PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Frosh Integration? After two years of housing freshmen with upperelass women, next term may be a good time to find out how effective this hew policy 4ias been. A survey of campus qoeds could show these results. Dorothy J. Lipp, dean of women, argued in suggesting that freshmen be integrated with upperelass women,:that beginning students would benefit from older wqmens’ experience. Thus, she reasoned, University would be graduating mature, educated young women. The Panhellenic Council workshop last weekend, however, recommended a re-establishment of freshman halls. Dean Lipp Countered that the Issue was “closed”— the new policy would stand. In support of this stand, Dean Lipp pointed to the :fact that fewer women have dropped out of the University in the last two years. She also cited figures showing’ that . three tintes as many coeds participated in rush this 1 year than two/ - years ago. A survey of all women students could show whether these factors have come as .a result of the change in hous ing policy, whether women nowadays just have more stamina cor whether the four-term plan, with its reduced credits, has made it easier for women to attain the re quired average for rushing. - , Arguments proffered by. Panhel are that integrated halls create anti-sorority feeling. Other comments/ have been that freshmen lose the benefit of learning to adjust together. Last fall AWS prepared to take such a survey, but , disbanded its effort. If done now by AWS, no extra work would be required -of the dean of women’s staff and the would be under no obligation to utilize the results. Only after the effort was made, however, could all parties involved —coeds, the dean of women and the ad ministration—truly say the issue was “closed.” j To Preserve a Tradition v Earlier in the year, Spring Week was altered to accommodate the four term system, an accommodation which eliminated an important part of the contest—its float parade. To simply bid farewell to an institution that fostered good public relations for the University as well as a spirit of cooperation between both independent and Greelc groups on campus seems to use an admission that good times must be sacrificed to a stepped-up academic pace. As has been noted earlier, this float parade can be Included in the fall term's homecoming celebrations. This would, we think, add some jubilance to homecoming; would permit all undergraduates to participate and' would foster a greater sense of loyalty. In addition, we would suggest that the parade also be repeated before the homecoming game itself, and that the winner be announced during half tiipe. We realize th&t it took many years to get the Home coming Queen on the field, but we .think ihat there might be room for the floats also. Director of Athletics Ernest McCdy told us that the only lima floats could conceivably be raveiwed would bo prior to gam#', time, since the Blue Band baa traditional priority at halftime. He also feared additional traffic con gestion. If the floats were parked in the area behind the East Stands of the Stadium, they would not interfere with spectators arriving or parking. The floaty could be re moved after the post-game exodus is over and would hot present a traffic problem. If it is true that Penn State lacks tradition, and there' are these who say it does, then the Float shouldn’t be allowed to go down in history as “ events we used to have here.” Neither should we allow it to be offered up as a sacrifice to the rigors .of the four-term system. . Sathj (Eoilwrian Successor to- The Fret Lance, est. ISST ; J"Js****U - ratadaj thnagfc Satartay Mrtlai Sartas Uk tlalrarilty mr. At J* * •tod beyond, the town, for them _to They’re, awfully little from up count spring th&re. Suddenly, you feel free, election ballots Months later, long after foot- in the HUB ball season, as you are being cardroom. Another time you almost.get arrested for fly ing through an intersection on Pollock Road— on a bike—so you could' get back to the office'before the deadline. But none of these are the Letters Frosh 'Praises' Maintenance Men TO THE EDITOR: I would like to congratulate the Uni versity maintenance on the beautiful job they did in re moving snow from the area needed to park student cars in parking area 80. Thanks to their valiant ef forts many students were stuck, because they had to park in the unplaced area. I am sure that these students will cheerfully pay their $lO parking fees next term when they remember how the Uni versity first cut down the size of the parking area and then did such a wonderful job main taining it. Grads Corrected TO. THE EDITOR: We would like to apologize for an error in our letter in Friday’s Col legian. Mr". David Cowell called to our attention the fact that he is not a borough official as we implied. He is an employee of the University. We are sincerely ‘ sorry for misrepresenting Mr. CowelL a la carte —> —Wynn Walker '65 —H. A. Walkers, Grad Student —Odin C. Vick. Grad Student i &WTHINS Y 11 SKIVES®) L BEFORE- / i 'in&toset;' iW FfiCETMAt® lIEU HORIZONS- j thirty World At Pennsy, Central File for Merger WASHINGTON (AP) The Pennsylvania and New Yprk Central railroads formally asked permission yesterday to. merge and form the nation’s largest rail system a proposal certain to stir a prolonged and bitter struggle. The two railroads filed with the Interstate Commerce Com mission their petition for ap proval of the merger plans first/ announced by the companies’ executives last Jan. 12. Stock holders of the two corporations will he asked to approve the merger in separate meetings May 8. i , ; IF APPROVED, the merger would produce, a' system with 20.073 miles of track, nearly 10 per cent of the national total and with more than $5.3 billion in assets. The companies now have about 121,000 employes, most of them represented by unions which are expected' to oppose the merger strenuously: In addition to the assured opposition of . the unions, the merger probably will'be fought before the ICCjby some ship pers fearing retrogression in service and perhaps by some railroads, fearing stiffer com petition. It will be vigorously supported by the American As sociation of Railroads and other industry spokesmen. Food Shortage Minimized by 'K' MOSCOW (AP)—Soviet Pre mier Khrushchev, who said Monday the Soviet Union needs more food for its 20Q million people, now denied that Soviet agriculture is in a state of crisis. He said the outlook is good. Khrushchev issued the de nial yesterday' in the conclud ing speech at a special meeting of the Communist party Cen tral Committee, called to con sider farm issues. The speech was delivered be- ~ “ hind dosed doors, but the offi- LJI, NoWSOapCt Stays cial news agency Tass released c win R.Vnrra - a summary which reported: US tiers Will Diyorce iThe secretary of -the Cen- LOS.ANGELES (AP^—Eliza-' tral Committee of the Com- beth Tiylor! and Eddie Fisher munist party ”of the Soviet will end. their 5 tnairihge be- Uhion said that, contrary to the . cause “she has fallen madly in contention of certain bourgeois love with Richard Burton,”-the press organs, there was no Los Angeles Herald-Examiner crisis in Soviet agriculture. reported iyesterday. I ■- ; . ‘The fact, is,” he said, “that A family spokesman termed we simply do not have enough f the report “absolutely ridicul- " food." - . ous." j SATURDAY. l O- 1962 hynackeal as-working dora at until the mucli-too-e; trying to get {he stoi le spaces! to agree,: 1 You wonder if anyone feels the same. Then one you notice some guy on sports staff crowded inU comer with six bound-yoluii of back papers! looking-forj the score of. the lysB Penn State- Bucknell basketball | game] You want to say something and you start ! to but he looks up to -ask' “What’s your trou ble?" • ‘ I ■ “I can’t find .my magic marker.” | - I He mumbles jsome thing about banning girls | from! the itaiff and yju glower at your new, unaware, friepcL [ ‘ ‘ , It’s your last term, 1 your last few nights around'the. office and a reporter asks yoii if you’ll really hate saying good bye and cleaning out your deslc and aIL You start to explain’ that' somewhere-'in | the years of college, welall begin to say good-bye and to collect the. things that belong tq us. When we graduate, we .only * leave. ! I I That’s all. —3o— • ! A G Easter Hit by Clears By THE ASS .A new stor terday as the em seaboard monumental. from the worjst winter gale in its history. President Kennedy designated sections of' five states as disaster arias. - , The nevi | storm dropped seven inchesjof snow on 1 parts' of Georgia. IV moved on into Virginia and the ravagedistdtes of Delaware landgJtfeW Jersey lay in its.path'. ! i . Sen. Clifford Case, ;R -NJ"., announced in Washington that President Kennedy had designated as disaster i areas hard-hit sections of New Jersey, Maryland, Dda ware, Virginia and West Vir »inia. J • j" ! - The storm began Tues day and ravaged the co&st for three days left 38 knowri'dead. Damage " was estimated' at close to, $2OO milion, ahd the devastation exceeded that of many of thejbig hurritanbs of the past Grange Master Remains in Race - HARRISBURG (AP)i J. Collins McSparran j reaffirmed yesterday his determination to stay in the race for the Repub lican nomination for goyemort challenging U.S. Rep. William W. Scranton, 1 organisation can didate, to debate with him' the issues. ~ ' McSparran’s decision to stay in • the race meant a two-way fight at the May 15 primary for the GOP'nomination. All other non-organization candidates in either party i previously "puHei out. | '■ Thr ster e 48-year-old 'master of the State Grange,' oldest and largest farm organization •in Pennsylvania, claimed a hand ful of men picked both parties’ candidates - for the i governor ship. ; j .'j j , .■ ’ else day the > a cries 1 t Coast Storm, '■ Debris 'GATED PRESS 1 moved in yes- : devastated: east foughtJto dear a mass i of derbis