$27.7 Million Budget Proposed Sailij|S| (Mlpgtatt ®ltp VOL. 57. No. 77 STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 6. 1957 FIVE CENTS Senate Group Rejects Seniqr Exemption Plan The University Senate Academic Standards Committee yesterday turned down a plan to exempt eighth-semester seniors with “B” or better grades from taking final exami-! nations. ! Joseph Hartnett, senior c' Ing in hope that it would reco Harnett said the committee’s ac tion was definitely a setback for the plan. He said he still intends to either go to another Senate committee or send the plan di rectly to Senate. Hartnett said he suggested that the committee recommend that "instructors be encouraged to ex empt eighth-semester seniors with ‘B’ or better grades I from taking final examinations in certain courses.” Plan Only 'Encouraged' Hartnett explained that the plan would not require instructors to exempt the students, but “en courage” them and.-that it takes into consideration specific courses where an exemption might not be feasible. He also said the plan would not require seniors to be exempt, if they wished to take the final to better their grade. Hartnett went before the com mittee with pages and pages of data collected by himself and his class advisory board. It represent ed more than a semesters work. It included statements from 30 faculty and administrative mem bers, with 23 favoring the plan and seven against. Many of the persons favoring the plan were top administrative officials, Hart nett said. No Vole Taken Hartnett said the committee took no vote although he request ed one. He said the chairman of the committee, Harold K. Schil ling, dean of the Graduate School, told him the committee was against the plan and that it had discussed the plan at a previous meeting. Schilling was not available last night for comment. The reasons the committee gave for refusing to recommend the plan, according to Hartnett, were that it would require a change in University rules, that the plan offered nothing new over what had been turned down time and time again in the past, and that it was only part of an “over-all plan” to “liberalize” the educa tional program. This, he said, was in addition to the committee’s belief that the plan was unfeasible. Predicted Rain Enrages Lion Language unbecoming to such a central figure as the -Nittany Lion was heard coming from that individual’s lair this morning. I It seems he was having no small difficulty in dis entangling him self from th« stacks of blank ets in which h< had wrappei himself d u r i n the night. “Either I’m get ting older or the winters ar' crowing colder, ne was heard ti say, “but I can’ seem to deal wi\ cold spell or thi tune rain.” • Pouring salt onto the Lion’s j smarting wound, the weatherman promised little change in con ditions, for rain is expected throughout a good part of today and possibly tonight. But a mildly wanner note was struck when he added that tem peratures would probably reach 40-degrees in the afternoon. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE lass president, went before the committee yesterday morn-' immend the move to the University Senate. Prof Finds Some Russians Do Keep Their Promises Some Russians do keep their promises, Dr. Edward C. Thaden, assistant professor of history, has discovered. In this case, the promise was made when Dr. Thaden was visiting the secretary of the Old Believers’ Cathedral in Mos cow. When Dr. Thaden expressed his interest in the icons of the cathedral, the secretary, Cyril Abrokosov, said that he would send some information about them A book on the subject arrived last week. It was published in De cember and is the first which has been written on the art of the Old Believers’ Church. 'Believers'. Origination According to the book, the Old Believers broke off from the of ficial Russian Orthodox Church in the latter part of the 17th cen tury. From then until 1905 they were persecuted by the Russian church and state, and in turn de nounced the official church. This is why the Old Believers I Good Samaritan Is Sought \ The dean of men’s office is trying to locate a University student, who played the role of Good Samaritan to two hungry youngsters! who were traveling by train from Newark, N.J., to Johnstown on! Jan. 2. The two youngsters were 14-year-old Jo Ann McNaughton and; her brother David, aged 12, who in the haste of leaving their grand- j mother’s home to.make a train, left both the lunch that their grand- 1 mother had packed and their purses with travel money, behind them. It was not until after the train had left Newark that their! grandmother Mrs. L. R. Hamilton of Caldwell, N.J., discovered the; mishap. ! The University student became aware of their difficulty and treated the youngsters to a full-fledged meal. They offered him the small amount of money they had, but he would not take it. Mrs. Hamilton also told the dean that she realized locating the student would be difficult, but she did want to show her “great appreciation for such a kindly gesture.” Walker Speaks to Chamber $BO MilSion Investment in Town Said Needed to Pace University By ED DUBBS Collegian City Editor President Eric A. Walker j told State College businessmen] yesterday that “if the borough is to keep pace” with the Uni versity in its expansion pro gram, “$BO million will have to be invested in the State Col lege area in the next 15 years.” Dr. Walker, speaking at a State College Chamber of Commerce luncheon, reminded the business men that “if the size of the Uni versity doubles, there will be twice as many customers “for lo cal private enterprise to serve.” Predicts Many Headaches Noting that an expansion of this type would bring many head aches, “it will also give us a tre mendous opportunity to plan our growth in advance and conse quently, to provide an even better community than we now have— ; refuse to have in their churches icons that show any influence of modern (post—l7th century) sec ular art. It is for this reason that (the icon collections of Old Be ilievers’ churches are so interest ing to the art historian. Visit edXathedral Dr. Thaden visited the Old Be lievers’ Cathedral expressly to I see its icon collection. He found the priests most helpful in guid ing him around the church and in explaining the meanings of the various icons. Oddly enough, at the time the book arrived Dr. Thaden was helping Dr. Jessie R. Bernard, I professor of sociology, prepare in (Russian a reply to Russian accu jsations that she has advocated a sociology of espionage and sub version. ian even better place in which to [work and play and rear our chil idren,” he said. Dr. Walker particularly invited businessmen to invest in “auxil iary enterprises” similar to those being conducted by the Univer