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
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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
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