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VOL 3, No. '3
Review
With Father'
For Audience
'Life
Fun
The cast of Mateer Playhouse, under the direction of
Max Fischer, are taking a "holiday" from the more serious
sides of life during the next two weeks as they explore the
zany world of Clarence Day's "Life With Father."
What is fun for the actors is hilarious to the audience in
this fast moving somewhat in
nane account of family life under
a stern father.
The play, by Howard Lindsay
and Russell Crouse, has been
packed with enough material to
feed today's hard working tele
vision comedies for a year.
There is Father, played by
Gerald Richards, who thinks he
is running the household as a
tight little corporation but who
is constantly coming afoul of
the "trust busting" wiles of
Minnie, his wife, played by
Constance Dix.
There are four young sons, of
age groups varied enough to cov
er near infancy to young man
hood. They also manage to keep
Father's life in constant turmoil.
As a sidelight, a procession of
family maids optimistically come
to the Day household, last one
hectic day and retire broken
Opinions on Term Plan Given
By LEN KRAUSS
(This is the second article in a
series on the effects of the Uni
versity's four term plan.)
How is the four term system
working out during its first
session? Will educational
mediocrity be the result of
the University's new speed-up
program?
These questions and others com
paring the semester and term sys
tems were asked of students and
faculty members on campus.
David L. Raphael, assistant pro
fessor of industrial engineering,
feels that after the initial period
of adjustment the term system will
be far superior to the former se
mester system.
Raphael pointed out that one
immediate problem for the in
structor is judging the amount of
material to be covered in the now
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minds among broken dishes. They
just can't take Life With. Father.
Gerald Richards in his role
as father seems indifferent to his
part in the first act. Evidently
he tries to underplay his char
acterization as a method of en
couraging laughter from the
audience.
The audience is prone to enjoy
the show anyway and their reac
tion to father is probably due
more to the dialogue than to
Richards' efforts as an actor.
In later scenes, however, he
seems more sur eof himself. He
plays father for what he is to the
"family" and not to the onlookers
in the theater. Here the charac
ter of father unfolds, and with it
Richards' heretofore hidden tal
ent.
Constance Dix, as Vinnie,
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unfamiliar 75-minute period. How
ever, he said that this will not
result in a major problem as it
should be overcome within a few
weeks.
He said that freshmen, con-:
centrating on fewer subjects,
will lessen the drop-out per
centage in that group. Project
, ing into the future, Raphael
said he was convinced that now
because students will be carry
ing .only a maximum of 13
credits the "interestingness" of
a given course will be enhanced
because Of more time to devote
to deeper study.
Harrison T. Meserole, assistant
professor of English said that one
clear advantage of the "four-term
plan" is that the student's time
and effort will not be spread thin
under the new scheduling pro
gram.
He said that "there are com
bined advantages' and disadvan
tages under this program.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
STATE COLLEGE. PA.. .THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 29. 1961
Engineering
Department
Established
A Department of Manage
ment Engineering will be
established at the University,
which will provide specially
qualified personnel to con
duct studies, assemble facts, and
make recommendations on the
allocation and utilization of Uni
versity facilities and equipment,
according to George R. Thuering,
professor of industrial engineer
ing.
Thuering has been named head
of the new department and will
be responsible to A. E. Diem, vice
president for business. The de
partment will become effective
on July 1.
Diem said that through this new
agency studies can be conducted
in a more scientific manner and
thus more accurate and complete
information can be made avail
able on which decisions can be
based.
"This procedure," he said, "will
also help us to speed action on
decisions, which sometimes are
delayed while studies are under
taken."
Some of the fields in which
work will be done initially are
non-academic floor area usage,
furniture and non-academic equip
ment requirement for new space,
operational equipment studies,
work-systems studies, and estab
lishment of non-academic job
standards,
Thuering said that one of the
first projects of the new depart
ment will be space allocation and
utilization in Hammond and Sac
kett buildings which will include
establishing new offices for The
Daily Collegian in the basement
of the new Sackett building.
Midwestern Heat
Spreads Eastward
A scorching heat wave that sent
the mercury above the 100 degree
mark over a wide area of the
central United States yesterday
will continue to extend its influ
ence eastward today.
Temperatures should reach close
to 100 degrees as far east as Chi
cago, Illinois, this afternoon and
readings may touch 110 degrees
in parts of Kansas and Nebraska.
In this area, today will be sun
ny warmer with a high read
, ing of 86 degrees.
Tonight should be clear and
Icool with a low of 60.
Sunny and hot weather is in
dicated for tomorrow and Satur
day. A high of 90 is expected to
morrow, and a maximum of 92
is likely Saturday.
Good students, academically
speaking, will find themselves
able to adapt more readily to the
extra dependence upon outside
reading, but the poorer student
may find the going a bit rough
since he will have to be more
acute at "getting it from the
book," Meserole said.'
"The 75-minute period allows
the lecturer to develop and in
tegrate the material more fully."
was the feeling of Glorio Patsy,
Jr., a senior in business admin
istration from Carlisle.
