Special Section On Spring Fashions 1 Soe Pages 6,1,7 VOL. 57. No. 113 PhiGant PhiMuDelt, DU, TKE Reach Sing Finals Delta Upsilon, Tau Kappa Epsill finalists for the In the preliminary ro These groups, Trion Petition Go Nati Trion, local social withdrawn its petitio with Sigma Kappa, n • sorority. The whole situatio evolves out of alleged discriminat 'ry practices by the national organ' , ation, prac tices which the Univ-rsity want ed to make sure would not occur on campus. Sigma Kappa suspended a chap ter at Cornell Uniyeisity recently after the sorority had pledged a Negro woman. Senate Had Petition The Senate Committee on Stu dent Affairs was in the process of reviewing Trion's petition to af filiate with Sigma Kappa when Peggy Ann Stoehr, past president of Trion, asked the committee to discontinue its discussion on the petition, according to Wilmer E. ICenworthy, - e:xecutive assistant to the president. The University, Miss Stoehr said, had written a letter to Sigma Kappa asking an explanation of the suspension of the Cornell' chapter. The letter was sent, Miss Stoehr said, in order to receive assurance that a similar incident would not occur on campus. Two officials from Sigma Kap pa chose, Miss Stoehr said, to visit campus, personally instead of an swering the letter. Sees "Adierse Publicity Miss Stoehr said the represen tatives- •of the national sorority thought there may be adverse publicity if the Senate commit tee turned down the petition to affiliate with Sigma Kappa. Miss Stoehr wrote the letter asking that the petition be with drawn. Miss Stoehr said the Sigma Kap pa representatives refused to an swer some questions on the Cor nell chapter's suspension. She said she thought the questions asked the representatives were (Continued on page twelve) $99 In Fines Sets Record Traffic Court Monday night set a record for the year by collecting a total of $99 in fines. i . Fines for parkingviolations ac counted for $5l of the total. Those for failure to registe or display registration sticker mounted to $45, and those for failure to re port to the Campus Patrol office within the next complete school day, $3. 1 In addition to this a matic fines totaling levied on students w appear before the co In addition to thei students' received a pension of driving p campus for the incurri fourth violations" Application For For LA Council S Self-nomination a ppli cation blanks for the Liber2l Arts Stu dent Council elections will be available until Friday in 132 Sparks. Candidates for the . council must be students in the College of the Liberal Arts. with a,2.5 All-Uni versity average. Candidates must submit wallet sized photographs with their ap plications..._ .. . 4 ' r' 4. :'.4.,:t ...,:! . _ T r -Ilattn (:. ' ;.)7:1 Toll 4 Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Mu Delta and ected as the four fraternity -Panhellenic Council Sing in were sei erfraternit nd held las =long with t night in Schwab Auditorium'. the sorority finalists that will be chosen tonight, will compete in the final roundsof the sing Friday night in Schwab. Three of the four finalists—Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Mu Delta and Tau Kappa Epsilon—were also finalists in last year's sing. The fourth finalist in last year's sing who was tied for second place with Phi Gamma Delta was Phi Kappa Psi. rops To onal This is the fifst . .year that fra ternities have competed on one night, followed by sorority compe tition the next night. Comments on Sing .orority, has to affiliate tional social Thomas Hollander, co-chairman of the 'sing, said that last night's preliminary round "ran very smoothly." "1 think that the arrangement of separating preliminary rounds for fraternities and sororities is far better than the old system," Hol lander said. In previous years, both frater nities and sororities competed on both nights of the sing. For the TKE's, the fraternity defending chainpion, this marks the seventh consecutive year they have reached the sing finals. Last year, they retired their sec ond rotating trophy after winning the sing for six consecutive times. Their winning streak began in 1951. 16 Groups Participate Twelve other fraternities par ticipated in last night's prelimin ary round held at Schwab Audi torium, They were Alpha Tau Omega, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Sig ma Kappa, Phi Kappa Sigma, Al pha Zeta, Phi Kappa Psi, Beta Theta Pi, Acacia, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Alpha Chi Sigma and : Delta Sigma .Phi. Directors of the four finalist groups were Richard Jamieson, Delta Upsilon; Charles . MacKen zie, Phi Gamma Delta; William H. Wilson, Phi Mu Delta; and Donald Fought, Tau Kappa Ep silon. The required song for fraterni ties was the "Whiffenpoof Song," which was sung without piano accompaniment. The other song was of the groups' own choosing. Judges for last night's round were Dr. Gerald M. Torkelson, as sistant professor of visual educa tion; H. Dennis Sherk, co-ordina tor of TV presentation; and Robert M. Koser, assistant registrar. Seventeen sororities are sched uled to participate' in the prelim inary rounds beginning at 6:30 to night in Schwab Auditorium. Beck Invokes In Testimony WASHINGTON, March 26 (?P)—Dave Beck, boss of the far-flung Teamsters Union, wrapped himself-in the protective folds of the Fifth Amendment today and refused to say whether he took more than $320,000 of union money for personal use. Beck also declined flatly to say whether he was lying or telling the truth before millions looking in on television March 17 when he said he had bor iowed _between $300,000 and $400,000 from the union in the last 10 years and repaid it with out interest. ount, auto sllo were o failed to fines, two •0-day 'suS ivileges on ce of their s Due The chunky, voluble presi dent of the Teamsters imme diately encountered not so veiled suggestions from Sen ate rackets _probers that he may wind up -on trial and may encounter charges of FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 27. 