Weather Forecasts Clear, Cold t2E!!M VOL. 61, No, 53 Senate OK's Half-Holiday PSU Hosts U.S., Soviet Gym Teams By JIM KARL Lion gymnastic coach Gene Wettstone confirmed reports last night that Penn State will be the site for an international dual meet between the top gymnasts from Russia and the United States on Jan. 14. Wettstone said that the two squads will collide in a full-dress meet in Rec Hall. A championship USSR women's team will per form an exhibition following the meet. • State will be the second stop In a 12-day tour for the Rus sians that will carry them to eight cities in four states from Jan. 11 to Jan. 24. Penn State, a closed ' area to visitors froin Russia, has been ap proved for the tour by the U.S. State Department. The University will be the only site where the American and Rus sian men's teams will actually engage in competition. There will be an international meet between the women's teams from both countries at West Chester on Jan. 11 or 12. All other stops will be exhibitions. Boris Shaklin will head the Russian squad. Shaklin is the 1960 Olympic all-around cham pion and world titlist on the side horse, long horse and paral lel bars. Yuri Titov, another Soviet star, Is the European all-around cham pion and placed'in every gymnas tic event at the Rome Olympic festival. Wettstone said that the Russian squad will be the best gymnastics team ever to appear in the U.S. Performing for the Americans will be six college prodticts who all have appeared at Rec Hall during the past. They include Larry Banner (Continued on page seven) Candidates Present Views on $7OO Fund Campaign funds have entered the campus political arena with the recent decision of some independent candidates not to accept money issue through the SGA Election Commis sion. The candidates for SGA assembly who have been en dorsed by members of the proposed Liberal party have worked on their own posters and publicity since they did not accept the SGA fund and, so, are prohibited from using any kind of commercial publicity. Freshman independent candi date Peter Lemmer said he felt the $7OO fund would have been a good idea, but SGA "went about it wrong." The ruling put election cam paigning in the hands of SGA and gave it too much power over the parties and independ ent candidates, Lemmer said. The control of campaign funds by the Election Commission should prevent a wealthy party from snowballing the election by getting more publicity, he said, adding that there were, however, too many restrictions on use of the money. "None of this, none of that," he said. Lemmer said independent can- ~, ..,,, 1 r i zit 1. : ,,,.-„, k , 4 , - . i i rgi —Collegian Photo by Don Sehoengold TOO BAD!!! It seems there's always someone around to watch a slip of the skate, now that the cold winter snap has brought the skating• enthusiasts out to the University rink. Monitors to Continue in Library—McComb The use of monitors to control noise in the Pattee Library will be contin u ed until the end of the semester, University Librarian Ralph W. McComb announced yesterday. The monitor system has been on a trail. basis to determine its ef fectiveness since September. The monitors are members of the student staff employed to request students to refrain from congregating in the lobbies and on the stairs. They also en force library regulations concern ing smoking and conversation. They : are present on weekday evenings and on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. 1 "It appears that monitors are the best answer to the problem By KAY MILLS didates have used "odds and end's" to make their posters and have had no collections for money. Dennis Eisman, Campus party chairman, said he is against the bill but also against its "misrepre sentation." Eisman, a candidate for jun ior assemblyman, said the fund takes away power from the poli tical parties. For this reason, *he has opposed the bill since it was I first introduced in SGA, he said. In contrast, Dean Wharton, sophomore in business adminis tration from Camp Hill, feels the fund is "good." It gives every qualified person who is interested in SGA a chance to run for office, he said. Wharton, who served as fresh (Continued on Page Eight) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 2. 1960 at present," McComb said. He added that it seemed necessary to continue the program at least until another solution could be worked out. Assistant Librarian Mrs Mar garet K. Spangler said she hoped ate more in obeying these reg ,be a permanent one. She said that some monitors were experi encing difficulty with students in enforcing the regulations and that until students would cooper ate more in obesying these reg ulations the staff did not feel the system could be discontinued. Mrs. Splangler also said that since 'the monitors must be paid for their time, their presence con stitutes a drain on the budget which should not be necessary. 