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VOL 54, No. 118
Senate Group Makes
Four Amendments
In New Dating Code
The Senate committee on student affairs yesterday made four
amendments to the recently adopted fraternity social code, which
will go into effect Sept. 1.
The amendments pertain to chaperonage and hours for dating
in fraternities. They were made after proposed changes in the new
code were submitted to the com
mittee by Thomas Schott, Inter
fraternity Council president.
One amendment provides that
women may be in fraternity
houses from noon until 10 p.m.
Sundays, without registering the
event with the Dean of Men and
Dean of Women, if chaperons are
present.
This amendment is a change
from the original code which
stated women could be enter
tained in - fraternities from noon
to 8 p.m. Sunday, if chaperons
were present, without registering
the event.
Another amendment provides
that fraternities may obtain per
mission from the Dean of Men
and the Dean of Women to enter
tain women on Friday afternoon
on weekends when there are reg
istered events. -
The new code, bef or e the
amendment was added, stated
only that women may remain
until 1 a.m. on Friday and Satur
day evenings if the intention to
have such guests under proper
chaperonage is registered.
Concerning the hours provisions
of the code, IFC had requested
that dating be permitted in fra
ternities from noon until 10 p.m.
Monday through Thursday with
out registering the event.
The request stipulated that this
was to provide study time, and
no social events would be held
during this period.
A third amendment changes
the chaperon requirements by
adding another classification from
which chaperons may be chosen.
The amendment provides for an
"Approved Dean's List" to cover
people not included in the other
categories.
According to the code— before
it was amended, the approved
classifications for chaperons in
cluded chapter alumni of at least
ten years' standing, members of
the University faculty or staff,
fraternity advisers, and parents
of chapter members.
The last amendment states that
when two couples are chaperons,
one of the couples must be from
an approved -classification. The
first couple may invite a second
couple who does not necessarily
meet the qualifications.
In regard to the section of the
code concerning chaperons, IFC
had requested that proper chaper
onage be one couple, instead of
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Poll Shows
Campaign
Aims Fail
A poll among 192 students yes
terday indicated political cam
paigning and publicity has not
paid off in acquainting students
with candidates running in All-
University elections yesterday
and today.
The average student was able
to name between five and six
candidates—a little more than
three Lion and somewhat fewer
than three State nominees.
When questioned on whether
they planned to vote in the elec
tions, 154 students replied they
had already voted or would vote,
28 said they would not vote, and
10 were undecided.
Few students questioned were
able to name more than one or
two planks of party platforms and
found difficulty in designating
the party to which planks they
named belonged.
Indications were that candidates
for All-University offices were
better known than class officer
nominees. In a small segment of
the poll among 14 sophomore
women, all were able to name at
least one Lion Party candidate for
All-University offices. Five were
able to name at least one State
Party nominee for the same of
fices.
Twelve of. the sophomore wom
en named at least one State Party
candidate for senior class offices,
as contrasted to three knowing of
Lion Party senior class nominees.
Surprisingly, these women knew
fewer candidates running for jun
ior class office—the nominees for
whom they would be voting in
addition to All-University candi
dates. Four women named one or
more junior class nominees of
each party.
Of 133 women questioned in the
poll, the average woman knew
of three Lion Party and 2.8 State
Party candidates. Of 59 men in
terviewed, the average man knew
three Lion and 2.5 State Party
nominees.
Sale of Froth
Begins Today
Frothy throws loaded laurel
wreaths in the 1954 Froth Awards
issue which will be sold today at
the Corner Room and or the Mall
and other points on campus.
Froth awards are given for the
best try of the year, the worst
newspaper, and similar achieve
ments.
To console those not honored in
the issue, Frothy will contain two
Froth girls of the month: Sandra
Booth, fourth semester journalism
major from Tarentum; and Judith
Smith, second semester education
major from Oxford. .
Featured articles include "Let
ter from Paris" by Francois Field
ing and "Special Froth Award" by
John Joyce. Frothscope will cover
parties in Beta Sigma Rho and
Zeta Beta Tau.
This issue will be the last under
the old staff. The final issue will
come out. Spring Week.
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Today
By ROY WILLIAMS
Six of Penn State's eight boxers
entered in the National Collegiate
Athletic Association's 17th an
nual classic are scheduled to see
action today in the first round
preliminaries.
Twenty-four preliminary bouts
will be staged at 2 p.m. in Rec
reation Hall. Ten bouts will mark
the afternoon card, and the even
ing session will carry 14 matches.
The second half of the preliminar
ies will start at 8 p.m.
In the afternoon sessions, the
Lions' two ex-wrestlers, Larry
Fornicola and Joe Humphreys,
will fight in their first National
boxing meets.
Fornicola, who fought in the
Lions' last dual meet of the sea
son at Louisiana State—his first
collegiate bout after switching
from the mats, will fight the third
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1954
2719 Cast Ballots;
Set Election Record
ALEX TARABOLSHI, Nittany area resident gets his matriculation
card checked at Nittany Dorm 20 during yesterday's balloting for
All-University, class and AA officers. Checking his card is John
Sherk of the elections committee, Bob Kokat, and John Tunell
of Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity. •
• WASHINGTON, April 7 (R)—President Dwight D. Eisenhower
and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles publicly called on free
nations today to express both the will and the readiness to save stra
tegic Southeast Asia from communism.
At a news conference, Eisenhower soberly warned that loss of In-
dochina would have incalculable
consequences. It might cause near
by Southeast Asia countries, he
said, to topple like dominoes.
