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VOL. 59. No. 53
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Frosh
Votes
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This year's torribiried fresh
man and sop omore voting
percentage of 43.7 per cent
shattered a 7-3 ear record.
No higher .ercentage has
been recorded since 1950,
when 50.7 per tent of the com
bined classes ca.:4 ballots. A total
of 2854 out of 6 - 33 eligible voted
Wednesday and Thursday.
The freshman lass percentage
was 53.1, or 178• out of a class
enrollment of 3355. The sopho
more percentage was 33.7, or
1070 out of 3178.
Freshmen have 'had a higher
voting percentage than sopho
mores in every year from 1949
to this year, except 1951.
This year's record was consid
erably higher than last year's fall
elections percentage of 32.7. In
those elections, 40.6 per cent of
the freshman class voted and 23.8
per cent of the sophomores.
Wilbur Lewellen. WDFM sta
tion manager, estimated that
WDFM's "get - out - the - vote"
. campaign increased the voting
by 150 in the Nittany area, 350
in Waring Hall and 125 from
the fraternitiet. No estimate
had been made for the Redifer
area polling plate.
WDFM personnel went from
door to door in _residence halls
asking persons to vote. They of
fered to save places in the Waring
dining hail line - for persons who
would vote, and drove fraternity
sophomores to campus.
Lewellen said, "I don't think
it was a case of pushing through
uninformed voters. Very few said
they didn't know who to vote
for. They just needed to be re
minded and given a little push.
The fact that the polling places
were so close helped enormously."
Other past percentages include:
1956-33.4 per cent total, 41.8
per cent of the'freshmen and 25.1
per cent of the
_sophomores.
1955-33.1 pent total, 41.1
per cent of tlfe freshmen and
25.1 per cent.,ol 'the -sophomores.
1954-33 1 k; per cent. total, 41.9
per cent of the freshmen and 24.7
per cent of the sophomores.
1953-31 per cent total, 35 per
cent of the freshmen and 27 per
cent of the sophomores:
1952--384 per cent total, 44 per
cent of the freshmen and 3/7 per
cent of the sophomores.
1951-49 Der cent total, 27.5 per
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Revie'
But B
By DAVE Fii
Collegian Dra
• After a slow s
Players and au.l
Reluctant Debut.
erred to a deligh ,
farce, with CharlJ
and Marlene Be
ing the comic sr»,
The play was the
tempt of a gushy
scatter-brained up,
ish mother to marr
enthusiaitic debu
during the Homing-i
as the father, play
osky called it, the
season.
.It was gratifyin ,
,Bensinger in the
mother Sheila" Br
dote does a camp
--Collegian photo by George Layman
MAKING MAD MUSIC at a Blue Band party at Tau Kappa Epsilon
last night are, left to right, Warren Daugherty, bass viol; Buck
Curry, drums; James Lauterbach, valve trombone; and John Ko
shak, piano.
Fraternities
Frosh Open
The third in-a series of four freshman student open houses
will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. tomorrow at 14 fraternities off
campus.
The open houses, sponsored by the Interfraternity Coun
cil rushing committee, will give freshmen another chance to
get a glimpse of the insides of
fraternity houses and meet mem
bers
Scheduled to hold open houses'
tomorrow are Theta Delta Chi,'
Theta Xi, Alpha Chi Rho, Phi
Kappa Psi, Phi Sigma Delta, Tau
Ma Phi Epsilon, Delta Sig
ma Phi, Theta Chi, Phi Sigma
Sigma Phi, Theta Chi, Phi Sigma
Kappa, Phi Mu Delta, Sigma Tau
Gamma and - Alpha Chi Sigma.
The first in the series of open
houses was held Nov. 2 at six
fraternities on campus. They
were attended by some 500 to 600
freshmen.
Because of the large number 1
of students interested in rush
ing. the off-campus fraternities
were divided. into three sec
tions.
