Cabinet Defeats Paw' Motion VOL. 54. No. 148 . STATE COLLEGE. PA., FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 28. 1954 FIVE CENTS 395 Seniors Elect Chancel Furnishing - Furnishings for the chancel of the proposed meditation chapel was voted on by 395 of over 1100 seniors in the recent contest, to receive the $lO,OOO class gift, according to Car olyn Pelczar, chairman of the class gift committee. President Milton S. Eisenhower will receive the senior class gift in behalf of the University. Also voted on by the seniors were the senior class honors. Richard Lemyre, .Gerald Maurey, David Arnold, Thomas Schott, and Robert Carruthers were named as the five out standing men, and Nancy White, Marilyn Buzby,- Peggy Crooks, Jane Mason, Carolyn Pelczar, and Ruth Israel will receive the hon T ors for women, The chancel furnishings was one of five suggestions given for the class gift. The other sugges tipns and number of votes' re T ceived were: a bandstand and public address system for the ball room of the new Student Union Building; furnishings for the body of the meditation chapel, 179;: a fund to begin a museum for the University or for the state, 121; and paintings for display in the Student Union Building, 84. About 10 per cent of the ballots were disqualified because none of the suggestions were marked. - Richard Lemyre received the highest number of votes among the men, and will be the class donor on Class Night. Gerald Maurey was named the pipe ora tor, David Arnold was named bar rel man, Thomas Schott was desig nated as cane man, and Robert Carruthers was selected as spoon man. Nancy White, who received the highest number of votes among the women will be the class don or. Marilyn Buzby was selected as. class poet, Peggy Crooks was •named mirror girl, Jane Mason was designated bow girl, Carolyn Pelczar was named fan girl, and Ruth Israel was selected as slip per girl. The awards will be given on Class Night. The program will be held at 7:30 p.m. June 6 in Recreation Hall. A number of ballots were dis qualified because both men and women were named on the same ballot. .Also participating in Class Night will be Robert Euwema, valedictorian, and Martha Rich ards, salutatorian. The Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial award and the Paul, Smith* memorial award will also be presented. Theodore Mortensen will receive the Paul Smith memorial award as'the out standing male senior in physical education. Lyon Denies Wade Sent Resignation In answer to Charles Gibbs’ statement concerning the alleged letter of resignation which Lewis Wade wrote in yesterday’s Col legian, John Lyon, assistant clique chairman of the State Party, said yesterday that he never received a letter from Lewis Wade stating that: Wade wanted' to resign his. candidacy for All-University pres ident. Lyons went on to say that “Ken White had no part in the events which followed. Ken White did not persuade Wade to stay, in the party, Lew Goslin, Rae Della- Donne, and. myself convinced him that 'he should not resign.” TODAY'S WEATHER CLOUDY WITH SHOWERS^ FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By SALLY SYKES ffß a F Honesty Accepted All-University Cabinet accepted a progress "report of the sub committee on academic honesty last night for a two-point plan sug gesting recommendations for approval by the Senate Committee on student affairs. Robert Carruthers, student member of the sub committee. which investigated the problem, made .the report. The following proposals were made by the committee for ac ceptance by Cabinet, and approval by Senate: that each College dean appoint two additional faculty and two students to a committee chaired by the. present College representative on the Senate dis ciplinary committee; and this committee act as the disciplinary court for all first offenses of dis honesty. Also under the first recom mendation, the committee asked that second offenses be handled as at the present time by the cen tral disciplinary committee. A second recommendation asked that first offenders be subject to remedial service penalties. Carruthers also suggested that a joint committee be formed, and uniform teaching procedures be used to minimize the opportunity for dishonesty on examinations by students. This included such conditions as numbering'all seats in examination rooms, use of an alternate seating plan or furnish ing alternate test sheets, proctors never leaving the room, and no discussion between students and proctors, or between students un til exams are collected. “This is a two-way proposition,” Carruthers said. He advised the faculty be thoroughly informed of all “honesty” procedures