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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
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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
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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
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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
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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