s e iors select Book Today's Fo ecast: Warm ith . o"4r TnUrgtatt Possible S owers _ 41.0 .-.149155 VOL. 57. No. 14' r Named Valedictorian; Coop Hartnett Nichols Spoon Man Mirror Girl Jones Bow Girl Foyle C Salutatorian For Class Night osen Gerald Cooper, senior in science fiom Morrisville, with a 3.98 All-University average, has been selected class vale dictorian for the Baccalaure ate-Class Night 7:30 p.m. June 7 in Schwab Auditorium. James Foyle, senior in educa tion from Kent, Ohio, will be the class salutatorian. He has a 3.94 average. -Cooper is a member of Omi cron Delta Kappa; junior and senior men's leadership and honor society; and Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity. , The recipients the senior honors were also announced by Joanne -Seaman, Baccalaureate- Class 'Night chairman. Men's honors include Robert Bahrenburg, class donor; Joseph H a r tnett, spoon man; Samuel V a 1 entire, . bar rel man; Daniel Land, cane man; and Mike Moyle, pipe orator. Women's hon ors include Arm Forster, class donor; Miriam Tones, bow girl; Margaret Forster, fan girl; Barbara N i c hols, mirror girl; Sheila Nea- Cooper ring, slipper girl; and Elizabeth Ives, class poet. These students were selected from. 40 candidates by the class by ' ballot when they obtained their • copies of LaVie. The two class donors will pre sent the gifts to the other reci pients' of class' honors. The spoon man award was at one time presented to the senior class:president because of his out standing 'leader ship... The can min 'award tradition alb' has gone to. the male senior with outstanding.leadership qual ities. The barrel man award was presented to an athlete .who ex celled in leadership and scholar ship. • , The tradition behind . the pipe man award is much older than the other honors, qtarted as a joke by some who tho ght it was time to "bury the' ha chet" of class rivalry and smok : the traditional peace pipe . with 'the incoming senior class. the top award nd is presented .The bow girl i given' to women to the - senior .w standing scholars an with out p.lfmi - girl- awards .polar student poet i$ a stu- I originality who timorous class The,slipper . and are --given to ,p leaders. The' c . • dent-leader with will present a poem. • The mirror gir ror operation an look within the night to see the of her , class reve writes the xnir- As supposed to irror on class • ast and d there... STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 24. 1957 Land Cane Man A Senator - Writes Students Can Come To University's Aid TO THE EDITOR: The shocking news has just filtered back - from Harrisburg that the majority in the General Assembly have dedided to put Penn State on its "disaster budget" for N the coming biennium. As the Senator elected to represent A the district in which Penn State is located, I believe that this represents an unwarranted stunting of education in ;, - 1 Pennsylvania. Proposed studies are Amply subterfuge. A statewide committee made a comprehensive report a couple of months ago. Just as the White House conference postponed coming _ f. 4 to grips on a national level, so will a 2-year study on the state level. We know that only 20 per cent of high school graduates N go to college in Pennsylvania contrasted with over 30 per cent in other states. We know that the Commonwealth is rl losing its richest 'resource When it offers no opportunity for young people with !`brains" but whose parents have no money _to secure a college education. - Pennsylvania has a miserly 80 scholarships; New York has thousands. ilx The demand on Penn State will dotible in 10 years 51 . but a 2-year study delay will only make the problem for Penn State more acute. The Governor, George M. _Leader, ki indicated that he would be willing to divert as much as '•••? $2B million for this biennium from the Scholarship-Junior College Fund for -Higher Education. Herein lie the funds to meet the $35 million request of President Eric A. Walker. '£ I do not believe that it is "politics" to promote public `-.1 education by making college education available to many now 1' not financially able to come to college and neither do I be, lieve it to be "politics" to try to build the State University to care for the demands that the people of the state make X f upon it. I doubt if those that ask for delay for study really realized 4 .1 what two years of study may mean to a young person, 18 or 19 years of age, for two years from now these people will be 20 and 21. Those two years mean that a chance for a college education may be denied. F ri I believe that the 14.000 Penn State students as they return to their homes in every part of the state Might ki exert a tremendous influence on this issue if they really wanted to. Students - could make their wishes known to •• I members of the General Assembly back home without the fear of, being involved in partisan • politics—a fear • held rightly or wrongly by some parts of the Penn State family. .fA • I think this is a challenge that you could rightfully place 0. before your student readers. REM • • z_"t Cabinet Upholds Lion Party Election Byron LaVan, former Lion Party clique chairman, failed last night' in his attempt to l h a v e All-University Cabinet invalidate the party's clique officer elections held Sunday. Cabinet, after hearing testimony by LaVan and Elections Com mittee Chairman Peter Fishburn, unanimously voted to declare the elections "legal and proper." • • LaVan had cha,rged improper conduction of the elections. "I'm up . here (before Cabinnet) on a pri n ciple," he said; "—honesty in the party. We must keep what ever •is 'left of Lion - Party hon est • e-e" FOR A BETTER PENN STATE . ' 11111 1 . '. 