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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.
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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.
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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. '
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NPA Approved Materials
Inn to Be Finished First
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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.
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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.
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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
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-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
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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.
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