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VOL. 59. No: - 142
—Collegian Photo by Marty Scharr
OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENT awards went to Carl L. Smith,
(left), as underclassman, Barbara Barniker, outstanding woman,
and Stafford Friday, top senior man. The awards were presented
at the AIM-Leonides banquet last night at the Eutaw House.
Assembly to Hear
New SCCA Plan
A revised plan for a Student Check Cashing Agency will
be presented to the Student Government Association
Assembly for approval at 7:30 tonight in the Hetzel Union
assembly-room.
The new plan eliminates
300 Cummings
Tickets Remain
Less than 300 student and 100
non-student tickets remain for the
E. E. Cummings lecture to be held
at 8:30 tomorrow night in Schwab
auditorium. •
This will be the final program
in the Artists' Series for the cur
rent academic year. I
Cummings, renowne
poet, will read from
of poems.
A Harvard graduate
served in both the Fre
U.S. Armies in World
tween the world wars,
lived in Europe whet.:
recognition as a pain.
as a poet.
Among his most fa,
of poetry are "Tulips
neys," "Xaipe," "Is 5"
1923-1954."
Byers
By JIM STBOTI
James Byers, 20, f
division of couns
Puddintown, near
lege, was bound ove
County Court on
assault with inten
and aggravated assa
tery, following a hea
day before Justice o
Guy G. Mills.
Byers pleaded not ,
charges.
The hearing was ailed after
Byers' arrest early St nday morn
ing after he had fire eight shots
into a group of stude is attending
a party. One bullet entered the
thigh of James S. Graham, junior
in division of counseling from
Pittsburgh.
Byers said he -did
li_
why he went home. to get a .22
caliber pistol after he had been
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he board system for choosing
SCCA personnel and limits the
number of SCCA members to ten,
at least during a 6-week trial
period, according to Marcus Kat
zen, freshman in business admin
istration from Sykesville.
Katzen presented the original
bill to the Assembly last week
and asked for a loan of $4OOO to
put the SCAR into operation.
After a 45-minute debate the
plan, sponsored by the Freshman
Advisory Board, was sent back to
the committee for further study.
The method for choosing per
sonnel and the board system were
the most questioned items in the
original bill.
The original bill put no limit
on the number of candidates. It
called for a total of 20 students
on a training board, sophomore
I board, junior board, senior board
and board of control.
The revised version calls for a
4-member board of control and
• a 6.member staff, Katsen said.
The staff may be increased af
ter a 6-week trial period if the
board o control deems it "nec
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he gained
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and Chim
nd "Poems
urned Over to County Court
verbally ejected from a party
earlier in the evening.
The party of 12 was at the home
of Randal Roseberry, junior in
division of counseling, who lives
at 229 E. Irvin Ave.
- "I didn't intend to shoot any
body." Byers said. He claimed
he only wanted to talk to those
attending the parly, • because`he
didn't like the way he and the
group with him had been told
to leave.
Two witnesses besides Rose
berry testified that Byers returned
to the party about 1:30 a.m., en
tered the back yard from an alley
behind the house and shot at a
group of students standing out
side the back door.
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! ing from
. tate Col
to Centre
harges of
to maim
It and bat
ing yester
the Peace
uilty to the
The witnesses,. Peter Cimino,
junior in division of counseling
from Woodmere, N.Y., and John
Sava, junior in education from
Farrell, said Byers helei,the pistol
at waist level and fired toward
the students as they stood in a
not know
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 14. 1959
Peace Negotiations
Asked by Herter
- GENEVA (W)—Secretary of State Christian A. Herter challenged the Soviet Union yes
terday to enter serious negotiations for concrete, self-enforcing agreements for European
peace, but drew no encouragement from Andrei Gromyko.
The Soviet foreign minister rejected in advance the West's package plan for solution
Seniors Are
Nominated
For Honors
The Senior Class Advisory
Board has nominated 45 seniors
to be placed on the ballot for
class honors.
Votes will be taken when stu
dents pick up their year books. I
Women will vote only for women
and men only for men. The re
sults of the balloting will be an
nounced at Senior Class Night
on June 5.
Categories for women are Class
Donor, chosen for appearance,
popularity and leadership; Bow
Girl, picked for scholastic excel
lence; Slipper Girl, a coed out
standing in participation in activ
ities; Class Poet, a leader with
originality who likes to write
ihumorous verse; and Mirror Girl,
chosen for leadership and humor.
Women who have been 'nomi
nated include Ellen Donovan,
Judith McFarland, Mary Ann
Gemmill, Dorothy Becker, Pa
tricia Leh, Jean Kissick, Janet
Ours, Ruth Johnson, Frances
Griffin.
Phyllis 'Muskat, Lynn Ward,
Sandra Grotsky, Bryna Nelson,
Audrey Jersun, Arlene D'Ono
frio, Kathryn Kersh, Florence
Moran, Henrietta Hertzog, Patri
cia O'Neill, Patricia Evans and
Eleanor Judy.
The categories for men are Class
'Donor, chosen for leadership and
accomplishMent; Spoon Man,
chosen for leadership, scholar
ship and personality; Cane Man,
an outstanding leader on campus;
Barrel Man, a man outstanding in
athletics, leadership and scholar
ship; and Pipe Man, the class
joker.
