Today's Weather: Warmor With Snow Flurrios VOL. 56. No. 60 Campus Party Fails To Elect Officers Student politcians argued, shouted, and rose to points of order many times Sunday night, but. after more than two hours Campus party’s clique meeting ended with the election of its new clique officers still unsettled. The meeting was adjourned until Sunday when a new election will be held. Jack Afcele, junior in arte and letters from Erie, and William Snyder, junior in business admin istration from Paolij were nomi nated for the position of clique chairman. Until last night Snyder was vice-clique chairman of Lion party, when he resigned. Members of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity who counted the ballots, first an nounced the results of the election as 96 for Abele and 63 for Snyder. A total of 159 ballots were cast. Nurock Protests Vote Smoking in Classrooms Protested Two University officials said recently they have received many complaints about students and faculty members smoking in class rooms. Walter H. Wiegand, director of the physical plant, and Ray V. Watkins, scheduling officer, said the complaints have come from both students and instructors. 'Hard Problem to Solve' Both officials said that smok ing in classrooms is problem to solve. They* aid the University has a no-smoking rule, but enforcing the rule is a prob lem" that has stumped the ad ministration ever since the rule was put into effect. Watkins said he felt either the rule should be strictly enforced or it should be dropped altogether. He placed- the blame for lack of enforcement on instructors. Half the instructors smoke in class rooms and set poor examples for students, he said. The other half don’t try to enforce the rule, he added. 'Worse at University' Dean of Men Frank J. Simes said yesterday classroom smok ing is worse at the University than at other universities and col leges. Other universities do not enforce no-smoking rules either, he said, but they have a tradition or precedent which frowns upon smoking in classrooms. In addition, the smoking prob lem has not been publicized enough, he said. A law like this must be hammered into the heads of students and faculty members until it becomes a habit to con fine smoking to corridors, he said. Ford Foundation Grants Aid to 21 State Schools NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (/P)—The Ford Foundation today in one stroke gave away over $4 million to 21 privately sup ported colleges and universities in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania State University was not one of the insti tutions designated to receive funds from the foundation. The appropriation was part of a gigantic $.5 billion gift to colleges and hospitals in the United States. This is a sum roughly equal to $3 for every man, woman and child in the country. The largest single appropria tion in the history of philan thropy, the donations totals $l5O million more than the foundation has given previously in its 19 years of existence. $2lO Million Given The sum of $2lO million was earmarked for all 615 regionally accredited, privately supported colleges and universities in the United States to help raise teach er’s salaries Another $2OO million was- tag ged for about 3500 privately sup ported hospitals to help improve and extend services to the public. And $9O million was reserved for privately supported medical schools to help strengthen their instruction methods. (Hall By TED SERRILL When the count was announced, Robert Nurock, former Lion party campaign manager, asked that a The All-University Elections Committee last night drew up an amendment to the elections code whi c h Roger Beidler, chairman, will present to All- University Cabinet Thursday night. The recommended amendment would prohibit an elected offi cer in any political party from running for an office in any other political party for "a per iod of not less than a year," af ter his election. The amendment, if approved by Cabinet, will have no effect on Sunday's re-election since Snyder informed The Daily Col legian last night he had offi cially resigned from his vice chairmanship >of Lion parly. recount of the votes' be held. Da vid Eber, parliamentarian of Cam pus party, in answer to a question, said there were approximately 200 students attending the meeting. Nurock said there was a dis crepancy of about 40 ballots be tween the number of persons pre sent and the number of announced votes. He said this implies the need for a recount. Allen Davies, retiring chairman, said that he didn’t like to see a clique meeting open to bitter jeal ousies. 'Lions* Attend Meeting Davies’ comments apparently originated from the presence of a large number of Lion oarty mem bers and representatives at the (Continued on page jive) The largest single grant—ss million—went to New York Uni versity. Matched Payrolls The amounts for colleges and universities were determined by matching the payrolls for instruc tion in the liberal arts and sci ences for 1954-55 for each insti tution. Income from the grants can be used for either increasing salaries or for other pressing needs. The Ford Foundation was set up by the late Henry Ford in 1937, dedicated to the advance ment of human welfare. Its ob jectives include'supporting efforts to increase international under standing and promote world peace, strengthening democratic institutions and processes, advanc ing economic well being, and en couraging the scientific study of human behavior. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 13. 