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VOL. 64, No. 53
44 Groups
To Attend
Model UN
By ANNE DOLL
Forty - four delegations
have already been selected
to participate in the Model
United Nations to be held
Feb. 28, 29 and March 1,
George Gordon, Model U.N.
Secretary General announced
yesterday.
Gordon said several delega
tions are still under considera
tion and about 15 more will be
chosen for the program spon
sored by the Undergraduate
Student Government.
Gordon also said delegations
,will not be certified until their
registration fees are paid. The
$5 fee must be paid at the
Hetzel Union Building desk by
Feb. 7.
Discussions
Delegations were selected
from applications submitted by
individuals and organizations
and will participate in discus
sions on disarmament, the
apartheid problem, U.N. fi
nances and the International
Trade and Development Con
ference.
Listed alphabetically with
their sponsors, the delegations
assigned to date are:
Albania, independents; Al
geria, Acacia; Australia, Alpha
Omicron Pi; Austria, inde
pendents; Belgium, independ
ents; Brazil, Science Student
Council; Bulgaria, Delta Delta
Delta; Byelorussia, independ
ents.
Col ombi a, independents;
Congo (Leopoldville), Cwens;
Costa Rica, independents; Cu
ba, International Affairs In
terest Group; Czechoslovakia,
Atherton Association of Wo
men Students; El Salvador, Pi
Beta Phi; Ethiopia, lota Alpha
P 1; Finland, McElwain; France,
French House.
Other Groups
Guatemala, Alpha Kappa
Alpha; India, International Af
fairs Interest Group; Indonesia,
independents; Israel, independ
ents; Laos, Phi Sigma Sigma;
Mexico, Delta Theta Sigma;
Morocco, Delta Phi Epsilon:
The Netherlands, North Halls
Council; Nigeria, Delta Sigma
Theta.
Outer Mongolia, Sigma Phi
Epsilon; Pakistan, Interna
tional Affairs Interest Group;
Peru, Spanish House; Ruman
ia, East Halls Association of
Women Students; Poland, Ath
erton AWS; South Africa, Penn
State Men's Debating Club;
Spain, Delta Zeta; Sweden,
Newman Club.
Tanganyika, SENSE; Tur
key, Phi Kappa Psi; Ukrainian
SSA, Ukrainian Club; United
Kingdom, independents; Ve
nezuela, Town Independent
Men; Yugoslavia, Alpha Delta
Pi.
The United States and So
viet Union delegations have
been assigned specially.
Guests at the model assem
bly will be Swarthmore Col
lege, which will represent
Cambodia, and the State Col
lege High School, represent
ing Japan.
Peace Corps Launches
Recruiting Program
For College Juniors
The Peace Corps has an
nounced an experimental re
cruiting program for juniors,
the Senior Year Program, will
begin this spring.
The dual purpose of the pro
gram is to attract college jun
iors and to increase the num
ber of teachers in specialized
subjects in areas of the world
where they are critically need
ed.
From 500 to 700 college jun
iors who have applied for the
corps will be invited to a six- 1
week summer training pro
gram, after which they will'
return to college for their sen
ior year. After graduation they
will attend another period of
training of four to eight weeks.
Final selection of volunteers,
will be made after the second
training period.
If the pilot program proves
successful, it will "hopefully"
be expanded later to include
additioanl applicants, a spokes
man said.
There will be no cost to the
participants during both train
ing periods. since the corps
plans to provide room, board.
spending money, and a $75
monthly "readjustment allow
ance".
Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps
driector, called the program "a
major effort to increase the
quality of Peace Corps train
ing." lie said its main advan
tage was that it would enable
college juniors to integrate
their Peace Corps plans and
their college study if they de
sired.
For example, Shriver said.
"They might then revise their
senior year curriculums to re
SUSAN SMITH
Panhel Starts Open Bidding;
VP Candidates Give Views
Panhellenic Council voted last night to hold an open bidding period—an exten
sion of the rush period—which begins today.
All coeds who have an average qualifying them to rush will be eligible to open
bid, and those who are not already registered may do so from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to
morrow in the Dean of Women's Office, 111 Old Main.
The minimum rushing average for first and second term students is a 2.3 and
for upperclassmen, a 2.0.
Council also heard the qualifi
cations , of the three vice presi
dential candidates, Cheryl Mc-
Minn, Susan Smith and Barbara
Clark. The election will be held
tomorrow.
