Today's foi ■ecash Cold Wave VOL. 59. No. 88 Boon Requ For 2 By BILL JAFFE and Phi Mu Delta fraternities were recom ! week loss of social privileges by the Interfra -1 Board of Control last night. •nities were found guilty of pledging one man >er average—a 2.0 All-University average or a Sigma Chi mended for a 2 ternity Council Both frater] without a propi Cold Yfave, Snow to Hit University A strong surge of arctic air moved into Pennsylvania last night and it will remain for a few days. This cold air mass, which has temperatures of 35 de grees below zero in its core, has prompted a cold wave warning to wlil be issued for the State College area. Following on the heels of the snow and rain of yesterday, this air mass will be attended by strong winds, partly cloudy skies, and a few snow flurries today. With diminishing winds and clear skies tonight, the temperature will fall to one of the lowest levels of the winter. Although no snow of conse quence is due for several days, there is no relief from the cold weather likely in the next few days. Windy and cold weather will continue this afternoon with a few snow flurries likely. Temperatures will be close to 12 degrees early today rising slowly to an after noon high of 25 degrees. Clear and cold tonight with a low of only 4 above zero. Students, Grads, Faculty To Register as Tutors Students, graduates and facul ty members interested in tutoring during the spring semester may report before Saturday to 110 Old Main or call the Division of Coun seling, Extension 2066. Undergraduates should have a grade of “B” or better in courses they wish to tutor. Each tutor sets his own fee and is responsible for arranging mee ;ing times and places. 400 Four-fifths printed for thi ■concert were s terday—the i were put on s of the tickets ? Kingston Trio napped up yes irst day they ale. check last night •e than 4000 tick been sold. Less An unofficial showed that mo ets already had than 1000 remai But Carmella chairman of the pagin (which i cert), said an ad cts may be prin supply of 5000 i: LaSpada, general Larry Sharp cam icludes the con iitional 1000 tick ed if the original exhausted today, i said the extra rill either stand ation Building, Miss LaSpadi 1000 persons a around Be ere latly|S| dull Control Social StS Fraternities 2.2 previous semester average. They were also fined $5O each by the board. Board Chairman Ronald Siders said the group’s recommendation will be sent to the Senate Sub committee on Organizational Con trol today. The removal of social privileges will be effective Mon day. The board heard seven cases et last night's hearings and ac quitted three fraternities. Two more will be acquitted upon presentation of a transcript to bear out the testimony of the fraternity presidents. Theta Delta Chi, Phi Kappa Sigma and Theta Chi fraternities were found not guilty of pledging men without the proper average while Phi Kappa Psi and Delta Sigma Phi must present the tran scripts of the students involved in order to be formally acquitted of the charge. The hoard plans to hear one more case—Beta Theta Pi—on the: same charges, Siders said. Beta Theta Pi was unable to appear at last night’s hearing and will be heard next week by the IFC judicial body. This is the first instance in two years where the board has recommended removal of social privileges for a fraternity for pledging men without averages. The Senate Sub-Committee will hear the case probably today and make its If the fraternity’s social privileges are removed, it may not entertain wo menguests at any time during the probation period. Last week the board completed a series of inquiries into late and non-pledge registration violations and fined several fraternities. Sauer to Give Lecture At LeMoyne College Dr. John A. Sauer, professor and head of the Department of Physics, will serve as a visiting lecturer Monday and Tuesday at LeMoyne College, Syracuse, N.Y. His visit, which is under the auspices of the American Asso ciation of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics, is part of a nationwide program to stimulate interest in physics. Trio Tickets Go in First Day where the concert is scheduled March 8, or will sit on the floor. She added, “We want to accom modate as many students as we can.” A publicity drive covering rec ord shops and radio stations with in a 40-mile radius of State Col lege was scheduled to start today, but has been postponed and may not be conducted at all if the heavy ticket sales continue. The Hetzel Union desk, ac customed to mass runs on free Artists Series tickets, set a rec ord when 1000 tickets were sold in the first 45 minutes they were on sale. The remaining tickets will be on sale today, at $1.25 each, at the HUB .desk, the Harmony Shop, FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA., THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 19. 