Collegian Ph UN 5-253 VOL. 60. No. 7 1.. V * , I —Collegian Photo by Charlea Jacques SINKS, HUNDREDS OF THEM, emerge from Schwab Auditorium. But, to greet them as they came out were hundreds of upperclassmen waiting to enter—the result, a large enforcement of customs in the way of a mass “buttoning” and cheering. Today it’s Reverse Customs Day. Prexy Stress President Eric A. Walker yesterday told the University Senate “the faculty is here to serve the better students, not the ones who flunked last semester.” Walker said the trend to more attention to academic excellence had been taken up by students at the Student Cheerleaders Will Sponsor Rally Tonight Frothy and the Nittany Lion, enthusiastic supporters of the football team, will put on a skit at the pep rally at 7 tonight on the steps of Old Main. Before the rally the Penn State Blue Band and the cheerleaders will parade around campus. The parade will start at Carnegie Building and proceed around the dorm areas. Dave Williams, head manager of the football team, will speak at the rally. Vincent Marino, senior in business administration from Clearfield, will be master of cere monies. Formerly, hat societies were as signed to aid the cheerleaders with each rally. This year the cheer leaders will take complete charge of the rallies, headed by Lawrence Buck with Lanny Dey as assistant head cheerleader. Other members of the squad are: Patricia Edqn, Lucille Ca pella, John Edge, Charles Hodges, Linda Speer, Jane Flint, John Glassburn, James Abbey, Tom De- Rocco, Rebecca Aadden, Joan Cav enaugh and Bonnis Morriss. Frosh Coeds Can Apply For WSGA Offices Applications will be available beginning Monday in 101 McEl wain and in the dean of women’s office for all freshman women interested in becoming Women’s Student Government Association Freshman Senators. Two women will be elected in primary and final elections to fill these offices. Matrlc Cards Required Students must have matricu lation cards in order to attend Saturday's football game with Virginia Military Institute. New cards may be obtained in 104. Willard today and to morrow morning. Stye latlg © doll Places More on Studies Encampment, held at the Mont Alto School of Forestry Sept. 9, 10 and 11. “There has been a change in attitude on the part of many students,” he said. “Instead of trying to get seniors excused from examinations, the Encamp ment recommended a comprehen sive examination for each candi date for a baccalaureate degree.” The President has recently been stressing excellence-in academics talks with students. At the Orientation Week Coun selor's Banquet he told students of the increasing emphasis on academic emphasis. At the freshman convocation, Walker stressed the point that “Penn State is not a country club." He told freshmen they would find an increasing empha sis on their classroom woik. In other Senate business: • Communications were read in which Walker authorized the deans of the individual colleges to establish common year pro grams for freshmen and sopho mores wherever possible. The programs are to be work ed out between the deans of the colleges and submitted to the Subcommittee on Courses of Study for approval. • Kenneth L. Holderman, co ordinator of Commonwealth Cam puses, requested the Senate study the possibility of seating the di rectors of the individual campuses on the group. The Senate approved for an other year the seating of student members of standing committees at its general meeting. The stu dents will 'again be allowed to speak, but not to vote. Relief Predicted From Heat Wave The warm spell moved into its fifth day yesterday, but relief is now in sight. Drier air will move into the area today making the heat more bearable. Even cooler weather is due to morrow, but unfortunately -the threat of rain will also be present. The forecast calls for partly cloudy and warm weather, but it will be less humid today with' a high of 82 degrees. Tonight should be partly cloudy and pleasant with a low of S 7 degrees. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 25. 1959 ■i V- One-Way Flow Of Rush Hour Traffic OK'd The section of Pollock Rd. be tween the Hetzel Union Building and Shortlidge Rd. will be open for one-way traffic going east to ward Shortlidge Rd. during peak rush hours to help clear congestion from the HUB parking lot. The move is part of a plan to ease traffic congestion along Shortlidge Road especially on dale nights. Albert E. Diem, vice president for business administration, said that campus patrolmen stationed along Shortlidge Rd. have been given authority to move traffic in any direction to -ease congestion during rush hours. The measures are being taken to make the road safe for pedes trian traffic and to minimize traf fic congestion at Shortlidge Rd. and College Ave. Tentative plans call for traffic moving east on Pollock to either continue east across Shortlidge or to turn north, circling the campus. Traffic coming out of the HUB parking lot will be directed down to College Ave, University Establishes Management Institutes The University has established a series of Business Management institutes throughout the state in order to aid plumbing and heat ing contractors with their every day problems. The program, operative in 17 communities, will begin this month. It is offered through the cooperation of the Pennsylvania Association of Plumbing Contrac tors. Senate Approves Chi Lambda Colony The Senate Committee on Student Affairs yesterday ap proved a petition by Chi Lambda Colony as a local sorprity. Following a one year period as a local group, the