MONDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1961 Trustees Nix fiX in '47; Cost Cuts Were Planned (This is the second in a series of articles tracing chronologic ally the student demand for bookstore facilities.) A plan to establish a cooperative book exchange, which was four months in the making and received the approval of 93 percent of the student body, was rejected by the executive committee of the Board of Trustees in December, 1947. The plan was drawn up by Emory Brown, working with the All-College Cabinet, and its chief aim was to eliminate “mid dleman profits’’ by selling school supplies at cost plus a five per cent mark-up for overhead. All undergraduate students would automatically be mem bers of the "co-op", which planned to return profits to stu dents through lower prices on future sales. Brown's plan also specified that a student elected board of directors would run the exchange. The Dec, 9, 1947 issue of The Daily Collegian quoted the trus tees as saying that the plan was denied” . . . because of the public character of this institution it is not in order for building space, heat and maintenance to be used for a project which will compete with private enterprise.” In a front page editorial the Collegian said “The co-op move ment is in keeping with the aims of the college—to keep the cost of obtaining an education at a minimum.” A "rumble of student discon tent" greeted the decision of the trustees. The All-College Cabi net, in conjunction with the department of psychology had distributed six thousand ques tionnaires to the students ask ing their opinion of the book store plan. A S 3 per cent vote of approval was registered of the four thousand questionnaires completed. The questionnaire, and a pro posed allotment of $1,856.50 had been Cabinet’s backing of the plan "You Can Get It at METZGERS" TEXT BOOKS Shelved for Your Convenience • STUDENT SUPPLIES • SPORTING GOODS By MEG TEICHHOLTZ to demonstrate to the trustees ac tual student opinion. By allocating 25 cents per student, Cabinet hoped to supply part of the initial finances for the exchange. The word "book-exchange” was actually a misnomer, since other than combining staffs with the existing “used book exchange,” (established in 1937) the co-op would not be selling texts, new or used. Also according to the plan, the exchange was to have been located in the Temporary Union Building, now the Conference Center. Residence— (Continued from page one) ginning of the spring semester, Mueller explained. In the Nittany area, there are still about 150 men living in double rooms, but the rest are all now in single rooms. All students moving from tem porary housing were assisted by the housing department, which moved the trunks, and heavy bag gage by trucks, if the student was moving to a new residence hall, Mueller added. The lounges which were used for temporary housing last semes ter will now be open for studying or other designated uses, he said. The rooms which were sorority suites at one time will be changed before they will be open for gen eral use, he explained. The Liberty Bowl game marked Rip Engle’s 100th victory. A Common Expression in Town or on Campus ... Self-Service NEW AND USED SCHOOL BOUND THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Women students wishing to participate in Formal Spring Rust must register today be tween 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. in 212 Hetzel Union. Each prospec tive rushee must present a copy of her transcript and $2.50 registration fee. To be eligible for registration, second semester freshmen and second semester students trans ferring from Commonwealth Cam puses must have a 2.3 semester average. All upperclasswomen and upperclass transfers are re quired to have a 2.00 All-Univer sity average. At registration, each rushee will be assigned to a guide and will be told of the first meet ing time of her group. Formal Spring Rush includes Open Houses, two rounds of Chat ter Dates, Berumda Junctions and Coffee Hours. It is compulsory for all rushees to attend the four rounds of Open Houses which will be held on Feb. 11, 12, 18 and 19. On each of these days rushees will spend 25 minutes in each of six sorority suites. No invitation will be re quired. Afternoon dresses or suits and heels may be worn. Throughout rush, rushees may pick up invitations in the west end of the recreation room on the ground floor of the HUB. Chatter Dates will be held Feb. 20, 21, 23 and 24 from 3 to 5 p.m. and from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Rushees may accept 12 invita tions for the first round and eight for the second round. Bermuda Junctions will be held on Feb. 27 and 28 and rushees may attend four. Coffee Hours will be held on the evening of March 2. Each rushee may accept two invita tions. METZGER'S With the Black Granite Front... 111-115 S. Alien St. Without the Black Granite Front... 358 College Ave. Registration For Rushing Starts at 8 Male Journalists To Pick Cover Girl By DICK LEIGHTON Once again candidates for "Campus Cover Girl” are be ing selected,' and once again the University’s foremost con noisseurs of coed pulchritude have been chosen to' pick the contestant from this campus. For the fourth straight year, the male editors of The Daily Collegian will choose the Univer sity’s representative to the Pitts burgh Press Roto Magazine con test. Five finalists for the Campus Cover Girl will be selected by judges in Pittsburgh from pho tographs sent from colleges and universities in the Ohio, West,. Virginia and Pennsylvania area. These girls will attend a lunch eon and other festivities pro vided for them in the Steel City. Photographs of all five finalists will appear in the Press Roto Lancaster, Pa. MISS UNIVERSE CONTEST Sponsored THE Restaurant by: VILLAGE & Lounge All single LANCASTER girls who desire to enter please contact the "Village" 18 E. Chestnut St., Lancaster. Pa. You must be between the ages of 18 and 26. Winner of the Pennsylvania contest enters the Miss Pennsylvania? goes to Convention Hall in Florida tor the Miss Universe Contest. LANCASTER CONTEST STARTS: February 16, 1961 SAVI DRAFTING EQUIPMENT PENN STATE SOUVENIRS Magazine, and the winner will ap pear on the Roto cover and be featured in an accompanying story. Although coeds from this cam pus have been participating for the past three years, none were lucky enough to be chosen cover girl. - John Black. Collegian Editor and "Chief Connoisseur," does not attribute this failure to a lack of beauty on this campus, however. "The failure was un doubtedly due to an inexperi enced group of judges," he said. Photographs of those wishing to compete for this University’s en trant, must be turned in to the Collegian office in the basement of Carnegie no later than Thurs day noon. They must be 5x7 'or Bxlo glossy or mat finished por traits. Five finalists will be selected by the “Collegian Beauty Review Staff,” and these five will be per sonally interviewed on Friday by the staff. PAGF FIVE
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