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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.
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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
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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.
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Discipline
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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.
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