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VOL. 59. No. 66
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ts for Lecture
s. Roosevelt
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Tickets for ti
8 p.m. Wednesdai
tributed to stu •
Monday, Jan. 5.
1 e Eleanor Roosevelt lecture, scheduled for
, Jan. 7, in Schwab Auditorium, will be dis
ents and non-students beginning at 9 a.m.
A total of 10
have been allot
IQ student tickets and 136 non-student tickets
. ted for distribution. Tickets, which will be
Zepp t
investigation
Of Infirmary
By AMY ROSENTHAL
Donald Zepp, president of the
Chemistry-Physics Student Conn
ell, has been bound by the council
to ask All-University Cabinet to
investigate the University Health
Service. -
The motion for the investiga
tion was brought up by Joseph
Synkonis. Irving Kline also made
a motion that the council send a
letter to health service officials'
asking thein 'to publish a set of
instructions on what to do in case
of illness. Kline's motion was
passed unanimously.
The council felt that "some
thing should be done abut the
lax" ambulance service and
about securing a staff to - be on
hand at noon and at night to
treat emergencies.
Irving Kline, Walton Davis and
Joseph Synkonis quoted instances
when it seemed to them that am
bulance service was "lax." They
agreed that service should be
quicker.
Zepp recommended that a per
son should be on hand to take
care of emergencies at noon and
after 6 p.m. He added that now
there was a doctor on call at
home to take care of night
patients.
Steve Brown suggested that
there be one doctor at the in•
firmary to handle night emer
gencies and more than one in
the afternoon.
Ronald Glatt stated that stu
dents should at least be notified
where to go in case of emergency.
Joseph Synkonis said - a "gen
eral shakeup" of the hospital
staff was needed.
President Zepp asked the coun
cil members to investigate stories
of the people who have complaints
against the health se vice. "My on
ly contact with the ealth service
was during the tim - when there
was no flu epide ic," he said.
"I
.wouldn't know f the claims
against the hospita are true or
not," he said. • - ,
Greek
A trophy will
to the fraternity
group actumulatii
est number of pc
the annual Greek
ties to be held,Ar
Committee chairm
bers for both the I
and Panhellenic Co
tees, co-sponsors o
were ,also announce
Leonard Julius and
- Nash, co-chairmen.
Another change i this year's
program' will be a mallet Sing
contest to be held i conjunction ,
with the IFC-Panhe Sing finals.
The two winning gr ups will en
tertain during the si g finals and,
at the IFC-Panhel b quet,•April
, .
14. ; •
FIrrNTTr! admission
free to everyone, may be obtained
at the Hetzel Union desk. They
will be limited to one person and
distribution will continue until
the supply is gone.
Mrs, Roosevelt will be the
first speaker in the new Uni
versity Lecture Series which
was set up to bring "name
speakers" to the campus. She
will speak on "R ussi a—The
Country and the People as I
Saw Them," basing her remarks
on her trip through Russia last
year.
Ask
She will be introduced by Jay
Feldstein, All - University presi
dent. In her talk she will cover
a comparison of (1) home life in
America and Russia; (2) the gen
eral development of education in
the two countries; and (3) health
services in both countries.
Mrs. Roosevelt will be met on
her arrival by Feldstein, Mary
Jane Wyland, professor emeritus
of education, and Sherry Parkin,
junior in education and a mem
ber of • the Lecture Series com
mittee which arranged the pro
gram.
She will stay at the Nittany
Lion•lnn. A reception and a press
conference for members of The
Daily Collegian, The Centre Daily
Times, WDFM and WMAJ, will
probably accompany her lecture.
The funds for the Lecture Ser
ies, which will also bring Cle
ment Attlee, former Prime Min
ister of England, to the campus
on Feb. 23, will come from a
special contingency fund ad=
ministered by President Eric A.
Walker. According to Lecture
Series committee members, stu
dent fees will not be increased
in order to cover the costs of
future lectures.
