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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 _
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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.
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The demand on Penn State will dotible in 10 years
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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FIVE CENTS
A. Forster
Clms Donor