Cabinet May Hear Spadaro Complaint On Committee Action All-University Cabinet will "in all probability” hear an appeal from Robert Spadaro, Lion Party clique chairman, tomorrow, concerning the decision of the All-University Elec tion Committee to dock the Lion party candidates a total of 920 votes, in the All-University s elections. The Cabinet meeting was priginally scheduled to discuss. Weissend Is Elected AA Head Dion Weissend, varsity gym nast, was elected president of the Athletic Association by a margin ®f 766 votes to 639 for runnerup James Lockerman in yesterday’s election. ' By receiving the second high est number of votes Lockerman automatically became AA vice president. Don Bostock, lacrosse player, received 185 votes in the race for president. Lacrosse player Thomas See man was elected AA secretary treasurer- He received 628 votes. Robert Fitzgerald, basketball manager, 1 received 463. Weissend was not available for comment, since he is taking part in the NCAA gymnastic tourna ment at Chapel Hill, N.C. After hearing of the election re sults, Bostock said, "I’m sure Dion will do the best job possible. My congratulations to him and to Jim.” Lockerman could not be reached for comment. . Seeman expressed his thanks to "all those who voted for me. I’ll certainly do my best to do a good job,” he said. ■ Fitzgerald said, "My congratu lations to Tom. I’m sure he’s a good man for the job.” Fire Inspection May Continue Volunteer firemen from the Al pha Fire Company may resume inspection of the Borough, for possible fire hazards today,'. Fire chief Thomas Sauers said conflicting job schedules of the men have delayed the investiga tion. No action has been taken in the inspection for approxi mately-two weeks. Firemen have completed an in spection of the business area and fraternities on campus, which they, started six weeks ago. Remaining to be checked are the majority of off-campus frat ernities and State College private residences and rooming houses. Cloudy r Cooler Today Partly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures are forecast for to day. A high of 59 degrees and a low of 30 degrees is predicted. Red Intervention Cited LONDON, March 23 (/P) Britain disclosed today it ha: received secret informatior that a considerable number of Egyptian army officers and men are being trained by Russian military experts in Com munist Poland. TODAY'S WEATHER CLOUDY AND COOLER the proposed seating plans for Beaver Field, brought up at Thursday’s meeting. Earl Seely, All-University pres ident, said although Spadaro has not yet made an official com plaint to Cabinet, he has publicly voiced his decision to do so. If Spadaro makes an official appeal before the Cabinet meeting Sun day, the matter will be placed on the agenda, Seely said. Spadaro Claims Bias Spadaro, who claimed the elec tions committee was biased m 1 favor of Campus party, plans to ■ appeal the committee's decision |under Article 13 of the election committee code which declares all decisions of the committee may be appealed before Cabinet. The executive committee will be closed to the public if-Spadaro files a complaint. Three members of Lion party and three delegates from the Elections Committee will be present along with three dele gates from Campus party. Cabinet Has 3 Alternatives If Spadaro files a complaint, Cabinet has three alternatives to follow, Seely said. It can hear the case and then .pass judgment on it one way or the other. Or it can refer the case to the Supreme Court after hearing the appeal. If Cabinet passes a . negative judgment in the case, Seely said, Spadaro then has the right to ap peal to Supreme Court under Ar ticle 3, section 2b of the All-Uni versity constitution, which de clares that "Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction over all. cases involving violations of electoral procedure, providing that such cases have first been heard by the appropriate regula tory ;body,” which i in this case, is Cabinet. Whatever decisio n Cabinet makes, it will set a precedent in elections procedure, Seely said. Seely has asked the Supreme Court to be ready to hold a ses sion Monday in the event that, if Spadaro files. a complaint, it is referred to Supreme Court. The Sunday Cabinet meeting i was originally called to discuss ■ three proposed seating plans for Beaver Field with Ernest B. Mc i Coy, dean of the College of Phy ; sical Education. McCoy proposed two plans at i Thursday’s Cabinet meeting, both of which were rejected by Cabi net. These plans, together with a . third plan drawn up by Cabinet. I will be discussed at Sunday’s i meeting. ' I Board of Trustees