Speakers being considered for
future invitations to the campus
as part of the new series are
Vice President Richard M. Nixon,
former President Herbert C. Hoo
ver,. Sr., former President Harry
S. Truman, Sen. John S. Ken
nedy and Walter Reuther, presi
dent of the United Auto Workers.
200 Unreserved Tickets
Remain for Gym Meet
200 extra', unreserved tickets
for the Finnish Gym meet will go
on sale at 8 a.m. t oda y. The
tickets cost $l.
500 reserved seats still remain
at $2 apiece.
eek Winner to Get Trophy
.e awarded
,sorority
ig the high- .
Lints during
fee will be charged for the sing
finals with the proceeds going •
to the Larry Sharp Fund. The ,
finals will •be held Saturday, '
April 11 in Schwab Auditorium
and the- preliminaries will be
held Thursday. April 9 and Fri
day. April 10.
The Greek Week activities will
open with Sunday worship serv
ices on 'April 5.- The fraternity
sorority exchange dinners will be
held Monday and the bridge tour
nament is scheduled for Tuesday,
April 7.
eek activi
.
rd. 5 to 11.
1 •n and meni
terfraternity
ncil commit
i • the event,
today by
Mary Alice
The outstanding pledge ban
quet will be held = Wednesday,
April 8 , and qiartet sing contest
.prelindnaries • will" be' held
Thursday, April S. The com
munity work projects, Will be
het:l.sll6lMay, April - 11.
The closing banquet and presen.
STATE COLLEGE. PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 17.1958
Mao Will Quit Post
As Red hina Chief
WARSAW, Pciand (11 3 )—Mao Tze-tung, Communist China's political, economic and gov
ernmental boss, is quitting as
.chief of state next month.
Peiping confirmed it yesterday but emphasized that Mao will remain at the helm of Red
China as boss of the Chinese Communist party, said diplomatic advices reaching Warsaw.
Foreign Minister Chen Yi notified foreign diplomats in Peiping that the 65-year-old
David W. Russell, professor of
education, played Santa Claus to
his 25 freshnian women advisees
last night.
Russell, who said he is quite
proud of his advisee group and
the hard work they had been do
ing all semester, decided to end
his series of weekly advisee
meetings with a special event.
He called his friends Oral R.
Swigart and J. Campbell Lester,
both associate professors in me
chanical engineering, and ar
ranged to have 25 freshman engi
neering students go to the Uni
versity skating rink. Then he told
his advisees they, too, could go
to the rink. Result: Christmas .ice
skating party!
Russell said the patty was the
first he had arranged for any of
his advisee group. "We decided
if it worked out well, we might
try it again in the Spring before
the rink closes," he said.
Some Relief Seen
From Cold Wave
The cold wave that has held
temperatures belo w 25 degrees
for 11 consecutive days will break
somewhat today with the after
noon temp era
ture rising close 1 4 1 1- 44 r..r.
..7.1 4 1 4
to the 30 degree •0,
mark. Cfel fc
Today's fore- • , \i.
cast is cloudy •
with a chance of
occasional - light - t i
snow. The - high
will be 30 de- ,
grees, getting
clearer and cold- ~
er towards night
with a low of 16 degrees.
Cold weather should continue
for several' more days but the
temperatures will not be as low
as they have been for the past
11 days.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy
with an expected high of 34 de
grees. .
The forecast of the weather for
the forthcoming holiday weekend
will appear in tomorrow's Daily
Collegian.
tation of awards will be held Tues
day, April 14.
The purpose of Greek Week is
to promote good will and better
understanding between the fra
ternity and sororities and the stu
dent body, faculty, and towns
people.
Committee chairmen and mem
bers are:
IFC-Panhel Sing—Stewart Bailey and
Dorothy Williams, co-chairmen Francis
Levendo sky, Lonis Troutman n, Ronal
Roth, Neal Rhoads, Mary Helms, Joan M
aar, Patricia Frank, and Marjorie - Brew
ster.