and requirements for their whole hearted. cooperation. “Students,” Carruthers said,' “should be .en- Cohn Contradicts Stevens, Adams WASHINGTON, May 27 {&)— Roy M. Cohn contradicted under oath today the sworn testimony of Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens and Army Counsel John G. Adams on six major points. Cohn, chief counsel to the Mc- Carthy investigating subcommit tee and top aide to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis), flatly ac cused Adams of “blackmail,”- and said the Army lawyer admitted he would “stop at nothing” to kill an investigation of alleged Com munist infiltration in the Army. ' The McCarthy aide’s most ser ious charge was that Stevens on one occasion—and Adams three different times—tried to “take the heat off” the Aidny by proposing investigations of the Navy and Air Force. The intense, 27-year-old Cohn Proposal by Cabinet By ROY WILLIAMS couraged to report to their Deans —as well as the faculty—infrac tions of these basic requirements.” George Richards, chairman of Spring Week, presented an eleven-point recommendation pro gram to Cabinet for next year’s operation of Spring Week. Among the eleven points, Richards asked that $5OO be alloted for buying such permanent equipment as spotlights for the Spring Week committee. He also asked that the He-Man Contest be dropped or action taken to “brighten” the event. Jesse Arnelle, All-Univer sity President,, announced that William Brill, sixth semester busi ness administration student, has been appointed Spring Week chairman next year. A report on conditions of town housing was . presented by Mar shall Donley, one of the six mem bers of the committee. He. said little had been accomplished, and asked cabinet to appoint another committee to investigate the prob lem next semester. SU Directory Deadline The names of newly elected of ficers of honoraries, social frater nities, and other groups which have not already been turned in, may be submitted to the Student Union desk in Old Main until Tuesday. These names are neces sary for groups to be included in the Student Union Directory. testified Adams offered to supply material for an investigation of the other services—including the location of an Air Force base where there was “a large num ber of sexual deviates.” . Both Stevens and Adams cate gorically denied they did or ever would try to divert the inquiry to the Air Force or Navy. The rec ord of the televised hearing is go ing to the Justice Department and could form the basis for perjury action against one or more wit nesses where there is a major con flict of testimony. Sen. John L. McClellan (D- Ark) said McCarthy might well be “guilty of a crime” in accept ing secret FBI data from an Army intelligence officer. Mc- Carthy defended his action and said anybody who wants to in dict him “can go right ahead.” Cohn also denied the testimony of. Adams and or. Stevens on five major points: Sinclair Asks Charter Lift Unless Politics End All-University Cabinet last night defeated by a vote of 21 to 0, with three abstentions, a motion made by Charles Larson, president of Mineral Industries Student Council, that "unless the organization known as Lion's Paw imme diately ceases its political activity, All-University Cabinet take the proper steps towards securing a revocation of Lion's Paw charter." Larson spoke for Benjamin Sinclair, who rose ic a point of personal privilege io ask if someone on Cabinet would make ihe motion for him. Sinclair said ihe purpose of ilie motion was "only a ■ve hicle 3o get the discussion on the floor of Cabinet.'" He added that the vote of Cabinet on the matter was of no personal consequence to him. By ANN LEH The issue of Lion’s Paw, which has jarred, campus for the past week, came to a head at the All-University Cabinet meeting last night. As the meeting was about to be adjourned, Benjamin Sin clair, former Lion Party clique chairman, under a point of personal privilege, proposed a motion that “unless Lion’s Paw immediately ceases its political activities, Cabinet should take steps to revoke its charter.” In p. point of clarification, Dean of Men Frank J. Simes said that cabinet could not revoke Lion’s Paw’s charter, but that such ac tion would have to be taken by the Senate committee on student affairs. Asks Revocation Sinclair said that he meant that cabinet should simply take “steps toward” revocation, such as pass ing a resolution recommending that. Senate should revoke the charter. Sinclair said he was not trying “to get back” at Paw for abuses against him, but he spoke on a series of abuses against him be ginning last fall, which he implied were instigated