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VOL. 56. No. 66
Pleas Court Upholds
Ruling on Aliens'
Payment of Fees
The Philadelphia Common Pleas Court has upheld its
earlier ruling that aliens are subject to non-resident tuition
fees at the University.
The court took this action as it threw out exceptions
filed against a Sept. 6 ruling.
The case involves Frieder;
Hogan Asks
Early Fee
Payment
Bursar David C. Hogan has
asked that those students who in
tend to pay their fees for the
Spring semester of 1956 by mail
do so as early as possible.
This will facilitate the return
of the receipt in time for registra
tion, he said.
Letter Mailed to Students
A letter from University Comp
troller Samuel K. Hostetter
mailed Dec. 27, 1955, reminded
students that those planning to
register at the main campus for
the Spring semester of 1956 are
required to pay the regular fees
and charges before the time of
registration, Hogan said.
Students are urged to pay regu
lar fees early,' the letter said, in
order to avoid any inconvenience
at the time of registration.
Hemind Korean Veterans
Students enrolled under Public
Law 550 (Korean Veterans) were
reminded that the Veterans Ad
ministration pays all educational
benefits directly to the veteran
who is responsible personally to
the University for payment of his
total fees and charges, Hogan
said.
Questions concerning the pay
ment of fees should be addressed
to the Office of the Bursar, which
will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday and until
noon on Saturdays. The office will
not be closed during lunch hours.
Thanksgiving
Makeups Set
Classes regularly scheduled for
Thursdays will meet Monday, Jan.
16, to make up for those missed
Thursday, Nov. 24, according to
Kay V. Watkins, scheduling of
ficer.
Friday classes will meet Tues
day, Jan. 17, and Saturday morn
ing classes will meet Wednes
day morning, Jan. 18. Regular
Wednesday afternoon classes will
meet Wednesday afternoon,
Jan. 18.
The schedule changes were
necessary to make up the class
hours‘missed during the Thanks
giving recess.
Final examinations will begin
at 8 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 19 and
end at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27.
General Faculty Meeting
For Tuesday Cancelled
The general meeting of the fac
ulty at the University, scheduled
for 4:10 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, has
been cancelled.
The report to the faculty, which
was to be presented at the meet
ing by President Milton S. Eisen
hower, will be given later.
Grad Council to Meet
Reports on the Winter Dance
and the {possibility of coffee hours
will be discussed by the Graduate
Student Council at 8:15 tonight in
218 Hetzel Union.
Collegian Board to. Meet
The Senior Board of the Daily
Collegian business staff will meet
at 6:45 tonight in 111 Carnegie.
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STATE COLLEGE. PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 5. 1956
Ice Witte, junior in education,
a native of Munich, Germany, who
gives her address as that of her
uncle, Herman Witte, Philadel
phia, who filed the exceptions.
Has Permanent Visa
Miss' Witte, whose parents and
a brother and two sisters live in
Munich, is in the United States
on a permanent immigration visa.
This means she may remain in
the U.S. as long as she wishes, re
turn at any time to her native
Germany, or apply for citizenship
after five years of American resi
dence.
Her uncle first took suit against
the University for charging her
non-resident fees in December,
1954.
Claims She's State Resident
He claimed that although she
was an alien, she was a resident
of the state since she made her
home with him in Philadelphia.
The case seemed closed as the
court ruled in favor of the Uni
versity on Sept. 6, but Witte filed
exceptions to the decision.
In the exceptions, Witte, through
his lawyer, claimed that Miss
Witte would not return to Ger
many upon her graduation and
that universities-“must be avail
able to all—citizen and alien
alike.”
The court’s action this week
threw out the exceptions.
Enrolled at University in 1953
Miss Witter came to America in
1950 as an exchange student at
Philadelphia’s Grove High School
and returned to Germany in 1951.
She came back to the .U.S. in the
fall of 1952 and a year later en
rolled at the University.
Miss Witte told the Daily Col
legian that she has a scholarship
which covers the out-of-state tui
tion. A University spokesman
has said that this would indicate
that the case was fought as a mat
ter of principle.
University policy is to charge
aliens, whether they are residents
or non-residents of the state, non
resident fees, according to C. O.
Williams, University registrar.
