Campus Takes altr VOL. 55. No. 114 STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1955 FIVE CENTS Coed Voting Delays AA Race riesults Athletic Association Election results have not been released by the All-University Elec tions Committed because of votes cast by women in violation of the association's constitu tion. . Ernest Famous, chairman of the All-University Elections Committee, said last night it will be up,.to the association to decide whether to release the results or to hold another elec tion. The committee knew, he said, that only male students had voted in the past for the AA officers but that it hadn't been aware that there was a specific clause in the AA constitution which limited the voting to male students. Machines Couldn't Be Jammed Famous said the equipment necessary to "jam" the four vot ing machines to restrict the vot ing was not available because the men who had brought the ma chines hadn't known that it would be needed. Ronald Weidenhammer, presi-, dent of the Athletic Association, could not be reached for a state ment. Candidates for AA president BULLETIN Ronald Weidenhammer, Ath letic Association president, said late last night that another elec tion may have to . 3e held if the vote in Wednesday and yester day's race for AA president was close. Some women students cast ballots in the AA election: Ac cording to the association's con stitution, only men are eligible to vote. Weidenhammer said he would confer with Harold A. Gilbert, assistant director of athletics, when he returns from the Na tional Collegiate Athletic Asso ciation boxing championships at Idaho State College. Gilbert is expected to return early next week. are Robert Hoffman, Douglas Moorhead, and William Straub. lan Springer is the only candi date for AA secretary-treasurer. Lion Party Fined The only fine imposed by the committee was against the Lion party which was fined $5 out of its $25 bond for turning its plat form in two days late. It had been warned of the deadline, Famous said, but had failed to submit its platform in written form on the designated. date. However, he said, David Scott, vice clique chairman of the Lion party, had appeared before the committee and had presented the platform in oral form. Scott said it was a "general slip-up on the part of the party." He felt that the adverse publicity that the party received was sufficient punishment without the additional penalty of a fine. Publicity Issue Raised Scott suggested that in the fu ture all decisions of the Elections Committee be in writing so that no confusion would result be tween the parties and the corn mittee. . A question was raised about whether the Lion party senior (Continued on page fifteen) TODAY'S WEATHER: CLOUDY AND RAIN - --- dir Ct, tittg FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By PHYLLIS PROPERT All-University President All-University Vice President All-University Secretary-Treasurer Senior Class President Senior Class Vice President Senior Class Secretary-Treasurer Junior Class President Junior Class Vice President . Junior Class Secretary-Treasurer By JOE BEAU-SEIGNEUR Ed Grove, Lou Fryman; and endless crowds of happy'peo ple bounced out from the wings onto the Schwab stage last night, spreading joy, along with music and laughter, throughout the set and the audience. Last night's performance of "Finian's Raibbow" proved the musical comedy to be the best choice Thespians have made in several years. Schwab audiences, which have seen everything from potted palms to child-murder this year, were never so much at home. The show had to be stop ped in several places to permit the deserving applause to die out. Outstanding are the choreogra phy and musical arrangements. The singing chorus is the happiest group that could ever be as sembled, singing with apparent Election Results Review Thespians Present ' LION Lutter 1196 Horn 969 Seng 1117 Hunter 292 Riggs 941 Cramer 241 Richards 395 Snyder 294 Glading 257 CAMPUS Seely 1775 Sturdevant 1655 Beard .1529 McMillian 411 Rohm 362 Lederman 497 Bahranberg 442 Land 488 Loin 478 delight for the audience's pleas ure. Music Good—Anyway Mike Rosenfeld has done an excellent 'ob in staging the musi cal numbers, and he has beautiful orchestrations for the• overture; even the unhappy orchestra, the only regrettable thing in the show, can't completely ruin them. Thespians may be a student or ganization, with little help from others than undergraduates, but Making such agony out of music is unexcusable—professional mu sicians should be hired if no other solution is available. Choreography Polished Th e choreography is, as 'it should be, a major feather in Charlotte Fink's bonnet. Miss Fink can buy two bonnets for this writer's money—the dancing is the most professional thing in the show. Phoebe English, as Su san, is a polished dancer; her ren dition of her own "Dance of the Golden Crock" stopped the show. Practice by the rest of the danc- All Posts Third Party In Political By MIKE MILLER Campus party made a smashing debut in the University political arena yesterday as its candidates swept to victory in all nine of the All-University and class