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VOL. 60, No. 69
THE NAZI SWASTIKA returns to the world scene. These two
appeared on the front of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity yesterday morn
ing. Other swastikas appeared on campus, but University officials
believe them the worm, of pranksters.
Swastikas
Fraternity
University officials and State College police are search
ing for the persons who painted two red swastikas early yes
terday morning on the white stucco front of Zeta Beta Tau
fraternity, 227 E. Nittany Ave,
The fraternity by charter is
Cold Weather
Expected Today
Cold arctic air will control
Pennsylvania's weather for the
next two days resulting in fair
but mighty chilly conditions.
The leading edge of this cold
air passed through this area yes
terday evening
preceeded an d
accompanied by
snow flurries.
Today will be
mostly sunny
with a few
clouds and quite
eo 1 d tempera
tures with a high
of only 27 de
grees
Tonight should
be partly cloudy and very cold
with a low of 10 degrees.
A slight warmup is expected
tomorrow, but afternoon read
ings will barely manage to reach
the freezing mark. Cloudiness
will be increasing tomorrow after
noon and there is a chance of a
little light snow tomorrow night.
Outing Club Banquet OK'd
The banquet for the Penn State
Outing Club to be held tonight
has been approved by the dean
of women's office.
Anti-Nazi Demonstration Hits Berlin
BERLIN (JP) West Ger
many's first major anti-Nazi
demonstration in more than a
quarter of a century rolled
through the streets of Berlin
last night.
Authorities were cracking down
on neo-Nazi activities and out-,
bursts of anti-Semitism, reflected l
in anti-Jewish slogans on walls
from Hamburg to Hong Kong.
Police estimated 10,000 West
Berliners, mostly young people,
began their mile-long parade de-' I
spite weather near the freezing
ei
point. Thousands mor e' joined
them as they marched. T ey car
ried banners reading " gainst
Race Hate" and "Nazis g t Out."l
Many carried torches.
They streamed lowa.
STATE COLLEGE. PA., SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1960
Found
House
composed of men of the Jewish
faith, and police think the action
was a joke inspired by reports
of anti-Semetic actions in parts
of Europe and the Western Hemi
i sphere.
Dean of Men Frank J. Siiites
said that the University deplores
the fact that such incidents should
occur on a college campus.
However. Symes felt that the
work did not have any malicious
intent behind it and it was just i
someone's poor idea of a prac
tical joke.
"If we catch the trickster and
should he be a student, severe dis
ciplinary action would be in
voked," Simes said.
State College Chief of Police
John R. Juba also believes the
defacing to be the work of
prankster. But, he also stated that 1
the police were pushing the in
vestigation and will deal with the
offenders if they are found. "If
it was intended as a joke, it was
not a very funny one," Juba said.
Chief Juba said members of
the fraternity were more dis
turbed over the mess than the
significance of the defacing.
I The swastika was 30 inches high
and the red paint was smeared
all over the front patio of the
fraternity.
Some other . painting was also
done on the campus. The Obelisk
was smeared- with red paint and
a nearby sidewalk on the Mall had
a swastika painted in it along with
the words "W. Va." and "Elvis."
Steinplatz Square, where twin
mounments stand to the victims
of Nazism and Stalinism. The
parade for the most part was
in orderly silence.
New anti-J e wish activity
throughout the Western world
consisted largely of painting swas
tikas and slogans on synagogues!
and Jewish homes. Communists
denied it had spread to their part
of the world. But East Germany's
Red Premier Otto Grotewohl ac
cused "imperialist and military
elements" in West Germany of
trying to incite anti-Semitism in
his domain.
Evidence appeared that the in
cidents in Germany had inspired
others in Italy. Naples police
found swastikas with the German
words "Juden Irtaus"—Jews get
out—in the central part of the
city.
West German authorities took
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
SGA to Sponsor
Flight to Europe
A round-trip flight to Europe this summer will be sponsored by the Student Government
Association. The sponsorship was approved unanimously by the SGA Assembly Thursday
night.
The cost of the flight will
their immediate households
Ex-Prexy's
Name Entered
In NH Primary
fiy The Associated Pleas
The biggest surprise so far
in the race for the 1960 presi
dential nominations was pro
vided yesterday by a former
federal judge who injected the
name of President Eisenhower's
brother, Milton Eisenhower, for
mer president of the University,
into the New Hampshire presi
dential primary, the first of the
campaign.
Albert Levitt said he will run
for a seat at the Republican Na
tional Convention as a delegate
"favorable" to the nomination of
Eisenhower.
President of the University
from 1952 to 1956, Eisenhower is
now president of Johns Hopkins
University.
The events yesterday assured
the nation of an early but indirect
test of grass roots strength be
tween Vice President Rich6rd M.
(Continued on page three)
NC Committees
To Report Monday
The Interfraternity Council will
hold its first meeting of 1960 at
7:30 p.m. Monday in the Hetzel
Union auditorium.
According to Gary Gentzler,
IFC president, the council will
hear reports from various commit
tees. A discussion may be held
concerning transfer open houses.
Don Orr, IFC rushing commit
tee chairman, said last night that
information concerning spring
rushing for freshmen will be an
nounced early next week. Orr will
meet with the executive commit
tee of the IFC to discuss details of
the rushing program.
Freshman rush usually begins
during the first week of classes
in the spring semester.
