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Sen ac to to Keep don Recess Also ets Wagner 8 O'Clocks To 7:50 for 'Running Time' By MEG TEICHHOLTZ ksgiving vacation will be included in the dar next year. scussion followed by a 102 to 44 vote the Uni yesterday resoundingly defeated a proposal anksgiving recess in order to provide 15 full A full Tha' University cale In a brief d versity Senate to eliminate TI All W To Si Volun ►men n Out IMM By ANN Women stu tents are no longer compelled to sign out Sunday through Thursday nights, except for special per missions but will continue to sign out on Friday and Satur day nights. This proposal, passed by the Women's Student Government Association last night, will go into, effect this Sunday before the usu al sign -out hour of 8 p.m. In other business, Margaret McPherson, president of WSGA, submitted a recommendation from Dorothy J. Lipp, dean of women, that WSGA revise their ruling on women being allowed to visit men's apartments before the Sen ate Committee on Student Af fairs reviews women's rules next Tuesday. Due to the general opinion on this matter, WSGA decided to let the rule remain as it now stands and leave any revision up to the recommendation of the Senate Committee. WSGA last night received the results of a questionnaire distri buted in the residence hall units this week designed to obtain stu dent opinion on the four propo sals for sign -out revision. They were: •To keep the system as it stood previously in which women were required to sign out seven nights a week before 8 p.m. •To rule that women sign out seven nights per week before 10 •To make signing out optiona Sunday through Thursday bu compulsory for Friday and Satur day nights and for all special per missions. •This proposal was left open to any suggestions on possible revi sion. Of the 3752 women enrolled in the University as of the beginning of the spring semester, 968 or 26 per cent submitted completed questionnaires, and pf these, 80 per cent favored the third pro posal. Coed Overnights Proposed Nittany Opposes Apartment Ruling By SUNNY SCHADE In a lively meeting last night, the Nitthny Area Coun cil voted to investigate the possibility of allowing women in the Nitfany dormitories un til 11:30 p.m. week days, 1 a.m. weekends and for overnights with parental permission. The proposal met unanimous approval from the Council members. Through the , proposal, the Council wished to show its dis approval of a ruling which allows women in men's apartments downtown, Barry Rein, president of Nittany Counl, said. The Council als passed a 'no- weeks of classes in the fall se mester. No alternative system of eli minating the irregularity in classes was suggested. The proposal, stated without recommendation by Benjamin A. Whisler, chairman of the Senate Committee on Calendar and Class Schedule, would have made Thanksgiving a one-day holiday. A short discussion revealed that several senators were against the proposal because students would cut their Friday and Saturday classes if Thanks giving was a one-day holiday. Clotworthy Birnie Jr., assistant professor of mechanical engineer ing, who made an informal poll of students found that 90. per cent of those he asked would cut their weekend classes. "If we want to change the calendar, the faculty will be talking to themselves on the two days after the holiday," Robert W. Green, assistant pro fessor of history, said. Harold J. Read, a member of the Senate Committee on Calen dar and Class Schedule, demon strated at the Senate meeting that approximately 9000 students could be. affected by the sched uling irregularity as it now exists. Read conducted a study of the 1959 fall schedule of classes, which found that in the first 14 pages of the booklet 14 courses, involving 92 sections, lost class hours due to irregular scheduling. Assuming a minimum of 15 students in each section, he corn puted the total number of affect ed courses at 90, affected sections at 600, and students involved at ,9000. In further business, the Sen ate approved a motion to be gin first hour classes in the new Wagner Building at 7:50 a.m. Recommended by the Commit tee on Calendar and Class Sched ule, on an experimental basis for the 1960-61 academic year, this plan will work in conjunction with the scheduling of non-mili tary classes in Wagner in two hour blocks. Students with successive classes in Wagner and on campus would then have "running time" to get to a 10 o'clock since their Wagner classes would end at 9:40 a.m. The committee decided not to increase the time between classes because the extra time would be wasted for students and faculty not having classes in Wagner. Also the regular class day would be lengthened by perhaps 40 min , utes. PLAYERS REVIEW A review of the Penn State Player's production, "The Sleeping Prince," appears on page 3 of today's Collegian. tion that the area living units be,tany students brought before the open to coeds, parents and rela-',Judicial Board of Review were tives between 1 and 5 p.m. on;given judicial probation, which Saturdays and Sundays. This mo-I will also be added to their per tion will also have to meet theranent records. approval of the separate units. As as further order of busi- The Council felt that there is considerable descrepancy be ness, the Council went on rec- I twoen the policies of the dean of ord as opposing the dean of women and dean of men. To women's policy on the down- state their disa town drinking issue. pproval of th regard- Severalv weeks ago, several mi " dean of women's policy in this issue, the Council will nors were apprehended in La send a i ormal ].niter to the two • Galleria, Rein said. These stu- deans and to the WSGA Judi dents were fined by authorities, vial Board, Rein said. and were referred to their respec tive judicial boards. However, he In other business, the Council said, WSGA Judicial Board took moved to go record as opposing no formal action against the coeds a possible change in housing pol other than suggesting counsel- icy which would exclude upper ing for. one, classmen from living in the Nit hesaid, Nit-,tarry area next "year. On the contrary , Ilr Batig VOL. 60, No. 134 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 6. 1960 FIVE CENTS American Plane Downed Over Soviet Territory See related story page 2 MOSCOW (1P) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in a blistering presummit attack on the United States, announced yesterday 'Soviet forces shot down an American plane Sunday on Defense Ministry orders. He said Soviet rockets are ready to retaliate against future incidents. Khrushchev told Parliament—to cheers—that the presence of the American plane over Soviet territory was an "aggres sive act" intended to frighten the Soviet Union in advance of the summit. "One must conclude that ag gressive forces in the United States are taking action to in terfere with the - summit," Khru shchev said. He contended the West's attitude "dims chances of success at the taiks" starting May 16. Sunday, when Khrushchev says the plane was shot down, was May Day, a major holiday here. Until Khrushchev spoke, Ameri cans in Moscow were unaware of any incident. US. officials said later the plane referred to may have been a U 2 jet manned only by its pilot. This weather research plane which took off in Turkey Sun day was lost, the U.S. officials said, and may have strayed into Soviet Armenia. Khrushchev started his account this way: "At 5:36 a.m. May 1 an American airplane crossed our borderS and continued to fly into the interior of Soviet territory." The 1,200 deputies were hushed. Khrushchev went on: "The min ister of defense immediately re 'ported to the government about 'this aggresive act. The govern ment said: The aggresor knows what he is doing when he enters foreign territory. If he remains unpunished, he will undertake new provocations. "That is why it was necessary to act—to shoot down the plane. This task was fulfilled. The air plane was shot down." The deputies roared with ap plause. Khrushchev warned U S. allies —such as Turkey, Iran and Paki stan—that nations with U S. bases must realize they are playing with fire and can receive retaliatory blows. WSGA Withdraws From 'Staff' Plan WSGA Senate last night unanimously voted to dissolve its committee for the new residence hall counseling program because of differences in the program as seen by WSGA and Dean of Women Dorothy J. L The action was taken fo which it was noted that the dean of women's program differed from the WSGA ideas in purposes and structures. The WSGA committee was originally formed with the idea of using orientation counselors as residence hall counselors for freshmen only, said Marianne El lis, committee chairman. WSGA had hoped that the counselors would liv e , with the ,freshmen to help the new stu dents with the difficult prob lems of adjustment under a living system of integration with upperclassmen, she said. However, Miss Ellis said, the program as seen by Dean Lipp is quite different from that con iceived by WSGA. Her program ;calls for "junior residents" who 'would be treated as members of the dean of women's staff. They 'would fit into next year's staffing jof women's residence halls right under the resident graduate stu dents. Present staffing plans call Fire in Pollock 'A' Started In Empty Paint, Glue Cans A pile of empty paint and glue highly combustible and that the cans which was to be removed fire was probably started by a yesterday afternoon caught fire cigarette butt or a lighted match at 1l:45 a.m. yesterday, causing carelessly tossed into the pile of damage to Building "A", one of cans. the new dormitories in the Pol- Carr said that the estimates lock Circle area. damages to the building are les Three picture windows on the than $5OOO. He said that repre ground floor of the building were sentatives of the Factory Insur broken by the pressure from the ance Association from the Pitts heat of the fire, and the insulating burgh branch will be on campus coverings on water pipes inside t°m°lTm to determine definite damage costs. the building were completely destroyed. Also, some of the bricks of the building were badly charred. , Wilson M. Carr, University.,in surance manager, said that the material in the pile of debris was FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By PAT DYER 14:). lowing a short discussion in for one junior resident for each 50 women, who would be soror ity and freshmen and upperclass independents. They would be the main line of communication between the dean of women's office and the students. Their duties would be in areas of re ferring problems up the staff ing line, of communications and of programming. The WSGA committee was formed at the WSGA retreat Saturday, April 23. The next day at the Leonides conference Dean Lipp expressed her approval of a residence hall program and ap pointed Ellen Eyler and Peggy (Pharr) Harmon, resident grad uate students, as advisors to the committee. The committee has worked with the Dean of Women's office and has given Dean Lipp a list of about 180 women who would be qualified to fill her program, said Miss Ellis. —Collegian Photo 17 Charles isequet ALPHA FIREMEN extinguish the fire in a pile of debris next to Building "A" in the Pollock area. Damages were estimated at less than $5OOO. , • ‘‘- ' •' . 1:!•- • • Toltrogian Warm Weather Remains; Showers Due Tomorrow Generally fair and pleasantly warm weather will continue to day and tomorrow, but showers are likely by tomorow afternoon. Temperatures will rise into the middle 70's both today .and to morrow. Some cloudiness and mild wea ther is in prospect for tonight with a minimani reading of 53 degrees expected.