Today's Forecast: Cloudy and Mild; Possible Showers VOL. 58. No. 121 English Entrance Standards Raised; Comp 0 Near End UniVersity entrance requirements were upped another notch Thursday when the Senate approved a rule prohibiting acceptance of applicants who are not deemed "competent to enter English Composition 1." The new rule, effective with freshmen admitted for, the US.'.)rops Sovie Bid For Meeting WASHINGTON (IP)—The-Unit ed States swiftly rejected yester-1 day the price Russia demanded to open lower-leVel diplomatic talks' in advance of an East-West sum mit meeting. The White House, moving with' unusual speed, turned a cold shoulder to Et new Russian note renewing the Kremlin's bid for top-level talks. Press Secretary James C. Hag erty labeled the Soviet reply, the 12th in a round, which began last December, as "not as acceptance," i of; Western conditions for a sum mit' meeting. The Soviets proposed that We-st ern Big Three ambassadors meet l next Thursday in Moscow with Russian representatives. They proposed that this be followed up by a foreign ministers conference between May 1 and May 15. • Top officials in studying the So viet note quickly found these three object°s: 1. Russia is eeking to force the ! West to agree to a summit meet-, ing even bef re the results of, lower-level diplomatic talks are known. The West has insisted that a toplevel meeting be convened only if prior diplomatic talks dem onstrate prospect of agreement. 2. The talks ,by ambassadors which Moscow has suggested would be limited to disculsing organizational arrangements for the later foreign ministers meet:" ing. The West has suggested the ambassadors be the main avenue for solid negotiations aimed at narrowing East-West differences. 3. Russia is insisting on the right to - veto any discussion of problems to which it objects at the later foreign ministers con ference. This would guarantee that only topics agreeable to the Kremlin would be discussed at the summit, presumably ruling out negotiations on German unity and more freedom for European satel lites of Russia. Higher Teacher Standards HARRISBURG (iP) A grass roots conference of educators yes terday urged higher standards, for school teachers, superintendents and principals but rejeCted the idea of statewide examinations to certify new teachers. Greek Sunday Scheduled for Schwab Greeks will worship to gether in the sixth annual ob servance, of Greek Sunday at chapel services 10:55 a.m. to morrow in Schwab Auditor ium. Dr. Luther H. Harshbarger, University chaplain, will give a special Greek Week sermon en titled "This Careful Generation." In addition to the special ser mon, the liturgical service ', for chorus, organ and brass choir for this year's Easter service will be repeated by request. Composed by George Ceiga, University organ ist, the service follows in general the order._of Holy Communion in the Anglican tradition. !„....:., STATE COLLEGE. PA., SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 12. 1958 fall semester of 1960, was among l eight educational policy recom mendations passed by the Sen ate, and all but eliminates English Composition 0, remedial English .course. Exceptions to the rule will be made for students who have "un usually high scholastic ability in other respects." Dr. Harold K. Schilling, chairman of the Senate Committee on Educational Policy, said he hopes all but a few sec tions of the remedial English course will be dropped. Those re maining, he said, will be for the few students admitted who had other high scholastic attributes, but just seemed to have trouble with English usage. In approving the ruling; the Senate purposely left a loop hole for students who cannot , enter English Composition 1. The group passed another rule providing adequate remedial work during summer sessions or by extension for "those who, because of deficiencies in Eng lish, do not qualify for registra tion." Passage of the committee's rec ommendations also establish com petence in the use of English as a requirement for the baccalau reate degree in all University curriculums. "Minimum competence" was de fined as the "level of achieve ment equivalent to that required for passing English Composition 5, or its equivalent as approved by the English Department." New or transfer students also will be required to meet the competence requirement before admittance to Junior or senior standing. In another move to tighten standards, the Senate approved a rule prohibiting a student from registering as a junior un• til he has completed English Composition 1 and 5, or their equivalents. The new rulings all will become effective with the freshman class of - 1960. Greek 'Week Schedule Greek Sunday Sorority Sing Preliminaries Fraternity Sing Preliminaries Exchange dinners Outstanding Pledge Banquet Bridge Tournament Work projects, afternoon Sing finals, - night Tuesday, April 22: Final Banquet Tomorrows Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Saturday: Music for the service will be presented by the Chapel Choir, directed by Willa Taylor, and six student instrumentalists, in cluding , Jere Fridy and James Ressler. trumpet, Morris Meyer and John Hendricks, horns, and Roger Munnell and John Be xek, trombones. Some fraternities and sororities are planning to attend the ser vice in a group. In addition to the chapel ser vice, Greeks will attend church services in town. Flowers will be placed in downtown churches by Greek groups. The Greek Sunday services will open a nine-day celebration by fraternities and sororities to con tinue until Tuesday, April 22. , Delta Chi fraternity and Del FOR A BETTER PENN STATE New Class Hours To Be Established By LARRY JACOBSON A completely revamped class schedule system, including wide use of noon and night classes, will go into effect next semester. The new