Reds Check - West Germans —See Page 2 VOL. 2. No. 24 UN Representative To Fly To Jordan AMMAN, Jordan (11))--Pier Spinelli, special representa tive of the United Nations in the Middle East, flew here yes terday to try to calm the latest Mideast crisis growing out of the bomb killing of Premier Hazza Majali. Spinelli rushed here from Geneva on orders from Secre tary-General Dag Hammarskjold after King Hussein charged the assassins were linked up with "responsible people" in President Gammal Abdel Nasser's United Arab Republic. The U.N. representative went into conference with Talhouni, the chief of the Cabinet who has assumed the premiership. Two suspects in Monday's bombings, which killed Majali and 10 other persons and in jured 41, are reported by offi cials to have escaped into the Syrian region of the U.A.R. Investigators said the suspects were employed in the Jordan Press Bureau and were paid off by Jordanian political refugees in ,Syria. Hussein has demanded the ex 'tradition of the suspects, and .has ,threatened to take the case be fore the Arab League and the U.N. Security Council. He said the assassins "were linked up with responsible people in the United 'Arab Republic—mainly in Syria.", The Amman radio kept the campaign boiling. It called President Nasser the leader of "the criminal clique" respon sible for the assassinations and, urged Syrians to overthrow their Egyptian ruler. Cairo ra dio has repeatedly called for the overthrow of Jordan's royal I regime, calling it a British stooge. Hussein has blamed many of the Middle East's tensions, in cluding the threats to his own throne, on the ambitions of Nas ser to dominate his Arab neigh-, bors. Parents of Coeds Sent Off-Campus Permission Blanks Under a new policy of Dorothy 3: Lipp, dean of women, off campus permission blanks have been sent to the parents of all coeds. On these blanks the parents will designate whether the coeds will be allowed to make out••of town trips, overnight trips, leave the University area, etc. No coed will be allowed to make any trips until this blank has been returned by her parents to the dean of women's office. According to Dean Lipp, these blanks will simplify enforcement of women's regulations recently liberalized to develop "indepen dent and mature young women." Official blanks of this type had not been used previously but a coed had to have written permis sion from home for each over night or off-campus trip. These blanks will remain on file for the duration of a coed's stay at the University, Dean Lipp said. A parent may request a new form to change the extent of the privileges allowed to the daughter at any time. Forest ry Prof Participates In World Congress Merwin W. Humphrey, profes sor of forestry, is representing Penn State at the Fifth World Forestry Congress at Seattle, Washington. The Congress attracted fores ters from 71 nations and includes 700 foreign participants, with a total attendance of some 2000 for esters and other natural resource people. Among the speakers will be Sec retary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and Andrew W. Cordier, executive assistant to United Nations secretary Dag Hammar skjold. The United States is host to the Congress for the first time. Americans Sweep Olympic Shotput ROME (iP) —Mighty Bill Nied-ithere is no competition." land field team didn't fare as well er of the U.S. Army and the Uni-1 . Rated an alternate after fail-;as the men. The three girls were versity of Kansas led the Unitedling to make the team, Nieder set'eliminated in the first heats of the States to the first one-two-threea pending world record of 65-10;80-meter hurdles and the best U.S. sweep of the 1960 Olympic Games i m training. When Dave Davis ofiperformance in the broad jump yesterday, winning the shot put Canoga Park. Calif., hurt his final was a 16th by Willey White with a record-smashing toss of 64 wrist, Nieder was moved into thelof Greenwood, Mass. Russia's feet 6 3 / 4 inches. first team. Vera Krepinka set an Olympic Parry O'Brien, the Los Angeles banker trying for his third straight Olympic gold medal, was second with 62-8% and Dallas Long of Phoenix, Ariz. was third at 62-8. O'Brien's Olympic record of 60- 111'8, set in Melbourne in 1956, was shattered beyond recognition while a crowd of, 60,000 roared. It was a supreme 'triumph for Nieder who was almost left off the American team after finish ing fourth in the trials. It also was a satisfying victory over O'Brien who had called Nieder a "cow pasture performer who only does well in meets where . . No. • i t i tt i tte rr i''... , , ,. -;..i•) 0 t) ..1..0:• ilt( PENN STATE cp c , Si ',\ 1 .... t..- L ia iosith . 3 Faculty to Attend utrition Congress Three faculty members in the department of foods and nutri tion at the University are parti cipating in the various sessions of the Fifth International Congress on Nutrition being held in Wash ington, D.C., Sept. 1-7. Dr. Ruth L. Pike, professor of foods and nutrition, will present a paper on "The Effect of Restric tion and Excess of Dietary Sodium upon Maternal and Fetal Tissues and Fluids in the Rat." Co-authors of this paper are Avanelle Kirksey, Jpequeline Cal lahan and Judith Nelson, graduate students in nutrition. Dr. Miriani E. Lowenberg, pro fessor and head of the depart ment of foods and nutrition, and Dr. Mary L. Dodds, professor of foods and nutrition, will partici pate in sessions on nutrition. The American musclemen pick- record with a leap of 20 feet 10 7 / 8 ed up 19 points among them and:inches for the gold medal in the shot the United States closer tolbroad jump, beating the defend front-running Russia in the racOng champion from Poland, E. for unofficial team honors. IKrezesinska. After 25 events the score_stood:l Armin Hary of Germany, co _ _ Russia 120. United States 99, Ger-jiolder of the world 100-meter many 81, Italy 68, Hungary 67. ;record, exploded with his patent- The strong U.S. team moved its , ed start as the crowd yelled "ho" three-man entry through twoland wiped off the books the rounds of preliminary heats in,Olympic record shared by . five both the 100-meter dash and thetAmericans. . 800-meter run. All three Ameri-I Off like a flash, liary won his cans also survived the first heats:second round heat from fast of the 400-meter hurdles, but theclosing Dave Sime of Durham, entire delegation was wiped ouUN.C. and was credited with 10.2. in the 5,000-meter race. ISime was timed in 10.3, equalling The American women's tradd (Continued on page five) FOR A BETTER STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 2. 1960 Uninforme• Public Rapped By McGill Francis Gary Powers is a picture of the immature, uninformed average American to day, said Ralph McGill, whose newspaper was honored yesterday by the American Society of Journalism School Administrators for its "tolerance, courage, fair play and devotion to the welfare of its own region and the nation as a whole.' McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, received —Colleginn Photo by Paul Lowe NEW SURFACING for walkways in West Halls area. Asphalt walkways replace worn concrete walks in time for fall semester, Summer Classes Enroll 8677 Over 8600 students attended•6-week session. This was more classes in the five summer ses- than half the 1494 total which in sions programs at the University eluded 515 graduate and 124 spe this year. cial students. Graduate students far outnum-, Enrollment for the second 6- bored those enrolled under allkveek session totaled 1329 710 , other categories. Of the 8677 total, undergraduates 497 graduates 4840 or about 55 per cent were'and 122 special students. graduate students, i ' Post-session and second 6-week Undergraduates nrmbe r e d, f session both end pt (3:20 p.m. to -2856 while 981 were enrolled as'morrow. special students. Freshman students for the fall Mid-session had the largest en- semester will report .to campus rollment of the five summer ses- Sunday, Sept. 11, for orientation Mons. Total enrollment for mid-!week and classes for la!l semes session was 2660, 2071 of whic h ,ter will begin Monday, Sept. 20. were graduate students. There were 230 undergraduates and 359 special students. Intersession boaster the second highest number of students with a 2222 total 1140 graduate. 767 undergraduate, and 315 special. The largest undergraduate en rollment 855 was in the first Mass Media Guided By Public--Mayer "The mass communications media are creatures of their audience and there is extremely little they can do to change this, said Martin Mayer at the annual convention of the Asso ciation for Education in Journalism Tuesday. "In everything the public manipulates the mass commu nicator," ; Mayer told 225 assem !Produtts. bled journalism educators 'in a four basic moiivationi of luncheon speech on the "Ameri-! ma r n 7he said, have long been can Myth and .the Myth. of Ad vertising." known to be lust, sloth, greed ar.d pride. With this statement, the author) Lust has been translated by of the best-seller. "Madison Ave- advertising into the desire to be nue, U.5.A., 1 ! exploded ‘,vhat hei sexually attractive, sloth has termed the "myth of manipulated become the desire for recrea mankind." lion, greed has been redefined Advertising came under parti- as the desire fo enjoy the good ' cular heavy fire from Mayer. things of the world. and pride Adevrtising does not really is now fhe desire for social sta manipulate mankind, he said. fus, he said. but merely influences the Amer- i In :mother speech, Terry Fer ican wife to do something which 'rer, education editor of 'the Now she does without thinking aboutd the anyway.- York Herald Tribune ercditc advent' of the weekly lieWS maga Therefore, it does not have an zinc—not Russia's - first Sputnik important effect, he said, for, as giving the primary iropet , ,i "what you do is not really to• education writing in . newi;- tant, but rather what you are. •papers. Mayer also said that by a proc-' (Continued on page five) iw Academic a r r Plan Yee Pam 4 for his paper a citation of merit at the 10th annual cen vention of the Association for Ed ucation in Journalism, meeting on campus this Week, McGill said Powers. who "gave no , hint he regarded himself as a representative of his country or its interests," did not know .tho implications of his flight and had admitted he never paid any at tention to politics or even voted. "Here was a man 31 years old, uninformed about every thing except how to fly a plane." he said. "Much of contempOrary Amer ica is revealed by Powers," said McGill. "Immature, vague, uninformed, unable to rationalize self w events; waiting desperately to have all the comforts of life with none of the responsibility. "Mass public opinion is not in terested in problems involving great, decisions about internation al policy because it hasn't read about them, does not have the background of education and mental stimulation to care about becoming informed. "Mass opinion wants 'Gun-• smoke' instead of political conventions, 'Wagon Train' in stead of a program en the Con go, where the communists are taking a hold in the heartland of Africa." Against his dilemma, Powers, who was no Nathan Bale, could only use what he had assimilated in his 31 years. "He reflects what bas been 'im parted in educational processes including newspapers,• radio and television," McGill told the 225 assembled journalism educators. And there was no evidence that any newspaper or radio- TV commentators ever had any effect on him." McGill said. McGill advocated more inter pretative reporting and "newspa pers that do more textbook teach ing." "We overdid objectivity." This has caused readers to "wonder what the whole story is," and the press may ion readers or render them indifferent, he said. "The newspaper must become a daily textebook," he said. FIVE CENTS
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