011 r VOL. 59, No. 106 ST Leonide: To Back Panhel Room Fight By 80881 LEVINE Leonides Council has joined sororities in their fight to keep suites from being cut from 40 to 25 spaccs and to keep soroi ties' members from being dis persed throughout residence halls. In a special meeting called last night to hear a plan by Phyllis Muskat, president of Panhellenic Council, Leonides representatives voted unanimously to send a let ter to Robert G. Bernreuter, as sistant to the preSident in charge of student affairs, protesting the plan presented to sororities by the Department of Housing last Tuesday and endorsing Miss Mus kat's alternate plan. The letter will also recommend giving independent women a bet ter chance to receive room assign ments which will allow them to live with their friends in a block of rooms. Miss Muskat's plan, which will be presented to Bernreuter and housing representatives at a meet ing at 3 p.m. today, is: •Each sorority will determine how many spaces they will need for the beginning of the fall se mester—not to exceed 40—and tell housing. This number would fluctuate from year to year. •Housing representatives, resi dence hall hostesses, sorority rep resentatives and Leonides repre sentatives in each building will work together each year to place these rooms. *The number of designated rooms may not be increased dur ing the year. If any vacancies oc cur during the year that sorori ties cannot fill, they may be filled at the discretion of the housing department. These rooms will not revert back to sororities for the remainder of that year. Independ ent women ' who have to move because of sorority designated rooms will be given first choice of rooms not yet filled. *An agreement must be signed between sororities and housing as to the arrangements for that year—September through June. *Except for unusual circum stances freshmen pledges will not be moved into the suite. Third semester pledges and above may be moved into designated rooms from other buildings if vacancies occur, but no change will be made from within the building. Students Get $ Athletes Get Only 14% By LOW PRATO, Sports Editor Fifth of a Series On Education and Athletics An overproportion of finan-' cial aid to athletes in compari son with aid to non-athletes is one of the major criticisms of college athletic programs. And often times, the criticisms are justified. But according to University President Eric A. Walker and several other administration offi cials, no such problem exists at Penn State. • In fact, while the aid to ath letes has remained relatively the same over the last five years, funds" available for non atig FOR A BETTER PENN STATE TE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 17, 1959 FIVE CENTS —Collesfan photo by Itob Thompson IN HIS FINAL PERFORMANCE—Lion gymnastic Captain, Ar mando Vega, holds an Olympic iron cross. See story on page 7. Lion's Den Ready To Serve Pizzas Hey, Joe, let's go out to eat tonight—the HUB's gotta da pizza! The oven is in, the fixin's are ready and the Hetzel Union Lion's Den will be ready tto serve its first pizzas at 5 p.m. Proffitt, director of food ser- today, according to Richard C vice. Students can now get their plain pie with pepperoni, mush rooms or anchovies, and the staff hopes to add additional variety to the menu when demand war rants it. Prices are 85 cents for a plain pizza, $l.OO with one topping, and $1.25 for a super special pie with all three toppings. Proffitt' said a quarter of a pie will also be sold for 25 cents.' Original plans provide foi pizza to be prepared in the evening only, but Proffitt said they will be served earlier, if 50,000 Aid athletes has doubled. According to figures released by George N. reetch, coordinator of University scholarships, and Carl R. Barnes, controller, there is more than $950,000 available for student aid, including funds for athletes, academic scholar ships, loans and job programs. Of this figure, only about $135,000 is spent on athletic aid. A total of appioximately $645,000 is being used for aca demic scholarships, Barnes said. Included in this figure-is money for senatorial grants and ex emption of fees. 'A year ago, this figure was $472,000," Barnes said, "and , in the year ending in . 1954, there was , only $305,900 available." Most of the money available for the scholarships _comes from several sources,"-Leeteh said. The Totirgiatt there are fhany requests in the afternoon. The Lion's Den cannot provide delivery or phone orders, but any carryout orders will be taken care of on request. Special paper box es are on hand for these. Plans to serve pizza were un derway last May when Food Ser vice decided to provide the popu lar snack in the Lion's Den. Serving pizza seemed an even bet ter idea this semester when the Den began to stay open later on weekends. At that time it was thought (Continued on page three) biggest of these is from annual gifts from donors—alumni, pri vate industry, friends of the uni versity,,etc. However. Leetch stressed the fact that all of the scholarship aid is administered by the Uni- versity and not by private con cerns. "The University also has the, right of selection," Barnes said, "and it is the Senate Committee that makes the awards!' "Actually," Barnes said, "every' student at Penn State gets a scholarship." He went on to ex plain that because the University is partially supported by the ,State Legislature, each in-state student is awarded approximate ly $7OO a year towards tuition