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THREE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS are in the cast of "Janus" which opened last night in the State
,he scenes from the Community
College Junior High School auditorium. Shown here is one of
Theatre production.
Greeks to Sing
In Finals Tonight
BULLETIN
Greek Week work projects scheduled for this afternoon
have been postponed because of rain and muddy ground.
The projects will be held next Saturday.
"Floatin' Down to Cotton Town" will be a popular num- 1
ber tonight at the Greek Week Sing Finals after three of the
four winning women's quartets rendered the same number
last night.
Alpha Omicron Pi, singing "Basin Street Blues" will be
the only sorority quartet not sing
ing the same song as -the other
groups. Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha
Chi Omega and Pi Beta Phi were
the other four sorority quartet
winners last night.
Acacia, Phi Gamma Delta,
Phi Mu Delia and Tau Kappa
Epsilon were last night's four
winning fraternity choruses.
Directed by Russ Scott, the Aca
cia chorus sang, "We're All Good
Brothers" in addition to the re
quired "Aurie Lee." Phi Gamma
Delta, directed by Jack Lange,
Pearson Sees Politics
As Year 'Round Duty
By NEAL FRIEDMAN
Frank Pearson, University party chairman and campaign
erday that political parties will become a
.tion" under the proposed revision of stu
and Charles Steele, Campus party chair
him.
manager, said yes
"year 'round oper
dent government,
man, agreed with
Pearson said
attempt to influence
their delegates in tl
especially when the:
on bills originating
party platforms.
He said that under the re
vised student government, "pol
itics will rise to the position
where it should be." Pearson
said that because students will
be electing more persons in
student government, there will
be more interest.
In discussing the lack of any
"red hot" issues and the fact that
as yet the parties ha e not open
ly disagreed on any ssues, Pear
son said, "This is a ood sign of
political maturity." e said that
in the future politics ill become
more practical.
Pearson said that
looked for two thing '
set up their platter
Re said they first
01It Elatig
'sang, "Landlord Jill the Flowing
howl." Bob Campbell directed
the Tau Kappa Epsilon group as
they sang, "Teke Toast," while
Phi Mu Delta sang, "Men From
Phi Mu Delta" under the direc
tion of Jack Kashak.
Tonight eight quartets and
eight choruses will compete in
the finals sing competition
which will start at 7:00 p.m.
The choruses will lead off alter
nating between fraternities and
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hat party chairmen will also make an
he voting of
e assembly,
are voting
from their
ed the feasibility of the planks
since University party did not
want to include any plank
which they knew they had no
possibility of getting through
either student government or
the administration. He cited
last year's attempt to abolish
compulsory ROTC as an exam
ple of this.
The number of students affect
ed by each plank was the second
thing considered. He said Univer
sity party's support of student
government reorganization and a
revised grading system affected
every student.
University party's plank to set
up a committee to investigate
complaints from students living
in town, said Pearson, does not
affect all of the students but does
affect a good many of them.
his party
when they
nvestigat-
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Mild Outbreak
Of Virus Cases
Strikes Campus
A recent outbreak of mild virus;
raised the number of students in
the Ritenour Health Center yes
terday to 49, according to Herbert
R. Glenn, University physician.
Glenn called the virus an "up
4)er respiratory infection," but he
I said it has not yet been labeled
as influenza. Such a typing pro
cess would be done by the state
health service, which performed
I the diagnosis on the University's
flu outbreak last year. Glenn said
Ithe department had not indicated
a willingness to process this year's
outbreak.
Glenn said the current number
of eases is "a little more than
average," but he said it was noth
ing like last year's outbreak in
November 1957, when an esti
mated 5000 students were felled
by the infection.
At present, students having
temperatures lower than 101-102
degrees are being returned to bed
at their rooms and are being pro
vided with class excuses.
Referring to the current wave
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Cricket Club Starts Practice
For inaugural of New Sport
By JOHN BLACK
The air will be filled with
flying bails behind the pop
ping crease, shouted signals
(from the wicketkeeper and
the excited cries of the silly
mid-off calling for a pass from
Ithe square leg—if the weather
!permits this afternoon.
Penn State's newest sport will
make its first appearance on the
local scene when Dr. Robert D.
