Elections Committee OK's Frosh, Soph Political Platforms All-University Elections •committee last night approved Lion party's open letter to students and Campus party's state ment of policy for use in campaigning for freshman and sophomore elections. Only a few minor changes in wordings were made by the committee. The Lion party's letter sta . purpose of . a political party it Parties. Gain Ground In Campaigns Fall campaigning by Lion and Campus parties for freshman and sophomore class officers is slowly picking up momentum as the par ties are preparing for All-Uni versity elections next Thursday and Friday. Thomas Dye, Lion party clique chairman said yesterday that his hack begun its campaigning with a "slow start" betause of the "long campaign" but,the drive will become heavier towards the beginning of next week. Campus party clique chairman Allen Davies announced that the party's campaign was coming along as normally. 'as could be expected but will "speed up"- to morrow andedily next - week. The campaign . I `ii going as hard as it can now, in some spots," he said. Campaigning for _promotion of candidates..began on Monday and will close Wednesday, the day before elections are to begin. Both parties are having sopho more ' claim theiranditiates cam.' paign in fraternities during the noon and,evening meals. Dye said Lion party's candidates feel they have been well received by the fraternities they havtvisited. Men, candidates for - freshman positions 'have been campaigning in the dormitories on campus. Campus party candidates can vassed McKee Hall Ttiesday night. They will campaign in the Nit tany-Pollock.. area , tonight ' and will return to the remaind . er of ' the West dormitories wh en they complete coverage of the east dorms tonight or tomorrow night. Lion party freshman, candidates have been campaigning in the Nittany-Pollock dor mit o r'i e s; where, Dye said, the . men have shown more enthusiasm than they "have in a while." '• Another phase of campaigning —the distribution of posters—is just getting. 'underway. Dye said large posters bearing pictures of the candidates were to be posted on the dormitory bulletin boards. Stolen'Auto Still Reported Missing Philadelphia police have been unable to locate the car -stolen last' Friday night from Sanford Lichtenste;n, senior in education from Philadelphia. • Lichtenstein parked the .car in front of the ;.Hellvue-Stratford hotel in Philadelphia about 11:30 p.m. last 'Friday. When he left the hotel, the car was gone. He. accompanied Philadelphia police on a city-wide search for the car ? but they could not find any evidence of the - missing ve hicle. Later, the • police sent out a three-state• alarm for the car. The car . is . a 1954 Chevrolet convertible owned by Lichten stein's sister,. Barbara, a student at Ogontz Center. TODAY'S WEATHER CLOUDY WITH SHOWERS As that the party "believes the s not only to elect ,candidates, "but also to bring student prob lems to the attention of every one. 'Cabinet Is Voice' "All-University Cabinet is the voice of the student body, not the ' administration and should carry the problems of the students to the administration regardless of the difficulty of those problems." It also states that three prob lems have been brought to the attention of the party and its can didates "will attempt to remedy them." 'The problems listed are: "the banning of freshman veterans' cars; the absence of intercollegiate women sports; and the lack of a loud-speaker system at Beaver Field for play-by-play descrip tions of the games." Campus Suggestion; Campus party's statement of policy makes four suggestions: the establishment of freshman and sophomore class advisory boards; better communication be tween freshmen and upperclass men, possibly by a change in the Orientation Week program; bet ter and more diNierse recreation facilities; and further extension and use of Cabinet Personnel In-1 terviewing •Committee, possibly by having class 'officers use the new Cabinet committee. • It also states that "Campus par ty also recognizes the inability of,the Univer sity . to cope with the prtsgpt,paripocprobleia, .due, to. the lim afrons in "the 'lreselit physical p 1 a n t,. and therefore makes no promises concerning this problem." 'No Rash Promises' It further states that "we (the party) again will strive to • carry out , our suggestions as we have in the past and will continue our policy : of no xash promises, which we , know cannot be fulfilled." Also in the statement are ac complishinents of , -the party since it Swept' the e lections, ,last spying. 