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The University Board of Trus
tees has approved the awarding
of contracts for the construction
of three new buildings at the site
of the University Research Cen
ter. I
The board approved the award
ing of contracts for the first build
ing last July. They expect this
building to be completed by May.
The Research Center will be fi
nanced by the University and will
be utilized primarily for contract
research programs, it will help to
meet a shortage of facilities re
sulting from the rapidly expand
ing research program at the Uni
versity.
Each of the three new buildings
will have one floor, approximate
ly 68 ft. by 186 ft. This area will
be divided into 10 research rooms,
each about 30 ft. by 30 ft. Parti
tions dividing the rooms will be
removable so that two or more
roms can be converted into one,
depending on the space needed
for a designated project.
The new buildings will be lo
cated to the north and the south
of the building now under con
struction. They will be connected
by a 250-foot corridor.
Students to Debate
Two-Party System
Questions concerned with Amer
ica’s traditional two-party system
will be discussed Sunday when
Pennsylvania State University
students argue the point in a tele
cast originating on the campus at
2:30 p.m.
The presentation, third of the
bi-weekly series titled “Bull Ses
sion,” will be aired by WFBG
TV, Channel 10, Altoona.
Leading the discussion will be
Dr. M. Nelson McGeary, professor
and head of the political science
department. Students participat
ing will be Ellen Donovan, Phil
lip Eyrich, Jay Feldstein, Phoebe
Humphrey, Susan Whittington,
and Thomas Dye.
Food Fair to Be Held
By TOM EGGLER
The Interfratemity Council
Purchasing Association will
hold a food fail 1 Monday,
February 16
IFCPA is an incorp
profit buying orgar
cording to a booklet
the IFCPA office. It p
services for member:
greater quantities of
a reduced price. It a
fraternities with buyi
tion about kitchen
house furnishings, ai
present 27 of the 54
on campus are purcha
the IFCPA program.
ists Ignored
sians Hold
f Second Day
! ’he Soviet army ignored three strong pro
for the second day held up the passage of
itary truck convoy bound from isolated
:rmany.
;horities here viewed the incidents as the
most serious pressure on Allied
lifelines since Moscow launched
its campaign last November to
get the Western Powers out of
West Berlin.
ICtS
The four open trucks, loaded
with jeeps, and five American
soldiers have been stopped at
the East German superhighway
checkpoint ai Marienborn, just
across from the West German
border, since early Monday
morning.
ding
The Russians demanded the
right to inspect the cargoes.
Corp. Richard C. Masiero of
West Stockbridge, Mass., in com
mand of the convoy, followed
standing U.S. Army orders and
refused to let the Russians do any
more than look at the manifest
papers.
Masiero and his men, muffled
in blankets, slept in their trucks
for the second cold night, de
termined to stick it out. They got
hot food from a U.S. Army offi
cer.
The officer was allowed to
cross from the West, German
checkpoint at Halmsiedf, just
100 yards over the border, and
talk with them.
But a reporter, who drove from
Berlin, said the trucks were
parked beside the highway.
Besides Corp. Masiero, the
stranded Americans are Pf. Ben
jamin G. Peoples of Theodore,
Ala.; Sp 4 El wood F. Johnson of
Brooklyn, N.Y.; Sp 4 James E.
Cook of Hardeeville, S.C.; and
Pfc. Robert E. Love of Plain City,
Ohio.
American authorities here said
the whole thing had been start
ed 'by the Russians to create an
incident possibly timed with
Secretary of State Dulles' talks
in London, Paris and Bohn to
hammer out a unified Western
policy on Berlin and Germany.
He begins the talks in London
today.
The Soviets have said only that
they will take the matter under
consideration.” said a U.S. Army
spokesman after the third protest.
The Russians continued to let
military trains, air traffic and civ
ilian highway traffic proceed
without interference.
Olver Asks Students
To Avoid Building Sites
E. F. Olver, director of the De
partment of Security, warned stu
dents not to take shortcuts
through the construction site at
the Home Economics Building.
Because of heavy equipment in
this area, crossing it is dangerous,
especially at night, he said.
The food fair, which has
been in the planning stages for
over a month, is being held to
show participating and non-par
ticipating members how they
can save money by purchasing
through IFCPA.
The fair will be held from
2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and from 7 p.m.
to 9 p.m. in the maple room of
the cafeteria of the Home Eco
nomics building.
orated, non
ization, ac
released by
rovides such
; as buying
foodstuffs at
Iso provides
ng informa
equipment,
id gifts. At
fraternities
sing through
Approximately 15 companies
will have displays and demonstra
tions of products which they sell.
They will demonstrate such
things as food mixes, dry milk,
frozen pies, and ways to prepare
certain kinds of food.
Fraternity caterers, presidents.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 4. 1959
STATE COLLEGE
2 Legislators Back
'Open Trustees' Bill
—Collegian Photo by Bob Thorapoon
STATING HIS VIEWS, Governor David L. Lawrence talks with
members of Sigma Delta Chi, men’s journalistic fraternity in his'
office.
