Weather Forocai Stormy, Quite Windy VOL. 60. No. 78 72-Acre Lake Basin In Stone Valley To Be Filled .Soon i cn By 808 TACELOSKY The recently-co pleted lake basin in the Stone Valley Recreation Area wi I will be ready for filling within the next few weeks, Univer ity authors "As soon as some legalitie to close the valve and start Senior Day To Replace May Event A Senior Class Day will be held May 7 to replace the old WSGA May Day program and the; Senior Class Night. Martin Leshner, chairman. said; last night that this year's program! honoring seniors would be held earlier than in the past so that more students would attend. The previous date had been in June, and there had been usually poor attendance at that time. The traditional senior awards, will be made at the program., Leshner said also that his corn-, mittee is considering adding al i few more to the list. Voting procedure for the awards will be changed this year, Lesh ner said. The old method of sup plying ballots with the LaVies was impossible this year because the date of the program had been moved up. As yet the exact meth od had not been determined for distributing the ballots, but there will be centralized voting in the Hetzel Union Building. The program will include a keynote speaker, probably a member of the faculty. Leshner said the committee is also trying to arrange for the quartet win ners of the Interfraternity Coun cil Sing to sing at the program. Collegian Staff to Take Survey Among Readers The promotion and advertising staffs of The Daily Collegian will make a circulation and reader ship survey of today's issue of Collegian. Staff members will interview 250 men and 250 women in the Hetzel Union Building and the Pattee Library. The 500 students, selected at random, will be queried on their readership of editorial material and advertisements in today's issue. Lipp Asks Sororities to Raise Quotas Dorothy J. Lipp, dean of women, asked Panhellenic Council last night to consider raising their sorority quotas. Dean Lipp said the time has come to look at the number of girls rushing and the number of spaces in the sororities realistically. The number of prospective ritshees for spring rush is higher than ever before, and there should be enough room for these women within the sororities, she said. In view of the increasing num ber of women students enrolling each year, the sororities must raise their quotas, she said. Dean Lipp said that fewer women stu dents have been dropping out of school and that many more will be accepted next fall to fill the new residence halls in the Pol lock area. Only 33 per cent of the wom en on campus are now in soror ities and unless quotas are raised this percentage may drop even lower. Dean Lipp said. "If we can't maintain a high per centage of sorority women, sororities will lose their influ. STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10. 1960 ' ties said yesterday. s are settled, we will be able illing the lake," Lawrence J. Perez, assistant dean of the Col lege of Engineering and Archi tecture, said. The 72-acre lake will be sur rounded by a recreation area stretching 578 acres. Swimming fishing and boating will be among the activities on the lake. Since the lake will be the only part of the extensive project finished by the summer, its facilities will not be available to students or public during the hot months of this year. According to Dr. Peter W. Fletcher, director of the School of Forestry, the lake will be I filled within four to six weeks. "The last of the concrete was poured into the stillway on Jan. 11, and once the legal settlements are made, the wet , er will be allowed to flow in," he said. "We hope agree- monis will be finished this week." Proposals for the lake and rec reation area at Stone Valley were begun in 1958, when the Univer sity acquired the Stone Valley Forest, which extends for 6400 acres. When completed the area will contain facilities for general out door recreation, together with lodges for various student ac tivities. Surveying classes, for example, will be able to use the area for some of their work. Construction of the project is being financed by the Univer sity development program and with alumni funds. Once the facilities are open for use, fees will be charged to help maintain them. "A set-up similar to the Uni versity skating rink or Golf course will be used for maintenance of the facilities," Fletcher said. "Stu de , ts of the University, faculty anu public will be allowed to use the accommodations, but admit tance will be available only on a reservation basis. Collegian Open House Students interested in join ing the Collegian news staff may attend an open house from 6:45 to 8 tonight at the newspaper office In the base ment of Carnegie. By SUE LINKROUM ence" and will become meaning less, she said. Dean Lipp explained that Penn State now has the second largest number of national sorority chap ters in the United States (Univer sity of Illinois is first) and with the anticipation of two more na tional chapters the University will be first. By working towards a large Panhellenic organization with a high percentage of sorority wom en on campus, there will be a potential for good healthy chap ters, she said. Dean Lipp urged that the sororities attack the problems facing them in hopes of ~ m erging with a strong Panhel mic system. Dean Lipp also spoke on the FOR A BETTER PENN STATE SGA to Discuss Assembly Chair By CAROL BLAKESLEE A proposal to have the SGA president chair the Assembly will be brought before Assembly tonight for the second time this year. Assembly will also•hear the