Today Clo is Forecast: : dy and 001 VOL. 57. edCourtControversy Be Settled Tonight Hea Ma eated controversy over the Supreme Court may er turn at 7 tonight when All-University Cabinet final vote on the Cabinet-on-Supreme Court t and also hears a new court system proposal by The take anot takes the amendme Lion part Befo - the pending vote Chiefs Attend Parley IFC Will NIC Two Un versity officials and four officer of the Interfraternity Council wi I leave today for the 48th annul meeting of the Na tional Inte raternity Conference and Under!raduate Conference in New York City. The meeting, to be held Friday and Saturday, will be attended by Frank J. Simes, dean of men; 0. Edward Pollock, assistant to the dean of men; Daniel Land, IFC president; John Valentine, IFC secretary-treasurer; Richard Shillinger, president of the IFC Board of Control; and Patrick Xinney, IFC junior secretary. While to Attend Dr. Marsh W. White, professor of physics and a member of the NIC executive committee, will also attend the conference. The IFC will compete with fra ternity systems .at other colleges and universities for the outstand ing fraternity system award, both in the overall category and in the size division. Basis for Judging . _ Service to the university, to fraternity ideals, to member fra ternities, and to the community will be the basis for judging the IFC program. The Fraternity Affairs office has prepared a rec ord of IFC's activity in these fields during the past year. At the conference, using the theme', "The Future of College Fraternities," Pollock will act as a consultant to an undergraduate discussion of service to fraternity ideals. Prison Inmate Still at Large Gerald D. Powell, 28, Jersey Shore, one of the two Rockview Penitentiary inmates who escaped Monday afternoon, is stillat large, according to officials who are Carrying on an extensive search. James W. Fox, 33, Williams port, who returned to the prison's main gates about four hours after he escaped, pleaded guilty to a charge of escape before Centre County Judge Ivan Walker Tues day afternoon. He was sentenced to serve an additional three to six years and was sent to the diagnostic center at 'Pittsburgh. The sentence is effective at the conclusion of his present seven and one-half to 15- year term. The two men left the prison by climbing the wire stockade. AP. 3744, . 4 - eoN r i a t ~T,...,_,. ,t C. -. 18_56 • \:J' STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 29. 1956 s taken, Byron LaVan, clique chairman of Lion party, will de scribe to Cabinet th e party's recommendation that includes a two-court system a Superior Court and a Supreme Court. If Cabinet in the final vote de feats the revision now on the table and approves the party's proposal, the entire constitutional amending procedure will begin from scratch again for the third 1 time this year. This requires three consecutive majority votes by Cabinet. Opposes Revision During the freshman-sophomore class elections, Lion party favored in its platform the retention of a Supreme Court but opposed the new revision now before Cabinet. Thanksgiving vacation inter rupted the sequence of Cabinet votes and also prolonged the pre sentation of Lion party's recom mendation. New Cabinet Members George Smith, freshman class president, and John Sopko, sopho more class president, both mem bers of Lion party, will take their seats on Cabinet tonight for the first time. LaVan said that Lion party wants "to keep judicial powers within the judicial bodies" and therefore is opposed to the pres ent plan that would give 24 of the 31 Supreme Court seats to mem bers of Cabinet. - In the Lion party proposal, the Supreme Court will have appel late jurisdiction over all cases in volving constitutionality of all Cabinet legislation, various Cabi net branches, and all activity groups. Include Five The 5-seat Supreme Cou r t would include the chairmen of Tribunal, Women's Student Gov ernment Association Judicial, As sociation of Independent Men Ju dicial, and Interfraternity Council Board of Control. The chairman, of the court would be the Cabinet parliamentarian. An eligible cases would first be appealed to the Superior Court. This lesser court would also con tain five members—one from each of the following activity fields: student council, dramatics and forensics, publications, AIM and Leonides z.tternately, and Panhel lenic Coul:cil and IFC alternately. If a party or parties involved in the case would not be satis fied with the decision of the Su perior Court, then the case could be appealed to the Supreme Court. The -members of the Superior Court would be selected by. the Cabinet Personel Interviewing Committee from each field of ac tivities mentioned above on the basis - of the individual's knowl— edge of University student gov ernment and activities. U.S. Accuses Reds of Arming Syria WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (FP) The United States ac cused Russia today of adding to Middle East tension by shipping "substantial" amounts of arms to Syria. Concern over these weapons deliveries also has been expressed to the Syrian government by the American ambassador in Damas cus, the St at e Department re ported. Believed Under Soviet The Syrian government, how ever, is now believed to be under the control of a group of pro-So viet army officers. Reports from Lebanon, Syria's neighbor to the west, spoke of the likelihood of an open coup by the Syrian army clique to consolidate its position. Officials here said more than 30 FOR A BETTER PENN STATE APhiO to Begin Hungarian Drive Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, today will k,cit off its drive for clothes and money for Hungarian aid. Clothing may be deposited at the bottom of the Mall on College Ave today, tomor row and Saturday. Glen Elder, president of APhio has asked townspeople and students to contribute as much old clothing as possible to the drive. Elder has also asked that donations be made as freely as possible to the fund drive. ~~ ~ - _. —Daily Collegian Photo by Marty