Weather— Cloudy with Rain VOL. 54. No. 106 Greeks 'Week' Fraternities and sororities will inaugurate Greek Week Satur day by participating in 16 work projects in State College and nearby areas. The groups will travel to their project areas after a parade from the parking lot above the Temporary Classroom Building to College avenue and Atherton street. The parade will assemble at 12:30 p.m. and will move at 1 p.m., Allan Scheirnov, work projects commit tee co-chairman, has announced. Listed as projects by Scheirnov are cleanup work on the State College High School football field; Sunset Playground, Holmes-Foster Playground, South Hills Boro playground, East Fairmount Play ground, Corl Street Playground, Little League baseball field andJ Legit Park, borough dump, Tus sey Ridge Girl Scout Camp, Carkm Barree, and Ferguson Township (Pine Grove Mills). Other Projects Listed Other projects are Harris Town ship (Bo alsburg), tree-planting; Beaver Dam Recreation Area, cleanup and wood cutting; Penn State Christian Association Cabin, general work; and the Centre County Home for the Aged, paint ing. A band composed of members of Blue Key, junior men's hat so ciety, will lead the parade through the borough. Greek Week will begin Satur day and continue until April 3. Activities begin tomorrow night in preparation for the week with the first group of fraternities and sororities vieing in tryout rounds of the Interfraternity-Panhellenic Council Sing. Eliminations - will be held in 110 Electrical Engineering. Sing finals will be hel.;.' there at 7 p.m. Sunday. Finals will be re broadcast over Radio Station WMAJ at 8 p.m. Sunday. New Judge Listed Joan O'Hara, a member of the State College High School faculty, will replace Floyd Schlegel, in structor of music at the high school, as a judge in the sing con test semi-finals, Alexander Zer ban, sing co-chairman, said yes terday. Schlegel is ill, Zerban said. Winners of the Greek Week pos ter contest will be announced at the IFC-Panhel Spring Banquet April 1. Benjamin Lowenstein, contest co-chairman, said yester day. Approximately 30 posters were entered in competition. Pos ters were judged yesterday. Ag Council to Meet Agriculture Student Council will meet at 7 tonight in 105 Ag riculture, Thomas Inter, president, has 'announced. FMA Trustees Approve Meat Purchase Plan Fraternity Marketing Association's Board of Trustees gave the green light last night to a program for purchase of meats at reduced rates for member fraternities. The program will into effect April. 1. Nineteen fraternities with an approximate operating budget of $8720 in meats each month have signed contracts to participate in the program, Robert K. Murray, president, announced. Five frat ernities have declined to sign con tracts, and three fraternities are doubtful, he said. Fraternities must sign contracts to participate in the program. Under the program, participat ing fraternities will receive meats at a reduced rate of 10 per cent from two jobbers and a 5 per cent reduction from a third. U.S. choice and producer's choice grades are guaranteed under the contract. Murray said all deposits from fraternities participating in the program should be made by April 5. Participating fraternities are required by the, contract to post a deposit equal to half their monthly bill for meats in order to get the program started. The proposal to inaugurate the program .was-made at the second liax ti ~ 4 . . . / 4 s , 11 &111 of : . tir t 4 P l i E . , 0.: : I ," :•..4.- i i or . . • -.74,:rs Will With Signs of Season— Fertilize? Marks Arrival of Spring Signs of the times and the sea son made their appearance yes terday on campus. Trundling up and down side walks where students sometimes walk and over the grass where students always walk, were trucks carrying debris from winter and spreading fertilizer for spring. Walter W. Trainer, supervisor of landscape construction and maintenance, said University em ployees are now in the process of spreading 15 tons of fertilizer over portions of the campus. He added that grass will be sown as soon as the fertilizing is completed. This year the Univer sity is using perennial rye or Eng lish rye g r ass, he said, which, while good only for about two years, is extremely hardy. Lawyer Job In WASHINGTON, March 22 (W) - ----Sen. Karl "M Mundl (R-SD) ' said tonight the president of the American Bar Association has turned down a request to act as special counsel in the investigation of the sizzling fight between Sen. Joseph R.. McCarthy (R-Wis) and the Army. Mundt disclosed that ABA President William J. Jameson of Billings, Mont., had been asked to take the job as "a public service." Carnival Groups Registration Due • Organizations other than fra ternities, sororities, and the West Dorm, Nittany, and