Solving the problem is not a job
for one nation acting alone, he
said. There must be a concert of
opinion, and a concert of readi
ness to react in whatever way is
necessary.
Dulles meanwhile urged friend
ly governments to demonstrate "a
united will" to back up French
Union forces which are now batt
ling a powerful Red offensive in
Indochina.
Such a united will, he said, "will
diminish' the need for united ac
tion." But, he added in a speech:
"There should be, I hope, a will
ingness to have united action if
Boxers
in 17th
fight of the afternoon. Fornicola's
bout will be one of three 139-
pound clashes.
The Penn State boxer will face
Ronald Titus of Idaho. Fornicola
Ticket sales for the- 17th Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Asso
ciation boxing tourney in Rec
reation Hall have been low, ac
cording to reports from Edward
M. Cze.kaj, assistant business
manager of the Athletic Asso
ciation.
"The students certainly have
not backed this event," Czeckaj
said yesterday, "even at the re
duced prices." Czeckaj reported
that only 508 tickets for re
served seats and 51 tickets for
unreserved seats have been sold.
with a 0-1-0 record will be at a
disadvantage to a more exper
ienced Titus, holding a 2-3-3 card.
• Humphreys will face Wiscon-
Foreign Aid Asked
To Save Indochina
to See
NCAA
rgiatt
—Photo by Bretts
the event should be such as to
require it."
As Eisenhower and Dulles spoke
out, diplomatic officials disclosed
that the United States was try
ing to line up a ten-nation bloc to
oppose further Communist aggres
sion in Southeast Asia.
The American plan, they said,
calls for countries with vital in
terests in the area to agree on
readiness to use military action,
if necessary, depending upon de
velopments in the bloody seven
year war for Indochina.
Countries now being sounded
out secretly to join such an agree
ment are Britain, France, Aus
tralia, New Zealand, the Philip
pines, Thailand and the three In
dochina states—Vietnam, Laos and
Cambodia.
Action
Tourney
sin's rugged Bob, Meath in the
only 156-pound bout of the after
noon— Humphreys, who gained
some ring experience while in
the Navy, has never fought
against collegiate competition.
Meath has been one of the Bad
gers strongholds, and has compiled
a 6-0-0 dual meet record.
Four Lions will enter the pre
liminary action in the evening.
Harry Papacharalambous (2-5-1)
meets Seiji Naya, Hawaii, unde
feated in dual meet action (4-0-0).
Naya, along with Hawaii's other
entry, Cyril Okamoto, had reached
the finals of the Honolulu ama
teur championships, when an en
thusiastic group of island busi
nessmen decided to send them to
the NCAAs in the States.
"These boys," said their coach
Herb Minn, "are good boys, may
be the best in the tournament.
They'll
.be champions, all right."
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°Long' Shorts,
A Hot Issue
See Page 4
A new first day voting rec
ord was set yesterday when
2719 students, 28.7 per cent of
the 9442 students eligible to
vote, cast ballots in the All-
University spring elections.
This is 488 more than last year.
Voting continues today from
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at polling
places in the Temporary Union
Building, the West Dorm lounge,
the second floor lounge in Old
Main, and Nittany Dorm 20.
In order to vote, students must
show matriculation cards.
The previous first day voting
record, set in 1952, was 2250, or
24 per cent of the eligible voters.
2231 Voted Last Year
Last year 2231 students, 23 per
cent of eligible voters, cast ballots
in the spring elections.
Voting yesterday was heaviest
at the West Dorm poll. There
1038 students, 38 per cent of the
total, cast ballots.
Only 255 students, or nine per
cent of the total vote, voted in
the TUB yesterday. The Old Main
poll had the second highest num
ber of voters, with 942 students,
35 per cent, appearing there.
In Nittany Dorm 20, 484 votes
were cast: This is 18 per cent of
the first day vote.
Voting Breakdown
In the class breakdown of votes
cast in the West Dorms, 717 sen
iors and freshmen, 122 juniors,
and 199 sophomores cast ballots.
In Old Main, 327 seniors and
freshmen, 284 juniors, and 331
sophomores voted. In the TUB
96 seniors and freshmen, 83 jun
iors, and 76 sophomores voted.
A total of 9442 students are eli
gible to vote in this spring's elec
tions-1933 seniors, 2157 juniors,
2569 sophomores, and 2783 fresh
men.
To Set Recora
If today's vote equals or sur
passes yesterday's, it will be the
heaviest vote yet recorded at Penn
State. Last spring 44.9 per cent
of the eligible voters cast ballots.
Edwin Kohn, elections commit
tee chairman, said yesterday he
expects today's turnout to be
higher than yesterday's. Kohn
said that the turnout will prob
ably decide whether decentral
ized voting will be retained in
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Kohler to Give
Simmons Series
Lecture Tonight
Erich Kehler, historian and pro
fessor in the German department
at Cornell University, will give
the second of the Simmons series
lectures at 8 tonight in 121 Sparks.
The lectures are sponsored by the
German department.
Kahler, a native of Prague,
Czechoslovakia, will discuss Frans
Kafka, one of the most widely
translated German authors of this
century.
• The lecturer has been connected
with some of the most important
intellectual circles and trends of
Europe and is a close friend of
Thomas Mann and Albert Ein
stein.
Kahler came to the United
States before the outbreak of
World War II and settled at
Princeton, where he gave lec
tures at the Institute for Ad
vanced Study. He taught at the
New School in New York and for
the last eight years has been
teaching at Cornell University.
The first work which he has
published in English is "Man the
Measure," a new approach to
history. This work has been pub
lished in both Spanish and Ger..
man.
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