TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1961 Parents Must Cooperate To Ease Education Costs By PAT DYER (This is the last in a series of articles concerning President Walker's request for increased state appropriations.) Parents of college students must cooperate with higher education in its endeavor to ease the financial burden of the taxpayer, according to President Eric A. Walker. The University has requested a $6 million increase over Governor David L. Lawrence Float Parade Rules Given (Continued from page one) considered part of the float and may not be decorated. All floats must be equipped with fire extinguishers in working or der. Property of the University may not be used without the per mission of the Physical Plant. There _will be no group par ticipation in the parade. This means that anyone in the parade must be on or driving the floats. Nine trophies will be awarded for the parade=first, second and third place in each of the three categories. Floats will be judged on the following point system: (1) 100 points (maximum) for originality and imagination, (2) 50 points for adherence to theme and (3) 100 . points for workmanship. The winning float will get 30 points toward that groups' over all Spring Week total. Second place will merit 20 points and third, 10 points. All rules will be interpreted by the Float Parade committee and its judgement will be final, Poli shook said. Delta Sigma Pi Smoker Delta Sigma Pi will hold a rushing smoker at 7:15 tonight. Dr. Fred Knif fin, professor of marketing, will be guest speaker. The BX has a Complete Line The BX refunds 50c on every $5.00 s recommended appropriation of $17.1 million for 1961-62. Law rence has indicated that any in crease will call for a tax program for financing. Parents of the,'University's 21,- 567 students now account for 40 per cent of the annual budget thro u g h tuition and other charges. However, parental co operation is neceslary for the University to operate as econom ically as possible, Walker said. Walker cited the four-term plan as one such economy. "Year-round operation . . . is designed to enable us to use our plant to its maximum and by so doing to enable us to ad mit more students than could otherwise be admitted in one year," he said. . The four-term plan will aid the enrollment of 30 per cent more students. It will also help to graduate these students in three calendar years, he pointed out. "Translate this stepped-up op eration into dollars, and the sav ing to the taxpayer is substan tial," he added. This will not mean that the University will op erate on a year round program for less money, but rather that it will do 30 per cent more for less money," he said. By encouraging students to attend college on a year-round basis, parents will help colleges to accommodate twice as many students, he added. The President has also asked the public to support new taxa tion for education. Engineering Supplies Spiral Notebooks Thesis Materials and, ihE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA e ÜBA are fl" 11 Dancers Use OH-Beat Props By ANN PALMER Pale green lights, weirdly plucked piano strings an d orange and pink leotards are just a few of the "off-beat" impressions created by Merce Cunningham and Company during their performance Sat urday night in Schwab. Cunningham is a curly-haired, muscular man completely de voted to the modern dance and its promotion. He and his company of four women and one man, largely trained by Cunningham him self, are the prime movers of the avant garde movement of contemporary dance. The "way-out" music that served as a background for Cun ningham's sketches was composed by John Cage. His compositions consist entire ly of dissonant chords, plus a com bination of numerous "advanced" sounds which Cage has introduced to the field of music. One "invention" consisted of a "slinky" hung from a cartridge which was amplified at one end. When the coil of wire was struck, the cartridge reverberated the sound of war and thunder. This device, formerly used for Pa. Fine Arts Academy Exhibits Faculty Work Pen and ink drawings by two 'faculty members have been se lected by the Pennsylvania Aca demy of Fine Arts for its 155th annual exhibition of water colors, (prints and drawings which opened Feb. 4 in Philadelphia. The exhi bition will close early in March. On display are works by Dr. ,George Pappas, associate profes sor of art education and art and Stuart H. Frost, instructor in art. Pappas' drawing is entitled "Nau set Beach" and Frost's, "The Mountain." The ÜBA Returns Money Starting Tuesday February Through purchase radio sound effects, was first used for music by Cage. "I'm perhaps what you would call way out of the stream," Cage admitted. "According to others. I don't even exist." Cunningham explained that his dance is not correlated with Cage's music at all. "We use a stop watch the same as athletes do. The music and dancers begin and stop together, that's all," he said. Cunningham has found the re ect ion to his extreme fOrM of dance either violently pro or con in both Europe and America. "The only difference between these two places is that in Eu rope if we don't please the au dience, they let us know. They yell! In America, audiences are much more polite. If they don't like us, they keep quiet and leave at intermission," he said. As to his theory of modern dance, Cunningham commented, "Most. people who dislike our dance do so because they feel that they can't understand it. We dance only about dancing there is no hidden meaning behind what we do on the stage." David Tudor, pianist for the company, appeared to be the busiest man in Schwab on Satur day night. He was completely engrossed Naval Information Team Will Visit Campus Today A Naval Aviation Information from the Naval Air Station at Willow Grove will be on • cam pus today through Friday to ex plain qualifications required for the Naval Aviation Cadet, Avia tion Officer Candidate and the Naval Aviation Observer pro grams. The team will be available for questions between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the Hetzel Union. Members of the team Will also outline benefits available to col lege men through these programs. Unsold Books the Remainder of from 9-5 open from 9 a.m., in banging hte keyboard cover. plucking pia to strings, depress ing keys with his whole arm and hitting the "thunder ma chine." startling members of the audience sitting in the front of the auditorium. On Saturday morning, Cun ningham gave a master dance les son to all interested students. "There were far more observers than participators," he said. "I told those that danced that they were very, very brave," he added. 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