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VOL. 61, No. 61
Freshmen
Permitted
Cars on Campus
Freshmen men 21 and over will now be allowed to have
cars on campus, Frank J. Simes, dean of men, announced yes
terday. •
Simes said . the ruling, wh
ately, will provide parking opp
parking areas for the 111 fresh
men who are 21 or over or who
will be 21 before June.
Those taking advantage of the
opportunity will be required to go
through the regular registration
and parking fee procedures, he
said.
The ruling was made by
Simes as a result of a report
submitted to him by Steve
Weintraub, . Nittany Council
president.
proposal was made at the
Nittany Council meeting two
weeks ago requesting that driv
ing privileges be given to the
older freshmen.
Weintraub said that ha and a
council committee then began an
investigation of parking spaces
available and found that there
are 500 student spaces available
on campus.
He said the committee then ap
proached Philip A. Mark, - traffic
violations officer, to confirm their
findings and to find out the num
ber of spaces available on each
lot.
The committee also discov
ered through information from
the data processing machine in
Willard that 30 of the 111
freshmen . who could take ad
vantage of parking facilities
are living, in town, and are at
least 24 or over, Weintraub
said.
This means that they would not
be using the new ruling and of
the 81 men who could, the com
mittee felt that about 55 of them
will use it, he said. This number
was arived at after the commit
tee approached the men to get
their opinions on the proposal.
Also confirming the ruling with
Dean Sime was Albert E. Diem,
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Fenske Slightly Injured
In AutOmobile Accident
Merrell R. Fenske, head of the
Department of Chemistry and
Physics, was slightly -injured in
an automobile collision Monday
night, according to State College
police.
Fenske received minor injuries
and was treated by a local doc
tor.
The accident, police said, oc
curred when a truck operated by
H. Leland Bukley of Williams
port went out of control after
running into a snowbank on S.
Atherton St. The truck crossed
the center line and collided with
the Fenske vehicle.
Darren Resolution
Broader SGA Proposed
See related editorial, page 4
A resolution to give SGA
Assembly the power to voice
student opinion on matters of
loc a 1, national and Inter
national scope will be pre
sented 'to Assembly tomorrow
night by Walter Darran, ma
jority leader of University
Party.
In his resolution, Darran notes
that SGA is insufficient to ex
press student views if it confines
its efforts to giving "supposedly
complete and detailed , answeresto
campus problems.
Darzen's resolution adds that
"our right to officially. express
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—Collegian Photo by Marty Lcvin
BUT YOU'RE NOT REALLY SANTA CLAUS: At least that's
what this little boy seems to be thinking. These children were a
few of many underprivileged children who were given Christmas
parties by local fraternities and sororities.
Mercury Skids to I Above;
Slow Warming Trend Due
The temperature skidded to
the lowest reading in two
years here yesterday morning
when the thermometer at the.
University Weather Station
registered a frigid 1 degree
above zero.
A slow warming trend, which
will begin today, may push the
mercury above, the freezing mark
tomorrow afternoon. However,
colder weather should return to
this area late Thursday night or
Friday.
Conditions are becoming ripe
for the development of a storm
system in the South-Central
states. This intensifying storm
may spread precipitation into the
group opinion on any Subject
even though we cannot offer full
{ answers because of lack of ex
merience, funds and time, cannot
be denied."
Darran said that such voicing
of opinion has been blocked in
the past because "It seems at
times as though the administra
tion is more worried about in
{direct 'pressures on its purse
strings than allowing the student
{body to publicly express its
thoughts.
The administration, he added.
by saying this is a state institu
tion, has kept SGA from voic
ing opinion on issues outside of
campus affairs: because "they
.14e1 that otudent,,opinion,is in
-,tospoeted , by.cnitskiery as being
, voice of the University."
On.some, matters, he added, the
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
De Gaulle to Keep
Home Rule Policy
PARIS (/P)—President Charles de Gaulle came home last night from his Algerian tour
and announced he is, standing by his home rule policy for the big North African territory,
despite rioting there that left 123 dead:
He narrowly missed a' new outbreak of rioting by bo
Frenchmen in Bone; his takeoff point from Algeria.
French troops fired on Frenchmen there for the first t
Middle Atlantic states on Friday
with most of it probably falling
in the form of snow in Pqnnsyl
vania.
The Keystone state continued
clean-up operations yesterday in
the wake of the weekend blizzard.
Philadelphia, which was the
hardest hit area in the state, con
tinued its slow recovery from the
heaviest snowstorm. in 25 years,
but it appeared that 'a return to
complete normalcy would require
another few days.
Temperatures around 10 de
grees and strong gusty winds,
which caused considerable drift
ing of snow, hampered the dig
out operations in the state's larg
est city. Many streets are still
blocked by huge drifts.
