Cagers Face LaSalle an® Bradley Meets 4r 71/1' sl-7 % \ So California r Batty (Ati o Tattr4ia In 2d Contest •sass • By DICK McDOWELL KANSAS CITY, Mo. Four col lege basketball teams—survivors of a 24-team field—converge on the Municipal Auditorium here tonight in the semi-final battles for college basketball's richest prize, the National Collegiate championship. Penn State meets LaSalle and Bradley takes on the University of Southern California before an expected capacity crowd of 10,000. The Nittany Lions and the Ex plorers battle in the opener at 10 p.m. (EST) and the two west ern clubs tangle in the nightcap of the doubleheader. Two weeks ago all four finalists were buried deeply in the NCAA lineup below such powerhouses as Indiana, Notre Dame, Louisiana State, and North Carolina State. But all of the pre-tournament fav orites are out of the picture now and tourney officials are still won dering what happened. However, they aren't worried about the outcome thus far. Cage happy Kansas City fans have kept tickets on demand all week and the competition tonight promises to be as good as any shown up to this point in tournament play. (Continued on page seven) Tribunal Asks For Suspension Of 2 Students Tribunal recommended Tuesday night that two second semester residents of Hamilton Hall be placed on deferred suspension for the rest of the spring semester. The recommendation was made for violation of University regula tions concerning the possession of firearms and drinking in domi tories. The Judicial Board of Review of the Association of. Independent Men had recommended March 8 the students be sent to the Senate committee on student affair's sub committee on discipline. The stu dents appealed the AIM board's decision to Tribunal. The students, one a pre-medical major and the other a mining en gineering major, were found guil ty of having a revolver in their dormitory room while they were illegally drinking alcoholic bever ages. The revolver was not regis tered with the Campus Patrol. They were charged with action under Senate regulation W-4 and state liquor laws which prohibit minor's drinking intoxicating bev erages. Regulation W-4 says alco holic beverages are not to be served at any social function at the University. Deferred suspension means the students are suspended, but are permitted to remain until the end of the semester, when their disci pline will be reviewed. Any ac tion by either Tribunal or AIM board is a recommendation to the Dean of Men's office. Coed Room Application Deadline Is Today The deadline for women stu dents to file room applications has been set for 4 p.m. today by Mrs. Cordelia L. Hibbs, assistant to the dean of women. Mrs. Hibbs said each woman must file an application. Those who desire to retain their present rooms and already have chosen roommates and those who have not chosen roommates should both complete the required forms in the Dean of Women's office, 105 Old Main. TODAY'S WEATHER WARMER AND SHOWERS VOL. 54, No. 104 Traffic Plan Recommitted By Cabinet All-University Cabinet last night sent back to committee rec ommendations to establish a grad uated increase in fines for student parking and traffic violators. The recommendations, part of a report submitted by James Dun lap, Traffic Court chair m a n, would have established penalties varying from a $1 pine for first of fenders to a $2O fine with 16 weeks suspension of driving priv ileges in Centre County for fifth offenders. After considerable debate, cab inet voted to send the report back to the committee for revision. Dunlap Recommends Dunlap also recommended cab inet recommend to the University administration that three campus parking areas be expanded to in crease parking facilities by more than 400 spaces. Richard Crafton, junior class president, offered and later with drew a motion asking the commit tee to draw up recommendations calling for the University to elim inate inequities in regulations af fecting staff, faculty members, and graduate students. Crafton pointed out that under the present situation, students are fined for traffic violations and other violators are not. Faculty and staff members are not disci plined and enforcement of regula tions for graduate students rests in the hands of the deans of their colleges. Dunlap urged that the students "clean their own house first, be fore we ask the administration to clean'its house." Action Seen He indicated the administration will take action on the "inequi ties" within the next two weeks. Craf ton withdrew his motion upon request by Dunlap to await action from the administration on the "inc_wities." Dunlap also recommended: 1. All motor vehicles belong ing to students be registered with the Patrol regardless of whether the students are eligible for park ing permits or not. Failure to reg ister cars within 24 hours of bring ing them on campus would result in a $lO fine. • 2. Faculty and staff members' cars be registered as well. 3. Student violators who fail to appear before Traffic Court be fined $1 regardless of the dispo sition of the case, and violators who fail to report to the patrbl office within 24 hours of getting a ticket be fined $l. 4. To make parking area 50, near the Jordan Fertility plots, made open to any cars. Kidd Asks - Election, :'' , .?..:11.,1rd '-i•i.,-.ltirisilins In condemnation of what he termed a "vigilante committee meeting" held last night in 121 Sparks, Thomas Kidd, sixth • se mester education major, asked All-University Cabinet to reor ganize the present All-University elections committee and demand ed that all campus political parties be chartered by cabinet. Kidd asked that such charters be demanded "so that present cor ruption could be dealt with." His reference to "vigilante committee" was made in reference to a meet ing held at 7 p.m. yesterday in 121 Sparks and called by Donald Herbein, Charles Gibbs, and James Dunlop.. Kidd said. ". . . a number of you were present. In my opinion their proposed plan to solve the political situation on campus was not very wise. It is the duty of Cabinet to control pol itics." Kidd made the proposal before Cabinet as an individual student STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 19, 1954 Lion . I ,.