Weather Foreca Partly Cloudy, VOL. 60. No. 120 Senate To Elii The University yesterday but is now vacation to the one-d; Benjamin A. Wh dule, introduced the I Fine Set On Conf Filed Lot A rule requiring anyone who files for a conflict exam ination after the deadline to pay a $lO penalty fine was passed by the University Sen ate yesterday. The rule change was proposed by the Senate Committee on Cal endar and Class Schedule. Ben jamin A. Whisler, committee chairman, in explaining the pur pose of the rule, said, “the object Js not to get $lO but to get stu dents to file on time.” Several senators asked how this would affect students who did not formally file a conflict but made arrangements with the in structors to take an examination at another time. John Miller, University sched uling officer, said that in this situation the student would ob viously not have to pay the fine but pointed out that there was a Senate regulation against this type of arrangement. ' But Miller added, “If the in structor feels that under the cir cumstances . . .” Whisler inter jected at this point with "It’s done frequently.” Under this rule, any student who wishes to pay the $lO, how ever, can thus force an instructor to give him an examination whether or not the instructor had a conflict examination made up. Miller, in defending the rule, said some students could wait un til after the conflict schedule was made up and then have , their choice of which conflict to take. They would not have this choice if they filed on time, “so why shouldn’t they pay for it,” Miller said. !aUy^(EflU Votes mate By NICKI WOLFORD Senate defeated a plan to eliminate the four-day mid-semester break ing a calendar change which would limit- the Thanksgiving consider! ly holida; sler, chai lan to eli: irman of the Senate Committee on Calendar and Class Sched- initiate the mid-semester break explaining that committee members had received calls com plaining of the irregularity of class meetings during the fall se mester, Under the present plan in which j 3-credit classes meet 44 times, the classes which normally meet once a week have not always been able to meet the required 15 times during the fall semester because of vacations. Whisler said the committee had been working on a solution to the problem and found four possible ways to eliminate it. These solutions would make the following changes: . iicts •To start the fall semester 2 days later than usual and make up the time by removing the four free days after examinations and beginning the spring semester right away. •To start the fall semester the Wednesday preceding the usual time, include the fall semester j break, and lengthen the spring se mester a day or two. •To consider the last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday as Thurs day, Friday and Saturday and eli minate the one free day before examinations begin. •To just eliminate the Thanks giving vacation altogether except for the one'day holiday itself. Whisler explained that the committee was not necessarily proposing that the Senate adopt any new plan but wanted to see if it thought the committee should continue working on the problem. He presented the first plan in an official report and called for a straw vote on the other three. The first plan was defeated after Dr. Donald H. Ford, direc tor of the Division of Counsel ing, pointed out that students would not have their grades be fore they registered for spring semester classes. Ford pointed out that between 700 and 1000 students with good grades change colleges within the University between the fall and spring semesters and if they don’t have their grades they can’t trans fer. Robert M. Koser, associate reg istrar in a letter to Whisler, said the first plan would mean stu dents who were going to be (Continued on page three) STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 8. 1960 Down Proposal Semester Break FOi A BETTER PENN STATE ArtEd Head Suffers Spasim At Senate Dr. Viktor Lowenfeld, head of the Department of Art Education, sufered a cerebral spasm while speaking at the University Sen ate meeting yesterday. Lowenfeld, who seemed to be come dizzy, halted while talking [and was then unable to speak. IHe was immediately rushed to Centre County Hospital for diag nosis. Lowenfeld’s physician last night reported that the patient had lost the power of speech and recogni tion, but was not paralyzed phys ically. He was said to be showing some improvement. The doctor emphasized, how ever, that it would be at least 12 hours before any definite prog nosis of the seriousness of Low enfeld’s condition could be at tempted. A cerebral spasm is a spasm of the vessels in the brain caus ing dizziness and severe pain. Ac cording to the doctor, the condi tion of a person so stricken may change rapidly. Students to Cast Absentee Ballots HARRISBURG (TP) Full time students will qualify as absentee voters for the first time at the April 26 primary, the Justice Department ruled yesterday. An amendment to the State Constitution, approved by vot ers last November, allows per sons away from their voting residence because of their "duties, business or occupa tion" to cast absentee ballots. Atly. Gen. Anne X. Alpern ruled students are covered by the terms business or occupa tion. Late Fines Due April 25 William P. Bell, justice of the peace, said yesterday that all overdue fines, whether traffic fines or not, must be paid on or before April 25 or a warrant will be issued for the offender’s arrest. Sophomore Board to Meet The Sophomore Class Advisory Board will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday