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VOL. 55, No. 20
Group to Evaluate
University in 1955
By NANCY FORTNA
The educational pirogram of the University will undergo a thor
ough evaluation in November, 1955.
Between 40 and 50 members
Colleges and Secondary Schools
1955. This group will determine
23 to Enter
'Mr. State'
Competition
Twenty-three applications have
been received for the Mr. Penn
State contest, John Seasone, con
test chairman, announced yester
day.
Contestants are David Carvey,
sponsored by Phi Mu; Richard
McDowell, Zeta Tau Alpha; Rob
ert Homan, Sigma Chi and Al
pha Chi Omega; Ellsworth Smith,
Kappa Delta Rho; Ernest Famous,
Women’s Recreation Association;
Charles Larson, Alpha Chi Sig
ma; Ronald Weidenhammer, Chi
Omega and Alpha Chi Rho; Kirk
Garber, 'Alpha Xi Delta;. Kaye
Vinson, Sigma Delta Tau; Herbert
R. Hurlbring, • Thespians; Ross
Clark, Cwens; John Carpenter,
Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Andrew
Zerban,;Tau Kappa Epsilon; John
Greiner, Delta Sigma Phi; Robert
Kitchel, Pi Kappa Phi; John
Speer, Delta Delta Delta; Galen
Robbins, Phi, Delta Theta; Jesse
Arnelle, Alpha Epsilon Phi; Rob
ert Rohland, Alpha Omicron Pi;
Ver n o n Sones, Delta Zeta;
Robert Smoot, Kappa. Alpha The
ta; George Williams, Acacia;
and Donald Balthaser, Sigma Phi
Epsilon and. Kappa Kappa Gam
ma.
Five finalists will be chosen by
ten judges and the winner will be
picked by audience applause at
the Bell Hop Ball.
The five finalists will be chosen
on a. point system; Twenty-five
points. will be awarded for pro
moting Penn State off campus, 20
points for service to the Univer
sity, 10 points for .popularity, 25
points for-participation in campus
activities, 10 points for promoting
unity among the student body and
10 points for character.
Mixers Planned
For LA Frosh
Coffee hours for freshmen- iri
the College of Liberal Arts will
be held , every Thursday, starting
Oct. 29 at Beta Theta Pi, the Lib
eral Arts Studeint Council an
nounced Monday.
Freshman Liberal Arts students
will receive an invitation to one of
the coffee Hours.
The council’s election commit
tee will send letters to students
in the college explaining the proc
ess of self-nomination to the coun
cil and emphasizing the impor
tance of, voting for nominees.
Rose Marie Mazza, fifth semes
ter arts and letters major, and
Richard Schriger, third semester
arts and letters major, are co
chairmen of the committee.
Bleacher Seats Available
For Homecoming Game
Approximately 2200 tickets ir*
the temporary bleachers behind
the end zone are still available for
the West Virginia game Satur
day.
Tickets are $2 apiece and will
be sold until 4 p.m. Friday in the
Athletic Association ticket office,
248 Recreation Hall. A sell-out of
the permanent seats at Beaver
Field was announced last week.
Smoker to Be Held
Petroleum Engineering Society
will hold a smoker at 7:30 p.m. to
morrow at Theta Chi.
Petroleum engineering majors
®*ay attend.
Utlir Sailij|H (toll
of . the Middle States Association of
will visit the University on Nov. 6,
whether or not the University will
be listed among accredited col-
The' Middle States Association
ik the accrediting agency in this
region, and operates through a
Commission on Institutions of
Higher Education and a Commis
sion on Secondary Schools.
The association was formed to
establish minimum standards and
to publish a list of those institu
tions which meet those standards.
The University was y included in
the first list published in 1921.
Inspection Committee
At the University’s request, the
Association will invite, among
those to constitute the inspection
committee, representatives of
teacher education, business, chem
istry, journalism, psychology,
architecture, social work, engi
neering, and forestry.
. The group will visit all parts of
the University. AH the members
of the group may be expected to
be here at least three days, some
four or five.
The members will visit deans
and other University officers, de
partments heads, and some mem
bers of the teaching, research and
extension faculties. They may
also visit classes.
Questionnaires
The Middle States Association
has worked out questionnaires
which must be answered and put
in the hands of the visiting com
mitee several weeks before the
visit.
The questions have to do with
the objectives of the University
as a whole and of its component
parts, the capacity for • fulfilling
them, and the success with which
they are being fulfilled. :
Adrian O. Morse, provost, de
fines what accreditation will
mean to the University. He said,
“At this time we are confident
that • the University will be ac
credited fully and so gain the
national recognition such accredi
tation brings.
