Wecrthft--- Fair and Cocs4 VOL 54, No.: 141 Browri:Si4§ l §:Lebd In Ilijab,::-.:Tonight • Raymond H. Brown, assistant professor of music, will sing ;the title role in the Chapel Choir's presentation of Mendelssohn's ora torio, "Elijah," at 3 tonight in Schwab Auditorium. Doors will open at 7:30 tonight. • • Mrs. Willa C. Taylor will direct the choir in its seventh annual Pollock Council Votes to OK 3 Amendments Pollock Council last night unan imously voted to accept three of the four proposed amendments to the Association of Independent Men constitution. The only amendment defeated concerned the compensation of AIM officers. Duane Holm, parlia mentarian, said compensation of officers would not get the students more reliable men. He urged the council to defeat the amendment and the council voted 7-6 against the amendment. - The three amendments passed concerned the executive authority of the . AIM Board of Governors, standing committees on the Board of Governors, and the addition of constitutional legislation concern ing the AIM Judicial Board of Review. The amendments —by passage of Pollock Council—will go into effect before the semester ends. Both Nittany and West Dorm Councils passed the amendments earlier: The council also voted to post pone talks on the proposed mer ger with Nittany Council until the fall semester.. AIM president Robert Dennis was gliest speaker at the meeting. Dennis said next year he will have his officers visit council meetings at least two or :three times a month. 'He said he would like complete cooperation with Pollock Council and AIM would do every thing possible to help the council. Copies of. LaVie Available at SU Copies of LaVie are available today for seniors in liberal arts and business administration at the Student Union desk -in Old Main. • Engineering and architecture seniors may pick up copies of La- Vie tomorrow and Friday; agricul ture seniors Saturday and Mon day; home economics, mineral in dustri-s, and education seniors Tuesday and Wednesday; an d chemistry and physics and, physi cal education seniors, May 27. Seniors picking up their copies of LaVie may vote for their class gift at these times. Segregation Report Is Requested WASHINGTON, May 18 (2?)— President Eisenhower today asked for progress reports on coming moves to , end public school segre-: gation in the - District of Columbia. Officials said the capital's school system may be made a sort of pilot model to help 'g u i d e the states in the historic switchover. Many Southern leaders are up in arms against -the Supreme Court's ruling that it is unconsti tutional to educate white and Ne gro children in separate public schools. Some have come cloSe to open defiance of the decision. 'Eisenhower talked at the White House with the Board of Commis sioners .for the District of Colum bia. Afterward Samuel Spencer, 'president of the board, reported the. President asked to be kept in touch with the progress made toward. au integrated. system her - ~ . , ._ . • 4110 ~ I 4 . 4 .. . 4 r ...at .. .. ... ..... .. • 1 ' r t. i I (F.. - , 117...-7,,- 1, Ortilr 3 a .. o spring concert. Brown, a baritone, has made, fre quent appearances in television, opera, oratorio, and recitals. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, the Peabody Conservatory, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He has done graduate study in voice with Justin.- Williams, in oratorio with Ifor Jones, and in opera with Hugo Weisgal. After appearing as soloist in "The Eternal Light," presented by the National Broadcasting Company in 1952, Brown was in vited to give a recital at the New School for Social Research in New York the next year. He spent two seasons sing ing •leading roles in summer opera companies, an d in 1952 was in- vited to _ appear in the White Barn Theatre, Westport, Conn. He has also- been soloist with the Young Musicians Series and 'with the New Cham- Raymond H. Brown ber,Orchestra. Three other guest soloists will appear with the choir in tonight's program. Saramae Endich, soprano, was a winner of the Marian Anderson Award and has sung in concerts, throughout the eastern and, south ern parts of the country. She was the recipient of a Tanglewood Scholarship for 1953-54, and has appeared with the Boston Sym phony Orchestra and the New England Opera Theater. In the latter she sang the role of Melisande in Debussy's opera, "Pelleas and Melisande:" She has recorded for Spa Records the songs of Werner Josten. Jean Schneck,' contralto, is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory of Music and has been on the faculty there as well as on those of Indiana University and the Wo men's College of the University of North Carolina. She made her New York debut two years ago in a Town Hall recital, and last year became a member of • the Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera. Miss