Two Positions
The candidate receiving the
highest number of votes will
become first vice president and
the one receiving the second
highest number will become the
second vice president. The first
vice president assumes the office
of president this spring.
Errors were made in two
coeds' averages on the ballots.
Miss Smith has a 2,73 all-Uni
versity average and Miss Clark,
a 3.08.
In other business, the Council
voted to bring the cumulative
rush quota back to 25 with a limit
of 21 freshmen.
This freshmen limit was set
during regular winter rush and
will not apply to sororities who
have already taken this number.
Those sororities will not be able
to rush any more freshmen.
The only rule for the open bid
ding period Is that no money is
to be spent on rushees. Sororities
whose total membership falls
below 45 may extend bids to
rushees regardless of their aver
age.
The rush registration fee,
which is usually $3, has been
lowered to $2, because it was
decided that the open bidding
period was less elaborate than
formal rush.
Since the registration cards
will not be processed until Sat
urday, no bids may be issued
until Monday.
Candidates' Views
Early in the meeting, the vice
presidential candidates were
asked what they thought the
purpose of Panhel was.
"Panhel exists to coordinate
all the sororities so each may
voice its common problems and
also individual problems," Miss
McMinn said.
Miss Clark and Miss Smith
added their opinions saying that
Panhel built "a stronger link
between independent women and
sorority women and IFC and
Panhel."
fleet their interests in a par
ticular kind of Peace Corps
assignment."
"They will be able to acquire
an increased foreign language
facility," he said, "and devote
their summers to a career
related purpose at no extra
cost, while possibly obtaining
extra college credits."
If enough juniors apply there
will be at least six training
programs this summer. They
are designed for the following
groups:
•Secondary school teachers
of mathematics and science
English-speaking Africa.
• Secondary school teachers
of mathematics and ssience—
and possible other subjects as
well—for French-speaking Af
rica.
•Teachers of English as a
foreign language.
•Applicants who wish to
learn more difficult languages.
such as Thai, not ordinarily
taught in American colleges.
•Urban community develop
ment workers for Latin Amer
ica.
•Rural community develop
ment workers for Latin Amer
ica.
OThe programs for appli
cants with a special interest in ,
Latin America are important
to the corps, since it plans to
almost double the number of
volunteers there. About 2,000
volunteers now serve in Latin
America.
Corps officials said they were
also interested in having quali
fied volunteers who specialize
in science, mathematics, and
other subjects trained by the
new program.
BARBARA CLARK
111 Students Chosen
For Study Abroad
Spring Programs
Names of participants in the
1964 Study Abroad Program
were announced yesterday by
Dagobert de Levie, program di
rector.
In all, 111 students were se- I
lected from more than 400 ap
plicants for the program. Four
additional students are still un
der consideraion and may be
added to bring to total to 115—
the same number that partici-
* * *
Response to
Study Abroad
Called Poor
Student response to the 1965
Study Abroad Program to date
has been poor, Dagobert de
Levie, program director, said
yesterday.
De Levie said only about 100
applications for the program
have been returned to the Study
Abroad office in 211 Willard.
Last year at this time nearly
200 applications had been sub
mitted, he said.
Final Deadline
Final deadline for the appli
cations is Feb. 15, but students
should return them immediately
to insure adequate consideration
for the program, de Levie said.
From 200 to 300 applications
for next year's program have
been distributed. More than 400
students applied for the 1964 pro
gram.
Plans for the 1965 program are
already being made and it is
essential that students wishing
to be considered return the ap
applications soon, De Levie said.
I The program director said he is
certain there is much student
interest in the program, but that
many students have been delay
ing formal application.
Names of participants in the;
1964 program, which includes
10 weeks of study during the'
spring term in one of four
I European countries, will be re
leased this week, he said.
psuNeg roes imilliminniniiiimminninin
A Rugged Path To Equality
By JOHN THOMPSON
Negro organizations at Penn
State, although diverse in scope
and widely influential, have
1. 5 2. been short-lived and plagued by
IE-'..• low membership.
E.; A wide range of Predomi
--4 nately Negro organizations
lg. have existed at the University.
ra" Three fraternities, two sorori
ties, ties SURE (Student Union for
1= Racial Equality) and NAACP
LI (National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peo
.s* pie) have charters currently
1-1* in operation on campus.