Will Meet Today The University Board of .Trust ees will meet at 2 this afterrioon in the Board Room in Old Main. Additional scholarship funds, fac ulty resignations, a new director for the summer sessions, and a new comptroller will be among the items on the agenda. A Foreign Office spokesman lid the information must be con idered in determining British liddle East policy. The Egyptian Embassy here had no comment....... Other disclosures in govern ment quarters suggested Egypt’s military agreements with states of the Communist bloc are far reaching. It was said that not only has Egyptian Premier Abdel Gamal Nasser received large quantities of military equipment, from Red Czechosolvakia, but that expert training in the use of new wea pons, at home and abroad, is fast making the Egyptian army a for midable force. , At the Foreign Office it also was said that Czechoslovakia has set up a training center for Egyptian pilots near Alexan dria. Egypt. The statement that Britain has tUlje Saily VOL. 56. No. 111 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 24, 1956 FIVE CENTS Election Results Secret; Committee Fines Parties Lion Party Will Appeal Vote Penalities Robert Spadaro, Lion party clique chairman, said yester-i day he will appeal a decision' of the All-University Committee to fine the Lion party 100 votes per candidate, for violations incurred during this week’s elections. The appeal will be made to All- University Cabinet at 7 p.m. to morrow. The Elections Committee de cided to penalize the party Thurs day night after a lengthy meeting in which charges of campaign violations were heard. One Campus party candidate was also penalized 10 votes, but William Snyder, clique chairman said he would not appeal. Lion Parly Penalised Each Lion party candidate was penalized 50 votes for using the Book Exchange as a plank, 40 votes for misuse of the plank in volving the campus parking prob lem, and 10 votes for having post ers outside downtown store win dows. In addition Colleen Daniels, candidate for junior class presi dent, and Harold Schatz, candi date for. senior class vice presi dent, were penalized 10 votes each for falsification of activities. The. committee also levied, a fine of $lO oh the. Lion party for the falsification of activities. Bahrenburg Fined 10 Votes Robert Bahrenburg, Campus party candidate for All-Univer sity president, was penalized 10 votes for falsification of scholastic average. The party was fined $lO for this offense. . , ■ Only on£ of the nine offices in the election will be affected by penalties which were levied ac cording to Roger Beidler,-commit tee chairman. Elections Commit tee decided at its meeting.-Thurs day night to withhold all election results if one position would be affected by its action. Committee Bases The committee based the Lion party penalty on an interpretation of Article two of the Elections Code. - The code states: "In the case of violations of this code toy an individual candidate or group of candidates, not less than 10 or more than 106 votes shall be decked each offending candidate/ In the case of a violation by an entire clique, a fine of not more than $25 shall be imposed on the offending political party. In (Continued on page eight) learned from a secret source that Egyptians are being trained in Poland was made by a Foreign Office spokesman at a news con ference. He would give no hint of the source. But in other quarters it was said that British sailors, whose vessels call at Gdynia, might have seen Egyptian offi cers and men in that port of Po land’s Baltic coast. These quarters said about 206 Egyptians are being trained in land, sea and air operations at .a Soviet base near Gdynia. . The Foreign Office spokesman said the British government plac es reliance on the reports it has received. He added they are a fac tor in reassessing policies in the whole Middle East, In some quarters it was thought that this comment suggested the Big Three Western allies might reappraise relations with Egypt. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Dean,Maloney To Question Penalty Code Harold Dean and Allan Ma loney, two former campus poli ticians, said last night they will appeal All-University Elections] Committee action penalizing Lion and Campus party candidates’ votes to the Supreme Court. They claim that it is unconsti tutional for All-University Cabi net to delegate power to Elections Committee since a section of the Student Government Association Constitution reads: “All legislative powers of the Student Government Association herein granted shall be vested in the All-University Cabinet.” "That means,” Maloney said, “that regulations made by Elec tions Committee are unconstitu tional since Cabinet delegated the power unconstitutionally,” Maloney and Dean interpreted the Elections Code as being legis lative in nature, therefore they contended it should have been acted on by Cabinet and not the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee yes terday docked Lion party can didates 108 votes ana. two, 110 votes, while taking only 10 votes from one Campus party candi date Both parties were also fined ,$lO by the committee. ~ "Students voted and now these votes are being taken away,” Ma loney said. Cabinet Approves Change of Title All-University Cabinet gave fi nal.approval Thursday to a. change in the constitution which gives the title Editor of the Daily Collegian to the Cabinet publica tions representative. This position was formerly known as' Head of the Board of Publications, which is actually the Editor of the Daily Collegian. Phillip Beard, All-University secretary-treasurer, told Cabinet he had no additional information on the possibility of Cabinet’s purchasing a new piano for Rec reation Hall. Officer Nominations To Be Held by IFC The Interfraternity Council will hold self-nomination of next year’s officers at 7:30 Monday night in the Hetzel Union assembly room. In addition to the nomination of officers the council will hear the report of the Pre-Initaition Code Committee, one of seven committee reports to be heard. The code report will be a re vision of the original report which was submitted to a special meeting of IFC Monday by Chair man Daniel Land. The revised edition contains Eoints which place the responsi ility of enforcing the new code directly on the IFC board of con trol and which further clarifies the enforcement of the code. - Other Committee to Report Other committee reports which will be heard will be the Scholar ship Committee, Donald Byerly; Culture Committee, John Levick; Summer Housing Committee, Lar ry Metzger; Evaluation Commit tee, Richard Shillinger; Greek Week Committee, Edmond Kram er; Future Housing Committee, Houston Elam. Voting Reaches 29.6 Per Cent; Below '55 Mark The three days of voting in the All-University elections came to a close yesterday af ternoon, but results of the All- University senior class and junior class races are being held pending the outcome of a iLion party appeal to All-Univer sity Cabinet. The appeal deals with penal ties issued to the party by the All-University Elections Commit tee following Campus party pro tests of campaign violations. The 50 per cent goal set by the Elections Committee for the voting turnout was missed when a total of only 3051 students— -29.6 per cent of the undergrad uate enrollment—cast ballots. On ly 313 students—3 per cent—voted yesterday. At the present there are 10,323 undergraduate students enrolled at the University. Sophs Lead Balloting 'Hie sophomore class led in bal loting with 1013 students turning out at the polls. Third and fourth semester students were eligible to vote for All-University and junior class officers, and in the case of males, Athletic Associa tion officers. The junior class had the second highest turnou t—B3s—and the freshman class was close behind with 814. Juniors could vote for All-University, and senior . class officers and freshmen were eli gible to vote for All-University officers. In both cases, male, stu dents could vote for AA positions. Senior Vote Totals 389 Seniors failed to equal half of the freshman turnout with only 389 ballots!'Seniors were eligible to Vote for All-University officer's, and again in the case of males, AA officers. The sophomore class, with the largest enrollment, had a 36.6 per cent turnout, and the senior class,' with the.smallest enrollment, had a 16 per cent turnout. At the end of the first day of balloting 15.3 per cent or 1575 students had voted. These figures increased to 26.6 per cent or 2738 (Continued on page eight} | President Robert Bullock said ithat he also expects William [Coale to speak to the council [about the possibility for arrang ing housing for the delegates to the regional convention of the National Student Association, to be held here next month. Russell lo Report Vice President John Russell will present his report on the In terfraternity- Panhellenic Council Ball, commenting on ticket sales and whether or not he considered the dance to have been a success. Kramer will report a progress report on Greek Week which will be held from April 8 to 15. He will report on all the various committees which comprise the Greek Week activities.
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