Today's Forecast: Rain and Warmer VOL. 58. No. 56 Ca|> Results Duel On Student j Social Poll i Student opinion of the Univers- ; ity's recreational and social setup. '• is being tested at the request of :: President Eric A. Walker through ') a survey taken among a cross section of students which is now 2 being readied for release. ; % Results of the study are being compiled by IBM machines and; S are expected to be revealed on or-J about Dec. 20. The survey was taken by a questionnaire sent to 400 students on Nov. 12. The students who re-i ceived the 7-page questionnaire! had been statistically chosen as’ representing a cross-section of the' student body. The purpose offthe study" is to determine if recreational and so- : cial facilities have “kept pace with the increased growth of the- University,” and whether students i are satisfied with the system as it is now. The students were asked ques- ! lions on how extensively they engage in recreational and so- ; cial activities, how they feel : about available facilities, and j how well acquainted they are ' with the facilities which are • available to them. The survey, conducted by Rob; ert G. Bemreuter, special assis-. tant to the President, was request-; ed by Walker after a discussion: of the subject at Student Encamp-! ment last summer. 1 The results of the survey will' be presented at the January meet-, ing of the Board of Trustees. ! The report to the board also ; will include a sampling of the University faculty on ihe sub- ' Jecl, and results of inquiries in- ; to social and recreational facili- - lies at other universities. Bemreuter is being assisted in the study by a University com-; mittee and a student committee; from All-University Cabinet. W.i A. Kelly, a member of the Uni-; versity committee taking the sur-j vey, yesterday said all but about' eight per cent of the question naires have been completed and returned. Jazz Tickets Remain at HUB • A total of 4500 tickets for the- Wilbur de Paris jazz concert will 1 be available to students from 9 am. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. to- 1 day and tomorrow at the Hetzeli Union desk. Five hundred student tickets; wer distributed during the* same! hours yesterday. The tickets are; available to students without! charge upon presentation of their; matriculation cards. Tickets will be on sale to non students from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 pun. Friday and Saturday. These tickets' cost SI each. . The concert is scheduled for 8:30 pm. Sunday in Recreation Hall. S S : I 5 acaiion !aUij||| (Hall net to Air ROTC Tonight - - " Editorial " Voluntary ROTC- Better for Everyone All-University Cabinet tonight will consider a new re port asking for the abolition of compulsory ROTC. -j Cabinet will meet at 7 p.m. in 121 Sparks. | The report will be presented by Robert Nurock, Liberal Arts Student Council president, and will replace the original j LA Council measure brought be-, f. fore Cabinet on Nov. 14. . '5 The new report was approved f M ■ M q! 1 \A/ a|| 4 unanimously by the LA Council, U laid JJ 111 ■i last night. It was approved by the council as an addition to its orig-1 i ■"f • | a J inal resolution. It was presented JVAAAf lAM | hf 1 by Nurock after he turned over * ▼ ICC l I 111 111 3 the chair to Jay Feldstein, vice _ _ _ _ IPieNurSc1 Pie NurSc ciled the need for a If) 121 SOGfltS t new and more complele report r w ; ; because he raid he could not ' All-Umversitv Cabinet will sufficiently defend the original ‘ * motion before Cabinet since il mote us meeting place to LI was based mainly on opinion. Sparks tonight for discussion on it He said the revised report is t the compulsory ROTC issue. tnore complete and has been T u _ ; better researched and. as a re- meetm £ w *ll begin at 7 \ suit, is backed by more docu- P- m - an d is open to the public. ... menled fads. The move from Cabinet's perm -5 . recommendations put forth anent headquarters in 203 Heizel -1 m the original LA Council docu- itninr. . .. * ;> ment remained virtually the same . n ls made or t^le second *.{ in the new report: .time this year in An effort to pro #lloXo should be made volun- vide more seats for a student audi '% tary. ; ence. as. recommended by last • Existing liberal arts and gen-!year's Cabinet. 'jeral education courses provide! Tonight’s special interest fea- Vi soes e ROTC en P traimng than ture will be discussion of a Libera! : : • Inclusion of a civilian defense ’ oiVhf ROTr oneit?™ S reso * utson course in the required physical on he question. education sequence. - .Ronald Ro»s, Cabinet Public In an analysis of the question, • Iterations director, said “We want f “Should ROTC be compulsory?" as poss ’ b ] e tQ i students currently enrolled In the tfomTat p“ d n e:^t??J e wi nent fu " C ~ J Army and Air Force ROTC pro- C fi a [ e us,n * grams onlv 398 or 9 ner cent ' j issue to bring them out : become °available °to "rneetm^' 150 t 0 2 °° ! forces as officers. These figures pe p at . meetlnS : were obtained from the ROTC . Thf ? Previous meeting of Lab departments and the registrar's *!? et held ln 121 Sparks was on ' office, the report said. Oct. 24 - Approximately 25 student - Further the renort rites that spectators attended the meeting -,betwee h n May i S and* April As" ,30. 