04r Itailg VOL. 61. No. 58 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 9, 1960 FIVE CENTS JFK Asks Adlai to fill UN Position WASHINGTON (LP)—Presi dent-elect John F. Kennedy yesterday asked Adlai E. Stev enson to• serve as ambassador to the 'United Nations. Steven , - said he would consider it. Kennedy met with , Stevenson after conferring at his George town home with Dean Rusk, who has been described as a leading contender for the top Cabinet post of secretary of state. Rusk declined t.o tell news men whether he and Kennedy had discussed a possible role for him in the new administration. They were together about 45 minutes. Rusk , said the talk dealt with foreign affairs gen erally and especially "organi zation of the government to car ry out our foreign policy." Rusk, a 51-year-old Democrat who served as assistant secretary of state in the Truman adminis tration, is now head of the Rocke feller Foundation with headquar ters in New York. Kennedy's announcement that he was offering the U.N. role to Stevenson ended speculation ab6ut the 1952-56 Democratic standard-bearer. Kennedy still has seven regular Cabinet posts to fill. He has so far named Gov. Luther Hodges of North Carolina to be secretary of commerce, Gov. Abraham Ribi coff of Connecticut to be secre tary of health, education and wel fare and Rep. Stewart L. Udall of Arizona to be secretary of the in terior. Much speculation now cen ters on the posts of secretary of the treasury, secretary of de fense and attorney general. One of those mentioned for at torney general, or for solicitor general, attorney Byron "Whiz zer" White of Denver, was a Ken nedy caller Thursday. He said Kennedy offered him a job he didn't say what job and said he was thinking it over. Men's Orientation Will. Be Changed Tentative plans for an entire 'change in the men's spring orientation week program include a mass meeting of all incoming freshmen and transfer students, Earl Gershenow, chairman of the program, said yesterday. In the mass meeting, which will include about 400 men, student leaders will speak in an effort to provide a better "gen eral attitude" about the Univer sity and give them a "proper per spective" on the school, Gershe now said. In past programs, he said, the material given to couselors to present in small counseling groups of about 20 men was uniform but the quality and em phasis in presentation by the in dividual counselors was not. "The mass meeting should remedy this," he said. The student leaders who will speak at the meeting will be giv en a topical outline of subjects to be covered. Gershenow said that as of now the topics have been designated as Immediate Needs, Campus Relations, University Re lations and Town Relations. Under Immediate Needs, the speakers will cover housing and dining hall procedures. In .the category: p of l camtut FOR A BETTER PENN STATE —Collegian Photo by Rick Bower OEDIPUS THE KlNG—Oedipus, played by Rodney Busch, is shocked- to learn his true identity from Donald Stadius, center, and Philip Sebutt:, right, as the Corinthian Messenger and the Shepherd respectively. The show will continue to run tonight and tomorrow night. Review 'Oedipus' Rescued . By Stirring Climax Apathetic actors almost killed Oedipus before his time last night at Schwab Auditorium but an expertly played second act rescued him for a stirring climax to the ancient classic Director Kelly Yeaton tried to tie the two plays "Oedipus L Rex" and Oedipus at Colonus" to -1 gether in giving the complete 1 0edipus story in a manner com prehensible to the modern audi ence. Mil Ball Set for Tonight in Rec Hall The 1960 Military Ball will be held tonight as the queen's hon or guard composed of members of Scabbard and Blade, military recognition society, and Pershing Rifles, military honorary society, highlight the annual affair. Woody Herman and his Herd will supply the music for the dance from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. Relations, he said, academic, social and extra-curricular ac tivities information will be ex plained. In the groups, the men will then be free to ask questions con cerning information presented to them at the mass meeting. Counselors will answer these questions, Gershenow said, and handle details concerning -the physical operation of the Univer sity, such as forms and cards that incoming students are required to complete. Gershenow said he felt that qualified counselors have been lacking in past programs, and he would strive for an excellent rather than a varying quality among them. Applications for orientation counselors for the spring semes ter will be available at the Hetzel Union. desk on-Monday i he said., Toltrgiart By DEX HUTCHINS The two plays or acts certainly were not comparable and the au dience could only have compre hended the second one. J. Rodney Busch as Oedipus Rex, looked and acted more like a bored King Neptune than an Oedipus. He watered his part down considerably with a stiff unimaginative interpretation of his role. His attempt •to` rally the audi ence with emotional appearance as the blinded ruler late in the first act was to no avail—he had already struck out. J. Robert Stahley, as Creon, was the only actor in the first play , who seemed capable of ex pressing some emotion through body movement. His appearance was a welcome one to the half mesmerized audience, its senses driven to retreat by an endless sing-song shouting of lines. The staging in the first act left much to be desired. The small speaking groups were iso lated from one another at each end of the stage with Oedipus in the center as a mediator.