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VOL. 62, No. 15
Foianini May See Proxy
Today on Extra Holiday
Dennis Foianini, SGA president, said last night that he
will try to see President Eric A. Walker today to begin pre
liminary talks about extending the Thanksgiving vacation
48 hours to include Nov. 24 and 25.
Foianini said that he and Harvey Klein, a member of the
Senate Committee on the Calendar and Class Schedules, had
prepared a "very comprehens .
at the committee's next meeting,
which may be held today.
Klein said that the proposal was
to extend the Thanksgiving holi
day 48 hours. He said that he
would propose that classes on
Thursday, Nov. 23 be made up
on Tuesday, Dec. 5; classes on
Friday, Nov. 24 be made up on
Wednesday, Dec. 6; and classes
on Saturday, Nov. 25 be made up
on Thursday. Dec. 7.
Klein listed some of the
reasons for the extension of the
holiday that he will present to
the committee. He said that the
three extra days would cause
instructors to become acvlstom
ed to covering more material
than they would be able to in
a normal ten-week term.
He explained that if the three
extra days are kept they .would
expect to be able to cover the
same amount of material in the
winter term, which is only I. l h
days longer than ten weeks.
Another reason for the holiday
break is that "in the term system,
the pace required is so great that
a break is essential," he said.
Some professors, Klein said,
have already canceled the i r
classes.
He said that during the sum
mer term, some instructors con
tinued to count the final exam
ination as a part of the final grade
as they had under the semester
system. Klein explained that the
extra break would help students
to prepare for these examinations.
In a sample of the 22 colleges
and universities under a similar
term system, 18 of them have a
week-end Thanksgiving vacation,
Klein said.
1,100 Students
Sign Petitions
Asking Recess
Over 1,100 students have signed
petitions requesting that th e
Thanksgiving holiday be extend
ed to include two extra days. The
petitions have been posted in
Waring and Warnock dining areas
since Saturday.
Marcia Tyler, freshman in lib
eral arts from Havertown, and
Audrey Bednar, freshman in edu
cation from McKees Rocks; placed
the petition in Warnock Hall, the
dining area serving North Halls.
Linda Lamb, sophomore in ele
mentary-kindergarten education
from Prospect Park, placed an
other petition on the bulletin
board in Waring Hall, the dining
hall serving the West Halls area.
Miss Tyler and Miss Bednar
said they plan to give the petitions
to Dennis Foianini, SGA presi
dent, sometime this morning.
There are 660 signatures on the
petition in West Halls and 484
on the one from North Halls last
night. These figures represent
about two-fifths of the 2,734 stu
dents living in the West and North
Halls residence areas.
In another expression of sup
port for the recess Robert Fry,
president of the Town Independ
ent Men, said, "Since there is
some indication that some stu
dents will be cutting these classes,
and since some professors are al
ready canceling classes,. the next
logical step is for the University
to make the two-day period a
legal holiday." Fry said that the
TIM council will discuss the issue
at its meeting tonight.
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By CARMEN ZETLER
ye proposal" to be brought up
Alpern Says Ability
Leads to Success
A woman succeeds in politics because she is believed to
be competent and not because she is a woman, Justice Anne
X. Alpern of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court said
yesterday.
Speaking at a tea for women at the Hillel Foundation,
Miss Alpern, who is the first wom
an to serve as a state' supreme
court justice, said that she needs
only to submit her record to prove
her competence.
Miss Alpern was appointed to
the state supreme court on Sept.
6 to fill the vacancy left by the
retirement of Chief Justice Alvin
Jones. Her appointment expires at
the end of the year, but Miss Al
pern is vying for a 21 year term
to that post in the Nov. 5 election.
She is running on the Democratic
ticket.
In outlining her political phil
osophy. Miss Alpern said that
the court is the great bulwark
of democracy. "In the courts
there are no small cases nor
minor principles. Democracy
would be weakened if the courts
lost their integrity."
We must all protect the inde
pendence of the courts, she said.
