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First of a Series
By DR. ERIC A. WALKER
President of the University
To the engineer, international understanding and cooperation
are more than a philosophical concept; they are a way of life. The
engineer is concerned with ah accurate knowledge of the physical
world in which we live and the energy and materials through which
that knowledge can be made to benefit man. These things are not
respecters of national borders.
Specifically, the engineer sees three opportunities in inter
national understanding—opportunities so important, so critical to
our lives that we cannot afford to pass them up.
The first of these opportunities is brought about by the fact
that science ana' engineering often progress in different ways in
different parts of the world. The ideas, methods, and. solutions
developed in one country may be all the engineers of another
country need for a major break-through in a significant field. In
fact, it has been said that our particular American genius lies in
making practical applications of scientific principles, rather than
in making original discoveries. '
It is certainly true that our present technological level could not
have, been achieved without the brilliant contributions of scientists
and engineers in other countries. We must be grateful for the help
we have received in the past and encourage such coroperation in the
future.
This internationalism is' shown clearly m the history of man s
knowledge arid use of electricity. To pave the way for the progress
made in our own times, major discoveries were made by the follow-
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Radio-TV
The possibility .of offering an inter-departmental major
in radio and television is now tinder study by a committee
in the College of the Liberal Arts.
Most of the students who intend to make a career in
radio and television are now majoring in either speech or
journalism. A variety of courses
in the field are -also offered in
the Colleges of Home Economics
and Education.
The committee conducting the
study is composed of Ira W. Cole,
director of the School of Jour
nalism; Dr. Harold E. Nelson, as
sociate professor of speech; and
Dr. W. H. Walters, associate pro
fessor of theatre arts.
Resources Studied
The group is studying what re
sources are available, in which
department they are located and
how they can be- improved.
Cole said that the study is
“largely an academic matter” and
at the present time has no
relationship with the proposed
student AM radio station.
At the present time there are
broadcasting courses in journal
ism, speech and theatre arts while
other courses have some broad
casting content, Cole said. -
The School of Journalism now
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Studies
Possibility
offers three courses in radio and
television news, radio and tele
vision advertising and a semester
radio practicum at Station
WMAJ.
Offers 4 Courses
The department of speech offers
four courses in radio-TV theory
and practice, direction and pro
duction, and organization.
A committee report will be
presented in June to Dr. Ben
Euwema, dean of the College of
the Liberal Arts.
Cole said that the investigation
of the courses grew out of sug
gestions by persons in several
departments. To his knowledge,
he said, the study was not a re
sult of the Middle States Ac
creditation report.
The committee is not connected
with the investigation of an AM
radio station or the television
instructional research program,
Cole added.
Dr. Eric A. Walker
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Original Art
Will Appear
In Lantern
An original painting will ap
pear in each issue of the Lantern,
University literary magazine,
which goes on sale today.
This is the first time that a
college publication has sponsored
such an unusual feature, accord-1
ing to Donald Garber, art editor, j
The center page of each 32- 1
page issue will be a different
hand-painted painting. The paint
ings will be done in three colors
—black, gold and red.
4 Prepare Paintings
The paintings have been pre
pared by a four-man staff, con
sisting of Garber, Carl Kaufman,
Joseph Servello and Stuart Frost,!
art adviser.
The Lantern will be sold at
the HUB desk, the Mall bulletin
board, West Dorms and the Cor
ner.
7 Short Stories
Short stories are by Morton
Levy, Warren McLaughlin, Bon
nie Walters, Joseph Stemple,
Matthew Robinson, Bernice Fas
tow and Patricia Paladino.
Poetry is by John Febako, Ar
lene Lit, Ethelrene Johnson, Alan
Elms, Ruth Billig, Jan Bartow,
James Jimmiro, Ralph Hennin
ger, Charles and J. D. K.
Lion Predicts
Cool Weather
Today’s prediction calls forj
cooler weather (70-75 degrees)
with a possible continuation of'
yesterday’s showers. The Nittany
Lion, however, was in no con
dition this morning to take ad
vantage of the cool the rain
brought. ]
The Lion explained that a few
weeks ago he
bought one i
the new midg<
sports cars rr
cently appearii
on the mark;
and the com
pany deliverer
it to his den ye;
terday. Findi:
no room for h:
tail, he solvl
the problem
with his usual -
ingenuity by cutting a hole
through to the trunk, where he
planned to keep his tail while
driving. ’
Not being familiar with the
workings of this model, however,
he had no idea that the engine
was in the rear until he carefully
got in, inserting his tail through
the hole, and gunned the engine.
