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VOL. 58. No. 32 STATE COLLEGE, PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 25. 1957 FIVE CENTS
NSA Dropped; Cabinet
Refuses Further Study
All-University Cabinet last night voted not to join the National Student Association
and defeated a motion for further study of the question.
In defeating the motion for further study members said they believe any future action
on the question should come through student enthusiasm and be initiated by independently
working students.
Robert Nurock
Asked NSA Study
11 'Ugly Men to Vie for Title
Tonight in APhio Contest Finals
By LYNN WARD
Eleven students, disguised
as the ugliest creatures on
campus, will summon up all
the gore and horror they can
to compete in the Ugly Man
Contest skits at 7:30 tonight
in Schwab Auditorium. • -
The 11 contestants - reached the
final event in the Ugly Man Con
test through points won yin the
Ugly Man parade and penny vot
ing on the Mall. -
Approximately $6OO was col
lectod -at the Mall voting booth
over- a three-day period, accord
ing to Frank Saurman, contest
co-chairman.
The five independent "uglies"
LA Faculty Approves
Student Honors Program
The College of the Liberal Arts faculty yesterday ap
proved the report of a committee setting up an Honors Pro
gram to "provide a new academic dimension for superior
students."
- The committee was set up last semester in keeping with
proposals made by the Middle Atlantic States accreditation
report and by the Senate Com
mittee on the Superior Student.
The purpose- of the committee
;was to try to find a way to up
grade the quality of work of su
perior students because "many
students feel .they are not suffi
ciently challenged, that class work
is not sufficiently high enough for
them."
Members of the committee are
Dr. Deborah S. Austin, assistant
professor of English literature,
chairman; Dr.. Raymond D. Ay
oub, associate professor of math
ematics; Dr. Neal I - 'ewer, assn-
elate -professor of political sci
ence;,and Dr. John E Pixton, as-
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
By DAVE FINEMAN
t of the Liberal Arts Student Council, moved for further study
of the question of NSA at the;,_....•.,....
University, saying Cabinet should
set down once and for all the ROLL CALL VOTE
answer to the question: "How does •Motion to drop membership in
NSA fit into student government the National Student Association.
•Motion to create Cabinet coni
here and will it work at the Uni- mine* to further study NSA
versity?"
• ,
The vote on NSA membership
was taken after the reports by
four delegates sent by Cabinet to si"
the NSA national Congress this
summer.
In its written report the dele
gation recommended discontinu
ance of membership for four rea
sons
•Disappointing past experience
without a forseeable improvement -{
in this situation.
•Constant criticism of NSA.
•NSA's inability to meet ex
pressed desires of student govern
ment here. These desires—tang
ible campus effects in the area ;-
of student material welfare—were
.I
felt to be subordinate to NSA's .4
orientation to national, int e r
= national and educational affairs.
•Inability to justify member
(Continued on page eight)
and their sponsoring organiza
tions are William Bennett. Nit
tany Grotto; Paul Craska, Nit
tany 43; David Rush. Nittany 28.
David Koncsics, Nittany 23; and
Charles Wilson, Hamilton Unit
4.
The six fraternity finalists
and spon soring organizations
are George Vince, Chi Phi; Ri
chard Spilka. Phi Kappa Sigma:
Jack. Halpern, Phi Sigma Delta;
Ronald Rainey, Pi Kappa Phi;
John Whittle, Sigma Pi; and
George Schmid, Tau Phi Delta.
Alpha Phi Omega, men's na
tional service fraternity sponsor
ing
. the contest, originally an
inounced that five fraternities
;would- be - eligible for the final
iskits. The additional group was
sistant professor of history.
The following report recom
mendations were approved:
•The immediate establishment
by the Liberal Arts Planning
Committee of a standing honors
committee responsible for approv
ing honors programs submitted by
the individual departments; main
taining a comparable standard of
excellence in all, honors work
done in- the' individual depart
ments. .