Schneck has Xing with the (Continued on page eight) Pivot Remains on Sale Pivot, student poetry maga zine, will remain on sale to day and tomorrow for 25 cents at the Corner` Room, the Mall and the Student Union desk in Old Main. where Negro pupils outnumber the white in public schools. Presidential aides rioted that Eisenhower, is on record as favor ing•an end to segregation in Wash ington. He- feels, they say, that if successful plans are made for an integrated system in the District it might serve to smooth the way for the changeover elsewhere. Farther south, in Georgia par ticularly, the court's ruling was repeatedly challenged. Georgia's attorney general, Eu gene Cook, charged the court with usurping legislative power and said he 'would refuse to partici pate in this fall's hearings on how the anti-segregation policy will be applied. The Supreme Court still has to decide on the mechanics for 'mak ing its decision effective and has called for. arguments .on the ques tion. This legal debate . may last cc .mckuths.._ • STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1954 Chapel Stall Is Implied By Gladys Eugene Gladys, president of Vitruvius Society, one of five campus groups which sponsored petitions asking for a contempor ary design for the All-Faith chap el, said yesterday he felt the University Board of •Trustees were stalling by postponing action on the chapel's final design. Gladys added he felt nothing could ,be reached by preparing more sketcheS of various styles. The final design for the chapel will be selected at a later meet ing. Two hundred petitions, spon sored by Scarab, architecture hon orary, Pi Gamma Alpha, fine arts honorary, student c .h apt e r of American Institute of Architects, VitruVius Society. a colony of Al pha Rho Chi, social fraternity, and the Art Education Student Forum, were circulated in April. The five organizations also sent letters to architecture alumni, asking for support for the con temporary design. Five thousand signatures were collected on the petitions, which were presented to Kenneth Erfft, assistant comp troller. Eleven of 12 students polled by the Daily Collegian inquiring re porter favored the contemporary design for the All-Faith Chapel, over the Georgian mode. • Architects will be directed to prepare more sketches of various styles of architecture ,and to re port back to the committee at a later date. The trustee commit tee on . architecture is now consid ering • sketches of contemporary as well as traditional design. Hohe Is Reported In Good Condition Kenneth Hohe, fourth semester dairy husbandry major, was re ported in good condition at the University Hospital yesterday by Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, director of the University health service. Hohe struck his head on the bottom of Whipple Dam about 4:30 p.m. Sunday. He said he felt no bad effects until a few hours later when a slight pain in his neck began to bother him. When the pain became more severe he was taken to the University Hos pital. He was admitted at 10 p.m. Sunday. General Beaver Exhibit An exhibit, shOwing the devel opment of Beaver Field and the life of General James Acldams Beaver. who at one time was pres ident of the Board of Trustees, is currently ' displayed in the two show cases on the second floor of the Pattee Library. M. D. Collins, superintendent of Georgia's public schools, predicted it will be half a century before segregation is ended in his state —"if then." Gov. Herman Talmadge of Georgia denounced the ruling and called a meeting of a State Com mission for May 25 to devise legal means of sidestepping it. In a speech to the House, Rep. Forrester (D.-Ga.) asserted the court made a "completely politi cal" decision which "wiped out every vestige of state rights." It means "The old fashioned- Y a n k e e and the old fashioned Southerner, whose ancestors won this - country . . . are completely without rights," he said. Forrester also contended the de cision : means = that laws against mixed marriages can now be an nuled. He said the ruling points to "nothing less than mongreliz ing Ofthe races." FOR A GETTER PENN STATE rgiatt Campus Chest Receipts Total Over $lO,OOO 'The addition of money collected in the Ugly Man contest brings the total receipts of the 1953-54 Campus Chest to $10,394.52, Richard Gibbs, retiring chairman, announced yesterday. _ Gibbs will make his official report on the program, including the break-down of allotments, at the next Cabinet meeting. Ellsworth Smith, next year's chairman, said next year's drive would begin early in the fall. Under a tentative plan worked out with Luther Harshbarger, University Chaplain, money will be allocated to the newly pro posed University Christian Associ ation and it would divide the funds among th ePenn State Christian Association, Newman Club, and Hillel., Drive Collects Bulk The Campus Chest solicitations drive last fall, which collected money from 55 per cent of the students and 51 per cent of the faculty, netted $7,602.81—the bulk of the total receipts. The Ugly' Man contest, spon sored during Spring 'Week by Al pha Phi Omega, national men's service fraternity, brought $1218.