Welcome
New Students
VOL. 60, No. 76
--Collegian Photo by Marty Stherr
BUT I NEED THAT COURSE for graduation." That was, the familiar cry at registration yesterday
afternoon., Nine thousand and forty people passed through registration. Regular registration ends
at 5 p.m. today.
Enrollment of 9040 Reported
in Ist 2 Days of Registration
A total of 9040 students registeted for-the spring semester in the first - two days of
registration, yesterday and Wednesday.
Today is' the last day of registration for regular students. Special students will regis
ter tomorrow morning.
About 18,000 students registered in
Freshmen and transfer students are
Outing Club to Sponsor
Coed Recreation Day
The Outing Club will conduct
Coeducational Recreation Day to
morrow to acquaint new students
with the University's recreation
facilities.
' Scheduled to start at 1 p.m.,
the program will include tours of
the ice skating rink, Recreation
Hall, and other facilities used by
the Outing Club. A free movie
Will be shown at the Hetzel
Union Assembly Room.
Taylor Cites Need
For Armed Power
WASHINGTON (iP) Gen, Maxwell D. Taylor, until last
year the Army's commander; declared yesterday that from
1961 on the military tide "will run against us unless we take
heroic measures now."
To pay for such measures; the retired Army chief of
staff estimated the nation conk!
stand a $5O billion t $55 billion
annual military b dget. That
would be from $lO tO $l5 billion
more than President Eisenhower
has been asking. '
"To change the trend will re
quire men, money arid sacri
lice." the veteran •
the Senate Prepare
committee and Spa.,
tee.
"The alternative -is
feriority—and there
with Communism as
While Taylor was .peaking in
t
this vein, Adm. Ariel h A. Burke
was telling a Senate Appropria
tions subcommittee AS:" armed
might is growing evei more pow
erful.
However, Burke, chief of naval
operations, agreed with a Repub
lican senator's suggestion that, it
would be wise to increase con
struction of missile-firing Polaris
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Shobaken-Art Exhibition
Opens Today in HUB
Bruce Shobaken, instructor ofi
art, will have a 1-man show of
paintings, drawings and prints in
the Hetzel Union Building, start
ing today and continuing through
Feb. 24.
Shobaken received his master
of fine arts degree at the Univer
sity of Minnesota in 1953. Upon
graduation he, went to France on
a Fulbright fellowship and stud
ied printmaking for one year un-
I der S. W. Hayter.
submarines until, as the senator
out it, "we can close the gap" in
Nonetheless, Burke stressed,
"I support the President's bud
get" which allocates funds for
fewer Polaris subs than the
Navy asked. Subs, Burk e,
claimed, will be invulnerable
to any surprise Soviet blow.
The 58-year-old Taylor, now a
utility company executive in
Mexico City, leveled no direct
criticism at Eisenhower, under
whom he served in World War 11.
But there was indicated criti
cism in Taylor's statement that
decisions on military strength are
made in terms of their effect on
the national budget. _
In brief, he urged a complete
reappraisal of both short-range
and long-range U.S, military poli
cy. In particular, he appealed for
revamping of the high command
and the creation of a single pow
erful chief of staff.
!oldier told
kiness sub
:e Commit-
military in
is no living
n inferior."
STATE COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5, 1960
the entire period last fall.
spending Spring Orientation Week meeting with
advisors, touring the campus and
learning about campus activities.
Speech and hearing tests will
be given to all new students to
day at the Speech and Hearing
Clinic in Sparks. Health exam
inations will be given this
morning at the Ritenour Health
Center.
The third tour of the Pattee
Library will be held at 10 amid
Library tours were also held yes-I
terday and Wednesday.
Dr. Harold E. Dickson, profes
sor of the history of art and archi
tecture, will speak on "Painting
as a Language" at 2 p.m, today,
in the Hetzel Union assembly
'room. Tickets for this speech, the,
last of the Orientation Week'
Faculty Talks, may be obtained !
'at the HUB desk.
First-semester freshmen and
transfer students arrived on
camptis Monday. They attended
the President's Convocation and
met with the deans of •their col
leges
on Tuesday.
Hummel Fishburn, head of the
Department of Music, and Frank
Gullo, associate professor of mu
sic, conducted a song fest for new
'students Tuesday night.
Campus tours were conducted
(Continued on page ten)
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Fraternity, Sorority Rushing to Begin
With the coming of the
spring semester, the Inferfra
,ternity and Panhellenic coun
cils will initiate their rushing
programs next week.
Rushing for second-semester
'men will begin Sunday night
with the presentation of a motion
picture designed to introduce
freshmen to fraternity living. The
film will be shown from 7:45 to
9:15 in 119 Osmond.
