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Roll-Call Vote on Page 8
All-Unversity Cabinet last night voted to drop its membership in the National Stu
dent Association.
Cabinet voted 12 to 8 in favor with 4 abstentions but failed to collect a necessary two
thirds vote for the continuation in the controversial national organizaton. The vote fell
short by two votes.
All-University President Robert Bahrenburg then vetoed the decision. This was a
parliamentary procedure whereby
he prevented a further vote on
the issue last night.
Although Bahrenburg, when he
was junior class president last
year, had been a strong proponent
of NSA,' he vetoed the issue be
cause he thought he should do it
"in the best interests of Penn
State."
Debate Strong
Before the vote, s(rong but con
trolled debate flew back and forth
over the Cabinet table.
Lawrence McCabe. NSA coordi
nator, and Leonard Richards, All-
University secretary-treasurer, de
fended NSA by emphasizing its
importance in the realm of na
tional politics.
McCabe said that NSA is the
largest and most powerful student
organization and its opinion is
sought by- legislative heads in
Washington when student voice is
necessary.
A parallel to the Univergity and
its relation to NSA, he continued,
is that of the United States and
its position in the United Nations,
The United States, like the Uni
versity, does not receive material
benefits from smaller countries,
but assumes the responsibility of
assisting thein. -
'Student Represented'
Richards said that he "begs
Cabinet not to get involved in
the dances, the paper, and the
money"—the materiaL exchange
between the University and 'NSA
—but to think of the basic role
of the student in an American
university and whether he should,
be represented nationally.
NSA gives University students
a chance to look further than cam
pus boundaries, he said, an d
•exists for the primary purpose
of representing students politi
cally—as students."
Daniel Land, president of the
Interfraternity Council, attempted
to refute Richards by saying "we
are -told• to look outside of our
little square, but Ca inet must
first fix up the little quare and
clean it up."
Lion Returns
To Limelight
The Nittany Lion, who only,
yesterday was considered socially
to be on the way out, was today)
catapulted . back into the lime-1
light.
The Lion, removed from his)
weather predicting
. post two days
ago becaue of consistent inaccur
acy, was proudly displaying the
first post-Lion
report. Through
some error
(probably typo
graphic) the re
port called for
rain, but did not
mention sno w.
The Lion waved
a snowball in one
hand.
"T h e y should
should have
known they'd
fail without me," he said. "I may,
have been wrong, but at least
was interesting,"
He hopes for greater accuracy
in today's forecast for continued
cloudiness and cold daytime tern
. peratures. The high today is 30 to
' 35 degrees, dropping to 15 degrees
during -the night. _
issal Standards Tightened
fr (Revised Rules to Go
''°" lnto Effect in Foil
as
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. MARCH 8. 1957 FIVE CENTS
et Votes
bership
,
—Daily' Collegian Photo by' Eleanor Stratus
LAWfiENCE McCABE, NSA coordinator, faces a barrage of
questions last night from All-University Cabinet. Despite the de•
fense by McCabe and other NSA supporters, the University will
drop ifs membership.
Review
'M aciwoman'
Rescue Performance
By PAT HUNTER
• Feature Editor 'and Theatre . Critic
First bows were taken and rightly so —by the Mad
woman of Chaillot and the Ragpicker, who together carried
last night's performance of "The Madwoman of Chaillot"
through several slow spots—partially the fault of the play
itself.
Countess Aurelia, the Madwoman of Chaillot, in her or-
nate costumes. and glittering
jewels, took command of the aud
ience in the same arrogant fash
ion as she commanded the forces
of evil to death when they threat
ened the fate of humanity.
Dream of Yesterday
Her life of dreams, in which
she remembered only the peace
of "yesterday," is destroyed. when
her "court" of friends—the Rag
picker, Street Juggler, Deaf-Mute,
Sewer-Man and others—althoug
they hate spoiling her dream
world, tell her of the greedy men
who hate the very things she
loves.
Roy Elwell's professional and
powerful voice and excellent char
acterization as the tattered look
ing but cultured and - noble man
nered Ragpicker made his" the
most convincing role in the play.
'Oil-Sniffing' Nose
Laughter rose from the aud
ience at nearly every move of
both the Prospector, played by
Floyd Santoro, and the Sewer-
Man, portrayed by George Cavey.
Santoro, with his enormous 'oil
sniffing" nose, sniffs his way both
(Continued opt page eight)
to Drop
in NSA
Van Zandt Asks
For ROTC Aid
WASHINGTON, March 7 (ii")—
Rep. James E. Van Zandt (R.-Pa.)
told the House today it is "a mat
ter of simple justice" that the
Federal government pay at least
part of the - cost of providing facil
ities at colleges and universities
with ROTC programs. •
"The Federal government which
relies on the ROTC as its prin
cipal source of officers pays no
part of the cost of supplying
classrooms, office space, drill
fields, storage space and the like
for this program," Van Zandt
said in a House speech.
In contrast, he said, there ex
ists the "well-established . policy
of providing aid for training fa
cilities of our reserve compo
nents."
Senior Ball Committee
• The Senior Ball committee will
meet. at 7 p.m. Tuesday in 202
Hetzel Union.