- 77. The Kickoff Rally dance in the fall brought $934.68; the Kap pa Kappa Gamma-Pi Beta Phi Powder Bowl netted $456.26; and the raffle on dates to the IFC- Panhel Ball brought $72. Approximately 450 students and faculty helped in the solicitations drive. Because of the time and bookwork involved, soliciting was done on the basis of cash rather than pledges. Two years ago con tributions pledged by students were added to their spring semes ter fees. Goes to II Groups Campus Chest money was dis tributed among 11 charity groups on a designation and percentage basis. The contributor could des ignate his money for a particular group. After the designated mon ey was distributed, the planning committee distributed the rest ac cording to prescribed percentage. The breakdown in allotments and percentages was: Penn State Christian Associa- (Continued on page eight) Silence Maintained On AIM Lawsuit Future developments of a threatened lawsuit against the Associ ation of Independent Men will not be released by AlM's two advisers and its president, Robert Dennis, unless the case is taken to court. The decision was made at a meeting of the three yesterday, according to one of the advisers, James W. Dean, assistant to the dean of men in charge of independent affairs. The other adviser of AIM is Ross B. Lehman, assistant ex ecutive secretary of the Alumni Association. 'Decision Best for Air "We feel this decision is best for all 'concerned," Dean said. The affair in question began last Wednesday when Dennis re ceived a letter threatening AIM with a suit for $1132.17 because of damages allegedly done to vending machines in the Nittany Dorms in 1950. The letter came from Edward L. Willard, a member of the local law firm of Willard and Dunaway which is representing Edward• H. Adamitz, a borough resident who is owner of the vending machines. Adamitz has claimed that AIM is responsible for the alleged damage because of a contract which he said he entered into with Nittany Council, a subsidiary of AIM. Adamitz said the contract held Nittany Council responsible for any damage done. Questions Unanswered Lehman, Dennis, and Dean have declined to comment on whether Adamitz is considering actually filing suit and if so when the suit will be filed. They have also -refused to -say what steps . New Registration See Page 4 Fall Timetable Sale Changed, Set for August Complete, timetables for stu dents will not be published until August, Ray V. Watkins, schedul ing office; announced yesterday. Watkins said• the change in pol icy over previous years is to re duce the corrections which had to be made in September wh en timetables were released in June. A timetable of courses, sections, and meetings of classes will be published for instructors, Watkins said. These timetables will be available to students at the Pat tee Library, in instructors' offices, and in dormitory counselors' and hostesses' - rooms. Last September, Watkins ex'- plained, a 26-page supplement had to be published to enumerate the changes which had been made in the timetable over the summer. He said the new plan of publish ing timetables will give the sched uling office an opportunity to make the changes in faculty and other changes which might be made 'by University Senate ac tion in June. The timetable which will be available to students in August will contain the courses, sections, meetings of classes, instructors, and rooms. Students may obtain timetables this summer by writing to the Scheduling offi c e, 4 Willard. Twenty-five cents will be re quired to cover the cost of the timetable and mailing costs. AIM is contemplating through its advisers. Lehman was adviser to AIM in 1950. The three have maintained si lence on whether the contract be tween Adamitz and Nittany Coun cil has been produced, and wheth er such a contr a c t, allowing commercial vending machines in the dormitories, could be • con chided without the express ap proval of an administration of ficial. They have also refused to say whether such a contract which would place responsibility for damages to the machines on AIM or on the University could pos sibly be concluded. 250 LA, Bus Seniors Vote for Class Gift Approximately 250 seniors voted for the senior class gift yesterday when they pickd up their LaVies. The same number is expect ed to vote today. Voting will continue for liberal arts and business administration stu dents. Results will not be an nounced until all seniors have voted. FIVE CENTS
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