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VOL. 59, No. 56
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Compl
50th
tes
Year
y's industrial
rtment the
ted States—is
If century of
nts for busi-
I ry.
The Universi
engineering dep
oldest in the Un
completing a h
preparing stud
ness and Indus
From a 1910 gr.
two men, who p
2-year program,
duating class of
rticipated in a
he department
' second largest
ing its first 50
ated 1938 engi-
has grown to th
in the nation. Du
years it has grad
In the first years of the de
partment's- existence students
made all the furniture used in
the engineering units. Indus
trial engineering students made
the first 20 ornamental electric
lamp posts for the lighting of
the campus.
Benjamin W. Niebel, head of the
department, said today's program
deemphasizes handicraft. Contem
porary emphasis is on not "how to
do it" but "why," he said.
Industrial engineering as a cur
riculum closely parallels mechan
ical engineering with greater em
phasis on higher mathematics and
automation, according to Niebel,
who predicts this trend will con
tinue and intensify.
Recently about 80 students per
year have graduated as indus
trial engineers. Niebel said the
mortality rate is comparable to
that of other engineering cur
riculums. Approximately one
fourth of those who initially en
roll in industrial engineering
graduate in the curriculum.
Three coeds have graduated as
industrial engineers in the last
10-year period, Niebelsaid. He en
couraged them to enroll, as oppor
tunities in the field are good for
women, he said.
"The future of industrial engi
neering looks very rosy. There are
and will be more jobs than grad
uates," the department he'ad said.
"With the shortage of labor in
the next decade, there will be a
great need for industrial engineers
to devise new and improved meth
ods of production to meet the pub.
lie's increased demand for goods
and services," Niebel stated.
Wrestling Bout,
Pavement Fall
Hospitalize Lion
Take one wrestling bout with
the Pitt Panthers, add one fall
on an icy pavement and it equals
one aching Nittany Lion in the
University Hospital.
'Af ter Pitt's football team
worked over the Nittany gridders
in the first half of the Thanks
giving Day gam:, the Panther
engaged in a vic ous -bout with
the Nittany Lion (Jack Behler)
in an effort to fini.h off the Penn
State spirit. -
In a fit of al
raised so high .1
Lion's back , that i;
ple of muscles wi
tor said -he pulle.l
in the ,saeroiliac},
Complications -
when the Lion sli
pavement and lan
terior. He ekpect.
hospital today aft'
trig on his stomac
ger, the _hair
the Nittany
pulled a cou
h it. (The doc
-1 some muscles
let in Monday
liped on an icy
J ed on his
- ta leave the
.two days ly
1, there. '-
Prof to Disco
!=]
_ Dr. Edgar H. Le
professor of RuSgi
the Pulitzer prize,
'.`Doctor Zhivago,"
tiak. at the Found
of Phi Beta.KaPP
orary society at 6
row at the Auto
rman; assistant
discuss
winning -novel,
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STATE COLLEGE, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 3. 1958
—Collegian photo by Marty Schorr
ICE-COVERED HUB LAWN makes a good' sliding area for fresh
men (left to right) .Barbara Englehard, Betty Anne Balotin and
Jo Anne Hornstein. The girls are using the covers of cookie tins
as sleds, and claim this sliding to be more fun than—bluebooks.
Hunting Hinders
Snow Removal
Cabinet Will Sponsor Party
For Spring Orientation Week
By ELAINE MIELE
A party honoring new fresh
men and transfer students
will be sponsored- by
versity Cabinet in Recreation
Building folloWing the var
sity gymnastics, meet, against
West Virginia on Jan. 3L
The Phi Mu Alpha- band -will
play and other entertainment will
be provided,' Darold W. Perkins,
associate - dean of men, said.
All students will be admitted
to the party. -
The new students will be able
to sit in a reserved center section
at, the gymnaities meet: A banner
will be displayed in their honor
and they-Will be welcomed by the
cheerleaders.
The orientation week pre-
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
gram for the spring semester dent councils on campus.
will begin on Jan. 27 at the An activities exposition on Jan.
29 in the HUB ballroom will show
presidentl convocation in Sch. new students the associations and
wab Auditorium. activities they can join.
- Additional events will be added A recreation day will be spon
.._
to the usual spring orientation
program, Perkins said.
A program, "Penn State History
and Traditions" will-be presented
for the first time at 2 p.m. Jan. 28
in the Hetzel Union assembly
room.
An informal party will be held
at 8 - p.m. Jan. 27 in the HUB.
There will be a song and cheer
program in the- assembly room
and a tour, of the-HUB facilities
Will follow: Movies and other en
tertainment 'are also plahned.
The Inter-College Council
Board Will _present a program
Jan 29 to acquaint the new stu
dents with the role of the au.
Butt Suggested
As Fire Cause
CHICAGO (W)—An expert theorized yesterday that a
sneak smoker flipped a cigarette into a waste basket and may
have started the disastrous fire that killed 90 in Our Lady
of the Angels School.
