THURSDAY, MAY 15 Alumni At 'Gra The "grassroots get underway toda seniors to join the Some 125 class member of the gra• Ed Cou Will Joi Associat The Education Stu. has voted to join the sociatiqn, an associatii, sional schools for tea' The cost , to join is ~25. The as sociation convention ill he held in New York City ext March. The council may -se d delegates to this convention if $5O is paid for each delegate att;nding. Letters to the "big isters" will be sent out May 12 :nd again in August. These will co tain all the necessary informatio since there will be no mass meeting of the approximately 350 big sisters in the College of Educ6.tion. Starting Monday an eichibit on special education dealing with the mentally retarded will be dis played in the Hetzel Union Build ing. A recommendation was made that the Liberal Arts 5 exam be rescheduled next year. It has re peatedly been held on the same night as the Spring i Week Carni val. The suggestion was also made that the exam be listed in the cat alogue in those curriculums which require a passing grade on it. The banquet, held annually for the members of the council, will begin - at 6 p.m. May 21 in the Hetzel Union Building. The next council meeting will be held at 8 p.m. May 20 in 217-218 HUB. Tractor Contest Tonight The tractor driving contest originally scheduled for May 3 will be held at 6 tonight in the parking lot between the Fores try Building and Tyson Build ing. Indian Author Sa s: India Is Not Neutral, But 'Concerned' ' By CATHY FLECK "India is not neutral in the cold war between Russia and the United States, she is con cerned: she follows dynamic neutrality in which she is in dependent but not neutral," Dr. Eddy Asirvathan, Indian au thor and professor of political sci ence, stressed in his speech last night. Asirvathan spoke on the stand which India is taking during the cold war and the reasohs for this stand. He said that India has been called the ' uncommitted nation because it claims the right to come to its own conclu sions and judge situations on their own merits. He cited six reasons for its non committal. policy toward Russia and the United States. These are: *lndia believes that it should not surrender judgment in who is right and wrong. India has tended to regard Russia as a "ruthless giant" and the U.S. as a ANISTOR RADIO For him or her $34.95 up State College TV 232 S. ALLEN Pledging Starts sroots Today operation of Alumni Pledge Week will with class agents calling upon graduating lumni Association. agents are to personally contact every uating class within the next several days. The agents will not sell Alumni Association memberships but will ask the .seniors to sign a pledge card to join on or before Corn- 1 mencement. The agents, according to Thorn-' as Hollander, president of the class of '5B, will also ask the sen iors to pledge to contribute to the Alumni Fund beginning in 1959. More than 50 graduating sen iors have already joined the Alumni Association, which started its official drive for members Monday. Most of these new members were signed up *at the Alumni office, 104 Old Main, and at a special desk, set up in the Helsel Union Build ing across from the auditorium. Ross B. Lehman, assistant ex ecutive secretary of the Alumni Association, said the number of new memberships is high for this early in the campaign. The cam paign will continue through Com mencement. Special rates of $2 for a 1-year membership and $7O for a life membership are being offered graduating seniors if they join on or before Commencement. The life membership may be pur- , Chased on an installment plan' with $lO down and $l5 annually, for the next four years. The class agents chosen to help with the Pledge Week drive will continue to serve af ter graduation. The agents are the "grassroots" workers of the class structure, which in pre vious years was set up after graduation. Each of the 125 agents have been assigned from 10 to 15 mem bers of the class. Most of the mem bers are in the same curriculum as the agent. ent Council II astern As ri of profes ! hers. Delta Nu Alpha to Hold Annual Banquet Tonight Delta Nu Alpha, transportation fraternity, will hold its annual banquet at 6:30 tonight at the Eutaw House to honor graduating seniors. New officers will be installed and scholarships awarded. Cars will leave at 5:45 p.m. from the Grange parking lot. "blundering giarit." She does not want to stand between two "gi ants." • India believes that siding with either of the two opposing camps would be the surest way to World War 111. •At the present time, India's primary concern is economic im provement. "War at the present time would mean suicide for In dia. War preparations are luxuries which we cannot afford,"- Dr. Asir vathan added. •India regards the gulf be tween totalitarianism and demo cracy as being exaggerated. "We are not prepared to believe that one country is for expansion and the other is not," he said. e India does not want to be op portunistic as far as aid is con cerned. Military alliances take place in many instances because FROM NOW... until the end of the semester. You can enjoy. listening to a combo every Wed., Thurs., Fri. ' and Sat. night at La Galleria. We'll also be serving your favorite sandwiches and beverages, delicious Italian pizza and LaSagne. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. • STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Ag Prof To Retire With Rank John E. Nicholas, professor of agricultural engineering, will re tire July 1 with emeritus 'rank af ter serving nearly 30 years on the faculty. The Pennsylvania section of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers recently joined with faculty and students in citing Ni cholas for his contributions in the ifield of agricultural. engineering. He was cited as one of the first to .recognize the possibilities of mechanical refrigeration for milk on the farm. Nicholas has also been a pioneer in food freezing and storage. Born in Eckley, Luzerne Coun ty, Nicholas received his bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering•from Lehigh Univer sity and his master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. He was an engineer with the Bethlehem Steel Corp. and served as a staff member at the Univer sity of Illinois, Rice Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology and the University of Min nesota before his appointment to the faculty in 1929. Yeats Drama To Be Given Experimental Theatre will pre sent "The Dreaming of th e Bones," a poetry and dance dra ma by William Butler Yeats, at 7:30 tonight in the Little Theatre in Old Main. The play is an old Irish legend about a pair of lovers who brought the English into Ire land. It takes place after the lov ers have been dead for 700 years. Characters are played by Del mar Hendricks, Richard Mazza and June Savanick. Poetry will be read by William Bennet, Mar vin Katz and William Kotzwinkle. The play will be directed and produced by Mary Minkiewich, graduate student in theatre arts from Uniondale. Job Interviews !Titan Metal interviews on campus May 16 for Jun & Aug grads in lE. Schedule now in 112 Old Main. of one nation's own wants and not for the containment of commun ism. • India believes that the great est danger in the world today is a military approach to world prob lems. Many Indians are opposed to violence. "There is something in our na ture that calls for non-violence," he maintained. Asirvathan gave the five prin ciples in which India believes —neutral respect, non-interfer ence, non - aggression, equality and mutual aid and co-exis tence, _ He also said India needs eco nomic aid and technical assistance and she has received this from both the U.S. And Russia. He warned the United States: "Don't expect us to sell our souls. Give us aid for our own sakes." Steps Lead Near Lion to Nowhere The steps that lead nowhere--weren't meant to lead any where. Located just to the west of the Nittany Lion Shrine, the steps in question begin at the bottom of a grass slope and end at the top of the slope. There is no path. According to Walter W. Trainet, head of the landscape division of Physical Plant, the steps were built at the same time-1938 as the Beaver Field water tower. Trainer said there was a great deal of objection to construc tion of the water tower simply as a frame structure, so the plans were revised. The new plans called for a brick build ing with facilities for physical education. Until the new facilities were built under the Beaver Field stands, both team dressing rooms were located in the tower, he said. The steps were built as part of this project, Trainer said. How ever, at the time they were con structed the parking lot did not extend as far west as it does now and the tower was at the end of a mall, he added. From Burrowes Street to the tower was a long vista. Th e trees along both sides of the grass mall that go from the steps to the tower, ho said, were all planned for this purpose. With the extension of the park ing area to Recreation Hall, how ever, Trainer said, the effect has been broken. In 1942, the area was chosen as the site for the Lion monu ment because a large area was wanted where students could hold their rallies without des troying property. The area pro vided just the right conditions for rallies until the student body grew too large. Trainer also said he believes, that benches—at least six on either side—could be put up on the mall. It would be a "wonder ful idea," Trainer said, since the area no longer is used for rallies. Eng Professor• Serves On Research Committee Paul M. Kendig, professor of engineering research at the Ord nance Research Laboratory, is serving as a member of Ad Hoc Subcommittee 11-Interference, one of nine subcommittees working under the U.S. Navy Underwater Sound Advisory Group. The responsibility of the Under water Sound Advisory Group is to formulate an "ideal" Navy re search program in underwater sound. ots4chuTme-ot No Indication Of Radiation Found in Area No indication of appreciable radioactivity in this area from the 1958 Russian nuclear tests has been recorded by Edward Ken ney, University health physicist. He said prevailing winds tend to carry fallout around the globe in approximately the same lati tude in which the nucle& tests are made. The heaviest fallout recorded at Penn State was 12,828 disinte grations a minute on Sept. 10, 1957. Kenney estimates that only about one-thousandth of this fall out would have been strontium -90, the most dangerous element in fallout because it accumulates in human bones and has a long life—about 25 years. Kenney collects his daily sam ples at the TJniversity Health Cen ter on a lightly oiled tray with a surface of 1300 square centi meters. _Kenney is responsible for safe ty measures in University labora tories where radioactive materials are used, including the Research Reactor. Sockless Coeds-- (Continued from page four) probably have to be more showers installed, too. Maybe the coed has a method in her madness. Could she be trying to see if she can get a date, no matter what she wears? Already there could be a market for a new song: "Will you love me when I'm sockless as you did in March?" Right now, I can only think of one thing worse than seeing sockless coeds. That is sockless coeds wearing sack dresses. UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL David Alexander, Elizabeth Coffman Bruce Epple. Donald Curland. Thom. • Joffe% Carl Kaufman. Louis Lopr.eto Anita Lorab, Wasindr Mokiln, Mary An Muhr. Bernard Oatroff. Robert Schaeffer Loretta Syzdek, Paul Tante, Bruce Wet ner. . is state of mind a girl gets into when date neglects to buy her a party picture. However, an_ eighty-five cent piece will disentangle the disen chantment. We took a chance and made 2 to 3 extra copies of each picture taken on Spring weekend. Available now—first come, first serve. Still have around 20 different party pix of IFC weekend. Sixty cents each. PAGE FIVE bill coleman
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