by Lion’s Paw. Arnelle Answers Jesse Arnelle, All-University president, attacked charges Sin clair had made at the end of the talks supporting Sinclair’s mo tion. Arnelle said he felt that there had been implications made that he had been influenced by Lion’s Paw in making appoint ments, particularly encampment appointments. Arnelle said he had ' been in fluenced by no one, neither Lion’s Paw or .Sinclair, and if anyone ever -had any such charges to make, he should bring his views before Cabinet, with proof to back them up. Sinclair charged Paw was re sponsible for attempts to have him defeated in the Lion party clique elections last fall. Sinclair had been appointed clique chair man by Watson Leese, but, after some discussion on his appoint ment, decided to call a clique elec tion. Sinclair said he “took necessary steps” to insure his election as clique chairman, such as organ izing freshmen, but felt that his methods were valid since his op ponents “were doing the same thing.” Kirschner Mentioned He charged that Lion’s Paw was behind the meeting and cited Richard Crafton, a member of Paw, as the man who had chaired the . meeting. Throughout the meeting, Sinclair said, David Ar nold, .-also a member of Lion’s Paw, kept asking him “Why don’t you call Kirschner.” (Richard Kirschner, former Lion Party clique chairman, made the char ges against Lion’s Paw at last week’s Cabinet.) Sinclair said that prior to the •meeting, he had been summoned to Tribunal, of which he was a member, by Thomas Farrell, Tri bunal chairman. Sinclair said that Farrell expressed the desire to impeach one of the Tribunal mem bers (Sinclair) for “conduct detri mental to the University.” How ever, Sinclair said Tribunal re fused to carry out any impeach ment action. Sinclair said that after at tempts to have him removed as clique chairman failed, he was in formed that State Party was to win the fall class elections “to keep the balance between the two parties.” However, Sinclair said, he was] gratified to find that the election! BULLETIN results were split, with each party winning three posts. Sinclair said that “everything died for a while” until he began getting phone calls, proposing Ro bert Smoot be nominated for the All-University presidency. Sinclair said that he felt Smoot was not the man for the job since Smoot “had been going along with” Lion’s Paw. In addition, Sinclair said, My ron Enelow informed him that Enelow would see that Sinclair had all the necessary campaign workers he needed, if Lion Party would “lose” the junior class elec tions. Sinclair said he was informed that Jesse Amelle, All-University President, should not be a candi date for any office because he wasn’t qualified for the job. 'Clean-Up' Meeting But, Sinclair said, Arnelle was nominated, “and the fun really began.” Sinclair referred to the “Clean Up Campus Politics meet ing,” and charged that although it was called by Charles Gibbs, Donald Herbein, and James Dun lap, he. had “on good authority” that the meeting was instigated by Enelow. Sinclair said posters for the meeting were drawn on Campus Chest stationery. Richard Gibbs, Campus Chest chairman, and Enelow, business manager of the drive, are Lion’s Paw members. Sinclair said he felt the present situation on campus was “ter rible.” Promises Stifle Opinion He said students were afraid to voice an opinion against Paw be cause of the appointment promises Paw can make. « John Lyon, State party vice clique chairman, said he, with Rae Delle Donne and Louis Gos lin, had talked to Lewis Wade, State party presidential candi date, and had persuaded Wade to run after he had been pressured to resign from his candidacy. Lyon charged, however, that since Wade had been selected by the party, he could see no reason for “outside group action.” Outside Action Lyon said his reasons for be lieving outside group action was taking place stemmed from an elections committee meeting. At the meeting, Lyon said, Charles Obertance, Edwin Kohn, and John Fink asked what would be done if a candidate would resign from his candidacy. Lyon said that at this time there had been no resignation and that there had been none in the past to cause such a question. Goslin, who spoke following Lyon, attacked the basis on which encampment appointments were made. Goslin cited a statement in the Daily Collegian, made by Al lan Schneirov, encampment com mittee chairman;, that encamp ment invitations had been issued after consultation with “various student leaders.” “Who were these leaders,” Gos lin asked, “Lion’s Paw?” Sinclair urged cabinet to accept (Continued on. page eight)
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