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VOL. 58. No. 139
IFC Board
Issues DID
Reprimand
By BILL JAFrE
The Interfraternity Council
Board of ,Control last . night
issued a letter of reprimand to
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity for
not exercising adequate super
vision in the weekend "steam-
George Wills,
board, said.
shovel" inciden
chairman of th
'arned the frat
•oper respect to
e officers, and
and intends to
ith local police
1 s.
The Board also
ernities to give p
investigating poll
Wills said the B
cooperate fully v
on fraternity affa:
"The tone of Parties over the
weekend was unuhually noisy and
the board will clamp down on
parties being held not in the frat
ernity house proper," Wills said.
_ _
The Board heard Sgt. William
Seckinger of the State College
police testify that the members
of the Delta Tau Delta frater
nity were using abusive lan
guage in front of a police officer
and disturbing neighbors.
Seckinger said the weekend was
one of the noisiest in a number of
years and numerous complaints
of excessive noise were called
to the attention of the police.
Richard Wilson, house president,
testified as to the fraternity's
party plans on Saturday and ex
plained the sequence of events
which led up to the time he was
awakened by Sgt. Seckinger at
5 a.m. Sunday.
James Greeves, sophomore In
metallurgy fr o m Washington
and a member of the fraternity.
testified as to his part in the
malicious mischief charge filed
by local police.
Greeves along with lames H.
Allen Jr., sophomore in chemical
engineering from Merion, and two
guests at the fraternity from Nar
beth, were fined $61.50 apiece by
Justice of the Peace Guy G. Mills.
They were bound over to the
Centre County jail for operating
a steam shovel early Sunday
morning and later posted bond for
their release.
Tribunal Asks
Pro Till '59
For Junior
William Kern, 22, junior in
civil engineering from Slating
ton, has been recomrnended by
Tribunal for disciplinary' pro
bation until June, 1959, for dri
ving while under the influence
of alcohol.
The Senate subcommittee on
discipline will consider the rec
ommendation today .
Kern was first arrested April 19
and detained overnight in Belle
fonte for violating a borough
ordnance prohibiting drinking
in public. He and a friend were
fined $lO and $7.75 costs each for
disorderly. conduct.
Kern was arrested the next
night in State College fm• driving
while under the influence of
alcohol. He was fined $lOO, had
his driver's
was
revoLed for
a year and was placed on proba
tion for two years.
Tribunal recommended discip
linary probation until the end of
the fall semester for a sophomore
in business administration for
using an excuse form he - round iii
a waste basket to try to be ex
cused from a bluebook.
Insurance Club Banquet
William Elliott, chairman of the
board of the Philadelphia Life In
surance Co., will speak at the an
nual banquet of the Penn State
Insurance Club at 6:30, tonight at
the Eutaw House, Potters Mills,
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—Daily Collegian Photo by Ron Kerr
ALL FOR PENN STATE stand up and Holler—Ruth Noble, Sue
First, Marge Wardon and Dave Ellis are trying out for the new
cheerleading squad at Recreation Hall, since regular tryouts,
scheduled to be held in front of Old Main, were rained out.
Alumni Drive Opens
To Pledge Seniors
Editorial on Page Four
An all-Out drive to pledge graduating seniors to join the
.umni Fund will be conducted
Alumni Association and the A
next week.
Final plans for an Alumn
the first time this year, will
at 8 tonight in the Hotel State
College.
Using "Take Penn State With
You A f ter Graduation" as its
theme, the week-long drive will
use both mail and personal con
tact to obtain pledges to join the
Alumni Association and to contri
bute to the Alumni Fund after
graduation.
The project is headed by Thom
as Hollander, senior class past
president.
The personal contacts will be
made late next week by class
agents, who were chosen by a
committee headed by Suzanne
Smith, former Women's Student
Government Association presi
dent.
Approximately 125 class agents
have been invited to attend the
kick-off meeting tomorrow night.
There is one agent ,for every 10
to 15 members of the class.
Thd agents, which form the
"grassroots" of the class structure,
usually are named after gradua
tion. This marks the first- attempt
to set up the class structure before
graduation.
, A college coordinator will
May Day Rescheduled for Rec Hall
The Women's Student Gov
ernment Association House of
Representatives voted yester
day to hold Saturday's 36th
annual May Day ceremonies
in Recreation Hall—rain, or
shine rather than on -the
lawn in front of Old Main.
The ceremonies were originally
scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Saturday
on the lawn in front of Old Main,
and Recreation Hall was to be
used in the event of inclement
weather, The time will remain
the same.
Barbara Martino, hduse of rep
resentatives secretary, made the
motion to conduct the event in
doors.
Lois Henderson, house chair
man and chairman for May Day,
gave two reasons for the change
In plans:
*The rainy weather has .pre-
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA.. THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 8. 1958
Pledge Week, to be held for
e made at a kick-off meeting
head the work of the agents in
each of the nine colleges. The
coordinators are Robert Steele,
Liberal A-ris; Myrna Poynter,
Education; Roger Levin, Min
eral Industries; Barbara Jones,
Physical Education; Patricia
Moran, Home Economics; Rus
sell Beaty, Agriculture; Carroll
McDonnell, Chemistry and Phy
sics; Robert Stroup, Engineer
ing and Architecture; and Mi
chael Walker, Business Admin
istration.
Speaking at the kick-off meet
ing will be Ridge Riley, executive
director of the Alumni Associa
tion; Ross B. Lehman, assistant
executive secretary of the Alumni
Association; Robert Beam, assis
tant director of the Alumni Fund;
and Hollander.
Sr. Class Board Forms
Applications for the Senior
Class Advisory Board are •avail
able at the Hetzel Union desk.
