jHiinßiltvMmimittmwMmiiammf*** Weather Forecast: Partly Cloudy, Turning Colder VOL. 61. No. 78 JFK Asks Goldberg To Investigate Areas Of Labor Surplus WASHINGTON (/P) —Fresh reports of mounting unem ployment In big cities yesterday prompted President Ken nedy to order a series of on-the-spot inspections of conditions in the hard-hit areas. The jobless picture was described as worse than it has Four Terms To Change Registration By JOAN MEHAN Registration should be less hectic under the four-term system as students will have an opportunity to request courses a term ahead of time. In the fall, time tables will be available with listings for three terms, fall, winter and spring. At that time the advisors will ap prove the student’3 fall and win ter schedules, Dr. Robert G. Bern ■reuter, dean of admissions and registrar said yesterday. Fall registration will be con ducted as usual except students will turn in winter course re quests. When the system first goes into operation students will not be much surer of getting courses than they are now. but it is hoped that after the sys tem has been in operation for a few terms this method will make it easier for students to register, Bernreuter added. At winter registration the stu dent will again register, but he will turn In spring course requests also. "This system should reduce the time spent at registration and give the department heads some tdea of the number of the stu dents that want to take particular courses,” Bernreuter said. For the present, the summer term registration will be handled without course requests filled out in the spring. Four-term registra tion is still in the planning stages, but Bernreuter hopes that in two years students will be able to register for all four terms at one time. —Collegian Photo by Rick Bower THE ALL-AMERICAN COLLEGE GIRL LOOK duly exemplified by (1 to r) Mary Ann Kill. Mary Ruth Martin, Barbara Watchorn, Debbie Taylor and Barbara Vincent, five Penn State finalists chosen by the Collegian male editors for the Pittsburgh Press Roto Cover Girl Contest. The girls and judges will attend a luncheon at Acacia fraternity today. The final winner will be announced tomorrow. Stye Sailq nllrut been in almost 20 years. The Labor Department added 48 areas to its list of communities having substantial labor surplus— or an idle rate exceeding 6 per cent. More than half the major industrial areas in the country, or 76 out of 150, are now so classi fied. Kennedy directed Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg to make a series of tours into the trouble spots. The labor secre tary will leave Friday on the first, a five-stale swing start ing in the Midwest. Some of the biggest cities in the country are among the 25 ma jor labor market areas newly added to the depressed list. They include Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Kansas City and St. Louis. Goldberg's initial fact-finding mission will arm the adminis tration with data to present to Congress in support of Ken nedy's $1.2-billion emergency plan. Other major metropolitan areas added to the substantial unem playment list included Peoria, 111., Akron, Ohio, Allentown-Bethle hem-Easton, Pa., Asheville, N.C., Corpus Christi, Tex,, Flint, Mich., Grand Rapids, Mich., Knoxville, Tenn., Louisville Ky., Mobile, Ala., Newark, N.J., New Bruns wick-Perth Amboy, N.J., Port land, Ore., Savannah, Ga., Taco ma, Wash,, Toledo, Ohio, Trenton, N.J. WorChester, Mass., and York, Pa. Reservations Available For Ice Capades Trip The Penn State Figure Skating Club is sponsoring a trip'to Her shey to see the Ice Capades, on Saturday, Feb. 18. Plans have been made for char tered buses to leave from various points on campus at 12:45 and 1 p.m. that afternoon. They will re turn Saturday night. The cost for both transporta tion and the show is $6. Those interested in attending should contact Jack Mitchell at AD 8-6097. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 10. 1961 Senate OK's Ed Report On Degrees The University Senate ap proved yesterday an amended report which included a defini tion of the University’s associ ate degree policy and the gen eral education requirements for the degree. Dr. A. Witt Hutchinsqn, chair man of the Senate Committee on Education Policy, jokingly term ed the report a "12 phone call re port.” He explained that he could judge the degree of interest in reports by the number of calls he received about them. It was explained that two years of study must be completed in order to receive an associate de gree. However, these two years do not necessarily correspond to those required for any other un dergraduate degree. Approval of the amended re port came after a 45-minute has sle on the Senate floor. Most of the dissention centered on the phase of the definition which principally said the program consisted of '‘material studied at collegiate level, but not ne cessarily of baccalaureate lev el.'' The - phase was eventually amended to substitute the word “character” after baccalaureate. The change was made to over come objections .that courses which could not be considered on a par with college standards should not be taught at the Uni versity. The second half of fhe report dealt with the general educa tion requirements for the asso-r date degree. These are to be in duded in addition to technical courses. The motion was carried, how eral education requirements to total 21 was passed by the Sen ate. Hutchinsin reported thdt the actual list from which courses will be selected will be compiled by the Senate Courses of Study Com mittee. However, his committee stipu lated that the 21 credits should be divided as follows: three credits in social sciences, three in arts and humanities, three in English, three in speech, six in physical and biological sciences and math ematics and- three in a general elective in any of the areas. .The main objection raised by William H. Powers, professor of chemistry, centered a round problems of implementing the program. Powers said the general edu cation requirements would lengthen the time necessary to ac quire the degree and would in crease expenses for the student. (Continued on page three) Budget Boost Vital for Enrollment (This is the second in a series of articles concerning President Walker’s request for increased state appropriations.) . One million dollars of the six million dollar increase in state appropriations request ed by the University is ear marked just to maintain resi-: dent enrollment at current levels, according to President Eric A. Walker. This adjustment is necessary to balance the cost of educating the 1200 students admitted on an emergency basis in September, he added. Governor David L. Lawrence, in his budget message to the General Assembly last week. By PAT DYER SGA Names Steinhauer i Phillip Steinhauer was appointed chairman of the SGA bookstore committee last night after vigorous objections from two party chairmen and Theodore Simon, original author of the bookstore report. Steinhauer’s appointment Assembly Reinstates Friedman By CAROL KUNKLEMAN SGA cleared up the recent “mix-up” in the number of Assemblymen last- night by reseating Ralph Friedman (C- Soph). • Friedman was one of six sopho more members elected to the 'As sembly in the fall. He was elected to an interim term but it was soon noticed that the term he was fill ing expired with the fall elections. In a Rules Committee report given by Joan Cavanagh, chair man. the fact was brought out that if Friedman were "de sealed" there would only be one member of Campus parly acting as sophomore representative. According to the SGA Consti tution, Miss Cavanagh said, there must be two members of the mi nority party (in this case, Cam pus party) sitting on Assembly along with four members of the majority party (University). Miss Cavanagh reported that before Friedman contested his dismissal, there were five Uni versity party members and only one Campus party member sitting on the Assembly. In order to have the right proportion of party members. Rules Committee recommended that Friedman be reinstated and that a University party member be dismissed. Don Owens (U-Soph) and Elliot Newman (U-Soph) both had tie votes after the fall election; thus both were voted up by secret ballot to determine which would retain the fourth University party seat. Miss Cavanagh justified this de cision by- citing Bylaw 2, Section 9 of the constitution concerning voting in the ease of ties. The Constitution states, "In the event that two candidates for the same office have an equal number of votes, the new ly elected Assembly by secret (Continued on page five) recommended a si a n d-still budget on education of $17.1 million until his special com mittee presents its final report. President Walker has asked for an additional S 6 million or $23.9 million. Because of the unprecedented demand for admission of new stu dents during the past year (29,404 japplications), maintenance work (was postponed and certain re search projects were curtailed on an emergency basis in order to re-allocate the $1 million needed to admit 1200 additional full-time students, according to a special budget booklet, Penn State" and the Future of Pennsylvania. If sufficient funds to make up this deficit and to continue to educate these additional stu dents are not provided in the 1361-62 budget, the University By MEG TEICHHOLTZ , an executive one, was im mediately challenged by Dennis Eisman, former vice chairman of Campus party on the grounds that ”Uie person who is responsible for all the work done so far on the bookstore (Simon) has not been considered by Assembly.” After this statement, Walter Darran (U.-Sr) rose to say that he had chaired the SGA Bookstore committee but resigned early last semester. He said, “I was so fam iliar with this that I had trouble putting down my ideas. You need someone with a fresh outlook and Phil has done a lot of work for the students.” Darran then yielded the floor to Simon who said, "Mr, Haber has not given due considera tion to student Interests. I ap proached Mr. Sieinhauer before Christmas recess to ask for help in assemblying my report. Time was of the essence then because it was near time for the trustees to meet." He continued, “Mr. Steinhauer said he didn’t nave the time to help me because he had bluebooks and I should call him after vaca tion.” Jacqueline Leavitt (U.-Sr.) then asked Haber for his reasons in appointing Steinhauer, to which Haber replied “he is able, capable, willing and will do a good job.” “In addition,” Haber said, “there are facts in disfavor of Mr. Simon so I immediately by passed him. Some of these are in the strictest confidence and I don’t want to get into a discus sion of this.” Simon sent his report to the trustees on his own initiative but it had. not been endorsed by Assembly, which sent the trus tees telegrams requesting the store. Darran then accused Simon of going over the Assembly's head to which Simon replied “I felt just a bill was not enough and included a letter which informed each member that the report was my own work and not connected with SGA.” The floor was then yielded to Gomer Williams who said that he had worked in the office of Gov ernor Lawrence and "the people in Harrisburg were impressed with the report.’’ "You have not included one concrete reason why Simon should not be appointed, just ns President Haber never can give concrete reasons— ’’ Williams was abruptly cut off (Continued o?i page two) will have no alternative but to reduce the freshman class en tering next fall by the number necessary to bring the operat ing budget back into balance, the booklet continues. In support of his request, Presi dent Walker said his faculty was now teaching more students and jdoing more research than any olh jer university in the state, and Ithat it was doing so “with a budg ■et stretched .to the breaking point.” One of the main reasons for this strained budget is clue to the admission of the 1200 ad ditional students last fall. With these 1200 students, Penn State’s state-wide enrollment reached a record high of 21.656 this year. At /University Park alone, the total enrollment reached a record-smashing 16,091 during the fall term. MIIIIIIDMtaiIIIHImIimiIMIIIIIIIIIIIIM 'Ungodly?' 'Unconstitutional?'! -See Page 4 ! FIVE CENTS
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