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Open House
Frate nities
ternities have
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sponsor "open
during Orienta
-1 new upperclass
1 , en transfer stu
:l re Haller, pro
le an, announced
Twelve fra
been chosen t I
house" socials l
tion Week fo
men and wo
dents, Theod
grain chair
last night.
The Interfrat • rnity Council also
approved the proposed plan to
finance the IFI -Panhellenic Ball,
accepted a $9691 budget and made
10 appointmen s to the Board of
Control and In committee.
The 12 ffaternities named
were CM Phi. Phi Sigma Delta,
Sigma Nu, Tau Kappa Epsilon,
Delta CM, Alpha Gamma Rho,
Sigma Pi, Phi Kappa Psi, Alpha
Tau Omega, Theta Kappa Phi,
Phi Mu Delta and Theta Delta
CM.
Some 660 students-400 men
and 200 women—are expected to
attend the open houses to be
held Wednesday evening, Sept. 10.
The program will replace the
`Starlight" Ball, which was spon
sored by the IFC and Panhellenic
Council.
The IFC members accepted
the recommendation of James
Hammerle, IFC ball chairman,
to finance the sale of the tick
ets for the March 13 ball. The
ticket sales 'will be pro-rated
on a percentage basis for the
brothers and pledges living in
the unit at the lime of the
dance. •
Hammerle said the tickets will
be placed on sale to non-fraternity
men 10 days before the dance and
only a number of tickets neces
sary to offset the expected loss
would be printed. Fifty tickets
will be placed on sale the day
of the dance and - also will be
available the night of the dance.
Richard Christian, secretary
treasurer, presented the proposed
budget based on expected income
and expenses. Some $4300 is al
located for the IFC-Panhellenic
Ball, $lOOO for a rushing program,
(Continued on page eight)
Walker Sits
In On Talks
At Capital
President Eric A. Walker is
sitting in with the nation's top
educators, scientists and econo
mists today .in a Washington,
D.C., conference on research and
development and their impact on
the economy. , ,
James R. Killian, President
Eisenhower's special assistant for
science and technology, will be
the main speaker of the confer
ence in the Shoreham_ Hotel.
i t
The confer nee is aimed to
bring togethe the top manage
ment, researcl and econoniic ex
perts from t re areas—industry,
higher education . and govern
ment. .
After returning from Washing
ton, Walkerwill be guest speaker
tomorrow night at a Williamsport
meeting of Lycoming County al
umni.
The Varsity Quartet of the
Men's Glee Club will sing at the
meeting.
• Walker will be 'introduced by
Eugene Gramley of Milton who is
national alumni president. Dr.
Phillip Raece, Lycoming County
alumni president, will have
charge of the meeting.
Walker is scheduled Friday to
visit the University experimental
farms near Ligonier.
The president will attend an
other .meeting of alumni Satur
day at' the Ogontz Center.
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Editorial
AM Station Would Be
.vc
n Best Senior Gift Choice
With a $lO,OOO stake in the University's future, the
Class of '5B is preparing to elect a worthy project to
SI receive its senior class gift. Seniors will vote for their
choices next week when they pick up their copies of the
1 1958 LaVie.
The class gift suggestions are:
• Money for the Stone Valley recreation project.
e An east campus entranceway.
e A circulating art collection
B Books and photostat machines for the Pattee
Library.
• AM radio facilities for WDFM
Each senior has about a $4 investment in the gift ?)
fund, accumulated over a 4-year period through fees.
Although all of the suggestions have some merit,
if; we belieye providing AM facilities for WDFM is easily
the gift selection which would do the most good fOr the
greatest number of students and which would best
',iv serve as a permanent memorial to the Class of '5B.
We believe an analysis of the gift suggestions will
'I . show this to be true:
The Stone Valley recreation project, located on ;,
DON'T PUSH, you'll get your turn—ROTC students hurried to
wait to turn in- their uniforms yesterday. Michael Herbst, freshman
in business administration from Ford City, and Paul Wardoclip,
freshman in counseling from Arnold, appear to be thinking of all
the Thursday afternoons they will have free now.
140 Seniors Sign Alumni Register
A total of 140 June' graduates
have pledged to join the Penn
State Alumni Association.
"The seniors should be compli
mented .for taking such an inter
est in Penn State," Ross B. Leh
man, assistant executive secretary
of the Alumni Association, said.
Re terms the 140 "an excep;
tionally high number" for so
early in the pledge period.
The enrollment campaign, in
augurated this year, is credited
with the number_ of early pledges.
The Alumni Office expects that
the drive, which will extend
through commencement day, will
enroll at least 500-600 of the grad
uating class. Since 1950, the first
year alumni memberships were
offered at special rates to grad
uates, approximately one-third
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1958
(Continued on page four) _
of each class has joined the associ
ation.
Conducting the ,enrollment
campaign are 134 senior class
agents, appointed by the indi
vidual college campaign man
agers. Thomas Hollander, presi
dent of the class of 1958, ap
pointed the college chairman.
Each agent is to contact 10
graduates in his living area.
The Alumni Association is of
fering life memberships for $7O,
$5 less than the usual rate. This
maybe paid in full, or with a
down payment- of $lO, to be fol
lowed by four annual installments
of • $l5.
