The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, May 07, 1960, Image 1
re ash r B a n g a d or s FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Weather Fo Showers Thunderst VOL. 60, No. 135 Ike tvi Soviet Recen WASHINGTO yesterday on whe Soviet Union in I "If I go to RusN proposed trip in a The remark c Boyer ies Unexpectedly After Attack Walter Boyer, instructor of English Compoition died yesterday afternoon after he collapsed in front of Stephens Hall, lie was pronounced dead on arrival at 5:30 p.m, at the Centre County Hospital. Coroner Robert Neff said Boyer died of a heart attack. Earlier in the afternoon Boyer had told some of his stu dents that he had pains in his chest and consequently was can celling his 4 o'clock class, He was evi dently on his way to the Gar- g. den House apart- ,--- ment when he j.,. ? : --, •,1 4 „, ; collapsed. Boyer was an ( 4 7; instructor in lit- 12 erature of the let Bible and had rt`. 4 ':• a • - been instructing t English 64 and X1,°:.:"4 4-0 • ~• 65 this semester. He was not Boyer married and is survived by two brothers, Marlin of Pillow and Erwin of York. He was born in Pillow on July 4, 1911. He had re ceived degrees at Franklin and Marshall College and from the Theological Seminary, both in Lancaster. He received his master of arts degree at Bucknelt University and was a candidate for the doc tor of philosophy degree at Penn State. He was also an ordained min ister in the United Church of Christ. He came to the 'University as a graduate instructor in 1950 and became an instructor in 1953. Funeral arrangements are being made at the Reed Funeral Home in Pillow. --Collegian Photo br John Benue* RUMINATES TRAFFIC JAMS—The new traffic lights at the corner of Shortlidge Rd. and E. Col lege Ave. keep both automotive and pedestrian traffic moving smoothly. The lights will help eliminate the traffic jams at this corner during peak hours. y Not Union Due to Declarations (/P) President Eisenhower cast doubt er he will go through with his visit to the !l'a," was the way Eisenhower mentioned his offhand remark, without further explana- me after a White House spokesman had said the President was fully in-1 formed about the bitter wave of anti-U.S. declarations coming from Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other Soviet leaders at the Su preme Soviet meeting in Moscow. The Pled leaders have aimed broadsides at America, at Ei senhower, at Vice President Richard M. Nixon and boasted of shooting down a U.S. plane inside the Soviet Union last Sunday under Khrushchev's personal orders. In related developments: A State Department spokes man disputed Khrushchev's accu sation that the U.S. plane was on a deliberately aggressive, pro vocative mission. Press officer Lincoln White said the United States assumes that the pilot of an unarmed Ameri can weather plane missing near the Turkish-Soviet border Sunday "blacked out" and might have crossed into Soviet territory. There was and never has been any "attempt to deliberately vio late Soviet air space," he said. *The U.S. government for mally asked the Soviet Union for "full facts" of the Soviet in quiry into the plane incident and for information about the missing pilot, Francis C. Pow ers, 30, of Pound, Va. The United States made its re quest through a note sent by Am bassador Llewellyn E. Thompson to the Soviet Foreign Office in Moscow. *U.S. officials still were not certain that the plane IChru shchev talked about is the miss ing American craft. Khrushchev said an American craft was downed at 5:36 a.m. Moscow time on Sunday. This is nearly 3 1 / 2 hours earlier than the hour at which 'U.S. officials say the American plane took off from Adana, Turkey. Inclement Weather Showers and thunderstorms, I,some of a vigorous nature, are expected in this area today. Heavy rain, strong and gusty winds and possibly hail will accompany these severe thunderstorms. Warm weather will remain to day and temperatures should manage to reach 76 degrees. Cooler weat h e r will drop tonight's reading into the 40's. STATE COLLEGE. PA., SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1960 Visit New WSGA Revoked by Lipp The voluntary sign-in, sign-out system for women students announced Thursday by WSGA was revoked yesterday by dean of women's office Dorothy J. Lipp, dean, announced. In a specially called meeting of the WSGA Senate yesterday afternoon which lasted for an hour and a half, Dean Lipp told the group that the system was unacceptable to her and her staff and left her '`no choice but to reverse the decision." ••• . • ;,- Edeorroi Opinion away the only "defense mocha- V' nism" for extended hours. A iews Must Be Recognize compulsory sign -out stem is "our only hope of s tratamining the system 7 she said. "We ca n not do without signing in and ':•C out." she added. She said she was "shocked" at '4WSGA's action