Cabinet OK's Re St}? latly^QlnU VOL. 59. No. 89 Sr. Pie System By DENNY h The proposed pi ;dge system for financing senior class gifts was replaced last night by a plan for individual class fund drives which would pay for the gift before each graduation. The pledge system was dropped mainly because of its conflict with the yearly drive for mem bers by the Alumni Association. Adopted by Cabinet, the new system stipu lates that each class beginning with its freshman year conduct fund drives so the gift would be paid for by the time the class is graduated.. The responsibility of paying for the gifts was dropped into the laps of the students last Septem ber when President Eric A. Walker announced the Univer sity would discontinue the gift. The University, unknown to students, had been paying for the gift itself since 1948 when a re aranging of fees eliminated the source from which the gift money was obtained, previously. However, "after conferences with All-University President Jay Feldstein and Senior Class President Charles Welsh, Walk er agreed to set aside Univer sity funds for the 1959 class gilt and to financially help the present sophomore and junior classes get their fund drives started. Welsh told Cabinet that figur ing on past gifts of about $lO,OOO each, the average for each stu dent was about $4. Using this fi gure, Walker agreed to: •Provide $3 of University funds for every $1 the present senior class can collect. •Provide $2 for every $2 col lected by the' presented junior class.- •Provide $1 for every $3 col lected by the present sophomore class. Welsh said the Senior Class Advisory Board has agreed to set up plans for a campaign to collect $1 per senior student for this year's gift. The drive would be held in May, probably in connection with the Alumni campaign for members, he said. Citing the advantages of this system, Welsh said jtl) it will def initely provide a senior class gift before the class is graduated; (2) it will not conflict with any Al umni Association drives; and (3) it may develop student spirit which it is hoped would start a habit of contributii g to the-Uni versity both before and after graduation. The major meth ing the gift .mone; booths set up by registration. Welsh said Wa proved a plan v student would hi as . part of legist class booth. In order to spee tion of the syst urged immediate by presidents of sophomore and ju such problems as registration booths Building, what pu needed next summ what to do in c would not have fh while registering, STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 20, 1959 Gift Plan Adopted ge Out [ALICK —Collegian Photo by Ken Florence RELINQUISHING THE CHAIR, All-University President Jay Feldstein, center, last night rose to speak in the Cabinet debate on Student Government Reorganization. To his left is the man behind the plan, Daniel Thalimer, and to Feldstein’s right is All-University Secretary-Treasurer John Gingrich. Den Coffee Profits Refused By Diem to Lorry Sharp Drive Editorial on page 4 Downtown merchants will be participating in the Coffee Profits Day of Larry Week, but the Lion’s Den will not. This was the word yesterday from Albert E. Dierri, vice president for business admin- istration, Diem was twice visited by t' Den turn over its profits from coffee sales on Friday, March 6, to the Sharp fund. Diem said he would allow the committee to place cans in the Lion’s Den on Coffee Profits Day where students could deposit money if they wished. Most of the downtown restaur ants have indicated their willing ness to participate. Diem, who was leaving town yesterday, referred the matter to Robert C. Proffitt, director of Food Servite. Proffitt said the Lion’s Den is an entirely different, operation from the downtown restaurants. He said it is required to support itself and any profits are used for maintenance, repairs and new equipment. jd of collect would be at each class at The Lion’s Den does distribute free coffee to students before Christmas vacation, but Proffitt said this, is a different situation. He said that at Christmas the Lion’s Den is closing down for two . weeks and the "small” i amount of 'coffee which' is given away would probably have to be thrown out if not consumed. liter has ap hereby each v« to report ration to bis i implementa sm, Feldstein consideration the freshman, lior classes of low to set up in Recreation ilicity will be :r and fall and ise a student mey with him He added that the cost of .wash ing dishes and also “ringing up Ore money, accounting it, taking it Ito the: bank and then giving it away would also . rule out the proposal.' • . All-University-, President Jay Feldstein said, “Discretion limits me from making comment on this.” ■ ‘ FOR A BETTER PENN STATE te students and twice refused their request that the Lion’s 1000 Additional Trio Tickets To Go on Sale at 10 Today j An additional 1000 tickets for the Kingston Trio concert, March 18, to benefit the Larry Sharp Fund I will go on sale at 10 a.m. today