TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1. 1960 HALFTIME FORMATION FOR BAND DAY: Sixty bands from throughout Pennsylvania participated in the - annual Band Day festivities Saturday. The activities began in the morning with a parade through campus and the downtown business district, Following the parade the bands went to Beaver Stadium where they helped root the Nittany Lions on to victo. Virginia N DEA to Teaching By MEG TEICHHOLTZ First of 41 Series A proposal to break up the major "bottle necks" of col lege instruction, those basic skills of English and mathematics in which many entering students are deficient, has led to a research project on teaching methods financed by the Na tional Defense Education Act. I What began as an idea of the; ! and of Academic Research ! !and Services germinated into al !report application to the govern-i ment last January for funds' needed to investigate leariiing. The project has branched out con ! siderably and now includes a re search center located on campus Where learning methods are being istudied and tested. According to Carlton R. Car penter, head of academic re search, the results of this proj ect will have particular relev ance to the courses in basic skills in which many entering freshmen are deficient. The report submitted to the government states that although many students are lacking train-, :ing in these skills, they may still' have adequate general abilities for college work. However, their !academic achievements are block ed or limited because of the lack of, the basic concepts and skills required for effective "high lev el" learning. One method to aid the trans mission of these basic concerpts according to the report, is the proper arranging, ordering and scheduling of material in a course. This arranging is termed programming. "There is general agreement that programming is critical in learning," the report states. "Yet prograMming of instruc- Readers Club Invites Students To 2nd Meeting Sheila Cohen, senior in arts and letters from Pittsburgh, will pre side at the University Readers meeting to be held 7:30 p.m. Thursday in S i m,m on s Hall Lounge. . Interested students are invited to attend. Members of the• club will give the readings. Juliet Howells, senior in sec ondary education from Nanticoke, will read a group of selected poems she has entitled. "From the Poet's Magic Barrel." Michele Ohrman,- sophomore in arts and letters from McKeesport, wilt read "So Long, Voyageur" by Gerund Movius. A duo-reading will be given by Sarah Leyton, sophomore in arts and letters. from Pittsburgh, and David Atkinson, senior in arts and letters from Pipersville. Miss Leyton will read Mark Twain's "Eve's Diary" and Atkinson will read "Ann's Diary," also by Mark Twain, Margaret. McPherson, senior in arts and letters from New Park; will present Shirley Jackson's "Louisa, Please." and erratic and is lagging far When the, site for the Penn behind recent developments in State Campus was first granted teaching." it was bare of trees. Now there Among the specific objectives are more than 500 different spe- of the project as it will•be studied cies and varieties of trees and'at the University are a compari shrubs. (Continued on page twelve) 417 . , . , 14 1, # • 403 LOCUST LANE The Men of Phi Kappa Psi invite all eligible Ist semester freshmen to a Rushing Smoker at the chapter house on Wed;, Nov. 2, 1960 from 7-9. Refreshments will be served. RUSHING SMOKER, WED. 7-9 Finance Project tional materials has been slow _ • , ,_ • .•.. . „ i t x Cf p. '''•p 0 i '4 - , ll* cei PHI KAPPA PSI THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA y over West closed the halftime program with the Penn Stale Alma Mater 'Haber Wins Presidency Of OSGA Richard Ha be r, Student Government Association pres ident, was elected president of the Organization of Student Government Associations by representatives of the Univer sity's 14 Campuses Saturday. The organization, consisting of student leaders from every cam pus, will maintain inter-campus communications, develop pro grams for training student gov ernment leaders, and plan and conduct regular meetings of the group. Other officers elected were: Bernice Marks (Ogontz Campus), vice president; Robert Fisher '(Pottsville Center), corresponding secretary; Michael Mulligan( Beh rend Campus), recording secre tary-treasurer. The officers will be responsible for drawing up a constitution and setting the dates for the organiza tion's first four meetings, said Randy Carter (Ogontz), chair man of the Organization Struc ture and Policy workshop. Among the immediate objec tives the newly .organized group hopes to accomplish are the ex change of all inexpensive publi cations (such as newspapers), the organization of standard honor ary societies and fraternities and the linking of campuses with an OSGA newsletter. More than 1600 individual re search projects were carried out at Penn Stale in 1059-60 at a cost of more than $0.000,000. Sixty per cent of the funds came from the Federal government. At halftiMe the bands assembled on the field forming the letters PSU. They played several numbers under the direction of James W. Dunlop, conductor of the Blue Band. Music for four of the presentations was first seen by the bands Saturday morning when they arrived on campus. -They Tencza Cites 'Social' Rules Lawrence Tencza, co-ordinator of recreational activities for North and West Halls, spoke. to the members of North Halls Council last night. Tencza discussed the rules con cerning mixers. He raid that en week-days mixers must end no later than 8 p.m. He must be no-, tified at least 7 days before the mixer is held. - Wayne Astheimer, chairman o the constitution committee, an nounced that the constitution gov- 1 erning North Halls had been, passed by all the houses, and was now in effect. Charles F bs tituting for Edward Tur»er, chairman of the elections committee. announced that Thomas Franzetta and Rich ard Kroll have 'been elected to the AIM board of governors. —There are more than 65,000 Penn State alumni, - the majority of whom live in Pennsylvania. 01?„ . , l i ai e- aj HALVES and WHOLES 50e AND UP MORRELL'S 112 S. Frazier St. SPEEDY DELIVERY 5 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Call: AD 8.8381 —Collet/ion Photo by John Banff. Any fraternity or sorority making composite arrange ments this week will be eligible to win a color composite taken of the entire house absolutely free! Here's how it works. The names of sororities and fraternities that make arrangements this week will be drawn from a hat Saturday. A rep resentative from your house may be present for the drawing. This is a $5.00 value, so don't delay make arrangements today! Infinity Enterprises 319 W. Beaver Ave. AD 8-0583 for appointment Free Perking PAGE FIVE
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