Today's F< recast: Mild and Partly Cloudy VOL. 58. No. 119 All-U Average Slips To New Low Mark In Fall Semester The -All-University scholastic average dropped 1.3 points last semester to its lowest mark under the present grading system. ■ According to statistics released yesterday from the Dean of Men’s office, the All-U average dropped from 2,48 last spring to 2.35 last semester. The drop follows a trend of lower averages in the fall semester. However, it was the lowest since the numerical grading system was revised in 1955. Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and Alpha Zeta fraternity held the highest averages in their category. With an average of 3.14 the Thetas replaced Beta Sigma Omicron as the highest sorority. Alpha Zeta, top fraternity for the last eight semesters, had a 2.89 average. For the first time in several years, the fraternity average, al though dropping from 2.41 to 2.33 last semester, has improved rela tive to other groups. The fraternity average topped the all-independent average of 2.31, men All-U average of 2.29," and the independent men average of 2.28. In the spring semester last year the fraternity and men’s All-U average was 2.4l'.while the independent men average was 2.45. Kappa Sigma showed the big gest improvement in scholar ship jumping from'sl to B.' The fraternity wiU receive the Sig ma. Chi Scholarship Improve ment Trophy for its 2,49 aver age last semester. This topped its 2.11 last spring. Alpha Phi Delta was second in improvement going from 42 to 8. Alpha Kappa Lambda and Pi Kappa Alpha tied for third place moving in rank from 48 to 20 and 53 to 25, respectively. Fourteen fraternities dropped 10 or more places with Chi Phi showing the biggest drop from 8 to 48. Delta Chi dropped 28 places from 13 to 41 and Phi Sigma" Kap pa dropped 27 places from 6 to 33. Ranking next to Alpha Zeta in the lop five fraternities were Triangle, 2.86; Delta Theta Sig ma, 2.70; Pi Sigma .Upsilon, 2.64; and Pi Lambda Phi, 2.63. Tau Phi Delta placed sixth among fraternities with 2.54. Their standing was printed incorrectly on information released to fra ternities and sororities.' The complete averages are as follows: Kappa Alpha Theta, 3.14; Gamma Phi Beta, 3.00; Beta Sigma Omicron, 2.98; (Continued on page three) Vojtasjek To Be Cdl legion Businessman Francis Vojtasek, junior in journalism from Reading, has been named business manager of The Daily Collegian, effective April 28. He will succeed Steven Higgins. Thomas Buckey, junior in jour nalism from Johnstown, has been named local advertising manager. He will succeed Marilyn Elias. Vojtasek and Buckey were named by Collegian, Inc., pub lisher of the newspaper, on recom mendation from the senior board of the business staff. Other appointments were made by the senior board: Janice Smith, junior in educa tion from Blain, will succeed Su san Mortenson as assistant busi ness manager. Robert Piccone, junior in journalism from Phila delphia, was named assistant local advertising manager. He will suc ceed Roseann Gonzales. Elizabeth Brackbill, junior in home economics from New Cum berland was named national ad vertising manager. She will suc ceed Joan Wallace. Barbara Ryan, junior in education from Erie, will succeed Stephen Billstein as classified advertising manager. - Kathryn Burgert, junioj in edu cation from Pittsburgh, was pointed to succeed Mimi Camp bell as promotion manager. Maty Nash, junior in arts and letters from Devon, was named person nel manager. She will .succeed Lynn Glassburn. Co-circulation managers will be Mary Anne First, junior in home economics from Harrisburg, and Murray Simon, junior in physics from Levittown. They will suc ceed Patricia Miernicki and Rich ard Lippe. .Mary Herbein, junior in physi cal education from Oley, was named research and records sec retary to succeed Barbara Wall. My la Johnson, sophomore in home economics from Pittsburgh, will succeed Marlene Marks as office secretary. 'Nightclub * to Open In HUB Saturday I Approximately 38 reservations have been made for Club Huban na, the nightclub program to be held from 9 p.m. to midnight Sat urday in the Hetzel Union ball room. The program has been set up to a c c o m modate approximately 150 couples. Reservations may be made at $1.25 per couple at the HUB desk. The Association of Independent Men Band will play. Faculty members will entertain during an intermission. Scott Foursome To Play Saturday The Penn State Jazz Club in conjunction with the Art Depart ment will sponsor a jazz concert by the Tony Scott Quartet 8 p.m. Saturday in Schwab auditorium. Bruce Mitchell, whose artwork has appeared in Esquire and Downbeat magazines, will make a series of “jazz drawings” .during the concert. , Tickets are $1 and may be ob tained at the Hetzel Union desk. Satlij STATE COLLEGI Children's Concert Tickets Available Tickets are available' for the Obemkirchen Children’s Choir concert which will be given at 8:30 p.m.,, Wednesday in, Schwab Auditorium. Students may pick up tickets from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. today at the Hetzel Union desk. Crystal Institute to Be 'World Center' An institute has been set up within the College of Chem istry and Physics which will make the University the world center for information in the field of crystal chemistry and physics. The University has announced the establishment of the Groth Institute to revise “Chemical Crystallography” encyclopedia of crystal chemistry and physics. The encyclopedia revision will make the University a “clearing house for air data in this area,” a University official said yesterday. "Scientists from all over the world will send in their data,” he said. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE -E. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 10, 1958 Ike May Call Halt To Future A-Tests WASHINGTON (A s )—President Eisenhower said yesterday he would seriously con sider halting further atomic tests if the current U.S. series yields scientific data needed to make smaller, “cleaner” bombs. He said that under such circumstances it would be perfectly proper "for the United States to stop further testing without an agreement with Russia —Daily Collegian photo by Marty Scherr CARS, CARS, CARS filled campus roads and parking lots around noon yesterday returning students to the University. The great influx of cars caused a number of traffic jams at and around the campus. Sunny Skies Greet Students; Fair Weather to Continue With sunny skies and mild-weather greeting the return of the University students to campus yesterday, the Nittany Lion is all set to shed his heavy fur coat for a tan raincoat— in preparation for “monsoon” sea son. State Police reported a heavy concentration of traffic on all roads leading into State College at noon yesterday. Traffic tie-ups were reported in Lewistown,' and the cars were’ lined up on Rt. 45 between Lewis burg' and Boals burg around noon There were no major traffic ac cidents involving University stu dents over the vacation -period and yesterday was a bloodless day “Chemical Crystallography” wasjpeaia is expected to take at least issued by Professor Paul Heinrich; 10 years, according to University Ritter von Groth, German crystal j officials. Since information on chemist, physicist and .mineralo--crystals is being collected rapidly, gist, between the years of 1906 it is anticipated that further re and 1919- The work has not been j visions will be required contin revised since then. , ually. Dr. Raymond Pepinsky, re-: Pepinsky will serve as editor search professor of physics and; in-chief of the encyclopedia, with director of the newly-established; an editorial board consisting of institute, said Groth’s compilation chemists, physicists, mineralogists of crystal properties “still island metallographers from all a .tremendous value 10 natural'parts'of t*he world, scientists.” However, Pepinsky Preparations for the institute, said, the encyclopedia was con- which has been under consider ceived before the discovery ofiation for several years, included X-ray diffraction and crystal I a conference of leading crystal structure analysis and therefore jlographers at Harvard University contains little information com-;in 1956; two trips to Europe by pared to that now available re-Pepinsky in 1957, and discussions lating crystal structures and; at the Congress of the Inter chemical and physical properties, national Union of Crystallography The first revision of the encyco- 1 in Montreal last June. (Enllpgtatt on the highways and in the bor ough, police reported. The Lion predicted mild weath er with partly cloudy skies to day. The high temperature pre dicted for today was between 45-, 53 degrees. | Snow fell Tuesday night in some parts of the state and mountain roads were snow covered early yesterday morning. By mid-after noon the sun had melted the snow and most roads were dry. Cabinet to Install Officers All-University Cabinet will in stall new officers and new mem bers at a meeting at 7 tonight in |203 Hetzel Union. Another Cover-up? See Page 4 Eisehower left the impression that he might do this even if the Soviets revoke their announced ban on further Russian nuclear tests. • On March 31, the United States rejected Russia’s invitation to join m halting nuclear tests with out bothering to check up on each other. In diplomatic tones, the State Department called the Kremlin move so much propaganda hot air, whose only aim was to wilt Western defci.se. (The uncompromising rejection of this bid was balanced some what by an olive branch approach to a summit conference. The de partment made public a Western Big Three note to the Kremlin which, for the first time, leaned toward the Russian formula for pre-summit talks.) The President spoke at a news conference one day after Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles said there is a likelihood that further U S. tests will be needed after the present series about to begin in the Pacific. “I think that we would be hap pily surprised,”- Dulles said, “if we got all the information we needed out of this series of tests, but we may get most of it.” Eisenhower-did not specifically mention the possible need for a second round of tests in discussing the problem. He said he would cansider a halt under these con ditions: “The scientists would have to tell me what they thought it nec essary to find out, and whether they had largely or almost com pletely found out the things they wanted to know. “If we do find out all the nec essary things, then I would, of course, consider such a statement of American intentions.” Eisenhower made it clear he would be guided mainly by American security requirements rather than what the Russians do to ballyhoo their own announced ‘esting ban. Patton Named laVie Editor For '59 Edition Joseph Patton, junior in secon dary education from Washington, Pa., has been named- editor of the LaVie for 1959. Patton, photography editor of the 1958 LaVie, succeeds George Shambaugh, senior in journalism from Harrisburg, as editor. Ildward Franklin, junior in business administration from Al exandria, Va., has been named managing editor succeeding Les lie Phillc.baum. Edward Kaleshef ski, junior in architecture from Wilkes-Barre, succeeds Mary Steranchak as art editor. Ken neth Florence, sophomore in counselling from Cleveland, Ohio, succeeds Patton as photography editor. Co-activities editors will be Barbara Marcus, junior in ele mentary education from Bethle hem, and Henrietta Herlzog, jun ior in psychology from York, suc ceeding Lynn Glassburn and Mar garet King. Senior co-editors will be Barbara Bell, junior in educa tion from Albion and Kathrine Briggs, junior in home economics from Pasadena, Cal., succeeding Joanne Adair and Ann Francis. Robert McCarron, junior in pre medicine from Chestnut Hill, Mass., succeeds Phyllis Hodges as University editor. Patricia O’Neill, junior in journalism from Staten Island. N.Y.. will succ'cd Patricia (Continued on page five) FIVE CENTS
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