Today's Forecast:
Warmer, Cloucfy,
Afternoon Showers
VOL. 58, No. 122
Tri-Delt, AOPi, DG,
KD Reach Finals
Of IFC-Panhel Sing
Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, Delta Gamma and
defending champions Kappa Delta last night advanced to
the sorority, finals of the IFC-Panhel Sing in Schwab
Auditorium.
The four
roups qualified from among 14 sorority choruses
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Pyrose, a lo al sorority found
ed last year, I . :quested permission'
yesterday to t.ke steps to become'
the Universityls 24th national so-!
rority chapter,.
Pyrose has requested to peti
tion Alpha Delta Pi national,
sorority for membership. The re-1
quest went before the Senate
Subcommittee on Organizational
Control yestkrday. The decision
of his group will probably go be
fore the Senate Committee on
Student Affairs Thursday. Per
mission of petition privileges rests
with this committee, acting on
the recommendation of the sub
committee.
The original • charter for per
mission to become a local club or
sorority was granted to Pyrose
by the Senate Committee on Stu
dent Affairs in March 1957.
After a social group is chartered
by the University, it must remain
as a local club for one year. Then
it may request permission to pe
tition a national.
If permission for petition is.
granted to Pyrose and the na
tional sorority accepts the peti
tion, Alpha Delta Pi could pledge
the members of Pyrose this spring,
according to Mrs. R. Mae Schultz,
assistant dean of women.
The present pledges and active
members of Pyrose would become
pledges of the national Alpha
Delta Pi.
Jr. Class Board
Aplications Due
Letters of application for the
Junior Class Advisory Board will
be accepted until noon Saturday
by class president Vince Marino.
The letters are to include the
applicant's name, address, tele
phone number, All-University
average, a list of activities and a
statement of why the applicant
wishes to sit on the board.
All applications are to be mailed
to Vince Marino, Theta Delta Chi.
NATO Approves Summit Groundwork
PARIS (/P) The Western
Big Three won official- back
ing yesterday of their North
Atlantic Pact Allies for a plan
to open talks in Moscow this
week on a possible summit
conference.
The NATO permanent council
approved plans of the United
States, Britain and France to ac
cept, under certain conditions,
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev's suggestion that Western
ambassadors begin preliminary
talks w it h Kremlin officials
Thursday. •
The West, it was learned, will
urge the Kremlin to let the am
bassadors decide their own
agenda and procedure.
This would cover the chief
points at issue: Whether a for
eign ministers' conference, and
subsequently a meeting of heads
of government, should be held
even if the ambassadorial meet
ings show no promise of eventual
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The finals will be held, at 8 p.m.
Saturday in Schwab.
The Kappa Deltas and Delta
Gammas qualified for the Sing
finals for - the second straight
year. Delia Delta Delta was
among the finalists in the 1956
Sing.
Each sorority sang the required
selection, "Evening Reverie," and
a sorority song of its choosing.
The Sing preliminaries for fra
ternities will be held beginning at
6:30 tonight in the auditorium.
Five fraternities have with
drawn from the Sing prelimin
aries causing a revision in the
schedule for tonight. The new
schdeule is as follows:
Phi Kappa Tau, 6:30: Alpha
Gamma Rho, 6:35; Acacia, 6:40;
Phi Mu Delta, 6:45; Delta Chi,
6:50; Delta Upsilon. 6:55; Delta
Tau Delta, 7:00; Theta Chi, 7:05;
Kappa Delta Rho. 7:10; Pi Kap
pa Alpha, 7:15; Phi Gamma Del
ta, 7:30; Theta Xi, 7:25; Alpha
Tau Omega, 7:30; Chi Phi, 7:35;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 7:40; and
Tau Kappa Epsilon, 7:45.
Tau Kappa Epsilon has been
fraternity champion for the last
nine years.
Each fraternity will , sing the
required song, "When Good Men
Sing," without accompaniment.
In addition, each will sing a fra
ternity song with or without piano
accompaniment.
Judges for last night's compe
tition were Mrs. Neil McNaul.
elementary music supervisor of
State College Public Schools; Mrs.
Ernest Martin, past director of the
Bellefonte Choir; and William
Noyes, professor of music educa
tion.
Members of Alpha Phi Omega,
men's service fraternity, served as
ushers.
Cleveland Concert
Tickets Remain
A total of 2835 student tickets
remain for the Cleveland Sym
phony Concert scheduled for 8:30
p.m. Sunday in Recreation Hall.
Wickets will be distributed until
5 p.m. Wednesday, and sale of
tickets to non-students will begin
9 a.m. Thursday. Tickets cost
$1.25.
Tickets may be obtained at the
Hetzel Union desk upon presenta
tion of student identification
'cards.
agreement.
The West says the higher
scale session should not be held
unless there is some chance of
an accord on outstanling world
problems. The Russians want to
have them in any case.
The NATO decision came on
the eve of a meeting of NATO
defense ministers to review their
joint defense plans. One topic is
the eventual location of the
nuclear- armed intermediate
range ballistic missiles, which the
NATO chiefs of government a
greed are needed to parry any
eventual Soviet thrust against
the West.
'The United States, meanwhile,
put pressure on Russia Monday
to stop insisting on cut-and-dried
advance commitments and start
preparatory talks for the summit
conference.
Secretary► of State Dulles de
clared in Washington that pre
paratory talks "may get started
within a few days—l don't know
r for certain."
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL 15. 1958
Long Favors Open
Trustees Meetings
James B. Long, president
of the Board of Trustees,
has said he personally
favors opening the board's
meetings to the press and
the public.