.The _committee will' also -be
responsible - for filing - an - . annual
report with Dean. Ben Euwenia
(Continued on page eight)
n County Hospital
(initrgiatt
Position
Rhodes AU-U VP Yes No
Roehret AU-U S-T Yes No
Hart IFC Yes No
Smith. S. WSGA Yes -Yea
Antes
Antes Panbel Yes No *,:l1
Jablonski Leonides Yee Yes
Hollander Sr. Class - Yea No
Sellers Jr. Class Yes No ..
Sopko Soph Class No Yes
Smith, G. Frosh Class Yes NO .„
Beatty AS Yes No
Walker BusAd Yea Yes
McDonnell Chem-Phis No Yes
Poynter Ed Yes No '72
•Stroup
Moran
Nurock
Stratton MI
Ruslavage PhYsEd Yes No
Dubbs Collegian Yes Yes -...
Fridy Drama Yes No '-:
Johnston AA Yes No
Drumm WRA No Yes
TOTALS
'alternate
added because two fraternities,
Chi Phi and Phi Kappa Sigma,
tied for first plate.
Contestants will be limited to
six minutes for each skit. They
will be judged on the basis of
presentation of theme, original
ity, organization, participation.
quality of taste and enunciation.
Judges for tonight's contest are
Capt. Gordon Brighan, adviser
to APhiO and assistant professor
of air science; Dr. Robert S. Bru
.l) a k er, , assistant professor of
speech; Dr. Paul D. Holtzman, as
sociate professor of speech; War
ren S. Smth, associate professor
of theatre arts.
Robert D. Reifsneider, associate
professor of theater arts; Stuart
H. Frost, instructor in art; and
Theodore D. Richards, assistant
professor of agricultural exten
sion.
Clouds, Wind
Predicted Today
A series of growling roar s'
emerged from the den of the Nit-:
tany Lion.
"Eureka!" he cried. "I have seen
the light. There will be no - weath-'
er tomorrow, nor the day after
tomorrow, no r
any da y after
that."
The lion salt
he will begin a
series of experi•
ments to find ;
replacement fo;
weather.
The king of tin
Nittany Valle
beasts did haNie
a few words of
wisdom to im
part—his last proclamation. "To-.
day's weather," he said yesterday,'
"was cooler, windy and rainy."
The University weather station;
is confident that weather will]
continue. Today's will be cloudy.l
windy and cool, with a high of 50'
to 55 degrees.
For. ,•
Drop ther
NSA Study
o=?=
Eng-A rch Yes Yes
NomeEe Yes No
LA Yes Yes
Yes No
21-3 9-15
MIME
Pneumonia, Toxic Anemia
Cause Student's Death
Charles Hutson, who was a sophomore in geology and
mineralogy from New Bethlehem, died in Centre County
Hospital, Bellefonte, at 1:30 p.m, yesterday from pneumonia
complicated by toxic anemia.
Hutson had been in the Centre County Hospital since
Tuesday. He was taken there from
the University Health Center Stud ents
the
he had been since Monday
evening.
Donald Berilla, senior in elec-f • •
trical engineering from McKeeslß
Rocks, who was Hutson's room.; emain Sick
mate at Sigma Tau Gamma fra-1
ternity. said Hutson became very: •
ill on Monday and went to a doc- , ltor in State College. n Hospital
The doctor, whose name Berilla'
did not know, gave Hutson medi-: Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, director
cation and told him to remain in: of the University Health Center.
bed-; said campus health conditions con-
But ; when Hutson took a turn ,tinue to improve with only 57
for the worse around dinner :students in the infirmary as of
time that day, Berilla and sev- :yesterday afternoon.
eral other members of Sigma The pressure on the dispensary.
Tau Gamma fraternity took the IGlenn added, "is growing less
patient to the infirmary where !every day."
he was immediately put to bed. Only 88 students had box lunch-
His condition became so bad:es in their rooms yesterday, corn
overnight that he was transferred' pared with 11l the day before
to the hospital in Bellefonte at...3nd last Thursday's high of more
11:30 a.m. Tuesday. than 700. A total of 43 had break-
He was treated there by Dr. ‘ fast in their rcums yesterday.
Bernice E. Durgin of Bellefonte. compared with 59 the day before.
