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Social Science Ex • lained
By LEN KRAUSS of single individuals is dependent
(This is the second article in upon many hard-to-control var
a series on the stains of the liables.
social sciences.
The matter of determining ACTIONS OF MEN like Castro
;and Khrushchev cannot be deter
whether social science is a sci- ; mined accurately hut in the same
.
once d epen d s w h o ll y upon the'
sense the prediction ot the posi
ition of a neutron or ion in a gas,
definition of science, accord-;an instant after the first observa
ing to William G. • Mather,'"", cannot be determined accu-
A:ately either, he said.
head of the Department of ,So- Mather emphasized that a social
!
ciology and Anthropology. scientist! would be incorrect in
"There's no universally accepted
definition of science," Mather,
said. Science as used in connec-!
tion with experimentation is not
applicable to certain areas of so
cial Fuience
FOR EXAMPLE, he said, arch:
neology is a social science which
scientifically investigates past hu—
man life, among other things, but,
which does not predict future
events as a physical science does 4
Last week Dr. Raymond Pepin-:
sky, i esearch professor of physics,'
said that in his estimation a sei-;
once was a discipline from which'
predictions for future outcomes
could be made with a high degree i
of accuracy.
. . .
Mather said that the social sci
entist in some of his experimentF , "THERE ARE CERTAIN hand
with masses of people can predict icaps the social scientist faces that
certain future events. But, he;the physical scientist does not,"
said, to try to predict the action'he stated. For instance, where the
Hearing Called TV License-- Proposal Killed--
I (Continued from page one) I (Continued from page one)
By State Boar the general area now," he said .2 per cent tax had been recom
and the FCC is working towards'
by Gov. Lawrence.
la ‹olution to the broad poblem The Representative said that at
On Sanitation lof p r ovidingmany
facilities for present thoughts ought to be di
knew stations.
The FCC is now conducting a rected to the Sales and Use tax
The State Sanitary Water
maim study of the broadcast' However, he added, no action can
Board is reportedly pressur- spectrum, he added be taken on this until the Sales
and Use Tax Bureau complies with
ing the University to take ac- AT PRESENT THE FCC is a resolution passed by the House
lion to expand the facilities "'l mpathetic to the educational( to, supply the members with in
television program but w on'tiformation on items which are not
in its sewage plant, compromise their principles." he taxed now, with bylaw or regula-!
The Board has called a hearing said. The request submitted by tion
next Thursday on the Univer- the University has just been sus-) Commenting further on the si
sity's sewage plant. The Board pended until investigations and tuation. Fulmer said, "It seems odd
claims that inadequate facilities studies for the future of the broad-'to me that when the Democrats!
in heating the effluent from the cast media in this area are com-
'.were the minority party they kept
sewage plant are causing pollu- Pleted screaming that the only fair tax
tion of Spring Creek. Greenhill said that "we are cis- was a graduated income tax
appointed now, but hopeful that "Now that they have the ma- I
in the near future the Unnetsitylimity in the House and organize
w ill get a license for educational t iona i majority in the Senate, plus
TV." I the Governor, and the fact that
The University Educational TV they can pass a graduated income
station would rnovide culturaltax, they do nothing. They are
programs, academic courses, and)iust as silent now as they were
educational programs supplied byiyocal before. This seems quite a
the National Educational TV net- paradox to me."
work which the University could
THE BOARD reportedly sees no
need for further studies of the
pollution problem in Spring
Creek and requested that the
University make plans for build
ing more adequate facilities im
mediately.
The University will present
counsel at the hearing next
Thursday.
The University was told by an
engineering firm which studied
the problem that the construction
of a pipeline to carry the effluent
to Bald Eagle Creek seemed to be
the only apparent solution to the
immediate problem. The Univer-I
site questions whether this would;
only transfer the problem to an-I
other area.
The University sewage plant is
owned and operated by the Uni
versity and the State College Bor
oueh uses it on a rental basis.
Burgess Roy Anthony said that
if there is any change in the Uni
vert.ity's sewage plant permit as
a result of the hearing, it would
"seriously affect the Borough."
Eisenhower's Sixth Visit
Former President. Dwight D.
risenhow•er's visit to the Univer
sity this summer was his sixth
since 1950. The middle four visits
were made during the eight years
he occupied the White House and
while his youngest brother,
was president.
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saying that he, as a social scien
tist, could make such predictions.
sociologist, as any other indi
vidual, has a right to have an
opinion.
Mather said people in social sci
ience fields do realize that some
of the answers to questions they
ask are greatly subjected to per
sonal limitations as well as var
ious pressures which arise before
or during the course of question
ing.
He said, however, "we work
with a mass of individuals when
performing our survey work and
thereby lessen the total effective
ness of such inaccurate biasing of
final results. It is impossible to
experiment in a vacuum."
Each class in the early l9oo's
A student of the 'Bos was re-;had an official class pipe with
quired to tage a course in sur-?sterling silv e r numerals and
veying before graduation. lbands.
SUMMER COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Social scientist has to contend
with such things as feeling, re
spect, level of will, dignity and
emotions of people, the physical
scientist certainly has no concern
with these things.
Mather added that he hoped ex
perimentation with people would
never he unbridled to come to a,
stage where such things were ne
glected.
Turning to some of the accom
plishments of work done in the
area of social science, Mather
pointed out "several noteworthy
achievements in field work."
MARKET ANALYSIS is an
area that has been used very suc
cessfully to determine such things
as demand for a product. Mather
said that this is one of the jobs
that social scientists and sociolo
gists are doing today.
In another study, in which Ma
ther was engaged, the results
were used to determine what
level of health education should
be emphasized in a particular
school district.
Mather, who studied geology as
an undergraduate, said that we
in social science will accept a
normal amount of criticism from
the physicial scientist but when
he tells us what light is, we will
take his advice on social science
more seriously."
3 Students Pay
Fines, Costs
For Violations
Three of the five minors,
all students at the University,
who were arrested in an
"open inspection" of the Town
'House July 28 by the State
Liquor Control Board and State
College Borough police have paid
a $25 fine plus $9 costs.
Dennis A. Fedele, sophomore in
,engineering from Greens burg,
!pleaded guilty before Justice of
!the Peace Guy G. Mills to the
charge that he had violated the
Borough Liquor Ordinance and
paid his fine and costs last week.
THE OTHER TWO minors,
William McCarthy, junior in elec
trical engineering from Ellwood
City and Barbara Kuntz, fresh
men in liberal arts from Ramey,
were ca;led before Justice of the
Peace William P. Bell and have
both pleaded guilty to the charges
and paid their fines and costs.
Leßoy S. Austin, assistant to
the dean of men, said last night
that no disciplinary action on the
students cases is planned at pre
sent because "we are waiting for
all the cases to be heard before
we decide what needs to be
done."
NE SAID THE DEAN of men's
office prefers to have the recom
mendation for action on a student
disciplinary case come through
the student tribunals.
Since the student tribunals are
not functioning this summer, the
action on the disciplinary cases
would have to come directly from
the dean of men's office or be
held over until the fail term.
—U.S. families spend an aver
age of $l9 a week for food. Last
year retail grocery stores invest
ed nearly $5 per family in news
paper advertising to help move
their products from their shelves
into the family larder.
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