Toady, .Tornoilow kre'. Voting Day . For - Council . Seats , Eight Student 'Councils will hold elections today and tomorrow to -fill council seats. Polling places are set up on various parts of campus for student voting. Education Student Council will hold its elections in front of Schwab auditorium for six seats for sophomores, juniors, and .seniors. In case of rain, the elections will be in the main hall of Burrowes Building. Twenty-six' students will be chosen for membership on ...the Liberal Arts Student Council. Elections will take place in the main lobby of Sparks Building. Elections for the Physical Edu cation and. Athletics Student Council will be held in activity blocks today and tomorrow. Voting for the Mineral Indus tries Student. Council will be held in the lobby, of the Mineral Indus tries Building. Chem-Phys Student Council elections will begin today in the lobby of Osmond Laboratory. Eleven seats on the council are vacant. Fine Plans To Address Rec Confab Governor John S. Fine plans to address the members of the sev enth annual Pennsylvania Recre ation Conference which will be held today through Friday at the UniVersity. Approximately 300 recreation leaders and interested municipal officials will hear Governor Fine speak on the status of recreation in Pennsylvania at the Thursday luncheon meeting. Fred M. Coon;bs, professor of physical education, who organized the first conference in 1947, is serving as chairman. Charles W. Stoddart, Jr., director of physical education extension, has arranged the exhibits. The recreation 430 class will dis play its second annual project for the conference members. The camp demonstration will be held at 3:30 p.m. today and at 9 a.m. Fr , day. Seven camp areas will be rep resented in the exhibit, including ropes, a totem pole and tin craft novelties, nature and aquatics, and a miniature weather station and observation tower. Different types of tents will be shown in areas four and fi,ye. Camp cookery will be demon strated in area six. Area seven will be devoted to camp tools and their care. A binder twine machine and a camp library will also be ex hibited. Harold White, assistant profes sor of physical education, and Thomas Grater, ' graduate assis tant, are in charge of the camp' project. For the first time, discussion sessions on church and institu tional recreation programs have been included in the conference. The conference also includes ses sions on good• camping practices, pending legislation affecting rec reation, and legal aspects of muni cipal recreation. Sponsoring • organizations are the Pennsylvania Recreation So ciety and the Pennsylvania State Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. Car Collision - Causes $550 In Damages A car operated by Edmund Reiss, sixth semester arts and let ters major, received $4OO damage when it rammed into a fireplug after a collision with another car at S. Garner street and E. Foster avenue Monday night. Borough police said Richard Teaman, 1111 Oneida street, failed to yield the right of way at the intersection. They reported Tea man suffered minor cuts of the body when he was 'thrown, from his car, travelling west on Foster. Teaman told police he swerved to avoid the collision with Reiss' car, traveling south on Garner, and was thrown from his car. • - Damage to the Teaman car was estimated at .150. TODAY'S WEATHER COOL CLOUDY Business Administration stu dents will also vote in the lobby of Sparks Building. Five juniors, eight sophomores, and six fresh men will be elected. Home Economics, Student Coun cil elections will take place in the lobby' of the Home _Economics . BUildmg. Twenty students will be - elected to the Engineering and Architec ture Student Council by depart ments. Nominees are: Education Council, senior seats: Sue Abell, Harriet Barlow, Grace Bassel, Mary Burke, Catherine' Carr, Sally Collins, Bar bara Forrest, Ann Lofquist, Gertrude Mal pezzi, Shari MarCus, Ruth Rasmussen, Ron ald Ruth, Mary Selig, Nancy Scofield, Pa-. tricia Shelly, Janet Stevenson, Carol Wil-t son, and Ann Wylie. • Junior seats: Judith Burns, Ann Camp bell, Janet Easly,• Barbara 'Easter, Nancy Easter, Diane Edlenaan, Lois Eichenlaub, Janet Feaster, Joan Flebotte, Sara Hoff man, Marjorie Hopp, Vanessa Johnson, Nancy King, Locinda Manarin, Eileen Mar colina, Patricia McLauchlin, Leatrice Mil ler, Rae Phillips, Janet.Ramandanes, Nancy Shaffer, Donna Vought, Charles Witmer, and Jean Yemm. Sophomore seats: Barbara Baker, Anne Beebe, Marlene