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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.
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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.
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