••■iiiiMiUMMiiiiHitmimiininiiminnc Weather Forecast : j Sunny, Pleasant J lllllHlllllllllMilHllllllltHllMlltllllllillr VOL. 62. No. 5 Gromyko Gives Policy Talk —C\ john Beausie FROSH TAKE A BOW and some curtsies in front of Old Willow on the Ma. . All four seem to be bearing up well and still able to smile after two days of customs. They are, left to right, Jan Parker from Yardley, Peggy Brower from Tyrone, Gary Groff and Larry Eberly, both from Strasburg. Joint Customs Set for Today Today is Joint Customs day, which can be more accurately termed “open season” on unsuspecting frosh. Upperclassmen may address both men and women of the freshman ;lass, Susan Starbird, Co-chairman of the Customs Board, said. “Attention frosh.” This is another way of saying that you will be performing stunts formerly limited to Rube Go' Assembly Plans For Completion Of Constitution The SGA Assembly will meet at 8 tonight in the lietzel Union building with plans to complete discussion on the re vised SGA Constitution. The only part which remains Incomplete is that section in the by-laws which deals with cam paign expenditures. There was agreement at Monday night’s meeting on this section, but some of the Assembly members wanted time to think over the actual amounts of money to be desig nated, Dennis Foianini, SGA pres ident, said. The Assembly will also con sider the new residence area representation which will be used in the coming SGA elec tions. Foianini said. Under the old SGA Constitu tion, representatives for the As sembly were elected by classes, the senior class having the most representatives. The Assembly totaled 42 members, alloting four seats for the class presidents. In the revised constitution, 28 members of the Assembly will be apportioned according to popula tion, one for each 500 students, by community living areas—men in fraternities, independent men in town, women in residence halls, men in residence halls. Four seats will be provided for the class pres (Continued on page eight) Froth Makes the Scene The “Penn State Froth’’ will make its first appearance of the term today. Froth, the campus humor magazine, will be on sale at the Corner Room, the Mall, the ground level of the HUB, and in lounges of the various on-campus dining halls. STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 27. 1961 By DIANN HABE dberg, Abbott and Costello, and the Three Stooges To make things even more in teresting, upperclassmen success ful in stumping the frosh with questions are urged by the Cus toms Board to fill out violation slips. These slips are available in all post offices and also at the Hetzel Union desk. All violators will be notified on the night of their offense by phone and must appear before the Customs Board. In addition, all Frosh are expect ed to wear their customs to the pep rally tonight Sophomores especially are en couraged by the board mem bers to enforce customs. The success of customs depends on the spirit of the upperclassmen, board members said. The board also warned that customs will not be suspended until it feels that this policy has been "car ried out," But it is anyone's guess how many frosh will have to be "carried out" by that lime. As Customs Week progresses, “Ring Around the Obelisk” has added a new look to the tradition al antics and was supposedly in spired by an elementary educa tion major. It can be executed by a maximum of 200 frosh or a minimum of three with unusually long arms. One upperclassman has innovated a new march including the famous ROTC two-step plus dink-tipping procedure, faintly reminiscent of little wind-up toy men. After inadvertently (t hey claimed) trompling the grass in front of Grad Hall, two fresh men were commanded by an indignant upperclassmen to straighten the blades. As they bent over, they were heard mut tering, "I'm sorry little blades, I will never walk on you again." Needless to say, they won't. Members of the Customs Board include Co-chairmen Susan Star bird and Greer Cooper; Judith Buffington, Judith Carter, Jeffrey Edleman, Joan Fallows, Judith Gardner, Guy Jackson, Judith Levin, Ken Lyons, Robert May hew and Herb Whitmer. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Enrollment Figures Set New Record Registration figures soared to an all-time high this year as 17,084 students enrolled *at the University for the fall term. The number represents an increase of 1,343 students over last year’s figure of 15,741 for fall semester registration. A breakdown of the registration figures according to terms is not yet available, according to Robert G. Bernreuter, special assistant to the president, but a report should be completed in approximately two weeks. Although no estimate is made by University officials on the number of registrants for the suc ceeding terms, Bernreuter said, officials expect that the figure will decrease. In the past, when the Univer sity was operating on the fall and (Continued on page three) Encampment Off-Campus Student Problems Studied (This is the first in a series of jtions for town eating establish-! campus parking areas during articles on the recoinmenda- (ments. I the weekend in order to alle , tions made by the six work- Entertainment and recreational! viate congestion in town, shops of the SGA Encampment (facilities, parking and discrimi- TIM plans to investigate the held September 14-16. (nation were also considered. possibility of students using the Today’s article discusses the A heated debate on ihe elimi- parking lots behind Hammond aft recommendations of the Off- nation of discriminatory clauses er 5:30 p.m. Campus Problems Workshop from fraternity charters marked TIM also pians to study ways which will be continued in to- one of the meetings, but no of making the dangerous intei morrow’s article.) conclusions or recommendations section at Pugh St. and College By JOEL MYERS evolved from that discussion. Ave. more safer. The Off ramnus Prnhlpmc Several new approaches to thej One of the major accomplish tne \jii-v_dmpus .rioDiems existing parking problems on andlments of the workshop was the Workshop of the 10th Encamp-off campus were proposed, andjexchange of ideas and problems . , j. , t three recommendations werejbetween the Independents and ment studied pioblems facing adopted by the workshop. [Greeks. town indeDendents and fra- The implementation of these To foster better relations be ‘ F recommendations will be handleditween the townspeople and stu ternity men. directly by IFC and TIM, bothjdents, TIM plans to publicize the The workshop made recommen- of which were represented at thejborough’s regulations and laws, dations designed to improve liv- workshop by their presidents, j Joel Myers was the work-hop ing conditions in town housing, IFC will sfudy Ihe feasibility ichairman and Linda Peiry was and establish sanitation specif ica- of having fraternity men use I the secretary. Soviet Bids for UN Aid To Solve Berlin Crisis UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (/P) The Soviet Union bid last night for a possible U.N. role in West Berlin to help avoid the threat of a war it said could take “hundreds of millions of human lives.” Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko raised such Alpha Zela Tops Spring Semester Group Averages Alpha Zeta fraternity heads the list of fraternity and group averages for the spring semes ter 1961 with a 3.013 average. The group will be awarded Ihe Inter-Fraternity Council Scholar ship Trophy in the semi-protes sional category. Alpha Zeta also scored a first by accomplishing a rare thing—the fraternity's aver age is higher than that of any sorority. Alpha Epsilon Phi, women’s fraternity, will receive the Pan hellenic Scholarship Trophy for its spring semester average of 2.992. Acacia fralernily is second in fraternity averages with a 2.689; Phi Sigma Kappa, third, 2.647, and Triangle, fourth, 2.631. Kappa Alpha Theta, women’s fraternity, is second in sorority averages with 2.961. Phi Sigma Sigma, women’s fraternity, is third with 2.901, and Delta Gamma, fourth, 2.876. Zeta Psi fraternity will receive the Sigma Chi Scholarship Im provement Trophy for the largest improvement in average. Zeta Psi moved from 53rd to 2ist place in the group and fraternity aver ages. The winner of the sorority scholarship improvement award will be announced at ihe Greek Week banquet, to be held later in the fail term. Acacia fraternity will be award ed the Inter-Fraternity Council Scholarship Trophy in the social division. The sorority women's average for the spring semester was a 2.763. The all-University women’s average was 2.620. The all-fraternity and sorority average was 2.567; non-sorority women,. 2.532; all-University, 2.502; fraternity men, 2.460; all- University. men, 2.441, and non fraternity men, 2.443. IP" { Responsibility | ■ to Comment j * | -See Page 4 j a prospect in a major policy speech to the U.N. General Assembly. He also rejected President Kennedy’s proposal lor an immediate treaty to end tests ol nuclear weapons. Gromyko stressed that the So viet Union intended to sign a peace bealy with Germany re gardless of Western opposition. But he said, "There is a way" to avoid war: “To sign in 1961 a German peace treaty and to nor malize the situation in West Ber lin by turning it into a demilitar ized free city and promptly to call a peace conference for this pur pose." lie said the Soviet Union was ready to agree to the use of troops of neutiai states or the United Na tions to guarantee the status of West Berlin as a free city. Gromyko made these additional main points: • The Soviet Union cannot ac cept a treaty to end nuclear tests. This question should be merged into the over-all consideration of a treaty on general and complete disarmament. • The United Nations should create a U.N. commission to su pervise an immediate end to co lonialism. • The SovM" Union still insists upon a three-man “troika" U.N. secretariat to replace the single post held by Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, but is will ing to consider some kind of “pro'- visional solution’’ to the. problem created by llarnn\arskjold’s death in a plane crash last week. • The Soviet Union demands admission of Communist China and expulsion of Nationalist China from the United Nations, and re jects any proposal for a commis sion that would study the issue and thus delay an immediate de cision. Maris Hits No. 60 BULLETIN NEW YORK f/P) Roger Ma ris of the Yankees hif his GOfh ■ home run last night, matching Babe Ruth's record total of 1927, and became only the sec ond player in major league baseball history to reach the 60-homer mark. No. 60 for Maris came four games after time ran out in his effort to officially tie or sur pass the Bambino's 34-year-old record within the 154-game limit set by Commissioner Ford Frick. FIVE CENTS
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