VOL. 59, No. 48 Staggering Demands To Be Faced Committee Cites The Job Ahead By DICK DRAYNE Collegian Managing Editor What will the job require? ' The University faces stag gering demands on its educa tional facilities in the next 15 years, according to a report by the Administrative Committee on Long-flange Development. Its job, the report says, is to keep up the pace. The job requires expansion. But the committee has also out lined another requirement for the future—a program of adjust ment and increased efficiency so far-reaching that it would touch every part of the University's complex operations. The comprehensive committee report is under study by the Board of Trustees. If approved, it would bring overwhelming changes to the University and its operations. The University's every resource would be stretched to its highest point of production. The empty class rooms would be filled. The slow summer months would be come as active as the rest of the school year. The professor burd-. ened down with detail work would be freed to devote more of his time to. education and less to clerical duties. The University, in short, would work at full capacity. The first commodity the report examined is time. By 1960 the University would be opeiated on a year-round ba sis. The era of the summer ses sions—when only summer stu dents and conventioneers break the quiet of the campus—would die in the wake of the 12-month, school year. , And. time would be "created"; from other sources. The hours; between- - .Monday,: Wednesday and Friday niglitsi would be used regularly for! classes. Noon classes would be come common. Existing class hours would be used more thor oughly. In such ways would the Uni versity provide more time. And, as the new time was squeezed from holes in the present sched ule, the University would have to provide personnel . to make use of it. The professor's traditional nine month work year would vanish as most faculty and staff members would be put on a 12- month schedule. And, with his new time, the faculty member would become less a secretary and more an edu cator. His routine duties would be shifted as much as possible to graduate assistants and other qualified personnel. Television teaching would be come more prominent, and such technical devices as machine test scoring, automatic high-speed calculators and films would come into more frequent use. Courses and curricula which duplicate would be consolidated. Careful selection and more effi cient counseling would be aimed at reducing the number of stu 'dents who fail to complete the requirements for their degrees. Gifted students—the problem children of modern education— would be given chance to de velop Ihro u g h independent study. Work-study programs would be provided for. And the faculty would be en couraged toward more scholarly and scientific achievement. More time would be put to bet ter use by more efficient person nel. But another step is planned in the all-out drive for top academic production—better use of space and equipment. The committee's plans call for special studies to see, that all classrooms, laboratories, and spe cial equipment would be used fully and efficiently on a Univer sity-wide basis. With this would go the re duction or elimination of out dated facilities which take up valuable space. And areas which have been vacated would be rearranged for meeting the crit ical needs.. The rearrangement, in fact, would affect the entire campus. The University's most important facilities and activities would be Centered, with less important ac- (Continued on page eight) Rain to Change To Sunday Snow Todayi high will be .62 with occasional rain continuing to night. The low will be 50. Sun= day is predicted cloudy, windy and mild With rain and possible snow flurries Sunday. night, Sunday , night and Monday lestaperatures will be ba the 30's. 'The Daily Colleg ian .ato by impson SYMBOL OF' THE FUTURE is the construction worker riveting the steel skeleton of one of the University's new buildings. Expansion Set At $l6B Million ; The University will put $163 million into construction by '1970 if the 'Long-Range De velopment Studies are ap proved. The plans call for $156 m - lion to be spent on - the main campus and more than $l2 mil lion for expansion of the Univer sity's centers. The development plans, now under study by the Board of Trustees, also predict a' steep hike in the University's annual operating budget. The budget is predicted to rise to $lO mil lion by 1970, compared with ' $39.4 million this year. I But, although the budget is ex ; pected to increase sharply, the report asks that student fees not be raised to more than $4BO -a lyear for Pennsylvania residents. IThe report provides for a rise from the present $350 per year 'to $4BO, beginning in 1960, but !recommends that any further in !crease be avoided. The recommendation to keep fees at no higher than $4BO was made, according to the report, be cause University. fees are now among the highest charged by any land-grant college, and be cause lack of funds is still the major obstacle for many of the state's most promising youths. The special appropriations asked for expansion are not con nected with the University's annual operating budget. Ex pansion, funds come primarily from the General State Authori ty and from the sale of bonds, while funds for the annual bud get come directly from state and federal government appropria- Nittanies Attempt Holy Cross' Bowl By LOU 'PRATO Sports Editor There's no bowl bid in sight for Penn State's football team this year, but the Lions could . halt the post-season aspirations of once-beaten Holy Cross when the two teams clash at Beaver