The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, February 03, 1953, Image 1

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    ■ Exam Leak
Can Be Stopped—
See Page 4
VOL. 53, No. 76
Fine Asks
$2O Million
For College
\ The State budget submitted last
f week by Gov. John S. Fine would
; provide $2O million for. the Col
? lege for the 1953-54 biennium.
This amount is an increase of
$2.5 million over the appropri
ation for the current biennium.
The College has requested $21.5
ihillion.
In addition, the budget proposes
$137,500 for a poultry diseases lab
oratory.and $300,000 for veterin
ary research. (
No provision is made in the
, budget for establishment of a
School of Veterinary Medicine. '
.College officials have pointed
out that while the proposed bud
get represents an increase of $2,-
500,000, . about $450,000 will be
needed to offset losses resulting
from decreased Federal and mis
cellaneous revenue, and about $2,-
000,000 will be needed for in
creased expenses for general op
erations, primarily to meet rising
costs.
In his budget message, Gov.
Fine asserted, “In an early re
lease the State Government Sur
vey Committee (the Chesterman
committee) expressed concern
over expansion at the Pennsyl
vania State College. The com
mittee no. longer entertains this
barly concern.”
. The budget proposes that $19,-
605,000 be used for general main
tenance of the College.
The following special grants are
listed: School of Mineral Indus
tries, $70,000; funds to match con
tributions from industries, $57,-
500; research for the slate indus
try, $35,000; research in mineral
industries, $32,500; research for
petroleum industries, $50,000; and
crop study in the School of Agri
culture, $150,000.
In his budget message, Gov.
Fine said, “I am recommending
increases ... to help . . . meet
increased costs, to take up ac
cumulated deficits, and to help
<• . . pay more adequate salaries.”
Ed Student Council
Will Meet Tonight
Education students interested
In discussing problems of student
teachers are requested to attend
the meeting of the Education Stu
dent Council at 7:30 tonight in
108 Willard, Harry Shank, acting
president, said.
Ex am Leaks Siu died
Editorial comment on page 4
College administration and fac
ulty have indicated some progress
in their investigation of a mass
release and sale of examinations
during the fall semester final ex
amination period. No students
have yet been apprehended.
Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director
of student affairs, in acknowledg
ing some final exams were se
cured by students prior to the ex
aminations, said the College’s in
vestigation is proceeding with
some success.
According to information re
ceived from College, officials, at
least ten finals were in student
hands before the exams were
given. Included in the ten were
course finals foi* economics 1 and
14, commerce 40 and 41, Spanish
3 and 4, English literature 25 and
80, and history 21. All of the
courses are in the School of Lib
eral Arts.
Ben. Euwema, dean of the
TODAY'S
WEATHER
CLOUDY
WARMER
Mift 0 ~|‘«sg r ; ;:
New School of Business
Approved by Trustees
ÜBA Breaks
A record-breaking $3200 worth
of books was sold yesterday by
the student-operated Used Book
Agency in the TUB, bringing the
semester total to $5300.
However, many more books are
needed, Howard Giles, ÜBA
chairman, declared yesterday.
Nineteen hundred books have
been handled by the agency so
fait this semester. Seventeen hun
dred were sold • last semester.
Books will be accepted until 9
p.m. tomorrow.
Especially, needed are texts for
English Composition 5, Speech
200, Mathematics 84 and 464,
Chemistry 1, and all language, lit
erature, and engineering courses,
Giles said.
To Handle Supplementary Books
Students set their' own prices
for the textbooks. Purchasers pay
a 15 cent operating charge.
Language textbooks, which were
not handled ; last semester, are
being accepted this semester. Sup
plementary books, not required
for a. course, are also being
handled.
The agency' is open 9 a.m. to
9 p.m. daily. It will remain open
until closing time Saturday.
Money May be Collected Later
' Last semester: the non-profit
agency showed a 133 per cent
increase in sales over the pre
vious semester. The enterprise rs
in its sixth year of operation. Un
til the self-service system was
installed last fall, students pur
chased books from clerks in a
small room adjacent to the ball
room. The long lines of student
customers and the congestion
have been eliminated.
