Lions, Walker Want 'Lib Otte VOL. 60, No. 48 Parties Split 24 Seats Alexander, Carson Win Presidencies By JEFF POLLACK, SUSIE LINKROUM Campus Party retained con trol of the SGA Assembly by virtue of a perfect split in the fall elections which ended yesterday. Both parties took 12 seats includ r ing a presi dency. • Robert Carson (U) and Duane Alexander (C) took the freshman and sophomore class presidencies respectively. - Assembly members elected were: Freshmen Anna Cimmons (U), Richard Goodman (U), Bar bara Isaacson (U), William Roth man (U), Harold Scott (U), Ste phen Lenhardt (C), Patricia Mc- Twenty-two percent of 2,733 out of 12,559 undergraduates voted in the SGA elections. The freshman class had the highest percentage of voters -32%; sophomore c 1 a s s-26%; junior class-16%r senior class —9%. Voting breakdown: Freshmen: Trone-713; Good man-700; Cimmons-655; Mc- Gee-636; Isaacson-641; Car son-617; Scott-610; Rothman —602; Lenhardt-598: Keefer -595: Lerew-582; Urie-581; Du gan-558; Garlock-484. Sophomores: Hadden 563: Hackman 556; Alexander -- 531; Pigossi-525; Cavanagh -521; Kridel-501; Williams -472; Gershenow-443; Thiel -429; Harms--416; Munroe-401; Sanson-310. Juniors: Adler-317; Curry-- 283; White-275: Grabill-263; W a t'z m a n-260; West-252; Slish-238; Jochem-223. Seniors: Oit-206; Cin-190; Flenkis=l36. Gee (C) and Jacquelyn Trone (C). Sophomores: Joan Cavanagh (U), Nancy Williams (U), Barbara Hackman (C), Rebecca Hadden (C), James Kridel (C), Richard Pigossi (C) and Earl Gershenow (C) to a half term vacancy. Juniors: Constance Adler (U), Marilee Grabill (U), Donald Cur ry (C), Neil White (C) and Ron ald Watzman (U) to a half term vacancy. Seniors: Steven Ott (U) and Carole Cin (C). 36 University Students Selected For 'Who's Who in Colleges ' The names of 36 University but the country who are leaders students will be listed in in campus activiti es. Students who were selected the publication "Who's Who are Larry Byers, Richard Lucas, Among Students in American Patrick Botula, George McTurk, Carol Frank, William Jaffe, Sher- Universities and Colleges." ry Parkin, Nancy Clark, Walter Last month each college coun- Lloyd, Vincent Marino, JudithHeckert cil president submitted the names Also William Bowers, Frank of 10 outstanding seniors. A 6- Pearson, Samuel Minor, David member committee screened each Epstein, Ellen Batterworth, Jes name and submitted the 36 names. sie Janpgian, Charles Ault, Stan- The committee was composed icy Foster, Theodore Haller, Ir of eGorge Donovan, coordinator ving Klein, Harald Sandstrom, of student activities; William Dennis Malick, Martin Leshner, Fuller, manager of the Associa- Dorothy Newman, Rita Saltzer, tion of Student 4t" ctivities; and Gary Gentzler student representatives Nancy And Richard Hammond. Leon- Clark, Larry Byers and Leonardard, Julius, Jean Nigh, Richard Julius. 'Lloyd, Helen Skade, John Bone- The publicatio includes thetstell, Lochlann Dey, Kenneth Flo names of college st dents through-lrence and Carol Dominick. 4 ,A . e.:„, .. 4. % .' .. viT': ' t a i (..„.„,,,,,,,.,,, 4,.„:„ -m•Toltriatt ..„ FOR A BETTER PENN STAT STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20. 1959 ROBERT CARSON DUANE ALEXANDER Tickets Still Available Less than 300 student tickets and 40 non-student tickets remain for the Pitsburgh Symphony con cert, conducted by William Stein berg. The performance will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday in Recreation Hall. Special Collegian The Daily Collegian will publish Monday morning next week, the last issue before Thanksgiving vacation. The Monday issue will in clude stories on the Pitt game and any late developments on the post-season bowl situation. It will also include the usual news coverage. Swortwout Funeral Set for Tomorrow Funeral services for John Swartwout, junior in hotel administration from Hugenot, N.Y., will be held at 2:30 p.m. tomorrow in Port Jervis, N.Y. Swartwout was fatally injured Wednesday ngiht in an auto accident which involved six University students. The six, all members of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, were driving on Rt. 22 on their way to the Jazz Festival in Harrisburg. The driver, Stephen Morey, sopho more in hotel administration from Cortland, N.Y., decided to use Rt. 811, the heavily traveled shortcut which is used by motorists to cut off part of Rt. 22 The car overturned near the eastern end of the cutoff. The Duncannon State Police barracks reported that the car started to skid while making a left turn at the top of a hill. The auto then moved on to the right shoulder of the road, skidded back on to the roadway, hit a ridge in the road and rolled over once, police said. Swartwout was thrown from the car due to the impact of overturning and suffered a crushed skull and multiple in juries of the neck. Police said that they have not determined whether the auto rolled over Swartwout. The five other students in the car escaped injury. They were James Kirkley, sophomore in ) in dustrial engineering from Pitts burgh; Richard Evans, junior in, business administration f romi Erie; Lewis Brown, junior in arts) and letters from York; and Rich ard Chase, sophomore in business administration