~.- IA STA . Forecast: . Tilt Eltg (:- $ ai-Ak, e: ,t, Toll ming yin - 1 8 *_s_,," 1 Today's VOL. 57. No. 94 tation Query: AM Who Of F Are Chances C Approval? .ity will seek a legal opinion on its chances of ncy application accepted by the Federal Corn . - ornmission as the next step toward a possible dio station. The Univer, having a frequ: munications C. student AM r Radio and to determine t lectronics experts who conducted field tests e availability of an AM frequency have pre sented a report that is largely favorable from an engineering viewpoint. This was announced yesterday by a University spokesman, who also pointed out: Conditions Slated "It must be made clear that these tests simply indicate that a frequency is available under cer tain conditions. Whether the FCC will grant permission, if it is sought, and whether money is available for construction and op eration costs, are other important considerations that have not yet been answered." The analysis, which was sub mitted by Jansky & Bailey, engi neering specialists from Washing ton, D.C., showed that a 1400 kilo cycle station in State College could dperate "with no interfer ence" to any existing station in this area. Isity Gets Grant From AEC Unive The Atomic Energy Commis sion has made a $205,100 grant to the University to be spent for auxiliaries for the atomic research reactor. According to the Associated Press, Rep. James Van Zandt (R.- Pa.), in whose district the Uni versity is located, was informed of the grant yesterday. Van Zandt is a member of the Joint Con gressional Committee on Atomic Energy. He said that he and Pres ident Eric A. Walker have been working to obtain the grant for abr. months. To Provide Elements The chief items, to be provided by the money will be a second set of fuel elements for the re actor, and construction of a hot radiation laboratory. The reactor was paid for by the University. This is the first federal assistance to be provided regarding the atomic program here. .The University grant was one of 15 approved at a meeting of the AEC Wednesday night. A to tal of 30 educati,,nal institutions had applied for funds. The University of Puerto Rico, which is the center for a Pan American atomic research pro gram, was granted $216,950. The University's allotment was the second highest. $260,270 Requested Van Zandt said that the Uni versity had requested on Jan. 14 a total of $260,270. The AEC, in making the grant, asked the Uni versiy for further information on the planned use of the difference between the request and the (Continued on page eight) US Officials Convinced Israeli Withdrawal Near WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (iP)—The paralyzing crisis over Israeli troop ithdrawal appeared tonight to be broken. ials were convinced that within a few days its forces out of the Gaza Strip and the Gulf American offi Israel will pul of Aqaba area lity of some kind of hitch remained since the of go before the until tomorrow I.e reaction of all i ere, particularly not yet known. was considered I y improbable. The'possib Israeli plan will United Nations afternoon and the countries the Arab bloc, i However, a sna here to be hig Ambassador bba Eban an nounced at the tate Department late today that he had informed Secretary of State Dulles in a two-hour meeting of Israel's state ment to be made to the General Assembly in NeW York. He told reportCrs that the state ment "will cause widespread sat isfaction" among all the people Who are interested in bringing "peace and secutity and non-bel ligerency" to th - Middle East. His announce ent here and a similar announc•ment by an Is- By JUDY I-lARKISON There would be a slight amount of interference to the proposed State College operation from the Williamsport area, the report add ed. From the engineering view point, it appears there might also be some completion for part of the same audiences from the Johnstown and Harrisburg sta tions, a spokesman said. Part-lime Basis Feasible He pointed out that other con siderations that must be made are concerned with the nature of a student station, which would op erate on a night-time basis and only part-time throughout the year. President Eric A. Walker ex plained at Student Encampment in. September that even if a fre quency is found, the field is so crowded that the FCC may not allow a student station to be es tablished since it would be only part-time. The frequency search was be gun in early October by the con sulting radio engineers. An AM station was recommend (Continued on page eight) raeli spokesman at the United Nations climaxed three weeks of feverish diplomatic activity in Washington. Israel finally made its decision to withdraw, according to infor mation from diplomatic sources here, after being assured of wide spread support for its aims of 1. preventing Egypt from again us ing the Gaza Strip as a base for raids against Israel and 2. assur ing free navigation into the Gulf of Aqaba. These assurances do not provide the formal- iron-clad guarantees which Israel had first demanded. But they seem to constitute a large measure of what the Israeli wanted and to that extent may be represented as an Israeli victory. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA., FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 1. 