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VOL 58. No. 2
F rate
Up t•
Incap
nines
80%
citated
- Members o
State College
reported hurl]
ill students
ported
_to
Health Cente
fraternities and
' actors last night
'reds of cases of
'ho had not re
h e University
for treatment.
Many of, 18 borough doctors
contacted said it was impossible
to estimate how many they have
..tieated,Others said they have
treated only six to 10 cases this
month.
Fraternities reported up to 80
per cent of their members in
capacitated by respiratory ill
nesses. One, Alpha Epsilon Pi, set
up a special ward at the house.
It reported a four-fifths sickness
rate.
Three fraternities were re
ported to have sought mass in
nocculations from borough doc
tors last night. Another, Phi
Sigma Delta, did so Monday
night.
Other hard-hit fraternities in
cluded Phi Epsilon Pi, with 28 to
30 illnesses reported; Sigma Alpha
Mu reported 75 per cent "not
well"; Alpha Kappa Lambda had
75 per cent "out" and Phi Gam
ma Delta reported at least half
its members . "not up to par."
Other fraternities with substan
tial numbers of illnesses are Tau
Kappa• Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi,
Zeta Beta Tau and Phi Kappa
Psi.
The Associated Press last night
said influenza,. some of it the
Asiatic kind, was reported defi
nitely on the increase in Pennsyl
vania.
Juniata College's Homecom
ing Day has been postponed un
til Nov. 2.
Dr. Robert A. Matthews, the
state's mental health commission
er, • disclosed that five children
died in an epidemic of flu at the
Pennhurst State Training School
in Spring City,Chester County.
The school is for mentally retard
ed children.
Matthews said 838 of the 3149
children in the school and 56 of
the 400 attendants were ill. Four
of the children were said to be in
critical condition.
The Mate Welfare and Health
Departments are trying, to de
termine whether the flu is the
Asiatic species.
AIM Board of Governors
To Air Rotation Issue
The - irate,
issue is sched
when the Asso
holds its first
ity-independent rotation system of elections
led to be thrown open to discussion tonight
iation of Independent Men Board of Governors
eeting of the semester at 7 p.m. in 203 Hetzel
A suggest on for the discussion
_came from the Town
Independent Me council which
endorsed a prog am to retain the I
present system' if rotation.
Nittany council Tuesday night
went on record as favoring the
elimination of tne rotation sys
tem. The vote was erroneously re
ported in yesterday's Daily Col
legian as favoring the retention
of the system. --
John Morgan, president of
AIM, will appoint a 3-man
committee to study the reorgan
izationat of the °elation.
The committe will 'study the
effects that the c osing of Pollock
_ dormitories and he proposed op
ening of Thomps n Ball to male
4 ,s-r. 4
mar`--
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNiNG. OCTOBER 16. 1957
Students Stricken by Flu
An estimated 2000 students have been stricken with flu,
colds, grippe or other respiratory illnesses.
About 1300 to 1400 have been treated at the University
Health Center. Others—including whole fraternity houses—
have been treated by town doctors.
Many students are believed to,
be suffering from flu and have ; /
sought no treatment. Students: resh man s
still were lined up at the Infirm- I
i
a • •
ary hate last. night for the secon d
time in two days. ondition
About 104 students were in the
hospital at 5 p.m. yesterday. More nchanged
than 200 were confined to their
rooms and other students were {
served box lunches yesterday. 1
The condition of George "Lar-
Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, director t ry" Sharp, second -semester fresh
of the Health Center, yesterday
said most of the students were man in the division of counseling
suffering from what he c a I 1 e d,from Drexel Hill, still is listed as
"extremely ordinary flu." He said "guarded" at the Geisinger Me-•
the illness has not reached epi-)
—Daily Collegian Photo by ScottY' Arnold demic proportions. :rnorial Hospital, Danville. f ,
'DORMITORY STYLE'—Students fill even the waiting rooms at Women students werebeingl,.„ Sharp broke his neck Friday
'hen he fell -on the trampoline
the University Hospital. The hospital has borrowed 60 beds from admitted to the hospital last night physical education class. He
the Department of Housing. The nurse in the picture declined to but were told to return to their' i h a a
residence halls, where they will: as been paralyzed from the neck
release her name or names of the students. down %ince
receive a special diet of soup.' ' '
Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the
fruit juices and tea for at least
24 hours. College of Physical Education
',and Athletics yesterday said he
Men students were being ad - ;knows of no plans to discontinue
'milted to the hospital on the basis, use of the trampoline. He said it
tof their complaint.
.has been used at the University
Glenn met last night with men's , for 20 years.
[residence hall counselors to make t McCoy said the trampoline is
!arangements - for care of ill stu-iwell-supervised and is put await.
[dents similar to the arrangements whenever there is no supervision.
.l
. used to teach body con-
With many coeds unable to rush because of the flu, Pan- in the•women's halls. IHe called it an important physical
hellenic Council voted last night to change its rushing rules.: Students are not required
todevice
t pay us for the special meals. trisl, rhythm. mechanics and co-
Sororities 'will begin to send bids to rushees today. ! Authorities said the Health [ordination.
Sororities may bring the bids, enclosed in a stamped _Center . staffkitchen 11:2.s notMcCoy been in-! accompanied Sharp, to
creased except for work- i the hospital in the University
` envelope, to the dean of women's office beginning at 8 a.m. ers. One nurse last night said. : ambulance,
I . today. These bids will _then be l "We've been too busy to count! Dr. Leonard F. Bush, of the
distributed through the Barthel-
hoix many students are ill . , .[Geisineer Hospital, said Nesterday
, Thespian, Players lenic post office.
