Donkey Begins To Bray See Page 3 VOL. 2. No. 7 U.S. Calls Actions By Cuba 'Unfair' WASHINGTON (JP) The United States yesterday de nounced Cuba'g seizure of two U. S.-owned oil refineries as unfair and unlawful and called on Prime Minister Fidel Castro to reverse his action. This was announced shortly after the U. S. Agriculture Department suspended all im ports of Cuban sugar to the United States, clearing the road .for Pres ident Eisenhower to slash Cuba's sugar quota under a bill Congress passed Sunday. Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson about signing the new sugar bill and about the exercise of the President's pow er under it. A formal, stiffly worded note delivered in Havana by U.S. Am bassador Pkilip W. Bonsai cited seizure of the oil refineries as; proof that Castro is waging "re-! lentless economic aggression" against free world nations. The protest said the two U.S.; firms had operated in Cuba as h law-abiding companies for more; than 50 years and have made val-1 uable contributions to Cuba's eco- 1 nomic growth. In urging Castro to change his mind, the United States said it hoped he would "permit the re fineries to operate under fair and reasonable conditions." But U.S. officials held little hope that Castro would do any thing but hold on to the U.S.- owned properties once valued at nearly a billion dollars. 1 The seized Texaco and Esso Standard refineries are estimated as investments worth $48,300,000. These firms also-had been forced; to 'lend the Castro' regimiii , some 150 million 'dollars through restriel 'tions. The British protested the sei zure of the Shell refinery just be fore the U.S. protest was de-1 livered. 1 5827 Freshmen Accept Offer For Admission The University has 5827 accept ances for the fall freshman class out of 9072 admissions offered, Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter, dean of admissions said yesterday. Bernreuter said he expects "some increase" in the number of freshmen admitted. Last year's class totaled 5428 in the fall with 224 admitted in the spring. The University rejected 4394 applicants and 4669 of those to whom admission was offered, cancelled. Five hundred of the lat ter group had paid fees, and then cancelled. Ilernreuter said the acceptances and rejections were "propOrtional" and to be expected. Transfers entering the Univer sity last fall totaled 565 in the fall and 73 in the spring. Swimming Lessons Offered To Boys An experiment "designed to determine the effects of practice on the rate of swimming will give local boys a chance to learn to swim this summer. Non-swimming , boys between the ages of eight and 13 may par ticipate in the free beginning swimming class by contacting G. Alan Stull, instructor in physical education, at UN 5°5382 in the af ternoon or AD 8-1125 in the eve ning. The classes will meet daily be tween 9 a.m. and noon at the in door pool in White Hall. Today is the last day a boy may enroll for the free lessons. Pattee Library Resumes Regular Schedule Pattee Library will resume its regular schedule of open hours for Mid-Session with the exception of Friday evenings. The Library will be open from 7:50 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday and will close at 5 pm. on Friday. Saturday the Library will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday from 2 to 10 p.m. YUM YUM—Evelyn Hoopes, almost 2, daughter of a grad student was a big customer of the new University Creamery salesroom Sunday. Despite the apparently overwhelming size of the cone, she managed to devour it unaided. - ,-, 11. - a -- --- \ N:iodel :-/ Wise Reports Major Actions Taken By ►FC Last Year A revised deferred rushing pro gram, changes in the scheduling of several major Interfraternity Council events and the setting up of the temporary fraternity as signment program for transfer students were the major actions taken by the IFC last year, ac cording to a report by Wilmer E. Wise, assistant to the dean of men in charge of fraternity af fairs. Under the revised, deferred program, rushing will start dur ing the seventh week of classes in the fall semester. The first date FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 6. 1960 Cuban Minister To U.S. Resigns HAVANA (W) Jose Miro Cardona resigned yesterday as ambassador-designate to the United States because of ideological differences with Prime Minister Fidel Castro's leftist government. In an obvious move to avoid arrest or other reprisal, the veteran diplomat-lawyer took refuge immediately in the Argentine Embassy. Miro Cardona, regarded as a friend of the United States Increase of Foreign Students Leveling Off in U. S. Colleges The 48,486 foreign students from 141 different countries now in American college classrooms continue to represent the largest foreign student population in the world, but this year's increase is the smallest rise in the number of students in the last six years. The Institute of International Education reported that the small rise may indicate that the heavy influx of foreign students is level ing off. In 1958-59, the increase of foreign students enrolled in Amer ican colleges over the previous! year was 8.8 per cent, whereas! this year the rise was only 2.61 per cent. The number of foreign students at the University reached an all ,time high of 261 in 1957-58 and now appears to be stabilizing at 200 students. Mrs. Rebecca Doerner, who ad ministers international student affairs, pointed out that only a limited number . of • Scholar Ships are available and work oppor tunities are not great at Penn State. The larger metropolitan univer sities will always attract more international students, Mrs. Doer (Continued on page six) a freshman will be eligible to be pledged will be the third week of classes in the spring semester. For -the last two years, fresh men have not been allowed to rush or even