(3h STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 6. 1959 FIVE CENTS VOL. 59. No. 7< e Gunners Exposed Pla Tape Reds WASHING' United States world yestert cording of < voices it iden Soviet jet fig] ing down a helj pJane. One bit, merciless and boast ing said: “Yek he is falling. I will finish him off, boys, I will finish him off an the run." The graphii recording was made public By the State De partment on the eve of the bur ial of two victims, of the plane crash. In all, 17 American air men may haVe died. Certainly six did. It was last Sept. 2 that the un armed Cl3O transport was downed, near the border between Turkey and Soviet Armenia. The craft was admittedly off course and it crashed about 25 miles inside Armenia—but there was no question about it being a transport, and there was a sus picion it may have been led astray by Soviet radio signals. The vivid account was ear lier presented to the Soviet gov ernment. But from Dep. Pre mier Anastas I. Mikoyan on down. Soviet officials ignored the tape recording and denied information of the missing 11 Americans. The U.S. government almost from the beginning took the posi tion that the transport was shot down. But until yesterday it had declined to d i s c 1 o s e — except to the Moscow government—the ba sis for this determined .assertion. The tape recording purportedly covers the operation of five Soviet fighter pilots from the beginning of a search for the transport over Soviet territory until after it was destroyed. "The target is a transport, four-engine," one pilot cried, ac cording to a translation from the Russian provided by the State Department. “I am attacking the target . , . ‘‘Target speed is 300 kilometers, about 180 miles, per hour. I am going with it. It is turning to ward ... ‘‘The target is burning . . . ‘‘There’s a hit... "The target is burning, 582 (the number of one plane.) "The target banking , . . ‘‘lt is going toward the fence... ‘‘Open fire . . . ‘‘The target is burning . . . (Continued on page eight) Proves Guilty :ON (/P) The exposed to the ay a secret re xcited, gloating ified as those of her pilots shoot less U.S. transport 3 Groups to Finance Career Exposition The All-University career exposition, to be held April 15 and 16, will be sponsored and financed by the Inter-College Council Board, the Alumni Association and the University Placement Service, according to Jack Kendall, exppsition chairman. The campus wide exposition was originally proposed by ICCB to replace the individual college expositions held every year. The exposition wi 1.1 bring in representatives from about 40 companies to talk to students about job opportunities in their particular fields. The Alumni Association will contribute $5OO to the exposi tion fund, according to Ridge Riley, executive director. Riley said that the action had not been officially approved by the Alumni Boaid yet. However, before he promts 3d the money to Kendall, he had checked with enough board members ‘ to know it would pass, he said. ICCB decided Thursday night to contribute up to $3OO or more FOR A BETTER PENN STATE CONCORDIA CHOIR MEMBERS, from Concordia College, Moor head, Minn, will present a concert at 8:30 p.m. Monday in Schwab Auditorium. The choir is presently on an extensive tour of the eastern United States. Cabinet to Study 5-Point Grade Plan All-University Cabinet will study a proposed 5-point grading system giving a'final numerical grade in each course which would provide fairer grades in borderline cases. Under the proposed system, a final course average of 88 would be a 3.8 final grade and an average of 81 would be a 3.1. The present system would grade both an 88 and an 81 as a “B”. Scott to Speak Here Monday Hugh Scott, United States Sena tor from Pennsylvania, will speak on “Major Issues Facing the Na tion” when he-,comes to campus at 4 p.m. Wednesday. The talk, to be held in the Het zel Uriion assembly room, will be sponsored by the University Christian Association and Phi Sig ma Alpha, political science hon orary society, as part of a series of talks by members of govern ment. Scott, former Republican Na tional Chairman, was elected to Congress last November. to the fund in addition to the $lOO it had already given Kendall. Kendall estimated the expo sition's cost at about $lOOO. The University Placement Service will contribute any money necessary to make up the difference, Donald Cook, As sistant director of the service, said. He added, however, that he was not able to say just how much. the placement service would contribute. On Dec.,; 4, 1958 Kendall had reported to ICCB that a lack of funds was holding up plans for the exposition. This money was needed ini order to avoid asking companies to pay for the space (Continued on page five) ChUegiatt (Story on Page 8) By DENNY MALICK i Donald Zepp, Chemistry-Phy sics Student Council president, in troduced the plan, which was ta bled by Cabinet to be brought be fore the Executive Committee for further study. The system, originally pro posed by the Chemistry-Phy sics Council, would make a final average of 100 equal 5. SO equal 4, 80 equal 3, 70 equal 2 and 60 equal 1. Anything below a 00 would be 0. “Under this system,” Zepp said, “a student would get the actual grade he earned. ' “The University recognizes the difference between an 89 and a 90,” he continued, “but it does not recognize the difference be tween an 80 and an 89.” Zepp added that there would be much more incentive with a 5-point system. A student going into the final examination with an average of 85 could hardly raise his grade under the present setup, he said, but he could with the proposed system. All-University President Jay Feldstein appointed Zepp to study the proposed system and suggested that - Chemistry-Phy sics council members be recruit ed to aid in the study. Spring-Fall Timetables to Combine Timetables containing class schedules for both the fall and spring semesters of the aca demic year will be issued next fall, according to John E. Mil ler, University scheduling