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CPC Analyzes
Voting Results
Freshmen and sophomores in the schools of Education and Home
Economics turned out in a greater percentage per school than other
schools in last fall’s elections, a recent study by the All-College
Cabinet Projects Council revealed.
The study, taken to reveal voti
and living units, was conducted b'
White Gets
State Party
Clique Post
Thomas K. White, sixth semester
arts and letters major, was elected
State Party clique vice chairman
Sunday at the first meeting of
the party’s Student Representat
ive Council.
The council also elected Pegge
Shierson, sixth semester educa
tion major, clique secretariate.
Clique chairman Myron
Enelow named co-chairmen for
seven committees. They are Carol
Adler, fourth semester commerce
major, and Ellsworth Smith,
fourth semester agricultural eco
nomics major, distribution; Jean
Kutz and James Dunlap, fourth
• and sixth semester arts and let
ters majors, platform; Joan Shier
son and Barry Kay, fourth sem
ester arts and letters majors, cam
paign.
Gail Cravener, sixth semester
education major, and John Lyon,
second semester chemical engi
neering major, public relations;
Rae DelleDonne, fourth semester
journalism major, and Ernest Fa
mous, fourth semester arts and
letters major, ward; Rheta Bo
brow, fourth semester commerce
major, and John Fink Jr., fourth
semester electrical engineering
major, membership; and Lois
Kesler, fourth semester arts and
letters major, and Albert Benning,
fourth semester mechanical engi
neering major, publicity.
Alumni Fund
Request for
Agents Met
Although the necessary 3100
class chairmen and agents needed
to make the first Penn State Al
umni Fund a working success have
been recruited, more than 100 ad
ditional alumni requests to help
have come in, Bernard Taylor,
director of the fund, has announ
ced.
“This makes the fund one of
the largest alumni-soliciting or
ganizations in the country, Tay
lor said. The College has inaugur
ated the fund this year to solicit
alumni for sorely needed projects
that state and federal funds can
not sponsor.
'Roaring Lion' Classes
The eight schools of the College
will compete every week until the
fund drive ends in June to see
which school has the greatest per
centage of graduates contribut
ing. Competition will be based on
percentage of contributions rather
than amount brought in.
The first five classes of each
school will be termed “roaring
lion” classes.
Taylor also announced that four
meetings will be held for class
agents the second week in April
to explain the fund and arouse
interest and enthusiasm for it.
Fund Now Underway
These “onward State meetings”
will be held In State College, New
York City, Philadelphia, and
Pittsburgh.
The fund officially got under
way this week with fund litera
ture being mailed to more than
40,000 alumni. The first returns
from alumni are expected to begin
Monday.
Fraternity Award
The deadline for entries for
the outstanding fraternity award
has been extended until 5 p.m.
Friday. The original deadline was
5 p.m. today.
Entries must be turned in at
the Student Union desk in Old
Main, William O’Malley, award
committee chairman, said.
;ing strength of the various schools
iy the CPC committee on elections
study with Thomas Pyle as chair
man.
The survey, Pyle said, will be of
use to campus politicians to show
areas where concentrated work is
needed before elections to get out
the vote. In general, the report
is to aid the development of cam
pus politicians and policies, he
said.
Of the entire sophomore class,
853 or 32.7 per cent voted. This
was divided into 329 women and
524 men. Forty-five per cent of
the women and 27 per cent of the
men voted. Thirty per cent of the
sophomore men living in fraterni
ties voted, the poll revealed.
In the freshman class, 1277 or
44 per cent voted. This includes
450 women. 70 per cent of the
freshman, women, and 827 men,
36 per cent of freshman men.
A breakdown by schools shows
that 36 per cent of the sophomores
in the Agriculture school voted.
Wood Utilization department had
the largest turnout, 100 per. cent.
There are three students enrolled
in the department. In the Chemis
try and Physics school, 18 per cent
voted.
In the Education school, 45 per
cent voted. Twenty-six per cent
of the sophomores in engineering
and 41 per cent in the Home Eco- j
nomics school voted. In the School
of Liberal Arts, 34 per cent voted
with the Department of Journal
ism high with 36 per cent.
Twenty-two per cent in the
Mineral Industries school and 42 1
per cent of the sophomores in the
Physical Education school voted. 1
In the Division of Intermediate
Registration, 29 per cent voted.
Thirty-four per cent of the
freshmen in the Ag school voted.
In the Schools of Chemistry and
Physics, 45 per cent voted.
Fifty per cent voted in the Edu
cation school. Thirty-one per cent
of the freshmen in the School of
Engineering and 47 per cent of
the freshmen in the School of
Liberal Arts voted. The Journal
ism department was high with
a 63 per cent.
In the Schools of Mineral In
dustries and Physical Education
and Athletics, 35 per cent voted.
In DIR, 16 per cent of the fresh
men voted.
Other members of the survey
committee were Ilene McKensie,
Andrew Jaros, Otto Hetzel, and
John Carpenter.
Pollock Passes
New Measures
On Attendance
Pollock Council passed meas
ures last night calling for a tight
er control on attendance at meet
ings and for a weekly meeting at
6:30 p.m. every Tuesday in the
council room of Dorm 20.
The new ruling on attendance
states that dormitory presidents
must attend all council meetings
or send an alternate. If an alter
nate is sent he must bring with
him a paper explaining the dorm
itory president’s excuse and au
thorizing him to take his place.
The proposal calling for a week
ly meeting was adopted because
members felt council attendance
would be aided. It was also felt
that meetings would be shorter
and more efficient.