ILE Organizations in the past
ig which have promoted Negro
jE- rights include CORE (Council
t k: on Racial Equality) and DARE
IP. (Direct Action for Racial
ig Equality).
, Other Groups
F. In addition, organizations of
ig faculty and townspeople similar
I= to the present Committee for
Human Rights have existed to
• Investigate and study Negro
=
• problems in the University
community.
SURE and NA.gCP were
formed in the fall term to "edu
cate"i students about the Negro
' • situation. Both groups have
• had' admitted difficulty in ob-
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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1964
CHERYL McMINN
pated last year.
Of the students, 39 were se
lected to visit the University,
of Strasbourg in France, 29 for
the University of Salamanca in
Spain, 20 for the University of
Cologne in Germany, 20 for
the Architectural Association
School in London and three for
the Slade School of Fine Arts.
First to Attend
The three students selected
for the Slade School are the
first to attend the institution,
which is a branch of - Londdres
University College. Penn State
this fall became the first Amer
ican university to be asked to
send students to the school,
according to de Levie.
Of the 111 students selected
for this year's program, 73 are
in liberal arts, 23 in arts and
architecture, nine in education,
five in science, and one in agri
culture. The program was be
gun under the College of
Liberal Arts but is open to
students in all colleges.
The 88 students selected to
study in France, Spain and
Germany have an all-Univer
sity average of about 3.20, de
Levie said. He expressed con
fidence that the selected stu
dents have the maturity and
academic motivation necessary
to make the venture a success.
According to present plans,
the students will leave by air
the evening of March 31 for
Europe. They will spend 10
weeks of study at the foreign
institutions. Many are expected
to stay in Europe for part of
the summer.
Series of Meetings
A series of orientation meet
ings between the students,
de Levie, and the program fac
ulty advisers will be held this
term to acquaint participants
with practical and academic
matters of the trip, the direc
tor said.
Application for the 1965 Study
Abroad Program are available
in the program office at 212
Willard, de Levie said. Dead
line for applications to be sub
mitted is Feb. 15, but students
should return them immediate
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taining adequate student sup
port for their efforts.
SURE was organized to "pro
mote equal rights and fair
treatment for members of all
races in the State College-Uni
versity Park area," according
to Jacob Heyman, group presi
dent during last term.
Voter Registration
Heyman is now in Atlanta,
Ga., working on a voter regis
tration drive. Current SURE
president James Conahan said
the group will seek to raise
funds to support Heyman and
other University students in
such efforts.
Several SURE members are
expected to work in the South
on voter registration drives
this summer, he said.
SURE committees have been
formed to investigate discrim
ination complaints, housing
policies and state and national
racial events.
The SURE constitution. soon
to be submitted to the Com
mittee on Student Organiza
tions, provides for "peaceful
action by means of protests,
picketing and sit-ins."
Second Group
The NAACP chapter is the
•'-reshman Sports
^"`acing Extinction
'ew HUB Soon?
Final Building
Plans Wanted
Before June
By NANCY EGAN
The administration is hopeful
that construction on the proposed
I Hetzel Union Building addition
I will begin within the next year.
Stanley H, Campbell, vice pres
ident for business, said yesterday
he would like to have the archi
tects' final plans and specifica
tions for the project between now
and June.
Once final plans have been
submitted, it should be approxi
mately another two months be-1
fore they are approved by thei
Board of Trustees, Campbell
said. He noted that the board,
after okaying final plans, will
authorize the University author
ization to accept bids for the
$2 million addition.
Approved Last Year
Original sketch plans for the
structure were approved by the
trustees a year ago; at its meet
ing last week, the group ap
proved a revised set of plans.
The chief difference between
the two sets of plans, Campbell
said, is that the new ones don't
call so much for remodeling of
the present building's interior
as they do for the "addition of
new space."
Revised plans were necessary,
,he added, to keep construction
costs of the addition within the,
proposed budget.
The expanded HUB will include,
a Lion's Den three times the size
of the present one, a ballroom
adjoining the one located on the
ground floor, and basement of
fices and meeting rooms for,
organizations. In addition, a new
terrace room with kitchen facili- ,
ties will be constructed.
Campbell said the addition
should take approximately two
years to complete. He added that
this project should cap expansion
of the HUB.
* * *
Trustees Approve Sketches
For Four New Dormitories
Sketch plans for four new
residence hall units that will
house more than 1.000 students
were approved at a weekend
meeting of the Board of Trus-;
tees in Harrisburg.
