PAGE FOUR EditorLal Opinion Assembly Should Act To Control Alternates Sore about one-third of the SGA Assembly was taken up by alternates this semester, some bylaw revisions should he made to regulate these alternates. teen altci nates sat on Assembly this week and 12 lk'CL'k The only regulation now in the books is that an alternate must be of the same class and must have at lewd a 2 4 All-University average. Since this affects such a large part of the SGA legisla tive body, the following bylaw revisions should be con- sidered • Each Assemblyman may have only one official alternatE The alternate shall be appointed by the Assemblyman, upon approval of the Assembly, and must be of the same class and political party. • No student may be alternate for more than one Assemblman. • Any Assemblyman who has more than three un excused absences from Assembly meetings in one term shall forfeit his right to sit on Assembly. • If an Assemblyman becomes ineligible to sit on Assembly, his alternate shall become his permanent sub stitute for the remainder of the term. • In instances where a student will be away from campus Mr four or more consecutive weeks, the name of his prospective alternate must appear on campaign posters and on the election ballot. o Unless substituting for an Assemblyman described in the above recommendations, an alternate may not sit on Assembly for more than three consecutive meetings. These recommendations should be considered espec ially in light of the use now being made of Assembly alter nates. The provisions should eliminate the possibility of "professional alter nates" and also the use of the body as a proving ground by political party chairmen. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom 011 r 13ailg Tollrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 ruhamed Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper Entered as second-clase matter July 5. 1931 at the Style College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Mall Subscription Price! 83.00 per semester 88,00 per rear. 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STAFF TI - US ISSUE: Night Copy Editor, Amy Rosenthal; Wire Edam, Susie Ebeily; Headline Editor, Diane Still; Assistants, Dean Whet:, Jei rie Markos, Polly Dranov, Sandy Katinsky, IVt.it ilk n Ge en, Kathy Kuchta and Bob Dean, Inside Washington Sight of Snow Panics Washington By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON (AP) It snowed yesterday in the nation's capital. Anywhere else in the world, except maybe in the tropics, this rarely is news. But it's news in Washing ton, bad news, horrifying news At the sight of a snowflake, Wa.hington And the panic is justified. No one can explain this, but evidently two-thirds of all those who live in the Wash ington area learned to drive in Key West, Fla., where it never snows and there aren't any hills. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN.-STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA GEORGE McTURK Business Manager Give a typical Washington driver a small incline with a small, slick spot, and he first tramps on the accelerator and then -on the brakes. Washing ton traffic, a mess on the best of days, thus becomes snarled almoSt beyond repair. Washington officials have tried to correct these unfor tunate habits of our Key West trained friends. Typically, they may have overcorrected. We have various emergency snow plans here. Wednesday afternoon came the breathless announcement: An emergency plan was going into effect at once.. The first snowflake floated down more than four hours later, But the suburbs show no such eagerness., to be prepared. Letters Reservist Hits ROTC Setup TO THE EDITOR: The ostensible purpose of the ROTC program is to train future officers. If this is true, then why must veterans of the six-months active duty plans of the various services take ROTC? These veterans have gone through boot camp and ad vanced training; they have ob ligated themselves to alternating active and inactive duty for eight years. Why must these veterans waste their own time plus the time and expense of a program that was not meant for them and that dis regards then• past experience and forces them to wear the uniform of a branch of the service other than the one in which they are a participating member? —Samuel Freeman, '63 Gazette TODAY Center Stage Production, 8 11 in., Center Stage Chrtatian Fellowship. 