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VOL. 60, No. 135
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Soviet
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yesterday on whe
Soviet Union in I
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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)
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