mg men between the sixth century B.C. and the twentieth century
A.D.: a Greek philosopher named Thales; the English physician to
Queen Elizabeth I, William Gilbert; an Italian Jesuit named Niccola
Cabeo; a 300-pound German burgomaster, Otto von Guericke: two
Englishmen, one named Francis Hauksbee, the other Stephen Gray;
Charles du Fay, a Frenchman; Pieter van .Musschenbroek, a Dutch
man from Leyden; a German named Ewald von Kleist; “the first
civilized American,” Benjamin Franklin; a French engineer named
Charles Coulomb; the Italian physicist Euigi Galvani; another Ital
ian, Count Alesandro Volta; a Danish professor, Hans Christian
Oersted; the brilliant French physicist Andre Marie Ampere; Mi
chael Faraday, a British chemist; a German school teacher named
Georg Ohm; an American named Joseph Henry; Scottish-born James
Clerk Maxwell; Julius Plucker, a German; William Crookes, an
English chemist; Joseph John Thompson, an English physicist; a
Frenchman named Antoine Henri Becquerel; and the American in
ventive genius, Thomas Alva Edison.
It is useless to speculate whether or not we would have had
electricity without the work of any one of these pioneers; the im
portant point is that progress would have been achieved at a much
slower pace if the knowledge gained by any one of these had been
denied those who followed him.
The second opportunity involves the fact that the raw materials
necessary for maintaining our technology are not distributed evenly
throughout the world; consequently, we are dependent upon other
countries for much of the ores, metals, fuels, and other substances
we need.
In 1953, for Instance, we “consumed” over a million short tons
(Continued on page five)
Criticism Tables
School Aid Plan
HARRISBURG, May 14 (A 3 ) — Rank-and-file opposition
forced the House Republican leadership today to table temp
orarily a plan to increase state aid for schools under a sharply
revised formula.
Rep. Johnson, House Republican floor leader, said the
$30,300,000 measure drew criti
cism from many sections of the
state, explained:
I “Opinion is divided on this
l atter. The bill was not sent to
tie House Appropriations Com
mittee until a time when the
t linking crystalized on this one
;way or the other,”
The measure was sent to the
floor by the Education Commit
[tee a week ago as the answer to
Leader’s veto last year to a school
aid bill on ground of insufficient
funds.
It increases the maximum
school subsidy from $5lOO per
teaching unit 22 high school stUr
dents or 30 elementary to $6OOO
in the 1957-58 school year and
$6300 in 1958-59.
But an important change revis
es the complex formula for mak
ing the payments. It provides that
school districts put up a larger
Athletic Aid
Defended by
Editorial on Page Four
Earnest B. McCoy, dean of the College of Physical Educa
tion and director of athletics, said last night that Penn State
athletes are given no special scholastic privileges and that
grants-in-aid are -completely above board.
McCoy, speaking before the Plant Sciences Club, cited the
case of Lennie Moore to prove the strictness of the athletic
department’s policy toward schol
arship.
Moore, football star of two
years ago, was dropped from the
University after failing two
courses. He had a year of eligi
bility left when he was dropped.
Professors Pressured
McCoy said" that Moore could
legally have taken re-examina
tions in both courses, because of
extenuating circumstances in the
case, but fiat they were refused
when McCoy found that pressure
had been put on Moore’s profes
sors to let him take, “and pass,”
the examinations.
McCoy did not say who had put
the pressure on the professors.
An athlete loses his grant-in
aid if he does not make normal
scholastic progress, he said.
Editorial Debate:
Football Too Big?
share of their own funds to quali
fy for state aid.
Other legislative developments:
Final Adjournment—The Sen
ate unanimously adopted a reso
lution fixing final adjournment of
the Legislature for June 15— but
the action was subject to agree
ment by the House.
Turnpike Probe A Senate
committee that started out a year
ago to investigate a toll rate boost
proposed— and then abandoned—
by the 'Pennsylvania Turnpike
Commission came up with rec
ommendations that didn’t touch
on the toll question.
But it did call for a permanent
medical barrier on the entire
length of the superhighway, ade
quate lighting of tunnels and
state acquisition the former
turnpike headquarters buildings
• in downtown Harrisburg.
System
McCoy
By DICK DRAYNE
Defends Grants-in-Aid
McCoy defended the Univer
sity’s grant-in-aid system in ath
letics, saying that “if there is any
thing under the table, I don’t
know about it”
The University gives only 150
grants-in-aid over a period of
four years, he said, and only 50
of these are full grants, for room,
board, and tuition.
McCoy dispelled the idea that
many athletes are put through
school on aid from alumni. Funds
from alumni are welcomed, he
explained, but any contributors
are warned before they give
money that their contributions
are given to the University, and
can only be administered by the
proper University officials.
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