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VOL. 60. No. 104
• —Collegian Photo by Chuck Jacques
FILING CONFLICTS are Mary Morgan, junior in liberal arts
from Frederieklown, and Stephen Gregg, sophomore in psychology
from Washington. All conflicts for final exams must be filed by
tomorrow.
Party Switching Bill
Set for SGA Vote
The vote on a bill to prohibit party switching will be taken
by the SGA Assembly when it meets at 7:30 tonight in 203
Hetzel Union.
The bill was brought to the Assembly floor for its first
reading last week when a petition signed by 761 students
requested action on it. 1
It had not been included on the!
agenda because the proponent of j
the bill, Edwin Urie, alternate!
Assemblyman, was not present at i
the Rules Committee meeting to!
explain it. :
If Assembly approves ihe rec
ommendation, a candidate elect
ed under one party could not j
be nominated during his term '
of office by another party.
Une’s interpretation of the bill!
would also prohibit a candidate
from resigning from his office to
accept a nomination from another
party.
The SGA Cabinet Monday night
did not back the bill, with only
one member casting an affirma
tive vote.
Jesse Janjigian, a member of
the original committee respon
sible for reorganizing student
government last year, said it had
been the intention then to allow
candidates to switch parties. Pro
hibiting switching would make
political parties less responsible,
she said.
Most of the debate at Assem
bly last week did not deal with
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TIM Studies Transfer Housing Plan
Town Independent Men’s
Council is continuing their
search for 400 students to take
the place of the transfers who
will otherwise be forced to
live in the residence halls next
fall.
Phillip Haines, president of
TIM, said at the meeting last night
that questionnaires concerning
this problem have been drawn up
and will be sent to the centers.
The questionnaires state the
transfer housing problem and ask
if the transfers wish to live in the
residence halls, fraternities or in
town.
Haines estimated that the
number of transfer students will
8% iattt} HI(Hall
By CAROL BLAKESLEE
SDX Invites 200
To Grid Dinner
Two hundred invitations to i
Sigma Delta Chi’s Gridiron Ban-!
[quet were sent out to Penn State!
'faculty and administrative mem-!
jbers, student leaders and towns
people today.
Sigma Delta Chi, men’s pro
fessional journalism fraternity,
will hold its annual banquet at
6:30 p.m., Saturday, April 9 at
the State College Hotel.
> After the dinner, SDX mem
bers will satirize town and uni
versity affairs and personalities
in a skit: “Damn Yankees Look
at the Austerity Program.” All re
marks at the session are off the
record for the press and the eve
ning is off limits to women.
The traditional banquet is pat
terned after the famous Gridiron
Banquet held in Washington, D.C.
every year by the Capitol press
corps.
It was revived at Penn State
last year after a 5-year lapse.
b« 700, She tame number as lasi
year, and that at least 300 would
join fraternities or be financial
ly exempt from living in the
residence halls.
“That leaves only 400 places to
be filled,” he said.
Another suggestion for filling
the 400 vacancies was to allot
another residence hall to graduate
students. Haines said he had
talked to the president of the
graduate student council who told
him that Graduate Hall is full
and that some graduate students
have to live in other dorms.
Haines said he was investigat
ing the possibility of requiring
that freshman students who go
on probation remain in the resi
dence halls for another year to
raise their averages.
He said lhe transfer housing
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 17. 1960
Soviets Want Veto
On Disarm Plan
GENEVA (/P) The Soviet Union yesterday proposed an international control system
to police a general disarmament agreement, but insisted on the right to veto any charges
of violations brought against the Soviet Union.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Zorin told the 10-nation disarmament conference that
the plan provides for controls to begin functioning with the first cuts in men and arms.
Ten Groups Enter
Collegian Derby Day
Copy Editor
Get ready to jump quickly, boys,
taking to the roads!
The event which will send traffic regulations flying in all
directions with campus patrolmen close behind is the first
annual Daily Collegian Bicycle Derby Day scheduled for
May 21.
Ten groups have already answered the invitation o;
all coed groups on campus. Those
registered are Alpha Chi Omega,
Alpha Xi Delta, Chi Lambda, Del
ta Gamma, Gamma Phi Beta,
Hibbs third floor, Kappq Alpha
Theta, McKee unit one, Sigma
Delta Tau and Sigma Sigma Sig-
ma.
Other groups who wish to en
ter the derby may register by j
sending a postcard to the Col- J
legian office in Carnegie Build
ing by next wek.-Bolh indepen
dent and sorority groups may
j enier. j
j The derby will begin at 2 p.m.j
|on the new ROTC drill field.
I Special events will include bothj
jindividual races and team relays.)
j Women who are eyeing a man’s;
'fraternity pin may find added in-
Icentive in knowing that once
I pinned, they will be eligible for
the special “Pinee Race.” In this
event, pinned or engaged coeds
will compete in a tricycle race
carrying a special handicap—each
pin man will be standing on the
back of his girl’s tricycle.
