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VOL. 60. No. 138
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previously annou
ment of Housing
will not participat,
The reason fo
Assembly
To Discuss
Segregation
Racial discrimination in
State College housing will be
discussed tonight by SGA
Assembly tonight in connec
tion with a bill presented by
Jacob Dentu, graduate stu
dent.
SGA Assembly meets at 7:30
tonight in 203 Hetzel Union.
Dentu's bill suggests that room
ing houses in town be registered
In the dean of men's office and
that information as to the land
lord's preference of roomers be
given to facilitate the choice of
living areas by the students.
This preference information
should be available to the stu
dents and, if possible, mailed to
students living in town, accord-
Ing to the bill.
The bill further proposes that
SGA recommend to the borough
authority that they find a feas
ible means of alleviating the prob
lem of discrimination in the com
munity with due priority to be
given to the area of housing.
In other business, the final
reading will be given to a consti
tutional amendment to change
the definition of a quorum to
three-fourths of eligible members
rather than three-fourths of total
membership.
A report on the rules com
mittee's recommendation on the
absence of assemblymen will
be presented by Robert H.
Harrison, committee chairman.
The committee has recommend
ed that it determine the validity
of all absences. Assemblymen
would be responsible for sub
mitting excuses to the commit
tee for their absences.
The recommendation was sup
ported by the SGA Cabinet Tues
day night.
Other committee reports will
include Flight Committee, Car
mella La 'Spada; Organization
Board of Control, Larry Epstein;
Public Relations, Jacqueline Leav
itt; and Student Encampment,
Robert Umstead.
Student 0 • inion Poll
Frosh =4oeds Give Views on Housing
By ANN PALMER
Ninety-seven freshman wo
men were interviewed this
week in an informal survey
conducted by The Daily Col
legian to obtain a cross-section
of opinion on next 'year's policy
of freshman wome living with
upperclasswomen.
Of the 97 wome interviewed,
68 were against an, 29 were for
the following questi'n which was
set before them.
"Next year the ire •hman women
will be mixed wit upperclass
women in the re•idence halls.
Only their roomm tes will be
freshmen. Do you think this is
a good or a bad id =a? Why?"
Those in favor o having all
ed for Women
,e in Runkle
Announces
11 not house women students next year as
ced, Otto Mueller, director of the Depart
raid. Thus North Halls, housing only men,
in the community living plans.
this change is that enrollment figures for
women in the fall do not indicate
a need for using the 286-capacity
hall for housing women students,
Mueller said.
Another change in housing pol
icy, assigning freshman women
to upperclass residence halls will
continue to go into effect on a
large scale next year. The plan
has been used to some extent in
the past three years in the men's
residence halls and to a very limit
ed extent last year in the women's
halls, Mueller said.
Many of the incoming fresh
men for the fall have already
been given room assignments
in various residence halls in ac
cordance with this plan. Ather
ton. Simmons and McElwain
Halls will have the largest pro- '
portion of the freshman wom
en but they 'will total only one
fourth of the entire student
population housed in those
halls.
In the women's Pollock halls
there will be about 30 to 35 fresh
men in each dorm, said Mueller
Each of these, which will house
sororities, has a 256 student ca
pacity.
The entire campus housing
ratio of freshman men to upper
classmen will be about 50-50,
although Nittany will be pre
dominantly freshmen since few
er students asked to be re
assigned to that area, Mueller
said.
The freshmen are being assigned
to rooms in the various residence
halls which have not been re
quested by upperclassmen. It is
not likely that there will be only
one freshman room on a corridor
of upperclassmen, Mueller said.
The policy for housing students
in this manner was decided at a
regular staff meeting of the De
partment of Housing, the dean
of men's office and the dean of
women's office, Mueller said. The]
decision was reached because it'
was felt the general development
of students is better when they
are in association with people of
all classes, Mueller said. It will
no longer be a case of the blind
leading the blind, he said.
2 A. M. Permissions
All women students will be
given 2 a.m. permissions to
morrow and Saturday nights.
according to the dean of wom
en's office.
freshmen residence halls made
the following points:
eFreshmen have a big adjust
ment to make and it is more eas
ily made if everyone is "in the
same boat."
•Freshmen leadership will be
hindered because the residence
halls will be dominated by the
upperclasswomen.
•Upperclasswomen have pre
viously formed ideas on certain
activities, sororities, political par
ties, etc., which could be unfor
tunately passed without giving
freshmen a chance to judge for
themselves.
•In the beginning, freshmen
have a tendency to be intimidated
by upperclasswomen - and thus
would not ask them for help.
Those who favored freshmen
living with upperclassmen backed
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA.. TfIURSDAY MORNING. MAY 12. 1960
Khrushchev Blasts
Eisenhower Visit
WASHINGTON (JP) Barbed comments by Soviet Premier Nikita Is hrushchev yes
terday suddenly pulled the welcome mat from under President Eisenhower's goodwill visit
to the Soviet Union.
Administration officials were plainly startled by Khrushchev's remark that Eisen
hower might be an embarrassing guest because he approved spy-flights over the Soviet
—Collegian Photo by Paul Lowe
LION'S PAW MEMBERS defend the secret Penn State organiza
tion last evening in a half-hour debate broadcast over WDFM.
Counterclockwise around the table are Jay Hawley, Lion's Paw
member; Alan Elms, Froth Editor; Stephen Milner, moderator;
John Brandt, Campus Party clique chairman; and Frank Pearson,
Lion's Paw member.
Gloomy Weather
To Continue Today
With little movement in the
overall weather pattern expected
for another day or two, there ap
pears to be no hope for a change
from gloomy weather for at least
two days.
Considerable cloudiness and
cool weather will again be the
prevailing weather condition to
day. The high temperature may
be a few degrees higher than yes
terday's with a predicted maxi
mum of 55 degrees.
Mostly cloudy and cool weath
er should continue tonight with
a low reading of 40 degrees.
Some sunshine may break
through the cloudiness tomorrow
and, consequently, afternoon mer
cury readings could reach the 60
degree mark.
their opinion with the following
points:
•Upperclasswomen will tend to
have a calming effect on fresh
men and will help them to adjust
to quiet hours, bluebOoks, etc.
•Freshmen will have a chance
to see how a college woman should
act and can follow the example.
•All college women have the
same problems—the only differ
ence between freshmen an d
upperclasswomen is that the lat
ter know better how to handle
them.
•Before college most people
spend their time with those of
their own age. Freshmen should
be given a chance to know other
age groups.
All seemed to agree that the
success of this program depends
on the full cooperation of upper
classwomen involved.
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Bicycle Auction
The Borough of State College
will hold a bicycle auction be
ginning at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Fifteen bikes, mostly of the
English variety have remained
unclaimed at the Borough build
ing for several months, some for
several years.
The bikes will be on display
Saturday at 10 a.m., one hour be
fore the auction.
Lion's Paw
Defined by
The purpose of Lion's Paw is to bring together capable
mental powers to discuss campus issues, Frank Pearson, past
University clique chairman, said last night on WDFM's
Forum of the Air."
Pearson and Jay Hawley, past chairman of the SGA Rules
Committee, debated the influence
of Lion's Paw in an open discus
sion with John Brandt, recently
defeated Campus Party candidate
for SGA vice president, and Alan
Elms, past editor of Froth. Brandt
and Elms recently wrote a 20-page
pamphlet concerning LP's influ
ence on campus activities, espe
cially student government,
Hawley echoed Pearson's def
inition of LP and its purpose,
adding that the organization
was for intellingent discussion
only and that members were not
bound in any way by their
membership to promote any
specific ideas.
Brandt rallied with an accusa
tion that Pearson had been influ
ential in the party-switching of
Jack Crosby, defeated University
party candidate for SCA secre
tary-treasurer.
Brandt implied that Pearson had
told Crosby that his chances for
Union
"The Russian people would say
I was mad to welcome a man who
sends spy planes over here like
that," the Premier told reporters
in Moscow.
This newest maneuver by
Khrushchev raised the prospect
he might pull pack his invitation
to Eisenhower or that Eisenhower
might cancel or delay the 10-day
visit set to start June 10
Khrushchev's free-wheang per
sonal comment at a news confer
ence also appeared to raise East-
West tensions another notch in ad
vance of the summit conference
starting in Paris May 16.
The White House and State De
partment greeted Khrushchev's
words with a frosty no comment.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty reinforced
the official silence with these
words: "I haven't any comment
—P-E•R•T-O-D. That's about all.
I don't expect there will be any."
An Eisenhower associate, ex
pressing what he called a person
al view, doubted that Eisenhower
would seek to cancel this trip be
cause of Khrushchev's words. The
President was described as eager
to make the visit because this of
ficial said he sincerely belives it
might lead to an easing of ten
sions.
Eisenhower views the sharp
words exchanged between the So
viet Union and the United States
since the spy incident as cold
war jockeying for advantage prior
to important negotiations, this in
formant said.
Some diplomatic authorities,
however, took a more serious
view toward Khrushchev's re
marks even though the Soviet
leader is renowned for his
quick-on-the-trigger jibes.
In saying he "of course" has
changed his opinion of Eisenhow
er, Khrushchev suddenly shifted
Soviet tactics of absolving the
President of blame in the spy
flights,
Purpose
Hawley
By KAREN HYNECKEAL
winning the election and for fu
ture LP membership depended
upon his switching parties.
Pearson answered that he had
a signed statement from Crosby
which denied any influence
from him. Pearson also said that
if he used any influence. "it
was not influence as an LP
member."
In their pamphlet, Brandt and
Elms had also contested the ap
pointment of Robert Umstead as
Elections Committee chairman.
Brandt said last night that dur
ing the elections he had felt that
the polls were being operated
properly, mainly because Um
stead was not carrying out his
duties.
Brandt said that he told Leon
ard Julius, former SGA president
and LP member, that he would
fight Umstead's appointment but
that it did no goocL
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