Provisos Possible
“However, it is entirely possi
ble that the Middle States Asso
ciation will grant accreditation
for the .University as a whole but
with certain provisos that areas
of the program be changed within
a year or so.”
If we have certain weaknesses
in our program, Morse said, they
should certainly come to light in
the next few months when we
make our self-evaluation (the
University Senate has .begun a
review of the educational objec
tives and program) and during the
visit of the MSA commission.
Succeeding months will find us
correcting them, Morse said.
Delaware Attorney Seeks Integration
GEORGETOWN, Del., Oct. 12
(JP) —State Atty. Gen. H. Albert
Young asked the- Court of Chan
cery today to return 11 expelled
Negroes to the all-white Milford
High School and promised that
Delaware would preserve law and
order.
Young, in an appeal before Vice
Chancellor William Marvel, as
serted that a court order readmit
ting, the Negroes “will arm” Dela
ware officials “with the kind of
decree where we can get those
people who are trying to destroy
our community and destroy our
laws.”
The attorney general empha
sized-that he was speaking as the
chief legal officer of Delaware in
backing the demand for a tempor
ary injunction by the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People.
What’s more, Young said, he
has; the “wholehearted support”
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 13. 1954
STATE COLLEGE,
WDFM May
T ransponders
Transponders to change the WDFM frequency modulation signals to amplitude mod
ulation which can be received on ordinary radio sets may be installed in dormitories for
testing within three -weeks, authoritative sources told the Daily Collegian yesterday.
At present, a transponder in the West Dorm area change the FM signals to AM for
West Dorm residents. Other students can hear student-operated WDFM only on FM radios.
Prexy to Get
Highest Medal
From Colombia
Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower will
be presented the Cross of Ijloyaca
by the government of Colombia
at a ceremony to be held at 6 to
night at the Colombia Embassy
in Washington, D.C.
Eduardo Zuleta Angel, Co
lombian Ambassador, will present
Colombia’s highest decoration to
Dr. Eisenhower for his contribu
tion to the cause of Inter-Ameri
can solidarity. Last year Dr. Eis
enhower toured South, America
for his brother, President Dwight
D. Eisenhower.
, Attending the ceremony will be
Mr. arid Mrs. Leßoy ,E., Eakirf, of
Washington, D.C., parents, of the
late Mrs. Eisenhower; and her
brothers, John R„ of Washington,
and Leßoy E. and Glenn E., both
of Falls Church, Va.-
Government officials attending
will include Henry F. Hollan, As
sistant Secretary of State for In
ter-American Affairs; W. Tapley
Bennett, deputy chief of the South
American Affairs; Department of
State; Andrew N. Overby, Assis
tant - Secretary of the Treasury;
and Samuel W. Anderson, Assis
tant Secretary of Commerce.
. The latter three accompanied
Dr. Eisenhower on his goodwill
mission to South America last
year.
Two former students visited
the University for four days last
week courtesy of the U.S. Navy.
Neal Derickson and Dari Bloom,
naval aviation cadets, came' to
the University after finishing
their basic training at Pensacola,
Fla. Their job was to recruit men
for the naval reserve program.
The cadets are enroute to Corpus
Christi for advanced flight" train
ing. •
_ Both men attended the Univer
sity from 1951-1953. Derickson
was enrolled in the College of
the Liberal Arts. Bloom was a
geology major and. a member of
Pi Kappa Alpha.
of Gov! J. Caleb Boggs and Dela
ware’s two U.S. Senators—Repub
lican John J. Williams and Dem
ocrat J. Allen Frear.
Young added that if the Court
orders the Negroes back to Mil
ford High “the governor of the
state and our United States Sen
ators” will “if it becomes neces
sary” lead these Negro students
by the hand into that school.”
Marvel, warning some 200 per
sons who crowded into the small
courtroom that he would tolerate
nc disturbance, reserved decision.
He declined to say when he would
act. "
The integration issue has creat
ed tension, throughout .Southern
Delaware. Officials have express
ed fear of violence.
Young told the court: “If it is a
question of preserving law, and
order the state of Delaware will
preserve that law. and order.”
Louis J. Redding, counsel foe
Former Students
Visit University
tgiatt
By PADDY BEAHAN
The new transponders were de
signed by the WDFM engineering
staff and built during the summer
by Charles Smitley of Boalsburg.
One of these transponders was
installed in McAllister Hall on
Oct. 2, - and experimental tests
were run.
To Be In' Other Areas
Transponders will also be put
in Woman’s Building, Grange
Dormitory, Simmons and Mc-
Elw.ain dormitories, Atherton
Hall, and the Nittany and possibly
the' Pollock areas. It is not known
when they will be installed in
these areas, however.
