>AGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Honors in Credits The exceptional student, who for so long has been only a face in the crowd, has often been stifled instead of encouraged. Lost in an educational system which is geared to the average student, the potentialities of the mentally gifted are finally being recognized. The University is increasingly expending its program for this student by establishing Honors Courses. At the present time, these courses Include the engineering science curriculum, political science 300. and similar programs in business administration and home economics. The purposes of the Honors program are to raise aca demic levels and to increase motivation and initiative of the exceptional student by giving him the personal re sponsibility to pursue what interests him as far as he wishes. The plan was given a boost last fall in the Academic Atmosphere workshop at Student Encampment and last week at the All-University Cabinet meeting. Both times students nodded their heads “yes,” yet the attitude seemed to be that this is an administrative affair and the responsi bility for promoting Honors Courses was‘far from that of the student bodv. What is unfortunate is that too few students know about the special program. Some departments recruit stu dents by invitation; however, for the most part, the courses are open to all students with a B average or belter and a minimum number of required credits. The Senate subcommittee on the superior student has. been studying the problem for three years and has been presenting periodical progress reports. Another report will go before the Senate sometime this semester. Dr. Ruth Ayres, former chairman of the subcommittee, said that a significant purpose of the program is “to help each student to maximize his potentials, and we know po tentials differ. This is our job ... not to waste the time of a brilliant student while we are explaining something to a slower student, which he can't get any faster.” The structure of these courses enables the student to \ express himself in class as well as on paper and to use library resources efficiently. Most of the work is done on the student's own initiative since there generally is no sys tem of testing. In this respect the Honors Courses are comparable to the program of study of European students of the same class standing. Most authorities claim students in Euro pean universities to be academically about two years ahead of American students. Many other schools in the United States have incorporated Honors programs into the academic schedule. In a survey taken last year by the subcommittee. 24 out of 38 institutions have special programs. This recognition of the exceptional student, while long overdue, is an important advance in educational theory and practice. But it is no less than imperative that America develop fully its most valuable resources: its most briliarvt students. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.—Edmund Burke GdUarleie are written br the aditars and staff • embers af fbt Oatly CaUeclan and da aoi aactaaarily represent the eieaa af tbe Lntvecslty at af Cite stadeot body A Student-Operated Newspaper Satiy (EdUegtatt Successot to The Free Lance est 1887 rn«*da> Uuevgb Saturday morttta# daring (be University vest. Tbs Daily i'nlleftan b t student-operated newspaper Entered %» second-class natter July * U3I at tbe Slate Cottar* Pa Poet Office andev the art «f March I. 1179. Mail 'Mtbsrriptio* Price: 19 99 per «eneate> - 93-99 per teat >Uk'BS Editor STEVE HIGGINS. Bus Mgr. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Ni«ht Editor. Lynn Ward; Copy Editor. Denny Malick; Wire Editor, Marie Rus.no; AuLtsnts, Luck Thieesen, Neal Friedman. Mac Me* Cattffhan. <'armclia LaSpada, Linda Sffir, Marilyn Lontx, Jan Horitje. Judy XtoMabiuft THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Letters Student Wants Steele Ousted TO THE EDITOR: The fact that All-University Cabinet not only endorsed All - University Presi dent Robert Steele’s action but failed to suspend him immediate ly from office and force restitu tion of the extra day’s expenses seems virtually inconceivable. Steele’s action speaks for itself but the action, or rather lack oi action, on Cabinet’s part forces us to conclude that student gov ernment is in deplorable condi tion. Robert Nurock (Liberal Arts Council president), George Thompson (freshman class presi dent! and Edward Dubbs (Colle gian editor) are to be commended for having" enough judgment to abstain from voting on that stickv bit about endorsing (and at the same time, condoning) Steele's action. However, they would be in .line for congratulations had they voted against it! As Steele said himself, “I failed to live up to my responsibilities. In my position this is not allowed.” It should be pointed out to Mr. Steele that this sort of thing is not allowed in any position and that his resignation should have been handed in along with the "expense” account . . . —Paul D. Richardson, '6O e Letter Cut Gazette Academic Year Institute Colloquium, Dr. Henry A. Finch on What is Man, 4:10 p.m.. 10i» Arnmby ACEI. John Taylor on “Let's Get Married, 7 p.m.. Urarute playroom AIM Judicial. 