By following this
idea students' will not have to
wait in line in order to get tick
ets at the ticket booth in Recrea
tion Hall, he said.
The Athletic AssociatiOn office
is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday and from
8 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
Tickets for the Eastern inter
collegiate wrestling champion
ships at Ithaca, N.Y., March 12-
13, are now on sale at the office.
Only a limited supply is avail
able.
The price of the series tickets
for all four sessions is $4. For the
semi-finals Saturday March 13,
the price is $1.20 and for the fi
nals that night $l.BO.
LIP Signup
Set for Tonight
Registration for the leadership
training program will begin at 7
tonight in 110 Electrical Engineer
ing, Charles McClintock, program
chairman, has announced.
The six-week training program,
sponsored by All-University Cab
inet, is designed for freshmen,
sophomores, and juniors interested
in campus offices, McClintock
said. Ninety-minute instruction
perioGis will be held during the
semester.
Topics to be covered include
responsibility of leadership, par
liamentary law, floor leadership,
organization of campus student
government, reports, records, cor
respondence, publicity and public
relations, delegating responsibil
ity, working with advisers, and
program content.
Irvin Telephones
To Be Restored
Phone service to Irvin Hall will
be reopened about April 1, one
month after a letter frpm dormi
tory officers explaining reasons
the phone lines were cut was ac
cepted by Otto E. Mueller, direc
tor of housing.
Letters from the floor officers
and counselors of first, second and
third floors Hamilton have not
been received, Mueller said. The
four telephones had their lines
cut Feb. 2 and 3.
Mueller said he must accept the
letter before phone service will
be restored. He said he had re
ceived a letter from one floor in
Hamilton, but had rejected •it be
cause it didThot contain any in
formation on which the case
might be settled.
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Interfraternity Council dating
code. If so, it would be one of a
series of talks concerning the
issue.
Early in December Dean of Men
Frank J. Simes said the unchap
eroned dating code was a "dor
mant issue." This was a few weeks
after the Dean of Men's office and
IFC agreed to follow the interpre
tation of the dating code in effect
at the beginning of the year un
til a more workable solution than
the University's new interpreta
tion could be formulated.
Under the interpretation set
for t h by the administration,
chaperones would be required in
all cases except incidental dating.
This would mean that chaperones
would be necessary for all orches
tra and record dances, pledge
dances, exchange dinners, Friday
and Saturday night parties, func
tions on houseparty weekends and
similar activities.
The IFC opposed the new inter
pretation because it believed it
would be impossible for any house
to secure the necessary chaperones
for all these events. The .group
also felt the presence of chaper
ones at all such events would be
undesirable. '
Agreement to follow the old
interpretation, according to IFC
president Thomas Schott, was the
result of an IFC meeting in which
the new interpretation of the code
was declared unenforceable. It
was decided a list of grievances
against the code should be drawn
up and presented to the Dean of
Men. This was done and the de
cision to follow the old code was
made, Schott said.
Three solutions to the problem
had been proposed:
1. Permanent reinstatement of
the dating code as formerly inter
preted. This was considered the
most favorable solution by IFC.
2. The possibility of fraternity
housemothers. This alternative,
was rejected because IFC felt'
most fraternities would be unable
to bear the added financial bur
den and that most houses do not
have adequate facilities for quar
tering housemothers.
3. Acceptance of the administra
tion's interpretation of the dating
code.
Spanish Club Panel Quiz
El Circulo Espanol will hold a
panel quiz on Spanish art, litera
ture, and music at 7 tonight in the
northeast loun g e of Atherton
Hall.
Louis Stolz, fourth semester ho
tel administration maj or and
president of the club, will serve
as moderator.
McCarthy's Attacks. apposed by Hall
WASHINGTON, March 2 (p)—
The chairman of the Republican
National Committee said today he
can't "go along" with .. Sen. Jos
eph McCarthy (R-Wis) when Mc-
Carthy attacks those "who are
fighting communism just as con
scientiously as he is."
The GOP political chief, Leon
ard W. Hall, spoke out after a con
ference with President Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
"I don't like the situation as it
developed last week," Hall said,
apparently referring to the col
lision between McCarthy a n d
Secretary of the Army Stevens.
The Wisconsin senator has accus
ed the Army of "coddling Com
munists," while Stevens said he
would not "accede to" the brow
beating of Army officers during
the investigation.
Hall said he had discussed the
"so-called McCarthy situation"
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA.: WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1954
New EFcition Co • ' e
To IG:* to .Cabinet
ELIZABETH ENGLE, All-University elections committee member,
discusses a proposed amendment to the elections code with Ben
jamin. Sinclair (left), Lion Party clique chairman, and Kenneth
White, chairman of the State Party advisory board. The com
mittee withdrew an amendment to the code establishing a rotation
between independent and fraternity men for the offices of All-
University vice president and secretary-treasurer.
Centennial Plans
May Double Visitors
The usual number of groups visiting the University campus dur
ing an academic year probably will be doubled during next year's
Centennial celebration, according to John Fishburn, conference co
ordinator.
Fishburn said yesterday about 300 groups are expected to visit
the University during 1955 for
meetings, conferences, demonstra
tions, and other functions spon
sored by University divisions.
