Weather Forecast: I Sunny, Cooler VOL. 3.N0. 10 Collegian Photo by Tom Browne KNOTTY PROBLEM FOR PEACE CORPS at Stone Valley. Watching Carol Byrnes from Several members of the Corps try to figure out Dusquesne try to tie a knot are Brenda Brown how Mr. Kepler had just tied a clove hitch knot. from Baltimore, Md., and Jackie Cipiti from Tis is one of the many skills the Corp mem- Cleveland, Ohio. bers are taught in their survival training courses $5O Deposit Fee Required The new University policy which accompanied tuition and room and board increases last week will require a $5O general deposit fee from all freshman students and a similar fee of $25 from all continuing students. Both will be rebated without interest upon gradu ation. Formerly, students paid Grand Assembly Of Rainbow Girls To Open Tonight The coronation of the queen, Grand Worthy Advisor Nancy Bender, will be the climax of a program for 3,216 Rainbow girls who arrive on campus today. The three-day 19th an nual Rainbow Grand Assembly of Pennsylvania will 'open tonight. The coronation and talent show for the queen will be held 8 p.m. Saturday in Recreatfon Hall and is open to the public. The Rainbow girls are an af filiate of the Eastern Star, a Ma sonic women's organization, and have 146 chapters in Pennsyl vania. All except one of the chap ters is represented at the Grand Assembly this year. THE THEME this year, chosen by the Grand Worthy Advisor, is "Fidelity." The quotation chosen by Miss Bender to illustrate her theme is "Fidelity is faithful, careful and exact in fulfillment of all obligations." Miss Bender will be a sopho more at East Stroudsburg in Sep tember and has been active in Rainbow for five years. Mrs. Agnes C. Allen, supreme inspector of the Order of the Rainbow for Girls of Pennsyl vania, said that holding Grand Assembly here on campus also, gives the girls an opportunity to see the campus. She added that many of them come here later for college. This is the fifth year Grand Assembly has been held on campus. About 390 Rainbow girls ar-1 rived Sunday to take special 3- day courses in art, music, speech and home economics taught by University professors. The courses were given prior to the opening Grand Assembly Session tonight. .., - 0 4 a ot,t*lt i titittrr , .- - ; f.QN, 1:1 * 1 ~ 855 ! -)`V STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17. 1961 this fee in the form of separat each student. This new fee rep-' resents a consolidation of resi dence ($10), towel and locker ($2), ROTC ($2O) and chemistry break-I age fees ($10), according to a Uni- versity official. This latest policy change ac-1 Icompanied two others, one involv-i ing fee payments and the other,! "late" fee payment. Students now are required to I pay all fees, including tuition, and room and board, one month in ad vance. A $25 late fee will be re.: quired if payment is made after this date. One University official said that, the first changes were made so, that the registrar will know the number of admissions he can make, and the second so that last' minute payment rushes will be prevented. FRESHMAN deposits are heav ier than those of upperclass stu dents because more of them will be taking ROTC and the beginning chemistry courses, according to Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter, dean of admissions and registrar. It did not seem necessary to have up perclassmen pay more than. the $25 fee now, Bernreuter said. Eventually all students will be paying this $5O fee as each in coming 'freshmen will deposit this for his whole four years. .BERNREUTER said it is hoped this policy will save students money in the long run since the University will be operating more efficiently. Under the term sys , tem, if the University were col lecting and rebating fees each term as previously, he said, it would have to do this 12 times a year "causing a great deal of expense." Collegian's Last Issue This is the last issue of the Summer Collegian. An orien tation edition of the Daily Col legian will be published Sun day, Sept. 17. The Daily Colle- gian will be issued Wednes day, Sept. 20, Saturday, Sept. 23, and starling Tuesday, Sept. 26. if will be published daily Tuesday through Saturday for the next three terms. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE e charges which differed for Parking Heads To Be Chosen By Mail Ballots Seven businessmen will be nominated in a ballot by mail to direct the State College Parking Committee. The elected directors will function as the heads of non profit corporation to draw up by laws, and utilize funds donated by merchants. The funds are for improving parking facilities in downtown State College. THE PARKING FUND has ex ceeded $15,000," Ronald R. Rum baugh, executive vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, said yesterday. The parking committee is "not so much concerned with the amount as with the number of merchants who will participate," Rumbaugh said. About 100 merchants have been contacted and 33 have pledged money. The ballots for nominating dir ectors must include the pledge card if the person is not already a member of the parking committee, Rumbaugh said. The deadline for ballots to be submitted is Aug. 21. THE DIRECTORATE will work with the Borough Parking Auth ority to "improve and better downtown parking," he said. Rumbaugh said that the park ing Committee has already proven it will be. "a good sounding board to discover parking problems in the downtown area." ni en , si en ~e C ts • , es, An amendment to the 2 per cent tax on forms of unearned income scheduled to raise $25.6 million for education was in troduced in the House Monday. It excludes the tax on rents, thereby lowering the amount of revenue the tax is supposed to raise, according to the lates The tax bill, which is scheduled for consideration by the House sometime this week, is the same one that was defeated by that body last week by a vote of 124 to 78. It is reported that in its amend ed form the amount it can now raise will be cut to $22.6 million, Rep. Eugene Fulmer, R-Centre, said last night that there is the possibility that this will.affect the $l. l / 2 million which has been sug gested for the Univ&sity in the bill's earlier form. THE AMENDMENT came as the result of objections raised to it by Democrats from Philadel phia in the House. In the vote taken last week, 14 Democratic representatives from that county voted against the tax measure. Several reliable sources report that one possible solution to the problem may lie in the scheduled Senate vote on reorganization of the school districts in the State. Senator Jo Hays, D-Centre, said last week that several rep resentatives from Philadelphia were against passage of this mea sure until the school reorganiza tion bill is passed by the Senate. HAYS SAID their objections stemmed from the fact that in some cases, school districts have only a few children under their jurisdiction and are therefore re ceiving unnecessary money from the state. The House and Senate legisla tion calls for the 2,244 districts to be reorganized into 500 larger units, In discussing the tax bill fur ther, Fulmer said that the amend ment made it no better. He added that he was still opposed to it. Fulmer said his argument against the bill was that it pro posed to tax thrift. THE REASON that the bill was permitted to come up for a vote (Continued on page seven) University \ ill Act On Civilian Defense The University plans to take action in the near future on developing new civil defense plans and up-dating existing defense measures for the campus, Albert E. Diem, vice presi dent for business administration, said yesterday. At present the University has two organizations con- cerned with the problem of civil defense—the Department of Se curity and the Shelter Research and Study Program. According to present plans, the first concern of the Department of Security in a civil defense alert would be to gain control of the movement of students and faculty members, William C. Pelton, di rector of University security, said. THE UNIVERSITY is divided into seven committees which would go into action as soon as a state of emergency is declared. The committees include such areas as food service, medical, first aid, and utilities. In a ddit io n. a registration group has been organized and would go into action if refugees were brought to the campus. A radiology committee will measure any radioactive fallout that may be present. Any changes in our present de fense plans will depend to a great extent on new directives that are 1 I A Russian Roulette --See Page 4 t reports Campus OS6A Repesenlatives To Arrive Here About 100 students and staff representatives from the 14 Commonwealth Campuses will be here next Thursday to represent their student gov ernment associations at.the three. day OSGA Summer Conference. This will be the first conferenct of ' the Organization of Student Government Associations. SPEAKERS for the three days include Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter, dean of admissions and registrar, and special assistant to the pres ident. for student affairs; Robert E. Eiche, director of the Altoona Campus; James H. Coogan, direc tor of Public Information; and' Dr. Harold J. O'Brian, assistant 'dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Other highlights of the confer ence are a tour of the University; two workshops on "Building 'Student Interest in Student Ac tivities," and "Duties of SGA Of ficers and Student Leaders;" a panel discussion on the role of the SGA advisor, and a demon stration of parliamentary proce dure and "chairmanship" by Dr. O'Brian at a mock assembly. The conference will conclude Saturday evening after a confer ence evaluation by Martin L. ,Zeigler, director of student affairs Iresearch and business. expected to come from the 'State Office of Civil Defense sometime this fall, Pelton said. IN ADDITION to the Depart ment of Security The Shelter Re search:and Study Program in the College of Engineering and Arch itecture conducts graduate cour ses and seminars on the plan ning, design and analysis of shel ters and structures to resist the effects of nuclear weapons. G. H. Albright, director of the program, said that case studies 'have been made in graduate classes on possible shelters for the University. Due to the costs in volved the most feasible approach ,may be to use existing facilities rather than constructing special shelters, he said. This week the Shelter Research and Study Program is conducting a seminar for industrial archi tects, engineers and executives on 'the problems of industrial sur vival in all-out nuclear war. FIVE CENTS
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