, ..
• r. - 1 ,‘ , •-••-. • I
, •
_ • . 1 . •
' 1.7 :1" -'1IL: t. :. " ''.:'
'
. .
I i
' Weather Foiecast: ' , Plan '
•
—Partly Cloudy,. El ._ _. ... 1 . ,
- ls Alooded
' Cold - —so* pogO
. . , .
62. j No. 7c
'Committees Formed
New USG Congress
4
By
By DAVE SUNKEL
s - TiJOAN MEHAN
The Congr es s of the Under
graduate! Student Government
made a I solid, if not sparkling,
debut last night. •
The Congress forined commit
tees to study the possibility of
'darting money and giving techni
cal advice to residence areas on
the installation of AM-FM con
verters, 'to work for 'the repeal
of the four per cent State sales
tax on text books, to support the
Liberal Arts faculty on 'the
elimi
nation of compulsory ROTC and
t& draw up by-laws by which the'
.Corigresi, will:operate.
# Bruce Artrnan, town hide
, pendent men • representative,
and Sandra Hampson, SimmOns
• McElwain representative, were
absent without excuse.
Richard Miller, West Halls rep
resentative, and John Witmer,
fraternity representative, were
`excused because of illness. Randy
Carter, - junior class president,
represented Witmer. Since the
by-laws have not been written,
there is- rio provision for alter
nates. s •
Kent; Fuller, TIM representa
tive, proposed that a committee
be formed to compile technical
knowledgeon installing - AM-FM
converters 'in residence areas. The
committee will.also look into the
cost of such an installatioil.
• DENNIS FOIANINL USG pres
ident; said these , converters would
not Violate Federal Communica-
4roontinued on page three)
Spring. Weo.k
- ley .DAVE BOLBACH
Spring Week this Year will con
sist 'of the carnival,. he-man and
queen-of-hearts contest and the
Miss Penn State competition, Rob
ert Polishook, Spring Week chair
man; said yesterday.: : :;
Results of a.poll of the Panhel
lenic Council, Men's Residence
Council and Inter-Fraternity
Council indicated that students
didn't feel they had time to pre
pare a complete Spring Week,
Polishook said. They felt the float
parade should be eliminated, he
said.
THE POSSIBILITY of com
bining the. float parade with the
Maintenance Posse Stapes Hunt
For 1,5 N Misbehaving Pigeons
• For the past month and a half, the Department of Main
tenance and Utilities has been waging an all-out war on the
University- pigeons. The birds have been a menace to both
health and property for over 50 years Charles Lamm, direc
tor of building maintenance, said.
A team of three men.: armed
with an air rifle and several
'dozen traps has been ,assigned to ,
collect "dead or alive" as many
of 'the estimated 1,500 pigeons on
camps as possible.
Lamm said the pigeons are con
centrated in and around Old
Main, the Armory,. Carnegie and .
Walker Lab.
IN EACH OF THESE areas'
people have complained 'of pigeon
droppings and the janitorial staff
has been kept busy cleaning up
the; droppings, he added.
Pigeons have entered the vr
chestra practice room in Carnegie
by some' unknown means, he ,
said. •
They alsO haVe apparently
broken windows on the fourth
floor in Walker Lab in order to
enter the building. At the pres-,
ent time, the fourth floor of
Walker Lab is contaminated with
pigeon -carried lice. creating , a
--Collegian Mote b /elm
ELECTED WHILE IN THE INFIRMARY—John Witmer. a con
gressman representing the Inter-Fraternity Council. reads a
magazine in the Ritenour Health Center last night after learning
he was elected president pro lempore of. the USG Congress.
Wilmer had beiiia admitted to the health center earlier in the
evening. • -
HOmecoming festivities is still a
question mark, Polishook said,
[but' the poll results indicated that
students thought it should be
eliminated from Spring Week
whether .or not it is incorporated
with Homecoming.
"The Students seemed to feel
that by hot !splitting their efforts
between the float parade and
carnival, a better carnival could
be produced," he said.
Polishook said he` polled the
three groups because they have
expressed the most interest in
Spring Week and have partici
pated more in the past than- any
other group. In addition, he said,
By JEFF-ABELSON
•
health hazard:-brie of the Univer
sity's air riflemen said.
• ALL PIGEONS tra pped alive,
as well - as those kille d, are being
turned over' to Dr. David Davis,
professor of zoology, for research
in the field of ornithology. Ap
proximately_ 400 igeons have
been given to Da visV thus far.
"We hope we can get the flock
within controllable limits, but I
don't think we can eradicate
them," Lamm said yesterday. •
110 TO Deadline Monday
me deadline for the'campus
competition of the Pittsburgh
Press Rota Queen Contest has
been extended to 5 p.m. Mon
-day. Pictures must be 5x7 or
Ilxlo inches'. glossy or mat
finish and should be submitted
to the Collegian office in the
basement of flacketL
UNIVERSITY PARK.'PA - .. FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 2. 1962
Parade Dropped
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
a poll, was also taken of inde
pendent students in Nittany and
East Residence Halls.
SPRING WEEK will The held
April 27 to May 1, - with the carni
val scheduled .for Sat., April 28.
The carnival will be held this
year on the•intramural field near
Beaver Stadium. Awards night
will be held May 1 at Recreation
Hall.
Applications are now available
for Spring Week committees at
the Hetzel Union desk.
THE PLEDGE CLASS of Sign= Alpha Mu re- - doors while the brothers slept. Although they
decorated their fraternity's living room Wednes- had only a scant half-inch to spare, they
day night. They added a foreign car. Ten accomplished the task without injury to thegn•
pledges carried the car into the house over a selves, the house or the car.
four-foot Wall and through a set, of French
.•
Frontiliii Hit
By Military
. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (X)—Argentina's angry, mill
tarp chiefs met with President Arturo Frondizi and his foreign
minister for 3 hours and 12 minutes last night *to press Oe
mands for a diplomatic break with Communist CubaL
De
mands for
Minister Miguel Angel - Carcano announced aft C
r-1
'ward that a communique would be issued this morning, an it
appeared that the government had won at least a breathng
'spell in the new crisis. I ________-4---...i...._
,
The crisis blew up in the after-!report by the Argentine news
math of Argentina's refusal at,ageney Te!press that he was ire-
Punta del Este to vote with the signing. 1
majority 'for ousting Cuba from; A DIPLOMAT. writer andlat
inter-American affairs. 'tom.) , who took over' the forign
1!
THE THREE armed forces see-!ministry last Sept. 12 Camino
i retaries , had insisted that Car-;issued a statement saying he ithx
cano and his top aides be fired for plained Argentina's votes ;at
supPortilig a go-slow policy Punta del Este.
,
against the regime of Prime Min - The big bisue' was Argenti a's
lister Fidel Castro. abstention along with Britzil,
But Carcano apparently man
---- lEolivia, Chile, EcUador'and ex
aged in the extraordinary nighti•
ico—on the key resolution adi pt
session to placate them, at least - :..
ea at Punta . del Este.
for the time being. After the ses-,
sion that he •had he explained the CAPICANO'S staterrient laid
stand of the Arr• tine delegation the Argentine deli - , s tir • took " II
t ,
stand of .ne Arm. _gent... _ ...legation .__.. tilt
at Punta del Este. - - Icognizance of the dangers of Com
imunist penetration of the hefni-
THE MILITARY call for at
~ {phere and, comequently .thein
lireak with Castro's Red re g ime icompatibility of C.astro's regime
was a swift sequel to Argentina's; with the inter- A mer ican cy st m.
stand in the soft-six bloc at the i
linter-American conference. 1 "The legal reasons which sup-
Carcano conferred with the ported our vote do riot diminish
president for more than an houriour firm decision to fight cbm
on returning home from the con-munism in our country andi in
r ference, then indirectly denied a'the continent," he said. i
Very Cold Weather Should Remain
By JOEL MYERS I Very cold air banked to ' theh
Two to four inches of snow ac-Inorth of Pennsylvania yesteislay
cumulated in mast of southwest-(prevented the heavirr snow to:the
em and south-central Pennsyl
'south from overspreading theen
vania yesterday and last night! tire state. 1
but only one inch of snow was As - the storm respcnsible forithe
measured in the State College snow moved off the coast ;last
area. : . night, that bitterly cold' air began
'w i t° advance southward into the
The snow was expected ,
diminish during the night. and commonwealth.
partly cloudy skies and quite cold{ Central Pennsylvania should
weather is indicated for today.l not feel the full effects 'of this
A few very light snow flurriesiarctic air, which yesterday pre
are possible this morning. The;vented temperatures from cliinb
ihigh temperature should be about:ing above zero under sunny skies
23 degrees. •in northern New York, because
Cone to five-inches of snow fell , its main strength is directed! to
over a wide area stretching from ward New England. ,
Ohio to Virginia to New Jersey; Nevertheless. temperatures early
Wednesday night and yesterday.l (Continued on page six)
FIVE CENTS