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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.
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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."
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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
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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
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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.
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