TWO
WD Room Selection
Changes Revealed
A new methochtf selecting upperclassmen for West Dorm
residents for next fall will begin Tuesday when applications
may be picked up in Nittany 20, the room assignment office.
Applications will be available in Nittany 20 and the
Waring Hall post office and may be returned to Nittany 20
from Tuesday through March 18.
Assignments to the West Dorms
will be determined by drawing
numbers, which will be done by
representatives of the Asaocaition
of Independent Men.
One hundred of next year’s
seniors who have an all-univer
sity average of 1.0 or better will
be assigned according to their
position determined by the draw
ing numbers. Seventy juniors
with an all-university average
of 1.5 or better and 70 sopho
mores with an all-university aver
age of 2.0 or above will be as
signed in a like manner.
All applications will be given a
number in the drawing, and those
who cannot be assigned rooms
will be put on a waiting list.
In previous years, students were
placed on a “first come, first
served’’ basis.
Applications may be delivered
in person or by mail to Nittany 20
during the period from Tuesday
to March 18. Students who are
assigned rooms will be required
to pay a $lO room deposit. The
payment is due within two weeks
after notice of the room assign
ment is sent to the student. If
the payment is not deceived at
the office of the Bursar at the
time specified on the notice, the
student will not be assigned in
the West Dorms. He will also
lose his place on the waiting list.
No follow-up letter for non-pay
ment will be sent.
Upperclassmen with an all
university average lower than
that-specified may apply in the
same manner from March 29
through April 8. Notices will be
posted on bulletin board? in resi
dence halls March 21.
Eng Council
Approves
NSA Drop
Engineering Student Council
Tuesday night approved a resolu
tion calling lor the University to
withdraw from the National Stu
dent Association.
A report on NSA will face All-
University Cabinet tonight. On
Monday night the Liberal Arts
Student Council went on record
against continuing the Univer
sity’s affiliation with NSA.
Engineering Student Council
felt that too many small schools,
which do not have the same type
problems the University hap, are
members of the national group to
make it of benefit to this campus.
It also felt that the annual $6OO
expenditure for NSA member
ship was too high for the benefits
received.
In other actions, Jonathan Plaut,
fourth semester industrial engi
neering major, was elected as
sophomore industrial engineering
representative to couftcil, ana
John A. Weber, fourth semester
engineering science major, was
elected recording secretary.
A faculty rating of the engineer- 1
ing mechanics department was
deemed successful in a report to
council and it was decided to con
duct a faculty rating program in
another department.
A-committee is studying a pos
sible location for the model atomic
reactor to be on display at the
council's open house program on
April 23.
Discontinuance
Of NSA Voted
By LA Council
The Liberal Arts Student Coun
cil Monday night voted to oppose
maintaining the National Student
Association at the University.
The Council felt that the Uni
versity was too big for the pro
gram as it was said most of the
other participating schools are
smaller than the University.
It was also stated that although
NSA has been on campus for four
? r ears it has been more beneficial
o campus leaders than to stu
dents as a whole.
The final Liberal Arts Coffee
Hour for first semester students
will be held at 4 p.m. March 10
at Beta Theta Pi. Council selected
March 22 as a tentative date for
a Liberal Arts student-faculty get
together.
An amendment to change the
date for council elections w;ds
read for the second time and
passed by council. Sophomore,
iunior, and senior council mem
lers will now be elected in April
instead of May. Preliminary nom
inations for election of council
officers will be held on April 4.
Officers will be elected on April
18.
Edward Fegert was appointed
a committee of one to see Librar
ian Ralph McComb about ideas
concerning the use of Pattee Li
brary. It was suggested, that the
library remain open until 11 p.m.
for the use of students, and that
a more efficient plan for obtain
ing books be obtained.
Scholarship Awarded
To Freshman Coed
The second annual Morris and
Mary Press scholarship for fresh
nen in th e College of Liberal
rts, has been awarded to Con
vince Yeschka, second semester
s and letters major. The $250
vard is given or the basis of
oholarrhip record for the stu
dents t'i-M semester at the Uni
versity. Miss Yeschka had a 2.37
average for the fall semester.
Rifle Division
Is Organized
By Outing Club
A rifle club has been formed
by the field and stream division
of the Penn State Outing Club.
The purpose of the club is to
give gUn enthusiasts of the Uni
versity a place to shoot in an or
ganized and safe manner. Infor
mation may be obtained at Out
ing Club meetings or from Fred
Horstman, Pollock 1, Room 22,
ext. 261.
Tonight, the Cabin and Trail
Division will meet at 7:30 in 121
Sparks. George F. Johnson will
speak on “The Use of Color in
Outdoor Photography.”
Sunday the club’s activity will
be ice-skating at Beaver Dam, if
weather permits. If the weather
is too warm the group will work
on the construction of their Ad
irondack shelter at the dam. In
either case the usual supper and
dance will be held at the Forestry
Cabin that evening.
After the next weekend snow
fall—if any—the club will spon
sor a ski meet for students of the
University. The meet will be held
at the Boalsburg slopes and will
include men ana women’s down
hill and slalom.
All Sunday activities meet at
2 p.m. in the rear of Old Main.
Members and non-members may
attend.
DeNovo Will Speak
Dr. John A. DeNovo, assistant
professor of history, will address
the Penn State Young Democrats
Club on “Party Politics and For
eign Policy.” The club will meet
at 7 p.m. today in 217 Willard.