'lt states that the iiarty insti tuted regular office hours in the Hetxel Union Building for elected Campus candidates; established advisory boards for the junior and senior classes; that CPIC "is being used almost exclusively to secure qualified people who would not normally get an opportunity, thus eliminating the political 'spoils system' "•' and that "definite ac tion will be coming" inegard to better living conditions for town independent men. All-University elections fo r freshman and sophomore officers will be held Thursday and Fri day on the basement floor of the Hetzel Union Building. Collegian Business Staff The senior board .of the Daily Collegian business staff will meet at 6:45 tonight in 111 Carnegie. Big 3 Rejects Soviet Merger Plan GENEVA, Nov. 2 (EP)—The Soviet Union advanced a pret posal today for gradual mer ger • of •East and West Ger many. The three Western for eign ministers promptly re jected it and repeated their de mand for free elections to unify Ger Many. Soviet Foreign Minister V, M. Molotov. also revived an old So viet proposal for withdrawal of foreign armed forces from divided Germany and set a new three month deadline for it. The West immediately turned a cold shoul der to this idea. The merger plan would be built around an all-German Council from the two parlia ments in East and West Ger many. Arguing that this was the only way to tackle, the unity problem. Molotov proposed to /3 atig VOL. 56, No. 35 STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 3. 1955 FIVE CENTS Cabinet Sets Debate On NSA Membership All-University Cabinet tonight will continue discussion on whether the University should resume membership in the National Student Association. Discussion of the question quickly turned to heated debate at the last Cabinet meeting, Oct. 20 Since that time, Ray Farabee, a vice president of NSA, explained to Cabinet members the purposes and functions of the association at a special meeting on Oct. 23. NSA, which has been debated by Cabinet for the past several years, is a confederation of college student bodies represented through their student governments. Banner Contest, Pep Rally Set For Tonight A combined banner competition and pep rally for the Syracuse football game will be sponsored as a Junior Week event at 8 to night in front of Old Main. Sororities, fraternities, and in dependent groups will compete in the contest. The Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps band will play. A parade preceding the rally will form at 7:45 between Carnegie Hall an d Thompson dormitory, and will proceed through the quadrangle and down Pollock Road to Old Main. The winnerrof the banner com petition will be presented a tro phy at intermission of the Junior Prom, prior to the crowning of the queen.. Entries will be judged on or* ipality„ effectiveness, arid .Rartitt patioti of the group in keeping with the banner slogan. Groups may wear costumes, or appear in similar dress. Groups participating in th e competition will line up in alpha betical order on the Mall, and will parade across the patio in front of Old Main to be judged. Letters have been sent to all campus social groups containing information on the contest, an d stressing participation by juniors I and pledges. However, seniors may also be included in th e groups. Judges will be Nancy Scholl, Patricia Jones, Margaret . Pearce, Thomas Hollenbach, Joyce Koch, I Marilyn Seltzer, Daniel Land, Barbara Hendel, and Harry Fueh rer. The rally will be in' charge of Androcles and Blue Key, junior men's 'hat societies, and Chimes, junior women's hat society. WDFM Posts' Open . Applications for the announc ing staff of student radio station VMD Fly' are available in 317 Sparks, according to George Alas trian,-'news director. 'Auditions will be held Nov. 12, and each student will be aSsigned a time to tryout after he fills out the application. the Big Four foreign ministers conference: ' 1. Formation of an all-German Council as a "consultative body." 2. Under the council, mixed committees from the two govern ments would deal with economic and cultural ties, including Ger man currency, intra-German fi nancial transactions, custom s, post and telegraph, and trans port. 3. The council "shall bring about accord" on the strength, armaments and location of forces to defend the two republics' fron tiers and territories. 4. The council "shill bring about accord" on the republics' participation in European se curity measures and "shall con sider by mutual agreement" questions relating to "the bring ing about of prerequisites for this unification of Germany as a peaceful and democratic state." "The West wants, and all the FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Cabinet voted last spring to send four representatives to the NSA national congress last sum mer in order to report their find ings on the resumption of mem bership question. In a report of the four, which was submitted to Cabinet Sept. 20 by Philip Beard, one of the dele gates and All-University secre tary-treasurer, it was recom mended that the University re sume NSA membership. Norman Miller, acting chair