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VOL. 59, No. 137
No
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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.
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