1 i. 41.110.1.4., 4, Weather Forecast: • ~,?"- - . gi lt B at i g - 3 4 t ~...- ~- L - T en ti rgian ~ .. Sunny - . Very Cold 1 . VOL. 62. No. 56 St ht W COOL By JOEL MYERS Zero temperatures and gusty westerly winds combined to make between-class travel very un comfortable yesterday despite bright sunny skies. The mercury at the University! Weather Station dropped to zero early yesterday and only managed to reach 10 degrees under sunny skies yesterday afternoon. EVEN LOWER temperatures were •predicted for early today, but a gradual warming trend should begin this afternoon. The temperature is expected to c'. Ab to 15 degrees this afternoon after falling '6 5 below zero early today. A low of 4 above ro is in dicated for tonight, and a high of 23? . 'grees is tomorrow. "' , • • Despite this expected warming trend, there is little chance that the mercury will ,climb above Administration to Enforce New Senate Rule—Walker By SARALEF. ORTON President Eric A. Walker said yesterday that the action taken by the Senate Tuesday in requiring all social organiza tions to ; remove restrictive membership clauses in their con itifutions by June 30, 1965, was , "certainly in. order for the Uni versity." "The proper administrative offi cers 'will take steps to put it into effect," he said. DEAN OF MEN Frank J. Simes said, in addition, that as a state institution, this University is more committed to civil rights action than a similar private institution. .The action at the Senate meet ing came as', a result of a motion Fall Term Yields Higher trades, ,Fewer Drops Than Fall of 1960 By DAVE BOLBACH Although ,the fall term pro duced an increase in student ner vous disorders, it also produced a sharp rise in students' academic averages, as' compared with the fall semester, of 1960. Fewer dro l l) and probationary actions were taken against stu dents and there was an incr-'ase in the number of students who at tained dean's, list: and perfect 4. averages, Melvin Rockey, ad ministrative assistant to the regis trar, said. THE ONLY academic disciplin- , ary actions which increased were warnings which result when a student receives between a 1.70 and 2.00 average, he 'said. Drop actions were taken against 117 students last term or .71 per cent of the entire student body. UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 11. 1962 freezing before next week_ The tremendous arctic air mass that brought the numbing cold to the eastern three quarters of the nation should coptinue l to maintain below freezing temperatures far south as the Gulf coast this afternoon. •BELOW ZERO readings were expected early today over a large segment of the nation stretch ing from the Rockies to the Atlantic and from the Canadian border to Texas, Mississippi and the Carolinas. Temperatures between 20 and 40 below tero were indicated for thiS morning in the north iintral states. A storm that moved off the ccast yesterday deposited several inches Of snow from Georgia to Delaware. Light snow from that storm 'moved into southeastern Pennsylvania yesterday morn ing, but accumulations were less than one inch. by Monroe Newman, head of the Department of Economics, amend ing a report on revisions on Senate Regulations W. Y and Z drawn up by the Senate Committee on Stu dent Affairs. Walker, who specified at the Senate meeting that all further action on this matter would be taken by the administration, said that this was in keeping with the basic division of responsibility un der which the University operates. "THE SENATE makes educa tional 'policy and the administra tion carries_ it out," he said. "In view of the trend of the times it cannot be hailed as a great stroke of leadership by the University, but simply a matter of getting around to something that needed to.be done," the Pres ident said.' • Following the fall semester of 1960, 133 students were dropped, a percentage of XT. Probationary actions -decreased 1.84 per cent, from 2,487 students in .1960 to 2,356 students last term. The number of warnings in- 1 creased from 2,080 students or ! 13.55 per cent to 2,288 students or, 13.95 per cent. _ , THE BIGGEST difference oc-f curred in the number of student& who attained high averages. In 1960, a total of 882 students inad& dean's list, while last term 1.207, students ' achieved the necessary: 3.50 average. This represents an. iiivivase of 27 per cent. The num :her of students who attained per ifect. 