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VOL. 61. No. 43
Upset-Minded Crusaders
Bid for sth Straight Win
Against Nittanies Today
BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 11—Penn State can clinch its 22nd
consecutive winning season tomorrow by beating Holy Cross
in nearby Worcester, but Dr. Eddie Anderson and his Cru
saders have their own streak to protect.
The kickoff is set for 1:30 p.m. and the Crusaders will be
Third Party
To Divide
Organization
Liberal party has decided to
split its organization and let
Its executive committee have
complete charge of acquiring
a charter, while the rest of the
membership will work toward
the election of its "endorsees,”
Richard Snyder, party chairman,
said last night.
The proposed third party had
its charter application rejected
Tuesday when the Senate Com
mittee on Student Affairs refused
to accept what they termed mem-i
bership restrictions in the group’s
constitution. The constitution
cailed for a screening of all pro
posed members before they could
be accepted into the party.
Snyder said the party would
not change its constitution until
it found out exactly what the;
committee required of them for a!
charter. The party does not want
to strike its membership clause,
Snyder said, adding that "it is
the only thing that sets us apart,
from the other parties.” |
There seemed to be dissension
in the party as to how its en
dorsed members are going to han
dle their campaigns. According to
Snyder, the endorsees (since they
do not have a charter, Liberals
endorsed rather than nominated
candidates) will be supported by
the parly.
However, according to Barry
Flasliman, party vice chairman,
each endorsee will act as an in
dividual independent candidate,
“since we actually have no party
to endorse with.”
Educational Research
Basic Courses Studied
By MEG TEICHHOLTZ
Third in a Series
A young educational re
search project with its base of
operations appropriately in a
nursery may lead to findings
which could influence the ed
ucation of college age students.
Under stark, fluorescent lights
of the nursery in the new home l
economics building a team of re
search assistants are at work to
determine the best method of
teaching the basic elements of
English and mathematics to col
lege students who are deficient
in these subject areas.
They are adapting the rudi
ments of these subjects to a log
ical series of learning steps,
which they oall programmed
learning. The result of this
Sty* laity
By SANDY PADWE
Sports Editor
looking for their fifth straight
win before a full house of home
coming fans at Fitton Field.
At the beginning of the sea
son most fans around here
would have given you even
odds that Holy Cross would
head into the Penn State game
with an 0-7 record instead of
4-3.
Hit hard by graduation, the Cru
saders faced the 1960 campaign
I with plenty of sophomores and a
handful of experienced seniors.
So when they lost their opener;
to Harvard, 13-6, nobody was sur
prised. The week after, Boston
University handed Holy Cross a
20-14 licking.
Then it was Syracuse’s turn
and all New England was ready
for a massacre but it never
came, and the Orange were
hard-pressed to win, 15-6. i
Since then Holy Cross has
banded together for wins over
iDartmouth, Columbia, Marquette
land Dayton and hopes are high for
lan upset over Penn State, con-;
isidered by many tq.be the most i
underrated team in the East. j
State has a 4-3 record this year
with one game—against Pitt next
weekend—remaining,
The Lions opened the season
fay beating Boston U, 20-0 but
the next week they lost to sec
ond-ranked Missouri, 21-8.
They turned in their most im
pressive performance against Ar
my the following week at West
Point and came home with a 27-
16 win.
j The Syracuse game Oct. 15, was
a thriller with the Lions losing,
21-15, when the clock ran out
with the ball on the Orange four.
After that Rip Engle’s Nit
tanies lost to Illinois, 10-8, then
beat West Virginia, 34-13, and
Maryland, 28-9..
If Holy Cross has any hope
of winning tomorrow, the Cru
saders will have to stop Penn
State's hard-charging line and
backfield.
State isn’t a fancy team. The
Lions just stick to plain, hard
nosed football, taught in the steel
and coal towns around the state.
Galen Hall and Dick Hoak will
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adaption is learning of basic
elements in small “doses.''
Programmed learning may be
adapted to any one of a multi
tude of teaching machines, to a
programmed book or to closed cir
cuit television.
The researchers are trying to
determine which method is most
effective. If closed circuit TV
proves the most efficient for
teaching basic courses to those
who are not prepared for advanced
| work, and the researchers seem
to think that it will, the viewer
would be in for a shock.
He would not see a face on
the screen, but would be taught
with only the elements of print,
pictures, graphics and sound
united in the programmed ap
proach. This might be combined
with periodic conferences be
tween the student and an in
structor so that his individual
progress could be determined.
The advantages of programmed
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 12. 1960
Junta
Asian
SAIGON, South Viet Nam (/P) A military revolt, avowedly aimed to depose a family
dictatorship and strengthen the fight against Communist infiltration, toppled pro-Western
President Ngo Dinh Diem yesterday.
