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VOL. 55, No. 121
22% Budget Hike Asked
Mass Demonstration Scorned
1500 Take Part
In Near-Riot
In WD Area
By. MIKE FEINSILBER
Daily Collegian City Editor
A warning that "any overt
act by any student which in
cites or contributes to mass
demonstrations will result in
"immediate suspension or ex
pulsion of that student from
the 'University" was issued last
night in the wake of a threatened
panty raid.
James W. Dean, assistant to the
dean of then in charge of inde
pendent affairs,
.who released the
statement which had been drawn
up by the Senate Committee on
11 Student Affairs subcommittee on
1 discipline, estimated that 1500
students participated in the de
monstration.
Dean also announced that resi
dent counselors and dormitory
hostesses have been authorized to
take the names of students parti
cipating in mass demonstrations.
Names will be turned over to the
Senate subcommittee for possible
disciplinary action.
Dean also confirmed a report
that telephone calls in and. out of
all University dormitories was
not allowed last night. He said
the restriction was• to have been
lifted by midnight last night.
Emergency calls could be made
froni the dormitories by calling
the operator.
The three paragraph statement
—which had been previously pre
pared by the subcommittee but
was not released until last night
—will be posted today in all men's
dormitories, Dean said.
f These actions came on the
heels of a demonstration in the
West Dorm quadrangle which
I drew an estimated 1500 men stu
dents out, in a burst of spring
fever.
There were shouts calling for a
panty raid, and several unsuccess
ful attempts to start one.
Most of the crowd stood by,
satisfied to watch. At least one
cherry bomb and a few fire crack
ers exploded. The demonstration
started about 6:15p.m. and the
crowd was diminishing by 7 p.m.
A brief rainfall about 8 p.m. put
a final damper on any attempts
to start a raid.
The demonstration was the first
outbreak of spring fever of the
year.
Such demonstrations are an an
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'lndies'
The University's delegation of
independent students' took top
honors in the annual National
Independent Student Association
convention in Fort Collins, Colo.
during the Easter holidays.
William Johnson, Nittany Coun
cil president, lost the election for
president of NISA by only four
votes. About 30 colleges and uni
versities were represented at the
convention.
Repbri Wins
The University's NISA Week
report won first place over the
one submitted by the University
of Tennessee. The delegation from
Tennessee sponsored the NISA
Week contest and awarded a tro
phy to the winner.
• The report was prepared and
written by James Kennedy, pres
ident of the West Halls Area
council and chairman of the Uni.
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MEN STUDENTS MASS in the West Dorm quadrangle area in an
outbreak of spirit last night. The demonstration resulted in a warn
ing from the Dean of Men's office that students participating in
such mass demonstrations would be subject to expulsion or sus
pension. Some 1500 students were said to have participated in the
demonstration. Most of them just kept their hands in their pockets,
content to watch.
Text of Statement
This is the text of the state
ment issued last night by Dean
of Men Frank J. Sitnes for the
Senate Committee on Student Af
fairs subcommitte on discipline:
"On previous occasions, mass
demonstrations have resulted in
violating University regulations,
rules of decency and, in some in
stances, the laws of the state. In
addition, personal and property
damage has taken place.
"For these reasons, the Univer
sity has found it necessary to
state that any overt act by any
student which incites, or contrib
utes to such a situation, will re
Shirt-Sleeve Weather
Will Continue Today
Shirt-sleeve temperatures are
forecast by the University wea
ther station to continue today.
The mercury soared yesterday
to a high of 80 degrees, the high
est reading recorded this year.
Yesterday's low was 45. Today's
temperatures are expected to be
about the same.
Partly cloudy skies are also
forecast for, today, but spring
showers are not foreseen.
Take
versity's NISA Week committee . .
This year's celebration of the
week marked the University's In
dependent students first attempt
to participate in a campus-wide
series of planned activities.
National Project Wins
The University was also,award
ed first place in the competition
for a national project. Haas Simm,
AIM projects chairman, prepared
the winning entry. It was the in
vestigation of the possibility of
revising; the NISA dues collecting
schedule. Simm said the collection
of national dues is now based on
undergraduate enrollment. In his
report he recommended that dues
be based on the paid member
ship of the individual independent
organizations. This, he said, would
be more closely related to the
ability of the individual schools
to pay.
The theme of the convention,
"Looking at, the Local" was in
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 20. 1955
suit in the Immediate suspension
or expulsion of that student from
the University. Resident counse
lors, student leaders and others
will be called upon to identify
such individuals.
"Students are asked to use good
judgment in refraining from mob
action, whether begun in a spirit
of fun or not, to the end that the
University and its student body
will not be the object of ridicule. "
This statement will be posted in
men's dormitories, James W.
Dean, assistant to the dean of men
in charge of independent affairs,
said last night.
Tr?phy Nominations
Extended Until Friday
The deadline for nominations
for the Paul 'Smith Memorial Tro
phy has been extended to Friday.
Nomination blanks are avail
able in the main office, Recrea
tion Hall. Self nominations are re
quired.
The trophy is awarded each
year to the outstanding male sen
ior in the College of Physical
Education on the basis of leader
ship and scholarship.