4. averages rose from 19 to approximately 215. Dr. Donald H. For& director of the Division of Counseling, listed (Continued on page eight) FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Trend Due COOLEST. Simes said he anticipates few ;problems in carrying out a pro ,gram to discover which fraterni ties have discriminatory clauses. This is a national movement which has been going on for some time !and most fraternities are resigned to it, he said. , THE ACTION will probably be carried out by asking the national organization of each fraternity on campus for a copy of its constitu tion, Simes said. Only fraternities (Continued on page eight) PUte by D.n %liken' STORYBOOK CHARACTERS came to life in sororities presented original skits during Ber th. Alpha Chi Omega suite last night as rushees muds Junciions., Tonight the rushees will fill and sor o rity sisters attended the nszt•to•ths- ottt !heir final preference cards after allendin/ lass funalon of formal sorority rush. All of the formal coffee &kiss in the suites. Congress. Opens; Speaker Installed WASHINGTON (4')—Congress opened a new session with beaming, backslapping good will, installed a new speaker' of the Hou'se and told President Kennedy yesterday it was ready to buckle down to business. Kennedy's ideas of what the business should be will be sketched out today. He will de: 'liver his State of the Union mes-•boods to help the United Nations sage in person then, in the House out of a financial ' jam ' ' .. : For the first tinieri since - PIN chamber; shortly after 12:30.p.m'. Sam Rayburn 'of Texas was ab. SOME' OF HIS ideas are old .ent from the halls of Congress: ' ones, some of the new ones are The . man who was speaker far longer than any other died in No known in general terms; and some vember. ; . 'of both already have stirred up And with the end Of the Ray. controversy. . . , I burn era, 'the House opened its So skirmish lines already were session, with no one in' the speak. well established for what could:er's - chair. The vacancy wasn't al. be a rough, explosive, election-lowed to stand for long. year se4siori. And the opening, " JOHN W.NicCORMACK. 70. day harmony and pleasantries: • who - served as Democratic leader may melt away like the mantle of' : under Rayburn fbr 21' years, was n , snow that fell on Washington du' ing the night. 4 • , elected .speaker amid standing : ovations and salvos of bipartisan AS It LOOKS NOW, the big acclaim. - squabbles will center on admin- The entire Democratic leader , istrationi bills for such things as ship in the• House moved up a tariff-cutting authority. medicalinotch. Rep. Carl Albert of Okla care fot the aged under SoCiallhoma, the party o.lhip, took over Security, aid to education, farm.the leadership post from ?Actor-. legislation, more spending, tax mack. Rep, Hale Boggs, 1).1.1c, hanger; foreign aid, and the fed.: was tapped to become the new eral purchase of $lOO million irt-:-whip. Coeds Will Make Final Decisions At Sorority Coffee Hours Tonight Nearly 1.000 coeds participating ,Rushers must hand in their in the Panhellenic rush program preferential cards by 1.1:30 p.m. get their last chance to doculeThey will give the cards to their upon a sorority fis they prepare rush guide after filling therif- out for two coffee hours tonight. and the rush .gintles, in turn. will Ly - The purpose of coffee hours. as take them to the Panhellenic of ;defined in tills year's rush book-.rice in Grange • . i Once a - Ilet, is tO give the rushee a grips e . ,erentialthe rushee t, card to fill oureceives xhe prei will ;of the serious side of sou Ries the rus h be allowed to-leave the room RusheeS are advised by until she has handed it in. ! booklet authors to ask any cities.' ~ l ions tonight to help them decide! SORORITIES must return their which sorority they want to lists to the Panht'l office by 7a m. 'pledge.; tomorrow morning. Ette,hees' prof 'erentials will bet.rnatehed to this FOLLOWING the last coffee sororities' firit and second lists, hour rushees are to go to their where they and the results will be given to rush guide meeting will be given p?eferential cards. the sororiti es at 4 p.m. tomorrow. . * `On theSe cards rushees list the Rushe r s should receive their bids sororities in order of preference between 4 and 5 tomorrow after noon. Meanwhile each sorority will be Ribboning will take place in the 'compiling a first and a second list sorority suites at 7 tomorrow eve _....._'of girls to feed the IBM machines. rung. t t tp 1 I Self-defeating Cycle —se. page 4 FIVE CENTS
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