, ; t ' - 4 • : IA ts 4 • a. • • Weati!er Foiecao: 1111 ', - - Intelligenit Suan • 1.i..i. ~. TO It legi tilt • _ Votes ,: I i • y, t. ' -- , Somewhat Milder. i .. PTlei N . . see page 4 . , VOL 62. No. 115 • FACING THE PRESS are some of the candi- dates running in the- Undergraduate Student varsity) for USG President: Randy Carter GOVerliZtallt elections starting tomorrow. Can- (University) for ' senior class president: and didates are Allison Woodall (Campus•Libeial) George Gordon ,(Campus-Liberal) foi USG for USG president: Moral's' Baker (Univeisity) vice prisident. USG Candidates Discuss springi Election Issues Candidates for' the tinder graduate Student GovernMent presidency, Allison Woodall (Campus-Liberal) and j Dean Wharton . (University) Yester day at a; press conference - tents ' : lively agreed as they did.on most .issues 'that there is no need to seat class presidents on the USG Congresi. At the same time, candidates for the class presidencies re affirmed their position that class representation in the Congress is important. • • • WHARTON SAID his objection were • becanse •fwhether we Like it or not, t4e time will come when the, clzisses,Will slowly disappeat due to the, term system." Although Miss - Wm:l4f said she sees a futurelor classes for a long time to coine, she did not see the value of class presidents having a seat on, Congress. ' The primary • functio, ,of the class president is to 'handle the class affairs such as raising money lor the class gift, she said., • When asked about University party's plank to sponsor a USG column in The - Daily Collegian, Wharton explained that he. in tended to have USG pay for the space. He said the space could carry editorials written by - the USG congressmen, or could be used alternately by the politic'al parties. I PlOoisi Suggests IFC . Control .- for 63 Spring Week Events liAominendations tha ti the' Interfraternity , Cottocil • astmAl thi management :of. next ear's' Spring Week and , that the carni val* be t eliii*ated and the float parade be resumed were proposed! at -the TIC meeting last night by retiring' president, Richard Pi gossi. PIG.OSSI SAID that since thel fraternities are the. main . source of . support and participation for 'Spring Week, he would, like ;to' see the organization of the activi-i ties ' be taken from' the student government and be given to /1 4 C because the fraternities are`inore interested and better qualifiedito handle it. j : ' Emil Sos, newly installedircr —Cabream Pilate b 7 Bill Goodman for USG vice preeulant: Dean Wharton (Uni- Another plank questioned was the Campus-Liberal support of the National Student Association. MiS3 Woodall said the organiza tion "has a lot of services," but the individual members '"have to . . - make it work." • - SHE USED a mail-ordei book service as one example of 4'lSA's "advantages." Offering a 10 to 25 per cent dii co"unt, the service supplies, books to students within a week after the order is placed and will take back wrong books, Miss Woodall said. With a show of amiability be tween oposing parties Miss Wood all accepted a cigaret from Morris Baker, University party's vice presidential .Candidate. and con tinued explaining NSA. She cited an information agency which coin piles ideas from NSA member schools and an identification Card which enables students to enter European museums and monu ments at a seduced rate as ex amples of __further NSA services. Discussing the effects of party switching, Baker said 'it is bad for the party system which the students have voted to continue." Wharton added that party switch ing indicates "there - is no major issue which separates the parties, and parties are just used as a means of getting 'elected." Miss Woodall said it is a reflec• tion of faults within the party system, and party-switching can ibe blamed on individtials within dent of the council, proposed "that the float parade take place on Friday night of Spring Week nbxt yearf and that-•the IFC-Panhel Music Festival, which would fea ture a jazz group and possibly popular entertainment such as the Kingston Trio, be scheduled for . Saturday night. A Both Pigossi and Sos said that the carnival should be eliminated because it is a public example of the fraternity system at its worst. Pigossi also said that enthusiasm for Spring Week seems much lower this year than it has been in past. The proposals for the changes in Spring Week organization and management will be voted on at the next IFC meeting. FOR A BITTER PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 24. 