`arty ;- . ':''':'ejecstas ColTarrlitte..-.......kielcision Politics in the Spotlight r 7 7 f` —Photo by Keihl JAMES DUNLAP, former official in the State Party, blasts the activities of both political parties at a "better Student Govern ment" rally in 121 Sparks last night. Donald Herbein, who called the rally to obtain opposition to Benjamin Sinclair, Lion Party clique chairman, and support for Lewis Wade, State Party candi date for All-University president, is• in the background. Student Opinion Rally; Wade to A rally organized in the name of improying student politics at the University died last night when the tide of public feeling at the meeting turned against the sponsors, and the rumored resignation of Lewis Wade, State Party candidate for All-University president, failed to materialize. " This last action made it impossible to substitute what was termed as a "more popular candidate" in an ..attempt to carry the election. Wade had been previously ap proached and asked to resign his nomination but late last evening he changed his mind and refused, The" meeting was chaired by Donald Herbein and was called in the name of the senior men's hat societies, one of which, Skull and Bones, Herbein is president. He said the meeting was the re sult of an idea developed by James Dunlap, Charles Gibbs, and him self. Herbein said the meeting was called to put an end to campus and in no official capacity. The proposal asked that an Elections Board be set up to consist of a chairman, two assistant executive chairmen, and seven election as sistants. It called for Cabinet'§ chartering of all political parties formed on campus and Cabinet's establishing and legislating a fixed elections code. Kidd suggested that the proposed committee meet, work out and authorize a new elections code. At present a temporary elec tions code, set up annually by the Elections Committee, is used. There are no existing charters• for political parties. He said that the proposed elections code would have to be adhered to by, political parties, and thus party clique chairmen could not manipulate clique membership according to the will of the clique chairmen. Under the proposed code, Kidd said, Cabinet could not control clique membership but it could FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By DIEHL McKALIP political parties controlled by one man: Benjamin Sinclair, clique chairman of Lion Party. He said the only way to rid the University of this threat was to defeat the candidates Sinclair sponsors. He then announced Wade would run and he must be backed to beat Sinclair. He asked people t sign up as workers in the cam paign to get Wade elected. The meeting ended a day of rumors to the effect that several candidates in spring elections might resign under pressure. (Continued on page eight) regulate nomination of candidates The proposal was sent to corn mittee study by Cabinet vote. In further action Cabinet ap proved a proposed All-University Cabinet Budget for 1954-1955, sub mitted by David Arnold, All-Uni versity secretary-treasurer, listing estimated total Cabinet receipts at $12,300 and allocations at $12,300. The major change in the budget from the present budget is a de crease of $6OO in allocation to Col lege councils. The budget provides $9OO for College councils in con trast to the present allocation of $l5OO. The remaining $6OO is allo cated to the National Student As sociation. The sum wa- granted to NSA. Arnold said, so that NSA would not have to draw on Cabi net funds for expenses. The major drop in scholarships was a decrease of $95 in Traffic Court scholarships. Under the new budget, traffic court chairman (Continued on page eight) 1 , 7 . A.', ..' , ...1 ,:, ... , , ,,, ,A , ..V:-.,.., , ,,,,, ~,.....,.....,-....,,,V,:".i, . 4 ` . ., : :::! , :,....;, ,' :!!! !. .! ?: !:11 , !:!: 1 . ,,,t.,:! , 71 ' , ; , : : ,:,•:! ... :: ' , ; ! ... !!! . ': ' . t : ":":...i1i1i . , : 1 . i 1 l ''.•?: . > , V - -'-':''& , .: ,, u , ;4-'r%'" , . , :5,,, , c.' i 5 : 4 g.e."'.!."01.'":"e' , ,, ,, ..p7 . 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The committee approved the cliques' slates that were elected Sunday at the final clique meet ings after clique chairmen sub mitted lists of candidates and their transcripts. The plank which was ruled out by the committee is, according to Goslin: ' Chaperoned Dating Code "The Lion Party states its op position to the new chaperoned dating coed and proposes the fol lowing plan: A. During the hours from noon to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thurs day and from noon until that hour when each woman student is due in ner dormitory Friday and Saturday evening, a social function shall be considered in operation at each fraternity. B. It shall be the immediate responsibility of each fraternity to supervise the conduct at all such functions. C. It r shall be the overall re sponsibility of the Interfraternity Council to supervise and check the conduct of all fraternity social events. Self-help We believe that under such a system, the fraternities will prove able to regulate, unaided, their own social functions, and that the imposition of chaperons and/or housemothers is unnecessary. With the IFC responsible for the conduct of fraternity social events, we feel that the problem can be solved." When asked by Jane Mason, a committee member, why Lion Party bothered to send a repre sentative to read the code to the committee if its intent was to do as it pleased anyway, Goslin re plied: "It's a ritual, so to speak." Lion Party won top position on the All-University ballot through a coin toss and State Party was awarded top position on• the sen ior class ballot. On another coin toss, Lion Party won top posi tion on the junior class ballot. The committee approved a mo tion which will allow a party time enough for an emergency clique (Continued on page eight) Blue Band President To Be Concert Soloist Donald Lambert, president of the Blue Band, will be featured soloist of the Penn State Blue Band concert at 3 p.m. Sunday in Schwab Auditorium. Lambert will present a baritone horn solo of De Luca's "Beautiful Colorado." The concert is open free to the public. FIVE CENTS
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