Today's Weather: Cloudy and Warmer Cabinet Will Reconsider NSA Sigma Phi Alpha May Go National John Forrest, president of Sigma Phi Alpha social fra ternity, told The Daily Collegian yesterday there is a pos sibility the local fraternity may affiliate with Alpha Kappa Lambda national fraternity sometime in the near future. | Forrest said the actives and pledges recently voted un animously, to investigate affilia tion with Alpha Kappa Lambda, and preliminary negotiations have Started with the national frater nity. „ However, he said, the final de cision lies with the active Sigma Phi Alpha alumni. Representative Visits House He said the national fraternity had been contacted, and a repre sentative had visited the local fraternity. But it is up to the alumni board of directors, Forrest said, who must contact every ac tive alumnus, and gather their opinions on going national. Then the board of directors must vote on whether or not to affiliate with Alpha Kappa Lambda. There are seven active alumni in the State College area, Forrest said, and all have approved of national affiliation. May Take Time Tribunal Asks Office Probation For Two Frosh Tribunal recommended office probation for two freshmen in chemical engineering Tuesday night for removing five Christmas tree bulbs from the Community Christmas Tree at the main cam pus gate Dec. 14. Fred Colteryahn and Ronald Galazin, both residents of Nit tany 39, were charged with con duct unbecoming a University student. The two had previously been fined $25 each and $9 costs by a borough justice of the peace af ter being apprehended by bor ough police and held on $25 bond. Galazin said the two were on their way downtown early in the evening, and decided “impulsive ly” to take bulbs from the tree to use in their dormitory’s Christmas decorating scheme. He said they had already taken the bulbs and were standing near the tree when borough police seized them and charged them with disorderly conduct. Robert Matz, Nittany 39 dormi tory counselor, told Tribunal that the boys had never been mis chievous in the dormitory. The students will remain on of fice probation for the remainder of the academic year. FCC Approves Triangle Deal The Federal Communications Commission - yesterday author ized Triangle Publications, Inc., of Philadelphia, to buy stations WFBG and WFBG-TV at Al toona. Triangle, which publishes the Philadelphia Inquirer and oper ates WFIL-TV, has offered in the same deal to supply the Uni versity with $lO,OOO a year for five years to produce programs on campus. The University trustees have yet to act on the offer. It sup posedly is on the agenda for their next meeting. The publishing company pur chased the Altoona stations for $2,600,000, according to the Asso ciated Press. Clouds and Rain Due With Cold Today’s forecast calls for cloudy weather turning slightly colder by afternoon with occasional light rain this morning. Tonight will be mostly cloudy and colder with a few snow flur ries, according to students in the department of meteorology. The weather tomorrow is ex pected to be partly cloudy and moderately cold. Seniors' Proofs Due Seniors who have not return ed their proofs to the Penn State Photo Shop must do so by 5 p.m. today or their picture will not be put in LaVie. ullie iaily $H (Hall However, he said, it will prob ably be some time before Sigma Phi Alpha goes national, possibly two or three years. The national representative who visited the campus this year told the local fraternity that national affilia tion could be achieved by next year. But Forrest said he doubted that affiliation could be accom plished that soon. If the alumni and alumni board of directors agree to affiliation with Alpha Kappa Lambda, the fraternity must obtain approval of the University Senate Com mittee On Student Affairs. Organizations Parallel Forrest said Sigma Phi Alpha chose to join Alpha Kappa Lamb da since both organizations closely parallel each other. O. Edward Pollock, assistant to the dean of men, said yesterday, “At this stage, the University is not involved with the negotiations since they are only preliminary ones.” The University, he said, will probably not become involved until Sigma Phi Alpha petitions for national affiliation. Comparatively unknown in the eastern section of the country, (Continued on page five) January 'Engineer' To Appear Tomorrow The January issue of the Penn State Engineer will be on sale to morrow. The main feature for this issue will be the annual Coed Calendar. Other articles include jet fuels, astronomy, and cast iron. The Engineer will be on sale at the Corner Room, Grange Dormitory, the Hetzel Union Building and on the Mall. Sale price is 25 cents. Five U.S. Missionaries Feared Dead QUITO, Ecuador, Jan. 11 (fP) —Five U.S. missionaries who penetrated Amazon jungle territory peopled by savage Auca Indians all were feared dead today after a second uni dentified body near their stripped plane was seen from the air. John Keenan, also a missionary, reported spotting the body of a man in the Curaray River not far from the plane, which has been reduced to a skeleton. Keenan made his reconnaissance flight from Shell Mera, an oil company headquarters camp, early this morning. Capt. Gon zalo, Ruales, an Ecuadorian com- FOR A BETTER PENN STATE ,TE COLLEGE. PA.. THUR: Editorial A Negative Nod to NSA The question of whether or not the University should resume membership in the National Student Association will in all probability be resolved by All-University Cabinet to night. Cabinet should vote to stay cut of NSA for these reasons 1) In its seven years of existence at the University students took little interest in it, and very little was realized from membership. 2) There is little reason to believe that students would be any more interested in NSA should the University rejoin as evidenced by The Daily Collegian poll which found only 11 out of 107 students who could offer an opinion on NSA. Of these" seven were for it and four against. 