Weather foreca
Cloudy, Cold,
Light Snow
VOL. 60, No. 111
—collegian Photo by John Denim.
PICKETING BARBER SHOP—Five students are shown picketing Bunn's Barber Shop yesterday
after the barbers refused to service a Negro. The picketing began in the late afternoon and lasted
until the shop closed,
Khrushchev Presses
German Peace issue
PARTS (JP) Soviet Premier Nikita I:hrushchev mingled
soft words for France yesterday with a renewed threat that
the Soviet Union may sign its own peace treaty with Com
munist East Germany.
The Soviet leader told 300 newsmen at a diplomatic press
corps luncheon that he is going!
Ito change the present situation in:
,Germany, with or without the!
consent of Western Allies.
The United States, Britain and
France, seeking an all-German
i
settlement, oppose his idea that!
the Big Four should conclude
separate treaties.
In his speech, Khrushchev pre
sented these main points:
*On Many policy and social!
questions, he and De Gaulle arej
at opposite poles and "we will re
main at the poles we occupy."
•He is willing to seat France
with other nations to talk over
,problems of the "atomic club,";
!although "in my country we do
!not have such clubs."
*There must be a peace treaty
!with "the two Germanys" and if
agreement is not reached on this
he will sign a separate treaty with
East Germany, by which "all pre
vious accords will lose their
Snowman Wins
UMOC Contest
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity
and Chi Omega sorority took the
all-around prize in Alpha Phi
Omega's "Ugly Man On Campus"
finals last night in the Hetzel
Union ballroom.
Their entry was John Witmer
as the Abominable Snowman.
ATO and Chi 0 also placed first
in the Greek divis b ion of the con
test.
Montgomery House of North
Halls copped first prize in the In
dependent division with their en
try, "Return of the Mummy."
Nittany 29, Nittany 22 and TIM
placed second, third and fourth
respectively in the Independent
division.
Sigma Alpha Mu placed second
in the Greek division.
Marin to Head Conclave
Dr. Joseph Marin, professor and
head of the Department of Engi
neering Mechanics, will head the
local committee in charge of the
program for the National Applied
Mechanics meeting to be held
here June 20 to 22.
This is thq most important con
ference in the field of engineer
ing mechanics in the, United
States.
•
Haitian ancers to ear Sunday
Dancing in one of it earliest lad been .orcibly torr
mtland.
and most beautiful fo .ms will io
This dance begins with an in
highlight the appear nce of vocation to the gods in which
the slave tells his sorrow.
Jean Leon Destine nd his
company tomorrow ]light in
Recreation Hall.
Destine's program, "H iti Festi
val," which is schedul for 8
p.m., will feature Hai ian folk
dances while at the s me time
fusing their two traditions, the
French and the African.'
Alphonse Cirnber, "Ha ti's genii
of the drums," will Os; appear
both as a soloist and a accom
panist-He will perform is "Con-
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 26. 1960
value."
•He is willing to pool some
Soviet aid to underdeveloped
countries under the United Na
tions--but not all of it—and even
then only if disarmament pre
cedes such an agreement.
•The May 16 summit confer
ence cannot settle all East-West
problems, but should find a com
mon language on international
problems and seek an end to the
cold war. Disarmament is neces
sary to peaceful coexistence.
versation for Drums."
Possibly the most spectacular
dance . that Destine's company
will present will be the "Witch
Doctor" dance which depicts a
voodoo priest calling upon the
gods to give him the power to
his patient. ,
With the exception of occasion
al accompaniments on the flute,
all the background for "Festival
in Haiti" will be furnished by
bongo drums.
Another highly expressive
dance will be the "Slave Dance."
It dates back to the time when
both priest and commoners in
Africa were seized to become
slaves in a new land after they
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Snow Flurries
Expected Today
Light snow is expected to occur
intermittently today as the un
precedented cold wave continues.
It is almost a certainty that this
month will go into the record
books as the coldest March ever
observed in State College and
throughout the entire state.
Temperatures through the first
25 days of the -,-ricrn
month have aver-
aged 13 degrees be-
low normal and six j . c'e-
degrees colder than,l $-
t
any previous March. fl
Today will be .
cloudy and cold L.
with light snow ILN
possibly accumulat
ing to one or two' - V
inches by after
noon. Temperatures will remain
cold with the mercury climbing
slowly from a chilly 10 degrees
,around dawn to a high of 28 this
afternoon.
Partly cloudy and cold weather
is expected tonight with a chance
of a few brief snow flurries.
Tomorrow should be partly
cloudy and slightly warmer.
Week Notice Required
For Late Permissions
Requests by individual students
for special late-hour permissions
must be submitted in writing to
the WSGA Judicial Board one
week in advance of the required
late-hour event, Sandra Slish,
Board chairman, said yesterday.
Chairmen of special events or
activities may request extention
of hours for their participants by
submitting in writing the names
of the participants to the WSGA
'Judicial Board one week in ad
vance of the requested extention
of hours, Miss Slish said.
had been forcibly torn from their
homeland.
