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VOL. 60. No. 57
Students Must Pay
For Extra Phones
In Nittany—Mueller
By ELAINE MIELE
Students living in Nittany Halls can get extra telephones
If they are willing to pay for them.
According to Otto E. Mueller, director of housing, the
reason that there are fewer telephones in the Nittany area
Is because students living there pay less fees.
Patrol May
Be Placed
In Library
There is a possibility that
the Campus Patrol may be
stationed in the Pattee Library
to enforce quiet hours, al
though such a situation has
been avoided in the past Ralph
W. McComb, librarnian, said.
“The main difficulty is how to
prevent students from congregat
ing in the lobbies and hallways,
particularly during the evenings
and on weekends,” he said. "There
have been complaints from stu
dents about excessive noise and
the difficulty at times of going
up the stairs because of the nuim
her of students on the steps."
McComb feels that the problem
does not arise from mal-intent of
the students, since they are co
operative when asked to leave the
lobbies by members of the staff.
“However,” he said, “one or two
students go out for a break and
soon there are a large number
of people talking, and a distur
bance is created.”
Since many students go to
the library as a quiet place for
study, its purpose is defeated if
the building can't be kept quiet,
he said. McComb explained that
perhaps a major factor in this
problem is that many students
don't come to the building for
serious study.
“There are other places on cam
pus for socializing and we don’t
want to have this develop into a
substitute hangout,” he said.
McComb has discussed the
problem with the administration
and various student groups, in an
attempt to find some other solu
tion. The possibility of a lounge
in the library has been deleted,
because of lack of space.
McComb said that “while we are
open to any suggestions the stu
dents may have concerning the
problem, it seems apparent that
without regulation, there is chaos.”
Student Affairs Stud'
High Aptitudes Indicated by Testing
By BARB YUNK
Second of a Series
The average Penn State stu
dent who takes the University
placement tests will score
within the upper three-fourths
of the “good” range. The ave
rage person from the general
population who takejs the same
test will score within the
“poor” range.
These results are ch;
profile of academic ab
is given to freshmen
summer counseling.
In response to letters to The
Daily Collegian requesting that
more telephones be installed in
Nittany Halls, Mueller said that
residence halls are equipped ac
cording to the amount of board
that those living in them pay.
Students in other residence
halls have $lO a semester al
loted in their fees for telephone
service, he said. Residents in
Nittany Halls have $1 a semes
ter taken from their fees.
The total difference in board
charges between Nittany and oth
er areas is $5O, he said.
Mueller conferred with Wilbur
F. Diehl, supervisor of telephones,
about getting extra telephones
for Nittany Halls. It was found
that there were open lines which
could be used. The rent for each
extra telephone would be about
$8 a month.
Mueller said that if the stu
dents living in the Nittany
Area wished to pay an extra $l,
an ' additional telephone could
be installed in each hall by next
semester.
If the telephones are added this
year, in following years the fee
may be added to the regular
board charge or may be taken
from the money alloted to an
other service.
At present each Nittany resi
dence hall has one telephone on
the regular University system and
one pay telephone.
The letters to The Daily Col
legian also questioned why stu
dent telephone directories were
placed in students’ rooms in
other residence halls and were
not given to students in Nittany
Halls.
Mueller said that the directories
were distributed according to the
number of telephones in a resi
dence hall. Only one directory
was put in each Nittany Hall be
cause_ there is only one telephone
that is on the University system
in each hall, he said.
The directories were distributed
by the housing department this
year to aid students in using the
new system, he added.
Poetry Reading to Open
Annual Simmons Series
David Wagoner, a poet and
graduate of the University, _will
open the 14th annual Simmons
Series when he presents “Poetry
Readings” at 8 tonight in 121
Sparks.
The Series, presented by the
Department of German, honors
the _ late Dr. Lucretia Van Tuyl
Simmons, for many years head
of the department.
of the placement tests and a pre
dicted grade average are also re
corded on this sheet.
Mistakes often occur in the in
terpretation of the results, said
Dr. Martiq L. Zeigler, director
of Student Affairs Research.
Some students feel that they can
achieve no better or worse
grades than their predicted av
erage. Others who achieve
grades much higher than those
predicted for them feel that the
system is not accurate, he said.
This is not the case. The pre
dicted average that a student can
receive, Zeigler said, is not a fixed
point. He may receive a grade
falling anywhere along a given
slanted line on the chart, but SO
rted on the
lilies which
during the
'he results
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1959
Ike Travels to India;
Visits Afghanistan
KARACHI, Pakistan (/P)—-President Eisenhower heads for India today, keystone of his
11-nation tour. On the way he plans to spend five hours in Afghanistan, a country with a
colder climate, both literally and figuratively, than he encountered here in the warm em
brace of Pakistan’s capital.
