Youths Admit
Fraternity Thefts
Twelve State College high school youths haVO admitted
to police thefts from five fraternities over the Easter holiday.
One other fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau, was burglarized but
the boys have not admitted the act. Police, while working on
this theft and one at the Penn Sandwich Shop, last night
questioned about six other high school Students.
Senate Airs
Entrance
Proposals
The University Senate today
will hear recommendations
that aptitude tests be admin
istered to all freshmen and
that applicants to the Univer
sity who rank in the lower
three-fifths of their high school
class be required to pass College
Board entrance examinations.
The recommendations will be
made by the Senate Committee
on Admissions and, if adopted,
will be effective for the class en
tering in the fall of 1956.
Under the recommendations,
data obtained in administering
aptitude tests would be appraised
against high school rank and col
lege performance and the present
program for developing improved
methods of measuring aptitude
for college work would be ex
panded.
Senate will be asked to approve
a conservation curriculum for the
College of Agriculture by its Com
mittee on Courses of Study.
Would Provide Broad Education
This curriculum would, the re
port states, provide a general,
broad education with emphasis on
renewable resources and with a
fairly heavy concentration in
courses in both the natural and
social sciences.
The curriculum is not intended
to provide professional status for
its graduates as conservationists,
according to the report, and
would, therefore, not preclude the
establishment of other curricu
lums dealing with more specific
and technical phases of conserva
tion.
Russell B. Dickerson, associate
dean and director of resident in
struction foi• the Colfege of Agri
culture, would be in charge of
the conservation curriculum.
Other Changes Proposed
The report includes various
other changes within the Agri
culture, Business Administration,
Chemistry and Physics, Educa
tion, Engineering and Architec
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Courts Cautioned
On Segregation
WASHINGTON, Apirl 13 (W)—:The Eisenhower administration
urged the Supteme Court today to guard against "paralyzing in
action or frustration" in wiping out school segregation. But it said
loWer courts should be given some discretion as to timing and details
U.S. Solicitor Gen. Simon E. Sobeloff made the presentation
He cautioned the court against
giving district judges "a blank
check" to fill out any way they
(want and against taking on to it
self "the burden of acting as a
super school board."
Sobeloff said he was taking a
position that rejects "both • ex
tremes." On one extreme are the
Negro attorneys who want a rigid
order to district courts fixing a
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TODAY'S
WEATHER:
CLOUDY,
COOL
AND
SHOWERS
By TED SERRILL
The remaining five fraternities
are Beta Sigma Rho, Phi Kappa,
Theta Chi, Kappa Delta Rho, and
Chi Phi.
Confessions• Signed
Pour of the youths have signed
confessions for police while eight
others following questioning ad
mitted 'participating in the thefts.
However, police said, the youths
admitted to acting in separate
groups at separate times in enter
ing the fraternities.
Police last night said that at
least one other unidentified frat
ernity has reported an Easter
holiday theft. This brings the
total of burglarised fraternities
to at least seven. Items such as
cuff links and watched were
listed as missing by the frater
nity.
Pollee have confiscated from
the youths about $3O in cash, 40
packs of cigarettes, and several
cigarette lighters, pens, and pen
cils.
As of last night, police didn't
know which articles belonged to
which fraternities. About noon to
day a complete list of stolen ar
ticles will be submitted by the
fraternities, enabling police to de
termine the ones not yet recov
ered.
Gold Watch Stolen
.Tn'cluded in possible unrecov
ered stolen goods is a strapless
gold wristwatch from Kappa Del
ta Rho.
Police said most of the frater
nities were easily entered by
walking through unlocked back
doors. In all but Theta Chj and
Kappa Delta Rho this fact was
verified by police.
The youths broke the window in
the back door of Theta Chi and
kicked out a window in the fur
nace room of Kappa Delta Rho,
enabling them to enter.
Machine Robbed at KDR •
The most obvious theft was at
Kappa Delta Rho where several
rooms were ransacked and a cig
arette machine was robbed of
both cash and cigarettes. The
fii
fled rooms were found strewn
with clothes and personal articles.
Although the recovered ciga
rettes and some of the money
came from the machine, police
said, the exact amount taken must
be determined by the cigarette
machine company.
