Today's Forecast: We Welcome Warmer Weather VOL. 59. No. 76 Seco Coed Second semester freshman men started the first of seven weeks of rushing last night when they were dinner guests at many fra- ternities, Under the Interfraternity Council de- ferred rushing plan instituted last spring, first semester students were prohibited from visiting fraternities or participating in rushing activities during the fall. The present IFC regulations re quire a freshman to have a 2.2 All-University average to pledge a fraternity. All second semester students may participate in the rushing, however. Present first semester students will not be able to rush until the fall semester 1959, but several open houses will be held for them after the initial rushing period is over. New studentsr- 1 did partici pate in open houses held in con junction with the spring semester Orientation Week program. March 22 has been set as the official pledging by the IFC, but fraternities may ex tend bids to prospective pledges any time during the 7-week rushing period. Freshmen were hosted in open house mixers held during Novem ber and December by the 55 fra ternities, on and off campus. One general open house was also held at which time all houses were open from 7 to 10 p.m. Also as part of the IFC rush ing program, fraternity rushing booklets were distributed to the interested freshmen in late De cember. The booklets contain a picture of all houses and in cludes a description of the fra ternities' facilities and housing space available. IFC rushing chairmen also took part in dis cussion programs held in the freshman dormitory units last fall. The deferred rushing system was instituted after a careful study was made by an IFC com mittee headed by Robert Jublier er, current IFC parliamentarian. The committee recommended that the plan be instituted on a trial basis and be subject to IFC rules. The system's advantages were two-fold, the committee stated. For one, the deferred rushing system would save the fraterni ties a considerable amount of money in rushing students who did not make their required pledging averages. The committee also felt the sys tem would give the freshman students more time to study and make initial grades without hav ing to worry about rushing and pledging. —Collegian Photo by Marty Seherr CHECK THE LIST before making out your price tags. This is the rule of the ÜBA. Students crowded into the HUB cardroom to purchase used texts at reduced prices. The ÜBA'will accept books until 5 p.m. today. 01tr lattij|o doll d Semester Men, Begin Rushing Ag Clerk's Home Gutted By Blaze Fire completely gutted the Snow Shoe home of Wilma L. Wenrick, statistical clerk in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, yesterday caus ing an estimated $22,000 damage. Mrs. Henrick and her husband, William, lost all their belongings and their house, despite the ef forts of three fire companies to save the structure. No one was in jured. Snow Shoo Fir# Chief Robert Clink said the fire probably re sulted from an overheated fur nace and spread rapidly to all three floors of the dwelling be fore the first alarm was sound ed at 12:20 p.m. Firemen re mained at the scene until S p.m., but were summoned twice more when fire erupted from the smouldering ruins at 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. The Wenricks were visiting in Danville and their daughter, Lou, was home alone when she dis covered the fire. Unable to reach the phone, she fled to a neighbor’s house and sounded the alarm. Firemen battled the blaze with water from hydrants and a nearby pond but were unable to extinguish the blaze and save the house because of the fire's headway, said Clink, Freezing temperatures caused ice to form, hindering and slightly injuring some firemen. The Wenricks, who are now staying at the home of Mr. George Basalla in Snow Shoe, lost every thing, including the wedding gown and hope chest of their daughter who plans to marry in April. The house was insured,' al though its contents were not. The Bellefonte chapter of the American Red Cross yesterday ap pealed for furnishings and cloth ing for the family. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 3. 1959 A total of 243 coeds have registered to participate in sorority rushing since registra tion began at 9 a.m. yesterday. Registration for the spring formal rush ing' period wil 1 continue from 9 a.m. until noon and from 2 until 5 p.m. to day. Any second semester fresh man woman with a 2.3 All-Uni versity average or any upperclass woman with a 2.0 All-University average is eligible. Registration is being held in Atherton Hall lounge. Everyone must bring a copy of her official transcript and $1 to cover the registration fee and the cost of the rushing book let. A mass meeting for all wom en interested in rushing will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in 121 Sparks. Open houses dur ing which rushees may visit sorority suites will be held from 2 until 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Refreshments will be served at 3 p.m. The schedule for attending open houses is: Saturday—All rushees whose names begin with the letters fall ing between A and L will attend open houses in the suites of Group A: Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Omicron Pi, Beta Sigma Omicron, Chi Omega, Gam ma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Pi Beta Phi, Phi Mu, Sigma Delta Tau and Theta Phi Alpha. All rushees whose last names begin with the letters M to Z will attend open houses in the suites of Group B: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Al pha Xi Delta, Alpha Phi, Delta Delia Delta. Delta Gamma, Del ia Zeta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Phi Sigma Sig ma, Sigma Sigma Sigma and Zeta Tau Alpha. Sunday All rushees whose last names begin with the letters M to Z are to visit the open houses of Group A and all rushees whose names begin with the let ters A to L,_the open houses in the suites of Group B. Each rushee may stay no longer than 30 minutes in any one sorority, nor may she revisit the same sorority during open houses. How ever, those women visiting Alpha Epsilon Phi, Phi Sigma Sigma and Sigma Delta Tau may spend one hour at each suite if they wish. Afternoon dresses or suits, stockings, heels