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VOL. 61, No: 88
Salary Poll
Undertaken
By Faculty
(See Related Editorial on Page 4)
The Penn State chapter of
the American Association of
University Professors is cur
rently conducting a survey on
faculty salaries.
Questionnaires have been sent
to each member of the faculty to
determine salary and employment
terms. They will not include sig
natures.
Almost 60 per cent of these
questionnaires have already been
returned. All those still outstand
ing should be returned as soon as
possible, according to R. Wal
lace Brewster, chairman of the
AAUP committee on salaries and
professor of political science.
Following analysis and sum
mary, the salary data will be
sent to the national AAUP.
The AAUP compiles a salary
rating for colleges and universi
ties each year. It seeks the aver
age and minimum salaries for
each rank, and uses the informa
tion to determine a rating of each
institution's compensation level.
It is customary for university
administrations to supply the sal
ary information upon request of
the AAUP.
Since the University's admin
istration has declined to submit
this information for the past two
years, Penn State has not been
rated since 1958-59.
At that time, the University re
ceived a rating of "D" on a double
"A" to "F" scale.
According to that rating, full
professor at tke University were
receiving an average annual
salary of $B4OO, associate pro
fessors, $6600, assistant profes
sors, $5lOO and instructors,
$4OOO.
Since the University has not
been rated in two years, the lo
cal chapter of the AAUP is gath
ering the necessary data.
Brewster said the returns are
indicating some interesting infor
mation concerning faculty sal
aries. There is a great deal of
overlapping among the ranks, he
said.
Results of the survey will be
discussed at a meeting of the
chapter on March 13.
Cousins
Education,
"Education and Our Future Foreign Policy" is the title
of the lecture to be given by Norman Cousins, editor of the
Saturday Review, at 8:30 tonight in Schwab auditorium.
The lecture is sponsored by the University Lecture Series
and tickets are still available at the Hetzel Union desk.
The lecture is sponsored by the.
University Lecture Series and
tickets are still available at the
Hetzel Union desk.
Cousins' travels have taken
him around the world four times
since the end of World War ll—
including six visits to the Far
East.
He has been observer or cor
respondent at such events as the
Asian-Africa Conference at Ban
dung in 1955, the Berlin Airlift
in 1948, the Korean War crisis
of 1951 and the South . African
crisis in 1957.
Cousins was the recipient of
the Thomas Jefferson Award in
Journalism, the Wayne Slate
University Award for National
Service to Education and The
John Dewey Award for Public
Service.
After the A-bombing of Hiro
shima, Cousins carried on a re
lief program to aid Japanese vic
tims and was later-given an award
0 .1 vik itttig itlblittitt.
STATE - COLLEGE, PA., FRIDAY-MORNING, FEBRUARY 24. 1961
Main Water Line Bursts
—Collegian Photo by John Beane
A WATER MAIN BREAK at the intersection of Entrance Rd. and
University Drive curtailed traffic on those two thoroughfares
yesterday. Workmen worked during. the afternoon and through
the night in an effort to fix the break.
Tackle at Pitt
Wins and Loses
PITTSBURGH VP) "I
wanted to shake up the apathy
of Pitt to make student gov
ernment important."
So remarked Elmer Merkov
sky yesterday after being elect.
ed president of the student
body.
Merkovsky initiated a write
in campaign by getting some
fellow students to parade
around polling places.
Pitt officials voided the elec
tion. They said Merkovsky, a
tackle on the . Pitt football
team, is a senior, and his schol
astic average is below a speci
fied standard.
Discuss
Politics
by the city of Hiroshima for'
service to the people of that city.
He is honorary president of the
United World Federalists, which
is working for a strengthened
United Nations possessing the
powers of • enforcable world law.
During World War IL Cous
ins was editor of U.S.A.,
pub
lished by the United States
government for distribution
throughout the world.
Cousin's books reflect his fa
miliarity with " other cultures of
the world. His book "In God We
Trust," deals with the philosophies
and religious beliefs of the Amer
ican Founding Fathers while in
"Who Speaks For Man," he dis
plays his feeling that the world
should end the age of anarchy
and begin the age of world law.
"The Good Inheritance" is a
comparison between the tradi
tional Athenian democracy .and
that found in the United States
'today.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
Colder Weather
Is Predicted
Colder air from Canada will
invade this area this afternoon
causing a downward trend in
temperature tonight and tomor
row.
Mild weather spread into Cen
tral Pennsylvania yesterday boost
ing afternoon temperatures into
the low and middle 50's. A maxi
mum of 54 degrees was recorded
at the University weather station.
A storm system that is show
ing signs of development in Texas
may spread precipitation into this
'area tomorrow night. By that
[time, the cold air may be strong
enough in this area to cause this
[ precipitation to fall as snow.
Today should be partly cloudy
and mild with a chance of a brief
shower during the afternoon. A
high temperature of 50 is ex
pected.
Partly cloudy skies and colder
weather is predicted for tonight
and there is some chance of a
snow flurry. The low reading
should be near 28 degrees.
Tomorrow should be partly
cloudy and colder with a high
temperature of 35 degrees.
Snow and cold weather is pre
dicted for tomorrow night.
Assembly Approves Campaign
By CAROL KUNKLEMAN were distributed after the meek•
Assembly last night aping to the members by the par
. ty chairmen, after Cabinet rec
proved a resolution backing ommended the procedure in its
the student campaign for ap- report.
