Weather Foreeosft j Cloudy, Cool imtatltlMltMMMiaMMMMMlßMllttlOieiMt? VOL. 61. No. NO LA Library Committee Gives Recommendation On Pattee Appropriation A recommendation that four per cent of the entire Uni versity budget go to the Pattee Library by 1968, has been included in a report by the Committee on Library and Re search of the College of Liberal Arts faculty. This is an endorsement of a similar statement by the Library Bill May Provide State Services If Gov, David L. Lawrence’s library aid bill passes in the General Assembly next week, any funds the Pattee Library might receive would be ear marked for providing extra services to the state and not for meeting the present library needs, Ralph W. McComb, University li brarian, said yesterday. McComb said, however, that the additional funds might help in directly to meet present library needs. He said that the eventual $lOO,- 000 increase Pattee Library may receive under the bill is to pro vide for the purchase of resource materials which the library would exchange with other libraries in the area. "The reason that the University would not receive direct help is that the library budget is a mat ter of University control, the state only provides for general funds,’” McComb said. I Indirectly, students would bene fit from the library’s new status as a resource center, he said, be cause it would mean more books would have to be bought to be available for exchange and a larger staff would have to be em ployed. These services would aid the students in their courses and still provide direct benefit for the people in the district using Pattee's facilities, McComb said. "The main benefit of the bill is that it would provide some com pensation for the exchange serv ices now being provided free by the library to other libraries in the area,” he said. Hays Expects Vote On Budget in July The General Assembly probably won’t vote on the Uni versity’s annual budget appropriation until a week before its adjournment, Sen. Jo Hays, D-Centre, said yesterday. Hays said he expects the Assembly to adjourn around the first or second week in July. He added, however, that the 1959 session lasted until October of this year and the 1957 session met until June Hays said he would be "very surprised” if the vote on the ap propriation came sooner. "It has been traditional in the Assembly that budget items are the last things considered," he said. Hays said that this is the only reason he knows for not voting on the appropriation sooner. He explained that the Assem bly usually takes the “scores” of budget items it must consider and votes on them at the end of the session after other issues have been cleared away. This year’s session, which is in latly By ROCHELLE MICHAELS Library Committee of the Grad uate School made earlier this vear. Harold E. Dickson, chairman of the Liberal Arts faculty commit tee, said that the library needs a "prolonged cure in the form of money medicine.” He added that because the library is and has been receiv ing too liiile money, ihe de* ficiencies which exist are ac cumulated ones. Dickson said that he has two! hopes for the library situation, j • That the regular library ap-| propriation be put into its proper perspective as soon as possible, and j • That the library receive extra! grants over the next 10 years in' order to remedy the damages of the past. Dickson explained that Pattee now has a $lOO,OOO grant present ed last October from President Eric A. Walker’s special fund. The College of the Liberal Arts was allotted $45,000 of this grant by the library. However, the report states, "At least 10 more years' worth of sizable special allocations and a substantial increase ... in the budget... will be necessary to put the Penn State library on that excellence of standing re quired for a flexible and worthy research tool of even standard quality." Reports from individual de partments within the College of Liberal Arts were also summar ized in the committee’s report. Some of their comments are as follows: HISTORY: "Further improve ment (of Pattee Library) is es sential if we are to carry out our research and teaching functions properly.” ENGLISH: "The special appro priation made available to us this year has given us a tremendous boost in our program of acquisi tions. Ten years of this and we would be well on our way.” POLITICAL SCIENCE: "We were gratified by the slight in crease in alloted book budgets, but the difference between avail able and required funds remains uncomfortably large.” recess until Monday, has cleared away most items on the agenda except issues on education, lob bying and reapportionment, he said. "Issues on lobbying and reap porlionmeni have been holding up progress bul should be decid ed upon soon," he added. "Concerning the budget appro priation,” Hays said, “I have heard nothing new and as far as I know it will stay in committee until the last week of session.” The bill was sent to committee in both the Senate and House aft er being presented on the floor several weeks ago. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE STATE COLLEGE. PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 18. 