Weather Foreca Cloudy, Showers VOL. 60. No. 130 Ed Prog To Be R By Sen: By JERRIE MA The new common gram proposed for t of Education by its ( on Academic Affai proved by its facul up for a vote of fim Thursday from the Senate. Common year is a courses which, with ation, will be taken 1 men in education be fall. The new program is designed to give students advantages in three areas. A broad general educational base—courses in English, physical education and ROTC will be re tained as necessary to the stu dents’ development. Studies in the natural sciences will be required of everyone but specific courses can be elected according to the students' interests. For example, a student looking forward to a science major would be likely to schedule chemistry 1 and 2, one interested in psj< dhology would list zoology 25 and another directed toward ele mentary education could choose one of the nature education courses. Courses considered basic to ed ucation and psychology—besides sociology 1, psychology 2 and philosophy 4 requirements—will be added such as a non-credit, one-hour-a-week course, orienta tion, to education and psychology. An opportunity to try out some field of specialization—students will have three courses during their first two semesters from the various schools in the college in which their interests are greatest. The faculty committee that draft ed the program selected certain courses in these areas which they felt would most benefit the fresh man student. One of the purposes for the pro gram is to delay definite com mitment to a curriculum until the student has had a chance to try out his field in the University set ting. Whipple's Bus Cancelled Today’s bus to Whipple’s has been cancelled by its sponsors, the Town Independent Men, be cause of the conflict with Spring Week activities. The service may be initiated next weekend, weather permit ting. . | Thanksgiving R Committee to Delay Recommendation The Senate Committee on Calendar and Clas? Schedule will present the proposal to eliminate Thanksgiving recess! without its recommendation,: when the Senate meets on Thursday. Benjamin A. Wh; man, said yesterdaj committee had favor] posal to start the fall days later than usu> rip the time by rem free days after exam; to begin the spring s mediately. This proposal was the last Senate me with two other alt posals. The proposal the Thanksgiving vac Sip Hath} ©doll Rain May Hit Carnival ram lead ate iRKOS i year pro the College Committee •s and ap ty will be .1 approval University program of slight vari >y all fresh £inning this —-Collegian Photo by John Beauge THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE lined the University and State College streets last night to witness the 1960 Spring Week float parade. Almost every means of transportation was used to move the floats, even horses. This photo was taken on College Ave. just east of S. Allen St. and looking toward the home economics buildings in the back ground. Fantasy, Imagination Apparent In Colorful, Noisy Float Parade No matter what your van tage point—stroller, curb, bi cycle or roof top—the 1960 Spring Week float parade was a colorful, noisy, musical event with all the magic of “Once Noon a Time.” Realism was thrown to the winds as groups built floats which took advantage of all the fantasy and imagination possible in stories, legends and nursery rhymes. Movable parts and sound effects dominated the parade this year. A huge replica of Mother Goose’s goose rode over a concealed jeep. The goose flapped its wings and emitted honks as “Mother” rode on its back. Bright reds and blues domin ated the color scheme of one float as old Rip slept peacefully, his dog by his side and the saw above his head sawing wood. While the wood sawed, Rip's chest heaved and his dog's tail was passed in a straw vote, is designed to eliminate the irregu larity of class meetings during the fall semester. A survey conducted by Har old J. Read, a member of the Senate committee, showed that possibly 9000 students could be affected by this irregularity. Read, using the 1959 Fall sched ule of classes, went through all of the courses beginning with the letter “A,” a total of 14 pages. “This is approximately 15 per cent of the 92 pages in the sched ule,” he said. < Fourteeen courses, involving 92 sections, were affected by the ir regularity, which makes some sections unable to meet the re quired number of times because of vacations. isler, chair ■y that the ]ed the pro -1 semester 2 al, to make nving the 4 nations and semester un- defeated at eting along emate pro to eliminate ition, which Read, assuming a minimum of 15 students in each section, com puted the approximate total num- STATE COLLEGE, PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. APRIL 30. 