Weather Forecast: Mostly Cloudy, Colder VOL. 60. No. 84 All Colleges To Require Speech 200 By AMY ROSENTHAL Speech 200 has ben made a, requirement in all colleges of the University but no finall decision has been made as t, when the requirement will take effect. The requirement will not apply to students already enrolled. Lester Guest, chairman of the sub-committee of the Senate Com mittee on Educational Policy, which introduced the plan to the Senate, said the requirement will probably take effect next fall. The Senate passed the sub committee plan in June, 1959. Under this rule those who wish to be exempt from Speech 200 will be given a private hour exam ination in which they will be given scrambled information and from it will present a five minute speech. Each speech will be judged by speech professors for organization, analysis, adaption and presentation, Dr. Robert Ol iver, head of the Department of Speech, said. The Senate also passed recom mendations of the sub-commit tee that those who cannot pass Speech 200 will be giv en remedial training in speech un til they do pass it. Oliver said advisors have been given the authority to judge their ad visees' speech and recommend them to take a remedial speech training course at the Speech and Hearing Clinic, if they need it. Because of the sub-committee's recommendation, Speech 200 has been evaluated and the course now places more emphasis on being able to speak well in dis cussions, conversations, and before informal groups. Oliver said that the experi mental evaluation program under the direction of Dr. Paul Holtz man, associate professor of speech, and Robert E. Dunham, instruc tor in speech, is testing two groups of 100 students to see how the course can be further improved and how much is actually learned in Speech 200. The Senate Committee on Ed ucational Policy was instruct ed to study how competence in (continued on page eight) Malott to Discuss Business Education Ways of improving education programs for students en- tering business will be the sub which opens tonight at the U Deane W. Malott, president o i Malott will discuss "Busi Tomorrow" at the opening p Pierson Reports Conference at 7:15! in the Nittany Lion Inn. More than 50 educators and leaders in industry and business are participating in the confer ence to discuss the direction which education for business should take. The co:nference, sponsored by the Foid Foundation. was pro moted by - the Gordon-Howell and Pierson reports, two inde pendent studies which agreed that drastic reforms must be made to upgrade present busi ness education. Both studies reported more general education in the business curriculum was necessary and suggested deferring formal busi ness training until the graduate years. The reports concluded that business schools today are attract. ...,...., , 0 1 r .4 at ( ,z,,,,,L.,,,,-....,A, 1: 1 \„. • 7 •-. e1.,_,1!---"5 STATE COLLEGE. PA., THURSDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 18. 1960 —Collegian Photo by Charles Jacques AT THE JUNIOR-SENIOR RECEPTION .. . (left to right) Bar bara Strauss, junior in arts and letters from Mount Vernon, N.Y., Helen Skade, senior in home economics from Beaver Falls, Pa., and Marjorie Miller, senior in elementary education from Bryn Mawr, Pa., chat with President Eric A. Walker. Freshmen to Live In tippet-class Halls The integrated housing of freshmen and upperclassmen will help freshmen "grow up a lot faster," Dorothy T. Lipp, dean of women, said yesterday. Freshman residence halls will be abolished next semester for both men and women students, under a new plan an nounced last week. The Freshmen will be divided among all the residence halls. A logical percentage of freshmen and upperclassmen will live in each hall, Dean Lipp said. In this way there will not be a small group of freshmen living in any one hall, she explained. There are very few schools left where freshmen are sepa rated from upperclassmen, Dean Lipp said. Our present system helps "freshmen to stay fresh men,' she said. "I think that the original idea was to protect freshmen from upperclassmen. Personally, I think that our upperclassmen are pretty fine and can help entering stu dents become good citizens in the college environment," she said. The present counseling system for new students will remain in effect, Dean Lipp said, but the informal contact with upperclass men will be added to this. Other changes in the housing program for next semester will put women students in the North I Halls area and graduate students in Grange Hall. Grad Housing Project Suffers Fire Damage Fire caused considerable dam age to one of the buildings under construction in the married grad uate student housing project, which is located on the east end of the campus, early yetserday morning. Two apartments were heavily damaged and four of the eight unit structures received minor damage from the blaze that took nearly two hours to extinguish. ect of a three-day conference iversity with an address by Cornell University. ness Education - Challenge of lenary session of the Gordon ing low quality students. At the opening session to night. President Eric A. Walker will make the introduction and Ossian B. MacKenzie, dean of the College of Business Admin istration, will preside. At the general session tomor row afternoon, Dr. William H. Newman of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia Univer sity will be the principal speaker. John T. Ryan Jr., president of the Mine Safety Appliance Co., Pittsburgh, will present the busi nessmen's point of view at the general session tomorrow night. Karl R. Bopp, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Phila delphia, will moderate the closing session Saturday morning when reports of the round-table chair men are made. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE By ELAINE MIELE Spring Week Themes Due March 4 Preliminary choices for themes, skits and games for Spring Week must be turned in to th e committee by March 4. The committee will review the choices and return them to the in dividual groups with an applica tion form. The form must then be filled out and submitted for final approval. The committee will attempt to divide the categories evenly so it will be advantageous for groups to get their choices in early, chair man Walter Caplan said. Groups will be permitted to use - tape-recorded voices for rgiatt Ike Defends U.S. Defense WASHINGTON (/P) President Eisenhower yesterday pronounced the country's defenses strong, awesome and uni versally respected. He hotly denounced as despicable any charge that he has misled the people on that score. Eisenhower announced he will have more to say about national security and will discuss his South American trip which starts next week in a nationwide radio-TV address Sunday night. What triggered something of a presidential outburst yesterday was word from a newsman that critics charge the administration "has been complacent in advising the people of the danger we face in the world" and that economy may stand in the way of develop ing new weapons. The question was whether Ei senhower believes the adminis tration has misled the Ameri can people in any way or whether any money has been withheld from any needed wea pon. Grating out his words, the chief executive replied. "If anybody anybody be lieves that I have deliberately misled the American people, I'd, like to tell him to his face what I think about him," he said. "His is a charge that I think is despic able, and I have never made it against anyone in the world, and. I wouldn't as long—unless he were in a bar of justice some where to be tried for something that was intolerable." From there the President went on to review the history of U.S. defenses since the end of World War ll—a period he saw as one of disarming, falling behind in al most every field of development, reversing directions after the Ko rean War began, and trying to build an adequate deterrent and defensive power. "This is what I believe we've 'been trying to do with all our might," Eisenhower said, "and I get tired of saying that defense is to be made an excuse for wast ing dollars. I don't believe we should pay one cent for defense more than we have to." TV Set Reported Stolen From North Hall Dorm A television set was reported missing from Beam Hall early yesterday morning, according to James Lapin, North Halls co -1 ordinator. The missing set, apparently stolen, was purchased with money donated by the four units in the hall. Lavin said the Campus Pa trol is investigating the case. Pollock Rd. To Close Pollock Rd. is scheduled to be closed to all thru traffic beginning today. The road will be closed from Fraser Rd. near Willard Hall to the Graduate Hall and Old Main Rd. en trances. their skits, Caplan said, but the use of movies will not be per mitted. This year, as before, winners in the Queen of Hearts and He-Man contest will carry their partners into the finals with them, even though their partners may not have placed. The committee will try to plan some game in which the teams could compete, Caplan said. The coronation of Miss Penn State will be on Awards Night which will be held in the Hetzel Union ballroom. The program will consist only of the corona tion and the awards. A nightclub act will not be engaged and no admission will be charged, he said. After preliminary points are High Average Problems See Page 4 More Snow ,Predicted For Tonight By JOEL MYERS The second heavy snow storm to fall in this area in less than a week is expected to begin tonight and continue tomorrow. A storm system that has been located in a threatening position for the past few days began to intensify late yesterday, increas ing the chances of snow for this area. The storm is expected to follow a northeastward path similar to the course tak en by the vigor ous storm that dumped nine in- ches of snow during the week- To complicate the weather pat tern, a huge mass of cold arc- tic air is pushing southward across Canada toward this area. This will cause very cold weather for the next several days. The snow froM the approach ing storm will be limited to the western two-thirds of Pennsyl vania, since temperatures will probably be high enough to cause rain in eastei n sections. The forecast is for mostly cloudy and colder weather today with temperatures hovering in the middle 30's Snow is expected to begin to night and then become moderate to heavy late tonight and tomor row moinmg. As much as three to six inches of snow could accu mulate by tomorrow afternoon. Winds will be increasing late to night and should he strong to ' morrow. It will be colder tonight with a low of 25 degrees. Senior Advisory Board The Senior Class Advisory Board will meet at 6.30 p.m. to morrow in 218 Het7el Union. The senior class gift will be dis cussed and pledge money for the gift will be turned in. given to groups in the various events, the winners will be com puted by awarding points under an over-all point system. The group which places first in the carnival will get 40 points; the second. 25, and the third, 15. Thirty points will be given for first place in the float parade, 20 for second place and 10 for third place. Winners in the Queen of Hearts and He-Man contests will receive 15 points for first place, 11 for second, 8 for third, 5 for fourth and 3 for fifth. Five points will be given to Miss Penn State and three to each of the next four finalists. In case of rain, the float parade will be held at 12 noon on April 30, and the carnival on May 2. FIVE CENTS
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