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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
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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
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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
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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.