sorority plans to affiliate with a national Jew ish sorority. However, under University regulations, no Greek letter group may be admitted to campus .if its constitution contains any discrim inatory clause. The national group the new colony now plans io affiliate with has such a clause and it Nikita Hits Cold War PITTSBURGH (/ P) —Nikita Khrushchev, ready to start his momentous talks with President Eisenhower, blamed the United States yesterday for the cold war, but said he thinks differences between the Soviet Union and the United States can be ironed out. Khrushchev’s last formal speech before the talks begin Turnabout Customs In Effect Today Upperclassmen will get an other chance to collect names and phone numbers from freshman women today since customs will be reversed. On “Reverse Customs” Day, freshman women must curtsy, an swer questions, sing or cheer when requested by an upperclass men. Freshman men must answer only to upperclass women. Freshman men are reminded fo bow and doff their dinks when passing ihe Old Willow on “Ihe east side of fhe Mall. Freshman women are expected to curisy when passing the Old Willow. Donald Clagett, chairman of the Freshman Customs Board, again expressed his feeling that customs this year is “better than ever.” He said ihe spirit of both the freshmen and the upperclass men has been extremely good this year. Yesterday besides the usual groups of singing and cheering, the steps of Schwab were the lo cation for a mass dink-doffing when freshman men poured out of ROTC meeting. Welcoming them with shouts of “Button, all you Frosh!”- was a large group of sophomore men waiting to go in to their meet ing. The result was over a thou sand blue dinks being lifted high in the air. WRA Continues Open House Plan The Women’s Recreation Asso ciation will hold an open house from 7 to 9 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday in White Hall. All the building’s facilities will be available for use by campus v/omen. The programs include swimming, bowling, badminton, volleyball, ping pong and bridge. In the future, White Hall will be open for use on Friday eve ning and special programs are being planned for Saturday. These include a coed recreation night, a progressive games night and tournaments. must be removed from the na tional constitution before a chapter can be established here. Carol Dominick, Panhellenic president, told the Daily Collegian last night that the status of the new sorority would be announced at the meeting for all rushees at 12:45 p.m. tomorrotv in the Het zel Union assembly room. As yet, no official plan for rushing Ms been decided upon, since the sorority has no housing space, placing it in an irregular position, Miss Dominick said. , There are 23 nationally affili ated sororities on campus and one colony. Chi Lambda would make the second colony. Last s'pring, Tri Opus Colony was organized Col legion Policy See Page 4 at Camp David, Md,, late today wound up a whirlwind day in Pittsburgh. . Right after his speech, Khrush chev drove to the airport and took off for Washington. The strict security measures that marked his one-day visit here weie kept in force to the end. Besides police and military guards, only about 200 persons were on hand to see him off into partly overcast skies. It was a day in which the Soviet Premier was in a gay mood as he met factory workeis in the morn ing—he swapped his wrist watch for a cigar—and in a conciliatory mood in his after - luncheon speech. Once again he boasted of Com munist achievements, past, pres ent and anticipated. But he said that allhouah the Soviet Union and the United Stales had their differences, yet these differences did not bar them from- working toward a common goal. On the cold war, Khrushchev had a firm conviction: The political cold is coming from you, and not from us We are not afraid of the cold but we would like more favorable winds to blow.” Khrushchev was closing out ? swing that took him to the West Coast and back again in eight days. He spoke to a warmly ap plauding audience at the Uni versity of Pittsburgh. Though he blamed this coun try for .the cold war, there was no sting in his words, which were read in English by an in lerpreier after he had made some preliminary remarks In Russian. After the interpreter finished the set speech, Khrushchev bounced back to the microphone with some ad lib sallies that had the audience laughing. The luncheon speech capped a typically fast-moving day for the Soviet leader. Star t i q g in midmorning, Khrushchev sped out to the plant of ihe Mesia Machinery Co., a firm which makes equip ment for steel mills. There, he needled plant officials about a lack of U.S.-Soviet trade. At one point,„ Khrushchev chal lenged them to sign a sales agree ment on the spot. Collegian Business Staff The Daily Collegian Candidate school will begin at 6:30 pm. Tuesday, Oct 13, for all students .interested in joining this year’s 'staff. and will rush this semester, al though they do not have a suite or lounge of their own. The committee also discussed the matter of the many student groups failing to file reports with the committee. The origi nal deadline for the reports was last February 1. The report should contain the organization’s constitution, a list of officers, advisor and an audited financial statement if it is not a member of the Associated Student Activities. The Committee said it would take steps to ensure compliance with the regulations by the large number of groups who have not compiled the reports. FIVE CENTS
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