sity. He termed all University operations not directly connected with education, such as housing and recreational- facilities, as “auxiliary enterprises.” Businessmen Aid Offered He mentioned that tin Univer sity does not plan to build apart ment houses for married under graduate students. He indicated that any businessman interested in investing money in this line would receive help in planning from the University. “The University,” he said, “is not anxious to expand its auxil iary enterprises in any direction. We will do so only if we must.” Dr. Walker said some of the reasons for not being anxious to expand the “auxiliary enterprises’’ $2.5 Million Increase Asked by Governor Governor George M. Leader recommended to the General Assembly yesterday a state appropriation of $27,713,000 for the University, a $2.5 million increase over the last appro priation. This will amount to approximately one-third the cost of running the land-grant institu-, ~ The University is believed to|w/5/lC| frt Ilf* have asked Leader for more than IV/ Vlll $3O million for the next bien nium, beginning in July. The J. . „ University has been operating the Q f T|f||j (last two years on a $25 million-'" *Wt V* » B V/i plus appropriation. i Particularly interested in the ; | appropriation are the University M % I 1113 faculty members, since the size I t „ . of the appropriation will deter-! MOSCOW, Feb. 5 t/P) Soviet mine how large a salary raise government officials laid down they will receive. ;the line today for a cutback in the Request Not Released ! ra te of Russia's industrial growth The University has never re- , .... , . leased the figufe it requested toj an “ a slight reduction in direct Leader and it will probably not;defense expenditures for 1957. be known whether Leader and hisj Economic boss Mikhail G. Per staff cut the request before in- vukhin and Finame Minister Ar . eluding it in the budget message. „ . The process for having the aps e Zverev outlined the plans propriation request accepted in- at the opening session of a semi cludes initial approval by the annual meeting of the Supreme Governor to include it in his bud- Soviet, Russia > s Parliament, get message, approval by the Gen- _ . _ , _ eral Assembly and final approval by the Governor in signing it into erev presented a 614-billion jaw 6 ,ruble budget, the biggest m So " ~ , ~ . ~, , viet history. Direct defense expen- To raise the staffs jditures proposed this year are salaries oneper cent. President : down a billion rubles from the pic A. Walker told the faculty j arinouncec } OU t] BV f or 1955. last semester it would take an _ ~, • additional appropriation of one-, Zverev tom the deputies, who third of a million dollars. i' automatically approve the Other Salary Raises : budget, the defense cuts "repre- Dr. Walker said the University j sel j* the Soviet Unions desire to cannot stop with raising teachers’i re “ uce lts arlTie d forces, salaries, but also must raise those Air Outlay Cut of secretaries and service person- The Russians value their rubles nel. for they too need raises. at 25 cents, but many Western ec | "If we raise salaries, we almost onomic experts believe its actual have to raise dormitory and food buying power is more nearly 10 [service costs too, since a raise cents. in salaries reflects in the cost of A total of 96 a 4 bi u ion rubles js running food service and dorrm-, earmar j {e( j fo r armec j forces. t°rie s , he said. I That is 16 per cent of the estimat- More nioney will also be need-| expenditures, compared to 18 ed for additional faculty mem-[ per , n t allocation in the 592-bil- Qe iu f al ®' ... . lion ruble budget of 1956. The only specific request re-; _ . . _ , leased by the University was fori Budgets Compared $lOO,OOO to be used in research: By Russian evaluation, the 1957 in the humanities. Dr. Walkerjbudget totals 15314 billion dollars said the decision for use of this; and $24,175,000,000 will go for monev would be left at the de- 1 defense. President Eisenhower partniental level. ; submitted a 72-billion-dollar bud- Biggest Biennial Budget get to Congress Jan. 16. Projected Leader’s $2 billion-plus request ;U.S. military expenditures is 38 will be the biggest biennial bud- i billions. [get in Pennsylvania's history and| But that comparison is not •will reflect an increase of $1 bil-jenough to tell the story. Russian (lion over the cost of state govern-[labor costs are far lower and the jment just 10 years ago. ! Soviet government can fix prices j The budget presented yesterday i a t will. again proposed spending just) Though revenues and expenses lover half of every tax dollar on bave arching up since World Pennsylvanias school jj tbe government indicated an “. schools. :it expects a drastic drop. (Continued on page eight) ' Of the 54.5 million increase for: state aided universities the gov ernor suggested granting $4,158,-1 were that the University’s busi ness is education and since these services are “potentially protit making ones . . . the University has no desire to choke off legiti mate private enterprise in the State College area.” 'Sounder Borough Economy' "The more of these services we: can get from the borough, the! better off we are. And we feel the increased business will build a sounder borough economy,” he said. The President told the business men the University's building plans for the future. In discussing planned dormitories three fourths' of which, he said, are for coeds—he explained that dormi tories are not built from tax money. He said the University must ob-, tain a mortgage, pay interest on, this money, and retire the loan: through a regular amortization schedule. i University Adds 6 TV Courses Six courses have l)een added to the University’s “teaehing-by- TV” program for the spring semes ter, making a total of 20 courses now being taught by the closed circuit system. The new courses are French 302, [lndustrial Engineering 131, Meteorology 300, Education 424, [Electrical Engineering 1 and Elec trical Engineering 9. 1 Political Science 3. originally [scheduled to be televised, will be i taught in 10 Sparks but will not ;be televised as all students can ,be accommodated in one room. The television system in Sparks is now scheduled for use for all [hut three class hours a week. In [addition, television facilities are [being employed in 119 Osmond [for Chemistry 2 and 5 and in 110 [Electrical Engineering for Elec •trieal Engineering 1 and 9. Collegian Candidates Will Meet at 7 Tonight Students interested in be coming candidates for The Daily Collegian news and sports staifs- will meet at 7 tonight in 9 Carnegie. Students need not be journ alism majors nor have previous newspaper experience.
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