Grads Will
Conlmunity
In Women's
Community living on the graduate student level will be
tried on an experimental basis beginning next fall when the
University offers a new plan for providing on-campus hous
ing for graduate students.
However, Director of Housing Otto E. Mueller who an
implied that this type of com
munity living—within the same
building—probably won't go any
further than the graduate level
—if it is successful there.
Mueller said the main pia
pose of the plan is to provide
for the first time at the Uni
versity on-campus housing fa
cilities for graduate • students.
But. he added, the University
has no present plans to expand
the community living idea to
the undergraduate lesieL since
"at this student level (gradu
ate), it seems to have the best
chance for success." •
According to plans, the stu
dents will be housed in Women's
Building: 34 women in the west
wing, and 45 men in the east
wing. Both sexes will share a
common lounge and entrance in
the center of the building; they
will have separate lounges and
'entrances in their wings of the
nounced the plan yesterday,
AIM Asks
For Floating
Holiday Plan
The Association of Independent
Men Board of Governors last
night unanimously voted to ask
All-University Cabinet to ap
proach the administration on the
inclusion of a floating holiday in
each semester's calendar.
-The motion was sponsored by,
James Wambold, Town Indepen- 1
dent Men Council president.
-Wambold s'a i d the holidays,
could be allocated by the admin
istration for any appropriate pur
in -
pose. He incldded the possi
bilities football weekends, flu
epidemics and past-Christmas
vacation holiday.
Carl Smith. president of the
West Halls Council, called the
holiday unneeded if it is designed
to provide a holiday for football
Weekends. He said very fevi stu
dents go to away games, but take
advantage of the weekend only
to visit home. -
The Board' was informed by
John Morgan, AIM president, that i
Cabinet has already approached
the administration on the matter
and that Peter Fishburn has men
tioned it in meetings of the Sen
ate Committee on Calendar, of;
which he_ is the-student member. I
However, Wambold said, pas-' I
sage of the motion would show
that AIM backs the proposal for
the floating holiday and would
serve to renew Cabinet's efforts
toward securing it.
The history of student attempts
to secure holidays is an account
of mild successes. The difficulty
in getting holidays has been the
administrative trouble in shift
ing class and examination days.
A floating holiday would elimi
nate this difficulty by providing
for the necessary day off in ad
vance.
Grad Tests to Be-Held
The admission test for graduate
study in business will be given
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in 3
Carnegie Building.
Candidates should report at
8:30 a.m.
Sorority Donates $880;
Sharp Fund Totals $4700
Additional contributions to the Larry Sharp fund have
brought the total to approximately $4700.
The largest contribution to date, $BBO, came yesterday
from Phi Sigma Sigma sorority from their profits on the
benefit movie showing, "Lost Horizon."
The sorority collected $1230 from ticket sales and dona-
Lions, and $350 of this was Used
to pay for the use of the projector
in the State theater, according
-to Mrs: Sy Barash, Phi Sigma Sig
-ma advisor. Columbia Pictures
Inc. donated the -movie for the
- benefit showing.
While University students
were responding to the "Christ
- etas Present for Larry" fund.
residents of Sharp's home town.
Drexel Hill, were tapping their
own' resources to raise money
for the Sharp family.
Approximately $7500 was col
lected during the Christmas holi
days in the Drexel Hill-Upper
Darby area, according to Wallace
0. Lecher, chairman of the fund
drive in Drexel Hill.
Lecher said the money - was
raised. througli the combined ef
forts of. the students and alumni
of Sharp's hiaiSchool e the Drexel
Begin
Living
Building
By LARRY JACOBSON
Married couples will live in
rooms between the wings.
Men and women in Women's
Building- will eat in Mac Allister
hall with coeds from that dormi
tory and Grange.
The Un i versify announced
Tuesday it will experiment
with a community dining plan
on the undergraduate level
when construction of new-dor
mitt' :tries in the Pollock area is
completed in 1960.
The new dormitories will house
1000 men and 1000 women. The
women will eat in a new dining
hall with half the men, while the
other men will eat in Simmons
Hall. -The new 'dining hall is
slated to be built along with the
new dormitories.
Night Classes to Begin
Evening classes in the program
for Home and Family Living,
sponsored by the borough schools,
will begin next week.
Students' wives may enroll in
courses by contacting Mrs. Jo
sephine Barltow, 112-Home Eco
nomics.
Collegian Plans Party
For New Candidates
A coke party will be held
at 1:30 p.m. Saturday for per
sons interested in becoming
candidates for The Daily Col
legian news and sports staff.
Anyone may attend. Candi
dates need not be journalism
majors.
Hill United Presbyterian Church,
of which Sharp is a member, resi
dents,
making door to door can-1
vasses, Boy Scout and Girl Scout:
troops and individual 'donors.
A total of $4200 of the money
collected in Drexel Hill has
been given directly to the hos
pital Sharp is in, at the request
of Mr. and Mrs. Sharp. This
was done to partially cover his
expenses there. The rest of the
money is being used for Sharp's
treatments and other expenses
incurred. -
Lecher said there was not much
change in Sharp's condition when
he saw him about a week ago but
"everyone is still hopeful." Sharp
can move his left hand straight
to his head but his fingers will
not function. Otherwise he is still
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VOL. 58. No. 79 STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 6. 1958 FIVE CENTS
More Recreation,
Bigger Hub Asked
. A report prepared for a Board of Trustees committee recommends an expansion of the
University's recreation program, including expansion of the Hetzel Union Building, wider
use of dining halls and community dining.