officer. With the full-year timetables, students will be able to see at the beginning of the fall semester what courses will be offered in both the fall and spring semesters and will be better able to arrange the hours on their schedules. Another innovation in the sche duling system which is still in the By SUE HILL University's Fees Are Vi Above Similar Schools' University students residing in Pennsylvania paid 57 percent higher fees than the average charged by similar land grant institutions in other states during the 1957-58 academic year, according to President Eric A. Walker’s “State of the University” report. The report stated that educa tional fees charged residents of the Commonwealth studying on campus average $350 per year and that non-residents pay twice this amount. The total amount received by the University in these fees was $7,235,261 or 16.9 per cent of the total income. The total state appropriation accounted for 35.8 per cent of the total income which is ap preciably lower than what com parable land-grant institutions receive from their respective slates.' This may partially account for the higher fees charged students at the University. The total of $15,319,158 was al located by the state for a two fold purpose: 1) general operation and maintenance of instruction and research programs and 2) con tracts with the various state de partments and scientific research programs. The federal government allo cated $7,385,059 to the University, or 17.2 per cent of the total in come. This appropriation was ear marked for five purposes: instruc tion authorized by the Morrill Act; vocational teacher training; agriculture and home economics activities; agriculture research; and research projects. Activiies, health service and residence and dining fees were not included in the student fees. A total of 8000 students livinq on campus paid residence and dining fees and all students paid the ether fees. Fees amounted to $8,234,527 or 19.2 per cent. Other income received by the University included: Endow ments, $26,020 or one-tenth of one per cent; private gifts, grants and contracts, $1,885,038 or 4.4 per cent; earnincs of educational de partments, $2,543,138 or six peri cent; and student aid, $185,306 or four-tenths of one per cent of the total income, The total University income amounted to $42,813,510. and this total was in turn used for the operation of the University for that academic year. Tomorrow’s article will show how this money is spent by the University and its educational program. Weekend Weather To Be Fair , Cold Fair but cold weather is expect ed to continue through the week end. Today’s .cloudy weather will be accompanied by strong breezes and a few snow flurries. The pre dicted high temperature for this afternoon is 26. Tomorrow will be sunny but the cold weather is expected to stay with a high of 30. planning stage is the possibility |if no conflicts have been sche of having the final examinationjduled for any of the three courses, schedule printed and distributed’the student must take the three along with the timetables. .finals as originally scheduled. This would benefit students The university will probably as they would therefore be able incorporate the policy of granting to switch their elective courses a free day between the last day around in order to avoid taking of classes and the first day of ex ioo many final examinations on aminations within the near future, the same day. Students would be able to use this No definite action has been day for much needed studying, announced as yet concerning this This semester a Sunday falls plan. between the last class and the The policy concerning con- first final, flict examinations will remain If the student enrollment con the same, Miller stated." tinues to increase at its present A student who has three exami- rate, the University may be forced nations within 48 hours may file to schedule two finals in the same for a conflict, he said. However,lroom at the same time, he said. By CATHY FLECK First of TlOO Articles Student Out For Attempt To Buy Test A seventh semester student was dismissed from the Univer sity at'the end of the fall semes ter for attempting to buy a final examination. The male student was dismissed by the Senate sub-cominittee on discipline Jan. 17, after two days of hearings by the committee. Harold W. Perkins, assistant to the dean of men, said the student attempted to purchase a Geology 20 final examination from a sec jretary in the geology department. The student was not enrolled in the course at the time but was presumably purchasing it for someone else. Laurence H. Lattman, assistant professor of geomorphoiogy, re ported the incident to the Senate discipline committee for action. The student was traced through a telephone to his apartment. The student may only be re admitted to the University with ;the approval of President Eric A. Walker and the approval of the dean of the College of Business Administration, the college in which he was enrolled. This was the first case tried under the new Senate discipline regulations passed at the January meeting of the University Senate. This was the first case in many years of a student being appre hended and dismissed by the Uni versity for such action. Investi gations concerning the stealing and/or buying of examinations were held after a rash of examin ations were reported “out” prior to the Fall semester 1957 finals. Local Police Earn 'Pat on the Back ' Stale College police have re ceived a pat on the back from a national safety association. The “Walker Safety Award” of the National Police Officers As sociation of America was present ed to the police department for its service in “materially reducing traffic accident fatalities and pro moting highway safety in its com munity during 1958.” The award was presented “to encourage law officers to con tinue their splendid work and to be constantly alert in promoting safe motoring to the American public;"
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