r Bally 4 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1958 FIVE CENTS VOL. 59. N• Uni Enr ersity Ilment Incr :.ases - Universi y enrollment both on and off campus is running well ahead of last year's and is expected to go even higher. Incomplete figures show that 14,137 are now enrolled on cam pus. This compares with figures for the same time in 1955, 12,131; 1956, 12,814; 1957, 13,803. The increase is attributed most ly to the rise in the number of transfer students from University centers and transfers from other institutions. rl The off-campus centers are up to 3388, as compared with 3034 last year. Ogonts Campus is again high with a total of 780. Enrollment in the centers in creased during the depression years. The undergraduate pro grams at the centers became par ticularly important after World War IL This was due to the increased enrollment. Lack of adequate space caused the University to send freshmen to centers. The total enrollment for this year is expected to top 20,000. The total enrollment for last year was 19,265. The University expects to hit 25,000 by 1970. President Eric A. Walker said a larger percentage than usual of last year's enrollees returned to campus this year and he viewed this as reflect ing credit on the counseling program. "I am encouraged by the en rollment figures that I have seen," Walker said. "They indi cate that we are making progress scholastically and that the Divi sion of Counseling is helping us to keep more and more of our students," he said. Train Plunges In Bay; 40 Die, Over 33 Injured ELIZABETH, N.J. UP)--A com muter train, ripping through dan ger signals and an automatic roadblock, hit an open draw bridge yesterday, and its forward cars plunged 50 feet into Newark Bay. The railroad estimated 40 persons died, most of them in trapped, helpless agony beneath 35 feet of water. - At least 33 persons were in jured in the unexplained disas ter. Missing and believed among the dead was George "Snuffy" Stirnweiss, former second base man of the New York Yankees. 'I The father of six children, he re- portedly scrambled aboard the Jersey Central train just as it pulled out of Red Bank enroute to ferry connections with New York City. Also missing was Elton Clark, 71, a director of Allied Chemical and Dye Co., one of the nation's biggest corporations. His family said he was aboard the train. Most of the victims were in one of three passenger coaches that kit the trestle to vanish into the dark waters of the bay. Until it could be raised, the death toll re- mained uncertain. s Collegian, Staff to Meet There will be a compulsory meeting of the Daily Collegian staff at 5 p.m. today, - FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Frosh give command performance on Schwab steps. Merry Frosh. Chant As Customs Opens "P.S.U.! We love you! We're the Class of '62!" A group of about 75 Freshmen chanted this refrain yes terday afternoon on the steps of Schwab Auditorium as Customs moved vigorously in Today is also designated a freshman men obligated to, answer 'to the upperclassman's call of "Button; Frosh." Fresh man women must respond to "Curtsey, Frosh" from upperclass women. All other Customs regulations as stopping freshmen in order to have them repeat the Freshman Oath may be enforced on all freshmen by upperclassmen or upperclasswomen. Freshman Customs Board Co- Chairman Helen. -S kade ex pressed satisfaction with the "spirit and interest" shown yes terday by both upperclassmen - and freshmen. This year for the first time stu dents will be able to find out Olympic Gymnast Vega Enrolls At University;Will Compete RETURN OF A CHAMP—Muscular Olympic gymnast Armando Vega (far left) sits on the parallel bars in Recreation Hall with fellow teammates Jay Werner and Lee Cunningham and coach Gene Wettstone. Vega dropped out of the University last spring to compete in the World Championships but has returned to com pete again for Penn State. (tiiiirgiatt By LIANNE CORDERO o its first day. . a regular Customs day, with what type of Customs day—Reg ular, Turn-about, Joint or Re verse—will be enforced the fol lowing day by listening at 11:30 p m. to radio station WMAJ. At 12:30 each day the station will broadcast what Customs are in effect for that pah•icular day. Hatmen and hatwomen are to participate in Customs this year but have been asked by the board to stop any deliberate "hazing" by upperclassmen and women. The names of all Customs vio lators are to be turned into the Hetzel Union desk, where forms are,, available to be filled out by the reporting upperclassman. Fund Reallocation Sought to Provide For '59 Class Gift The administration may be asked to reallocate funds to provide for a Senior Class Gift for the Class of 1959. All-University Cabinet on Thursday will