proposed seating plan for the new Beaver Field at its first meeting of the semester at 7:30 tonight in 203 Hetzel Union. Jesse Janjigian, chairman of the Student Encampment —Collegian Photo by Sam Wilson STUDENTS SKATING at the new rink display many degrees of skill. Some perform intricate maneuvers while others seem to find it easier to skate sitting down. All that is needed to enjoy an evening of skating is a matric card and 25 cents and skates can be rented for an additional quarter. Hamilton to Explain Rules for Contest Dr. William W. Hamilton, as sociate professor of speech, will explain the rules for entering the tryouts for the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Reading Festival and the Eastern Poetry Reading Festival at 4:15 tomorrow in 309 Sparks. Three students will be chosen to read in poetry, prose and dra ma events in the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Reading Festival which will be held on campus. A fourth will be chosen to act as master of ceremonies at the festi val banquet and a fifth student will represent the University at the Eastern Poetry Reading Festi val. sorority housing problem. She said that work is being done to improve the "housing situa tion of the sororities that will remain in Simmons and McEl wain Halls next year. Sororities have an obligation to see that their members are housed in the sorority suites and not scattered over the campus, she said. In other business Richard Lloyd, general chairman of Spring Week, addressed the Council and an nounced that a meeting of Spring Week chairmen for the groups participating will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Hetzel Union Building assembly room. rgiatt Springtime Weather To Continue Today Showers and thunderstorms will accompany the warm weather today. Temperatures should reach the 62 degree mark this afternoon. Winds will be increasing during the day and they should be quite strong by late afternoon. Gale force winds, snow squalls and much colder weather is ex pected tonight. One or two in ches of snow could accumulate. Khrushchev Starts Asian Tour Today MOSCOW (iP) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev leaves today on a new barnstorming tour in Asia, leaving behind him a diplomatic colony puzzled by his blunt pre summit demands on the key international issues of Germany and West Berlin. Khrushchev will visit India, Indonesia, Burma and Afghanistan. The foreign diplomatic corps in Mciscow, which witnessed his ani mated exchange of views with visiting Italian President Giovan ni Gronchi, has been invited to be present when he takes off for India. President Gronchi is not sched uled to leave Moscow until tomor row. He spends today in Lenin grad, freshly and personally briefed by a candid Khrushchev on the Soviet position with regard to the German and Berlin ques tions. The Soviet leader still demands that the big powers sign separate treaties with Communist East and Federal West Germany and that the occupation status of Ber lin be ended by making West Berlin a "free city." In Bonn, a West German For eign Office spokesman said Lingering Swastikas See Page 4 committee and the SGA re- organization committees, will pre sent the proposal that the SGA president replace the vice presi dent as Assembly chairman. Although hir committee dis agrees with the proposal. Miss Janjigian said it was being pie sented since it had been approved by Encampment and by Assem bly. Assembly last fall had ap proved the Encampment report containing the proposal, At that time, no action was taken because only an interim Assembly had been seated. The proposal would have involved a constitutional amendment re quiring the approval of the en tire Assembly. The bill to be presented tonight asks specifically that the presi dent preside over the Assembly and vote only to break a tie. The vice president would sit with As sembly, but not as a member, and would speak only during execu tive reports or when called upon for expert or executive advice. Miss Janjigian said lost night her committee felt that both at present and in the long run hav ing the vice president as Assem bly chairman would be mote ef ificient and effective If particularly would allow the President more time to per. form his duties, she said. Proponents of the bill at En campment felt that the president loses prestige in his present posi tion as an ex-officio member. He is forced into debating, they feel, in order to present information and since debate implies opposi tion, he, therefore, suffers a loss of prestige. However, Miss Jamigian said the prestige factor should not be a determining one in the argu ment since it is so hard to deter mine. She said the matter of effi ciency and effectiveness are the only significant points and that they should be the deciding fac tors. Miss Janjigian's committee klt (continued on page three) Khrushchev's blasts "show a no ticeable toughening of Soviet policy." Spokesmen for Chancellor Kon rad Adenauer's Christian Demo cratic party said Khrushchev's latest statements were "not cal culated to strenghten the faith in the sincerity and good will of the Soviet Union." An opposotion Socialist lead er, Karl Mommer, took issue that Germany's present borders with Khrushchev's insistence could be changed only by war. This statement, the Socialist said, was superfluous, since West Germany has renounced revision of frontiers by force. Gronchi's meetings ended offi cially with the signing of a joint communique and an agreement for cultural cooperation. FIVE CENTS
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