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VOL. 60. No. 54
Walker Awards Half Holiday
Ike Sets Theme for Goodwill Mission
'Peace Requires
Disarmament'
WASHINGTON (A 3)—Presi
dent Eisenhower set the theme
for his unprecedented good
will mission last night with a
declaration that a start on
mutual disarmament by the
Western powers and Russia is
the first requirement for re
ducing world tensions.
Eisenhower asserted that, “un
til the eonlerence table can re
place the battlefield as the arbiter
of world affairs,” the United
States must maintain its military
strength unimpaired.
Without this military strength,"
he said, "our efforts to provide
a shield for freedom and to pre
serve and strengthen peace
would be futile."
He took his stand in a national
ly televised and broadcast ad
dress from the White House less
than an hour before his sched
uled takeoff for Rome on the first
leg of a 22,37 Q-mile, 11-nation
journey.
Eisenhower put his main em
phasis not on military strength
but on the search for peace and
on the need he sees to portray
America’s peaceful intentions to
other nations.
"I shall try fo convey to every
one," he said, "our earnesiness
in striving to reduce the tensions
dividing mankind—an effort
first requiring, as indeed Mrs.
Khrushchev agrees, the begin
ning of mutual disarmament.
Of course, I will stress the first
requirement for mutual dis
armament is mutual verifica
tion."
Soviet Premier Nikita S.
Khrushchev has been plugging
the. disarmament theme heavily
in recent speeches.
The effect of the President’s
words seemed to be that in a
Western summit conference at
Paris at the climax of his for
eign mission, Dec. 19-21, Eisen
hower will be in favor of giving
high priority to disarmament as
a subject for East-West summit
conference negotiation next year.
Walker Urges Cut
Of Negative Oath
President Eric A. Walker urged yesterday that part of
the student aid oath be cut from the National Defense Educa
tion Act.
In a letter to Senator Hugh Scott, the president said: “It
seems unnecessary to ask anyone to declare ‘I am not a
disloyal American’ after he has
already declared that T am a loyal
American.’ ”
The National Defense Education
Act, which provides for federal
loans to students, requires stu
dents receiving a loan to sign an
oath of allegiance to the United
States and also file an affidavit
disclaiming membership' in sub
versive organizations.
Walker said he does not op
pose the oath of allegiance al
though he does not believe it
would prevent a Communist
from participating in the loan
program.
But the negative affidavit
should he eliminated, Walker
continued, because without list
ing the organization i “the affida
vit is open to both a|dministrative
and legal abuse."
“Most important o;
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A QUEEN AMONG THE FIVE— The Military Ball queen finalists,
(front 1. to r.) Maxine Miller and Virginia Martindale; back,
Bonnie Bower, Joan Karlow and Barbara Watchorn, The Queen
will be crowned at 11:30 tonight in Recreation Hall.
No Student Tickets
Remain for Series
All student tickets have been distributed for the three
performances to be given by Arnold Moss and the Shake
speare Festival Players.
Less than 80 non-student tickets remain for tomorrow’s
matinee, and about 60 remain for tomorrow night
"The Tempest,” a comedy about
enemies reunited on an enchant
ed island, will be given at 8:30
tonight and at 2:30 p.m. tomor
row. “Measure for Measure,” also
a comedy, will be given at 8:30
tomorrow night. All of the pro
ductions will be given in Schwab
Auditorium.
Arnold Moss, the leading
By NICKI WOLFORD
said, “is the fact that it involves
grossly unfair'discrimination.”
Since farmers and veterans
receive billions of dollars an
nually from the federal govern
ment without declaring their
lack of affiliation with subver
sive organizations, why should
students be compelled to do so
for the privilege of borrowing
money. Walker asked.
“Insofar as this requirement
indicates that the loyalty of col
lege and university students is
especially suspect in our society,”
Walker said, “I must vehemently
disagree.”
The negative affidavit is injust
because it places students as sub
jects of special distrust in our
society and because it singles out
only the neediest students in its
discrimination. Walker said.
all,” Walker
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER A. 1959
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player in Ihe comedies, was
born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He grad
uated from ihe College of the
City of New York where he was
a Phi Beta Kappa, and received
his masters degree from Colum
bia University.
Soon after graduation, Moss
joined Eva LaGallienne’s Civic
Repertory Theatre, and then ac
cepted an instructorship at Brook
lyn College where he taught act
ing and speech for several years.
It was at this time that he dis
covered the promising young sing
er, Alfred Drake.
Moss has also appeared in the
movies, on radio and television,
and has recently recorded con
cert and poetry readings.
'ln 1955, he moved into the
fields of playwriiing, direction
and production. A year later, he
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Warmer Weather
To Prevail Today
The most beautiful weather of
this month is due today as bright
sunshine and warm temperatures
bring spring-like conditions to
this area.
