SATURDAY. MARCH 18. 1961
inside SGA
Time for SGA Revision
Too Shortri•Xanthopoulos
Two weeks isn't enough time to work on a revised consti
tution for SGA, Cynthia Xanthopoulos, C-Jr., said yesterday.
She said that many Assembly members had questions
at Thursday night's meeting that couldn't be cleared up
832 Earn
Dean's List
During Fall
A total of 832 students earn
ed dean's list averages last
semester, 61 less than the last
spring semester.
A semester average of 3.5 is
required for the dean's list.
Figures compiled by the regis
trar's office show that the Col
lege of Education, second in en
rollment to the College of Engi
neering, had the most students on
the dean's list both last semester
and last spring. In the fall, 22
more students in the college were
named to the list than in the
spring.
The Division of Counseling,
with a total enrollment of 920
had nine students on the dean's
list last spring. Last semester,
14 of the division's 757 students
earned places on the list. DOC
had the least number of stu-
dents on the list of any of the
colleges.
The College of the Liberal Arts
students earned 186 places on last
semester's dean's list. This was
a gain in 21 students from the
number on the list last spring.
Enrollment in the college in
creased by almost 500 over last
spring, however.
The most notable decrease in
the number of students earning
places on the dean's list was reg
istered by the College of Engi
neering. Last spring 129 engi
neering students earned 3.5 av
erages as opposed to the 41 who
made the list last semester.
Four colleges placed more
students on the list lasi spring
semester than last semester.
None of these colleges had sig
nificant enrollment fluctuation.
The other five colleges and the
Division of Counseling had more
deans' list students in the fall
than in the spring. Of these, only
the Division of Counseling had a
higher enrollment in the spring
than in the fall.
'Engineer' Editors
The new board of editors of the,
Penn State Engineer are:
Fred Waelchli, editor; Gill
Krepps, associate editor; Robert
Jones, business manager; Gary,
Blair, managing editor; Mike
Scott, features editor; Fredericki
Bowman, promotion editor; and
Robert Wenner and Robert Wag-;
ner, advertising co-managers. I
PRIMARY PARTY REGISTRATION
Matric cards are necessary
CAMPUS PARTY 6:30 P.M.
212.213 HUB
LIBERAL PARTY 6:30 P.M.
121 Sparks
UNIVERSITY PARTY 6:30 P.M.
I 19 Osmond
MMMMMM
Campus Party will hold primary
nominations for party officers.
Miss Xanthopoulos said that
if the revised constitution is
passed, bickering during future
meetings will arise over sec
tions that could not be properly
discussed when the document
in the process of being rati
fied.
Commenting on some of the
proposals in the revised plan, Miss
Xanthopoulos favored the meth
od of electing Assembly repre
sentatives.
According
the plan, ear
residence ar e
council Tow
Independel
Men, Men's Re:
idence Counci
Association
Women Studen
and the Intel
fraternity Com.
cil will set up
its own electionL
requirements and
re p resentatives miss x unthopoutos
will be chosen according to these
areas.
Miss Xanthopoulos said that
since the two functions of the
three political parties (Campus,
University and Liberal) at pres
ent is to hold caucus meetings
throughout the year and to formu
late platforms for elections, they
will not be absolutely essential
under the new system and the
residence representatives could
adopt these functions.
"For example, AWS representa
tives on Assembly could hold a
weekly caucus after attending the
AWS meeting. They will be bet
ter informed on what their con
stituents want," she said.
Parties could be represent
ed i the individual areas, she
said, but this would mean rep
resentatives would have a dou
ble loyalty to their party and
the area they are representing.
This problem would be worked
out when the areas set up their
elections codes, Miss Xanthopo
ulos said.
"Although party platforms have
been more important in the last
few elections," she said, "fresh
men and sophomores as they are
elected now are not well acquaint
ed with campus issues.
Miss Xardhopoulos said that
eliminating party representa
tion by Assembly members will
not solve the problem of inef
fective platforms, but that un
der the new plan Assembly
members may be able to form
stands of their own.
She was undecided on this,
however.
In commenting on the proposal
that elections be held once a year,
instead of the present fall and
spring, Miss Xanthopoulos said
she was hesitant about the effec
tiveness of this plan.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Committee
To Study
Credit Load
The Senate Committee on
Educational Policy has form
ed a four member sub-commit
tee to investigate the matter
of credit overloads under the
four term plan.
John J. Schanz, chairman of
the committee, said that the new
ly organized sub-committee will
investigate any assignment of 14
credits per quarter by a depart
ment. The committee will also
look into the number of courses
required by each academic de
partment for each of the four
terms.
The problem of credit over
loads was discussed at the last
meeting of the University Sen
ate. The Senate referred the
matter to the Committee on- '
Educational policy.
