SATURDAY, DEC 6 BER 6, 1958 End of Said t Be Possibility tudents may be able to fulfill part of theiri ace requirement with non-laboratory courses, des that they are not really necessary for a and understanding of certain sciences. I Liberal arts • mathematics-scie if the college dec true appreciatio Paul M. Althi use, professor of agriculture and biological chemistry, at a meeting of the (liberal arts faculty, said he is con vinced that a laboratory work is not necessarily useful or essential for a student who wants an over all view of the biological sciences. In many of these courses the majority of a student's time is spent looking through a micro scope and drawing what he sees on paper, he said. By using only one instrument he does not get a particularly clear view of sd entific work. However, Clarence Noll, asso ciate dean of the College of Chemistry and Physics, said he felt that in the physical sciences the laboratory was very impor tant to get the feel of problems and difficulties present _day sci entists face. Proposals set forth last May by a planning committee would tech nically reduce the laboratory sci ence requirement to six credits. The remaining six, if not taken in mathematics, could be elected ,from demonstration-lecture cour ses, widening elective opportuni ties in non-laboratory sciences. A typical non-lab course would be one in biological science, which ,extracts the basic principles un derlying life and life processes, !Althouse said. This type of course avoids repetition and gives the student a clear view of the field !without actual lab work. An experiment at the Uni versity of Akron showed that students seeing movies of lab oratory work and its results re ceived grades as good as those who participated in actual lab oratory work, according to Mrs. (Continued on page eight) New In Scie ces iced Annou The Graduate S , hool has an nounced a new ty te of National Science Foundation graduate fel lowship for the ye.r 1959-1960. These new fellowships, known as Cooperative Graduate Fellow ships, provide a wider institution al distribution of NSF-supported graduate students than did the regular predoctoral graduate fel lowships of the foundation. About 1000 fellowships are to be awarded in March, 1959 in co operation with 115 universities. The university may recommend,' a total of 38 applicants for these: fellowships in the following areas: "mathematical, physical,-medical,!, biological, engineering and other sciences including anthropology, psychology (including clinical psychology), and from the follow-1 ing social sciences w h e re . they conform to accepted standards of scientific inquiry by fulfilling the requirements of the basic scien tific method as to objectivity, ver ifiability and generality: geogra phy, mathematical economics, eco nometrics, demography, informa tion and communication theory, experimental and quantitative so ciology and the history and phil osophy of science." The student awarded a fellow ship receives a stipend of $2200 for 12 months or $1650 - for the academic year. Applications must be submitted to the Dean of the Graduate School, 104 Willard, no later than December 15, 1958. Interested students may inquire for further information at the Graduate School Office. Mil Ball. '(Continued from page one) rated with shining stars. Those in the receiving line were: Bill Westgard, captain of Scabbard and Blade and Brigade Commander of the Army ROTC; Michael Chapman, captain of the Quarterdeck Society and Batal lion Commander of the Navy RO TC; Robert McNeill, Division Commander of the Air Force RO TC; Eric Taylor, Executive Offi cer of Pershing Rifles; James Sloan,' Squadron Commander of the Arnold Air Society; John Moyer, Military Ba I -Committee chairman; and their dates. Music Educatio To Hold TV Dis Two University p discuss music educa minute television di gram, "Penn State: Ideas," at 9:50 a.m. Wednesday' and Fri GB-TV, Channel 10. Dr. Hummel Fish.' the music and mu_ departments, and Andrews, professor cation, will be the s Israel Film to B "Israel: The Next a kinescope recordi, vision program press ally, last l‘lay, will b 7:30 p.m. tomorrow rith Hillel Foundatio "NOW MA BALL IS NITTANY "Home o Delicious Ban AD 8-850 Lab Requirement' ants Panel ussion ofesstirs will ion in a 10- „eussion pro ) is Men -and on Monday, ay on WF- rn, head of I. c education 1: Frances f music edu li eakers. ' -- Shown Ten Years," i g of a tele- Inted nation featured at t B'nai 1. THE VER" DELL iches" THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Dont' Play 4-F; You May Be One Now Some young men who reach the critical age of 18 can stop dream ing up rare illnesses and exager ating the extreme pains in their slightly flat feet, for the army has become more choosey'about the men they draft. The demands of complicated warfare machinery call for men of a higher calibre than ever be fore, and medical officers will be rejecting men who do not meas ure up to strict standards set by law. Only about one out of three, men examined during World War II and the Korean action, were re jected for physical, mental or mor al reasons. But the odds are now 50-50 that a man will be exempt ed from serving in the Army. One reason that men were tak en who did not meet the Army's standards was that medical offi cers had fairly broad powers in interpreting and applying require ments. For instance, it was up to them to decide whether a man with eyes only slightly weaker • than the standard should be drafted. Now the Army Surgeon=Gen eral has told examining stations to apply strictly the physical re quirements of the draft law. Mental standards were raised by Congress in July. Only those who scored 10 or below on the mental test could be disqualified before. Now, only those with scor ing 31 or above will definitely be drafted. However, those with scores be ;tween 10 and 31 will be given j aptitude tests for different fields I of work. If they pass two of them satisfactorily they will be accept ed in the service. ,Upperclasswomen's Tea A tea for upperclasswomen will ibe held tomorrow afternoon from 12:30 to 4:30 pm. in Atherton i lounge. It is being sponsored by the freshman women. Schwa rzkopf Drew Acclaim Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, noted soprano who will give a concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Schwab Auditorium ; first attracted the attention of music critics while still a teenager. During her studies at the Hochschule fur Musik in Berlin she won first prizes in theory, harmony, musical history, piano, viola and singing. Students who wish to attend the concert may obtain tickets b y presenting matriculation cards at the Heizel Union desk beginning at 1 p.m. Sunday. The sale of tickets to non-stu dents will begin at 9 a.m. Mon day. The price is $1.25. Miss Schwarzkopf's first pro fessional engagement was at the Berlin Civic Opera House and her first role, which she learned in an emergency in less than 36 hours, was a flower-maiden in "Parsifal". Her salary was $5O a month at the start, and before her first season had ended, she was singing four or five times a week. Three years later her salary had been quadrupled and she was giv en her first important role. That season she sang 187 performances, and it was during this time that she attracted the attention of Maria Ivogun who took the young singer as a private pupil. The , interest of this noted interpreter proved to be the turning point in Miss Schwarz kopf's career. Miss Ivogun and her husband, Michael Rauchei- kind of Arithmetic Doesn't exactly make sense, we'll have to admit. But neither do some of the present talc laws. For instance, a strange twist in federal law lets several million American people and busi nesses escape paying all the taxes in their elec tric bills that you pay in yours. More than MO out of every dollar you pay-for electricity goes for taxes--but members of this "privileged class" pay only a small fraction of that. The reason: They get their electricity from federal government electric systems that you help support. Most Americans think everyone should pay his fair share of taxes. How do you feel about it? o,„ i ttt, WEST PENN POWER in Teens sen, a noted accompaniest and coach, diverted Miss Schwarz kopfs interest to the art song and prepared her for lieder re citals. She went to Vienna to give her first lieder recital and remained there even after World War II to become the recognized star of the Vienna Opera. She attracted the interest of the management of Convent Garden in England and went on to London. Miss Schwarzkopf made her first United States appearance in 1953 and has been extremely pop ular hel e ever since. Her appear ance on ,campus is the seventh Artists Serieg program of the se mester. Freezing Weather To Return Today Billion up your overcoat winter temperatures are selling in again. Today will be partly cloudy. ; windy and colder with a few snow flurries likely and a high ' of 30 degrees and a low of 14. is this? PAGE FIVE
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