PAGE TWO Failure of NSA — Cabinet Writes Finis To Stormy Issue All-University Cabinet Thursday night wrote finis to the University’s participation in the National Student Association. What is NSA? What are its aims? Why didn’t it work at the University? NSA is an organiztion of college student bodies, repre sented through their student governments. It was organized in 1947 to serve the need for a representative inter-collegiate bo dy to help promote the welfare and interests of students. According to its constitution, the aims and purposes of NSA are to “maintain academic freer dom, stimulate and improve dem ocratic student government, de velop better educational stan dards, improve student welfare, promote international understand ing, guarantee to all people equal righto and possibilities for educa tion and foster the recognition of the rights and responsibilities of students to the school, the com munity, humanity, and God, and to preserve the interests and in tegrity of the government and constitution of the United States of America. For Mutual Understanding Working on an international basis, NSA exchanges ideas and information with students in oth er countries to promote a mutual understanding striving toward peaceful coexistence. Domestically, NSA is designed to promote and stimulate student thought on issues of concern to them. This is accomplished through various media, including workshops, commissions, and meetings. Controversial Issue Discussion on the strength and weakness of NSA has been brew ing all year. In December Cabinet turned down a move to hold NSA’s eighth national congress at the University this summer. A pro posal for a regional NSA conven tion to be held at the University was also rejected by Cabinet. It is generally felt that the fail ure of NSA at the University in volved two basic problems. One Of these was so little student en thusiasm for NSA stemming from a lack of awareness or under standing of the organization. No Common Ground The second problem concerned the regional NSA group in which the University participated. The region to which the University belonged has no schools compara ble to the size of the University. Therefore, problems and griev ances did not exist on common ground. What about the future of NSA? Is it now a dead issue at the Uni versity? National Pressure Expected Janice Holm, former NSA co ordinator, said she felt the issue was not over. Miss Holm said pressure would probably be ex erted on the University by the national NSA group. She also felt that in order for NSA to work at any future date, it would be essential for the All- University president to attend the conferences so that he could build up in Cabinet the necessary attitude toward NSA. $l5O Damages Reported In Two-Car Accident An estimated $l5O damage was caused to the car of Harry Bal mer, sixth semester forestry ma jor, when another car skidded in to it at 6:45 a.m. yesterday at Boalsburg. Burner’s car was disabled on the road. The other car, driven by Miss Viney J. Bubb, Centre Hall RD 1, received an estimated $2OO damage. Miss Bubb received bruises of the hip and on one leg. The accident occurred on route 322. Lowenfeld Addresses Art Education Meeting Viktor Lowenfeld, professor of art education, addressed the Na tional Conference of the Com mittee on Art Education meeting in New York City yesterday. His subject was: “The Signifi cance of Art Education." Low or;f ’■ i a'-io served on a panel on "Ma: Ai . as of Research in Art Education." By MARILYNN ZABUSKY Simes Hits Withdrawal From NSA Although All-University Cabi net voted Thursday night to with draw membership from the Na tional Student Association, Frank J. Simes, dean of men, said he did not believe Cabinet members had the proper attitude toward the good of the organization. The purpose of having NSA is not to see how much the Univer sity can get out of it, Simes said, but to extend the University’s in fluence to colleges and universi ties all over the country and to contribute to organized nation wide student opinion. NSA is the only nationally rec ognized organized body of stu dents, Simes said. If the Univer sity refuses to be a member it is refusing to join other schools in furthering the interests of stu dents on a nationwide basis. NSA is looked upon as repre sentative of student life in the United States, Simes said, and by not being a member, the Universi ty is confining its ideas to its “own little valley." The membership fee, $6OO is a high price to pay to be a part of NSA, Simes said, but he went on to say that other student groups belong to their “national” organi zation without considerations of cost and worth in terms of money and actual benefits. NSA, viewed wtih the ques tion, “What can it do for us” is not worth $6OO a year, Simes said. But if we look at it with the idea that the University can benefit the national association and ulti mately see the reciprocal of those benefits reflected in our national standing among student bodies all over the country, NSA member ship is not only extremely desir able but actually necessary. Three Fraternities Admitted to FMA Sigma Phi Alpha, Tau Phi Del ta, and Theta Xi have been ad mitted to membership in the Fra ternity Marketing Association, according to Harold W. Perkins, member of the FMA board of trustees and assistant dean of men. The three admissions bring the total FMA membership to 29. FMA is a cooperative buying program for fraternities . which enables them to purchase meat, canned goods, potatoes, frozen foods, and furniture at current discounts from 5 to 10 per cent. Probation Sought for 3 Office probation for two stu dents and judicial probation for another student was recommend ed to the dean of men’s office Thursday night by the Associa tion of Independent Men Judicial Board of Review. Office probation was recom mended for two second semester students accused of dropping and kicking a laundry case down the unit hall. Judicial probation was recommended for another second semester student who was found intoxicated by a dorm counselor. Students Cause Disturbance The two students were return ing to their room from the stu dent laundry when they dropped the laundry case, waking the dorm counselor. Both boys were reported by him. The counselor said that both students were thoughtless in their THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA was sponsored by ifie Penn State Jass Club. Vhe outstanding jass artist made his first Columbia record. "Jass Coes to College." last June, and since then has become one of America's top draining , cards in the jass field. Last year Brubeck won Down Beat's popu larity and critic's poll and Metronome's All-Star polL IFC Presidential Nominations Open No nominations for