Today'S Forecast: and and Cool VOL. 57. No. 116 Five Events to Highlight Greek Week Program "Greeks Everywhere" will be a reality this week, with five events planned for this year's observance of Greek Week. , The progOm will begin with the Outstanding Pledge Banquet, to be held at 5:45 p.m. Monday in dining rooms A and B of the Hetzel Union Building. The banquet will honor pledges whom their sorority or fraternity feels have achieved most success fully the objectives and ideals of pledging, and who are most de serving of the title, "Outstand ing Pledge." Wellington to Speak Cabinet OKs Constitution For ICCB All-University Cabinet Thurs day night approved a constitution for the Intersollege Council' i Board, giving the power to dis tribute Cabine -budgeted funds to the college tudent councils. The board, hich is composed of the preside is of the nine col lege student councils, changed membership T ursday when Cab inet installed the newly-elected council heads. Needed Because of Funds Joseph Eberly, former president of the Chemistry and Physics Student Council, who presented the report, said ICCB needed a constitution to distribute the funds, a power it did not have before this spring. ICCB will distribute $lOO to each council and - will also com pensate the Council presidents in the amount of $2O each. The rest of the funds, which amount to $lBOO under next year's budget, will be distributed as ICCB sees fit. To Elect Chairman The constitution provides for the election of a chairman and a secretary, who will be named in about two weeks. In final votes, Cabinet also ap proved an $11,660 budget for the 1957-8 academic year and a con-1 stitutional amendment requiring its members to have a minimum 2.4 All-University average. The constitutional amendment was introduced April 7 by Lash Hqwes, Association. of Indepen dent Men president, to create a "higher academic atmosphere." It will go into effect with the 1958- 59 Cabinet. Group to Plan Encampment The Student Encampment Com mittee will meet at 1:30 p.m. to morrow in 203 Hetzel Union to discuss plans for the sixth annual Encampment Sept. 4 to 7 at the Mont Alto Forestry School. Harry Martini, committee chair man, said yesterday that the meeting will be open to any stu dent who wishes to suggest ideas for the Encampment. Applications for interviews for persons wishing to .a t tend En campment . are available at the Hetzel Union desk. They must be returned to the , desk by 5 p.m. Wednesday. About 20 persons .will be in vited to attend Encampment through the interviews, which will be conducted by the Cabinet Personnel Interviewing Commit tee beginning April 7. Ag Seniors Will Order.. Caps, Gowns Monday Seniors enrolled in the College of Agriculture may order their caps and gowns Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday at the Athletic Store. Students mutt give their hat sizes and leave a $5 deposit when placing orders. j Invitations and announcements will be available on the same days at the Hetzel Union desk. Clique Will EleCt Officers Campus party will meet at 7 p.m. April 7 in 10 Sparks to elect new executive officers of the clique. - • • Too Many alp Baitg Toittota.tt Bowlers? See 'Page 4 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 30. 1957 Arthur M. Wellington, professor of counselor education and chap ter advisor to Phi Delta Theta fraternity, will be the guest speaker. James Olmes of Sigma Alpha Epsilon will preside as toast master. Exchange dinners in fraternity houses and residence halls dining rooms will be. held for approxi mately 300 men and women on Tuesday night. Fraternity men will call for wo men at 5:10 p.m. in their residence halls. Exchange dinners will be held in Atherton, Simmons, and McElwain halls, as well as in the fraternity houses. Phyllis Hodges of Delta Gamma and Bruce Hoff man of Sigma Pi are in charge of these arrangements. Banquet Is Climax _ Climaxing the 1957 Greek Week activities will be the annual IFC- Panhel Banquet starting at 5:45 p.m. Thursday at the Nittany Lion Inn. Harold S. LeDuc, vice presi dent of the Bell Telephone Corn pany of Pennsylvania, will be the guest speaker. The topic 'of his speech has not yet been an nounced. James Jimmiro of Beta Theta Pi will be the toastmaster for the banquet. Attending the affair will be fraternity and sorority presi dents