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Reports Given
S Approval
Two encampment reports, one concerning community
living, the other SGA, were approved by SGA Assembly
Thursday night.
By approving the reports, SGA only accepted them as
valid in their entirety. This does not mean, however, that all
UCA Begins
5 Courses
In Religion
Non-credit courses In re
ligion, sponsored by the Uni
versity Christian Association,
will begin on Monday and con
tinue throughout the next ten
weeks of the semester.
Five different courses arc being
offered, with members of the
U.C.A. staff serving as instructors:
The titles of the courses and their
meeting times are as follows:
"Basic Christian Ethics" Mon
day, 4:15 p.m.; "Introduction to
the New Testament" Tuesday,,
7 p.m.; "Basic Christian Beliefs"
—Wednesday, 7 p.m..; "The Old
Testament -- A Study of Proph
etic Writing" Thursday, 4:15
p.m.; and "Christianity and Con
temporary Drama" Thursday,'
7 p.m.
All the classes will be held in;
Room 210 of the Helen Eakin
Eisenhower Chapel. Students may'
register for courses by attending
the class by going to the U.C.A.'
office in the Chapel. •
Registration fees are $1 per
course, or 50 cents for U.C.A.
members. The classes are open to
all interested persons regardless
of religious affiliation.
—This is a lousy depression.;
Everybody's working and every-,
body's broke, At least we didn't:
have to work in the last one. -
Campus Placement Agency
Offers Services to Alums
Even alumni of the University .a small portion of corporations
can now gain assistance in obtain-:seeking employes," Leetch said.
ing jobs through the University'
' !Actually, he continued, there are
Placement Service. i
George N. P, Leetch, head of, approximately - 2000 d' iffe r e n t
the service, said that a new divkcompanies which send letters to
sion of the service has been or - the service each year. About one
ganized under Mrs. Christian K. 'fourth of them have representa-
Arnold, through which alumni visiting here, he said.
can obtain job information.
"Our graduates are in demand, "I Last June the U.S. government
Leetch said. "There are manviwas the biggest single employer
more jobs for them than they are ,of University graduates. One hun
able to accept." !died fifty-four '6O graduates ac-
This fall, 213 companies will:cepted - jobs in various govern
send representatives to the cam-,ment agencies.
pus for interviews with prospec- Quoting average salary figures,
tive January graduates, while in:Leetch used $556 as the starting
the spring there will be 350 corn- monthly salary for graduate
panics represented by interview- aeronautical engineers and an av
ers. - ler4e of $468 for accounting
"These companies represent only:grads as examples
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or any one of the parts making
up the reports will go into ef
fect as yet.
The various piarts of the reports
• may be brought before Assembly
in the future in the form of bills.
The Community Living'Report
gave encampment suggestions for
social, financial and governmental
provisions for the residence halls
which are now a part of the new
living plan.
It called for separate men's and
'women's resident area councils'
'which might, in the future, work'
'with SGA.
The Encampment Report con
cerning the present problems
of SGA. included suggestions
such as an SGA-sponsored tu
toring service. Also, under a sec
; tion titled "Election system,"
the report recommended that
' the custom of party platforms
be dropped.
Further work on the encamp-I
;ment recommendations is expect-I
cd at future SGA meetings.
In other busines, SGA Rules
(Committee Chairman Robert Har-I
; rison (U.-Jr.) reminded Assem-I
blymen .that a 2.4 All-University
;average is necessary to remain on
Assembly.
Campus party lost three seats,
!this fall. Neil White (Jr.), How-I
and Creskoff (Soph.) and James
, l
;Kridel (Soph.) have had to re-I
'finquish their places because ofj
'their academic averages.;
Nitchie Gets Year's Wave
Francis R. Nitchie, Jr., associate
professor of engineering research
at the Ordnance Research Lab
oratory, will continue to partici
pate in the Space Telescope Pro
gram of the Smithsonian Institu
tion for another year. He has
been granted a year's leave of
absence from the University un
til July 1, 1961.
presepts a
. Saturday
9 a.m. 9 p.m,
Sunday
9 a.m. 7 pm.
in the
Stock Pavilion
on Ag Hill
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
University
Vl►ill - Host
Conference
Over 175 educators from
Pennsylvania and her neigh
boring states will visit the
University next week for a
,conference on Research in
Newer Educational Media.
