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classmen to Sing, Cheer
verse' Customs Today
Uppe
In 'R
Frosh to 4
Sweet R:
All in On
venge
- Day
Brace yours. yes, upper
classmen, with a thorough
knowledge of th school songs
and cheers, for oday is joint
"reverse" custo s day.
Joint "reverse" ustoms means
freshman men an. women may
ask upperclassme to bow and
upperclasswomen to curtsy.
Frosh may also stop groups of up
perciass students and have them
sing a few school songs or shout
some cheers.
This is the firs! time in re
cent years such a day has
been set aside for freshmen
to turn the customs program
on upperclassmen.
A recommendation for such a
day came from the Orientation,
Tradition and School Spirit
workshop of the 1957 Student
Encampment.
Heather Lohrentz and Alvin
Clemens, „Freshman Customs
Board co-chairmen, have asked
upperclassmen to cooperate with
today's program and set an ex
ample of the fun and spirit that
can be found in customs.
Upperclassmen will have at
least, one more day to get
' back at the frosh for today's
reverse customs. Clemens
last night said the customs
4 Period may end Thursday
evening with a tug-of-war
between members of the
freshman ands ophom or e
classes.
However, if the frosh lose the
tug-of-war, customs would be ex
tended for another week.
Yesterday's turnabout day did
not seem to get much response
from upperclass students. Few
frosh coeds were seen "button
ing" and fewer frosh men curt
sying. Several freshman men
questioned about their opinion of
the turnabout day said that "this
curtsying bit is going a little too
far," but a few coeds said they
woud not have minded "button
ing" if someone asked them.
'Howdy. Night'
Will Be Given
By Ag Council
Howdy Night, the annual Ag
Hill get-acquainted party, will be
at 6:30 tonight in Hort Woods.
Final plans for the party were
presented by Carl Wolfe; senior
in forestry from Erie, at the Ag
riculture Student Council meet
ing last night.
The program will begin at
7 p.m. after a picnic supper.
Speakers for the program will be
Frank J. Simes, dean of - men;
Pearl 0. Weston, dean of women;
Lyman. E. Jackson,) dean of the
College of AgricultUre; Dr. Fred
C. Snyder, acting director of
short courses, and Russell Beatty,
president of the Agriculture Stu
dent Council.
The master of ceremonies for
the program will be Kermit
Yearick, senior in animal hus
bandry from Mill Hall. "The Ser
enaders" will provide music and
Richard Stuby, sophomore in ag
riculture education from Punxsu
tawney, will lead groursinging,
In case, of .rain the 'party will
be held next Wednesday.
In other business, Robert Heil
man, junior in dairy science from
Norristown, was appointed chair
man of the agriculture library im
provement committee. He said
questionnaires would be circu
lated .among the fa ulty and, stu
dents on Ag Hill to determine
what Imgrovemen ' could be
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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
—Daily Collegian photo by Barry Farminger
'SONG AND DANCE'—Two theater arts majors, Elaine Zeller
(left) of Wilkes-Barre and Nina Baker of Silver Spring, Md., went
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back to vaudeville yesterday to liven up customs.
Met Star to Appear;
Tickets Out Today
Tickets will be available to students starting at 1 p.m.
today for the George London concert, scheduled for 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday in Schwab Auditorium.
London, bass-baritone with the Metropolitan Opera Asso
ciation, will present the second concert in the Artists' Series.
Eleanor Steber, soprano for the
Metropolitan Opera Association
gave the first concert in the series
Sunday. ,
Students may obtain tickets
without charge by presenting
their Activity and Identification
cards at the Hetzel Union desk
between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. today
and between 9 a.m. and noon and
1 p.m. and 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Graduate students who have
paid full fees or who hold grants
or assistantships for which full
fees are paid also may obtain
tickets with students. A list of eli
gible graduate students is avail
able at the HUB desk. . •
Tickets for non-students will
be available from 9 a.m. to _noon
and from 1 p.m_ to 5 p.m. Friday
and Monday at the HUB desk.
These tickets will cost $1.75 each
If any- tickets remain Tuesday
they will again be available to
students between 9 p.m. and noon
U.S. Soldiers Arrive
Related Story on Page 3
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept.
24 (?P)—The Army flew 5001
battle-equipped regulars into
Little Rock today and pre
pared to activate all Arkan
sas' National Guard to enforce
federal school integration or
ders.
Paratroppers from- the famed
101st Airborne Division took up
stati o n s around Central High
School tonight while hundreds of
Little Rock people looked in.
There was no immediate reac
tion from the crowd.
The troops rolled in . convoy
from-Little Rock Air Force Base
shortly after dark.
The planes loaded with soldiers
landed at midafternoon-at Little
Totiggiatt
and 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. at the HUB
desk.
The committee arranging the
series has asked students who
obtain tickets and find at the last
minute that they cannot use them
to give the tickets to other stu
dents. This will assure full use
of available tickets and also give
students who might otherwise be
disappointed a chance to attend
the concert.
The series is financed by a $2
fee paid before registration. The
fee was approved by the Board
of Trustees during the summer
after being recommended by All-
University Cabinet last spring. It
was included in the new fee
i structure which went into effect
this semester.
The next concert of the series,
to be given by jazzman Dave
IBrubeck, is scheduled for Sun
day,' Oct. 20.
Rock Air Force Base. An officer
called City Hall asked for and got
permission to enter the city and
for a police escort to handle the
traffic.
"If federal troops are there. to
protect the children, the Negro
children will go to school to-
morrow," said Mrs. L. C. Bates.
