Party Platforms— See Page 4 VOL. 3; No. 119 ISCB Seeks CAlege OK . Of Fee Plan Administration approval will be sought by . Interstudent Council Board - President Lincoln Warrell for a. proposal passed %last night to collect eight separate student council fees at registration in Rec reation Hall .as part of the regu lar collection of semester fees. The new proposal, introduced by David Fleming, president of the Mineral Industries Student Council, - differs from a plan pro posed at a meeting of the ISCB March 30 by having the adminis tration collect the fees. Under the original proposal, each school would collect its own fee. The plan was •passed after the council rejected a plan originally proposed by .'Douglas Schoerke, president of the Liberal:Arts Stu dent Council, to have an equal payment of fees by all students at the College and divide it equally among the various schools. Subscription Rate Increase Theodore K i m m e 1, managing editor of the Penn State Farmer, said Schoerke's plan could only be put into effect if Farmer sub scriptions were made mandatory for students in the School of Ag riculture at time of registration. Boyd Wolff; editor of the Farm er, said the 'subscription rate to non-student subscribers, a ma jority of the Farmer's distribu tion, would have to be increased. At the present time, -Wolff said, the subscription rate is 17 1 / 2 cents an issue. Many subscribers have already paid for the Farmer two years in advance, Kimmel added. A 75-cent fee is collected in the School of Agriculture. Of this, 50 cents is appropriated to the sup port of. the Farmer. A 25-cent fee is also collected in the School of Home Economics to support the school's newspaper, News - an d Views. Council Meets Monday In a poll of council presidents, it was revealed that all but two schools, Liberal Arts.. and Engi neering, need more funds after the distribution of the interclass budg et on a per capita basis. Fleming said that although his council could use more money, it would not vote to raise its fees.. The council- will meet at 7 p.m. Monday to hear Warrell's report and to determine how the presi dents will• present the proposals to their councils before Thurs day's All-College . Cabinet meet ing. &,Ag Cap, Gown Deadline Today Today is the.last day for senior agriculture students to sign up for caps and gowns• at the Athletic iv Store, according to the schedule - released by George L. Donovan, manager of associated student ac tivities. #. Seniors in ( Liberal Arts will sign up Monday through. Wed nesday. The -deposit for cap and gown ,• . is $5. Seniors ,should know their hat size when ordering. Students who expect to graduate in mili .fitary uniform should riot sign: up for a cap and gown. Invitations and announcements may be ordered at the Student Union desk on the same days as listed aboove. TODAY'S -.WEATHER SCATTERED SHOWERS i.COOLER ...ez- , L-.4.,..., 4. . tit g f,....,:. . - fifit -,,,,,, Men : who want to live in the West dormitories may indicate this as their preference on the applications. They may indicate Nittany or Pollock Circle as their second choice. When men indicate preference ' for West Dorm rooms, they will be assigned a priority number and placed on a waiting list: Then, if their names come up on the list, they will be reassigned to West Dorm rooms, providing they have paid the required $35 room res ervation deposit The same pro cedure Will apply if men have re quested r o om s in Nittany and have been assigned Pollock Circle quarters. Eight upperclassmen will be as signed to each Nittany dormitory. Therefore, if ,a group of men de sires to live together, those men will ,have to apply together. There is no limit to the number of men who may apply - together for hous ing in Pollock Circle. Under th,1953-51 housing con tract, the• room and key deposit is $35. Twenty-five dollars is used as a credit to be applied to first semester - fees. Students are bound to live in College residence halls upon pay ment of the $35 deposit, if they enroll next semester. If a student decides not to 'en roll in the College next fall, and notifies the department of housing at least _one month preceding the first day of registration, a full re fund of the $35 deposit will be made. Failure to notify the hous ing department in time will for feit the entire deposit. Two Nominated For AIM F'asition Chester Cherwinski, sixth se mester labor management rela tions major, and Lewis Goslin, sixth semester geophysics and geochemistry major, have been nominated for president 'of the Association of Independent Men, Ross Clark, chairman of the elec tions committee, announced .yes terday. Further nominations can be made , by members of the AIM Board of Governors to the elec tions committee. College Senate Approves Re*hect - Calendar Group Studies SU Plans OFFICIALS' DISCUSS FACILITIES and plans for furnishing or ganization rooms in the Student Union building to be completed in 1954. They are Thomas Schott, new Interfraternity Council president; William Shifflett, Association of Independent Men president; ' Ellen Wandell,- Panhellenic Council president; Hilda Hogeland, new Leonides president; Wilmer E. Kenworthy; director of 'student affairs; and George Donovan, Student Union director. Nittany-Pollock Area Room Forms Ready Application forms for rooms in Nittany and Pollock Circle dorm itories will be available to men 6:30 to 9 p.m. Monday in the depart ment of housing office, 108 Old Main. