Weather Forecast: Stormy Today, Colder Tonight VOL. 60, No. 73 Russia Is Strongest Nation = 'K' —Collegian Photo by Marty Seherr A BEAUTIFUL BLUE AND WHITE SIGN has been erected in front of the HUB to follow the new trend on campus. The TIM office is located therein—the sign was removed after only an hour of life. University to Alter Summer Sessions The University will be dropping summer sessions after 1960 and "moving toward a year-round program of instruc tion," Lawrence E. Dennis, vice president for academic af fairs, said yesterday. In a long range plan passed by the Board of Trustees Insurance Sales Set for Jan. 29 Students who did not sign up for student insurance last Sep tember may do so between Jan. 20 and Feb. 15. Enrollment desks will be main tained during registration for the spring semester at Recreation Hall and at the Hetzel Union desk. From the end of registration until Feb. 15, students may enroll at the Doty and Hench Insurance Agency on S. Allen St. or at the HUB desk. The insurance covers students who live at home or on campus. Dependents of the students can be covered also. Three plans are offered to stu dents at different rates—sl4.2s for plan 1, $4.50 for plan 2 and $11.40 for plan 3. The insurance will cover the students through out the summer of 1960. During the fall semester, 4366 students signed up for the pro gram. Semester's Review Traffic, Nittany Dominates Assembly By CAROL BLAKESLEE Problems of traffic, Nittany, SGA Assembly chairmanship, and clasi advisory boards dominated the Assembly in its first full semester of opera tion. In addition, a Student Check Cashing Agency was set up and a flight to Europe will be sponsored this summer. Action on the traffic and park ing situation began last spring when a committee was set up to investigate the possibility - of hav ing parking meters on campus. With a new code of traffic rules for students Ibis fall bow- By NICKI WOLFORD and the University Senate two years ago, the present system of summer sessions was set up for 1959 and 1960. In the plan, sessions of three weeks, six weeks and another three weeks were organized and administered on a separate basis than the regular academic year. Dennis said that this long range plan gave the adminis. 'ration two years to decide on what the calendar should look like during the '6os. This involves getting a calen dar which would be able to make a "suitable ajustment" to the year-round program of instruc tion, Dennis said. After the 1960 summer session, instruction during the summer months will be administered on the same basis as the regular aca demic year and will be integrated through the colleges. However, Dennis said, it has not been decided how this pro gram shall be carried out—wheth er it will be organized on a tri, semester or perhaps quarterly lbasis. The decision will be made in the next several months, he said. ever, the emphasis turned to ward a broader area. Early in the fall a Traffic Code Investi gation Committee was set up to study all traffic problems and make suggestions for improve ments. A 1959 student report recom mending that each student be guaranteed a parking space when he pays for a permit was ap proved by Assembly in Novem ber. Assembly's most recent action on the traffic problem came at its last meeting when it almost unanimously defeated a bill to recommend that sophomore driv ing be banned. Assembly was shocked into setting up a committee io study FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 15. 1960 Khrushchev Speaks And Asks for Large MOSCOW (4)) Nikita Khrushchev declared yesterday the Soviet Union is now the world's mightiest military nation, ready and able to wipe any "country or countries attack ing us off the face of the earth." The Soviet Union is so strong it will cut 1.2 million men—almost a third of its armed power from its forces. It w Cold Winds Will Change Rain to Snow A severe storm will be passing through Pennsylvania today bringing a great variety of weath er to this area. The storm or iginated in the Great Plains yes terday and caus ed heavy snows, gale force winds and sharp con trasts in 'tem peratures in that region Heavy rain is expected throughout Peennsylvania today,, including State College. Increas-, ing winds and rather cool tem- I peratures will accompany the precipitation. The rain will change to snow as colder air arrives on strong northwesterly winds late this afternoon. ' Temperatures should be in the low 40's this morning, and then rises to about 46 by early after noon. Snow flurries and possibly a few snow squalls will attend the influx of colder air on strong and gusty winds tonight. The low tonight should be 24 degrees. Johns Hopkins Chemist To Speak on Viruses Dr. Roger M. Heriott, head of the Department of Bio-chemistry in the School of Hygiene and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. will speak at 4:15 to day in 109 Armsby. He will speak on "Viruses and Biologically Active Nucleic Acids." Semester In Review The Daily Collegian today presents the first of a three part summary of the fall se mester's activities. A review of the SGA Assembly's actions appears on page one. Five ad ditional reviews appear on page 5. Additional reviews will appear tomorrow and Tuesday. living conditions in the Nittany Residence Halls when the pres ident of the Nittany Council gave a very unfavorable report on them. The committee's report