Weather Forecast* I Partly Cloudy, { Mild 1 MiiiuiMiiHiiHiniiiHiiimiiiiiiiiiintKr VOL 41. No. 35 Panhellenic Council Passes Controversial Rushing Code After a prolonged and somewhat heated discussion, Panhellenic Council voted last night to accept a revised rushing code for spring formal rushing which will be held from February 11 to March 3. One of the most controversial changes involved the . establishment of a counselor guide program. The new code provides that guides for the compulsory open houses at the beginning of rush will also serve as counselors for the entire rush period for their respective groups of rushees. An integral part of this pro gram would require the guide counselors to give up their soror jity identity for the duration of the rush period. Each sorority would be required to have one sister act as a counselor-guide. These guides would meet with their counselees before each round of rush and before the rushees sign preferential. They would give advice on any prob lems which the rushee may have but would not recommend one sorority over another. Marcia Hamm, Panhel Rushing Chair man, said in explaining the new program. The program is designed to help the rushees—to give them a personal contact with a sorority girl since ‘the rushee would be more willing to talk to a soror ity girl about sorority problems,” Miss Hamm said. j In opposing the changes, Judy High, Pi Beta Phi, pointed out that "this would deny the coun selor one of the most important privileges of a sister—that of se lecting her new sisters." "It would be very hard for a counselor to remain completely objective about the system, especially if it came down to advising a rushee in choosing between her sorority and an other group in signing preferen tials. Sue Grossman, Alpha Ep | silon Phi, added. During the prolonged discus- 1 sion several alternative plans were proposed—allowing the girl to keep her sorority affiliation to the extent that she would be per mitted to rush, and having the program set-up on a “call when needed” basis rather than hold ing regularly scheduled meetings. STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTIONS: Ronald Burdett checks his ballot as he votes in the Chemistry-Physics student council elec tions in. Osmond. In charge of the voting booth is Richard E. Smith. The council elections will continue today. Fraternity Rushing Begins This Week The annual confusion of dinner parties, lunch invitations, and weekend parties began for first semester freshmen Monday with the onslaught of fraternity rushing. A meeting for prospective rushees, house rushing chair men and all house presidents i in Schwab. Rush registration and a general discussion of Penn State rushing procedures will be held at that time Although registration is. not compulsory for rushees, all men interested in the fraternity sys tem are urged to attend this meet ing, Corky Goldstein, IFC Rush ing Chairman, said last night. Under the regulations made last spring when IFC rejected deferred rushing, all first se mester freshmen are eligible for rush now, Goldstein said. However, in order to pledge, the rushee must make a 2.2 se mester average. If a rushee fails to make his average this semester, he must make a 2.2 semester or 2.0 All-University average next semester in order to pledge, he added. Rushees will be invited to lunch, dinner and weekend par ties starting this week and last ing throughout the semester. Bids may be issued by any house whenever it feels that the rushee is well enough known to all the members of the fraternity, Gold stein explained. Bids will be given by various houses at different times. A rushee may hold on to a bid until the date for pledging if he wishes, neither accepting nor re jecting the bid. “Rushing is a two-way propo sition,” Goldstein emphasized. “Rushees are being evaluated by the fraternity men, but the Greeks are also being rated by the rush ees,” he added. Each rushee must make the decision as to which house he would be happiest in, he said. DaUii @(!.‘iiUnu STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2. 1960 By PAT dyer is scheduled for 7 p.m. Sunday Councils, Senate Of AWS to Meet Community Council members will meet at 6:30 tonight in the Hetzel Union Building in the fol lowing rooms: Simmons and Mc- Elwain, 203; Pollock, 214; South, 215; West, 212; Atherton, 213 to elect officers and set future meet ing times and places. The AWS Senate will meet at 7 tonight in 203 HUB with its full revised membership. U.N. Rejects Cuban-Soviet Demand UNITED NATIONS N. Y. said it welcomed the chance to (YP) —The UN General Assem- SIT ™ “ * ar - ransin3 bly last night rode down After voting down the Cuban Cnhan demand*? for amendment the Assembly decided Cuban Soviet demands tor a vote of 53 _ n with 2 i aUsten urgent Assembly debate .on tions to send the issue to the as their charges that th'e United States is planning an invasion voted against the majority. Six of Cuba countries were absent. ™ „ . ' ~ James J. Wadsworth, U.S. dele- 2 W °PifhJn gation chief, took the rostrum in of debate, rejected a Cuban the y General Assembly to amendment to upset a previous say a j r ing of the accusations steering committee decision as- show up Cuba and its Soviet signing the debate to the As- , sembly’s 99-nation political com- PP r e s. mitte. He argued for a complete dis- The vote was 29 in favor of the cussion of the charges in the Cuban-Soviet stand, 45 against, Assembly s political committee, and 18 abstentions. giving it priority for the The United States branded widest possible debate there, the Cuban - Soviet charges Valerian A. Zorin, Soviet dep "false ... monstrous distortions uty