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