Poster—Robert Wayne and Kay Noonan,
co-chairmen; Alvin Kamis, Robert Bellas,
Stuart Medwin, Krland Stevens. Judy Col
beck, Barbara Simmons, Virginia Fitz
martin and Mary Weeks.
ExchangeDinner—Wally Caplan and
Barbara Clark, co-chairmen: Richard Mc-
Mahon, Kenneth Louis, Theodore Stein
man, Richard Pae, Jape Kleinfeld, Judy
Bentz, Gail Thompson and Gretchen Grimm.
Greek Sunday—Charles McCreary and;
Margaret gePherson, co-chairmen Robert
Ed Prof Plays
'Santa Claus'
For Advisees
(Continued ini page eight)
father of the Red Chinese revo
lution though keeping his big
job as party chairman—will re
tire from the presidency upon
the expiration of his term in Jan
uary "to conserve himself to still
more important tasks."
Though the retirement was
pictured by the Chinese as
strictly voluntary, Western en
voys in this Polish Communist
capital expressed belief that So
-1 viet Premier Nikita Khrush
chev might have had a hand in
it. ,
They said that - if Khrushchev did
not precipitate Mao's- stepdown,
they were certain he was pleased
with it. They believed the retire
ment was discuved at Monday's
meeting of the Soviet Communist
party Central Committee in Mos
cow.
The Soviet Union, they said, had
been worried about two things in
relation with its - biggest Com
munist neighbor:
•The possibility of adverse ef
fects from Mao's drastic com
mune policy, which masses work
ers and their families into labor
battalions for Red China's cam
4:laign in agriculture and industry
*Fear of an adventurist foreign
policy in the Far East at a time
when Soviet attention centers on
Berlin and the Middle East.
Chen emphasized the voluntary
aspect of the retirement at a brief
ing of ambassadors, minister. and
charges d'affaires.
Fraternities to Hold
Open Houses Tonight
The first of two general fra
ternity open houses will, be
held from 7 to 10 p.m. tonight
at 55 fraternities.
After four sessions of Sun
day afternoon open houses, all
the fraternities will be open
to freshmen tonight. Another
general open house will be held
Jan. 11 by the Interfraternity
Council.
--Colteeian Photo by Bob Thompoon
IN THE HOLIDAY MOOD ... Members ofthe music department,
Paul Wendhold, Charlotte Stump, and Bob Stephenson, clown in
a take-off on popular operatic works at the department's annual
Christmas Party.
Irvin Coed
Abducted
Near Tavern
A fifth semester coed from Irvin
Hall has recovered from a state
of shock which followed her ab
duction by an unidentified man
in the vicinity of The Tavern on
College Avenue Sunday night.
James Coogan, director of pub
lic information, said the girl told
police she had gone to a social
in the basement of Grace Evan
gelical Church on College Ave
nue and left about 9:15 p.m. for
Irvin Hall.
As she was walking past the
Tavern, however, she said she
realized some one was walking
behind her He told her to keep
quiet and not scream. She said
he took her left glove off, took
her hand and led her into the
car which she later said she
thought was a dark Ford.
She said she could no remem-
ber anything 'after that. "I
blacked out, I think." she told
police. She regained conscious-
ness once, she said, and found
they were driving around..He
told her to keep Quiet
The next time she was_ con
scious, she said she was sitting
on - the Library steps and she
heard Old Main ring 9:45 p.m. She
walked to Irvin Hall and told her
roommate the, story. Her room
mate, who saw she was very up
set, went to the hostess at about
2 a.m. and reported the happen
ing.
The hostess had the girl taken
to the infirmary where she re
mained until yesterday. She was
too upset to talk to any one un
til yesterday, including police. Dr.
Helz of the infirmary said she
was not harmed in any way` She
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