Weather= Cloudy and Warmer VPL . 54, No. 120 Kois Gross Seeks To Give Up Coach Post STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 9 GEM—The emotional stress an d • drain ,on his health caused by coaching collegiate basketball has Penn State's Elmer Gross seeking to give up his coaching post. "My stomach and eyes have been bothering me for the last three years and I'll have to do something shortly, I'm relatively certain," Gross said in answer to reports that he will leave the job he took five years ago upon the resignation of John Lawther. Gross declined to say whether he had actually submitted a res ignation to the university trust ees, indicating this was a matter for college authorities to discuss. Gross - said he would like to re , ..,„. main an' associ ' •`)'' -• „ .. ate professor in „.•„; the school's Col of Physical Education. Ernest B. Coy, director of s-,." • athletics, said he ' • • :knew (!r V•,,,,,'• • , 'about what Gross intends to 0 . "Elmer carries a big teaching • • . lodd in addition Elmer Gross to his coaching duties. He talked to me about quitting before but I advised him to continue." Gross, 37, is a former Penn State cage star, captaining the first Nittany Lion , team to play in an NCAA tournament in 1942. He is a vete:van of World War 11, and was wounded in a landing on the French coast. A 1942 Penn State graduate, he joined Lawther as an assistant upon returning from-war service. During his years as head man Penn State has won about 'twice as many games as it has lost. This season his club finished with an 18-6 overall record, los ing to LaSalle, eventual NCAA national champion, in the year's finale. Eng Program Will Include Navy Displays The College of Engineering and Architecture Open House from 1 to 5 p.m. today will'include dis playrbY the Naval Reserve Offi cers Training Corps, a tour through the Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel by the Ordnance Research Laboratory, and exhib its by departments of the college. The Engineering Mechanics de partment will operate the Mate rials Testing Laboratory, to dem onstrate properties of metal and wood. The civil engineering exhibits will include a collection of sur veying instruments an d aerial photography equipment, hydraul ic demonstrations, sewage an d water treatment methods in the Sanitary Engineering Laboratory, and structural - and construction problems, including a research project on a model . railroad truss by Edward C. Holt, instructor in civil engineering. A foundry exhibit from the De partment of Industrial. Engineer ing will feature the perform ance of a cupola, or .mel t in g equipment, and a demonstration of metal casting. Other exhibits include demonstrations of oxya cetylene cutting, welding, a time and motion study explanation, tool designs, and several manu facturing plant layouts.. . . . 6\ ' - .:',.R...",:: .g) . 'RV,i; . . ~s . i.,': - .. 7,_ 0 , ---Baitg'( t Tall .). .-lasg, . . . . Reaches MCAA . Finals NC-AA Fight Action HERB ODOM, Michigan State puts a headlock on Penn State's Jack Stokes as the two fighters clinch in last night's NCAA semi final boxing matches. Odom decisioned Stokes in their 147-pound match. Odom will meet Len Nichols in the final bout tonight. Review Players Present 'Pick Up Sticks' Players emptied out their pockets last night in "Pick Up Sticks" and• discovered they were filled with prize packages of talent. Before going to the show, we were interested and dubious as to how a musical revue was , going to fare at Center Stage, an arena type theatre. We-went, we saw, but instead of conquering, our resis tance was beaten down by the amazing amount of dramatic know how present in the revue. No previous play this year has had a cast with so wide an array of skill and talent, nor has any offered so great a variety o 2 ideas and pleasures. The sole unfortunate thing about the production was the in consistency of the various skits. By this we mean that several were of such superior quality that the rest appeared poor. This was not entirely due to the merits of the few top ones, such as "Countrie Music," "Pick-Up at Styx," and "The Hat"; rather, several were dragged out so much that they became tiresome.. Examples of this type are "Winsome Winnie" and "1983 " The former, a parody on 19th century melodramas would have Sirnes, Schott Refuse Comment On Dating Code Discussions Dean of Men Frank J. Simes and Thomas Schott, Interfrater nity Council president, refused to comment on their discussion yes terday concerning fraternitY ob jections to the recently adopted fraternity - social code. Simes and Schott met yester day afternoon, but said they did not want to comment on their discussion until fraternities were told what had been considered. Schott said he would meet with fraternity presidents .Monday or Tuesday evening to discuss his meeting with Simes. Fraternity presidents met Wednesday and Thursday night to discuss the new code. At , the first meeting they discussed recommending to the University that the code be put into. oper ation on a trial basis this spring. This, recommendation was re jected at Thursday night's meet FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1954 ay EDMUND REISS been better if it had appeared in one act instead of three. The main saving features of this skit were the fine performances of Debi Peek and Pete Lang between the acts. The show began slowly due to the rather poor selection of open ing skits. "Fry in His Own Greece," a tale of the return of Helen of Troy, was confusing and filled with sloppiness. The third sketch, "Speak the Speech," had hardly any quality except for Eli zabethan costumes, and it might have been better excluded from the repetoire. "Pick-up the' Styx" was prob ably the most hilarious act in the whole show. The story concerns (Continued on page eight) ing. Fraternity presidents, how- - ever, voiced disapproval of the code and asked Schott to discuss possible revisions - with