Coed Communities To Be Organized In September—Lipp Men's and women's residence halls will be organized into. i coeducational communities beginning next fall, Dean of Women Dorothy J. Lipp said yesterday. The new set-up is still in the planning stages, Dean Lipp said. Coeducational councils would probably be formed for all-over government. she said. Subcommittees of the councils might take charge of separate functions such as men's affairs, women's affairs or independent (men's and women's affairs. Dean Lipp said the judicial sys tem is "due for an overhaul" and that it should be changed under . the community plan. She said a coed judicial system was possible. The central Women's Student Government Association judicial will definitely be broken down, rshe said, into community boards. 'The central judicial could study problems in regulations and act as an appeals board, she said. Dean Lipp suggested ,that the Association of Independent Men 'and Leonides wait until after the community government plan goes into effect before they plan a mer ger. The structure of the merger plan would "split the community open" between independents and Greeks, she said. The merger nlan, announced at a joint AIM-Leonides meeting Wednesday night, provides for councils in all the residence hall areas. The council presidents would sit on an independent gov erning board. Harald Sandstrom, AIM presi dent, said Wednesday that the councils would be concerned mainly with social affairs, and sororities would have their own Iprivate social affairs. ) Dean Lipp said trouble might Ibe caused if a sorority woman were elected president of the community governing council and thereby entitled to sit on the, independent governing board. Communities would be estab lished in the West Halls area, which is already coed, and the North Halls area, which will be come coed next fall. Other pos-1 Bible communities, Dean Lipp said, would be formed from Nit tany and the four Pollock worn en's residence halls; a men's Pol lock hall and the eight South Halls; and McElwain, Simmons, and two men's Pollock halls. She said Atherton Hall is a problem, because it does not fit into any community scheme. Dean Lipp said young married couples would probably head the community counseling staffs. A married couple will take charge of the North Halls next year. Runkle, which will house women, will be staffed by women graduate students rather than hostesses. Dean Lipp said she wants to develop "the community concept of living." She said similar plans are being used at other univer sities. SGA Needs 50 Deposits For F4ht The Student Gover ment Asso ciation must have ab ut 50 more deposits by March 1 to sponsor' a flight to Europe this summer asi planned. SGA must make a deposit by this time to the airlines in order to reserve a plane. The special $285 rate to stu dents, faculty members and mein bei s of their families is based on a guaranteed minimum of 75 passengers on the flight. SGA President Leonard Julius told the Assembly Wednesday night that the flight could be arranged if there were a few less than the required 75. However, this would mean an increase in the cost per ticket. Walter Darren (C.-Jr.) said 24 deposits have already been re ceived and about 100 applications have been distributed to interest ed parties. Of the 24 about half are stu dents, the other half, faculty members, Darran said. A. $lOO deposit is required to reserve a seat on the plane and the remainder must be paid by April 15. The flight is scheduled to de part from Idlewild Airport in New York for London on June 13. It will return from Paris on July 24, The $285 cost is for a roundtrip ticket for the flight only. Anyone interested in participating in a tour must arrange it on his own. Tickets Remain For Ballet Sunday About 369 student tickets and 114 non-student tickets remain for the Chicago Opera Ballet per formance at 8 p.m. Sunday in Recreation Hall. The opera ballet, under the direction of Ruth Page and star ring Melissa Hayden and Kenneth Johnson, will perform "Carmen," "Idylle" and "Camille." Mathematics Department To Hold Help Sessions The Department of Mathematics will sponsor evening help sessions from 7 to 9 every Tuesday and Thursday evening for students en rolled in any mathematics course numbered 43 or below. The sessions will begin Tues day. They will be held in 303, 304, 306, or 307 Boucke. Students may go to any of these rooms to work problems and help will be available. Russia Urged to Accept New Ban WASHINGTON (VP) The United States urged the Soviet Union yesterday to accept a new nuclear weapons test ban which would allow limited underground blasts but prohibit atomic-hydrogen explosions in the air and sea. President Eisenhower, in an nouncing the four-stage proposal at his news conference, said it would be a quick way to ally worldwide concern over possible increases in deadly radioactivity. In Geneva, the Soviet chief dis armament negotiator, Semyon K. Tsuapkin, rejected the proposal as a backward step. "I bay* not seen this plan By JANET DURSTINE Injured Student Shows Further Improvement Witten Richman, the student who was injured in an auto acci dent early Tuesday morning, con tinued to improve although the Lewistown Hospital still lists his condition as critical. yet," he said. "But, of course, I am against a limited nuclear test ban. It would just be - a step backward," Top administration officials re-i fused to view Tsarapkin's quick comment as a final rejection. But they clearly were not opti mistic that the Kremlin would ac cept the plan. The Eisenhower proposal would abandon, at least temporarily, the East-West search for an all-em bracing agreement to stop nu clear weapons tests. These talks have deadlocked at Geneva after 1 170 separate .meetings stretching over a 15-month period. During this time The United States, Soviet Union and Brit ain, the