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1953 'Miss State' Pictures Due Photographs• of candidates for the title of Miss Penn State must be submitted by noon tomorrow at the Student Union desk in Old Main, according to Nancy D: White, coronation chairman. The photographs must be 5 by 7 inches and must have the can didate's name, curriculum, spon sor, age, College address, and home town on the back. Candi dates must be undergraduates of the. College and may be entered by any group on camptis, but not by individuals. Business School Courses Receive Senate Approval Curricula and courses for the School of Business, which will open at the College July 1, received the approval of the College Senate yesterday. The new school, as set up by the Senate, will offer only a cur riculum in business administration. This curriculum will have eight possible majors: accounting, business management, economics, finance, insurance and real estate, secretarial science, t r ade and transportation, and marketing. The new' school will require 139 credits and 139 grade - points for graduation. No language is re quired of students, enrolled in the new school. The School of Liberal Arts requires 132 credits for grad uation. :The school is to have three teaching departments: accounting and business statistics, commerce, and economics. It will also in clude the bureau of business re earch. rgiatt Thanksgiving For 4 1 / 2 Days; A revised calendar plan which eliminates most of the objections to the idea proposed last month passed the Col lege Senate yesterday. The new plan, which will go into effect for the academic year 1954-1955, provides for a four and a half-day Thanks- giving vacation, a 14 or 15 1 / 2 -day Christmas vacation, .and a seven day spring recess, and allows sev eral days time between the end of the fall semester and the be ginning of registration for the spring semester. Under the adopted plan, fall semester classes will begin on the second Monday after Labor Day (the third Monday in September). Spring semester examinations will not be scheduled later than noon of the second Saturday in June. Objectionable Plans Changed The provisions adopted by the Senate yesterday are statements of calendar policy and will guide and limit the person appointed by the College President to draw up the calendar each year. The new policy provides that any con flict arising in the new policy will be resolved by the commit tee on calendar. Otherwise, the annual College calendar will be drawn up by the official appoint ed to do the job. The original plan proposed by the committee on calendar last month provided for only one day free from classes at Thanksgiving and allowed no time between the end of fall semester examinations and registration for the spring semester. Students vigorously ob jected to the abbreviated Thanks giving holiday and faculty and registration offiicals rejected the former calendar plan because it did not allow time for grades to be filed and records brought up to date before registration. To Make Up Classes The new calendar provides for exactly 15 meetings of each class hour per semester. To make up the time lost during the Thanks giving vacation, on Memorial Day when it occurs during the period scheduled for classes, and for days lost' by administrative proclama tion for special occasions, these extra days will be made up at the end of the semester. For example, the .Wednesday afternoon to Saturday noon class es that will be missed for Thanks giving will be made up on the Monday, Tuesday, ' and Wednes day at the end of the semester. Fall semester classes will end at 5 p.m. on a Wednesday, usually the last Wednesday in January. All the adopted provisions were included in a report of the com mittee on courses of study. The committee also recommended that the college administration con sider 'the transfer of several exist ing, extension programs and cours es in typing and shorthand to the School of Business. The recommendation was adopt ed by the Senate and .will be for warded. to the. College administra tion. Included in the extension-pro, (Continued on page eight) Cheering Revision— See Page 4 Plan Recess Set Spring, 7 Senate OKs Statements For Illness Students who cannot be admit ted to the College Hospital when it is filled to capacity may be given a statement of that fact by the director of the College Health Service, according to a recommendation adopted yester day by the College Senate. The recommend ati o n •was brought to the Senate by the com mittee on student affairs after it had studied the problem. The sit uation was caused by a new• Sen ate rule adopted last year which provides that excuses may be granted for illness only when •the student is confined to the Infirm ary. That rule did not allow for the crowded conditions in the hospi tal when a wave of grippe hit the campus last semester. Some students who would normally have been admitted had been told to go to bed in their rooms. Ac cording to existing rules they could not, and were not, given ex c u.s es. This condition was brought to the attention of the Senate committee on student af fairs who recommended that ex cuses be issued when the Infirm ary is crowded. Two new rules passed by the College Senate, C-4 and W-7, pro vide that no student or resident graduate student shall register for another student or permit anyone to register on his behalf and that any student who attempts to reg ister for another, permits some one to register for him, or in any way attempts to falsify his Col lege records shall be subject .to disciplinary action. The Senate's recommendation that statements be given to stu dents sent to their rooms when the Infirmary is crowded, is jtest a statement of Senate, policy and will not be added to the 'Under graduate Regulations. Group to Study Finals Elimination Possible elimination of final examinations f o'r graduating seniors will be studied by the Senate committee on educa tional policy. The matter was referred 'to the committee by yesterday's meeting of the College Senate. The Senate received a letter from Gail Shaver, chairman of the senior class senior finals committee, asking that the Senate consider the possibility of eliminating or substituting some other alternative for sen ior finals. The letter stated that the committee questioned 125 col leges about what their policy toward senior final examina tions is. They received answers from 95 and found that 77 per" cent of the answering colleges give final examinations to seniors, four per cent do not. and 19 per cent have some oth er alternative; FIVE CENTS
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