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VOL. 60. No. 32
WDFM to Air
Frost Program
Students who were unable to obtain tickets for the Robert
Frost program can hear him over radio station WDFM via a
direct line from Schwab Auditorium.
The possibility of broadcasting the recitation over radio
station WMAJ is also being investigated, according to Mrs.
Nina Brown, Artists Series chair
man.
IFC Board
Postpon
Two Ca
The Interfraterni y Council
Board of Control last night
postponed action o two cases
concerning violati on of the
Council's rule for t pledging
men without sufficient av
erages.
Robert Parsky, board chairman,
said that Sigma Chi and Alpha
Epsilon Pi will be permitted to
bring additional evidence to the
board's next meeting concerning
their possible infractions.
A fraternity pledge must have
a 2.0 All-University average or a
2.2 previous semester's average.
The cases were postponed be
cause the fraternities could not
obtain evidence of innocence
last night, Parsky said.
In other action, the board up
held a ruling made last semester
concerning freshman men play
ing ih dance bands at fraternity
houses. Under deferred rushing
rules, freshman may not enter
a fraternity until his second se
mester.
The board also began discus
sion of possible changes in.the
University's Social Code Regu
lations. Under consideration is
a move to change to the hours'
regulation for dancing at fra
ternity parties. Presently, danc
ing must end at midnight.
Also discussed were the hours
women are permitted in fraterni
ties Sunday through Thursday.
Women are permitted in frater
nities until 8:15 p.m. on week
days and until 10 p.m. on Sunday.
Parsky said recommendations
in these areas will be made at the
board's next meeting. .
Scholarships Forms Duo
Applications for the $75 Pan
hellenic scholarship must be re
turned by tomorrow to 105 Old
Main.
Only the special applications
obtained in the dean of women's
office will be accepted for con
sideration.
Universit Anal sis
Space Studies Bring Eng Changes
By JEFF POLLACK
(Second in a Series)
This is the machine age.
It is an age when technology
:hanges faster than books can
be printed to tell students
about it. What is new today
may be obsolete in a week, or
even tomorrow.
The College of Eni
Architecture must fi
to the problem of ed
sands of students
conditions,
One possible sol
is being tried by t ,
the common year
freshmen. Of the 7
registered - in .the
year, 670 are tali
form program.
The common ye
means the student is
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Nine hundred tickets were dis
tributed at the Hetzel Union desk
to students yesterday within a
half hour. A line started forming
at 11 a.m.—two hours before the
distribution began.
The double line stretched
across the main floor of the
HUB, past the ballroom, and
spilled out onto the driveway
in front of the HUB.
The tickets distributors were
forced to open the ticket booth at
12:30 p.m. in order to alleviate
the crowded conditions. Never
before in the 3-year history of
the Artists Series has there been
such a popular demand for tick
ets, Mrs. Brown said.
Non-student tickets will go
on sale at 9 a.m. today and will
cost $1.25.
Several students have asked
Mrs. Brown why the program
cannot be held in Recreation Hall.
The reason is that it has been re
served for Saturday by the Col
lege of Agriculture, she said.
Mrs. Kathleen Morrison, Frost's
niece and manager of his tour,
was contacted about the prob
lem of not being able to accom
odate enough students. When the
possibility of having Frost appear
over television circuits was posed
to her, she said that he could not
endure the rigors of the hot lights
and technical equipment involved,
in television.
The Artists Series Commit
tee is exploring the possibility
of a Sunday afternoon reading.
At the moment this seems un
likely because Schwab is en
gaged: and Frost has a cold
which will probably make it
impossible for him to speak
three days (he is speaking to
another group Friday night),
according to Mrs. Brown.
Announcements will be made
in The Daily Collegian as to
which alternatives will be chosen
to give more students the oppor
tunity to hear Frost, she said.
Frost will present readings
from some some of his works in
the program which will be held
at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Schwab.
Fraternity House Fire
No damage was reported from
the fire at 5:26 a.m. yesterday at
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity house
at 234 E. Beaver Ave.
The Alpha Fire Co:, which an
swered the alarm, extinguished
the fire in a matter of minutes.
courses he will take and is sched
uled for courses which will give
him a broad foundation in the
engineering field. It also allows
him an extra year before choos
ing the specific field he wishes to
major in.
Only freshmen in agricultural
engineering (21), architecture (65)
and architectural engineering (25)
are not under the program.
Laurence E. Dennis, vice pres
ident, for academic affairs, said
the common year program "re
flects the fact that the engin
eering college is conscious of
the rapid changes in technol
ogy."
He said the idea was to instruct
the student in the fundamentals
of his field and bring him as up
to date as possible, but to leave
it to him to keep up with the lat
est developments after graduation.
• The problem is not as simple as
keeping up with technology, how
ever. Also important is the change
'neering and
d a solution
eating thou
nder these
lion which
college is
rogram for
1 freshmen
ellegs this
1 the uni-
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assigned the
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 29. 1959
Engle to Comm Coach
Post Season Game
Rip Engle, coach of Penn State's unbeaten Nittany Lions, has been named co-coach for
the Copper Bowl football game in Tempe, Ariz., Dec. 26.
Engle joins Don Clark of Southern California in directing the National All-Stars in a
game against the Southwest All-Stars, who will be coached by Ben Martin of the Air Force
Academy and Frank Kush of Arizona State.
The National All-Stars will be made up of players from all sections of the country while
the Southwest All-Stars will come from the Big Eight; Skyline, Border and Southwest
conferences.