at the Hetzel Union desk. Carmella LaSpada, general chairman of the drive, said the additional seats were placed on sale after the original supply of 5000 was exhausted yesterday. Al- 'Greek' Men to Visit Suites April 6 Fraternity members will bei permitted in all the sorority j suites for coffee and enter tainment following the Greek Week exchange dinners, Mon day, April 6. Leonard Julius, Greek Week chairman lor the Interfratemity Council, said this will be the first time, other than Mother’s Day, that men will be permitted in all the sorority suites. Sororities-in the new South Residence Halls are permitted to entertain men in their suites throughout the year. The dean of women’s tlfice organization pgiatt most 4000 tickets were sold Wednesday, the first day they were on sale. Miss LaSpada said seats will be set up on the floor of Rec reation Building for the concert. Some persons may have to stand on the track in the balcony, but she said that people will not have to stand three ,or four deep. iplans to watch, the experiment j closely and it could prove very 'instrumental in determining pos sible future policies in regards to women entertaining men guests, Mrs. Mae Schultz, assistant dean of women, said. Mrs. Schultz hinted that sor ority women may be permitted to entertain men in the suites prior to the men picking up their dates or for mixers with other groups. "The Greek Week experiment may lead to possi bilities," she said, "and it will be carefully observed." As part of the exchange , dinner program, fraternity members will visit the women's dining halls and eat with sorority members. Separation Of Powers By CATHY FLECK All-University Cabinet last night legislated to put itself out of existence. It will cease to exist in its present form after the prin ciples of reorganization ap proved last night are put into I effect. FIVE CENTS Cabinet membeis, with the ex ception of four, accepted reorgan ization of student government in to three separate blanches—ex ecutive, legislative and judicial— after lengthy discussion on the proposals offered by Daniel Thaji mer, chairman, of the Cabinet Committee on Student Govern ment Reorganization. Donald Zepp, president of Chemistry-Physics Student Council; William Sekeras, presi dent of Mineral Industries Stu dent Council; Jack Kendall, president of Engineering and Architecture Student Council; and James Hockenbrock, presi de n t of Physical Education Student' Council, voted against the proposals. These principles will be used by the committee in setting up the mechanics of the new student government system which will be incorporated into a constitution to be presented for the approval of Cabinet in the near future. If Cabinet approves the constitution, the hew system will go into ef ■>ct next fall. A motion by Edwaid Frymoyer to make the All-University presi dent chairman of the legislative assembly as well as the head of the executive branch was defeat- when All-University vice presi dent, Steve Garban, broke a tie vote. Frymoyer said that by making the vice president chairman of the legislative assembly, the impor tance of the All-University presi dent would be decidedly weak ened while the vice president would gain power. All-University president Jay Feldstein gave up the chair to speka iir favor of Frymoyer’s motion. Feldstein said, "the pres ident must preside over the as sembly to know the lone of discussion and interpret it to lake it back to the executive body." He also added, "If the president sits as a member of the audience, nothing will make him pay attention to the action undertaken by the assembly." Charles Welsh, president of the senior class, speaking against the motion, said, “By putting the president in charge of both the executive and legislative bodies, Cabinet would defeat the whole theory of separation of powers. The president as an ex-officio member of the legislature would lose no prestige since he repre- - sents the student body as a whole, but the vice president would be enabled to gain prestige thus nar rowing the gap between the two All-University officers.” John Bott, chairman of the stu dent-government workshops of 1957 and 1958 Student Encamp-' ments said “if Cabinet is in favor of separation of powers, then it can not be in favor of Frymoyer’s motion. The president can keep an effective finger on the legis (Continued on page two) Sorority members will also visit fraternities on the same night, Wally Caplan and Bonnie Clarke, exchange dinner co-chairmen, said. George D. -Lobingier, manager of the educational department at the Westinghouse Electric Corp., East Pittsburgh, Pa., has been secured as-the guest speaker for the Greek Week banquet to be held April 14 at the Nittany Lion Inn, Julius also announced yes terday. Other activities during the week, which attempts to pro mote better understanding be tween the Greek groups and the faculty, administration and - (Continued on page two)
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