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VOL 58. No- 96
Trip Refund
Turned Over
By Steele
All - University President
Robert Steele yesterday re-;
funded $22.84 of the $l5O al-'
lotted for a trip to New York
City to deliver a check to
Larry Sharp.
. Steele made the refund when
he submitted the expense ac
count for the trip for the first
time yesterday—more than two
months after he made the trip
with another student of his own
choosing. The junket, which in
cluded two nights in New York
City, was made during the Christ
mas recess.
Steele told The Daily Colle
gian yesterday there was "no
particular reason" for the two
month delay in handing in the
expense account to the Asso
ciated Student Activities office.
*T just neglected to do it."
Steele-said.
George L. Donovan, director of
Associated Student Activities
when Steele made the trip, said
it is “not unusual” for delays in
handing in expense accounts to
his office.
The trip, financed from student
funds, was authorized by Dono
van, Steele and AllrUniversity
Secretary-Treasurer Joseph Boeh
ret. They allotted $l5O for the
trip and authorized Steele to take
another student of his choosing
with him, Donovan said. x
The student selected by Steele
was, Robert Yeager, senior in
metallurgy from Bellefonte.
Total expenses for the two.
as submitted by Steele, was
$127.16. Steele, upon question
ing from the floor of Cabinet
- Thursday night, said the trip
cost "about $150."
Included in the expenses listed
by Steele was $42.00 for meals.
Both Steele and Yeager ate two
$5 dinners, three $3 lunches and
two $1 breakfasts. Hotel costs for
two nights was listed at $20.36,
tips at $B, taxi fares in city at
$9, services for a typist, $l, and
total transportation costs at $46.30
including transportation to and
from airport).
Steele said he and Yeager drove
to New York City with W. A.
Kelley, a member of the Presi
dent’s staff. They returned by
plane.
Steele said they left State
College the morning of Sunday,
(Continued on page eight)
Ticket Handouts
Begin Monday
Students may obtain tickets for
fhe Dublin Players, the twelfth
number on the Artists’ Series,
beginning at 1 p.mr. Monday at
the Hetzel Union desk.
Student distribution will con
tinue through Tuesday and be
renewed again on Friday if any
tickets remain after the sale to
non-students on Wednesday and
Thursday.
The Dublin Players will pre
sent “Juno and the Paycock” at
8:30 p.m. Saturday in Schwab
Auditorium.
The group was organized by
Bonald Ibbs as the Ronald Ibbs
Co. in 1947 to tour Ireland and
play an annual Dublin season.
The company was an immediate
success and in 1951-52 made its
first tour of the United States.
Since that time, the Dublin Play
ers have made annual tours to
this country.
SPORTS SPECIAL SUNDAY
The Daily Collegian Sports
Staff will publish a special
4-page edifion tomorrow. The
Sports Special will cover all
three meets with Pitt gym
nastics, wrestling, and basket
ball— the IC4-A's, and the
WHA Sports Day.'
Ullj? Daily fl| ffloll
STATE COLLEGE, PA.. SATURDAY ALORNING. MARCH 1. 1953
; Discussing the experimental
scheduling of two course sections
at noon this semester, Dennis
said there is no way of telling
whether they have been success
ful this early in the semester, but
because of lack of space, the Uni
versity would have to schedule
many more noon classes in the
near future.
I Dennis said there were a couple
jof mix-ups at registration and a
few students were permitted to
; schedule classes at 11 and one in
'addition to their noon classes.
iHowever, special arrangements
iare being made for these students,
jhe said.
The noon class experiment
| was devised in an effort to bet
ter utilize existing classroom
space at the University. Since
the University won't be able to
expand in proportion to expect
ed enrollment jumps. Dennis
said, existing space would have
to be used more efficiently.
Sometime this spring, he said,,
1 the University will conduct a!
