VOL. 59. No. 115 s, Miltenberger Vie ,EGA Presidency Juli For ICKI WOLFORD %his, junior in journalism 1 Beach, Fla., was elected on to run for Student Gov : tion president on the Cam at the Sunday night clique Leonard J from West Pal without opposit ernment Associ pus party ticke meeting Julius, in acce • ting the nomi nation, emphat.iz•d the coming elections and the i ext year as an Important trial period of student goVernment at th• University. The firm esta elishment of a two-party system and student in terest are a nece-sity for a stu dent government hich truly rep resents the stud=nts and voices their opinions, he said. Campus parts 's nominee for SGA vice preside t, L, rry Byers, junior in busines administration from New Oxfor , and its nomi nee for SGA se retary-treasurer, Sherry Parkin, junior in educa tion from State College, both were elected unanimously. Theodore Haller, junior in en gineering from Bradford, will run for senior class president, and Jack Crosby, sophomore in chem istry from New Kensington, will run for junior class president on the Campus party ticket. The electing of candidates for the assembly was done on a pref erential ballot with each party, member giving the highest num ber of points to his favorite nomi nee and the next highest number of points to his second choice. Those elected to run for the six senior seats on the assembly are: Henry Faller, '759 points; Carol Plosch, 1134: Bruce Brennerman, 783; Janet Moore, 1125; Jay Haw ley, 1131, and Peter Luckie, 1212. Pamela Alexander and Ellen Burke were defeated. Millie Moyer, 657, Robert Toc zak, 593, Jean De Meyer, 644 and Walter Darren 596 were elected to run for the four junior seats. Abraham Eisenberg was de feated. - - Katherine Regal, 483, David Reese, 407 and Mary Ann Ellis, 457 will run for the sophomore seats. In the election of intra-party officers, Alan Rosenberg was elected treasurer and Alan Fair was elected senior class clique president. There were no nominees for the rest of the clique offices. They will now be appointed by Cam pus par t y chairman Charles Steele. LaVie Senior Board to Meet The senior board of •LaVie will meet at 6:30 p.m. Friday in 1 Car negie. 7 . 7l lo l 7 7 gr ipir ri"F liVr" S T:',7, 4 7 7, 17 n r • z 4 0064, Bailg FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1959 FIVE CENTS Gentzler To Head IFC; Resh, V.P. Gary Gentzler, junior in engi neering science from York, was elected president of the Interfrat ernity Council for the 1959-60 school year at last night's meet ing. Gentzler, Lambda - Chi Alpha, defeated Edward Kormos, Sigma PI, by a vote of 30 to 22. Ronald Resh, Phi Mu Delta, de feated Arnold Machles, Sigma Al pha Mu, 41 to 11 and was elected administrative vice president of IPC. Gilbert Sergeant, Phi Kappa Tau, was elected secretary-treas urer with 31 votes on a second ballot over Lawrence Buck, Phi' Gamma Delta. He defeated Roger Dreeben. Phi Sigma Delta, and James Wolfinger, Sigma Phi Ep silon, on the first ballot. There were five open positions, on the Interfraternity Council Purchasing Association which' were filled by five self-nominated IFC members. The new members of the senior, board of the IFCPA are Robert I Ritchey, James Reeves, Richard McMahon, Steven Strauss and James Wolfinger. Reeves and Ritchey were both on the board this year. Reeves was secretary and Ritchey was vice president. In a Greek Week committee re port, Leonard Julius announced that fraternities may still enter the bridge tournament and• re serve places at the outstanding pledge banquet even at this late date. Assistant Deans of Men 0. Ed ward Pollock _told IFC members that there are still 1000 freshmen with averages left to pledge and "there will be no excuse for emp ty houses next fall." "You ought to be able to get enough men, good men, and when the others make their averages, they will be like frosting on the cake," he said. Tolittgian Arthur Miltenberger, junior in business administration from Schellsburg, will run for Student Government Association president on the University party ticket. Miltenberger was nominated without op position, as were all the candidates for SGA By JANET DURSTINE offices and the candidates for jun ior and senior class presidents. Frank Pearson, University party chairman, said the SGA office nominations were unopposed be cause it was important the party did not have factions. Carl Smith, junior in psychol ogy from S c r an t o n, was nomi nated for SGA vice president. Nancy Clark, junior in arts and letters from Paoli, was nomi nated for SGA secretary-treas urer. Elections will be held April 21, 22 and 23. The elections were moved up a day because of the Spring Week float parade April 24. Voting booths will be set up in Boucke Building, Hetzel Union Building, Sparks Building, Sack ett Building, Home Economics Building and somewhere on' Ag Hill. Samuel Minor, junior in agri cultural economics and rural sociology from Carmichaels, will run for senior class presi dent, Arthur Schneider, sopho more in arts and letters from Patterson, NA; will run for junior class president. Elections for sophomore and senior assembly, seats were almost thrown out because a single trans ferable preferential ballot was not used, as required in the Uni versity party constitution. How ever, the ballots were recounted in a manner to make them legal. The same persons won the nomi nations under both counts. Nominees for senior seats in the assembly are Sherry Kennel, Walter Davis. Lelia Uhler, Mary Ganter and Charles Whiteman. Nine senior seats are available in the assembly, but each party may run only six candidates. This will insure representation from both parties. Three juniors were defeated for nominations for senior seats. They are Darlene Anderson, Katherine Davis, and Galen My ers. Nominees for junior class as sembly seats Are Barbara Bract don, David Kiser, Mary Hill and Timothy Halligan. There are four junior seats available. These nominations were unopposed. Nominees for sophomore seats in the assembly