1957 Air P In Pa Dennis Says People To Set Standards Lawrence E. Dennis, vice president for academic affairs, last night said quality of the state's educational program will depend on the people's willingness to support it_ In a speech to the Plant Science Club, Dennis said the future of the educational program will depend on what the people of the Commonwealth are willing to spend for it. Many of the University's pro grams are hindered, he said, in the face of the state's financial problems "which are tremendous." Among these projects is a pos sible plan to reserve the main campus more and more in the future for upper-division under graduates and graduate students and use the centers for more basic instruction, Dennis said. Dennis also outlined a pro gram to provide' more broad "general education" courses in technical fields. Viewing the University's long range academic future, Dennis suggested it may someday be pos sible "to think of the main cam pus as an upper-division and graduate center." Each center would then become a main area for basic study by the lower undergraduate divisions. The University will serve the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh met r3politan areas more and more as it changes, he said. Dennis said work is underway toward starting broader courses in the fields of the biological sciences, the humanities, the social sciences and the arts, and will begin soon in the physical sciences. General education should be spread out over the student's four years in college, and not thrown into just two years, he said. He said the University is at-, tempting to bring about broader educational policies, as were sug gested by the Middle States As sociation accrediting team report last May, "in a cooperative way, without trying to have any spe cific doctrine or blueprint." Dennis said a trend has de veloped since World War II bring ing public higher education "into its own." He.said the doubling of the state's appropriation to the University within the last six years is an indication of this trend. contempt of Congress. He al so may face punishment by the AFL-CIO Executive Council. He is a Council member and an AFL-CIO vice president If hewas bothered by it all, during a day-long grilling by a sfiecial Senate committee, Beck showed it not at all. He re jected firmly a demand from Sen. Kennedy (D.-Mass.) that he, hand in his resignation as head of the nation's biggest union. "I'm personally confronted," he said, "with a situation I'm positive will be disposed of 100- per cent satisfactorily to me *when the - final days of ac counting come in court." Beck declared he was ex ercising h i s constitutional right against self incrimina tion, under the Fifth Amend ment, only on the advice of his lawyers. He did it dozens of limes, under a formula his hotos rking AIM Governors Will Nominate For 4 Offices , The Association of Independent Men Board of Governors will hold nominations for four AIM offices at 7 tonight in 203 Hetzel Union. The offices to be filled are pres ident, vice president, secretary and treasurer. sth Amendment on Union Funds rgiatt Any independent man with an All-University average of 2.0 or better is eligible to run for office. The president must have fifth or sixth semester standing, however. A prospective candidate may be nominated by any member of the board at the meeting, or -by a peition signed by 300. indepen dent men. Lash Howes; AIM president, has asked all candidates to sub mit a letter to him containing their name and the office which they seek. The new officers will be in stalled at the AIM banquet, April 27. In accordance with the con stitution, they will be sworn in as soon as possible after the election, however. Film Studio Auditions To Be Held in April Jack Saunders, a representative: from 20th Century Fox Fil ml Studios, will hold auditions from' 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 1 in the , Little Theatre in Old Main. Students interested in audition in,g should sign their name and the short scene or reading which they will give on the bulletin board in the Greenroom in Schwab Auditorium. Students need not be theatre arts majors. attorneys revised as he went along, when confronted by contentions from the inves tigators that he: Used union funds to repay loans from banks, build his Seattle, Wash., home, bolster his own bank account, and pay personal bills for such items as gardening, shirts, and expen sive neckties. ' Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said some $85,000 of union money was used to pay personal bills. He said it was channeled through Nathan Shefferman, Chicago labor con sultant for business fi r =Cs around the country and a friend of Beck for some 20 years. Sheffermanhimself tok the Shefferman himself took the witness stand at the end of the day and testified he paid Beck $24,500 in 1949 and 1950. But he said that was for business Beck swung his way. Loyalty Can Go Too-For See Page 4 to Aid Survey Future Students To Walk More Wiegand Says A comprehensive survey of campus parking and traffic— ,including such devices as aer ial photographs--is being con ducted under University aus fpices. The survey, under the direction of Calvin G. Reen, professor of civil engineering, may form the basis for a long-range program aimed at the solution of campus parking problems. The aerial photography is sched uled to begin sometime within a week. Photographs of the cam pus will be taken periodically throughout the day and will show the number of cars parked at specified time intervals. Reen said he believed that some of the aerial photography was begun c.n Tuesday morning but that the work was discon tinued during the afternoon ,be cause of stormy weather. Canvass to Be Made The parking survey will also in clude a canvass of the lots, which is expected to determine the av erage parking total for each area and the destination and business of the drivers. However, Reen said, none of this field work will begin before May. According to earlier reports, the survey will include a count and analysis of pedestrian traffic on campus. The survey was planned by the University's 6-man traffic and parking committee, of which Reen is a member. Solution Seen Walter H. Wiegand, chairman of the committee, has said the survey may result in specific rec ommendations aimed at solving the problems. He said that it may lead to al leviation of the problem within two years and the development of a long-range solution within five years. Wiegand has said he believes the problem is one of "keeping abreast of a growing need," but 'that in any case, students in the :future will have to walk farther from their parking areas than they do now. Lion Predicts Cloudy Skies The Nittany Lion today issued a forecast for continued cloudy skies and cool temperatures. The Lion also took special note today of the reappearance of "Al ligator raincoats" on campus. He was overheard remarking that he w e ar s his even on sunny days, copying the cam pus style. Their practical ity and collegiate look seemed to be his chief rea sons for contin ual wear of the tan garment The Lion pre dicted that the blazer would again be good this year. He hopes to forecast some warm sunny weath er so his favorite, the white blaz er, will soon be seen in all the better places. He was most gleefull today when his favorite campus news paper turned several pages over to the lighter, brighter side of affairs and featured spring frocks' for "Milady." FIVE CENT
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