in 203 Hetzel Union. Members will turn in class gift money at this time. Coed Again Brings Party into Top 3 Sometimes it just isn’t a man’s world after all. A com parison of last year’s spring elections with this year’s shows some interesting femi nine maneuvers. Both times it was the candidate of the fairer sex who brought her party into a top office by being elected SGA secretary-treasurer after the SGA presidency and vice presidency went to the opposing party. However, last year’s feminine winner was from University party while this year’s is from Campus. Last spring, when Campus party's Leonard Julius and Lax* PiPhiForfeits Quartet First The Pi Beta Phi quartet which won first place in the Interfraternity-Panhellenic Sing Tuesday night was disquali fied yesterday when It was brought to the attention of the Greek Week Committee that a member of the quartet is on academic probation. Pi Beta Phi was forced to forfeit their first place award Jr. Class Approves 'S' Seating The junior class has ap proved a referendum allowing the Block “S” Club to occupy the first 22 rows of the new football stadium between the 35 and 25-yard lines for the pur pose of establishing a flash card system. According to I.anny Dey, presi dent of the Block “S” Club, 616 students voted in favor of the proposal while 216 students op posed the plan. In accordance with an expected enrollment of 4000 graduate and senior students next fall, the Uni versity has allotted these two groups 4000 seats in the new sta dium. This section will extend from the 50 to the 20-yard line and the section requested by the Block "S” Club which consists of approximately 700 seats will take up about 17 per cent of the total area. Dey said that since there has never been 100 per cent attend ance by any one class at football games, no senior or graduate stu dent will be deprived of a seat under this system. Dey also said that a number of seniors will be relinquishing seats to participate in the flash card program. The new plan will go into effect upon the approval of Dean Ernest B. McCoy of the College of Phys ical Education and Athletics. Eng Exam Set for May; Forms Available in ME Applications for the Pennsyl vania Engineer-in-Training exam ination to be given May 14, are available in the Office of Con tinuing Education in Engineer ing, 103 Mechanical Engineering. Seniors in any engineering curriculum who are graduating in June are eligible to take the test if their applications are on file with the State Registration Board for Professional Engineers no later than May 2. ry Byers were elected SGA president and vice president, Nancy Clark kept University parly among the "top three." This year Susan Sherman’s vic tory gave Campus party a top office while University party’s Richard Haber and Donald Clag ett captured the presidency and vice presidency. Further statistics show that in both elections the vice presiden cy was decided by the lowest margin. Last year Byers’ 1363 votes gave him the office over Carl Smith’s 1253, the margin be ing 110. This year Donald Clagell beat John Brandt by S 8 votes (1767-1669). The statistics on the other two By JO ANNE MARK to second place Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. A spot check conducted last night by the Daily Collegian re vealed that out of the 13 soror ities and fraternities which par ticipated in the Sing Finals eight would also be disqualified accord ing to section Q-l of the Senate Regulations for Undergraduates. The regulation states that no stu dent on academic or social pro bation may participate in extra curricular sorority or fraternity activities. The presidents of Tau Kappa Epsilon. Pi Kappa Phi, Phi Gam ma Delia, Acacia and Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternities all said that certain members of their fraternities who partici pated in the sing are on academ ic probation. The presidents of Gamma Phi Beta and Delta Delta Delta soror ities also made statements to this effect. Wilmer J. Wise, assistant to the dean of men in charge of frater nity affairs, said that neither the Greek Week Committee nor the offices of the dean of men or the dean of women made any ef fort to check on the eligibility of Sing participants. Some action will be taken on the matter, Wise said. The course of action rests with the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women, said Ronald Novak, Greek Week chairman. The Greek Week committee is, however, free to submit suggestions, said Novak. Cool, Dry Weather Expected Today Fair and cool weather can be expected for the next three days with little or no precipitation in sight. Daytime temperatures should reach pleasantly mild readings while nights will be on the cool side. Today will be partly cloudy with a high temperature of 52 degrees. Clear and cold weather is expected tonight with a low of 34. Fair and slightly milder weath er is due tomorrow with a pre dicted high of 54. offices are as follows: President Spring, 1959, Julius (1423); Art Miltenberger (1207); 216 margin. Spring, 1960, Haber (1904); Pe ter Galie (1563); 341 margin. Secretary-Treasurer Spring, 1959, Clark (1430); Sher ry Parkin (1185); 245 margin. Spring, 1960, Sherman (1894); Jack Crosby (1555)); 339 margin. In both elections, however, the same percentage of the student body voted—23 per cent. In class breakdowns, 12 per cent of the freshmen voted in this elec tion, 27 per cent of the sopho more, 33 per cent of the junior* land 45 per cent of the seniors. Chance for SGA Action See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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