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VOL. 60. No. 81
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—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-
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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FIVE CENTS