McCammon, visiting physics re
search associate, leads his men
onto the State College Airport
grounds for the first practice ses
sion of the cricket team in pre
paration for their opening game
with Howard University on May
2.
At an inaugural meeting club and McCammon was voted
Thursday night. the campus 'captain of the team. Students
cricket addicts organized the'Frank McGowan and Gerald Dost
Wayfarer's Cricket Club and I were elected secretary and treas
elected officers. s urer, respectively.
Dr. J. G. Aston, director of the
Pond Low-Temperature Labors-,
tory, was elected president of the
Tottrgiatt
MI College Plans
Honor Program
Dr. John D. Ridge, assistant dean of the College of M
eral Industries, said yesterday that plans are underway
an honor system to be used in upperclass courses in I
college next semester.
Plans for the system provide for a poll to be taken in
departments interested in the sys-,
tern. If 85 per cent of those ques
tioned approve, the system will.
go into effect in all upperclass
courses in the department. Indi
vidual instructors will retain veto
power over the final decision of
their class sections.
A course may have part of
the students on the honor sys
tem and the rest not, Exams
given in such courses would be
given in two rooms, one con
ducted in the usual manner,
the other under the new plan.
Students taking an exam on
the honor system may have an
instructor in the room to answer
questions if the students prefer,
but there will be no proctors.
Any student who 'suspects an-,
other of cheating is honor-bound
under the plan to give a warning'
and if the practice continues, to
[report the cheater. At the end of
Ithe exam students will turn in
their papers with a statement af
firming that all work is their own.
Violations of the honors code
will be dealt with by an Hon
ors Council. This group will
consist of one member from
each participating department
and one MI Student Council
member.
Ridge said faculty members ap
prove the plan whole-heartedly
and hope it will show maturity
on the part of the students. Pres
ently before the Senate Committee
on Student Affairs, the plan is
expected to be adopted for the
Fall Semester 1959.
Beauty Contest Details
The members of the Miss Amer
ica Contest Committee for Centre
ICounty will explain the details
!of the contest at 10:45 a.m. today
lover WMAJ.
The officers emphasized that
membership in the club and on
the team is open to all students,
Two Faithful
Friends
See Page 4
By PAT DYER
Apartments
To Be Built
For Grads
The University has let bids for
the construction of 216 apartment
units on east campus to meet the
rising demand for mm ried grad
uate student housing.
The units, of which 144 will
have one bedroom, and 72 two
bedrooms, will be located on the
rise located east of Eastview Ter
race and south of the new Re
search Center. The apartments
are to overlook Route 45 leading
from State College to Bellefonte
and will be east of Entrance Road.
As many as 16 to 20 apartment
units will be grouped under one
root and no building will exceed
two floors in height, Walter H.
Wiegand, director of physical
plant planning and construction,
said.
The University roresees a grad
uate student enrollment of 4250
in 1970. At present 1902 students
are enrolled.
Funds for the project are al
ready on hand, having been de
rived from successful sale of Uni
versity bonds.
The Board of Trustees, in au
thorizing the project, said that
the apartments will he built with
borrowed funds to be repaid from
rentals over a long period of
years. Like residence halls on cam
pus, the apartment units will be
self-liquidating.
The general contract for the 2-
floor residential structures was
awarded to Stofflet and Tillotston,
Philadelphia; the plumbing and
heating contract to John F. Miles,
Kulpmont; and the electrical con
[tract to C. and W. Electrical Con
'tractors, Inc., Unionville.
faculty, university personnel and
townspeople. All that is needed
is an interest in the sport of
cricket, McCammon explained.
The learn inherited a com
plete set of equipment from the
original Wayfarer's Club which
is now defunct and the use of
the airport grounds as a play
ing field was granted by Sher
man Lutz.
The cricketeers will practice at
2 p.m. every Saturday arid Sun
day. Practices in the future may
be scheduled from 4 to 6 p.m. on
Tuesday and Wednesday even
ings.
The only prediction Captain
McCammon would make was to
say, "We are confident we will
have a good team."
In addition to the home game
with Howard University the
cricket team has a match ached-
I Wed with the British Embassy
team in Washington, D.C. on
May 30.
One important obstacle remains
for the club—that of orgrnizing
a women's auxiliary to serve tea
during the "tea break."