Collegian Phone UN 5-2531 VOL. 60, No. 3 Frosh Must Wear Dinks, Namecards At 'Debut' Tonight Class Night story, page 9 Enthusiastic freshmen can show their true school spirit by wearing their customs dress at the ‘‘Dink Debut” at 8:30 tonight in the HUB ballroom. No freshman will be allowed to enter the ballroom with out his dink namecard. Freshman also are requested to bring identification with them to prove their semester standing. The “Dink Debut” will give first semester freshmen a chance to get used to wearing customs dress and to meet their new class mates before the official opening of customs at 7 a.m. Monday. Freshmen will be required to wear their customs tomorrow evening at Class Night. Customs dress consists of a blue dink and a name card with the - freshman’s first and last name, hometown and curriculum printed on it. Each freshman is required to carry a student hand-! book with the first page entirely filled in. The dink, namecard and handbook may be purchased in the Student Book Exchange in the HUB. Customs dress will be required from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on week days, from 7 a.m. until noon Sat urday and at all intercollegiate athletic events. Other customs regulations are: • Freshmen may not walk on the grass or unpaved surfaces. • Freshmen may not walk on the sidewalk on the west side of the Mall. •Freshmen must curtsy to the old willow tree on the east side of the Mall. • Freshmen may not walk on Senior Walk which extends along College Ave.' from Allen St. to the Pugh St. gate. This includes the wall adjacent to the walk. • Freshmen may smoke only in their living quarters. • Freshmen must be able to re cite the freshman oath which is found in the Student Handbook. • Freshman men must doff their dinks when requested by upper clasmen. Freshman women must curtsy to any upperclasswoman who requests them to. But on Re verse Day they will answer the demand of the opposite sex. • Freshmen must know the names and locations of all build ings and landmarks. They must know all school songs and cheers. •No freshman may stroll around the campus with his hands in his pockets. Freshman men must remove their dinks while in buildings. • Freshmen must know the (Continued on page ten) Insurance Deadline ! - Extended The deadline fof payment of premiums for the Student Acci dent and Sickness Insurance Plan has been extended to Wednesday, September 30. Today was scheduled to be the last day for students to secure the benefits of the University approved policy. Russell Connelly, chairman of the Students’ Insurance Commit tee, said the extension of the deadline was approved by the committee because of the many requests by students who wished to discus the plan with their par ents over the weekend. Enrollment forms and informa tion will be available today in the Hetzel Union lobby and at Rec Hall near the registration exit, and on Saturday at the Hetzel Union desk or the Doty and Hench In surance Company, 108 S. Allen St. Connelly, one of the original committeemen for the policy which was organized in Febru ary, 1958, said the plan has been highly successful to date. Three plans are available to suit the needs of every policy holder. During the year-and-a-half the insurance plan has been avail able, 90 per cent of the students have chosen Plan I, Connelly said. In this plan, a premium of $l9 is paid by the policyholder, to ex tend for a period of one year. Ac cidents and sicknesses at school or at home, even during the sum mer, are covered by the plan. SGA Applications Applications for work in the Student Government Associa tion are available at the Hetzel Union desk. . U,S. Trade Policy Backfired-Nikita NEW YORK (ip) Nikita Khrushchev told a gathering of American businessmen last night that U.S. restrictions on trade with the Soviet Union have backfired and in some in stances even helped his country. The Soviet leader also said that production in his homeland is ex panding so enormously that the U.S.S.R. can ojvertake this coun try in economic development “more quickly than envisaged in our plans.” Khrushchev spoke to the Economic Club of New York at a dinner at the Waldorf-A> loria Hotel. His prepared ad dress climaxed e day in the great, metropolis which pro duced probably the frostiest welcome New York City has given, a top public figure. 1 For a city of eight. million-peo latly fi| doll STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 18. 1959 pie, the turnout of 175,000 a police estimate was pretty un imposing. And the crowds which did show up were largely silent. There were no more flags on dis play than rigid protocol demand ed. While Khrushchev was attend ing the dinner, his wife, Nina, was off to the theater to see “The Music Man,” one of Broadway’s top musicals. A reception, given by Gov. Averell Harriman, followed a luncheon, at which Khrushchev also got off a speech. This ear lier address, at i a civic affair, again bore down on his call for eternal peace. The Premier did not neglect to stress the peace theme again last night. But mainly tire talk was beam ed toward his businessman audi ence. He hammered hard at U. S. trade policies, as he has done be fore, and called for better trade FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Deans Recommend Similar Frosh Year Freshmen entering the University in the grams greatly different from those of their Council of Academic Deans is carried out. Last summer the council voted unanimou that, effective July 1, 1960, all undergraduate ~Collegian Photo by Dave Trump HAIL TO THE LlON—Frank Gullo, professor of music and music education, leads the Class of ’63 in songs and cheers at last night’s pep rally at Beaver Field. Dr. Hummel Fishburn, head of the Department of