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Final Court Ruling
On Compensations
Expectd Tomorrow
The Supreme Co rt will convene officially for the second
time in its brief history tomorrow night to decide the fate of
student compensations.
It appears as if the court decision will write a finish to the
issue that has been; hanging fire with student government
groups for the past .'onth.
All-University abinet three weeks ago approved
e
com
pensations for stud t government leaders_after two lengthy
sessions of debate. .
Since that time interest in the
issue has heightened with persons'
on both sides of the issue voicing
strong opinions.
Rudolph Lutter, 1955 Lion Par
ty candidate for All-University
president, has led the opposition
to compensations and is bringing
the case up before the Supreme
Court to decide whether or not
it violates the Student Govern
ment Association constitution.
Lutter has said that although
he opposes the principle of com
pensations, his main objection is
to the fact that this year's Cabi
net voted compensations to itself.
This, Lutter contends, violates
the spirit of the preamble of the
constitution which states that the
purpose of the constitution is
' . . . to promote the welfare of
the student body and of the Uni
versity as a whole . . ."
Preamble Separate _ _
Morse nds
Job Today
As Provost
Editorial on page four
Adrian 0. Morse will end his
career as University provost at
noon today.
Less than a month from today,
nn April 9, he will leave State
College for Washington, D.C.,
where he will undergo a two
month period of special training
for a high post in the foreign ser
vice.
Morse announced Feb. 23 that
he had accepted the position of
chief cultural affairs' officer of
the United States Information
Agency in India.
Leave for New Delhi
After his swearing in on April
9 and the training program, he
will leave for New Delhi, th•
capital of India, where his head
quarters will be.
In February, he said he had ap
plied for a job in the foreign ser
vice because he wished a change
of occupation. The 60-year-old
man has worked for the Univer
sity for 26 years.
Announcing his resignation Oct.
21, Morse said he intended to en
ter a "quite different field"
where he could "meet new situa
tions and think along new lines."
As chief cultural affairs offi
cer, he will direct all the agency's
programs in India pertaining to
libraries, books, exhibits, music,
lectures, art, and similar cultural
subjects.
Responsible to U.S. Official
The USIA is an independent
organization that closely cooper
ates with the State Department
in foreign affairs. Morse will be
responsible to the U.S. Ambassi
dor in India.
4 Houses Pass
Fire Inspection
Four S. Alien street fraterni
ties were .found free of major
hazards Wednesday night in an
inyestigation conducted' by a team
of volunteer Alpha firemen.
Theta Chi, Delta Sigma Lamb
da, Phi Mu Delta, and Phi Sigma
Kappa were inspected as part of
a borough-wide check for possi
ble hazards. -
Fire chief Tom • Sauers said
.the
only hazard discovered was sev
eral fire 'extinguishers needing
minor repairs. ' Cooperation of
fraternity, men in aiding firemen
was cornmendedly" Sauers.
Sauers said a - team ,of six men
worked two hours. Further in
spection- was hampered by rain,
he said. •
Firemen will continue the in
spection. of fraternities Monday. A
check of private homes including
10 rooming houses named by
Town - Independent Men president
Robert Cole, will follow. -
San - ers said - the inspection has
been delayed by the difficulty of
finding time suitable to firemen.
TODAY'S
WEATHER
COLDER
AND
[OO4*AI
According to law, the preamble
of any constitution is not consid
ered part of the constitution pro
per and therefore cannot be ques
tioned in matters of unconstitu
tionality.
At tomorrow night's hearing,
Lutter will argue for the uncon
stitutionality cf Cabinet's action
and Earl Seely, All-University
president, will defend the action.
The Supreme Court, which was
injected into the constitution last
spring as a result of a proposal of
the 1955 Student Encampment, is
made up of the senior members
of Tribunal and Women's Judi
cial.
Chairman Announced
Patricia Douthett, chairman of
Judicial, will act as chairman of
the court for tomorrow night's
meeting. The chairmanship ro
tates. with each session of the
court.
Because they have been asked
to judge whether or not it is con
stitutional to have compensations,
the senior members decided Mon
day night to refuse the compen
sations which were due them as a
result of Cabinet's approval. The
senior members of Judicial are
not compensated.
