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VOL. 62. No. 49' UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING.' NOV. 30. 1961 FIVE CENTS
HIS AND HERS: Beginning next term signs
indicating which stairs are for men and which
are for women might have to be hung over
these steps between Lyons and Haller Halls.
The far ones, where Ann Short, freshman in
Men to Move into Lyons;
Women to Be Relocated
By JOANNE MARK
Shocked, tear - stained and
disappointed faces were evi
dent in the Lyons Hall lounge
Tuesday night when Dorothy
J. Lipp, dean of women, told
the women who live there they
will be moving out before Christ
mas vacation.
An overall stunned attitude was
apparent among the girls as Dean
Lipp told them, "The President is
requesting that the women give
up Lyons Hall to accommodate
men who have been living in
temporary housing."
The 250 women in Lyons will
move to other women's resi
dences and men from Nittany
and Graduate Halls will move
into Lyons at the beginning of
the winter term.
Considering the new aspect of
community living which the move
will represent, Dean Lipp told the
women of Haller Hall last night
that their private living quarters
will be closed off from Lyons at
closing hours.
Men and women will share
the public areas of the residence
halls but will not be permitted
Petition Period Reopened
The elections commission
reopened the 'USG petitioning
period last night when not
enough candidates were nomi
nated to fill all the Congres
sional seats in several areas.
Petitions for the 29 USG Con
gress positions and for freshman,
sophomore and junior class presi
dent will be accepted from 2 to 3
Saturday afternoon in the USG
office in 203 Hetzel Union, Nancy
Williams, elections commission
chairman, said.
If at that time, Miss Williams
said, there are not enough can
didates to fill the offices from
any one area, those candidates
filing petitions in that area will
automatically be declared elect
ed and the remainder of the
seats will go unfilled.
Elections will be held only in
those. areas where there will be
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Liberal Arts from G'arden City, N.Y., is coming
down are for Lyons while the ones in the fore
ground go to Haller. Beginning with the winter
term men will be housed in Lyons.
in one anther's private living
quarters, she said. Some ar
rangements for using the laun
dry facilities shared by Lyons
and Haller will have to be
worked out later by the groups
involved.
- "This arrangement should prove
to be 'quite a new and difficult
experience for the women of Hal
ler," Dean Lipp said.
Talking to the residents of
Haller, Dean Lipp said that "The
eyes of the campus will be on this
residence hall and this situation
will demand a special maturity
which I'm sure you have."
"If you have any objections,
we will be most willing to help
you find another place to live,"
she said.
Dean Lipp explained that the
women now living in Lyons
w ere re-assigned yesterday
afternoon by the dean of wom
en's office on the basis of their
preferences for residence halls
and roommates.
"There were some 250 vacancies
which remained in women's resi
dence halls for the winter term
and there was a possibility that
housing fees could go up if these
rooms were not filled," Dean
Lipp said.
-.On the other hand there were
a choice of candidates, she said.
The same rules will apply for
this extension as governed the
regular petitioning period, Miss
Williams said. Petitions will re
quire the signatures of 100 stu
dents from the constituency which
the candidate would represent if
elected.
There are no term or average
requirements for students run
ning for seats in the January
elections, she said.
The following petitions have
been received and checked for
the correct number of signatures
(Continued on page three)
Special Collegian issue
A special issue of the Daily
Collegian commemorating the
signing of the Morrill Land-
Grant Act one hundred years
ago will be published tomor
row.
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225 men living in temporary
housing in Graduate Hall and the
Nittany area, she added.
The men in temporary housing
will move into Lyons on a pri
ority basis with seniors first, Dean
Lipp said.
Dean Lipp said that Lyons will
be a men's residence hall for two
terms but she would not predict
its status after that. She added
that there are no immediate plans
for moving more men into South
Halls.
Temperatures to Rise;
Cold, Snow to Follow
Considerable sunshine is ex
pected again today, and tem
peratures should climb a few
degrees higher than those re
cored yesterday. The high
should be near 42.
Snow flurries and colder
weather are indicated for to
night and tomorrow, and the
coldest weather of the young
winter season is predicted for
tomorrow night.
Constitution Review Set
The SGA interim govern
men may have reached the
summit of their long struggle
for a constitution when they
approved a proposed draft for
the second time this term.
This constitution is 'scheduled
for review by the University Sen
ate Committee on Student Affairs
and Sub-committee on Organiza
tion Control this afternoon.
The first constitution, reviewed
earlier this fall, was withdrawn
from consideration when several
major points in it were deemed
unacceptable by the committees.
The newly approved constitu
tion, two pages long, provides a
foundation for a three-branch
governmental system but does
not include by-laws. These will
be written after the organiza
tion is chartered.
The constitution gives a new
name to student government. In
stead of SGA or Student Govern-
By ANN PALMER
Ape Circles
Earth Twice;
Marine Next
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (RP) The United States
rocketed an able ape named Enos twiee around the world
yesterday and then named astronaut John H. Glenn to travel
the same trail.
Glenn, 40, is a Marine lieutenant colonel with thinning
red .hair and an expansive grin.
