Today's -Weather— Colder and Snow Flurries VOL. 55, No. 53 s Exposed Ater phyalocyanine as seen by the atom microscope invented by Dr. Erwin Mueller. The miscroscope is shown in the larger picture with its inventor and-two graduate students in physics. They are, left to right, Walter Pimb/ey, Dr. Mueller, and Earl Cooper. Simplicity Atom Microscope Ever since man developed . the atomic theory, he has been striving to catch a glimpse of the elusive little particles on whicli. he based his theory. , • Until 15 years ago, it was impossible. Then Dr. Erwin W. Mueller, now professor of physics at the University, invented his atom microscope. Now we know for certain that there are such things as atoms. The keynote- of Dr. Mueller's in vention, technically known as a field emission microscope, is sim plicity. It works on the same prin ciple as a television picture tube. The microscope itself is a vac uum tube, which resembles a large electric light bulb in both size and appearance. Sealed into this tube is an ex tremely fine needle made of the metal which is under study. The needle, which is - about four-mil lionths of an inch in diameter, is pointed at a fluorescent screen at the opposite end of the tube. When approximately 5000 volts are applied to the needle, elec trons stream away from the point and strike the fluorescent screen, mapping out a picture of the nee dle's surface. Using such a small needle, the ~microscope can maginify the sur face of the needle from 100,000 +.o 1,000,000 times. The picture is (Continued on page eight) Snow Flurries Predicted Today A little light snow, equaling yesterday's scattered • flurries, is expected for today with skies partially clearing by late after noon, the University weather sta tion reported yesterday. ' High today will be a couple of degrees lower than yesterday's maximum of 34, but tempera tures will rise into the 40's tomor row. Low tonight, in keeping with the rise in temperature, will be about freezing, 10 degrees above last night's low of 22, 'Who's hi News' Fees Philip Austin, editor of "Who's in the News at Penn State," said yesterday that students who have been chosen for the book and fail to pay the required $2.50 - fee will not be included in the publi cation. The deadline for return ing acceptance sheets is Dec. 12. Bed-Ridden Pole In Grave Condition VATICAN CITY, Friday,' Dec. 3 (JP)—Pope Pius XII has suf fered severe collapse, with a weakening of the gallant heart that has served him. through 55 years of priesthood. Early today there was grave anxiety for his life. Through the night, troubled Romans gathered in spacious St. Peter's Square and knelt on the cobblestones to pray for recovery of their Pope and bishop. The Vatican's vi ca r general, Clement Cardinal Micara, urged the world's 425 million Roman Catholics to join ,in the prayers. Members of the Pope's family, the Pacellis, were near his bed side in his simple white-walled bedroom, Dr. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, phy sician to the 78-year-old pontiff, was constantly at his side. ' He had made emergency X-rays and called in a surgeon for consulta tion. The Pope had 'been ill before in the nearly /6 'years he: -had . . . . . . . . .. , • . t.. ~ , • , ...„,,, .. , ..,.. • ct .....• 41 , . -fr, .. ':.:" 4. 1 , " 5• it . • L , 1 it . . .. Keynotes By DON SHOEMAKER headed the church, but never so gravely, ~ This illness—starting as a-re currence of the gastritis and hic cuping that. sapped the Pope's strength last winter—became seri ous last weekend. His collapse yesterday weakened his heart, and there also was an indication that his condition was aggravated by an ulcer. He was extremely weak and had been unable to take any food by mouth for several days. His physician yesterday afternoon de scribed the Pope as conscious and completely lucid. But apparently he was unconscious for a time after his .collapse. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3, 1954 Cabinet. OK's Addition To , NSA!► Appropriation By DON SHOEMAKER All-University Cabinet last night approved a $7O addition to the National Student -Association budget for this year. Helen Sidman, acting NSA coordinator in the absence of Janice Holm, asked the additional ap propriation to cover expenses to the two regional conventions this year. An allotment of $6OO was made by Cabinet for this year's budget. However, because of -tbs National'Convention held in September, the, budget was left with a balance of $lO.ll. Board Asks Probation For 9 ►vlen The Association of Independent Men's Judicial Board of Review last night recommended office probation for six students and board probation for three. others. Six students, five of them re siding on the second floor of Ham ilton Hall and one in town, re ceived office probation for launch= ing makeshift homemade rockets from a second floor window across the court between Hamilton and Thompson Halls. Three other students residing in Nittany Dormitory 41 received board probation for inflicting damage to a students' room and generally causing a disturbance. One of these, a third semester student who was. given disciplin ary probation loy the board last semester, received a recommen dation . of suspension from the Uni versity by the board which furth er decided to suspend this sent ence although it will be enforced in the future if the student gives good. cause. The story heard by the board concerning the making of make shift rockets was that four first semester students and one fifth semester student,' along with a sixth semester town student, used straws from a Waring Hall dining room packed with gunpowder that they lit and launched from their second floor window on the evening of Nov. 23. The gunpowder belonged to the sixth semester student who had left it in the room several days previously. It was brought out by the board that this student fre quented the. West Dorms, particu larly this floor, perhaps sometimes causing disturbances on the floor. Upon_ questioning all the, stu dents admitted knowing that there was danger to some extent in leaving the open. can of gun powder in the room' while they lit the "straw-rockets." They also admitted thinking that it was against dormitory regulations to make