Compensation Stopped
Cabinet last week voted to stop
payment on all compensation
which had been sent out by the
All - University secretary - treas
urer and to hold up payment of
all other checks until the issue
has been resolved.
At the same meeting, the au
thor of the motion, . Douglas
Moorhead, president of the Ath
letic Association, also told Cabi
net he intended to introduce a
motion to rescind Cabinet's ap
proval of compensations at this
week's- Meeting. • There was no
F meeting of Cabinet this week.
Algerian
Riot in
PARIS, March 9 m—Al
gerian nationalists carried re
volt against French rule to the
;streets off
,Paris today. They
;rioted as French deputies de
bated special•emergency pow
ers for Premier Guy Mollet
to stamp out the rebellion in Al
geria.
A flash strike of Algerian work
ers, which crippled some s .bur
ban chemical and motor car fac
tories, freed thousands of the
North Arficans for the militant
demonstration. They massed In
midafternoon around the Paris
mosque and moved in procession
toward - the National Assembly,
smashing shop, and car windows
on the way.
Tile Elaitg
VOL. 56. N0..100 STATE COLLEGE. PA., SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 10. 1956 FIVE CENTS
BX Issue Stopped;
Parties Will Elect
Cliques to Name
Final Candidates
Final nominations and the election of can-
idates for the March 21 and 22 All-Univer
sity elections will top the agendas at Lion and
Campus party clique meetings tomorrow
night. Lion party will meet at 7 p.m. in 121
Sparks and Campus party will meet at 7 p.m.
in 10 Sparks. Steering committees
of both parties will meet tomor
row at 2 p.m. to discuss nomina
tions, elections, and campaign is
sues
Campus party has 503 and Lion
party has 343 students registered
to vote in tomorrow night's elec
tions.
Roger Reidler, Elections Com
mittee chairman, said yesterday
that no students will be per
mitted to attend tomorrow
night's clique meetings unless
they present both their matric
ulation cards and clique regis
tration cards,
At prelimi nary nomination
meetings last Sunday night, each
party put up candidates for six
of the nine positions to be voted
upon March 21 and 22. Each party
must enter a full slate in order
to enter the election.
Open positions on the Campus
party slate are All-University sec
retary-treasurer, senior class vice
president, and junior class vice
president. Lion party left blank
All-University president, senior
class secretary-treaturer, and jun
ior class president.
Last Sunday's nominations
were: Campus party—Robert
Bahrenburg, All-University pres
ident; Samuel .Walcott and Curtis
Clark, All-University vice piesi
dent; Joseph Hartnett, senior
class president; Jean McMahon,
senior class secretary-treasurer;
Harry Martini, junior class presi
dent; Marie Thierwichter and
Sondra Peters, junior class secre
tary-treasurer.
Lion party—Thomas Dye, All-
University vice president, Leon
ard Richards, All-University sec
retary-treasurer; Samuel Valen
tine, senior class president; Thom
as Binford, senior class vice presi
dent; John Olsen, junior class vice
president; Mary Mertz, junior
class secretary-treasurer.
Leonides to Meet
Leonides will meet at 6:30 p.m
Monday in 209 Hetzel Union.
Nationalists
Paris Streets
Before heavily reinforced
squads of riot police and helmet
ed mobile guards could break it
up, two- French truck drivers
were badly knifed, a motorcycle
policeman was injured and sev
eral Algerians hurt in scuffles
along the line of march.
From the mosque on the Left
Bank of the Seine, on a hill over
looking the Austerlitz railroad
station, the Algerians swept into
the plaza in front of City. Hall.
Police finally broke up the dem
onstration there, arrested hun
dreds and dispersed the crowd.
Reassures Deputies
Mollet interrupted Assembly
debate to reassure deputies that
the march on the Assembly itself
had been halted. Mollet said more
than 700 persons had been arrest
ed at the time he spoke. Police
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Spadaro Denied
Another Chance
Editorial on page four
Two statements issued within 15 minutes of
each other last night wrote a legal finis to the
hotly contested three-way battle of words be
tween R o b e r t Spadaro, Lion party clique
chairman; the All-University Elections Com
mittee; and the Penn State Book Exchange
concerning one third of the Lion
party platform.