1961 parties and events that occur. Wharton•said he favored estab lishing University party's pro posed Student Opinion Bureau as a separate agency. He said its head could possibly„be the USG (Continued on ;Yeas five) • Spring Week Rules Set . r * Signs worn by individuals will be allowed on the carnival be the only type of "live" adver- grounds. tising for Spring Week that will •All groups must have their be permitted before Saturday. grounds checked after the carni- Robert Polishook Spring Week . ; ,Milder- Weather Due; chairman, ;said last night. vat by the • .. Paul K/OW, before cainival chairman, they are ell aunny Skies Expected - 1 ANY TYPE of advertising in.'gible to have their $25 deposit The pleasantly warm and beau volving automobiles, groups o f refunded. ;tiful weather that was enjoyed, persons or musical instruments •All parts of the skit except !Saturday and Sunday was re-,will be perniitted only between the tent-itself must -be removed ;placed •by considerably cooler; noon and 1 p.m. and from 5 to 7 .from the fairgrounds before the :air from Canada yesterday. .y es . i p.m. Saturday, the-day of the car-.groups will be checked out. terday's high temperature was 5 6 ;nival, Polishook,said. I degrees as compared to a maxi- ; Durint the„ hours of the coml.. be •All checks for the tents must submitted by 5 p.m;; today to mum of 79 Sunday afternoon. ival, 7 p.m. td,midnight, groups in the Spring Week committee id ! A new warming trend should be- 'costume may circulate on ' the 202 Hetzet Union Building. i igin today, and continue tomorrow7carnival grounds to publicize their skits, he added. •Work on the carniVal booths 1 earn', ! Additional- rules for the Today and tomorrow should be. may be started at 1 p.m Friday. • sunny. A high of 60 is Indicated; . . ;. In the event of rain Jon Sattir 'for today, and a high of 72 degrees'val as stated by Poll-shook ti re, daynight, postponement of thi is likely tcmorrow. 1 •No person on academic pro- carnival will be annOunced on Clean-and chilly weather is seen; hation may participate,m the clir - ,WMAJ radio. Polishook said The ;for tonight, and a low of 37 is nival skits. !carnival will then be held on !expected. I I •No alcoholic beverages will Monday evening. he added. EASTER SUNRISE: A crowd of nearly 1,000 members of the meditation choirs and a ID hardy,studina and townspeople attended the member bran ensemble participated in the II a.m. Easter rumin service on the steps of service. The Rev. P. Barrett Rudd delivered Old Main. A. choir cortipmed et 110 'volunteer the sermon. tlas 'Braid Fails in Latest Flight CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (fit The United States fired an inquisitive scientific probe toward the moon yesterday, but failure'of the spaceeraft',l brain apparently wrecked the major portion of the ambitions experiment. . There remained a faint hope that devite the basic mai function the Ranger 4 thight crash-' land on the moon. It would be a substantial - consolation prize—the first such accomplishment in the trouble - redden U.'S. moon - shut efforts A giant Atlas-Agena B- rocket blasted away from its - launching pad at 3:50 p.m. with the gold and silver spacecraft tucked in, its nose. THE POWERFUL ROOSTER worked as planned, unleashed the 30-pound Ranger 4 on a course toward the moon at the planned speed of 24,500 mules per hour, But two. hours later, the Na tional Aeronautics and' Space Ad ministration reported a• malfunc tion had occurred in the space-, craft radio system making it im possible to determine whether Ranger 4 was responding to coin manda sent to it from earth. At a news conference, William H. Pickering, director of NASA's jet propulsion laboratory, said the problem apparently was serious and that the space craft probably would not be able to carry out most of its missions. THESE INCLUDED snapping, television pictures of the moon and relaying them to the earth and landing an instrument pack age on the lunar surface to mea sure moonquakes and meteor hits. • Pickering said there was a slim possibility that the entire space craft could crash on the moon., The United States has 'failed in seven previous attempts to hit the moon. As originally planned; Ranger 4 would have reached the moan at 8:50 a.m., Thursday., PICXEBINe r SAID the official indication of trouble came when a South African tracking station was unable to receive telemetry signals radioed from Instrument" inside the body of the spacecraft However, signals were being re ceived from two tracking beacons in the vehicles. Without telemetry signals essen tial to the 'Mission, stations on earth will be unable to determine whether commands sent to The Ranger 4 arc being earned out. FIVE CENTS
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