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VOL. 61. No. 67
SGA Calls Dea • Week'
For Exam Prepar•tions
SGA Assembly unanimously declared Thursday night that next week be designated
"Dead Week." By doing this, the group officially put an end to all extra-curricular activi
ties until after final examinations.
Assembly will not meet again until Feb. 9.
The motion to proclaim such a week was made by John Witmer (U-Jr.), newly elected
—Collegian Photo by Rick Bower
THEN THERE ARE THOSE WHO DEFY—This motorist seems to
have forgotten about the two-way traffic on Fraser Rd. The Uni
versity instituted the new rule to ease traffic congestion on the
west side of campus.
'Chorale' to Feature
Ceremony of Carols
The Robert Shaw Chorale, which will perform at 8 p.m.
tomorrow in Recreation Hall, will feature "A Ceremony of
Carols" in. their program.
This work by the contemporary British composer, Ben
jamin Britten, is a collection of old English poems about
spring, winter, love and phil
osophy woven together to tell the
story of the birth of the Christ
child
Most of the songs in the work
are of unknown authorship: a
few are written in a medieval
style by later poets.
"Singet Dem Herrn" by Jo
hann Sebastian Bach will be an
other feature of Sunday's pro
gram.
This song of thanksgiving uses
the 149th Psalm as its text and is
regarded as one of the supreme
tests of the ability of a choral
group.
A third work to be performed
is "The Sayings of the Saviour
on the Cross" by Joseph Haydn.
This piece was admittedly
Haydn's own favorite among his
compositions and has received
numerous performances both dur
ing and since Haydn's life.-
The final presentation will be
"Jephthah" by Giacomo Canis
simi, a 17th century composer.
The opera-oratorio takes its
story from the 11th chapter of
Judges and recounts the triumph
of Jephthah, an Israelite gen
eral, over the Ammonites.
Jephthah vows that if he is
successful in battle, he will sacri
fice to the gods whatever first
comes from his house to greet him
on his return. His daughter, Filia,
is the first, and the work con
cerns the plight of father and
daughter in their conciliation to
the sacrifice confronting them.
Both student and non-student
tickets remain at the Hetzel Union
desk.
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STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 7, 1961
Cold Weather to Return
Today will be partly cloudy and
mild with a high reading of 47
degrees.
A few showers this evening
will be followed by snow flurries.
windy and much colder weather
late tonight. The temperature will
hover around 40 degrees before
midnight, but then fall rapidly
into the middle 20's tomorrow.
A developing storm system in
Texas may bring a substantial
snowfall 'to this r rea late tomor
row night and Monday.
Senate Rules Booklet to Be Revised
The booklet of Senate Regu
lations for Undergraduate Stu
dents joined the ranks of
things to be revised under the
four-term plan when the Uni
versity Senate accepted the
recommendations of its Com
mittee on Rules Thursday.
The committee recommended
changes in wording, content, time
intervals and format.
Editorial changes such as sub
stituting the word term for semes
ter will be made by the commit
tee. The rules committee will al
so make changes in time intervals
and dates. The time intervals will
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
president pro tempore, following
a recommendation made to As
sembly by the SGA Cabinet.
In presenting the recommenda
tion in the Cabinet report, Don
ald Clagett (U.-Vice Pres.) said
that Assembly would have to pass
the measure by a twb-thirds ma
'jority, since the SGA Constitu
tion specifies that Assembly shall
meet weekly.
Assembly also went on rec
ord as "strongly supporting" the
Eidophor project.
[ Fred Meckley (C.-Sr.) urged
[ Assembly to pass the motion in
support of Eidophor because he
said student support may help to
keep it on campus. Eidophor is
[on loan to the University for
$25,000.
Earlier in the meeting Earl Ger
shenow, chairman of the Public
Relations Committee, reported
that his committee had found that
there was a "definite demand"
for Eidophor.
Gershenow reported survey
results from Eidophor question
naires In which 549 students
participated. On all the ques
tions, most of the students said
they would watch Eidophor.
In other business, seven assem
blymen were elected to the Rules
[Committee, two of them being in
dependent candidates and the
other five University Party mem
bers.
Those elected are: Joan Cava
naugh (1.-Jr.), Dale Scott (1.-
Soph.), Dean Wharton (U.-Soph.
Class President), Robert Polishook
(U.-Soph.), Elliott Newman (U.-
Soph.), Barbara Watchorn (U.-
Soph.) and Nancy Williams (U.-
Jr.).
Hamburger Patties
Roll Down Street
Shortlidge Rd. had some
strange traffic yesterday when
250 pounds of hamburger pat
ties rolled out of the back of a
Food Service truck and down
the hill toward College Ave.
The meat was destined to be
today's lunch for the 800 stu
dents who eat in the Simmons
dining hall. Due to the disaster,
however, the students will be
served hot dogs.
Robert C. Proffitt, director
of Food Service, said Food
Service was embarrassed by the
incident but that they at
tempted to pick up as many
hamburgers from the street as
possible. "We couldn't leave
them there," he said. Proffitt
added that these patties were
destroyed and would not be
served to the students.
be prorated—thus a two week
period on the semester calendar
becomes 10 days under the new
system.
