PAGE FOURTEEN
Facilities for SU
(Continued from page three)
Coffee shop, 8,250 square feet;
Soda bar, 2,000 square feet;
Private dining room, 1,200
square feet;
Storage room; .
Recreational area for table
games, 1,250 square feet;
Billiards area, 1,276 square feet;
Table tennis area, 3,500 square
feet;
Band practice room;
Chair storage room;
Lost-and-found room;
Hobbies -and crafts three
shops, a total of 4,289 square feet;
Eating terrace adjoining the
building, near the coffee shop;
Student book exchange;
Several rooms, yet unassigned;
Main Floor
(This floor will be on street
level in the front, but above
ground level in the rear.)
An 8,400-square-foot ballroom;
Check room, 1,500 square feet;
Browsing library, 2,000 square
feet; '
Music room, 2,072 'square feet;
Ballroom lounge, 2,100 square
feet;
Main lounge, 3,200 square feet;
Lobby and main desks, and SU
administration space;
Art exhibition area, 1,000 square
feet;
Space for a lecture hall, 2,100
square feet, to be finished later.
Second Floor
:Upper part of ballroom;
Rooms for student administra
tion, 2,500 square feet;
Student organization offices,
2,500 square feet;
Women's lounge, 600 square
feet;
Storage rooms;
Meeting rooms, 1;840 square
feet;
Other rooms, yet unassigned.
Following completion of the
"first unit" outlined above, these
additions to the building will be
nade as funds are available:
Another ballroom, 3,750 square
feet, adjoining the first ballroom,
with facilities to carry on one
huge dance or two separate small
er ones, according to George W.
Ebert, director of physical plant.
(Although the original ballroom
is about half the floor space of
Ree Hall, it is expected to handle
big campus dances adequately,
since it will be supplemented by
lounge, coffee shop and soda bar
space not now available for Rec
Hall dances);
fe et
A faculty lounge, 1,200 square
the lecture hall cited above;
About 1,080 more square feet of
private dining-room space;
More meeting-room space equal
to that included in the "first unit;"
About 700 more square feet of
student organization offices;
More check room space equal to
that included in the "first unit;"
Increased storage and mechani
cal space.
In comparing the original $4,-
500,000 building program with — the
facilities now slated for the SU
building, the following items have
been omitted:
Penn State Christian Associa
tion offices;
Penn State International Room;
Alumni Association offices;
Guest rooms, which were to
number about 50;
Bowling alleys;
Practice radio station. with
broadcast limited to an adjoining
studio.
'lndependent'
The last issue of The Independ
ent this semester appeared yes
terday, according to Stanley Deg
ler, new editor. Appointments to
the new staff include Edwin
Singel, business manager; Robert
Schooley, circulation manager;
David Colton, managing editor;
and Geraldine Kassab, women's
editor. An assistant business man
ager and sports editor will be
named in the Fall, according to
Degler.
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STARLIGHT
DR.IVC.IN THEATRE
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
'Log' of the Union
(Continued from page three)
signed a petition agreeing to an increase in College fees of $5 a
semester to help in the construction and maintenance of a SU
building.
May 1946—Students Foster and Wesley Turek appeared before
the Joint Trustee-Alumni Committee on Special Building Campaign
to cite wide-spread student interest in a SU building. They_presented
the petition.
JUNE 1946—The Joint Committee reported to the Board of Trus
tees and recommended four things, including establishment of a
Student Union fee of $5 per semester. The Board accepted the report
and voted to have the Committee "continue' to study the problem
further." Although the fee was not effected, clear-cut SU 'progress
was rolling in the form of College Trustee interest.
April 1947—The student body voted 10-to-1 preference for a
Student Union building over a field house and favored a $5-per
seniester fee beginning with the fall semester of 1947.
May 1947—President Ralph D. Hetzel presented to the Trustee
Executive Committee a letter from Robert Foote, all-College presi
dent, urging consideration of a Union building and citing the recent
student vote on a fee. This became the second time the students
asked for the SU fee. Action was deferred, principally because of
lack of concrete SU plans together with the advisability of not start
ing a fee until tangible benefit in the form of a useful SU building
were in the offing. However, some Trustee action was promised. .
June 1947—Prompted by student clamor ands alumni-Trustee
interest in a SU, the Trustees created a College Committee on Stu
dent Union Building and Field House, with Samuel K. Hostetter
as chairman. This was real SU progress: an official student-ad-
ministration group working toward a large student social and rec
reational center on campus. Supplemented by a 20-member under
grad SU committee, this group went to work at once planning the
building. SU's on five midwest campuses were inspected and`rnany
-persons on campus were consulted in extensive efforts toward a
building that would be most useful to the most students.
Feb'ruary 1948—The interim Temporary. Union Building, another
phase in SU progress, began business as a partial student center. The
TUB was obtained by the College from army surplus.
June 1948—Architects prepared drawings of an ambitious $4,500,-
000 building incorporating all student functions suggested by the
College Committee: The Committee continued to revise, eliminate
and add SU , functions to the plans to arrive at the best poisible
building for Penn State,
September 1948—1 n. an editorial titled "We Apologize," Lew
Stone, Collegian editor,. declared to incoming sophs: "We're genu
inely sorry, sophomores, but we just don't have a permanent SU
building of the-size and type you ought reasonably to expect on a
campus the size of Penn State." But he cited progress of the College
Committee. _
September 1949—Attention of Mr. Hostetter was turned in earn
est to ways of financing the huge $4,500,000 SU venture, which would
be about 10 per cent of the cost of-the entire physical plant of the
College. He examined methods of SU finance on several campuses.
