--rAdherka notolry Don Caklesmn RING ABOUND THE OBMISK--Having undoubtedly die• covered the mysterious legend of the Obelisk, the group of unbelieving freshmen thought they would put it to the lest. The : monument sio?d, firm however, -providing an indication that this year's gymip of Penn Slate students are no different than in previous years. • ' ' 'Oink Days' to Begin Remember those fOny-looking little blue caps and colored name cards you received oni Orientati4n Sunday, Frosh? You'll be pleased to know that you're going to get a chance to wear them soon. In fact, customs gO. off to a roaring start this morning. At least one part of customs does, because;from now until Friday night, all freshmen are required to wear their namecards on campus from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. } • THE PURPOSE OF THIS friendly gesture; according to the venerable CUstoms Board, which makes it a point to be concerned with freshman welfare, is to make it easier for freshmen to get to know other freshmen. It also distinguishes freshmen from upper classmen and gives upPerclass paitles a chance to get acquainted with freshmen coeds_ That Customs Board is always thinking! • The time to don those cute little blue dinks is coining soon, however. Freshmen are expected to show the proper Penn State spirit at the pep ra11y,i6:45 p.m. Friday on the HUB lawn, by wearing full customs dress. On .Saturday, freshmen, will also be required to be appropriately decked out in dinks and namecards for the football game. NO DENIM SHOULD BE, discarded after the pep, rally Friday, thoilghl , for 'admission ,to the highly-exclusive Dirik Debut at 8:90 Friday night will be granted only to wearers of bona tide clinks and nirneOrds. Music for; this introduction to Penn State society will be provided by the SiCeystoners. Actual customs, their - knowledge of NSA Aiins to Serve Student Interests A new set of letteri—NSA— was added to the campus alpha bet as the Undergraduate Stu dent Government affiliated • last spring with•the NatiOnal Student Association. NSA, an intercollegiate organ ization, aims to serve as a means of exchange among student governments and to promote 'stu dent interests' and welfare as well as an awareness in national and international affairs . DMUNG THE spring term, the USG .Congress voted,toloirrNSA on a trial basis. The .teinttorary , Tota Enrol lment at University Expected , to Number 23,600 University, enrollment for the fall term is expected to total about 23,000,-Dr. Robert q, • Bernreuter, dean of admissions in:id registrar, said recently. • • Of The total i , approximately 17,500 'will be: registered 'at the University Park campus during the three-day registration •period which begins at 8 aim today. The balance' of about 5,500 students Will.. be enrolled at the 14 cam puses of the University's state wide Commonwealth Campus Sys ten BERWREIM:II said the enroll ment total will nearly match last yen's • 'although only 2,850 fresh man, were admitted! to University Park - this year compared to, 3,650 hen upperclassmen can require until to refresh mpus lore; will not begin until Monday, membership cost $9O and will last until December. USG President Dean Wharton said that Congress joined on such a basis to deter mine the benefits to be gained from the association. ' This membership could be ex tended to May 1963, Wharton said, at which time USG would have to apply for regular mem bership.- Organized in 1946, NSA is open to any college, university, techni cal school or Junior college and currently represents about '4OO student gmiernments. • Members attend the annual Na- Ipt year. The - reduction In fresh man admittances, he explained, was the result of a sharp decrease in the number of students dropped by the University for poor scholar ship last year. An additional factor was a ceiling placed on enrollment by .. the University's Board of Trustees. THE NUMBER of freshman ad tnitted to the University for the fall term totals about 4.500, Bern reuter said. Of 'the total, about 1,700 will . begin their studies at one of the Commonwealth Cam puses. • The 4,500 freshmen were the survivors of a - selection pprocess that began with a tely 15,500 applications for admission. I Nag ~~*P VOL 63. No. 2 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPT. 19. 1962 FIVE CENTS U.N. Elects Khan To Chair Assembly UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (.4)--- The U.N. Genetal Assembly open ed its 17th session yestegday with election - of a Western-iiupported president. • It braced for sharp debate in the weekt ahead' on a host Of contro versial issues, including seating of Red China proposed by the Soviet Union. Muhammad Zatrulla Khan, 69, veteran Pakistan diplomat who served the old League GI! Nations, was elected president. Ifle won 72 votes to 27 for G. P. Makilasekera of Ceylon, who was suptorted by the Soviet bloc. While pickets protecting re sumption of nuclear test* marched in the sunshine outside 16. N. head quarters, delegates-from all over the world—many in cobrful Ori ental and African robei filed into the great; blue and gold assembly hall. They included more than 40 foreign ministers. MONGI SLIM of Tunisia, pres ident of the 16th session, called them to order at 3:32 'p.m. The election followed the traditional minute of silent meditation or prayer. Applause rippled through the Special Living Units Initiated A new idea ln community living will be attempted this fall in the Simmons - McElwain community when organized interest groups of women live together for the first time. ' Language interest group; edu cation majors and social action Interest group will each live in a specific area of the Simmons- McElwain community, according to Miss Barba*a Tooma, assistant to the dean Of:women. THE IDEA for the project was initiated last ispring by several women with a common interest in languages who assumed leader ship lot the project Miss Tooma said. Other groups wer• then en couraged, she said, because of the tional Student Congress to de termine policies which NSA will follow—ranging from stands on national and' international affairs to internal NSA polides. Repre sentation to this congress is de termined by the size of the school's student body, each school having from one to eight dele gates. MEMBER ' SCHOOLS can ex change ideas an d program/ through conferences, ; clinics. workshops and special publica tions. Among the topics discussed are campus elections, organization