The units, ten-floor struc
tures, will be located northwest
of East Halls and will adjoin,
other units already under con
struction, with facilities for
an additional 1,000 students.
The two buildings already
under construction are sched
uled for completion in fall,
1965, while those for which;
sketches were approved are a
scheduled for completion the
following year. Together, the:
six units will pad campus resi- '
dence hall capacity to 12,200
second group on campus. The
first NAACP group was organ
ized in March 1948, but existed
for only a few years.
This fall members of Omega
Psi Phi fraternity conducted a
long, but successful, member
ship drive to form a new
chapter.
NAACP now has 54 members
and plans to seek an official
charter as a student organiza
tion.
Chapter Goals
Purposes of the chapter, ac
cording to membership chair
man Kent Pope, are:
•To assist the national
NAACP directly with funds
collected for membership.
•To disseminate a true pic
ture of the American Negro and
his economic and social prob
lems through a series of
lectures and discussion groups.
•To divest the racial preju
dice which exists in many
minds.
Organized in 1948
CORE was organized in 1948
during racial incidents involv
ing local barber shops. Its
influence continued for many
years but has now largely been
replaced by the work of SURE
and NAACP.
MAYNARD FERGUSON'S mighty horn will resound in
Recreation Hall Sunday night at the Jazz Club-sophomore
class concert as part of Sophomore Weekend. See related
story on page three.
USG Winter Elex
Slated for Jan. 27
Special elections will be
held Jan. 27 to fill six va
cant seats on the 28-seat
Undergraduate Student
Government Congress.
Seats belonging to Ann Tyson
(West), Dave Rockenbec k,
(town), Jon McDonald (Pollock),
Robert Hammel (West), Gregory
Baurnes (Nittany) and Judy Ad
dison (Pollock), and two addi
tional seats in town area will
be filled in the coming election.
by 1966
$8 Million
Contracts for the living units
and dining hall building now
under construction totalled
$8,000,000.
To finance the new residence
halls, the University has sold,
bonds which will be retired
from charges made for room
and board to students over a
'period of 36 years.
East Halls area opened two
years ago and now quarters
1,046 students. With the com
pletion of the two residence
units now under construction
and the four newly-approved
( 'dormitories, East Halls will
become the largest residence
;area on campus, housing 3,746
!students.
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DARE was formed in 1960
during a recurrence of the
barber shop incidents.
SURE, which originated at
this campus, is now forming
new chapters at the Schuyl
kill Campus and at King's Col
lege in Wilkes-Barre.
Few Members
The history of the three
Negro fraternities and two Ne
gro sororities an campus has
been one of low membership.
One of the fraternities, Kappa
Alpha Psi, has not been char
tered since 1957 because of low
membership.
None of the fraternities or
sororities has restrictions
against white members, but
each has been traditionally
Negro.
Alpha Phi Alpha, the largest
of the fraternities, was founded
in 1947 and is one of 147 chap
ters of the national organiza
tion. It was inactivated in 1957
when its membership tell to
three. but soon regained its
former status. The fraternity's
,resent membership is 11 un
dergraduate students and one
student teacher, all Negro.
Not Listed
Omega Psi Phi was founded
in 1924 but is not listed in the
A rise in populatioa caused the
additional town seats.
George Jackson, USG presi
dent, was given Congress' ap
proval to appoint an elections
commission chairman to replace
Mark Schwarz.
Edward Ablard, of the WDFM
Transfer Committee, reported
that tests made with a transmit
ter from the Bower Corp. of
California at the end of fall
term were "very successful."
Receives $750
The Transfer Committee,,
which is testing ways to trans
' mit WDFM radio programming
to AM radios in University resi
dence halls. received the s7so'
transmitter on a trial basis Nov.
25. Further tests were thought
impossible because of the Christ
mas term break. The transmitter
is being returned without addi-,
tional tests since the trial period
'has run out.
Ablard said his committee
plans to ask USG for a $l5O,
appropriation to continue tests.
The Bower Corp, has agreed to
offer another transmitter on a
trial basis,
Total Cost
Total cost of installation would
be approximately 55.600. Th e
committee reported that a
cheaper transmitter was avail- 1
able, but could not meet require
ments of quality and durability.
Jackson reported that USG,
i 59,600 in a reserve fund that can
'be tapped for an important pro
(ject, and might be available for
ithe transmitter system if future
'tests are successful.