Last week 17 fraternities host
ed 300 to 400 freshmen with mix=
ers. Light refreshments were
served- and 'the freshmen were
utante
comes
EMAN
Critic
such a total command of a part
in gesture, timing and stage
sense.
art by both
fence, "The,
.te" quick-j
fully funny
I , s Antalosky
singer shar-,
Antalosky, as Jimmy Broad
bent,'her husband, was her per . :i
fect.match--witty, conscious andl
calm enough to maintain.-leis
bility before the onslaught of her
reckless conniving.
Derek Swire performed admirH
ably as David Bullock, the young
British gentleman who loved too ,
strongly and too often and was
too much - of a bore to be appre
ciated by the unconventional
young debutante, Jane, played to
some degree -bY -Sally Swing.
It must be- seid."plaped , to
some degree," for Miss Swing
-didn't semi to fit the role—
er:rierbaps an
instance of `unfortunate tasting.
For- Miss Suing wasn't young
r enough nor naive enough to be
believable. r . • , ,
comical st
and slightly
er-class Brit
off her less
to daughter
ut season, or,
d by Antal
"white-slave"
to see Mal
o 1e the
'agibent.
actress have
Arleen `Leddy; while posses'sed
STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1958
is Slow Starter,
Delightfully Funny
FOR A BETTER . PENN STATE
to Hold
Houses
taken on tours of the fraternities.;
The fourth group of 17 frater
nities will hold open houses Dec.'
14. A general open house is
planned for Dec. 17 from 7 to 10
p.m. for all fraternities.
A second general open housel
will be held sometime after the
Christmas vacation, Ronald Resh,
rushing chairman, said.
Deferred rushing wil end for
first semester freshmen the
first day of classes in the
spring semester. At that time,
all, students who wish to rush
fraternties may do so but a 2.2
'All-University average will he
required for pledging.
Transfer students have been
exempted from the deferred
rushing plans and may move into
fraternities as guests during the
spring semester orientation week.
They have until the end of the
first week of classes to decide
whether,or not to pledge.
of a nice sense of gesture, was
unable to master the British and
-ffervescent speech required of
her as Mabel Crosswaithe, the
other conniving mother engaged
idthe refined, upper-class "white-
slave trade."
Barry Gordon was Smoothl
enough - to do a good job as David ;
1-loylake-Johnston, the young man
who sweeps Miss Swing off her
feet. But he. wasn't up to his ,
usual degree, perhaps because the
part wasn't sufficiently challeng
e nig.
After its slow start, the show
caught on quickly-and found a
nice, quick-paced groove to run
'in, thanks to Robert D. Reif
ineider's directing:
Russel G. Whaley's single set
ting was a striking job—taste
inily. 'done a .weleome, non
intrusive 'addition to the play.
rgiatt
Russia May uit
Berlin Before Yule
BERLIN (/P)—The Soviet Union threw out a hint yester
day it will quit Berlin by Christmas, and began withdrawing
army families and some soldiers from-East Berlin.
The 10,000 men making up the U.S., British and French
garrisons will face a crisis when Red East Germany takes
over control of the long supply
lines to Berlin. But the Com
munists hastened to reassure
2,200,000 jittery West Berliners.
East Germany signed a new
trade agreement for 1959 with
West_ Germany in East Berlin.
One clause virtually assures the
'free movement of German civil
ian supplies through East Ger
many to West Berlin, 100 miles
behind the Iron Curtain.
These were other developments
of the day:
e The Soviet Foreign Ministry
notified foreign envoys to call at
its Moscow offices tod a y. The
reason was not announced there,
but West German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer said he had
learned the Russians would hand
I over to all powers that fought
against Nazi Germany a note on
the four-power status of Berlin.
What that note would say re
mained undetermined.
•In Munich, Adenauer said
that'any Communist attempt to
enslave the free West Berliners
would rock. Europe.
"We must not lose our nerve,"
he said. •
•In Bonn, West German offi
cials said the Adenauer govern
ment wants the Western powers
to adopt a tough policy. Some de
clared tanks should be rammed
through border barricades if
necessary.
coln South amnion, Britain's
Prime Minister Macmillan ex
pressed belief the situation will
be settled peacefully. He told a
reporter, "I have the very strong
impression this is a diplomatic
[rather than a real move by 'the
Russians,"
In private talks, the West Ger
mans overcame East German re
sistance to the traffic provision.