A cash box at Zeta Beta Tau
was rifled but several cash bills
in a'n envelope alongside the box
and in the box were le f t un
touched. This led police to believe
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final date for desegregation by
next September or by September,
1956 and on the other are the at
torneys for affected states who,
Sobeloff said, would have the Su
preme Court "fix no date and give
no criteria to the lower courts for
guidance."
The position of the Justice De
partment is that lower courts
should order plans for ending seg
regation submitted within 90 days,
They would then direct admis
sion of Negro children to nonseg
regated schools, at the beginning
of the next school term, in any
case in which no satisfactory plan
is offered and approved.
Four more states spoke out to
day for a Supreme Court decree
that would allow ample time to
work out segregation details, with
no set deadline for compliance.
Legal officials of Arkansas, Ok
lahoma, Maryland and Texas put
in their arguments along that
line.
Xhr Battu
VOL. 55. No. 117 STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, APRN. 14. 1955 FIVE CM*
AA Revote Set
Classroom Theme
To Be Pan-Am
Twenty-two of the 65 rooms in the new. classroom build
ing to be built between Osmond Laboratory and the Infirm
ary will have a Pan-American motif, President Milton S.
Eisenhower announced yesterday.
His announcement coincides with the University's cele
bration of its 12th annual Pan-American Day celebration
Prof Receives
OK to Return
To Red China
Dr. Lien-Yueh , Tu, associate
professor of engineering research
at the University• and one of the
75 technically trained Chinese
students who have been detained
in the United States for security
reasons, has been granted per
mission to return to his native
China if he so desires.
A letter from the officer in
charge of the Pittsburgh office of
the U.S. Department of Justice,
Imtnigration, and Naturalization
Service informed Dr. Tu that the
order preventing his departure
has been withdrawn and that "the
time within which you are to de
part voluntarily by this order is
being set as June 8, 1955."
Dr. 'Tu, who came to Penn State
in 1948, as a graduate assistant,
has a wife and family living in
Peking, China. He stated he was
anxious to go home and see the
family he has not seen in seven
years.
The decision to permit students
to return to China was made in
the hope that the 15 airmen and
45 civilians being held in China
would be released.
Nazi Party Film
Will Be Shown
The political science depart
ment will show a movie of the
1936 Nazi party congress at 4 p.m.
today in the Hetzel Union assem
bly room.
The film, "The Triumph of the
Will" was taken by the Nazis and
widely distributed through Eu
rope for propaganda purposes. It
has since become well-known as
the arch-type of German propa
ganda films, and sections of it
were used by the United States
Army in its "Why We Fight" ser
ies.
The film is notable not only as
a historical document, but also as
a specimen of totalitarian propa
ganda techniques.
Interested students and faculty
members may attend.
Exam Additions
The following courses were
omitted from the final examina
tion schedule:
Phys Ed 125 May 31, • 8:00 210
Ag
Phys Ed 212 June 4 8:00 1 White
Hall
Phys Ed 399 M May 31, 8:00 1
White Hall
Phys Ed 399 W May 31, 8:00 2
White Hall
Phys Ed 460 May 31, 1:30 1
White Hall
Phys Ed 490 June 1, 8:00 2 White
Hall
Phys Ed 491 June 3, 1:30 1
White Hall
Conflict Cards Due
Tomorrow is the last day to
file conflict cards for final ex
aminations. Cards may be filed
at the scheduling office in the
basement of Willard.
FOR A BETTER PENN STAVE
today.
The interior of the "American
Unity Rooms" will be developed
with private funds. One gift of
$11,500 to finance the cost of the
project has already been received.
Begin Construction Soon
Work on the structure, which
will be built under the General
State Authority program, is ex
pected to begin within two
months.
President Eisenhower said that
the purpose of the rooms was to
help foster understanding of the
peoples of all nations in the
Americas.
Students will use the rooms for
their day-to-day classes. Visitors
will be encouraged to inspect the
rooms between times.
Eisenhower's Interest
President Eisenhower has had
an interest in American unity
both as an educator and as a spe
cial United States ambassador to
Latin America last year.
