THURSO, JANUARY 5. 1961
Team Ranks 4th
In Chess Meet
Penn State's varsity chess team finished fourth among 13
of the top college chess teams in the Nation which competed
for the Phillips Trophy at Princeton University last week.
The competition to determine the national collegiate
championship was sponsored by the Intercollegiate Chess
Gjesdahl
Appointed
Head of ME
Maurice S. Gjesdahl, profes
sor of mechanical engineering,
has been named head of the
Department of Mechanical
Engineering.
Gjesdahl, a native of Minneap
olis, Minn., received his bachelor
of science degree in engineering
at the University of Minnesota
and his master of science degree
at Lehigh University.
He began his teaching career as
an instructor in mathematics at
Augsburg College, Minneapolis,
and then taught mathematics in
the Minneapolis, public schools for
two years. He served also as sta
tistical engineer for the Board of
Education of Alinneapolis and as
an instructor in- mechanical en-!
gineering at Lehigh University.
In 1929, he was named assistant
professor of 'mechanical engineer-1
mg at the University and in 1936,
was named associate professor.;
He resigned from the faculty in
1942 to accept a position as re-1
search engineer with the Landis!
Tool Company of Waynesboro
where he developed the Center
less Thread Grinder.
He returned to the Penn State,
faculty as professor of mechanical!
engineering in 1946. He was!
named acting head of the departH
ment in 1950..
Gjesdahl has done research in
the development of automatic de
vices for precision grinding ma
chines and has also published sev
eral professional papers on the
education of tool engineers and
education for creativity in en
gineering,
Chisman-U.S. Needs
Strategy Department
By ANNE IRWIN
Henry H. Chisman, profes
sor of forestry, sees the need
for a non-military warfare de
partment in the federal gov-1
ernment.
Chisman, also a Commander in
the Naval Reserve, said recently
that such a department , is neces
sary in the United States to com
bat communist strategy In the
cold war.
This department would call for
a better coordination of the mili
tary and state departments which
he believes the U.S. needs.
One of the functions of the
department would be to give
American citizens a better
understanding of the cold war,
he said. The 'United States lacks
a national purpose in peacetime
because the majority of people
are poorly informed, Chisman
explained.
This non-military warfare de
partment would have to take the
offensive, he said, "to combat the ,
present 'let's wait and see' atti- I
tude."lt's easy to see that Russia?
Is taking the aggressive when al-1
ready they are on our doorstep in,
Cuba and the Caribbean, he said.i
The United States will not
stop them because this is not
actual warfare, he explained.
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'League of America and the Unit
ed States Chess Federation.
The title was won by Columbia
University with the University of
Toronto, Harv a r d University,
Penn State, Boston University
and Carnegie Institute of Tech
nology rated as the top teams in
the tournament.
The tournament was a six
round team Swiss in which each
team plays six full matches of
four boards or games. Points
are awarded to the teams on
the basis of matches and games
won.
A win in a match gives one
match point, a draw, one-half
point; and each game won gives
one game point. Place in the
standings was decided first on
'match points with the ties broken
,by game points.
Penn State won three and one
!half match points and 12 game
:points as compared with first
place Columbia University with 5
'and one-half match points and
,19 game points.
Penn State's Blue and White
Knights recorded wins over
Catholic University, Wayne
State University, and Carnegie
( Tech and a draw with the Lira
; versify of Chicago. Losses were
posted with Boston and Toron
to Universities.
Penn State met and defeated
Carnegie Tech in the final round
!of the tournament. It," was the
fifth match in the last two years
ibetween the two teams and they
had almost the same lineup. At
stake was third place for Car-'
negie Tech if they would win
and only sixth place for Penn
State.
Members of the Penn State
team which, played In the com
petition were Anthony Cantone,
senior in aeronautical engineering
from Philadelphia; Richard Som
erville, junior in meteorology
from Alexandria, Va.; Harry
Mathews, senior in electrical en
gineering from Ligonier; and My
ron Kahna, freshman in educa
tion from Mechanicsburg.
Russia is using the psychologi
cal approach, they do a lot of
little things which don't look
like much, but when they are
added up they mean a lot, he
said.
Lack of peace planning after
World War 11, Chisman observed,
caused many countries to go be
hind the iron curtain. A depart
ment of non-military warfare, he
said, would have held commu
nism in check. He indicated that
a lack of aggression on our part
in the "cold war" now makes
many newly independent African
nations subject to infiltration by
communism.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
—Collegian photo by Rick Rower
WHERE DID I GET SO MUCH STUFF??? At least that's what
Janice Lenson, senior in elementary education from Altoona, seems
to be thinking as she arrived back at school yesterday.
Philadelphia Birds
Threatened by Prof
How do you keep 75,000 birds from living on the roof of
Philadelphia's City Hall? A Penn State zoology professor
believes that he has found an answer.
Dr. Hubert W. Frings recently has been conducting ex
periments to rid the City Hall of nearly 75,000 starlings that
live on the roof.
Frings recorded the alarm call
of starlings and played it back to
the ones on City Hall. The star
lings became so frightened when
they heard that one of their num
ber was in danger that after a
few days there were no birds left
on the roof.
Before Christmas •the birds
returned to the City Hall's roof
but city officials decided to
wait until after the holidays be
fore using the recordings again.
They said that the alarm calls
would disturb the groups of
carolers that sing in the City
Hall's courtyard.
Because of the unattractive
conditions and a cost to taxpayers,
of nearly $5OOO yearly to clean up
the dirt and mess the birds cause
on the roof and around the build-1
ing, city officials were anxious to ;
see them leave, according to Dr.
Frings' wife.
What will happen to the birds!
when they finally leave City
Hall? Frings hopes that the flock
will break up and join other
flocks in areas that don't have af
similar problem.
Frings started working with
bird calls several years ago
when the Air Force asked him
to help get birds out of airplane
hangers where they were cam
' ing considerable damage to air
plane parts. Several months ai
-1 ter recording the alarm call,
' Frings decided to use it to chase
the birds. His success prompted
By CARMEN ZETLER
him to continue research on the
project.
Earlier testing in State College
was equally as successful. Bird
alarm call recordings were used
to drive the flocks of birds out
of the trees on College Avenue
by the home economics buildings,
Frings said.
When asked how long will the
effect last, Mrs. Frings said that
the answer to this question is yet
to be learned. In one test in State
College, she said, birds were
driven off a street by the record
ing method.
Several minutes later another
group of birds approached.
came within a foot of landing on
the street, and then flew away,
she added.
"Knowing tht behavior of the
birds is the big trick for success
in the project , ' Mrs. Frings said.
She added that Frings and his
staff spent many hours watching
the birds and noting their habits.
The experiment in Philadelphia
;was the first winter testing of the
!method, Mrs. Frings said.
Timetables at HUB
Students will be able to pur
chase spring semester time tables
only at the Hetzel Union desk
and not in the basement of Wil
lard as was previously stated in
The Daily Collegian.
Study States
'Flunkies'
Decreasing
The number of scholastic
casualties (which translated
means "flunkies" or those
who never finish their college
education) are . decreasing an
nually according to a recently
completed 10-year study at the
University.
The results of the study were
released in December by Robert
G. Bernreuter, dean of admissions
and special assistant to the presi
dent for student affairs, and
showed that in the past three
years there has been a marked
improvement in scholarship at
the University.
Bernreuter attributed this im-
provement in part to an increase
of 10 per cent in the number of
first and second fifthers (high
school ranking) admitted to the
freshman class and in part to the
"much more serious approach to
scholarship on the part of today's
student."
Improved scholarship is further
shown, Bernreuter said, in a
steady increase in the numbers
of students returning to classes
the second year as sophomores
and also in the numbers who are
graduated at the end of four
and/or five years.,
"Two-thirds of all first fathers
are now completing their college
course at Penn State," he added,
as compared with 46 per cent of
our second fifthers and 39 per
cent of our third fifthers.
. Nationally. Bernreuter said, less
than half of the freshmen who
start college now earn their de
grees in four years.
SDX Elects Black
John Black, editor of The Daily
Collegian, was elected president
of the Penn State chapter of Sig
ma Delta Chi, a professional jour
nalistic society, at a meeting re
cently.
His election created a vacancy
in the vice-presidential slot, which
the chapter voted to be filled by
Sandy Padwe, sports editor of the
Collegian.
John Beauge, junior In jour
nalism from Williamsport, Wall
elected assistant secretary, a new
position in the 35-year-old chap
ter.
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