Old Main to Appear
On Magazine Cover
The December issue of the East
ern Milk Producer, monthly pub
lication of the Eastern Milk Pro
ducers Cooperative Association,
Inc., has a photograph of the Uni
versity’s Old Main on the front
cover. A story and photographs
appear inside.
ike, Congress Speed Farm Aid Plan
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (/P)
—Congress and President Ei
senhower moved quickly to
day to try to get more money
into farmers’ pockets and cut
down the vast piles of gov
ernment-owned surpluses.
The election year race to help
the farmers—whose income has
been falling while the rest of the
economy booms immediately
produced one big area of agree
ment:
There should be a "soil bank”
or “fertility bank” scheme under
which the government would fun
nel money to farmers who retire
crop land from unnecessary pro
duction. ’
The White House announced on
this second day of the new ses
sion that'Eisenhower will send a
special farm message to Congress
lon Monday.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
McCarthy
Hits Prexy,
2 Others
Republican Senator Joseph R.
McCarthy, of Wisconsin, yester
day charged Dr. Milton S. Eisen
hower, president of the Univer
sity, along with two others, with
damaging the administration’s
record, the Associated Press re
ported.
Paul Hoffman, board chairman
of the Studebaker-Packard Corp.,
and Harold Stassen, special assis
tant of disarmament to President
Dwight D. Eisenhower, were also
named by McCarthy,
Discussing the view held by
some strategists that the Republi
can party should campaign for
votes mainly on the administra
tion’s record, McCarthy said “the
record would be much better” if
the three were
removed from
their advisory
capacities.
Dr. Eisenhower
has twice previ
ously come un
der attack by
McCarthy. Oh
March 16 McCar-
thy blamed the
“holdovers from
the Roosevelt re
gime” and Dr.
Eisenhower for
the nation’s pol- Milton Eiienhower
icy of “co-existence” with com
munism. McCarthy said he fav
ored a more aggressive policy of
“liberation” for Soviet satellites.
Again, on May 23, McCarthy
attacked 'Dr-. 'Eisenhower,“terming
him “the unofficial president of
the United States.” He said Dr.
Eisenhower, in advising the presi
dent, was “more than an influ
ence on his brother.”
The University’s administration
has declined to comment on yes
terday’s statements by McCarthy.
Dr. Eisenhower is'currently visit
ing at Key West, Fla., with the
President, who is recovering from
a September heart attack.
Bus Ad College Given
$250 Library Grant
A gift of $250 to be used for the
purchase of library materials to
further the study o£*banking and
financing has been received by
the Collage of Business Adminis
tration from the Pennsylvania
Bankers Association.
'The money has enabled the
College to purchase certain bank
ing and finance books for the li
brary which otherwise would not
be available, according to David
R. McKinley, dean of the College
of Business Administration.
LaVie Junior Board
The Junior Board of LaVie will
meet at 7 tonight in 413 Old Main.
Chairman Allen J. Ellender-<D-
La) said the Senate Agriculture
Committee had agreed to go to
work at once on a broad new
farm program and try to have it
“on the President’s desk by Feb
ruary 15th.”
Ellender said he would try to
keep the farm relief program out
of poltiics, saying:
“The way farm prices have been
going down recently, it hurts Re
publicans as well as Democrats.”
White House secretary James C.
Hagerty said at Key West, Fla.,
that Eisenhower is speeding his
program to Congress because of
the great importance he attaches
to the farm problem.
Republican politicians have ex
pressed frank concern about the
crop price situation, with both
presidential and congressional
elections coming up this fall. Dem
ocrats are blaming the administra
tion for the decline, while Repub
licans reply that the drop got
egtatt
January Grads
To Suggest Gift
This year for the first time January graduates of the
University will have the opportunity of taking part in the
selection of the senior class gift. '
The new plan was announced yesterday by Martha Mc-
Donald, chairman of the senior class gift committee.
Gift selection boxes will be
placed at 5 locations on campus
starting today and will be left
there until Tuesday. These include
the Hetzel Union desk, West
Dorms, Simmons, McElwain and
Grange Dormitories.
The suggestion boxes are open
to any member of. the senior class,
but because the program was
planned especially for January
graduates, they are encouraged to
submit their suggestions.
Boxes Collected Tuesday
The boxes will be collected
Tuesday by members of the Sen
ior Class Advisory Board, who
will compose a ballot of the lead
ing suggestions.
