PAGE TV/O Weather Conditions To Hinder Driving As Holiday Begins Occasional rain will hamper homebound students today and tonip,ht. The Christmas recess begins at 9:05 p.m. and ends at 8 a.m. Monday, Jan. 4. Snow may fall in the northern and western sections of the state tonight and tomorrow with possibly appreciable Construction Prospects Look Bright Prospects for nearly $lO mil lion in new construction at the University look bright after Senate Republicans agreed to $620 425,000 coiling on the General Stan: Authority's boi row in': capacity Wednesday t'hi: amount is only $5 3 million lo's than the $f)2U,225,000 apptoved bv the Democratic controlled Ihm.se with Gov. David I, Law lcnee’s hacking. Sen. James S. Berger, Republi can [luoi-leader, said the revised GSA bill would probably be passed today. The lull wilt thenl have to ieturn to the House fori action on the amended sections Final legislative action is ex pected tomorrow. The Senate Rules Committee eliminated only one item from the Umvei Mty’s construction pro gram, a $274,125 poultry testing building. The major University projects Opt lined in the bill include: • Expansion of facilities for nu clear study and research cost ing $1,272,000. This involves ad ditional facilities at the nuclear reactor on the East Campus! Extension and revision of utili ties costing $900,500 and entail ing an additional steam boiler at the Physical Plant and moie underground steam and sewer lines. Construction of a $2,862,000 wing to Recreation Hall. Construction of a $3,710,000, 4-story arts and humanities build ing. Philadelphia Alumni Plan Liberty Bowl Pep Rally Penn State alumni in Ph.ladel plna have invited students going to the Liberty Bowl to a pep rally tonight. * The rally will begin at 9 p.m. at the Adelphia Hotel, 13th and Chestnut Sts, Philadelphia. The Blue Band will attend. Hoyt Coeds Give Party The freshman girls of Hoyt Hall gave a Christmas party to 15 un derprivileged children of the State College area. The coeds gave each child a gift Social committee chairman, Gwen Hilburn, said, “It was a great suc cess " SGA Does Not Meet Despite Petition No SGA Assembly meeting was held last night despite a petition asking for one which was said to be signed by the majority of the assembly members. The petition was circulated by Howard Byers (U.-Sr.) and John Brandt, alternate assemblyman, Byers said last night that it had been taken to a few people in cluding members of the adminis tration and students. However, he said he under stood it was "mechanically im possible" to schedule a meeting last night. Ross Lehman, SGA advisor, said the procedure for getting a meeting woud be to approach the By JOEL MYERS accumulation in the northwestern counties Rain will fall in the southeast tonight, but it may change to snow flurries before lending tomoirow. C'oldei weather is expected to day and tonight and much colder ltemperatures ate due tomorrow. [ A storm system, which is j moving toward Pennsylvania, I threatens to bring considerable I amounts of rain and snow to all ; portions of the state during the : next 24 to 3G hours. Cold Cana dian air should cause tempera , tures to fall continually today 1 and tonight resulting in sub ■ freezing temperatures through out the stale by tomorrow eve , ning. There is a slight chance that the storm system will take a more easteily path than is currently exoected. Such an occurrence The Lions Den of the Hetzel Union Building will serve free coffee to all students going' home starting 8 a.m. today. Students must supply their own container to lake the coffee out. would bring appreciable snow to all sections of the Commonwealth tonight and tomorrow. This afternoon’s temperatures should range from the chilly mid dle 30's in the northern and wes tern counties of the state to the lower 40’s in the Philadelphia area. Pittsburgh will have lead ings in ttie upper 30's. Vacation Schedule The Pattee Library and the Hel en Eakin Eisenhower Chapel will follow a special schedule for the Christmas holidays. Tomorrow the library will be open from 7:50 a.m, lo noon; Sunday it will be closed all day; Dec. 21 and 22, 9 a.m. lo 5 p.m.; Dec. 23 lo 27, closed; Dec. 28 lo 31, 9 a.m. lo 5 p.m.; Jan. 1, closed; Jan. 2, 9 a.m. lo noon; Jan. 3. closed. The library will reopen on a regular schedule Monday, Jan. 4. Chapels in the Helen Eakin Ei senhower Chapel will remain open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily through the holiday season while the program center will be open only on Dec. 19, 21, 22, 28 to 31 and Jan. 2 and 4. Residence halls will close al 4 p.m. fomorow. They will re open at 1 p.m. Jan. 3. The Hetzel Union Building will be operating under a reduced schedule from tomorrow through Jan. 2. The HUB will be open to morrow and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 8 pm.; Dec. 21 and 22, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Dec. 23 through 27 closed; Jan. 1, closed; Jan. 2, noon to 5 p.m. The HUB will return to a regu lar schedule Sunday, Jan. 3. SGA President, since he has the authority to call a special meeting. According to the SGA Constitu tion, there is nothing which pro vides for petitioners to call a meeting. The petition was merely “an expression of the majority” that a meeting was desired, and noth ing more, Byers said. Donald Curry (C.