Today's For cast: Cool a. Partly CI VOL. 57. No. 147 taVan To Void Lion Election By PAT EVANS lan, former Lion Party clique chairman, has .ermission. to appear before All-University I.w to contest the party's clique officer elec . ay night, r t repercussions from the politicians' battle Byron La been granted Cabinet tomorrl tions held Sun. In the lat- Frosh Privile ded S uspe The Interfrate Board of Control pended the pledg privileges _of a drinking at frate ity'Cauncil last night sus ng and rushing reshman found nity houses. Richard Shill ger, board of control chairman, said the student was apprehended last week by State College police when he and a companion were found with a bicycle they had stolen. Both said they had visited sev eral fraternities and had con sumed an undesignated amount of beer. Freshman Suspended The dean of men's office sus pended one and placed - the other on disciplinary probation, both on charges of drinking and the taking of a bicycle belonging to a borough' resident. The students were also charged with disorderly conduct by the State College police. One of the student's had ap peared before a disciplinary corn rnitte prior to this incident, when he was given a• deferred suspen sion. When a student is given a deferred - suspension, he may be suspended directly by the office of the dean of men in case of fur ther disciplinary violations: Cannot Return The student will not be able to return to the ;University next se mester. For this reason he was not questioned by the board of control, Shillinger said. He said' the - board of control sentence "against the other fresh man was made in accordance with a proclamation made last year by Daniel Land, then IFC president, that any freshman falsifying his University status or age in order to drink at a fraternity would have all pledging and rushing privileges suspended for one aca demic, year. The student declined to reveal the names of the fraternities that served him. Yale Prof to Speak At Baccalaureate - E. William Muehl, professor of practical theology at the Divinity School Yale University, will give the - major ad dress, "The Para yzing Ideal," at the Baccalaureate - Class Night at 7:30 pan. June 7 in Schwab Auditorium. The two cereonies were combined this year "to increase attendance and to cut out the. I t undesirable por t i ns of class' night," Joseph H nett; dais president, said. '1 -:: . , _ President Eric A. Walker will preside over the ceremonies .which will include the salutatorian and valedictorian addresses, presenta- Von'. of class, honors_ and. presen tation of the class gift by Hart nett. Muehl . is the author of two books, Polities for. Christians, pub lished in 1956 and The Road to Persuasion, published in - 1936 and has vi . tritten.numerous articles on Christianity and "politics. =Muehl is a member of the Mich igan State Bar Association, The American " Arbitration - Associa tion, and the Commission on Chris- ...„...i.p...„.4: Or r- fE a tt g , :,.._- , .--,--,_,-„?.,-,-..'„:. if,, jor tt 4 to Ask Cabinet over the elections, LaVan appear ed yesterday before the Cabinet Executive Committee to request that he be allowed to take his case to Cabinet. ush He will ask Cabinet to declare the election null and void. In the election William O'Neill,; freshman in psychology from Downingtown, defeated Fred Ochroch, sophomore in business administration from Philadelphia, for the office of party clique chairman. Ochroch had been nom inated by LaVan. Lack Elections Group Robert Steele, All-University President, said ordinarily the is ' sue would be taken to All-Uni versity Elections Committee. But. next year's committee members have not yet been chosen, and the only official member is Peter IFishburn, chairman. If the elections are declared null and void by Cabinet, Steele said, they will be held again. At the controversial' meeting election brought storms of protest from LaVan and his supporters. After the vote had been announced, LaVan requested a standing vote, and then a re count of the ballots. His requests were denied. To Make Changes He will contest the election to Cabinet on the following charges: *Paper ballots (notebook paper) were used. • •Improper conduct of the elec tion. is Improper counting of the per sons in the room—they were counted by the election commit tee chairman after the election. Fishburn said yesterday in his opinion- the elections were con ducted fairly. "I did the best I could - with the facilities I had at the time," he said. ,But Ochroch said "I'm positive I had more votes than the other, faction. If the election is held over I'm pretty .sure I will win." O'Neill Slams LaVan O'Neill had this to say: "La- Van's actions are a disgrace to the party." O'Neill called the elec tions "more than tair."- LaVan said he counted 174 per sons at the meeting before the vote was take n. The ballots totalled 198. Godayte said Fishburn handled the, ballots, and there was "noth ing at all illegal about the elev.- (Continued on .page eight) tian Faith and the Legal Profes sion of the United Student Chris tian Council. ' Members of the Administrative Committee on student Affairs, the Presidential staff; the class offi cers, clergy and student partici pants in the program have been invited to march in the proces sional. • . - Luther H. Harshbarber, versity chaplain, George E. Ceiga, University organist an d the 'Chapel Choir will assist in the ,service. The -class honors to be presented to five men and' six women will include two class donors, spoon man, barrel' man,. cane man, pipe orator, bow girl, slipper girl, fan girl, class poet and mirror girl. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 22. 