Tightened scholastic dismissal standards will go into ef
fect this fall by a change in rules adopted by the University
Senate yesterday.
Students will be dropped for unsatisfactory scholarship
after the second, fourth, sixth and eighth semester if the
All-University average falls below the following: second se
mester, 1.4; fourth semseter, 1.6 ; 1
sixth semester, 1.8; and eighth se
mester, 1.9.
There will be no automatic drop
actions at mid-year or odd semes
ters. The new rule applies to stu
dents admitted, readmitted, or re
instated on or after Sept. 1, 1955,
therefore the rule will not apply
to seventh- and eighth -semester
I students next year.
Replace Old Rules
The new automatic dismissal
action will replace the 50 per cent
drop rule—whereby a student is
dismissed if he fails in 50 per cent
or more of his credits at the end
of any semester except the first
—and the 1.5 drop rule—whereby
a student is dismissed after his
fourth semester if his grade point
l everage falls below a 1.5.
Students whose semester aver-I
age falls below 1.7 will be placed
lon probation unless drop action is
taken under other rules. This will
eliminate the 1.65 probation =lei
i and the 35 per cent rule, which)
)places a student on probation if
al fails in more than 35 per cent
of his scheduled credits in any se-,
mester,
Also under the change in rules,'
a student whose All-University
average or most recent semester,
average falls below 2.0 will re
ceive a warning notice.
Associate Degree Students
An associate degree student
will be dropped from the Univer
sity under the following schedule:
At the end of the first semester,
if the average falls below 1 - .0; sec
ond semester, 1.6; third semester,
1 1.6; and fourth semester, 1.9.
The rules' change was included
in a report of the Senate Commit
tee on Academic Standards and
was presented by Dr. Donald V.
Josephson, professor of dairy sci
ence.
The committee gave four rea
sons for the change in the system
of scholastic actions. The new sys
tem would:
•Identify those students who
had poor prospects for meeting
the C average graduation require
ment.
•Drop these students before
the University and their parents
had invested heavily in their col
lege careers.
Stars
iNot discriminate against those
students who, although they start
poorly, improve sufficiently to
(Continued on page two)
Ike Appoints Walker
Conference Leader
President Eric A. Walker has been appointed general
chairman of a 3-day conference on technical and distribution
research by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The conference is for the benefit of small business and
will be held in Washington early in the fall. Dr. Walker will
be assisted by two deputy chairmen.
Dr. Charles N. Kimball, presi
dent of Midwest Research Insti
tute, Kansas City, Mo., will or
ganize the part of the conference
devoted to research in product de
velopment.
Motley to Plan Program
Arthur H. Motley, president of
Parade Publications The., New
York, will organize the confer
' ence program on research distri
bution.
Secretary of Commerce Sinclair
Weeks and Small Business Ad
ministrator Wendell B. Barnes
are cooperating in planning the
conference.
The conference was recom
mended by the Cabinet Commit
tee on Small. Business in its first
progress report. It will seek to
carry out the President's objective
of widening the opportunities for
small business through re.searc
By JUDY HARKISON
Israel Starts
Gaza Strip
Withdrawal
TEL AVIV, Israel, "IClarch 'TM--
Israeli troops blew up Egyptian
military works at the mouth of
the Gulf of Aqaba today in prep
aration for withdrawal tomorrow.
Other Israeli forces completed
their exit from the Gaza Strip
and handed United Nations forces
the burden of administering that
hotly disputed area.
The company-strength unit at
Sperm el Sheikh was expected to
take only a few hours to vacate
and UN troops stood by ready
to fill the vacuum. Demolition
teams wrecked concrete pillboxes,
ammunitions- depots and two 6-
inch gun positions which formerly
closed the Gulf to Israeli ships.
Israelis Destroy Roads
The Israelis did not want the
Egyptians to find the fortifica
tions intact in case UN occupa
tion proves to be only temporary.
Similar destruction of roads and
installations was carried out by
the Israelis in their long retreat
out of the Sinai Desert a few
weeks ago.
Finnish units of the Unitecr'Na
tions Emergency Force we r e
ready to raise the 11N flag over-
Joking . the narrow coral-dotted
strait as soon as the Israelis pull
out.
Israel's withdrawal from the 26-
by-6-mile Gaza Strip on the Illedi
terranean after 125 days of occu
pation was swiftly completed be
fore dawn, except for a tiny work
ing party which did not leave un
til afternoon.
Departure Without Incident -
The departure of the victors in
the October-November invasion
against Egypt was without inci
dent except for a few unexplained
gunshots. The 300.J00 residents,
including some 200.000 Israeli
hating Arab refugees from Pales
!tine, were under curfew. Only a
handful defied the orders to stay
•
indoors.
on product development and mar
keting. OutstandLng specialists
from industry, education and gov
ernment will participate.
Research to Be Analyzed
The conference program will
include special analyses by re
search experts of practical value
to small firms and will provide
Ifor discussion by small groups
and by the conference as a whole.
The initial report by the Cabi
net Committee on Small Business
suggested a conference date early
this year, but the date was set for
the fall to provide time for a thor.
ough exploration Gf research
needs of small business and for
adequate preparation of material
for use at the sessions.
Plans are being made for a na
tionwide collection of authorita•
tive data on small business re
search needs.