Sgt. Drew Brown, head o
the best theory about the cause,
of Monday's fire was "a care- 1
lessly discarded cigarette, tossed:
into a waste basket by a sneak
smoker."
He emphasized it is strictly a
theory.
But investigators did not elimi
nate the possibility the blaze was
deliberately touched off.
The FBI turned its attention to
the tragedy.
Plans were made for a mass
burial of the young victims of the
nation's third worst school fire in
100 years.
The flash of flames in the 40-
year-old building snuffed out the
lives of 87 children and 3 nuns.
Still in hospitals were 78 others
-75 youngsters, a fireman, the
school janitor and a nun.
Sgt. Brown, who carefully In
spected the charred building,
said his theory was based on
these circumstances:
Every day, about 2:30 p.m.,
boys took waste baskets to the
basement and the material was
burned later in the furnace by
the janitor.
Near this disposal point is a
boy's washroom where a lad
might steal a smoke. Old exami
nation papers also were stored in
the area.
The area is In the northeast
corner of the brick building.
The fire began there and gushed
up a wooden staircase.
Sgt. Brown said two boys were
in the area, emptying waste bas
kets, as late as 2:40 p.m. That
was two minutes before the first
alarm sounded. The boys told
Brown they smelled something
like a smouldering substance.
An eyewitness who may have
been the first to spot the fire told
police the first ladders raised to
ward the upper floor—the second
—were too short.
Fire Commissioner Robert 3.
Quinn said arson had not been
stricken from the list of pos
sibilities although no positive
evidence along that line had
been found.
"We always Suspect arson
Where there is loss of life, partic
ularly-in a public place, and we
cannot establish the cause of the
fire," he said. . .
A newsman asked if the inter
est stemmed from bombing of
Jewish houses of worship in At
lanta, Ga., and Peoria, DI., and
bomb Pcarr s in public and par°-
. (Continued on page two)
sored by the Outing Club on Jan.
31. There will be skating at the
ice rink for all students.
A special program for men at ,
Recreation Building will include I
handball, basikelball, paddlebalL
volleyball, badminton and bowl
' 'Mg.
The program' for women at
White Hall consists of bowling,
swimming, basketball and volley
ball,
Alpha Phi Omega, menri..serv
ice fraternity, and Gamma Sigma
Sigma, women's service fraternity,
will sponsor tours of the campus+
from 9 a`.m, to 12 noon. Jan. ?Al. ]
They will Mart from te main
lounge of the HUB.
So For—
Remarkable
See Page 6
the police arson squad, said
Faculty Tea
Be Held
WSGA
Junior and senior women will
meet faculty members at the jun
ior-senior faculty reception from -
7:30 to 9:30 tonight in the Hetzel
Union main lounge. •
About 150 faculty members._
members of the administration
and residence hall hostesses
will attend by invitation. All
junior and senior women are
invited.
Presidents of student councils
and hat societies selected repre
sentative faculty members. All
colleges will be represented.
Faculty attendance was not lim
ited in previous years.
The reception, which is spon
sored by the Women's Student
Government Association, is de
signed to better acquaint junior
and senior women with the fac
ulty and administration.
Members of Covens, sophomore
women's hat society; Chimes,
junior women's hat society; and
Scrolls and Mortar Board, senior
women's hat societies, will serve
as hostesses.
Jean Kissick, chairman, said
she expects between 250 and 300
iunior and senior women to at
tend.
The receiving line will in
clude:
President and Mrs. Eric A.
Walker: Dr. Robert G. Bernreu
ter, special assistant to the pres
ident for student affairs, and
Mrs. Bernreuter: Dean of Wo
men Pearl 0. Weston: Miss Kis
sick and Jessie Jangigian,
WSGA vice president.
Jean Nigh. Linda Segar. Arlene
D'Onofrio. Anne Ruthrauff, San
dra Shoeren and Martha Shipp
are on the committee for the re
ception.
Rlrough Bulletin
Gains Top Award
"The Borough Bulletin," a
monthly magazine published by
the Institute of Local Government
at the University, has been select
ed as the outstanding magazine
among all U.S. municipal publica
tions in nationwide competition
sponsored by the American Mu.
nicinal Association.
"The Borough Bulletin" is de
voted to the improvement of pub
lie administration and exchange
of ideas and information on 'mu
nicipal affairs for the officials of
the 1000 Pennsylvania boroughs,
Major George Christopher,
president of' the association, will
present the award to the Institute
today at the annual Congress of
the AssOciation.-
WEIFNI Will Preview
Artist Series Concert
WDFM will present a preview
of the coming Artist Series con
cert at 9:15' tonight.
Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds, voice
instructor from 1944 to 1952, will
discuss Miss Elizabeth Schwarz
kopf and the type of music she
•
'is famous for singing.
The Schwarzkopf program will
be given on Dec. 10 in Schwab
Auditorium.
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