In a Collegian interview last
week, he also said he believes
the time i 4► "undoubtedly com
ing" when the meetings will
be open.
Long said he not only has
"no objection" to such a move,
but believes open meetings
would create a "healthy situa
tion." He declined to elaborate
for publication on his personal
views on the subject because
he said the matter is one which
must be decided by the trus
tees as a whole and a vote of
the full board would be re
quired to open the meetings.
The board has been declared
exempt from the state's "open
meetings" laws because it is
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Seen
A budget for the University of close to $lOO million a
year will probably be necessary by 1970 to provide adequate
facilities and make the best use of available tools to help
meet the population boom which is making higher education
harder to get, according to James B. Long, president of the
Board of Trustees.
Long named the problem of:
meeting the boom as the biggestj
challenge for the trustees, in
'Collegian interview last week.
He said the challenge "to pro
vide adequate housing for boys'
land girls that want to go to col
'lege" and adequately to pay its
faculty is most important not only
to the University, but to institu
tions of higher learning through
out the country.
Where, will the money come
from? Long said that as the on
campus population increases to
about 25,000 in 1970, he hopes
the traditional ratio between
fees and funds provided by
state and federal governments
will be maintained.
"I would like to see student
'fees kept to a reasonable - figure,
!comparable to fees charged by
similar universities," he said. He
said present-day students "de-
The ball undoubtedly was in the
Kremlin's court. It .remained to
be seen how the Russians would
play it. Here is how matters
stand:
•The Russians are willing to
have diplomatic level talks fol
lowed by a foreign• ministers
meeting followed by a summit
conference. But they want the
first two steps to deal solely with
technical things, like where and
I when the summit talks would be
held. Further, they want a summit.
date set before the foreign min
i isters sit down together..
•The Allies want the diplo
matic and foreign ministers talks
to tackle the basic issues causing
East-West tensions. They argue
that a summit conference would
he a meaningless spectacle unless
I lower level experts have narrow
ed the gap through painstaking
negotiation. They fear any bind
ing summit date, fixed in ad
vance, would make a foreing min
isters meeting just so much
wheel-spinning.
By 808 FRANKLIN
Collegian City Editor
(Editorial on Page 4)
Million Budget
by Long in '7O
rgiatt
legally a private corporation.
A bill which would have
opened the board's meetings—
along with those of the Uni
versities of Pennsylvania and
Pittsburgh and the 14 state
teachers colleges—was unani
mously approved by the State
Senate in the last session of the
legislature. The House did not
act on the bill before adjourn
ing.
Concerning the future of the
hotel administration curricu
lum, which reportedly has been
considered for abolition, Long
said, "I think it will be im
proved without a doubt."
But he said, "If the hotel and
restaurant industry is suffi
ciently interested (in turning
out qualified graduates), it
should help. If we are going
to keep the course, it should
be worthwhile for the stu
dents taking it."
He called the hotels and
restaurants a tremendous po
tential aid in supporting the
curriculum in a way similar
to newspaper support of the
School of Journalism.
The hotel administration cur
riculum has been under study
serve the same opportunity that
we had" in obtaining a . college
education.
Long, who is serving his fifth
3-year term on the board, and
who was named president upon
the resignation last year of
George H. Deike, cited high
building costs as a problem
unique mostly by a scarcity of
building mechanics in the area,
he said, and thg added money
to bring them in from Altoona,
Williamsport, Harr i sburg and
other larger communities.
He placed the figure needed to
build new residence halls at
about $6OOO to $7OOO a room, in
cluding interest, amortization and
upkeep.
' Students in new residence halls
do not pay even the interest on
the investment during a year's
(Cont:' - ,
—Daily Collegian photos by Mb Thompson
ALL READY James Cober, sophomore in fuel technology from
Indiana, strings his fishing pole for the opening of the Pennsyl
vania-trout season. Thousands began fishing the state's 127 miles
of streams when the season opened at 5 a.m. today.
Wanted: Guts!
See Page 4
by the Board of Trustees, the
administration and Pennsyl
vania hotel and restaurant op
erators.
On the possibility of chang
ing the ROTC program from
compulsory for freshman and
sophomore men to a complete.
ly voluntary system, Long said
he believes such a move would
require federal legislation, al.
though this has not definitely
been determined.
But he said he does not now
personally favor such a change,
although he can see arguments
bettering the program through
voluntary participation.
Long called participation in
student government "wonder
ful training." "There is so much
to be learned in college in au
dition to classroom work.," he
said, "and student government
does accomplish things."
But he expressed disappoint
ment at low voting percentages
in student elections. Students
who do not vote in these elec
tions may not bother to par
ticipate in local, state and na
tional elections in later life,
he said.
Outlook Cloudy,
Showers Likely
For Fishermen
The Nittany Lion got up bright
and early this morning about
4 a.m, as a matter of fact—packed
his fishing gear and set out for
Fisherman's Paradise.
He heard the weather to be
cloudy with probable showers and
he wanted to make sure he would
get his limit of
fish before it
started to rain.
The season open-
ed at 5 a.m.
On a statewide
basis, the out
look appears dim
for good fishing
because of high,
muddy water in
streams.
In Centre Coun
ty, however, the
majority of streams are meadow,
spring -fed water, and the snow
melted and ran off some days
ago. At present, must streams ap
pear clear and normal.
The weather is expected to be
warmer with increasing cloudi
ness and probableshowers in the
afternoon. Temperatures are to be
from a low of 62 to a high of 68
FIVE CENTS