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VOL. 60, No. 5
Reverse Customs
To Be 'Legalized'
Upperclassmen will get a “legal” chance to question fresh
man women and upperclass women may question the -fresh
man men during “Jteverse Customs” today.
The Freshman Customs Board has decreed that freshmen
must answer only to upperclass students of the opposite sex.
Scholarship
Trophy Won
By AChiO
.Alpha Chi Omega sorority
was awarded the Pan-Hellenic
scholarship trophy last night
for the highest scholastic av
erage of the spring semester.
AChiO, with a sorority average
of 3.04, was also the sorority
which showed the most improve
ment over the fall semester
averages. Kappa Kappa Gamma,
with a 3.01 average had ths sec
ond highest sorority average.
The trophy was presented by
Carol Dominick, PanHel presi
dent, at the first meeting of coun
cil this semester.
Rushing regulations and the
rushing schedule for this semes
ter were presented by Susan
Chapman, PanHel Rush Chair
man. Informal rushing for up
perciass and transfer women be
gins Sunday with sorority open
houses.
A committee to study the pro
blem of inviting men into- the
sorority suites lor socials, a sug
gestion from th>’ Fean of Women,
Dr. Dorothy Lipp, was appointed
by the president. This committee,
which will also try to arrange new
suite hours consists of represen
tatives of Delta Gamma, Alpha
gamma Delta, Alpha Epsilon Phi,
eta Sigma Omicron and Phi Mu
sororities.
Sororities interested in sponsor
ing skits and publicity for the pep
rallys were asked to volunteer.
Pep rallys are held on Fridays be
fore a home game and Thursdays
before an away game.
Applications Available
For SCCA Positions
Applications for the staff of
the Student Check Cashing
Agency are available at the Het
zel Union desk.
Interviews for the staff will be
held between Oct. 1 and 10.
Registration to Begin for Fail Rush
By PAT DYER
Registration for informal
sorority rushing begins tomor
row for upperclass and trans
fer women.
Coeds with a 2.0 All-University
average may register in the Ath
erton and McKee lobbys from 9
a.m. till noon and from 1:30 to
6 p.m. A fee of $1 will be col
lected at registration.
Women who have been on cam
pus for a semester must bring
their transcripts with them. Trans
fer students do not need a trans
script in order to register.
Informal rushing begins Satur
day with a mass meeting at 12:45
§.m. in the Hetzel Union Assem
ly, of all women interested in
sororities. Sunday all 23 national
sororities on campus will hold
open houses in their suites.
Starting Monday, rushees will
be invited to a series of "chat*
Stye Sally HI (Ml
By CAROL BLAKESLEE
Freshman men must respond to
a call to “Button Frosh” from an
upperclass woman and freshman
women must curtsy v/hen asked
to do so by an upperclassman.
Freshmen must also sing, cheer
or answer questions when it is
requested by an upperclassman
of the opposite sex.
Customs Boad Chairman Don-
Bid Clageit said last night that
there has been more partici
pation than ever this year by
upperclassmen.
“The response has been just
: terrific from both the upperclass
students and the freshmen,” he
added.
Clagett said this year’s Dink
Debut probably had much to do
with the increased enthusiasm,
since customs was explained to
the freshmen there.
A large number of freshman
customs violators have been
turned in to the Customs Board.
The violators were called be
fore the' Board for a variety of
reasons—refusal to give upper
classmen information, failure to
wear dress customs during re
quired hours, not carrying the
Student Handbook and poor at
titude.
Penalties given ranged from
wearing a sign t 6 looking up ma
terial in the Penn'State Room of
the Pattee Library.
Violators who came before the
board Monday night and last
night were Neil Buckley, Char
lotte Lecky, Pam Ferrier, Pam
Chadwick, Linda Burden, Marlen
Mintz, Ellen Unser, Judi Lobley,
Steve Kuntz, Barbara Hodge.
Pete Yeingst, . Judy Miller,
Carole Akers, Dave Aitken, Al
len Bowser, Mike Mihm, Carl
Bielfeldt, Ed Niner, David Slutz
ker, Ron Krajack, Terry Kelley
and Arlyn Rubash.
BusAd Grad Club
Will Meet Tonight
The Graduate Club of the Col
lege of Business Administration
will meet at 7:30 tonight at Sigma
Pi fraternity on the corner of
Foster and Thompson Sts.
On the agenda are the election
of new officers and a panel dis
cussion on graduate require
ments. Dr. Robert Pashek, assist
ant dean for research, will moder
ate the panel discussion.
The club is beginning its third
year of operation. The purpose of
the club is to promote a good
relationship between faculty
members and graduate students in
business administration.
ier dates” in the suites of those
sororities which are rushing
this semester. All sororities ex
cept Delta Gamma are rushing;
however. Pi Bela Phi. Alpha
Gamma Delta. Kappa Alpha
Theta, Kappa Delta, and pelia
Delta Delta are not rushing
juniors.
Invitations to chatter dates will
be slipped under the rushees’
doors Monday morning. Sororities
may pick up replies at 1:30 and
4:30 p.m. in the dean of women’s
office.
Each sorprity may set its own
days and hours for rushing, but
these hours must fall between
1:30 to 5 p.m. and 8:30 to 8 p.m.
A girl may accept as many invita
tions to chatter dates as she
wishes.
On Oct. 8 the rushees will
sign a preferential bidding card
listing her first two choices.
