Todoy's Weather— . Cloudy and Rain VOL. 55. Na. 78 AIM Board Hears Constitution Changes The Association of Independent Men Board of Governors last night approved the first reading of the revised constitution and elected Leonard Richards, fourth semester business adritinistration major, secretary. The constitution must be read once more to the board before Committee To Consider Constitution Foss B. Lehman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Student Affairs subcommittee on organi zation control, said yesterday his committee will meet Monday to consider the constitution of the Campus party. Meanwhile, Wilmer E. Kenwdr thy, secretary of the Senate Com mittee on Student Affairs, said Lehman's committee has referred the Lion party constitution to his group for final approval. After the subcommittee on or -ganization control approves po litical party constitutions, they must be referred to. .the Student Affairs committee for final ac tion. Kenworthy said his group will consider the Lion party constitu tion at its first meeting of the se mester, but he did not know when the meeting will be held. Lehman said his committee has not as yet received a constitution from State party. The constitution was discussed once and sett back to the party for final revisions. Rae DelleDonne, State party Clique chairman, could not be reached last night for comment An when she will present her con stitution to Lehman's committee. However, Lehman said he expects to receive the constitution within the next few days. The constitution of the Campus party was submitted to Lehman's committee at the close of last se meAter. Gordon Pogal, former Lion par ty clique chairman, indicated ear lier that Lehman's committee had approved the Lion party constitu tion, but Kenworthy's statement yesterday was the first official announcement that action had been taken. The Senate must charter' cam pus political parties because All- University Cabinet decided ear lier this fall it does not have the power to do so. Chartering of political parties was included in the permanent elections code adopted by Cabi net last fall. Wright Fund ,Fora Fuel Tech Is Established A student loan fund has been established in honor of Dr. Cal vert C. Wright. who headed the department of fuel technology until his death Feb. 1, 1954. The loans will aid students in fuel technology who need finan cial' assistance. The project has been • approved by the Board of Trustees, and contributions to the fund will ae received through the Penn State Foundation. Students who receive loans from the fund will .be expected to re turn the amount borrowed, al though interest will not be charged for the money until the student has been out of college for one year. Dr. Wright, a native of South port, England, came to Penn State in 1932 as a research fellow in chemistry. From 1945 until his death, he headed the University's Program in fuel tcehnology. Tlir ' Elatig ..0: Toll ST JACKIE HUDGINS final approval. , Major differences in the pro posed constitution and the exist ing one are as follows: The board of governors will not be permitted to enact legisla tion, resolutions, recommenda tions or appropriations that con cern only one council as it was permitted to do under the old constitution. At least two coun cils or the entire organization must benefit from any AIM board legislation unless that area coun cil has violated the constitution. Veto Power • A presidential veto power is established in the revision. If the president should veto legislation passed by the board of governors, the board could repass the legis laAion, by a two-thirds vote of the members present and nullify the veto. The existing constitution provides for no such veto power, but as Robert Dennis, 'resident, said, such a power is included in the All-University Cabinet con stitution. Vice Presidential Duties The duties of the vice president are enumerated in the revision whereas they were not formerly. He shall serve as ex-officio chair man of the constitutional com mittee and the social committee. Impeachment proceedings of of ficers are listed in the revision. The existing constitution provides for impeachment, but sets up no formal procedure. Both the present constitution and the revision state that it is unlawful for any campus political party to support directly or in directly, or to aid in any manner, a candidate to obtain an office in AIM. Dennis said this section of the constitution may be abolished in the future when and if political parties become more responsible. More Changes Suggested Several preliminary motions were suggested by members of the board of governors for chang es to be made in the constitution revision, but Dennis asked that they be postponed until the sec ond reading. Upon his election as secretary, Richards resigned as chairman of the elections committee. David Boucher, second semester. physics major,- the defeated candidate for secretary, was appointed chair man of the elections committee by Dennis. James W. Dean, Assistant to the Dean of Men in charge of inde pendent affairs, said a letter sub mitted to his office by Dennis telling of AIM progress during the fall semester was reviewed by University officials and AlM's progress was unanimously ac claimed the best of that of any campus organization. 3d Party Constitution Meets 8 Requirements By DOTTIE STONE The Constitution of the Campus party, third political party, fol lows closely the eight specific recommendations for constitutions set up by the Senate Committee on Student Affairs subcommittee on organization control. In its report to the political par ties, the subcommittee said the constitutions of the two existing parties were vague and full of loopholes. While these re-written constitutions are in the process of 'being approved, the Campus party constitution is also being checked before its charter can be granted. FOR A BETTE* PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10. 1955 20 Seeking To Activate ODK Group The national secretary of Omi cron Delta Kappa, men's national leadership fraternity, will be on campus Saturday and Sunday to help in the organization of a local chapter, Frank J. Simes, Dean of Men, said yesterday. Benjamin Sinclair, eighth se mester arts and letters major, said he and about 20 students have been working since Septem ber gathering information about the national fraternity. They are preparing a constitution to be presented next week to the Sen ate Committee on Student Affairs for approval. If the committee approves the constitution it will be sent to the national chapter for approval. Bishop to Answer Questions The secretary, Robert W. 