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VOL. 56. No. 79
Negro Coed Asks
Federal Intervention
BIRMINGHAM, Feb. 9 (?P)—The University of Alabama's
first Negro student, Autherine Lucy of Birmingham, today
asked a federal judge to compel school . authorities to allow
her to resume her studies there which ended in rioting on
the campus earlier this week
U.S. Dist. Judge Hobert
'Hear, Hear'
Ticket Sales
Show Increase
I"
EdWard M. Cze 'aj, assistant
business manager an Athletic As
sociation ticket man ger; said yes
terday that ticket ales for the
Fred Waring show, illear, Hear,"
have picked up considerably in the
last two days. He said he is quite
sure the show will be a "sell-out."
Czekaj said he expects the re
served seats to be) taken either
today or tomorrow.
The sale of tickets for the
bleachers has been fair, according
to Czekaj. This, he explained, is
because students have not been
supporting the sales heavily. He
said he thinks the students are
merely delaying and will still buy
tickets.
Czekaj termed first day sales
slightly disappointing and attrib
uted the poor sale to bad weather
and lack of publicity.
Tickets are on sale from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m. in 249 Recreation Hall.
Prices are $l.lO, $2.20, and $3.30.
The Waring Broadway musical,
"Hear, Hear," will be presented
Feb." 24 in Rec-Hull.
Records Made
From 'Mikado'
Twelve-inch, high fidelity, long
playing "records of the "Musical
Highlights" of 'The Miki►do" may
be ordered until Feb. 15.
Tape recordings of .the Nov. 2
production of the Players' produc
tion of "The Mikado" will be used
'by the Custom Record Department
of RCA Victor to. press the record.
It will contain the overture and
most of the songs and choruses.
Persons interested in ordering
the record should contact Miss
Jean Martin in the department of
theater arts office, second floor of
Schwab.
The record•cost will range from
-$4.50 to $5.50, depending on the
number of orders. The records are
being sold at cost because of the
limited number who may order,
Wayne Zarr, in charge of the
sales, said.
Curtains Burned
In Simmons Fire
_ The flame fr o m a cigarette
caught 'on a piece of paper and
then spread to the curtains in a
second-floor . room in Simmons
last night before the occupants. of
the room, Bernice Fastow, junior
in journalism from Ha d don
Heights, N.J. and Linda Gerber,
junior in arts and letters from
Brooklyn, 'N.Y., were able to ex
tinguish it.
The blaze, which attracted men
from the Alpha Fire Co., com
pletely burned up the curtains,
the window blind and blackened
the window and vans. The fire
started about 9:30 p.m.
Ceylon Declines Offer
- COLOMBO, Ceylon, Feb. 9 (111
— 7 Ceylon has declined a Hangar
iayi offer to baiter 70,000 tons of
_rice. Hungary obtained the rice
from Burma and wanted to ex
change it for goods from-Ceylon.
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STATE COLLEGE, PA..,FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10. 1956
rooms set the new case for
hearing here Feb. 29.
Miss Lucy,. 26-year-old secre
tary, was excluded from classes
by the university's board of trus
tees after rioting crowds had
rocked and egged school officials
and
,the Negro student Monday.
The school contends the board ac
tion was a safety measure.
In a companion petition, she
asked the court to order Dean of
Women Sarah - Healy to assign her
to a dormitory room and to allow
her to eat in university dining
halls. She was' not given dormi
tory space when she was admitted
Feb. 1.
Hearing on the dormitory and
dining hall petition, which asks
$l,OOO damages, was set for Feb.
29 also.
In today's
.petition Miss Lucy
charged that she was excluded
solely because of her race or color,
in defiance of an order from Judge
Grooms last July, under which the
student was admitted to the uni
versity last week.
She termed her suspension from
classes "a cunning strategem" to
deny her the right to attend her
state university.
She asked $2,000 damages, and
that Dr. 0. C. Carmichael, uni
versity president; William F. Ad
ams, .dean ofladmissions,- and
10 trustees to be held in contempt
and remain "in prison for a period
to 'be determined by this court,
or by permitting her to resume
classes."