1955 Delta Sig Damage $4O-50,000 Damage in the near-disastrous fire at Delta Sigma Phi Sunday was estimated yes terday at between $40,000 and $50,000. Reset House officials said a second look at the gutted house by Fire Marshall Bruce Homan of State College, revealed the higher figure than the one released Sunday. The first figure was between $25,000 and $30,000. DELTA SIGMA PHI member, John Knaff, examines the condition of his books in his shackled room. Most of the books, as well as other personal items, were covered with a thick, gray film. Christmas Tree Undamaged By Delta Sigma Phi Blaze By ED DUBBS [ A green, decorated Christmas tree still stands in the living room of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house. The 17-foot tree, unharmed by flames, was part of the decora tions for the Yule season and a pledge dance held the night before the near-disastrous fire raged through the three-story building. The 44 members, now split up among other fraternities, hope to be living as a group again some time before Christmas, And changes are that the slen der, towering tree will go along. O. Edward Pollock, assistant to the dean of men in charge of frat ernity affairs, said yesterday that the dean of men’s office is at tempting to house the members on campus as a group as much as possible. Pollock dorms can not be secured, he said, because the vacant ones are in the process of being dismantled. Just shortly after 10 a.m. Sun day, an hour before the fire was discovered by the cook, Mrs. Ed na Boone, the brothers had just finished cleaning the house from the pledge dance. “If we knew it was going to burn up,” one member said, “we wouldn’t have cleaned it.” After the house-cleaning chore, most of the members attended chapel, while otheas were still in bed upstairs. Aid started to pour in soon after (Continued on page eight) Mil Ball Queen- Pictures Pictures of the Mil Ball queen entrants may be picked up at the Hetzel Union desk until 5 p.m. Friday. The HUB desk has five white handbags and a stole which were left at the dance. Irving C. Boerlin, supervisor of the University’s audio-visual aids department and house adviser, said Building Ser vice Corp., State College, is now preparing detailed estimates, which should be completed by Friday. . Members yesterday began clean, ing up and removing personal be longings from the house. Meanwhile, members have tak en up residence in other fraterni ties, and the dean of men’s office is seeking on-campus housing for the group. Film. Odor on Articles egtatt Fraternity Money Asked For Delta Sigma Phi Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity suggested last night to Interfraternity Council that each member of each IFC mem ber house donate $1 to Delta Sigina Phi fraternity, whose house was wrecked by fire Sunday morning. The agriculture fraternity’s representative said that if each man in a social fraternity would give $1 to Delta Sigma, approximately $2500 could be given to the fraternity to help rebuild its house. The decision on whether or not Joseph Palo, president of Delta Sigma Phi, said last night his fraternity was looking for a place where the members might eat, sleep and live as a group. He said the arrangements would last until the Delta Sigma Phi house, raked by fire Sunday morning, could be rebuilt. to donate money was left to the individual fraternities. IFC members debated on the topic of committee assignments. Thurman Lorick, Alpha Phi Alpha delegate, said that it seemed to him the committee asignments were confined to members of four or five houses. In reply, John Russell, IFC Dishonest Game Of Politics See Page 4 Members found a thick, grey film and a smoky odor on most of their clothing and other per sonal items. Text books and lec ture notes are also in poor condi tion. Flames broke out in the three story building about 11 a.m. Sun day and fire raged for two hours until brought under control by the Alpha Fire Company of State College and the Undine Company of Bellefonte. Firemen did not leave the scene until almost 5 p.m. Main '"lames in Basement The main flames, in the base , ment, were so hot they reduced one section of flooring and large joists into ashes within an hour. The thick and hollow central supporting wall served as a vir tual flue to carry the blaze up ward, causing much damage to the floors and walls in the cen tral part of the house. Wind, Smoke Hinder Firemen A strong wind and heavy smoke hindered firemen's operations. Weakened floor and ceiling tim bers also made fire-fighting treacherous. Smoke and water caused con siderable damage. Water was run ning through the ceiling onto the first floor long after the fire was under control, while smoke con tinued to roll from the house. The fire, which was first no ticed by the house cook, Mrs. Ed na Boone, was probably the worst since the O. W. Houts and Son, Inc. fire, of the same weekend last December. vice president, admitted that a good portion of committee mem bers are from a few houses. How ever, Russell blamed the situation on “apathy of the individual frat ernity members.” Russell said that at the begin ning of the year, member houses were asked to submit names of members who would be willing to work on IFC committees. Ten names were turned into the Frat ernity Affairs Office, he said, but when the time came to interview men for committee memberships, only two men showed up for the interviews Forced to Appoint Men “If individual members won’t apply for committees,” he said, “then we l 1 have to appoint men I who we Know will do a capable 'job.” FIVE CENTS
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