3) Membership in NSA involves considerable cost to the student body and would benefit only a very few. 4) NSA is a gigantic and unwieldy organization whose aims and ideals cannot be disseminated adequately to the students who pay its way. 5) Sbme of the aims of NSA are viewed with doubt and misgivings by responsible and influential segments of Ameri can education. We do not believe that the reasons advanced by the supporters of NSA outweigh the negative aspects of member ship in the confederation. Therefore, we ask Cabinet members who intend to sup port NSA because they are in agreement with its ideals to remember that in its sales spiels the literature of NSA promises more than ideals but did not produce in the past. The student body has a right to expect more for its money than the opportunity for a very few students to come in contact with NSA “ideals” at conventions. The passiveness of the student body toward the ques tion of NSA has dictated the proper decision to Cabinet which is, in general, agreed that interest must exist for mem bership to be worthwhile. We ask Cabinet to accept the negative mandate of the student body. Junior Class Committee Endorses NSA Membership By JUDY HARKISON Members of the junior class advisory board voted 13 to 1 in favor of the University rejoining the National Student Association at a meeting last night. Robert Bahrenburg, junior class president, told the mem bers of the board that their vote agreed with his former opinion. He said he intends to vote on the issue at All-Uni- versity Cabinet tonight according to the board vote. The issue was discused by mem bers of the board with both sides being presented. Daniel Land, junior class vice president, Nancy Scholl, junior in education from Glenshaw, and Bahrenburg pre sented the ideas and opinions that have been expressed by students in favor of entering NSA. Susan Conklin, junior in arts and letters from Chevy Chase, Md., expressed her own opposition to NSA as well as opinions of others opposed to it. Advantages of NSA NSA will be most advantageous to the University through its in formation service which includes suggestions and solutions of cam- mercial pilot, reported seeing a bonfire in the same area at dusk yesterday, but Keenan said he saw no sign of life. Yesterday Keenan found the plane and a U.S. Air Force search er saw an unidentified body about a quarter of a mile from the stripped plane. One report said an Indian lance protruded from the body. The five missing missionaries are Nathaniel Saint, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.; James Elliot, 27, Portland, Ore.; Edward McCulley, Milwaukee, Wis,; Roger Youder iap, Lansing,' Mich., and Peter Fleming, Seattle, Wash. Youderian was identifies as a missionary of the Gospel Mission ary Union and the other four as DAY MORN JANUARY 12. 1956 —The Editor pus problems, according to Bah renburg. Finance, which would amount to $740 plus travelling expenses of delegates, is not a problem, he said. Cabinet each year receives a budget of $2300 for student gov ernment expenses, Bahrenburg added. Bahrenburg compared represen tation in NSA to that of Cabinet. He agreed that NSA does not to tally represent student opinion of the member schools, and neither does Cabinet represent student opinion of the University students. Students other than delegates will get very little out of NSA, Miss Conklin said. The delegates only represent themselves, not the (Continued on page two) representatives of Christian Mis sions in Many Lands. Both are Protestant organizations. The party went into the jungle in a small Piper plane to.make friends with the Auca Indians. They carried a radio transmitter and the last message they sent was: “Here come a group of Aucas whom we have not known be fore.” A party of 16 Ecuadorian sol diers, 7 missionaries and 6 guides went into the jungle to search for the missionaries. It is following Indian trails toward the conflu ence of the Curaray and Oglama rivers in Ecuador’s northeastern Amazon territory. It may take them four days to reach the area where the plane was seen. Student Behavior At Sunday Movies See Page 4 Controversial Issue May Be Resolved By ED DUBBS All-University Cabinet again tonight will tackle the tional Student Associa.. question—to be or not to be a member? Cabinet has been as undecided about NSA as the state has been with the tax situation, but a final vote may t be in the making for tonight. Probably the strongest suppor ters of resumption of membership are Philip Beard, All-University secretaiy-treasurer, and Bruce Lieske, president of the Associa tion of Independent Men. Robert Bullock, Interfraternity Council president, and Norman Miller, acting chairman of the Board of Publications, have voiced the strongest opposition to the University rejoining the national organization. Motion Tabled Bullock has delayed the vote on NSA for several months by his pre-Thanksgiving vacation motion to table discussion until letters can be written and answers re ceived from member and non member schools. The answers to the letters will be read to Cabinet tonight by Beard. Letters from member school# are those of the University of West Virginia, University of Min nesota, University of Utah, and the University of Chicago. No letters from non-member schools are included in the Cabi net agenda with the letters from member schools. The recommendation to resume membership in NSA, which was included in a report on the NSA national convention last summer by Beard, will probably come up for a vote. Bullock said Tuesday that if Cabinet votes in favor of NSA, it will not be representing the opin ion of the student body. Poll Unfavorable Bullock was referring to a poll taken by The Daily Collegian of 107 students, which showed 64 could not answer what the abbre viation NSA stands for, and only 11 out of the 43 who could iden (Continued on page five) Traffic Study Names Town's Worst Junction State College’s most dangerous intersection is the S. Pugh street- Beaver avenue junction, accord ing to a study made by the Bor ough Traffic Commission. Yesterday, the day after the commission made its report, two cars collided just one block away from “the most' critical traffic in tersection” in the borough. The evaluation of S. Pugh street at Beaver avenue which prevents clear vision on both sides of the street was the reason for the crit ical view of the intersection. The fast northbound traffic was noted by the commission as the major hazard. Two additional areas considered hazardous are the intersection of Pugh street with Route 322 and the section of N. Atherton street which divides into four lanes. • The commission will propose to the Borough Council that delivery trucks be restricted from the downtown area from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Promenaders to Meet The University Park Promen aders will hold a business meet ling at 7 tonight in 100 Weaver. FIVE CENT!
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