today's For cast Cold and Cloud , VOL. 57. No. 57 ts, Officials Back Stude Comm nity Living Plan ceived from both students and University een highly favorable toward a community l ording to a preliminary report of the Associ dent Men Community Living Committee. Ishows a favorable reaction by seven faculty members and among 81 per cent of the 500 studentt of both sexes polled on the plan; which pro poses a living program with equal numbers of men and women liv ing in the same areas but in sepa rate residence halls. Daniel Thalimer, chairman of the committee and president of the West Halls Council, will pre sent the report to the AIM Board of Governors at 7 tonight in 203 Hetzel Union. Simes To Speak Opinions r: officials have • living plan, acct ation of Indepe The report Flash May F Reloca lon John Kersh, H t Society Coun cil president, sug.ested at a meet ing of the council last night that the flash card sy..tem be enlarged and moved to another section of Beaver Field next year. Because of the construction of Beaver Field, a larger card sec tion is needed in order for the spectators to receive the full value - of the cards, Kersh said. He sug gested approximately 800 cards instead of the 304 used this fall. Although two possible new lo cations for the section were dis cussed, the council seemed to be in agreement that it should be in the middle of the stadium, across from the press box. The second suggestion was moving the sec tion from the middle to an end of the horseshoe. If the section is moved across from the press box, the partici pants of the system would, in all probability, be the seniors, Kersh said. The council decided it would try to include on the spring elec tions ballot a question concerning the interest .of the seniors in par ticipating in the system. A committee was set up to look into the feasability of the card system as an activity. Merle Brook s, member of Scrolls, who along with Sally Jer vis, member of Cwens, is co chairwoman of the system, told the group that the system should certainly be given a chance ,to prove its worth. Frash Escapes Crash Injuries Robert Homan, freshman in civil engineering from Boalsburg, escaped injury Monday when a truck pushed a car into the rear of his car on Route 322, one mile west of Boalsburg. Police said a truck operated by Glenn' Strbuse of State College RD 1 struck the rear of a car operated by Robert Stuckenrath of Lewistown and pushed it into the rear of Homan's car. Homan's and Stuckenrath's cars were stopped on the highway waiting for a ear ahead to make a left turn. Damage to Homan's car was estimated at $2OO. Total damage was estimated at $llOO. ands Dean of Men Frank J. Simes, who favors the plan, will speak to the board on possible ways of arriving at such a program. Of the 273 men and 227 women contacted in the student opinion poll, 406 (242 men and 164 wom en) favored the plan. Only 37 (11 men and 26 women)-7 per cent—opposed the program and 57 (19 men and 38 women)-11 per cent—had no feelings on the matter. On the administration level, the report said, Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, has expressed an interest in the com mittee's . findings and has guar anteed that the final report will be given "the fullest consider ation." Otto E. Mueller, director of housing, said he believes the pro gram could be successfully oper ater at the University. Favorable Opinions Favorable opinions were also expressed by Ross Lehman, secre tary of the alumni association; Rev. Luther H. Harshbarger, Uni versity chaplain; William B. Crafts, assistant to the dean of men; and Dr. Robert G. Bern reuter, head of the division of counseling. The board will also discuss moves to investigate the traffic court and to express approval of a proposed extension of hours at the University skating rink from 10 to 11 p.m. Fridays and Satur days. Plans Revealed For Graduation The January graduatio'n exer cises this year will be combined with the Baccalaureate services, with the program beginning at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 27 in Rec reation Hall. The deans of the nine colleges will present the graduates with their diplomas. Guests of the graduates will not need tickets for the exercises. Detailed plans for the exercises have not yet been completed, but instructions to students who are being graduated will be issued by the University Marshal, David H. McKinley; about three weeks be fore graduation. Clinton Voters Defeat Segregationists CLINTON, Tenn., Dec. 4 (JP) Clinton voters handed segregationists a 4-1 slap at the polls today as federal of ficials moved to halt a new outbreak of racial strife which closed Clinton High School. The election returns showing an overwhelming defeat of can didates endorsed by the White Citizens Council were announced in the quietly tense town after a day crammed with these events: Minister Attacked 1. A Baptist minister was at tacked by a group of white men after he escorted six Negroes, who had stayed away from school four days, through a crowd of jeering bystanders to the school. ~...... ..- 11 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 5. 