VOL. 3. No. 7 STATE COLLEGE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1961 FIVE CENTS Peace Corps Volunteers To Arrive At University By DOTI DRASHER The Peace Corps largest training program will be launched Saturday when 150 volun teers check in at the University. The volunteers will serve as teachers' aides in the schools in the central Philippine Islands after 10 weeks of intensive training here on campus. Atherton Hall will be the headquarters,for the Philippi Simmons Hall will be used for ) their dining area. R. Sargent Shriver, director of ,the Peace Corps, announced last week the selection of the Uni- I versity as the training ground for' the volunteers and appointed Dr.l Paul Bixby, assistant to the dean of the College of Education, as director of the Philippine Peace s Corps project. This project is the first con tinuing Peace Corps program to be initiated. The five other uni versities selected to train volun-, teers have each piloted only one training program. The University will train 300 volunteers-150 in the next 10 weeks, and about 60 more each term until June 1962. THIS IS ALSO the first project to select any more than only a few women. Of the group that will arrive Saturday almost half of them will be women. The Peace Corps volunteers hailing from 31 states are all college graduates and about 50 per cent of them have their degrees in education. THE TRAINEES will partici pate in 60 hours of classes, lec tures and physical conditioning a week, 6 days a week. The pro gram will be administered by ;faculty members and special guest lecturers authorities in some phase of the political, economic, or social life in the Philippines. The volunteers in their role as primarily teachers' aides will help Filippino children learn the basic skills in the English lan guage and general technology and science. The trainees will be shown simple science experiments they can perform for the students. Although there are 27,000 schools in the Philippines and the law requires all children to at-i tend school until 13 years of age, many are forced to drop their, 'schooling because all classes are taught in English from the third grade on. ENGLISH IS USED in the school because nope of the Is lands' 87 dialects are adaptable to technical and scientific termi ,nology. Many of the textbooks are 'printed in English also, but Eng (Continued on page nine) Dean of Women To Speak Tonight At Thompson Hall Dean of Women Dorothy J. Lipp will speak at 6:30 to nig h t in Thompson Hall lounge at an informal discus sion sponsored by the Asso ciation of Women Students, the AWS summer council announced Monday night. The AWS social committee chairman said that both men and women are invited to attend. The summer council also de cided to continue the faculty din ner guest program with Dr. Jean ette Veatch, associate professor of education, as the guest Tuesday. INTERESTED STUDENTS will meet at the Waring desk at 5:45 p.m. and go to the dining halls with the group for dinner and an informal discussion hour with the faculty guest. A representative from West Halls Council attended the AWS meeting and his proposal that West Halls Council and AWS jointly charter a bus to Whipples for the students this weekend, was approved. Tickets, priced at 25 , cents can be purchased at Waring desk at noon and after 5 p.m. The bus, will leave from Waring at 1 p.m. Saturday. A COMMITTEE was appointed! to examine the possibilities of organizing a town women's group' which would provide facilities for those women while on cam pus during the day. The proposed group would spon sor social activities, lectures, and I dinner hours to enable more in-' tergration of town women with the women in the residence halls. Graduate Students Discuss Term Plan By LEN KRAUSS (This is the fifth in a series of articles on the effects of the four term plan.) A sample of graduate students, especially those fulfilling requirements for their teaching certificates, claim that there are several clear disadvantages in the four-term plan. One of' the requirements necessary to obtain a teaching certificate is that a teacher take 12 credits beyond the bache- ]or degree requirements. As the system is set-up now, the maxi mum number of credits per term that may be taken by a graduate student is 10. Mrs. Rebecca Metzler, a gradu ate student in education from York, said that she and many of her fellow-students were very dis satisfied with the present 10 cred it ruling. She believes, "in trying to speed thing up, they have slowed things for us in education." IN PAST SUMMERS, Mrs. Metzler said, a student could take the 12 credits he needed to com plete one teaching certificate re quirement. But now, she said, he can take 10 at most. This means that the teacher will have to attend another 10-week !session to get only 2 more cred- r it-,•,:ftLit kr_\,t .6120_es FOR A BETTER PENN STATE its, she said. Also, another problem arises in! that .almost every course carries ,3 credits, and therefore the -most: likely number of credits being .carried would be 9. According to Mrs. Metzler, most graduate stu— dents feel that they can handle 12 credits. In a combined statement Bill Kearney of Altoona, Jay Hutchi- i .son of Sayre, and Mike Ciavarella of Altoona, all graduate students, said that. for them, the coming of , the four-term plan has been a big. "headache." THESE MEN WHO are also in education said that they should certainly be permitted to take at least 12 credits. They also said that many of (Continued on page two) (I, 4 ll&giatt ne Peace Corps members and Compulsary ROTC To Be Repla ced _ At Michigan State A voluntary program will replace compulsory ROTC at Michigan Stale University, the Board of