Temperatures will rise rapidly
during the morn
ing and should
reach the 55 de
gree mark by
the middle of
the afternoon,
Tonight will be
partly cloudy
and mild with a
low of 37 de
grees.
Mostly cloudy
skies and a continuation of rather
mild temperatures are expected
tomorrow morning with a change
to cloudy and colder in the after
noon. v 1
Classes to Be Made Up
On Day Before Finals
By NICKI WOLFORD
University students will get a half holiday for
Liberty Bowl game on Dec. 19 but will have 10 make up
missed classes on Jan. 20, the free day allowed for final
exam preparation.
It took the half-holiday proposal approximately three
Senate Refers
Center Plan
To Committee
The University Senate re
ferred a plan to give Senate
membership to the directors
of the Commonwealth Cam
puses back to the Rules Com
mitte for further study yes-
terday.
The committee asked, in a re
port given by Chairman John M.;
Anderson, that the Senate Con-'
stitution be amended to give!
membership to campus directors)
and to the director of Mont Alto,
a division where students in the
School of Forestry spend their 1
first year.
Anderson said including the
directors in the Senate would
establish a better communica
iion link beiwen the University
and the campuses.
However, Dr. Joseph Jordan,
associate professor of chemistry,
objected to the proposal because
it would upset the balance be
tween faculty members and ad
ministrative members in the Sen
ate.
The 254-member Senate has
reached its maximum size and
any increase would make it a
“large unwieldy organization,”
Jordan said.
The Senate now has 120 elect
ed_ faculty members and 134 ad
ministrative members, Jordan
said, and the addition of the
directors would bring the num
ber of administrative members
to 150.
Then, he said, the number of.
elected faculty members would,
have t 6 be increased from 12 to|
15 in order to maintain a balance,
bringing the total number to 300.'
Assembly Approves
9 ROTC Proposals
SGA Assembly, with its full-compliment of*42 members,
approved last night nine recommendations aimed at revising
the ROTC program on campus.
The recommendations, stemming from a report of last
year’s All-University Cabinet,
were opposed only by Howard
Byers (U.-Sr.).
Included in the recommenda
tions was a proposal to limit com
pulsory. ROTC to one year and
extend the advanced program to
three years. Other major recom
mendations urged expanding
ROTC courses to include civil de
fense and.survival techniques and
establishing a School of Military
Affairs, independent of all other
colleges.
In discussing the report, By
ers said that the only question
to be considered is "Do we want
compulsory ROTC? Yes or no,"
Wells Hunt, Assembly parlia
mentarian, told Assembly he had
discussed the recommendations
with Col. George Smith, comman
dant of Area B, Air Force ROTC.
Hunt said Smith felt the recom
mendations were similar to what
pgtatt
By JIM MORAN
Can It Be
Halfway ?
See Page 4
minutes to get through the Uni
versity Senate yesterday.
The measure was not brought
to a vote, but was administrative
ly approved by President Eric A,
Walker immediately after it was
recommended by the Calendar and
Class Schedule Committee.
The recommendation, present
ed by Dr. Benjamin A. Whisler,
chairman of the schedule com
mittee, has two stipulations:
that the classes be made up on
Jan 20, and that classes which
cannot be made up will not get
the holiday.
The reason behind the first sti
pulation was that actually drop
ping the classes is “against the
basic principles of the committee
(Class and Calendar) and the Uni
versity as a whole,” Arthur Mil
tenberger, student representative
on the committee, said.
Miltenberger said he proposed
that the classes be made up in
the evening at the discretion of
individual instructors, but this
jwas rejected by the committee
because it would “put pressure
on the professor to forget about
this day’s class.”
Making up the classes might
also lead to conflicts for stu
dents with several classes on
Saturday morning if the in
structors scheduled evening
make-ups at the same time, he
said.
When the All-University Cabi
net proposed an extra day to
study for finals, Miltenberger
said, one of its main arguments
was that the day would provide
a means for making up classes for
“emergency” holidays like this.
Whisler explained that the sec
ond stipulation was included for
courses in education and the lib
eral arts whose students could not
return to campus on Jan. 20.
Some students only come to
classes scheduled on Friday or
Saturday because they are
working, and asking them to
make a special trip during the
middle of the week is unfair,
Miltenberger said.
the Air Force is currently study
ing in hopes of revising its ROTC
program.
Ross Lehman, SGA advisor,
told Assembly that the recom
mendations would have to be
forwarded to the Senate Commit
tee on Courses of Study for their
approva.l. He pointed out that the
University would have the author
ity to decide on the proposals, not
the military.
In answer to a question, Walt
Darran, Assembly majority
leader, and proponent of the rec
ommendations, told Assembly
that the recommendations were
drafted with the future in mind,
and that many developments
would probably occur in the dis
tant future.
Darran explained that the ROTC
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