and gloves should be worn. Formal spring rushing is ad ministered with the help of an IBM machine. Registration cards will be ready for sorority use and may be picked up by (Continued on page eight) Open Season o Declared; Some By NEAL FRIEDMAN Police Chief John R. Juba has declared open season on stray dogs and may even go as far as shooting the fleet ones that cannot be caught. At last night’s Borough Council cil meeting Juba said he was “fed up” with chasing dogs and that the police department would crack down on strays. A council member questioned whether the police had the au thority to shoot dogs. Juba re plied that he; had been having trouble catching dogs in the Col lege Heights area ana that those might be shot. Juba said his men had had considerable difficulty in round ing up the strays and had even sent street workers in civilian clothes out after the dogs. Someone asked if the dogs had pntatt Centers to Join State-wide System The University has volunteered its system of 14 urban area centers as the nucleus for a state-wide network of two year college. The University’s Board of Trustees approved the plan for a System of Commonwealth Campuses at its January meeting as its contribution toward? the solution of Pennsylvania’s! crisis in higher education. According to the Associated Press, the University has em barked on a long-range program aimed at putting higher educa tion within the reach of every state citizen President Eric A. Walker has been authorized to organize the; present centers into a network of college campuses. The action, Walker said, will give “each Penn sylvanian the opportunity to pur sue his education beyond high school through both degree-grant ing and adult programs.” James H. Coogan, director o{ Public Information, said the University's offer to expand the use of its centers would have to be considered by Gov. David L. Lawrence and/or the State Legislators. The Uni v e r sity would administer the program if it is adopted, Coogan said, and the University's main cam pus would become a part oirlhe entire program; 1 “Adoption of the suggestion to utilize the centers as the nucleus of a state-wide system would pro vide Pennsylvania with a state wide public university system indigenous to the Commonwealth It would also provide Pennsyl vania with a sound, logical and relatively inexpensive mechanism for meeting the educational crisis it faces,” Walker said. Walker said the present en rollment of some 121.000 stu dents in various 'colleges and universities in the state would climb to 180,000 during the next 10 years. “I am convinced that the saving inherent in such a system - would go far toward dissipating the edu cational dilemma in which the commonwealth now finds itself,” he said. The University’s present network of centers, the two oldest of which were established to meet an edu cational emergency during the de pression of the 1930’5, offers the first two years of a full-fledged baccalaureate program, a two year associate degree program de signed to fulfill pressing needs of the local community, and a com munity program in continuing adult education. n Stray Dogs May Be Shot tags. Juba said they didn’t. “Well,”j cracked a council member, “if | you shoot ’em, you’ll find out whether they’re wild or not.” j With the question of Chief Juba’s anti-stray campaign out of the way, the council still couldn’t get its mind off dogs. At its January meeting the council took up the problem of whether a barking dog consti tuted a nuisance. The borough solicitor, Robert K. Kisiler, was instructed to look into this and darw up an ordinance. Last night he presented his re port. He began with an account of what already constitutes a nui sance in the borough. This ranged from keeping an improper side walk to various sanitary nuisances to extending a building beyond the building line. Not satisfied with enumerating borough nuisances, Kistler began Answer To a Crisis See Page 4 16 Women Still Live In Lounges By LOLLI NEUBARTH Study lounges in Ewing and Grange Halls are serving as tem porary living quarters for Ift freshman women who aie still awaiting permanent room assign ments. According to Janies S. Kline, head of the Assignment Division of the Department of Housing, of 94 new freshmen who enrolled this semester, the 16 coeds are the only ones without rooms. Enough students left men’s residence halls to accommodate all the new men accepted by the University. The problem of temporary hous ing arises every semester since the University must accept more students than it can accommo date at first in the residence halls. This allows for unexpected con tract terminations which would result in empty rooms if extra students were* not accepted. "We feel confident the wom en will all be in rooms within 10 days from the beginning of the semester," Kline said. He said that there are a few places empty in other residence halls now, but it is the "present feel ing" that freshman women be assigned together in freshman halls whenever possible. The temporary accommodations are made as comfortable as pos sible, he said. They differ only in size of the loom and some articles of furniture. c In September, the number of freshman women living in the Ridenour Health Center and in residence hall recreation and study rooms totaled 103. All re ceived permanent assignments within a few weeks. The policy of admitting extra students came under fire during last summer’s Student Encamp (Continued on page eight) to rattle off a list of nuisances in Philadelphia. These included banging garbage cans, Good Hu mor men making excessive noise, faulty mufflers and noise near a hospital, school or court, -a The solicitor was then instruct ed to draw up a general nuisance ordinance for the borough. Following this exchange a council member was apparently still disturbed about shooting down dogs. He asked Juba, "How’re you going to shoot 'em if you can't catch 'em?" At this point the council presi dent, Charles F. Lee Decker, chimed m, “You know we have an ordinance against discharging fire arms. Maybe we need a dog catcher.” Juba pondered this for a mo ment and then said, “Now that’# something to consider.” The coun cil then moved on to other busi ness. FIVE CENTS
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