George-L. Donovan, former manager of Associated Student Activities and former HUB
director, has been appointed Acting Coordinator of Student Activities to aid in establish
ing the proposed plan.
Some of the recommendations
i nt the report are:
*Dining halls to be used for
purposes other than dining, such
as study on weekday evenings
and informal dancing, movies or
other mixed social functions on
weekends. The kitchen facilities
should be used for preparing re
freshments,for these social func
tions. .
I *Men and wor.:en students
should share the same dining
halls.
—Daily Collozian photo by Marty Scherr
A TREE GROWS IN POLLOCK ROAD—University workmen
take a free ride on a sledge bearing a tree removed from the area
where the new Hammond Engineering Building will be erected.
The trees are being transplanted at other parts of campus. The
sledge is drawn by a University truck.
Walker to Report to Faculty
On Long-Range Development
President Eric A. Walker will report to the faculty on,
r a a t :
i a y s e o ; paredu om m it ty.
long-range development plans for the University at 4:10 p.m. the e Ad r mln o i rt st
today in Schwab Auditorium. !tee on Social and Recreational
Walker will outline the University's expansion plans over Act iv i ties and All-University
,Cabinet Committee on Student
the next several years. The plans !Welfare for the Board of Trus
were presented to the Jan. 24
chusetts Institute of Technology's ; tees' Committee on Student Af
and 25 meeting of the Board of: Center for International Studies' fairs.
i and Brother E. Stanislaus, presi- t Thvnueh a camoline of student
Trustees in a report by C. S. Wy
dent of LaSalle College. (Continued on page five)
and, vice president for develop:.
ment.
The president's 'schedule calls
for him to be in Philadelphia Sun-; second Vanguard Missile
day to participate in a panel dis
cussion at the Bulletin forum.!
The topic for discussion will be
"The Battle for Brains." ,
Other members of the panel,' reaks After Launching
which will be held from 4 to 5:
p.m. in Philadelphia's Congress; . CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 5 ;A:)--The Air Force
Hall, are Dr. Gaylord P. Harn-.
well, president of the University, said today that irregularities in the engine control system
of Pennsylvania; Alexander G. caused the Vanguard satellite-bearing test vehicle to break
Korol, staff member of the Massa-1
I apart shortly after its launching early today.
I
Weather to Be i of firststa g e of thet hr e e- th T e heirregularities occurrec , i in the engine control system
!stage Navy vehicle. , lites into an orbit during the
It came 57 seconds a ft er the International Geophysical Year
Warmer Today ' launching of the rocket. With- now under way. That program
The Nittany Lion is so worried; in three seconds the irregulari- , already is considerably behind
about the coeds in the new dorms: lies had deflected the missile schedule.
that he wants them to have jitney` so far to the right that it broke Among Vanguard's ruins might
service so they'll be sure to get, in two. be the 6.4-inch sphere stored in
to their classes. , The Air Force statement said the missile's nose for an. attempt
Only the oth- 1 ; the Vanguard project includes to place another earth satellite
er day, a co e d a e "two more test vehicles" before in company with the Army's Ex
was—
reported !another attempt is made to launch plorer established in orbit last
missing some - la full-sized satellite. Friday.
where between The Navy—disappointed in its If the 33.:L-pound hollow metal
Hoyt Hall and t second failure to get a satellite ball survives its tour-mile Darn-
Sparks Building. I aloft—plans to delve deeper into ing descent it might still be broad-
It seems that she just what went wrong before try-'casting the signals which under
left at the usual I ing a third shot. better circumstances would now
time, 6 a.m., but I The Air Force said in a pre- have been coming from far oth
she never quite :pared announcement transmitted in space. -
made it through I 'to it here by the Naval Research Last Dec. 6 after the initial
the snowy moun- Laboratory that parts of the Vanguard test vehicle blew up on
tain passes that ! Laboratory
also have been recov- its launching pad, the satellite's
separate the dorms of lower T.e- ered offshore. sphere was ejected through the
mont from the main campus. i The loss of the Vanguard was flames and continued- emitting
A high of 30-34 degrees is es-i a sharp setback to Navy hopes :signals as it lay, only slightly
pected for today. - 1 to put a series of small sad- 3 damaged, on the iv:aunt!.
FORA BETTER PENN STATE
Tolirgia
• •"The Hetzel Union Building
:should be expanded and the de
'sirability of annexes at other lo
:cations should be considered."
•"Consideration should be giv
en to permitting any organized
: , ..rOup to construct with their
:own funds and ... operate a
lodge or cabin" at the proposed
:Stone Valley recreational area.
One ambitious program was
recommendPd in the plan which
calls for a "complete recreational
area to the northeast of the cam
pus to be used by mixed and/or
;separate men's and wom.ri's
,groups for required 'physical edu
!cation service programs, for in
tramural activities and for physi
.6al recreation."
! To make the area accessible,
;the suggestion goes on. a Univer-*
lsity-operated transportation sys
tem is recommended.
"Such an ambitious program
may appear to be too bold." the
!report says, "but it must be borne
lin mind that facilities are lacking
l for the present student enroll
ment and, by the time that any
,program can be implemented, the
student body on the campus will
have almost doubt' d, and the Uni
versity will probably he operated
on a twelve-month basis."