Pol
ice Seek Freshman Coed
TATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 12. 1957 FIVE CENTS
VOL. 58. No. 62
Drin
j Editorial on Page 4
The Woman’s Student Government Association will try again today to get the ban,
on drinking for all women students limited to women under .21 when President Susanne!
Smith appears before the Senate Committee on Student Affairs. I
Miss Smith said she wi
the rule that was approved by
stipulation, that it be put into ef
fect when' WSGA had found ef
fective means of .enforcing the
present drinking rule, which for
bids drinking by any coed.
The new rule, approved last
year, forbids drinking by women
students under 21.
Miss Smith said the group now
feels it has effective enforcement
of the present rule through three
means:
• Stricter enforcement of the
present rule, through the house
mothers.
Miss Smith said the house
mothers have indicated they will
give their fullest cooperation in
enforcing the drinking rule. Mem
bers of Judicial Board and WSGA
senate talked to the housemothers
during the past month to enlist!
this cooperation. J
• Judicial backing of the house-j
mothers by dealing with all re-j
ported offenses. In a first offense
the coed is given a hearing before
Judicial where she faces a possible
sentence. She also is counseled
and a letter is sent to her parents.
In a second offense the coed
appears before Judicial where she
is given a strict campus. A letter
is again sent to her parents and
she is barred from holding a
WSGA office. In the third offense
the coed becomes liable to action
by the subcommittee on discipline
which can expell her. j
•Establishment of an honor
code, in which 80 women are now
enrolled.
At the senate committee meet
ing last year when the rule was
approved it was emphasized that
the establishment of an honor
code was one'Hhing that should
be done 'before the stipulation
could be met that enforcement
of the present rule be more ef
fective.
Miss Smith said enforcement-of
the new rule would increase the
number under the code since
many women over 21 now refuse
to sign the code since they would
not uphold the present drinking
rule.
Fleeing E. Germans
Hit by New Laws
BERLIN, Dec. 11 (JP) —Communist East Germany today
decreed drastic laws to halt the mass west ward flight of
refugees crippling the worker force.
The East German Parliament rubber stamped the demand
of the woman justice minister, Hilde Benjamin, for powers to
prosecute fleeing citizens. They
now are escaping from the satel
lite at the rate of about 800 a'day.
The new laws stipulate impris
onment at hard labor not only for
intercepted refugees but for
friends and relatives who help
lath;
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
A to Ask Limiting
c Ban to Under 21
ill tell the committee that WSGA is now ready to implement!
the committee last fall. The rule was approved with the!
•WINTER WONDERLAND'—BuI
as at least one student discoverei
Cutler to Give Speech
On Engineer Education
Dr. Howard A. Cutler, coordin
ator of the general education pro
gram, will speak about “General
Education for Engineers,” at 4:10
p.m. in 105 Mechanical Engineer
ing.
The occasion is a meeting of the
American ' Society for Engineer
ing Education.
Conflict Deadline Correction
The deadline for filing exami
nation conflicts is Monday, not
Jan. 16, as was erroneously re
ported by The Daily. Collegian
Tuesday.
them in anyway.
Speaking before a Parliament
session in East Berlin, Mrs. Ben
jamin declared: “The West Ger
man NATO organs are trying to
interfere with our economic de
velopment by luring away man
power.”
She warned all East Germans
that from now on they must
turn deaf ears to the "Pied
Pipers of the Wesi."
East Germans attempting to
escape can now he jailed for up to
three years and heavily fined.
Their assisting friends and rela
tives are open to the same penal
ties.
Another decree allowing’ East
German courts to mete out death
sentences for “high treason, espi
onage, subversive activities and
sabotage” probably will be ap
plied- in-some refugee cases. 1
Cnllygtari
—Daily Collegian photo by Joe Patton *
all is not smooth as a day in June :
1 at the University’s skating rink. !
Chilly Lion Still I
Collecting Funds
The Nittany Lion, not always
as useless as he is sometimes rep
resented in the press, braved this
morning’s wicked temperatures
for what he called “the worthiest
cause I know.” j
The Lion is
carrying on his
private campaign
for the “Christ
mas Present for
Larry” fund, and
even a predic
tion for continu
ing cold weather
left the benevo
lent beast un-
daunted. Summers, borough employe, was
Today’s fore- , stopped on South Burrowes Street
cast calls for no change in the waiting to enter West Beaver Ave.
present low temperatures, with- Damage to me car, which is
partly cloudy skies and occasional' owned by Earl Brosius, was esti
snow flurries. High for today is mated at $lOO. About S5O damage
predicted between 15-22 degrees.'resulted to the truck. |
Senate to Discuss Calendar Revision
The University Senate Will; .sterling dales as June 5, 9 and the spring vacation fall between
discuss three plans for an aca-' 21. and the end of session finals terms.
j , , ,as Aug. 23. 30 and Sept. 8. < A quarter system would in
demic calendar revision at a, This wou]d prov j de a summer! volve a complete revision of
special meeting at 7:30 tonight session of 10 weeks, as compared ! cou ”° work. Not much time is
in 121 SDarks— a cnnsnlidatprl to a re 2 ular semester of 15 weeks.! available for scheduling cour
m CjparKS a consolidated The report sugges ts that this dis-' ses - and. since credits m a quar
summer session, a trimester plan crepancy be taken care of by in-; ter system are only the
and a quarter system. ‘creasing weekly meetings during' value of semester credits, a siu-
The matter of a calendar changejthe summer and adding one meet- denl now needing 140 credits
has been under consideration forjing in alternate weeks! *°r graduation would need 210
some time now. as sharp increases Two advantae . s listed for this under a quarter system,
in college enrollment are expect-! advantages A student could finish college
Sa in the near Allure. | T , . - . .in three years under this Dlan.
