Today's Forecast: j Cool and Partly Cloudy VOL 58. No. 109 —Collegian photo by George Harrison INTERSECTION ACCIDENT—Involved in a collision about 5 p.m. yesterday at Entrance Road and College Avenue were a car (left) driven by George Flanin, sophomore in hotel administration from Tenafly, N.J., and a car driven by Robert Light, instructor in the mechanical engineering department. An investigation of the acci dent is being conducted. Senate Scheduled to Get Calendar Change Surveys Results of two surveys on student and faculty reaction to possible alternative calendar systems are being readied for presentation to the University Senate. . Peter - Fishburn, student representative on the Senate Calendar Committee, said, yesterday his survey on student AIM Board To Elect , Officers The Association of Independent Men Board of Governors will hold final nominations and elections of officers at-7 tonight in 203 Hetzel Union. Edward Frymoyer, junior in en gineering science from Sunbury, and James Wambold, junior in mechanical engineering from Al lentown, are the two nominees for AIM president. ■ Donald Funk, junior in indus trial engineering from Kimberton, is'a candidate for'AIM secretary. J' These candidates were nomi nated at •the last Board of Gov ernors meeting. Nominations may be made tonight for the above two offices and the positions of vice president and- treasurer. : John. Morgan, - AIM president, lias asked that all candidates bring copies of their transcripts to tonight’s meeting to certify their eligibility to hold office. . Persons who will act as alter nates for regular board members tonight must also present copies of their transcripts before they may. vote. .‘.Louis Wonderly, AIM secretary, said' the, alternates’ transcripts will be checked for eligibility to •vote'. “Last year,” he said, “.we had trouble with illegal voting” so" transcripts are • requested this year. Board members and alter nates must have a 2.4] All-Univer sity average according to the AIM constitution. I ' The board also wilj request made at the 1; for an ' additional 'sl| delegates to the Nat Student 'Asso vention in Oklahoma of . this month, $3OO for the convention AIM budget. Slltr Sathj|i| (EoU l reaction is almost complete. ' The faculty counterpart, con ducted by Professor of Physical Education Fred Coombs, is also in the final stages. Coombs said a mistake in compiling figures is in the process of being corrected. The surveys will cover three possible alternatives to the pre sent calendar system: trimester, quarter sessions, and extended summer sessions. _ The alternatives are being con sidered as possible solutions to overcrowding which' would be caused by predicted future en rollment increases. According to Fishbum and Coombs, the surveys are at- . tempting to discern whether the alternative systems would af fect summer employment, would prove popular with stu dents and faculty, and which system would be preferred. T raffic To Six The number of traffic vio lations which would make a student subject to dismissal has been upped from five to six in a new recommendation by a student-administration com mittee. The recommendation, which will go before All-University Cabinet, also asks that a student’s car he sent home and his campus driving privileges be suspended, after the fifth violation, for 16 weeks or the rest of the aca demic'year, whichever is-longer. 1 vote on a ast meeting {OO to send ional Inde xation con at the end is provided rip in the The change in the driver ex pulsion. clause in the new park ing recommendations was made • after Cabinet strongly opposed ,lhe original five-violation plan. Another change in the original recommendation made by the FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 19. 1958 Eisenhower Pledges Tax Cut If Needed WASHINGTON (/P) —President Dwight D. Eisenhower yesterday pledged that his ad ministration will do everything needed, including the cutting of taxes, if that should prove desirable and necessary to halt the recession. Eisenhower made these declarations in a speech to a national meeting of Republican women. Earlier, Sen. William Knowland (R.-Calif.) said it might well be two months before Phillips Gets LA Council Presidency Louis Phillips, junior in arts' and letters from Clairton, last night was elected president of the Liberal Arts Student Council without opposition. David Epstein, sophomore in arts and letters from Scranton, defeated Leonard Julius, sopho more in journalism from West Palm Beach, Fla., for the vice presidency. Patricia O’Neill, junior in journalism from Staten Island, N.Y., was elected recording sec retary. She also was unopposed. Joyce Basch, sophomore in arts and letters from Scranton -won the office of corresponding secre tary oyer Judith Stock, sopho more in arts and letters from Pittsburgh, and Rachel-. .Waters, junior in arts and Tetters from Wilmington, Del. William Jaffe, sophomore ini journalism from Philipsburg was elected treasurer. He defeated Richard Friedman, junior in arts and letters from Harrisburg. Robert Nurock, outgoing presi dent, told the council he hoped they would continue to encour age critical thought in student government and bring the student back to student government. He complimented the '' council for “having done a lot that coun cils in the past had not done.” Nurock singled out such accom plishments as the Liberal Arts orientation program, the faculty evaluation committee, the career day program, the ROTC recom mendation and the two scholar ships set up. by the council, and complimented the members who had been in charge of them. Phillips said he hopes next year’s council can gain the es teem that this year’s council has. BusAd Council Blanks Self-nomination blanks for the Business Administration Student Council will be available until Friday in 120 Boucke. Applicants must have a mini- < mum 2.2 All-University average. Violations Limit Upped Under New Proposal committee calls for the money from traffic court fines to be channeled into the Cabinet schol arship fund. This is where the money, goes under the present system, but the recommendation as o r i g i nally presented to Cabinet asked that the proceeds be split up between the scholarship fund, a social rec reation fund and a fund'-for. im provements to parking areas.’ A third point which was op posed by Cabinet—a plan to assess a charge of $1.50 to stu dents whose contested viola tions are sustained —.was left unchanged by the committee. Elwood F. Olver, director of the Department of Security - and a member of the committee—said in . explaining the G-violation clause that after five traffic vio lations a student would be sub-, Mtatt the administration makes a deci-, sion on cutting taxes. Last week A _ • the word was that it might come Tlftn in one month. V/l I Eisenhower, in promising any j Pfc • I I I necessary action, said he was |— 11 Sift I fin opposed to slow-moving proj- |" 8 1 * ■—iJl IU eels designed jusi lo make ; • “The hardships to individuals j VrfO ll 1111 U6S and their families of a temporary _ [downturn in employment are bad'.. Proceedings on the condemna enough,” he said t!on actlon against the property "But this administration is Ph ?W f T could actually make those hard- St ?Jf College Parking Authority, ships not temporary but chron- . authority, at its last meet ic." in £» signed a petition to the Cen- Knowland. Republican leader of LSStSi&yi! l * the Senate, gave his estimate after e j?<P t 0 eya i ua te qtSet he and other GOP congressional *SL ‘°'f b a ' e p % e r , Street leaders' had talked with Eisen- by R Genteel. . hower at the Wh. : te House about D , ! s m °ve was taken under the tax cut pos s i bilities, and the “ ar * {in s Authority Law of Penn chance that other measures might sylvania and follows Gentzel’s re whip the economic slump by ai ? °^ er ft $95,000. themselves. then tendered par? w h h o a T r he di Sued 'the Re° damages'broulhfabout economy. Since no answer has been re- “We believe that the govern- ceived from Gentzel as to whe ment has a never-ending respon- ther he is accepting the bond, the sibUity to keep abreast of the court is being asked to appoint [facts of economic activity, and to the board—made up of realtors— be prepared, whenever an eco- to appraise the property’s fair Inomic downturn occurs, to do value. Following the appraisal whatever it can to help bring Genzel may appeal it and if an about a healthy increase in em- agreement is not then reached a ployment and business activity,” i final court decision is required! he said. ! The condemnation action is "Bui another pari of the same ! taken under the right of eminent principle also holds ihai the | domain, which says any state or real mainspring of our kind of imunicipality may take over pri economy is not government, but ! vate property for public use, if a the built-in thrust and vigor of treasonable consideration is given privale enterprise." I the ownn. Eisenhower listed a variety ofL - ”^h e A.'hiority said it is con actions the government has -al-. T lnu iT* negotiations for the Cen ready undertaken. ;tT e County Film Lab’property on jszzjzsi Si homS 1111316 PriVale demand for Slo o nfeet! ° . . and the Film Lab site adds 50 Next was his plan for a tem- feet in the front and 24 feet in the porary extension of Unemploy- rear. Since the Authority has merit Compensation benefits, on drawn up tentative plans' for a which he will confer with a com- rectangular lot, only a part of mittee of governors Wednesday.- this oropertv could be used, it ‘We must move with speed,” he was reported, said, “since this plan bears di- rectly on the immediate persona] well-being and personal dignity of thousands of American fami lies.” ject for dismissal if he is found! to have his car on campus or is! found driving on campus, whe ther his car or someone else’s. The committee which drew up the original recommendations, consisted of four administration members and All-University President Robert Steele. After three of the recommen dations were opposed by Cabi net. they were sent back to the committee with the help of a newly appointed student group —Edward Dubbs, editor of the Daily Collegian: Thomas Hol lander. senior class president, and Owen Proctor, traffic court chairman. The revised recommendations will go back to Cabinet for ap proval, although Steele did not specify when they would be brought up. Button-Downs and Coatees See Page 4 FIVE CENTS Lion Predicis Co/d, Clouds Fourteen students were quaran tined for measles last week at the infirm ary « i iwhile another 'sufferer th e '“*** jNittany Lion— ichanged his spots. I The Lion, now [fuily recovered, jh a s decided to |return to his (weather fore casting w'o rk— !but not to cam |ous. His telegra phic report today calls for partly cloudy skies and temperatures at a highof 35 to 40 degrees. The Lion awaits the Lamb be fore returning. 'ls Philosophy a Game' To Be Phil Club Topic The Philosophy Club will meet at 8 tonight in 209 Hetzcl Union to hear Dr. Henry W. Johnstone, associate professor of philosophy speak on “Is Philosophy a Game?" ’.efreshments will be served in' the second floor lounge following : the meeting, which is open to the public.
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