Camp Both Of Re Both political student governme and University p. l Campus part) Germa To Ma Same BONN, Germany (?P)—Konrad Adenauer declared last night West Germany's unbending pol icy toward negotiations with the Soviet Union will not be changed "one iota" after he retires as! chancellor. He made it clear that he has no intention of becoming a figurehead president. The 83-year-old 16ader spoke to a nationwide audience on his de cision to drop out as chancellor and campaign for the less power ful post of president. Then he left for a month's vacation in Italy. He shed little light on the rea sons for his decision Tuesday. But he declared "with fullest emphasis" that the pow e r s of president "are far greater than is generally believed." He explained that his decision "was designed to secure the continuity of our poli cies for years to come." Then he declared that West Germany's foreign policies will not be changed during the forth coming East-West conference on Berlin and Germany this spring and summer, nor after the new Chancellor takes over. Rain, Maybe Snow Predicted Today A late season push of arctic air will cause much colder tem peratures, rain and possibly even some snow flurries during the next 24 hours. The temperature, which hit a summery 80 degrees yesterday afternoon, will be almost 35 de grees colder this afternoon. Rain will begin during the late morning and continue through out the afternoon. The rain may become mixed with a few snow flurries before it ends tonight. Temperatures will remain in the 40's all day and then fall into the frosty upper 20's tonight. This will represent a drop of 52 degrees in 36 hours. The cold weather will continue tomorrow, but some sunshine will make it a little more comfortable than today. UCA to Hold Elections Elections for officers of the University Christian Association will be held from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. today near the Hetzel Union desk. proved Must Be A Sigma Nu Placed on Pro Sigma Nu has -been recom mended by the Interfraternity Council Board' of Control for social probation until Sept. 1 for serving beer to a freshman. The penalty, if approved, will go into effect immediately but will provide exceptions for working with a sorority during Spring Week. The probation must be approved by the Senate Subcom mittee on Group Discipline before it becomes effective. The board also fund Delia Up silon guilty of p -dging a man with an insufficie n t average and fined the fraterni iy $5O. The board's r- ornmendation on Sigma Nu •rovides that members of Delta amma soror ity, who are wor ing with the fraternity for 'pring Week, would be allowe• in the house fox work sonic. only, but s, University ledge Support organization By JANET DURSTINE parties pledged their support last night of t reorganization, but otherwise the Campus rty platforms showed little similarity. 's platform stated its support in the preamble, University party in its first plank. All-University Elections Com mittee scheduled a _review of the platforms last night—and discovered it no longer has the power to do so. Under the new Elections Code passed by Cab inet last week the parties are not required to have their plat forms approved by the commit tee. All platforms stand as written by the parties. University party's three planks are: ntain olicy *University party shall con tinue actively to support student government reorganization and the principles upon which it is based. •Feeling that the present grad ing system insufficiently demon strates the true academic achieve ment of the students, we will ini tiate a study to revise to present grading system. The party suggests a 5-point grading system, descending in increments of .5 to allow for the percentage ran g e in letter grades. The system is a com promise between the present system and the one proposed at Cabinet in March by Donald Zepp. president of the Chem istry-Physics Student Council. The present system does not allow for any percentage differ ences in letter grades. Zepp pro posed grades be desceded In in crements of .1. University party believes this is impractical because many pro fessors do not grade bluebooks with percentage grades. However. the party feels its system will better represent the student's ac tual grade. •Realizing that the town liv ing conditions can be improved, we will work in conjunction with the Town Affairs Com mittee and the Borough Coun cil to initiate a program for air ing complaints from town stu ' dents. Campus party's four platform planks are: *Parking meters shall bet placed in convenient campusl parking lots for student use. Rev enues should be used for expan sion of parking facilities. The meters would be used for short-time parking during the day. Students would not be able to park their cars there while ' attending classes. A Student Fire Hazard Com mittee shall be formed to work in conjunction with the Alpha' Fire Co. The committee shall be responsible for inspecting .town housing for students. Charles Steel,e Campus party chairman, said he had talked to a fire company official who had (Continued on page four) could not stay beyond 8 p.m. The fraternity would not be able to entertain any other women guests in the house while on probation. Ronald Skiers, board chairman, said Sigma, Nu must submit a schedule by April 15 of what times it will need sorority members in side the hoUse. He said the special Spring Week provisions were made so as not to harm the sorority, which had al ready agreed to work with Sig ma Nu. Siders said the drinking in cident occurred early on .the morning of March 22. An IFC checker had found a freshman in the house with a cup of beer in his hand, although there was no evidence that he had been drinking. Siders said. He said Sigma Nu denied the freshman had been drinking, and that the board's penalty was recom mended because the freshman Tilr Elaitg VOL. 59, No. 117 STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1959 FIVE CENTS University Expansion Pollock Rd. May Close The University will begin an immediate study as to the feasability of closing Pollock Road to vehicular traffic with possible implementation b y September, 1960. The Exexutive Committee of the Board of Trustees has asked the Department of Physical Plant Planning and Construction to prepare detailed drawings and specifications of the work in volved in closing