THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1961
Bookstore Aid Promised
By Manager of 'A' Store
Phillip Steinhauer, chairman of the SGA Bookstore
Committee, said yesterday that Edward Brown, manager of
the "A" Store, has pledged his full cooperation in helping the
committee gather information on the establishment of a
University bookstore.
Steinhauer said Brown was "very cooperative" and
offered to help in contacting pub
lishers so that Steinhauer could
get additional information on the
costs of books.
Brown said the bookstore pro
posal must .be "proved out one
way or another," Steinhauer re
ported on his interview with the
store manager.
Steinhauer said that Brown
previously made a study of the
possibility of establishing a Uni
versity bookstore when it was
brought before the Board of
Trustees in 195 E.
In making the study, Brown
said he paid the expenses for two
Daily Collegian reporters to travel
to Midwestern colleges that had
campus bookstores so that the re
porters could study their oper
ations.
George Donovan, coordinator of
student activities, and William
Fuller,.manager of associated stu
dent activities, when contacted
last night, said they had no mem
ory of this action. John D. Vairo,
advisor to The Daily Collegian in
1956, said he knew nothing of
any such trip. The SGA bookstore
'report from '56 has been reported
missing.
According to Brown, the study
showed the campus bookstores
were lacking in providing ade
quate sales items for the stu
dents, Steinhauer said.
In addition, Brown said he
thinks Steinhauer's committee
will find that the costs in a Uni
versity-run bookstore will be
higher than those in a commercial
store and there will not be a
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variety in items sold, Steinhauer
reported.
Steinhauer also conferred
with Lawrence J. Perez. assist
ant dean of the College of En
gineering and Architecture, on
the possibility of selling engi
neering students' equipment if
a bookstore should be estab
lished.
Perez, who is also president of
Borough Council, promised to help
the SGA Bookstore Committee
get support from the town, Stein
hauer said.
Steinhauer said he also spoke
to members of the administration
to get approval of a plan to dis
tribute questionnaires among stu
dents.
The questionnaires would con
tain questions on how long it took
students to purchase books and
supplies downtown and spaces
for them to list any problems in
purchasing they may have en
countered, Steinhauer said.
Steinhauer said he plans to visit
the managers of Keeler's and
Metzger's later this week.
The report proving a need for
a bookstore was requested by the
Board of Trustees to be presented
at their meeting in June.
'Jobs Listed in Burrowes
Seniors graduating in June onto Your Representative" campaign
August and advanced degree can- in an attempt to gain Assembly's
didates seeking teaching positions support of the project.
for September, should watch the;
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bulletin board outside 105 A Bur- Every four years, the American
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with school administrators. to the library in the White -House.
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Dennis 19 Seek
Assembly Support
For Four Terms
Lawrence E. Dennis, vice
ipresident for academic affairs,
(will go before the SGA Assem
bly tonight in an attempt to
enlist the governing body's co
operation in urging studentsl
to enroll for the summer term)
under the four-term plan.
Dennis said he will speak to the
Assembly on the details of the
scholastic calendar under the
plan, which becomes effective
this summer, and will at a later
date go before individual college
councils to urge their support -of
it.
The Assembly will also hear a
report by Jack Crosby, chairman
of the SGA Spring Week Com
mittee. Crosby will explain the
ideas of the Spring Week theme,
"Our American Heritage," and
will give an outline Of Spring
Week activities.
In another committee report,
Stephen Klein,. chairman of the
Leadership Training program,
will give the results of the 8-week
course given in the fall.
Hershall Richmond - and Stephen
Sussman, co-chairmen of the In
firmary Committee, will also re
port to Assembly tonight.
Assembly may hear an un
scheduled talk by Ronald Sheetz,
junior in secondary education
from Bellefonte. Sheetz said
Tuesday that he was invited by
Richard Haber, SGA president, to
present an outline of his "Write
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Speech Experiment
To be Interpreted
Data from a secret experiment held last semester is now
being compiled and interpreted by the Department of Speech
and the Division of Academic Research and Services, accord
ing to Dr. Paul D. Holtzman, associate professor of speech.
The experiment was an extension of a similar study
made during the previous semes
ter to determine a method of
evaluating Speech 200 and estab
lishing a procedure for determin
ing exemption from it, Holtzman
said.
Forty-four students who had
registered for Speech 200 were se
lected at random by experiment
ers and 22 of them were asked to
attend a special meeting to be
held the evening of the first day
of classes. At that meeting, the
group was asked to take part in
an experiment in which each one
of them represented 200 students.
They were also asked to keep the
experiment secret.
They were told that they
wouldo be assigned to a "phan
tom section' of Speech 200 and
that they would not attend
classes in that subject. They
would be asked to complete
certain assignments and give a
few speeches, but their only
contact with the course would
be a meeting every other week
with a speech faculty Member.
They would be
.compared to
the other 22 in the experiment
who would take the course.
At the end of the semester the
students would take a final ex
amination and be graded on their
past performances according to
the regular requirements.
They could either accept the
marks that they received or take
a deferred grade, audit the course
the next semester and receive the
grade the instructor of that sec
tion thought they deserved.
All of the students who were
chosen agreed to help in the ex-
periment, Holtzman said. "The
department is extremely grate
ful to them," he said.
"Although hardly any of the
data has been suffiicently inter
preted," Holtzman said, "the
marks on the final examination
which the 22 students took - were
significantly lower than those of
the other speech students." Ten
of the 22 original students decided
not to accept the grades they re
ceived, and take the course this
semester, he said.
Correction
It was incorrectly reported in
yesterday's Collegian that San
dra Baker is co-chairman of the
IFC-Panhel Jazz Festival. The
chairman is Sandra E. Eddy. It
was also incorrectly reported that
Miss Baker delivered a report on
the festival to Panhellenic Coun
cil Tuesday night. The report was
presented by Mary Dell Kahle,
member of the committee.
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