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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
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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
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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.”
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