fees while the out-of-state stu dent receives approximately $3OO a year. Work to Begin On New Location Of Beaver Field Construction on the new Beaver Field will begin next week. The work will consist of preparation of the site and pos sibly the construction of additions to enlarge the stadium from the present capacity of 27,500 to 13,500. The Board of Trustees at its; January meeting postponed the' relocation of the 50-year-old field to its new site on the outer perim-I eter of the campus until the 1960 1 football campaign. Work on dis-' mantling the stands at the present site will not begin until after thel final home football game with' Holy Cross, Nov. 14, The Board authorized the mov ing of the stadium after the close) of the 1959 season because it would be possible _to extend con-1 struction over a longer period of? time than would have been pos-1 sible if the new stadium had to ; be ready for the '59 season. The site of the present Beaver : Field will be used for academic: buildings. The southeast corner' Aof the field has been designated, for construction of a new educa 7 , tional building for which plans: are now being completed by the General State Authority. Although Walter H. Weigand, ; director of physical plant planning and construction, did not reveal the cost of the construction for, the field, it is estimated that it: s will cost under $2 million. Corn-1 plete cost for the movement Will, be paid by the athletic department! through gate receipts and no tax' money will be involved. The new site will be located on, the left side of Curtin Road, just' beyond the soon-to-be completed' Military Science Building and' near the Three-Mile Road. It will also be near the proposed Univer sity Drive and Route 322 by-pass. The additional 16,000 seats will bey constructedatop the East and West stands from goal line to goal line. - The Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co., Pittsburgh, was given the contract to dismantle, move and reconstruct the exist ing stands, press box and score board. It will also build the ad ditional stands. Wilson-Benner, Inc., Bellefonte, was awarded the contract for site work, excavation, drainage and foundations. G. M. McCrossin, Inc., Bellefonte, was awarded the contract for building construction including team rooms, showers, ticket booths and auxiliary sta dium buildings. Other contracts 'were awarded for electrical work, plumbingp and heating. The cinder track which circles the present field will also be (Continued on page eight) Eli's Placed on Pro For Fighting Cops By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - The entire Yale undergraduate student body yesterday was placed on probation because of two tangles with New Haven police last week. The probation—general and indefinite—carries a threat of immediate explusion for any of the 4000 students who publicly misbehave in the future. Dubbed a "no-fun edict" by a Yale spokesman, the action also means cancellation of all social functions during the probation as well as a ban on unlimited class cutting. The bad deeds punished were a snowball fight between police and motorists on Thursday and a jeer ing brawl with police after Sat urday's St. Patrick's Day parade. • In Thursday's incident, some 300 students pelted motorists and police with snowballs, and 20 students were arrested. Saturday's 1500 jeerers shouted cries of "gestapo" and swung Na zi banners and swatikas from windows. Police had to use clubs to break up the demonstration. Sixteen students were arrested Weston Tells WSGA 'Fly On Beam' Newly-elected officers of the Women's St u dent Government Association were formally in stalled at last night's Convocation in the Hetzel Union Assembly Room. Dorothy Toklish, chairman of the WSGA Judicial Board of Re view, administered the oaths of office and — presented each girl with a long-stemmed red rose. Iletirincr Dean of Women Pearl 0. Weston addressed the convocation on the subject of "Flying on the Beam." Miss Weston explained that the beam is a gadget which an airplane pilot pushes and then follows to make a safe landing in foggy or stormy weather. Dean Weston said that the sen ior girls have followed the beam I through their four years at Penn 'State. "The girls who didn't follow the beam Won't make a safe land ing this ,Tune," she said. Miss Weston used each letter of the word beam as a base in a four-point code of living for college women. B—select the best in life, she advised. E—be enthusiastic. A—be alert to opportunities to do good. M—be mindful of the highest standards of young woman-. hood. After the speech. Ellen Dono van, retiring WSGA president, surprised Miss Weston with the presentation of a beige and white portable table model TV set. Final Exam Schedule On Page 4 and charged with breach of the peace. A statement from Yale's three dep.= said a "vigorous investiga tion" was underway to fix indi vidual responsibility for the two incidents. "Before we can be in a posi tion to fix individual- resporusi billy," the deans' statement said, "it is necessary to accept corporate responsibility." The statement came from Wil liam C. Devane, dean of Yale College; Dana Young, dean of the School of Engineering; and Har old B. Whiteman Jr., deAn of the freshman class. Yale President A. Whitney Griswold, who accused the stu dents of "boorishness," met with Mayor Richard C.' Lee earlier to find "ways and means" of pre venting ftirther outbursts.
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