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VOL. 56. No. 85
Coed Rushing Ends;
Ribboning Is Monday
The final event of the Spring rushing program took place
last night when rushees attended coffee hours. Monday night
ribboning will take place in sorority suites.
The coffee hours last night were held from 6:30 to 8 and
and from 8:30 to 10 p.m. Following the coffee hours, the
rushees signed preference cards in their dormitories. Town
rushees signed preference cards in the Panhellenic post office.
Fall Quota
For Frosh
Announced
Approximately 2600 freshman
men and women will be admitted
to the University campus for the
Fall semester 1956, C. 0. Williams,
dean of admissions, announced
yesterday.
Williams said,the number of in
coming freLamen will be about
the same as last year since Uni
versity facilities haven't been en
larged during the past year.
Of the 2000 men and 600 wo
men who have been accepted, 200
men and 60 women are from out
of state. This coincides with the
University limitation placed on
the number of students from - out
of state who can be admitted. Ten
per cent of total students admitted
may come from out of state.
Although no definite standards
are set for admission to Univer
sity centers, Williams said approx
imately 1100 men and 300 women
will be admitted to centers next
fall.
In addition, he said, 800 stu
dents will be admitted to centers
as candidates for • associate de
grees.
The estimated fill enrollment
would maintain the University's
men-women ratio at 3 to 1. At pre
sent, there are approximately 9000
men and 3000 women enrolled at
the University.
SS Draft Test
Deadline Set
Students who want to take the
Selective Service College Qualifi
cation Test must submit applica
tions before 'midnight, March 5.
Application forms and other
information are available in the
dean of men's office, 109 Old
Main.
To be eligible to apply for the
test, a student must intend to re
quest deferment as a student, be
satisfactorily pursuing a full-time
course of instruction, and must
not have previously taken the
test. It will be given April 19 in
121 Sparks.
The test is used by local Se
lective Service boards when de
ciding whether or not a student
should be deferred from the mili
tary service.
Entries Due Today
For Frosh Queen
Noon today is the deadline for
pictures to be entered in the fresh
man class queen contest.
Pictures should be turned in at
the Hetzel Union desk with the
names and campus addresses of
the candidates. Freshman women
are eligible.
Five finalists will be chosen by
the Freshman Advisory Commit
tee. The queen will be chosen by
applause during the intermission
of the Frosh Eiop to be held Feb.
25 in the HUB ballroom.
Imh®f to Address Club
The Clover Club will meet at
'7 p.m. Tuesday at 111 Plant In
dustries, A. H. Imhof, assistant
professor of agricultural journa
lism, will speak on "Pennsyl
vania's Agricultural Tomorrow."
There was a traffic tie-up at
6:30 last night outside of Thomp
son HAD, as sorority women drove
cars to dorms to pick up the
rushees. Again at 8:30 p.m. traffic
was slowed down due to long lines
of cars waiting near Thompson.
The remaining job of matching
rushee and sorority choices is the
responsibiilty of Miss Jeanne N.
Lindaman and Miss Helen L. Sit
tig, assistants to the dean of wo
men. This procedure is long and
hard for. preference must be
checked and rechecked.
Sororities Submit List
This morning the sororities sub
mitted a preference list to Miss
Lindaman and Miss Sittig. Their
job is to match the sorority list
with the preference cards signed
by the rushees last night.
According to Miss Lindaman,
this procedure :will be completed
today and on Monday it will be
rechecked for possible mistakes.
Bids to Go Out Monday
The rushees will receive bids
Monday -evening, and ribboning
will. be held in sorority suites
Monday night.
Miss Lindaman also stated that
the confusion concerning the mis
interpretation of the Panhel Rush
ing Code, concerning the rushing
quota for upperclass women, has
been straightened tit: Tlxe rims
were notified by Panhel of the
bids they should have received
one day earlier:
The confusion was caused by a
misinterpretation of the Panhel
rule book for rushing. Several of
the sororities were under the im
pression that they could not send
out invitations to upperclass wo
men unless they had room for 15
freshmen. On Wednesday night
the Panhel Executive Board met
to decide on one interpretation.
ÜBA Will Start
Refunds Monday
Unsold books and money from
books sold through the Used Book
Agency may be obtained from 9
to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday
at the Book Exchange.