Field this afternoon. This is the final home tilt of the year for the oft-beaten Nittanies and it could be the final varsity grid game ever played on the present Beaver Field site. Accord ing to a University construction report, the stadium is to be torn down this winter and relocated on the outskirts of the campus. One of the imalleit crowds in recent years-18.000—is expect ed to witness the "historical" game. Kickoff time is 1:30. Despite the records of the two clubs and the bowl tint on the Crusaders, the odds-makers have tabbed the Lions, a six-point fa vorite. Ironically, Penn State has been the favorite against every foe this fall except Eastern pace setter Army. The Crusaders have only lost one game this season and that was to highly-rated Pitt in the season's opener, 17.0. This loss can almost be distegarded since the Jesuit Institution didn't have the advantage of spring practice. But it was Holy Cross' 14-13 vic tory over Syracuse—the only• de feat for the bowl-bound Orange— that has actually cast . it into the bowl picture. For outside of the Syracuse victory, the Crusaders (continued on, pane six) tions and from other sources such as student fees, endow ment incomes and student aids. The long-r an g e construction 'program is divided into three 5- year periods. The first period, 1955 to 1960, calls for expendi tures of 'nearly $BO million, 27 per cent of this_sunt.bad—becn approvdd for, construction - and i nanced by the•• end •of last: yew': The schedule calls for about $49 million more to be poured into construction by July of 1960. Plans for the second period of the program, 1960 to 1965, call for construction expenditures of over $3O million. Nearly $5B mil lion is to be spent in the final period, which will end in 1970. The primary responsibility for providing funds for long-range expansion, according to the re port, lies in bond issues. Self amortizing bond issues would yield $BO million, or 48 per cent of the total sum. Another $6B million, or 40 per cent, would come from the state, the report continues. The commit tee says the Commonwealth's "traditional responsibility" would require it to underwrite this much. The final 12 per cent of pro posed funds, the rep or t says, would come from other sources. This would amount zo about $2O million. The report divides the new buildings into three classes: aca demic buildings, general build ings and utilities, and self-fi nancing buildings. All academic buildings, the re port says, are traditionally pro vided by the state. General build ings and utilities require either state financing or funds derived from other sources. such as con- (Continued on page five) STATE COLLEGE, PA., SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1958 University Celebrates sth Birthday College's Status Changed in '1953 By DENNY MALICK The University was five years old yesterday. It was on Nov. 14, 1953, that the late Judge Ivan Walker, of Centre County Court of Common Pleas, granted the de cree giving the University its new status. • The ranking as a University came eight months after the cele bration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Partners! High School of Pennsylvania. A one-inch high banner across the top of The Daily Collegian read "OK UNIVERSITY," pro claiming the "crossing of a new educational threshold." The University had been a col lege since 1862 when it was named the Agricultural College of Penn sylvania. In 1874, it became the Pennsylvania State College. Although founded as the Farm ers' High School, it was organized as an institution of higher learn ing since the beginning. The tiny 'high school' which had just one building--Old Main —has grown to include s more than 140 major buildings on campus and a monstrous building' plan in the offing. Between 1882 and 1895, the state appropriated several hun dred thousand dollars to the college which set off a continu ous construction project which still has no end in sight. The Armory was one of the first buildings to go up under the new construction plans. It was finished in 1889 and was used as a drill hall and gymnasium. Soon after the turn of the cen tury, Schwab Auditorium, Car negie Building and Mac Allister Hall were added. Other campus landmarks such as Sparks Building_ and Watts . , a ..er -1920. _Recreation B fllitl v. I added in 1929. From then on new buildings were literally going up right and left with the exception of during the war years. And now plans call for as much construction in the next 12 years as was completed over the first 100 years. Foreign Aid Topic Of Fireside Talk The next International Fireside to be held at 8 p.m. Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Mares, 715 W. Park Ave.,• will feature a discussion on "Foreign Aid—Angel or Devil?" Questions will include, "What are the benefits to donor and re cipients?", "What are the evil ef fects of aid?", and "Should for eign aid be first aid or last aid?" onday evening's topic begins a new series on the international, political and economic situation (today. Oil Co. Will Interview Humble Oil & Refining Com pany representatives will be on campus Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 17 and 18, to interview stu dents who will graduate in engi neering and science in 1959. to Sabotage Aspirations Team Civiafe FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Student Increase Forces Expansion LOOKING OVER THE mittee on extension poi, vice president for acade Campo. May Do By 1975 there ma More than $156 mi has been divided intc Now in the first o, academic buildings, Ten tativene Of Studies 1 • Emphasized The Long-Range Devel Studies represent what ti versity may be after 1 