Weather Fore* Mostly Clone Few Flurrie VOL. 60. No. 101 Lion Lead ii 7 Mov PRINCETON, slim one-point leai Eastern Intercollej here. Seven of State round as the regul on to a 19-18 advant Engineers before a r crowd of 2000. Pitt's potent Panthers trailed the leaders by only three points, compiling a total if 16 while sending six men into tomor row's wrap-up action. Lehigh placed four men in the semis. Cornell, expected to be a top threat, dropped far behind the leaders, scoring only 10 points .and moving only three men into the second day’s action. Syracuse was a surprise fourth. The Orange's NCAA 191- pound champ, Art Baker, didn't enter the tournament. The star Wrestler-gridder, who under went a knee operation this win ter, decided to pass up the Easterns, Nationals and an Olympic tryout in favor of spring football. Penn State placed more men in the semis than any of the other 16 participating schools. All Lion entrants emerged victorious in this afternoon’s prelims and only two lost out in the quarterfinals. Gordie Danks, 130, Guy Guc cione, 137, Sam Minor, 147, Ron Pifer, 157, Jerry Seckler, 167, Phil Myer, 191, and Johnston Oberly all survived to give the Lions a formidable array for tomorrow’s final two rounds. Tony Scordo, 123-pounder, and Hank Barone, 177, bowed in to night’s second round action. Observers expect the title race to reduce to a two-way battle be tween Pitt and Penn State. The Lions have one more man in con tention than the Panthers but the (Continued, on page six) Questionnaires Due Today All students who received ques tionnaires concerned with traits and attributes of the student leader should turn them in today to the dean of men’s office, 109 Old Main. To Publish New Series Beginning Tuesday the Col legian will publish a series of articles in which members of the University's faculty and staff will express their views on problems of the day. Each week three outstand ing guests will be interviewed. Next week's question will be: "Does the honor system be long at Penn State?'' Preliminary Nomination : Parties to Hold Meetings Tomorrow By ELAINE MIELE Preliminary nominations for SGA elections will be made at Campus and University party meetings tomorrow I night. Final registration will also be held. University party will meet at 7 p.m. in 119 Osmond. Campus party will meet at 7 p.m. in 121 Sparks. The elections commission will meet at 6:15 p.m. in 119 Osmond. Party meetings for final nomin ations will be held nexf Sunday. In order for students to vote for nominees at these final meetings they must have registered at one of the preliminary meetings, Rob ert Umstead, elections commis sion chairman, said. Party platforms will be dis cussed at the University party fatly iatmen Take i Easterns; s into Semis By JOHNNY BLACK Assistant Sports Editor J.J., March 11 Penn State forged into a over Lehigh at the half-way point in the iate Wrestling Association Championships ies advanced to the semi-final lampion Nittany Lions latched s nine entr: ir season c :ige over the : ear capacity —Collegian Photo by Charles Jacques OPERA IN THE 20lh CENTURY .. . was the topic of a talk given by Hugo Weisgall, visiting professor of music, last night in the Hetzel Union assembly. This was one of a series of lectures on opera which Weisgall has presented since he came to 'he Uni versity this fall. Pratt Library Offers Grants Three $l5OO scholarships for graduate library study are be ing offered by the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Md. Two of the awards will come from the library’s gift funds and one from the Arthur H. Parsons, Jr., Memorial Scholarship given by the Enoch Pratt Library Staff Association. Recipients of these scholarships must agree Jo accept employment with the library for two years fol-; lowing graduation. Deadline for filing applications is May 1. Inquiries should be ad dressed to the Personnel Office, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Balti more 1, Md. meeting, James Nelligan, party by Wednesday, Nelligan said, chairman, said. The party has al- They are available- at the Hetzel “silyt'Sesi? pSSm S «»™ «*> ««« would provide for the collecting ln £ s of University keepsakes. In addition to a regular nom inating session Campus parly will hold an open meeting on the order of a national political nominating convention for all students to debate issues for party planks. In a statement to The Daily Collegian, John Brandt, Campus party chairman, said: The pres ent Campus party consists of a group of people who -feel that the establishment of a proper political party and the holding of a real nominating convention supercedes the desire to elect any particular candidate at the pres ent time. Applications for University par ty candidates must be turned ini FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 12. 