VOL. 58. No. 40 University To Drop Existing Facilities Of Comm unity Living The existing community living program will be discon tinued at the end of the semester when 464 male students will be moved into Thompson Hall from the Nittany and Pollock areas. But the Cabinet committee on community living plans to: present to the University's Board. of Trustees a posible recommen-! dation that Thompson Hall be left ] coed and that the West Halls area remain a part of the Uni-1 versity's community living pro- , Igram, according to Daniel Thali -1 mer, committee chairman. I "This is not a permanent end to: community living and the future! long range plans will take into! consideration the idea of com-', munity living," Otto E. Muller,! !director of housing, said. "Dining facilities and the use of other facilities by both men and women is definitely a part of the future plans," he said. The students will be moved. into the West Halls area afterl they return from the semester! vacation and prior to the start of! the spring semester, according to! Francis H. Gordon, room assign ment officer for the Department! of Housing. Girls presently living in, Thompson Hall must vacate the [building immediately after thel completion of their final exam ination, Gordon said. Gordon outlined the Univer sity's plans for the disbanding of Pollock area and the movement' of students to the West Halls area at a joint meeting of the Nittany and Pollock councils I Monday. The residents of Pollock and Nittany areas will be moved as complete units if possible and" the students will have a choice of roommates, he said. The upperclassman average re quirement will be waived for the assignments during the spring se mester, Gordon said. A few Pollock residence halls may be kept open for another se mester if the students cannot be accommodated in the Nittany area and wish to remain in Uni versity housing. Pearl 0. Weston, dean of wom en, declined to comment on the community living situation. "I will be glad to have my girls. in dormitories built for them,7 she said in reference to the girls moving to the new South Halls residence units. The West Halls area dormi tories were built in 1950 for male students but because of the de mand for women residence halls, Thompson was given to the coeds. Blood Drive Will Supply Johnstown • The first blood drive of the year will get under way at 9 a.m. today, with -blood donated to be used in filling a critical shortage in the Johnstowp region caused by,the flu epidemic. The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be at the Hetzel Union cardroom from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow to accept donations. The Red Cross is seeking a quota of 600 pints of blood. Women's hat societies have pledged to donate and sororities have been asked to pledge 10 pints each. Minors' releases have been distributed to fraternities. They also may be obtained at the HUB desk. The campus quota must be reached to replenish the supply needed for the Johnstown region, Loren D. Tukey, Red Cross chair man in State College, said. Donors and their families, in the future, may receive a pint of blood free, in case of emergency, for every pint they have given. Last April 541 pints of blood were collected in a 2-day drive, exceeding the goal by 41 pints. Blood donated is shipped to the J o 11 - n stown Red Cross center where it is processed and typed. Among the hospitals served with the blood is the Centre County Hospital in Bellefonte. Cabinet Cancels Regular Meeting All-University Cabinet will not meet tomorrow night as regularly scheduled. The meeting has been canceled! because there are no committee reports concerning Encampment recommendations ready for Cabi net to llar or act upon, according ( to All-University President Rob ert Steele. Keller Says Harrisburg May Build Own College - From a_yooperative educational program conducted in high school classroom's at night under the University and three other Pennsylvania schools, the residents of Harrisburg may be able, in 5 or 10 years, to build a college of their own, according to Edward L. Keller, director of General Extension. Known as the Harrisburg Col lege Center, the program offers credits, for courses selected from the catalogues of the four member schools. These credits may be counted toward graduation from any of the schools. Undergraduate courses are of fered by the University, Eliza bethtown College and Lebanon Valley College and- graduate courses are offered by the Uni versity and Temple University. The. cooperative center, which began operation this fall, grew out of a meeting held in January which was attended by the presi dents of the four member schools TO Bat (foil Related Article an Page 5 By BILL JAFFEE and other schools which have not joined the program. However, the' idea of such a center for Harrisburg is not new. Both Elizabethtown -and Lebanon Valley Colleges had centers in operation there over five years ago. Under the leadership of Pres ident A. C. Baugher of Eliza bethtown College, the present center has grown out of those individual efforts. To incorporate the center into Harrisburg's community and to raise money for building of a pby (Continued on page eight) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 6. 