SEVEN SWEDISH GYMNASTS,- members of Saturday night's visiting National men's and women's teams from the Scandinavian country, present a huge cake during intermission ceremonies of the gala gymnastic exhibition at Recreation Hall. The cake, trimmed in blue and white, represents the Centennial anniversary being observed by the University. An overflow crowd of an estimated 6300 packed Rec Hall to view the Swedes in their second visit to Penn State in two years. sarter Geti Town Council's OK Town Council last night unanimously approved the pre liminary reading of a proposed constitution providing that all town independent\ men would 12e members of the body and changing its name to Town Independent Men. _ Meetings would be conducted along a town-meeting basis Disease Lab Plans Sent To Contractor Plans for the new animal disease laboratory have been sub mitted to contractors for bids, according to Alfred L. Bortree, professor of veterinary science. Bids may be returned today, Bortree said. One basic plan with three alter nates was sent to contractors. The General Assembly allocated $225;000 for the building in the last biennual budget. The type of building to be built will de pend on the most reasonable of fer within the funds which were allocated, Bortree said. The basic plan for the building includes facilities for six office laboratory combinations and 20 isolation pens. It will be located near the present veterinary sci ence building. The new building will be used exclusively for research on ani mal diseases. The present labora tory, completed last spring, is being used fOr research on both animals and poultry. It will be used exclusively for poultry when the new building is completed. Student Robbed In' WD Area A first semester business ad ministration major was robbed of $33 when he left his room in Hamilton Hall unlocked for a few minutes early Friday morning. The student, Irving Heicklen, said he left his room to visit a friend, whose room is almost di rectly across the hall: Heicklen said that when he re turned he noticed his wallet was missing. He then summoned Cam pus Patrol. The_ wallet was found by a stu dent outside of Hamilton, near the rear entrance to the West Dorm Snack Bar, by a studeht early Sunday afternoon. According to Heicklen, the thief *as careful not to take a signed check and an-"LO.U." under the new constitution. The constitution must be ap proved again before going into ef fect. Council will next meet on Feb. 16 to give the new charter a second reading. If it is approved then, it will go into effect at once. All town independents would automatically become voting members of Town Independent Men by attending two meetings. This rule would be waived, how ever, for the first two meetings of the Fall semester. The number of members neces sary for a quorum would be changed from nine to 15, under the new constitution. A clause, added to last night's meeting, provides that the vice president would automatically succeed the president in the event of the office becoming vacant. A new election would then be held to fill the vice presidential post. The offices of secretary and treasurer would be filled, if they become vacant during the school year, by a majority of voting members. According to the proposed con stitution, the purposes of TIM would be to provide for greater participation in student govern ment and better opportunities- in (Continued on page eight) iast- . \4/est to Hold Conference n Plan UNITED 'NATIONS, N. Y., Jan. 17 (2tl 3 )—East-West atomic energy experts shook hands amiably today and quickly agreed to hold an international scientific conference in Gen eva next August as part of Presi dent Eisenhower's atoms-for-peace plan. The opening session prob ably will be on Aug. 8. That was as far as the group went on concrete decisions during a long morning meeting at which U.N. Secretary General Dag Ham marskjold presided. He opened the conference with a plea for the use of atomic energy to ben efit all mankind. WITr üttg VOL. 55, No. 74 STATE COLLEGE, PA., TUESDAY MORNING,•JANUARY 18, 1955 FIVE CENTS ew TV Equiprhent To ._Be.. Init.'lied . ' Equipment for the experiment in teaching by television, to be conducted next se mester, has been purchased and will be installed after classes end this week, according to Dr. Clarence R. Carpenter, head of the psychology department: The equipment is, now being tested in Whitmore Laboratory. Beginning Feb. 7, one section of psychology 2 and two sections of chemistry 2 will be taught by television as part of a study to attempt to solve the problems which will be created with the expected increase in college enrollment within the next few years. A special registration system must be followed by students planning to participate in the psychology 2 class involved in the experiment. Party Heads indicate OK if Revisions Clique chairmen of both cam pus political parties said yester day the Senate Committee on Stu dent Affairs subcommittee on or ganization control appeared "very pleased" with the ?arties' revised constitutions. Both Gordrn Pogal, Lion party clique chairman, and Rae Delle- Donne, State party clique chair- Liam said they were confident the subcommittee would recommend to the Senate CoMmittee on Stu dent Affairs that the parties be chartered. Pogal said some minor changes were asked in the - LiOn party con= stitution and had already been incorporated. • Pogal said the major revision in the new constitution was in the organization of the steering com mittee. Under the new constitu tion appointed members of the steering committee will be in the minority and elected members in the majority, he said. Under the nld constitution, the clique chairman had unlimited ap pointment power to the steering committtee. "Our entire constitution is set up tr make the party responsible to its, constituents and party offi cials responsible for conduct with (Continued on page eight) Swedes Present Plaque to Prexy -President Milton S. Eisenhower was awarded a plaque paying tri bute to his "contributions toward world understanding" by