TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 The Deferred Rush Deferre Major I The question of deferred rushing, a sys tern which could revolutionize fraternity rush ing at the University, is now under serious consideration by the Interfraternity Council : Deferred rushing is not a new issue with University fraternities. It was brought before IFC fast year, coupled with a motion to raise the minimum pledging average from 2 to 2.2. The deferred rushing motion was defeated, but the average change passed and is now in effect. However, when the motion was proposed last year, the effects of the average change were not fore seen. Since then, and particularly since the finish of last semester, there has been considerable dis satisfaction among fraternities be cause of the pledging average. The new average has caused a number of freshmen to be in eligible for pledging, in some cases more than half the pro posed pledge class of a particular house. The deferred rushing issue was presented to IFC again last week, along with a motion to nullify the 2.2 reqirement re troactive to last semester's av erages. The latter motion was defeated, but the rushing pro posal has gone to cothmittee and will be voted on within a few weeks. Deferred rushing, in a broad sense, means postponing the rush ing of freshmen. probably until sometime in the second semester. There is no pat system for de ferred rushing; all the details would have to be worked out by the IFC, The term "can be defined however we wait to de fine it," according to Robert Jub elirer, chairman of IFC's• rushing evaluation committee, which is working on the motion. But the core of the idea is to keep freshmen away from frat ernities and fraternities away from freshmen for at least the first semester. After this, fresh men with averages would be rushed for a certain defined period, after which they would be eligible for pledging. The prime purpose of the sys RADlO [ &mica and upplies o Car Radios ,-- • *Portable Radios el Phonographs * °Batteries State College TV 232 S. Allen SI. Representatives of Merck & Co., Inc.—a major producer of chemicals for home and industry,-and pharmaceuticals for the professions—will be on campus to discuss -your future. BA. MBA Accountants BS. MS Industrial, Mechanical and Chemical Engineers BS, MS Organic and Physical Chemists Your placement office will be glad to make an appointment fcc you. mFACK , 1958 ng Questio Rushing Would Mean hange for Fraternities By DICK DRAYNE First of a Series tern, according to Jubelirer, is to eliminate part of the expense of rushing. Houses waste a large amount of money, he said, rush ing freshmen who they find they cannot pledge because of a low average. Deferred rushing would elim inate this: only the freshmen who made their averages would be rushed. and the others would not be considered by fraterni ties until they had made a 22 or a 2 all-University average. Behind the News-- (Continued from page four) dent government organizations. A number of junior will be conspicuous by their absence. • • • We received the following note the other day from Jerry Wald, Twentieth Century-Fox producer: "With reference to your query as to whether there was any specific reason for giving the school principal in "Peyton Place" a Penn State degree, there really was not. If you have seen the picture you are aware how many things were necessarily changed in adapt ing the novel to the screen.. ." The school principal's only identification with Pennsyl vania in the book was former employment in Pittsburgh. Want To Save .. buy a CREDIT CARD for $5, get $5.50 worth of ser vice—as easy to use as your metric card. Use If for cleaning, laundry or repairs. at the Launderette 210 W. College Avenue • • A Date to Remember IMMEDIATE OPENINGS MERCK & CO.INc. IR Al 4 IF A Cur J . V. Pt II IC V THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Also, with the postponing of rushing, the period set for rush ing would probably be consider ably less than a semester, which would help to decrease the money spent by fraternities. As with the other details of the system, this period has not yet been defined. A 2-month per iod seems to be used more than any other, by IFC officials con nected with the issue, to illuctrate how it would work; however, this is still conjecture. The letter also included an 18-page publicity release and a 45-rpm record from Mr. Wald's next movie, "The Long. Hot Summer," which, he says, "promises to be a real bell ringer." EATON'S CORRASABLE Typewriter Paper Whatever your typing talents, you can turn out neat, clean-looking work the first time, with Eaton's Corrisable Bond Paper. 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