1959 Cabinet to Discuss Reorganization Pro All - University Cabinet may decide its own fate tonight—whether to retain the present 20-year-old stu dent government system or to approve reorganization. Daniel Thalimer, chairman of the Cabinet Committee on Student Government Reorgan ization, will present a prelim inary report of his committee's proposals for revamping stu dent government to include separation of powers at 7 p.m, in 203 Hetzel Union. Thalimer’s committee, ap pointed by Cabinet last Octo ber, has outlined proposals to create separate executive, legis lative and judicial bodies to go ' Subversives' Demonstrate In Ewing Hall The Kremlin is creeping in on campus. An unknown pair of Russian students created havoc and ac tivity on the fourth floor of Ewing Hall Sunday morning when they converted the names of all the coeds there into Slavic. The re jaction to this came fast and fur iously. Mysierious notes appeared on the mirror in the washroom. "Comrades: There will be a meeting in the hall closet at 12 midnight. Feb. 29. Bring your own vodka," and "There will be a meeting in room 420 (no such room exists in Ewing) of the F. 8.1. to counteract the subver sive activities." Ovitch’s, sky’s and offski’s plot ted unhindered until the patriotic housemother saw the signs. The name cards were torn from their slots on the doors; bulletins of meetings were stripped from the mirror; ring leaders were sought; whispers of subversive activity swept through the halls. All seemed quiet on the So viet front Monday night. No new signs appeared, ovilches and offskis reverted to their original Western Europe deriva original Western European deri vatives. The F. 8.1. resumed its sounded like the rebellion was squelched. Lunch in Redifer the following day did not substantiate this, however. The masses (the 30 co eds in on the spoof) adorned in red sweaters, possibly to' instill their ideals in others, sat sedately eating their hamburgers in a row of tables in the dining hall. the Music Room and the Univer sity Record Shop. The HUB desk sold approxi mately 2750 tickets out of 3500 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. yester day. Totals for the downtown rec ord stores which were open until 9 p.m. were: the Harmony Shop, 225 out of 300; the Music Room, 658 out of 800, and the Univer sity Record Shop, 170 out of 300. Kingston Trio albums are very popular in State College, accord ing to Bob Martin, WMAJ disc jockey. He said more copies of the trio’s latest album, “The King ston Trio at the Hungry I” have been sold in State College than m any other city in the country. Martin said about 25 copies a day are sold hern By JANET BEAHAN taunt into effect next fall. These proposals are: • A legislative assembly elected from the student body by class and presided over by "Zepp Calls Cabinet Plan ’Ridiculous;*" see page 2. the All-University vice presi dent. This assembly would have power to appoint all legislative committees. • The All-University Presi dent as chief executive with a Cabinet consisting of elected and appointed members to ad vise him on all issues. The president would have power of veto which could be overrid den by a two-thirds vote of the assembly. The executive branch would include a central secre tariat to increase the efficiency | jr, .< il|^ —Daily Collegian Photo by Marty Scherr SORRY, LADY, it’s disconnected—as were all the phones on “B” level of McElwain Hall yesterday. Marje Sewall, junior in secondary education from Bridgeton. N.J., discusses the matter with Bell Telephone Co. employes Wayne Woods and Eugene Merrill: Town Phone Toll Could Be Removed You might not have to hunt for a dime to call a downtown number from a residence hall phone if the administration passes an Association of Independent Men telephone com mittee recommendation for free local dialing. Albert E. Diem, vice president for business administration, told committee chairman Mikelj ' Cohick the outlook for free resi-jistration members and Bell Tele denee hall to off-campus tele- phone Co. representatives by Co phoning looked good. Diem said'hick and AIM-President Edward h ewould report to Cohick in more' detail in about six weeks. t See page 5 for story on the Cohick told the AIM Board | progress of the installation of of Governors last night that, the new phone system, according to the Bell Tele phone Co., it might be illegal ! Fry mover, stated that the resi lo handle local calls on a switch- |dence hall student, can now con board set up for business, as tact only about half the student the new University switchboard body by free telephone, while the will be. Cohick said the com- off-campus student can contact pany will investigate the le- the whole student body, gality. Under the present system, per- Another difficulty, Cohick said, sons living in residence halls would be the lack of space in the! must use pay telephones to make new telephone building for such a'downtown calls and long-distance set-up and the lack of time to] calls for which the charges are install it. jnot reversed. The telephone committee report, When the new 24-hour dial which was presented to admin- (Continued on page eight) Unknown Representatives See PageJi of purely mechanical functions and to act as an information center for all organizations. • A judicial branch consist ing of a Supreme Court with the power of judicial review of all action of the legislative as sembly. If Cabinet approves these principles, the committee must then draw up a constitution implementing the theory of separation of powers for ap proval of Cabinet. Other Cabinet reports will include progress on Spring Wepk, by Juri Niiler, Mall Bul letin Board by Robert Laßar, and Town Affairs by ’ Frank Pearson. Charles Welsh, president of the senior class will report on the senior class gift. Story on Page 5 By JAKET DURSTINE FIVE CENTS it, Si' 1 ' r
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