Collegian Candidates
A meeting will be held for 01
Collegian news staff candidates
at 6:30 p.m. Monday in 213 Wil
lard. Promotion tests will be re
viewed. Those who did not take
'the test may do so at that time.
these steps to discourage neo-
Nazi activity.
•The State of Rhineland-Pal
antinate banned a public conven-;
tion of the radical rightist Ger..;
man Reich party scheduled in;
Kaiserlautern for Sunday. Wil
helm Meinberg, a former general;
in the Nazi's Elite SS and a lead
er of the party are under arrest
for smearing swastikas on a
Cologne synagogue Christmas
Eve. It was this incident that
touched off the worldwide wave'
of vandalism.
eA West Berlin German court
iset what it called an example and
,sentenced Alfred Straats, 49, a
city housing official, to 1? months
in prison for giving the Nazi
salute before rightist youths in
a tavern this week. He admitted
, this and saying: "fled Hitler."
rgiatt
be about $285. Students, faculty members and members of
re eligible to take advantage of the special rate.
An 80-passenger airplane has
been chartered to leave New York
for London June 13 and return
from Paris July 23.
Maurice Chait of the Rogal Tra
vel Agency,, Harrisburg, told As
sembly members that the $285
ticket cost was based on a total
of 75 passengers on the flight. If
there were fewer, the price would
go up accordingly.
The price is figured by divid
ing the total cost of the charter,
which is about $20,000, by the
number of those taking the flight,
he said.
SGA Vice President Larry Byers
said last night that he expects the
cost to be lower than $285.
The agency, through which
SGA is sponsoring the flight, is
allowing SGA to spend a maxi
mum of $250 for promotional ex
penses and $5OO of administra
, live expenses.
The amount SGA does not spend '
from these two sums will be de-I
ducted from the total cost of the;
charter before the individual cost'
of a ticket is determined, Byers,
explained.
SGA must take a 10 per cent
down payment to hold the char
, ter,. Chait said. If they should
decide to cancel the sponsor
' ship, March 13 is the final date
for getting back the Eun depcsit.
The final payment must be
made by May, Byers said.
He said applications will be
available beginning Tuesday at
the SGA office, 203 Hetzei Union.
A down payment will be required,
but the exact amount has not yet
been determined, he said.
Those who take the flight
must agree to go both ways on
it. No one-way !iamb will be
sold.
Chait explained this was in ac
cordance with regulations of the
Civil Aeronautics Board, which
sets up rules for chartering flights.
The travel agency will offer
two tours, he said, but no one on)
the flight is obligated to take(
them, One is a six-week tour, the
other runs four weeks.
Operatic Revolution
Started by Debussy
The influence of nationalism enters opera in the most
unlikely place, and the most unlikely figure—in the French
opera Pelias and Melisandre by Claude Debussy, Hugo Weis
gall said last night.
However, Weisgall lists Debussy as the writer of the first
important 20th century opera to
free itself from the tradition of
Wagner and Verdi, while the Ger
mans later brought an ordered
music tradition back to music,
Debussy brings dramatic con
tinuity to a greater development
than Wagner by never letting his
music intrude into the opera ex
cept in the interludes, Weisgall
said.
He said Debussy was defin
itely anti-Wagnerian in his
music and was influenced tiy
the Russian whole tone scale,
the series of 12 notes making up
an octave, and the old Russian
chants.
Weisgall, however, believes that,
Debussy had no successors to car
ry on his tradition.
The next great movement in
opera was the German movement
back to musical organization. Af
ter Wagner. all the music forms
loosened and composers were "al
lowed to run wide."
University
Receives
Ford Grants
The Ford Foundation awarded
the University $69,798 in grants
during the fiscal year ending Sept.
30, 1959.
The field of education for busi
ness was the largest recipient—
s3o thousand was granted for re
search to individual faculty mem
bers.
In addition, $6461 worth of fel
lowships were awarded to a num
ber of business administration
teachers to attend an Institute of
Basic Mathematics for Applica
tion to Business.
Of the $2l 'million that the
Foundation awarded in its new
Science and Engineering program,
the University received $25 thou
sand for teaching materials and
summer institutes for training
young engineering teachers. Ten
other universities received simi
lar grants for what the Founda
tion calls the first large-scale na
tional program ever undertaken
on engineering teaching as a ca
reer.
Four predoctoral, dissertation
and faculty research fellowships
totaling $8337 were received.
Associate professor of econom
ics, Will D. Mason was the re
cipient of an economics and busi
ness administration fellowship.
Candidates for such fellowships
are nominated by universities at
the invitation of the Foundation.
Selections are made with the
assistance of advisory commit
tees composed of faculty mem
bers in business administration
and economics.
By AMY ROSENTHAL
Shoenberg brought order to mu
sic by instituting his twelve tone
scale in which no note was more
important than another. His pupil,
Berg, began a movement that is
the greatest influence in opera to
day, according to Weisgall
Berg in his opera "Wozzeck,"
presents people in real situations
of the 20th centeuty, but he goes
back to the old instrumental
second a symphony and the third
forms. The first act is a suite, the
inversion.
Berg in the radition of rev
olution. used the voice to speak
rhymthtnically and on certain
pitches.
However, Weisgall believes that
the most important opera c the
20th century was Shoenberg's
"Moses and Aaron." When !.peak-
Mg of seing it being performed
Weisgall said, "It was the most
stunning dramatic experience that
ever had in my life."
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