Music and Music Education, plays the piano. Enthusiastic Frosh Show School Spirit Freshmen, transfer and upper class students, 400 strong, cheer ed the Nittany Lion eleven off to their first football game tomor row with the University of Mis souri at a pep rally last night in Beaver Field. Dr. Hummel Fishburn, profes sor of music and music education, and Frank Gullo, associate pro fessor of music, led the enthusi astic crowd in singing the tradi tional school songs and the new freshman class song. The new students were intro duced to Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the College of Physical Edu cation and Athletics, Coach Rip Engle and Pat Botula, captain of this year’s football team. Lawrence Buck, head cheer leader, and his crew of 13 led the freshmen and transfers in the cheers. relations between his owr. coun try and the United States. The Premier said that some people—politicians rather than businessmen seriously con tend that by refusing to trade with the U.S.S.R. "The United Stales retards the economic de velopment of the U.S.S.R. and weakens its defensive might." Then, with his reference to So viet scientific achievements, Pre mier Khrushchev told his audi ence that all present were famil iar with the reports on Soviet Sputniks, rockets and economic growth. This progress has never been so swift,' he said, as in the past decade. I Khrushchev said he had told Harriman and was repeating it that “the results of the ban on trade with the U.S.S.R. imposed in the United States as a repres sive measure against the Soviet Union have been the very oppo site of those hoped for by its au thors.” Tgtatt next few years may find their first year pro predecessors if a recommendation from the sly to recommend to President Eric A. Walker students be admitted through nine colleges or the Division of Counseling, and that the deans of the colleges be authorized to establish inter college ‘ common year” programs for freshmen and sophomores wherever possible. This would be a major change from the present policy under winch a student is admitted in one of 66 curriculums. In the pro posed set-up a student would have to choose between only 10 differ ent programs. The recommendation follows the same ideas as presented in an informational report on freshman year programs which was submitted by the Senate Committee on Educational Pol icy last spring. In this report the committee endorsed the idea of a common program for freshmen in closely related cur riculums. Indies to Register For Encampment Students planning to attend Indie Encampment tomorrow must register and obtain information; at Waring Hall desk today. I Those desiring transportation to Civil Engineering Cabin, where the encampment will be held, should register at the Hetzel Un ion desk today. Rides will leave the parking lot behind Osmond at 8 a.m. tomorrow. Forty-five students and 30 fac ulty members are expected to at tend the encampment, according to Carl Smith, chairman. Gift Fund Reaches $4973 i n Two Days Collections for the class gift fund move into their final day at registration today with nearly $5OOO already collected. The collection table, located at the exit from registration in Recreation Hall, has been when registration began. . The $4973 total does not in-j elude amounts pledged, but not yet collected. This is the first year the gift collections have ben made in Recreation Hall. The plan for solicitation was made by the individual class presidents and their advisory boards. The necessity for registration time collections came about last September when President Eric A. Walker disclosed that the Sen ior Class gift fund no longer ex isted. Walker said the gift money had been provided, nearly $lO,OOO each year, from the President’s Spe cial Fund. He said, however, that due to increasing costs of operaiinging ihe University and the need for Will It Happen? See Page 4 No more than five, and per haps as few as two freshmen year programs were suggested by the committee. The five areas would possibly include the basic areas of physical science and mathematics, biological science, social science, humanities and fine arts. Eventually the areas would be reduced to a technical and a non-tcchnical freshmen year program. Also, the report suggested, the present system which uses seven different sets of admissions re quirements would have to be changed so that eventually per haps only one set of lequirements would be used. The committee report was submitted for study. Such ques tions as the proper courses to 1 include in such a system and problems concerning the neces | sity of starting technical irain j ing early in some colleges pre- I sented difficulties to the Sen j ale. j The more recent recommenda tion by the Council of Academic ■ Deans is stated by the council 1o "be “consistent” with the Senate report. Any further action is up to the decision of the Piesident and the Senate, according to Dr. Howard Cutler, assistant to the vice president for academic af fairs. ;n operation since Wednesday the money elsewhere, he would be'unable to provide the funds in the future. The problem was turned over to the class of ficers. In order to aid the students in raising the funds, the administra tion agreed to a proportional matching of funds for the classes already attending the University. Last June’s class, the first af fected by the new system* was given $3 for every $1 they col lected; this year’s senior class will receive $2 for every $1; and the class of 3 961 will be matched equally, $1 for every $l. The present sophomore class, and all future classes, will be ex pected to provide the funds for the gift without help from the University. FIVE CENTS
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