-Jr.) said he thought that some of those sign ing the petition did'so because' they objected to not being noti fied that no meeting would be held. , An Assembly meeting had not been scheduled by the Rules Committee and the Executive Committee for last night. Two meetings a month are required by the SGA Constitution and two THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Simes to Present NittanyComplaints Nittany men will get a Christmas present after all. Their complaints and suggestions for improved living conditions will be presented to the University before Christmas. Frank J. Simes, dean of men, will make recommendations to Albert E. Diem, vica president for business administration. Simes discussed possible proposals with student representatives yesterday. He met OLD TIMERS RETURNED—(I-r), Steven Suhey, Larry Joe, Dave Barron and Fran Rogel. all of former Penn State football teams. About 500 people attended the rally at which they spoke that was held to send the team off to tomorrow’s Liberty Bowl Game in Philadelphia. Team, Engle Given Standing Ovations Coach Rip Engle and members of the football team re ceived standing ovations from 800 cheering students yester day afternoon at the send-off pep rally in Recreation Hall, Engle, introducted by master of ceremonies Vincent Marino, received an ovation 1 he called the team forward and the students stood and clapped for minutes. Bob Higgins, coach of the 1947 team that went to the Cotton Bowl, told the students: “I hope we can win this game. We’re go ing to have a hard time but I think we can do it.” Marino introduced Steve Su hey, Larry Joe, Dave Barron and Fran Rogel—all members of the 1948 learn. Rogel, who played for the Pitts burgh Steelers until 1957, urged every student to attend the game, “It’s something you’ll remem ber a long time,” he said. “I know we’re going to win but you can help win the game by giving them the support they need.” Engle praised the squad and have been held already this month. Jay Hawley, Rules Committee chairman, said Wednesday that the committee felt it was consti tutionally correct in not making up an agenda for a meeting last night. "The executive felt a meet ing was not necessary," he said, "and we agreed."' Hawley said the issues which the committee was considering for the agenda could be acted on more effectively after the Christ mas recess. Byers said, however, that the Nittany question and the seating arrangement for students in the new Beaver Field stadium par ticularly deserved attention now and that it would be “detrimental” to let them wait. that was only exceeded when the students for their support. He told the crowd, “I hope we bring you something to cheer about Saturday.” After the rally 200 students stood outside Rec Hall to see the buses leave for the game. The crowd shouted “Beat Alabama” and cheered when the team board ed their buses and drove away. Unidentified Student Returns ROTC Gun The 45-calibre sub-machine gun, stolen Monday, was returned at 9 a.m. yesterday to the Army supply office by an unidentified student who claimed the whole thing was a joke. Col. Ellis B. Richie, professor of military science, said that the University still does not know who took the gun. When asked if the Department of Military Science will prosecute, Richie said that matters like this are usually left up to the adminis tration and the dean of men’s office. “In this case, they will handle any disciplinary action,” Richie said. - The weapon, valued at $6O, had no ammunition in the mag zine when stolen. Captain An thony R. Lentini, supply officer for the Army ROTC unit, said that the gun could not be oper ated automatically because the extractor was removed before it was used in the Army classes. However, Richie explained that if a person could get ammunition, a single shot could be fired. The Federal Bureau of Inves tigation is still looking into the case. They were originally called FRIDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1959 with Barry Rein, Nittany Council president, Leonard Julius, SGA president, and Jerome Whalen, Nittany coordinator. Some of the improvements re quested for this year are: an ad ditional telephone in each hall; repair of the heating system and radiators; new clothes bars; and an additional chest of draw ers for rooms which now have only one. Diem will consider the requests, and, if enough money is grant ed, they will be put into effect. He said Wednesday that so far money has only been appropriated for draining the area. Materials have been ordered for the draining project, and it will begin as soon as they arrive. The long range projects sug gested to Simes yesterday in cluded the possibility of four students living in three rooms. In this way two of the rooms would be used as bedrooms and one for studying. This proposal would depend on future student enrollment. Requests for other improve ments which will not be started immediately include landscaping the grounds and painting the buildings. It was also requested that parts of the buildings be soundproofed and that the dirt roads be tarred. After the discussion with Simes, Rein commented that he was glad that plans were being made to im prove Nittany Halls. “This shows that the Univer sity isn’t blind to student opinion,” he said. Game Route The easiest route lo tomor row's Liberty Bowl game is as follows: Take the Pennsyl vania Turnpike to Valley Forge Interchange. Then follow the Schuylkill Expressway (Penna, Rl. 43) south to the approach to the Walt Whitman Bridge. Philadelphia Stadium is located at the Broad St. exit of the bridge approach. Parking facili ties for approximately 20,000 cars are available near the stadium. Advisory Board Forms Applications for the Sophomore Clas Advisory Board are available at the Hetzel Union desk. Inter ested students must fill out the forms and return them to the desk by Jan. 6. in because government property was involved. Since the gun was also used as a teaching aid in a Univer sity class, the dean of men’s of fice searched all residence halls Wednesday night. The gun could not be located. Richie said that the search for the student was by no means over and will be continued. When the weapon was returned, officials in the Supply Depart ment found it disassembled. Len tini thought that the student might have been experimenting with it. Richie emphasized that stealing something like this is not a joke. He said that any and all weapons at the University are potentially lethal if the person handling them does not know the rudiments of weapon safety.
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