7 p.m.. 213 UVD Chess Club. 2nd round of University tour- naim-nt. 7 p.m.. 7 Sparks Delta Nu Alpha. 7:3t> p.m.. Phi Mu Delta Freehman Advisory Board. 3 p.m., 303 Willard Crane*, HilltJ Besinncn* Hebrew, 7 pm., Found*' tion Hillel forrmint board, 8 p.m., Foundation Hill*! Purtm Celebration, 7 p.m., Found*- Bavarian Schoplattlers. 7:30 p.m.. 1 Carncirie Newman Club Choir Practice, 7:30 p.m., Church Newman Club Norena. 7 p.m.. Church Newman Clob, speaker, 7 p.m., 104 Pro- gram Center Philosophy Club, Dr. Henry T. Hit on ’Conflicts, Phi Slffina lota, Dr. Frederick Steiner on "Meetings With Three Poets," 8 p.m„ McElwain Riding CJnb. 7 p.ro. •‘Ring Round the Moon,* 3 p.m., Little Theater, Old Main Sprint Week Carnival Committee, 6:30 p.m.. 212 HUB WRA officer** applications, 6 p.m., dean of women's office Zoology Clob. 7 p.m. Roger Clisby, Myra Faulx. Reuben Dworsky, Sandra Goldman. Robert Heist. Barry Herr. George Huffman, Arthur Kinsley. Barbara Levin. Lucretla McNitt, James Naugie, Mary Estel] Peters, Louis Plants. Geortre Kauchfuai, Basri Seter. Fred Speicher, Joseph Wachtel. Barbara Wagner. Job Interviews Eonitable Life Aasurance Society: Mar 19: Math interested in actuarial work, resf- denta of New York City for employment in home office. Diamond Alkali Co: Mar 19: BS & MS in Chem. ChE. Acctt. Mgmt for sales. American Viscose Corp: Mar 19-20: Acctt. lE, Chem. ChE, ME; also Jr. Sr, Soph in above fields for summer employment. Ft. Monmouth (Signal Corps Ccnnt’er): Mar 19: EE, ME. Phy». Baltimore • Css & Electric: Mar 19; EE, ME, CE. Chem. Math. Acclg. CAMP INTERVIEWS Indian Lake Camp, Mar 8; Camp Con rad Weiser, Mar 11, 12; Camp Wise, Mar 12. 13: Camp Carondowanna, Mar 13; Hotel Conneaut. Mar 1?. 18. Lutherans to Hold Lenten Communion The weekly Lenten Service of Holy Communion will be con ducted at 6:45 a.m. tomorrow in Grace Lutheran Church. Administrants of the Sacrament will be the Rev. Arthur L. Ruths, pastor, and the Rev. Dale S. Bringman. Breakfast will be served in the student center immediately fol lowing the service. Angel Flight Applicants May Register at HUB Freshman, sophomore and jun ior women interested in inter views for Angel Flight may apply before March 12 at the Hetzel Union desk. The rushing interviews will be gin March 13. Selection will be based on poise, appearance, per sonality and interest in the.organ _ ization. TODAY 100 Weaver 7 :15 p.m. 214-3 HUB 7:30 p.m. 217 Willard 113 Frear UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Washington Beat Not Since British Burned the Place... WASHINGTON, March 4 (IP) —Not since the British burned the place in 1814 has there been such excitement ov'er tampering with the U.S. Capitol. The east front of the old building is to be extended 32.6 feet, and the reaction has run from: It’s the only way to keep passersby from being conked by historic, but lethal falling stones, to Stop this vandalism! Congress began the whole thing, It set up a Commission for the Extension of the U.S. Capi tol, which has gone about its job of extending. The first con tract, which will run to around $lO million, is now in the pro cess of being let. The total ex pansion program, to be carried on over a number of years, will cost $llO million. First a word about the com mission members, none of whom has a record for sus tained vandalism. Speaker Sam Rayburn is chairman. He’s assisted by Vice President Richard M. Nix on, Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, House GOP Leader Joe Martin and the Capitol architect, J. George Stewart. They’ve decided though not unanimously that the Capitol should have is face lifted. This would provide more room and replace sand stone that is wearing away. A consulting architect, John F. Harbason, that a Senate sub committee that pieces of stone as big as water tumblers are tumbling off the Capitol. “It was with just such a WEDNESDAY. MARCH 5. 1958 By Arthur Edson weapon," Harbeson said, “that David slew Galiath." This hasn’t halted the criti cism. Several bills are before Con gress to stop the work. The Columbia Historical Society, Maj. Gen. U.S. Grant 111, pres ident, passed a resolution call ing the plan an act of vandal ism. The "Committee to Pre serve the National Capital’* had a word for it: Incredible. Appropriately, the. Capitol has a history almost as varied as the nation it serves. Dr. William Thornton drew up the first plan, and after him came other men with their own plans and dreams: Hobari, Latrobe, Bulfinch, Mills, Wal ter. By 1865 the' Capitol was completed as it stands today. Leicester B. Holland says in the journal of the American Institute of Architects: “It is almost unbelievable that a suc cession of building operations, by such various hands, could have resulted in anything but a hodge-podge.” "Instead, the outcome is by common accord one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, dignified, simple, well-proportioned, harmonious in its varied detail, unique in composilion," he wrote. . “It is certainly finer than any of its architects could have planned, if he had been left wholly to himself.”
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers