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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
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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
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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.
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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.