PAGE EIGHT Bus College Student Council Plans Mixer For the first time a college stu dent council will hold a dean’s re ception, it was announced at the meeting of the Student Council of the College of Business Admin istration last evening. Arthur Brener, chairman of the mixer-reception, related that the even'- would be at 7-8:30 tomor row evening in Waring Hall — wnat was West Dorm Lounge. The mixer is being held in order that freshmen and other new Business Administration students may become acquainted with the Dean of the College, Ossian R. MacKenzie, and upperclassmen. With council president Richard Frabo presiding, it was announced that Dr. Ralph R. Bunche had been secured to spetk in Schwab Auditorium on the career day planned by the council. The date is still tentative. Frabo sought the aid of the council in drawing itself closer to All-University Cabinet, therefore drawing the individual student closer to the activities and legis lation facing the cabinet. The student encampment at Mont Alto was brought before the attention of the group and plans were laid to prepare for each member of the council a report on the major points discussed at the encampment. Customs— (Continued from page two) meeting and put the frosh in a •singing mood. Tony Kline, president of the sophomore class, said that it was decided at the .meeting that stronger enforcement of customs will be made by the sophomores. The value of the customs program was also .discussed. When asked what they thought Of the customs program, fresh man women said that the pro gram helped them to get to know the members of their class and the upperclassmen. Prexy Expresses — (Continued from page one) and reflection of it. Indeed, so close has been the association that the pablic traditionally has made no distinction between community and institution. "It is unfortunate, however, that the name of Penn State—now emphasizing university—is in conflict with the name of the Bor ough, emphasizing college. This discrepancy has in recent months caused several difficulties, one of which is serious. “First and foremost, the name is not becoming established throughout the State and nation as it should. Every press release issued by our institution carries the dateline “State College” and this is naturally assumed by newspaper readers to be descriptive of the institution.... “Is it any wonder, therefore, that nearly everywhere newspapers, magazines, radio and television announcers, and even educational m»d industrial leaders continue to refer to this distinguished Univer sity as The State College? “A second, less important, though noticeable difficulty is the one of confusion. Anyone who travels realizes keenly that people generally do not know where Penn State is located, thought they don’t have a similar difficulty with respect to Cornell, or Notre Dame, or Ohio State . . . “I’m sure no one connected with the administration of the Uni versity would presume to suggest what the name of the town should be, if the good people of the community are willing to consider a change. I would venture to suggest, however, that it might be a mis take to name the town once again for the University. Who knows but what a new difficulty might arise 50 years hence? While we may be completely confident today that “The Pennsylvania State Uni versity” is the ultimate that might conceivably be adopted, let’s be equally certain we realize that basic conditions will continue to change, that Penn State will continue to develop and grow, and that higher education will continue to change. Such changes may be suffi ciently far-reaching in the distant future as again to warrant a change in the name of 'the institution.” HOUSE MANAGERS! for all your # Plumbing @ Heating f Repair Work CafS or Visit Nittany Plumbing and Heating N. Atherton St. AD 7-2561 Research— Y Continued from page two ) $3OO for research work on mush rooms. Three fellowships and eight re search grants for . unnamed amounts were made to the College of Mineral Industries: a grant from Corning Glass Works for either a post-doctoral or pre-doc toral student toward research in the same field; renewal of the Sinclair Fellowship in petroleum production; renewal of the Stario lind Oil Co.* fellowship in petrotj leum engineering; a grant for continuation of research on the manufacture of carbon black and activated carbon from anthracite. Also a grant for continuation of work on refractories; a grant for the extension of a study of. sur face agents in connection with applied use in the mining, hand ling, processing, and utilization of minerals; a grant for study on specific applications of battery power to mine haulage systems; a grant for research on fraction ation of stable isotopes in geo logic processes. Also a grant in support of basic structural studies in clay miner alogy; a grant to establish a re search program to improve exist ing one-trip .hot-tops, refractories used at top of molds in steel mills. University Offers New Eng Course Torpedo engineering, a course taught by no other college or uni versity in the country, is being offered at the University this se mester by. the College of En gineering and Architecture. Listed as Engineering 422 Or dinance Engineering; Torpedoes —the course is classified as an ad vanced undergraduate and grad uate level course. Naval personnel of the Bureau of Ordinance and of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corp program have en dorsed the course for possible officer training. The Hillel Upperclass Inde pendent Club will' meet at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Hillel Foun dation, 224 S. Miles street. Dancing and refreshments will follow a short meeting. THF DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA NS A Convention Adopts Conservative Measures By ANN LEH In contrast to charges, in previous years that the National Student Association was under leftist influence, resolutions adopted at the NS A convention in August tended to be conservative. Janice Holm, University NSA Patricia Ellis', Women’s Student Government Assn, president; Loa Joan Packard, president of Leonides; and Robert Dennis, president of the Association of Independent Men, represented the University. at the August 21-23 meetings. Change— (Continued from page one) five-point criteria which was set for selection. John Henry Frizzell, committee chairman, reported Mt Nittany was most descriptive of the area, rather than an individ ual or the institution. In addi tion to this point, the committee felt the proposed name should meet the following four stanards. Should Be Compatible 1. It should be comptible, i.e., it should have the possibility of meeting the feeling of sentiment, long attachment, etc. 2. It should have some histor ical and/or latently rich folk-lore significance. 