and their advisers and offi cers of the IFC and Panhellenic Councils. Awards io Be Given Presentation of the Outstanding Fraternity Award and other an nual awards given to fraternities and sororities will be one of the highlights of the banquet. Last year, the Outstanding Frat ernity Award was presented to Phi Gamma Delta. Beta Sigma Rho, Alpha Zeta, Tau Kappa Ep silon and Beta Theta Pi were rated . the other outstanding frat ernities in that order. Other awards that will be pre (Continued on page eight) Final Preientation Set For 'One's a Crowd' Tickets are available at the Het zel Union desk for tonight's final presentation of Eugene Raskin's comedy "One's a Crowd." The price is $l. Curtain time is 8 p.m. at Center Stage. "One's a Crowd" is a premiere production brought to campus by the Theatre Arts Department. AFL-ClO Suspends Beck From Posts WASHINGTON, March 29 (JP) Teamsters boss Dave Beck, a Fifth Amendment iwitness before the Senate rackets probers, was suspend ed from his high AFL-CIO posts today pending outcome of charges to be filed by his fellow labor leaders. The AFL-CIO Executive Coun cil unanimously suspended the c h u.b b y 62-year-old self-pro claimed financial tycoon as an AFL-CIO vice president and an Executive Council member. Investigation Ordered The council-top command of the 15-million-member federation also ordered a broad investigation of alleged corruption in the Team sters, Union organization, a probe FOR A BETTER PENN STATE TKE, KD IFC Sing By ANNE FRIEDBERG Pictures on Page Five Defending champion Tau Kappa Epsilon and Kappa Delta, a newcomer, won the 1957 Interfraternity-Panhellenic Council sing last night in Schwab Auditorium. For Tau Kappa Epsilon, directed by Donald Fought, it was the seventh straight title. The first win in this streak came in 1951. The Tekes sang the "Teke Toast," with which they have won all of their titles. ~*'"Mi.~.' ° :i '- ~~:n="~f~:;.~ai~.,,,w..:..~ 5 .:.;.Lr:k:`iiA~.~.......~....> .r~:~;a.^?i5:.:.?~......nw...iu"~':.a....;a': th ~..;.ti;.~t.«~.:s :w..,~i,~~ Greeks' Schedule Today Greek Week Work Projects Day, 1 to 5 p.m. Greek Week Sunday Outstanding Pledge Banquet, Dining Rooms A and B of the' Hetzel Union Building, 5:45 p.m Tuesday Exchange Dinners, 5:10 p.m. Thursday IPC-Panhel Banquet, Nittany Lion Inn, 5:45 p.m. . Friday IFC-Panhel Ball, Recreation Hall, 9 p.m. to 1 Community Projects On Tap for Greeks Fraternity and sorority members will don old work clothes today and bring out the rags, garden tools, and paint and paint brushes for the sixth annual Greek Week work projects day. Forty-three fraternities and 23 sororities, including about 570 members, will participate in the 20 projects in and around the State College area from 1 to 5 p.m. One of the primary purposes of the work projects day is to foster and maintain good relations be tween sorority and fraternity members and townspeople, ac-, cording to Iris Olbum and Robert i Steele, projects co-chairmen. In the past years work projects day has proven to be one of the highlights of Greek Week. Arranging the projects with the two projects chairmen and acting as the liaison between the towns people was Eugene M. Fulmer, executive secretary of the State College Chamber of Commerce. Greek Week was originally in novated in 1944 at the Univer sity of Minnesota as a Help Week to replace the traditional Hell Week. This is the sixth year that it has been held at the . University. Other events included in Greek Week, in addition to the projects day, are the IFC-Panhel Sing, Greek Sunday, a poster contest, the Outstanding Pledge Banquet, 'that could spur the ousting of Beck from the Teamsters presi-' dency. Beck's office here said, after speaking with him in Seattle, "You can quote Mr. Beck as say ing 'no comment' Used sth Amendment Beck invoked the Fifth Amend ment in refusing to tell senators in hearings Tuesday and Wednes day about his admitted use of $300,000 to $400,000 of Teamster's funds. He has claimed to reporters he has repaid the money, but re fused to say so under oath_ Beckwas absent from today's meeting, staying at his home in Seattle and complaining that he'd received only two days' notice of the session. George Meany, AFL-CIO presi dent, said the council has sum moned Beck to a hearing -here Tomorrow Monday the IFC-Panhel Banquet and IFC- Panhel