1927-28 College Fraternity Di
rectory., probably because of
low membership. It was re
activated
•IE
in 1948 but lost its 4.
charter again in 1954 because
of the the membership restriction.
The group obtained full fra
ternity status in November, - 11
1956, and has been active since
then. It now contains nine 1--7
members and is one of 117 a
nationwide chapters.
Kappa Alpha Psi was orig
inally formed in 1951. Although
it has been officially inactive
since 1957, it now contains :2
eight members.
=
Approval Granted =,l
Approval for creation of Ne
gro sororities was given by Uni
versity officials in 1952. Alpha - 5
Kappa Alpha was organized in
1953 and Delta Sigma Theta
was officially chartered in 1960.
Alpha Kappa Alpha was dis
continued in 1958 because of ff-j
low membership but was re
activated
in 1981. It now con- -5
tains 17 members, including 5.
its first white member. =,
Delta Sigma Theta contains
19 members. Before being Ri
chartered in 1960. it existed for
sever al years as Triopus
Colony.
FIVE CENTS
Two Frosh
Schedules
Canceled
By MA MILLER
Assistant Sports Editor
Freshman intercollegiate
athletic competition is ap
parently headed toward ex
tinction at Penn State.
The University announced
last night that the freshman
schedules in basketball and
gymnastics have been canceled.
Athletic Director Ernest
McCoy is in charge of formu
lating all athletic policies.
Though President Eric A.
Walker can overrule his de
cisions, he prefers to leave
decisions concerning inter
collegiate athletics to McCoy.
However, McCoy recently
returned from the NCAA
convention in New York, was
unavailable for comment last
night. It is known. though,
that he is leaving the decis
ion on freshman schedules to
the individual coaches.
Indications are that this is a
prelude toward probable can
cellation of all frosh schedules.
However, freshman athletes
would continue to practice
with the varsity.
Officially, the decision on
freshman schedules now rests
with the individual coaches,
but it appears that the Univer
sity is moving toward a multi
lateral abolition policy along
with Pittsburgh, Syracuse and
West Virginia.
None of the coaches affected
in the latest cutback, John
Egli, Joe Tocci and Gene Wett
stone, cared to comment on
the cancellations, but wrest
ling coach Charlie Speidel said
his frosh schedule will go on
as planned.
Frosh Wrestling Unaffected
"I think the choice should be
up to the individual coach,"
Speidel said, "but I don't know
where we would get our talent
from if we canceled our fresh
man schedule.
"Even if we're the only
freshman sport going, we will
continue as long as the decis
ion is up to me," Speidel added.
"I have never missed a corn
mittment or forfeited a meet
since I have been here and I
intend to continue (this is Spei
del's 38th year).
"If they start cutting them
(frosh sports) out, it's just too
bad. Someone will have to
fight against it."
Reminded that the current
cutback had started last fall,
when the last two freshman
football games were canceled,
Speidel said he thought it un
fair to draft a blanket rule
(Continued on page four)
Fund Drive
For SURE
Head Starts
The fund drive of the Student
Union for Racial Equality
(SURE) will continue 'through
out this week with SURE mem
bers seeking donations from stu
dents and townspeople in down
town State College. James Cana
han, president of the group, said
last night.
Conahan addressed an audi
ence of more than 50 students
gathered for SURE's first mem
bership meeting of the year.
SURE is raising funds to sup
port University students engaged
in voter registration drives in
the South. Former SURE presi
dent Jacob Heyman is now in
Atlanta, Ga., working in such a
drive.
The SURE president also out
lined the group's purposes and
activities to th e prospective
members.
"Education"
SURE will attempt to fight
racial discrimination. Conahan
said, by "educating" University
students about the Negro sit
uation and supporting the regis
tration drives.
During the coming term,
SURE members will speak to
numerous campus organizations,
including the Graduate Student
Association, on discrimination in
the University community and
in the nation, Conahan said.
SURE will also publish a news
letter, contribute articles on the
race program to Critique, cam
pus literary magazine, and ar
range lectures on the situation,
he said.
A hootenanny, featuring a na
tionally-known folk singer, is
being planned for the spring
term to raise funds, he said•
Milnor Alexander, SURE ad
viser, expressed satisfaction with
the number of students at the
meeting and the increasing inter
est students are taking in the
(Continued on page two)