Pollock' Council went along
with Nittany Council by. voting
to contribute $l5 to the Barons,
Nittany-Pollock social organiza
tion, for lounge parties to.be held
tomorrow night in McElwain and
Thompson Halls.
Joseph Gardecki, president,
said the spring dance which is
sponsored by the Association of
Independent Men, will be held
April 25 in the .West Dorm lounge.
Lounge Parties Tonight
Lounge parties, will be held
from 6:30 to 8 p.m. tomorrow in
McElwain and Thompson Halls,
Alan Heeve, president pro tem
pore of the Barons, Nittany-Pol
lock social organization, an
nounced.
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Engineer
Planned
The nuclear reactor planned for the College will make possible four general types of research
and work in reactor engineering, Eric A. Walker, dean of the School of Engineering, has explained.
Walker said the College may offer an undergraduate and a graduate course in nuclear engin
eering. The reactor will provide facilities for investigation of neutron distribution, reactor kinetics,
and other related characteristics.
Council to- Cite
3 WD Seniors
Nominations for the outstanding
West Dorm senior awards may
be made by letter until Saturday,
Hugh Cline, West Dorm Council
awards committee chairman, has
announced. Three awards, one
each for athletics, scholarship,
and activities, will be made.
■ Letters of nomination need not
be written by the applicant, Cline
said. Letters must be signed. One
person may submit more than one
nomination.
Qualifications of the applicant,
his full name, semester, curricu
lum, and campus address should
be stated in the letter, Cline said.
The letters will be judged by
a joint student-administration
committee. Letters should be ad
dressed to Cline, box 780 Irvin
Hall, campus.
Riding Club to Host
Future Horsemen Group
The Riding Club will entertain
the Future Horsemen. Club, a
State College grade school organ
ization, at its meeting at 7 tonight
in 317 Willard.
Refreshments will be served,
and a movie on palomino horses
will be shown. The public is in
vited.
Independents to Meet
Representatives from campus
and town independent organizar
tions .will meet at 7:30 p.m. to
morrow in McElwain Hall lounge
to establish a joint program for
Spring , Week activities, Andrew
Jaros, co-chairman of the inde
pendent Spring Week committee,
has, announced.
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NUCLEAR REACTOR being planned for the
College will be housed in a pool of water which
will guard against its gamma ray radiations.
The reactor, shown here in the main pool, can
be stored in the storage pool, shown to the left,
while equipment, to be studied is being con
structed in the main pool. The reactor is sus
pended from the movable bridge which also
iouses controls for the radiation unit. The build
ing to house the reactor and shield will be built
somewhere on the east side of the campus.
Neutron beams for experiments requiring neu
tron collimalion come from the three horizontal
aluminum beam tubes extending from the re
actor through the wall of the main pool. Ma
terials requiring neutron irradiation will be
placed in waterproof containers adjacent to the
reactor box containing enriched, uranium to be
received on loan from the Atomic Energy Com
mission.
William M. Breazeale, professor of electrical engineering in charge of design and construction
of the reactor, has explained that
the desigh presently under con
sideration is a modification of the
Bulk. Shielding Facility at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory. He
said this design provides an un
usually flexible installation.
Irradiation Work Planned
Using this design, the reactor
is suspended from a movable
bridge into a pool of water about
30 by 60 by 30 feet. This pool will
be designed to serve as an ade
quate shield for radiations. Three
horizontal neutron beam holes,
empty aluminum tubes, project
from one end of the pool and fur
nish beams of neutrons for ex
periments.
For irradiation work, the sam
ples to be irradiated are enclosed
in watertight containers and low
ered through the water to posi
tions adjacent to the reactor.
A storage pool will be provided
so the main pool may be drained
if necessary. This would be done
if large pieces of equipment have
to be erected on the floor of the;
main pool. The reactor could then;
be brought back into the main
pool adjacent to the constructed
equipment.
Reactor Design Discussed
The reactor must be kept under
water at all times because, even
when shut down, it will produce
gamma rays. .
Other designs under consider
ation are the aqueous, homo
genious reactor developed at the
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory,
and the graphite moderated, ther
mal test reactor built by General
Electric Co.
Persons in charge of the pro
ject are reported to feel money
should not be spent on develop
ing a new reactor, but rather on
an existing design w hie h has;
p oven successful.
The four classes of experimental
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Psychologists
To Begin New
Lecture Series
The Department of. Psychology
and the Graduate School r have
inaugurated • the Distinguished
Lecturer series which will bring
leaders, ip the field of psychology
to the campus.
The first lecture will be - pre
sented March 25 by Dr. John C.
Flanagan, professor 6f psychol
ogy at the University of Pitts
burgh and president and director
of research at the American In
stitute for Research in Pittsburgh.
Dr. Joseph H. Grosslight, asso
ciate professor of psychology and
chairman of the committee ar
ranging the lectures, said- that
two more lectures are scheduled
for this semester. Future speak
ers ■ will be 'Dr. Kenneth Spence,
chairman of the Department of
Psychology at the University of
lowa, and Dr. 1 Harry-' Harlow, of
the University of Wisconsin.
Lowenberg to Attend
Health Conference
Dr. Miriam E. Lowenberg, pro
fessor and head of the Depart
ment of Foods and Nutrition, will
attend the Public Health ■. Coun
selors Conference today through
Friday in Chapel Hill, N.C. Direc
tors of public health and nutrition
courses will discuss, field work
•training in nutrition.- -
Campus Chest Group
. The .Canipus Chest committee
will meet at 8 tonight in the Stu
dent Government Room, 201 Old
Main