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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
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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
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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.
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