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VOL. 63. No. 60 UNIVERSITY PARK. PA.. SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 19. 1963 FIVE CENTS
Academic Future Bright;
Evaluation Half Compiled
By ROCHELLE MICHAELS
The University’s academic fu
ture is looking up, and that trend
should continue if things continue
to move as they are, Nelson M.
McGeary, assistant to the Presi
dent, said yesterday.
Discussing the evaluation pro
gram which is now about half
completed, McGeary said, “We
can’t do everything we need to
but we can try our best. I don’t
see why Penn State can’t become
one of the top universities in
time.”
THIS EVALUATION system is
being used for the first time and
will take about two more years
to complete, McGeary explained.
It is a bigger program than that'
used by any university which
engages in an evaluation program,
he added. i
To choose an evaluation team,
each department submits to
President Walker a list of six
men from outside the University
outstanding in that particular
field. Walker chooses the final
three-man team for each depart
ment, usually from the list of
recommendations.
Meanwhile each department
undergoes rigid self-evaluation
and writes a comprehensive re
port of what they consider' to be
their weaknesses and strong
points. That report, usually well
over 100 pages long, is sent to
each member of that department’s
evaluating team. .
When the outside team arrives,
Coltrane Concert
' 'is
To Begin df 8 p.m.
John Coltrane, prie of the
harbingers of abstract jazz, will
appear at 8 tonight In Schwab,
sponsored by the Penn State Jazz
Club. '
Coltrane’s tenor sax has been
affiliated with such modern jazz
men as Miles Davis and Thelonius
Monk, both of whom he left ,so
that" he could play in his' own
evolving style.
He has been accused of being
"anti-jazz” because of his tend
ency to take the requirements of.
a certain number of beats per bar
per composition rather casually.
With Coltrane tonight will'be
McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin
Jones on drums and Jimmy Garri
son on bass.
Election Interviews
Candidates Show Desire To Improve
Parking Areas, Congressional Actions
By JOAN HARTMAN
and MEL AXILBUND
Bus transportation, parking fa
cilities for west campus residents
and student apathy are among the
major concerns voiced last night
by Nittany and North Halls candi
dates for the Undergraduate Stu
dent Government Congress.
In addition, the candidates
agreed that the present average
requirement for .service in Con
gress is acceptable, but some in
dication of interest in student gov
ernment should also be required.
A 2.0 All University average is
-required.
CANDIDATES in the Nittany
area are Paul D. Miller, Campus.
Party nominee, and David Tanner'
self-nominated. ■’ v
George Jackson; Elections Com
mission chairman, said Thursday
that Miller will not be docked
votes as previously announced.
Jackson said a second check
showed his transcript had been
submitted by the deadline. Terry
Igoe, Nittany area, is not. a can
didate, because he failed to turn
in his petition," Jackson explained'.
Miller: “I think, there, could be
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE ,
they study the department from
every angle for three, days. The
group interviews the college dean,
professors, students and members
of other departments to; discover
attitudes that exist. They read
student term papers, final exam
inations , and writings of faculty
in the department. If there is any
research being conducted at the
time, they study that also.
The last day on campus, the
evaluating team discusses their
findings with Walker. After leav
ing, they write a comprehensive
report and submit it and their
recommendations to Walker.
The department then meets,
discusses the recommendations
and formulates a five-to-ten year
plan. McGeary said the proposals
also act as a guide to. Walker in
determining the allocation of
University funds to various de
partments.
ONE GLARING deficiency
shown by the evaluations is that
the salary structure is 7 too low to
be competitive with the best
American universities, McGeary
Bill on National Defense Act
May Change ROTC Program
By STEVE CIMBALA
A bill prosoping changes in the
National Defense Act that may
drastically reshape Army and Air
Force Reserve Officer Training
Corps" programs in the nation’s
land-grant colleges has been sub
mitted' to the United States Sen
ate.
, Defense ' department officials
presented the proposal, Colonel
Ellis B. Richie, professor of Mili
tary Science, said recently. It is
the product of a special defense
department council composed of
military experts, and ■ college offi
cials.
THE BILL will allow all land
grant colleges to convert from
four-year voluntary or semi-com
pulsory Army and Air Force
ROTC programs to two-year vol
untary programs, Richie ex
plained.
Under a semi-compulsory pro-
some kin,d of civil service for
USG. I don’t mean civil service as
it is in the U.S. government, but
some kind of training program on
just exactly what USG is, what it
does and. what its committee func
tions aTe.”
Tanner: ‘‘l think more and closer
contact between congressmen and
their constituents could come
about through, additional publi
cation in The’ Daily. Collegian.
Another step "would be the publi
cation of the proposed congres-’
sional measures and their posting
on residence, hall bulletin boards
where interested students could
see what'their representatives are
trying to do.” •
In North Halls, the candidates
are. Lawrence Linder, self-nomi
nated and. William Keller, Campus
Party nominee.
The third candidate, Thomas
Lavey, another Campus Party
nominee, was 'not present for the
interview.
■Linder: “I think there is a lack
of . communication between the
representative, and the area he
represents. One solution, might, be
an open , question period, in the
" - r" h i d'orng h'all at a
(EnUwjtau
said. He noted that the President,
on the basis of these reports, is
asking . for additional, funds for
faculty salaries—especially on the
associate and full professor levels
which have very low compara
tive salaries.
In the completed departmental
evaluations, the humanities have
done better than the scientific
and technological fields for which
the University is well-known, he
said.
THIS CANNOT be blamed on
an over-emphasis of research,
McGeary stressed, as the evalu
ating groups criticized some de
partments for lack of aggression
in seeking financial support for
research.
McGeary merely commented:
"There haven’t been a whole 'lot
of surprises. In general, the Uni
versity has itself sized up pretty
well.”
