Committee Scraps Old Drinking Ban On Coeds Over 21 By PAT EARLEY Editorial on Page 4 The Senate Committee on Student Affairs yesterday approved the revised drinking rule which permits women students 21 years of age and over to drink. The revised ruling states “The Women’s Student Evidence Is Sustained In Baby Case Evidence against a 27-year-old State College mother charged with murder and concealment of the death of an illegitimate baby was sustained yesterday by Jus tice of the Peace Guy B. Mills. . In sustaining the evidence, Mills ordered that Elizabeth Ann Ker stetter, of 121% Logan Ave., be confined to Centre County jail, Bellefonte, to await the next ses sion of county court in February. The information will be re viewed by the grand jury before being brought before the court. Miss Kerstetter was committed to jail last Thursday after being apprehended by state police On a charge of murdering her new born, baby Oct. 2 and burying it in a shallow grave behind the Nittany Lion Inn where she worked. Mills said in yesterday’s pro ceedings he "sustained the alle gation of the information" that the woman was the “probable one guilty of the murder.” Miss Kerstetter was represented by Musser Gettig who cross-ex amined the witnesses but did not ask any testimony from the wom an. He did not enter any plea in favor of Miss Kerstetter, Mills said. District Attorney John R. Miller presented the evidence for the state police. The child’s body was uncovered Nov. 30 when Walter Stine, dish washer at the Nittany Lion Inn, discovered the body of the child near a wall behind the Inn. The body had been wrapped in linen from the Inn and placed in a shallow grave. Frosh Advisory Board Today is the last day for fresh men interested in membership on the Freshman Advisory Beard to submit a letter of application to George Thompson, Box 1532 Hamilton. Crisis Flares JAKARTA, Indonesia, Dec. 12 (A 5 ) —The national crisis' over ousting the Dutch sharpened today and the Indonesian; army canceled all leaves and ordered its troops to remain! at hand in their barracks. ' President Sukarno, a target of assassins’ grenades on Nov. 30,i was reported by presi dential palace circles to be plan ning to leave the country within a week for a rest because of men tal and physical exhaustion. Premier Duanda told the Con stituent Assembly-last night the President was badly in need of a rest but had canceled a trip to South America later this month because of the crisis. The 56-year-old ' President, father of the revolution that won independence from the Dutch in 1949, was heavily guarded by 20 aimed motor cyclists. . eight jeep loads of shock troops and two troop cars when he went to the place in his bullet-proof car. ■ There was no substantiation of rumors heard in Amsterdam that Sukarno had been ousted by a triumvirate including Premier Djunda and the chief of-staff, Maj. Gen. Abdul Harris Nasu-i lovernment Association of the [Pennsylvania State University, in accordance with University pol icy, does not approve the use of alcoholic beverages. Drinking by [women students under the age of 121 is forbidden by WSGA and j violations are dealt with by the [Judicial Committee or the Fresh jman Regulations Board, and. if needed, by the Administration. The same procedure will apply to the women students over 21 whose conduct is unbecoming to a University Student.” Susanne Smith. WSGA presi dent. said it is a step toward more effective enforcement of the rule because a more realis tic view has been taken. Senate committee members said they approved the revised ruling because it conforms to present Senate Regulations con cerning drinking and because WSGA is actively sponsoring an honor code. Miss Smith said the former drinking rule has been a draw back to the honor code. She said many coeds refrained from sign ing the honor code because they felt it was unfair. "Now that the University's drinking ruling conforms with the slate drinking law, more coeds will participate in the honor code," Miss Smith said. The revised ruling still forbids jdrinking by women under 21 [years of age. Miss Smith said she believes these coeds will feel more like obeying a realistic rul ing than the former “idealistic" rule. The revised ruling had been approved by the Senate commit . tee last fall with the'stipulation . that it be put into effect when WSGA had found effective means of enforcing the drinking rule [ then in effect. The former ruling forbade drinking by any woman ' student. ' i Collegian to Feature | Fashion, Social Page Tomorrow The Daily Colle gian will feature a page "Espe cially for Coeds" which will appear every Saturday. The page will include special articles on college fashions, a Christmas gift suggestion list and social rambling* about cam pus. Over Dutch in Indonesia : had something to be glad about, tion, and headed by Mohammed for the people in Paw Paw, Mich., Hatta, former viec president and have 16 inches of snow. He said Sukarno’s chief partner in the even his paw wasn’t that snowed Indonesian revolution. under, yet. Amsterdam newspapers were clogged with queries about' re ports that the island of Sumatra had declared its independence and that fighting had started in Jakarta’s streets. i Singapore dispatches said communications with Jakarta were haphazard, but so far as could be learned Sukarno was still in power early Friday. Premier Duanda held long con fe_ences with army, air and navy heads but the nature of the talks was not disclosed. There was no explanation of the army’s action in keeping troops confined to their barracks, but military headquarters bustled with activity and officers were in battle dress. ®ijp Saily VOL 58. No. 63 STATE COLLEGE. PA. Trial Noon Classes May Be Offered Representatives of the faculty, administration and the student body, meeting last Inight to hear proposals for a revised University calendar, learned that a few noon classes may be offered next semester on a trial basis. Lawrence E. Dennis, vice president for academic affairs, affect only a small number of students are a possibility for he will know definitely at the end of next week whether i ■ ' K ‘ *-v £ r' * - t- ‘ - i. ; r..