1960 U.S. Pioneer V Goes Into Orbit WASHINGTON (JP) The United States scoring a big point in the space contest with the Soviet Union yesterday shot a beachball-size sphereload of instruments into an-orbit “ calculated to carry it closer to the sun than man ever has probed before. The 94.8-pound space probe, given the name Pioneer V, sped aloft just after 8 a.m. from Cape Canaveral, Fla. It was fired, one after an other, with Almost nine hours after Mercury to Stay Below Freezing Yesterday almost made it. Above freezing that is. Bright sunshine pushed the mercury up to 32 degrees, the highest reading of this month. Today will mark the 12th con secutive day that the tempera ture has failed to climb above freezing. A high of 29 degrees is pre idicted The cold spell be gan a little more than four weeks ago and seemed to grow intense with time. The highest tem perature observed during the last 22 days was only 36 degrees Tomorrow should be partly cloudy and continued cold with a high cf about 30 degrees. There are no applications re quired for Campus party. During the preliminary regis tration meeting held last Sun day, 55 students registered for Campus party and 351 regis tered for University party. SGA elections, will take place on April 4,5, and 6. Officers elected will be: president, vice pres ide n t, secretary-treasurer, senior class president, junior class president, nine senior assembly men, six junior assemblymen and three sophomore assemblymen. - Candidates will also run for the Assembly seats which have been vacated because members have lost the required 2.4 All- University average. n the nose of a powerful Thor-Able rocket whose three stages clocklike precision. launching, the space probe was more than 83,000 miles from. SGA Votes For More Hub Phones SGA Assembly voted Thurs day to pay for three additional phones to be installed in the Hetzel Union Building. Students would be able to make downtown calls on the phones at no cost. John Witmer (U.-Soph.) told Assembly the phones would be unlisted and no number would be shown on the dial. This would prevent students from making iong-distance calls, he said. The cost per phone per year would be $90.60, Witmer said. SGA President Leonard Julius explained that SGA did have a “floating fund” to be used for •these instances, but that it had not yet been used. Assembly also heard a report on the election schedule from Elec tions Commission Chairman Rob ert Umstead. David Byers, alternate Assem blyman, asked Umstead if the commission had considered allow ing representatives from each party to sit at the ballot boxes with commission members. He said he knew no other way of phrasing his question besides saying that some people “migh' not trust the election commission.'’ Umstead said the commission had discussed this at their last meeting, and had decided against it as an impracticality as well as an insult to their integrity. He said problems would arise if only one of the parties sent a rep resentative. Walker to Retain Calendar Decisions An objection to the University Senate action which turned the calendar decision over to President Eric A. Walker and the Board of Trustees was overruled Thursday in the Senate meeting. Acting on a suggestion from the Committee on Calendar and Class Schedule, the Senate had turned the decision over to Walker oh Feb. 11. The committee based its sug gestion on the grounds that aca demic standards would not be harmed by a switch to a quarter system and the decision to change was now administrative in nature. Rolf G. Winter, senator from the College of Chemistry and Physics, asked that the action be declared void because "the i Senate cannot delegate consti tutional rights --nth out an" amendment to the constitution." In a letter to the Senate, Win ter cited Article II of the Senate constitution which states that the Senate shall be the sole legisla tive body on questions pertaining to the educational interests of the University. It then lists specific areas which include educational policy and calendar policy. Winter said that even if the rgiatt Take the Good Points See Page 4 earth. It had slowed to about 8000 miles an hour from the maximum velocity of 24,869 miles an hour with which it escaped the earth's gravitational field. The elated scientists proclaimed it successfully on its way into what they said was the broadest study yet undertaken of space mysteries. Early fracking information indicated Pioneer was function ing normally, wiihoui any tum bling or wobbling. Its radio equipment, powered by the sun’s rays, also was reported operat ing as expected. The scientists said they expect to be able to keep radio contact with Pioneer V for four or five months, and possibly make new contacts some time in 1963. The mission assigned to the 28- inch-across Pioneer: to radio back to earth data on the phenomena it encounters in the vast reaches between the orbital paths traveled by earth and Venus, which is mil lions of miles closer to the sun. According to calculations in the first hours of what may be a nev er-ending voyage, Pioneer is trav eling in a somewhat elliptical or bit that would bring it within 74 7 million miles of the sun, about five months from now. That would be about 17 mil lion miles closer to the sun than either the Soviet l ! 4-ton Mech ia or this country's 13-pound Pioneer IV were able to achieve after their launching early in 1959. The new Pioneer's far thest distance from the sun is expected to reach 93 million miles. That is the same as the earth's distance. Advance word from the Nation al Aeronautics and Space Ad miistration was that scientists hoped Pioneer V would intersect Venus’ orbit about 67 million miles from the sun. decision did not concern educa tional policy, it still remained under Senate jurisdiction because calendar policy was mentioned in part 7 of section 1 of Article 11. Walker, also in a letter to the Senate, presented his rul ing on the question by citing the by-law which states that the Committee on Calendar and Class Schedule shall recommend to the Senate policies concern ing the calendar. In giving his ruling, which was not questioned by the Senate, Walker said, “It is the ruling of the President of the University that this is not a question of juris diction.” Walker had assured the Senate at its last meeting that no im mediate decision could be made on the calendar if the matter wa* turned over to him. FIVE CENTS
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