WEDNESDAYS NOVEMBER 8.'1961 European Study Offered By 'Classroms Abroad' By BARB BROWN This is the second in a series of articles on student opportunities to study abroad. The only way to learn a language is togo to the country where it is spoken-,this is the philosophy behind the Class 'Or the last six years has offered rooms Abroad program which students a summer in Europe. Founded in the fall of planned with three ideas in mind! First, the ability to speak and undestand, to read and write a foreign language is the most of- 1 fective key to the culture and civilization of a country. Second„ one can experience only one cultttral area in a summer with any degree of thoroughness and hope for results. Thirdly, the best way of attain ing this end is an extended stay with a family in a characteristic city, offering a large variety of cultural experiences. The program is organized so that students will have a choice of areas in Europe in which to study. Three to five hours of daily instruction, including the equivalent of one year of col lege language training, ar e given. The instruction ranges from grammar, pronunciation, conver sation and reading of texts to dis- Henning Re-elected MRC Head; Fisher Named Vice Chairman George Henning, president of West Halls council, was re elected chairman of the Men's Residence .Council Monday night. Henning was unopposed in the election for the top position in men's residence student govern ment. Robert Fisher, East Halls coun cil president, was the winner in the election for vice chairman of the council. Fisher defeated Bruce de Woolfson, president of Pollock council, the incumbent candidate for the office. Robert Stafford, delegate from West Halls, was unanimously elected executive secretary-treas urer of the council. In other council business MAC went on record as opposing the elimination of weekly room cleaning by the Department of Housing. Housing changed the cleaning schedule this year from once a week to every other week. In making the protest proposal, de Woolfson said, "Filthy living conditions have resulted from this change." No one, he continued, can live with big curls of dust in his room. SICK RADIO or PHONOGRAPH ALTRONICS SALES & SERVICE Rees of 454 E. College (Calder Alley at Marshall's Laundry) Phone AD 8-9602 Hours —,M. & F. 9 to 9 T.. W., Th.. S. 9 to 5:30 APPLICATION BLANKS for EDITOR of THE PENN STATE WOMAN will be available at The HUB Desk from November 8 to 13 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY , PARK. - PENNSYLVANIA 955, Classrooms Abroad was cussions of current events and lec tures on history and literature. This formal instruction is sup lemented by informal get-togeth ers with students, lectures by specialists in various fields, visits to museums, concerts, theatres and movies. The fee for each participant includes all travel expenses, full room and board. tuition and fees to the host universities for in struction and extracurricular activities, tickets to theatres, concerts, movies and all books and study, materials. $1,130 per student covered expenses in the 1961 program. References and a high school transcript are needed for regis tration in the Classrooms Abroad program. Full information on the 1962 program may be obtained from Classrooms Abroad, Box 4171 University Station, Minnea polis 14, Minnesota. Bruce Kaplan, delegate from. East Halls, said in supporting thel motion, "The costs are going up . (referring to the $2O increase in. each student's food and housing' bill this year) and the service is going down." De Woolfson said the how. ing department is only experi menting with this plan and now is the time to protest, before j the plan becomes permanent procedure. Henning, the ,T 5 ewly- el e c ted president, announced that he was. going to set up a strategy meeting' with the presidents of each of the . residence hall councils to decide' the best manner in which to pre sent this protest to the housing department. LAS Wen• SIM CAPITAL. OF THE WEST? A Vegas headline ran: PASTOR HAILS STRIP SHOWS. And no body blinked. In fact, when Vegas was dubbed a town of "sin, gin and din," local boosters were overjoyed. Is Las Vegas really as wild as they say? Read "How Wicked Is Vegas?" in this week's Post st.i.muy treirebte POST • 4 'Operation By MEG TEICHHOLTZ Editorial Editor Laughter, heckling and ap plause--tollpwed by some vig orous discussion—marked two showings Friday evening of "Operation Abolition," at the Presbyterian Center. About 100 attended an informal debate after the first 'of the two film,' - showings ,among them Victor. Struzinskiy, graduate stu dent in electrical, s engineering from the U.S.S.R. Before the film, Dean Wharton, junior in, business administration from Camp Hill, and a member of the Presbyterian Center's =social action committee, explained the background of the_ San Francisco hearings by the House Commit tee on Un-American Activities, He said that HUAC had originally intended to hold these -1 hearings in June of 1959, but that the organization of "rnas sive student protests" in the city had caused cancelation at that time. The students were protesting the methods of. HUAC, Wharton said. He added that the commit tee has been' accused of having no valid legislative function and `exposing so-called "Communists" for exposures' sake. "The groups organized in '59 remained in existence, but were dormant, until HUAC decided to return to San Francisco in May 1960," he explained. I Wharton added that the film has been said to misrepresent the demonstrations of the stu dents. Also before the showing sheets` reprinting editorials •from three newspapers the• New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune and the Wilmington Eve ning Journal were distributed. The first two editorials attack ed the methods and operations of the Committee and the last claimed the film unfairly, repre- The Flying Commuter NOW MAKES JET CONNECTIONS AT BALTIMORE FLIGHT 100 Iv. University Park 8:00 a.m. * Ar. Baltimore 8:55 a.m. Ar. Washington 9:10 a.m. •Flights Stop at Baltimore Only when there are passengers to plane or deplane. Otherwise NON-STOP between State College and WASHINGTON. Telephone THE FLYING COMMUTER for Reservations Abolition' Heckled sented the students who demon strated. Its headline was "Dissent Differs from Disloyalty." The debate following the film was touched off when one stu dent demanded "Who handed out this paper?", as he waved the editorial sheet. Arthur Ravitz, , senior in busi ness administration from Easton said he hat the sheets printed up independently fr6m information he found in an American Civil Liberties pamphlet. Leading the discussion. Whar ton asked for the reaction of the viewers. One student said he felt "just like (Charles) Kamen who heckled the film and made headlines. What a farce this is," he said.- • Kamen had veiwed and heck led the film in Dec. 1960, when it was shown in Miami, Fla. He was later accepted for train ing in the Peace Corps, but the Miami draft board refused to give him a deferment because he had "applauded at the wrong places" when he saw "Operation Aboli tion." • (Route of the Intellect). EVERY DAY FARE $19.50 Plus Tax ADaens 8-0341 Your Local Travel Agent He was subsequently rejected from' the Corps after its final training period. No reasons were given for his rejection. Albert Sharp, sophomore in arts sand letters from Pittsburgh, asked (why people "who claim they are not Communists refuse to answer ,the questions of the Committee?' Another student said, "There is something called political free cdom in this country. If I can't , keep my beliefs to myself I aril not a free man." The Russian student, Struzin , skiy, was asked his views on 1 the film. i "I cannot comment on the Cont. Imittee as is is an American in 'terns' affair and I don't want to get into whether it's necessary or !unnecessary," he said. "But the film" he continued, ~ l impressed me, I saw no slogans i for Communism, but for free !speech and civil liberties. The I t movie demonstratPd :that many of them (the students) didn't con sider their demonstration inspired ! by Communists but by the sttp. idents themselves," he concluded. FLIGHT 400 U. Washington 4:00 p.m. I.v. Baltimore 4:20 p.m., dr. University Park 5:20 p.m. PAGE FIVE
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