visit. fraternities un til the start of the second semes ter. Greek Week, previously a spring activity, has been sched uled for the fifth week of classes in the fall semester. This week of fraternity and sorority activities, co-sponsored by IFC and the Panhellenic Coun cil was moved to the fall semes ter to avoid conflicts with the All-University Spring W9ek which is always held late in the spring semester. Conversely, the IFC Workshops formerly held in October, were rescheduled for the spring semes ter. IFC Encampment, Sept. 13, will be held in the Hetzel Union Building instead of its usual lo- cation at the Civil Engineering Camp. The IFC - Panhel ball, an an (Continued on page five) Collegian Distribution Days Tuesday, Friday The Summer Collegian , is pub lished each Tuesday and Friday morning and distributed to the dormitories, HUB, Carnegie Build ing and various diners and shops in town for free circulation. Anyone interested in working on the staff of the paper Monday and Thursday evenings should contact the editor at UN 5-2531 after 6:30 p.m. Movie to Be Shown Tonight's fre. movie, "Across the Bridge," to be shown on the HUB lawn will begin at 9:00 p.m. The movie stars Rod Steiger, David Knight, and Marla Landi. U.S. Faculty Abroad Drops In Number The number of foreign faculty members who came to the United •States to teach or to do research increased over last year but the number of United States faculty members going abroad dropped sharply. . In 1958-50 1,937 faculty mem ibers representing 71 countries af filiated with U.S. institutions. In 1959-60 the figure was 2,539 repre senting 79 nations. The number of U.S. faculty members abroad total 1,777 this: year. Michigan State University j (147) had the highest number oft faculty members abroad and the' University of Pittsburgh was , tenth with 33. • The largest percentage of U.S. faculty members abroad are spe cializing in the humanities and the second highest percentage in the social sciences. Most of the foreign faculty members affiliated with 287 U.S. colleges and universities are doing work in the natural sciences, medicine and humanities. Walker Stresses Need For Two-Year Degrees A bold plea for more widespread support of the two-year college-level prcigram for engineering technicians was sounded Saturday by, University President Eric A. Walker. Walker, who pioneered this type of program as Penn State's dean of engineering and architecture, insists that local industry needs this type -- iless it is earned over a four-year personnel and that neither the : State nor the' nation will solve its! period. " manpower problems without such, I Not all young people have the same capacity for educe• help. tion," he asserted, " . and by Utilizing its campuses forcing all those, who, come to throughout the State .as train- our schools into one educational ing centers, the University in mold we fail to provide the eight years has graduated near- most gifted ones with challenges ly 2,500 young men in its two- sufficiently •vigorous to develop year engineering program. Asso- their full potential. date degrees are conferred on "More important," he added, the graduates. "we lose the less gifted ones al- "As enrollment pressures in- together by forcing them into crease and admissions require -'courses beyond their mental La ments become increasingly - re- parities." strictive," President Walker Walker noted that associate de pointed out, "we are in great dan-,'gree places . are often unfilled ger of concentrating our efforts while more students than can he on the education of an intellec-'accommodated seek admission to itual elite, forgetting that the con-',the four-year baccalaureate pro iditions of modern living make it'gram. necessary to upgrade our young- The University now offers tech= sters all along the line " ,nical-institute type training at itS He said bluntly that institu- campuses and centers in Abington tions with unassailable reputations:(ogontz), Allentown, Altoona, for academic excellence will havelDußois, Erie (Behrend), Hazel ton, to spearhead the movement, and;McKeesport, New Kensington, i l beat down the legend that no,Pottsville, Scranton, Wilkes-Bar !college degree is worthwhile un-:re, Wyomissing and York. Nio - ting's The Thing See Page 4 was the latest in a long list of former Castro supporters to Miro Cardona, who was the first prime minister under Cas tro's revolutionary regime. had been waiting for some time to take his Washington post. He was accepted by the U.S. State Department in mid-May. In addition, he resigned as pro fessor of . penal law at Havana University, where militant pro - - Castro students have been de manding resignations of faculty members on the grounds they do not show sufficient enthusiasm for Castro's policies. Miro Cardona submitted his res ignation in a letter to President Osvaldo Dorticos, with whom he had conferred at length last Sat urday. He told him first of his deci sion to resign from the univer sity then added: "hi the same time I resign as an ambassador of the republic. The reasons for this last are obvious. In a gen- . eral exaptination of the ques tions we discussed in our con versation, I am convinced that the ideological differences be tween the plans of the govern ment and my conscience cannot be surmounted." , 'My duty forces me to resign this post," he said. "Pfyliaw;, fi nally, and for the good of Cuba, it is I that am in error." Miro Cardona, regarded as an elder statesman, was sent to Spain as ambassador when Castro took over. He was recalled last Janu ary and his appointment to Washington was announced for mally in May. But associates said he nad be come increasingly unhappy with the leftist direction of the Castro regime. It was understood that he began making plans for political asylum several days ago. FIVE UNTS
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