PAGE FOUR f«kiuiic4 TtbrMfk B«tirdar aismlitr* 4iriaf Ui» Uniftnltr r»i, Tht Dsfir Collcfltii U »itodent •ptntd unp«per. I I SMI por MBctUr SMI p«r ftu S«tml u mpml eioot attter Jil7 6. 1134 at tfeo Bt»U CeUego, Pi. Poet Offie* anrfer tht td of Uirek 8. 1171. MIKE MOYLE, Editor 8~ Conklin, nln.uln* Editor, Ed Onbb.. City Editor, Prnn *“«:. I -“' "VllSTpr^Uon I*«t Hunter. latura Editor: Dove Bovor. Photoerophy Editor. 5,™ Z m.V? nSi. °ni!S.nd* uil *>“"»• S.UU A-t Bn. Mor.t St... HI«lno. Leal Adr. c r o f r B„r,“i i„d Mor Howlond. See., J«n. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Maggie Lieberman; Copy editor, Paula Miller; Wire editor, Dick Fisher; Assistants, Anne Friedberg, Bill Jaffe, Denny Malick, Ruth Billig, Linda Segar, Edie Blumen tlial, Mary Cowley, Rozanne Friedlander, Barb Stone, Anne Ruthrauff. Maneuvering for Money Sen. Jo Hays (D.-Centre-Clearfield) has again showed his awareness of the problems facing the University. Hays has asked the-state Senate to appro priate the University $35,129,000 million for the next two years. This is $7,416,000 million higher than the $27.7 million recommended by Gov. George M. Leader Feb. 5 in his budget message. Hays’ bill is the second University appropri ation measure before the General Assembly— and both are higher than that budgeted by Leader. The other bill was introduced April 8 by Chairman Norman Wood (R.-Lancaster) of the House Appropriations Committee. It is for $33,849,000 and is co-sponsored by Rep. H. G. Andrews (D.-Cambria), giving it bipartisan support. Although both bills are higher than the am ount budgeted by Leader, they fall short of the amount the University sought Leader to include in his budget. That was something like $38.5 million. Recapping, the fuzzy picture of the Univers ity’s maneuvering for its appropriation falls to gether something like this: President Eric A. Walker last fall reportedly asked Leader for the $38.5-million figure. This undoubtedly surprised Leader to say the least, especially when one considers the University is now operating on a $25 million appropriation. Leader then told Dr. Walker that such funds were just not available. He admitted that he wanted to go to the General Assembly with a "tight budget" (it’s "tight" but still the largest in the state's history at S 2 billion-plus) to avoid a "fight" with the Republican-controlled Legis lature. Leader told Dr. Walker that he would have to recommend a flat 10 per cent increase over the current appropriation—or the $27.7-million figure. However, Leader gave Dr. Walker the £o-ahead to ask the Republican-controlled legislature to raise the appropriation. Then Dr. Walker appeared before a joint Senate-House Appropriations Committee April Today FROTH ADVERTISING STAFF. 7 p.m., Froth Office WRA CI.US ACTIVITIES BOARD MEETING, 12:30 e.m., 103 White Hell WRA GOLF CLUB. I-S p.m., C.ddjr Home Washington Beat Strife, Troub In Jordan's WASHINGTON, April 24 (A*) —This isn’t the first time problems have come to the land of Jordan. Today there are strikes and political strife, another big mess of troubles for a country where history got a head start. As long ago as 6000 B.C. man was trying to use water from the River Jordan for irrigation. He still is. Moses passed this way, leading the children of Israel toward the Promised Land. In biblical his tory Gilead, Ammon, Moah and Edom roughly made up what now is Jordan. Ruth, Elijah and Elisha were natives. Jericho is in Jordan. So is Jer usalem. So is Bethlehem. Each civilization Greek, Ro man, Crusader, Turk—has been attracted to this strange country with the deepest inland depres sion on earth, the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea. In some spots the narrow Jor dan Valley is 2000 feet below the surrounding countryside. The Dead Sea is 1286 feet be low the Mediterranean. Jordan means “descender” or ■“downcomer,” appropriate for a Outside Jobs Available Openings are available for stu- Thomas Hollander, junior in dents interested in outside jobs arts and letters from Monessen, such as garden and lawn work, has been named director of Cen window washing, removing storm tral Promotion Agency, windows and putting in screens. William MeckUng, junior in Persons interested should ap- business administration from Ely at the Student Employment Philadelphia, has been named ervice, 112 Old Main. business manager. j ®lje lath) Collegian Sscmui ta THE FREE LANCE at HIT DAVE RICHARDS. Business Manager Gazette les Aren't New Long History river that drops so far. The Ro mans called it the Dead Sea be cause neither plant nor animal can live in its mineral-filled wat ers. The Jews called it the Salt Sea. Modern Jordan got its start as Transjordan in 1921, placed un der British mandate by the League of Nations. Twenty-five years later it became, to give it its full title, the Nashemite King dom of Jordan. The Royal Hashamite House had little truck with another Ar ab group that’s been in the news lately. Old King Abdullah of Jor dan disliked old King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. This lack of af fection was royally returned. The Arabs have a proberb: “I and my cousins against the world; I and my brothers against my cousins.” Jordan is about the size of In diana, but there the resemblance stops. Indiana has 4,520,000 pigs. Jordan has only 37. But let’s be fair about this. Jordan has 13,805 camels. What do you say to that, Indiana? Of the 1,440,000 persons in Jor dan, more than a third are Arab refugees from Palestine, living, unhappily and unhopefully, on ■ relief. Amman is one of the world’s Hollander to Head CPA THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE! PENNSYLVANI ’ 2 in Harrisburg. At the hearing, Walker asked that the $27.7 figure be raised at least to $35,- 129,000. the size of the Hays bill. Dr. Walker apparently convinced the commit tee that the 527.7 figure was "far short" of the University's minimum obligations. He was armed with data showing the low salaries of faculty members in comparison with other land-grant institutions. The committee then told Dr. Walker that it may not be possible to appropriate the $35- million figure and asked where he thought it best could be cut. Dr. Walker reportedly told them that it was in the new projects—totalling $1,280,000. Well, this is what Wood did when he introduced his measure in the House—cut the $1,280,000, knocking, it down to $33,849,000. Then, in essense. the Hays bill just restores the $1,280,000 cut from the Legislative request by Dr. Walker. Just what will happen next to complicate the picture more no one knows. At the present, anyhow, the University is winning its struggle for more funds since both bills pending in the General Assembly are higher than the $27.7- million “disaster” figure recommended by Leader. If the General Assembly passes one of the two bills, the University still has another ob stacle to pass—Leader’s veto. Leader has shown his position on appropria tions—if the General Assembly provides the funds to grant the appropriations, he will gen erally approve them. If not, he will probably cut them to try to meet a balanced budget. Then the University's hopes of getting an in creased appropriation signed by Leader not only depends on approval by the Assembly of the appropriation but the providing the funds to go along with it. That’s the picture: The University is winning up to date but has a good many obstacles yet to overcome. WSGA JUDICIAL BOARD. S p.m., 20S HUB University Hospital George Goldstein. Robert Jaecquea. Mikaa Mechlowlts. Alan Vivian. fastest growing capitals, going from 30,000 to 175,000 in seven years. With this population growth has come some of the wonders of modern civilization. Amman now has six.movies, in cluding a drive-in. But the desert country still has its nomads with their camels. They’re wanderers by necessity, packing their tents—.one tribe, the Bani Sakrr,. has 6000 —as they move in search of food for their livestock. When young King Hussein mar ried his cousin, Princess Dina, he merely was observing an old tribal custom. _ A researcher who spent con siderable time with Jordan no mads, studying their customs and love-life, found the wife usually moved in with her husband’s folks. The most desirable mairiage, as Hussein showed, is one with a first cousin. The next most de sirable is one with someone of a different tribe from the same vil lage. The least desirable is a girl from another village. But sometimes a wily Arab de liberately chooses the third course and for a reason many a Western mind can comprehend. It helps solve the mother-in law problem. Sr. Class Board Blanks Application blanks for next year’s Senior Class Advisory Board are now available at the Hetzel Union desk. Thomas