Men nominated for these
honors are Charles Welsh, John
Bott, Sieve Garban, Jay Feld
stein, Louis Phillips, John
Gingrich, Edward Hintz, Robert
Franklin, Frederick Kerr.
Jun Niiler, Gerald Carlson,
Joseph Patton, Edward Moran,
Bernard Brown, James Meister,
Eugene Curry, David Fineman,
Ronald Kalb, Wilbur Lewellen,
Samuel Fleming, Howard Maier
hofer, Louis Prato, Edward Fry
moyer and Martin Harris.
semicircle about 10 feet away.
No trace of the bullets could
be found by police imeither the
ground or the house. Police
'thought the shells may have
gone over the house roof, since
the yard where Byars was
standing is a steep slope and the
roof is low and flat.
Col. Ralph M. Farmer of the
borough police said he examined,
the. pistol and found eight shots
had been fired. Upon arresting
Byers he said he found a holster
stuck in the freshman's belt. By
ers told hirn at that time that he
had lost the pitsal.
Police had already received a
complaint of excessive noise and
were on their way to the Rose
berry home when the shooting
occurred.
Byers was released on $2OOO
bond until his trial in County
[ Court. No date has been set for
the trial.
rgiatt
of the Berlin, German unity and
European security issues.
Gromyko called the package
plan, due to be presented in the
Big Four foreign ministers con
ference today an attempt "to mud
dle together various political
problems into one tangle." He de
clared such an approach would
completely block the work of the
conference.
Herter announced the United
States. Britain and France will
introduce proposals to ease len
sion "now spoiling relations be
tween the free world and the
Soviet Union." He promised
U.S. participation in summit
talks, which Moscow has been
urging if the Soviets will dicker
here in earnest.
All four ministers finally pre
sented their opening speeches, de
layed by a dispute over Gro
myko's efforts to seat Communist
Poland and Czechoslovakia as full
negotiators in the conference.
Gromyko persisted yesterday but
got nowhere.
Gromyko has won limited
speaking rights for the Com
munist East Germans at the
conference. The same rights al
so apply to the West Germans.
Thai was decided Monday.
The package plan of the West-'
ern powers ironed out at a West
ern conference in Paris last
month, links a solution of the
Berlin crisis to German unifica
tion and a European security
agreement. It is understood to
provide for uniting Germany by
a series of steps under Big Four
auspices—and with the help of
an all-German committee—over
a period of two or three years.
The opening speeches. as ex
pected showed the Eastern and
Western positions directly op
posed.
Gromyko called for conclusion
of a German peace treaty as a
first step toward normalizing in
ternational relations.
Herter stressed the need for all-
German elections—of the right of
the German people to establish "a
government of their own choice
for all Germany."
He added: "The problem will
remain until the entire German
people can express their will
freely."
Traffic Surve Report
Suggestions .Made
To Improve Walks
The running rivers on the Mall caused by rainy weather
may soon be a thing of the past.
The mud you drag into buildings on your feet when you
try to 'avoid the water by walking along the edges of the
walks will also be obsolete.
„ . ,
elimination of these little
dations included in the Depart
ment; of • Engineering's report of
campus walks and pedestrian traf
fic.
This part of the over-all traffic
survey revealed no major de
ficiencies in the general layout of
campus walks. Present defects
were emphasized and irregular
paving and inadequate drainage
were cited as major problems.
Commenting on the water on
the walks, ' the report ' states:
"These troublesome spots are so
obvious that it would not seem
to be necessary, to do more than
suggest a careful survey of all
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5 Sigma Chi
Seniors Get
Probation
Five members of Sigma Chi
fraternity, all senior s, were
placed on disciplinary probation
by the dean of men's office for
their involvement in the enter
tainment of a woman guest after
hours on May 3.
Last week, social privileges
were withdrawn from Sigma Chi
until Oct. 1 by the Interfraternity
Council Board of Control for the
offense.
It was later learned that the
coed not only was in the house
after hours, but also that she was
"out of bounds." That is, she was
in the living quarters in the base
ment of the fraternity.
The woman, the fiance of one
of the men, was being entertained
by all five when Board of Control
checkers found them. The dean of
men's office said there was "no
question of anything immoral go
in on."
The action was taken against
individuals rather than the fra
ternity, so the men who will still
be in the chapter next year will
not be penalized for the actions
of those who graduate.
Sigma Chi's withdrawal of so
cial privileges was scheduled to
start last week, but was delayed
because of Mother's Day week
end.
After social privileges are re
stored on Oct. 1, the house will
remain on social probation for
the rest of the fall semester and
will he under stricter surveillance
by IFC checkers.
Cold May Bring Frost
Much colder weather is expect
ed to move into this area today,
accompanied by strong gusty
winds and-possibly a brief snow
flurry.
Chilly weather should continue
tomorrow.
By JIM WHALEN
Second in a Series
nconveniences are recommen-
walks following a heavy rain
and the adoption of proper re
pair and drainage methods."
Action is being taken to improve
the drainage system, according to
Walter W. Trainer, head of the
Landscape Planning Division.
Trainer said that additional
construction of buildings and
walks on campus caused the pipes
of the drainage system to become
overworked. He said that the lines
were adequate when they were
originally designed. Plans are now
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