Miss Alpern said she believes
that justice is a product of the
heart and the mind and serves the
needs of all the people every day
and in every way.
Her career has been highlighted
by many firsts. Miss Alpern was
the first woman City Solicitor for
Pittsburgh and also the first wom
an member and later the first
woman president of the National
Institute of Municipal Law Offi
cers.
She later served as common
pleas court judge in Allegheny
County. In 1959 Governor Da
vid L. Lawrence appointed her
state Attorney General, mak
ing her the first woman attor
ney general in the nation. She
held this position until her re
cent appointment to the state
supreme court.
"I stand on my long and broad
record. of experience," Miss Al
pern' said. She expressed confi
dence that she would be successful
in the November election.
When questioned about her
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Sunny Skies Due
To Remain Today
The last vestiges of Indian Sum
mer should provide beautiful
weather in this area today.
Temperatures should approach
record levels during the mid
afternoon under sunny skies. A
high of 80 degrees is expected.
A developing storm system in
'the central states should bring
clouds and showers to this area
by late tomorrow, and then pro
duce a change to colder weather
Friday.
The local forecast indicates to
night should be partly cloudy
and mild with a low of 53 degrees.
Tomorrow should be mostly
cloudy, breezy and mild with
showers and thunderstorms de
veloping by afternoon and con
tinuing tomorrow night.
A high of 72 is likely tomorrow
afternoon.
UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 11, 1961
E. Germans . Decree
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BERLIN (.4').— The East German Communists decreed a six-month extension of serv
ice in their armed forces while the biggest-ever Communist military maneuvers were in
progress around Berlin.
An announcement yesterday discreetly published on inside pages of East German
papers said the extension of military service was made necessary by the "increased war
preparations of the West German militarists and revenge-seekers."
By JOAN MEHAN
Enrollment Rises
By 1,316 Students
The official fall term enroll
ment for the University Park cam
pus totals 14,928 undergraduates,
2,152 graduate students and 327
special students, Robert G. Bern
reuter, registrar said yesterday.
The figures show a total in
crease over last year of 1,316 stu
dents. The official enrollment con
firms Bernreuter's earlier findings
in that it shows an increased num
ber of students returning in the
sophomore, junior and senior
classes.
This higher retention rate has
produced a new enrollment high
for the University, Bernreuter
said.
At the University Park cam
pus, fewer freshmen were ad
mitted, he added. There were 3,658
freshmen admitted this year as
compared with 4,056 a year ago.
About 100 fevier transfer students
were admitted this year from oth
er colleges and universities, Bern
reuter added.
There was a rise in first year
enrollment in the two year asso
ciate degree program from 841
last year to 992 this year. This
served to offset the drop in the
number of students enrolled in
the baccalaureate degree program
on the commonwealth campuses,
he said.
The total fall term enrollment,
including the commonwealth cam
puses is 22,855. This is an increase
of 1,199 over the total last year.
The over-all University enroll
ment is now 15,964 men and 6,891
women.
Academic Changes Analyzed
Changes taking place in aca
demic affairs under the four
term plan are being brought
about by individual depart
ments and instructors, rather
than through a formal general
ized policy, Howard - A. Cutler, as
sistant to the president for aca
demic - affairs, said yesterday.
"I am not aware of any
general change in teaching meth
ods," Cutler said, "though in
dividual departments and in
structors are taking their own
look of what's required of them
under the plan."
For example, Cutler said, the
department of history this year
initiated a new class plan where
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
By CAROL KUNKLEMAN
(This is the fourth in a series
of articles on interviews with
campus administrators analyz
ing the four-term plan.)
Rush Code
Approved
By Ponhel
The Panhellenic Council ap
proved a rushing code last
night for the 1961-62 rush pro-1
gram to begin with open
houses Nov. 11.
The code, as outlined by Janet
Carlisle, rush chairman, includes
the following regulations:
*Open contact shall be in ef
fect until the formal rush regis
tration on Jan. 3.
•Strict silence shall be in effect
from the time of formal rush
registration until the issuance of
bids, Jan. 12.
