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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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