THE NITTANY CUB
Volume XIV—No. 7
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Terry Kirman takes advantage of the chance to see the Ansco
Display of Matthew Brady's work, including pictures of such nota
bles as Lincoln and Lee.
BRADY'S WORK
ON DISPLAY
The glory and tragedy of the American Civil War is brought
vividly back to life again after one hundred years through the
photographic genius of Matthew B. Brady.
The Ansco-Brady collection, now on display in the library, is
but a portion of the total work. Mr. Brady, perhaps the most
famous photographer of the last century. risked virtually life and
limb to make a complete, reliable record of the war. One of his
comtemporaries remarked of Brady at the Battle of Bull Run,
"Brady has shown more pluck than many of the officers and
soldiers who were in the fight . . ."
liTegardless of the bulky, complex photographic processes of
the time, Brady has enabled us to see with minute clearness the
true likeness of the great figures and events of the time. What
caused Brady to risk the dangers of war can only be speculated.
Brady himself said, "I felt I had to go—and I went!" This present
collection is the result of one man's determination.
The exhibit now belongs to the Behrend Campus and will re
main on display until the end of March. Then it will be shown at
University 'Park and the other Commonwealth campuses. Its
presence here affcrds everyone a unique chance to gain an insight
into perhaps the darkest hours of our nation's history. Take ad
vantage of it!
Spring Term
Several examinations have been
scheduled for Monday, March 18
and Tuesday, March 19. Those
that are to be given within the
regular ten-week term have been
announced by the faculty to the
students concerned.
Finals scheduled for Monday in
clude E.G. 11 at 9:30, Mr. Bed
ford's section in room 101 and Mr.
Brown's in room 108; English 1,2,
and 3 at 11:00, Mr. Lane's section
in room 117, Mrs. Falkenhagenks
in room 120, Mr. Wilcox's in
rooms 113-114, and Mr. Miller's
in room 101; Economics 2 meets
BEHREND CAMPUS—The Pennsylvania State University
Registration
at 2:00 in room 123: and Educa
tional Services 115 at 3:30 in
room 113-114.
Tuesday finals are History 20
and 21 in room 101 at 8:00; Psy
cology 13 at 9:30 in room 117:
and Physics 800 at 11:00 in room
101.
Final examinations wil be held
in the Otto F. Behrend Science
Building on both days.
Registration for the Spring
Term will be on Tuesday, March
26, 1963. Classes will begin at
8:00 on Tuesday, March 28.
Student Number
Plan Revised
Social security numbers will University," Bernreuter sai d.
replace student numbers on Uni- "The majority of students work
vers:ty records of students this during, or after, their college
spring, according to Robert G. careers anyway, so this will be
Bernreuter, dean of admissions.
Bernreuter said that an in
terim period will be necessary
when both new and old numbers
will be used to avoid issuing new
identification cards to upper
classmen. The registrar's records,
however, will note social security
number, he said.
Any student who does not have
a social security number at the
time of Spring Term registration
will be required to apply for one
immediately, or his registration
will be canceled.
"The new system will be valu
able to both the student and the
Qualifying
Students May
Skip Speech
Exemption for the universi-
Ity's basic speech requirement
(Speech 200) is available to stu
dents who pass a test designed
by the speech department, Robert
T. Oliver, head of the depart
ment, said recently.
A University requirement states
that each student, regardless of
curriculum, take at least one
basic speech course, Oliver said.
He said the exemption test was
established last year to permit
qualified students to either com
pletely skip speech courses or to
take •an advanced course instead
of a basic one.
The examination given to stu
dents desiring such an exemption
includes a written communica
tions test and a brief interview
with several professors of the
speech department, he said.
Oliver said two situations may
result from a student's test score.
First, he said, the student may
be permitted to exempt the re
quired basic speech course if he
takes an advanced course as a
substitute.
Second, a student may, through
a very high test score, exempt
both basic and advanced speech
courses. Extremely high scores
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Tuesday, March 19, 1963
a convenience to them."
Bernreuter also said that the
University wants to get away
from using its own unique num
ber system and employ one that
will help it in ways other than
student identification.
"We are trying to demonstrate
to the College Entrance Exami
nation Board that universities
like ours will use a common num
ber such as the social security
one for student identification.
They might then consider report
ing the social security number
with the student's Scholastic Ap
titude Test scores," he said.
If the CEEB consents, this
would avoid hiring extra Univer
sity clerks to match applications
and test scores which come in
separately to the dean of ad
missions office. Machines could
be used for the matching process,
to complete it more quickly.
The CEEB does not now ask
for a person's social security
number. This is the policy Bern
reuter said he hopes they will
change.
Another reason Bernreuter gave
for the change is that more and
more duplicate names are ap
pearing on University records.
When an employer writes, re
questing a student's college his
tory, he does not know the stu
dent's former matriculation num
ber to aid in identifying him.
If a common number such as
the social security one were used,
mistaken identity of students
could be almost always avoided,
Bernreuter said.
OSGA Conference
At Behrend
The Behrend Campus Student
Goverment Association in conjuc
tion with Behrend's Student Af
fairs Office will be host to the
forthcoming regular Spring Bus
iness Session of the Organization
of Student Government Associa
tions on Friday and Saturday,
May 17 and 18. Its program will
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