foreign minister and head of and downright falsehoods," but the delegation, opened yesterday’s FOR A BETTER PENN STATS Mild Weather Due Some sunshine and mild weath er is expected today and a high temperature of 57 degrees is pre dicted. Partly cloudy and cool weather is predicted for tonight. A mini mum of 40 degrees is expected early tomorrow morning. Mostly cloudy, breezy and mild weather is in prospect for tomor row with just a chance of a brief morning shower. A trend towards cooler temprature readings will begin tomorrow afternoon and continue into Friday. Expansion Is Studied Board of Trustees to Rerate Priority of Construction Plan A general revision of the University’s expansion plans is now being studied and will be given to the Board of Trustees for approval in January, C. S. Wyand, vice president for development said yesterday. Included in the new long range plans will be many structures that a university of this size needs, Wyand said. Some plans are an auditorium, a field house, an all-faith chapel, HUB and library expansion and addi tional academic buildings. “What must be determined for the new report to the Trustees Wyand added, “is the priority that the individual structures will have on a definite construction plan, and where the money to finance the construction is to come from,” Wyand said that “some where along the line we will have to make room for large convocations to meet.” The figures on an auditorium are uncertain, Wyand explained, but it may cost about $4 million, he said. Wyand added that a gen eral fund drive is a “vague possi bility” for raising this money and that perhaps classes might con sider donations from their class gift funds. There are no definite architec tural plans, Wyand said, but there are some “rough” sketches. These have not gone beyond the idea stage, he added. The committee on long range development, which Wyand jheads, has not-gotten to the sub ject oi: definite plans on the need ed structures in their revision as yet, Wyand said. Wyand said that “somewhere opment studies, made in 1957 and submitted to President Erie A. Walker on Jan. 1, 1958, “unrealis tic.” The assumptions under which those plans were drawn up included (1) that the organiza tion of the University would not be altered before 1970, and (2) that price levels would remain about the same. Only recently the basic organ ization of the University has been altered by the 4-term plan and the cost of living and building has risen appreciably, he noted. The original report stated that the faculty and staff would have to be increased, and a building program aggregating $163 million at 1957 price will be required by 1970. debate with an accusation that “the United States seeks to delay the discussion which would ex pose its aims. It tries to gain time it needs to carry out measures planned by th& Pentagon to pre pare and commit direct armed in tervention in Cuba.” Zorin led off with a long statement that encompassed the charges voiced in the Assembly Monday by Cuban Foreign Min ister Raul Roa and spokesmen for the Soviet bloc countries. Zorin charged that the Cuban people “can at any moment be come a victim of direct armed aggression from a neighboring imperialist power. Even now acts of gross interference by the U.S. government in the affairs of the Cuban people are taking place,” Wadsworth said that if Cuba is serious about the charges, it should take them to the U.N. Se curity Council. liiMiiiiiuiiiimnntiiiitMtMiMsaMlttHi Discipline -See Page 4 SGA Group To Survey HUB Lot How many people use the Hetzel Union Building park ing lot at night? Who are they and what reason do they have for parking there? The an swers to these questions are the goals of the SGA Traffic. Code Investigation Committee which held its firsLmecting last night. ' According to Richard Kelley, committee chairman, the commit tee hopes to gather enough sig nificant data on the parking situ ation to present to the Senate Traffic Committee on Nov. 15. Last night the committee de cided to check the HUB parking lot at 6,7, 8,9, 10 and 11 pan. each night to determine how many of the 216 available spaces are actually being used. Similar checks will be made on nearby lots such as the one behind Os mond and the one in back of Simmons and McElwain Halls. These surveys will include the weather conditions as well as the other data. The main objective will be to seek reassignment of the persons now using the HUB lot. If these persons can be ac commodated in the Osmond lot, for example, the HUB lot would be free for student use at night. Kelley said at the meeting that the Campus Patrol is making a similar survey by marking the various lots as one-quarter, one half, three-quarters or entirely full. The patrol has refused so far to make their information avail able, ho said. Robert Kennedy Cancels Talk Robert Kennedy, campaign manager of John F. Kennedy, Democratic presidential candi date, expressed regrets yesterday that he will not be able to speak at the University as previously scheduled. . Kennedy, called suddenly to California by bis brother, has ar ranged for Endicott Peabody, nominee for governor of Massa chusetts, to speak in his place. Peabody will address students and faculty at noon Thursday in the Hetzel Union ballroom. He is the son of Right Rev. Malcolm Peabody, retired Episcopal Bish op of central New York state and himself Chancellor of Old North Church, Boston. In 1954 Peabody was selected outstanding young. man of Bos ton by the National Junior Cham ber of Commerce and in 1955-58 he represented the 3rd Congres sional District of Massachusetts. FIVE CENTS
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