The second stipulation of the
proval of the University's s23'resolution is that a letter be sent
million budget.
The resolution, which was pre
sented by Ron Sheetz, chairman
of the SGA "Back Penn State's
Budget" Committee, requires that
"Rules Committee supervise the
assignment of individual letter
writing by Assembly members to
each representative and senator
informing them of the feelings of
the student body, i.e., the approv
al of Dr. Walker's budget."
This means that each Assem
bly member will be writing
eight letters to individual leg
islators. The names themselves
Thousands of gallons of water came• gushing out of a
break in the University's main water line early yesterday
morning, causing sections of University .Drive to cave in and
placing a strain on the borough water -supply.
The break occurred near the intersection of University
Drive and Entrance Road. The
settling of fill in the area accom
panied by the thawing of the
ground and the melting snow and
rain is believed to have caused
the damage, according to Henry
L. Yeagley, director of mainten
ance and utilities.
It occurred only one hour after
maintenance men repaired a simi
lar break in a main located near
by. In less than two hours more
than 400,000 gallons of water shot
from the second rupture, com
pletely cutting the University off
from its main water supply,
Yeagley said.
The break should be repaired
by this morning, Albert E.
Diem, vice president for busi
ness administration, said late
last night. Earlier yesterday he
warned that if similar breaks
should occur, it might become
necessary to curtail the use of
water in some areas. .
One of the difficulties in re
pairing the break, Yeagley said,
was that maintenance men could
not determine where the main
was actually shattered.
They spotted a geyser across
the street from their earlier ex
cavation, but they had to rip up
the road to finl the acutual break
he said. Almost as much water
escaped underground as shot in
the air, he said.
Since the University uses
more than 1 1 / 2 million gallons
of water per day, Yeagley said,
the break put a serious strain
on the local water supply. The
only supply of water on the
campus used yesterday came
from a well in the Hammond
area, he said, but this was not
adequate.
Students and employees on
campus were asked yesterday by
Diem to conserve water until the
system was restored to normal.
Students in the North Halls area
reported last night that they were
experiencing a water shortage.
Although maintenance men
worked all last night to repair the
main, it is not known when UniL
versity Drive will reopen to traf
fic. The drive is barricaded at
Shortlidge Ro4d and all east
bound traffic will be detoured at
this point, Yeagley said.
Pa. Constitution Antiquated
PHILADELPHIA (W) Mayor
Richardson Dilworth said •yester
day Pennsylvania's constitution is
"an antiquated instrument of gov
ernment, utterly inadequate" for
present state needs.
Dilworth's testimony was pre
pared for a state Senate commit
tee on constitutional changes.
to the governor by the SGA pres
ident impressing upon him the
feelings of the student body.
Originally, the clause asked
that a telegram be sent, but Cab
inet, citing the "personal" effect
of a letter, recommended the
change.. The Assembly then passed
the amended sentence.
The third and fourth items of
the resolution call for the con
ducting of a campaign to encour
age students to send individual
letters to their legislators and en
courage students to ask parents to
write similar letters.
Two other parts of the reso-
By DICK LEIGHTON
Jobless Bill
Ready For
H:ruse _Vote
WASHINGTON (/1 3 )—A bit
lion - dollar aid-to-the-jobless
bill—No. 1 on President Ken
nedy's priority list cleared
the House Ways and Means
Committee yesterday an d
headed for passage by the
House next week.
The committee approVed emer
gency extension of unemployment
compensation benefits aft e r
changing the financing provisions
to meet objections from Repub
licans and business groups.
Democratic leaders docketed
the bill for House consideration
next Wednesday. If was expect
ed to be brought up under a
procedure permitting only a
"yes" or "no" vote, with no
amendments.
The Kennedy administration's
objective is to start these addi
tional payments to the long-term
unemployed by April 1, and Dem
ocratic leaders said they hope to
meet that deadline.
The bill would provide up to
another 13 weeks of benefits to
jobless workers who have ex
hausted their rights since last
June 30. The emergency program
would run for two years from
that date.
. The Kennedy administration
has estimated 500.000 or more
persons already have, reached
the limit of their benefits under
regular unemployment conpen
sation programs, and that an
other 2.9 million will do so in
the future.
Passage was assured when Re
publican Leader Charles A. Hal
leek of Indiana announced support
of a temporary extension of job
less aid.
This help is needed, Ha'leek
said, because of "conditions which
have developed" since last
November—when Kennedy was
elected.
Officials estimated the emer
gency plan could be put into ef
fect. two weeks after Congress
finally passes it. This means both
Senate and House must act by
the middle of March, to meet the
administration's April 1 goal.
lution, one asking for a lobby
to go to Harisburg and the oth
er asking SGA to assume the
financial obligations of the cam
paign, were deleted by the As
sembly, again on a Cabinet rec
ommendation.
Controversy arose during the
meeting because a Lobby Com
mittee was on the agenda for ap
proval, while the clause had been
struck from the resolution.
In defense of approving the
committee, which was later ap
proved after the title was changed
to the Lobby Investigating Com
mittee, Richard Haber, SG A
president, said, "The committee
can inform potential lobbies on
our feelings, but the committee
will not act as lobbyists them
selves."
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Faculty
Ought to Join
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