The dedication of the Univer
sity's new flags of the Pan-Amer
ican republics by William H.
Gray, professor of Latin Ameri
can history and chairman of the
All-University Committee on In
ternational Understanding, will be
held,at 11:50 a.m. today in front
of Od Main.
The Army Reserve Officers
Training Corps band will play
during the ceremony. Scabbard
and Blade anti the Air Force Re
serve Officers' Training Corps
Drill Team will act as an Honor
Guard. Pershing Rifles Drill team
will raise the flags.
Ike's Proclamation
Gordon Fee, sixth semester
physics major and a member of
the Pershing Rifle Drill team,
will read President Dwight D.
Eisenhower's proclamation declar
ing April 14 as Pan-American
Day.
Twenty-four fraternities will
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University May Air
Graduation Problems
Editorial, letter on page four
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, teinommeat yet.
terday that the University is "anxious to make the best possible
arrangements for commencement in June, and will continue to woi*
with the senior class to consider any constructive solutions to am
problems involved."
Kenworthy said on April 4 that commeneemesit exercises wail
not be held in the event of "extreme weather conditions.'
Kenworthy said at that time,
and re-emphasized yesterday, that
only storm conditions, and not
"inclement" weather would cause
postponement.
President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er is scheduled to speak at the
outdoor graduation at 10:30 a.m.,
June 11, at Beaver Field.
The commencement committee,
in conjunction with Donald Bal
thaser, senior class president, de-
Icided not to schedule an alternate
indoor commencement, it was an
nounced April 13.
"Unfortunately, the matter of
an alternate, indoor ceremony is
not as simple as it might appear,"
Kenworthy said yesterday.
"The customary plan of a split
ceremony obviously cannot be
used this year," he said. "Under
this plan it is true that each grad-
Tottrgiatt
Monday
First Results
Show Slight
30-Vote Margin
A revote for Athletic Associs+
tion offices will be held Monday
Ronald Weidenhammer, AA
dent announced yesterday.
The revote was called because
women reportedly voted in the
first election held last month. AG+
cording to the AA constitutionn,
only men may vote for AA offices.
It was decided to hold the re»
vote after Weidenhammer con.
feared with Harold R. Gilbert, as•
sistant director of athletics, just
before the Easter vacation. Re
sults of the first election showed
only 30 votes separating the first
two presidential candidates. Weid
enhammer also reported the third
candidate was not far behind.
Complete results were not re
leased, however.
No figures were available as
how many women voted in the
first election. Weidenhammer did
say, however, that most of the il
legal voting took place on the first
day of voting. Elections were held
March 30 and 31.
The reason some women voted
in the election was because the
equipment necessary- to jam the
voting machines to restrict the
voting was not available, accord
ing to Ernest Famous, All-Univer
sity Elections Committee chair
man.
The revote will be conducted by
official printed ballot. Voting will
take place in the card room area
on the ground floor of the Hetzel
Union Building. Weather permit
ting, a voting booth will also be
at the corner of the Mall and Pol
lock Road by the bulletin board.
Voting will be from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Men must show their matricu
lation cards to vote. Names wilt
be checked off a master list.
Candidates for AA president are
Robert Hoffman, Douglas Moor
head, and William Straub. lan
Springer is the only candidate for
AA secretary.
Medical Entrance Tests
The next Medical College Ad•
missions Tests will be held at the
University May 7. Bulletins of in
formation !nd application blanks
are available in 117 BuckhouS
Laboratory. Applications must an.
rive at Educational Testing Sep+
vice, P.O. Box 592, Princeton,
N.J., no later than April 23.
uate usually received four ticket t.
However, only half of the class
was present at each ceremony.
and when the entire class is pre•
sent the number of seats lot
guests is reduced by 1000."
Special arrangements kir as*
Blue Band, press sections, radio
network personnel, cameramen,
television equipment, and a num.
ber of special guests will also be
necessary this year, Kenworthy
said.
The difficulty and delay kit
volved in loading and replacing
chairs and other equipment al
ready set up on Beaver Field
in preparation for the outdoor
ceremony was also cited as a de
terring factor to indoor exertion
by Kenworthy.
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