necessarily what it will The tentativeness a changeability of the rep been emphasized repeat President Eric A. Walke C. S. Wyand, vice presi development. The studies have been "for planning purposes" Board of Trustees. Wal the administration has . powered to develop plan:, lement the studies. He number of steps each proposal or building plan through before it can reality: A plan for a new pr building must be present board as a -separate ite with the proposed sourcz. for the project. Then the steps are tak..l lement the item, with ap! the board required for plans. If the item is a buildin:! construction project, th include approval of .1 plans; authorization for bids; acceptance and 1 I bids. Much of this work wi Through committees of t Walker said. The Long-Range De Studies are being mod tinuously in the' light o formation and developm, l and said. He called the studie: rock" report designed t. trustees some idea of lems facing the Univers possible ways of solvi problems. He said the studies mandate" to proceed on cific item. Upperclass Dorm To Meet en Simmo s A meeting of all fresh an wom en who live in upper•' ass resi dence halls will be held at 5:15 p.m. Monday in Simmons lounge. The purpose of the meeting is to nominate and elect officers for that group. Paper Wider As Symbol To _describe the University's expansion,The Daily Collegian symbolically expanded to eight . columns.. The regular tabloid size will will: 'reappear, hoWever, o n Tuesday. Sopie regular news will be found in this issue, but, for the most part, it is an. issue devot ed e*p4nsion., , C. S. Wyq.nd, vice president for development, and Lawrence E. Dennis, c affairs. Expansion Program ble Buildings by 1975 be twice as many buildings on campus as there are now. 1 lion would be needed for the proposed expansion program, which; four 5-year building plans. these periods, the University expects to spend $38.25 million on 75 millli9n o s nor I,Ja,V4ings and, ..pli,4tieg_44„,=.s,44illion on al 6 .' • The University's possible future construction program is outlined in the Long-Range Development Studies, submitted Jan. 1 to Pres ident Eric A. Walker. The report has been accepted by the Board of Trustees "in principle" and "for planning purposes," meaning that its proposals are tentative and subject to change at any time. The projects within each build ing period have no priority until they have been approved by the Gene r al State Authority—the borrow-and-build branch of the state government. Financing and construction of every project are dependent on approval by both the GSA and the Board of Trus tees. •1 1 opment e Uni -1 70—not I e. d the rt have •dly by and by tent for However, if every project listed in the Long-Range Development Studies can be completed as scheduled, this is what will hap pen: accepted by the er said een em to imp_ amed a 1 specific must go ,ecome a Scheduled for construction to begin in the current period which will end in July '1960 is part of the new College of Education on the site of the present Beaver Field. The four units proposed for the area will be located so that they would not make it neces sary to move Beaver Field yet.' "gram or -d to the , along of funds to imp -11•roval of thd final ! or other -se steps rchitects' receiving -tting of be done e board, elopment fied con new in nts, Wy- a "bed give the he prob ty and of g these are "no, any spe- Two extensions to Recreation Hall are planned for the period. The additions will be made on the south and west sides. Tho Armory will be torn down (Continued on page three) Staff Works 11 Months On Development Studies By 808 FRANKLIN Collegian Editor The Long-Range Develop ment studies outlining the University's future over the next 12 years are the pro duct of 11 months of inten sive work b'y top members of the faculty and administration. They are one of the few of their kind in the country. . Members of the Administrative Committee on Long-Range De velopment, which compiled the studies, even gave up many Satur day and Sunday afternoons to work on the report, according to Chairman C. S. Wyand. The committee was acting, on instructions issued by President Eric •A. Walker on Jan. 30, 1957: "to conduct studies pertinent to the growth and development of the University, and to prepare for the President of the University reports and recommendations thereon." The report was presented to Walker on Jan. 1, 1950 and was. accepted for planning purposes _by. the Board of Trustees in February 1958. • The University's Long-Range Development Studies are one of the first in: the nation, accordi4 to Wyand. • He said similar studies recently have been or are being made in New York, Delaware, California and perhaps a few other states. But he cited what he called, a growing realization by colleges Russians Hold Up U.S. Truck Convoy Leaving _Berlin BERLIN 1W) The Soviet army held a convoy of three 'U.S. Army trucks for 8 1 / 2 hours yester day. The trucks were stopped while seeking to leave isolated Berlin on a routine run to West Germany. A U.S. Army spokesman said the Soviets at a check point out side West Berlin demanded a right to inspect the cargoes of the trucks contrary to established procedures. When the U.S. personnel with the trucks refused to bow to these demands, the Soviets held them. , The spokesman said the trucks were finally released after a pro test Was filed with Soviet Army headquarters in East Berlin. The halting of tile convoy• was the first such harassment since Soviet Premier Krushehev Mon- Iday demanded that Western troops pull out of West Berlin. There have been repeated inci dents in recent years when Soviet authorities have demanded inspec tion of