are Thomas Ha mer, Karyl duChacek and John Witmer. These nominees were opposed by Carl Moses, Judith Davis, and Robert Harrison. Mercury to Hit 70; Showers to Follow Sunny and warm weather is expected today with an increase in cloudiness during the afternoon. Showers and possibly a thunder storm will accomw)ny rather mild temperatures tonight. Today's high temperature will be a pleasant 70 degrees and the low tonight will be near 47 de grees. The showers will end early to morrow and *ill be featured by partly cloudy and cooler tem peratures. Leadership Meeting The Leadership Training Class will meet at 7 tonight in 214 Boucke. Attendance at this meet ing and all succeeding meetings is compulsory. Dr. Earl Strong, director of the Bureau of Business Research, will speak on the "Qualities of Leader- Lipp Appointed Dean of Women Dr. Dorothy J. Lipp, presently dean of women at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, N.D., has been named dean of women at the University, effective July 1. Her appointment was approved by the Executive Com mittee of the Board of Trustees Saturday and announced yesterday by. PreKdent Eric A. Walker. She will succeed Dr. Pearl 0. Weston who will retire July 1 with emerita rank. Dr. Lipp has served as dean of women at North Dakota for the past five years. From 1952 to 1954 she was dean of women at Wis consin State College, Beaver Falls, Wis. She is a graduate of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania where she received her bachelor of science in education and her master of science degree, also in education. She is a native of Philadelphia. Awarded a fellowship by Nor t h western University, she completed work there for her doc tor of philosophy degree, also in education with a major in coun seling and guidance and a minor in psychology and educational ad ministration. Dr. Lipp began her academic career in 1945 as an instructor in physical education at the Univer sity of Utah and in 1947 and 1948 was employed by the Elizabeth Arden Corp. in public relations work, which included assign ments in . Chicago, Maine and Paris, France. From 1950 to 1952 she was guidance consultant at Evan ston Township High School, Evanston, 111., and from 1952 to 1954 served at Wisconsin State and also taught psychol ogy. Her duties at the University of Nor t h Dakota have included teaching on the graduate faculty, including the conducting of semi nars an student personnel work. She has worked with the dean of men in the general administra tion of the personnel program, has conducted speaking and pub lic relations programs and in the summer of 1956 conducted a North Dakota student tour to Eu rope. Dr. Lipp, who served in 1947 as national marshal of her social sorority, Alpha Xi Delta, is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, scholastic honor society; Pi Lamb da Theta, educational honor so ciety; and Mortar Board, leader ship honor society. Prexy to Speak Tonight President Eric A. Walker will speak on a "Blueprint for Prog ress" at the annual dinner meet ing tonight of the Pittsburgh sec tion of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. Student Assaulted As Others Watch A student was assaulted and beaten Saturday night before scores of bystanders who failed to aid him. Sgt. William H. Seckinger said the student, whose name was withheld pending investi the 100 block of South Pugh around 5 45 p.m. and was crossing the street when three men in a two-toned pea-green 1956 Chev rolet drove up and began taunting, him. One of the men emerged from the car and began swinging at the student who "was holding] his own," Seckinger said. At that point, the two other men approached from the car and joined in the attack, with the stu dent again resisting succcessfully until being overwhelmed by the three assailants, according to Seckinger. At this point, he said, scores of spectators had gathered to watch the fight and traffic was even interrupted. No one offered assistance, Seckinger said. The three men then drove away and the student went to DR. DOROTHY S. LIPP 7 Young Pilots Will Make Up Space Team WASHINGTON UP) Seven superb young Americans will make up the team which will 'represent• the United States in the drive to put a man into orbit 'around the earth. This fact came out yesterday. Their names were still kept secret but may be made public soon, possibly later this week. The seven will be called Mer cury Astronauts, just as Ameri ca s first manned satellite venture is known as Project Mercury. They're the pick from a squad of 110 carefully selected men, all of them military test pilots. It had been planned to have a team of 12. It was decided to hold the number to seven, the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis tration said yesterday, to make sure that each man will have a full part in every phase of the task. These phases include the engi neering and scientific develop ment of the space vehicle, test filghts at moderate speeds and altitudes building up toward the full scale missions, and the 18,000 mile-an-hour orbiting itself, 100 miles or more above the earth. The Mercury Astronauts will report to Langley Research Cen ter, Hampton. Va., within a few days to start orbital flight train ing. The training program prob ably will last two years. By JIM MORAN gallon, had parked his car in Street, near College Avenue the police station where he re ported the incident. A patrol car was dispatched to the scene, but little information was gained from the witnesses. "I'm still burned up about the whole thing," said Seckinger. "We've pursued this thing lock, stock and barrel and we've checked everything, and have even pestered Harrisburg for identification of the car's regis tration number until they're ready to shoot us, but we are still lacking evidence," he said. Seckinger said that witnesses may be withholding information for fear of becoming involved in the affair. "Anyone who forwards (Continued on page eight)
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