The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, January 15, 1960, Image 1

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    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