;they just keep coming." [ that no further surgery is planned
, I
' • Barbara Billing, Panhel rush' In order to be served the box! immediately for Sharp. An opera-
Tickets Go on Sale .:chairman, said coeds probablyilunch, a student must receiveltion was performed Sunday to re
medication from the Dispensary duce the dislocation of the neck.
Tickets for the Thespian and
; will receive tomorrow the bids;
that are sent out today. A coed'and strict orders to stay in bed.‘ Sharp's injury is a fracture-dis
[Players shows, to be presented; Y Students need no note from a doe- i location of the seventhcervical
during the Homecoming Week-;tr accept only a bid that has'
,tor to
!end are available at the' Hetzeli"een sent through the Panhellenic present tar residence hall vertebra in the neck.
, post office.
hostesses or counselors; but the[ Bush said the student is under
!Union, desk. ,
. Coeds will return their answers: name is on record at. the Dispen-:goinr• physiotherapy treatment in
I Tickets 'for the Thespian shoW,:to bids in an envelope to the sary. an attempt to reactivate the par..
A Great Future," are $1.50. The,dean of. _women's office. Coeds: Robert C. Profitt, director of alyzed muscles . . He is in a special
[show will be presented at Schwab ; may answer a bid as soon as they Food Service, said no change in' bed surrounded by special appar
lAuditorium tomorrow. Friday and' wish, but they must answer a bid the dining hall meals is planned.'atus.
[Saturday nights. The Homecoming I.vithin three days of receiving itiHe said his staff believes the diet:
[ Queen will be crowned at the t Sororities may pick up the an-,is strong enough in citrus juices . '
'tomorrow night's performance.
;savers to bids at 4:30 p.m. Monday. not to require change.
Tickets for the 'Players presen- through Friday in the dean of,
i tation of "The Carn i v a 1 of, women's office. BusAd Council Will Meet
(Thieves" are $l. The show will A strict silence period will be,
be presented at Centre Stage Fri-'in effect after a sorority has bid: The Business Administration
'continue
and Saturday nights, and will' a coed. This means that only,Student Council will meet at 6:45
'continue for six weekends. [words of . greeting may be ex-tonight in 205 Boucke,
Flu Affects Rushing;
Bidding Starts Today
changed between members of a • -
sorority and the coeds the • have; r
bid. This silence period will exist Ike s Advisory Committee
until the sorority has received the,
coed's answer to the bid.
Two coeds have dropped out of
informal rushing. They both said •
ingSatellite
that it was too time consuming. wet Concern
Informal rushing will continue
until Nov. 1. For the remainder
of the rush period, a'sorority may WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (./P)--President Dwight D. Eisen
send out a bid whenever it wishes. hover and his science advisory committee conferred today
Russian Rocket on the subject of satellites and missiles but everyone eon
icerned remained mum about what was said.
After the 45-minute conference with the President, Dr.
' Seen by Frosh isador Rabi, chairman of the 13-
membertinental ballistics missile.
t Robert Ball, freshman in physics. committee, told news-
When the conference was an
y from will have on the presentmen that "anything you want you
: from and an amateur, flounced yesterday Hagerty said
pajamas will have to get from the Presi-, it had been called before the Rus
organization of AIM. Norristown lastronomer stood in his
• Morgan said the increase of stu-! at 6 a.m.sierra successfully launched their
dents in the West Halls area will Yesterday to watch the!dent's office."
iftussian rocket flash across the' And James C. Hagerty, White satellite into space 11 days ago.
change the representation on theklawn sky. :House press secretary, said there From Sen. Mike Mansfield of
Board of Governors. i Ball described what he said was would be "nothing" from the Montana, assistant Democratic
He also will appoint an AlMithe rocket as a "white dot aboutiPresident's office. . leader in the Senate, came a re-
Judicial Board of Review chair- }the brightness of a first-magni-I Dr. Rabi. professor of physics ' nerved demand that all govern
man. ihree additional membersitude star." He said the object( at Columbia University. said it meat missile and satellite projects
to AIM JBR, a parliamentarian Stook about a minute and a half tot would not be appropriate to dis- be cooordinated under a single
and a cultural aspects chair- ,cross the sky, going from north- I cuss what was said at the con- program, something like the Man
man. :west to- southeast. Terence. , hattan Project which developed
The Board of Governors will Its light changed brightness: - He declined to comment on the first., atomic bomb in World
hear reports from the Indie Weekiseveral times while he watched whether the U.S. ballistic mis- War. 11.
committee, the Autumn Ball com-;its journey across the portion of:siles and earth satellite programs Mansfield said Pentagon fi
mittee, the Orientation Week [the sky two-thirds of the way;should be speeded up now that gures show over 5850 million
committee and the Executive corn-Ifrom the horizon to the zenith, he Russia has launched one satellite' has been spent on missile pro
mittee. - . , ' 'said- 'and claimed to have an intercon- 1 sects subsequently shelved.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
egiatt
Lines Jam Health Center;
Others Treated in Town
Academic
Fusion
See Page 4
FIVE CENT
Bell to Speak to Alumni
Louis H. Bell, director of Pub
lic Information, will speak on
"Keeping Penn State Before the
Public" at a Meeting of the Alum
ni Council at 10 a.m. Saturday in
the Hetzel Union auditorium.