the road. Walter H. Wiegand, director of the department, said Pollock Road is an area of heavy stu dent pedestrian and vehicular traffic. "We hope to eliminate the vehicular traffic and make it a student pedestrian way," he said. The road would be closed from Burrowes Road to Shortlidge Road. "Past discussions have suggested September, 1960, as the imple mentation date for closing the road and it will not be before this date," Wiegand said. James H. Coogan. director of the Department of Public Infor mation, said yesterday that the University's Board of Trustees has nel er approved a plan to close Pollock Road. The present plan is just a proposal and the Board has requested that a study be made of it's feasability, he said. Wiegand said the University still must service the buildings within the area, provide fire pro tection, and use the existing park ing lots. "In many cases we will use existing secondary roads and in other cases additional or con necting roads will have to be built." The University has had under consideration for some time the closing of Pollock Road from Burrowes Road to Shortlidge Road in an endeavor "to elimi nate points of pedestrian and ve hicular conflict." Wiegand said the project will start immediately and trustee ap (Continued on page three) Conflict Schedule The complete schedule of conflict final examinations ap pears on page five. had been served beer. Siders added that the freshman was found innocent of any of fense. The board recommended the social probation to last until Sept. 1 because it wanted the period to run after the end of school, "to eliminate any last minute blasts," but wanted the fraternity to start out with a clean slate next year, Siders said. Delta Upsilon was fined $5O by the board for pledging a freshman who did not have a 2.2 All-Uni versity average. Although the freshman had not gone through a formal pledging ceremony he was registered as a pledge with the Interfraternity Council, Siders said. - Siders said the freshman claimed he had a 2.40 All-Uni versity average but his actual average was 1.0. The freshman told the fraternity as well as (Continued on page four) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE George MeTurk McTurk Named Business Head Of Collegian George McTurk, junior in la- 1 bor management relations from Pittsburgh, has been named busi ness manager of The Daily Colle gian for next year, Others promoted on the staff are Sherry Kennel, local adver tising manager; Darlene Ander son, assistant local advertising manager; Mary Ann Zittle, credit manager; Leila Uhler, national advertising manager; Sara Brown, classified ad v e r tising manager; Loretta Mink and Murray Simon, Ico-circulation managers; Ruth !Briggs, promotion manager; Alice ;Mahachek, special manager; Dor !othy Smeal, personnel manager, IBarbara Bailey, office secretary; land Margaret Dimperio, in charge of research and records. The promotions will be effec tive May 1. Howard Prof to Speak Dr. Flemmie Kittrell, head of the Department of Home Eco nomics at Howard University in Washington, D.C.. will speak to night on "Careers Overseas—Op portunities in Africa." TKE, KD Pledges Win 'Outstanding' Awards Stephen Brown, Tau Kappa Epsilon, was named out standing pledge 'at the Outstanding Pledge Banquet held in the Hetzel Union Building last night. Sara Phillips, Kappa Delta, was named outstanding sorority pledge. __, The outstanding pledge class scholarship award went to Alpha Zeta. The cumulative av erage of the pledge class was a 2.84. Eleven of the 23 members of the pledge class had a 3.0 average or better. Alpha Zeta requires a 2.5 average to pledge. Speaker for the evening was James H. Coogan, director of public information. Coogan spoke briefly on the history of fraternities. and sororities. He also spoke of advancements that have been made in the frat ernity system and of possible ways for future improvement. Coogan spoke to about 90 frat ernity and sorority pledges, Pan hellenic and Interfraternity Coun- (I, B oltrgiatt to Study Problem HUB May Be Bigger The University's architects will shortly begin to make pre liminary sketches and esti mates for possible expansion of the present Hetzel Union Building facilities. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees has asked the architects to begin making studies of the needs for expansion. At the full meeting of the board in January, the HUB Expansion re port proposed by All-University Cabinet was presented but no ac tion was taken on the expansion requests. Walter H. Wiegand. director of physical plant planning and con struction, said the trustees had authorized his department to insti tute these studies. No target date for construction was indicated Wiegand said the original do sign of the building, which was completed in 1955, had antici pated the probable need for this expansion. He emphasized, how ever, that architectural and fi nancial problems "must be re solved before actual celistruc tion can begin." "We will use past studies made ;into the possibility of HUB ex pansion but our architects will ;also conduct studies into the !needs for expansion and problems lof the present building," Wiegand said. The University's architects who designed the original building will be used to make the present studies, preliminary sketches and estimates. The HUB expansion report which was presented to All-Uni versity Cabinet Nov. 20, 1958 and approved by them proposed 34 additional rooms, 10 bowling al leys, 10 offices, 4 listening booths and 2000 square feet of storage space to be included in a new addition. The committee, c haired by Glen Thornburg, made the report on the 1970 University projected enrollment of 25, 125 campus stu dents as a basis for research. They 'pointed out that the necessary (Continued on page three) cil officers, and guests. He spoke of the cost of living in fraternities and of benefits they offer. He said fraternities can fill their houses, but first must sell themselves. Alpha Tau Omega took first place in the fraternity division of the bridge tournament held I Tuesday night in the HUB. Second place went to Delta Chi and third place to Pi Kappa Phi. In the sorority division of the bridge tournament Kappa Kappa Gamma took f i r s t place while Delta Delta Delta won second. (third was a four-way tie for place. By BILL JAFFE
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