The pact made continued West
German steel deliveries—urgent
ly needed by the East Germans—
dependent on the right of free ac
cess to West Berlin.
Collegian Candidate Meeting
All Dail- Collegian editorial
staff - candidates must attend a
workshop at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow
in the city room.
Cabinet
Appeal
All-University Cabinet has cut the cost for unsuccessful
appeals before Traffic Court from $1.50 to $l.
Cabinet made the traffic regulation change by passing a
motion presented by Jack Kendall, president of the Engineer
ing and Architecture Student
Kendall said that undei
could get a, $1 parking fine and,
if he appealed it and lost the ease,
would have to • pay costs which
were higher than the original
fine.
The regulation went into effect
this semester in an effort to re
duce the number of obviously
guilty cases that were being
brought before Traffic Court.
In other business, James Nuss
baum, Junior Prom committee
chairman, reported a $6BO - profit
from the dance- There were 1005
tickets sold,
Expenditures were: Ralph Mar.]
terie and his orchestra, $2500;
George. Trahan Co., decorations,
$618; programs, $350; advertising,
$275; punch, , sl4o; physical plant,
$100; queen contest, $65; and Cam
pus -
Cabinet also approved the fol.;
Elections Code:
Throw It Out
See Page 4
JBR Asks
Office Pro
For 6 Men
The Association of Independent
Men's Judicial Board of Review
recommended thlt the six stu
dents who tampered with pay
phones in Hamilton Hall be placed
on office probation for the dur
ation of the academic year;
The students had previously
pleaded guilty at a heating Nov.
13 before Justice of the Peace
Guy G. Mills. They were assessed
$l3B for damages and required to
pay $ll court costs.
The students, all residents of
t Hamilton Hall, are:
Philip Sky, freshman in indus
trial engineering from Altoona;
Charles Williams, graduate stu
dent in physics from Kenmore,
N.Y.; James Coonan, senior in
education from Port Carbon.
Donald Steinman, freshman- in
psychology from McKeesport;
Stephen Seybolt, freshman in
metallurgy from Scotia, N.Y. and
Stewart Aaron, freshman in elec
trical engineering from Pough
keepsie, N.Y.
The hoard also recommended
that a fifth semester engineering
student discovered holding a beer
party in his Hamilton room be
placed on office probation for the
rest of the academic year..
Four freshman from the Nittany
residence halls were recommend
ed for office probation as a result
of their general rowdiness. Includ
led in a list of their misdemeanor.;
was the "ferocious" banging on
the'bottom of a waste basket at
1 a.m.
The board advised office proba
tion for three freshmen from Nit
tany who were discovered drink
ing in their dorm.
Reduces
Costs
Council.
the present system a student
lowing appointments for Spring
Week committees:
Carnival, Floyd Greer, Robert (Ironies&
Kenneth Gregg, Abraham Isenberg, James
Etts!son. George Smith, Lawrence - Epstein.
Robert Wayne, Arlene Itosinal, Ella Eg
gert' and Barbara Bemuse.
Float parade, Patricia Lonhattit, Stan
ley Foster, Judith Stock, Marlene Neff,
Larry Byers, Nancy Werner, secretary;
Sharon Hoffman and Nancy Sue Sloan.
Awards, Harlan Williams, Desmond Pbe-
Ilan, Anne Rolling% Ja` Kleinfeld, Wait
10`Brien, Judith Lowborn, Judith White,
Jacqueline David and John Sheddon.
He-Man contest, Joyce Bench, Walter
Darran, Kenneth Louis, Jaunt Stahel, Wal
ter Caplan arid Penny Atitmoon, secretary.
Publicity, Mary Carol Wake, Jean Pima,
Sheila Gallagher, Gerald Adam*. Sherry
Kennel. Anita Kurman, Dee— Anderson,
Richard Haber and Bonnie Clark. secre
tary,
Queen of hearts, 'Judith Norton, Debbie
Resnick, Sloan Sherman, Janet Weinberger
and Diana Primaley.
COr'^ntion. :?I,,nry
_f!?3t7.,k ,I , ^n itr.n.-
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