January graduates may vote on
their selections when they pick
up their caps and gowns at. the
Athletic Store on Jan. 26, 27, 28,
and 30.
The top two or three suggestions
for the gift will go into another
ballot to be prepared in the spring
when June graduates will vote.
Prior to that time the gift selec
tion boxes will be put up again
for the suggestions of June grad
uates.
$9500 Set Aside
„ j Approximately. $9500 has been
set aside for the senior class gift,
but this amount is subject to
change as the year progresses.
Before this year, January grad
uates had never had a hand in
the selection of their class gift.
The Senior Class Advisory Board
decided to include the January
graduates in the gift suggestion
program in order to give them
more of a share in the activities
of their class and to bring more
unity to the two graduating
classes.
- Last year’s senior class pre
sented $lO,OOO to the University
for pews and furnishings for the
nave of the Helen Eakin Eisen
hower Chapel. It was picked over
four other suggestions, which
were social television facilities,
rebuilding of a recreation lodge,
a centennial monument, and an
endowment fund for the Pattee
Library.
Last year was the third year
the senior class gift had been con
tributed toward the chapel pro
gram.
Cabinet Cancels Meeting
All-University Cabinet will not
meet tomorrow.
The next meeting is scheduled
for Jan. 12, according to All-Uni
versity. President Earl Seely.
started under farm policies laid
down by Democratic regimes.
Farm prices, and income, have
been dropping for years. The de
cline continued in December.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
T. Benson met at breakfast this
morning with members of the
House Agriculture Committee. He
said afterward, “It will be up to
the President to say what his
recommendations are.”
However, Benson said the rec
ommendations are sure to include
the idea of a soil bank. Sen^Ellen
der said some form of fertility
bank would be a key point in the
program his committee will whip
out.
Under this system, farmers
would get government payments
for taking land out of production
where it would otherwise add to
surpluses. The idea is this would
get cash to the farmers, arid at
the same time keep surpluses from
building up.
Drive Like
Adults
See Page 4
DIR Student
Gets Probation
For Cheating
A third semester student in the
division of intermediate registra
tion, who was given disciplinary
probation for a year, became the
fourth student to be penalized
under the new academic honesty
plan.
Dean of Men Frank J. Simes
said yesterday the student was put
on probation by his college for
possessing crib notes in a chemis
try laboratory.
An offense of this type has been
labeled premeditated cheating by
the disciplinary subcommittee of
the Senate Committee on Student
Affairs. This type of cheating in
volves the use of either crib notes
or plagiarism when preparing pa
pers or themes.
The newly formulated academic
honesty policy provides that the
violation will be entered on the
student’s permanent record. It
may be petitioned off after one
school year.
The last student to be penalized
under the policy was a seventh
semester student in mineral in
dustries, who received discipli
nary probation for a similar viola
tion on Dec. 12.
Reds Release
1925 Graduate
Mrs. Homer V. Bradshaw, a 1925
graduate of the University, has ar
rived in America after five years
of imprisonment and torture in
the hands of the Chinese Reds in
Hong Kong, according to the As
sociated Press.
U.S. Air Force doctors reported
that “she is still uncertain of her
surroundings.” She has not been
available for press conferences.
Her husband, a missionary at
Linshen in Kwangtung province
when they were arrested, said
they suffered “abominable treat
ment” at the hands of the Chinese
Communists, including torture.
“It burns me up, the way they
treated my wife,” Bradshaw said.
He blamed the Reds for her “men
tal depression.”
They were accused of spying
and maintaining radio contact
with Hong Kong, Manila, Tokyo,
and the United States in 1951
and were sent to separate prisons.
Temperature Drop
Predicted for Today
Today’s weather will be mostly
cloudy with temperatures drop
ping slightly, according to the
forecast by students in the de
partment of meteorology.
The temperature is expected to
reach a high of 31 degrees with a
low of 26.
Yesterday’s maximum was 34
degrees. The low was 31.
Council Lacks Quorum
A meeting of Pollock Council
was postponed last night because
the Council lacked a quorum.
Fifteen members are . necessary
for a quorum, but only thirteen
were present; The next meeting
is scheduled for Tuesday.
Conflict List to Appear
The ' ' conflict examination
schedule will appear in to
morrow's Daily Collegian.
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