1 2 4 ial is itio d. • ' 1 ....# ..... 4 t ' ' ' -- , M. Forster Fan Girl —Sen. Jo Hays, (D:Centre-Clearfield) Editorial on Page Four After the meeting LaVan made this statement: "The principle involved is more important than the results. If stu dent government can avoid ques tionable, elections by simpl e. amendments to t h e Elections! Code, then the possibility of cor ruption with any political organ ization would be greatly reduced." l In the election William O'Neill, freshman in psychology from Downingtown, defeated Fred Och roch, sophomore in business ad ministration from Philadelphia, for the office of party clique chair man:Ochroch had been nominated by LaVan. About-55 students attended Cab inet last night.to hear LaVan state /its case, They packed intno 203 I 1 Win Mass Honors Nearing Slipper Girl Moyle Pipe Man . .... . , ~L • . ' . . ( 4:: . SIPA ...Y. i , • ', ;t : ..... , 1 1• ; 1 4: '. ' '''-' 7 : d- ...., . , • 4 '' - . t " . ", '.'' - :...' •NI Valentine Barrel Man 510 of 1768 Voting Choose $lO,OOO Gift for Library By LIANNE CORDERO The $lO,OOO class gift this year will be a collection of books for the Fred Lewis Pattee Library. ted for one of five suggestions A total of 1768 seniors vo selected by the Senior Class Ad visory Board. •Book collection, 510; • Funds for the proposed Stone Valley Recreation area, 473; •Self-service photo-copy ma chines for the Library, 411; •Furnishings for the - Helen Eakin Eisenhower Memorial Chapel, 285; •Furnishings for the projected School of the Arts building, 89. University Librarian Ralph W. McComb has suggested that the funds could be used to start a collection of books for "recrea tional reading" .or to purchase rare books, manuscripts or maps. The 1957 class gift will be the first for the Library since the Classes of. 1932 and 1935 gave sums of money to be used for the general collection. When informed that the book collection was selected, McComb said, "I'm very, very happy." He suggested that a meeting of the class officers and members of the gift committee be held with him to designate just how the funds will be used. ' McComb added that a plaque will be set up designating the collection as given by the Class of 1957. The purpose of the "recreation -1 al reading" collection, he said ) would be "to provide for the 'undergraduate student an °prior ittinity to fill in those gaps missed lin formal courses by making available books students would enjoy reading." _ "This gift," McComb said, "would be useful again and again to many hundreds of students. We, as a university, are remote from metropolitan areas, and stu dents •do not have access to this type of reading." Originally a room to house such a collection was ih the blueprints for the. present addition along Curtin Rd. Later the plan had to he discarded for lack of funds. Hetzel Union and overflowed in to the hall. LaVan produced a witness, Harry Kitzinger, junior in arts and letters from Upper Mont clair, N.J., who said he had seen a student fill out more than one ballot. Several Cabinet members asked Kitzinger why he hadn't reported, the action to Fishburn at the time he saw it occur. The witness said he didn't want to get himself or others involved at that time. LaVan also said that because notebook paper was used for the ballots; extras could have been made by tearing ballots in half. Fishburn then offered to pro duce the ballots to prove that all were the same size. ection Maybe Someday . .. Ives Bahrenburg Class Poet Class Donor Frosh Math Skills May Be Tested University Senate m embers showed by a straw vote last night that they favor a plan to prevent students from graduating who cannot do elementary arithmetic and algebra. The plan is expected to be up for a final vote at the Senate's regular meeting, June 4. Under_such a plan, applicants for admission would take a test of quantitative skills. If they fail, they will be required to take remedial work at their own ex pense. Skills Expected Some of the skills the plan la expected to include are: Use of whole numbers, frac tions and decimals; solve simple verbal arithmetic problems; solu tion of personal and community problems by arithmetic; use of letters to represent numbers; solve simple equations; interpret charts and graphs; use measur ing instruments, such as a ruler or scales; and make unit con versions. This plan is in line with the current thinking in terms of gen eral education. Criteria Doubted One difficulty the Senate felt the plan would encounter is a valid cut-off point. Many felt that no criteria exist for determining this accurately. Others, however, felt that the Davis test, a sampling of over 250 students, has made a start along this line. They felt that with fur ther experimentation a standard or standards could be determined. If the cut-off established by the Davis test were used in testing freshman, 16 per cent would fail. Rogulationi to Continue Normal traffic and parking regulations will remain in effect during final exams, according to the dean of men's office. Freshmen may not have or op erate cars and parking permits will be required for the Univer sity parking areas. Co/legion Stops Today; Will Resume Sept. 8 Today's issue is the last edi tion of The Daily Collegian this semester. The Collegiar will resume publication_ Sunday, Sept. 8 far orientation week. Daily publi cation will resume Tuesday, Sept. 17. See Page 4 FIVE CENTS A. Forster Clms Donor
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