• The chorus (doubling as the. ci tizen of Thebes) particularly suffered from this arrangement —their voiced comments and contributions on the main ac tion seeming more li ce an inco herent babble than intelligent comments. The second act, Oedipus the Exile, redeemed for the most part the failures of the first. It was here that the worth of Yeaton's "streamlining" comes into play. For the first time in the eve ning the audience was drawn to the characters and the action they experienced empathy and were grateful for the opportunity. Judson Sanderson, as the exiled Oedipus, easily gave the most sin cere and moving characterization of , the• entire production.. • , v -,..,: , ‘., PA .%\% • , ) A ,:,..j. ~, , .....: \ ..` p ';',!,:,, : 3, ''•l' l , - . , . , . -:: - . • r • 4 8 4 , ! SGA Assembly held four meetings in twenty minutes last night, three of which were called to legalize the past two elections. This confusion of meetings began when Duane Alexander, chairman of the SGA Reorganization and evalu ation Committee, announced that all assemblymen, except those elected last fall, were hold- SGA Asks ling their seats illegally. This occurred because SCA had :stricken from its constitution the section which gave it the power , HtJ B Lot ito hold elections after the fall 11959 election, and had neglected Ito follow the custom of replacing !this for the next two elections. I 'Alexander discovered this Be Opened, when a bill concerning the le gality of SGA regulation of By JERRIE MARKOS and . elections was referred to his CAROL KUNKLEMAN I committee last week. . Alexander took the floor during Upon completion of the fifth the first meeting to present a SGA meeting 1a s t nigh t,'constitutional amendment that would rectify the situation. the newly-installed Assembly; He proposed an amendment passed a recommendation t o ,which would allow SGA to pre scribe! the time, place 'and man open the Hetzel Union park-,pier of the elections of assembly ing lot on a trial basis. 'men, and added that this amend iment had to be passed in order to The recommend at i 0 n'validate the past two elections. came about as a result of a report; Since all constitutional amend from Dick Kelley, chairman of ments Assem bly at three separate must bo approved by the Traffic Code Investigation, meetings, Alexander moved that committee. Conclusions wer e; Assembly adjourn and then drawn from surveys conducted byi hold three consecutive sessions the SGA committee of faculty to approve the amendment. He members. , urged favorable consideration SGA moved to recommend to; , of the amendment saying, "If the administration that the HUB' this is not passed, there will be lot be reopened to students who! no Assembly in about five min have green and yellow parking ufes." permits, from 5:30 until 12 p.m., Alexander's reference was to Sunday through and including the fact that the only legally Thursday nights, for a six week elected members of Assembly, trial basis, those elected in the fall of 1959, Green and yellow permits were would be going out of office later designated because they repre-tin the evening. sent parking fees of $l5 and ss,i . The amendment was approved respectively, Kelley said. !in three rapid fire sessions.. Dur- The committees report furtherj n g the third session, the laugh suggested that the lot be open forling assembly also voted to certify visitors on weekends and that a'the legality of the past two elee number of spaces be set aside dur- lions; thus, legalizing the pros ing the week for visitors, facul-;ence of the assemblymen elected ty and staff facilities. Ilast spring and this week. Part of the committee's sur- Alexander said that the new VOY consisted of counting the i amendment could make the number of cars using the lot much disputed "$700" bill con- . between 5:30 and 12 every night stitutional. This bill, which was of the week. The largest num- j passed by the Assembly last ber ever recorded was 108, (one i month, provides that $7OO of half the spaces available), at 7 SGA funds be used by the elec. p.m. Sat., Nov. 5., the day of lions commission to finance the Maryland football game. election campaigns, The report stated that by noti The constitutionality of the bill opening - the lot until 5:30; rush:was changed this week by Den hour traffic could be eliminated.l (Continued on page eight) Soviets Accuse Dog Of Lumumba Beating UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (EP)—The Soviet Union yester day accused . Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold of en couraging "a gang of murderers" to carry out cruel and inhuman acts against deposed Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba. Soviet Delegate Valerian A. Zorin lashed out also at the United States and its-NATO al-' lies as the forces behind attempts and acts like the colonizers," Zor to physically remove Lomumba in declared. " and his associates as the legal, - It is clear that the secretary Congo government. general himself does not intend Zorin delivered the • strong ! to do any himself to remedy attack in the U.N. Security Council in support of a Soviet the situation'," Zorin added. resolution calling for the im- He said the colonizers are plain mediate liberation of Lumum- ly in the saddle in the Congo and ba, now held prisoner by Con go authorities. "Mr. Hammarskjold seems to be Hammarskjold sat at the side washing his hands of the aggres sion against Mr. Lumumba." of Zorin, the council president for December, during the speech. This, The United States, Argenti na, Italy and Britain have in is the, normal seating arrange ment at the council table. , troduced a rival resolution di- The secretary-general smoked? recting Hammarskjold to see a cigar, and smiled occasionally that rights of all imprisoned as Zorin spoke. , Congeles leaders are respected. The attack on Hammarskjold During the day Belgium put be ranked in severity with that of fore the council a statement say- Soviet Premier Khrushchev in ing it had no intention cf with the General Assembly in Sep- drawing its personnel from the tember. ;Congo as demanded by the Soviet , `:The secretary-general speaks Union By MEG TEICHHOLTZ
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