Dr. Durgin described the causei About 18 students were dis
of his death as pneumonia compli-!charged from the infirmary yes
' cated by toxic anemia. She said terday afternoon. During the early
toxic anemia is a condition in: part of the afternoon there had
which the patient's blood loses a' been 70 students in the infirmary.
good deal of its white corpuscles,! Not only are the illnesses fewer
rendering the body ineffective in.in number, Glenn said, but they
1 its fight against pneumonia virus.' are much less severe. If the situ-
He was given a blood transfusion:ation continues to improve, swim
yesterday morning. !ming classes may be resumed on
Hutson's parents. Mr. and 'Monday.
Mrs. Lyle Hutson, 409 Keck Reserve Officers Training
Ave.. New Bethlehem, were ;Corps common hours were sched
with their son from the time he !uled to be resumed yesterday.
was taken to the Centre County i Only the rain prevented their
Hospital. . being held.
It was expected they would ! In spite of the improvement in
tike his body back to New Beth- :campus health, Glenn cautioned
lehem yesterday or today. No students to observe all the neces
funeral arrangements had been ,sary precautions during wet
made by last night.- :weather in order to avoid a new
Hutson transferred to the Uni- ; outbreak. He said dry clothing,
versity this semester from Clarion!sensible eating and adequate sleep
State Teachers College. He was rt
are essential for the duration of
member of Sigma Tau Gamma. this illness,
I fraternity there and was activated'
;in the University's chapter this
1 semester.
' He would have been 19 years
old Dec. 10
Club Will Present
!Talk on Bromfield
Dr. Monison Brown, a former
Tomorrow's Game ( graduate student of the Univers
: ity, will speak on novelist Louis
To Be Televised i ßromfield at a meeting of the
jßelles Lettres Club at 7:30 p.m.
Tomorrow's Penn State-Syra- ITuesday in Simmons Lounge.
cuse football game will be i Dr. Brown, who teaches at Indi
broadcast over the NBC East- !ana State Teachers College, knew
ern regional television hook-up. :Brpmfield petsonally. He will ii-
The broadcast will begin at : lustrate his talk with pictures
1:15 with a warm-up program, !of Itflelabar experimental farm in
and the game will begin at 1:30. 'Ohio. important in the growth of
The broadcast can be watched Bromfield's reputation.
locally over Channel 6, Johns- The meeting is open to the pub
town. lie.
AFL-CIO Suspends
Teamsters Union
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 M—The AFL-CIO Executive
Couticil today suspended the Teamsters Union until James R.
Hoffa and other allegedly corrupt officials are ousted from
the truckers union.
The suspension was announced by AFL-CIO President
George Meany who said the Team-I
sters, largest AFL-CIO unit, had:headed by Sen. McClellan (D
-failed to rid itself of corruption. !Ark), Meany replied with a flat
Meany said the vote for sus-?"No."
pension was 25-4. He declined tol Meany said the suspension ac
name the dissenters. j dons means that the 11-million-
However, it was learned those man teamsters organization can
voting against suspending the not be accepted back in good
Teamsters were council membersistanding in the parent federation
John F. English, secreti,ry-treas-i unless it completely boots out
urer of the Teamsters; Maurice;Teamsters President-elect James
Hutcheson. Carpenters Union, R. Hoffa.
president; Herman Winters, for-: Meany and the council ruled
mer Bakery Workers president, l that unless the Teamsters prompt
and William Doherty, Letter Car-fly consent to ousting Hoffa and
riers Union president. Doherty , meet other cleanup conditions,
was reported to have 10 votes incomplete expulsion of the union
order to block the -required two-; from AFL-CIO ranks will be rec
thirds vote for suspension by thelommended to the AFL-CIO con
-29-man council. I,vention in December.
Asked whether the Teamsters! Meany also said such other new
had done anything at all to cor-ily elected Teamsters officials, as
rect widespread corrupt condH Owen (Bert) Brennan, Detroit,
Lions, as previously charged by;and John O'Rourke, New York.
the AFL-CIO and the Senatef should stand a rigid Teamsters
Rackets Investigating Conurrittee,Unioa investigation.