Filed by Arthur D. Shores, at
torney for Miss Lucy, the petition
also asserted her suspension was
not necessary for her safety or the
safety of others.
- .It added that no one was injured
during the mass demonstrations at
the school, and that police pro
tection "is available and ade
quate."
The Birmingham secretary
charged further that her suspen
sion was "to appease persons hav
ing no connection with the Uni
versity of Alabama, who wish to
defy and prevent the enforcement
of the order of this court."
Coeds Attacked:
Local Youth Held
A 15-year-old State College
boy who attacked three Univer
sity coeds on campus is being
held by juvenile authorities.
State Police of the Rockview
substation took into custody the
youth who grabbed a girl near
Pollock and Burrowes roads on
Jan. 18 and Monday repeated the
attack on two coeds, one near
White Hall and another near, Car
negie.
62 Students Receive Awards
From Scholarship Committee
Sixty-two students were
awarded scholarships yester
day by the Senate Com
mittee on Scholarships and
Awards.
After the list was presented for
Senate approval, Adrian 0.
Morse, University • provost, said
'he regrets that more awards
could not be given to deserving
students. He commended' t h'e
scholarship committee On its
wprk the most de
serving.
The scholarships and thefi wi4;•
n&s are: " • •
John. W. White Scholarship--
FOR• A SETTER PENN STATE
Students, Faculty Reopen
Encampment Question
Student leaders, faculty memberi, and administration officials last night reopened
scores of questions and recommendations which they discussed at last September's Student
Encampment.
The success of Encampment motions still seems to
put into effect, while others are still pending before comm
—Howard Watts photo
HAROLD W. PERKINS, (left), Assistant Dean of Men.
Peter Kiefer', (standing). Student Encampment secretary,
and Patricia Douthett, member of the Committee on Regu
lations, Controls, and their Enforcement, discuss that com
mittee's recommendations 'at the Student Encampment. re
union held last night iri Hitzel Union RUilding dining rooms
Prexy's Dog Gets
Student Feeding
On 6-Hour Stray
Dr. Milton S: Eisenhower's dog
was returned home safely Wed
nesday night following a wander
ing of about six hours, borough
police reported.
The animal, a black Labrador
retriever, followed John P. Rus
nak, fourth semester physical ed
ucation student, and Stanley Stir
man, eighth semester arts and
letters student, to Stirman's Bur
rowes street home after the Penn
State-West Virginia basketball
game.
Stirman and Rusnak, noticing
that the dog was limping badly,
called a veterinarian after they
had fed the animal. He told them
he could not accept a stray ani
mal and instructed them to call
the police.
Officers, who had received a
call about 4 p.m. saying the dog
was missing, returned him to the
Eisenhower residence about 10:30
p.m.
Mary Hudcovich, $200; James
Ifft, $150; and Anne Nitrauer,
$lOO.
Louis Carnegie Scholarships—
(s7s each) Richard Ball, David
Faust, James Hart, James Hop
kins, Lois Jones, Kathryn Metz,
David Morgan, Marion Overpeck,l
Ronald Shrimper, Malcolm
Stark, Janice Summers, and Eli 7
zabeth , Tipton.
Class of '22 Scholarships •
Class of 1922 Memorial Schol
arships ($lOO each) Charles
Biechler, Donna Cramer, Rose
marie DiMinno, Margaret Fisher,
frarryette Gerhart; Harrison Hop
pes, Francis - Markland; "Nortna
Michael, Mary Raup, Audrey Sas
sano. and. Wayne Zarr. - -
Evian
Fraternity OK's
Negro Pledges
Editorial on page four
The Sigma Phi fraternity at
Williams College, Williamstown,
Mass., will be allowed to initiate
two Negro honor students of the
college, according to The New
York Times.
The paper yesterday stated in
a story that the national stand-
ing and advisory committee of
the Sigma Phi Society has with
drawn its threat to expel the
chapter if it went through with
plans to initiate the two students.