man of the Board of Publication,. AGENDA Reports of Committees: Junior Prom —Robert Bahrenburg Recreation—Patricia Farrel Encampment Communications Workship Myron Feinsilber Old Business: National Student Association —Philip Beard New Business: Junior Class Complimentary Tickets Appointments Adjournment - All.42thieriritf C blnet will meet at 7 tonight in 203 Hetsel Union. The meeting is open to the public. - - has attacked NSA twice in edi torials in the Daily Collegian. Bruce Lieske, president of the Association of Independent Men, wrote a pro-NSA letter to the edi 4or also published in the news paper. A proposed campus setup for I NSA probably will be discussed at the meeting. It calls for a NSA committee, the chairman of which would have a non-voting seat on Cabinet; two corresponding secre taries, one for regional and na tional af f air s; an informa tion secretary, who would report NSA activities -to campus organ izations; and various sub-commit tees. Included on the agenda are three reports. They are: Junior Week and Prom by Robert Bah renburg, junior class president; I possibilities of student recreation in White Hall by Patricia Farrel, Women's Recreation Association president; , and Encampment Com municatione Workshop by Myron Feinsilber, chairman. of the En campment committee. Cabinet will also discuss com plimentary tickets for the Junior Prem.. four powers here are committed to work • for, an independent, united Germany free to choose its home and foreign policies," Brit ish Foreign Secretary Harold MacMillan said. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told Molotov that "only by free elections can the wishes of the German people be ascertained." French Foreign Minister An toine Pinay assailed Molotov's contention that the "social achievements" by the East Ger man Communist regime should be a model for West Germany. "Three million Germans have fled from that Eastern 'paradise' sinceo4s," Pinay said. Molotov denounced the West's contention that German unifica tion must first be carried out if there is to be European security. "There is no link between Euro pean security and a reunified Germany which doesn't exist," he said. Tottrgiatt Pi Lambda Petition OK'd, To Go National University Senate has approved Pi Lambda fraternity's petition to apply for affiliation with Pi Lambda Phi national fraternity, Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, announced yester day. Senate's decision will go into effect Thursday. Nelson Goldberg, president of the house, said formal reactiva tion ceremonies will be held the evening of Nov. 11. Fifteen men will be inducted as brothers of the national fraternity. Two men will officially become pledges of Pi Lambda Phi. The chapter at the University became inactive during the spring semester of 1952 when the Uni versity suspended its charter for not complying with Interfraterni ty Council rules. Suspension was to last at least a year. A move was started in Decem ber of 1953 to return the chapter to active status. On Dec. 15, last year, Senate pproved Pi Lamb da's petition for reactivation of its charter. According to Univer sity rules, the house was required to serve a year probationary per iod as a local fraternity. During this time, Pi Lambda was not al lowed to operate a house. Makeup Classes For Thanksgiving Set for January A schedule for making up class es which will be missed during Thanksgiving vacation has been announced by th e scheduling office. The classes must be made up to fulfill a University requirement which stipulates that each class meet 45 times during the semes ter. In order to meet this require ment, 15 classes must meet dur ing each scheduled class period. Classes which would ordinarily meet Thursday, Nov. 24, will be made up Monday, Jan. 16. Class es which are scheduled to meet Friday, Nov. 25, will be made up Tuesday, Jan. 17. Classes sched uled for Saturday, N0v..26, will be made up on the :morning of Wednesday, Jan. 18. The regular class schedule will be resumed the afternoon of Jan. 18.' The schedule for making up classes missed due to the Penn half-holiday Saturday wa s an nounced yesterday by the sched uling office. The Christmas vacation will end at 8 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 4, instead of at 1:10 p.m., Jan. 4, as originally scheduled. CE Department Gets slo,o*o Gift Engineering equipment valued at $lO,OOO has been presented to the civil engineering department by Michael Baker, Jr., a 1936 graduate of the University. The gift includes two auxiliary multiplex units, each with three projectors and tracing table. Dr, Benjamin A. Whisler, professor and head of the civil engineering department, explained that the units will be used in advanced and graduate civil engineering courses in photogrammetric map ping,
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