VETS
Hove discharge papers and other
records for the V.A. photostatted
in less than a day at
Centre County Film Lab
122 W. Beaver Ave.
fflE DART COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Heal Barrier Will Be Broken,
DiefenderferTells Eng Groups
By TERRY LEACH
Man, using the same engineer
ing ingenuity that he used to
crack the sound barrier, will one
day break through the thermal
barrier, William Diefenderfer as
sistant chief engineer of the Ham
ilton Standard Corporation, said
Tuesday night.
Speaking before a joint Amer
ican Society of - Mechanical En
gineers and Society of Automo
tive Engineers meeting, Diefen
derfer said the main problems to
be faced in the thermal—Or heat—
barrier are keeping the pilot’s
cockpit at a constant temperature
and keeping the plane’s instru
ments cool enough to function.
The United States’ present jet
aircraft meet the thermal problem
by a compressor and wa
ter boiler system, Diefenderfer
said. By using an automatic simu
lator known as “Nellie,” he said,
Senate -
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no longer be misleading in its
pseudo-accuracy.” This would be
so, he explains, because grades
would be recorded to the first de
cimal.
The Senate Committee’s report
would not carry grades out to the
first decimal as is done'by Lut
ter’s.
Dr. Kent Forster, chairman of
the Senate Committee, yesterday
said that it was his personal be
lief that a plan to utilize exact
percentage grades in a grading
system, as Lutter’s report recom
mends, would be undesirable for
two reasons:
1) Such a plan would emphasize
grades which many faculty mem
bers do not desire to do.
2) Many instructors feel that it
would be impossible to give suph
an exact grade.
Concerning the second point,
Dr. Forster explained that a course
in which subjective examinations
are given it would be very diffi
cult to give percentage grades.
Such a plan would also eliminate
other factors from a students
grade such as classroom partici
pation, he said.
The report of the Senate Com-
scientists have been able to con
trol proper air flow to the pilot’s
cockpit regardless of air density.
Jet aircraft of the future, he
said, will fly at mu c b higher
speeds than those of today and
the thermal problem becomes
again important. The pilot’s cock
pit will reach 5000 degrees Fahr
enheit and the instruments 23,000
degrees, Diefenderfer said.
Future aircraft, therefore, he
saiu, must operate at extremely
high altitudes where the air is
very thin. At such altitudes, al
though each air molecule will heat
the plane at the above tempera
tures, the pilot may encounter
only one air molecule every ten
minutes and the total effect will
be small, he said. Our problem
lies in modifing the present air
cooling system to enable the pilot
to safely reach such altitudes, he
said.
mittee also recommends that, if
its report is adopted, the Senate
establish as a minimum gradua
tion requirement an all-Univer
sity average- of C, equivalent to a
1 under the present system.
This requirement would, if the
committee’s proposed grading
system is effected, prevent stu
dents with below-C averages
from accumulating grade points
sufficient for graduation as can
be done under the present sys
tem. This stipulation would not
go into effect until June 1950 and
therefore would not affect the
majority of students now enrolled
at the University.
The reports of both committees
assert that the adoption of their
system would bring the Univer
sity’s grading system closer to
those used in the majority of simi
lar colleges and universities which
were surveyed during their study.
The Council recommended that
the present system be replaced
by a 4 to zero grading scale.
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THURSDAY. MARCH 3. 1955
Debaters
To Compete
In Contests
Eight University debaters will
take part in the State Debate
Tournament this weekend at Al
legheny College, Meadville.
Students from 25 colleges and
universities will debate the na
tional topic, Resolved: That the
U.S. should extend recognition to
the Communist government of
China.
Women debaters attending will
be Mary Maum and Lucinda Man
arin, affirmative, and Lee Ed
wards and Vanessa .Johnson,’ neg
ative. Men debaters will be Sid
ney Goldblatt and Benjamin Sin
clair, affirmative, and DeVid
Mecfeler, and Jonathan Plaut, neg
ative.
Miss Johnson and Meckler will
take part in the extemporaneous
Speaking contest. Min Manarin
and Goldblatt will participate in
the oratorical contest.
Acompenying the debater will
be Dr. Harold J. O’Brien, and Ed
ward Gilkey of the speech de
partment faculty.
The second tournament will be
the annual north-south contest,
to be held at West Virginia. There
will be 30 teams represented—
-15 northern and 15 southern.
The national topic on the rec
ognition of Coipmunist China will
be debated. Irwin Weiner and Er- >
nest Famous will take the affirm- '
ative for the-University. Debating’
the negative will be Mark Wiener
and Edward Plevans.
Famous will also, enter the af
ter-dinner speaking contest.
Two trophies, one to the north
and one to the south, will be
awarded.
Sixth Semester Student
Involved in Auto Acddont
The car of ftalph High, sixth se
mester business administration
major, was struck early Sunday
morning by the car of Elizabeth
E.-Baiun Of Philadelphia at the in
tersection of College avenue and
S. Burrowes street. No one was in
jured. \
Police said Miss Baum was driv
ing on College avenue and cut
too close in attempting to turn
into Burrowes street. She struck
High’s car, which was welting for
a traffic light. -
Damage was estimated at $350.
Daan of Man's Coffee Hour
Dean of Men’s coffee hour will
be held from 4 to 5:15 p.m. today
in 109 Old Main.
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