Today's Forec Hot, Humid Showers VOL. 59, No. 137 No On No immediate on the recommend! that the present s! curricula be aband 1 man year program! Russell E. Lars of the committee, s! Steelnle Plan MI Aid Pact NEW YORK (?P)—The steel in dustry disclosed yesterday it is considering a mutual aid pact to share profits if only some steel firm are closed down by a July 1 strike. R. Conrad Cooper, chief spokes man for the U.S. Steel Corp. and the industry in current wage talks with the Steelworkers Union, said the industry is working on such a plan even though hoping never to have to use it. The possibility of a partial rath er than an industrywide union strike—if there is no new agree ment ' when present contracts run out June 30—was raised by Iron Age, industry trade publication. Relations between the union and companies, though still friendly, began to get a bit more edgy. The union contended the steel industry mutual aid plan tended to agitate strike talk. Negotiations starting yesterday with Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. broke off in an argument over a common union contract for all J.&L. plants. Sessions with Kaiser Steel Co. similarly grew hot, but it was agreed to put misunder standings aside and resume both sets of negotiations on a calmer note today. Cooper was asked later whether all steel firms might shut dawn in event the union should strike only one or e few producers. He said the industry is considering all eventualities. Saying it would take a miracle to avert a July 1 Walkout, Iron Age suggested the union may try divide-and-conquer tactics by striking some companies to apply greater pressure on them while the rest of the industry is allowed to keep producing. But Cooper said the union al ways has operated on a non-con tract (no-work) poliq—shutting down all companiel at once— whenever there has ben a strike. Alumni, Alumni Associa ion mem berships and Senio Class Gift contributions will be the twin objectives of Senior Week next week. Approximately 200 class agents Seniors may vot Class Gift choice by cards sent out this tter s of solicit choices listed are a c works of contempor, can writers; a co, books nn‘ religious s erence books for resi Seniors who ha v choice may list it in vided on the card. will kick off, the c 1-hour meeting at 7;• 40 , atig:/,::, (toll ction Seen cosh Plan ction will be taken today by the Senate :tion of its Educational Policy Committee ► stem of admitting freshmen to specific tried in favor of a series of common fresh- )n, professor of horticulture and chairman ..: id yesterday that the report is "for infor- mational purposes only" and he will not ask the Senate to take any further action on it. The Senate will meet at 4:15 p.m. in 121 Sparks to discuss the report. It will also hear reports from committees on student af fairs, academic standards, courses of study, extension policy and scholarships and awards. Larson said the plan could not possibly go into effect until Sep tember, 1960. He said he will ask senators and other faculty mem bers to make suggestions to him about the nvort. After the committee has sifted all of the suggestions, Larson said, it will submit a specific proposal regarding the plan to the Senate, probably sometime next fall. The Senate will meet one more time this year after today. tual Larson said, "If the plan were accepted, it would be a consider able jump from the present sys tem. I doubt that we ithe corn mittee) have seen all of the prob lems." Ultimately, under the commit tee's plan, all freshmen would be admitted under the same require ments and would be assigned to either a technical or nontechnical program for their freshman year. For the present, the committee has suggested five areas in whieh common programs could be set up. They are: •Physical science and mathe matics *Biological sciences • Social sciences • Humanities *Fine Arts Also included in the plan is the establishment of an administra tive unit having no faculty or in structional functions., It would simply act as the assignment cen ter and coordinator of the pro grams. Larson said there would not he any "basic college" set up such as is found in a similar program running for two years at Michi gan State University. One of the main difficulties in setting up the common fresh man year program, Larson said, will be getting a standard set of e ntrance requirements for all curricula. Professionally accred ited curricula will also pose problems, he said. Larson said the report, which his committee has been working on for the past six months, grew out of a study of the Boatd of Trustees' Long Range Develop ment Study. Gift Drives to Begin Monday day in the Hotel State College banquet room. The agents, who will attempt to contact personally ever y member of the Class of '59, will receive instructions from offs• cials of the class, the Alumni Association and the Alumni ,Fund. Although the d r iv e does not open officially until next week, letters of solicitation have been sent to all seniors and the Alumni Office already is receiving mem berships and gift contributions. Annual membership in the Al umni Association is being offered at a special rate of $2 for the first year. The standard rate is $3 a year. Life memberships are being offered at $7O, with a $lO initial installment, instead of the regular $75. Members of the Alumni Asso- for their using post week with ation. The ollection of ry Ameri lection of udies; ref • ence halls. another space pro- f• palgn at a 5 p.m. Mon- FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1959 Board Recommends Pro for Sigma Chi The Interfraternity Council Board of Control