The transponder is the go-be
t'ween for an FM broadcast and
an AM set. The transponder re
broadcasts what come over an
ordinary FM set through the 110
volt AC current into an AM
radio. The AM frequency for all
the dormitories will be 640 kilo
cycles.
The AM signals will be sent
over the individual dormitory
power lines, because WDFM’s
license permits only FM signals
to,be sent through the air.
Non-Commercial Station
The station is licensed to op
erate on FM as a non-commercial
educational station. To. qualify
for an AM license a station must
agree to operate two-thirds of the
daylight hours—6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Since WDFM is run entirely by
students in their free time, this
is all ..but impossible. Until this
problem is solved, WDFM will re
main, a FM station.
Under AM broadcasts, the sta
tion would be subject to comply
with Federal
Commisison rules.
One transponder will serve.both
McElwain and Simmons dormi
tories, which are probably elec
trically connected, the source told
the Collegian.
Pollock Transponder Doubtful
Since Pollock is sparsely popu
lated and may be closed soon, a
transponder might not be in
stalled for the Pollocks residents.
Off campus students will not
be able to hear WDFM on AM
sets.
Th e West Dorm transponder
was built by student engineering
majors and installed last, spring.
It was removed during the sum
mer, and perfected, and is now
operating satisfactorily, it was
learned.
The first of the new transpond
ers was installed in McAllister
because of the short distance be
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the NAACP, said the U.S. Su
preme Court had outlawed segre
gation and insisted that “these
students should be back in school,
in the Milford school. They have
been admitted once. They should
be readmitted and they should
stay there. It is their right.” 1
The Milford crisis developed
three weeks ago after the 11 Ne
gro pupils were admitted to the
school that accommodated more
than 1500 whites—both elemen
tary and high school grades.
The National Association for
Preservation of White People,
headed by Bryant Bowles, de
manded their transfer and forced
the school board that had ap
proved integration to resign. A
new board ousted the Negroes af
ter more than two-thirds of the
white, students boycotted classes.
They were transferred to an all-
Negro school in Dover, 20 miles
away.
Campus
Post Office
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Test
Soon
Belle Hop 801 l
Will Be Held
On October 23
The Belle Hop Ball, tenth annual
dance of the Penn State Hotel
Greeters Club, will be held from
9 p.m. to midnight Oct. 23 in Rec
reation Hall.
Lee Vincent and his orchestra
will provide the music for the in
formal dance.
Tickets are on sale at the Stu
dent Union Desk in Old Main and
are priced at $2.50 per couple.
Tickets may also be obtained
from members of the Greeters
Club. The Greeters Club will meet
at 7 p.m] tomorrow in the Home
Economics cafeteria to receive
tickets.
Franklin Moore, manager of the
Fenn-Harris Hotel in Harrisburg
and president of the Inter-Ameri
can Hotels Association, will be
the master of ceremonies.
A South American fiesta theme
will be used in decorations. A
multi-colored false ceiling will
help carry out the theme. Re
freshments will include hors d’-
oeuvres and punch.
_ Jack Harper will provide a free
tie for the winning coat check
stub. The number drawing will
be held during the intermission.
Theofilos Balabanis is chairman
of the dance, Kenneth Rudolph
is publicity chairman, and Janet
Toffy is refreshments chairman.
Traffic Court
Fines Twelve
Traffic Court, which met last
night, levied $29 in fines for stu
dent violations on the campus.
Of the 13 cases heard, seven
persons were first offenders. Four
were second offenders, and one
person appeared for a third of
fense. One case was dismissed by
the court.
First offenders' are fined one
dollar; second offenders, $3; and
third offenders, $5.
The court announced that all
graduate students who have a stu
dent parking permit or who are
registered with the campus patrol
come under the jurisdiction of the
court.
This applies whether the grad
uate students are teaching or not,
and are receiving pay from the
University. This is the first year
in which graduate students have
been tried by the court. A repre
sentative of the graduate students
sits as judge in the court.
If a student, in case of an emer
gency, must park in an area not
authorized in his permit, he must
call the Campus Patrol office be
forehand to avoid being fined.
Fines are payable at the Stu
dent Union desk in Old Main.
Cabinet to Submit
LaVie Nominations
All-University Cabinet mem
bers have been requested to turn
in their LaVie personalities nom
inations today at the ' Student
Union Desk in Old Main.
Members who fail to hand in
nominations today may still do
so at cabinet meeting tomorrow
night. However, this will jje the
last time nominations will be ac
cepted, Alexander Ayres, activi
ties editor, said.
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