constitutions, honor systems, stu dent judiciaries, student news papers, academic matters, ROTC, academic freedom and course evaluation. Among its other services to member schools, NSA enables colleges and universities to order text book* at reduced rates through it imail order house.' It also sponsors. reduced rate stu dent tours :to Europe during the summer. Women's Hours One o'clock permissions for all upprrclass women have been granted for tonight by the Association of Women Students Senate. Freshmen women must attend 11:30 p.m. meeting with orientation leaders. Moguls: sign-in -hours will be in effect for the salt of the week.' FOR A BETTER PENH SIAM hall when Slim announced the outcome of., the vote and invited Zafrulla Khan to come to the green marble podium to assume his post. IN QUICK ORDER the assembly then elected to membership four newly independent countries Rwanda and Burundi from the African continent and Jamaica and Trinidad-Tobago from the Caribbean arca. That raised total U.N. member-. ship to 10ff, compared with 51; at the birth of •the United Nations in 1945. The assembly adjourned at 5:44 p.m. until 10:30 a.m. today.. Despite a decisive defeat last year. Foreign Minister Andrei A. GroTnyko asked the assembly to consider once more expelling the Chinese Nationalists and giving their U.N. representation to the Chinese Communists. He asked also that the assembly debate Soviet Premier Khrush chev's proposal for an interna tional trade conference. This would provide an arena for the Soviet Union's attacks on the Eu ropean Common Market. particular problems of the Sim mons-McElwain community. It is one of the largest community living areas for women and yet has the smallest number of so rority women. In most of the women's residence halls, these are often the only large organized grows, sheadded. E TYPES of organized in terest groups also decrease the desire of many women to live off campus, she said, because in such groups they meet people who are interested in the Artie things. They also provide small group living and a source of iden tity for the women in residence halls, she added. The language groups will be foi women who want to converse daily and learn more about either French or Spanish, Miss Tooma saicL About 30 women have been selected for each group. There are also two education Scranton Challenged by Dilworth. To Second Debate on Television The Increasing pressure of de sired political advantage in the state of Pennsylvania was evident in Monday night's debate between Republican gubernatorial candi date William- W. Scranton and his Democratic opponent, Richardson Dilworth. THE DEBATE, televised from Philadelphia, culminated in a challenge by Dilworth for another debate between the two candi dates. Dilworth's bid came as a surprise bdth to his opponent and to the public. Scranton did not reply to Dil worth's challenge on the air and Dilworth countered by saying he would use a tactic which Scranton used on one of his opponents In his congressional race two tears ago. Dilworth said he would make plans to go to Scranton's home town of Scranton, prepare aotom modations, arrange radio and' tele vision coverage and provide a chair and a microphone for his Republican opponent. Dilworth said if Scrantotr-did not show up, he would use' the television time to ask questions to an empty chair. Scranton later said that he would not appear on television with Dilworth for another debate. When Dilworth- was informed of Toilrgiatt LAST YEAR the assembly voted 37 in favor, 48 against and 19 ab staining on the Red China issue, U.S. sources expressed confidence the vote would be at least an strong against the Peiping regtmi this year, and perhaps stronger. Grornyko said the United States was the main force in preventing the admission of Communist' China, described by him as a na tion which "consistently pursues a peace-loving foreign policy." U.S. sources .disputed this at once, saying that there is no evi dence that Communist China did anything in the past year to indi cate it is interested in obtaining U.N. membership. Instead, the sources added, Pei ping has "consistently derided the United Nations and has) made no move to indicate it will! abide by the U.N. Charter." The United States Indicated also that it would oppose at unneces sary the proposal on an interrnt tional trade conference; The Soviet moves heightened the feeling among U:N.I delegates' that the sta'e was being set for bitter U.S.-Soviet debate in, the assembly session. groups. both organized' according to future vocational , interests, while the social action groups will have mostly political faience and sociolo maJors as members. THE SPECIFIC purpose of the social-action groups Is to - further the. intellectual intermt of the group specifically towards the social sciences." Many of the wom en in this group have already found others intereattd in the program, through their work with service projects on campus, she • dded. Also included in the new pro. ject Is a faetilty-at-honie program. This program will proVide oppor tunities for small groupis of women to visit for dinner and discussion at the home of a faculty member, Miss Tooma said. Efforts will be made; she added, to have women intere.sted in spe cific fields visit with a professor who teaches in that field. Scranton's Intentions,; he merely repeated his challenge; Scranton told reporters that ha would not debate with Dilworth because their debate! agreement was fulfilled Monday , night. Dil worth had claimed .on the ale that , a schedule of three debates had been decided orr - by the two candidates. Scranton flatly denied thins claim and was backed up by WFIL-TV officials. The body of the debate provided a milder-than-normal exchange of ideas and challenges. Topics which seemed most likely to be dwelled upon were brought! up, briefly discussed and dropped. Scranton charged that Dilworth was fired or forced to resign the only state job he had ever held. Di/worth did not deny this charge on the air and Scranton let It drop.• DIL'WORTH ACCUSED. Serail.- ton of publicly approving of the Munich Pact with Hitler white a student at Yale. This subject was also dropped when Scranton brushed off the Incident as a schoolboy folly. Each candidate told the press he thought he had done well during the course of the debates which was dominated by the typical topics education, con servation and public welfare.
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