SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11. 1960
Prexy
I should like to welcome each
of you to the University Park
campus of The Pennsylvania
State University.
You have perhaps heard that
Penn State is a large, imper
sonal place. It is large. It is
large enough to provide you
with a competent corps of fac
ulty in almost any discipline or
specitalty you might wish to
study. It is large enough to pro
vide you with research facili
ties, many of them very expen
sive, in most of the areas of sci
ence and scholarship of interest
to man. It is large enough to
provide an extra-curricular pro
gram of outstanding musicians,
actors, and other performers
second to no other in the coun
try. It is large enough to provide
a sports program that includes
chess as a varsity activity. It is
large enough to be good.
But I think you will find that
it is not impersonal. Penn State
is a residential campus. By this
I mean that most of the students
who attend the University Park
campus live at or within walk
ing distance of University Park,
Further, most of the faculty
live within the immediate vici
nity. We have here, then, a com
munity in which the major oc
cupation perhaps the only
occupation is the search for
truth, the exploration of ideas,
the development of knowledge
and intellectual power. This
common abiding interest makes
for true fellowship a fellow
ship that cannot be duplicated
at an institution in which the
only contact between students
Chem Profs to Go
To N.Y. Meetings
Ten faculty members in the Col
lege of Chemistry and Physics
will participate in the 138th na
tional meetings of the American
Chemical Society in New York,
N.Y., next week.
Papers will be presented by Dr.
Thomas Wartik, professor and
head of the department of chem
istry; Dr. Leo H. Sommer, pro
fessor of chemistry; Dr. Maurice
Shamma, assistant professor of
chemistry; Dr. Joseph Jordan, pro
fessor of chemistry; Dr. William
A. Steele, assistant professor of .
chemistry; Dr. Wayne Webb, pro-,
fessor of physics; and Dr. Arthur,
E. Woodward, associate professor,
of physics.
Dr. Grant W. Smith, professor ;
i
of chemistry, will attend a busi-, 1
ness session of the Division ofl
Chemical Education, and Dr.
Frederick W. Lampe, associate.
professor of chemistry, will pre-1
side at a session of the Division'
of Physical Chemistry.
About 29.9 million tons of fish
were caught by commercial fisher
men of the world's 12 leading fish
producing countries in 1957.
WELCOME FROSH
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"The Shop of, Quality
Watch Repairs"
We come
and students and faculty and
students is maintained during
class hours.
But here I must give you a
word of warning. Education is
basically a lonely affair. It can
be measured not by what you
are taught, but only by what
you learn. And learning is a
tough, individual process. Oth
ers cannot do it for you, nor can
it be made easy. The faculty,
the laboratories, the library
all these exist to help you to
learn, not to leach you. The
value you receive from this
help depends squarely on you.
And I might add that you will
be short-changing yourself if
you limit your 'work" your
reading, your studies, your
discussions, and so forth to
that asigned by your professors.
Those assignments represent
minimum requirements. You can
get full value of your Penn
State experience only by mak
ing the fullest posible use of the
facilities and resources made
available to you.
All of us the faculty and
the "older" students alike
are glad to have you here. We
think you will like Penn State,
and we are -anxious for you to
get to kiiow us and to know
Penn State as quickly as pos
sible. If, at first, you are con
fused or uncertain, please ask
for help from any of the faculty
or your upperclassmen. You
will find all of us sympathetic
with your problems and eager
to help you solve them.
Good luck and best wishes!
By Dr. Eric A. Walker
Retired Prof to Speak
At Faculty Luncheon
Chauncey P. Lang, retired pro
fessor of agricultural extension,
will address the first meeting of
the Faculty Luncheon Club at
noon Sept. 19 in the Hetzel Union
building.
His illustrated talk will be en
titled The First Agricultural Fair
in India."
The Faculty Luncheon Club
meets each Monday noon in the
HUB and is open to all members
of the faculty and staff.
Great salesmanship is a lot of
little sales put together.
we knowiall the answers to
124 S. Allen St 404 E. College Ave.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Pattee Gets
increase
In Budget
The Pattee Library has received
a "substantial increase" in its bud
get for books and periodicals,
Ralph W. McComb, University
librarian announced.
McComb said that the increase
came after a direct request on his
part to President Eric A. Walker.
The money will be used for
the purchase of books and peri
odicals in all fields of study and
also for binding, he staled.
Last May a committee of the
'Liberal Arts faculty reported that
the library lacked books in its
collection of standard editions and
'had deficiencies in Russian musi
cal and mathematics works.
"The library has continued to
study the report of the Liberal
Arts committee and has reason to
believe that it may be possible to
make improvements in the corn
ing year," McComb said.
He slated that the graduate
school appointed a committee
this summer headed by Dr. Ja
cob J. KaUffman, assistant pro
fessor of economics, which
began a study of the library's
research facilities. The commit
tee has not yet made its report.
Speaking of library expansion
McComb said, "We have a pro
gram for expansion but we will
not be able to carry it through
until funds are made available."
The program for expansion in
chides an addition to the library
which would add seating space for
2400 students.
The addition also could pro
vide for an area devoted to
undergraduate students which
would increase the accessibility
of books by having them in open
stacks.
With the grant of funds, the
library could add 750,000 volumes
to its book capacity of .525,000
volumes, McComb said. He specu
lated that the volumes might be
added in gradual stages.
McComb stated; however, that
some of the branch college library
facilities have been expanded.
The Engineering library has
been moved into Hammond pro
viding it with the most floor
area of any branch library 'on
campus.
College Entrance
FASHIONS
Every smart college girl with fashion "know.
. h ow "
is certain to approve our collection of cam-
pus styles, designed to flatter and to treat a
school girl's budget gently!
Att, eizal.6l
Activities Share
Student Fees
Four dollars and ninety cents is your "green carpet" to
Penn State.
This sum is marked for "undergraduate fees" and de
ducted every semester from each student's tuition charges.
The fee entitles you to receive the Daily Collegian and
the La Vie, when that eighth se
mester arrives, to have a Student
Government Association and a
student operated radio station.
Each semester this fee is dis
bursed to the various campus
'activities through the Associated
'Student Activities treasury, ac
cording to requests from student
organizations.
- The SGA, your student gov
erning body, receives 50 cents
of your undergraduate fees. The
representative bodies of your
academic units, called college
councils, receive 25 cents, as do
the various living units on cam
pus.
Another quarter of a dollar goes
toward the functioning of the
Interfraternity Council, Panhel
lenic Council, Association of Inde
pendent Men and Leonides, which
represents independent women at
iPenn State.
La Vie, the Penn State year
book, gets the lion's share of. this
$4.90 fee, or $1.75 per semester.
By the time you are a senior you
have painlessly paid the entire
$l4 cost for your annual,
Tuesday thro u g h Saturday
mornings, despite deluges of snow,
rain and bluebooks, the Daily Col
legian is available for the taking
in residence halls, at the lletzel
Union desk, at the Corner Room
and in the Collegian office in the
basement of Carnegie. $l,lO of
your fee provides this free stu
dent newspaper.
The Blue Band, which gives
periodic free concerts in
Schwab, gets 25 cents of your
fee, and the Glee Club and De
bate Societies share 35 cents,
WDFM, the student operated
FM• radio station, which broad
casts from 5 p.m. to midnight, re
ceives 20 cents.
Now that you've seen where
that $4.90 goes, you may be won
dering about the remainder of
your tuition fee. All of this money
is combined with state and fed
eral appropriations to operate the
University. Each department and
division in the Penn State organ
ization requests the amount of
!money it will need.
The University budget is
compiled with these requests in
mind according to available
funds. If is estimated that it
will cost $50.000.000 to run
Penn State this year.
In addition to the above costs,
!other charges are deducted from
!your tuition fees:
The Women's Student Govern
ment Association and the Women's
Recreation Association share $1.50,
paid from each women student's
tuition fee. All students pay a
charge for health facilities, and
,admission to athletic events also
comes out of the tuition charge.
Two dollars also pays for your
'semester ticket to each artist
series concert and lecture. Among
!the many events slated for this
year which you have already paid
for are performances by Erroll
,Garner, the National Symphony
Orchestra, and a dramatic presen
tation of Archibald MacLeish's
play, "J. 8."
Journalism Profs
Get AEJ Offices
Three members of the School
of Journalism faculty at the Uni
versity were elected to ()Meet;
of committees at the annual con
vention of thq,, , ,,Associat ion for
Education in Journalim held t here
Aug. 29-Sept. 2.
H. Eugene Goodwin, director of
;the School of Journalism was
!elected vice president of the
American Association of Schools
and Department of Journalism.
Dr. Roland L. Hicks, associate
professor of journalism, was elect
ed to the Advertising Council of
AEJ and Marlowe D. Froke, as
sistant profeSsor of journalism,
was elected to the Radio-TV
Council of AEJ.
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