HiHiiitMUHiiHniiiimiaiiiniMM'iniin Weather Forecast: Cloudy, Coo!* Rain ••IMMUmillHtlliltlllllKHlllUlMlHliH VOL 61. No. 96 Discrimination Conflict Spreads; University Policy Re-iterated The Senate Committee on Student Affairs ruled in the early 1950’s that the University would not charter student organizations with discriminatory clauses in their national or local constitutions, according to Monroe Newman, committee chairman. This ruling does not apply, however, to fraternities and sororities which were already on campus before the ruling was passed, Newman said. The re-statement of University policy toward discrimination in sororities and fraterni- New Colony Adds Five Members Alpha Colony, a group of women with the intention of increasing their membership until they can affiliate with a national sorority, has taken five additional members, Judy Saleme, president, said yester day. The five new members, which brings the colony’s total member ship to 14, were taken through an informal rush system which the colony is c'onducting, Miss Saleme said. The colony will con tinue to hold chatter dates, she said, throughout the month-long period established for open bid ding and possibly throughout the entire semester. The five new members are Louise Rittenhause, Cynthia Men za, Mary Ann Shattuck, Joyce Owen and Nancy Daughety. Al pha Colony is rushing women re gardless of whether they regis tered for formal rush. The colony officially came into existence on Feb. 14 when the Senate Committee on Student Af fairs approved its constitution. At present, it is the only colony on campus. It will be on a proba tionary period for one year. “We definitely hope to begin affiliation with a national soror ity late this spring, but this will depend largely on whether we increase our membership suffici ently,” Miss Saleme said. Alpha Colony may petition for membership on Panhellenic Council as soon as its total mem bership reaches 16, according to Mrs. Nancy M. Vanderpool, as sistant to the dean of women. Coeds Ineligible for Rush May Receive Open lids Any sophomore or junior woman who was unable to participate in formal rush because of a deferred grade may register for open bidding tomorrow, the Panhellenic Council decided last night. The council also voted to allow any sophomore or junior woman who had had a grade changed bringing her all-Univer sity average up to a 2.0 to par ticipate in open bidding. A 2.0 average is required for an upper class woman to rush. Open bidding will begin Mon day and will continue until April 4. During this time sororities participating in the program may offer a bid at any time. The sororities have been permitted unlimited contact with eligible girls since the end of formal rush. This contact may consist of sorority girls talking privately with rushees st any place and on the telephone. Paphel de cided to allow sororities to pay for coke dales with rushees as long as the hill did not exceed 25 cents. The restrictions placed on the sororities for the open bidding period include planned enteirtain- SaiU} STATE COLLEGE. PA..’WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 8, 1961 By LYNNE CEREFICE ties was made in view of the spreading controversy over fra ternity biases on campuses throughout the country. The most recent development in this controversy is the current University of Minnesota investi gation of bias in Alpha Tau Ome ga fraternity. The investigation began after ATO acted against one of its California chapters for pledg ing four Jewish students. The Minnesota chapter of ATO formerly had been on the bias list of the university’s senate committee on student affairs. The chapter had refused to apply to its national fraternity for waiver of a constitutional clause restrict ing membership to Christians. It was argued that since be lief in the divinity of Christ is an important part of ATO's ritual and character, selection of members on that basis was not discriminatory. In commenting on the frater nity’s discriminatory clause, Wil liam R. Surgner, president of the Penn State chapter, said, “ATO is a private organization and it is justified in being able to select its members." On the question of how to deal with Penn State fraternities which have discriminatory clauses in their national constitutions, Wilmer E. Wise, assistant to the dean of men in charge of fra ternity affairs, said yesterday that "this is a matter of self-determin ation.” Wise explained that he thought fraternities should be allowed to make their own decisions as to whether or not to remove such clauses. They should be en couraged to remove them, he said, but the ultimate decision should be up to them. Froth to Come Out Friday Dale Peters, editor of Froth, said yesterday that the Froth parody issue originally scheduled to go on sale today will not be available until Friday because of printing difficulties. ment in the suites,, serving re freshments to rushees visiting the suites and wearing name tags when rushees are in the suites. In order to offer a bid to rushees during open bidding the sorority must give the Panhellenic office one day’s notice. After the bid has been issued, the rushee has one week in which to make her decision. The sororities participating in open bidding include; Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Xi Delta, Beta Sigma Omicron, Al pha Kappa Alpha and Chi Omega. Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gam ma, Delta Zeta, Delta Phi Epsilon; Delta Sigma Theta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Delta, Phi Mu, Phi Sigma Sigma, Sigma Sigma Sig ma, Theta Phi Alpha, and Zeta Tau Alpha,' - FOR A BETTER PENN STATE • >. ' I t ! OUT IN THE STICKS! The boys who thought Nittany was far will be even more unhappy about the Turf Plot Dorms, which seem half way to Bellefonte. One consolation, however, is that the new dorms, which are to be completed for the fall quarter, will be occupied by both men and women. Weather Pattern Expected To Become Colder, Dryer The weather pattern that has brought mild temperatures and abundant precipitation to Pennsylvania for the past three weeks appears to be in the process of changing to one of more seasonable tempera tures and less percipitation. The pattern of recent weeks has foatured southwest winds over the eastern United States at be tween 10,000 and 25,000 feet. This type of air flow keeps warm and moist air aloft and tends to bring mild air into Pennsylvania at the surface. The last in a series of storm systems that has been moving j through this southwest flow will bring rain to Pennsylvania to day, but after the storm passes' Shapp to Discuss 'Corps' Plan Students interested in Presi dent Kennedy’s Peace Corps will be able to get first-hand information about the program tomorrow from Milton J. Shapp, one of the originators of the plan, and Lawrence E. Dennis, vice president for aca demic affairs and newly appointed member of the “nucleus staff" of the Corps, Shapp and Dennis will speak at 8:30 p.m. in 121 Sparks in a program sponsored by the Inter national Relations Club, the Uni versity Christian Association and the Friend’s Peace Committee. A question and answer period will follow Shapp's main speech and a short talk by Dennis. A U.N. Reopens 15th Session UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (A 1 ) Tlie United Nations reopened its 15th General Assembly yesterday with both the United States and Soviet Union calling for deferment of cold war issues. But bitter clashes loomed on the Congo crisis and disarm ament as delegates from 99 na tions met in the big blue and gold assembly hall after an 11-weeks recess. to the northeast of the Common wealth tonight, the upper winds over the eaitea-n states should shift into the West. This will result in a trend to wards colder weather and only minor precipitation beginning to morrow. Today is expected to be cloudy, breezy and cool with rain begin ning before noon and continuing through the afternoon. A high temperature reading of 43 degrees is predicted for the afternoon. The rain should end tonight and partial clearing, windy and cooler conditions are forecast for late tonight. A low temperature of 32 degrees is expected. Tomorrow should be partly cloudy, windy and colder with a ichance of a few snow flurries es-j Specially during the afternoon. The high should be about 40 de grees. i reception will be held in the i the Peace Corps in ihe summer Helen Eakin Eisenhower lounge I '59 when 32 members of lho 4 v * Young Presidents Organization Wk. * pTo9ram m i and their families veiled ihe °X, S ‘ . ~ . , ..! Soviet Union to see how the Shapp is expected to describe Russians operated their Indus the peace corps itself and the j r i es According to Shapp, the YPO Patricia Berg, P president of the sSs^fn^modStion 6 International Relations Club. Den- 5,f n s ‘* n st " des .> n pioduction, rttS on the war^SarT/ P„„„ student. President of 12 year-old Jerrold dents not in the foreign service. Electronics in Philadelphia, Shapp During the presidential cam first presented the Peace CorpSj pa ig n , Shapp helped set up a idea to Kennedy s campaigning g roU p 0 f Pennsylvania business brother Bob m October. The idea men an d professional people to was later presented to John Ken- b ack Kennedy. He has now been nedy in a major speech and has as ked to help set up a committee been under consideration ever Q f Pennsylvania businessmen to since. ■ recommend a program to help cut f Shapp first got the idea for unemployment in' the state. Work of Peace Corps 3 5 ■ * t , -See Page 4 j They listened at the outset to a plea from Ghana's President Kwarne Nkrumah that the United Nations restore order in the Con igo and keep that country out of the cold war. Wearing a Western-style busi ness suit with a white handker chief in his breast pocket, Nkru mah spoke quietly but forcefully in excellent English with an ac cent that reflected his African tongue. i He proposed a broad program I for the Congo that would in i elude establishment of an all j African U.N. Command in that i country and provide eventually j for new parliamentary elections i under U.N. supervision. ! Adlai E; Stevenson, chief U. S. delegate, declared the United States was going into the session ifirmly determined to do all it can ito alleviate the cold-war instead mf aggravating it; i He declared the United Slates j would be glad to see the list of issues before the resumed ses sion cut to the bone, deferring all but. the few items essential to conduct of assembly business. Among such items he listed the financing of the multimiliion-dol lar U.N. Congo operation, to which the Soviet Union refuses to contribute a single penny. “Further discussion of the Con go may also be necessary," he added, "but we are prepared to defer all other items. "If the majority of the mem bers agree, we will support such a move. If they don't, we are prepared to discuss all items on the agenda. But we cannot make a trade or a deal to delete some items in exchange for others." The last was an apparent refer ence to private talks Stevenson held with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko on issues before the resumed session. Published reports on the talks prompted a statement from the Soviet delegation headed by Gro myko denying that the Soviet Union was agreeable to dropping disarmament if the United States deferred discussion of a U. S.-pro posed African aid program. Izvestia, a Soviet government newspaper, declared earlier that Moscow was ready to drop its complaint charging that the United States was guilty of aggression in connection with the U 2 spy plane flight and the R 847 reconnais sance flight. FIVE CENTS
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