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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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