&jig / -?1 / 1 T o u rg t att Student Stricken With Pneumonia; Condition 'Critical' .0' 30 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 23. 1957 VOL. 58. N. by Tau Phi De sponsor Imagination Runs In APhio By LYNN WARD Halloween has come early to the campus, or one might think so after viewing last night's Ugly Man parade. Group 'interpretations of the ugliest of the ugly ranged from "take-offs" on the infirmary and the flu epidemic we didn't have, to Moon `Goons and Neolithic Nin nies. The traditional Ugly Man mor bid sense of humor was displayed by several groups as they depict ed bodies going to and frcim the grave. Only 23 of the scheduled 33 Ugly Man competing groups completed the line of march in the parade. At least one fraternity group, Phi Kappa Sigma and Delta Gam rria, did the University a service in their bid - for the Ugly Man title. With a theme, "Sewer Rat," members of the group followed their float with street cleaning Rotation Plan, NSA Opposed By Eng Counci! The Engineering and Architec ture Student Council last night voted unanimously in favor of abolishing the fraternity-indepen dent rotation election system. The Council also voted unani mously for dropping University membership in the National Stu dent Association. • The NSA issue will be brought before All-Vniversity Cabinet to morrow night. . ' Council members said they do not believe benefits derived from NSA justify expenses involved. The councillunanimously passed a revised constitution. • - The scholaitic requirement for membership in the council was raised from a minimum 2.0 All- Univerity average to a minimum 2.2 average. • The revised constitution also Said runners-up in the council elections will fill the vacancies of members. Previously the council decided who would fill vacancies. A report given on the faculty student mixer the council' will sponsor on Nov. 20 said members of the faculty and of the council will perform. skits. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE WED brushes and swept - up Pollock Rd. as they paraded. Pi Kappa Phi hit upon a new angle for ugliness this year, por traying their contestant as "The Prettiest of the Ugly." The independent groups win ning first to fifth places respec tively are Niltany Grotto, Nit tany 28, Nitfany 43, Nillany 2S and Town Independent Men. Fraternities placing first .to fifth in the parade are Sigma Pi. Pi Kappa Phi. Tau Phi Del ta. Phi Sigma Delia and Acacia. Nittany Grotto's Ugly Man was hauled on a boat trailer amid dirt, ropes, picks and other spelunking equipment. In the most somber tones, Nittany 28 participants car ried their "victim" to the•grave. Nittany 43, working with third floor Thompson, sponsored a mean lboking Simon Legree who dragged fair damsels from the spectators to dance with him in the street. With club in hand and foot on a body, Nittany 23's entrant fought his way down the parade route in- a truck. A group of "s t r i c k en" Town Independent Men paraded with a "Look What the Flu Did to Us" theme. Stock Market Falls _ • in 2 Years; Trading Active _ i l NEW YORK, Oct. 22 VP)--' of 60 stocks was at a new 'owl Aircraft and General Motors. t'since Jan. 18, 1955. : But small gains were posted by The stock market dropped to l That average closed at $150.90) such important slacks as Unit its lowest point in more than! off 70 cents. The Dow-Jones in-' ed States Steel and Bethlehem 2 1 /2 years in another hecti c: dustrial index closed at 419.79, off Steel. 3.27. While the market weakened,! Brokerage houses were crowd-; trading session today. its loss was much less than yes-`ed., Prices swayed back and forth , terday's when the AP average; The market recovered a few' throughout the day, brokeragei , tumbled $5.10. Volume for the day totaled cents to around $2 a share in house board rooms were crowded! 5.090.000 shares compared with ;tense, active trading late today. with customers, the ticker tape! 4,670,000 yesterday. This was I After churning about in early ran behind floor transactions and i dealings, the market started to the most active session since i market experts gave varying opin- S ept . 27, 19 55, following Presi- '• right itself. ions on . what would happen next. t dent Eisenhower's heart attack. I Some issues still could not Several large mutual firms. , Volume that day amounted to .make upward progress but enough which command huge resources. 51/ 2 mminn shares. ;showed gains to bring some cheer said they had been buying . One of the most widely held: into the dismayed atmosphere of stocks on a selected basis and stocks was also one of the most Wall Street. one large brokerage house re- !conspicuously weak American! That dismay was based on the ported they were buying orders ;Telephone and Te 1 egra p h. It. fact the market had been drop in the market from big invest- :closed at $160.50, off $3.25 and at!ping sharply since mid-July. Ta ment companies. la new low for the year. day it fell to a new low for 2 1 / 2 Nevertheless, at the end of the' Other stocks going lower in- y ears in the biggest one-day day the Associated Press •averagei cluded Union Carbide. United plunge since Sept. 26. 