Recreation Report
Tablejj by Cabinet
After Discussion
A report of the All-University Cabinet committee on
Sunday night recreation was discussed at length before being
tabled, with several added recommendations from Cabinet,
at Thursday’s meeting.
The motion to table was made by Athletic Association
President Douglas Moorhead just when it appeared as if the
five recommendations of the re
port would be turned down.
Composed of one member from
each of the nine colleges of the
University, the committee was
formed to study the problem of
the Sunday night recreation pro
gram at Recreation Hall, which
is sponsored by the Athletic As
sociation.
Ugly Men
To Register
On Monday
Registration for entrants in the
Ugly Man contest, sponsored by
Alpha Phi Omega, national ser
vice honor society, will begin
Monday and last through Thurs
day at the Hetzel Union desk.
Only graduating seniors are
eligible to enter the contest. Each
sponsoring organization register
ing a candidate is., subject to a
$1 fee.
Coniest Runs 2 Days
The Ugly Man contest will be
held April 17 to 19. The three day
event will begin with the Ugly
Man parade and conclude with
final judging in the Hetzel Union
ballroom. _ j
Individual campaigning will be I
held on the Mall from College
avenue to Pollock road on the
second day from 12 to 12:30 and
5 to 5:30. On the third day cam
paigning will continue during the
noon hour only.
Voting By Pennies
Voting' will be by penny vote
and will be held from 8 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. on the second day and
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. the final day.
The seven finalists selected for
the final judging will each pre
sent a skit. They will be selected
from the highest number of votes.
Bonus awards of 500 points each
will be added to the total num
ber of votes for the three out
standing floats. Finalists will be
selected on the basis of indiivdual
campaigns, skits, and originality.
Campus Party to Hold
Campaign Discussion
A general discussion of the
campaign for the All-University
elections will be held by the Cam
pus Party Steering Committee
at 2 p.m. Sunday in 108 Willard.
Candidates and steering com
mittee members are requested to
be present, according to William
Snyder, clique chairman. _
Case Defends President
On Segregation Charges
WASHINGTON, March 16 (/P) —Sen. Herbert H. Lehman
(D.-NY.) suggested today that President Dwight D. Eisen
hower is a “neutralist” standing above the segregation battle.
This brought a retort of “unwarranted and unfounded" from
Sen. Clifford P. Case (R.-NJ.).
In a brief Senate flurry, Case contended Lehman was
injecting politics into the segre
gation question. This was coun
tered by a claim from Sen. Rich
ard Neuberger (D.-Ore.) that it
was Vice President Richard M.
Nixon “who put politics into this
vital issue ”
The exchange began .when Leh-,
man called upon Eisenhower to
“assume the responsibility” for
enforcing the Supreme Court or-
TODAY'S
WEATHER
SNOWY
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COLD
Report Criticized
After it was read by Moorhead
in the absence of Chairman Rich
ard Schriger, the report was criti
cized heavily on the grounds that
its recommendations appeared to
be of little value.
A recommendation that atten
| dance might be improved by lim
iting entrance to Rec Hall to dates
I was thrown out after All-Univer
sity President Earl Seely pointed
out that no group has the right
to exclude anyone from Rec Hall
at such times.
Carolyn Cunningham, WSGA
president, pointed out that the
report overlooked the most im
portant drawback of the program:
that there were not enough ac
tivities in which women can take
part in the program.
Program Necessity Questioned
George L. Donovan, Director
of Associated Student Affairs,
'questioned the necessity of a pro
gram of Sunday night recreation,
jpointing to the facilities of the
IHetzel Union Building and the
fact that Sunday is “a big study
night.”
The report was tabled with the
suggestion that the committee
look into the possibility of hav
ing more activities for women in
corporated into the program and
attempt to determine whether a
program of Sunday night recrea
tion is necessary.
In other action Thursday All-
U n iv e r sity Secretary-treasurer
Phillip Beard asked Cabinet to
consider the possibility of Cabi
net’s purchasing a new piano for
Recreation Hall.
Has $15,000 Reserve Fund
Beard said Cabinet has in re
serve a fund of approximately
$15,000 which was to be used to
purchase furniture for the student
government offices in the HUB.
However, the furniture was allot
ted for in the total cost of the
building, he said.
“It would be a nice gesture,”
Beard said, “to put some of this
reserve to a constructive use.”
Several Cabinet members testi
fied to the fact that the piano
now in Rec Hall is “in terrible
condition.”
der outlawing racial segregation
in the public schools.
“I cannot stand above the bat
tle, like President Eisenhower,
and say with fine impartiality
that both sides must show re
straint," Lehman declared. He
quoted Eisenhower as having
warned against “the extremists”
on both sides, and asked if the
President pictured himself as a
“mediator” or a “neutralist.”
Case replied:
“Any suggestion that the Presi
dent is a neutralist or is standing
above this quarrel is unwarranted
and unfounded.
“And I hope that there will be,
from no side, even an implied in
jection of this question into poli
tics, because such a tone, I re
gret to say, did arise in the re
marks of my colleague from New
'York.”
