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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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