Hollander, class presi dent, has urged all juniors to submit applications. Editorial* represent the viewpoints of the writers, not ncccmrilr th» poller of tho piper, the itadent boor lbs University. —Ed Dubbs Little Man on Campus ’e waited five years for so: -'Round the Rim With Swan Songs— Gargoyles ‘n’ Profs The time is drawing close put out to pasture and this co! song. After April 29 most of “has beens.” (Compliments of f who is at present a “has beer Writing a column is one of the most rewarding and interesting jobs on the paper. It offers the opportunity to wade through an abundance of reading in order to separate some column-type grain. Occasionally, the pickings are poor, but generally they are pro fitable. For example, an interesting item on professors turned up in the -Monsanto Chemical ■ Com pany’s house publication. According to the Monsanto publication, professors haven't been left in the dust in this current jazz age. A learned se«- tet of professors at Northwest ern University have formed a combo called the "Academic Cals," and a Lafayette, Ind. (home of Purdue) octet, the "Crusty Crumbs," boasts five doctors among its membership. Another amusing incident turned up in the Ohio State Lan tern column. The columnist re ports an incident at the Univer sity of Michigan concerning the campus humor magazine, the Gargoyle, and the Gargmobile, the Gargoyle circulation mana ger’s pet name for his automo bile. It seemed that someone ab sconded with the Gargmobile full of Gargoyles. Some Universities have all the luck. The Ivy League also made the news when a Yale fresh man attempted to win a Har vard election. The freshman, disguised as a famous socialite and diplomat named Lamoni DuPont, almost duped the Har vard undergrads into electing him chairman of their fresh man Jubilee Weekend Commit tee. Backers of DuPont supposedly “notified” him of his nomination at the Government House in Ja maica, where he was enjoying a brief vacation. He then "flew” to Boston where he actually stepped off a plane at the Logan International Airport, attired in morning suit, top hat and carry ing a cane. He was met by his accomplices in a new Cadillac limousine. They then obtained permis sion to use the steps of the library for a ceremony, cajoled the fire department into run ning a siren as the limousine passed, coerced the campus cops into giving them permission to drive the. car through the gates and arranged for a motorcycle escort plus bodyguards. The outcome of this extrava ganza was that the fictitious La- THURSDAY, APRIL 25,1957 by Bibler teone to ask me that question By BECKY ZAHM for the old senior board to ba lumn is ready to sing its swan us will join the ranks of tha iormer IFC prexy Danny Land, mont DuPont won the election, but was disqualified. Another of his opponents, a fictitious Oliver A. Yabook who accused DuPont of being in reality Robert Hath away, a freshman at Yale, cams in second. He also was disquali fied, but as consolation both were named honorary members of the committee. DuPont, by the way, ran un der the slogan, "Vote for La moni DuPont, he owns us all anyway." Which brings to mind a clever story containing a classic remark. Two characters were conversing and the one was taking a terrific browbeating from the other. Fin ally having taken all he could take, the first muttered, “OK, OK, just stop the world and I’ll get off.” ——3o— Selective Service Forms Available Applications for the special Selective Service College Quali fication test, for students who were unable to take the regularly scheduled tests, are now avail able in the dean of men’s office. The applications must be post marked no later than May 6. The special tests will be given on May 16. Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, said the tests will be given to students who. did not take them on Nov. 15 or April 18 because of reasons beyond their control. Outing Club to Sponsor Canoejng, Hiking Trip The Outing Club will sponsor a canoeing and' hiking trip to Ricketts Glen State Park Sun day. Persons interested in attending will meet behind Old Main at 7 a.m. Sunday. The group will return by 9 p.m. The cost will be about $2, in cluding insurance and food. Tonight on WDFM -IM MEGACYCLES Chamber Concert _ Sign On News “A** Train Sport* As You Believe BBC Weekly Jazs Panorama New*
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