Navy Lt. Crack. Scott Carpenter,
36; was named as Glenn's backup
pilot.
Announcement of the astro'-
nautsi. assignments came at a news
conference a few hours after the
37 1 / 2 -pound chimp had been
launched at 10:07 a.m., on what
turned out to be a partially suc
cessful flight.
Enos had been scheduled to
whiz around the world three times
but his trip was cut to twice
around after the spacecraft de
veloped troubles.
On his flight Enos zipped
around the globe at altitudes
ranging from 99 to 146 miles
and attained a top speed of
17,500 miles per hour.
Enos landed safely in the At
lantic Ocean, 330 miles southeast
of Bermuda at 1:28 p.m. I-le was
picked up by a destroyer and was
raced to Bermuda for medical ex
amination.
The 5 1 / 2 -year-old chimp was
due to arrive in Bermuda at 5
a.m., today for a preliminary phy
sical and he then will be flown
back to Cape Canaveral.
Selection of the astronauts
for specific space chores does
not necessarily mean that the
United States is now embarked
on an all-out program to place
a man in orbit before year's end.
Indeed, Robert Gilruth, Project
Mercury director, specifically de
clined to say what affect the Enos
flight would have on U.S. space
plans.
The partial success of the Enos
flight may have jarred 'U.S. hopes
Ming Resigns as AWS President
Ruth Rilling resigned as presi
dent of the Association of Women
Students last night.
In resigning, Miss Rilling ex
plained that she will not be on
camptis after Dec. 7 due to her
student teaching assignment.
"I am planning on keeping in
touch with AWS," she said. "I
will be living at home during my
student teaching and since we get
the Daily Collegian at home I
expect to read about all of your
many projects."
Marla Stevens, vice president of
the organization, will take over
Miss Rilling's responsibilities.
These include a position on the
Senate Sub-Committee on Stu
dent Affairs which meets tonight
to consider the proposed consti
tution of the Undergraduate Stu-
ment Association, the new organi-'
zation will be known as USG or
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment. The name of the legislative
branch, formerly called the As
sembly, has ben changed to Con
gress.
The executive section of the
constitution provides for a presi
dent, vice president and secretary
to be elected by the student body
in the spring term.
The legislative branch, accord
ing to the constitution, will con-
Fast of representatives elected
from the four major living areas
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in proportion to the number of
undergraduate students. The
exact ratio will be determined
by the Congress.
The constitution provides for
the USG vice president to preside
over all meetings of the Congress.
Congressmen will be deemed
ineligible in the following cases:
if they do not register for any fall,
winter or spring terms: if their
residence is shifted so that they
no longer represent the constitu
ency by which they were elected;
for 1961 considerably.
At the news conference Gil
ruth read a prepared statement
detailing the astronauts' next
space chores.
Donald B. Slayton was named
'to pilot the second orbital mission
with astronaut Walter Schirra
backing him up.
Alan B. Shepard Jr., who made
America's first space flight was
,appointed technical director for
the Glenn Carpenter team.
Virgil I. Grissom, the second
U.S. space traveler, was selected
as technical adviser for Slayton
, and Schirra.
Astronaut Leroy B. Cooper
was named to handle the flight
failure and recovery operations
at the launch pads.
In a question and answer ses
sion with newsmen, Gilruth
classed Enos' jaunt into space as
successful.
Then Gilruth added: "The fact
that this flight was successful
does not say categorically wheth
er the next will be a manned
flight."
This left the door open for a
second chimpanzee mission into
space. . .
As for Glenn, he said . simply,
"I am very, very happy about
this selection. Scott and I can
work closely together. It is still
a team effort. I think that is
pointed up by the effort today."
As for the space craft troubles,
Walter Williams, operations direc
tor, said they could have been
overcome had there been a man
aboard instead of the chimp.
dent Government
In other business, Miss Jean
ette Berry, advisor of AWS, ex
plained to the Senate members
about the housing change in Lyons
Hall. She asked the members to
explain to their constituencies
that this is a financial necessity,
not a new plan in community
living. Lyons Hall will be used
as a men's residence hall for at
least the remainder of the year
and probably permanently, she
said.
Miss Stevens, who conducted the
latter part of the meeting, follow
ing Miss Rilling's resignation, an
nounced the appointment of Linda
Uram, junior in arts and letters
from Carlisle, and Carol Tomlin
son, sophomore in arts and let
ters from New York, N.Y., as AWS
elections commission co-chairmen.
if they are put on disciplinary or
academic probation or if im
peached by the Congress.
According to . the constitution,
any proposed legislation coming
from non-representatives must
be supported by a petition sign
ed by 500 students. Such propos
als will be placed on the Con
gressional agenda within two
weeks after receipt of the peti
tion.
In the judicial branch, the con
stitution calls for a Supreme Court
consisting of five members ap
pointed by the USG president with
approval from the Congress.
As stated, the court is to have
judicial power senior to any other
student court or tribunal and have
the right to rule on any cases in
volving the constitution or to
hear appeals from any of the
lower courts.
The constitution provides for a
referendum on any legislative
action or constitutional amend
ments taken by the Congress with
the presentation of a petition
signed by 1,000 students,