--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.
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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.