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VOL. 61. No. 46
Discussion Forum
May Be Created
By Town, Students
A Student Affairs Bureau, composed of State College
businessmen and representatives of the student organizations
on campus, has been proposed by the State College Chamber
of Commerce to discuss profr
Paul S. Mazza, president i
Main Line Break
Causes Failure
In Electric Power
It was ‘‘lights out” yesterday
afternoon all over campus, in
State College and in parts of
Bellefonte.
A break in one of the main
lines of the West Penn Power
Company resulted in an electrical
failure which caused lights to
flicker off and on for over three
hours.
The campus power plant could
generate some power but not
enough for the entire University,
a spokesman at the plant said,
but still the campus had elec
tricity almost an hour sooner than
State College did.
Electrical power was restored
to the campus about 1:45 yester
day afternoon but State College
was without electrical service un
til about 2:45. ,
The power failure Interrupted
television classes and some other
classes because of lack of light,
but bluebooks went on as ever in
some courses.
Service Depts
Consolidated
The department of personnel
services and employee relations
have been consolidated into the
new department of general serv
ices to begin operation Dec. 1.
The new department will be
responsible for the handling of
campus mail and for the Univer
sity’s participation in the delivery
of United States Mail.
The telephone service, the du
plicating shop and a centralized
addressing and mailing room will
also be part of the department
which will take over those activ
ities now being carried on in
various locations on campus.
Frank F. Morris, who has head
ed personnel services since 1945
will direct the new Department
of General Services.
LSU Traffic Conditions
Police Enforce Pules
This is the third of a series of
articles on traffic and parking
problems which confront other
colleges and wiiversities.
Campus traffic conditions,
growing rather than improv
ing, forced Louisiana State
University to call in city,
police, according to an article
In their student newspaper,
the Daily Reveille.
Louisiana State University cov
ers 4725 acres of land and is lo
cated two miles south of Baton
Rouge, about one-half mile from
the Mississippi River. It is the
culmination of the state support
ed public school system and pro-
Satty^CStfltegt
By SANDY YAGGI
lems common to both groups,
of the Chamber of Commerce,
said that this group which would
meet regularly would discuss
questions of both agreement and
disagreement. Subjects of dis
agreement might include parking
problems in business and resi
dential areas and problems ol
service to students in buying
books, food and clothing from
town merchants, he said.
Spring Week and the Greek
Week activities might be dis
cussed in the area of coopera
tion between the groups, Maz
za said the. Chamber would like '
the students to know that such
activities hold more importance
to the borough than the annual
"thank-you letter" to the stu
dents.
The student members will also
be expected to carry back to the
student body, or the studenl
groups they represent, reports oi
bureau accomplishments and re
quests for student cooperation
where necessary.
Town housing for students
would also be discussed. Mazza
said that the Chamber is “try
ing to make housing what it’s
supposed to be—reliable.” An
other Chamber committee is
undertaking a thorough survey of
the housing problem which has
been becoming more acute and
will be able to help in this dis
cussion.
Mazza said he hopes the or
ganization can at first accom
plish some modest objectives
and then move on to bigger
things. We realize, of course,
Mazza said, that some prob
lems cannot be solved com
pletely, but it is hoped that
viewpoints can be established
and an attempt at solutions can
be made.
Mazza said that in the past the
Chamber of Commerce has at
tempted to work on such prob
lems through the administration,
but that they hope an organiza
tion with student participation
will have a more direct contact
with the student body.
At approximately 10:55 last
night the Collegian received an
anonymous telephone call
which informed them that the
stately Nitiany Lion had been
painted by a Pitt man. Upon
investigation, the Nittany Lion
was discovered to have a blue
stripe down its back.
vides dormitory housing for
3350 men and 1370 women.
The Reveille article said that
city police had been called in
to enforce speeding and reck
less driving regulations on cam
pus. It said Campus Security
had repeatedly requested the
cooperation of all drivers, and
the vast majority had been
.abiding by the traffic regula
tions.
However, a few who had for
gotten, failed or refused to com
ply, had forced the University to
seek more rigid enforcement for
the good of the students and the
protection of the community.
In a statement released to the
Reveille, C. R. Anderson, Chief
of Campus Security, said city po
STATE COLLEGE. FA.. THURSDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 17. 1960
BULLETIN
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Segregation Riots
Rock Delta City
NEW ORLEANS ( JP ) —Riotous demonstrations against school race mixing exploded
again and again throughout downtown New Orleans yesterday.
Screaming demonstrators grudgingly gave ground to clubbing police and arching fire
hoses, but re-formed and hit another street. Arrests mounted to 58 by midafternoon.
'Pound Pitt' Tags
To Pepper Rally
What’s blue and white
and full of fight? Why the
“Pound Pitt” tags to be
hung on every Penn Stater
attending the Block ‘S’ pep
rally at 7:30 tonight in the
Hetzei Union ballroom.
True to the spirit of Ying-
Yangism, a motorcade will
form after sunset (6:45 p.m.)
behind Simmons. In a burst of
typical rowdy revelry at 7, the
- cars with sufficiently loud oc
cupants will stampede through
. the campus and collect at the
HUB.
Rip Engle, a pep rally tra
dition, is destined to make the
scene accompanied by his man
"Friday," Sever Toretli, the
coach who spied on Pitt. Via
minimal fanfare they will in
troduce senior members of the
squad.
Gerald Abrams, WDFM
Walker Addresses Convention
On U.S. College Research Aid
WASHINGTON (IP) How
government can foster scientific
research without stepping into
control universities and colleges
is the education question of the
day, Eric A Walker, president of
the Pennsylvania State Univer
sity, said yesterday.
His remarks were made in an
address before the 74th annual
meeting of the American Associa
tion of Land-Grant Colleges and
State Universities.
Walker suggested that a model
might be found in the federal
program supporting agricultural
research, in effect at the land
grant universities continuously
since 1887.
He said the program has been
so successful no other nation even
approaches the United States in
agricultural productivity.
He noted that a part of the mon-
lice had been requested to work
traffic on the public streets on
campus. He said they were using
speed clocks and had been issu
ing hundreds of tickets every
day.
According io the Reveille ar
ticle, students had been caught
placing placards on the streets
where the officers were work
ing to warn oncoming traffic
that speed clocks were in oper
ation.
The article said that Chief An
derson had warned students that
to interfered with an officer in
performance of his duty .was a
serious offense. He said the of
fending students had been picked
up and would be handled ac
cordingly.
sports director, and Mark '
“Lucky” Greenwald, will sus
tain the heavily-billed pro
gram by alternating as M.C.’s. :
Even SGA will get into the .
act by providing Richard Ha
ber, one of our more student- ‘
interest - centered presidents,
and will give ' him supreme
jurisdiction in the realm of
cheer contest winner presenta
tions.
Haber will share the spot
light with the three winners of
the cheer contest as he hands
out the tickets for Saturday’s
game.
Anyone who can muster up
the strength to endure all this
in one night will also hear the
cheerleaders cheering -the win
ning cheers.
Last, but who is to say least,
will be a dramatic reconcilia
tion between those dubious
dilettantes Frothy and the
Lion.
ey appropriated for. the program
is distributed evenly among the
50 states, while the rest is allocat
ed according to plans submitted
for regional. interstate research,
and to relative size of the rural
and farm populations within the
several states.
TIM Gives Support
To Burgess 7 Group
The Town Independent Men’s Council last night gave a
vote of confidence to a burgess’ committee on town housing
conditions and interracial relations and pledged to support
its efforts wholeheartedly.
The committee, composed of students and townspeople,
will study various aspects of
housing in State College and
problems of adjustment confront
ing foreign students in the area.
Kenneth Paeofsky, senior in pre
med from Smithfield; represents
TIM Council on the group.
Phil Haines, TIM president,
said after last night's meeting
that the council was especially
interested in aspects of the
group's studies which might
provide information leading to
standardization of housing con
ditions for University students.
In the past TIM requested that
the University survey housing
conditions to provide information
which might promote this stand
ardization, Haines said. However,
the University felt that it could
not be responsible for legal action
which might result from attempts
for standardization, he added.
If an apartment were termed
"unsafe" by a University group,
the adminisiraiion fell if might
find itself held liable in resull
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Many persons, both white and
Negro,-were hurt.
Scattered violence coniinurd
under a rain that broke up the big
mobs at mid-afternoon. White
yolUhs stabbed a Negro boy near
Charity Hospital in latest vio
lence.
More than 1000 demonstra
tors most of them teen-agers
—failed to reach the school
board offices in downtown New
Orleans.
Three hundred teen-agers re
formed after hoses and clubs
drove, them from the streets, and
tried to charge into City Hall a
few. blocks away.
Mounted police and fire hoses
shattered the wall of screaming
and drenched youths.
Chanting segments turned to
the narrow streets of the famed
French Quarter. Some teen-agers
seized a policeman and bent him.
As. the fire hoses were turned
on the crowd in front of the
school board office. Muriel
Schneider, mother of two,
grabbed Police Supt. • Joseph
Giarrusso by the trouser leg and
pleaded: "Chief, help us, not
the U.S. government." Tears
.rolled down her cheeks.
“We’ll help you,” said Giar
russo, “if you do it in an orderly
imanner, but we are not going fo
let you take over the city.”
| While the uproar echoed against
[the walls of downtown building?,
U.S. Sen. Russell B. Long (D.-La )
stood before an infuriated Louisi
ana legislature in Baton Rouge
and said: “I would be personally
willing to impeach the entire Su
preme Court if my vote would do
it.”
The senator virtually told the
legislature it \yas on its own.
"The situation in Washing
l ton," he said, "is likely to get
I worse. Wg simply do not have
! the voles."
! ‘ And, he suggested the legisla
ture abandon public schools and
turn to a segregated private
school system.
ing legal action from the land
lord affected, Haines said.
Although the University is, as
a state non-profit organization,
legally immune from such moves,
it was reluctant to have test cases
brought before the courts oh this
ground, he said.
Paeofsky reported to the TIM
Council that the burgess’ com
mittee had not definitely decided
to conduct the survey which
might yield specific information
on housing conditions.
It is now primarily ' concerned
with helping foreign students ad
just to their new surroundings,
he said.
In other business, Charles Me-
Ferring and Lee Loughlin were
appointed to fill vacancies on the
council.
Haines reported that the TIM
constitution providing for auton
omy for the group is still before
the Senate Subcommittee on . Or
ganization Control.
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