Bishoff, Suzanne Capper, Sandra Cunningham, Grace Demartino, JoAnne Fulton, Dorothy Hirst, Judith Hance,, Elaine' Harding, Virginia Leary, Natalie Maskowitz, Nancy. Scholl; Barbara Rosen, Donna Springer, and Robert Weil. Liberal Arts. Council, senior seats: Pa tricia Beahan, Mary' Bolich, Robert Cohan, Thomas R. Dolan, Gerald Donovan, Betsy Engel, Rosalie Maiorana, Beverly Marcus, Lawrence O'Dell, Nancy Ward, and Henry Zeybel. Junior seats: Alan Dash, Nancy Fortna, Judith Hartman, Martha Heim, Elizabeth Jones, Sherry •Kofman, Betty Koster, Ann Leh, Rudolph Lutter, Gertrude Lutz, Mar garet McClain, Roberta Maier, Rose Marie Mazza, Sidney Melnick, Lynn Meyers, Rho da Resneck, Elizabeth Rodgers, Judith Sedor, and Norma Weiner. Sophomore seats: George Buckhout, Dan iel Fegert, Judith Gropper, Maurine Leo nard, Barbara McMillan, Helena Moraio, Robert Parry, Richard Schriger, Nancy , Seiler, and Stanton Selbst. Physical Education and Athletics Council: president, Don Bell and Martha Rojahn; vice president, Patricia Farrell, William Seckinger, and Kathleen Queensberry; sec retary, Joan R. -Wilson, Mary Hudcovich, and Sarah Fague; treasurer, Amber Has singer, Beate Maron, Terry Mish, and Karl Schwenzfeier. Senior seats: Lamont Smith, Raymond McCartney, Elizabeth George, and Margaret Porterfield. Junior candidates include Dean Mullen, James Hochbeig, Frank Zurlo, Ber nadette Sheehan, Shirley Mix, and Ruth Kronenwetter. Sophomore seats: Richard ',Boggs, John Bischott, Glenn Moyer, Barbara Frederick, Ann Farrell, and Norma Nash. Business Administration Council, senior seats: John Bruce, Duane Buck., John Carey, Sandra Dahlinger, Max Frohwein, Arthur Goldstone, Joetta Hall, Josephine Romeo, James Scott, Nicholas Skimbo, Joan Sheieling, and Richard Thompson. Junior seats: Nancy Blaha, Arthur Bren er, John( Chaffetz, Sheldon Chaiken, Sol Cohn, Eliot Fox. Lewis Fryman, LawrenZe Gershman, Leroy Harris, Gordon Fogel, Richard Rivers. Fred Romig, Herbert Rosenberg, Robert Sargent, Jay Schniehl, George Setman, and John Stokes. Only six candidates petitioned for the (Continued on page eight) Red Troops HANOI, Inddchina, May 4 (2?),- Screaming Vietminh troops cap tured another important strong point 't oday in an attack on shrinking Dien Bien Phu's west ern defenses, then beat off a de termined French effort to retake the position. It was one of the grimmer hours of nearly two months of inces sant attacks on the French Union fortress by the besieging Red-led rebels. Since Saturday night the rebels in human wave attacks have cap tured four strongpoints and 'part of a fifth. Today's capture brought Tilt • lOztirtg VOL. 54, No. 131 STATE COLLEGE PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1954 FIVE CENTS Senate to Hear Grading Proposal Plan Would Establish '4' System DONALD MALINAK is towed by members of his chain gang in the Ugly Man parade last night. More than 150 cars toured the borough and campus to advertise the candidates for the Ugly Man title. Thirty-seven 'contestants are competing to win the Ugly Man key and the 28-inch-high trophy. Penny-voting for the candidates will be held today through Friday. Ugly Men Provide Scares, Laughs It was ugly-ugly from beginning to end. Anyone who saw the Ugly Man parade last night will verify this. Nightmares of Ugly Men probably entered the dreams of many of the coeds last night after the exhibition. With more than -150 cars in the parade, it' was one of the largest ever to be seen on campus. Bands blared and were effective even though they may have hit sour notes.' Even Liberace, McCarthy, and the Campus Patrol got into the acts. In fact, Liberace's candela bra had its place in the parade. Patricia Ellis, president of the Women's Student Government Association, was slightly in jured at 8:05 yesterday when she stepped off the curb of Pollock road between Osmond and Walker laboratories into the path of an automobile driven by Lawrence Matthews, second se mester aeronautical engineering major. Robert Biggs' following suffered the only mishap reported in the parade. The battery in one of the cars went dead in the middle of Pollock road. James Dunlap, as the Campus Patrolly from Chi Phi, had the Seize French Stronghold the besiegers ever nearer the hearf of the northwest Indochina fortress whose barbed wire and trench system, interlocked an d laced with mines, has been stead ily cut in area. It is now divided into two ma jor sections: the main center com manded directly by Brig. Gen. Christian de Castries and t•h e southern outpost strongpoint "Isa belle" whose , artillery fire is still a major protection for the central bastion. It was at Isabelle that some of the outlying emplace ments were seized over the week end, but without sharply reduc ing its firepower. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By NANCY FORTNA largest following of cars in the parade with a total of 21. Of interest to the men in the crowd was the chain gang of beau tiful girls and men accompaning Donald Malinak, sponsored by Lambda Chi Alpha and Alpha Chi Omega. Edward Haag provided the only feminine note in the parade, and he tried all the tricks of the fairer sex. He is sponsored by Beaver House and Philotes. The parade was led by the Blue Key Band in a hay wagon, pulled by a tractor. Today the penny-voting contest begins at the Ugly Man booth on the Mall and Pollock road. It will continue through Friday, and then seven finalists will be selected on the amount of money collected for the Campus Chest. From the seven finalists, thp judges will pick the Ugly Man winner on the basis of effort put (Continued on page eight) The strongpoint taken t o day was off the western edge of the main bastion. Isabelle, while cut off from direct communications, evidently is still a tough nut for the rebels. Instead of taking shel ter under its protecting fire it launched its own attack against Vietminh during the day an d smashed a trench system. The rebels, who had slackened their assault Sunday night after regrouping and refreshing their troops from the pounding they had been taking, launched an at tack on Dien Bien Phu's western rerimeter from newly won posi tions at 2 a.m. Tottrgian By MARY BOLICH A. recommendation that a new grading system of 4 to 0 replace the present system of 3 to -2 and that the minimum graduation requirement be 2.0 will be sent to University Sen ate Thursday. The recommen dation was approved by Honor Society Council yesterday. The recommendation was pre sented to the Council by a nine= man student committee. Under the proposed grading sys tem the -2 would be eliminated and a cumulative honor point sys tem for All-University standing would be used. The system would work • on a basis of 4 as "A" and 0 as failure. This system, the committee report stated, would "remove unfair pen alties" now in existence and also make the grading system similar to that employed by most other colleges. The University presently 'em ploys three systems of rating stu dents. The percentage-of-failures method takes care of students who have flunked more than half their credits. A student's grade point average is used in determining his relative scholastic standing or All- University average. To be grad uated, a student must fulfill honor point requirements of his curric ulum. This applies only to positive grade points. As an example of how the new grading system would work, if a student, carried 17.5 credits dur ing a semester and received only 6.5 grade points, getting a -2 in one course, under the present grading system he would have a .373 semester average. Using corresponding grades un der the new system, which would eliminate the -2 grade, the stu dent would receive 29 grade points and a 1.657 semester average.- In this case, where the student received a -2 grade, he would be closer to a passing average under the new system than he would be under the present one. The difference in the two sys tems would be in the case where a student receives a -2, the com mittee report showed. If a stu dent passes all of his courses, the All-University average would change from a 1 to a 2, a 2 to a 3, or a 3 to a 4. However, the report showed, the letter grade would re main the same. Before recommending the new system, the student committee sent questionnaires to fifty schools throughout the country in order to determine the grading system used by schools having enrollment and curricula similar to the Uni versity. The Council felt that the pre sent system employed by the Uni (Continued on page eight) Prexy Attends Meeting President Milton S. Eisenhower is attending a meeting of the prob lems and policies committee of.the American Council on Education in Washington, D.C. BULLETIN! The deadline for entry appli cations to the He Man Contest has been changed to 5 p.m. Thursday, Barbara Wallace, co c h airm an, announced last night. Entry forms may be sub mitted to the Student Union desk in Old Main.
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