Soviets Halt Disarm Talks See Page 3 VOL. 2. No. 5 Ike Defends Global Diplomacy Concert Set For Schwab On Thursday Several hundred student tickets remain for the Claude Frank concert Thursday in Schwab Auditorium. Frank, a rising young pianist, will present works by Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann for his program which begins at 8:30 Students may pick up free tick ets for the concert from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 5 p.m. until Thursday- at the desk in the main lobby of the Hetzel Union Building. Students must present their matriculation cards. The sale of tickets to non students began at 9 a.m. today and will continue until 5 p.m. tomorrow. The tickets cost $1.25. Frank will open his concert with Three Impromptus, opus 142 by Schubert. He will play Beetho ven's Sonata in A Flat Major, opus 110. Following the intermission, he will play selections from Carna val, opus 9 by Schumann. Frank, like the Russian born violinist Isaac Stern, is con sidered a major American pian ist although he was actually born in Germany in 1925, Shortly before the outbreak of World War 11, the Frank family fled to France where Claude en tered school and resumed his music studies. When Hitler march ed into France, the Franks march ed over the Pyrenees to Spain. In Madrid, Frank practiced five hours a day on a music store piano where someone overheard him and suggested he play at a party given by the Brazilian am bassador. The American ambassa dor was at the party and with his influence, the Franks were able to get visas for the United States. In 1948, Frank joined the fac ulty of Bennington College in Vermont and was appointed to the assistant , conductorship of New York's Dessoff Choirs. Since he made his New York debut with Toscanini's NBC Sym phony, he has played throughout North America and Europe as a recitalist. He makes annual European tours the most recent in the spring of 1959. This tour was high lighted by a debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Lon don. =Ur Kennedy Will Win Nomination At Convention Silva Predicts Dr. Ruth C. Silva, an acknowl edged expert in political analysis predicts that Massachusetts sena tor John F. Kennedy will be nominated as the Democratic candidate for President at the party's convention in Los Ange les. Dr. Silva, associate professor of political science, believes Ken nedy's margin of victory in the West Virginia primary elections demonstrated his popularity with the voters. If the Democrats fail to nom inate him, she said, it would be at the peril of losing the Catholic vote. Catholics might consider it an affront if Kennedy were not nominated, she explained, and the —Collegian Photo by Rae Hoopes CAPTIVE COEDS—Slaves to Sol jam Whipple's beach Sunday afternoon to pay homage to their Sun god which returned to bless its subjects after a week of sporadic thundershowers. 7 / t Children to Attend Classes in German Local children will be enrolled at the University in demonstration classes to be offered during the mid-session by the department of German. The classes will be held as a part of the course, Methods and Materials of Teaching German, which will be con- Applications Available For Counseling Posts Application forms for resident couseling positions in men's resi dence halls may be obtained at 102 Waring Hall. Applicants must be 21 years of age or more, must have complet ed two years of college and must have a 2.2 All-University average. Previous experience in group liv ing and group leadership or su pervision is desirable. Resident counselors receive room and board. Non-resident fees are remitted for graduate students selected from outside Pennsylvania. 76,225 Degrees Given' The University has conferred 76,225 degrees since its first com mencement in 1861. More than 25,000 of these have been con ferred since 1952. party could not afford to lose these votes. She noted that the recent U-2 spy plane incident may change the nomination picture somewhat, but added that she could not pre dict what effect it would have on the nomination until public opinion about it was better crys tallized. Stevenson's public comments about the administration's hand ling of the incident and his ex pressed policy toward the So viet Union may make the U-2 incident either_ a help or a hin derance to him in his bid for the nomniation, she said. The incident may at the same time affect Kennedy's chances at the convention, depending on how well the public feeLs the administration has handled the incident, according to Dr. Silva. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE 28. 1960 ducted by C. Richard BeaM, a graduate `8 tudent in German, from July 6 to Aug. 12. Mr. Beam said that preference will be given to children who have had little or, no foreign lan guage instruction and that the children will attend classes that will meet at 9 a.m., two or three times each week. The purpose of the course is to acquaint those presently teachitig German and those planning to teach German in the public schools with those techniques which will bring about a mastery of the German sound system. oral mastery of the basic structure of German as well as the ability to read and write. In order to demonstrate de sirable and effective techniques in teaching children the all-im portant initial phases of such instruction two demonstration classes will be conducted: a group about eight years of age and a junior high school age group. The demonstration classes will be conducted entirely in German. A further aim of the course will be to acquaint language teachers with the latest thinking about the fine art of language teaching. Special emphasis will be placed upon the contributions to modern