offices. The total victory is unprecedented in modern campus political annals. Only 3679 of the 9984 eligible students, a percentage of 37.'7, cast their ballots. A 50 per cent voting goal had been set by the All-University Elections Committee. , Earl Seely, the winning All- University presidential candidate, led his slate to the victory as he trounced his nearest rival, Ru dolph Lutter. Lion Party, by a decisive 1775-1196 margin. John Leasure, State party, trailed with 708 votes. Robert Sturdevant and Philip Beard, Seely's running partners in the All-University race, won the vice president and secretary treasurer's post also by decisive margins. Sturdevant piled up the biggest margin of the election, leading his nearest opponent, Dean Belt, State party, by 666 votes as he totaled 1655 ballots. Stuart Horn, Lion party, was third with 969 votes. Earl Seely New All-University President 4 Eyes Kept On Machines In Elections Two men who looked some 'hat like secret service men stood guard yesterday by the voting machines near the recreation room of the Hetzel Union Build ing. They were not members of the secret service, however, but em ployees of the Shoup Voting Ma chine Corporation. Leroy Brad ford of Florida and Webb Chenil with of Philadelphia were there to check on the operation of the machines. Bradford said living in Florida was no hinderance to his job. The company, whose office is in Phil adelphia, sends men "to different parts of the country wherever voting machines are to be used. He said the company estimates that half of the country now votes by pulling a lever on election day. All-University Elections Com mittee members, recalling their ballot counting sessions which have lasted from early evening to after 1 a.m. on election night, were grateful for the machines. The vote was tallied within 10 (Continued on page sixteen) STATE Leasure 708 Belt 989 Bond 958 Lyon 292 Vouelsinger 283 McDonald 287 Howes 245 Walker 300 Fulton 858 Rainbow' ers also showed its dividends in the show. The best single scene, combin ing song, dance and comedy de lightfully, was the rendition of "Necessity" by the girls' chorus. The audience seemed equally ap preciable with the singing of "That Great Come-and-Get-It Day" by Mike McKay and the chorus. Ed Grove, as Og the lepre chaun, snapped up the audience in his palm with his first arch breaking leap onto the stage and later stopped the show with his singing of "When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love." His voice is one of the chief delights in the show but his green face is not far be hind. Grove, however, only heads a cast of 'talented performers. Lou Fryman, as Finian, probably has the best Irish accent on campus, and played the little Irishman with talent. His pains were ap (Continued on page fifteen) Og Leaps Shines Debut Beard Wins Easily Beard also rode to an easy vic tory, piling up 1529 votes against an 1117 total for Richard Seng, Lion, and 958 for Peter Bond, State. • The winning senior class can didates we r e Robert McMillan, president; William Rohm, vice president; an, Ann Lederman, secretary-treasurer. Only 995 juniors of the 2501 eligible voted in the senior class elections. McMillan Totals 411 McMillan totaled 411 votes to 292 for both Terry Hunter, Lion, and John Lyon, State, in winning the senior class presidency. In the closest race of the election, Rohm nosed out John Riggs, Lion, for the senior class vice presidency by a 362-341 margin. Roger Vogel.. singer, State, received 283 votes. Miss Lederman far outdistanced her rivals for the senior class secretary-treasurer's post as she received 497 votes to 287 for Mar tha McDonald, State, and 241 for Renna Cramer, Lion. Campus party placed Robert Bahranburg, president; Daniel Land, vice president; and Sue Loux, secretary-treasurer, in the junior class offices. Bahranburg Tops Richards Bahranburg received 442 votes to top Leonard Richards' 395 and Lash Howes' 245 ballots. Land moved into the vice president's slot with a 188-vote over William Snyder and Roy Walker. Walker received 300 votes and Sny:ler 294. Miss Loux won the jun or class secretary-treasurer position easily, receiving 478 votes to 356 for Joanne Fulton, State, and 257 for Dorothy Glading, Lion. Because women were discovered to be voting in the election of Athletic Association officers, trie Elections committee declined to tabulate results of that elect un (Continued on page thirteen) 4 Mobilization Posts Available Four Mobilization Day positions with the department of air sci ence and tactics are available for faculty members who hold com missions in the Air Force. In case of hostilities, members of the department will be mobil ized for immediate military ac tion. This will require their re placement at the University, Capt. Howard O'Neal, assistant profes sor of air science, said. Commissioned faculty members wishing to fill positions in the grade of lieutenant colonel, ma jor, captain, and lieutenant may contact Captain O'Neal. Below Grades Due Mid-semester below grades are due at noon tomorrow in the offices of the deans.
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