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VOL 55 No. 97
Elections Comm ittee
OK's Amendment,
Voting Machines
The use of voting machines for the Spring elections and a new
amendment making clique chairmen ex-officio members of the
All University Elections Coqunittee were'approved at the Elections!
Committee meeting last night.
The amendment was proposed by Has Simm, committee mem
ber, ana he plans to present it
before All-University Cabinet to
morrow night.
If the amendment is passed all
official clique chairmen will have
ex-officio privileges on the com
[ mittee which includes voting
privileges, but no other.
Simm also proposed an amend
ment which would stipulate that
the five Cabinet seats at stake
each year would go,to fraternity
and independent men at a 3 to 2
ratio. Three independents and
two fraternity men will fill the
seats one year and three fraternity
men and two independents the
next year. This amendment would
replace the “unwritten agree
ment,” the rotation system. This
agreement stipulates that offices
will alternate between fraternity
and independent men every other
year.
Vocal Group
To Present
Concert
The Tudor Singers of Bethle
hem will present a concert at
3 i>.m. Sunday in Schwab Audi
torium.
The group is composed of
trained singers who will present
some of the mu
sic of the Reriais-
sance period.
They vjill be di
rected by Dr. Ifor
Jones, conductor
of the Bach Choir
Festival at Beth
lehem.
The program is
one of several
scheduled
this spring on
college and uni-
versity campuses.
'The group which Dr - k« Jobm
has already presented a program
at Muhlenberg College, appeared
last Sunday at Haverford College,
and in . April will present its sec
ond program at Lafayette College.
The concert is one of the Sim
mons Series and is sponsored
jointly by the music and German
departments. Free tickets are now
available at the German depart
ment, 229 Sparks Building; the
music department,' 217 Carnegie
Hall; the Student Union desk in
Old Main; the Hanpony Shop;
the Music Room, and Keelers
Book Store.
Dr. Jones is a graduate and
fellow of the Royal Academy of
Music in London and former con
ductor of the new Chamber Or
chestra of Philadelphia. He now
heads the orchestral and choral
conducting departments of Pea
body Conservatory of Music in
Baltimore and directs the choral
department of the Union Theo
logical Seminary during summer
sessions. “
Price of Football Tickets Will Rise
University’s 11-sport program is “Colleges and. universities have
dependent in part or in whole been called: upon to make . sub
on the income of football, and stantial contributions to this
; that sport must provide.the neces- fund,” Gilbert ponited out, “and
sary income. the Board felt that this was the
He emphasized that hereafter best—and easiest—way to raise
‘ the appeal of season tickets would this money.”
be based on location in -the sta- ~ ■
dium, and assurance that the ® wan of
same seats would be reserved for hlve witli
ticket holders year after year. Umver
rather than price. A survey of “S' *?£ b , n £ Ig 4
season ticket practices. at other
universities shows that price dif- ?f, c S r 2!i s r mltonWinn
ferential is i?° longer the compel- f“ a T ”
ling 'force it was when the idea
was first instituted. “* graduates of the Univer-
In still another action, the SKy ’
Board voted to get the price Or The Board also has decided to
. the Navy game tickets in 1055 at present a yet-to-be-designed
$4.00 rather than $3.5Q. The'extra plaque to each individual who
SO cents will be applied to the wins Eastern title honors in any
contribution the University will sport and; to the members of all
' make to the Football Hair of teams tapped for National Col-
Fame's permanent building fund. legiate tournaments. They also
|Thls extra 50 cents, he . added, will award a Nittany Lion statu
also will be added to the; new ette to individual titlists and
ticket, price, raising -it to members of all National chiun-
i Football tickets will cost
more next season because of
mounting costs ijn all sports;
) Harold R. Gilbert, assistant
director of athletics, has an
nounced.
Gilbert said the Athletic • Ad
visory Board, ordered the revis
ion as the result of a continuing
study into the growing costs of
a modem day intercollegiate
sports program. The University
maintains 11 intercollegiate
teams. ,
Effective with the release of
tickets for. the 1955 football sea
son, the entire stadium will be
reserved and each ticket will be
priced at $3.50 per game or
$14.00 for the season. Gilbert-said
the Board had set the price of
faculty and staff season tickets
iat the same figure thereby.; elim
'inating the price differential pf
former years.
Gilbert pointed owt tbet tfae,
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 9. 1955
At the present time the com
mittee has 10 members. The
amendment will bring member
ship, up to 13.
The five office holders Who
hold Cabihet seats are All-Uni
versity president, vice president*
and secretary-treasurer, and the
senior class and junior class pres
idents. The amendment was de
feated by the committee.
The voting machines are sup
posed to be a new and different
type, according to Ernest Famous,
committee chairman. They will
not be the standard type used in
Northeastern America which is
manufactured by a Jamestown
company. They are manufac
tured in Philadelphia. Voting ma
chines were used about two years
ago. •
The voting will be centralized
for the snoring elections in the
Hetzel Union Building. Very little
gain was shown through de
centralized voting, Famous said.
Weather to Stay Cold
Continued cloudy and cold is
forecast for today by the Univer
sity weather station. The station
also reports the possibility of
Isnow flurries.