Forms must be submitted by
noon tomorrow.
vented workers from 'erecting
bleachers on Old Main lawn be
cause trucks are not allowed on
the lawn when the ground is
damp. Workers would have to
May Day rehearsal will be
held at 2 p.m. today. All par
ticipants are asked to mart in
the lobby of Old Main, rain' or
shine. In case of rain, rehearsal
will be held in the Helsel Union
Ballroom or Recreation Hall.
carry the bleachers from the main
roads, entailing extra time and
work.
•The expenses of putting the
bleachers - on the lawn would in
crease because of the overtime
that would be necessary to com
plete the job.
Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the
College of Physical Educition,
has given' his approval to the
new plans. There will be no
program change.
Highlighting the event will be
tgiatt
NATO Will Seek
More Than Talks
COPENHAGEN (RP) The North Atlantic Alliance
launched a peace offensive of its own yesterday by telling the
Soviet Union: Let us try everything possible—not just sum
mit talks—to eliminate war.
Rising above the Kremlin's roadblocks, the 15 NATO
foreign ministers again invited
the Soviets to join them in work
ing out the complex machinery
for safe, controlled disarmament.
The United States, Britain
and France carried this idea a
step further by agreeing to take
some of their smaller NATO
partners to a possible summit
meefing. Italy was mentioned i
specifically.
The Western Big Three .aban- i
doned their stand for four-power]
summit talks in a joint statement.,
The Soviets had sought previ
ously to break the four-power
framework by suggesting East-
West parity at the summit, with
the inclusion of Communist Pol
and and Czechoslovakia.
The Soviets also talked of an
even broader conference that
would include such uncommitted
nations as India, Egypt and Swe
den.
Neither of these ideas had
won Western approval. But the
way is opened now for adjust
ments in the delegations of both
sides.
• The NATO nations promised in
a communique issued at the end
of their 3-day spring meeting to
push technical studies of disarm
ament within their own alliance
if the Soviets refuse to lend a
hand.
This would enable them to keep
coming forward with disarma
ment proposals the Soviets would
find harder and harder to reject.
All NATO foreign ministers
agreed during three days of con
sultations here that any sum
mit meeting must be adequately
prepared and must show in ad
vance some prospect of East-West
agreement on a basic point of
world tension.
The latest Soviet note on sum
mit preparations created little
stir in the NATO Council. French
Foreign Minister Christian Pineau
said it contained "absolutely no
new element."
The French, in fact, came to the
same conclusion as the Ameri
cans—that the Russians are still
stalling.
Twenty Students Fined
$97 by Traffic Court
Twenty students have been
fined a total of $97 by Traffic
Court for illegal parking, registra
tion stickers not being displayed
and failure to report for violations
to Campus Patrol.
Eight automatic fines were giv
en for failure to appear before
the Court and $2B worth of fines
was suspended. .
the crowning of Karen . Bixler,
senior in home economics from -
Basking Ridge, N.J., as May
Queen to reign over the cere
monies.
Undergraduate coeds will par
ticipate in• the program as the
queen, following her attendants,
marches to her throne under the
Honor Arch and Evergreen Chain.
The queen will be crowned by
Susanne Smith, past president
of WSGA. She will be present- .
ed a symbolic world by Barbara
• Drum, past president of WRA,
and receive her sceptre from
Margaret Sreit h, University
Christian Association.
Miss Bixler, who was chosen
by the senior women, is president
of Phi Upsilon Omicron, home
economics honorary society; chair
man of Home Economics Board
of Publications; a member of the
Home Economics Student-Faculty
Board; Scrolls, senior women's
hat society; and recording secre
tary of Gamma Phi Beta sorority.
You Can Take it
With You
See Page 4
FinalCobinet
Referendum
Vote Due
All-University Cabinet will take
its third and final vote on the
proposed referendum amendment
to the Student Government As
sociation constitution at 7 tonight
in 203 HUB.
The amendment states that a
petition signed by three per cent
of the student body could call for
a general vote on any issue Cab
inet has already voted.
The amendment, approved for
the second time last week, must
be read and approved three times
before it becomes part of the con
stitution.
The place of The Daily Col
legian on Cabinet will also be
brought up for discussion.
The amendment contains a
clause stating that if 20 per cent
of the students voted in a special
election the majority decision
would bind Cabinet's vote on the
issue.
The third point of the plan
is that this vote could be over
ruled only by a three-fourth vote
of Cabinet.
Two motions to amend the refer
endum were defeated at a pre
vious meeting: one to raise the
petition quota to 5 per cent and
another to set a petition total
of 500.
Robert Piccone, co-editor of the
Student Handbook, will present
a progress report on the hand
book.
Lion Says Rain
Will End Today
"Thish rainz sho sloshy thad id's
fling ub my den," gargled the
Lion as he floated by his barome
ter
The rain, in fact, ruined his
plans for an out ,
of-doors picnf
today by takin,
all the curl ou
of the potal
chips he h a
stored on a hig,
shelf for sunn;
times.
"Oh glub!" h.
continued, "till
forecast for t
day is for co!
tinued cloudy
weather with occasional light rain
or dizzle. "It's supposed to dimin
ish and end during this after
noon," he remarked cheerfully.
"The temperature will reach a
high c-f 52-58 degrees, he said.
"Nothing's so rare as a day in
May," he mubled as he paddled
away on his umbrella.
Free Chest X-Rays
Available Today
Free chest x-rays will be avail
able today and tomorrow for stu
dents, faculty and other personnel
of the University at a mobile unit
located near the Ritenour Health
Center at Shortlidge and Pollock
Roads.
At 3 p.m. yesterday 137 persons
had had the free x-rays, which are
made available by the Bureau of
Tuberculosis Contro 1, Pennsyl
vania Department of Health.
The unit will be open from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 6 p.m.
today and tomorrow.
FIVE CENTS