TUESDAY, -- -bidn;ilitn, 16,11962 THIS IS HOW the Student Union Building will look from the south. The terraces on the wing to - the right. The top one adjoins the ballroom. The building terrace in the foreground adjoins the cafeteria and snack bar. There are two is expected to be completed and ready for occupancy within the next two years. Student Union Construction To Begin . Early Next Year Construction of the Student Union Building will begin early next year, 'the College revealed yesterday. The con tract for the work has been verbally let to Irwin and Leigh ton, Philadelphia contractors, and signatures are now being obtained. The contract will also include construction of an east wing to the Nittany Lion Inn. The SU is expected to be com pleted and ready ,for occupancy in the fall of 1954. The Student Union Building is a project begun nearly three years ago when, in response to a rec ommendation of All-College Cab-' inet, the Board of Trustees estab lished a $7.50 student fee, to be raised to $lO 'next fall, to pay for the construction. The building, with furnishings and equipment included, will cost $2,876,000. The cost of the Inn project will be $1,072,000. The building site will be Holmes Field, across from Osmond Labor atory. In design, the building will ,be modern —glee k, functional, and flat roofed. It will have three floors and 'a basement. Room will be made„for a large ballroom, a lecture hall, music room for re hearsals, library, cafeteria, soda bar, coffee shop, meeting rooms and . offices for student organiza tions, - four lounges, - and game areas -for table tennis and pool. • ' SU,'Offices Planned - The main floor of - the - building will have an air conditioned aud itorium with 182 seats and motion picture-. projection equipment. A ballroom , •opening on to a terrace along -with a lobby and dance lounge will also be included. In addition,- - the main floor will hold a music _room and .a browsing 11.- brary, a „Student _Union desk and offices, and a lounge for exhibi tion purposes. The second floor will contain Student Union management offi ces- and meeting rooms for student organizations. • ' "The-cafeteria will be located On the :.,g•ound flonr. Small dining rodms.'for group meetings 'and a dining terrace will be on -the same floor. Space on the floor has been set aside .for the book exchange and - the lost and found depart ment. Provisions for future craft rooms , were also made. The craft rooms will include metal shop, a Krewson Named Editor Of Forestry Yearbook Charles Krewson, seventh se mester forestry major, has been named editor of the 1953 Penn State Sylvan, Forestry Society yearbook. • • 'Other staff members include Samtiel Dyke, co-editor; Daniel Loucks, : business manager; and Temple Reynolds and. Daniel Biser,- photography. .......... .... 7, CANDY A FOR DELICIOUS EWE ceramic shop, a wood shop, a gen eral work shop, a drawing room, and a designing room. The basement will contain a storage room for wood service and utilities for the building. Construction on th e building was supposed to, have begun in 1950, but the National Production Authority restricted materials at the outbreak of the Korean War. The NPA said materials would be available in 1952. - - - President Milton S. Eisenhower pointed out that the building will improve the social pattern of cam pus life as well as the educational program and said, "I am sure that no other single facility could con tribute so much to a better Penn State.", The addition of an east wing to the Nittany Lion Inn will add 75 rooms, nearly doubling the num ber of guest rooms already pro vided. The new wing will also provide for a grill under the pre sent main dining room, a large meeting room,. and a small meet ing room . under the lounge of the present .structure. Construction of the Inn will be completed before the • Student Union Building. Alderfer to Speak To Faculty Club Dr: Russell B. Alderfer, profes sor of soil technology, will discuss "Research in the Physical Proper ties of Soils" at the Graduate Fac ulty 'Research• Club meeting 7:30 tonight in 112 Osmond. Following the talk, comments on the general subject of soils will be made by Dr. Louis Berger, asso ciate professor of civil engineer ing; George J. Free, professor of education; Dr. Frederick R. Mat son, professor of ceramics; and Dr. E. Willard Miller, professor of geography. Veterans to Start Club • The Veterans' Club will meet at 7 tonight in 418 Old Main to ratify a constitution and organize a per manent club. Co-chairmen Rich ard Smith and Charles Mayer have asked ex-servicemen to attend. This is the first attempt to orga nize a veterans' club on campus since the Korean War. ' THE DAYLY COLL'EGTAIf, STATE COLLEGE, .FEN - DI YLVANIA. NPA Approved Materials Inn to Be Finished First 12111121 Speech Contest Established By $5OOO Fund - An agricultural speaking com petition to be held each year in March has been established with a $5OOO trust fund provided by Mrs. Paul R. Guldi n, Yellow House, as a memorial to her late husband, a Berks County poultry breeder. - - - - The contest, to be known as the Paul R. Gul d in Agricultural Speaking Contest, will be limited