A motion to seek open Board of Trustees meetings has space . utilization survey to find
, . ~ • „ ... , ° out just how much classroom
been postponed by All-University Cabinet. j space is being wasted during a
Carroll McDonnell Jr., president of the Chemistry and; scl l 001 da l'- ..... , ,
. „ , „ . . i Surveys of this type have been
Physics Student Council, asked Cabinet to request opening, conducted in individual buildings,
the Trustee meetings because, he said, the University is a ihe and varying degrees of
° J waste space were found. The Uni
versity-wide survey should be
[completed during the summer.
' _ Dennis explained that some
idle classroom space must be
expected in any building, since
some rooms are too small for
many classes. In addition, a
seminar-type class cannot be
; put in a laboratory, and many
i laboratories are idle for certain
| periods of the day while equip
! ment is either being set up or
taken down.
The lack of large classrooms
_ . . I able to hold 100 or more students
Drive lOr Books is a problem at the Univer
sity, he added.
Will Close Toaav , Howev f' problen ? of lar ? e
"" v w w / clases and seminars are being tak-
Today is the final day to donatejen into consideration in plans for
books to the library at St. Fran-inew buildings, which will have
cis College of Loretto. jmore large classrooms and more
Books may be brought to the i seminar rooms. Dennis said.
Hetzel Union Card Room or 2-F‘ , —— ,
Boucke. ;Marsh Lectures Monday
To date approximately 2000! Charles R. Marsh, associate pro-j
books have been collected andj fessor of electrical engineering
Wesley Bergey, drive chairman, will speak on “Turnpike Fog
expects to top the 3000 mark by. Problems” at the Faculty Lunch
-15 p.m., when the drive ends. jeon Club at noon Monday in
I The books will be taken to St.jdining room Aof the Hetzel Un-
Francis tonight. ‘ion Building.
—D&ily ColUgUn photo by Joe Patton
STEEL FRAMEWORK stands idle on the new addition to the
Foods Service Building adjacent to the University golf course.
Workmen will renew their efforts on the project after spring
weather brings an end to snow, rain and mud.
Open Meeting Move
Tabled by Cabinet
public institution.
Thomas Hollander, senior class
president, asked for postpone
ment, calling- attention to the
“taint” which he said could be
inferred by Cabinet’s making
such a request.
Edward Dubbs, editor The
Daily Collegian, held postpone
ment to be unnecessary. He said
Cabinet can certainly vote for
such a request if one house of
the legislature could.
He said a bill to open the meet
ings were approved by the Sen
ate but got “cubbyholed” in the
House.
He also said there was no
question of "taint." No one sus
pects trickery, he said; it is just
the fact of opening the meet
ings of the trustees of a public
institution that is in question.
A request for an extra $2OOO
for Spring Week was considered
I by Cabinet and the final vote
will be taken next week.
James Jimirro, Spring Week
chairman, told Cabinet mem
bers he favors an outright grant
rather than a loan of $2OOO. He
said granling a loan would only
Campus,
Schedule
The wheels in the campus
political machines are begin
ning to turn, with both Cam
pus and University parties
meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow
for preliminary nominations
of candidates.
Campus will meet in 10 Sparks
and University in 121 Sparks. The
nominations will be for spring]
election slates of candidates for
All-University and senior and
junior class officers. Registration
of'party members will be held
before the meetings. I
Ten internal posts will be filled
by Campus party: four senior,
four junior and two sophomore
clique offices. The party’s steer
ing committee will meet at 2 p.m.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
mean that next year's commit
tee would also have to seek
funds, whereas a grant would
"put Spring Week on its feet."
Jimirro said he expects this
year’s Spring Week to be a mon
ey-maker.