and launch such rockets but that in the excitement of the af fair they hadn't made a move to stop. The rockets, they said, were not dangerous and ,they had stationed some students below the window (continued on page eight) WDFM A udience Is About 2400 The est - mated , possible listen ing audience of campus radio station WDFM is 2400 students, or one-fifth of the st u o n body, according to David R. Mackey, general manager for WDFM. *As soon as three • new trans ponders are installed in Grange, Wonian's Building, and Nittany dormitory units; 1500 more students will be able to listen to WDFM, Mackey said. ' The transponders convert the station's FM signals to AM sig nals which can be received on ordinary radio sets, and are being tested at present. Students may not be able to receive WDFM regularly until the transponders are perfected. By. TED SERRILL Use Straws Knew Of Danger ggiatt Miss Sidman said that when the original appropriation was made, Miss Holm was given to under stand - that expenses for the na tional convention were to come out of last year's budget. However, since NSA budgets are in effect from July. 1 to June 30 of each year and the convention was held in September, the convention ex penses must come out of this year's budget. A motion made by Robert Dennis, president of the Associa tion of Independent Men, at the last Cabinet meeting, that the convention expenses .be placed on last year's budget was passed by Cabinet. Expenses Illegal However, since this would be illegal under the budget set-up, the motion , was rescinded and Cabinet approved the additional appropriation. The additional appropriation in cludes . $3O for the fall regional convention, to be held at Rose mont College; Philadelphia, Dec. 10 and 11, $35 for the spring re gional convention, and $5 for mis cellaneous expenses. Current expenditures to date include $368.42 for expenses to the national convention, $219 for national and regional ' dues, and $2.47 for miscellaneous expendi tures, making a total of $589.89. Dennis Amendment In other action, Cabinet referred an amendment by Dennis on the procedure for determining sub stitutions on Cabinet to' the com mittee on constitutional revision. Dennis' amendment states that members of Cabinet shall be as outlined in the constitution, or their duty appointed representa tives. The amendment was up for its second reading, but since the All- University constitution is in the process of being revised. It was felt that the amendment should be referred to the committee. Campus Chest arly Returns With only one more day remaining in the 1954-55 Campus Chest drive solicitors lack $6250 of attaining the $7250 goal. The $lOOO collected during the first two days of campaigning represents approximately 16 per cent of the goal, tabulations chair man John Brunner said last night.• This amount closely parallels that turned in during the first two days of the drive last year. Kappa Alpha Theta• is leading sorority contributions with 100 per cent or $7O. No returns had been received from fraternities as of last night. - Leonides Have $225 •. The winner of competition be tween the four student groups, Interfraternity Council, • Panhel lenic• Council, Association of In dependent Men, and Leonides will be announced in the Daily Collegian on Saturday. So far Leonides is leading with $225. On the first day_ of the cam paign approximately $270 was collected. Fifteen . welfare organizations will share in the money collected by this year's che7t. Eight of them are local, the• other seven are na tional. Local groups will receive 57 per cent of the total proceeds, national groups will receive 37 per cent, and the remaining five per cent will be retained by the chest for operational expenses, Ellsworth Smith, general chair man, said.. Other' offiders of the chest are Censure - See Page 4 Expansion Plan OK'd By Senate University Senate yesterday passed a report recommending that the administration and Board of Trustees _formulate, adopt, and implement an over-all= plan for the expansion of the University which will provide an increasing resident student body on the main campus of at least 18,000 by 1970. The report was submitted by the Senate Committee on Educa tional Policy. To support the recommenda tion, the committee pointed out that in the years immediately ahead there will be a large in crease in the college age popula tion. The group further stated that the. University has the obligation of providing the. "land grant col lege" type of liberal and practical education for the citizens of Penn sylvania. In a second report from the Educational Policy Committee, which Senate passed, the group recommended general purposes and obligations of the University. The report set down two major purposes for the establishment of the University• 1. "To provide the type of edu cation which many citizens felt was most needed and effective for the personal and cultural growth of their children, and which was not being offered by the forty or more colleges then in existence in the Commonwealth." 2. "To provide a college educa tion, on a more democratic basis for the children of farmers and other nonprofessional groups at a cost which they could afford to spay." Drive Poor John Robinson, solicitations chair man; Ann Lederman and Joseph Cutler, special events; and Ruth Grigoletti, secretary. District solicitations chairmen are John Riggs, dormitory men; John McMeekin, fraternity men; Herbert Jordan, town men, Miss Grigoletti, independent women; Marjorie Seward, town women; Marian Wildman, sorority women; and George Dougherty, commU ters. Soliciting Groups Besides representatives from 1.F.C., A.1.M.,' Leonides, and Pan hel, four other groups are in cluded among the 400 solicitors. They are Alpha Phi- Omega, na tional service fraternity, and Blue Key and Androcles, both junior men's hat societies. Last year the goal was to get 100 per cent participation, rather than a specific monetary figure. Students contributed approxi mate $6OOO to the 1953-54 cam paign. Brunner said this year's goal was based on last year's contributions, taking into con sideration the increased enroll. ment at the University. FIVE CENTS
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