world's three atomic My Bang VOL. 60. No. 80 STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 12, 1960 FIVE CENTS Calendar Decision Left to Walker The University Senate decided yesterday to leave the decision to change to a year-round academic program to President Eric A. Walker and the Board of Trustees, Before the Senate acted on the issue, Walker said: "If this is passed, I want to assure you we'll never go on a quarter system next year because we have never made a thorough study of what this would do to us." As to whether the change would be to a quarter or trimester system, Walker said: Senate Defeats Plan To Drop Cuts Rule The University Senate yes terday defeated a proposal to, abolish the regulation requir- i . I.rig an instructor to report stu-I dents who have three suc cessive unexplained absences. The proposal was made by the Senate Committee on Riles. In giving his committee report, E. B. Van Ormer said the change was recommended because it might place more responsibility upon the student and help him to mature. - Other . reasons for the change were: •Requiring attendance._ in up per-level classes might adversely influence the class attitude. • The time required for roll taking is lost in teaching. •The lapse of time between a student's disappearance from the campus and reporting his ab sence in class is too large to pro vide effective information in deal- Cold to Continue; Possibility of Snow Partly cloudy and cold weather which moved into this area yes terday is due to continue for the next several days. Today should be mostly cloudy 406 and cold with a !foils.. chance of a few .;;;;;;,,I• snow flurries, but no accumu lation is expect ed. The high temperature will - be about 36 degrees. Skies will show a clearing trend; tonight and temperatures will' fall to chilly levels. The low will be -21 degrees. There is some: chance of snow by tomorrow night. powers, have voluntarily halted tests while their experts sought a disarmament formula. The new U.S. plan would allow underground shots to be resumed if explosions registered no high er than a figure of 4.75 on de tection devices—a blast American scientists say' is roughly the size of the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Soviet experts disagree and claim such a reading would meas ure a blast about eight times smaller than that. Eisenhower said it was partly because of this disagreement be tween scientists of the two sides that he decided it was useless at this time to continue efforts to agree on a more sweeping, global plan. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By NICKI WOLFORD ing with such cases. Van Ormer pointed out that this proposal would not mean un-' limited cutting because rule K-11 lof the undergraduate regulations is still in effect. This provides that students be required to attend all classes-- and be responsible for the work covered. It also stipulates that instructors who feel a student I with foo many cuts has become "deficient" in the course work can exclude him from the class. Benjamin A. Whisler, chairman ; of the committee on Calendar and 'Class Schedule, said the original 'regulation was a useful tool for discovering students who were !having trouble and helping them. Frank J. Simes, dean of men, supported Whisler's argument and proposed an amendment to the original regulation asking that ("any such cases" be substituted !for "three successive unexplained absences." Simes' amendment was passed and the original regulation was !retained. Students May Register For Spring Tutoring Students who are interested in tutoring during the spring semes ter may place their names on the list of tutors now being prepared by the Division of Counseling. They should report to 110 Old Main or call UN 5-7576, before Wednesday. Prospective tutors should spe cify by department and course number the courses they are pre pared to tutor: Undergraduates must have made a grade of "B" or better in courses they list. EVEN TREES NEED DOCTORS ... Donald Coble, the University tree surgeon, administers first aid to one of the trees in front of Sparks. Tatirgiatt "I wouldn't hazard a guess " The proposal to leave the cal endar decision to Walker came from a report of the Senate Committee on Calendar and Class schedule. In giving the report, Benjamin A. Whisler, committee chairman, said the decision to change .the calendar involved three questions: sWill a change be detrimental 'to academic standards? sHow much will the change cost? •What is the value of the bene fits to be derived from the change? Whisler said the committee was satisfied that a change would not ibe detrimental to academic stan !dards and felt that the other ques tions were "purely administi a !tive" in nature and should be left !to Walker. Four Senate members objected ,to the committee's proposal be cause it was "passing the buck " !They felt the Senate should not relinquish its right to make the !calendar decision. Rolf G. Winter, representa i five for the College of Chemis try and Physics, said he did not I think you could pigeonhole what was administrative and the Senate, as a mixture of both, was an ideal Place to consider the calendar change. After listing several points for ',debate on the issue, including an ,administration "slight of hand," A. H. Brayfield, head of the Depart ment of Psychology, introduced - a substitute motion. He proposed that the Senate re !affirm its responsibility for the calendar decison and request the !president to appoint a group to 'gather data which would furnish a foundation "for a responsible Six departments should, us ing present resources, convert their departments to alternate systems on paper to "see exact ly what it means," Brayfield suggested. Lawrence E. Dennis, vice presi dent for academic affairs, said the University would have no choice
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