1956 FOR A BETTER PENN STATE World Premiere Scheduled Here The University will be the scene of a world premiere, complete with famous theat rical personalities, of Eugene Raskin's fantastic comedy, "One's a Crowd." The play is scheduled to open Feb. 22 at Center Stage, with a Players cast. Raskin, director of the advisory board of the New Dramatics Committee in New —Daily Collegian Photo by Joe Patton A WORKMAN standing on the already raised third floor of the new women's dorms along E. College Ave., is shown operating the jack control valves. The hydraulic jacks which raise the floors info position are shown at the top of the photo. The method is known as "lift-slab." Full-Time Student Enrollment Tops All Universities in State Thq University has strengthened its ranking as the larg est "full time" university in Pennsylvania. Although fourth in tota Pittsburgh, and the University of Pennsylvania, the University's 14,689 full-time students far out number those at the other three institutions. Current fall statistics show 9312 full-time students enrolled at the University of Pennsyl vania, 8695 at the University of Pittsburgh and 8034 at Temple University. The University's figures in clude 14,208 undergraduates and 481 graduate students on and off campus for its 14,689 full-time total. Enrollment Increases In total enrollment increase, the University ranks second among the "big 4" with 693 addi tional students. Penn showed the greatest increase with 845. Tem- One man was arrested on assault charges. 2. The school board ordered the school closed "until further no tice." 3. U.S. District Attorney John C. Crawford asked federal Judge Robert LI Taylor, of Knoxville to order the "arrest of certain par ties" for contempt of the court in Clinton disorders. Brownell Wires Board 4. U.S. Attorney General Her bert Brownell wired the Anderson County School Board that the Justice Department would take action to protect those who obey Taylor's order desegregating Clin ton High, but added that "the re sponsibility . . . rests upon state and local authorities ..." In the city election, Former Mayor T. L. Seeber defeated groc- Tollggiatt enrollment behind Temple, ple is third with an increase of 592, and Pitt ranks fourth with 207. For part time enrollment, the breakdown shows Temple, 9808, Pitt, 8890, Penn, 7459, and the University, 1356. Pazt Time Students The University includes 355 un dergraduates and 1001 graduate students in its part time total. The total enrollment figures are, Temple, 17,842, Pitt, 17,585, Penn, 16,771, and the University, 16,045. The University's on campus to tal includes 11,186 full-time, and 1271 part-time students. Ogontz Center, at Abington, has 588 full-time students, the largest number at any center. er James C. Meredith 1,241-343. Meredith had been endorsed by the White Citizens Council, but neither candidate had taken a stand on the issue. Two alderman candidates supported by the coun cil also were defeated. Brownell Answers Plea Brownell's telegram was in an swer to the board's resolution of Monday demanding federal help, and asserting local officers could not be expected to enforce a fed eral court mandate. The attorney general said the FBI is investigating the situation with the object of bringing be fore the Knoxville court "on prop er process all persons who may have willfully violated the order of the court." He referred to a permanent in junction issued by Taylor aimed at halting mob disturbances the first week of school. Hungarian Drive See Page 4 York, is also an associate profes sor of architecture at Columbia University. The play was chosen by the director, Robert Reifsneider, as sociate professor of theatre arts, from a selection of plays sent to the University by the New Drama tists Committee. The production of "One's a Crowd" is expected to draw both local and out-of-state audiences. including prominent New York theatrical personalities. Pictures to Be Taken A series of photographs of both the rehearsals and world premiere presentation will be taken for nation circulation in various well known publications. The New Dramatists Committee sponsors a plan which helps talented new playwrights who it feels are equipped to contribute in the immediate future to the theatre's need for new plays of high calibre. - Among the former New Drama tists v. ho have already attained Time are Jo,eph Kramm, author of "The Shrike," Robert Ander son. "Tea and Sympathy.". and William Inge, "Picnic" and "Bus Stop." Directors Listed Directors of the New Dramatists Committee include such noted people as Roger Stevens, Maxwell Anderson, Robert Anderson, Rus sel Crouse, Oscar Hammerstein H, Moss Hart, Joseph Kramm, Henry MorgenthaU, Elmer Rice, Richard Rodgers, Michaela O'Har ra, John Wharton. Howard Lind sey. and George Hamlin. Tryouts for "One's a Crowd" will be held Dec. 16 and 17. Scripts are now available for reading in the Green Room in Schwab Audi torium. Raskin will attend both the try outs and many of the rehearsals to make any changes in the script that he finds necessary. To Run for 6 Weekends The play will be presented by Players in arena style at Center Stage and will play for six week— ends. This is the third original pro duction presented by Players in the last three years. The first two, both written by students at the University. were "The First Day of Summer" by Bert States and "Pillars in the Night" by BM Coleman. Players' presentation of "One's a Crowd" is another step towards giving the department of theatre arts its rightful recognition, both locally and nationally, according to a departmental spokesman. Weather Turns Cloudy, Cold The Nittany Lion is solemnly sitting in his den this morning paying the penalty for walking in his shorts to long after yester day's warm weather grew chilly last night. Like many students, he grew optimistic concerning the warm weather and threw caution to the wind. Last night's and to day's colder weather caught the Lion com pletely off-guard and he is now in the process of suffering through a com mon campus cold Cloudy skies with a high ad 30-35 is forecast today. Some snow may arrive before evening. This morning's low was fore cast as 20-25. FIVE CENTS
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers