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VOL. 2. No. 9
Penna. Sparks Kennedy Swing
Schedule
Changes
Suggested
Vice-president Lawrence E.
Dennis's committee studying
revision of the class schedule
and calendar expects to make
recommendations to President
Eric A. Walker by August
concerning a proposed 12-
month academic year and the
readjusting of time schedules
for classeg.
Walker will then have two
months to study the recommen
dations before presenting his rec
ommendation before the Board of
Trustees at the October meeting.
The present summer session
program expires in September
and no academic schedule has
been drawn up by the Board of
Trustees subsequent to the spring
semester 1961.
Dennis' committee has studied
primarily the quarter systems
in effect at Michigan State,
Ohio State, Minnesota and Stan
ford,,,and the tri-mester system
recently adopted by Pitt.
"A year round academic year
would take a lot of special pro
motion," Dennis said yesterday.
"Students and parents would
have to .be convinced of the
economic feasibility of class
during the summer months and
accelerating to three years," he
said.
"The concept must take roots
with the parents and high school
counselors if it is to lie success
ful."
Dennis' committee has also•been
considering revisions in the length
of classes. The major class change
being investigated would set up
75-minute classes with 20-minute
break between classes.
An initial step in changing, the
time period for classes was taken
last spring when the ROTC de
partments announced that 8
o'clock classes at Wagner Mili
tary Science Building will begin
at 7:50 a.m. and will be dismissed
10 minutes earlier than usual to
give cadets time to get back to
the main part of campus for sub
sequent classes.
Balmer to Participate
At Oak Ridge Institute
Louis W. Balmer, assistant pro
fessor of chemistry at the Behrend
Campus of the University, is
among the 66 scientists from col
leges and universities enrolled
this summer in the Research Par
ticipation Program at the Oak
Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies.
Underwater Missile Seminar
Held at Research Laboratory
Study and practice on under
water missile engineering design
began yesterday for 65 persons
cleared by the Navy to attend a
two-week seminar on campus.
The seminar is directed by Rob
ert F. Marboe, associate professor
of engineering research and as
sistant director of the Orinance
Research Laboratory. He heads a
staff of 20 engineers who are pri
marily of the ORL branch of the
College of Engineering and Ar
chitecture.
The seminar ,is designed to
serve as a practical ease study in
possible solutions to certain guid
ed missile design problems.
The work of the seminar will
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LOFTY PERCH—Workman assumes precarious position applying
paint to girders of Beaver Stadium, believed to be the largest
all-steel stadium in the world.
Beaver Is Largest
All-Steel Stadium
Beaver Field is the worlds largest' all steel stadium,
according to Arch Scapes, superintendent for the Pittsburgh-
Des Moines Steel Company which was in charge of moving
the stadium to its new location at the east end of campus.
As it stands now the stadium will hold 43,980. Bmt seats
Ghana Educator to Give
Lecture at Workshop
William L. Tsitsiwu, education
attache with the Embassy of Gha
na, will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday
in the Hetzel Union assembly
room, addressing the Education
for World Understanding Work
shop,
The Lecture, which will be on
the subject, "Ghana Today" will
be open to the public.
center on the modern torpedo,
prototype of the guided missile.
Staff members will introduce
basic principles of underwater
guided missile research.
The 20 naval personnel and 45
civilians who registered for the
course meet in twice daily ses
sions.
Text material, laboratory ex
periments and demonstrations are
part of the course prepared by
the staff. Tours are being con
ducted in the labs, shops and fa
icilities of ORL, including Gar
field Thomas Water Tunnel and
the Black Moshannon Calibration
Station.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE, PA.. TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 12. 1960
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numbering 480 are at the 50 yard
line. The addition of bleachers in
the open end of the horseshoe
shaped stadium would bring its
total capacity to 96,275.
According to Matthew Tim,
consulting engineer for the sta
dium project, building the
world's largest steel stadium
presented unique construction
problems.
One. of the problems is the ex
pansion and contraction of the
metal. Unless the proper precau
tions are taken, when the sun be
gins to warm the steel, the extra
tension caused by its expansion
will cause the structure to buckle.
There are 22 concrete ramps
leading up from ground level, in
side the bowl, to the lower stands.
As the decking expands it leaves
a crack between the steel and the
concrete ramps at the horseshoe
part of the stadium. The decking
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'Twilight For the Gods'
Tomorrow Night's Film
The movie, "Twilight for the
Gods," will be presented at the'
University at 9 p.m. tomorrow
night as a part of the Summer
Sessions recreation program.
The film, which stars Rock
Hudson, Cyd Charisse, and Ar
thur Kennedy, will be presented
in technicolor on the lawn south
of the Hetzel Union Building. In
case of rain the film will be shown
in Recreation Hall.
About 100 Votes Needed
To Wrap Up Nomination
CONVENTION HALL, Los Angeles ( I P)—The DeMocratie
clans gathered to launch their national convention last night
and thrust the party presidential nomination within easy
reach of Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts
Powerful Pennsylvania dr
String Group
Will Present
Ist Concert
The Claremont String Quartet
will present a variety of music
in its first concert at 8 tonight in
the Hetzel Union ballroom.
They will play a contemporary
quartet composition and two se
lections from a standard reper
toire. The quartet will open with
Quartet No. 1 in D Minor by Ar
riaga and follow with a quartet
in F Major by Ravel.
They will close the program
with a composition by Brahms—
Quartet in C Minor : Opus 51, No. 1.
The quartet members include
Marc Gottlieb, violin; Valdimir
Weisman, violin; William Schoen,
viola; Irving Klein, cello.
The group opened its third suc
cessive summer as quartet in resi
dence with a lecture last Friday
in the HUB assembly room. It was
the first of four lectures, each to
be given prior to one of the four
scheduled weekly concerts.
The lectures are devoted to an
analysis of the works comprising
the following concert. Friday's
lecture concluded with a debate
of the relative worth of Brahms
as a composer. The quartet threw
the question to the audience and
the lecture became a debate.
$7300 Grant Awarded
The National Science Founda
tion has awarded a grant of $7,300
to the University to support the
publication of an underwater
acoustics handbook written by Dr.
Vernon M. Albers, chief scientist
and professor of engineering re
search at the Ordnance Research
Laboratory of the University.
Aid May Be ignored
As Campaign Issue
The U. S. foreign Aid programs have totaled over $BO bil
lion since World War II but in spite of the size of foreign aid,
it does not look as if it. will he a major issue in the coming
presidential campaign, Dr. Elton Atwater, head of thc_De
partment of Political Science said.
However, foreign aid will be an issue in certain districts
.electing senators or congressmen,,
Atwater said. Controversy doesMSA is $4.175 billion. Appropri
exist over foreign aid, he said, notations for 1960 totalled $3,225,- ,
on a partisan basis but ratherl3l3,ooo. The largest increases, if
through the efforts of the econ-igranted would he in military as
omy bloc in Congress to reduceLsistance and DLF.
spending. "Defense support" assistance is
"One of the most controversial:defined as economic assistance
aspects of our present foreigndesigned to secure a specific: con
aid program," he points out. "at!tribution to the common defense
least in general terms, is the prop-by another country in which U.S.
er financial relationship betweeniMilitary aid is helping to support
the military aspects and economic!significant military forces.
aid." I This form of aid consists of
The Mutual Security Act of ;economic resources to permit
1960 is currently under discus• I maintenance of defense contribu
sion in Congress. The president ;tions. As a general rule it is aid
has asked for $2 billion for
,ito enable a country to meet the
military assistance, $274 million ;cost of an agreed required defense
for defense support (which is !contribution of forces or facilities
considered economic (and $7OO 'or both.
million for the Development I The Development Loan Fund
Loan Fund. i established in 1957, Is under tho
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all
ove just about the last nail in
the coffin holding the hopes of a
trio of trailing rivals.
The Keystone State delegation
threw 64 of its 81 votes to Kenne
dy. That propelled him to within
less than 100 of the 701 votes
needed to clinch the nomination
when the convention ballots to
morrow night.
The convention citadels of
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Tex
as, Sen. Stuart Symington -of
Missouri and unannounced but
willing Adlai E. .5 4 .evenson of
Illinois were crumbling and
cracking in collapse. If these
men weren't conceding it. many
of their most loyal backers
were.
For the first time, under ques
tioning at a news conference, Ken
nedy said he believes that "we do
have 761 votes."
But Johnson fired out a state
ment contending that Pennsylva
.nia's action "does not seriously al
ter our earlier predictions of a
Johnson victory."
"It appears," he said, "that the
only people who are stampeding
Ito Sen. Kennedy are newspaper
people not delegates,"
Actually Johnson all but told
the Pennsylvanians before they
counted noses that nobody. could
'catch Kennedy if they took the
plunge for him.
A Kennedy victory became
even more certain when the
man the Ne w Englander
knocked out in the primaries,
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey,
turned loose his supporters and
some 65 voles to go where they
please.
Humphrey offered no sugges
tions on where they should turn.
But the Kennedy camp figured on
gathering in at least nail these
votes.
Washington Stiite also added
Another small batch of ‘fotoi to
the Kennedy collection.
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