When informed that Spadaro
would submit a new plank for
approval, Roger Beidler, Elections
Committee chairman, settled the
issue once and for all by saying,
"The part of the Lion party plat
form concerning a proposal to in.
stitute a non.profit, student run
book store was voted out by th•
committee last night." (Thurs
day)
Parties Launch
Campaigns
On Monday
The political race picks up
speed Monday when the political
parties launch their campaigns
for the All-University elections.
The campaign officially begins
at 8 a.m. Monday and ends at
midnight March 20, the eve of the
elections.
The elections will be March 21
ar.i. 22 in the Hetzel Union Build
ing. Voting will be carried on by
means -of four• voting machines.
An Elections Code clause pro
vides that each party may not use
in excess of $3OO for publicity
purposes during the campaign.
This money is collected from the
cliques.
During the campaign candidates
of both parties will visit fraterni
ties and dormitories at meal time
and discuss the party platforms
and answer any question students
may want to bring up.
The parties will also submit
posters to the Elections Commit
tee for use at the polls. These
posters may not be larger than
three feet by four feet. Similar
posters will be placed in State
College stores, in dormitories and
at other places on campus.
For the first time there will be
no loudspeakers used in the cam
paign. Loudspeakers were used
last year but have since been out
lawed by the Senate Committee
on Student Affairs.
The Elections Code forbids that
any campaigning be carried on in
a- classroom on campus. Also pro,
hibited is the use of trees and
buildings •on campus other than
the allowance of one banner per
party to be hung across the Mali.
The parties may place two
posters in any shop window and
may use painted window dis
plays with the owner's permis
sion. Posters on the exterior of
stores is prohibited.
later said they had seized almost
2300 for questioning.
Police also seized some 200 as
sorted weapons from the Algeri
ans. They found numbers of prop
aganda leaflets and photographs
of Messall Hadj, one of the Alger
ian nationalist leaders who is liv
ing in France under forced resi-,
dence. Messall is a recognized
spokesman for most of the city's
90,000 North Africans, nearly all
Algerians.
Nationalists Forceful
The nationalists showed their
teeth on a surprising scale in the ,
strike throughout the French cap-,
ital this morning. Industries which
employ large numbers of Alger-;
fans reported the strike was about;
90 per cent effective. The Alger-!
ians had picked Friday, second.
(Continued on page three)
Tottegiatt
"The deadline for reviewing
platforms was Wednesday night
and no other planks will be ac
cepted. We extended the deadline
until Thumday," Beidler said, "in
a.•der to give the Book Exchange
an opportunity to debate the is
sue. There are clauses in the new
ly proposed plank which were
not included in the one presented
to us Wednesday night, and, in
my estimation, the latest proposal
is doing nothing more than cre
ating a problem."
Approved Two Planks
When reviewing the original
Lion party platform Wednesday
night, the committee approved
two planks dealing with the cam
pus parking problem and decen
tralized voting, but tabled the
non-profit, student run new book
store plank until representatives
of the Book Exchange were given
an opportunity to state why cer
tain situations existed, the main
issues being why junior and sen
ior board salaries were not dis
closed and why the Book Ex
change's auditing was not open
to the public.
Paul Hood. chairman of the
Book Exchange board of control,
said such situations did exist be
cause they were the will of the
Board of Trustees.
Unanimously Remove Plank
After one and one half hours of
debate, the committee unani
mously voted to strike the contro
versial plank from the Lion party
platform.
Upon hearing of the commit
tee's decision, Spadaro made a
statement which appeared in yes
terday's Daily - Collegian to the
(effect that. if his advisory board
saw fit, he, would present the
plank to the student body any
way.
Spades() issued a follow-up
statement last night' which led to
Beidlefs.decision not to call any
further Elections Committee
meetings for the purpose of re
viewing platforms. Spadaro said,
"The consistent complaint of apa
thy towards student government
and other related activities is well
deserved. Student government,
instead of meeting the students'
needs, which is the only conceiv
able reason why it should exist,
is 'evolving into nothing more
than an extensive contest of per
sonalities.
Meal With Issues'
The Lion party platform, in
(Continued on page two)
Collegian to Publish
Sunday Sports Special
The Daily Collegian will
publish a special four -page
sports issue tomorrow morning.
Included in the paper will
be final results of the wrestling
and gymnastics tournaments
and other sports features.