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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
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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
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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.
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Schedule
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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.