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VOL. 54, No. 78
University Senate
Alters Classification
For Undergraduates
Undergraduate students will be classified by semester rather than
by class standing as the result of a new set of rules approved yester
day by the University Senate.
According to the new rules semester classification will be deter
mined by the number of completed credits applicable to the curricu
' lum in which the student is en
rolled. At the end of a semester,
classification will not be advanced
if the student is deficient by more
than ten credits of the total cur
ricular requirements as of the end
of the semester.
A student who changes his cur
riculum will be reclassified in ac
cordance with these rules. In or
der to be eligible for 400 courses
the student must have fifth se
• mester standing.
A recommendation by the Sen
ate committee on. academic stan
dards that the rule dealing with
1 correspondence courses be amend
ed for purposes of clarification
was also approved.
The committee pointed out in
its report that through misunder
standing of the ruling that stu
dents may take correspondence
courses while they are not in resi
dent study at the University, some
students have been permitted to
register for ..correspondence work
during the Christmas holiday,
completing the courses at mid
semesters or Easter recess.
According to the amended rule
students will be considered in res
ident study during the entire aca-
Idemie year. Correspondence
courses begun during the summer
must be completed before the fall
semester or completed the follow
ing summer. Full time summer
school attendance is defined as
residence. Students may register
for correspondence work during
spring semester final examina
tions,
Firecracker
Law Posted
In Dorms
A warning that students pos
sessing or making use Of fire
crackers on campus will be sub
ject to disciplinary action by the
Senate committee on student af
fairs’ sub-committee on discipline
has been posted in all dormitor
ies, according to James W. Dean,
assistant to the dean of men in
charge of independent affairs.
Besides possible action by the
Senate committee, students may
also face prosecution for violation
of borough and state ordinances,
the warning said.
Anyone setting off fireworks
within borough limits is liable for
a $25 fine plus costs. Under the
state law, anyone who uses or
transacts business regarding fire
works, or ships fireworks within
the state is liable for a $lOO fine,
or imprisonment, or both. Fire
works being shipped are subject
to confiscation.
Residents of second floor Ham
ilton Hall who use the lavatory in
which a commode was destroyed
by a cherry bomb' Jan. 4 have
paid $65 for the commode, Dean
said.
A resident of the floor was ac
quitted by the Association of In
dependent Men’s Judicial Board
of Review of being responsible for
detonating the bomb.
Eight residents of McKee Hall
are under suspension for their use
of fireworks in the dormitory be
tween Jan. 4 and 8.
6 fo Attend Confab
For Sigma Pi Eta
Six delegates from the local
chapter of Sigma Pi Eta, national
hotel administration fraternity,
will attend the national conven
tion of the fraternity, Feb. 19 and
20 at Michigan State College.
Delegates are Guy Gerhart,
Rueben Moose, James Krug, An
drew Stovers, Janet Toffy, and
John Trippe. Richard Bower, as
sistant professor of hotel adminis
tration, will accompany the group.
Big 4 Progress in Asia Peace Talks
BERLIN, Feb. 11 (#>)—Under. rean peace conference and to stop
a thick cloak of secrecy, the Big supplying Communist-led guerilla
J?our foreign ministers argued to- armies in Indochina as a prelude
aay on peace measures for Asia. Ito peace negotiations there
A Western source said “a shade of One big stumbling block to the
P r ogress was made. Korean peace conference was Rus
-Ihe secret talk, second of the sia’S continued refusal to sit along
week, lasted 4 hours and 15 min- side Red China and North Korea
utes, with only a noncommittal 31- on the “aggressor” side of the
word communique issued jointly table as proposed by the United
afterward. Nations.
But Soviet Russia and the West- A Western source refused to
ern powers agreed to take up the give details about today’s “shade
same topic in a third hush-hush of progress.” It may have been
meeting tomorrow morning when simply that all the answers were
xney will go on to the Austrian not finally in to each side’s prop
maependence treaty in an unre- ositions and, in lieu of that, hope
stricted afternoon session. has not been completely extin-
The United States, Britain and guished.
prance tried again today to crack The source forecast the Berlin
soviet Foreign Minister Molotov’s conference would run to the end
insistence on bringing Red China of next week. Previously, some
into a Big Five conference on Western diplomats expected a
ItI 0 *? 1 J ss H es v„ breakup by next Wednesday or
But the West admittedly sought Thursday. ;
JL ??. Russian influence to bear Bidault is under great pressure ]
-raping to speed up the Ko- at home to.start talks on settle-ii
.ever* —to .
A student dropped from the
University for poor scholarship
may receive credit for correspon
dence work, according to another
rule approved by the Senate. To
apply the credits toward require
ments for a degree the student
must be reinstated by the Senate
committee on academic standards.
The present pre-veterinary cur
riculum will be dropped arid an
other added, as the result of Sen
ate approval of the report of the
Senate committee on courses of
study.
Book Soles fo End
Af Noon in TUB
Today is the last day students
can purchase second -hand
books at the Used Book Agen
cy in Temporary Union Build
ing. ÜBA will be open from 9
a.m. till noon.
ÜBA will reopen from 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. Monday through Wed
nesday to refund money and
return unsold books.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 12. 1954
Cabinet
Customs
Beaver Dam Cleared
RECREATION STUDENTS and members of the Outing Club
remove dead trees to improve the skating area at Beaver Dam
where the University has received 100 acres from the State De
partment of Forests and Waters for an outdoor recreational area.
Gift of 100
Donated by
A gift of approximately 100 acres has been received from the
State Department of Forests and Waters for the development of an
outdoor recreational area in Logan Forest.
