Weather Forecasts Showers, Much Warmer VOL. 60. No. 71 New Lecture Series To Open With Talk By Malayan Prof Four lectures have been scheduled by the University Lecture Series for next semester. The first lecture, "Parkinson's Law," will be given by C. Northcate Parkinson, Raff University of Malaya in Sin Ike Reopens Battle Over Bond Ceiling WASHINGTON (7))—Presi dent Eisenhower reopened his tight money battle with Con gress yesterday in a brief, al most curt, special message demanding removal of the interest ceiling on govern ment bonds. Congressional inaction on re moving the 4 per cent ceiling last session, Eisenhower said, has had the effect of loading taxpay ers with interest rates on the na tional debt at the highest levels in several decades. "I deem it imperative, there fore, that this restrictive ceiling be removed," Eisenhower's 3-para graph message said. It was the first special White House message of the new ses sion, attesting to the urgency which Eisenhower attaches to the measure left languishing in a House committee when Con gress adjourned last summer. Widespread opposition in Con gress is ascribed to the unwilling ness of the Democrats—who op pose the administration's tight money policy—to vote for any in crease in interest rates. Eisenhower gave notice he is asking Secretary of the reasury Robert B. Anderson to transmit proposed legislation that would take away "this archaic restric tion on flexible debt manage ment." The ceiling dates back to the Liberty Loan drives of World War I. It forbids the Treasury to pay more than 4 1 / 4 per cent on securi ties maturing in five years. Women's Loon Funds Close Until September All funds for loans to women students have been depleted, ac cording ,to Miss Lois McColloch, assistant to the dean of women. Miss McColloch said the Uni versity and National Defense loans would not be offered again until the fall semester. Educational Television Studies Say TV Courses Accepted By NICKI WOLFORD Sixth of a Series Research studies show that students don't particularly mind being registered in a television course and many actually prefer them in some cases. During the spring of 1955 a team of observers was sent out to watch the reactions of students who were registered for television courses. Researchers found this ure "not very productiv cause only 15 out of 900 s registering for the courses Otlr j i atig •*' es Professor of History at the .spore at 8 p.m., March 8 in Schwab Auditorium. Parkinson is noted for giving humorous speeches on the organization of businesses and expanding bureau cracies. The second scheduled lecture will be the fourth in the Darwin ian Series which was started this semester. Hermann J. Muller, professor of zoology at Indiana University will lecture on "The Future Physical Development of Man" at 8 p.m. March 13 in Schwab Auditorium. John Scott, assistant editor of Time magazine and expert I on Russia is also scheduled to lecture at 8 p.m., March 15 in Schwab although the final con tract has not yet been con firmed. The fourth lecture, "The Future Development of Man's Culture," will complete the Darwinian Se ries. The talk will be given by Les lie A. White, professor of anthro pology at the University of Michi gan, at 8 p.m., March 20 in Schwab. Several lecturers were invited to campus who were not able to acept the the invitation, Christian Arnold, staff assistant to the pres ident, said. They include: Vice President Richard Nixon; John Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts; Chief Justice Earl Warren; Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers; former president Harry Truman; and Adlai Stevenson, 2- time Democratic presidential can didate. The Parkinson and Scott lec tures will be sponsored by the new University Artists Series which will be composed of the present Lecture and Artists Se ries. The lectures by Muller and White will remain under the auspices of the present Lecture Series, since plans for the whole series would be complicated by changing the administrators re sponsible for the Series. The new University Artists Se (Continued on page eight) Special Hours Granted Upperclass women will re ceive special 11 p.m. permis sions from Jan. 20 until the end of finals, Jessie Janjigian, Women's Student Government Association Pr esid e n t, an nounced yesterday. First semester freshmen women will receive special 10 p.m. permissions for the same period, she said. either favorable or unfavorable reactions. Even in 1955, researchers re port, students appeared to ac cept the televised courses on the same basis as normal cours es and seem to be more worried about the hour they were sched uled than how they were taught. During the project, students were given a behavioral test in an attempt to determine the accept ability of educational television. Students were given a choice be tween televised instruction and the conventional method. They were given the chance to return to a large lecture or re main in the television section. Out of 315 students in one large lecture, 104 chose to re- roced ludents ';bowed FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 13, 1960 6 Sororities Get New Dorm Suites Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta and Delta Gamma sororities were chosen by lot last night to move into the new residence halls being constructed in Pollock Circle. BEAUTIFUL BUT DANGEROUS ice covered the campus last night. Warmer weather is predicted for today and should melt the