NIIII/NII/IMIIIIII 11/lIN/IN/111 Weather Forecast: 1 Cloudy, I I Rain . I , VOL. 61. No. 86 Walker to Address Seniors Concerning State of University Seniors will hear President Eric A. Walker summarize the accomplishments of the University for the past four years and outline its plans for the future at 7 tonight in Schwab as Lion's Paw, men's senior honor society, presents "The Presi dent's Report." Letters have been sent to all seniors inviting them to the l informal talk, a "State of the' University" message. Although the speech will be directed to ward the seniors, a limited num ber of underclassmen will also be admitted if there is room for them, according to James Ettel son, chairman for the event. The University's budget re quests and the student cam paign now being conducted to gain legislative support for the request will probably be includ ed in the talk since Prexy has just returned from a joint Sen ate-House appropriations com mittee hearing in Harrisburg. Ettelson said. Prexy is also expected to cover, such topics as the four-term plan and the physical expansion of the University, according to Ettelson. The President may also outline the University's plans for the fu ture, he added. , The President now presents such a report to alumni annually during reunion time in June. However, Prexy has been asked to speak at this time because sen iors have a special responsibility to keep informed as to the status of the University, according to the letter sent to seniors. The talk was originally con ceived as a message to all rru dents, Ettelson said. However, this would have meant the pro gram would have had to be held in Recreation Hall in or der to seat everybody. Since this could hardly be the setting for an "informal" talk, the pro gram had to be limited, he added. State-wide news coverage was originally planned, but this was also eliminated to create a more informal atmosphere, he said. Members of Mortar Board, sen ior women's honor society, will aid the members of Lion's Paw by acting as ushers for the program. Rush Begins 2nd Round Tomorrow Women participating in For mal Spring Rush may pick up invitations for the second round of chatter dates today from 8:50 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in the main lounge of the Hetzel Union building. The first round of chatter dates ended last night. Open houses were held on Saturday and Sun day under the new system by which the guide who accompanied each group will continue to serve as an advisor to her group throughout the rushing period. Chatter dates will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. and from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. tomorrow and Friday. After noon chatter dates will last for one half hour each and those in the evening for 45 minutes. Rush ees may accept eight invitations. Rushees must fill out their IBM invitations completely, Mrs. Nancy M. Vanderpool, assistant to the dean of women said yester day. She said there had been some difficulty regarding this Monday. Mrs. Vanderpool also asked that those rushees who wish to dis continue rushing contact one of the counselors at the Panhellenic post office. Jan Carlisle, assistant Panhel lenic rush chairman, said that the new guide system has been work ing very well and will probably be continued in the future. Under the new system, the guides who accompanied rushees during open houses act as advisors to their groups throughout the rushing period. ÜBA to Return Money, Books Until March 2 The Used Book Agency has al ready returned $27,000 for sold books, Lawrence Abrams, board of control chairman, said yester day. Money and unsold books will be returned until March 2. Abrams urged students with special problems about claiming their money or books not to call the Book Exchange. He said they would probably receive more satisfaction if they went to the 11BA and spoke with him per sonally. No plans have been made yet to accommodate students whose ÜBA receipts have been lost or destroyed, Abrams added. The ÜBA will be open to re turn books and money from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and from 9 to 11 a.m. .Saturday in the Hetzel Union cardroom. ~ „,... El *,. , . . . .!, •0 • '''. 4, w.r ii ~....N.4, . , lt • '-'1111" ) ' -........:_.;-- STATE COLLEGE. PA.. WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 22. 1961 Old Main's Chimes Ring After 2-Day Silence Old Main's chimes are once again working regularly. In• vesiigation as to why the chimes were silent Monday and part of yesterday revealed that someone had turned the amplifier off. The amplifier is often turned off on weekends, physical plant officials said, so the chimes will not interfere with lectures, artists series and other similar activities. Legislators Non-Committed on Funds By PAT DYER State legislators are non committal on the subject of [increased appropriations for the University, according to President Eric A. Walker. The president appeared Mon day before a joint session of the Senate and House Appropriations Committees. The 30 senators and represen tatives who attended the session seemed sympathetic to the Uni versity's needs, but indicated nothing regarding the possibility of a budget increase, Walker added. Governor David L. Lawrence in his annual budget message rec ommended an appropriation of $17.1 million pending the final re- FOR A BETTER PENN STATE Capsule Survives Tortuous Test '''ide CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (/P)--America's man-in-space capsule survived its most severe test yesterday, a tortuous 12,850-mile-an-hour rocket ride. Officials said a man apparently could have lived through the test and quickly named three candidates for a space flight expected within two or three months. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported the overwhelming suc cess of the flight bolstered the chances of sending an astronaut ion a short rocket ride in the near future and into orbit around the earth late this . year. Authorities emphasized, how ever, that much testing remains before a human can be launched. The developments yesterday made it obvious the trials are entering the final stages. The, three chosen to begin training for the first U.S. manned shot are John J. Glenn . jr., 39, a Marine lieutenant col onel from New Concord. Ohio: • Virgil E. Grissom, 35, an Air Force captain from Mitchell. Ind., and Alan B. Shepard Jr.. 37, a Navy commander from East Derry, I Glenn and Shepard, who wit nesed the launching, were over joyed at their selection. "At one point in today's flight." I Shepard said, "I was asked if l'd !rather be on board in the cock pit. I've been giving, the same an swer for a long time 'you bet'." "We've been looking toward this day for a long time," com mented Glenn, "and it's an under statement to say that I'm happy. We've tried, however, to play down the 'first' aspects. "For instance, today's flight and all that it proved was much more important to project Mer cury than the name on the first ticket." Grissom, who monitored the flight from a control station in Bermuda; was not immediately available for comment. The flight one of them is ex, pectcd to take will be similar to that which Ham, the space chimp, survived on Jan. 31. Ham rode 156 miles into space and.4l4 miles down range, His capsule was (Continued on page three) —Collegian Photo by Ed Jere SPACE SUITS to be worn by astronauts are explained to Gary Smith, freshman in engineering from Cambridge Springs, by Navy recruiters Lt. Nelson and Lt. (jg) Cover at the HUB display. Cousins Lectures Throughout World Norman Cousins, who is sometimes called an unofficial American ambassador, will speak at 8:30 p.m. Friday in Schwab. Cousins is editor of the Saturday Review and author of seven major books. Tickets for the speech, spon-! sored by the University Lecture Series, are available at the Heczel! Union desk. In 1959, Cousins gained recog-1 nition for his lectures in the So-I viet Union under the American- Soviet cultural exchange pro- visits to the United States for He was the first American to !about 40 Polish women, victims speak on questions of foreign lof Nazi medical experimentation. policy before the Presidium of I On still another trip in 1951, the Soviet Peace Committee and !Cousins lectured. under the spon has also lectured before the So- ;sorship of the U.S. Government, vie! Writers' Union and the in universities and public forums Academy of Social Science. lof India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Since the end of World War 11, Japan or the subject of the U.S. Cousins has made nine trips to relationship with the rest of the the Far East representing not world. port of his special committee on for them. education. This is $6 million less) If the Republicans don't pre than the $23.1 million requested !sent their bill first, the adminis by the University. tration will probably introduce Although the Senate passed its appropriations bill after the Lawrence's other revenue pro- committee on education presents posals Monday night, no appro- its final report. The bill must then priafions for education were be passed by both houses and passed as the special committee signed by the Governor. has not yet presented its report. The legislators' questions in House Republicans are consid- general seemed designed to find ering submitting their own out the reasons for • the budget legislative program for educa- request, Walker said. No ques tion before Lawrence does so. lions seemed designed to put the House GOP floor leader, Willard University in a bad light, he F. Agnew, said Monday. At the joint Appropriations Committee hearing, the President presented the same reasons for his budget request as have .al ready been presented to the Gov ernor. This committee will evalu ate the various budget requests and the collection of funds to pay only the "Saturday Review" but the National Broadcasting Co. and the American Broadcasting Co. during the Egypt-Israel crisis of 1956-57, thc , Asian-African Con ference in Indonesia in 1955 and the Korean War in 1951. During 1958 and 1959, Cousins travelled to Poland to arrange for added. On - the subject of the prospec- tive tuition raise. one senator re marked that he had two children en' oiled -at Penn State and he certainly didn't want to pay more. Another legislator added that he thought it was still a "pretty cheap" way to get an education. Politics and Plea far Aid --lee Page 4 BULLETIN CAPE CANAVERAL The U.S. has launched a two-stage rocket from Cape Canaveral, carrying a pair of so-called "twin-pack satellites." Th e Moonlets were launched from the Cape at 10:45 p.m. (EST) aboard en 80-foot Thor-Able- Star rocket. One of the satellites is de signed fo aid navigation and the other is to study radio com munications for submarines. Dismal Weather Should Remain- Toda, Tonight Dismal weather complete with cloudy skies, occasional rain and drizzle should continue through tomorrow since the weather sys tems across the counts y have vir tually come to a halt. This lack of forward motion has stalled a sprawling storm system across the eastern pail of the na tion. Heavy rains fell again yes terday in the southeastern states with many areas reporting sever al inches. ' The threat of floods in Penn sylvania has diminished some what since yesterday because much of the river ice has melted and the - expected rain was de layed, Today should be cloudy and cool with intermittent rain or drizzle. The high temperature should be near 42 degrees. Occaional rain or drizzle and mild weather is predicted for to night and tomorrow. A low of 37 is due tonight while a maximum of 46 is.expected tomorrow. - FIVE CENTS
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