Simes. Simes said he and Schott had an informal discussion about the prOblem. He said he did not feel it would do the situation any good to comment on the meeting. A fraternity spokesman yester day said the fraternity presidents wanted later dating hours and pernlission to have unchaperbned dating during the week. He said their chief concern was the dif ficulty in finding chaperons. When asked if he could under stand the fraternity presidents' point of view concerning revisions in the code, S,imes had no com ment. • Following Thursday's meeting Schott said the fraternity presi dents could not accept the code because it was "impractical." Schott said he believed_ "the administration is forgetting the rgiatt Wisconsin Leads Field With 14 Points; State 4th Wisconsin held to the pre-tournament selections last night as. it moved all four of its semi-finalists into tonight's final action in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's 17th annual classic. Penn State lost three of its four entries as only Captain Adam Kois was able to salvage a victory and a berth tonight. Wisconsin leads the pack of 15 schools, with fourteen points, with Louisiana State University trailing by five with nine team points. Maryland, East ern team champions, has netted seven points and advanced two men into the finals. Penn State and San Jose State each will enter one finalist and boast six points apiece. Four teams hold five points while three other entries main tain four-point cards. While Wis consin holds the lead in finalists tonight, Maryland and Louisiana State University each have en tered two men. Ten other schools each have a final entry for Na tional laurels. The Lions' first loss came when Jack Stokes bowed to Herb Odom, 147-pound Michigan entry with a 5-0-1 record, 3-0. Stokes previous ly lost to Odom at Michigan State, this season, 30-28. Stokes lost the first two rounds, 30-29 and 30-28, although he con tinually pressed his taller oppo nent trying desperately—but vain ly—to move inside. The third round was , knotted 29-29, but awarded to Odom who displayed an attack similar to his second round strategy of pressing Stokes while the Lion missed several of fensive attacks. Ron Rhodes, 178-pounder from (Continued on page seven) Robbins Wins AA Position Galen Robbins wa's elected sec retary-treasurer of. the Athletic Association in All-UniVersity elec tions Wednesday and Thursday instead of Warren Gittlen as re ported in yesterday's Daily Col legian. ,Robbins received 1345 votes to 1073 for Donald Austin and 1026 for Gittlen. Ronald Weidenhammer wa s elected president of the Athletic Association, and, will represent AA on All-University Cabinet. Weidenhammer r eceived 1408 votes to 1386 for runner-up Jan Cronstedt. Cronstedt automatical ly became vice president. obligations it has to fraternities." Yesterday Schott said the frater nities have been of a service and the administration should be will ing to compromise. Four amendments to the new code were made by the Senate committee on student affairs this week. They were made after pro posed changes in the code were submitted to the committee by Schott. - Among the proposed changes was a request for unchaperoned dating from noon to 8 p.m. Mon day through Saturday and from noon until 11.p.m. Sunday. This request was not granted when the amendments were made. Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, said IFC's request was not a satisfactory solution. Earlier in the week Schott said he wished to make a statement concerning the amendments, but yesterday he said he had changed his mind. By ROY WILLIAMS Program Announced For Lent Two special Lenten services will be presented tomorrow at Schwab Auditorium by the Chapel Choir. The first service will be held at 10:55 a.m., the regular chapel hour, and the second will be a vesper service, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Station WDFM will broadcast the first service. It will be the first time the station has carried a Chapel service. The choir will sing .the Requiem Mass in C Minor by Luigi Cheru bini at both services. Mrs. Willa W. Taylor, professor of music education, will direct the choir. The Rev. Luther H. Harsh barge; University chaplain, will be in charge of the services. George E. Ceiga, assistant pro fessor of music and organist, will play as prelude, "Trumpet Tune by Stanley; as offertory, "Da Jesus an dem Kreuze Stund" by Bach; and as the postlude, "Of fertoire de Pagues" by D. Charles Planchet. The vesper service is sponsored by the Inter-Church Student Fel lowship. Student religious organ izations have been invited by Harshbarger to attend the evening service. Tribunal Gets Nittany Dorm Discipline Case The case of a first semester stu dent who threatened two other students with a fake gun in the Nittany Dormitory area Tuesday night, was referred to Tribunal yesterday by Harold W. Perkins, assistant dean of men. Perkins said the case would probably come before Tribunal before the Easter vacation. According to Perkins, the stu dent parked his car in a service drive behind the Nittany dining hall and blocked° traffic. When two students in another car asked him to move he refused. The driver of the second car approached the student to at .tempt to force him to move. The student reached into the glove compartment of his car and pulled out what appeared to be a pistol. The two other students immedi ately drove out of the area and reported the incident to their res ident counselor. Meanwhile, residents of th e area who had seen, the incident approached the student who also had driven from the area. The weapon used in the threat was turned over to Perkins. It was not a gun, but a replica, carved out of wood and covered with graphite. SU Board Will Meet The Student Union Board will meet at 4 p.m. Monday in 204 Old Main. Decentralized Voting See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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