President Milton S. Eisenhower said the tract, located about nine
miles south of State College, will be developed by the University
over a period of years. The site,
known as Beaver Dam, eventually
will provide facilities for swim
ming, boating, hiking, and camp
ing.
Players Announce
Cast of New Play •
The cast for Players’ produc
tion of Arthur Miller’s “Death of
a Salesman” has been announced
by Kelly Yeaton, associate pro
fessor of dramatics.
Morton Slakoff will portray the
salesman Willy Loman. Other
leading roles will be played by
Elizabeth Ives. Gordon Greer,
Gerald Denisov, Robert Smith,
and Albert Ely.
Also in the cast are Rochelle
Zinger, Lee Stern, Thomas Beilin,
Kaye Vinson, Midge Lippy, Alyce
Mears, and Phyllis • Yoho.
Edwin Grove is stage manager
and Nancy May is assistant direc
tor.
- The show is scheduled to open
March 11 in Schwab Auditorium
for a three-day run.
ment of the Indochina War. He
went into today’s meeting deter
mined to pin Molotov down to a
clear position on this.
With Dulles and .Eden, Bidault
held the view Red China must
first demonstrate good faith in
helping end Asia’s “little war” be
fore claiming equality as a great
power;
From another informed Western
quarter came an admonition to
night not to be “prematurely op
timistic” because the , Big Four’s
Asian debate. would continue at
least another day. ..
There was a hint that Molotov
had indulged in some verbal ma
neuvers today, which after fur
ther elaboration probably would
wind up as his old Big Five con
ference proposal in different
words.
All assumptions pointed to
Molotov’s fighting determinedly to
raise Red China’s prestige at West
ern expense.
Acres
State
Educational Uses
The tract will also be utilized
by the College of Physical Educa
tion and Athletics for teaching
and research and provide facili
ties for programs sponsored by
other Colleges of the University.
Criteria for the selection of the
site included acreage, water for
drinking and acquatics, accessi
bility, scenic beauty, natural re
sources, remoteness from densely
populated areas, and the abun
dance and variety of wild life.
Counselors Training
The program for camping and
outdoor education will provide
preparation of teachers for out
door education in schools and
training for camp counselors and
directors.
Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the
College of Physical Education and
Athletics, said only a few coun
selors at Pennsylvania’s 450 or
ganized camps are professionally
trained. The site will also serve
as a demonstration area for camp
ing and outdoor edi cation.
Coombs Given Credit
McCoy has credited Fred M.
Coombs, professor of physical ed
ucation and Harold B. White as
sistant professor of physical edu
cation, with having done work to
advance the immediate usefulness
of the area.
Coombs said yesterday he did
not know how soon it would be
possible to begin working on the
long-range development program,
but students have been working
voluntarily on the dam to im
prove present skating conditions.
Members of the Outing Club
and recreation students worked
during the fall semester removing
dead trees and stumps from the
skating area and repairing the
earthen dam. Coombs said there
have been 30 skating days so far
this winter.
Proposals
Dunlap Plan
For Traffic
Freshman men will no longer be
required to wear black bow ties
during the customs period accord
ing to an amendment to the pro
posed freshman customs regula
tions approved by All-College
Cabinet last night. The proposed
customs regulations were read be
fore Cabinet for the first time last
nipht.
Recommendations for Traffic
Court changes were also anproved
by cabinet. The proposals, pre
sented by court chairman James
Dunlap, will now be referred to
the Traffic Court for further
study.
An amendment making is nec
essary for freshman men to wear
ties of their own choice during
the two weeks customs period was
defeated. This amendment was
proposed by Joseph Barnett, jun
or class president.
Somers Backs Motion
Joe Somers, nresident of the
.Association of Independent Men,
speaking in support of Barnett’s
proposal, stated that passage of
this amendment would result in
better enforcement of dormitory
dining hall dress regulations.
A proposal to delete section 3-F
from the proposed regulations was
also defeated. This section re
quires freshman men to answer
the call “button frosh”-by doffing
their dinks in the direction of the
upperclassman who directed the
call. This section also states that
freshman women are required to
curtsy. when the call “Curtsy,
Frosh” is directed at them by up
perclasswomen.
The section of the regulations
requiring both men and women to
wear a blue dink with the Uni
versity seal as a regular part of
the customs program was also
passed by Cabinet. Freshmen are
now required to wear a plain
green dink for the duration of the
customs period.
Also included in the proposed
regulations is the provision that
veterans will be automatically ex
empted from all customs. A stu
dent filing information to show
he is a veteran in order to avoid
customs would be considered as
a customs violator.
The revisions also call for a
disciplinary subcommittee of the
Senate committee on student af
fairs to hear appeals of violations
from the Customs Board and from
Tribunal or Judicial, rather than
by cabinet.
WSGA Approves Changes
The proposed customs regula
tions have the approval of the
Senate of the Women’s Student
Government Association, the
Freshman Customs Board, and the
Freshman Council in addition to
All-College Cabinet. Cabinet must
read and approve the regulations
two more times before they be
come effective.
Dunlap’s recommendations to
cabinet were:
1. Study the inequality of pun
ishment for traffic violations be
tween students and members of
the faculty and University em
ployees.
2. Review the fine system.
3. Consider registering all cars,
whether or not they have a park
in permit. This would begin in
tne fall semester, or sooner.
Indian Students to Defend
Foreign Policy in Debate
Two students from Indian uni
versities will defend the proposi
tion that Indian foreign policy
offers the only hope for the estab
lishment of world peace against
two members of the men’s debate
team at 8 p.m. Wednesday in
Schwab Auditorium,
Panhei
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