3. It should be a name which will wear well, which will re main, will not be 'subject to furth er change through growth, disap pearance or any temporary change. 4. It should be as appropriate to a city-of-the-future as to the bor ough of today. In addition to the above five points, Frizzell outlined in a let ter to John L. McLucas, chairman of the “Committee of 50,” five more reasons explaining why Mount Nittany was chosen by the special committee headed by Fiz zell. ■ The chairman suggested that the committee should begin its de liberations by finding out if it was agreed on the following prop ositions: 1. Since the name of the Uni versity was changed last Novem ber, the name for the Borough has been much in the public mind and press. Chamber Sponsors' Drive 2. The area Chamber of Com merce is sponsoring a drive to thht end, and the Borough Council has approved of the movement. 3. There is precedent for the change as the community has been known or has had several post office designations over the years:' Farmers High School, Boalsburgy Pa.; Farmers High School, Pa.; Agricultural College, Pa.; and State College, Pa. Significant Status 4. However, while it was nat-: ural and perhaps logical for the community in earlier days and conditions, to take its name from the College, the Borough has in these days,'reached a status sig nificant enough in its own right, to “stand on' l its own name,” so to say as a community in which is located “a great state' univer sity.” 5. It is not in the province of the committee to weigh the ad vantage of a change of name so much as to. start with an assump tion that a change is in order, and then suggest that , the time for such a change is now, before the University’s Centennial. Mont Alto Pictures Copies of pictures taken at the third annual Student Encamp ment at Mont Alto may be ordered at the Student Union desk, Old Main, according to Allan Schnei rov, encampment chairman. Get Sti Step! Ail Penn State Students Listen To GROOVOLOGY where you can hear McLANAHAN'S "Collegiate Musical Salute" 11:10 P. M. NIGHTLY WMAJ, 1450 on the dial "Committee of 50" Seven hundred students from 250 colleges and universities at the lowa State College congress passed measures' stating: Segregation Should End 1. Segregation should be ended immediately in all institutions of higher education. 2. Membership in subversive or ganizations “in almost every case” destroys a professor’s ability to teach. 3. The International Union of Students was a Communist-run partisan political organization. While the April Supreme Court ruling called for immediate end of segregation in all public schools, the NSA resolution seeks only se lective desegregation in schools in the deep South. , Cultural Patterns The NSA measure, initiated by southern delegates, is based on the premise that 'strong cultural patterns in- some states would make immediate desegregation impossible. The resolution states that more sharply defined racial attitudes and proportionally more Negroes Jx> white were also listed as reasons. In these deep South schools/the NSA proposes that integration take place on a gradual selective unit-school and grade basis. The “border”- states, however, the resolution says, should pro mote integration in their schools immediately. These states are Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and West Virginia, and the District of Col umbia. ~ More Vigorous The NSA resolution was more vigorous as far as institutions of higher learning were concerned. This action was. in keeping with Supreme Court decisions of the past .several years which have ap proved Negro admissions to grad uate-level schools. ' Steps suggested unsegregated audiences for cultural programs, intercollegiate contests between schools with varying racial poli- and joint students of gov ernments, etc. On academic freedom, the con gress felt that a professor affil iated with subversive organiza tions was unable to teach. How ever, it maintained that in each case the professor in question WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1954 WDFM to Present Music 5 Selections A one-hour program of mu sic being used in Music 5, a music appreciation course off ered at the University, will be broadcast over WDFM at 9:30 p.m. every Tuesday. , The program, “This World of Music,” has been planned to relieve students of the neces sity cff going to listening rooms in Carnegie. Hall to review for tests in the course, Craig San ders, fifth semester journalism major, said. The series is under the super vision of Allison . Munn, fifth semester speech major. should be judged' individually by his fellow faculty members. In delivering the congress’ key note address, Edward K. Graham, chancellor of the Women’s Col lege of the'University of North Carolina, warned against both leftist and chauvinistic professors. Graham told the delegates to beware of “self-appointed patriot eers” who' would seek to impose thought control, although work ing in the name of anti-Commun ism. He cautioned students to, how ever, . carefully distinguish be tween persons who hold views op posite to theirs, and those work ing in the interests of a foreign power. The NSA resolutions were con demned by several national pub lications, including Time maga zine, for being too lukewarm. Time, in particular, disapproved, of the segregation resolution which, it said, was more conser vative than that passed by the Supreme Court. Sent to Convention Miss Ellis, Miss Packard, and Dennis were sent to the conven tion by the groups which they head. The proposal to send them was made last spring, following a plea before All-University Cabi net “to make NSA work more ef fectively at Penn State.” It was hoped that their presence at- the convention would bring about a better understanding of the pur poses and functions of NSA and its value to the University.
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