At 8 the next morning the
sororities will bring their lists
STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1959
UN to Sidetrack
Chinese Question
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (fl 3 ) —The United States succeeded again yesterday in getting
the United Nations to sidetrack for another year the question of admitting Communist
China.
But despite recent turmoil in Asia for which the West blamed the Chinese Reds the
victory margin’ was one vote less than last year. •=,
By a vote of 44-29 with 9 abstentions the General Assembly approved a U.S. resolution
asking that it postpone any con
sideration of proposal? either to
admit the Chinese Reds 01 ex
clude the Chinese Nationalists.
It was the ninth straight year
the-UN had sidetracked the Red
China membership issue.
'By its action the Assembly
rejected Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev's personal plea
here last week that it was high
time to kick out the Chinese
Nationalists and install the Chi
nese Reds as one of the major
UN powers.
The vote last year on an identi
cal resolution was 44-28 with 9
abstentions. There were some
switches this year. Guinea, a new
member, joined the many Asian-
African nations opposing the U.S.
stand.
This year Laos changed its vote
from abstaining to yes. The South
east Asia kingdom has accused
Peiping of encouraging North Viet
Nam in acts of aggression along
the northern border. A UN sub
committee is in Laos investigat
ing the charges.
Cuba cracked the hitherto
solid position of the 20-nation
Lalin-American bloc in sup
porting the U.S. position. Cuba
abstained, the only Latin Amer
ican nation to do so.
Greece, which abstained last
year, joined the yes votes. Its vote
last year reflected unhappiness
with the Western delegations over
their position on Cyprus. The vote
was also a‘ rebuff to India which
aga.n championed the right of
Red China to UN membership.
India’s defense minister, V. K.
Krishna Menon, made a final plea
for appioval of a Nepalese reso
lution that would have reversed
the U.S. proposal.
CORNERED BY A PAIR of sophomores, Skip Willits (left) and
Jack Lesyk (right) are a pair of freshmen, Louise Lucernoni and
Doug Groff. Today “reverse customs” begin.
Humid Weather WSGA to Give Results
j . On Coed Smoking Vote
10 'fQy Ift Area Results of the vote on coed
Unseasonably warm and humidjSmoking in the dining halls will
weather will continue for the re-ike announced at the Women’s
mainder of the week as tropicaljStudent Government Association
air dominates the weather scene, meeting at 6:30 tonight in 119
Scattered showers and possibly Osmond,
thunder showers ' - Coeds cast ballots at dinner
are likely during Monday. The vote for each dining
the afternoon hall will determine the procedure
and evening for that hall,
hours during the
next three days.
Temperatures
will climb into
the 80’s for the
[third consecutive
: day. The low
should be 62 de
grees.
A long range
glance at the
weather for the
Saturday football game shows
sunny skies with temperatures
around -70 degrees on the docket.
lo the dean of women's office.
The. sororities may pick up
their lists of pledges at 4:30 p.m.
and then slip the bids under
their pledges' doors. Ribboning
will lake place that evening
(Oct. 9) in the sorority suites.
Throughout the two weeks of
rushing a semi-striet silence
period will be in effect. This
means that Greeks may not talk
to a rushee about sorority matters
although they may talk about
other things. During this period
there may be no phone calls be
tween a Greek and a rushee nor
any visiting between rooms, coke
dates, etc.
During rushing all contact be
tween the rushee and a sorority
outside of the chatter dates must
be channeled through the dean
of women’s office. This includes
informing the sorority if a girl
suddenly finds herself unable to
attend a rush hour for which she
has accepted an invitation.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Grads to Meet Friday
The orientation meeting for all
new graduate students will be
held at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Schwab
Auditorium instead of last night
as was erroneously reported in
yesterday’s Collegian.
Holmes Halt Unit
To Be Dedicated
The first dedication of a North Halls living unit will be
held today.
Dedication of Centre House, a unit of Holmes Hall,”\vill
be held following a luncheon for invited county guests at
noon. The ceremony will take place in the House's lounge
and then guests will tour the facilities.
University students and area|
residents may tour the new North!
Halls from 6 to 8 p.m. An open
house program will be held at that
time in Warnock Hall, the dining
building for the area.
Each of the four halls in the
area has been subdivided—into
houses of approximately 70 men
students each.
Fourteen other units in the
North Halls will also be dedi
cated. The schedule for these
dedications is: Allegheny, tomor
row; Luzerne, Tuesday; Mont
gomery, Sept. 30; Philadelphia,
Oct. 1; Blair, Oct. 5; Schuylkill,
Oct. 6; Delaware, Oct. 7; West
moreland, Oct. 8; Erie, Oct. 13;
Lackawanna, Oct. 14; Berks, Oct.
15; Cambria, Oct. 21; Lehigh, Oct.
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Radio Club Applications
All students who wish to join
the Penn State Amateur Radio
Club and affiliate with the Uni
versity amateur radio station
W3YA should contact Gilbert L.
Crossley, assistant professor of
electrical engineering in 102
Electtical Engineering.
22; Bucks, Oct. 28; and Dauphin,
Oct. 29. '
Counly commissioners and
other prominent persons will
represent their home counties
in the ceremonies.
The first counties to give their
names to residence hall units
were chosen on the basis of their
undergraduate enrollment on the
University Park campus. Dedica
tion exercises are not necessarily
scheduled in the order of naming.
Units of Hamilton Hall in the
West Halls area have been named
after trees. They will later be re
named after counties. It is ex
pected that each residence hall
junit will eventually be named
I after a county in the state.
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