to undergraduate agriculture stu dents. First prize will be $5O and a gold metal, and second prize will be $25 and a silver medal. The contestant will deliver a five-minute talk in the semi-finals and an eight-minute talk in the finals. The contestant may pick his own subject so long as it per tains to agriculture or rural living. Provisions for the contest ,were accepted by the executive com mittee of the Board of Trustees. Guldin was graduated from Cor nell University and was a poultry specialist at the College from 1918 to 1921. - Job Training To Be Offered The Civil Service Commision has announced that applications for on-the-job training are avail able to sophomores and juniors in chemistry, physics, mat h e mates, metallurgy, meteorology, and the various branches of en gineering. A written test will be given. Completion of one's college courses, the report added, is a part of the program, with promotion on the basis,,of merit following. Further information regarding the training program an d the Form 5000—AB for taking the test may be obtained by writing to the U.S. Civil Service Commis sion, Washington 25, D.C. The greatest disaster ever to happen in the American Navy was the wreck of the Insurgent in 1800. It sailed from Hampton Roads and was never heard from; 380 lives were lost. The TAVERN ITALIAN SPAGHETTI, with Meat Sauce SEAFOOD PLATTER PRIME SIRLOIN STEAKS DELICIOUS PLATTERS Elliil=2 Stress Problems Subject Of Engineering Project A two year, $lO,BOO project investigating the pony truss problem is being conducted in the basement of Main Engineering by Edward C. Holt Jr., instructor in civil engineering. The project, sponsored by the Column Research Council, Penn sylvania Department of Highways, and the Federal Bureau of Roads, has as its purpose the development of a theory which will give ac= curate figures for the strain on a pony truss and the development of a useable formula for this pur pose. A pony truss is a truss without overhead cross bracing. A bridge with side bracing that does not have the sets of side members connected is a pony truss. The problem of - the pony truss is buckling of the top longitudinal members. In a thorough truss (one with overhead cross bracing) the top beams do not buckle because they are supported by the cross members. In the pony truss, the only support given these top mem bers comes from the uprights. They give a certain amount of support and must bend in order for the top members to buckle. The, experiments determine how much support can be expect ed from these uprights. At present, the only pony truss formulae available are approxi mate.. Since engineers using ap proximate forumlae use a much higher factor of safety than when using exact formulae, it is ex pected that more precise ,formu lae will substantially reduce the cost of bridges by decreasing the amount of metal used in construc ' tion. New, more exact formulae for the pony truss may also result in more use of this type of truss, thus eliminating the need for crows bracing. This also will result in a substantial saving of money. The project is now in. its sec ond year. The first was devoted entirely to development of theory. Now these theories are being test ed in an experimental pony truss set up in the basement of the Mechanical Engineering Building. 1 Additional work must be done on the theory before the project is completed. The model pony truss bridge 77 , 77M,717 ' 3 " it" • ; 4 - ' - • , -TRANSPORTATION • NOTICE CHRISTMAS VACATION Take a Tip and Make Your Trip by GREYHOUND For the convenience of PENN STATE STUDENTS, SPECIAL BUSES will be provided for the Christmas Vacation and will leave from the PARKING LOT, SOUTH of RECREATION' HALL at 1:00 p.m. SAT URDAY, DECEMBER the 20th, 1952. RESERVATIONS for the SPECIAL BUSES will be made with the purchase of your ticket at the GREYHOUND POST HOUSE. AL L RESERVA TIONS MUST BE MADE BY 10:00 p.m. FRIDAY, DECEMBER THE 19th. GREYHOUND POST HOUSE , 146 N. Atherton St. Phone 4181 PAGE THREE includes 15,899 pounds 'of steel. One large beam, weighing 4544 pounds, is used in conjunction with hydraulic jacks to exert. a, test load up to 70 tons on the - bridge. Holt, who is using this project for his master's degree, has been working on the project for almost two years and estimates that he . has spent over 4000 hours on the project. Holt received a B.S. in 1945 and a M.S. in 1947 from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. The two-year project, due to be finished in February, was delayed by a shortage of steel resulting from the recent steel strike and, is not expected to be completed until spring. Twelve schools bid on the pro-' ject, including the University of California, Columbia University, Cornell University, University of Detroit, Franklin Institute, Illinois. Institute of Technology, Kansas State; University of Kansas, Uni-_, versity of Michigan, M.1.T., and University of Missouri. NEED BLUEBOOKS ®S page . ... 3 for 5c 012, 16 . ... 2 for sc•. 032 page . . . . 5c each . $5 in Sales, Get $1 FREE at the BX in the TUB Open Daily 8:30 to 5 Also Wednesday 7-9 p.m. • 4. , i
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