The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, February 15, 1963, Image 1

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VOL. 63. No. 79
oodwin Outlines Plan
For Board To Supervise
Campus Communications
A proposal calling for one board of directors for all major
student communications media was outlined last night by
H. Eugene Goodwin, director of the University's School of
Journalism.
Goodwin told members of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity, that
such a board, patterned after that of The Daily Collegian,
would have the overall responsibility for supervising but not
censoring the publications and WDFM, the campus radio
station.
The proposal would tend to improve the quality of all the
Greeks Vie
To Capture
Sing Honors
Seven fraternities and eight
sororities will compete at 6:30 to
night in Schwab for the six top
honors in the choral group, quar
tet and open categories of the
Interfraternity Council-P a nhe 1-
lenic Sing which will conclude this
year's Greek Week activities.
Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity
is entered as a finalist in all three
categories while Delta Chi fra
ternity and Delta Delta Delta
sorority will each compete in the
quartet and' choral group classifi
cations.
Other competing Greek organi
zations are Acacia and Alpha
Gamma Rho fraternities and
Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta
and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorori
ties choral groups; Sigma Alpha
Epsilon fraternity and Alpha Xi
Delta and Sigma Theta sorortiies
—quartets; Alpha Zeta arid Sigma
Pi fraternities and Alpha Omicron
Pi and Alpha Gamma Delta so
rorities open category.
ONE FRATERNITY and one
sorority will be declared the win
ners in each of the three "sing"
categories.
WDFM, campus radio station,'
announced last night that it will
broadcast the songs of the six
winning fraternities and sorori
ties sometime after 11 tonight.
The annual fraternity-sorority
exchange dinners were held last
night as representatives from
every sorority visited the Greek
men's organizations.
The names of the fraternity and
sorority winners in the IFC-
Panhel bridge tournament will
be announced today, Bonnie
Owens, co-chairman of the event,
said last night.
WDFM Transmitter
By JOAN HARTMAN
Two transmitters designed to
broadcast WDFM programs on
the standard AM band will be
tested in the Pollock A residence
hall within the next two weeks,
pending permission from the De
partment of Housing, Gary Koer
ner, chairman of the WDFM
Transmitter committee, said last
night.
If permission is granted, a low
powered transmitter, which Koer
ner designed, will be installed on
the roof of Pollock A and tested
to see if it can be used with an
aerial to broadcast AM signals,
Koerner said.
A SECOND type.of transmitter
to be tested will use the power
line that supplies the electric
current to the residence hall as
an antenna. This transmitter is
similar to the type now being
used in West Hans.
Pollock A was chosen as the
test site because the amount of
By TONY FOGLIO
media while simultaneously mak
ing them more independent. and
instilling in students manning
these media a sense of responsi
bility toward their work, he said.
..Goodwin prefaced his speech
with the statement that the pro
tections which the First Amend
ment guarantees to the press do
not apply to the collegiate press
because students entering a uni
versity give up certain of their
rights for rules and regulations of
the university.
THESE RULES may sometimes
be "unfair," he added.
Drawing upon the experience
and knowledge gained from his
positiOn as president of Collegian
Inc., the publishers of The Daily
Collegian, Good Win said this
newspaper is: "one of the freer
student newspapers in this coun
-Iry." •
Froth,, however, the campus
humor Magazine whose charter
was revoked last term by the
Committee on Student Organiza
tions, •has not had this freedom,
he said.
Some administrators, whose
names he declined to mention,
have been "moving in on Froth"
for years and the September, 1962,
issue gave them the excuse of .
"obscenity" which they, needed to
close down the magazine, he said,
Goodwin added that the courts
of our country still do not know
what constitutes obscenity, but the
University apparently does.
AN ALL-MEDIA board of di
rectors supgrvising state-incorpor
ated student outlets of expression
would permit the publications and
WDFM to run their own affairs,
he said.
Mistakes would be made, he
said, but they are all part of the
educational process.
In relation to his call for a
general board of directors, Good
win also requested that advisors
to campus media not be members
of- the faculty.
A full-time advisor paid by a
board of directors, would devote
his time to the media involved and
be available for consultation when
requested, he said.
steel in its structure makes it the
poorest residence hall for radio
reception, Koerner said. The com
mittee has assumed that -if the
transmitters are successful there,
they will work in all the resi
dence halls, he added.
Both transmitters work on the
same principle as a network ra
dio station—the broadcasting sta
tion sends its waves over a direct
telephone wire to the receiving
station.
THE TELEPHONE company
will install a direct wire from the
WDFM station to the residence
hall transmitters for $lO plus a
nominal fee for rental of the line,
Koerner said. The FM signals
will be received over the - line and
the transmitter will then convert
them into AM signals.
In the test of Koerner's trans
mitter, the AM signals will then
be broadcast using the aerial to
send the signals through the air
to indiv'i-1 radios. In the test
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., FRIDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 15, 1963
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WASHINGTON (IP) Presi
dent Kennedy said yesterday his
proposed tax cut should be re
garded as a plan for preventing
another recession rather than "a
method of making life easier."
KENNEDY TOLD a news con
ference he hopes Congress will
approve his program to slash $13.5
billion from the tax bills of indi
viduals and business and get
back about $3.3 billion of this by
tax revisions he says would close
loopholes. Yet he indicated he
might accept some sort of com
promise.
"Now, if we don't have the tax
cut," Kennedy said ? "it substan
tially, in my opinion, increases
the chance of a recession, which
will increase the size of the de
ficit. So that is what it comes
down to.
"And I think that with the
record we have had in the last
five years of over five per cent
unemployment, two recessions, I
think the important thing for us
to do is prevent another one."
THE PRESIDENT predicted a
good bill will come out of the
House Ways'and Means Commit
tee, although "it won't be perhaps
the bill we sent up."
More than anything else, this
question-and-answer session with
reporters centered on taxes at
home and •the defenses of Europe
and the Western alliance.
IN CONCILIATORY fashion
Kennedy talked of working out
a system for giving European
countries some sort of say about
pressing the firing button for nu
clear weapons. No, he said, there
will be no reprisals against Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle of France,
who has spurned Kennedy's pro
posal for a multi-nation nuclear
force.
Additional Snow
Expected Today
Snow flurries and occasional
snow squalls accompanied the ar
rival of a fresh •batch of cold
arctic air yesterday.
The heavy squalls deposited
from 1 to 2 inches of new snow
in the valleys and up to 4 inches
on the montain tops.
Locally, today should be partly
cloudy with a few snow flurries
and cold. The high will be about
20.
Tonight should be clear and
quite cold.
Tomorrow should be mostly
cloudy with a chance of snow
beginning in the afternoon. The
high will be near 22 degrees. Snow
and gusty winds are expected to
morrow night.
Sunday should be mostly
cloudy, windy and cold.
Test Set
for the other transmitter the
power line will be used as the
signal carrier.
The transmitter using the pow
er line is more expensive than
Koerner's transmitter, wlli c h
costs about $3O.
HIS TRANSMITTER has been
tested under laboratory condi
tions in a private apartment
downtown, he said.
The range of the transmitter is
yet unknown. Until this test is
completed, Koerner said he will
not know whether a transmitter
has to be installed in each resi
dence hall or whether one trans
mitter will serve an entire resi
dence area.
Permission to hold the test on
University grounds has already
been granted by Francis Yonker,
electronic planning engineer for
the University. Koerner said he
still needs permission from the
Department of Housing to install
the equipment on the roof of the
residence hall.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
The President also said this
country isn't pulling its forces out
of Europe unless Europeans want
this. He said there are no indica
tions they do.
SOME LOGISTIC or supply
forces have been withdrawn, but
"We have not at all lessened the
number of our combat troops,"
Kennedy said.
"The fact is, we are stronger
than we were a year ago."
Political items bobbed up now
and then. Europe and U.S. pres
tige were involved here, too. And
Study Abr•p•A
fdds Engifind
The University's Study Abroad
program, which already sends
over 100 Penn State students to
three European universities an
nually, will be expanded to in
clude a branch in London, Eng
land next year, Dagobert de Levie,
director of the program, said yes
terday.
The expansion plan, if success
ful, will mark the second connec
tive year of Study Abroad ex
pansion. This year, the program
was amplified to include a branch
at the University of Salamanca,
Spain.
DE LEVIE said the new setup
in London will be a special pro
gram for 18 senior architecture
students involving study at the
Architectural Association School
of Architecture in London.
This architectural program will
not, however, have the same
format as similar programs at
other universities, the program di
rector said.
He said the architecture stu
dents, 17 men and one woman, are
eligible for the program because
they are members of a specific
class and curriculum. This is not
true of most programs in other
universities, he added.
Another special feature of this
program will be that the students
will spend eight weeks of the ten
week term in London, followed
by two weeks' study in Rome and
Paris.
NORMALLY, a university
Study Abroad group in any nation
remains in that country for the
entire ten-week term, he said.
CUPID DAY TREAT was enjoyed in the Hetzel Union Terrace
Room yesterday by those in the mood for celebrating the oc
casion. Decorations, a special menu and music added to the
festive atmosphere.
Kennedy had a chance to get in
sonic courteously worded cracks
at Republican critics, including
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of
New York.
Kennedy was asked what he
thinks of curt ent charges that
American prestige has slipped
abroad, a claim he used in the
1960 presidential campaign.
A clearer idea of prestige both
•:t home and abroad will emerge
in the next two years, Kennedy
-aid, and "we have to wait and
see."
Despite these variations from
other Penn State Study Abroad
programs, the architectural pro
gram should be especially meri
torious, Philip F. 'hillock, acting
head of the department of archi
tecture, said.
allock said "outstanding"
members of the Architectural As
sociation will teach the courses
abroad, constituting a faculty of
the highest reputation in England.
In addition, the students will
experience an approach to design
instruction not easily gained in
the United States, since both his
toric and contemporary buildings
can be used for illustrations by
instructors, he said.
Senate Committee
Disciplines Soph
A sth term student in the Col
lege of Education was placed on
suspended suspension until the
end of fall term, 1963, by the Sen
ate Subcommittee on Discipline
at a hearing held Wednesday.
The student, a minor, returned
to his residence hall in an in
toxicated condition after a fra
ternity party Feb. 2. When sev
eral of his friends tried to "sober"
him, the student fled from the
residence hall, clad only in
trousers.
His friends were attempting to
restrain the student and return
him to the residence hall when a
residence counselor passed by and
apprehended the student.
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