February 1950—Upon Trustee suggestion, the College SU
committee began paring the SU building down to 'a $2,000,000 "first
unit" which would be easier to finance and would still provide the
most-needed student facilities.
April 1950—With College approval, an insurance program instil
gated by All-College Cabinet was effected. This pl,p would benefit
SU finance in a few years by virtue of a $lOO gift to the SU fund
from each policy bought by students.
MAY 1950—At a meeting of the College SU CoMmittee, plans.for
the .$2,000,000 "first unit" and future additions to the SU were en
thusiastically approved. A tentative financing program was dis
cussed. -
May 1950—James MacCallum, a member of the undergraduate
SU committee for three years, and Thomas Morgan, ex-Collegian
editor, asked the newly-installed All-College Cabinet to again okay
a SU assessment to begin in the fall of '5O. If 'passed by Cabinet,
this, in effect, would be another request from the students for. a SU
fee—following those of '46 and '47.
June 1950—A meeting of the Joint Trustee-Alumni Committee
is scheduled to study current plans to be submitted by the College
committee. Outlook favorable for approval and consequent action
to have the building in bonstruction during the coming school
year if a student fee—one of the principal financing' measures—is
made possible.
Parent-Child Research Bulletin
Institute Planned
Two institutes for parents and
children will be held here this
summer, sponsored by the de
partment of child development
and family relationships: Dr.
Winona L. Morgan, head of the
department, has announced.
Their purposes are to provide.
an opportunity to children for
guided play experience, while
helping mothers through group
discussion of common problems,
observation in the nursery school,
and individual conferences to
meet particular needs.
The first group will meet July
10-21; the second, July 24-Aug
• „
COMING SOON
The annual bulletin;' Publica•
tions and Research, published b; ;
the. College has been released b -
The Cciuncil on Research. Publi
cations and Research is distri
buted 'to members of the faculty.
'libraries of other educational in
stitutions, and a limited list 0 . .1
citizens of Pennsylvania.
Included in the bulletin are
the more important scientific pro
fessional contributions of mend
hers of the faculty printed during,
the• year.
ust 4. Mothers and fathers may
take the institute course for
credit. Dr. Morgan, Elizabeth
McDowell, and Mrs. ' Virginia
Mallen head the - program.
Lost & Found Dept.
Has Many Odd Items
Lose something lately? You might find it at the Student Union
Office in Old Main where the Lost and Found Department has its
headquarters.
On a campus where there are 10,00.0 students, there's bound to
be a large number of• articles lost on the way to and .from classes
or simply forgotten in the rush of getting to, the next class on time.
An effective lost and found department is a necessity.
Psychology ,
Dept. Members
Visit Confabs
Dr. W. M. Lepley, associate
profeisor. of psychology, attended
a meeting in Detroit recently td
complete plans for the annual
convention of the American Psy
chological AssoCiation to be held
at the College September 4 to 9.
He also attended the Mid-
Western Psychological Associa
tion meeting at Wayne Univer
sity.
On May 6 members of the psy
chology department attended the
annual meeting of the Pennsyl
vania Psychological Association
at Harrisburg.
Dr. Bruce V. Moore, head of
the department and president of
the Association, delivered an
address at the meeting entitled
"The Responsibility of Psycholo
gists for a Science of Ethics." •
Other members of the depart
ment attending were Dr. R. G.
Bernreuter, Dr. A. K. Kurtz, Dr.
William U. Snyder, Dr. Ha H.
Gehman, Dr. G. M. Guthrie, and
Miss Barbara June Snyder.
Construction--
(Continued on page three)
Hostetter—now awaits final ap
iiroval by the
,Trustees. He said
Yesterday that accruals from the
Current SU insurance program
supplemented by a student fe&--
if approved—would aid material
ly in beginning the construction
of the building.
Drive Planned
Other means of providing
funds would be through gifts to
the , College.' In the offing, to fi
nance the SU and Field House
at the College, may be a -state
and nation-wide drive among
alumni and friends of the Col
ege, he said. s
SU plans to be submitted to the
Joint Alumni-Trustee Committee
next month by the College's SU
Cmiunittee call - for erecting a
2,000,000 'first unit," •to which
ether facilities would be added
'ater as funds become available
'SU facilities appear elsewhere
-- In this page.) •
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Here at Penn State, each build
ing has its own little department.
When the janitors clean up the
building at night and find' books,
coats, pens, etc., they take them
to the Custodian's office. There
they . remain until picked up by
representatives of Alpha Rho
Omega, the honorary fraternity
which is acting as a collection
agency for the department. , This
collection is made about once
each week.
The articles are taken
. to the
Student Union office. Cards are
then sent to those persons who
had the foresight to put their
names on their belongings.
All articles are kept until about
a month after the close of the
second semester. Those which
have not •been claimed by that
time are given to the Salvation
Army to make room for the things
found during the summer ses
sions.
According to Dale Shuey,' cus
todian of Sparks since it was
opened nine years ago, an aver
age of 25 articles a week are turn
ed in. These range from gloves
and coats to shoes and underwear
(male and female). • Scarves,
books, coats, and glaSs cases turn
up most often.
The following is a typical list
of things found in one week in
Sparks: two notebooks, eight
textbooks, one student handbook,
one library pamphlet, two "pocket
books," eight glass cases, one pair
of glasses, one comb case, a pdcket
of Lion party cards, three um
brellas, five j ackets, four Fcarves,
nine raincoats, four, pencils, one
hat, and one glove.
Eyerydne connected 'with the
Lost and . Found Department
stresses the importance of putting
your name on all belongings. By
doing so, you increase by 100 per
cent your chances • of getting
something returned.