THURSDAY, EPTEMBER 18, 1958 eries: Lecture sidered Are on, Truman Co Ni ident Richard M. Nixon, ex-President Harry S. . John S. Kennedy, Herbert Hoover, Sr., Mrs. .evelt and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles he personalities being considered as speakers for versity Lecture Series. Vice Pre Truman, Se ' Eleanor Roo are some of the new Uni 2 Councils OK Cabinet Plans On Class Gift The Education and Chemistry- Physics Student Councils voted their approvals to a plan which would -give power to the All- University president and senior class president to approach the University on reallocation of funds for the senior class gift. Education C9uncil m e m - b e r s were given bopies of a letter which requested that the educa tion students list "snap" courses and their suggestions, on improv ing them. The list of snap courses will be compiled and sent to dean of the College of Education, Dr. John Reddy. Council President Ruth John son announced that the College of Education had received a $2OO scholarship fund which will be split between two second semes ter freshmen. The Chem-Phys Council has a committee presently considering an academic honesty program. The council is also planning a lecture series. Cabinet to Discuss-- (Continued from page one) since 1948 and the allocation of funds for a gift will cease. The Class of 1958 voted to give its "assumed $lO,OOO gift" to the AM radio station. W6sh said several ideas have been presented for the continua tion of the class gifts. These in clude additional fees and a pledge system, similar to that used by the University's Alumni Fund. He said one of the big ques tions was whether it would be worthwhile to collect money from the student body if funds could not be secured from the administration. "The gift is in the hands of the students now and it is up to us to make sug gestions," Welsh said. Gif 4 s since 1948 except the 1958 request, were granted by the Board of Trustees as worthwhile projects for the University. Prior to 1948, the money for the gifts came from a $1 damage deposit fund which each student con 1 4 1 • 1 • • By PAT EVANS Collegian Personnel Director (Second of a Series) A complete reorganization of the University's student government system was pro posed at Student Encamp ment by the workshop on student government organi zation. In the workshop's report at the Encampment plenary session it was recommended that an All- University Cabinet committee be set up to reorganize the present structure. The same recommendation asked that action be taken to provide some sort of student government for students at tending the 1553 summer ses sions. Workshop participants decided that the present student govern ment structure iwould not be ade- Dr. Kent Forster, professor of European history and chairman of the committee which is arrang ing for the lectures this season announced the tentative list to day. The lecture series, which is be ing held for the first time this year, was designed to try to bring "big name" speakers to the Uni versity for the edification of the students and to add prestige to the University name, a committee member said. The committee is comprised of students and student-invited members of the faculty. It is now in the process of making final arrangements for the ser ies which is expected to begin sometime this fall. In addilion to Forster, mem bers of this year's committee are; Dr. Mary Jane Wyland, profes sor emerita of education; Ross Lehman, assistant executive sec retary of the Alumni Association; Dr. Harold J. O'Brien, associate professor of speech; Robert Beam, assistant director of the Penn State Foundation; Dr. Don ald B. Swegan, assistant profes sor of physical education. Jay Feldstein, All-University president: Sherry Parkin, Wil bur Lewellyn, Riley Johnson, Joyce Carson, Jack Kendall and Chris Myers. The list of speakers now being considered is subject to change in the future. tributed in every semester. Individual fees were discon-i tinned in 1948 and the University established one "general" fee for all activities. A class gift was not included in this fee schedule. The situation was discovered during the summer months by Dr. Walk er through discussion with Uni versity Controller Carl R. Barnes. The Mother's Club, a new idea to be presented to Cabinet, was recommended to be re ferred to the Cabinet Public Relations Committee. Riley Johnson has been recommended for appointment as the com mittee's new chairman to suc ceed Gary Young. Bryna Nelson, editor of the Stu dent Handbook, will present a committee report and Dr. Kent Forster will report on the Cabinet sponsored Lecture Series. Appointments to the All-Uni versity Elections Committee will also be made. quate if a new University calen dar were put into effect. They suggested that a new sys tem be established to provide for the increasing enrollment. The reorganized structure would be adaptable to a new semester sys tem and would be established on these principles: •To provide education for post college citizenship. •To include separation of pow ers (executive, legislative and ju dicial). To eliminate the overload of combined legislative and exec utive duties. To utilize the proven 'theory of our national govern ment •To allow for maximum parti cipation of students in student government. • To incorporate proportional representation of students by class and/or college into the leg islative body. •To integrate student govern ments of the various University campuses and centers with that THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Froth Is In: Civilization May Go Out 'Tis a rare occasion that finds upperclass me n apologizing to freshmen for anything, And how, this early in the se mester, we already find our selves in that position. You see, students today the first Issue of FROTH, that blight of the cam- pus, that excrescence on Penn State's tree of knowledge, oozes forth from its grotto. We know that registration was hard on the nerves and that cus toms is at this very moment gnawing at your constitution. All we can do is to ask you to find the wisdom to avoid that publication. It's a part of campus life that we upperclassmen want to pass over as if it were only a bad dream. Maybe some day, when the sun shines and oppres sion is no more, it will be gone, and all future generations can 'truly regard it as such, Customs— (Continued from page one) professor of music and music edu cation. And then he discovered that they were all music educa tion majors. Fishburn had stopped to listen to the frosh coeds render an en thusiastic "Hail to the Lion" at the bulletin board on the Mall. Further inspection revealed they all might be students of his. A boisterous group of upper classmen were harassing about 20 frosh behind the HUB. Then a request for the Alma Maier was made. The freshmen start ed off slowly and uncertainly, led by the encouraging shouts of the upperclassmen. As the song grew stronger the upperclassmen became quiet and finally listened in respectful si lence. Nittony Council to Meet The Nittany Council will hold its first meeting at 7:30 tonight in the Nittany dining hall. of the main campus. The workshop also recom mended ' that Cabinet investigate a means of preventing students from over-participation in activi ties, resulting in low academic averages. • Leadership in activities should be limited to students who are academically above average, workshop participants said. Another recommendation asked that Cabinet develop a communications system to in form ,all student organizations of proposed changes in the Uni versity's enrollment and its se mester system. John Bott was workshop chair man. Sheila Stahl was secretary. Workshop members were John Gingrich, Buck Welsh, Rita Salt zer, Edward Frymoyer, Edward Hintz, John DeAngelo, Robert Gorniak, Daniel Thalimer, David Allison, Dorothy Newman, George Donovan, Ross Lehman, and Dr. Harold J. O'Brian. Famous Professors To Serve University Internationally-famous professors in the fields of the humanities and social, physical and biological sciences will be serving at the University under a new program being initiated this year. The Board of Trustees has set up a distinguished visiting professorship plan "to enrich the 'University's educational pro gram." President Eric A. 'Walker said the plan would "bring to the cam pus teachers and scholars of in- ternational renown whose pres ence will serve to inspire and to instruct teachers and faculty alike." The first of the distinguished visiting professors, Dr. Herbert Heaton, of the University of Min nesota, is now serving on campus. Heaton is chairman of the Department of History at Min nesota. He served at universi ties in Tasmania and Adelaide, Australia, and Kingston. Ont., before joining the mid•west school. The visiting professor program is being operated from funds set aside in this year's budget. Lawrence E. Dennis, vice pres ident for academic affairs, said there are hopes of increasing funds for the program for next year. Dennis explained that funds are distributed to department heads who then select the pro fessors they wish to obtain. Final appointments must be okayed by the trustees. Although Heaton 'is the only appointment, approved thus far. Dennis said, several others will be coming up before the October trustee meeting. Whitmarsh Leads Town 'Moon Watch' David C. Whitmarsh Jr., associate professor of engi neering research, who dubs himself "a frustrated astron romer" is currently active as leader of the State College "Moon. Watch" team. The team is one of the first satellite-tracking groups to be or ganized in the United States for the Inter national Geophysical Year, The 29-member team spotted the first Russian Sputnik shortly after its launching last October, also viewing its rocket twice. It also spotted Sputnik 11, the one containing the now-famous dog, four times, but has yet to observe the latest Russian "moon," Sput nik 111. The team's telescopes, which were designed to track the 20- inch Vanguard, were forced in to quick readjustment by the Fireside Oats To Be Started In Dormitories "Bringing education into the residence halls" through fireside chats will be one--of the major projects of the dean of women's office this year. The program will be under the 'direction of Miss Beau Barnes, a new assistant to Pearl 0. Weston, dean of women. Miss Barnes plans to initiate this program in the women's res idence halls by conferring with the unit presidents in each hall, The purpose of the program is to enable students to get to know more about the various fields and arts through informal discussion and to provide topics of interest to all students. Tentative plans include movies, 'demonstrations an d discussions by University faculty members. The program will then be ex panded to include noted speakers ,from other universities. X-Rays Offered Today The Mobile Chest X-Ray unit will give free chest x-rays from to 5 and 6;30 to 9:30 today •in the 101 e, block of South Allen Street. 4' advent of the larger Russian Sputnik I. Whitmarsh's equipment, which was designed by the team, with the exception of the lenses, found the first two American Explorers and the smaller Vanguard too small and too far away for sight ing. The team was organized in 1956 and has its equipment in the backyard of deputy leader Law rence Pharo, a research associate at the University, who lives in nearby Pine Grove Mills, The personnel are scientists, engineers, teachers, housewives, students and others who devote an average of IS hours a month to "moon watch" duty. Finan• cial help for the team comes from local sources. Whitmarsh is interested in the whole field of outer space and his interest is held by work he did on a small rocket project in 1947, his two eclipse expeditions and his p r - e - s en t satellite-tracking tasks. Whitmarsh graduated from Washington and- Jefferson Col lege in 1940 and obtained his master's degree in physics from Syracuse University in 1942. KOHL ANSWER Stmith from Hots io Snow Fresh fieDL PAGE THREE
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