2 Students Disciplined One sentence of suspended suspension and another sen tence of disciplinary proba tion were imposed on students by the Senate Subcommittee on Discipline, Leroy S. Austin, associate dean of men, said yesterday. . . A senior in business administra tion was put on suspended sus pension until March 31 for two incidents of reckless driving on campus, Austin continued. He said the student was under the influence of alcohol at the time of both arrests. The student also had his privilege of driving on campus taken away, Austin said. A person on suspended suspen sion may be suspended from the University by the office of the Make-Up Classes Set For Day Before Finals The University Senate yesterday approved a motion to grant a half-holiday amidst the laughter which followed President Eric A. Walker's joking reference to his own under graduate days. Walker's comments came soon after Senator Frank W. Peikert, vice-chairman of the Committee on Calendar and Class Schedule, moved, but did not rec ommend, that Student Govern ment Association's suggestion for a half-holiday be granted and that classes be made up on Jan. 18, the "free day" before final examinations. I Sporting a slightly modified version of the now familiar TOCS (Thoughtful Observers of the Contemporary Scene), on which the letters had been ob scured by lead pencil markings, Walker' told of a professor at Harvard University who made it a practice to go hatless at all times of the year. • One cold morning, after a drive to campus in his open convertible, the professor entered his class room after the 10-minute waiting ,period to find his students' scur rying out the back door. Grab bing the endman, "an innocent sophomore" and pointing at a hat which lay on a desk in a corner, the irate professor loudly pro claimed: "When my hat is here, I am here." "Well," Walker continued,,. "we had a tradition that when the Harvard-Yale football game was held at the 'other town down the road' (i.e. New Haven, Conn.); professors who taught Saturday classes would inform, students on the Thursday be fore the game that they wouldn't be feeling well Sat urday morning and therefore it would be impossible to hold class." On one such Thursday the hat less professor apparently forgot to inform his class of his upcom ing illness and was shocked to find, as he entered the room on Saturday, that a hat had been placed on every empty desk. Almost unheard in the rau cous laughter, Walker imme diately called for the question and the "ayes," mingled with laughter, quickly gave students the half-holiday they requested. In .the discussion before the Senate turned jovial, SGA presi dent Richard Haber addressed the Senators from a pre-written speech, and urged "favorable con sideration of the SGA recommen dation" which was passed by SGA Assembly in special session Wednesday evening. dean of men if any further viola tions occur. • The committee placed one student on disciplinary proba tion for the rest of semester for violations of traffic regula tions and for disrespectful be havior toward the Campus Pa trol, Austin said, Disciplinary probation limits a student's participation in student activities. According to Austin, the stu dent, a sixth-semester junior in engineering, also had been drink ing. In both cases the committee approved the decisions made by the student tribunals, Austin said. In other disciplinary action, the office of the dean of men placed one student on probation until June because of consistent By MEG TEICHHOLTZ JFK Picks Ribicoff For Cabinet Post WASHINGTON (/P)— John F.I Kennedy started forming his Cabinet yesterday by tap ping Gov. Abraham- Ribicoff, an old friend and early Ken nedy-for-president rooter, as his secretary of health, educa tion and welfare. In this job, the 50-year-old Ilibi coff would playa key role in some of the programs Kennedy has labeled for priority considera tion by the new Congress aid to education, medical care for the aged and the like. • Standing at Kennedy's side as the announcement was made. Ribicoff declared his philoso phy in this gineral field "is on all fours with the philosophy of 1 1 President-elect Kennedy. Several hours earlier, Kennedy made known that behad selected another preconvention supporter —outgoing Gov. G. Mennen Wil liams of Michigan to be assis tant secretary of state in charge of African affairs. Normally, an assistant secre tary isn't considered overly im portant. But Kennedy stressed he regards the African affairs post as "second to none in the new administration" because the dark continent has -become • a major cold war battleground. Williams, 49, who ends an un precedented sixth term as Michi gan's governor an Jan. 1. said later he plans a brief tour of Africa between New Year's Day and Kennedy's inauguration on Jan. 20. Sun to Thaw Campus Crystally clear skies and cold temperatures are predicted for today and the high temperature will be about 34 degrees. Clear and quite cold weather is expected tonight, although readings will be slightly higher than last night. The minimum should be about 20. quiet hours violations, Austin said. The student, a freshman in education, has been thoroughly uncooperative with the represen tatives of the dean of men in both the Nittany area, where he lived at the beginning of the se mester, and in the North Halls area, where he now lives, Austin emphasized. By •taking, this action the dean of men's office rejected the recom mendation of the North Halls tri bunal which recommended tri bunal probation for the student and limited visitors to his room. Office probation is recordell in the office of the dean of men hut tribunal probation is a probation only with the student tribunal. The office of the . dean of men, Austin said, felt a more stringent penalty was needed in this case. 'What Happened To . . .' --See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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