Persons who have books on sale
will be able to collect their mon
ey or their unsold books at a date
to be announced in later issues of
the Daily Collegian.
RILW Group to Meet
The Religion-in-Life Week gen
eral committee will meet at 7
tonight in 304, Old Main. The
meeting is open to the public.
school, said the exam leak was
“obviously the result of some con
certed effort to buy exams and
sell them- to students.” Most of
the final exams which leaked out
were changed before examination
time, Dean Euwema said, because
students notified professors the
exams were “out.”
Although faculty members do
not know how. the finals leaked
out, they offered several theories.
The theories put the blame on
every-one from College faculty,
employees, staff members, and
graduate students, to leaks in
mimeographing or students rum
maging through wastecans.
The Department of Economics
and Commerce, hit hardest by the
exam leak, purchased a copy of
the economics 14 . final for, $5
through a student., That final was
subsequently changed. The de
partment was not. aware of the
economics 1 final exam leak,
however, until after the final was.
given. Dr. N. Leonard,
head of the department, said yes
terday 19 students are being re
called to take the final again be
cause their final grade was “com
pletely out of line with previous
course work.” -•
Dr. Brice Harris, head of the
Department of English Literature,
said, lie believes the English lit
erature 25 final was selling for
$5 a .'copy. That final'was' locked
in Dr. Harris’ .Sparks building of
fice „tp. which he had- t|ie only key.
He said he is sure there was no
STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY-3, 1953
•—Photo by Schroeder
BROWSING FOR BOOKS, Stanley Lassoff, Joseph Garrity, and
Barbara Norton, left to right, take advantage of the expanded
facilities of the Used Book Agency in the ballroom of the Tem
porary Union Building.
/ Whb / s in Mews 1
Mow Available
The 1952-53 edition of Who’s
in the News at Penn State is avail
able at the Student Union desk in
Old Main, Charles Henderson, edi
tor, said yesterday.
Students whose names are listed
in the publication may pick up
two copies and fraternity' and
sorority presidents one copy each,
Henderson said.
“Who’s in the News” contains
names and short biographies of
418 students who are outstanding
in scholarship, leadership and ac
tivities.
mimeograph leak because ail
ruined copies of the final were
burned. Six hundred copies of
that final were also changed.
Dean Euwema said the Liberal
Arts school was aware in many
cases that the finals were out
because students notified profes
sors. He said the school is ap
proaching the situation from many
angles with two aims: “to find
out the truth and prosecute the
guilty, and to set up a system of
making repetition of the situation
impossible and unprofitable.”
Although the College has ex
perienced final exam leaks be
fore, Dean Euwema. said this leak
is the largest he has experienced
in his seven years here. Other
faculty members expressed shock
at the large number of finals in
student hands.
Dr. Leonard said he feels the
exam is partially due to the tight
ening draft situation. “The draft
situation has exaggerated the sig
nificance of grades,” he said.
Final exams will no longer be
left in department offices, Dr.
Leonard continued.
Dr. Leonard said many students
did help to reveal the final exam
leak. “I think the majority of stu
dents are honest and only a small
portion participated in this,” he
said. In calling the exam leak “un
fortunate,” Dr. Leonard said “the
College is trying to educate the
students, not' outfit them. Appar
ently some do not understand the
difference.”
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Sales Records
Bodde to Speak
At Ist Lecture
Of LA Series
Dr. Derk Bodde, professor of
Chiriese at the University of Penn
sylvania, will open the Liberal
Arts Lecture Series at 8 p.m. to
morrow in 121 Sparks.
His subject will be “What the
West Can Learn From the Orient.”
Dr. Bodde was educated at Har
vard University and at the Uni
versity of Leiden, Holland. He
lived in China for ten years and
was a Fulbright research fellow
there.
Dr. Bodde is the author of “Pe
king Diary,” “A Year of Revolu
tion,” and “Tolstoy, and China.”