_ —Collegian Photo by Mart*. Sclterr
CLEARING THE WRECKAGE—of a 70-year-old Spruce tree is
Donald Coble, University tree surgeon. The tree, about 75 feet
high, was felled by high winds Monday.
Sunny Weather
Comes Through
The sun will finally break
through the overcast this morning
after four consecutive cloudy days.
Temperatures will ' nd to
the sunshine and
they should reach
the 40 degree
mark during the
afternoon.
The severe
storm that
brought snow
and high winds
to this area Mon-
day night, mov
ed further away
from Pennsylvania and weakened
yesterday. This accounts for the
decrease in winds velocities and
the end in the snow flurries yes
terday afternoon.
Partly cloudy and cold weather
is expected tonight with temper
atures falling into the upper 20’s.
Tomorrow is likely to be mostly
cloudy and continued rather cold.
A high of 38 degrees is predicted.
per cent of the students with the
same test results will receive the
predicted average.
The variation, said Zeigler, oc
curs because it is impossible to
measure motivation. Research can
predict only in terms of probabil
ities because it cannot determine
how hard a student will work,
which students will be homesick
and which ones will have to work
for their support, he said.
Those results recorded on the
chart also show students how
they compare to other entering
freshmen. The total chart en
ables those in Student Affairs
Research fo discover the areas in
(Continued on page twelve)
The visit to Karachi came virtually to its close last night with a speech in which Eisen-
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75-Foot Spruce
Felled by Winds
A 75-foot spruce tree fell dur
ing the heavy winds on Monday
but the tree, estimated to be about
70 years old, would have fallen
in the next few years anyway,
according to Donald Coble, Uni
versity trpe surgeon.
Coble said there was only about
one and one-half to two inches of
wood around the inside of the
two and one-half foot thick base;
the rest had been hollowed out
by a fungus growth.
Sororities to Draw
Lots for New Suites
Panhellenic Council decided last night to select the
sororities which will move into the six new dormitory suites
by drawing lots.
The individual sororities will have to decide if they can
afford to move. The Department of Housing has not yet an-
nounced the cost of the new
suites, but they will cost more
than those in the South Halls.
The cost of suites in the South
Halls is $1275 a year.
Lots v.'ill be drawn at the next
Panhel meeting in January to
determine which sororities will
move into the new suites.
Il had also been suggested
that the sororities which would
move be determined by giving
priority to those who had had
the highest membership within
the last five years.
In other business each repre
sentative was asked to suggest
the name of a girl to act as a
guide for open house at the next
meeting. Under the new system,
the rushees will go to all the
sororities. The guides will be as
signed approximately 20 girls
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State College
Shopping Days
hower posed the hope of improved
international relations but made
clear the United States’ firm stand
beside Pakistan in upholding free
nations against any aggression.
In his speech, one of the major
efforts of his trip, the President
urged all national leaders worthy
of that designation to join in a
truly enforceable sysiem of dis
armament
He spoke to more than 15,000
Pakistanis, .some of them in the
ragged clothing that betokens the
relative poverty of this part of
the world.
Mankind's scientific achieve
ments in lhe military field make
if mandatory fo reach an agree
ment on disarmament, he said.
"There’s no reason to hesitate
in this great undertaking,’’ Eisen
hower said.
"There can be no winner in any
future global war. The world, the
entire world, must insist that the
conference table, rather® than
force, is to be used for settlement
of international disputes."
Then, in a joint declaration
summing up two days of talks,
Eisenhower and President Mo
hammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan
stressed the need of cooperation
among free nations in order that
they remain economically and
militarily strong
They emphasized ihe role
played by the alliances of free
nations to meet the lhreai__of
the Communist world.
Eisenhower’s second day in
Karachi was filled with color and
exe.tement and made memor
able by tremendous outpourings
of «ood will from Pakistani lead
ers and ordinary citizens.
Afghanistan, a land - locked
kingdom of more than 12 million
population, takes a neutralist po
sition in East-West affairs.
The Soviet Union, its powerful
neighbor on the North, has poured
large amounts of aid into the
country—along with technical ex
perts. The United States has also
been a big supplier of aid for
road building and agricultural
products.
He will spend four days in In
dia, and will address the Indian
Parliament tomorrow.
that they will take to each of the
suites.
The girls who were awarded
the $5O Panhel scholarships are:
Carol Braidic, Diana De Angehs,
Jacqueline Leavitt, Janice Wan
ner and Carol Worrell.
The Panhel workshops for
the new presidents, rush chair
men and pledge trainers will
be held on Feb. 17 and 18.
The possibility of lowering the
$lOO-limit on total rushing costs
was also discussed. It was de
cided that the limit would re
main the same until the new
system had been given a trial.
Panhellenic President Carol
Dominick announced that open
houses will be held this month
on the first and second Sundays
rather than on the first and third
since the University will not be
in session on the third Sunday.
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