glassy surfaces, making driving relatively safe again. Freezing Rain, Sleet Produce Hazardous Conditions in Area The first ice storm of the winter caused hazardous walk ing and driving conditions throughout Pennsylvania, in cluding this area, yesterday. Sleet and freezing rain com bined with below freezing tem peratures to deposit a layer of ice on • roads, trees and other ex posed surface areas. Almost one half inch of ice accumulated. Temperatures rose slowly dur ing the day, but they had only managed to reach the 30 degree mark by sunset. Quiet warm air that was above the cold air that covered this area yesterday will manage to reach Players' List to Be Posted The call-back list for tryouts for Players' "Detective Story" will be posted today in the Green Room of Schwab Auditorium. turn to televised instruction. Many of these, however, had seats in the back of the room. Students who had been exposed to both methods of teaching for a single course wert given tests to determine their preference for a method. Of the students who had been in a large lecture room and pre ferred to return to a television section, 33 listed "too crowded" in the directly-taught section, 27 listed too noisy and confusing in a large group, and 24 listed "too hot" as their reason for preferring Of those who preferred to re main in the large lecture, 13 thought there was a better The six names were drawn by Mrs. Norma Mountan, advi All 15 sororities now located in Simmons and McElwain (Continued on page eight) rgiatt By BARB YUNK the surface today causing con siderably warmer weather. In fact, afternoon reading may reach the upper 50's. The forecast is for cloudy, windy and much warmer weather today with occasional rain in the morning and a chance of a few showers during the afternoon. The high should be about 56 degrees. Tonight will be mostly cloudy and rather mild with a low of 42. The warm weather will continue tomorrow as afternoon tempera tures again approach the 56 de gree mark. Showers will probably begin late in the day and then continue tomorrow night. Council Will Hear Set-Back Protests State College Borough Council set Feb. 1 for a public hearing on the proposed changes in the commercial district set-back laws, which affect four fraternities, when it accepted the report of the Planning Commission Monday night. The set-back requirements face of a building must be placed from the building line. Since they are part of the zoning ordinance, any change requires a public hearing and an amendment to the ordinance. Those who would be affected by a change will be notified by mail of the hearing. Council will take action after the hear ing is held. Changes are proposed for five areas. Four fraternities, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Tri angle and Phi Kappa Sigma are located in one of the areas in ques tion—the south side of E. Beaver Ave. from S. Pugh St. to Locust Lane. The commission proposes a reduction from a 7-foot to a 3- foot set-back in this area. This means that these four fra- Eliminating Our Vote See Page 4 sor to Panhellenic Council Halls decided to move except Beta Sigma Omicron. The change in the sorority suites will leave three sororities in Simmons and five in McElwain. The sororities remaining in these dormitories will be moved around to make each of them more accessible to outside en trances, said Mrs. Mountan. The rest of the sororities have been listed on a pi eference sheet in the order in which they were drawn to decide which will move if one of the first six di awn is un able to move. The order on the preference sheet is: Alpha Omicron Pi, Theta Phi Alpha, Zeta Tau Alpha, Sig ma Delta Tau, Delta Zeta, Pi Beta Phi, Phi Mu and Kappa Alpha Theta. Mrs. Mountan also announced that sororities must turn in a list of their pledges to the dean of women's office before they are initiated. Further infrac tions of this rule, after this warning, she said, will be acted on by Panhel judicial. She also reminded the sororities that, they may not initiate Septem ber transfer students because they do not have a University average. The dates of the Pan:!lel woi•k shops were announced as Feb. 13 and 14. The banquet on Saturday night and the workshops on Sun day will be held in the Nittany Lion Inn. Panhel will conduct inter views from 7 to 9 p.m. next Tuesday in 105 Old Main to se lect members for the banquet, program and publicity commit tees. Nancy Gilliland, acting Panhel rush chairman, said that the ten tative budgets for rushing and the skit plans for Bermuda Junction must be turned into the dean of women's office by Friday. Carol Dominick Koons, Panhel president, announced that Emily Bradley, junior in arts and letters from Washington, D.C., will be the Panhel chairman for Greek Week. concern the distance that the ternities would have their pos sible expansion area for additions to the building and the parking lot reduced. The land reduction most di rectly concerns Kappa Sigma which has plans to build a new house which would extend to the present 3-foot set back. The other three fraternities at pres ent, have no plans for expan sion. In other business, Council ac cepted a petition for the paving of a portion of E. McCormick Ave. from the vacated Pine St. to Uni versity Dr. Since the petition for the project was signed by more than 66% per cent of the resi t dents, the paving will be financed by adjoining property owners. FIVE CENTS
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers