01It 4 VOL. 60. No. 72 STATE 430 Students to Participate In Spring Orientation Program By ELAINE MIELE About 430 new students will arrive on campus Feb. 1 to take part in the spring semester Orientation Week program. This is a slight increase over the 390 students admitted last spring, Sherman ford, associate dean of admissions, said yesterday. The present figure is only an because many students entering for the spring semester apply late, he said. There will be about 130 fresh men, 200 transfers from Univer sity centers and 100 transfers from other colleges and univer sities, he said. The orientation program will be essentially the same as that used In the fall, Leroy S. Austin, chair man of the orientation program and associate dean of men, said. One major change is that President Eric A. Walker will not be able to attend the Presi dent's Convocation on Feb. 2 in Schwab. Lawrence E. Dennis, vice pres ident for academic affairs, will of fically welcome all new students at the convocation. A Student Government Associ ation-sponsored coffee hour will be held for new students on Feb. 4 in the Iletzel Union main lounge. At the same time information about activities will be given by members of all the recognized student activities. Highlighting the week of events will be talks given by members of the faculty. The 'talks are open to all new stu dents, but they must obtain a free ticket at the HUB desk. All the speeches will be given in the HUB assembly room. Richard C. Maloney, associate dean of the College of the Lib eral Arts, will speak on "Penn State History and Traditions" at 8 p,m. on Feb. 3.= Two of the talks will be given on Feb. 4. Dr. Kent Forster, pro fessor of history, will speak on "Europe Looks at America" at 10 a.m. and Alfred K. Blackadar, associate professor of meteorolo gy, will talk on "Earth Satellites: The Shape of Things to Come" at 2 p.m. "Fainting as a Language" will be the topic of a talk by Dr. Har old E. Dickson, professor of art and architectural history, at 2 p.m. on Feb. 5. TIM to Second The Town Independent Men's Council may move out doors with its next Las Vegas Night which is tentatively scheduled for April 9. ' - , Because the first Las Vegas Night, held Dec. 12, was highly successful, TIM embers felt that another should be held. There was some obj ction, however, to holding it t ice a year because interest mig t die out. The second Las Vegas Night would also be held in the I-letzel, Union ballroom, and the ballroom, terrace would be used if the weather permits. This would en able the event to accommodate 1000 persons instead of the 600, accommodated in the fall. 1 The council will hold a 1 spaghetti dinner at 6:30 tonight at La Galleria restaurant for all those who worked on the first Las Vegas Nigh!. Philip Haines, TIM president, reported that the State College Borough Council may consider exempting TIM members parking on borough streets from t ckets between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. atur day and Sunday mornings, 1 the, men registered their license um bers at Borough Hall. The borough now forbids ing on the streets from 2 a . nag FOR A BETTER PENN STATE OLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1960 FIVE CENTS - " ‘ laik ' lNL2-7-1.:0101 . • LOOKING OVER THE APPLICATION for the SGA-Chartered Flight to Europe is Walton Davis, senior in physics from Erie. Ar lene Rosipal, Junior in arts and letters from West Mifflin, is the agent, serving on a SGA committee. Ashes Now Available For Use on Shortlidge A container filled with ashes has been placed along the curb on Shortlidge Rd. on the hill at the entrance to the campus. Physical Plant personnel said that the hill sometimes creates a problem for motor ists when ice first forms on the road and the ashes in the green container can be used to help the motorist. Sponsor 'Las Vegas' By JANET DURSTINE a.m. every day, and TIM had asked that the ban be lifted Sat urdays and Sundays. Haines said Lawrence J. Perez, borough coun cil president, said the borough was hesitant to change its park ling signs. One TIM member suggested That cards be placed on the windshields of any cars ex empted from the tickets. The council voted to go ahead with a bluebook jam session with Leonides Council from 2 to 5 p.m. Feb. 13. The afternoon session' was first approved last semester and is listed on the University calendar. Nittany Council plans to hold a bluebook dance that evening. Haines announced that TIM will study the income tax struc ture next semester to enable members to make any possible deductions. He also announced that there [are six vacancies open in the council. Tatirgiatt Tropic Air Misses State College Area Very warm air came within 500 feet of State College yester day but it never managed to reach the ground. Tropical air with temperatures in the middle 50's flowed across the top of the ~ 4 , 401 cold air that was trapped in the Nittany Valley. A The high on campus was just IV. 36 degrees. Mostly cloudy weather is due 'r today. The high will be 44 de- - • gre e s. Tonight „. will be partly cloudy and chilly with a low of 28 degrees. Cloudy and mild weather is ex pected tomorrow with a chance of rain by late in the day. The high should be 48 degrees. Educational Television Changes in TV Courses Anticipated By NICKI WOLFORD Seventh in a Series The use of television in University courses is here to stay but the ways in which it is used may change, Dr. Clar ence R. Carpenter, director of the division of academic re search and services, said. Television courses as a means to solving increased enrollment problems, Carpenter said, "will not be replaced by anything I can see on the horizon." There are now 14 courses being televised. One of the first courses to be televised, Psychology 2, was withdrawn from the television project this semester. USSR May Reduce Arms Supreme Soviet to Consider Possible Disarmament Plan MOSCOW (JP) Soviet steps to promote Premier Nikita Khrushchev's total world disarmament plan are expected to be announced soon. Informed circles expressed belief last night that a uni lateral program—perhaps a reduction in Soviet armed forces —will be voted into effect open- T. Stan estimate ing today. I Cryptic remarks in Moscow Glenn Says newspapers that the session will; be a vital one stirred speculation! on these lines. Indications were that the So viet lawmakers will be called on to endorse a plan for implement ing some, though not all, of the proposals Khrushchev laid before the United Nations General As- sembly in New York last fall. The time seems ripe for some such action. President Klementi Y. Voroshilov is to visit India in early February and Khrush chev is making a goodwill trip across neutral Asia in late Feb- ruary. Khrushchev suggested in his Sept. 18 speech to the U.N. that the world disarm itself complete ly within four years. He present ed a plan to do away with armies. navies, air force, nuclear weap ons and military targets, leaving only domestic police forces for keeping internal order. He returned to this theme at a New Year's Eve banquet at the Kremlin. Toasting the New Year, he hinted that the Soviet Union might cut down its army on its own and rely on rockets for de fense if the West delays a gener al disarmament plan. Besides contributing to eas ing world tension and scoring a point in propaganda, the re. lease of any significant number of men from the Soviet armed services would boost production in the current seven-year plan. Service men constitute the most efficient, healthiest and best trained cadres available for un dermanned Soviet industry. There was talk that hundreds of thou sands—perhaps more than a mil lion—might be released. Flight Proceeds To Aid Drive Fair weather Saturday will en able students to have their heads in the clouds while contributing to the 1060 New March of Dimes. "Fly-Away," sponsored each year by the March of Dimes, will be held from 1 to 4:30 p.m. at the University Airport. Tickets will be sold at the field and all proceeds will go to the March of Dimes. Price for a single-engine ride is $2, for a twin-engine ride, $4. Certified commercial pilots will be at the controls of the planes, and flightS over State College and Bellefonte areas will be the basic schedule. Carpenter said the reasons behind the withdrawal were "complicated" but it was partly by the desire to experiment with large classes. Substantiating Carpenter's be lief that television is here to stay are the plans made for connecting most of the University buildings by closed circuit television. Before the end of the academic year, programs will be originat ing from Sparks, Boucke and Rec reation Hall, Lawrence E. Den nis, vice president for academic affairs, said. Future plans call for lines to be added to Home Economics. Military Science and the engi neering buildings. Eventually special programs and courses will be piped into the No Outbreak Of Flu Yet Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, head of Ritenour Health Center s said yesterday that the Uni• versity has not as yet been hit by an outbreak of influenza. According to Secretary of Wel fare Arthur S. Flemming, mild influenza epidemics have been re ported in nine states, the closest state being Ohio. In four states, the Asian strain has been isolated. The large number of sielcnesses in the infirmary is normal for this period of the year, Glenn said, The majority of cases involve the intestinal tract which produces a short illness. he said. Common early symptoms are dizziness and headaches Although there is no Asian flu at the University, Glenn warns that this may be the start of a nation-wide epidemic similar to the one of two years ago. As it is not yet the common time of the year for Asian flu, the University may eventually be hit by such an epidemic, In late Feb- Jinx and March, infections of this !type usually are at a peak, he said. Tn . an October, 1957, epidemic, 'more than 3000 students were treated for flu, colds, grippe and fever. The infirmary was unable to accornodate all those stricken and the overflow of students was sent to bed in the residence halls and was served a liquid diet by Food Service. Five local physi cians were called in to treat pa tients in women's residence halls. Theta Sigma Phi Taps Foui Women Theta Sigma Phi, women's pro lfessional journalism fraternity, has tapped four new pledges. They are Patricia Vargo, Gloria Wolford, Darlene Andersen and Annabelle Rosenthal. The members are now planning their annual Matrix banquet which will be held in February. At the banquet members will put on a skit mocking campus per sonalities, and outstanding wom en leaders at the University W . " be honored. lietzel Union Building and resi dence halls, Dennis said. President Eric A. Walker also predicted that a great deal more education is going to be done by television, and that a lot more credit courses will be given on open television, As for the effect of tele - vision on academic standards (on the) "brighter" students), Walker said that supplementary reading and reporting is necessary. Comparing the problem to his own years in school, Walker said, "A student's always had to do more work." He also suggested that a special examination be written for the 'A' students, As for television instructors, Walker said: "Only the good teachers survive in T.V."
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