\- -... ■ v ■ • / * . f-- -V ' - r- - ' t.. - - —Daily Coll«fi«n photo hr J*« Potton NEW TELEPHONE LINES are being installed by these Bell Tele phone men in the Nittany Dormitory area. New telephone lines are being put in all over the University campus. The sun is directly behind the “man in the bag” (right). Lion Predicts Light Sub Zero Weather The Nittany Lion was seen waxing his skis early this morning in anticipation of light snow flurries which are expected tonight. He admitted that the extra coat, . _ , , , , . can expect a little warmer wea of fur he has been seen m really t omorr ow. When asked by a isn't his. To be a jump ahead of Collegian reporter if there was the cold, he said, he had copied any particular reason for this Isome of the coeds’tricks and dug fudden scold wave, he replied, 1 “Why yes, it s winter. |up an old rac coon coat which belonged to his uncle w~h e n he was in college. He is wearing it today in pre paration for the expected low of b e tween minus ■five degrees and .'zero. He grinned jsarcasticaily ■when he learned jthe expected high is above yes terday's—today’s is 30. But the Lion reckoned that he Dr. Charles Hosier of the Uni versity Weather Station said we - zz «««* a » Don't be rushed... « •Jf X | M l I * i» * % * jr lfou still have 7 days X V to shop in State College X 5 2 FOR A BETTER PENN STATE FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 13. 1957 FIVE CENTS 'Missing 1 Frosh Coed To Stay in Denver Sally Ertel, freshman in metallurgy from- Williamsport, ; reported missing from campus since Monday night, ended a 'police search yesterday when she telephoned home from Denver, Colo., where she is staying with an uncle. ! According to an Associated Press report, Mrs. George j Miller, her mother, received the call from her daughter. 'The coed told her mother she; ' was going to stay with her uncle, determine if they ■were aware i iun - r-.-i , ,Miss Ertel was leaving school. i Mi “ Ertel left campa * Mn ~ (Mrs. Miller said she talked with I <**7 “3ht without signing out ;her daughter Sunday night but [ "to hunt for a job." State Police [she did not mention anything ! of the Rockview sub-station about leaving school. bold he bSr hi; ; “cm! j friends accompanied her to the decided to notify state po* 1 post house terminal but did not ! Jv™ ' * see on which bus she left. i po]ice sent out a teletyp# The coed, who, according to her, t j0 SCr ip^jQy l of coed and re friends, was apparently having.leased the information for publi trouble with her grades, left let-'cation. ters to her parents, friends and j The coed’s disappearance is the [professors explaining that she [second police case of a student was going to hunt for a job. The runn j n g awa y from campus with letters gave no indication where; the f our we eks. On Nov. she was headed. ,12, Thomas Rhoad, freshman in University officials were noti-jarts and letters from Allentown, lied of the coed's action Tuesday [disappeared mysteriously from and they contacted the parents to!his dormitory. (Eollegiatt said noon classes which would next semester. He added that they will be offered, sin.ce he then will have the first draft of next semester's timetable. I The purpose of scheduling noon [classes, Dennis said, would be to [determine what problems and in conveniences might arise. This information would help when fu ture all-day schedules are consid ered by the University. ! Last night's special University Senate meeting was called for the purpose of discussing alternative revisions in the academic calen dar. j modate what President Eric A. j Walker has called an expected "abrupt increase" in the sum [ ber of students applying for , admission. [ Faculty and administrative per sonnel and student leaders were invited to the meeting to hear and discuss three suggested plans for revising the calendar. [ The first of these plans is to retain the two 17-week semesters, [but to do away with the dis jointed summer program in favor of a 10-week session which would offer many more sequential cour ses. j Some members of the faculty ,and administration favored this iplan because it would involve ’ 'ss I revamping of present course plans. But most seemed to favor a Quarters system and most com ment at the meeting centered around this plan. A quarter system would in volve a complete reorganization of scheduling, courses and fac ulty contracts. In such a sys tem. the calendar year would be divided inlo four equal terms, thus doing away with the present concept of a 15- or 18-we< k semester. Each qua.teT would be 12 weeks long, inclin ing registration and final exam inations. Snow, Tonight Those who favor this system said since classes would have to [meet every day in order to cover [the work, fewer courses could be Soma revision is deemed nec essary by both faculty and ad ministration in order to accom- (Continued on page five)
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