443 Coeds Register
For Sorority Rush
An additional 200 secqnd semester and upperclass women
who have registered to participate in sorority spring formal
rushing bring the total to 443', it w°as announced at the Pan
hellenic Council meeting last night.
Senior Gets $35 Fine
For Disorderly Conduct
Dan Reese, senior in business
administration from Warrendale,
was found guilty of disorderly
conduct yesterday in a hearing
before Justice of the Peace Wil
liam P. Bell.
Rees was fined $35 plus $9 cost
of prosecution.
Debate Information
Preliminary information for stu
dents interested in joining the
men’s debate club will be given
at a meeting at 7 tonight, in 214
Boucke. Tryouts are scheduled for
Feb. 11 and are open to all men
with good scholastic standing.
by IFCPA
housemothers and cooks have
been urged to attend the fair
so that they may see how IF
CPA can benefit fraternities.
Invitations to attend have also
been sent to Hotel Administra
tion students. Home Economics
students and University food
service personnel, according to
Mrs. Ruth Arnold, an IFCPA
Board of Control member. She
said that anyone interested in
IFCPA or in the displays that
the companies will have, may
attend.
Miss Gilma Olson, associate
professor of food and nutrition,
will speak about menu and food
planning for fraternities. Miss Ol
son will speak in the evening
only.
This is 56 more than had preregistered for rushing in
pgtatt
December. j
In a discussion of last minute'
details before rushing begins
Saturday, it was announced that
Panhtl will follow open house
houfcs listed in the official soror
ity rushing booklet. Open houses
will be held from 2 p.m. until 5
p.m. Saturday and Sunday and
from 6:30 until 8 Sunday evening.
Other hours published for open
houses will be disregarded. Alpha
Epsilon Phi, Phi Sigma Sigma and
Sigma Delta Tau will not rush
Sunday evening.
It was also decided campus
patrolmen would be enlisted to
alleviate traffic congestion
which arises on the nights of
coffee hours.
The schedule for rushing is:
Saturday and Sunday open,
houses; Monday, Feb. 9 through!
Friday, Feb. 13 (with the excep-j
tion of Wednesday) chatter]
dates. These will take place from;
1:30 p.m. until 5 p.m. and from;
6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. Invitations!
to chatter dates will be issued
through the Panhellenic Post Of
fice in Atherton Hall. During the
first round (Monday and Tuesday)
a rushee may accept as many as
10 invitations, but during the sec
ond round, she must limit herself
to six. I
Bermuda Junction parties
will be held on Feb. 16 and 17.
Each sorority will present a 15
minute skit limited to 12 par
ticipants. It was decided mem
bers of the skit casts could wsar
costumes and use props, but
sorority women must change in
to bermudas before coming
back to the party.
Formal coffee hours on Feb. 19
followed by bidding, and ribbon
ing on Feb. 20 will climax the
rushing period.
Cheaper by
the 54
See Page 4
Bipartisan
Aid Seen
By 808 FRANKLIN
Collegian Editor
HARRISBURG—State Rep.
Joseph P. Ujobai (R.-Chester)
said yesterday he may intro
duce a bill to force open meet
ings of the University’s Board
of Trustees.
House Majority Leader Stephen
McCann (D.-Greene) said he
would support such a bill. But he
suggested that the board open its
meetings voluntarily.
"I believe that's good govern
ment," he said,' When bodies
which receive public funds hold
all their meetings behind closed
doors, McCann charged, "there's
something wrong with demo
cracy."
Action to open board meetings
to the public and the press al
ready has been endorsed by Gov.
David L. Lawrence, a trustee, and
by Board President James B.
Long. But the board has taken
no action oh the matter.
Ujobai, who is editor and gen
eral manager of the daily Phoe
nixville Republican, was a power
behind passage of the Common
wealth’s “right-to-know” laws in
the last session of the state legis
lature.
The "right-10-know" laws re
quire open meeiinqs of official
business sessions of all borough
councils, township boards of
commissioners and boards of
supervisers, school boards, au
thorities and some other publie
aaencies in the Commonwealth,
j The bill approved by the last
sesson of the General Assembly
jwas considerably weaker than the
jone orginally proposed. Ujobai
said yesterday he will work this
jsession of the General Assembly
| with particular reference to the
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commis
sion. -
He said his bill probably will
include a provision specifically to
open the trustee meetings.
But McCann said, "There's
nothing wrong with Penn
State's Board of Trustees step
pin- forward and openinq their
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Colder Weather
Exoected Soon
As two contrasting, air masses
meet, one from the south and the
othe: the north, violent weather
will be set off in the Eastern two
thirds of the nation sometime to-
Iday. Heavy snows are expected
i through the upper midwest and
plains states as thunderstorms
and possible tornadoes take place
in the deep South.
The weather today will be
cloudy with increasing southwest
erly winds and mild with occa
sional rain with a high near 50.
Temperatures will remain in the
40’s tonight with rain changing
to snow with strong winds tomor
row. The temperature is expected
to fall all day tomorrow.
—Joel Myers
Collegian Forec&iiaa
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