1955. FIVE CENTS unters on Wild Parade A "Gang-o-Green' men from Sigma Pi marched in laft nights patade covered with vines and supplied with the tin can noise makers. They were followed by a car 'camouflaged with weeds, ivy and vines. Seat ed on top was their Ugly Man. his head hardly discernible from the green mass. Pi Kappa Phi presented their "pretty" Ugly Man on a float of rainbow colors, accompanied by a band. A deformed - looking "groge", stalked by- hunters in a cave scene was Tau Phi Delta and Theta Phi Alpha's entry in the parade. Phi Sigma Delta dragged a mambo scene down the road ac companied by yellow cummer bunded dancers. Acacia and Atherton Hall en tered a huge yellow float depict ing Panni Skull, the •Purple Screw Hat Society. In penny voting on the Mall. ' the following groups are lead- I ing: Independent: Nittany 28, Ham ilton Unit 4, Nittany 31, Nittany 34 and Nittany Grotto. Frater nity: Chi Phi, Tau Phi Delta, Pi Kappa Phi, Phi Sigma Delta and Phi Epsilon Pi. A sophomore was reported in critical condition with pneumonia in Centre County Hospital last night. The student, Charles Hutson, sophomore in geology and minerology, and a transfer student from Clarion State Teach ers College, was taken to the hospital at 11:30 a.m. yesterday after he failed to show any im-, provement at the University Hos-I pital. P one Ban Hutson's case is the first com plication from the respiratory ill-i • nesses—mostly flu— which have: L struck an estimated more than. e ff d For 4000 students within the past, week and one-half. Dr. Herbert H. Glenn, director wH men of the University Health Ser- vice, last night said he believes Hutson is suffering from "in- Telephone service from down town to men's dorm units in West fluenzal pneumonia." He said a number of such cases "are Halls, which has been stopped at bound to occur" in communities .10 p.m. nightly since the begin which have outbreaks of influ- 'ning of the semester, will be open enza. !until midnight within a few days. The change in the West Halls University officials said Hutson' The restrictions was announced was admitted to the Infirmary:yesterday by Robert G. Bern last night after seeking aid at the . reuter, assistant to the President Dispensary. on charge of student affairs. The number of students suffer-I Phone service to Thompson ing from respiratory diseases ap-1 Hall. however, will continue to peared to be continuing to level; be stopped at 10 p.m.. in keep off yesterday. ing with University regulations. Glenn said only 50 remained in The new hours will go into ef the hospital yesterday morning. Ifect as soon as extension numbers of telephones in Thompson Hall He said the Dispensary wasi are "tagged" to separate them "very busy" yesterday but one-!from other West Halls extensions, third to one-half of the students , according to Bernreuter. were only seeking class excuses) Because extension numbers for the time they had been ill. I were distributed at random He said medical service prob- when the new phone system ably would be unnecessary after'l was installed at the beginning today. of the semester, each Thomp- A University check of fraterni- son phone-line will have to be ties showed only 62 bedridden. "lagged" individually so that students . yesterday, compared with: it can be stopped by the oper more than 500 last Thursday. i eters at 10 p.m.. as is specified by women's regulations. Over in residence halls dropped to 16The number of meals served: - ators otherwise could not dts h at noon yestetrday after hitting Z - nguish between men's and women's phones. , a low of 71 at breakfast. The high: : The change was made, Bern was 730 last Thursday. ;renter said, to put phone service Glenn said he believes tvith:to men in West Halls on an equal :good weather and necessary pre- ( basis with other men's dorms, ;cautions - the number of ill stu- i which have phone lines open un (Continued on page two) midnight. Bernreuter said the issue was brought up by complaints try fra ternities that the phone restric tion to men's dorms was detri mental to rushing. They claimed that a great amount of rushing is done by telephone between the hours of 10 p.m. and midnight. George Wills. chairman of the Interfraternity Council Board of Control, complained of the situ ation in a letter President Eric lA. Walker. The IFC filed an of rficial protest against the phone restriction at its meeting Monday night. Froth, Flu Fight For Plague Prize Flu at the University has been about as much as students can take, but a for-real epidemic will invade today—Froth sales- This gruesome bunch of germs will lurk on corners enticing the unwary into buying copies of the ; infamous humor (2) publication! called Froth (known occasionally. as "Slime"). The October issue is on thefekur Russian theme "Hollywood Comes to; %.• Penn State." Its one redeeming! feature is the Froth girl of the Envoys Plan month, Sally Jo Barnes, a mem-; ber of Kappa Alph , Theta. • • But on the whole, perhaps it VISIt to Campus would be better if Froth went l to- Hollywood—and stayed there. : Four - members of the Russian 'Embassy in Washington. D.C., will to Lowest. visit the University this week, according to an announcement by a Soviet counselor in Washington. The ambassadors will visit the campus as part of a motor trip through West Virginia and Penn sylvania. University and borough officials have received no notification of the Russian visit. The tour was announced by Vladimir Lavrov in a letter to the Cumberland, Md., News. Lavrov said the purpose of the trip is "to familiarize ourselves with the life of the American peo ple, with their achievements and expectations." The Soviet counselor said "we would consider it our pleasant duty to answer the questions which might be put to us with re gard to our country." Lavrov said he would be accom panied by Anatoli M. Goryachev and Sergei A. Bogomolev, both second secretaries, and Valerian V. Mikhaitiv, third secretary. Other cities which will be in zluded in the itinerary are Shar on,. Altoona and Williamsport in ?ennsylvania and Parkensburg. Vlorgantown and Clarksburg itt West Virginia.
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