Interfraternity Council president have been received as yet, according to John Carpenter, IFC president. How ever, six men have been nominated for vice president and secretary treasurer. Self-nominations in the form of a letter must be submitted to Carpenter at Sigma Alpha Epsilon, or to the Hetzel Union desk in the HUB by 5 p.m. Monday. Additional self-nominations will be received from the floor of IFC at 7:30 p.m. Monday in 219 Elec trical Engineering. IFC elections will be held March 28 or 30, Carpenter said. The date will be announced later. Nominations already received for vice president include Howard Cook, Phi Kappa Sigma; William Moyer, Delta Upsilon; and Allan Davies, Phi Sigma Kappa. Nominations for secretary-treas urer include Louis Galliker, Al pha Gamma Rho; Carl Saperstein, Sigma Alpha Mu; and Philip Steel, Chi Phi. IFC will also consider the amended version of the IFC con stitution. The constitution has al ready been read to fraternity presidents at a special meeting last Sunday night. If it passes the floor of IFC it must then be sub- Minister Will Lead Pollock Fireside Chat The Rev. John S. Duley, Presbyterian campus minister, will discus "Mixed Marriages" in a fireside chat at 9p.m. Tuesday in the Pollock 4 dorm itory lounge. This is the first fireside chat to be held in the area. Students from Pollock and Nittany dor mitories may attend. actions since early fall and caused excessive noise and disturbance in the unit area. He said the noise was particularly noticeable dur ing quiet and sleeping hours. Both men were reported to have been warned on several occasions for noise making, and completely violated those warnings by kick ing the laundry case through the hall. Office probation carries with it a record in the AIM Judicial rec ords but no permanent record in the student’s records. Students on office probation must also have periodical consultations with the dean of men. In the second case the student admitted that he was intoxicated and said that he had visited six to seven fraternity houses during the course of the night. On his re- AIM Judicial Records mitted to the Senate ConUnitteq on Student Affairs. The major revision in the new constitution will establish a frat ernity affairs office to coordinate IFC activities. The office will be staffed by an executive secretary, a sophomore secretary and a jun ior secretary. The office would be located in the space allocated to IFC jh the HUB. Also on the agenda is the pre initiations code, which was tablet at the last IFC meeting. The code, as amended by IFC presidents at Sunday night's spe cial meeting, includes five points: 1. That the IFC establish a standing committee to investi gate all complaints arising from pre-initiation practices. 2. In regard to pre-initiation practices, no requirement shall be made of pledges outside of the fraternity house or off the grounds which will be of such a character as to. prove detrimental to the fraternity system. 3. That the term Help Week be substituted in place of the term Hell Week in all written docu ments. 4. That a minimum of eight hours a day be provided for the purpose of sleep and/or study during periods of intensive pre initiation practices. 5. That resolutions two through four be incorporated into a perm anent pre-initiations practices 1 code. turn to the dormitory, the stu dent was caught by the resident counselor being helped into a friend's room where he stayed overnight. Student Was Intoxicated The counselor obtained his name and reported him to the dean of men. In his report the counselor said the student was completely cooperative despite his inebriated, state. The student said this was the second time since September he had become intoxicated, and that the September incident was At a football game. If the recommendation is ac cepted by the dean of men the student will have to attend the AIM Judicial meetings for an in definite time. No permanent rec ord is kept although a record is kept in the AIM files. Tickets for Final Folium Available . Single admission tickets for the bonus session of the State College Community Forum* to be present ed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Schwab Auditorium, are on sale at the Hetzel Union desk in the HUp and at Griggs Pharmacy. . . Tickets will also be sold at the door. They are priced at $l. Reg ular season tickets will also be honored. Speaker for the final session in the current forum series will be. Ferdinand Kuhn, noted foreign correspondent and author-'He! Will speak on the topic “Around the Rim of Red China-” His talk will he based on a re cent trip around the 400-mile rim of Red China, from Japan to In dia. He has scan the Iron Curtain in, Berlin end Vienna, along, the remote Turkish-RuSsian border, in northern Japan and on the frontiers of Tibet His coverage of the situation in Greeee, Turkey, and Iran won him the awrird for the best corre spondent of 1951, presented each year by Sigma Delta Chi, profes sional men’s journalism fraternity. Kuhn was the New York Times correspondent in London during pre-war years, and he reported he Munich crisis and other events tedding tip to World War 11. For seven years after the war, he Was diplomatic reporter for the Washington Post. He has also con tributed articles on Turkey and Japan to the National Geographic be Introduced by Lawy Dennis, administrative as sistant to the president. Dennis, a personal Mend of Kuhn, has termed him “One of the best news analysts of today.” Frosh to Elect Dance Queen Nine coeds have been nominat ed for Freshman Centennial panes Queen, Arthur Schrave sande, Freslphan Class president, announced yesterday. The . queen will I be crowned during intermission of the fresh man class dahee next Saturday night in the Hetzel Union ball room. The candidates are Anne Nit rauer, education major; Huldah McKnight, education major; Di me Mather, journalism major; Marjorie Morris, bacteriology ma jord; Ardrey Gilbert, home eco nomics major; Rose Ann Gonzales, journalism major; Marilyn Grant, home economics major; Diane Ola, education major; and Joah Kreider, home economics major. Duke Morris and his Melody Men will provide the music for the dance. Freshman . students may obtain tickets at the HUB by showing their matriculation cards. APhiO Work Party Scheduled lor Today Pledges and brothers of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fra ternity, planning to attend the work party at the Seven, Moun tains Boy Scout camp will meet at 1 p.m. today at the rear of Old Main. Transportation will be pro vided. Alpha Phi Omega Will' formal ly pledge new members at 8:30 p.m. Monday in 212 Hetzel Union. FREE Spudnuts 2-4 p.m. today It's Mr. Spudnut's 1% Centennial
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