Ktlfffffff ....... IMMO111.11•1111.1111. ***** Mal Weather Forecast: Cloudy, Cool VOL. 61, No. 83 SGA Supports Campaign To Get State Approval Of University's Budget A "well-timed" week of student campaigning to gain Harrisburg's approval of the University's budget request was approved by the SGA Cabinet last night when it unani mously approved a "Back Penn State's Budget" committee. Two. additional resolutions brought up later in Assembly to demonstrate student support of President Eric A. Walker's ap propriation request were referred to the committee for consider ation. Ronald Sheetz, junior in sec ondary education from Bellefonte, came before the Cabinet to pro pose the campaign which he said might involve letters to the legis lature, banners on the mall and tags to be worn by students. He said "the state has an ob ligation to give Penn State the budget required to operate and if any tax increases are forth coming, Penn State is entitled to gel its share." SGA President Richard Haber then added that to his knowledge "the state of Pennsylvania gives more money to private institutions than all other states combined." The slogan for the campaign, set to begin the first week of March, will be "Get the Lion's Share!" A resolution submitted in' As sembly by Wayne Ulsh (1.-Jr.) and Ruth Faulk (1.-Fr.) covered the reasons why Penn State needs the requested $23 million and recommended that students write letters to their' representatives was referred to the committee. Also referred was a recom mendation by Ralph Friedman (C.-Soph) that would have SGA send a telegram to Governor David L. Lawrence giving "the student body's whole, unquali fied support" to the budget re quest. Next week The Daily Collegian will publish a list of all state rep resentatives and senators and the districts they represent to en courage students to write letters to the state government. During the Assembly meeting John Witmer (U.-Jr.) asked for specific clarification on the com mittee's purpose and was an swered by Ulsh who said "they will coordinate all student efforts which are now just beginning and help them reach a high peak of effectiveness." Mueller Elected to Office Dr. Erwin W. Mueller, research professor of physics, has been elected vice chairman of the exec utive committee of the Division of Electron Physics of the Ameri can Physical Society. Coeds Switch Rooms Illegally By BABB I'UNIC Illegal moving around In dormitories by sorority and independent women was dis covered recently by the De partment of Housing when women were found living in rooms assigned to others. An ultimatum to the women to return to their assigned rooms by Monday has resulted in some con fusion because the origin of the ultimatum is apparently not known. Otto E. Mueller. director of the Department of Housing, and Mrs. Nancy Vanderpool, assist ant to the dean of women, both said last night that they had no idea where the ultimatum origi nated. Mueller said the moving was not widespread but was principal- Facing The problem 4, I See Page 4 I ,- ''' ..- N k 1 r 4 at g 1,•„' ,' , ,t': , ,?, , N ii,' 11 rglati , 0 STATE COLLEGE. PA., FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 17. 1961 Committee Approves New Colony Alpha colony, a group of 12 women with the intention of increasing their membership until they can affiliate with a national sorority, has official ly come into existence, Mon roe Newman, chairman of the Senate Committee on Student Af fairs, said yesterday. The committee approved the colony's constitution at a meet ing Tuesday. Alpha colony will be on a probationary period for one year, Newman said. The colony will rush informal ly throughout the Spring semes ter, Mrs. Nancy M. Vanderpool, assistant to the dean of women, announced. Since they will not be members of Panhellenic Council until they have 16 members, they will not participate in for mal rush, she added. The colony hopes to begin af filiation with a national soror ity in the late spring, Mrs. Van derpool said. However, she said it is not yet know,i which soror ity it will be. Judy Salame, president, said that Alpha colony will conduct chatter dates during informal spring rush, and that they plan to participate in Spring Week. At present, no permanent assignment has been made for meeting places and meetings are held in avail able study lounges, she said. There is a possibility that Al pha colony will have a suite next year, Miss Salame said, but this will depend on an increase in membership. Members of Alpha colony will wear ribbons in their chosen col ors, navy blue and silver, in place of a pin, Miss Salame said. ly confined to Cooper, Hibbs and one Pollock hall, and four of the 25 sorority chapters. Mueller said housing would take no action but that women would be responsible for their assigned rooms—no matter who lived in them. He cited the mix-up in telephone communications as one of the principle nusiarce factors of the switching. In addition, he said, the University and parents expect the hostesses and the dean of women's office to know where women are living. The sororities having the most trouble with housing, - Mueller said, are those which have not balanced the number of women going out .student teaching and returning during each period. However, he said, the four sororities principally involved in the present action are not having problems of this nature. "They just switched," he said. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Delegates Attempt Congo Peace PI • n UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. VP) Delegates from key Asian-African countries nego , tiated with both the United States and the Soviet Union yesterday in an effort to pro duce a Congo peace plan that will win approval in the UN Security Council. The private huddles occurred as pro-Lumumba nations pressed their attack in the Council on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, and others came to his defense. • —Collegian Photo by Spencer Wellhofer PUSHING THE SEASON—Despite the warming weather and melting snows, Dick Scott, senior in business administration from Harrisburg, discovers that the golf course is still covered with snow. Fall Term to Begin One Week Earlier The 1961 fall term will begin one week earlier than pre viously scheduled so students may obtain matriculation cards needed for admittance to the Penn State - Navy football game. The first day of registration, for the term has been changed from Sept. 27 .to Sept. 20, T. Reed Ferguson, director of Cloudy, Cool Weather Due Two separate storm systems will influence the local weather in the next few days. One will bring a shower or two tonight. The second may cause snow tomorrow afternoon and night. "It has gotten to be quite a little game." In answer to a letter received by The Daily Collegian asking why sororities could not be as signed a block of rooms to fill as they wished, Mueller said this had been suggested in the past but turned down by the sororities. Mueller said the sororities re fused because they would have been assigned the rooms to be kept filled on a 100 per cent basis. This would mean that the soror ity would have to pay for the rooms, regardless of whether or not they were filled. This, to gether with the paper work in volved, he said, caused the issue to die. The cost of moving—approxi mately $5 to $7 for the actual move and $7.35 for personnel and paper work in notifying Univer sity departments—makes moving unfeasible and uneconomical, he said. University Relations, said yes terday. The football game Will he played on ,Sept. 23. The change was also necessary because the game, originally scheduled during the early part of Orientation Week, would have caused traffic and "moving-in" problems for students arriving on campus, Ferguson said. In accordance with the change in registration dates, the first day of Orientation Week has been moved back from Sept. 24 to Sept. 17. • An advantage of the plan would be that the fall term would end on Dec. 7, giving students an extra week of Christmas vacation, Ferguson said. There will still be a one day Thanksgiving recess on Nov. 23, he added. The change was 'node by Presi dent Eric A. Walker upon . the rec ommendation of a faculty and administration committee repre senting all segments of the Uni versity. The committee was set up by Walker to study the diffi culties arising from the late be ginning of the fall term. At the outset the main prob lem was how students could at tend the first football game, since it was before registration, Fer guson said. As the committee studied the problems, more difficulties arose: namely, traffic and housing con gestion on the weekend of Sept. 23, he added. With the public barred from the council's galleries and increased security precautions, there was no repetition,of Wednesday's wild demonstrations by supporters of the slain Patrice Linnumba. Hammarskiold me t behind closed doors with members of his Congo advisory committee to con sider recommendations from the Asian-African Conciliation Com mission now in the strife-torn Af-. rican nation. The commission has proposed the release of all political pris oners, reconvening at Parlia ment, widening of the newly constituted Congo government under. Premier Joseph Ileo, and the replacement of the central ized system .by some kind of federation. Some of the commission's rec ommendations were being put in to a resolution. In general, the resolution would urge the United Nations to take all measures, including use of force, to prevent oc currence of civil war in the Congo. It would demand also withdraw al of all Belgian and other for eign military personnel not un der UN command, and call for an impartial investigation into . Lumumba's death. The resolution also would urge immediate reconvening of the Congo Parliament and reorgan ization of the Congo army. C of C Needs More Students For Survey All students interested in acting as interviewers to conduct the Chamber of Commerce housing survey should attend a Meeting at 7 tonight in 121 Sparks. Only 85 students attended a similar meeting held Wednesday night to instruct interviewers. About 175 students are still need ed in order for the survey to ac complish its goal of canvassing the entire State College area, according to Paul Mazza, Chamber of Commerce president. Mazza said that several student groups which pledged support to aid the survey failed to attend the Wednesday night meeting. He explained, however, that the rea son they failed to appear was probably a weakness in communi cations. Mazza expressed the hope that all groups not present at the Wednesday night meeting would attend tonight's meeting. The survey is being conducted to determine the availability of town housing for students and faculty members. New File to Index SGA Information Student Government. Associa tion Assemblymen and student leaders on campus will now. have access to a file containing in formation about current. student government activities. The file, which is an index of all bills, resolutions, minutes and Collegian articles on SGA has been placed in the SGA office in the Hetzel Union by the SGA Archives Committee. Mari Frank, co-chairman of the committee, said that it -was set up to gather and index infor mation when it was found that the SGA Public Relations com mittee could not handle all avail able references. FIVE CENTS'
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