Sales of books through the ÜBA
reached a record high this semes
ter.
John Knatf, ÜBA manager, said
the increase is due to the central
location in the Hetzel Union Build
ing. Previous to last semester, the
exchange was located in the Gen
eral Extension Conference Center.
38 Marines
OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 17
(JP) A Marine Corps plane
carrying 38 Marines crashed
and burned in the southern
Alameda County hills today,
only. nine minutes from its
destination at Alameda Naval Air
Station.
The wreckage was still burning
Iwhen discovered by Russ Reed,
Oakland Tribune photographer,
and his - pilot.
On 45-Degree Slope
It lay on a 45-degree slope in a
tight box canyon near Niles, 21
miles southeast of Oakland. There
was no sign of life.
Reed and his pilot flew three
times into the canyon alongside
the flaming, twisted wreckage.
"Nothing could have lived,"
Reed said. "The only thing that is
intact is the tail. I couldn't even
Opinion Group Vetoed
By Cabinet in 14-8 Vote
All-University Cabinet Thursday night defeated a motion by Bruce Lieske, president
of the Association of Independent Men, which would have established a Student Opinion
Commmittee. The vote was 14-8-1.
The central objection of the dissenting voters seemed to be that there were several
other student government groups already in existence which - could or should do the job
esignated for the proposed committee.
In his report to Cabinet, Lieske listed the functions which the proposed committee could
perform, among them being conducting polls and questionnaires of the student body to de
termine the students' opinion on any matter when ordered to do so by the All-University
Business Area
Fire Inspection
Resumes Today
Volunteer teams from the Al
pha Fire Company will resume
inspection of the State College
business area today as part of a
borough-wide check for possible
fire hazards, according to fire
chief, Tom Sauers.
Sauers said firemen in their first
full-scale inspection Monday found
relatively few hazards in a check
of two square blocks of the down
town business district and S. Ath
erton street as far as Woodycrest.
Basements littered with paper
and lack of fire extinguishers
were the main problems the fire
men discovered, Sauers said. One
case. of faulty wiring was discov
ered.
Sauers said inspection of the
business area would be conducted
today or early next week. A check
of fraternities and private homes
will follow the business area in
spection.
Inckatied , in - 4 the • Triiate home
check. will be 10 rooming houses,
;thet names of which were given
Ito the borough by Robert Cole,
president -of Town Independent
IMen. The names were received
from complaints by town students.
Sauers cited the chief fire haz
ard existing in basements as warm
ashes loaded in non-metal con
tainers and placed near inflam
mable partitions.
Seely Will Speak
On NSA Activities
All-University President Earl
Seely will hold an. informative
meeting on NSA at 7:15 p.m. to
morrow in 203 Hetzel Union.
Several students have signed
lists indicating interest in NSA
and should attend the meeting,
Seely said. Other interested stu
dents may also attend.
Seely will explain the NSA or
ganization to the students as well
as give them an outline of the
plan for NSA activities at the
University.
Seely said he hopes to be able
to name the NSA Coordinator at
the meeting.
Believed Dead in Crash
see the wings or any insignia.
There is only shiny, silvery
metal."
Reed said there was no spot for
helicopters to land near the
wreckage, about a mile and a half
up Niles Canyon Road and the
same distance from the town of
Decoto.
Nevertheless, helicopters from
the aircraft carrier Oriskany took
off for the scene. A ground party
of Marines was sent from Ala
meda Naval Air Station, to base
its rescue operations from the
Masonic home at Decoto.
From El Toro Base
The four-engine plane was
carrying 33 Marines and five Ma
rine crewmen frcftri El Toro Ma
rine Base /in southein California
to the AlaYneda Naval Air Station
on San Francisco Bay.
The public information officer
at Camp Pendleton said 32 of the
plane's passengers were from
rgiatt
president.
Louis Adler, president of the
Liberal Arts student council,
quickly questioned this method.
Adler said that few, if any. opin
ions have much validity. He said
he thought it was the job of the
campus political parties to mold
and compile student opinion in
their campaigns so that they can
give the students what they want.
Sophomore Class President Wil
liam Coale also objected to the
formation of such a committee.
Coale said that the office hours
kept by class officers and the ad
visory committees of each class
afforded plenty of chance for stu
dent opinion to be felt:
Wider Channel Needed
Lieske countered by saying that
the existing outlets are not
! enough. He said that a wider chan
nel of communication is needed.