A rebel junta headed by para-troop Col. Nguyen Chanh Thi claimed cohtrol of South
Viet Nam’s government after a pre-dawn uprising in whic’
—-Collegian Photo by Kith Bower
STUDY IN ALUMINUM—Jan Peter Stern, sculptor of the exhi
bition to be shown in the HUB, readies one of his works for its
initial showing at the University, The exhibition will open formal
ly with a reception for the sculptor in the main lounge of the
HUB at 3 p.m. tomorrow.
SG4 Hears Report—
HUB Lot Half Used
In the evening hours between 6 and .11, the Hetzel Union
parking lot is seldom even half full, Richard Kelley, chairman
of the Traffic Code Investigation Committee, told SGA
Assembly Thursday night.
[learning, as enumerated by the
|researchers are:
! •The student is more able to
imove at his own rate as he learns
'the correctness of his responses
|to programmed questions imme
jdiately.
• The material is covered in
'short sequential steps going from
I the simple to the complex.
| «The instructor has complete
1 information on the progress a
student is making through the
students’ responses to each pro
grammed question.
• The student is actively parti
cipating and making overt re
sponses to the programmed ques
tions.
With programmed learning the
student responds to each question
asked on the material taught,
something not possible in the
typical classroom situation. He
learns immediately the correct
ness of his response and he must
go back and re-learn what he has
answered incorrectly.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Kelley’s committee has been surveying the lot during
these hours as part of a large
scale investigation of parking
problems. Each night members of
the committee count the cars in
the lot, ask the owners their des
tination and the number p£ times
per week that they use the lot.
Four other lots including the
lot behind Osmond and the lots
near the Pollock Halls are also
being surveyed. The committee,
Kelley said, hopes to gather spe
cific data in order to prove that
the HUB lot could feasibly be re
opened for students during the
evening hours.
Kelley's committee is inves
tigating the other lots so that it
can determine if redirection of
the people now using the HUB
lot is possible.
“We’ve been working on this
project for about a week but do
not feel that we have sufficient
data as yet,” Kelley told Assem
bly
Overthrows
Government
In other business. Assembly
heard a report from Robert
Harrison, chairman of SGA
Rules Committee, concerning
the impeachment of assembly
men who have missed more
than three meetings during a
semester.
Harrison said that the SGA
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h between 20 and 30 persons
wore killed and many were in
jured.
The junta proclaimed that it is
backed'by all the armed forces,
bulk of which is the 120,000-man
army, and appealed to the people
to accept the situation calmly.
Five battalions perhaps 3000
men staged the uprising that
made South Viet Nam the third
Asian ally and beneficiary of (lie
United Slates to have its govern
ment changed violently this year.
The others are South Korea
which maintains its old ties with
the West, and the Kingdom of
Laos, which has turned neutralist.
U.S. aid has poured to South
Viet Nam at the rate of about $250
million a year.
Four elite security battalions
and a U.S.-trained marine bat
talion struck swiftly in the
darkness at 3 a.m. They seized
government buildings, the Na
tional Assembly and the air
port, and then moved in on the
cream and white presidential
palace in the heart of Saigon.
About 400 parachute troopers
launched that attack.
The palace's- 200 white-uni
formed guards fought fiercely, but
were overcome in a six-hour bat
tle.
| Armored units rumbled into the
jcapital from Mytho. 75 miles to
the south, in answer to a call
from the president. Instead of ral
lying to Diem, however, they
joined the rebels.
- Fires burned in the heart of
the city. Gunshots awakened
the people and thousands
swarmed into the streets to
watch. A Vietnamese air force
plane scattered leaflets urging
the rebels to give up their re
volt.
Paratroopers armed with gren
ades and submachine guns took
over direction of traffic after the
battle ebbed.
No casualties were reported
among the several thousand
Americans living here ns military
or civilian advisers to this nation
of 12 million.
Art Exhibition
To Feature
Stern's Works
A one-man sculpture exhibition
of Jan Peter Stern’s sculpture arid
photographic studies wilt formal
ly open with a public reception
for the sculptor at 3 p.m. tomor
row in the main lounge of the
Hctzel Union Building.
Stern will show sculpture done
iin aluminum, stainless steel and
one piece in paper textile cones.
A graduate of Syracuse Univer
sity and the New School for So
cial Research in New York, the
sculptor has had one-man show
ings at the Katonal Gallery in
West Chester, N.Y., and at the Ba
rone Gallery in New York City.
Stern recently participated in a
group showing at New York Uni
versity.
The exhibition which will be at
the HUB gallery until Nov. 28
will feature pliable wind shapes,
sea shapes, hovering, and geo
metric forms.
Stern who sculpts functional
ornamentation for public and pri
vate buildings said the pieces in
the collection were all done for
personal enjoyment and not for
commissions. Stern added that his
sculpture grows from a unity of
material rather than a set plan
decided upon before working with
the material.
Step Towctrd
Improvement
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