Scherr A YOUNG. INEXPERIENCED skater gets - a helping hand from a University coed at the ice skating rink. The rink, in its fourth year, has proved a popular spot for winter recreation since opening for the season several days ago. Survey Shows University Aids Practical Education How large a contribution does the University, as a land grant school, make to the pray wealth? A survey at the Univers ending this past June 30, it en rolled more than 86,000 persons in instructional programs of one type or another. Full-time Students Included These included 15,300 full-time students studying• on the main campus or at the centers, more than 7000 enrolled for the sum mer sessions, and nearly 20.000 students completing work by cor respondence. More than 12,000 of the correspondence course stu dents were enrolled in agricul tural correspondence work. Another 15,000 were enrolled at: the centers for night classes and other programs offered by the general extension services of the University. On the campus, nearly 29,000 were registered for educational million dollars worth of Soviet weapons, including light tanks, artillery, mortars, machine guns, armored cars and munitions, have been delivered to the Syrian armed forces over the last year. British sources at the United Nations furnished bigger figures. They said the Soviet bloc had shipped about 60 million dollars worth of arms to Syria and about 400 million dollars worth to Egypt up to Nov. 10. Lincoln White, State Depart ment press officer here, said Rus sia has made additional shipments to Syria "since the Middle East crisis." Syria Denies Charge In Damascus, Prime Minister Sabri Assaii denied his govern ment had received any Red arms recently. White said, the Russian activity. Tottrgian • --- • ,ore- tical education of its Common- ty indicates that in the year conferences, meetings, workshops, and seminars while more than 1000 completed one of the various agricultural short courses. County agricultural agents, ex tension home economists, and other extension personnel made personal contacts with well over a million persons during the year. Others Aided by Broadcasts Additional millions of Pennsyl vanians were reached during the year by agricultural and home economics - extension personnel who presented more than 12,000 radio and television programs and provided hundreds of Penn sylvania newspapers with infor mation helpful to the farmer and homemaker. They also assisted 36,500 4-H Club members in their programs. contrasts sharply with UN efforts to "diminish tensions and work for a settlement" of the issues stirring the Arab world. White said the Soviet policy "is adding to tensions in the area." Hagerty Disagrees White's. comment contrasted remarks by White House press secretary James C. Hagerty, who reported at a news conference about the same time that he be lieved international tension over the Middle East "has been greatly eased over the last two or three week:" In Ottawa, Canadian Foreign Secretary Lester Pearson de scribed recent developments in SYria as a "matter of immediate gravity." He said there were re ports of "Russian penetration in, iSyria to.an alarming extent." University Impersonality See Page 4 He said a considerable amount of money will be needed to send the clothing collected to a port where it Ix ill be shipped to Hungary. The remainder of the money 'collected during the drive will be sent immediately to Hungary through CARE. Today has been declared Aus terity Day by the State College ,Council of Churches in connec tion with the drive. Fraternities and townspeople are asked to make tonight's dinner very sim : ,pie and - send a check for the amount saved on the austere meal :to Associated Charities on W. 'Beaver Ave. WMAJ to Conduct Marathon WMAJ will conduct a record request marathon tomorrow night on Groovology. From 10 p.m. on through the night WMAJ will play records requested by mail. Requests may be-sent with a con tribution to WMAJ in care of the Hungarian Relief Drive. In connection with the drive, the history department will spon sor a lecture on "The Hungarian [ Situation Today." at 7 tonight in 10 Sparks. Dr. Edward C. Thaden, ,instructor in history, and Bele 'Vie. a Hungarian writer, will con duct the lecture. The junior chamber of com merce from the Titusville area 'has informed APhio that two truck loads of clothing .will ar rive in State College at 2 p.m. to morrow to be added to the pil= , of clothing - on the Mall. APhio to Collect Donations APhiO has asked that people who are unable to take their con tributions of clothing or money to the Mall or downtown area, call AD 8-8541 between 7 and 11 p.m. tonight and tomorrow. Mem bers of APhiO will collect these. Saturday has been proclaimed "red flag day" in the downtown area. Between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. signs will be placed over parking meters in the downtown area re questing drivers to donate the money they would normally put in the meter to the Hungarian Relief Drive. - Members Stationed at Corners Memhers of the service frater nity will be stationed along each block to collect the donations. During this time parking meters will not be in operation. Local Red Cross volunteers will work with Gamma Sigma. na tional service sorority, in repair ing clothing received during the campaign. The home economics department has donated the use of 50 sewing machines for the re pair work. Cold Weather Bothers Lion Thy wintry w eather of the past few days is expected to continue, according to the University wea ther station. Today should be cool and breezy, with snow flurries. The high today is predicted at 33 de grees. with a low tonight of 20 This news was -r received in the, ; t e Nittany L i o n's NIN• , ; den with a de cided lack of en thusiasm. "I suppose this • means another day in this man gy cav e ," the .• tt et Lion complained. "If the weather- man realized that I am the King of Beasts, he would change this mess -in z hurry " FIVE . CENTS
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