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VOL. 6T. No. 74
Senator Hayes' Analysis
OfAppropriationßequest
Indicates Tuition Raise
Penn State will probaly not get the $23 million it has
requested from the state legislature, if the analysis of Sen. Jo
Hayes (D-Centre) proves to be correct, and such a situation
would result in a tuition raise after this semester, according
to President Eric A. Walker.
Hayes, who is a member of the special Governor’s
Committee on Education and
chairman of the Senate’s Educa
tion Committee, said lie does not
think legislators will vote enough
money for the University’s needs
until their fellow club members,
churchmen or neighbors have a
son or daughter refused admit
tance to the University and start
questioning why.
"The appeal must be person
alized." Hayes told this report
er in an interview Friday.
“Legislators will become most
sensitive when someone starts
badgering them about why their
child didn’t get in.”
Governor David L. Lawrence
said last month that to raise Penn
State's appropriationabove the
current $l7 million would require
a raise in taxes.
Hayes indicated Friday that res
ervations over a tax raise prob
ably override the dedication to
higher education of most state leg
islators.
"It's not easy to vote for
taxes." he said, "and education
has to compete with many, oth
er things for the state dollar.”
Walker announced last week
that unless the state approved the
additional money requested for
the 1961-62 budget, tuition would
go up.
In a form letter to parents of
;Penn State students, Walker
asked that they write to the gov
ernor and legislators about the
needs at Penn State and their
willingness to pay increased taxes
if necessary.
The University’s appropriation
has been frozen at $17.1 million by
the governor util the report of his
special committee is completed.
The target date set for this report
: s March 1.
Registration
To Continue
In Willard
Late registration will con
tinue today in Willard to ac
commodate students who were
unable to register at the proper
time due to the weekend snow
storm.
Dr. Robert G. Bernreuter, dean
of admissions and registrar, an
nounced last night that students
with legitimate excuses for not
registering at the proper time will
be permitted to register all day
today without paying the $lO late
registration fee. Other students
may still register but will have
to pay the fee.
Registration figures from Sat
urday noon showed 14,643 stu
dents enrolled at the University
Park campus and a total of 17,-
627 enrolled throughout the
state.
The 14,643 figure recorded at
Saturday noon is almost 1000
above last spring’s Saturday total
of 13,825 and about 1300 more
than recorded in the spring of
1959.
Even final registration this
spring probably won't be able
to top that of last fall when
15,741 students had been reg
istered by Saturday noon.
This Saturday’s figure includes
about 473 new students admitted
this spring, both entering fresh
men and transfers. About 400
men and 73 women arrived on
campus for the first time last
Monday.
This was the last registration
week which will be held in the
spring with the introduction of
the four-term system which will
go into operation in June.
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AFTER MATH OF THE DEEP SNOW: Scenes like this were common in many of the University I'
parking lots yesterday as a result of the weekend snow. In this case, two cars remain snow
bound while a jeep has been shoveled out. The electrical engineering building is in the back
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By JOHN BLACK, Editor
Collegian Open House
There will be an open house
for all siudenls interested in
joining the news and photog
raphy staffs of The Daily Col
legian at 7 p.m. Wednesday in
the basement Of Carnegie. Re
freshments will be served.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. MONDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 6. 1961
Soviets Hail Rocket;
Silent on Progress
MOSCOW (/P) —The launching of the seven-ton Sputnik was hailed by the Soviet
press yesterday as a significant step toward manned space flight. But there was an unusual
silence about its progress.
None of the papers gave any technical details beyond those announced by the Tass
news agency and the Moscow radio Saturday. '
In Washington, there were no comments or reports on tl
Events Scheduled
For Spring Week
The week of April 27 to May third has been designated
for the annual Spring Week activities and a tentative sched
ule has been drawn up for the various events.
Spring Week chairman, Jack Crosby, announced that the
Queen of Hearts and men’s Olympics (athletic contest) has
Seniors Favor
Lake Dock Area
As '6l Class Gift
The senior class voting at reg
istration favored a boat dock and
landing area at Stone Valley lake
as their class gift. With over 50
per cent of the class voting, a ma
jority preferred the Stone Valley
project to information booths or
benches and bicycles.
'Tim Nelligan, senior class gift
chairman, said that the class plans
to. have the dock and landing
area built and dedicated before
June graduation. He added that
the seniors have over $5OOO to
spend and will begin plans for
construction immediately.
This is ths first time a senior
class voted on gift suggestions at
registration which might account
for the large vote turnout, he said.