Yesterday’s low was 11 degrees,
while the high was 33. Today’s
temperatures are expected to
range between 25 and 32 degrees.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
New Constitution
Will Alter Courts
By DON SHOEMAKER
(Editorial on page four)
A new judicial system will be established if All-University Cabinet passes the revised
All-University constitution to be presented Thursday night by the Cabinet constitutional
revisions committee.,
Under the proposed constitution, a Supreme Court will be established to hear ap
peals concerning the constitutionality of any legislation passed by Cabinet, and over all
cases involving.violations Of the All-University Elections Code.
Under the present constitution, there is no provision for such appeals. The only appeal
on the constitutionality of a Cabinet legislation and decisions of the elections committee
is through Cabinet itself.
The Supreme Court, however,
will not have jurisdictional ap
peal on decisions of Tribunal or
Judicial concerning discipline
cases. Appeal of such decisions
will be made to University Sen
ate, as under the present consti
tution.
Under the new constitution,
Tribunal will hear men’s disci
pline cases and Judicial will try
women.
The court will be composed of
the senior members of Tribunal
West Dorm
Registration
Going Weil
Registration for West Dorm
housing for next year was report
ed running smoothly after one
day by Francis H. Gordon, room
assignment officer.
Nineteen of next year’s sopho
mores; 18 of next year’s juniors,
and 26 of next year’s seniors reg
istered yesterday for next year’s
West Dorm housing.
Gordon said that numbers will
be drawn through the last name.
All the names will be placed on
the waiting list as openings are
made.
Rehabilitation and medical* stu
dents should register in the same
manner if they can meet the schol
astic requirements, Gordon an
nounced. 1
The All-University average of
students registering for West
Dorm housing is based op their
average through fall semester of
1954.
The present system of registra
tion is being used in place of the
former method in an attempt to
be more fair to the students. In
the past, the first students to ap
ply were the first to be assigned
rooms. Undet this system stu
dents waited in line for hours be
fore .registration began in order
to be at the top of the waiting
list. This involved missing classes
and staying up over night,
There will be another registra
tion period for men who cannot
meet the scholastic requirements
from March 29 through April 8.
Cabinet members may pick
up copies of the revised- All-
University constitution tomor
row at the Student Union desk
in Old Main. John Speer, All-
University vice president and
chairman of the revisions com
mittee urged that members also
bring copies of the present con
stitution to the meeting.
The entire meeting Thursday
will be' devoted to consideration
of the new constitution.
and the senior members of Judi
cial sitting in a body.
A second major change in the
new constitution will give Cabi
net the power to rescind any leg
islation of’ a member group
deemed contrary to the constitu
tion. At the same time, a stipula
tion'is made that Cabinet may not
pass any legislation lying within
the sdope of any member organ
ization.
The clause would function in
this way: the Association of Inde
(Continued, on page eight)
Testimony Causes
Stock Market Drop
WASHINGTON, March 8 (JP) —The stock market broke sharply
today following testimony before the Senate Banking Committee that
stock buying ought to be put on a cash basis, that there is too much
speculation.
However, Chairman William Fulbright (D-Ark) of the com
mittee said'of the market drop:
“I think it hps no connection
whatever with the study being
made by this committee. I can’t
imagine how there would be any
connection.”
Some New York brokers at
tributed the sell-off in the market
to testimony today by John Ken
neth Galbraith, professor of eco
nomics at Harvard University,
who urged “strongest precaution
ary measures” to prevent a repe
tition of the disastrous market
crash of 1929.
While saying there is too much
speculation, Galbraith added there
are sdipe “formidable safeguards”
against a 1929-type crash.
: A' reporter referred to Gal
braith’s testimony as "gloomy,”
but Fulbright said:
“It wasnH a gloomy statement.
He only said we should be cau
tious. We should be cautious
when we are walking across the
street”
In urging “strongest precau
tionary measures” to avoid a bust
IFC to Hold
Elections
In March
Xnterfratemity Council will
elect officers for the coming year
during the last week of March,
John Carpenter, IFC president,
has announced.
Carpenter said the elections
have been scheduled for March
28 or 30. The final date will be
announced later.
Fraternities must submit nom
inations to Carpenter at Sigma
Alpha Epsilon or through the
Student Union desk in Old Main
by March 23. Self-nomination
speeches will be made at the next
IFC meeting to be held that same
date.
In connection with the elec
tions, Carpenter said that before
he retires from office, he will go
before the Senate Committee on
Student Affairs to present recom
mendations for improvements in
the dating code. Carpenter as' ’d
fraternities to get recommenda
tions to him by the next IFC
meeting..
He also asked that houses sub
mit five preferences for the sen
ior class gift at the next meeting.
Donald Reidenbaugh, chairman
of the- outstanding fraternity
(Continued on page eight)
such as occurred in 1929, Gal
braith told the committee that
“prevention rather than cure is
our best hope.”
Galbraith is the author of a
book “The Great Crash” to be
published next month, dealing
With the 1929 crash.
Harold E. Wood of St. Paul,
Minn., chairman of the board of
governors of the National Assn,
of Securities Dealers, Inc., fol
lowed Galbraith on the witness
stand and was asked by Fulbright
whether there “is too much spec
ulation in the present market. 1 *
“There are evidences of specu
lation and we don’t like it,” Wood
replied.
“That’s very reassuring that
you’re worried about it,” Ful
bright told Wood.
Fulbright remarked to report
ers that the performance of the
market today “is only demon
strating the wisdom” of Gel
braith’s words of cautiop.
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