Court Decides Compensations Constitutional The eight-member Supreme Court ruled Sunday night that the All-University Cabinet-approved retroactive com pensations are constitutional. The court based its unanimous decision on a section of the Student Government Association Constitution which says "Cabinet has the control over all student funds" and since, the procedure used in passing the compensations was "com- University May See Funds Cut . The University's biennial ap propriation of $25,194,000 under .Gov. George M. Leader's budget may have to be reduced since the revenue from the new sales tax will fall $4O million short of the governor's expectations. According to an article in Sat urday's Centre Daily Times re porting an interview with Sen. •Jo Hays, there are no indications in Harrisburg that the Univer sity's appropriation will be cut. It is only evident at this time that, barring additional legisla tion, some $4O million will have to come off Gov. Leader's planned appropriations. Loss of Revenue Estimated Loss of Revenue from a tax on utilities has been estimated at around $lB to $2O million, and the introduction of the stamp plan, which is patterned after the Ohio method of collection, is es timated to cost another $2O mil lion. In all, the governor's budget has been estimated as about $4O mil hen shy of the amount it calls for. No one is saying where the bud get cuts might come. The University's appropriation —increased by $4,696,000 over the 1953-55 biennium—passed the Douse on Sept. 14 and is now in the Senate Appropriations Corn mittee. 'Word of Optimism' Hayes expressed a word of op timism, however. He said if it v, erethe intention of the com mittee to cut the appropriation, he would know about it. If the Senate committee cuts appropriations which the House had passed, the bill would have to go to a joint conference com mittee for compromise. Snow Flurries Forecast :For Today's Weather The forecast for today is snow hurries ending this afternoon, ac cording to the students in the de partment of meteorology. Broken to overcast skies are predicted for tomorrow with gusty, northerly The expected maximum for to day is in the high 30's while the 10w is also in the 30's. Yesterday's high was 37 degrees and the low Nk as 32. Segregation Graduate Schools Opened to Negros WASHINGTON, March 12 (RP)---The Supreme Court to day ruled out any delay in ad mitting qualified Negroes to graduate schools of tax-sup ported universities. The court in effect put grad uate schools—such as those in law and medicine—in a separate category not subject to the tran '•ition Period permitted in the tribunal's decision of last year ordering desegregation of pub lic schools. The unanimous action today SPecifically overturned a ruling el the Florida Supreme Court a Negro, Virgil D. Haw- By ED DUBBS pletely legal." However, the court took a dim view of voting in retroactive com pensations. "We of the Supreme Court feel that in the interest of good stu dent government that voting retroactive compensations is not a healthy situation," the members said in a joint statement. This brings to an end the controversy about legality of compensations but does not end the controversy about their morality. Douglas Moorhead, president of the Athletic Association, Sunday night repeated his plan to intro duce a motion to Cabinet to re scind its approval of compensa ' tions. Moorhead's motion to rescind will probably be brought up at Thursday's Cabinet meeting. When Patricia Douthett. who sat as chief justice, rang the gavel and said Sunday night that "the Supreme Court of the Pennsylvania State University Student Government Associa tion_ will now come to order," it marked the second time in the court's history that it con vened. There to talk in defense of Cabinet's action was All-Univer sity President Earl Seely. There to speak against compensations was Rudolph Lutter, Lion party candidate last year for All-Uni versity president. Moorhead was also present. The court tabbed the case "Ru dolph Lutter vs. All-University Cabinet." Lutter who asked the Supreme Court in a letter to hear the case, said he opposed compensations, only as "an interested student" and "as a past candidate for All- University president." He said he was not motivated by political reasons. Lutter told the court that his grounds for opposing retro active compensations are that they are "against the spirit of our Constitution." "I do not claim they are op posed to the preamble," he said, "but opposed to the spirit of the' Constitution as • expressed in the preamble." "At no time have I stated that the preamble of the Constitution is the spirit of the Constitution," he further said. He said that compensations give the All-University president too much power because he ap points, with approval of Cabinet, many of the students who would receive compensations; that a vote in favor of compensations by the court would set an "extremely bad precedent"; and that the stu (Continued on page two) Issue Boils Council Expells Council Leader TUSCALOOSA, Ala., March 12 (IP) —A White Citizens Council leader was expelled and 24 other students punished less severely today by the Uni verstiy of Alabama for parti cipation in mob action against Autherine Lucy, the school's first Negro student. The 'university board of trustees announced the expulsion of Leon ard R. Wilson, 20, Selma, Ala., sophomore; suspension of four students and lesser and undis closed punishment against 20 others. _ Wilson also wad' accused of false charges against university offi- TO Elatig VOL. 56. No. 102 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 13. 