One student said she preferred
the 75-minute class period, even
though it was somewhat over
bearing when her professor pro
ceeded to lecture into the 20-min
ute break.
"If the professors can build their
program and adapt the material
the students will, in all probabil
ity, find little difficulty," Brick
Brewer, sophomore in Journalism
from State College, said.
Department
Study Began
A far-reaching program to evaluate all the departments
at the University is already under way, Dr. Howard A. Cut
ler, vice-president for academic affairs, said yesterday.
The program, he said, calls for a self-evaluation by the
departments, in which they will review their objectives and
bring to light those areas where
attention is needed.
Cutler said the University was
undertaking this assessment to
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prepare for an evaluation to be FL ..
held by the Middle States Asso
ciation of Colleges and Secondary Trains ever 100
Schools in 1965.
The Middle States Association,
which visits the University U I I
every 10 years, encourages this mol dy Men
type of self-evaluation, he said. ~.
Besides the self-evaluation, he
said, the administration is going
to call upon the services of various
men from other universities, the
government and industry, who
are in no way connected with this
school, to make written and oral
appraisals of the departments arid
submit them to Walker, The first
team of these • outside evaluators
will begin their work in Septem
ber, he added.
Cutler declined to comment on
Dr. Walker's statement this
week in which he noted that
there . was one department which
was "not in very good shape."
Cutler said that he believed it
would do more harm than good
to reveal the name 'of this par
ticular department.
Cutler said he hoped that any
necessary changes could be in
stituted as soon as possible. He
cited the fact that a survey of
the department of philosophy was
recently made by "outsiders."
It called for older and more
mature, professors to be added to
the faculty and has resulted in an
increase in visiting distinguished
professors plus a greater concen
tration in graduate work, he said.
By making the objectives of the
departments clear and by taking
note of our activities in light of
these objectives, this very process
should have a healthy effect, he
added.
Smyth to Go to Scotland
Dr. Thomas Smyth Jr., assistant
professor of entomology, will
spend the 1961-62 academic year
doing research in insect neuro
physiology at the University of
; Glasgow, Scotland. He will work
with Dr. Graham Hoyle at that
institution.
Faculty Salaries Rated
Among Lowest by AAUP
The University has received ratings of "D" for its aver
age. faculty salaries and "E" for its minimum faculty salary
for each academic rank in a report released this week by the
American Association of University Professors.
• These ratings place the University in the lower half of
the 452 institutions submitting
salary figures to be rated by thet u
national headquarters of
This figure place s the Univer-
AAUP. sity 34th among 39 state univer
sities participating in the na-
The ratings are made on an"A" Lionel AAUP survey. Only the
to "F" basis. Only three insti tu-I state universities of Kentucky.
Lions, Harvard, Princeton and l
Mississippi. South Carolina,
MIT., received "A" ratings form North Dakota and South Dako
ty salaries. Yale, Barnard and both average and minimum facul- la reported a lower average fac-
Brooklyn College each received)
ally salary.
one "A" and one "B". ' The University average salary
fig....re also places .it 15th among
The figures for the Universityithe 22 Pennsylvania institutions
salary survey were obtained by airated by AAUP.
survey of the full-time mernbersi Among Pennsylvania_ institu
of the faculty. More than 70 per tion, the highest annual average is
cent of the faculty participated in at Haverford College with $10,788
t
the survey. 'and Swarthmore College, with
According to the data supplied $10,113. At the University of Penn
to the AAUP, the University's av- ! sylvania the average is $9,817, at
erage annual 'compensation for, Bryn Mawr, $9,142, at Franklin
ull-time faculty members is 1 (Continued on page three)
Introspection
a It Applauded
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By MAXINE FINE
By KAREN HYNECKEAL
Special to the Collegian
FT. MEADE, Md., They're in
the Army now—at' least for six
weeks.
Approximately 128 Penn Staters
arrived here two weeks ago for
the 1961 ROTC Summer Camp.
They joined over 5,000 young men
from colleges and universities in
six states and represent the larg
est group from any one school to
attend this year's program.
Camp began in the grand Old
military fashion as the men
'swapped their bermudas. and
,sports shirts for Army greens and
were assigned to companies and
'barracks.
Their schedule will consist of
morning classes in leadership
training and afternoon sessions on
!the rifle range and in other field
maneuvers. The agenda also pro
vides time for individual and
company competition in marks
'mariship and in athletics with win—
ners receiving awards at the end
of camp.
Perhaps the most enjoyable part
of the boys' summer stay at Ft.
Meade will be the weekend passes
which they will probably spend
in Washington, D.C., less than an
hour's drive from the post.
On July 8, camp will move to
Indiantown Gap for 10 days where
the cadets will receive further
and more extensive practice in
their classroom lessons.
Then it will be back to Ft.
Meade for the remainder of camp
which will be climaxed by the
ROTC Ball and, finally, the Com
missioning Ceremonies. At the ha
ter, 2nd Lieutenant bars will be
given to qualified cadets who will
'then really be "in the Army now."
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