Honors
keeping with the organized in
dependents attempt to bring in
dependent students all over the
country closer together, working
through the local groups.
James W. Dean, assistant to the
dean of men and member of the
NISA executive committee, said
the University's two independent
organizations, AIM and Leonides,
were the outstanding groups in
the East and were topped in the
nation only by the University of
Illinois.
Dean said that the University
should be proud that it was so
prominent in the national organ
ization. He said that he believed
with the type of leadership that
AIM and Leonides would have in
the coming year they should be
even stronger at next year's con
vention at the University of Texas.
Loretta Hunter and Judith Pen
dleton represented Leonides at
the convention.
rgian
25 Million Appropriation
Requested for University
A $25,194,000 budget for the University for 195541 was
recommended to the General Assembly by Gov. George M.
Leader yesterday afternoon, the Associated Press reported.
The budget request represents a $4,694,000, or a 22 pee
cent, increase over the 1953-55 appropriation.
Gov. Leader's request, which
was included in his $620,067,000
budget for running the Common
wealth for the next two years,
must be approved by both houses
of the General Assembly before
becoming the official amount the
University receives from the leg
islature.
Gov. Leader's request is the
exact amount the University had
asked for the next two years.
University Officials Pleased
University officials in Old Main
were "pleased" with the request,
a spokesman said. One unofficial
source termed it "pretty won
derful."
President Milton S. Eisenhow
er is vacationing in Florida and
no comment from him was re
ceived yesterday.
General reaction to the request
was that only the first step had
been passed; that the budget must
still be approved by the General
Assembly and that this is as dif
ficult a move.
Follows Trend
The amount requested, foßow
ing the general trend of recent
years, was by far the largest
amount ever asked for the Uni
versity in its 100 year history.
Recent budgets are:
1947.49 99.895,000
1949-51 $11.001,600
1951.53 $17,637,500
1953-55 $21,500,000
The request represents a 244.5
per cent increase over the first
post-war budget, that of 1947-49.
University officials declined to
reveal what the increase of more
than $4.5 million will be ear
marked for if it meets with the
legislature's approval.
Have Conferred
President Eisenhower and his
aides have conferred with the
governor and legislative leaders
to justify the University's request
with funds.
In the budget the University
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U.S. Formosa Poky Wit
By Chou at Bandung
BANERRiG, Indo&sia, April 19 Rl—Premier Choi En-lad o
Red China told Asian and African leaders today the danger at vise
is increasing in both East and West. He accused the I7nittxl Stales at
continuing "to create tension in the Taiwan-Formosa time and tiro
ing to overthrow the Peiping regime.
Chou addressed the Asian- •
were rising in a growing split
along East-West lines. He assert
ed an "extremely few" people are
preparing for war, while Asians
and Africans want only peace and
national independence.
He insisted the "peaceful co
existence of countries with dif
ferent social systems can be real
ized." He declared Red China is
not interested in subversive ac
tivities, but is being "subverted
by the United States of America."
While specifically mentioning
Formosa, Chou said he was not
making a proposal to the confer
ence regarding that trouble spot.
He added that if Peiping had I
wanted to bring up such matters,
it "could raise the question of the
liberation of Taiwan and the
neighboring islands. We could
have made criticism of the unfair
treatment of China in the United
Nations, but we are not going to
do that."
Chou's weak wise as Ceedose
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Independent
Nominations
To Be Held
Nominations for next year's of
ficers of the Association of In
dependent Men wit' be made at
7:30 tonight in 203 Hebei Union.
Further nominations may be
made April 27 just before the
election, Robert D en-n
president, said.
Any male student who is of
junior standing and who has at
least a 1.0 AR-University aver.
age is eligible to ran. It is not
necessary that he be a member of
the Board of Governors to qualify
for nomination►.
James Kennedy, Wert Mak
president and chairmen of the
National Independent Student As.
sociation Week committee, will
read his amunitteels report on
NISA. Week.
Has Simm, proiects comrnittee
chairman, will present reports at
all the projects that his commit.
tee has worked on since Septent•
ber.
Simm, who also worked on
NISA project was awarded first
prize in competition with other
member schools at a NISA con.
vention. His NISA project was to
investigate the possibility of re•
vising the dues collecting ached•
ule. Simm's committee recom.
mended that dues be collected ao.
cording to the membership of the
individual independent organize.
tion rather than according to the
undergraduate enrollment of the
institution.
Premier Sir John Noleiawsis
worked to minimize Est-West
tensions at the parley. Ketela.
wala, who leads the governmenil
of one of the five countries sPon
sortng the conference, has cane('
a meeting of key leaders kr to•
morrow.
Those who have agreed to al.
tend include Chou, Iraq's Foreign
Minister rad hi i Jame*, wh •
touched off the inotra-conference
dispute yesterday with a denunci
ation of "Communist colonialism,*
and the other four premiers spoil•
soring the conference, Prime Mir*
ister Nehru of India, Prime Mine
ister Mohammed Ali of Pakis tan,
Premier U Nu of Burma, and
Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo
Indonesia.
Chou sought to identify colonial.
ism solely with the older Western
brand, which various contemned,
delegates have conceded is on Ike
way out.
FIVE CEPOS