Trustees has an nounced. This is a reversal of a decision made by the board last year to keep the compul sory program. In recommending a change to a voluntary program, John A. Hannah, president of the university, noted that the move was precipitated by a Depart ment of Defense statement. The Defense Department said that compulsory programs were not essential to national de Tense if elective programs were properly organized and sup ported. Michigan State ROTC was originally established as was the program here under the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862. which was a federal bill requiring all land-grant insti tutions to provide for military training for qualified male stu dents. ROTC of Michigan State has been compulsory for fresh men and sophomore men since 1916. Under the new rule at Michi gan State, required basic ROTC Will be in effect for the next academic year. Freshmen en tering in the fall of 1962 will riot be required to enroll in ROTC, and by the fall of 1963, a completely voluntary pro gram will be offered. Pleasant Weather To Continue Today Somewhat cooler and drier air invaded Pennsylvania yesterday after two weeks of warm and hu mid weather. This more pleasant air should remain today, but a return of; warmer and more humid-weather; is expected tomorrow. Today's high should be about; 83 degrees, and a maximum of; 86 is expected tomorrow. Tonight's! low will be near 62 degrees. —Collegian Photo by Tom Brown• ON THE MALL . . . SUNNY SUMMERTIME SYMPHONY finds students and faculty sitting and listening to the Orchestra concert presented Sunday. The concert was given by high school students attending the summer music training program sponsored by the Music Department. The next pro gram will be a band concert at 8 tonight in Schwab. • • 11 0551 1) 111: 7 ' ii \t N iff eq est eems De ref It seems almost certain that the University's request for a $6 million addition to the $18.3 million budget proposed by Gov. Lawrence is a dead issue, Sen. Jo Hays, D-Centre, said last night. A chance for added appropriations now rests with a bill that the House will consider during the week of. August 7,. he said. The bill, which was proposed by Lawrence and selected by his special bi-partisan com mittee on education is a 2 per cent tax on rents, royalties, divi dends and capital dividends, the Senator said.. THE GOVERNOR'S committee unanimously agreed that if the bill is passed by the Legislature, $1.5 million of the total sum should be allocated to the Uni versity, Hays said. He pointed out, however, that this proposed allocation is not part of the bill. Hays said he felt the bill had a good chance of passing the House because he said he felt that a majority of the representatives want to give more money to local schools and to the University State College merchants 1 1 who contributed to a special downtown parking fund ap pointed a committee yester day to choose nominees . for the board of direCtors of the proposed organization. The merchants also discussed the Aug. 1 termination of the free night parking from 6 to 10 Ip.m. on the downtown meters. I For the first two weeks after the free meter termination, warn ing cards will be placed by police ;men on the windshields of car lowners who ' were not aware of the change and the Chamber of Commerce will pay the nickel fee. AT THE PRESENT time about 33 merchants have pledged money to a special fund to provide more downtown parking facilities. Th e contributing merchants through the organization, will present proposals to the Borough Parking Authority. Four of the merchants at yes terday's meeting will suggest soy en names for the board of direc tors. Contributing merchants will choose five of those in a ballot by mail. The elected board will then draft the aims and bylaws of the organization. The board will present pro posals to the Borough Parking Authority which has recently purchased 3 downtown park ing lots: • ; The major purpose of the pro.; posed organizations will be to AWS Publicity Meeting !help the downtown parking situ 'The publicity committee of the!ation, Paul Mazza, _president of Association of Women Students the Chamber of • Commerce said. will hold an open meeting at 7• THE MERCHANTS at the tonight in the second floor lounge meeting also decided to person of the Hetzel Union Building.lally solicit more memberships for Women interested in working,the parking organization. with the committee are invited to; The present • assessment for attend. I (Continued on page twelve) THE HOUSE is in recess now because of the lack of hotel space in Harrisburg for its members. It will reconvene on Aug. 7 to study the proposed measures on educa tion. Hays said he was confident that if the tax bill passed the House it would he approved by the Sen ate. One of the other proposals which the committee sent to the !House for consideration is in the (form of several different bills !concerning the State Council of 'Education. Hays said that one of the hills calls for an increase in the Coun cil membership from 9 to 15, five 'Of whom will be concerned ex clusively with the problems of higher education . AT PRESENT this group has' limited itself to public and sec ondary schools. Included in this measure is the proposal that the members be appointed for 10- year staggered terms, making it impossible for any Governor to re move them before this term is up, he added. A second bill, he said. proposes that a separate council, besides the one presently functioning, be: set up for higher education. The Senator added thats , he favored the : first bill over the second. By MAXINE FINE Boro Merchants Organize Group- Parking Reviewed
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