1957 Parent Fund Begun For Stone Valley By DAVE FINEMAN A Parents' Fund has been created as a part of the Penn State Foundation, the Uni versity's fund-raising arm. Parents have been asked to subscribe to "shares - in the Stone Valley Recreation Area. So far, a total of S4OOO has been contributed by 450 parents, and many more are expected to contribute. Since that time. the founda tion. along with the Stone Val ley committees. conducted a publicity campaign to interest alumni, students and friends of the University in the project. The drive so far has net ted nearly 540.000. Money has come ,from the Parents Fund, the Alum ni Fund and Alpha Phi Omega's ,ugly Man Contest proceeds. The directors of the Foundation estimate that $lOO,OOO is still needed to complete the project. —Daily Collegian Photo by Harry Furnin,er The project calls for turning 'a ELECTION DAY—Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Stamm and Mrs. Gilbert 70-acre area of University-owned Haupt (center) prepare to vote in yesterday's borough election, in land into a lake and recreation which several University faculty and administration members area. were seeking posts. At left is Kenneth J. DeVeny, judge of elec tion. and at right, John F. Bleich, polls inspector. The site is in the University's 6300-acre tract 14 miles from campus occupied by the mineral • I sciences, engineering and fovea- Coed Cheerleaders to Begin try Th camps. e lake will be 3000 feet long : and 1000 feet wide, with two Cheering at Away Games .miles of shoreline. The depth will vary_ from 10 to 30 feet. For the first time since women were chosen for the Lion ; When completed, the area will ;provide facilities for swimming ddle 1940'5, coed cheerleaders and boating in the summer and 'away" football games. 'skiing and hunting in the winter. To fill the lake. Shaver Creek s will be dammed and the area Deadline To Be Extended, will be flooded by its waters. For 'Greek' Committee Lawrence Perez, professor of ;civil engineering, who has carried The deadline for Panhellenic out a series of investigations for Greek Week Committee applica- the project, last year said work tions has been extended to noon:on the lake can begin in the Friday. spring of 1958 and be completed The applications may be ob-:by the spring of 1959. tained at the Hetzel Union desk Soil tests conducted last March and returned to the Panhel office.showed the plan to be practicable in 203 Hetzel Union. Ifor the area. cheerleading squad in the m will be permitted to cheer at Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the College of Physical Education, and the Athletic Advisory Board have given their approval to a request that the coed cheerlead ers be allowed to cheer at away games, according to John Coller, head cheerleader. Coller said the cheerleading squads have been trying for years to obtain this permission, but this is the first year they have had any success. Earlier last week Coller asked to have the subject of coed cheer leaders at away games included on the All-University Cabinet agenda. It was withdrawn from the agenda when final approval of the request was received from McCoy and the advisory board. • Coller said the coeds will have to provide their own transporta tion to and from the games, as the cheerleading budget cannot cover all the members' expenses. The coeds also must notify the dean of women's office of their accommodations while they are away from campus. Six Frosh Elected To Eng Council Six freshmen were elected to the Engineering Student Council in a special election held yester day during Engineering Lecture classes. They are Roger Meyers, Potts town, aeronautical engineering; Wayne Astheimer, Royersford, agricultural engineering; Donald J. DeMaio, Ellwood City, civil en gineering; Marvin Firestone, Scranton, electrical engineering; Neil Port, Altoona, industrial en gineering; George Coleman, Glen Olden. mechanical engineering. rgiatt Senate Launches Probe Of Satellite Programs WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (EP}—A Senate investigation of the U.S. satellite and missile program was ordered today as Sputnik 11, the Soviet's second satellite, sailed on through space with a furry dog aboard. Soon afterwards the White House announced' that Presi dent Dwight D. Eisenhower had' altered previous plans and will tannounced that the satellite and e his i m le on p g b gy be ep l ar aun e ch es ed s make a major address to the; / t r h t American people Thursday night4subcommittee. a unit of the Sen- The subject: "Science and Secur-late Armed Services Committee. ity." Johnson is the Senate's Demo- The President had planned to cratic leader! He said the Russian achieve.. speak on this subject at Okla-Iment in hoisting two satellites in home City Nov. 13. Obviously:to the skies has "handed us both spurred by the Russian scientificla technological and a propaganda successes, he advanced the ad-:defeat." His subcommittee is not dress by almost a week and will particularly interested in blaming choose another topic for Oklaho-; anyone in the Eisenhower admin- Ina City. Thursday, incidentally,:istration for the situation. he add lis the 40th anniversary of the 801-;ed, but it is not - going to accept !shevik Revolution. !an attitude "that papa knows best , Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D.-Texjland everything is all right." This is the first parents' organ ization at the University. No plans have been made as yet to extend the Parents' Fund into other pro jects. Parents were requested to pure t chase the shares, at $5 each, in the names of their sons and daughters. i This new fund drive is in line with the statement made last March by Bernard P. Taylor, ex ecutive director of the Founda tion: that the foundation is defi nitely. Interested in the proposed mere:it:on area and will do every thing in its power to obtain the money. FIVE CENTS
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