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VOL. 60, No. 70
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Rush Date
For Feb. 8
By DEX NUTCHINS
Second semester freshmen
fraternity rushing will begin
the first day of the Spring
semester, Feb. 8, Don Orr,
Interfraternity Council rush
ing committee chairman, an
nounced last night.
According to Orr, rushing will
last all semester with the pledging
date falling sometime between the
7th and 10th week of rushing.
A 20-minute color f4m cover
ing various aspects of fraternity
life, will be shown to freshmen
between '7:45 and 9:15 p.m. Feb.
7 in 119 Osmond to aid in fresh
men rushing orientation.
Rushees with last names be
ginning with letters A to N will
see the movie between 7:45 and
8:30 p.m. Those with last names
beginning with M to Z will see
the movie between 8:30 and 9:15
p.m.
At this time the students will
be given cards on which to regis
ter for rushing and to state schol
astic averages. Orr warned that
if an incorrect average is given
it may result in the indivival's
loss of rushing privileges.
Gary Gentzler IFC president,
said he will write an open letter
to all freshmen inviting them to
participate in the rushing pro
gram and giving information on
the movie and other aspects of
rushing. The letter will be posted
on residence hall bulletin boards.
Tickets for the IFC-Panhel
Ball, to be held at 9 p.m. April
I in Recreation Hall, will be
sold by open ticket sales this
year, Ronald Flesh IFC vice
president said. "Last year when
a certain number of tickets were
alloted to each house, many
people got the idea that the
dance was only for the Greeks,"
Resh said. Only about 100 tick
ets were sold to independent
students last year, he revealed.
Richard McMahon, transfer
open house chairman, announced
that the transfer open houses will
be held from 7 to 9:45 p.m. Feb.
4. The students will visit Alpha
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Leonides OK's Plan
To Discuss Merger
A joint meeting of all independents to discuss the pro
posed merger of the Association of Independent Men and
Leonides Council was tentatively approved for Feb. 11 by
Leonides last night.
The plan, as presented by Harald Sandstrom, AIM presi-
dent, calls for an 'informative
meeting" featuring a panel dis
cussion and a question and answer
period which will be designed to
give independents a clear view of
the merger plans.
Attendance will be compulsory
for an members of AIM and
Leonides Council and special in
vitations will be issued to the area
councils under AIM. The meeting
will be open to all interested in
dependents.
In presenting the plan, Sand
strom said that AIM has defin
itely not lost interest in the mer
ger and that as a matter of fact
the merger committee submit
ted a unanimous report favoring
it. He said the meeting should
clear up any misunderstandings
which have arisen between the
iwo groups most directly con
cerned.
Carol Frank, Leonides presi-
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—Collegian Photo by Marty Scherr
BLUEPRINTS AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT were destroyed in a
fire early Saturday morning at a construction shack located
behind the Wagner Military Science Building. The fire, caused by
a faulty oil heater, was extinguished by the Alpha Fire Co.
Young Cites Demand
For 'New Yorker'
Never before has the New Yorker magazine been in such
demand, Dr. Philip Young, professor of American Literature
said yesterday to the Faculty Luncheon Club.
Discussing "J. D. Salinger and the Missing Magazines,"
Young said' that he recently found all the issues of the New
Yorker which contained the works
of Salinger missing from a Mid
western university library. They
had apparently been taken by a
student.
Young feels that the demand
can be attributed to the fact that
the New Yorker has published
Salinger's only works in the last
six years.
Salinger, who is experiencing
an increasing popularity in re
ent years, is a trend in litera
ture.
Like other writers today, Sal
inger deviates from the accepted
picture of American life, the fam
ily of "togetherness" and the "sub
By PAT DYER
dent, assured the group that no
votes would be taken at the meet
ing, and that it would be strict
ly informational. The council
unanimously gave the plan its full
backing and made attendance
compulsory for its members.
The council also unanimously
voted to give a $5O scholarship,
the Leonides Honor Grant, to an
outstanding independent woman
for the fall semester. The award
will be granted chiefly on merit.
Any independent woman with
a 2.5 all• University average will
be eligible to submit an appli
cation. The Senate Committee
on Scholarship will select the
recipient chiefly on leadership,
scholarship and service to the
university.
Several novel proposals, includ
ing an all-day dance marathon,
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urban commuter" which has been
so vividly painted In magazines
and on television.
Yet, in his rebellion Salinger
goes farther than painting a true
picture of American life, Young
said.
Most Americans think highly
of Salinger, but even so they don't
know what to think of him, Young
said.
There are three things about
Salinger that add to the enthu
siasm for his writing. He has an
urban style that is absolutely
his own, he is a very funny man
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Cloudy, Cold
To Continue
Mostly cloudy skies and rather
cold temperatures will continue
today, tonight and tomorrow.
Very cold air has blanketed New
York state for the past three days.
Temperatures have ranged from
below zero along the Canadian
border to the middle 20's along
the Pennsylvania line.
Slow moderation of this cold
air to the north
is expected dur
ing the next few
days, but its
presence will
prevent the very
warm air to the
south of Penn
sylvania f rom
reaching th i 6
area
Today will be
mostly cloudy
and cold with a high of 33 de
grees.
Cloudy and cold weather will
continue, tonight with a low of 29
degres expected.
Tomorrow should be mostly
cloudy and cord with a chance of
drizzle or light rain by late in
the day or at night. The high will
be 35 degrees.
Test Rights
OK'dfor Reds
WASHINGTON (/P) The United States—because of its
own missile and nuclear weapons tests in the Atlantic and
Pacific—has slight ground to protest Soviet plans to shoot
test rockets into the Pacific, 1
said yesterday.
U.S. diplomatic officials i
not protest the Soviet test plans.
These officials, too, noted the
United States is using the seas
for military and scientific tests.
"What's sauce for the goose is
sauce for the gander," said Chair
man Overton Brooks (D-La.) of
the House Space Committee at a
news conference.
"If my understanding of the
situation is correct. what the
Russians propose to do is what
we have done," Sen. Francis
Case (R.S.D.) told the Senate.
Case is a member of the Senate
Armed Services Committee.
Brooks and Case spoke out
amid new speculation over what
may be behind the latest Soviet
move. There were suggestions
that the forthcoming Soviet rock
et tests in the central Pacific may
signal a new gambit in the mis
sile diplomacy the Soviet Union
has used before.
Some U.S. officials noted the
tests are bracketed by the So
viets in the month starting
Friday—a month that will see
the signing of a new 10-year
security pact between the Unit
ed States and Japan. and the
start of a visit by Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev to
Indonesia.
Also, any spectacular new_ space
achievements the Soviets ma y
score would be fresh in mind
when diplomats begin a series of
talks pointed toward the East-
West summit conference in May
and President Eisenhowei's ex
pected visit to the Soviet Union
next June.
Soviet Ambassador Mikhail
Menshikov visited Eisenhower
Monday to deliver an oral good
will message from Khrushchev.
Political Science Movies
Two movies on international
understanding will be presented
at 7:30 tonight in 121 Sparks.
"Boundary Lines," a 10-minute
color film, and "3-2-1-0," a 54-
'minute movie, will be shown.
Educational Television
Faculty Views Aired
In TV Questionnaire
By NICKI WOLFORD
Fifth of Series
A research questionnaire sent out during the 1956-57
academic year showed that 38 per cent of the faculty members
who had not taught television courses thought instruction by
television was worse than the conventional classroom method.
However, of faculty members who had had televisim
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experience, 61 per cent thought
television instruction was better
and 23 per cent thought it was the
same.
These questionnaires were sent
out in connection with the Uni
versity's educational television
project for the 1956-57 academic
year.
The research was conducted
by the Division of Academic Re
search and Services.
Faculty members were " also
asked for their preferences in
handling increased numbers of
students. Only seven per cent of
the instructors who had not taught
I television courses favored keeping
the classes the same size and in
creasing the class load.
About 13 per cent felt that in-
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Garner St.
Will Get
Traffic Light
By BABB YUNIC
State College Borough Coun
cil voted last night to approve
t h e planning commission's
recommendation to purchase
and install a traffic light at the
corner of E. College Ave.„
Garner St. and Shortlidge Rd.
The cost of purchasing the light
will be approximately $2OOO. No
bid is required on this purchase
because the traffic light is a
,pat
ented item.
The commission was also auth
orized to accept the lowest bid
for installing the light.
The problem of heavy traffic
arose when Garner St. was re
built last summer to change it
from a one-way street north to
a two-way street.
In other business, the council
agreed to keep the formal meeting
time at 7.30 p.m. on the first
Monday of the month. Council
members voted to set 8 p.m. of
the third Monday of each month
for an informal meeting.
Council also decided to estab
lish a policy that would permit
the press and radio to be present
at all informal as well as formal
meetings of committees.
Appointments to various auth
orities, boards and commissions
were approved. Vacancies to be
filled at the next meeting re
mained on only three authorities
and one board.
creased class size was the answer.
Using television and keeping the
faculty teaching hours the same
as they are now was the answer
checked by 24 per cent.
However, 43 per cent of the
140 instructors who were given
the questionnaire offered sug
gestions other than those on the
sheet.
The faculty reaction to the ex
pansion of television was varied :
Thirty-three per cent favored ex
panding it to some degree and 12
per cent were against any ex
pansion. Fifteen per cent favored
expanding it a great deal.
Faculty members who had not
taught a television course were
also asked to estimate students'
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