1955, 13,663 AFROTC advanced JiLL 1, J ii udent As * cadets graduated but only 9016 °“? tJOP wa> discussed, received commissions. The report- T. e Council s resolution {quotes the semi-annual-report of abolition of compulsory the Secretary of Defense (Jan. l.**pTC and disfavoring formation ito June 30, 1955), “Since the re- ?l a Military Science School m [maining 4647 AFROTC graduates the Colle ~ e of the Liberal Arts were surplus to Air Force needs. ; v : as a P proved the council Nov. • they received certificates of com-ir and ' A ' as tabled by Cabinet CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., (/P)—The zero hour for the pletion in place of commissions." ov ; ] 4 - 5e r l er fJ st V dent f sroups ’ ' ‘ | T . . , . ~ . . have none on record as favoring first attempt to hurl an American “moon’’ into space was set: ® po ” sl jr , mar me at- t - ne abolishment of compulsory last night tor 11 a.m. EST today. | n«„. J”, fJggSS There was a chance the firing might be delayed until. (Continued on page two) of compulsory ROTC. Two alternatives face All-University Cabinet tonight —to waste time, or to endorse an irrefutable set of arguments calling for an end to compulsory ROTC. Cabinet members will have before them 10 pages of evidence that point to only one conclusion, that compulsory ROTC is wasteful, unnecessary and undesirable. Realizing that the report of the Senate Committee on Educational Policy which called for a compulsory 2-year course in ROTC and civil defense for both men and women was tentative and, by the committee’s own ad mission, too sketchy, the Liberal Arts Student Council has reduced the whole matter to the really basic ques tion of “Should we have compulsory ROTC?” The council has answered a definite “no” to this question in a revised resolution that replaces the one presented to Cabinet on Nov. 14. We feel that Cabinet should recommend the death of compulsory ROTC. With warfare the way it is now' —highly technological —the nation’s defense would be better served by a voluntary program. Under the present program, 91 per cent of the stu dents in the basic course do not become officers. The four hours of class plus the hours of preparation re quired by ROTC could be puc- to much better use by these students in learning their specializations. This Is especially true In the case of scientists and engineers whose courses call for so much work and whose fully-developed talents are vital for defense. If the Army wants these men as officers, then let them be commissioned. Millions of men have learned to march and to fire the basic weapons in 8 of 16 weeks of training after being placed on active duty. A voluntary program would also produce better trained officers from those students who elect ROTC. More attention could-be given to what would be a much smaller basic group. And they would be quite u.s. Into a later hour. ! Herschel Schooley, director of information services for, the Defense Department, told | newsmen the start of the count- will have been 9 minutes 45 | down had been set for 9 p.m., seconds. ! then put off until midnight. The In its bullet-shaped nose cone; period of the countdown is limestles a six-inch satellite with a; hours. !radio voice which the Navy hopes Originally, the Navy had said,to put into orbit at a speed of it hoped to fire its satellite-carry- 18,000 miles an ho- .r. iing Vanguard rocket about an! hour before dawn. ; m / t •, I i Technicians apparently had C 1 14/ Iff h solved difficulties which cropped' up in yesterday’s work, preparing; » f , £ • the Vanguard for the shooting. ! |VOI I fOITJ IxOID "There were a few bugs in the 1 rocket,” said a high vel source ! The Nittany Lion has developed from the Office of Naval Re- ja twitch, but not as a result of search, "but I think we've [the rain due after last night's ironed them out. It looks like' ! snowfall. we will be ready to blast off j An ROTC cadet reportedly ac ! tomorrow." - jcidentally drop- If the firing is successful, thejped his rifle on United States will have met Ni-|the Lion’s toes kita Khrushchev’s challenge to!Monday. Now his the free world to join Russia in [whole leg shies forming a “commonwealth ofjaway at the Sputniks” in the heavens. ivery mention of The 22,000-pound Van guard j“KOTC.” stood tall on its launching plat-j But even to form tonight, pointing skyward'night’s cold front and ready for the first thrust of J and his own in its powerful engines, designed to [jury will not propel it 300 miles upward to the keep the Lion cold and mysterious frontier of from tonight’s space. . Cabinet meeting. He is curious to At the time it is released, the see the reaction of Cabinet—and little moon will be about 1000 his paw—to the controversy, miles from the launching site. Today’s high will be 45 to 50 The elapsed time from takeoff i degrees. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 4. 1957 (Continued on "page four) to Hurl 'Moon 1 Space Today LA Council Approves New Report on Question —Daily Collegian photo by George Harriwm BEAUTIFUL—BUT TREACHEROUS— Snow that olanketcd the area last night made traveling hazardous. Traffic was reported nearly at a standstill, ar.d at least one motorist required more than an hour to drive from campus to Boalsburg. pgiatt Cabinet; let's Represent See Page 4 FIVE CENT 3
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