The conference is being held in
conjunction with the United
States Office of Education as part
of the Title VII research projects
being conducted at the Univer
sity.
The purpose of the conference,
which opens Monday at noon,
Monday at noon, is threefold.
To promote the wider dis
semination of research findings
on educational media on a na
tion-wide scale, to encourage
research in this field and to de
termine ways of adapting the
curricula and administration of
schools to the use of these new
er media.
Dr. A. W. VanderMeer, associ
ate dean of the College of Educa
tion, will serve as- .chairman of
the conference, which will be at
tended by educators from Penn
sylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
West Virginia, New York and
New Jersey. ,
Title VII is one part of the
National Defense Education Act
which
.is supporting University
research in this field to the tune
of $600,000.
The College of Education is cur
rently working on fiVe Title VII
projects. These include:
•The• investigation of how
methods and skills can be ac
quired by those already in the
teaching field profession.
•The practicality of improving
the teaching of reading via open
Circuit television.
•The ethici of showing film
excerpts of classroom teaching as
a partial substitute for direct ob
servation.
•The structural improvement
of motion pictures and film strips
for educational television.
Disniav Contest--
(Continued from page one)
:Tau and third to Triangle.
Although fraternities had only
ten days to plan their displays
this year, 32 groups partici
pated in the contest.
Judges for the contest were
Nancy M. Vanderpool, assistant
to the dean of women in charge
of Panhellenic, Leroy S. Austin,
associate dean of men, and Rob
ert G. Schnelle, of the' Placement
Service. The plans had included
the Homecoming Queen as a
fourth judge. but she was selected
too late to participate.
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OSGA May Meet
Later This Month
If present plans are fulfilled, student leaders from the
University's 13 Commonwealth Campuses will arrive here
late this month for the first meeting of the Organization of
Student Government Associations, Merle E. Campbell, dean
of student affairs for the Commonwealth Campuses, said.
The QSGA will be responsible,
for maintaining inter-campuF ,by discussion and example
!communications, developing pro-I OTo orient student leaders from
grams for training campus SGA!the various campuses as to means
officers, and planning and con- iby which the student bodies • of
ducting an annual encampment these campuses may eventually
for Commonwealth Campus stu-1 be better integrated. -
dent leaders. 1
, The present plans include rec.-
' The Administrative Committee!
ommendations for three OSGA
'on Student Affairs, consisting. of ;
; meetings per year and a 'Con
!Martin L. Zeigler, director of r es- igress" for all the student govern
ident student affairs; George L. ments of the University.
'Donovan, coordinator of student:
affairs; and Merle E. Campbell,' The plan, Campbell said, was
chairman of 'the committee, set 1 originally proposed last March,
forth four objectives for the new;but, by the time University Park
organization: !received acknowledgment from
•To provide for an exchange all the campuses, the semester
of ideas and techniques in the! was nearly over and work on it
various areas of student extra-!had to be slowed down.
curricular 'endeavor. I
been discussed by SGA Although the OSGA has not
to To provide a means for the
Assem
dissemination of information onblY, he said, it was considered and
University policy, philosophy an d!approved by this year's Student
ideals among responsible student;Encampment.
leaders. 1 —Best way to get in the swim
40 - To develop student leadershipis to stay out of the dives.
Lutheran Student Association
Friday, Sept. 30, 8 p.m.
A FOOTBALL PARTY
Sunday, Oct. 2, 6:15 p.m.
Prof Joseph Sailer
"The Real Religious Issue That
Neither Candidate Talks About
at the Center -- 412 W. College
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1960