Other dances include "Congo
Tropical," Martinique, a creole
dance marked by French influence
and 18th Century costumes and
"Initiation of the Hounsi," show
ing a novice being initiated into
a voodoo cult.
Destine's program will also of
fer fire dances, market dances,
carnival and courting dances.
Destine, acclaimed as Haiti's
greatest dancer, is the director as
well-as the star of "Festival in
Haiti."
rgiatt
Five Picket
Barber Shop
University students began picketing a local barber shop
yesterday afternoon after the barbers refused to serve a
Negro
Five students walked up and down in front of the Bunn's
Barber Shop while five white students and one Negro student
Assembly
Drops HUB
Phone Bill
The bill recommending three
additional telephones for the
Hetzel Union Building was
rescinded by the SGA Assem
bly on Thursday.
The bill, which passed last week,
was rescinded after members
heard an executive recommenda
tion which pointed out that a tele
phone with an outside line would
soon be placed in the HUB.
The recommendation noted that.
a survey taken over a two-week
period found only two or three
students an hour had to wait in
line for a phone.
Several Assembly members
questioned the validity of the sur
vey since it concerned a phone
serving only the campus calls,
David Byers, alternate Assembly
man, said that "a more sensible
action" would be to wait until the
outside phone was installed and
then run another survey.
If the second survey showed a
need for more phones, then SGA
can make another recommenda
tion, Byers said.
In other business, the Assem
bly passed a bill which asked that
members of Off-Campus Tribunal
be chosen by the outgoing chair
man, the newly-elected chairmen
and three other members.
Lanny Dey, chairman of the
10ff-Campus Tribunal. explained
that the newly-elected Interfra
ternity Council presidents did not
have time to do the necessary
in
terviewing.
Since this plan involves a con
,stitutional change, it must be read
two more times and passed by a
two-thirds majority of the As
sembly to become final.
SGA Defeats Bill
On ROTC Polling
The SGA Assembly defeated a bill 23 to 15 proposing the
Assembly send questionnaires to State legislators asking their
opinions on compulsory ROTC.
The bill was introduced by John Brandt, alternate Assem
blyman, who yielded the floor to Dave Garland. Garland, in
supporting the bill, told Assem
bly members that President Eric
A. Walker had told him that if!
the legislators do not particularly!
favor compulsory ROTC. then they
administration might change itst
position on the issue.
He said Walker had pointed out:
that the University depends on the;
legislature for funds. "We might'
lprove that it's an advantage to
them (the administration) to get ;
rid of compulsory ROTC," Gar
land said.
However, in an informational
' report, Leonard Julius, - SGA
president, advised Assembly
members that the letters should
not - be sent "without going
through proper channels."
Julius explained that he had
,diseussed the bill with the Senate
'Committee on Academic Affairs
By NICK! WOLFORD
sat inside waiting for haircuts.
Three barber chairs were vacant.
Peter Day, head of the Young
Friend's Society, who was inside
the shop explained that the Negro
student was ahead of the others
and they were waiting their turn.
When the Negro student entered
the store, the "head barber came
over and suggested two other
shops," Day said. Finally, Day
explained, he refused service to
the student because 'This was his
policy."
The picketers outside the shop
wore sandwich board signs which
read "This is a non-violent dem
onstration" and "Help end racial
discrimination "
Four other students passed out
handbills which pointed out the
similarity in technique of their
movement to those in the South.
A statement similar to that on
the handbill was broadcast into
the street over a loudspeaker
system.
When the shop manager was
asked if he refused to serve the
student, he said, "Why don't you
ask them?" "Don't you believe
them?" Of the demonstration he
said, "It doesn't bother me."
The handbills read in part: "The
town of State College is generally
considered to be an intelligent
community, Yet, here it is neces
sary for Negroes and foreign stu
dents to obtain information about
segregation, so that they might
avoid embarrassment."
Aaron Konstam, graduate stu
dent in chemistry. said that this
demonstration was an attack
on the local segregation problem
and an expression of sympathy
with the movement in th e
South.
Konstam explained that stu
dents had gone to four shops to
determine whether discrimination
was practiced. "Usually one Ne
igro and two white students en
itered the shop to get a hair cut,
and if the Negro was serviced
we just left," Konstam said.
Students using this technique,
! found that three of the shops
pinaldo's. Smith's and Cather
(Continued on page five)
and told Assembly members they
might run into opposition if the
plan were not sent through "prop
er channels."
Brandt asked Julius if his
statement meant that the Commit
tee could stop Assemblymen from
writing to their legislator s. Julius
said yes.
Julius had also questioned
• Garland's interpretation of his
own interview with Walker ex
plaining that the President
"sometimes says things in jest."
Several assembly members also
;questioned a clause in the bill
which stated that the majority of
the students were opposed to com
pulsory ROTC.
Earl Gershenow (C.-Sr.) said he
didn't see how this could be de-
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