Each group may sponsor '«re
team of four coeds for each team
event. The same four may ride
for each event or the group may
make substitution as often as it
wishes. Only one bicycle will be
needed for each team.
The Daily Collegian will at
tempt to provide bicycles for in
dividuals who need them. Appli
cations for these bicycles may be
made at the Collegian office any
day after 4.30 p.m.
Trophies will be awarded to the
winners.
committee is also investigating
a plan for letting men live in
the residence halls and work in
the residence dining hall for
fheir meals.
The committee will meet next
Thursday with Dr. Robert G.
Bernreuter, assistant to the presi
cuss the issue.
dent for student affairs, to dis-
In other busines, TIM members
agreed to ask their landlords if
they would be willing to purchase
$lO ladders to be used as fire es
capes.
TIM also passed a motion to
apologize to all those persons who
sat and waited in vain for the
Twentieth Century film strip to
be presented Wednesday in the
HUB assembly room. The film
failed to arrive.
roratt
By 80881 LEVINE
3-5 Inch Snow
Expected Today
Snow will taper off to flurries
today after depositing three to
five inches of new snow in this
area.
The fifth appreciable snow
storm within the last five weeks)
swept into Central Pennsylvania,
early yesterday afternoon after
burying some sections of the Mid
west under more than a foot of
snow.
Gusty winds accompanied the
snow and some blowing and drift-;
ing was expected by late last
night and this morning.
| The unseasonably cold weather.
! which has persisted for nearly
five weeks, will probablv con-)
tinue for several more do vs Aj
new storm may bring more snow!
to this region late Friday night
and Saturday.
Snow flurries are likely this
afternoon and tonight with tem
peratures remaining quite cold.
Today’s high should be about
33 degrees and tonight’s low will
be near 22 degrees.
Mostly cloudy and cold weather
is expected tomorrow with a
chance of snow at night. The high
temperature will be 34 degrees.
Deadlines
For Greek
The deadline for sororities and fraternities to submit
applications for the outstanding pledge, participation in the
exchange dinners and in the Interfraternity Council-Panhel
lenic banquet was extened until Saturday by the Greek Week
committee last night.
Applications for all three events will be accepted if they
!are postmarked March 19, said r ——
'Ronald Novak, Greek Week co- tet contest will be 20, 15 and 10,
chairman. respectively, for the first three
Only 24 fraternities and eight'places,
sororities had entered their can-! A bridge tournament first place
didates for the outstanding pledgelwill give 20 points, second 15 and
as of last night. jthird 10. The poster contest point
Quartet winners in the IFC awards will be the same,
sing contest will be announced In addition, 10 points will be
the night they compete, accord- given to each group entering the
ing to Ron Roth, sing co-chair- Sing contest and five to each en
man. The winners will be in- tering the quartet, bridge and
viled to perform in the main poster contests,
sing finals, now scheduled for The winners of the oulsland
-8 p.m, Tuesday, April 4, in ing pledge award will receive
Schwab. • five more points for their ro
j Novak also released the point speclive groups,
system to be used in determining Bach participant having their
'Greek Week winners. In the sing chapter president and alumni ad
contest, 40 points will be given visor present at the IFC-Panhel
for first place, 30 for second and banquet will also receive five
20 for third. Points for the quar- points.
Women drivers are
More Time
Needed
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Introducing the rival Western
plan, British Minister of State
David Onnsbv-Gore stressed that
judicial arrangements and sanc
tions— a control system with
teeth would be necessaiy. He
also underlined another basic
Western demand that nuclear
ispace vehicles capable of domi
nating the world must never be
put into orbit by anyone
Both the Western powers and
the Soviet Union proposed
three-stage plans for complete
disarmament. Although these
rival proposals have a surface
similarity, they contain three
major contradictions.
• The international disarma
ment organization pioposed by
the West would have machinery
to judge if a violation had taken
place and have sanctions to apply
against a violator. The Soviet
plan would refer violations in the
'.last resort to the UN Secunty
Council, where the Soviet Union
has a veto.
• The Soviet program would
inot touch nuclear stockpiles un
til the third stage. Thus the really
important weapons would be left
[Until last. At the insistence of the
French, his problem has been
given greater priority in the West
ern plan.
• The USSR, aiming partic
ularly at U S. operations abroad,
insists on abolishing all foteign
bases in stage' two. There is noth
ing in the Western plan about
bases. The United States, Britain,
France, Italy and Canada feel
'that their military bases might
continue functioning for some
time as part of their obligations
i under the UN charter to pieserve
| world peace.
Spring Week Carnival
I Resumes of all booths entered in
the Spring Week Carnival must
be submitted to the Hetzel Union
desk by 5 p.m. tomorrow. A de
tailed script is not necessary but
the plans must demonstrate that
the rules of the Spring Week Com
mittee are being followed.
Extended
Activities
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