The problem arose when sev
eral academic departments as
signed more than the normal 12
credit load per quarter. President
Eric A. Walker, in a memoran
dum read to the Senate, comment
ed on the danger of excessive
credit loads.
Schanz said that the sub-com
mittee will look into the whole
'subject of the number of credits
!required for a degree by each
academic department.
Schanz also said that the
Committee on Education al Pol
icy would not handle the study
of courses to be presented in
connection with the Kennedy
Peace Corps. A special com
mittee on the Peace Corps will
t be established at the next meet
' ing of the University Senate,
Schanz said.
Robert K. Murray. professor of
history, will be chairman of the
special committee, according to
Schanz.
Players to Select Cast
I For 'Paint Your Wagon'
Casting for dancers, singers and
other talent for the musical,
"Paint Your Wagon," to be pre
sented May 11 to 13 by the Penn
State Players, will begin at 7 p.m.
tomorrow in the Little Theatre,
Old Main.
Director Ellis Grove and Chore
ographer Robert D. Reifsneider
explained that tryouts will con
tinue through Tuesday night and
invite any students interested in
playing a role in the musical to
tryout for it.
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U.S., Soviet Schools
Discussed by Prof
By VICKI WENTZ
It is almost impossible to
compare the Soviet school
system with the United States
school system, said Dr. Clar
ence Bergeson, assistant pro
fessor of education services, at
the Education Student Council
'Coffee Hour Thursday night.
The only way to compare them,
Bergeson said, is to determine
whether the United States pre
pares its students for life in a
democratic society as well as the
Soviet Union prepares their stu
dents for life in a totalitarian so
ciety.
Bergeson was one of a group of
72 United States educators select
ed by the Comparative Education
Society of the National Education
Society for a field study of the
Soviet school system in 1958. The
group visited the Soviet Union for
Eng-Arch Council
To Hold Elections
Junior and senior elections for
the Engineering and Architecture
Student Council will be held
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Students may vote in Sackett
and Electrical Engineering from
8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.
Self-nominations will be accepted
in 102 Hammond until Tuesday. A
2,2 All-University average is re
quired to run.
Edward Bahl, chairman of the
council elections committee, said
that in the last election only five
per cent of engineering and archi
tecture students voted.
French Film Announced
"Senechal the Magnificent" is
the title of the French film sched
uled for 8 p.m. Wednesday in 209
Home Economics South.
The public is invited to attend
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five weeks observing classrooms
and .alking with Soviet educators.
In the Soviet 10-year educa
tio..ial plan science makes up
60 per cent of the curriculum,
Bergeson said, Sc:ence is
stressed not for the purpose of
"getting ahead" of ••veryone
else, he added, but to help in
attaining the goal of Commun
ist philosophy the ideal man.
Assignments each day in each
grade are identical throughout
the entire country. Poor r"-des
are inexcusable because the f:',o
viets believe that everyone is.
eqw " in talent and ability. They
believe that poor discipline is
the one and only possible reason
f^-• low grades, according to Ber
geson.
Bergeson found only two types
of classroom instruction: question
and answer, and lecture. Audio
visual aids are seldom used, he
said, and a very formal, strict
approach is used in the classroom.
Brazilian Lecture Slated
Opportunities for students to
study in Brazil will be outlined
in a lecture by Carleton Sprague
Smith, director of the Brazilian
Institute at N.Y.U., at 7:30 p.m.,
Tuesday in 124 Sackett.
Through the
Looking Glass
with Gabby
Hello Mere, Everybody,
I'm back again, with more
words of wisdom from Ethel
Meserve. Everybody is making
plans these clays for Easier •
either the poor people who arc
going home, or the Ineky ones
who are heading to Florida,
"where the boys. are." Penn
State is going to be well-repre
sented down there especial
ly with those who are taking
off early (everyone!). And
then, of course, this is the
profs favorite time for giving
bluebooks so that you'll be here
to the bitter end. Wherever
you're going, drop into Ethers
and • make sure you have ev
erything.
DO YOU STILL BELIEVE?
in the Easter Bunny? You'd
better we have proof here
in Ethel's! lie made a special
trip early and left us a lot of
Easter Eggs. Seriously, we
have some beautiful hand
painted eggs from Czchoslo
vakia. The designs on. these
eggs are very delicate 'and
lovely, and sure to bring com
pliments, (They're hollow, too,
so they won't make a mess or
smell!)
WANT TO LIVE OUT
OF A BAG?
You can do it now, girls. Ethel
has those Etienne Aigner
handbags that look like minia
ture suitcases. They'll hold a
lot, maybe even a miniature
sized boyfriend! If you're go
ing to Florida, get one! You'll
he able to live out of one for
the week.
Happy hunting plans for
where the buys (and girls)
are,
Gabhi
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