Curb World Mistrust— See Page 4 VOL. 52, No. 58 U.S. Atom Weapons DeterWar—Glennan American possession of atomic weapons is one of the strongest deterrents against the outbreak of a world war, Dr. T. Keith Glen nan, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, said in yesterday's senior engineering lecture. Dr. Glennan termed American usage of the weapon as "passive." Mere .possession of atomic bombs and weapons is sufficient to dis courage any full scale aggres sion, he said. He cautioned that if we were to use atomic weapons in the Ko rean conflict, we would have to be prepared to carry on a world conflagratiOn which th e action would surely precipitate. Dr. Glennan described our atomic setup by comparing, it to a pri vate industry. Th e five-man Atomic Energy Commission acts as a board of directors coordinat ing the work of all the private industries involved in atomic re search, he said. General mana gers and their assistants are di rectly under the board and sup ervise the operations of some 600 private corporations scattered throughout the nation doing the actual work. The commission acts as a policy making and plan ning organization to bring about the necessary ends for national security an d development, • Dr. Glennan added. The bulk of uranium used is imp ort e d from abroad, with about 50 per cent coming from the Belgian. Congo, he said, add . (Continued on page eight) 118 Students To Take Test For Deferment One hundred and eighteen Penn State students will take the fifth national student draft deferment test at 8:30 a.m. Thursday in 121 Sparks, Dr. Hugh M. Davison, in charge of testings said yesterday. Students who pass the" test may request a 2 A(S)" draft deferment from their local board, H. K. Wil son, dean of men, added.. Although passing the test does not assure the student of a defer ment. Dean Wilson said most lo cal boards were complying with the request to use them as a basis for deferment. •High scholastic standing may also defer students, he said. Dr. Davison said those taking the test should bring their notice of classification, form 110, their selective service identification card, form 391, and their test ticket of admission. The next deferment test will be given April 24, 1952. The dead line for applications for that test is March 10 of next year. The deadline for Thursday's test was Nov. 5. Students wishing to• take the test must request deferment as a student, be enrolled in a full-time course of study, and must not have taken the test before, Dean Wilson said. 8174 Have Comfilleted Spring Pre-Registration The Registrar's office 'revealed Yesterday that over 8174 under graduates have completed first phase registration. According to A. W. Stewart, as sistant registrar, all pre-registra tion, cards have not yet been re ceived and tabulated by the of fice. He added, however, that the figure was "almost complete:l . , ..,, ...,. d., r 4 at g• 1 / 4 . , !,:,: , tif...,.,? rgtattp 1C FOR A BETTER PENN STATE • By ARNIE BLOOM Reservists To Donate to Blood Drive About 40 members of the .112th Aircraft and Warning Squadron, recently activated Air Force Re serve unit composed of students, ex-faculty members, and local citizens, plan to pledge blood to the current blood drive exten sion, drive officials said yester day. • ' Blood drive leaders said only six pledge forms to donate blood in next week's drive extension have been turned in by students. The drive extension, with a pledge goal of 140, ends at 4 p.m. Monday. A Red Cross blood unit from Johnstown will be at the Re formed Church, across College .avenue from Atherton Hall, to se cure the blood donations on Wed nesday 'and Thursday. Oyer 230 students who pledged blood in last month's drive, but were not .scheduled due . to time limits; 'will receive appointments for this drive extension. Last month, 987 pints of blood were secured on campus. Pledge forms may be secured at the TUB, West Dorm main lounge, and the Student Union desk in Old Main. They must be returned by Monday to the Stu dent Union desk, drive leaders said. Members of Alpha Phi Omega, national service fraternity, will assist in setting up and taking down the Red Cross unit. AIM to Hold Fire Benefit Dance Tonight Th e Association of • Indepen dent Men will sponsor a benefit dance from 8 to 12 tonight in the West Dorm lounge for the bene fit of victims• of th e Gentzel Building fire. Dick Marsh's orchestra will provide music. The 'Dean of Men's office an nounced that nearly all of the 19 students who were affected by the fire had filed itemized lists of their losses. Daniel A. DeMarino, assistant dean of men, said the deadline for the lists is noon today, and he emphasized that it will be im possible to aid any student un less he registers in the dean of men's office. The All-College committee - set up to channel aid to the fire vic tims will go over the lists Mon day. Several State College mer chants have signified a desire to help the students, but are await ing the committee's report in or der that the aid can be given fairly. A fund is also being jointly collected by the Association of Independent Me n , Pinhellenic council, Leonides, and Interfrat ernity Council. Marvin Krasnansky, chairman. Of the cabinet committee, asked those persons collecting for this fund to 'turn the proceeds in at the Student Union desk in Old Iti STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1951 Hannah Suggests Courses To Stimulate Thinking Faculty-Trustee Dinner JOHN S. HANNAH, president of Michigan State College, (cen ter) called for a revision of courses of study in • land-grant colleges in order to include some designed to train the student to think at a faculty-trustee dinner last night in the Nittany Lion Inn. Penn State President Milton S. Eisenhower is at left. At right is M. N. McGeary, instructor and fOrmer head of the Political Science Department. Set for Wednesday Final tryouts for students who would like to be Frothy, the Penn State Froth's jester, have been changed to 7 p.m. next - Wednes day, instead of Thursday, as was previously announced. Try outs will take place in 110 Elec trical Engineering Building. -At that time the fifteen final ists, who will be chosen from ap plicants for the Frothy position, will be judged by a panel of five