7 p m., 111 Douche Christian Fellowship, 12 $5 p m , 213 HUD Interlandia, 7.d0 p m . .1 White Interstate Debate Congress, 9-10 pin , lIUIs Lecture, g Eiwnhower Chapel Lecture, 4:15 p m , 112 Ituckhout Metallurgy Seminar, 1:15 p m., 121 MI MI Colloquium, 411 p m , MI Auditor rum Players' Production, 6 p m Schwab UCA Conference, S p m , Chapel Lounge HOSPITAL Tong-Chttll ('hey, Jane Flanigan, How ard Olett. Zelda 6reen+pan, At nold Cat on Hake, Edwin Beeport,, Anne Kent, Spence! MeGrey., William O'Malley, Ha mm. Perm, Chat les Stemenikt, Bruce South, Nancy Stang, Michael Tama' kin, Pete, Tyron, William Updegraff, Barry Wolfer, 'lot inn Zerek. AChiO Penalized-- (Continued from page one) be forbidden to compete with them. Panhel president Wendlyn Pass and Mrs. Mountan abstained from voting on the decision since they knew the group involved. Other members of the board did not have the name of the sorority revealed to them. In commenting on the incident, Janet Callaway, president of AChiO, said the sorority was sur prised and distressed to learn of the violation. She said that the sorority felt the decision award ed them was very fair, in view of the seflousness of the violation. Members of the Judicial Board include the executive officers of Panhel and the sorority advisor. and it's in the suburbs where most of us live. :VIA• home town is Alexan dria, Va. It's six miles south of Washington, but it acts as if it were 600. Snow in Alexandria? Ridicu lous. We're south, man, south. So when snow comes we ar e gloriously unprepared. Policemen who might solve the traffic problem disappear, a sort of legal hibernation. Schools close. • Traffic on U.S. Highway 1, normally one of the country's leading thoroughfares, came to a complete halt yesterday morning. By going on extended de tours, the trip into town yes terday, which normally takes a half hour or so, was finally completed in an hour and 53 minutes. Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibter THINK_Noi oAle WA6 A l 5///f7Y'crIARTCIEg ALL- .• OvfNIN6 1 cOuLD N E VER Gel Onklo I-00K M 5 iniiiiE Eys," penny candy Now the Latest: Learning Machines We didn't quite believe the sentence that caught our eye: "Leslie P. Greenhill .. . chairman of an information session on Trends in the Use of Learning Machines." But a quick phone call to Greenhill himself confirmed our worst fears. "Teaching machines, as they are more rightly called, are open to experiment before they can be called superior to other methods," he said, "but it seems almost inevitable that much will be done along these lines " We hurried up to talk to an other interested man in the ~.t . : - Division of e7,' ' '. Academic Re -, - .- 2 ' ,ot search and i r . . : / Services, John .. , . ... . -. • Hundleby, lie , t assured us in a charming British accent • that it wasn't 4 ; :':',..g" :-.-. '•-•: quite as bad ••,. as all that, for machines , could be of , . . . --‘ • , great benefit • . MISS NEUBARTH to both pro fessors and students. Teaching machines are now being used in the military serv ices and are in the experimen tal stages at several universi ties, he said, and though there has been no experimentation yet at Penn State, there almost certainly will be in the future. We pictured tin robots clanking down the halls of Boucle, while old intellectuals we once called professors IM=O r LOREN I GROW' UP; (1) LIKE TO STUDY ABOUT _ PEOPLE... 41 4 1 ;VP • . I SEE...YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT PEOPLE SO TRAT (L)ITN YOUR KNOWLEDGE YOU WILL BE EQUIPPED TO HELP TNSAA... FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1960 by torn neubarth formed long lines in front of the unemployment office. Actually, some teaching ma chines are in a little cubicle where the student can work alone, when and as long as he pleases. Others are simple boxes with a device for pick ing a correct answer from sev eral choices. The machine tells the student immediately whether lie is right and reports questions he misses. "What about asking ques tions?" we asked. "Oh, there should be no need for that," Hundleby said airily. "A properly programmed ma chine will lead you right to the ultimate concept. Questions are anticipated in the step by step sequence of the course." "But does the student un derstand what he learns?" Hundleby lit a cigarette and inhaled several times before answering. "Actually, it doesn't. really matter whether you un derstand at all," he said final ly. "as long as you learn the right answers." Our idealistic soul was shaken "That machine condi tions, it doesn't teach," we ac cused. We saw all sorts of pos sibilities for these conditioners. (continued on page eight) PEOPLE INTEREST ME... I'D LIKE TO GO TO SOME BIG sG UNIVERSITY, AND STUDY 4 ALL ABOUT-PEOPLE.. it 4:111, ha, A A A, ockA wit NO, I'M JUST NOSY! 41)yi , Z..• • 4 1 444 7411,1‘•44,../Vew4 RIE SeWeIL h‘j tk_ Y - PY
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