(Elit? Batty
VOL. 56, No. 106 STATE COLLEGE. PA., SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 17. 1956 FIVE CENTS
Candidates Discuss
Compensation Plan
—Ron Walker photo
WILLIAM JOHNSON, left. Lion party candidate for All-
University president, answers question asked by a Col
legian reporter at yesterday's press conference. On right is
Campus party's candidate for president. Robert Bahrenburg.
Rare Book Room.
Opened in Library
The Fred Lewis Pattee Library has opened a rare book
room, Ralph W. McComb, librarian, has announced.
The details of the operation have not been worked out yet,
but students, faculty members, and visitors may use the
facilities of the room.
The faculty of the Liberal Arts College has petitioned the
administration to appropriate
money for a curator for this room
and also for the purchase of fur
ther books, manuscripts and let
ters. This petition is now under
consideration.
The room was opened to bring
rare books of the library to one
place so that students and schol
ars could get easy access to them.
To Provide More Material
The room, which will help to
provide a more adequate source
of material for the increasing
number of graduate students, is
adjacent to the librarian’s office,
room 102.
Prior to the creation of the rare
book room, the books, manu
scripts and papers were kept in
the librarian’s office and in the
Library vault.
Contains 400 Year Old Books
The collection includes 5 “in
cunabula,” which are books that
were printed before 1500. It also
has several first editions of Amer
ican and English authors such as
Hawthorne, Emerson, Irving, and
Longfellow, and files of rare per-'
iodicals and early works of
American travel.
In the future, the papers and
books of Fred L. Pattee, first pro
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Tea for Senior Class
To Be Held Tomorrow
The senior class lea. spon
sored by the Senior Advisory
Board, will be held from 2 to
5 p.m. tomorrow in the Helzel
Union ballroom.
President Milton S. Eisen
hower and the deans of the
colleges will be present.
Entertainment will be given
by the Glee Club.
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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Faculty Luncheon Club
The Faculty Luncheon Club
will meet at noon Monday in the
Iletzel Union Building.
Dr. Macklin E. John, head of
the department of agricultural
economics and rural sociology,
will speak on “Trends in Rural
Life.”
Physical Plant Prepares
Spring Seeding Program
Snow or no snow’, the Physical Plant is making prepara
tions for its annual Spring seeding and spraying program.
Work started this week with the placing of additional
posts and connecting chains designed to keep students from
using popular “short cuts.”
Meanwhile, members of Alpha Phi Omega, national ser
vice fraternity, have been work-.
png on humorous “keep-off-the-! Although the grass looks as if
j grass” signs, according to Walter it wouldn't matter if it were
W. Trainer, supervisor of land-'walked upon, it is often killed by
Iscape construction and mainten-tramping it against the frozen
jance and farm maintenance. ‘ground.
Trainer expects to begin re-! » ,
work this week “if the' Bes M About April 1
weather is right ” ' Spraying of trees and shrubs
*/ 2 Ton of Grass Seed Used : wiil be S in about A P fil L
The job of reseeding “short L^J m 1f l l f d l ® , L Spra J k*
cuts” will take one-half ton of rf
grass seed, while another IM> tons A solution of DDT will be added
will be used to seed new areas, ,be / ;pray for a PPhcation io
such as the Helen Eakin Eisen-, m Irees
hower Meditation Chapel and the The DDT is designed to kill the
.University Hospital. Dutch e!rr beetle, carrier of the
! In addition to the seed, about Dutch tlm disease, which has
30 tons of fertilizer will be used, km ed six campus trees since
j Winter Causes Damage . 1954.
| Trainer explained that more 1 About 20.000 gallons of oil and
damage is done by students walk- DDT spray will be used.
ing on the grass in the winter 1 The application will be done by
than in the summer. ’a high-pressure power sprayer.
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Propose 2
Methods For
Next Year
By RON GATEHOUSE
The two candidates for next
iyear's All-University presiden
cy yesterday each took a nega
tive stand on student compen
sations in their present form
'and proposed a means of deal
ing with them in the future.
William Johnson, Lion party,
and Robert Bahrenburg Campus
.party, expressing their views on
major issues facing the student
(body at the third annual Datly
Collegian press conference,
agreed that although the compen
sation issue is finally settled for
‘the present, it will undoubtedly
| be brought up again next year.
Johnson listed compensations
as one of student government's
{“hundred and one faults.” Instead
of having a set sum go to a slu-
Jdent leader each year, he pro
posed that each student working
I “for the betterment of the Uni
versity” be allotted an expense
j account.
The Lion party candidate
picked coffee hour chairmen as
'an example, but said that the
{expense account system could be
Ilmade to fit the needs of any stu
dent leader, including the three
All-University officers.
Johnson said that the Associ
ated Studenf Activities office
.might be against the idea since
;it would involve a great deal of
{added book-work, but commented
ithat the plan has been carried out
at other universities without add
led difficulty.
I "This plan would also some
iwhat do away with the 'Jeffer
sonian spoils system’ which is
{over-emphasized at the Univer
sity,” Johnson stated,
j Bahrenburg said that an ex
pense account would not be feas
ible and said, “The whole prob
lem is that too many individuals
are out for themselvc-s,”
j In connection with an expense
account he said that it may pro
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