Weather Forecasts Portly Cloudy, Cold VOL. 60. No. 81 " " ~I —Collegian Photo by John Beauge LIMIT MARKED—Within the near future cars will not be per mitted to drive past this pole on Pollock Road because a chain will be hung across the road making it a dead-end. The pole is in front of Willard Hall. Concert May Benefit Alumni Association An annual concert for the benefit of the Alumni Fund or some other project is being discussed by students and mem bers of the administration. Carmella LeSpada, senior in psychology from Chester, and Leonard Rims, SGA president, talked yesterday with Pollock Rd. Ban To Begin Monday Traffic on Pollock Rd. will be prohibited between Fraser Rd. and the Old Main parking lot beginning Monday. Pollock Rd. will be open from the west as far as Fraser Rd., which runs behind Carnegie opposite Willard, and from the east, as far as the Old Main parking lot. The rerouting of traffic is part of a plan to free Pollock Rd. of through traffic and re lieve pressure on pedestrian movement. Lloyd Resigns Post Richard Lloyd, senior in busi ness administration from Wayne, has resigned as Spring Week chairman. SGA president Leonard Julius said yesterday that a new chair man will be appointed within the next few days. Frosh Coed Housing Will Be Integrated Freshmen women will not have separate residence halls next semester Upperclass women and freshman women will be housed together in most of the women's halls, Otto E. Mueller, director of housing, said yesterday. This is only one of the changes that will be made in the housing of students. Other chang es will put graduate students in Grange Hall and women students in the North Halls area. Grange Hall will house 103 men and women graduate stu dents, Mueller said. There will be slightly more men than wom en living there, he added. Women will live in Runkle Hall in the North Halls area. Beam, Holmes and Leete Halls will con tinue to be occupied by men. "Many other campuses have be gun integrating freshmen with other classes in the residence halls," said Mueller. "This will help to give them broader ex- , i \ r 4 tit e\,.\... ..ft;...,„:„*;,ii.,•.; . .: - . ) r if t 11, i 7 1 By ELAINE MIELE Robert G. Bernreuter, special as sistant to the President for stu dent affairs, about engaging Louis Armstrong for a concert this year. Armstrong is available for April 3 and May 20 this year. Neither of these weekends is very de sirable because the former is IFC weekend and the latter is the weekend before finals, Julius said. ' The Kingston Trio was con• tacted for the event, but they are not available this spring, Miss LaSpada said. Bernreuter said that he was not' opposed to the idea of a concert but that the Alumni Association would have to give its approval. The weekends Armstrong is avail able are not feasible because of the conflicts, he said. Miss LaSpada said that the main idea of the annual concert woud be to raise money for the University. A top commercial group or person would have to be obtained if the concert is to be a success, she said. If no one could be obtained for this semester, a concert could be planned for the fall, she said. periences and more association with upperclasswomen." Present residents in Grange will be given preferences in the new Pollock Halls which will be used for the first time in the fall. Pollock Halls will house 1024 women and 978 men. Men stu dents living in Pollock Halls will have their meals In MScEI• wain and Simmons. Women living in Pollock and men living in Nittany will eat in the Pollock dining hall. In the West Halls area men will live in Hamilton, Thompson, (Continued on page five) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA.. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13. 1960 New Excuse Ruled Out By Senate By NICKI WOLFORD The University Senate de !ated a proposal Thursday to flow the Health Center to ,sue excuses to students ab- nt from class for medical ?asons even though they are .ot confined to the hospital. The new rule would have made possible for students who have en sick but remained in their :sidence halls, to get an excuse they had been told by the ealth Center to remain in bed. In introducing the proposal, Edward B. Van Ormer, assistant dean of the Graduate School, said this plan would place more re sponsibility on the student. How ever, Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, direc tor of the Health Center, said, "This doesn't help young people to mature. If they can't lean on us they go to class." Glenn also objected to the plan because it would add a heavier load to the Health Cen ter staff's work. It would "make my medical people very un happy," he said. Rolf G. Winter, assistant pro fessor of physics, said he favored disposal of this "excuse machinery altogether." "If you treat them like junior high school students they'll behave like junior high ,school students," Winter said. In other business, the Senate .passed an amended motion which provides that a student on proba tion or deficient by more than 10 credits of his total curricular re quirements at the beginning of the semester cannot participate in any extracurricular activity on the University. This rule includes students who represent the University in athletic contests. The Senate also heard a recom mendation from the Senate Com mittee on Student Affairs that it go on record as favoring deletion of the negative affidavit con (continued On page three) Storm System May Bring Wind, Snow The first heavy snowstorm of the winter may begin in this area tomorrow. A vigorous storm system which is now located in the Gulf of Mex ico threatens to move northeast ward toward this area as a major snow producer. It is too early to determine the amount of snow that will fall in the Nittany Val ' ley but amounts could exceed four inches. More than six inches could fall in the Southeastern quadrant of the state late tonight and tomor- I row. The forecast is for partly cloudy an d continued cold. today with afternoon peratures in the middle 30's. Clouds will be gin to increase late tonight and temperatures will.remain cold The low should be near 24 de grees. Snow should begin early tomor row morning and then continue falling throughout the day. The snow may become rather heavy at times. Temperatures will remain quite [Cold tomorrow and the winds should become strong and gusty during the afternoon. The high will be near 28 degrees. Snow, strong winds and cold weather will continue tomorrow night. University to Close Center Low Enrollment, Poor Facilities Cause Shutdown at New Castle The University's New Castle center will be closed at the end of the academic year. President Eric A. Walker said that the University's Board the center because enrollment tinue the program. The four-year-old center had an enrollment of 39 the first year. 84 the second year, 58 during the third year and 48 this year. A University spokesman said the poor condition of the physical facilities at the enter was another reason for closing it. The center was established in 1956 to provide two-year pro grams of concentrated and spe cialized instruction and train ing in technical fields. The pro grams lead to the associate de gree. of Trustees decided to close t has made it impractical to con Srs. Must OK Flashcard Area At Grid Games Approval of the senior class will be the only way a special flash card area will be allowed in a center section of Beaver Stadium, Director of Athletics Ernest B.; McCoy said last night. The SGA Assembly has rec ommended that a special section be set aside for flashcards be tween the 40 and 50 yard line. The present plans for seating in the new stadium call for stu dents sitting from the 43 yard line toward the goal line and con tinuing around the end zone. This would mean that the As sembly-proposed flashcard sec tion would be in that area desig nated for seniors. McCoy said that because it would mean less good seats available to seniors, he would not permit the section there without approval by vote from the senior class as a whole The flashcard section cannot be moved on the other side of the 43 yard line, McCoy said, because this is reserved for guests of the ,football team and for fans from !visiting schools. "If we put visiting fans in poor er seats," he added, "we will get the same treatment at our away games." Company to Give Opera By Visiting Music Prof "Six Characters in Search of an, Author," an opera by Hugo Weis gall, visiting professor of music,' will be produced by the New York City Opera Company. The opera. which is based on 'the play by Luigi Pirandello, will be seen in Washington, D.C., on 'Feb. 29 and in Boston on March 4. The production is sponsored by the Ford Foundation. 170 For About 100 student and 70 non-student tickets remain for the Chicago Opera Ballet performance scheduled for 8 p.m. Sunday in Recreation Hall. The opera ballet, under the direction of Ruth Page, and ;tarripg Melissa Hayden and Kenneth Johnson, will perform "Carmen." "Idylle" and "Camille." "Carmen" is a ballet drama in three scenes with music by Georges Bizet. It is the story of the cigarette factory worker, Car men, who has learned from the Death Card that she will die at the hands of one of her lovers. Jose, who is in love with Carmen, kills Captain Zuniga who has intervened between Jose and his j rival Escamillo. In prison Jose is tortured by visions of his past life, He es capes from prison and follows Carmen to the bull ring where she has gone to meet Escamillo. Though Carmen's friends Mer cedes and Frasquita have warned rgiatt Tickets Remain Chicago Ballet What Will Came Next? See Page 4 In a letter to Lester F. Johns, chairman of the center's Advisory Board, Walker said the Univer sity planned to close the program of resident education and the op eration of the Oak Street school building. "The kind of education we have been providing for a limited num ber of students at the New Cas tle Center is vitally needed in our present technological soci ety." Walker said in his letter. Walker expressed hope that other institutions in the area will broaden their programs educational service in the fu and help provide this kind of lure. First-year students currently enrolled in the pi ogram will be able to continue their courses at another Commonwealth Campus. The programs are available at Erie, McKeesport and Now Ken sington. The University will attempt to assign the full-time academic per sonnel at the New Castle Center to the faculty of other centers. In his letter to Johns, Walker said that if an overwhelming need for a center in that area arises and, if the University has the resources the center might be re-established. Walker also explained that the ;closing of the center would have Ina effect on the Continuing Edu cation Services that the University iprovides for people in the New ,Castle area. He said that the evening courses ' ,p rograms other informal educational 'programs would continue. her of Jose's presence and danger ous mood, she pi efers to face him. She dies, choked by the scarf she had given him as a token of her love. "Idylle" is based on Verdes "il Trovatore." In "Idylle" an old gypsy woman is ordered burned at the stake by the Count di Luna. In the excitement, her daughter Azucena abducts the Count's infant son and swears vengance. Twenty years later, the boy has grown into the Gypsy chief tan Manrico. Disguised as a troubadour, he woos the noble woman Leonora. also loved by (Continued on 'nage three) FIVE CENTS
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