1961 Independent Laos Proposed by USSR —Collegian Photo by Tom Browne HAIL TO THE LION! Five new voices will be added to the cheer ing squad for the coming season. Cheerleaders chosen from this year’s tryouts are, from top to bottom, Barbara Falconer, Kenneth Lyons, Susan Stough,' Jeffrey Brown and Janis Beachler. New Housing Policy Announced by Kline Men students must accept the residence hall room assign ment given them by the Department of Housing, James S. Kline, head of housing’s room assignment division, said yes terday. In previous years men students had 10 days after notifica tion of their room assignment to accept or reject their assign ment. If they wanted the room they had to pay a $lO deposit fee within 10 days, otherwise the as signment would be canceled. The room deposit is no longer required since it will be absorbed by the $25 general deposit re quired of all students, Kline said Therefore, this year there will be no period of lime in which to reject the assignment, he said. Kline said that men students can still withdraw from their housing contracts if they do so before they receive their assign ments. I However, he said, only about: 900 freshmen would have this opportunity to withdraw this year since all other assignments for next fall have already been made. All sophomores and juniors 3nd many freshmen have already been assigned, Kline said. He said that this does not constitute a change of policy. It has always been understood that students should not apply for a room unless they are sure that they will be occupying it, he said. Formerly it was a common prac .ice among men who were unsure There will be a meeting for all those interested in working on The Summer Collegian (to be published weekly) at 6:45 p.m. tomorrow in 9 Carnegie. No journalistic experience is necessary. Anyone interested in work ing on the business staff of The Summer Collegian should con tact Wayne Hilinski at UN 5-2531. See related editorial as to where they would Jive in following years to apply for a residence hall room and take the 10 day period to decide whether to accept or reject it. Women students . will not be affected by the new policy, Kline said, since University regulations compel them to live in the resi dence halls. Assembly to Discuss Revised Constitution The revised SGA constitution is scheduled to be pre sented to Assembly for discussion and approval tonight. Discussion of the constitution has been delayed for the last two Assembly meetings because the Assembly failed to have a quorum. The Assembly is also scheduled to approve the appoint- ment of Nancy Williams as en campment chairman and Eugene ( Grummer as encampment business manager. At the Assembly meeting on May 11, Richard Haber, out-going president of SGA, submitted the names of Robert Fry and John Witmer for the positions of. en campment chairman and business manager respectively for .the As sembly’s approval. Ralph Friedman, C-Soph., ob jected io the appointments be cause he said he felt that Den nis Foianini, new SGA presi dent, should appoint the people with whom h® would be work- GENEVA (/P) The Soviet Union proposed yesterday an independent and neutral Laos free of all foreign troops. The Western powers quickly spot ted a Communist veto as a potential trap in the Soviet plan. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. .Gromyko submitted his propo sal to the international conference on Laos shortly after Secretary of State Dean Rusk introduced an American plan. Both plans envisioned a neu tral policy for Laos and evacu ation of all foreign troops to end the isolated nation's role as a pawn in the East-West cold war. Bui Abram Chayes, U.S. State Department legal adviser, said Gromyko had introduced "a double-barreled type of veto." Rusk promised that all Ameri can troops would pull out of Laos if foreign Communist forces ad vising the pro-Communist Palhet Lao rebels also would leave. U.S. troops now consist of a small training mission of about 300 men. The size of foreign Communist forces is not known but may be several thousand men. Meanwhile, a dispatch in Prav da, the Communist party newspa per in Moscow, for'the first time admitted Soviet planes were air lifting supplies to pro-Communist forces in Laos. Secretary of State Rusk also told the conference here that the Paihel Lao rebels were violat ing the cease-fire in Laos repeat edly. A report from the Interna • tional Control Commission in Laos also distributed a report to the delegates saying some spor adic fighting continued. The American secretary empha sized that peace could only be guaranteed if the Canadian-In dian-Polish control commission for Laos is empowered to investi gate truce violations without hin drance. Truce investigations, he said, should be undertaken by the con trol commission on the complaints of various countries, including the governmental agencies of Laos. By SANDY YAGGI ing in the coming year. At a special meeting called by Foianini Sunday night, the As sembly failed to have a quorum to vote on Foianini’s appointment of Miss Williams and Grummer to these posts. In addition the resolution pro posed by Duane Alexander at the last SGA meeting is scheduled to come before the Assembly for dis cussion tonight. Alexander’s bill proposes that the classes of 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1952 be asked to redesignate their unused class gift funds, totaling (Continued on page eight) Rooms For Rant ••See Pago 4 FIVE CENTS
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