'Bish op, will answer questions about the fraternity and help the group in writing its constitution. In order to become a member of ODK, a student would. be con sidered on the basis of his ac tivities and grades. He would have to be in the upper 35 per cent of his class and be of junior or senior standing. ODK members at the Univer sity, Dr. Arthur Wellington and Dean James W. Dean, assistants to the Dean of Men, are acting as advisors for the students in terested in establishing a chapter here. Other advisors are Dr. H. K. Wilson, Dr. Henry Brunner, and Simes. Sinclair said he did not believe ODK would conflict with Lion's Paw, senior men's society, al though both organizations stress leadership. Whereas Lion's Paw requires that a member's All- University average be 1.0, that required by the University for 'participation in activities, ODK scholastic requirements would be approximately 1.6. ODK has 83 chapters and 23,- 000 members. There is a chapter at the University of Pittsburgh, Bucknell. University, and Grove City. Parking in Town May Be Eased Downtown parking may be eased if the State College Bor ough Council purchases a lot a block from the business district which is going on sale. The council authorized its trans portation committee to look into the advisability of purchasing the lot Monday night. An ordinance which would double the price of parking at parking meters was tabled. Un der the proposal, the charge would be changed from five cents for one hour to five cents for 30 min utes. The Area Chamber of Com merce asked that action be de layed. The eight points recommended by the subcommittee met in the constitution as follows: Tenure of Office 1. Campus party's constitution provides a • tenure of office for five clique officers to be elected: chairman, vice chairman, record ing and executive secretaries, and treasurer. Four class cliques will be organized from the all-univer sity clique, each having five simi lar officers. 2. Campus party will have .a steering committee composed of a majority of elected members. Fif teen members will be appointed, being the chairman of various Two Advisors Here rliatt AFL, CIO Leaders End 20-Year Split, Will Form 15 Million Member Union MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 9 (/P)—AFL and CIO leaders today agreed to end the 20-year-old split in organized labor and merge into a single 15-million-member union federation. George S. Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Walter Reuther, head of the Congress of Indus trial Organizations, predicted that necessary ratifications would be accomplished by the end of the year. They said the powerful new union organization, not yet given a formal name, would organizing drive to bring millions more workers into union member• ship, "We are pooling our resources so we can take the task of •ganizing th e •eat mass of un ...ganized work- Ts in America Id build a great industrial de tocracy," Reut tr said. The merger :reement wa s Lgned by two J-man commit- G eorge S. Mean, tees representing the rival union organizations Under the merger arrangement the two top jobs in the new fed eration will go to the AFL, with Meany and AFL Secretary-Treas urer William Schnitzler due to take over the same jobs in the new setup. CIO unions are to enter the AFL as a "Council of Industrial Organ izations" with the right to name their own leader, who probably will be Reuther although smilingly said would not bt candidate. RI ther also hal the million-m( ber CIO Au Union. Present C unions also have the righ name and sl the member• ganizing activi ties of the new Walter Reuther federation The merger agreement will be considered here tomorrow by the AFL Executive Council. Approval was considered virtually a fore gone conclusion since many top 1 AFL leaders took part in the suc cessful merger negotiations. The pact will go before the ClO's Executive Board at a spe cial meeting in Washington on Feb. 22. A formal constitution for the new federation then is to be drawn up along the lines of the detailed agreement worked out today. The constitution must be rati fied at separate AFL and CIO (Continued on page eight) committees, while 25 members will be elected. These are the 20 class clique officers and the five all-university clique officers. 3. Under the treasurer's duties, the constitution states the office of Associated Student Activities will be custodian for all funds. The treasurer will give a financial report at every meeting of the clique and steering committee. Removal of Officers 4. Removal of officers in the campus party may be for actions contrary to the constitution, mal feasance in office, or embezzle ment. The steering committee (Continued on page eight) Athletes and Polities See Page 4 mmediately launch an all-out FMA Airs Office in Borough The Fraternity Marketing As sociation last night heard a report from the planning and develop ment committee aimed at expand ing the facilities of FMA to in clude a downtown office, a full time secretary, and a part-time manager. At present, FMA is managed strictly on a part time basis. The report was merely discussed and no action was taken. According to the report, $4535 will be needed to open and main tain such an office. At the end of this year, FMA will have a surplus of $550 which may be returned to fraternities or put toward an expansion program. The gross business of FMA for this year will total $136,500 Mem ber houses are changed a service charge of 1 1 / 2 percent on gross business. This makes a total serv ice charge of $1950. The current operating budget is $l4OO, leaving the $550 surplus. Based on an extension of these figures, FMA will have to do a gross business of $300,000 to have the $4535 to maintain the ex panded office facilities, the report said. At the present time fraternities may buy meats, frozen foods, and canned good s through FMA. Twenty-one fraternities are now participating in the meat-buying program, while 24 are buying canned goods. According to the report two alternatives are open to FIIA for increasing the volume of busi ness. One is to increase the num ber of fraternities, while the oth er is to expand the buying pr(z . - gram itself. - A program is being planned to acquaint non-member fraternities with the workings of FMA. The report was presented by Robert K. Murray, chairman of the committee. Scheduling Officer To Seek Nomination Ray V. Watkins, University scheduling officer, has announced his candidacy for Republican nom ination as Centre County Com missioner. Watkins became English com position instruc.or at the Uni versity in 1924 and was named scheduling officer in 1937. He has served three terms as a State College school director; was chairman of the State College Ration Board during World War 11, and wa: a member of the orig inal Welfare Committee in State College. Infirmary Rooms Full The infirmary is filled to capacity today with 33 Univer sity students. Most of them are suffering from the grip and colds. Oliver Sax, senior track star injured in an automobile crash Monday, is reporter improved. FIVE CENTS
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