judges. Alex Gregal, the Nittany Lion, who appeared at t football games this year, will be present in full) costume to judge and work with contestants. Other judges include Eugene Wettstone, head gymnas tics coach; Ron Bonn, Froth edi tor; Anne Hibbs, Froth promotion manager; and Thomas Hanna, head cheerleader. Applications containing name, semester, college address, and tumbling, cheerleading, and dra matic experience should be filled out and returned by Monday noon to the Student Union desk in Old Main, the main desk in the West Dorm lobby, or to Ron Bonn. • Students who are selected on the basis of information con tained on the forms will be con tacted by members of the Froth staff, and will be. instructed for the final judging. Hepler Services Set for Tomorrow Funeral services for Thomas Hepler, 19 - year - old sophomore who was found dead in his room yesterday from an overdose of sleeping pills, will be held at the W. Edward Flick Funeral Home in Tarentum at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Burial will be at the Mt. Airy Cemetery, Natrona Heights. Hepler, an honor student on a state scholarship, was found dead by his roommate, Howard Sloth-. ower, a freshman, when the lat ter returned from an 8 o'clock class. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Hepler, of Brackenridge, a n d two sisters, Mrs. Mary Lou Hall, of Verona, and Mrs. Hannah Ekas. of 'Laren- Final Judging For Froth Jester Cloth ing Drive Starts On Monday Alpha Phi Omega, service hon orary, and several hat societies will 'distribute containers to - dor mitories and fraternities today for the Korean clothing drive. The clothing drive officially be gins Monday. It is being spon sored on campus by APO, Hat So ciety Council, and the Penn State Christian Association. In addition to placing sacks on each floor of the campus dormi tories and in each fraternity house, some will be left at Col lege Sportswear, Inc., where town students may place their contributions. Each dormitory unit and fra ternity president has been asked by the committee in charge of the drive to appoint a representative in his living unit to be in charge of collections there. The names of these representatives should be sent to the PSCA office, 304 Old Main, Jean Lathlaen, PSCA rep resentative and co-chairman \of the clothing drive committee said. Other co-chairmen of the drive are Nancy McClain, repre senting Hat Society Council, and William Slepin, APO. Foreign Tours Are Announced Four tours to Europe will com prise the 1952 Student Tour Pro gram of the National Newman Club Federation and the National Federation of Catholic College Students. The tours will be of 21, 31, 33, and 43 days duration and will leave from New York June 17, July 9, and August 6, respective ly. Members will visit Ireland, -England, France, Italy, Switzer land, and Spain. Trips to places of importance will include a visit to the Vatican and an audience with the Pope. Tour rates are $552. • A special six-day tour of Canada sponsored by the same groups will begin in Montreal on August 20 and end on August 26 in time for the opening of the Pax Romana Congress Independents Rowdy?— See Page 4 PRICE FIVE CENTS Dr. John A. Hannah, president of Michigan State College, last night called for a "revision of the courses of study traditionally taught in our land-grant colleges in order to include some de signed to train students to think." Dr. Hannah spoke before the third annual faculty-trustee din ner at the ‘Nittany Lion Inn. The college program should in clude courses that would stimu late the inner spirits of students so as ,to "make them whole men and whole women, rather than efficient instruments attuned to perform mechanical functions in making adequate livings, but f ailur es at making lives," he said. Technical Training Needed He indicated he was not advo cating the liberal arts for every one, because "one must be alive to enjoy life, and most of us have to earn a living to stay alive." "On the other hand," Dr. Han nah said, "students under ou r guldance must be taught some things in addition to mere com petence in performing technical functions of their professions." Dr. Hannah said education for the world of tomorrow must in clude a full share of technical training for young men and wo men and recalled that there never has been a true surplus of trained technical intelligence. But he said also that greater em phasis must be placed on the training of people for effective citizenship. Voted Broad Education Anoti e r objective was de scribed as "the general respect for the moral law, obedience to just laws made by man for his own government, and that uni versal selflessness which is the only sure foundation for lasting peace and the brotherhood of man." Th e founders of the Merrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 under stood "that trained men would be better than machines if they possessed manual and men tal skills and nothing else," he continued. "They voted for a broad education, and we would be wise to listen to . their voices even in this modern day," Han nah said. 'Old Plans Are Lost' Will Be Chapel Topic Dr. James M. Barnett, minister of the Bellevue Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, will speak on "Old Plans Are Lost" in Chapel at 10:55 a.m. tomorrow. The Chapel choir will sing "Now Let All the Heavens Adore Thee" and "All Men Now Sing, Rejoice," by Bach and "Let All Mortal' Flesh Keep Silence," an Old French melody. A native of New Bloomfield, Pa., Dr. Barnett was graduated from Beaver Falls High School. He received his A.B. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, his Th.B. from Princeton Theologi cal Seminary, his M.A. fro m• Princeton University, and his D. D. from Grove City College. Before filling his present pas torate, Dr. Barnett served the Towson Presbyterian Church, the First Presbyterian Church, Mon aca, Pa., and the First Presby terian Church, Grove City, Pa. Business Honorary Initiates 9 Members Delta Sigma Pi, professional business fraternity, has initiated nine new members. They are Michael Chaffier, Donald Fields, Joseph Gronick, Charles Heidel, David Kennaday, Reaves Lukens, William Ray, Joysephder. Rostich, and Roclerick Sn
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