Today's Woof Cloudy and Cooler - VOL. 56, No. 78 Probation Suggested For Four Students Two recommendations of Tribunal made Tuesday will be acted upon by the subcommittee on discipline of the Senate Committee on Student Affairs when it meets tomorrow at 10 a.m. Tribunal recommended office probation in the case of four members of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity who removed a Firemen To . Inspect Dwellings Nine volunteer teams of Alpha Fire Company will conduct an investigation. of State College homes and business places in an effort to reduce the number of possible fire hazards in the bor ough. The plan calls foe an investi gation team composed of seven or eight' firemen to visit each property armed with a question naire and flashlights to make a thorough investigation. Fire Chief Tom .patiers said Tuesday he Was hopeful . the in vestigation will begin within a week. . 'Firemen will.point out danger points to owners and make recom mendations for improvement. Questionnaires ' will be 'com pleted and sent to fire marthall, Bruce Holman. Hazards will .be checked from time to time ,by Holman. Plans for the investigation were touched off when Town Independ ent Men president Robert Cole notified the Chamber , of Com merce in November of complaints town students had made to him of existing fire hazards in room ing houses. Final action for a definite in vestigation was approved Monday evening at a meeting of the bor ough council at which Cole ques tioned the council on its progress. Clile was appointed by All- University Cabinet last fall to in vestigate the. housing conditions of town students. lie said at least 25 students complained of fire hazards in town rooming houses. One stu dent told Cole that three of his friends moved from the.• rooming house at which the student lives because the danger of fire was "imminent: ' Complaints listed by town stu 'dents include: faulty wiring, crowded conditions, dirty houses, and lack of fire escapes. , A special list of six rooming houses where fire hazards were (Continued on page eight) Lantern Sales High; Few Copies Available Lantern sales were so high yesterday, Jacqueline Hudgins, editor, said that a general sales campaign will not be conducted today as originally planned. Cop ies will be available at the Het zel Union desk 'for 25 cents.' The magazine has appeared bi annually since its founding two years ago, the editor said, and if the Liberal Arts Student Coun cil agrees to appropriate mor e money the staff Will begin im mediately to gather material for a spring issue. Collegian Business Staff The senior board of the Daily Collegiari business staff will meet at 8 tonight in "the Collegian of- Collegian to ,List _ Employment, Interview Infoimation* on: companies .giving job interviews -on cam:, Pus to graduating Seniors,will appear `ieguytily on page flea ''of the Daily Collegian i .ning today. Batig Gull STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 9, 1956 chair, a rug - and a shovel, and atempted to remove an eight-day clock from Phi Kappa Tau fra ernity the morning of Feb. 1. The Office of the Dean of Men did not approve or disapprove the recommendation, but referred to the Senate. subcommittee where the views of both Tribunal and the Office will be presented for the consideration of the other members. The case of Donald L. Hawke, senior in business administration from Easton, who admitted si phoning gas from a car in a gar age •near his residence the morn ing of Jan. 23, may result in either disciplinary probation or suspen sion from the University, depend ing upon the decision of the sub committee. Each of the four, Hugh Browne, senior in business administration from Nutley, N.J.; John Cone, sen-1 for in, labor management from Pittsburgh; Adrian Eschallier, sen for in. arts and letters from Upper Darby; and Robert Elmes, senior in business administration from Beaver Falls, was fined $5O plus $11.50. costs by Squire Guy G. Mills at a hearing last Wednesday. Browne cut his hand when he slipped_on an icy pavement and broke whiskey bottle he was • carrying. - • Borough police were called to Phi Kappa. Tau at 2 a.m. Feb. 1 to investigate a complaint of theft. Police reported that they followed a trail of blood 'directly to the PI Kappa Phi house, through the main floor, and out of the house again. Browne was identified when a call was made to the infirmary, police said. A call by police to Pi Kappa Phi stating that one of the four had been identified re sulted in the other three appear (Continued on page eight) Encampment Reunion Set Student leaders attending last September's Student Encamp ment will meet at 7:30 tonight in the dining rooms of the . Hetzel Union Building. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss future Encampments and to have each committee to look into what have become of its recommendations, according to Peter Kiefer, Encampment direc tor. This will be the first meeting of the Encampment Committees since they met at the .Mont *Alto Forest School last year. All committee reports -h av e been reviewed and accepted by All-University Cabinet.. Cabinet will not meet tonight since all members were at En campn.ent. Ike's Decision Expected in March WASHINGTON,Teb. 8 (VP) —President Eisenhower told a news conference today he ought to have by March 1 the infOrmation needed for reach= ing the. big decision about a second term. While he offered no definite Promises, many - ,_reporteri got .a distinct impression his announce. : 'pent will come by the end of the Month or soon afeerward,t `, , ,The President said the an nouncement probably would be mane'-at' a nevits' onferenee: That FOR A BETTER PENN STATE New EE Television 5 Classes Added The closed-circuit television program has expanded with the addition of a new sys tem in the Enctrical Engineering building and five additional televised courses. The expert went is now aimed in the direction of adapting television to the course, aiding in demonstration instruction, and making the most effective use of teaching as sistants. Five courses are now be, IFC Tentative Pledging Date Set for Feb. 25 Interfraternity Council has set Feb. 25 as the tentative legal date for pledging. No student may, be pledged be fore the official date since fall semester All-University averages must be checked. ' According to Robeit Bullock, IFC president, the date must be approved by the Association of Inter-Fraternity Counselors before it becomes legal. The IFC is sche duled to meet Tuesday night. IFC regulations require every pledge to be registered in the dean of men's office. To be eligible for pledging, a man must -have a 2.00 All-University average under the new system, or a 2.0 average for the semester preceding pledging. Registration cards may be ob tained in 109 Old Main. In addi tion to the registration cards, houses . must pay $2 for each pledge registered in the dean of men's office. Miller, Duraney Return Following Tragic Cabin Fire Theodore Miller, sophomore in agricultural education from Washington, Pa., and Joseph Du raney, sophomore in electrical en gineering from Brownfield, re turned to State College at neon yesterday following their escape from the cabin fire in which Charles Keithline Jr. was fatally injured. -Duraney went to Shickshinny to attend the funeral. Miller is resting at Delta Chi under a doc tor's care. Walter Majka, sopho more in civil engineering from Binghamton, N.Y., is not expect ed to return to the University. ' Eric Proudfoot, sophomore in applied arts from Oil City, suf fered second degree burns on the face and third degree burns on his hands, requiring skin grafts. Proudfuot is expected to be in Brightlook Hospital, St. Johns bury, Vt. for about six weeks. Senate to Hear Report On Courses of Study The University Senate today will hear a report from the Com mittee on Courses of Study and a recommendation on Senate reg ulation P-2, which deals with re porting below grades at mid-se mester, The meeting will be at 4:10 p.m in 121 Sparks. pointed toward Feb. 29 or March 7 as possible dates. Ordinarily, those would be conference days. Probably the chief executive said the announcement also will require a longer explanation than he would give at a news confer ence. That might- mean a . TV radio appearance. - As usual, Eisenhower gave no conclusive indication that he is inclined one way or the other at the moment. He did say that if he decides' against :seeking re-election and Chief " , Justice Earl--Warren wants to try for the Republican presi dential nomination, "He would haVe. no opposition from- me; of roinn ng taught without any class in to provide equal advantage for all students. Small visual aids, such as pictures or postcards that can not be used in a classroom, can be enlarged on a television screen. Televison is being used for bet ter utilization of large classrooms. Six sets are staggered along the sides of a classroom to aid the in struction with visual material. In this way, students in the rear of the room can see as well as those in the front. Classes in education, chemistry, and electrical engineer ing use this method for demon strations." New System Simpler The TV systems in Osmond Laboratory and EE are simpler than the Sparks system, and in volve only one camera. In Sparks the picture. is not sent to other' rooms, but is used to accommo date more students in one room,] as demonstrations may be seen clearly by students. I These advances in the television experiment will help provide for! an increase in enrollment, and en able the best instructors tb