He added that the general student
[
body and not just a few students
should be allowed to voice its
opinions.
He said many good ideas are to
be found in the student body.
However, he said, many students
don't have the ability to come be
fore Cabinet and express their
ideas. Thus he said such a com
mittee could not only poll student
opinion on an existing question
bit valuable in picking
up ideas as fr=om the general stu
dent.
Cunningham Cites Apathy
Carolyn Cunningham, president
of the Women's Student Govern
ment Association, brought up the
age-old matter of student apathy
as a possible deterent to the suc
cess of the committee.
She said that from her exper
ience, when students are asked to
fill out any kind of form with
other than yes or no answers, re
ception to the idea is poor. She
said students are just not inter
ested in doing that sort of thing.
Jonathan Plaut, president of the
Forensics Council, agreed with
Douglas Moorhead, president of
the Athletic Association that gen
erally students are either violently
for or violently against participa
tion in affairs of student govern
ment. Plaut added that the forma
tion of a committee which would
stir up the interest of the vast
majority of apathetic students
who lie between these extremes
would be valuable.
Another point voiced against
the committee was that of over
lapping of committees. Robert
Bahrenburg, president of the jun
ior class, pointed out that the jun
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Camp Pendleton and one from El
Toro, as were the five crew mem
bers. The passengers all were
being transferred to new stations.
He said all •names would be
withheld pending notification of
next of kin. He added that might
be "some job," inasmuch as most
of those being transferred had
their personnel records with them
and reports of the crash indicated
the records probably all were
destroyed.
Dressed in Dungarees
The Marine plane was an RDS,
the Navy equivalent of a DC4. Its
passengers were all dressed in
dungarees.
Today's crash was the second
military plane disaster in the area
within 24 hours. Yesterday a 852
jet bomber exploded and fell in
flaming pieces less than 30 miles
east of Niles. Four officers were
killed or missing. Four other air
men escaped.
Those Tricky
Timetables
See Page 4
Elections Slate
To Be Settled
By Committee
The Elections Committee will
meet Monday to decide how to
arrange Cabinet offices between
fraternity men and independents
for the All-University elections.
Cabinet Thursday night voted
to have three of the five Cabinet
posts be filled by independents.
changing a previous decision
which had been agreed upon by
the chairnian of the Elections
Committee and the party clique
chairmen. They had decided to
have, fraternity men hold the
edge.
However., Bruce Lieske, presi
dent of the Association of Inde
pendent Men, urged Cabinet to
reverse this decision since simi
lar conditions have existed for
the past two years,
Lieske said that he objected
to the previous arrangement be
cause it was a matter of principle.
He added in past years independ
ents have had some difficulty
with being able to put up men
qualified for the jobs, but this
year there was no such problem.
He said he believed that the in
dependents should hold the edge.
Cabinet's Thursday night de
cision is not final, since the mat
ter still may be appealed to the
Elections Committee for review.
If this was done it would have
to be brought back to Cabinet
for another vote.
Cabinet debate on the matter
included several plans for arrang
ing the offices between fraternity
men and independents, but only
one of these came up for vote.
That plan, put forth by All-Uni
versity Vice President Robert
Sturdevant, wa s defeated, 12
against, 11 for, with the deciding
vote being cast by All-University
President Earl Seely after an 11-
11 deadlock.
Milholland Rites
Held in Pittsburgh
Funeral services for Judge
James Dili'holland, late president
of the Board of Trustees, were
held at 2 p.m. yesterday at the
Sampson Funeral Home, Pitts
burgh. Interment was in Home
wood Cemetery.
President Milton S. Eisenhower
and his staff, including Provost
Adrian 0. Morse, and Director of
Student Affairs Wilmer E. Ken
worthy, represented the Univer
sity at the services.
The three All-University offi
cers, President Earl Seely, Vice
President Robert Sturdevant, and
Scretary-treasurer Philip Beard,
also attended the services.
Today Is Deadline
For Adding Courses
Today is the last day stu
dents may add courses to their
schedules.
Students may get drop-add
slips in the basement of Wil
lard. A fee of $2 is charged for
each course a student drops or
adds.
Deadline for dropping
courses is March 3.
FIVE CENTS