SATURDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1960 By PAT HALLER (This is the fifth in a series of articles on traffic and parking problems leges and universities.) -A multi-level garage with cage-type elevators which will presently under construction at the Massachusetts Institute of Norman Sidney, captain of the MIT campus patrol: Sidney said in a letter written to Elliot Newman, member Investigation Committee, that there are plans ibr additional accommodations of this type in. c ams the "not too distant future." He said there is a population of ap proximately 14.000 and parking s ees accommodations for a few over 2000. MlT's parking rules and regu lations. which Sidney enclosed in his •letter, state that all students who need a car because of health or disability must apply to the dean for a special parking permit. A limited number of spaces in Institute parking areas are available for the needs of stu dent government, activities and athletics. The recipients of these permits are determined by a student committee working with the dean. Commuting students not living near transportation lines must ap ply for permits by completing a form and returning it to the cam pus patrol office, according to the regulations. Resident students are per mitted to park their cars in any lot, except the Main Lot. By DAVE RUNKEL I only from 5:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monday through Thursday, and The era of the chain letter which started with money I from 5:30 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. passed through stages of shoes, hair and derogatory letters Monday. The regulations. state • before it hit that resident students parking resent form. the campus in its prt - in lots at all other times, with- The chain letter has been popular (and profitable for out proper authority, will be tagged and fined. some) for 25 years. MIT is a-115-acre campus which One man who had a wooden left leg decided he needed extends for more than a mile a shoe for his right foot but was letter came from good luck let-ICharles River Basin facing the without the necessary finances. tens which were sent during : skyline of Boston. It is an inde- His solution? He started a send-a-', World War I, Coronet said. !pendent, coeducational endowed right-footed-shoe chain letter,] In this scheme only a dime was school netting some 500 shoes of assort-(involved but if everyone lived pot which receives no tax sup from the Commonwealth, ed sizes and conditions, according,uP to the provisions of the letter but benefits from a small annual to an article in Coronet magazine.tone could receive for an original federal grant under the Morrill investment of 10 Gents 15 , 625 Act of 1862. Another man Who was bald ;dimes or $1562.50. started a send-a-hair letter, authorities no ta - Federal 1 presdinably to collect enougheerie Receives tempt to control this until two j hair to make a toupee. Another terprising businessmen raised letter attacked the policies of 4 H S h c • olarship the price of the letters to $l. - President Franklin D. Roose- i Then the government arrested ' Mary Keene, junior in home welt, but was quickly squelched the businessmen, but a grand economics from Christiana, was by some of the president's sup- ju ry in wry Denver refused to in- .named winner of the Allen L. porters, the articles said. diet them. Baker 4-H Scholarship award for The chain letter racket is held On the morning of May 7, 1935, 1960. responsible for only one direct the chain letter hit Springfield.] The award was presented to death a man who broke the Missouri, like a tidal wave andiMiss Keene at the eighth annual chain and became so afraid of:by midnight everyone in.the towniAwards Dinner recently held by what the "mob" would do to him'had a letter to sell. During this College of Home Economics if they found out that he killedday another attraction was added in the Nittany Lion Inn. himself. ;to the game when notary publics i The award fund provides two The original chain letter involv-1 would "validate?" the transac-.annual scholarships of $5O each ing cash was circulated in Den-Itions for a nominal fee of 25:for the first semester of the cur ver in 1935. The idea for this cents, according to Coronet. !rent University year, —Collegian Photo by Neal Fahrer WHAT AM I BIM Members and guests of the Penn State Model Railroad Club look over handmade equipment from engines to barns just prior to the club's annual auction sale last night. Chain Letter Fad Has Long History Placement Service Aids Graduates The Job Placement Service, an organization designed to give students a chance to learn more about a future in their chosen careers, offers aid to graduating seniors in the keen competition for job s, R. C. Schnelle, assistant head of the service said. The Placement Service, located in 112 Old Main, conducts two recruiting seasons during the school year, at which time grad uating students may sign up for job interviews with representa tives of various companies throughout the United States. Schnelle said that the fall season, which began Oct. 3 and Have Your Christmas Party at the Famous LOCK'S RESTAURANT Special Price for Groups legat. Beverages Lock Hoven 5470 ends Dec. 16, has interviews ;pertinent facts about the coin available for January bachelor panies just as the companies of science graduates and those !should learn about their prospec who will get advanced degrees. Jive employees. Students interested in having and At the end of this time the stu interview with a particular com-:dent may sign up for an inter nally are giVen a week in which view in the placement office. The they may investigate the comHinterview, lasting about a half panics an d their workingsdhour, is conducted by a trained Schnelle said. Files are availablelintervieWer whose main interest in the placement office for thisi i s finding out about the indi purpose. I viclual's personality and the plan- Students, he said, should know' (Continued on page five) THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA MIT Plans Cage-type Garages To Ease Crowded Parking Praises New Major ; Intensified Courses Henry W. Sams, professor the requirements and _will have of English, said Thursday the background to de advanced night that the new English work. i These two factors, Sams said, major, passed by the make the level of advanced versity Senate Thursday after-`courses higher, by eliminating from these courses the student noon, will aid the homogeneity with a poor background in lit of the students taking litera-'erature. tune and composition coursestilrurci, end result, Sams con will be to make the stu.- Because of the prerequisites re;dent in the "100" level courses quired for the "400" courses feel on safe ground, without the (these are freshman English find : presence of the keen competition two lower level courses in the created by specialists, majors find Igraduate students. "100" series), the students study-j On the "400" level, students ing on the "400" level will have will be specializing to a greater been interested enough to take extent than they could before. 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