Cabinet May Be Replaced (Hjp Sattylll (Eollpgimt | uJSre VOL. 59. No. 82 Library Increased Staff, Vo Seen Essential for I By CATHY FLECK Second of a Series: “State of the University ” The University Library is planning a new wing to meet the increased demands of the future- for additional space, books and personnel. Ralph W. McComb, University librarian, said yesterday that the library’s major problem was to provide adequate 5-Year-Old Drowns In Bellefonte More than 100 searchers looked in vain last night for the tiny body of a 5-year-old Bellefonte lad who drowned in a storm sewer on his way home from kinder garten yesterday. Terry Boal, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Boal was waiting for his ride home to lunch shortly before 1 p.m. when the rushing snow water carried his little body into the sewer at East Bishop and Ridge Streets in Bellefonte. Donald 6rr, a neighbor who Terry and other children up in his car everyday, sa'id he arrived iust in time to see the boy swept into the sewer. Within 25 minutes of the acci dent, Bellefonte firemen had set up a watch at the sewer’s onening onto Spring Creek in the ‘center of town. The watch was declared futile at 8 p.m. and the fire mar shal called it off. Three other watch stations were set up at Bellefonte’s bridges; Milesburg and Lock Have n— which are both served by the same stream system—were alert ed. Digging operations on East Bishop Street were getting in full swing at 11 p.m. yesterday on the chance the searchers might find the body lodged somewhere in the sewer system. Scott to National U. S. Sen. Hugh Scott, only Republican elected from Pennsylvania in last fall’s elections, will speak to University students and faculty at 4:10 p.m. today in the Hetzel Union assembly hall. Scott’s address, "Major Issues Before the third in a series on ethics and public policy sponsored by Pi Sig ma Alpha, political science honor ary society, and the University Christian Association. Prior to his election as sena tor. Scott served 16 years as U.S. Representative from the Sixth District of Pennsylvania end was a member of the House Republican Policy Committee. He also was a member of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee and its sub-committee on aviation and radio. In 1948 Scott served one year as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Scott was educated at Ran dolph-Macon College and the Uni versity of Pennsylvania. He re ceived his bachelor of laws de gree from the University of Vir ginia Law School and his doctor FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 11, 1959 lans New W lumes Future space to meet the problems of the undergraduate student body. The additional wing being con templated in the University's ex pansion plans would mean for the undergraduates a special library service. This new addition would have a seating capacity of 1000 in addi tion to the approximate 1500 seats now in use in the present build ing. McComb said that to achieve its aims, the library should con tain 1,000,000 volumes by 1970, which would be a doubling of the present number of volumes. He pointed out that the basic responsibility of a library is to maintain a good book collec tion in areas that are already strong as well as build up col lections in ihose areas which will be useful to the future. The library, according to Mc- Comb, has undertaken a program for preserving records related to the historical development of Pennsylvania. He said that in the future a special area for Penn sylvania studies may be created. Services to graduate students and faculty members have also figured in the library’s expansion plans. These services will include - • Developing a manuscripts and rare book division primarily for the study of the humanities and the social sciences. • Increasing special study facil ities through seminars. • Providing space so that the library will be able to keep abreast of new developments in mechanical aids to research. The most pressing problem in developing these facilities was (Continued on page two) Discuss Affairs Nation,” is the of laws degree from LaSalle Col lege in 1955. Since 1922 Scoil has been a practicing attorney with the firm of While, Williams and Scott in Philadelphia. He is also a vice president of Metallurgi cal Laboratories Inc. at Wynd moor. Scott was assistant dis trict attorney in Philadelphia from 1926 to 1941. In 1952 Scott was chairman of regional organization of the Ei senhower campaign and was on President Eisenhower’s personal staff. He has been chairman of the Criminal Law Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and chairman of the Medico-Legal and Fiduciaries Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. In 1944 he received the first annual award of the Philadelphia For eign Trades Association. —C«ll*gUn Photo by John Zerby QUESTIONS ON STUDENT GOVERNMENT are pui to All-Uni versity Vice President Stfeve Garban, left, and All-University President Jay Feldstein, right, at a Cabinet coffee hour yesterday. 