Even the departments of land
scape architecture, nuclear engi
neering, speech and Slavic
languages which were highly
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gram, students must take the first
two years of ROTC instruction,
but are free to elect or disregard
the next two years of instruction.
Formerly, the act stipulated
that all land-grant colleges and
universities had to conduct four
year programs, either voluntary
or partially compulsory, and pro
hibited two-year programs in any
form, he said.
The new revision, if passed,
will allow schools to ■ remain in
their present programs or to con
vert to two-year program, which
would be voluntary, he added.
Since the bill provides federal
subsidies for schools that convert
to the two-year plan, Richie said,
most colleges will probably adopt
it.
Defense department officials,
drew up the bill," he said, at the
urging of military and- educa
tional experts who were conduct
ing research into ROTC instruc
specified time each week.”
Keller: “I’thing there is a lack
of communication between the
students and their congressmen,
The reason is that students just
aren’t interested. It is the main
duty of a congressmen to stimu
late such interest.”
- Campaigning continues this
weekend and voting begins at 9:30
a.m. Tuesday on the ground floor
of thp Hetzel Union Building. The
HUB poll closes at 5:30 p.m.
RESIDENCE AREA voting will
be "conducted in Pollock for Nit
tany candidates, North and West
Halls dining areas from 11:30 a.m.
to .1:30 p.m. and again from 4:30
to 6:30 p.m.
Miller also said'he would like,
to see shack facilities provided
within the .area for Nittany resi
dents.
Tanner said he wanted to see
the now inactive USG Transpor
tation Agency provide the service
to metropolitan areas which it was
planning. ,
Keller said parking facilities
should be provided on the west
end of campus for residents of
that area. Miller also suggested
USG could work cn this.
EEC Upsets
f rench Block
BRUSSELS, Belgium (fP) — President Charles tie Gaulle’s
attempt to slam the European Common Market’s door against
Britain was checked but not definitely defeated last night by
the united opposition of his five trading partners.
They insisted, and the French finally agreed after two
days of heated behind-door talks, upon a further. meeting
Jan. 28, the date originally set for the next round of negotia
tions with Britain.
But in Britain,
Conservative government was re
ported facing up to the possibility
of final collapse of its efforts to
gain entry into the European
economic club and its 170 million
potential customers. It has spent
15 months in the effort.
The United States was drawn
into the controversy by rumors
sweeping the corridors as the
Common Market ministers de
bated.
ONE RUMOR suggested some
kind of secret deal to balance
French dominance in the Com
mon Market had been made be
tween President Kennedy and
Macmillan at their December
meeting in the Bahamas.
George Heliyer, spokesman for
the U.S. mission accredited to the
Common Market, issued a mem
orandum denying the rumor and
saying, “No greater distortion is
possible.” It reiterated U.S. sup
port for European unity and Brit-
tion in the nation’s colleges.
He said increased pressures
from students’ major curricula,
in the form of additional course
requirements, were detected by
researchers and p’rompted their
decision to- push for the two-year
course.
These additional major courses
often prevented students from de
voting sufficient time and study
to their ROTC courses, Richie
said. '
As a result, he added, defense
officials decided ■to encourage
educational institutions ' to limit
their ROTC programs to two
year voluntary courses.
The bill, which will probably
reach Congress late this month,
also provides for. an increase in
the monthly stipend for students
currently enrolled in the advanced
phases of ROTC programs, or the
latter two years of a four-year
course. Richie said he could not
predict the amount of the in
crease.
CONTRASTING the two-year
and four-year programs, Richie
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CAMPAIGNING BEGINS: As the election cf six new congress- -
men nears, the candidates step up their campaigns. Shown after
an interview last night are, seated (from left), the Nittany area
candidates, David Tanner and Paul D. Miller. Standing (from
left) are Lawrence Linder and William Keller, candidates for
two North Halls seats. Thomas Lavey, North Halls candidate,
was not present for the picture or interview.
Minister Harold Macmillan’s
Prime
ish membership in. the Common
Market. In London, the British
government also denied there had
been any secret Kennedy-Mac
millan deal.
DE GAULLE, who told a news
conference last Monday he was
opposed to an Atlantic commu
nity dominated by the United
States, was quoted as predicting
Britain’s eventual entry into the
Common Market, but perhaps
after he leaves office.
Thursday, French Foreign Min
ister Maurice Couve de Murville
asked . that further negotiations
with (he British be dropped.
But a member of one delega
tion said, “The French backed
down before the pressure from
the five (West Germany, Italy,
Netherlands, Belgium and Lux
embourg), who told them: Either
we meet again on Jan. 28 or we
leave responsibility for the break
off to you.”
OTHER REPORTS suggested*
the French back-down came from
a proposal that Emilio Colombo,
Italian trade minister and one of
the most brilliant technical ex
perts here, be appointed to draw
up a full progress report on
where the negotiations actuully
stand right now.
Bernreuter Notes
Dropout Decrease
The percentage of students who
have been dropped from the Uni
versity for academic reasons has
decreased markedly since fall
term 1957 v ßobert G. Bernreuter,
special assistant to the president
for student affairs, said yesterday.
Bernreuter explained that the
percentage of students who are
on academic probation or havo
received "warnings" for low
grades have remained fairly con
stant in the same period.
At the close of the first semes
ter 1957, 10 per cent of the stu
dents were dropped. After the
1958 fall semester 9.2 per cent
were asked to leave, 8.2 per cent in
1959, 7.7 per cent in 1960 and 3.2
per cent in 1961.
Bernreuler attributed the sharp
decline in dropouts to the higher
caliber student which the Univer
sity is accepting. He notes that the
admissions standards have been
tightened considerably in the past
few years.