recommended last night the withdraiVal of social privileges for Sigma Chi fraternity until Oct. 1 for having a woman in the hbuse after 1 a.m. last Sunday. The penalty is subject to approval by the Senate subcommittee on group discipline. It is effective immediately, but will not apply to Mother's Day weekend. —Collegian Photo by Marty Schur "WON'T YOU CHARLESTON WITH ME?" Bobby (Floyd Santoro) asks Maisie (Nina Baker). The Players production of "Boy Friend" opens tonight in Schwab Auditorium and will play tomorrow and Saturday nights. Mercury to Reach 90 Degrees Today The spring heat wave will con tinue today as temperatures should reach 90 degrees. The warm spell which pushed temperatures to 88 degrees yes terday will continue to hold sway today. However, cooler wea ther is on the way z!nd should return temperatures to comfort able levels tomorrow. The uncomfortably warm wea ther wasn't restricted to Penn sylvania yesterday, but covered the entire nation east of the Mis sippi River. Today will be hot and humid with showers and thunderstorms likely during the afternoon. The showers should end by evening and cooler weather will follow to night. Tomorrow is expected to be par tly cloudy and pleasant with a high of 76 degrees. ciation belong to district alumni clubs, receive the Alumni News, the Penn Stater newspaper and the football lettcr and support class reunions and other func tions of the association. Every dollar contributed to the Senior Class Gift fund will be matched by $3 from funds allocated by President ,Eric A. Walker, John Bolt, chairman of Senior Week, has asked that every senior donate at least $l. Ridge Riley, executive secre tary of the Alumni Association, yesterday said senior volunteers still may apply to Bott or the Alumni office to solicit Indepen dent students. Enough seniors have volunteered to contact fra ternity and sorority members, he said. rgiatt By NEAL FRIEDMAN Junior Advisory Board Applications for the Junior Class Advisory Board are avail able at the Hetzel Union desk. All applications must be re turned by 5 p.m. Monday. Collegian Photo Staff Will Meet There will be a meeting of The Daily Collegian photography staff today in the Collegian office. All members and interested candi dates are requested to attend. Summer collegian To Begin June 9 The Daily Collegian will publish a weekly Summer Col legian beginning June 9. , The Summer Collegian will be published every Thursday morning following the first of the 12 editions, which will be published Tuesday, June 9. The weekly paper will be the first official Collegian published during the summer sessions and the first student paper since 1951. In the past papers have been edited and promoted by students as a private enterprise. William Jaffe, Daily Colle. gian managing editor, will be editor of the Summer Collegian, The news staff will be com posed of students enrolled in journalism courses and present staff members. Annette Truran, junior in journalism from Pittsburgh, and Josephine Rider Chesworth, jun ior in journalism from Pittsburgh, will serve as co-business mana gers for the 8-page paper. Five thousand copies of the paper will be printed and dis tributed to summer session stu dents, convention members, vis iting groups, faculty members and townspeople. Collegian Inc., publishers of Bigger Names, Better Crowds See Page 4 In other action, the Board fined Chi Phi fraternity $5O for having an illegal pledge and-made sug gestions for penalties to be issued to houses for violation of the new IFC ruling requiring a 2.1 house average. After Oct. 1 Sigma Chi will be allowed to entertain women guests, but will be on social pro bation. This means they will be under closer surveillence by Board of Control checkers. Ronald Skiers, chairman of the board, said the checkers found the woman student in the basement of the fraternity early Sunday morning. In addition to fining Chi PM $5O for having the illegal pledge, rushing privileges were removed for one year for Andrew Kasarda, freshman in aeronautical engi neering from Phoenixville. Kasarda told the fraternity he had a 2A5 average. but it was later found that he only had a 1.7. The Chi Phi fine is also subject to approval by the Sen ate subcommittee. Siders said the board decided not to make specific recom mendations regarding penalties for fraternities not having the required 2.1 average in order to avoid "hamstringing our suc cessors." He explained that decisions in most board cases are based on precedent. Since there was no precedent in this instance due to the fact that the ruling will not take effect until next February, it was decided only to suggest penalties. Skiers said the suggestions would be such things as pro hibiting Friday night parties, re quiring the house to raise the average needed to pledge and submitting a written scholarship program to the board. The Daily Collegian, authorized the publishing of a summer edi tion because of the increased size of the summer sessions en rollment and campus visitors. Last year 5812 students were enrolled In summer courses and 22,694 members of 82 different groups were visitors on campus. A larger number of students are - expected this summer because of the addition of two 6-week sessions in addition to the regular 3-6-3 week sessions. University students may sub scribe to the Summer Collegian by filling out the coupon in to day's paper and sending or bring ing it to the Collegian office with 50 cents. The paper will be mailed each Thursday from Stale College, except the first edition which will be mailed Tuesday, June 9. FIVE CENTS
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