Tentative listings show 135 oc
casions scheduled by off-campus
groups. Fishburn said emphasis is
being placed on inviting small
distinguished national groups to
make use of University and State
College facilities for the first time.
Increased participation of groups
which regularly visit the Univer
sity is also being encouraged, he I
said
The majority of conferences are
held from one to five days, ac
cording to Otto E. Mueller, direc
tor of housing. There are also sev
eral month-long courses offered
by the College of Agriculture and
the General Extension Division of
the University, he said.
Present listings show that 23,-
878 conference delegates will meet
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with the President, but he did not
say what the President's reaction
was. James C. Hagerty, White
House press secretary, had noth
ing to say about the conference
except to point out that Eisen
hower will hold a news conference
tomorrow. This indicated th e
President might make a state
ment then.
"My feeling is this," Hall said.
"While. Joe McCarthy is fighting
communism I go along and we all
go along. When he begins to attack
persons who are fighting com
munism just as conscientiously
as he is, I can't go along with
him."
At a later point Hall told the
newsmen he did not think any
one would say that "generals in
our Army are not fighting corn
munism." Stevens contends that
McCarthy humiliated and abused
Brig. Gen. Ralph Zwicker, com-
r . 3iatt
Scholarships
Offered in Law
Twenty-five full tuition schol
arships, valued at $l5OO each are
being offered by the Boston Col
lege Law School. The scholarships
are available to outstanding grad
uates of any approved college or
university in the United States.
Candidates must rank in or close
to the first tenth of their grad
uating class, but will be judged
upon their overall scholastic rec
ord, extra-curricular activities
and achievement in the legal ap
titude test conducted by the Edu
cational Testing Service of New
Jersey.
Applications for the scholar
ships close May 1, 1954. Informa
tion is available from the law
school, Boston, Mass.
mander of Camp Kilmer, NJ., in
a recent interrogation about the
honorable discharge of Maj. Irv
ing Peress, a New York dentist
whom McCarthy calls "a fifth
amendment Communist."
Hall said he thought a cure for
the situation might be found in
changing the rules of committee
proceure, a question which the
Republican Polk' , Committee in
the Senate is now studying.
Hall, ask e d by a reporter
whether he thought last week's
developments were harmful to
the' party, replied "any internal
bickering is harmful in a sense."
McCarthy, meanwhile, express
ed dissatisfaction with a State
Department order stripping R. W.
Scott McLeod of personnel au
thority. He said he will demand
an official explanation of why
McLeod had his hiring and firing
powers taken away from him.
Permanent
Registration
See Page 4
By GEORGE BAIREY
The complete controversial
fraternity-independent provi
sion of the spring elections
code will not be in the code
when it is presented to All-
University Cabinet tomorrow
night.
The code must be approved by
cabinet before it will go into ef
fect.
Final approval of the spring
elections code was giv en last
night by the elections committee
after the controversial provision
was amended. The original pro
vision was defeated, 6-4.
The revised amendment pro
vides that the office of All-Univer
sity president will rotate each
year between a fraternity man
and an independent man. It pro
vided that this year's president
will be an , independent man.
The new amendment also stip
ulated that a fraternity man shall
never oppose an independent man
in any election.
The original amendment, passed
last week by the committee, con
tained a complete rotation system
of the three All-University offi
ces and the provision that a frat
ernity man could not oppose an
independent man in any election.
The final approved provision,
in essence, eliminated the appli
cation of an overall rotation sys
tem that would cover All-Univer
sity offices. The new system will
not apply to the offices of All-
University vice president and sec
retary-treasurer. It does not apply
to either senior or junior class
offices.
Benjamin Sinclair, Lion Party
clique chairman, and Kenneth
White, chairman of the State
Party advisory board, jointly pre
sented their views on the proposed
rotation provision to the commit
tee before the official meeting.
They claimed it would be "politi
cal suicide" to run a fraternity
man against an independent man.
White said after the meeting
that he was pleased with the re
sults. He said, "The elections com
mittee has reconsidered its deci
sion and has been gooe enough
to permit me to express the view
point of the State Party. The is
sue is now settled, as I see it, and
any further comment by me at
this time is superfluous."
Sinclair could not be reached
for comment last night.
Spring elections will be held Ap
ril 7 and 8. The elections will be
for All-University, senior class,
junior class, and Athletic Associa
tion offices.
In other business, Temporary
Union Building and Nittany Dorm
20 were approved the remaining
two polling locations for decen
tralized voting. The two locations
were chosen from five possible
remaining locations. The second
floor lounge of Old Main and the
West Dorm lounge were approved
by the committee last week.
Students to Draw
For Show Animals
Students will draw for animals
which they intend to fit and show
in this year's Little International
Livestock Show at 7 p.m. March 11
in 109 Agriculture, Edgar Fehnel,
chairman, has announced.
A choice of several breeds in
each of four divisions of livestock
will be available. The divisions
are beef cattle, horses, sheep, and
swine. Division managers will give
aid and instruction in proper tech
niques used in preparing an ani
mal for the show ring.
Square Dance Friday
The 4-H Club will sponsor a
square dance from 8 to 11 p.m.
Fiday at the Temporary Union
Building. The Hayseeds will pro
vide the music. A donation of 50
cents will be collected.
FIVE CENTS