Begun in 1954, Spring Week
lost money only last year. Most
of that $2OOO loss will be made
up, Jimirro said, in a reduced ap
propriation for Awards Night
University Parties
Spring Nominations
tomorrow in 217 Hetzel Union ty chairman, said he is in favor
to hear committee reports and 0 f the “gentleman’s agreement”!
discuss the spring campaign. ;way of enforcing the Elections
Bernard Magdovitz, CampusCode.He said
*** » parties are
gentlemans code sjstem pro- j interested in good student gov
posed by Elections Committee to 1 . Al„ UTi, ““u-ij
give the parties more responsi- '
bility in maintaining “clean”■
pWtinn® 6 i I think the parlies should co
"Tt*. "a, " i operate with—not buck—the
Magdovit* said. It puls a polili- I io “ c ° mmitlBe *
cal party on its honor# I know 1 ** this pten is successful, L
I Campus party will abide by the j think we can look for a gradual!
rules, and I hope University ■ lifting of all restrictions.”
party will do the same." Final nominations and election
University party’s agenda for, of candidates will be held at next
tomorrow night includes estab-;week’s party meetings. The Elec
lishing permanent committees..tions Committee will review plat-
The executive committee will, forms March 12, and again on
meet at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in 203,March 16. Campaigning will run
Willard to discuss potential candi-! from March 17 to March 24, and!
dates. ;the elections will be held March!
John D’Angelo, University par- 25, 26 and 27. 1
man
Noon Class Use
To Be Expanded
Due to the predicted enrollment increase, the University
will probably be forced to schedule many more noon classes
within the next three or four years.
That's the opinion of Larry Dennis, vice president in
charge of academic affairs, who said there was a possibility
that the University will also
schedule night classes and 5 o’-
clock classes.
Big Weekend
In Big Town
See Page 4
FCC Head
May Resign
From Post
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 <VP>—
Richard A. Mack cracked under
a torrent of reproach from House
investigators today, and promised
he will most seriously consider
resigning from the Federal Com
munications Commission.
Obviously dazed. Mack wa a
excused from the witness stand
; after Chairman (D.-Ark.)
■of the House subcommittee on
] Legislative Oversight pictured
■ him as the tool of a deliberate
conspiracy engineered by Mack’s
iwealthy friend, Thurman A.
! Whiteside.
Mack listened, motionless,
hands cupped before his face, as
Harris and Rep. Moss (D.-Calif.)
told him the best thing he could
ido was quit.
i Finally the 48-year-old Mack
.told Harris: "I certainly will most
seriously consider your remarks.'*
j He then asked, midway in his
testimony, to be excused until
sometime next week. The investi
gating group readily granted his
request, asking him to come back
next Wednesday. Mack left the
hearing room with an almost
trancelike bearing.
It was a dramatic climax to an
investigation which has resolved
around FCC’s 1957 award of Mi
ami’s TV Channel 10 to a National
Airlines subsidiary in preference
to three other applicants.
Mack voted for National He has
acknowledged receiving thous
ands of dollars in loans from
Whiteside and in advances from
business holdings given him out
right by Whiteside. Rep. Wolver
ton (R.-N.J.) pictured Whiteside
as a money manipulator in the
class of the swindler ■ Charles
Ponzi.
James C. Hagerty, White House
press secretary, declined com
ment on these demands. In re
sponse to questions, Hagerty said
Mack had not resigned. Hagerty
also said this is "not on my dock
et” for discussion with Eisenhow
er later in the day at Walter Reed
Hospital, where the President is
awaiting a physical checkup.
Kerstetter Gets
indefinite Term
Centre County Judge R. Paul
Campbell yesterday sentenced
Elizabeth Ann Kerstetter, State
College, to an “indeterminate
term” in the Pennsylvania In
dustrial Home at Muncy.
Sentence was suspended on ft
jsecond count, concealing the death
of a baby child. Miss Kerstetter
was found giulty of voluntary
manslaughter in the death of her
child, Oct. 2, 1957.
She was indicted by the Com
monwealth on a charge of mur
der but after a 3-day trial, the
jury returned a verdict of volun
tary manslaughter.
TIM, WDFM to Sponsor
HUB Record Hop Today
Town Independent Men and
WDFM will co-sponsor a record
hop from 2 to 4:30 p.m. today in
the Hetzel Union ballroom.
J The disc jockey for the dance
I will be Robert Zimmerman, a
; WDFM staff member. Record hops
[ will be held every Saturday afte'r
nooa throughout the semester.
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