Representatives of Sigma Phi
chapters at leading colleges and
universities, as well as promi
nent alumni, met with the com
mittee Tuesday to discuss the
problem,
The fraternity's national sec
retary, William C. Mayer, of New
York, said Wednesday "the na
tional standing an d advisory
committee of the Sigma Phi •So
ciety unanimously, announced
that its Williams chapter has not
now nor has it ever been sus
pended or expelled and that there
is no present intention of taking
any such action."
Helen Wood Morris Scholar
ships (s62.so)—Constance Yesch
ka and Frederick Stiff.
Lt. Harry Edward Wagner
Scholarships ($lOO each)—Allen
Bergman, Clifford Leb o, and
Adolph Seidensticker, 111.
Vance McCormick Scholarship
Vance C. McCormick Scholar
ship (.sl7s)—John Kenemuth.
1920 Class Scholarship Awards
($lOO each) Benjamin Adams,
Jr., Joyce Barger, Jane Cameron,
Norman Galvin, Elizabeth Sch
warz, Robert Slagle, and Alice
Wood. •
_Lawrence — J.' Ostermayer Me-
Marla' Scholarships ($lOO each)--
David Anderson, Phyllis Culhane,
- (Continued .on page eight)
Sorority
Suites
See Page 4
up in the air; some have been
This seems to be the consensus
of student leaders, faculty, and
administrative officials' Who at
tended the Encampment. They
met last night for an Encampment
reunion to look into what has been
done with their recommendations.
All committee chairmen seemed
satisfied with the results so far,
but are hoping that more recom
mendations can be put into effect
by next fall.
Most in Effect
President Milton S. Eisenhower
told the Encampment delegates at
the opening session of the retreat
that in former years about 75 per
cent of the recommendations have
been put into effect. He said lack
of financial means largely caused
the remaining. 25 per cent to be
discarded, at least temporarily.
At this time, it appears that
much will have to be accom
plished during the remainder of
the semester to hit the 75 per cent
mark.
Finances Slow Results
Financial• needs again seems to
be slowing down action on many
suggestions.
. Besides considering the old rec
ommendations again, the commit
tees came up with a few new ones.
They include•
Writing a letter to the State
college Borough Council request
ing the placement of a signal light
at the corner of Pugh street ,and
Locust lane.
The continuation of the January
graduation procedure of handing
out degrees individually.
Buffer Day' Asked
That the possibilities of a "buf
fer day"—a day between the end
of classes - and the beginning of
final examinations be explored
by the administration.
The possibility of establishing
a film festival. in Osmond labora
tory on Sunday nights. This would
include foreign, art, and cultural
films, ' and would ' replace the
showing of second-run movies,
which cannot draw students as
well as they did before Sunday
movies went into effect in the
ttorough.
Sunday Movies Passed
Encampment recommendations
which have gone into effect in
clude Sunday movies in the Bor
ough, change in method of apply
ing for membership in a hat so
ciety, the informing of the fresh
men of the new academic honesty
policy, revamping Spring Week
to cut down on the number of
participants, changing of The
Daily Collegian distribution sys
(Continued on page eight)
Accident Caused
By Beer Bottles
A couple of discarded beer bot
tles this morning caused a three
car collision on E. Park Ave.
which involved Richard Manning,
junior in civil engineering from
Cleveland, Ohio.
Manning was driving east on
Park Ave. near Holmes street
when he spotted a carton of bot
tles in his path. When he swerved
to avoid the bottles, he skidded
on a patch of ice and hit a west
bound car, which in turn bounced
into a parked car.
There were no injuries. Dam
age was estimated at $l5O.
Cloudy With Rain
;Predicted for Today
The weather forecast for today
is considerable cloudiness with a
=might chance for precipitation,
probably rain, according to "stu
dents in the department of meteo
rology. .
The high will be approximately
443 to 45 degrees, .with low :of
. .
The maximum tempe-ature yes
terday' Was 50 degieee. 'The Ibvi
was 31. -
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