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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
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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
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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.
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