1957 $27.7 Budget Gets Committee's OK The General Assembly's Joint Appropriations Committee yesterday officially recom mended the $27.7 million "disaster budget" for the University a day earlier than expected. The exact figure of the powerful committee's recommendation is $27,713,400, far be low the $35,129,000 President Eric A. Walker requested from the General Assembly. When Dr. Walker requested his budget figure, he. told the General Assembly thai un less the full amount were approved, the University would be able to continue only its 'present programs. Since the Republican leader ship has insisted new taxes would be necessary to increase the bud lget, such increases -seem remote lir. the GOP-controlled Assembly. There are still two bills in the [ Assembly calling for higher bud gets—one from Sen. To Hays (D.- Centre-Clearfield) for $35,129,000 land one from Rep. Norman Wood I (R.-Lancaster), chairman of the 'House Appropriation Committee, for $33,849,000. Amendment Expected Hot Off the Press! Easton. and Thomas O'Hara. senior in hotel administration from Stale College, look over the. 1957 LaVie, being distributed this week in the Hetzel Union cardrooni.. AIM to Hear Proposal On Dorm Award A plan to award a trophy to the outstanding male living unit on campus will be presented to the Association of Independent Men Board of Governors at 7 tonight in 203 Hetzel Union building. The plan would go into effect] next year. The program calls for the tro phy, to be called the "AIM-Coun selors Outstanding Living Unit Award," to go to the outstanding living unit, as determined by a point system, for one year. Points would be awarded to the living units in five categories--- scholarship, group activities, eval uation (to be done by unit coun selors), individual activities, and penalties. Five to Compose Committee The awarding of points would be done proportionately to the number of men living' in each unit. _ The award would be handled' by a committee composed of three representatives of the board, two counselor coordinators, and a rep resentative froin the office of the dean of men. The board has set up an exten sive system for awarding - the points, both for individual and group activities, Based on One Sex:neater The only requirement for the' awarding of individual points is residence in the unit to receive the points for the period of one semester: No points would be di vided between units. In" other business, the board will consider a- recommendation barring representatives with an All-University average below 2.00 from, sitting on the board. rgiatt Editorial on Page Four 3 Senior Groups May Obtain LaVie Seniors in the Colleges of Agri culture, Home Economics and Mineral Industries may obtain their copies of LaVie between 8 and 11:45 a.m. and 1 and 4:45 p.m. today in the Hetzel Union card room. Seniors will also vote for one, of five gift suggestions for the $lO,OOO class gift and for students to receive senior honors. Leader Terms Cuts In Budget 'Reckless' HARRISBURG, May 21 (JP)—Gov. George M. Leader to day described Republican budget cutting as "reckless surgery on the bone, muscle and sinew of needed state services." He called Republican plans to slice $94.5 million from his proposed $1,559,000,000 genera action." In a statement the governor cautioned Republicans that "the day of reckoning will come and the people of this Commonwealth will not forget the men of uneasy conscience who were responsible for this irresponsible action." The Republican-c on troll ed Joint Appropriations Committee showed exactly where the ax will fall. Bills carrying out the recom mendations will be submitted to morrow. A record $1,107,000,000 genera! 'appropriations measure is alsc 'ready for consideration. Chairman Norman Wood (R.- 'Lancaster) .of the House Appro priations Committee defended the A Recommendation Is Made See Page 4 But the Associated Press yes terday said Wood's bill is expect ed to be amended to equal the $27.7 million figure. The $27.7 million amount -is the same one recommended by Gov. George M. Leader. It is a flat 10 perfcent increase over the 1955-1956 budget of $25.2 million. The University's fight for larg er budget increases began with Dr. Walker's request to Gov. Leader for $3 million-plus. Gov. Leader told Dr. Walker he could recommend only $27.7 million to 'the Assembly, but that Dr. Walk er ,could appear before the As sembly to, ask for more. Goes Before Assembly Dr. Walker, armed with statis tics showing relatively low fac ulty salaries, went before the As sembly with a request of $35 mil lion-plus, lower than his request to the governor. At that time it seemed as if the Assembly agreed with Dr. Walker that the $27.7 million fi gure was too low, for Wood then proposed his bill calling for 533,849,000. But the GOP's increasingly ac tive "cutting-knife" has sliced in to the budget. The GOP is chopping away at ,many budget requests in an at tempt to balance the $2 billion -Iplus state, budget. Steering Committee to Meet i The Lion party steering com mittee will meet at 7 p.m. tomor row in 214 Hetzel Union. fund budget an "irresponsible ,GOP action in chopping $27 mil lion from the Welfare Depart ment budget. He said that even with lower appropriations the state's mental hospital system would be the "finest . . , anywhere." The governor called the GOP budget slashes "The most shock ing example I have ever seen of being penny-wise and people fool ish?' "The budget I handed to the legislature had no fat in it. I had personally cut 175 millions from he request c'r the various de partments, believing 1 had a duty to the taxpayers of this state to submit an honest recommenda tion of our minimum require ments," he declared. FIVE CENTS
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