receive a motion which would empower All-University President Jay Feld stein and Senior Class President Charles Welsh to negotiate with the administration toward that end. The motion was unanimously approved Sunday night by the 10-member Cabinet executive committee and would also provide for negotiations concerning gifts of future classes. The motion follows last week's' disclosure by President Eric A. Walker that there are no senior class gift funds as such and there ew Laws have been none since 1948. Unknown tp the students and many administration officials, including Walker, the Univer sity has been paying out its own funds for gift choices of the senior classes since that time. But the University can no longer be expected to do this, W-6'ker said on Thursday. Before 1948 the class gift came from a damage deposit assessed all students. When all student fees were consolidated into one general fee in 1948, the deposit ceased •to exist. Walker reportedly learned of the situation only recently from Carl B. Barnes, University comp troller. A reallocation of funds may not be the only method to keep ;the Class of 1959 in the gift-giving tradition, Feldstein said last 'night. "I will be open to any sug gestions which might prove to be more feasible than the one the executive committee has given," he said. Besides Feldstein and Welsh, members of the committee are Steven Garban, All-University vice president; John Gingrich, All-University secretary-treasur ,er; Ellen Donovan, Women's Stu dent Govern ment Association president; Vincent Marino, junior class president, and student coun cil presidents Robert Laßar, Ag-1 iriculture; Ruth Johnson, Educa; tion; Tack Kendall, Engineering and Architecture, and Louis Phil lips, Liberal Arts. By MATT MATHEWS Associate Sports Editor Armando Vega ha s re turned. The Olympic gymnast en rolled at the University Sat urday and is attending classes. Vega has one year of collegiate eligibility remaining and in tends to compete this winter. In case your memory is rusty,' Armando Vega has won individ ual Eastern, national, AAU, Olym pic and other international hon ors and led Penn State to a na tional team championship as a junior. We say "led" because he scored two-thirds of the winning team points. Vega dropped out of the Uni versity last spring and prepared for the World Gymnastic cham pionships in Moscow. He had announced his retire ment on March 27, 1957, and also stated at that time that he wished to save his last year of eligibility for his final semester at State. During his year of "retirement" (Continued on page seven) By 808 FRANKLIN Collegian Editor Car Owners The removal of 15-minute park ing privileges along Shortlidge Road—in front of Simmons and McElwain Halls—and the addi tion of a driveway to the Hetzel Union Building parking lot were the major-parking changes greet ing students at the start of the fall semester. Other changes announced by the Campus Patrol include: •Suspension of driving privi leges on campus for 16 weeks or the remainder of the academic year when a student receives his fifth violation. The student's car would also be sent home. *Students must report to the traffic violations officer in 203 HUB instead of the Patrol Office. *ln . every case where an al leged traffic or parking violation is contested_ the Traffic Court will, if the violation is sustained, automatically assess an additional fee of $1.50 per violation. The Campus Patrol also said that narking will he permitted in the Pollock area until construc tion begins there. Building is scheduled to begin in the middle of October. To offset this loss of space a new area—Lot 52—will he opened north of the Jordan fertility plots. An addition is also being made to Lot 83 at the Entrance Road and Park Avenue. When the new setup goes into effect it will mean• a gain of 125 parking spaces. Lucien E. Bolduc. head of cam nus natrol, said, "We are trying hard to please everyone." There has been a greater demand for spaces this fall due to expansion of nersonnel in most departments of the University, he said. Tickpfs to Be Sold For Penn Game Tickets for the Penn-Penn State game may be bought from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at the first ticket booth near the main entrance to Beaver Field on a first-come-first-served basis. There are 2500 tickets at $4 for the 30-to-50-yard-line zone and a limited number in the end zone for t 2. Remaining tickets can be bought after tomorrow in Recrea tion Building. Photo Staff to Meet The Daily Collegian photo staff will meet at 7.30 tonight in 9 Carnegie. Anyone interested in joining the photo staff may attend. For distribution points o# fraternity copies of The Daily Collegian see page five.
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