Pollock Coun cils who wish to enter the Spring Week Carnival May 12 and 13 must give their names to Richard Grossman, Carnival co-chairman, at the Student Union desk in Old Main, according to the Carnival committee. Registration deadline is 5 p.m. Friday. Names are needed for a mailing list, Grossman said. By PHIL AUSTIN annual meeting of FMA March 15. The program has been under in vestigation by Murray since FMA's first meeting in 1953. The Board of Trustees approved the appointment of Mrs. Marion F. Keister as a part-time secretary. She will begin to work March 29, Murray announced. Clifford A. Nelson, associate pro fessor of economics, was elected president of the board, succeed ing Murray. Robert J. Grace, as sociate professor of fuel technol ogy, was elected vice president, and Ralph Peters, an alumni trus tee, was reelected secretary-treas urer.. Richard Thompson,- sixth se mester business administration major, was elected assistant treas urer. The next meeting of the Board of Trustees will be held at 7:30 p.m. April 5 in the Dean of Men's office, Murray announced: STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1954 Begin Work FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Men, Women Debaters Place In Tournament The men's debate squad tied for third place and the women's squad for fifth place in the State For ensic Tournament Thursday through Saturday at Allegheny College, Meadville. The affirmative team lost to the University of Pittsburgh and de feated Juni at a, Westminster, Scranton, and Lehigh. Members of the affirmative team were Richard Kirschner and Benjamin Sinclair. The negative team lost to the University of Pennsylvania and Mount Mercy and defeated Alle gheny Women's College, Carnegie Institute of Technology, and Dick inson. Ronald Lench and Donald Pripstein were members of the men's negative team. Sinclair said the men's squad failed to make the semi-finals on the basis of team and speakers' ratings. The squad tied for third place in the 22-school tournament with four other squads, he said. Kirchner also participated in the extemporaneous speaking con test. George Haines spoke in the oratory contest. Harold J. O'Brien, assistant pro fessor of speech and vice president of the Debating Association of Pennsylvania Colleges, accompan ied the men's, squad. Agnes Porter and Nancy Silver (Continued on page eight) Refuses Counselling McCarthy-Army Row He said Jameson had consulted with members of the bar associ ation's Board of Directors and re ported it was their opinion that "it would not be appropriate" for the ABA president to assume the role of chief counsel or maybe "adjudicator" of such a contro versial matter. Mundt added that the ABA board members felt that no mat ter what decision is made by the Senate Investigations subcommit tee, which plans to conduct the probe, "many Americans are pret ' ty likely to disagree." In another development, Sen. Charles E. Potter (R-Mich) said McCarthy's proposal to have all witnesses in the inquiry take lie detector tests was "a lot of poppy cock." Potter expressed his views in a radio interview "Reporters Roundup." Both Potter and Mundt are members of th e subcommittee. McCarthy is chairman, but he has yielded the gavel to Mundt for the duration of the inquiry. Up until tonight, the identity of the man the senators wanted to sort out of the welter of charges and countercharges be tween McCarthy and top Army officials had been a closely kept secret. All that was known was that Mundt and Sen. John J. McClel lan of - Arkansas, senior Democrat on the subcommittee, had agreed to approach a "nationally prom inent attorney." Mundt said he and McClellan talked with this attorney by telephone Saturday and that his initial reaction was: "This is a terrible thing to hap pen to me. Don't bother me with this." Mundt told a news conference the subcommittee will meet to morrow at 11:15 a.m. EST to con- sider other candidates for the job; including some suggested by Jameson. Whoever - is finally se lected, he said, "need not consid er himself a second choice, since there is only one American bar president." To be probed are: -1. The Army's charges that (Continued ail 'age eight) tan Lion Party Discards Housemother Issue From 6 Point Plank Jesse Arnelle, Lion Party candidate for All-University president, said yesterday the Lion Party will abide by the election committee decision to drop the fraternity housemother issue from the printed party platform. Arnelle said the Lion Party w: Men May Apply For WD Rooms Men students who will be soph omores next year may apply for rooms in the West Dorms from 7 to 9 tonight at the room assign ment office, Nittany Dorm 20. To be•eligible they must have at least a 2 All-University average as of the end of the