meet more students. The instructors ] will lecture on television, and teaching assistants will lead dis cussion and problem work during recitation periods. There are 36 hours of televised classes a week this semester. These are-primarily introductory courses, where enrollment is large. Courses Televised The -new courses televised this year are Accounting I, Economics 2, Political Science 3, Sociology I, and EE 8. Others are Speech 200, Psychology 2, Commerce 30, Mu sic- 5, Education I, Air Science 4, and Chemistry 2. - A high quality sound system has been added to the system in Sparks. This was installed for Music 5, but will be used for other classes. The television program is being financed by the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education. Queen Entries Due By Noon Saturday- Freshmen may be entered in the freshman queen contest until noon Saturday at the Hetzel Union desk. A picture of the candidate, her name, and campus address are en trance requirements. The queen will be crowned dur ing intermission of the Frosh Hop, annual dance to be held Feb. 25 in the Hetzel 'Union ballroom. Wernstedt to Speak Dr. Frederick L. -Wernstedt, as sistant professor of geography, will speak on field research in the Philippines during the Min eral Industry's Colloquium at 4:10 p.m., tomorrow in the Mineral Science Auditorium. that, I assure you." Yet he made it rather . clear he wouldn't tap Warren on the shoulder and tell the chief justice he wants him in the White House. As for his youngest brother, Milton president of Pennsylvania State University, . who also has been mentioned as a GOP presi dential,possibility, the chief ex ecutive said: "If he has any politi cal ambition, it is unknown to me." • Eisenhower -was asked how he felt concerning his Sept. 24 heart attack. He answered that there are times when he feels "more tired than, I think; I would have in the past, but that may be also 'just advancing years." • Cabinet Goes To Sleep See Page' 4 System, to Plan the origination room, in order Senator To Speak At Banquet Sen. Styles Bridges (R.-N.H.) will be the main speaker at the Lincoln Day Dinner sponsored by the Young Republicans Club 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Nittany Lion. Inn. Sen. Bridges' topic is entitled, "The Republican Party in the Fu ture." Sen. Bridges was unani mously elected chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Com mittee. He also has served two terms as president pro tempore of the Senate, and' is the ranking minority member of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Sen. Bridges was first elected tO the Senate in 1934. In 1952, he tecdived the largest majority vote accorded to any candidate in the history of New Hampshire. While at the University, Sen. Bridges will tour the campus. in spect the Atomic Reactor. as well as new reactor facilities of the Bendix. Co., in Philipsburg. His trip to the University was ar ranged by Congressman James E. Van Zandt of the 20th Congres sional District which includes State College. Congressman Van Zandt is a member of the Joint Atomic Energy Commission and House committees including Vet erans' Affairs and Military Af fairs. 4en. Bridges is being accom panied on his trip by members of the Atomic Energy Commission who will be introduced at the dinner. H. L. Stuart, Republican county chairman, will serve as toast master. Tickets for the event, open to the public, are $3. They may be obtained from David Scott, AD 7-3468, or Carl Saper stein, AD 7-7732. Other offiicals attending the dinner include two county corn missioners and the State College Borough Council. A tentative coffee hour is being planned in honor of Sen. Bridges for Tuesday afternoon. Rumors of Prexy Running Quenched After rumors fr,rn all areas of the press that Dr. Milton S. Eis enhower, president of the Uni versity, may be the dark horse i this year's- presidential race, President Dwight D. Eisenhower said at his news conference yes terday he knows of no political ambitions of his brother. Dr. Eisenhower, who has made frequent visits to Washington since his brother became presi dent, is known as one of the President's closest advisers. Asked if Dr. Eisenhower has any political aspirations, the chief executive said: "If he has any political ambition, it is unknown to me." Posts Are• Available On AIM Committee Letters of application are cur rently being accepted at the Het zel Union .desk for the Associa tion of Independent Me n Car Screening Committee. Students who wish to - keep cars on campus this semester- should 'fill• out the applications and re turn them to the ,HUB desk. All students who _return 'applications will be given an interview by the {Screening -Committee.. FIVE CENTS
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