The summer session'“l Three equal terms a vea/would
plan would not disturb the pre-i*® P res f nt semester sj stem. ! be under a trimester S y Stem .
sent regular semesters. Accord-j *ll-allows a student to com-i Necessary course changes under
ing to a report which will be; plcte his undergraduate work in a trimester plan would lie some
presented tonight, the purpose of 3 or 3Vi years. J-where between those for a re
such a revision would be “to en-j A quarter system, according to vised summer session and those
courage more of our students to lone report to be presented, would'.for a quarter system. Possible
want to take advantage of the : involve dividing the calendar.dates for beginning the school
Universitys offerings during the.year into four academic sessions, year under a trimester system,
summer.’ ! each between II and 12 weeks [according to-the report, are early
Three alternate calendars for Hong. Where this system is used, iJuly, late August and early Sep—
such a. summer session list the both the Christmas vacation anditember* , .
'Job-Hunter' Leaves
On West-Bound Bus
State police are searching for a freshman coed who re
portedly boarded a west-bound bus Monday night leaving a
note for her parents saying she was going to hunt for a job.
Police have sent out a teletype report on Sally Ertel,
freshman in metallurgy from
Williamsport. j
Sgt. Howard Hancock of the
Rockview sub-station said Miss
Ertel left from the post house
between 7 to 8 p.m. He said she
apparently took a west-bound bus
since it is the only one leaving
around that time.
Hancock said several of her
friends accompanied her to the
station but did not see her leave.
A University official was noti
fied Tuesday that the coed had
left and Miss Ertel’s parents. Mr.
and Mrs. George Miller, of 638
Louisa St, Williamsport, were
contacted.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller visited the
campus yesterday to speak with
University officials. When they
had not received word from their
daughter they decided to turn the
case over to state police.
News of the missing coed was
withheld by University officials
and the parents until state police
were brought in yesterday. I
Slate police described the co- -~~
ed as being five feel seven in- J _ _ ,» _ _
ches tall and weighing 140 V ( r>||nrilC \/ntp
pounds. She has light brown VewUllwllO “ UI6
hair cut short and a fair com- i a.* _ _
plexion. When she left she was AHnitlAiml Si I / S
reported wearing a tweed suit 111 w lIUI «f I' w
and a long black coat trimmed _ *»« ■
ft ruggage S . h ° *°° k TO Sharp Fund
Hancock said the coed had :
talked to her mother Sunday night
by telephone but did not mention
anything about leaving school.
He said the note to the parents;
said the coed was going to look;
for a job. The note also said she;
had enough money to last a while.
Miss Ertel is reported to have ;
told one coed that her grand- i
mother died and she was going i
to the funeral. However, this j
was discounted by the parents.
The coed's friends indicated she
was having difficulty with her
grades. They said she packed her;
clothes on Monday night and
went to the bus station. 1
Hancock said Miss Ertel gave :
five letters to one of her friends
to mail and also gave her the note
to her parents. ;
Student's Car Hits !
Garbage Truck
About $l5O damage resulted
l yesterday when a car operated by'
i Richard Mills, junior in mechan- i
[ical engineering from Berwyn'
crashed into the rear of a State
College borough garbage collec
tion truck.
The truck, operated by Richard
By DENNY MALICK
An additional, $175 has been
voted to the "Christmas Present
for Larry” fund by three student
councils.
The Engineering and Architec
ture Student Council topped the
.contributions with $lOO. The Edu
cation Student Council contrib
, uted $5O and the Agriculture Stu
jdent Council gave $25.
Total contributions to date
amount to $-155.
1 Most campus student organiza-
tions will receive letters from the
campaign committee asking- for
their support of the fund drives
which is designed to collect a
Christmas present of funds to
help cover part of George “Larry”
Sharp’s hospital expenses.
Sharp, sophomore accident vic
tim, has beer, paralyzed from the
neck down since Oct. 11, when
he broke his neck in a fall from
a trampoline in a physical educa
tion class.
His hospital expenses are ex
pected to amount to $25,000 to
$30,000 before he recovers. He is
in the Ne-.v York University Re
hibilitation Center.
Aside from student organiza
tions, the campaign committee,
headed by All-University Presi
dent Robert Steele, has enlisted
the aid of the major campus liv
ing unit organizations, Women’s
Student Government Association,
Interfraternity. Council, Panhel
lenic Council. Association of In
dependent Men and Leonides.
These groups are working indi
vidually to raise money for the
I Christmas present.
Sally Ertel
Missing Coed