Changes in content have
been referred to other Senate
committees. For example, the
Academic Standards Commit
tee will deal with changes in
the sections dealing with gradu
ation requirements, examina
tions and unsatisfactory scholar
ship.
These changes do not directly
pertain to the four-term system
and no spec)fic information for
future plans is available on them
at present.
The Senate also accepted a
recommendation which called for
complete reorganization of the
üban Militiamen
I ccupy Churches
HAVANA (EP)—Prime Minister Fidel Castro tightened
his already firm military grip on Cuba yesterday, sending
troops into Catholic church buildings and other possible
opposition centers.
Citizen soldiers occupied two Catholic schools and a
church as strategic points. Thou
sands of militiamen and militia-
women increased their alert
against what Castro pictures as a
U.S. invasion' due any moment.
News from other areas was al
most blacked out, but it was un
derstood f ran tic preparations
were under way throughout the
entire island to repel invaders
from the north.
Men and guns swarmed
around the luxurious Hotel Na
cional, the Havana Riviera Ho
tel, historic Mono Castle and
other _places familiar to tour
ists.
Malecon Drive, running along!
Havana's seafront, has been chos
en for major defense positions.
Muzzle after muzzle points sea
ward along the Malecon—anti
tankguns with protective shields
and four-barreled Czech antiair
craft guns. Other guns top histor
ic Principe Castle, long a city
prison in the heart of Havana and
now apparently a fortified com
mand post. •
San Francisco church in
downtown Havana, Belen Cath
olic School and LaSalla Con
' vent School have been chosen
for gun sites and militia con
, centrations, for reasons not im
mediately clear.
Priests were told the buildings
are considered strategic locations.
After militiamen temporarily kept
,worshippers from entering, Mass
was allowed in the church.
The capital shows signs of grow
ing tension. Hundreds of Castro's
supporters armed with Czech burp
'young rebels teen-age sup
guns and bazookas have moved
linto the city and quartered them
selves in the Hotel Nacional and
elsewhere.
Many are as young as 12. But
they appear to have been trained
extensively at mountain military
schools.
Russian Gym Meet
About 2000 general admission
and 1000 reserved seat tickets for
next Saturday's US-Russian gym
meet at Recreation Hall will go
on sale at 8 a.m. Monday at the
!Recreation Hall ticket office. The
general admission seats are priced
at $2, the reserved seats at $3.
Standing room tickets will also
be sold the night of 'the meet.
Twelve hundred tickets will be
sold next Saturday at 6 p.m. at!
Schwab where the meet may be ;
viewed over Eidophor. The price.
of these tickets is $l.
format of the booklet which will
be divided into three main sec
tions.
One will deal with policies
—such as the one on class at
tendance—as distinguished from
rules. The other two sections
will contain rules which are ap
plicable to students on all the
campuses and those which deal
only with some campuses.
The previous Senate handbook,
handed out at registration to all
students, was composed of only
rules, listed in a random alpha
betical form. For example, the at
tendance rules, recently abolished
by the Senate in favor of a gen
eral policy statement, had been
listed as the "K" rules.
In other business, the Senate
(Continued on page eight)
Privilege
att Jeopardized .
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Liberal's
Charter To
Be Studied
The revised charter of the
Liberal Party will be acted on
by the Senate Committee on
Student Affairs next Tuesday,
Richard Snyder, chaii•maii of
the party said.
This is the third time the char
ter of the party has been before
the committee. The first time the
charter was returned to the party
without being acted upon and the
second time the committee re
fused to grant the group a char
ter.
In additional action taken by
,the party, a 6-man legislative
committee was formed to assist
Liberal Party Assemblymen by
idoing research on bills that are
'being considered for presentation
before the Student Government
Association Assembly.
At the present time the party
has three Assemblymen, Wayne
Ulsh (Sr.), Ruth . Falk (F.) and
Dale Scott (F.) in 'the 42-seat As
sembly.
This committee, chaired by
Dale Harris, a freshman co-ed
in liberal arts and a defeated As
sembly candidate, will place the
party on a year-round basis, Sny
der said. Its membership, he con
tinued, will predominately con
sist of defeated candidates or per
sons aspiring to be candidates for
the Assembly and who want some
experience in the field of student
government.
Lehigh Meet v
To Be Seen
On Eidophor
Schwab Auditorium will he the
!scene of a closed circuit broad
cast of the -Lehigh wrestling
matches set for tonight at. 7 p.m.
over the giant scene of Eidophor.
Plans for televising the basket
ball game against Carnegie Tech,
following the match, are indef
inite.
The broadcast of the wrestling
matches is being held to give
over-flow crowds from Recrea
tion Hall an opportunity to vi' w
the event, Leslie Greenhill, asso
ciate director of the Division of
Academic Research and Services,
said yesterday. •
The doors will open at 6:30 p.m.
and visitors and townspeople may
gain admission through the pur
chase of a $1 ticket. Students will
be admitted with their matricu
lation cards.
Henry L. Yeagly. director of
maintenance and utilities. said
yesterday that students and visi
tors attending the match in
. Schwab should obey the "No
Smoking" regulation and should
;also refrain from leaving trash
and candy wrappers on the floor.
He also pointed out that some
of the racks on the backs of the
seats in the auditorium had heen
broken off at the last Eidophor
,event and that feet should not be
placed on the seat in front.
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