1956 FIVE CENTS Johnson to Oppose Bahrenburg in Race Approximately 375 clique members turned out Sunday night to cast a vote for party candidates who will oppose each other in the All-Universty elections next Wednesday and Thursday. About 240 students attended the Campus party meeting and about 130 voted for Lion party candidates. Eight of the nine Lion party candidates won unopposed and six Campus party nomi nees faced no opposition. Official party campaign night next Tuesday. During • fraternity and dormitory dinin Dye, Richards Receive Lion Nominations William Johnson, All-University Cabinet parliamentarian, was elected to run for the All-Uni versity presidency on the Lion party ticket. Thomas Dye, former Lion party clique chairman, was elected as the All-University vice president candidate, and Leonard Richards, secretary of the Association of Independent Men's Board of Gov ernors, was elected to run for All- University secretary-treasurer. Valentine Nominated Samuel Valentine, captain-elect of next year's varsity football team, was nominated for the sen ior class presidency; Harold Schatz, junior in arts and letters from Allentown, won the nomina tion for senior class vice presi dent over Thomas Binford, junior in physics from Thomasville, by a (Continued on page eight) on 3 Points Integration Causes Conflict in Senate WASHINGTON, March 12 (iP)—The racial integration is sue set off an oratorical North- South conflict in Congress today, with the submission of the new Southern manifesto. Most of the fireworks was in the Senate; the House met only briefly. The debate began when Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) form ally presented the manifesto sign ed by 19 senators and 81 House members from 11 states. Four more House members signed the manifesto today. They are Reps, Charles R. Jonas (R- N.C.), William C. Cramer (R-Fla.), 118-44" riipc CD-Tex.). and Ross FOR A BETTER PENN STATE ng began at 8 a.m. yesterday and will continue until mid hat time candidates of both parties will appear in groups in halls outlining party platform_ and policies Spadaro Gives 'Choose Clark, 'Unofficial' OK Knappenberger For BX Plank If they wish, Lion party candi dates may support the Book Ex change plank which was stricken from the party's platform, but they will do so "unofficially," Robert Spadaro, clique chairman, told the party's steering commit tee Sunday. Spadaro told candidates, steer ing committee, and clique mem bers to speak in favor of th e plank if they so desired during the campaign which got under way yesterday morning, but to point out that they were speaking Samuel Valentine, Lion par ty candidate for senior class president, was admitted to the UnivErsity Hospital yesterday. Valentine said last night he was running a fever and had been admitted with a swollen hand, which began to swell Fri day. Valentine said he did not know the cause of the swell ing. Valentine said there was no abrasion. "unofficially" since the plank was struck from the party's platform by the All-University Elections Committee Thursday. Stating he was speaking "un officially" at both the steering committee meeting and Sunday night's clique meeting, Spadaro said the party had two alterna tives—back away from the issue land fail to run a platform that "said something," or, "unofficial (Continued on page two) Pre-Initiation Prepared by The pre-initiation practices committee of the Interf rater nity Council reported last night that it has drawn up a pre liminary code on fraternity hazing which will probably be ready for IFC's consideration on March 26. Daniel Land, committee chairman, said the group held two meetings so far. The first was only organization, but at the second committee members gathered ideas to write into the code Edward Kramer, Greek Week chairman, said the deadline for the poster contest is April 5. The posters, which are to treat the theme "Greeks in Brotherhood" must be handed in at the Hetzel Union desk. They will be displayed in local store windows from April 12 to 18. Winners will be announced 'on the 18th. The Week will start on April 12 with the exchange dinners, outstanding pledge banquet, and preliminary sings. On April 13, the preliminaries for the sing contest will be continued and the finals will be held April 15._ Work projects will start at - _-f 1 (Eidirgiatt For Campus Robert Bahrenburg, junior class president, received the nomina tion for All-University president on the Campus party slate. William Clark, junior in busi ness administration from Paoli, won the party's nomination for All-University vice president over Candidate for Top Post Samuel Walcott, 141.-96, and Al len Knappenberger, junior in in dustrial engineering from West Leesport, won the All-University secretary-treasurer nomination. Joseph Hartnett, junior in civil (Continued on page eight) close on April 18 with the IFC- Panhei banquet. The projects committee has sent out post cards requesting the exact number of students each house will have participate in the projects on April 14. The com mittee presumed that all houses will participate, but if any do not they are to so indicate on the post cards. Nominations for next year's officers must be submitted by the next meeting March 26. Elections will be held two weeks later on April 9_ Robert Bullock, AFC president, said no nominations will be ac cepted from the floor the night of the elections. The Council has completed traric , :wfirirlC to invest $3OOO in Code I FC
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