The senior class began accept
ing suggestions in December
from any student or faculty mem
ber. Then the gift committee and
Herman Weber, class president,
reviewed and narrowed the sug
gestions to three. __
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been set for April 27, the float
parade for April 28, the carnival
for April 29 and Awards Night
May 2,
No theme has yet been decided
upon for-the festivities but Crosby
said that a decision should be
made within a week.
Applications for individuals
wishing to do committee work
for Spring Week are now avail
able at the Heizel Union desk.
Crosby also announced the com
mittee heads who must be ap
proved by SGA. They are Fran
cine Garfinkel, publicity; Judy
Cheadle and Robert Polishook,
float parade; Eugene Chaiken and
Charles Brantz, carnival; Susan
First, Queen of Hearts; and Sue
Ellen Block, awards and corona
tion.
Fraternities, sororities and inde
pendent groups are invited to
participate in Spring Week.
The Queen of Hearts and Men’s
Olympics Contest involves ath
letic competition among teams
composed of one woman and one
man from each of the groups
participating in Spring Week.
In the float parade, the various
groups participating are in com
petition for awards in three
| divisions of the main theme.
The carnival also involves a
contest between participants in
various divisions.
The all-over awards and prizes
are presented on the last night
of Spring Week, when the group
’scoring highest in all the dif
ferent events is named.
By JOEL MYERS
Assistant City Editor
Residents of Central Penns
ylvania were aided in their
efforts to dig out from under
the heaviest snowstorm in 19
years yesterday by above
freezing temperatures.
However, slightly colder weath
er will return to this area today
and more snow is foreseen for
tonight and tomorrow.
The big snow of Friday and Sat
urday ranged between 17 and 20
inches in State College virtually
insuring this winter the title of
“snowiest winter on record.’’
The total fall to date as mea
sured by the weather observer
at the University Weather Sta
tion is 64 inches compared to a
normal of 22 inches.
This storm created many prob
lems for the persons who clear the
I roads. There was no place to put
[the new snow, because snow from
previous storms had been piled
along the sides of paths, roads and
parking lots. The great depth of
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ie new Sputnik from the White
House, the Pentagon or the Na
tional Aeronautics and Space Ad
ministration. A NASA spokesman
said "all we know is what we
read on the news wires.”
Transport engineer V. Zvonkov
said in an article in the Commu
nist youth newspaper Komsomol
Pravda that the lofting of this big
gest man-made earth satellite
brings manned space flights even
closer.
Zvonkov failed to say when this
might come about. Other Soviet
scientists have in the past said
much research remains to be
done.
The labor newspaper Trud
said the launching proves the
thrust of Soviet rockets has Im
proved considerably because
this Sputnik is nearly two tons
heavier than the largest pre
viously fired aloft. He referred
to two sent up by the USSR last
August and December.
A scinetific writer of the Tass
news agency, touching on the
same theme, said, “The increase
m thrust must be well ahead of
the increase in weight.”
Prof. V. Fedynsky, a Soviet
physicist, expressed hope that
instruments of the new Sputnik
reported shot into an orbit
that carried it 203.1 milejs from
the earth at its highest point
and 138.5 miles at its lowest
will yield new data on lop lay
ers of the earth's atmosphere.
It is supposed to circle the earth
every 89.8 minutes.
A London dispatch said Prof.
Bernard Lovell, director of Man
chester University’s cbservatory
at Jodrell Bank, had been.unable
to pick up any radio signals from
the new satellite.
“If this space ship is transmit
ting anything it is doing it on ra
dio frequencies not used previ
ously,’’ Lovell said. “It could’ be
using a much higher frequency
band, or something may have
gone wrong.’’
Temporary
Residence
Terminated
The only students living in
temporary housing during the
spring semester will be doing
so by choice, Otto Mueller,
director of housing, said yes
terday.
Tire number of students who
are student teaching, living-in the
home management houses or those
who have withdrawn or graduated
is more than sufficient to take
care of the temporary housing
assignments from last semester,
he said.
All the women living in the
lounges and other temporary
rooms received their assignments
for new housing before the last
semester ended, Mueller said.
Although all Ihe students liv
ing in converted double roonis,
which have three occupants,
were offered new assignments
to another double or single,
several chose to remain in their
present rooms regardless.of the
crowded conditions, he said.
At present, it is likely that there
will be a surplus of rooms in the
residence halls, he sajd. This is a
normal occurrence in the be-
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