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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