past fall semester. A release from the Department of Housing reported only 60 men will be admitted and those wish ing to room together should apply together. Upon payment of a $lO room and key deposit, a student obligates himself to occupy the room during the next academic year. Coffee Hour Today The Dean of Men's coffee hour will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. today in 109 Old Main. Discipline Case Sent to Tribunal The case of a second semester student involved in a fight Fri day at Bucknell University was referred to Tribunal by the Dean of Men's office yesterday. The student went to Bucknell to see a coed and found she was out with another man. He became involved in a fight with her date. Dean of Men Frank J. Simes said the student was already on office probation for putting his fist through a door in the East. Dorm area earlier in the year. Movie Titles Is Theme For 'Hatters' Para.e Moirie titles will be the theme of the Spring Week Mad-Hatter's parade. Entrants will be judged under three classifications, origi nality, most artistic, and comic, according to Richard Crafton and Baylee Friedman, co-chairman of the contest. Eadh group may enter as many participants as they desire, al though registration checkers will be empowered to reject any hat that does not show sufficient workmanship for competition Crafton explained Each entrant in the preliminary contest at noon May 10 will re ceive five points, and each finalist competing in the final contest at noon May 12 will receive five ad ditional points, Crafton stated. Three first, second, and third prize winners will be named in I the final contest. The three first prize winners will receive 50 ad ditional points and a $5 award. Forty additional points will be be given to the three second prize winners. Three third prize win ners will receive 30 additional points, he said. Points will be totaled by the members of the Mad-Hatter's corn mittee and allocated to the spon soring groups as points,toward the Spring Week trophy, Crafton said. All participants in the prelimi- WSGA Vote . Decision See Page 4 11 abide by the election committee decision by discarding the plank, but at the same time, the plank will c ontinue to receive con sideration from the Lion Party throughout the campaign. Committee Rejects Plank The elections committee ruled Thursday that a plank in the Lion Party platform concerning the fraternity dating code and housemother situation would have to be discarded from the plat form. Arnelle said the plank will not appear in written form on the platform. He added, however, the discarded plank may be made an issue, if necessary. He said he did not know what circumstances might necessitate bringing about such action. Arnelle said that, if elected, he would attempt some action on the issue. He said he did not know what such action would be. Wade Issues Stand Lewis Wade, State Party can didate for All-University presi dency, said the issue as proposed by the Lion Party is impractical. He said it would be impossible to enforce. The plank stated that in fra ternities during the hours from noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday through Thursday, and from noon until 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, a social function will be con sidered in operation at each fra ternity. It further states that, each fra ternity would be responsible for supervision of conduct at such functions, and that Interfraternity Council have over-all responsi bility to supervise and check'con duct of these events. Lewis Goslin, Lion Party vice clique chairman who presented the platform to the elections committee and voiced objections at the committee decision to dis card the plank, refused comment on the party withdrawal on the plank. Benjamin Sinclair, Lion Party clique chairman, also re fused comment. Edwin Kohn, elections commit tee chairman, said last night if the issue is used in unwritten form during the campaign, the committee could not censure the Lion Party. He added, however, (Continued on page eight) nary parade May 10 will assemble in front of the Main Engineering Building and proceed up the Mall to the Armory, where they will turn right and go past the steps in front of Old Main. Judges will consider each en trant, and choose approximately 50 finalists in each of the three classifications of the movie title theme. They will be individually issued new registration cards for the finals. CPA Distributson Staff Will Meet Tonight The distribution staff of the Central Promotion Agency will m_tet at 7 tonight in 5 Carnegie. Joseph Cutler, distribution man ager, said former candidates and other interested freshmen and sophomores may attend the meet ing. FIVE CENTS
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