He is also translator and. editor
of “Chinese Philosophy” and is
the author of many articles about
China.
Dr. Bodde will be introduced
by Dr. Robert T. Oliver, head of
the Speech department.
All lectures of the current series
will be concerned with the inter
relationship and integration of the
various fields of science and learn
ing. The lectures are open to the
public.
Spring Fees Due
February 20 - 21
Spring semester fees must be
paid Feb. 20 or 21, the Office of
the Bursar has announced. A sum
mary of fees will be posted in
dormitory areas, and copies are
available at the Bursar’s office,
basement of Willard Hall.
- The exact amount of each stu
dent’s fees will be posted by stu
dent number in the lobby, of Wil
lard Hall.
Students will be charged a late
payment penalty of $1 for each
day of .delinquency up to and in
cluding five days, or a maximum
penalty of $lO for delinquency in
excess of five days. Students de
linquent in payment for more
than ten days are subject to sus
pension from the College.
Bryant Gets Fellowship
Dr. B-'rl E. Bryant, instructor
in chemistry, has received a post
doctoral fellowship from the Na
tional Institute of Health to con
duct research in the coordination
chemistry of tropolone.
To Be Formed
From Present
LA Department
A School of Business , will open
at the College July 1.
The school,- to be formed from
the Department of Economics -and
Commerce of the School of Lib
eral Arts, has been approved- by
the College Board of Trustees. -
The change, announced by. Presi
dent Milton S. Eisenhower, isjpri
mariiy a change in administrative
organization rather than'an ex
pansion of the present program.'
The school will include.depart
ments of accounting and statis
tics, commerce, and economics,
and the Bureau of Business Re
search.
President Eisenhower said the
change was made “to give due
recognition to the existing pro
gram, to restructure it for greater
operating efficiency, and to lay
a sounder academic foundation
for future educational and- re
search service in the several areas
of economics and business.”
Courses to be Revised
The present program in eco
nomics and commerce has not
been and cannot be accredited by
the American Association of Col
legiate- Schools of Business; The
proposed curriculum -for the new
school conforms to the require
ments for accreditation by the
association.
Curriculum and courses for the
new school are undergoing re
vision by a committee headed by
C. S. Wyand, assistant to the
President. This committee will
also make recommendations con
cerning the staff of the hew
school. ?
Suggestions must go to this
President and the College Sen
ate for - approval. Representatives
of the' Department of Commerce
and Economics will meet with the
committee Saturday.
Four Year Program Planned
Other members serving on the
committee are George E. Bran
dow, professor of agricultural eco
nomics; Ben Euwema, dean of the
School of Liberal Arts; George li.
Leffler, professor of finance; and
Arthur H. Reede, professor of eco
nomics. ■ .
The curriculum of the school
will be a four year program- in
business administration. Options
in accounting, business manage
ment, economics, finance, insur
ance and real estate, marketing
trade and transportation will, be
offered. >s
1225 Enrolled Last Semester
Graduates from the school .'will
qualify for a. B.S. degree in busi
ness administration. Students de
siring to major in economferiSay
enroll in business administration
and receive a B.S. degree or en
roll in the School of Liberal Arts,
schedule economics courses in the
School of Business, and qualify
for- a B.A. degree. ..The graduate
program of the business school
will lead to the degrees of M.S.
and Ph.D. ‘ . ,
Last semester more .than 1225
students were enrolled in :the De
partment of Economics and Com
merce. Without an increase in .en
rollment, this will make the new
school fifth largest in the Col
lege. It will be the ninth under
graduate school.
Talent Shaw Tryouts
Scheduled for Weekend
Tryouts for the All-College Tal
ent Show, scheduled for Feb: 20
in Schwab Auditorium, will take
place Saturday and Sunday.
All kinds of acts may try out
for the show, which is sponsored
by the Penn State Club. Any stu
dent is eligible. ,
Those interested may sign at
the Student Union desk ..in Old
Main, where audition times and
places will be assigned.
FIVE CENTS