NAACP state leader.
The regulars came from the
101st Airborne Division, stationed
at Ft. Ca m pbe 11, Ky. They
planned to report at Arkansas
district military headquarters not
far from the business district.
President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er took decisive action after ra
.
cial violence and riots swept
small parts of the city yesterday
and last night. •
The President federalized the
Arkansas National Guard and the
State Air National Guard.
His action placed the 8,900
Walker Stresses
Prompt Decision
On Joint Housing
Any policy the University may make on community living
must be decided within the next six or eight months, Presi
dent Eric A. Walker said yesterday.
He asked students to let him know soon what they would
like the_University to do in community living. ''The more
talking we do early in the game,,
the better off we are," he said. a T erms
is
the President said it;Juba
is probably too late to change the,
plans for the coed residence halls'
along College Avenue and the
new men's halls on Park Avenue, aika Death
it is not too late, he said, to plan,
future residence halls with corn
munity living in mipd.
Students generally think of the
West Halls ar an example of com
munity living. Here coeds and
men lived in the same area and
ate their meals in a central dining
hall. However, definitions of com
munity living can run as liberal
as men and women students liv
ing in the same residence hails
on different floors. -
The University does not
have a policy on community
living. The West Halls situa
tion happened acci dentally.
Thompson Hall was planned
for men, and women students
may move out next semester
if the new coed units along
College Avenue are finished
for the spring semester.
Walker said that because it
takes time to plan and build new
residence halls, a policy on com
munity living, if there is to• be
one, must be made within the
next six or eight months for any
new living units which may be
opened for the fall of 1962.
The PreSident expressed doubts
over what the fraternities are go
ing to do. He said the fraternities
have become one of the cheapest
places to live because most of
them were built many years ago.
"Can fraternities building at pre
sent costs be cheap?" he asked.
He noted that they are already
falling behind on the percentage
of male students they can accom
modate.
Because of the rising costs
and because The University
must borrow money to build
new residence halls the same
as any private individual or
group must, student rates for
residence halls built in the
future are going to be more
expensive, the President said.
"Do students want us to build
cheaper residence halls? Would
they like four-man rooms and less
singles and doubles to cut costs
to students?"
All of these questions, the Pres
ident said, must be answered soon
even for residence halls which
may open in 1962.
Delphi Activity Cards
Activity cards may be filled out
for Delphi, sophomore men's hat
society, at the Hetzel Union desk
until Oct. 5.
Second and third-semester stu
dents may apply.
in Little Rock
guardsinen under Army con
trol and took them out of state
control.
Gov. Orval Faubus, until today
the civilian commander of the
guard, first called up these troops
Sept. 2 to, as he said, prevent vio
lence. His orders also were to
prevent Negroes from entering
Central High School, focal point
to the trouble.
Violence erupted yesterday
when eight or nine Negro stu
dents walked into Central High
while a mob estimated as high
as 1.000 was diverted by four
Negro adults.
The Negro students were with
drawn a few hours later when
police felt the crowd might be
coine uncontrollable.
The school said eight attended
yesterday. Negro sources said
there were nine.
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By ED DUBBS
Collegial Editor
Accidental
State College Police Chief J. R.
Juba has called the death Sunday
of Walter Majka, member of Del
ta Chi fraternity, "purely acciden
tal," and closed the case.
Juba said he finished his inves
tigation Monday night at Pi Kap
pa Alpha fraternity, scene of the
fatal accident.
ilflz.‘jka, junior in civil engineer
ing from Binghamton, N.Y., died
in Centre County Hospital, Belle
fonte. Sunday afternoon, from a
laceration and hemorrhage of the
brain received in a fall into a
sunken patio on the PiKA lawn..
Funeral -services will be held
at 9:30 tomorrow morning in St:
Stanislaus Church, Binghamton.
Members of Delta Chi will leave
this afternoon in a body for Bing
hamton. A viewing will be held
this evening.
Police yesterday agreed with a
theory of University officials that
Majka was apparently taking a
shortcut to his house from Delta
Tau Delta fraternity early Sun
day morning when he fell into
the patio. He had visited the DTD
house briefly after attending a
joint party sponsored by Lambda
Chi Alpha, Delta Chi and PiKA.
Majka was found by members
'of .' the PiKA house who ,sum
moned the University Infirmary
ambulance. He remained at the
infirmary until 4:30 Sunday af
ternoon when his condition be
came worse. He was taken to the
Bellefonte hospital where he died
about an hour later.
Majka is a son of Mrs. Jane
Novitske of Binghamton, N.Y. He
was graduated from high school
in Binghamton. At Delta Chi, he
served as social and athletic chair
man.
Lion Predicts
Sunshine, Cool
Invograted and: full of life, the
Nittany Lion flarnbountly
emerged from his den, to face a
morning of sunshine and con
tinued cool weather.
The Lion was
extremely hap
py because fo r
once the weath
erman was
right. In addi
tion, he took
delight in plan
ning to spend
the whole day
eyeing the fes
tivities of "re
verse" customs
day from his se
cret hideout near the mall
According to the Lion, no one
knows where this hideout is. But
if you happen to see an animal
like figure pushing its way out of
some manhole, it may not be an
upperclassman trying to avoid
the freshmen.
Players Publicity Crew -
To Hold Meeting Tonight
The Penn State Players adver
tising crew will hold its first
meeting of the '57-'5B season at
6:30 tonight in the Schwab Audi
torium loft.
Students interested in advertis
ing for Players' shows may at
tend.