trucks on the 110-mile (Continued on page two) and universities across the coun try- that this type of long-range planning is becoming necessary. The Long-Range Develop ment Studies represent the sec ond step in the University's far future projection since the ur gency of such planning became generally realized about 1953. Members of the Board of Trus tees at that time expressed a de sire for an overall report depict ing problems facing the Univer sity in the future and how these problems might be met. Wyand himself made a report in June, 1954, in which he predicted a total enrollment in 1970 of 21,000, of which 18,500 would be on the main campus. The present committee was ap pointed after it became evident that the University would have to take on a larger share of high er education in the state. The Long• Range Development committee now is modifying the studies presented to the trustees in February. Members of the committee in addition to Wyand, who is ,vice president for development, are: Lawrence. E. Dennis, vice presi dent for academic affairs; Mc- Kay Donkin:vice president for fi nance; M. A. , Farrell, vice presi dent for research; A. •Witt Hutch ison, chairman of.the Senate Com mittee on Extension Policy. Edward L. Keller, director of General Extension; Ossian R. Mac- Kenzie, vice .president for busi ness administration; Harold K. Schilling, chairman of the Sen (Continued ort'page five) Program Outlined By DAVE FINEMAN Collegian City Editor Because of a tremendous in crease in students wanting to go to college in the very near future, the University will at. tempt to double in the next 12 years the physical plant it has taken 100 years to build. • This will be done because the University as the state institu tion feels it is its responsibility to accommodate a large portion of the more than 178,000 young sters now growing up who by 1970 will be seeking a college education. This ambitious program, as out lined in the administration's Long-Range Development Stud ies, will result in the expansion of the University's three services to the nation and the state—resi dent instruction, extension and research. The job in resident instruc tion will be guided by two maj• or factors.i—the increalng col lege -age population and the in• creasing demand for higher ed ucation in the state. - Because of the high birth-rate after the depression and during World War 11, the college-age population can be expected to in crease (during the - period 1930- 1970) by 36.6 per cent, while the increase expected in total popu• lation is only 23.9 per cent. Besides the fact of more 18- to 20-year-olds ready for higher ed ucation, the Long-Range Studies show, there is an ever increasing social pressure on youngsters to want to go to college, thus in creasing by even a greater amount the already large deluge on the instuitions of the state. ..President Erie , A. Walkas!t - seid, feels .its' responsibility,extends io accom dating 25,000 of these new pros pective freshmen in resident instruction on the main campus. Figures show that up to the present time, the proportionate enrollments of Temple Univer sity and the Universities of Pitts burgh and Pennsylvania have de creased, and the proportionate enrollments of teachers' colleges and other small institutions have increased only slightly. The University's share, on the other hand, has increased by leaps and bounds, according to the Long-Range Studies, and can be expected to continue in that way as the University more and more becomes THE state institu tion. Even as early as 1960, the Uni. versity expects to have 16,762 students on the main campus; 19,332 by 1965; and the big push will come in the following five years, with about 25,125 students on the main campus by 1970. An ever increasing extension program will mean more than 10,000 students at the Universi ty's centers and campuses by 1970, as well as thousands of state residents taking corres pondence courses. The University is already a ma jor center for both industrial, state and federal research, and will be even more so in the future. Research, the third phase of the University's expansion program, will be located mainly in the pro posed Research Center, a com plex of three buildings behind the Nuclear Reactor, one of which is already under construction. Some figures give an idea of the tremendous expansion planned in research. From a present expenditure of a little more than $7.5 million the University's research program will increase its annual expendit ures to about $lB milion by 1970. All this expansion will mean more buildings—for housing. administration, teaching and re search—more teachers, more re search personnel, more admin. istrators—all of which means more money. Whereas the University's oper ating costs for the ,fiscal year 1955-56 were about 533 million, the costs will amount to almost AlOO million for fiscal year 1970- 71. And the physical p 1 a n t, now "worth" about $74 million, will he "worth" about $242.5 million by 1970 after an outlay for new construction of $168.6 million in the next 12 years. Student fees, of course, are ex pected to increase. The Long.. Range Studies predict an increase in tuition to $4BO t. year for Penn sylvania residents and 5960 a year for other students by 1960. Presently, Penn Sylvania resi (Continued on page three) • On The Inside Proxy's Message 4 Wire News 2 Regular Campus News ... 2 Future Residence Halls . 3 The Personnel Neded ... 3 Past• Expansion 5 Centers and Extension ... 5 Future Parking and Traffic 5 Comrattnity Living Future Research 8 Library's Future , ' 8 Sports • . 6& 7 Editorials s• " 4 FIVE CENTS
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