was ap proved last week and SGA Presi- i dent Leonard Julius met with University officials and repre sentatives from Nittany before the Christmas recess to discuss the problem. The question of who should chair the Assembly brought a long , and heated debate in October. The discussion originated with an Encampment report which rec ommended that the constitution be amended to have the SGA president chair the Assembly in (continued on page eight) 11 rely upon an awesome array of nuclear weapons and rocketry, including some "arma ments never known to man," the Soviet Premier told 300 cheering deputies of the Supreme Soviet- Parliament. In proposing the cut to the Par liament (it is certain to be adopt ed) Khrushchev also claimed that even more frightful power is being built. "The Central Committee of tie Communist party and the Soviet government can inform you, comrade deputies, that though the weapons we now have are formidable weapons. the weapon we have in the hatching stage today is even more perfect, even more for midable," Khrushchev told the special session. "The weapon which is being developed—and is, as they say, in the portfolio of our scientists and designers—is a fantastic weapon." Khrushchev did not elaborate on the "fantastic" weapon in his 20,000-word address, but he said that, "Now it is quite clear that the United States of America, is not the world's most powerful military power." While Khrushchev expressed hope for international agree ment at the forthcoming big power summit meeting in May, much of his 3-hour address dealt with Soviet might which he said has developed to such a degree in the field of rocketry and nuclear weapons that bomb ing planes and naval fleets are becoming obsolete. This in effect was an advance notice to the Western powers of the line the Soviet Union will take at the summit meeting. And, for President Eric A. Walker will audiences in Asia, where he soon attend along with other adminis will be a visitor, Khrushchev trative and faculty personnel who pointedly remarked that modern were represented at the encamp weapons are specially dangerous ment, held Sept. 9, 10 and 11 at to countries with the greatest the School of Forestry at Mont population density, should any Alto. Over 85 students and some "madman" decide to start a war. 25 faculty-administrative mem ' "If the aggressors start a new bers attended the encampment in world war, it will be not only their September. last war but the wreck of capital- A meeting of the six workshop ism," Khrushchev declared to a chairmen and the encampment gathering of deputies from all committee will be, held early in parts of a vast nation occupying a (continued on page three) ments. IFebruary to make final arrange- Registration Date Set For Sorority Rushing Registration for sorority rushing will be held from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., Feb. 8, the Panhellenic Council has announced. All freshmen who make a 2.3 average and upperclass- women with a 2.0 All-Univers rush. Rushees must bring th order to register. The first event of formal rush -I ing will be open houses Feb. 20 and 21. All rushes must attend a mass meeting at 12:30, Feb. 20, There the rushees will be di vided alphabetically into-groups of 20 for the Open Houses. Each group will have a Greek guide who will take them around to each sorority. Every girl must visit each sorority during Open Houses. Monday, Feb. 22, rushees will pick up their invitations to chat ter dates in the Panhellenic Post Office. The first round of chatter dates will be Feb. 22 and 23. Rushees will pick up invitations to the second round of chatter dates Thursday, Feb. 25. These rgiatt Before Soviet Military Cut Year 'Round Studies See Page 4 Encampment Participants Will Meet A reunion for the partici pants of the Eighth Annual Student Encampment will be held Thursday, Feb. 18, in I dining rooms A, B and C of the Hetzel Union Building. Encampment members will re view the recommendations of the plenary session and will further discuss the issues of major im- portance. It is hoped that new light will be shed - on some of the issues by both student and facul ty members, William Jaffe, En campment chairman, said. The reunion will begin with in dividual workshop discussion pe riods from 7 to 8:15 p.m. After a 15-minute break, the participants will return to a plenary session, 'chaired by Leonard Julius, SGA president. The group will hear reports from each of the workshop chair men as to progress of their ori ginal recommendations and also any additions or changes which they may wish made to their original reports. The reunion will end with a "coffee hour" lasting until 10 p.m. ity average will be eligible to eir transcripts with them in will be held Thursday and Friday, Feb. 25 and 26. The second week of rushing will feature bermuda parties, coffee hours, and ribbbning. Rushees may accept three invitations to bermuda parties scheduled for the evenings of Feb. 29 and March 1. Formal coffee hours will cli max the rushing events March 3. Rushees may accept two in vitations to coffee hours. Soror ity members will call for theit rushees at their rooms, Immediately after coffee hours rushees will fill out preferential bidding cards. These will be proc essed the next day and sororities Will issue bids. Ribboning will be that night in the suite. FIVE CENTS
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