and felt that the ;group had not seriously considered `,the ramifications of allowing ...,women to come and go as they -* please in the "danger times after '=dark," Referring to a questionnaire ;;which members of WSGA had ,sent out to determine how worn ' >en students felt about the sign ;!out procedure, Dean Lipp said it 'was only natural that so many :ILesponded - negatively to compul ;:sory signing out. But, she added, "girls can't have , _everything their own way." Un .4ortunately, signing in and out is "a necessary nuisance," she said. Dean Lipp also criticized WSGA's withdrawal of support from the new residence hall counseling program. In a un animous vote the WSGA Senate • Thursday dissolved ifs commit • lee which had been working on the new program, because of what it felt was a contradic ' lion between its ideas and pur poses and those of the Dean of Women's office. In the system as conceived by ' , her office, Dean Lipp explained „yesterday, each women's resi dence hall would have a number of "Junior residents." These women would be specially „selected undergraduates wh o 'zwould act as a link in a direct • chain of communication between . the students and the dean of S,women's staff. • WSGA had conceived the jun , , ior residents as counselors for . freshman women only. Dean Lipp said she was again shocked by WSGA's action, and could not understand how the (Continued on page twelve) It is unfortunate that dictators have never realized that the measures of freedom granted to gain favor with the masses sometimes have unusual results. The rather benevolent dictator, who means well, may rule for years without anything but minor grumbling opposition. The revolutionary• who seizes upon an unhappy situation to gain favor through a seemingly better policy often finds himself unable to cope with the people who have been told and now believe that they have the right to govern themselves. When trouble arises because of this belief, the smiling politician who has gained power may deftly change a few of his own plans, may still smooth things over through a reasonable, two-sided discussion or he may lose his composure so completely that he threatens punishments he may not be able to execute The dictator may try a number of gestapo tactics to maintain his rule. People are quietly eliminated. Ideas other than the dictator's own are suppressed. WSGA Thursday took a stand which opposed the program of junior resident counselors set Up by the dean of women's office. • Although an authority higher than the self-govern ment unit, King John of England had to recognize the fact that certain basic rights belong to the people but yet he did not have to relinquish_all rule. It is understandable that some dictators feel they are doing what is best for the people but the basic flaw in the benevolent dictator idea is that probably no one person can always know exactly what is best for everyone. Afternoon Papers Halted PITTSBURGH VP) The .re cently formed Pittsburgh Post- Gazette and Sun-Telegraph yes terday announced discontinuance of its afternoon editions, effective next Monday. rgiatt By CAROL BLAKESLEE, City Editor See related editorial No Calendar Change Expected at Present The University calendar will remain as it is, for the present, Robert G. Bernreuter, special assistant to the presi dent said yesterday. The irregularity in class schedule will probably be com pensated for by the old plan of holding Thursday classes on Monday, Friday classes on Tues day and Saturday classes on Wednesday morning, for the last three days of the semester, Bern reuter said Bernreuter said that there is no immediate calendar change planned since the University Senate Committee on Calendar and Class Schedule has .submit fed all possible ways of avoid ing the problem and no trtion was taken by the Senate. T h e problem of irregular classes arose when classes which. •met once a week were unable to meet the required 15 times during 'the fall semester because of vacs itions. In a 102 to 44 vote the Senate Thursday defeated a proposal to eliminate the Thanksgiving vaca- No Reason For Students' Views See Page 4 WSGA had voted Thursday to :I.:require women to sign out only 4 ; on Friday and Saturday nights. Dean Lipp said the move took 'tion to compensate for this sched uling difficulty. In other business the Senate passed a recommendation that ' all colleges institute a training program for new staff members. This program ,recommended by 'Russell E. Larson, chairman of , the Senate Committee on Educa tional Policy will provide courses for the training of college teach ers. Included in the plan will be visitation by senior staff mem bers to the new instructor's classes for "evaluating progress and permitting constructive th e recommendation states, Laurence H. 'Altman, assis tant professor of geomorphol (Continued on, page eight) FIVE CENTS