RIP ENGLE _
.. . °Penn State comes first'
Pep Rally Skit
Will Parody
Lewis' Trials
West Virginia's coach, Art
Lewis, wouldn't need a crystal
ball to find out about the foot
ball game on Saturday if he were
to come to the "Beat West Vir
ginia" pep rally at 7:30 tonight.
Twin brothers, Pete and Bob
Elder, will present a skit at the
rally showing the typical trials
and tribulations which may
,plague Lewis during the game.
The skit will show the audi
ence what a coach does during
the tense moments of a game.
The rally will be held in back
of the Hetzel Union Building.
Ralph H. Wherry, head of the
Department of Commerce, will
speak at the rally. Master of cere
monies will be Frank Pearson,
senior in arts and letters from
Ridley Park.
in demands the students are mak
ing on the college.
During the fall semester,
1954-55, there were 401 students
enrolled in civil engineering
and 585 taking mechanical en
gineering. This represented al
most 40 per cent of the students
in the entire college.
At that time, as now, the De
partment of Electrical Engineer
ing was the largest with '756 stu
dents, or a little less than 30 per
cent of the total.
Then space came into impor
tance; the Russians launched
Sputnik and the race to the
stars was on. Building bridges
and roads lost its glamour.
Electrical engineering became
the field of importance. It of
fered the most opportunity for
advancement and lob security.
Other departments began to
dwindle.
This semester only 233' students
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rgiatt
The game, Which will be played
in Arizona State Stadium, is a
charity tilt and all profits will go
to Cerebral Palsy, Inc. of Arizona.
Engle said last night that even
though he had accepted the
Copper Bowl coaching job, his
first obligation would be Ic
Penn State and his team.
This will be Engle's first post
season coaching job since 1957
when he was head coach of the
East team in the annual East-
West Shrine game in San Fran
cisco.
While Engle was accepting the
Copper Bowl bid, his Nittany
Lions were among three Eastern
teams being mentioned for a pos
sible bid to the first Liberty Bowl
game in Philadelphia, Dec. 19.
The Liberty Bowl is the new
est of the major bowls and will
be played in Philadelphia's
100,000-seat Municipal Stadium.
The teams for the Liberty Bowl'
supposedly will pit an Eastern
power against one of the top
schools In any other section of
the country.
Also mentioned as Eastern pos
sibilities are Syracuse and Pitts
burgh.
Air Force, LSU, Mississippi,
Georgia Tech, Georgia, Texas
Christian and Tennessee are
other possible choices..
Lou Little, chairman of the
Bowl's selection committee, says
the Army-Air Force Academy
game Saturday and meetings be
tween Syracuse, Penn State and
Pitt might determine the corn
mittee's choice.
A Liberty Bowl screening com
mittee will watch Penn State in
action on closed circuit television
in its next two games against
West Virginia and Syracuse.
Ike
For
Reveals Plans
Western Talks
WASHINGTON (IP)—President Eisenhower disclosed yes
terday that all major Western leaders, French President
Charles de Gaulle included, have agreed to hold a Western
summit conference within the next few months.
De Gaulle evidently is call
apparently is going to get his way
about putting off until sometime
next spring a subsequent East-
West summit conference with So
viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
The Western session may take
place before the end of the year,
perhaps in Paris. Eisenhower said
the time and place remain to be
worked out
There have been plenty of
indications that a Western con
ference was a certainty. But
Eisenhower's statement to a
news conference that de Gaulle
will be ready for one around
mid-December was the first def
inite word the French leader
has agreed to attend.
The news conference got aroundl
to other topics.
Eisenhower applied a bit more
pressure for ending the steel
strike, said it is puzzling why Cu
ba's Fidel Castro is so unhappyl
with the United States, and en
visioned no significant reductions
in U.S. defense spending in the
Will Legislators
Begin?
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Assembly
To Discuss
Class Break
The possibility of extending
the time between classes to 15
minutes will be presented for
,discussion tonight at the Stu
4ent Government Association
Assembly meeting.
The suggestion is part of Stu
dent Encampment report which
will be given to the Assembly
at 8 p.m. in 215 Hetzel Union
Building.
Jay Hawley; chairman of the
Workshop on the Effects of Uni
versity Expansion on the Student
Body, said last night that the con
tinuous physical growth of the
University prompted this recom
mendation.
Hawley also said two other
recommendations were based on
this idea, that of a warning sys
tem to signal the beginning and
end of classes and that of syn
chronizing University clockit
These would make sure that
everyone knew exactly when
classes were over, Hawley said.
These suggestions, he said
have a more immediate value
while most of the others in
the report are concerned with
longer range plans.
Another workshop recommen
dation is that of investigating the
possibility of having chartered
bus service between State Col
lege and large cities.
ng the turn on timing. He also
budget he will send to Congress
• in January.
It also was announced that the
President plans to undergo his an
nual thorough physical checkup at
Walter Reed Army Medical Cen
ter soon, possibly later this week.
Eisenhower told newsmen
that a contract between Kaiser
Steel Corp. and the United
Steelworkers Union, ending a
small segment of the steel
strike, "should be a signal for
labor and management to find
a basis in which we can get
back into full production."
With reference to Cuban Prime
Minister Castro's tirades against
the United States, Eisenhower was
asked: "What do you suppose, sir,
'is eating him?"
He declined to go into Castro's
motives. He gave his backing to a
State Department statement Tues
day contending that relations be
tween the two countries are be
ing hurt by Castro's charges that
the United States opposes him and
supports his enemies.
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