Henry Allard, member of the Swedish Parliament, at the gym exhibition Saturday night. The award came as a surprise to him, according to President Eisenhower. The plaque was struck purpose ly for presentation to President Eisenhower at the exhibition. Earlier today the Sdviet Union announced in Moscow it was turn ing over atomic know-how and fissionable materials for peaceful uses to Communist China, East Germany, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. This was believed here to be Russia's answer to an American offer to give 220 pounds of fissioil able material to the atoms-for peace program and an offer by Britain to contribute 44 pounds. The Russians announced only last Friday they would share with the rest of the world experience they claimed to have gained by operating an industrial atomic power plant. A Russian scientist believed to have a big hand in building the FOR A BETTER PENN STATE The only psychology 2 section involved in the study is listed in the timetable as section 1. This section has a six-hour sequence: Monday and Friday at 8 a.m. and Wednesday at 1 p.m. and Monday and Friday at 1 p.m. and Wednes day at 8 p.m. Students registering for, this section must have all six hours temporarily free when they re port to Recreation Hall to reg ister. Random Assignment When they report to. the psy chology station on the floor of Rec Hall, students will be assigned at random to one of the three hour sequences and released from the other. If a student needs courses that conflict with one or both of the three-hour sequences of section 1, his adviser should list three cour ses on the back of the official registration form. The times for each of these courses should parallel one or both of the sequences listed for section 1 of psychology 2. Two Time Sequences When the student is assigned to one of the two time sequences the conflicting course listed on the back , of the registration form will be crossed out and the student will be free to register in a course that does not conflict. Registration for the two sections involved in the chemistry 2 exper iment will follow the normal pro cedure. Sections 1 and 2 of chemistry 2 will meet for lecture period at the same time sequence: Monday at 8 a.m. and Wednesday at 1 p.m. Students will register for these two sections according • o the :ur riculum designations listed in the timetable. $43,845 Grafit The study at the University is being financed by a $43,845 grant from the Fund for the Advance ment of Education of the Ford Foundation. The study at the Uni versity will mark the first time a program of this type has been undertaken on such a large scale. Studies on the use of television for teaching have been conducted at other institutions, but only on a limited scale. The televising will be done on (Continued on page eight) Soviet plant, Dimitri V. Skobelt syn, was present when the scien tists convened here this morning. At the request of photographers, he and Dr. I. I. Rabi, one of the builders of the, U.S. atomic bomb, shook hands. Rabi is a short man who looks like a scientist. Skol beltsyn is a tall, gray-haired man who resembles an American in dustrialist. The seven countries represented here by scientists are the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, Canada, India and Brazil. The conferees went into closed session after Hammarskjold spoke and expect to complete their work behind closed doors, with brief announcements to the public after each meeting. ToittAlan Editor Hits Engineering 'Firetraps' Engineering A, B, and C wei termed potential firetraps in editorial in the December-January issue of the Engineering Newslet ter. There is an "absolute lack of any real fire protection for more than 80 students who occupy the top floor of each building, six hdurs a day," Barry Mills, news letter editor, wrote. He (cited four big sources of fire in the three buildings. They are the woodworking shops, the metal working shops, and the forging shop. While a student on the first two floors of the buildings would be able to escape, possibly by jump ing from a window, Mills claims there would be little chance to es cape from the third floor. Both stairwells on the third floor converge at the same place on the second floor, so that if one is blocked by fire, the other auto matically is, he said. Connecting walks between the roof of the buildings are blocked off by boards screwed across the windows, he said, eliminating the possibility of this means of escape. "The chief danger to a third floor student would come from a flash fire like the one which burned completely the old Main Engineering building in tw o hours," he said. "With hot gases and smoke drawn up by convec tion and the fans of the third floor, the third floor students would have no means of escape left. They would be overcome by gas and smoke in a matter of minutes." The editorial says that the Phy sical Plant has refused to comment on plans for the buildings. Suggested plans for alleviating the situation include removal of the boards blockings the third floor windows and replacement with easily opened grills; installa tion of an adequate fire alarm system; provision for some aux iliary escape from the third floor, such as a stout rope fastened to a window; installation, as soon as possible, of - a permaent fire escape on the north side of the buildings. Snow, Warmer Weather Predicted for Today Possibly as much as an inch of snow will blanket the campus to day, the University weather sta tion has reported. Along with scattered snowfall, the day also will see higher temp eratures than yesterday. The mer ci—y is predicted to top 35, com pared with yesterday's 27. Tonight's will .range be tween 25 and 30, several degrees above last night's minimum of 18 to 2G. Research Club to Meet The University Research Club will hear Kelly Yeaton, associate professor of dramatics, talk on "Dramatics as a Technique in Communication Research" at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in 11 Old Main.
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