One-rear memberships ar e
being offered for $2. Fees for
the ensuing four years would be
$3 annually. Five year's after
graduation, the annual rate be-
De Gaulle Scorns
Role of Dictator
PARIS (W)—Gen. Charles De Gaulle declared yesterday
he is again at the disposal of France to bring order out of
chaos.
He renounced any role of dictator but said he would re
quire extraordinary powers if he-tools _the helm of govern-
The towering gaunt World War,
II hero spoke out at a crowded
Paris news conference. Then hey
returned to his village home to;
await his country's decision.
His statement brought a slight!
easing of tension in France. Some)
thought 'it appeared De Gaulle
might come to power through
constitutional means in the crisis
arising from the Algerian rebel:
lion.
Allied officials in London
suggestbd he had lowered his
price to boost his prospects for
assuming leadership.
Standing ramrod straight and
speaking in a clear, firm voice,,
De Gaulle said he is ready to
serve "if the people wish, as in
the preceding great national cri
sis, at the head of the govern
ment of the French republic."
"I am a man alone," De Gaulle'
asserted, "because I am tied to
no party nor to any organization.
I am a man who belongs to no
one and who belongs to every
one." !
- •
Shrugging aside a question on 'they plead guilty to the charge,
otherwise they will have to go
public liberties, the general asked: before the grand jury in August.
"Have I ever attacked fimdarnen-, The charge against Burns re
tal public liberties? No, I nistored suited from an accident January
them when they had disappeared.:lo when Burns was driver of the
How would you have me, at 67, •
start a career as dictator?" car in which his fraternity bro
-1 ther, Jack Welsh, at that time
De Gaulle said France is a
,a junior in forestry from New
weakened country struggling in
,CaMe was killed.
a world of groat difficulties and The ,
Commonwealth produced
dangers. Charles Jencks, state policeman
"But there are good cards in who investigated the accident;
France's hand for the future," he Boyd Musser, one of the first per
" These cards open the per- sons to arrive on the scene; Dr.
spective for a tomorrow which Estes Cullen, deputy coroner;
will really be a French renais- Donald Dunlap, another witness
sance." 'to the accident, and Rodney Hey,
De Gaulle was asked a general engineer in charge of construe
question on what he-would do in - tion in the vicinity of the acci-
Algeria—in the Nationalist rebel- dent as witne2ses.
lion situation now complicated Burns is represented by Judge
by the French military-colonialist William Litke and William Ray
rebellion against Preniier Pierre croft.
Pflimlin's Paris government
"I envisage the case where the i-lion today because of the pri-
French people might ask me to mary elections and the defense
act as an arbitrator," he replied.swill present its case tomorrow.
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He declared Algeria must be
kept from separating fro in iSunny Weather
France—"something which Al- 1
geria does not want, nor France
either." I Foreseen Today
"As for the role of the army,";
De Gaulle said, "it is normally' The Nittany Lion is spending
the instrument of the state, and• most of his free time 'at Whipples
thus it should remain. But first l these days and yesterday was no
there must be a state." I exception.
De Gaulle demonstrated he re- "The rain doesn't keep me
tains the oratorical vigor he show- away from the e .
u , -
ed during the war. ;beach. I'm get- a• .r
He walked firmly to the ros-Ting all .the re- ''''
trum as erect as he is pictured in laxation I can
cartoons, and spoke in a clear,, before finals be-.
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firm voice which could have been gin," he c 0 m- —.
heard without microphones,
comes $4; after ten years,ss,
An Alumni Office spokesman
said that one of the advantages
in becoming a member of the
association was that member
ship expedited admission of
children.
With the regular white associa
tion pledge slips, pink Alumni Foreign Uncertainties
Fund slips are being distributed
by the campaign agents. Signees Cause Stocks to Drop
promise to give "at least a dollar' NEW YORK {EP)—Foreign un
each year" to the University' certainties yesterday helped bring
through the Alumni Fund. !about the slowest and narrowest
Applications for the Alumni :stock market since March.
Association and Alumni Fund ! Prices were irregular but the
pledges will be available at the closing statistics showed a slight
Alumni Association Office, 104 : trend to the downside. Most
Old Main, through commence- 'changes were narrow.
ment. I Volume dropped to 1,910,000
Senior campaign agents have:shares compared with 2,030,000
been asked to return pledge cards Friday and was the smallest since
to the Alumni Office before the' 1,810,000 shares were traded
I end of the week. (March 3.
Undefeated
Golf Team
See Page 6
'Not Guilty'
Plea Given
By Burns
The Commonwealth
res e. its
ease yesterday in the trial of
James Burns, a former ser..;or in
hotel administration from Altoo
na, who pleaded not guilty to a
charge of involuntary manslaugh
ter.
Two sophomores, James H. Al
len Jr., sophomore in chemical
engineering from ,Merion, and
James Greeves, sophomore in
metallurgy from Merion, may al
so be tried this week in Center
County Court on a charge of mal
icious mischief in the operation
of a steam shovel May 4. Richard
Sharp, district attorney, said the
two would be brought to trial if
1 The court will not be in ses-
mented. He add- "
ed that he takes o „
his textbooksh 4c . y
along but he ek tt
doesn't get very ,
m - u c h accom-
Wished."
Today's pr e- "`"`~---
dieted sunny and mild weather
with temperatures ranging from
65-75 degrees won't help him get
his studying done, but he had
better take a hint and "get sta.rt
ed." Studying, that is.
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