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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
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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.
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