Ball, The complete list of assign ments for projects day is as fol lows: Sunset View Park, Alpha Phi Delta, Phi Mu, Delta Tau Delta, Acacia, Sigma Alpha Mu and Al pha Xi Delta; Holmes-Foster Park, Delta Sigma Phi, Chi Phi, Kappa Delta Rho, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Phi Mu Delta; Ferguson Township Lion's Club Park, Sig ma Pi, Alpha Tau Omega, Gamma Phi Beta and Pi Kappa Alpha. South Hills Playground, Tau' Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Chi Omega! and Theta Kappa Phi; Cori Street , School, Trion Colony and Sigma Phi Epsilon; Woodycrest Play ground, Theta Delta Chi, Alpha' Chi Rho, Kappa Sigma and Alpha Epsilon Phi. Matternville Playground, Alpha, Sigma Phi, Delta Zeta and Phil Kappa; State College High School field, Alpha Zeta, Delta Delta Delta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Theta Phi Alpha. (Continued on page eight) May 20 to answer "for his actions in bringing the labor movement into disrepute and his failing to explain many charges against him with revrd to misuse of union funds." Depends on Hearing Beck's suspension from his AFL-CIO offices is effective pend ing outcome of the May 20 hear ings. Incidentally, if Beck shows up at that hearing, he likely will have the "judicial atmosphere"— including right of cross-examina tion and presentation of charges —which he said was absent at his Senate committee appearances. Such has been the precedent for similar ousting proceedings against labor leaders, although none as high as Beck has ever before been so accused. Unlike court sessions. however, witnesses are not placed under oath.- Capture Crowns Kappa Delta, directed by Jean Wilson. captured their first sing title. They won second-place in ;1954. They sang "The KD Chant." Delta Upsilon, directed by Rich ard Jamieson, were second-place winners in the fraternity division. They sang "The Highest Praise," to cop the second-place title. Thetas Take 2nd Three-time winner Kappa Al pha Theta, directed by Elizabeth Anderson, took second-place this year in the sorority division. For the Thetas, who sang "Thetas [Everywhere," it was the fourth time they reached the sing finals. For the past three years they won first place in the sing among the sororities. The other finalists in last night's competition were Zeta Tau Alpha, directed by Patricia Kelly: Delta Gamma, directed by Gail Gilman; Phi Mu Delta, directed by Wil liam Wilson; and Phi Gamma Del ta, directed by Charles MacKen zie. Phi Mu Delta, Phi Gamma Del ta and Zeta Tau Alpha were also finalists in last year's competition. Delta Gamma and Delta Upsilon were newcomers to the finalist group. Required Songs The fraternities were required to sing the “Whiffenpoof Song" and the sororities were required to sing "Moments to Remember" in addition to a song of their choice. Judges for last night's finals were Dr._ Gerald M. Torkelson, assistant professor of visual edu cation; Frank Gullo, associate professor of music: Mrs. E. Scott Roscoe, wife of E. Scott Roscoe, associate professor of industrial iengineering; and Mrs. Ray T. For tunato, wife of Ray T. Fortunato, director of employe relations. The Tekes and the KIYs will each receive a 26 1 / 2 -inch gold plated trophy which will be pre- Isented at the IFC-Panhel Ban iquet Thursday night at the Nit itany Lion Inn. Award Presentation Second-place winners Delta Up silon and Kappa Alpha Theta will receive bronze plaques. The sing this year was con ducted in a different manner than it has been in previous years. This year's sing was the first time that fraternities and sororities corn (Continued on page two) Lion Forecasts Cloudy Skies The Nittany Lion today pre dicted partly cloudy skies and cool temperatures. After taking over the Meteor ology Department two days ago. the Lion has worked diligently to make the campus aware of his "extraor dinary percep tion of atmos pheric and mete erological phe nomena," as his latest report has it. This morn ing's forecast was floated in by one of the Lion's woodland friends swinging beneath a large red balloon. The side of the balloon bore a picture of the Lion, with the words "Lion weather is' better than ever" printed below. The forecast calls for partly cloudy skies, with the high tem perature between 40 and 45. FIVE CENTS
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