•The invidival members of a
sorority may not issue any kind
of bid to any rushee except
through the formal and accepted
method, the preferential bidding
system.
The formal rush period will in
clude open houses, chatter dates,
bermuda junctions, coffee hours,
and ribboning.
The code. also stipulates that
any infraction of the rules shall
result in a penalty to be decided
upon by the Panhellenic Execu- 1
tive Council.
One week following the formal
rush period there will be a period
of open bidding in which any
woman who has registered for for
mal rush, and has not pledged
a sorority is eligible.
The council also decided to
keep the required averages for
rush as they have been in past
years. Rushees who stand higher
than second term or who are
transfer students must have a
minimum all-University average
of 2.0.
Rushees who are second term
standing or lower are required to
have a minimum all-University
average of 2.3.
Deferred grades will not he
averaged into the all-University
average this year.
A rush budget of $75 for each
sorority, excluding the cost of
cigarettes, was also approved by
the council.
by students bear a 50-minute
lecture and then participate in a
25-minute discussion peri o d,
During the former 50-minute per
iods of the semester system, his
tory courses were planned for
two lecture periods a week and
one period of discussion, he ex
plained.
"Since there is no definitely
assigned fin a I examination
period, testing methods are
bound to change among individ
ual instructors," Cutler said.
"This change may cause a shift
in the grades of students."
Again, he qualified his state
ment, by saying the shift of
grades, which like the testing
methods, is "bound to come," de
pends on the individual student.
Cutler's office is concerned
mainly with the instruction func
tion of the University. Under this
designation are listed curriculum
setups, course requirements, li
brary facilities and faculty super
The Question
of Justice
--See Page 4
It was coupled with a State
Department announcement by
press official Lincoln White that
the United States would give
syrnpliathetic consideration to
ally plea by West Berlin police for
better weapons.
A Western intelligence agen
cy, Information Bureau West,
estimated the East Germans now
have at least 170,000 men under
arms, in addition to 22 Soviet
divisions stationed in East Ger
many.
A large part of the East Ger
man army and people's police is
on permanent guard duty to pre
vent East Germans escaping
across the West German border
through the 100-mile-long con
crete-and-barbed-wire wall—sur
rounding West Berlin.
The East German troops are
nominally volunteers. In practice,
they are recruited among young
men under almost irresistable po
litical, moral and economic pres
sure for two—or three—year peri
ods.
The regime has run an insist
tent campaign among the troops
to obtain voluntary extensions
of service. The new decree sug
gests that persuasion failed to
bring results.
The decree will keep them in
uniform beyond Dec. 31, when the
East Germans still expect to bring
the Berlin crisis to a head by
signing a peace treaty with the
Soviet Union.
They claim the treaty will give
the East Germans complete con
trol of all access routes to Berlin
and thus put the city at their
mercy.
The East German Commu
nists, continuing their gradual
nibbling-away tactics against
the Western position in Berlin,
barred entry to East Berlin for
West Germans during the hours
of darkness. •
Allied military personnel and
non-German civilians are still ad
mitted to East Berlin 24 hours a
day, but Allied officials said pri
vately they expected this right al
so to be gradually sliced away.
East Germany's Communist
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Greek Week Dinners
All fraternities will be con
tacted by the Greek Week Ex
change Dinner committee today
to determine the exact number
of girls they can accomodate for
the dinners.
vision.
"The four-term • plan is a
pedagocial advantage to the
student," he said. "The semester
system was no less work than
this plan. It requires a shorter
warming-up period at the be
ginning of a class because the
student has fewer subjects to
concentrate on., Thus, he can
recall his knowledge faster,
without making the instructor
lose valuable class time." .
Because the student is learn
ing less vocabulary simultane
ously, he actually has more time
to study because of this lack of
dispersion in subject matter, he
added.
Cutler said he thinks the four
term plan is the answer to edu
cating better students.
He predicted that the four
term plan will be widely adopted
in colleges an d universities
throughout the country in the
future.
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