schedule is another attempt by the University to make better use of available facilities in the face of problems arising from increased enrollment. Under the new . system, classes will be scheduled Mon H-Test End Would Aid West—King-Hall Sir Stephen King-Hall, retired British admiral and mem ber of Parliament, last night said Great Britain should stop all nuclear tests for military purposes and concentrate on political warfare. Speaking to the University Christian Association on his recent book, "Defense in the Nu clear Age," King-Hall said he definitely is not stressing a neu trality, but "violence has outlived its usefulness" Th noted political and econom ic expert said that other countries should follow such an example and then invite the United Na tions to set up an inspection team. Realizing the difficulty of changing the U.S. and Russian opinion, King-Hall suggested that at least the, tests be con fined to these two countries. "A definite danger today is the large number of nations that will soon have nuclear weapons," he said, adding that "it is not very far away that the Israelis and Arabs will have these weapons." King-Hall cited the possibility that a big nuclear explosion might occur and without its origin being known. King-Hall said the advantages of his plan would, first- of all, save large sums of money that could be devoted to political uses, and, secondly, may pro mote the long-term hope of peace, that of emergence of pub lic opinion from behind the Iron Curtain. The founder df King-Hall News -lett e r, a weekly publication which has some 80,000 readers, King-Hall suggested that England - k,•;: - ...:"..;:' , , , ,;.. 4, '.. V tf.f".. -:',,1 to Gamma sorority won a poster contest held in connection with Greek Week. Phi Kappa Tau was named sec ond place fraternity winner and Theta Phi Alpha won second place among sororities. The first place winners will re rceive trophies at the closing 'PC- Panhel banquet April "22 at the Nittany Lion Inn. Plaques will be presented to the second place groups. An tasters entered in the con test are being displayed in downtown stores until next Sate urday. Judges for the poster contest were Dr. Harold E. Dickson, A. William Hajjak and Andrew W. Case, all of the Art Department. By DENNY MALICK reduce its forces to a police force level. "If we did this, reducing our forces, I must admit Great Brit ain would be open to invasion;! he said, "but I don't think Rus sia has any intentions of armed action." King-Hall said one of the most powerful weapons is public opin ion, which we must try to move from behind the Iron Curtain. Referring to the Hungary up rising, King-Hall said that the' anti-Communists went too far with their ideas. "Khrushchev couldn't afford to see a Commu= nist government overthrown be cause it would have probably caused a chain reaction among their satellite countries," he said. The West must get to the Red people, King-Hall urged, to re duce the idea Khrushchev has spread that the Communist Party is keeping the peace by holding off the Western war lords. Nielly, Christy Cast In Club Hubanna Virgil Nielly, associate pro fessor of engineering extension, and Lynn Christy, associate pro fessor of English Composition, will be top billing at Club Hub anna from 9 "to midnight to night in the Hetzel Union ball room. Nielly-will entertain with the "Academic Blues"—a piano act. Christy will be master of cere monies. Reservations at $1.25 per cou ple may be made at the HUB desk for tonight's program. —Daily Collegian photo by Dave Fineman 'TOP TOMATO'—Nick Gedney, freshman in electrical engineering from Wayne, weakly accepts ss—a bet payoff for eating 30 - dishes of stewed tomatoes in 14 minutes, along with his regular meal last night in Waring Hall. Originator of the bet, Louis Mallinckrodt, freshman in arts and letters from Wayne, presents the $5. "I really hate tomatoes, but I'm hard up for money," Gedney said. Only noticeable effects were slight reddenings around the gills. rgiatt Tutors for Students See Page 4 ay nights in the following sequence: Monday at 7 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday at 1 p.m.; Monday at 8 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday at 2 p.m. Noon classes will be sched uled on Monday-Wednesday- Friday and Tuesday-Thursday- Saturday sequences. Another change, necessitated by the noon classes, will shove after noon class starting times back to 1:15, 2:15. 3:15, and 4:15. The University also has re va 'toed sequence hours for Mon- I da:, Wednesday and Friday. Un ;der the new system, these classes twill meet ai. the same time all three days, instead of the same time Monday and Friday and a different time Wednesday. For example, a class which has ;been scheduled for Monday and Friday at 8, Wednesday at 1 p.m. lin previous years, will now meet at 8 a.m. all three days. Announcing the change, Uni versity Scheduling Officer flay V. Watkins also listed Tuesday- Thursday afternoon sequences which could be requested by the faculty for elective courses: T-1, Th-1.3; T-1.3, Th-1; T-3-5, Th-3; T-3, Th-3-5. Noon and night classes are not ,new to the University. The former 'were tried on an experimental 'basis for the first time this se lmester with sections of Music 5 and required physical education. Evening classes have been used in the past mostly for seminars and graduate courses, with the in clusion of a few 1-credit under graduate courses from time to time. 'Third Program' to Play Strauss Comic Opera WDFM's "Third Program" will present a complete recording of "Der Rosenkavalier" (The Cava lier of the Rose), a comic opera by Richard Strauss, at 13 p m. to morrow. The opera will be sung in the original German, but a short re sume of the action will precede it. FIVE CENTS
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