TUESDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1960
Chamber of Commerce
To Study Town Housing
The State College Area Chamber of Conigierce will spon
sor a survey to accumulate basic facts regarding the avail
ability of town housing, according to Paul Mazza, chamber
president.
Mazza said the survey w
and those unoccupied.
His statements were a clarifi
cation of previous misinterpreta
tions of the survey's aims and
purposes.
Dr. William G. Mather, head
of the Department of Sociology
and Anthropology, will prepare
the survey questionnaire, Maz
za said.
Mather said that he will confer
with various student leaders in
making up the questionnaire. He
said that he hopes there will be
some questions touching on the
types of people preferred for
rentals and the reasons for these
'preferences.
Mather hopes the survey will
indicate the reasons behind
preferences so that, where pos
sible, action may be taken to
make changes.
As an example, he cited the
reluctance of some residents to
rent rooms to foreign students
who are unfamiliar with the op
eration of modern household fa
cilities. In such cases, Mather said.
the preference could be eliminated
by educating these students in
the proper use of facilities.
In making preparations for the
survey, which is tentatively set
for the second week in February,
Chamber President Mazza said
that several student groups have
expressed a desire to help con
duct it. After the survey has been
completed, he said, the Chamber
of Commerce will publish the
summaries for use by the com
munity, the University, and the
public at large.
Mazza explained the Chamber
recognizes that the housing sur
vey is only a first step toward
the solution of housing in this
area, but added that it must be
taken to proceed to a discussion
of the future with a clear under
standing of housing at the present
time.
German Dept.
Will Sponsor
Christmas Sing
The 31st annual Christmas sing
sponsored by the German depart
ment will be held in Schwab at
7:30 tonight.
The program was originally
started by George J. Wurfl, now
professor emeritus of German,
who will once again take part
by reading the account of the
Nativity.
Martin Weinberger, dis t i
guished visiting professor of art,
will give a short talk, illustrated
with slides, on "The Story of
Christmas in Paintings."
As is customary, the singing of
well-known German Christmas
carols will be a feature of the
program and George E. Ceiga,
organist, will provide other music.
A vocal-instrumental group of
students, Kay Esslinger, Sandra
Sliker, Robert Calder, James Mar
tin, Gail Wert and Marie Aqui
lina, will present "Christe Elei
son" from Bach's B-Minor Mass
and Heinrich Schuetz's "Iss dein
Erot mit Freuden."
Reede to Task on Labor
To Business Fraternity
Dr. Arthur H. Reede, professor
of economics, will speak on la
bor relations to the Gamma Epsi
lon chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi,
professional business fraternity,
at 8 tonight at Sigma Chi frater
nity.
Nominations for fraternity offi
cers for the coming year will be
accepted at the business meeting
which begins at 7:15 p.m.
ill include the units occupied
Barretta Returns
From Trip Home
Kenneth Barretta, the student
who took a walk one night last
week and ended up at his home
in Hickory about 160 miles away,
returned to the University over
the weekend.
The freshman set off a full
scale investigation by the dean of
men's office, the Campus Patrol
and the State Police when he
failed to return from an after
dinner walk on Dec. 5.
Barretta, who had reported
earlier that he was having aca
demic problems in electrical en
gineering said yesterday that he
was going to remain in the en
gineering curriculum. "It was just
a little misunderstanding, mostly
on my part" he said.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Low Election Vote Analyzed
By DEX HUTCHINS
Student apathy towards
SGA, poor voting locations
'and the de-emphasis of politi
cal parties were reasons given
last night by four student.
leaders for the 17 per cent
voter turnout for SGA elec
tions this month.
Commenting on the fact that
the lowest turnouts in the past
five years have been recorded
since the SGA reorganization,
Robert Umstead, elections com
mission chairman, said that stu
dents may not feel the new SGA
is as effective and responsible as
the previous cabinet system.
"The students have seen meet
ings jeopardized by lack of quo
rums, poor attendance figures and
haggling over internal procedural
matters since reorganization," he
said.
"I feel that SGA has spent too
much time on these mechanical
problems rather than doing some-
Ahing constructive for the stu
dents and the University," Um
:stead added.
Wayne Ulsh, independent
Junior Assemblyman, said that
it would be better to conduct
balloting in the HUB and in
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dining halls rather than in class of campaigning, not because of
' buildings, !election rules, but because of gen
• Commenting on Collegian fig- .eral money problems, ,,
;he said.
,ures that the highest voter turn "Last spring we spent close to $5OO
:out since 1950 was 43.7 per cent lin campaigning and this money
in the fall 1958 elections, where jwas paid by the candidates them
;voting booths were placed inselves," he explained.
some dining halls, Ulsh said, "Pco- Lazorchak said that the pres
,ple have ten minutes between,ent system cannot serve its pur
classes and with our expanding;pose until more areas arc provid
!campus they have no time to vote , ' e d for booths. He iled staffing
and still get to their classes on o
and supervision problems as the
time." main reason for not having polls
Michael Lazcrchak, Univer- in dining halls.
say Party Chairman, said that . Dean Warton, sophomore class
low voter turnout may be due
to the de-emphasization of par- president, said that the locations
of the voting booths would not
ties Since they recently have
'be a factor in student elections if
been working as units only at 'the students were not apathetic
election time. towards campus politics in gener
"We no longer see unique ways al.
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