language teaching theory by descriptive linguis tics and cultural anthropology. Students will be given an oppor tunity to examine critically the latest textbooks and the accom panying audio-visual aids pre pared for elementary as well as junior and senior high school use. German language films, fl im strips, tapes and disc recordings will receive the same scrutiny. Free Movie at HUB "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" starring Richard Egan and Jan Sterling will be shown at 9 p.m. tomorrow on the lawn behind the Hetzel Union Building. Blames Communists For Japanese Riots WASHINGTON (/P) President Eisenhower yesterday defended his globe-trotting personal diplomacy. He portrayed his trips as so successful "I would not hestitate a second" to venture abroad again in quest of world peace. In a radio-TV rr CarpetWer Gets Florida U Plan Advisory Post Dr. C. R. Carpenter, director of the division of academic research and services at the UniVersity, has been appointed to the ad visory committee which will as sist in the planning of a new state university in Florida. The Uni versity is to be built at Boca Raton. Appointment of Dr. Carpenter; along with six other educators, was announced by the Florida State Board of Control. Others on the committee are: Chancellor Gordon Blackwell, Woman's Col lege, University of North Caro lina; John Ivey; Jr., president of the Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J.; Dr. Howard Phil lips, president of Alabama Col lege; Dr. Doak Campbell, presi dent emeritus of Florida State University; and Dr. Meredith Wil son, president of the University of Oregon. The Boca Raton institution is being planned to accommodate by 1970 sonic 17,000 students, vir tually all juniors. seniors, and graduate students. It will be part of the Florida system of higher education, which includes a num-, ber of junior colleges in the Boca, Raton area. Plans call for it to, open in 1964. Palladino Co-Authors c Nuclear Reactor Article A special 32-page report on nu clear power reactors by N. J. Pal ladino, professor and head of the department of nuclei s.• engineer ing, and Harold L. Davis, asso ciate editor of Nucleonics maga zine, is featured in the June issue of that, periodical. Dateline Washington NEDA Oath Rule' May Be Repealed Collegian Washington Correspondent Possible repeal of the controversial non-Communist affi davit in the National Defense Education Act of 1958 was begun by the Senate on June 15. These affidavits are presently required from students getting government loans Hearings on a similar bill are', had belonged to a subversive now being held by the House of: organization still could Representatives Subcommittee on'aPPIY for and perhaps receive a Special Education of the Commit- federal loan if he made a full tee on Education and Labor. !written disclosure under oath of , his past membership and knol.vl . - The Senate bill, sponsored by edge of the organization's pur- John F. Kennedy (D.-Mass.) and Joseph S. Clark. (D.-Pa.) also pose. Violators would be subjected to made it a crime to seek or re 2 $lO,OOO fine, five years in prison ceive these educational benefits'a ;or both. while belonging to an organiza- tion dedicated in part.to the over-' Twenty-one colleges and uni throw of the United States gov-versities have refused to partici ernment. 'pate in the Federal Scholarship This provision was added in an Program because of the affidavit; amendment by Sen. Winston L.. 110 other schools have expressed Prouty (11.-Vt.). disapproval. The oath of loyalty to the Unit- At Penn State, President Eric A. ed States still remains in the aet.i Walker wrote a special letter to But, according to a United PressiSen. Hugh Scott 111.-Pa.) International report, an indivithialifor the repeal of the section de who within the past five yearsl (Continued on page two) ,to the nation, Eisenhower blamed "Communist-inspired riots" for blocking his visit to Japan. But he said ratification of . the new U.S. -J a panese Security Treaty—which the rioters sought to thwart—was "a signal defeat for international comihunism that far outweighs" the blocking of his visit. Eisenhower reported he has no plans for further foreign journeys during the remaining months in the White House. But he made plain he would not be dissuaded byc any Red-promoted opposition. The United States must "nev er be bluffed, cajoled, blinded or frightened" by Red tactics aimed at splitting the free world, he said. He declared the value of his visit to 27 countries nice he took office in 1953 has been proved by what .he said was a Communist decision some time ago to oppose his goodwill tours. The President appealed to Americans not to allow "the un happy events of the past sev eral weeks in Japan" to impair U.S.-Japanese trade rela.tims or weaken the friendship "which unites the vast majority of the Japanese and American people." Eisenhower reported to the American people a day after re turning from a two-week journey to the Philippines, Formosa, South Korea and U.S.-held Okinawa. "We cannot win out against the Communist purpose to dominate the world by being timid, passive, or apologetic when we are acting in our own and the free world's interests," Eisenhower said. "We must accept the risks of bold ac tion with coolness and cour age . . . "All the profit gained by past and any possible future trips by U.S .leaders will he quickly dis sipated should we Americans abandon our present course in foreign relations or slacken our efforts in cooperative programs with our friends ... " As for his Far Eastern trip of (Continued on page three) • KAY MILLS Hop-Scotch Jetplomacy See Page 4 FIVE CENTS
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