All schoolg there have been
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students' main concern is that
their voice be heard, not tied
down in the red tape of commit
tee reports.
Some of The issues which he
cited as being of contemporary
interest to students everywhere
and on which - he would like to
see statements made by Assem
bly are the lack of academic
freedom in Spain. -the segrega
tion problem in New Orleans
I and President-elect Kennedy's
proposed, "Peace Corps."
Further defining the function
of his -resolution, if adopted by
Assembly tomorrow, Darran said
"it would be an important side
function of . Assembly to . take' a
stand,on events that directly af
fect-students, regardless of where
they live."
(continued -ont page two)
Seven Algerians and two French
men were killed.
"We have only one policy
and it is necessary to follow it.
It is the good one," De Gaulle
told Cabinet members and dep
uties greeting him at the air
port.
At the same time he dispatched
a letter to Louis Joxe, Algerian
affairs minister, saying coopera
tion between the European and
Moslem communities is essential,
"All that I have just seen and
heard in the course of my inspec
[ don has convinced me , of this
more firmly than ever," De Gualle
wrote. "To assure this coopera
tion, and to oppose all whose ac
tion tends to prevent it this is
the policy of. France."
' He called for a full-scale Cabi
net review amid reports he plans
to fire any ministers not fully be
' hind his policies.
Behind him in Algeria, De
Gaulle had left word for tough
treatment of the leaders in the
disorders that began with anti-
De Gaulle riots by the Euro
peans and, ended in pro-Nation-
Mist riotg by the Moslems.
Although he never mentioned
the riots while in Algeria, they
are believed to have roused him
to cold anger.
As De Gaulle flew across the
Mediterranean, police rounded up
216 suspected troublemakers in
Algiers. European settlers' lead
ers went underground in their de
termined campaign to keep Al,
geria part og France.
De Gaulle's parting plea to Al
geria had been one for under
standing between Moslems and
Europeans.
"Without this I see only chaos,"
he told the soldiers who saw him
off at the Bone airfield.
PhysEd
Activities
By PAT DYER
(This is the second inn series of articles describing the adjust-
ments planned in the various colleges for the four-term year.)
Tennis in the snow? This possibility has forced the Col
lege of-Physical Education and Athletics to plan the sched
uling of most outdoor sports,only in the spiing term under
the new four-term system, according to John D. Lawther,
associate dean of the college.
The fall term will not end until
Dec, 14 next year, and since most
physical education activities will
be scheduled for the full ten-week
term (instead of the present eight
week period), outdoor sports
would run too late in the year for
fall scheduling, 'Lowther said.
Freshmen and sophomores
will have to schedule their phy
sical education requirements
according to a staggered sched
'ale arranged by curriculums in
order' to avoid overcrowding _
the existing facilities, he added.
All students will continue to
take four credits of phys ed, Law
ther said. These credits will be
taken in four terms, although
students will probably not be-able
to schedule these courses every
semester, he Added.
• s The , courses themselves. wills
First Step
n Toward Action
--See Page 4
h Algerian Nationalists and
me in five days of violence.
LA Faculty
Eliminates
English Test
The LA 5 test was abolished
as a liberal arts requirement
yesterday by the liberal arts
faculty at their monthly meet
ing. The ruling Will go into ef
fect immediately for all lib
eral arts students.
The move was initiated when
Dr. John S. Bowman, professor of
English composition, asked those
present to reconsider the value of
such a test which was introduced
in 1937. '
He pointed out that, on the av
erage, during the last four semes
ters,' only 3 per cent of the stu
dents taking the test have failed
it.
He further stated that when The
'exam was first given, 15 to 20 per
cent failed and then • concluded
that there was no longer a need
for such a requirement.
In other business the faculty ap
proyed a new fine arts curriculum
which will consolidate art and
architectural history, music, arts
and theater courses into one cur
riculum and lead to a bachelor of
fine arts degree pending Univer
sity Senate and Board of Trustees
approval.
It was also announced that
Ades Haller, formerly of the
University of Southern California,
will head the School of the Arts
beginning this summer.
Change
Program
probably be similar to existing
programs although visual aids
may be used to break up the 75-
minute period in the more stre
nuous activities, he added.
Most activities and courses will
be run on a full ten week basis.
Other- courses such as health or
the sports lecture each now re
' quired of all men for eight weeks,
be concentrated into a five-week
program.
Although no, plans have been
made as yet to change the wom
en's program which now requires
one period of health a week as
part of the freshman requirement,
the course may eventually be re
vised into a shorter, more con
centrated. period, he said.
Tomorow: 170-minute labs in
the biological sciences The
t College of Agriculture . .
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