from Erie. The accident occurred about 7 p.m. The other students were able to use the car to return to State College following the ac cident. The last time a student was killed in an accident was last +May 10 when Thomas Pullen, • senior in business administration from Philadelphia, died of a neck fracture. He was traveling toward Lemont when his car swerved off 'the road into a tree. Art Department Names Adams Assistant Prof Edward A. Adams has been named assistant professor of stu dio art. He is teaching design and sculp ture. He participated in the recent faculty exhibit in the Hetzel Union gallery by showing works in sculpture, photography, and com mercial art. SGA Backs $lO,OOO Insurance issue By JIM MORAN SGA Assembly rejected last night a proposal to abolish the minimum $lO,OOO liability in surance required of all motor vehicles on campus. Included in a bill to revise the; University Traffic and Parking, Regulations, the insurance issue! was rejected on the grounds that' the insurance would be beneficial to the University community. Walter Darran, chairman of the Traffic Code Investigation Com mittee which sponsored the bill, urged Assembly to delete the in surance requirement from the traffic Code. since he felt that JOHN SWARTWOUT Unseasonable Cold To Continue Today Unseasonably cold weather should continue in this area to day, but a slow warming trend will raise the afternoon reading a little higher than yesterday's. A weak storm system which is located in Tex as ma y bring some snow to this area to morrow Today should be partly cloudy and continued chilly with a high temperature of 40 degrees. This fair and cold weather should continue tonight with the mercury slipping to 27 degrees. Mostly cloudy skies and cold weather is expected tomorrow with just a slim chance of some snow developing. The high should be around 42 degrees. insurance should be a personal decision. He also stated that the in surance figure was unfair to owners of 2-wheeled small motor vehicles, since those ve hicles are virtually incapable of causing major damage. An amendment to the bill urg ing the exemption of 2-wheeled I vehjcles from the insurance re .quirement was rejected. With the exception of the sec-' tion on insurance, Assembly pass ed the remainder of the bill, which proposed: • Reserving parking areas ab solutely needed by faculty and staff members between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. on weekdays and from 12:30 p.m. Saturday to 7:30 Walker Comments In New York FIVE CENTS University President Eric A. Walker told the Associated Press early this morning that he prefers to accept the Liberty Bowl bid. Walker, in New York on University business, said that "with the facts I now have in hand, I prefer to accept the Liberty Bowl in Philadelphia Dec. 19. I think we have a special obligation to a bowl in Pennsylvania." Walker made the comments when told the Associated Press had learned the players voted unanimously at a secret meeting in favor of playing in the bowl. "I hope it's true," he laughed. By SANDY PADWE Sports Editor Even though the "cat and mouse game" continued in Old Main, word leaked out from other sources yesterday that Nittany Lion players had voted unanimously to go to the Liberty Bowl should the University accept the bid. The Collegian learned from au thoritative sources close to the team, that the Lions voted to play in the Liberty Bowl at a secret meeting Wednesday night. The first annual Liberty Bowl is scheduled to be played in Phil adelphia, Dec. 19 Late Wednesday, Athletic Di rector Ernest E. McCoy denied that any decision had been reached at the meeting. McCoy added that he was in no position to disclose what hap pened in the meeting and he said that a final decision would he held off until President Eric A. Walker returned to the campus. He has been away for two days. McCoy wasn't available for comment today after it was learned the team had voted to go to the bowl. Late last night the situation remained the same. "Nothing's changed," said James H. Coo gan, director of Public Informa tion. Earlier in the day Coogan said the University piobaoly would 'hold off until after the Pitt game before making a final decision The visiting team berth remains a question mark, too. The Associ ated Press reported that Univer sity officials have indicated a preference for the Air Foice Aca demy or Texas Christian, Air Force Academy officials, however, announced that the Fal cons would consider only a New Year's Day bowl offer because of scholastic examinations. a m. Monday. All other areas would be opened to students with parking permits. The bill also proposed allowing students nqt having parking per mits to park outside of Burrowes. Curtin and Shortlidge Rds. and College Ave. ®Opening Pollock Rd. to all student motorists between 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.ni. Monday through Friday and from 12:30 p.m. Saturday to 7:30 a.m. Mon day. • Reducing the parking permit rates for 2-wheeled vehicles. Assembly passed a second bill urging increased lighting along Burrowes and Shortlidge Rds. and increasing police patrols of park mg lots. erty' BULLETIN
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