1960 By BARB YUNK FOR A BET.J-R PENN STATE wagged. Another Rip slept bliss fully, his calculus book by his side. The wheels on a black and gold locomotive turned as shrill whistles came from the engineer’s cab. Lamps and the shoes were pre dominant last night as the Old Woman in the Shoe not only had many children, but also had many shoes. The shoes, crammed with her noisy brood, ranged in color from white, to pink, to brown. Several of the floats covered the jeeps, while some new mater ials were in evidence. Angel hair appeared on three of the floats and several groups wove crepe paper through chicken wire rather .than studding it with napkins. One float had a floor covered with earth and moss. Sounds somewhat less musi cal than that of the band and •the drum and bugle corps were heard as a witch shrieked from the doorway of a pink and white house and a geni emerged from a lamp amid a whoosh of steam. A variety of animals came to ber of affected courses at 90, af fected sections at 600, and stu dents involved at 9000. “If one or more sections of a multiple section course met for a different number of times than other sections of that course, I considered the course to be af fected by irregular scheduling,” he said. The range of lime lost by those sections unable to meet was between 2 and 6 hours. Read added that his survey did not include any courses in the civil engineering, physics and chemistry curriculums, all of which have -many laboratory periods. John Miller, scheduling officer, told Read that no study of courses which lost meeting hours had been undertaken, and that he was “surprised” to find so many stu dents might possibly be affected. egtatt a n -<* ■J M ,v.v,a - -11 l - 4 * v ‘•‘i# * j&. the parade last night A turtle with eyelashes pulled a float with Alice in Wonderland, while two horses bedecked with yellow pompoms pulled a float carrying Old King Cole and his fiddlers. Little Bo Peep had a black sheep! last night. She held a live lamb; in her arms while white paper ones gamboled around her. Two whales, one while and the other pink, had their dinner something which many of the spectators missed as "the swal lowed Pinnochio. A very exclusive purple cal (continued on page two) Apartment Rulings To Go to Committee The difference in the men’s and women’s rulings regard ing apartment visiting will be taken to the Senate Committee on Student Affairs for discussion, Frank J. Simes, Dean of Men, said yesterday. The dean of men's office h no men may entertain women in their apaitments, Simes said. Al though there is no written ruling to this effect, this has always been the policy followed by his office m dealing with such prob lems, he said. The Women’s Student Govern ment ruling which provides that women may obtain special per mission through the dean of women’s office to visit men’s apartments is in conflict with the men’s policy. Simes said. The women’s rule states that a woman may visit a man's apart ment by obtaining special per mission of a residence hali staff member and parental approval. At the present time all such per missions are being granted direct ly through the dean of women’s office after letter contact has been established with the par ents, explained Dorothy J. Lipp, dean of women. So far 18 coeds have obtained such permission, and the dean’s office has had no complaints about any of them, Dean Lipp said. Complaints about women! Apartment Ruling See Page 4 Workers Might Be Dampened Thunderstorms may dampen workers on the intramural field today as they begin to set up booths for the Spring Week carnival wihch is sched uled to open at 7 p.m. Groups may begin to set up booths at 12:30 p.m. The weather predictions strong ly indicate some rain, but the ex act timing of the precipitation is uncertain. The high tempeiature will be near 69 degrees. Spot announcements will b e made over WMAJ between 5 15 and 6:15 pm if the weather is !threatening. The rain date for ;the carnival is Monday. The booths for the carnival will be laid out in the shape of the letter U with two lines of booths running up the middle from the open end. Booths will not be grouped according to category, carnival chairman Robert Wa>ne said. They will be mixed to pio vtde more variety for the crowd. The $25 clean-up fee has been replaced this year by a non refundable $25 entrance fee. A 3 cent refund will be made to groups for each 10 cent ticket collected. This means that groups can recover their $25 if they collect at least 833 tickets. Any money received over this number can be used to defray some of fhe cost of the carnival booth and the float. Wayne said. Eight hundred and fifty tickets will be required to earn the maximum 250 points for tickets. :No money will be refunded for jtickels, Wayne said, until the jgioui.ds are cleaned. If groups do not clean their grounds satis jfactorily, they will forfeit any money they have earned, he add ed. j The booths and skits will be ljudged on the basis of good taste, iadheience to theme and original- I (continued on page two) ias long followed a policy that visiting apartments have almost always concerned women with out the special permission, she added. However, she said, this has cre ated some problems for the men, and since the rulings are conflict ing, the Senate Committee is the proper place to deal with them. Both deans stated yesterday that they would stand behind their respective policies The conflict in rulings wa s poinled out Monday at a meet ing of the Student Affairs com mittee. Margaret McPherson, WSGA president, who attended the meet ing, reported to the WSGA Sen ate Wednesday that the main problem seemed to arise from a difference in interpretation of the Senate Regulation W-6 which states that the “President of the University may dismiss at any time any student whose influence is found to be injurious to the standard of morals of the student body, or shows conduct is preju dicial to the good name of the i University.” FIVE CENTS
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