'Push Helps Lena Horne sings a song called "Push de Button” in the Broadway show "Jamaica.” And students in various engi-| neering classes as well as one section of Psychology 2 are| pushing “de button” to help their profs gauge the speed of; lectures. | The device which makes all this possible goes by the i name of MARI (Motivation and Resonse Indicator) and is the re !sult, strangely enough, of some experiments with pigeons. MARI cost about $5OOO to build and consists of a maze of wires and buttons installed in 212 Sackelt. "She" permits the instructor in the class to ask true and false questions of as many as 30 students to which they respond simultaneously by means of boxes located on their desks. Once the students have given their answers, two things will Choir Experiences Exciting Tours By 80881 LEVINE There’s never a dull moment when the Concordia Choir goes on tour, judging from the stories some of its members tell. Ron Marken, one of the choir members who toured Europe with the group last summer, can still; remember the excitement one of his fellow singers caused when he crossed the border from Hol land into Germany without bene fit of passport. “We were crossing the border; in two buses when John, who was always forgetting things, rea lized he had left his passport in the hotel in Holland,” Marken said. “We couldn’t take the time to go back for it, so the guide told John that when the guards checked for passports he was to sneak out to the back door of the first but and hide'in the sec ond, and when the guards check ed the second bus, John hopped de Buttons Profs Lecture By NEAL FRIEDMAN happen. A dial in front of the j instructor will show what percen tage of the class answered the: question correctly. A counter on! the right side of the student’s: box will move up one notch if he has given the right answer. By asking questions throughout the lecture and checking the number of students who an swered correctly the instructor is able to judge whether he is get ting the material across. These pigeons came into the (Continued on page two) out of the front door and returned how they live, to the first.” Another student, Luther Abram " Coming back," he continued, son, explained how the choir "the buses were dark and we 'members coordinate touring with were all trying to get some j school work. “We leave at semes sleep. When we stopped at the ter break,” he said, “and we make border again, our quick-think- !up everything we miss in the ing guard called for everyone j fust three weeks of the new se fo pass up his passport, and mester. Most of the time the profs John's was never missed." are very tolerant with us.” On the subject of their Euro- He said in addition to the big pean tour, many members and tour each year and the European choir director Paul Christiansen tour every eight years, the choir agree—their appearance at the'makes five weekend trips. “Natur- Vienna Music Festival was thejally there’s going to be soma high spot of the trip. | average sloughing, but the drop- Chrisliansen, who joined the.out rate is very low.” staff of Concordia College in 1937,1 Christiansen said the choir noted a difference between hisj rehearsed for three months choir and Penn State’s. “We sing every year prior to going on every night when we go on tour,”| tour. They sing an entirely new he said. “I understand you sing program every year, he said, one night and rest one.” Jan Stromsted, one of the co- Christiansen said he fell the ed members of the choir, said the large turnout of students for choir didn’t have any rehearsals the choir each year (600 out of for about two weeks after they a total enrollment of 1600) was returned from their tour. This due in part to the tours. He helps members make up the work said the choir members en- they miss, and Marken added, “I joyed singing In other schools find my second semester’s marks and seeing different people and iare usually better than the first.” Proposed FIVE CENTS First of a Series: ‘‘On Reorganizing Government” A unicameral legislature di- , elected according to WT% APB classes has been proposed for B B the student government reor gamzation plan to be incorpor ated next semester. This reoigamzation, the first since 1930, has as its basis the doctime of separation of poweis to make student government more effective and more representative of the enure student body. The legislature to be composed of 50 membei s—including 8 fresh men. II sophomores. 14 juniors and 1" seniors— will enact poli cies ielat:ne to student govern ment Thp Cabinet Committee on Stu dent Government Reorganization decided upon representation by class because it was felt that through this method the best and most efficient student government would be realized. The committee was confronted with three other proposed types of representation • College enrollment with rep resentatives elected through the student councils. • Repie'-eritation through living areas. • Affiliation The committee members also decided on 50 legislators to be se lected on a pro-rated graduated scale with increasing representa tion according to the class. Reasons given by the committee for selecting this arbitrary num ber were: 1) it is a medium be tween large and small numbers, and 2) upperclassmen having had expei lence in problems of stu dent government will have more votes in the assembly. In addition to a legislative branch, executive and judicial branches will be included in the government system. All three blanches will operate on a check and balance ha=is, similar In that (Continued on page eight) Collegian Staff to Hold Open House Tonight An open house for students interested in joining the news and sports staffs of The Daily Collegian will be held from 8:30 to 8:30 tonight in the Col legian office, in the basement of Carnegie Building. Studenis need not be in journalism to join the staff. Those attending the open house will be shown through the of fice and will watch the re porters at work on tomorrow's edition. This week's display in the Waring Hall show case is de voted to Collegian, with photo graphs showing the operation of the paper.
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