Second semester freshmen may
register then for rushing. Those
who fail to register Sunday may
do so at a later date in the Inter
fraternity Council Qtfice, although
rgiatt
University Grants
Nearly $300,000
By June the University will have granted nearly
$300,000 in-loans to needy students, but $60,000 more is needed
to fill additional requests:
President Eric A. Walker
parent there will be "need in
scholarships, more and more loan
funds."
In recent months 60 students
were not granted loans because
of lack of federal funds from the
National Defense Education Act.
At present 95 others are seek
, ing $33.597 for the spring seines
; ter from the University fund
which has only about $lO,OOO
available to meet the requests.
The $300,000 already pledged
by the University for this semes
ter topped last year's high of
$166,647 by 66 per cent.
National studies show the cost
of a university education has
risen . 33 per cent since 1955. Five
years ago loan requests never ex
ceeded $50,000 a year and few,
if any, were left unsatisfied.
Today without assistance
many students will be denied
the educational opportunity to
which they are entitled. Walker
said.
"It is entirely possible that some
'of our present needy are getting
help elsewhere. Certainly, there
is no indication yet that large
numbers are dropping out of
school. But the pressures are
Igrowing greater every day."
The University gets its loan
' funds from two sources, the
Na
tional Defense Education Act and
'its own fund supplied by alumni,
various groups and organizations
and the University itself. About
40 loans are available from this
fund.
About $230.000 of the money
pledged this year comes from
federal grants and the rest from
the University.
Students may borrow up to
$5OOO from the federal funds over
a 5-year period; but only $lOOO
from University funds over a
4-year period.
Students today can get much
larger loans than was possible m
the past. In 1953-54, for example
the average loan was $lO2 a year
mainly because there were no
federal funds and because donors
imposed various restrictions on
University funds. Today the av
erage loan is about $3OO,
Special Collegian
Today's issue of the Daily
Collegian is a special spring
orientation - registration issue.
The Collegian will resume its
daily Tuesday illrough Satur
da y publication beginning
Tuesday.
registration is not mandatory.
IFC Rushing Chairman - Donald
Orr said the date for pledging has
not been set, although he estimat
ed it would be within two
months.
Registration for spring formal
sorority rushing will be held
from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, in
Atherton Lobby.
Second semester coeds with a,
2.3 average and upperclasswomen
with a 2.0 average are eligible to
register.
All coeds except transfers from
other colleges must bring their
transcripts in order to register,
,according to Mrs. Norma Moun
tan, Panhellenic advisor. Rushees
must pay a $1 registration fee.
In order for women to be eli-
To a
Good Start
See Page 4
said yesterday that it is ap
the future of more and more
660 New
Students
Admitted
About 660 new students will
be enrolled at the main cam
pus and the Commonwealth
Campuses this semester. This
is 188 fewer than the number
of new students enrolled last
spring.
Five hundred forty-two new
students will enroll at the main
campus and 118 at the Common
wealth Campuses, Among those at
the main campus will be 109 first
semester freshmen, 207 transfers
'from the Commonwealth Cam
jpuses, 73 transfers from other in
stitutions and 133 former students
who have been readmitted to the
,University.
7n the spring of 1959, 848 new
students \\ ere enrolled, 676 at the
main campus and 1'72 at the
Commonwealth Campuses. Seven
hundred seventy-three .new stu
dents were enrolled in the spring
of 1953. 620 at the main cahipus
and 153 at the Commonwealth
Campusez4.
New students at the main cam
pus in 1959 included 113 first
semester freshmen, 158 transfeis
,from the campuses, 116 transfers
,from other institutions and 289
'readmissions
New students at the main cam
pus in the spring of 1958 included
142 first-semester freshmen, 159
transfers from the campuses, 118
transfeis from other institutions
and 201 readmissions.
Journalism School
To Sponsor Tour
A two-month educational tour
of Northern and Western Europe
will be open to students through
the combined efforts of the School
~) f Journalism and "Travel and
Study Inc." of New York City.
Open to any student wishing
to participate. the tour will en
compass 10 nations and cost of
tour will be - approkimately $1250.
Twenty students from the en
tire nation will be accepted for
this tour, which will depart by
air the first week in July and
'will return at the end of August.
Bible to participate in the spring
rush program, they must have
registered for formal rush.
All coeds who plan to rush
must attend the mass meeting at
12.30 p In. Saturday, Feb. 20. in
121 Sparks. From the mass meet
ing all rushees will visit all of
the sorority open houses.
All prospective rushees are ad
vised to read the rushing booklet
which they will receive at regis
tration in order to familiarize
themselves with the program,
Mrs. Mountan said.
A semi-strict silence period will
be in effect for all rushees and
Greeks from the time of registra
tion. This silence period includes
fall -orientation counselors, she
emphasized.
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