1957 University to Seek $22.6 Million Loan The University will borrow $22.6 million by issuing first mortgage bonds, Series A, in that amount, President Eric A. Walker, announced yesterday. The bond issue, which will be underwritten by the First Boston Corp., was ap proved at a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Walker said Wednesday, in reply to a question on the adequacy of the $27.7 million biennium appropriation recommended to the General As sembly by Gov. George M. Lead er, that this figure fell "far short" of meeting even the University's minimum obligations for 1957-59. "If the money needed to operate the institution under frugal man agement is not forthcoming," he continued, "it will be necessary to fits our enrollment at or near lits present figure." To Announce Issue Students Underrate Development of Mind Dr. Bernard R. Jerman, assistant professor of English literature, said last night that students do not realize the importance of the study of English and the development of a critical mind. Dr. Jerman opened the "Last Lecture" series in the Hetzel Union assembly room. The series is sored by Mortar Board, senior women's hat society. Jerman decried the fact stu dents are not learning to develop their minds, and that their educa tion too often ends in the class room. "We are spending so much to improve our environment, but so little to improve our minds," Reading Ability Jerman emphasized that the key to learning 'is the ability to read critically and with judg ment. "We.live in a paper age," he said. "It is everybody's job to develop a critical attitude in read ing" Jerman criticized the attitude that an education is important on ly because it gives a person social status and earning power. The de gree is considered more important than the education, he said. Jerman said that the pressures on students may in many cases cause them to become critical re actionaries. Parents, particularly, are likely to influence students to do things that they, the parents, want them to do, rather than what the students themselves want. "It is difficult for a parent to part with $l2OO a year and not get what he wants—a prototype," he said. • Emphasis on English The inability of students to think for themselves can be reme died by more emphasis on English, he said. Too many people don't realize the importance of English until they are past college. Jer man quoted the results of a sur vey" taken among 13,000 college graduates employed by General Electric. A vast majority of those questioned said that English had (Continued on page five) ,Freezing Rain Hampers Lion The red-eyed Nittany Lion dolefully looked out at the freez- 1 ing rain beating down on his den this morning and decided that in his present condition he was 1 in no shape to fight the miserable weather of the State College area. The driving rain on the roof of his den matched, in rhythm, th e throbbing in his head after his latest all - night session. His eyes resembled road maps of Indo- China and his tongue felt as if there was a whole battalion of Russian troops marching over it—dragging their`feet yet! The Lion might conceivably be better off than most students who are forced to trudge through the freezing rain, and possible snow flurries, to get to their classes today. . 'One's a Crowd' Tickets Tickets for the fantastic corn edy, "One's a Crowd" by Eugene Raskin, are on sale at the Hetzel Union desk. Price is $l. The play will be presented at 8 tonight and tomorrow night at Center Stage. Press Looks for Coed In Cover Girl Contest A new beauty search has begun on campus with the Pittsburgh Press hunting for the University's "Campus Cover Girl." Entries are now open for the fourth annual Campus Cover Girl Contest, sponsored by the Roto Magazine section of the Pittsburgh newspaper. Contestants from colleges in a tri-state area of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio may en ter. Next Friday is the deadline for campus entries. University coeds who wish to enter must submit a photograph of any size at the Het zel Union desk. Judging for the contest will bed based solely on the picture sub mitted. Officials of the Pittsburgh publication announced that the contest will not be based on "cheesecake." They asked that the pictures submitted be an accurate likeness of the entrant. Three local judges will be se lected to determine the University Cover Girl winner. Each other school in the district will in turn select its "queen" and pictures will be submitted to the Pitts- rgiatt in a speech being spon- Dr. Bernard R. Jerrnan Gives 'Last Lecture' Discount Plan See Page 4 The issue is being announced in public notices in some Philadel phia, Pittsburgh and New York newspapers, in the Wall Street Journal and other trade publica tions. The financing program would permit the University to borrow an additional $20.1 million, or a total of $42.7 million, its contem plated need tor the next three years. Of the $22.6 million. Dr. Walker said, $ll.B million will be issued to the State Employes' Retirement Board of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to retire an existing mortgage. The remaining $lO.B million of Series A bonds will pro vide funds to carry on the Uni versity's capital improvements program. Cost Estimated This program, estimated at a cost of $30.9 million, would in !dude mainly student residence ( halls and an addition to the Foods IBuilding. Before the bond issue was ap proved, Dr. Walker said that new imen's and women's dormitories t planned for 1960 would be among the first projects abandoned if the `state indicates a wish to stabilize enrollment at its present figure. The University cannot possibly !admit additional students unless ithe Commonwealth assumes fi nancial responsibility for the re quired expansion of facilities, he 'said Wednesday. Of the initial $lO.B million Iworth of bonds, $2.83 million will be in serial bonds bearing from 13 1 / 4 to 3% per cent interest de pending upon the maturity dates, which range from 1961 to 1977. The remainder will consist of term bonds amounting to $7.97 [million bearing an interest rate of !3.9 per cent and reaching maturity ion July 1,.1999. burgh Press. Four judges have been selected by the Pittsburgh newspaper to name the final winner. The judges are Lenore Brundige, Press fash ion editor; Frederick Burleigh. director of the Pittsburgh Play house; Charles Nelson, manager of photography for Westinghouse Electric Corp. and Edgar A. Roth, art director of the United States Steel Corp. The winner of the tri-state con test will have a color photo of herself published on the cover of the May 12 edition of Roto Maga zine. A biological sketch of the "queen" will accompany the photograph. Anne Caine, now a senior in applied arts from Unionville, last year was selected the University's Campus Cover Girl. FIVE CENTS
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