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VOL. 63. No. 136
Defense Loans
Krecker
Sn Nat'l
By MARIANNE HLYWIAK
Appropriations for National De
fense Loans to University students
next year will probably total less
than one-half of last year’s alloca
tions, Ralph N. Krecker, director
of the Office of Student Aid, said
yesterday.
President Eric A. Walker re
ceived official word recently from
Kenneth W. Mildenberger that
only $122,222 of the $250,000
usually awarded to the University
will be appropriated for next year,
Krecker continued.
Mildenberger is director of the
Division of College and Univer
sity Assistance, Department of
Health, Education and Welfare.
“This means that the Office of
Student Aid will be able to award
NDEA loans to only 48 per cent
of the students who would nor
mally qualify for them,” he con
tinued.
“Previously, any institution re
questing money for the loans had
to agree that —its recipients
would take loyalty oaths and sign
affidavits testifying that they
were not affiliated with the Com
munist party.
Since the non-Communist af
fidavit requirement was elimi
nated last fall, many more col
leges have become eligible to re
cei v e ' appropriations for the
loans,” Krecker said.
According to Krecker, Milden
berger explained the reduction in
a letter stating that “aggregate
institutional requests greatly ex
ceed the maximum amount of $9O
million which Congress is author
ized by present legislation to ap
propriate in support of the pro
gram for fiscal 1964.”
USG To Set Standards
Of Life Insurance Policy
By TONI BAURNES
and DEN KNECHT
A bill proposing that the Under
graduate Student Government
establish standards for a student
life insurance policy and accept
bids from interested insurance
companies that attempt to meet
those standards was passed last
night by Congress.
THE BILL provides that the
USG Insurance Committee, con
sisting of the USG insurance ad
visor, student head of the in
surance program, USG President,
or other insurance experts chosen
by Congress establish the stand-
Mercury May
Break Records
Perhaps the coldest air mass
ever to invade the nation this
late in the spring brought record
low temperatures to a vast area
of the country yesterday, and
more records were expected to be
broken early today.
The unseasonably cold air
should keep temperatures well
below normal during the next
few days, and the large-scale
hemispheric circulation pattern
suggests the mercury may aver
age below normal through the
weekend.
Frost and possibly freezing
temperatures are indicated for
tonight. A hard freeze is expected
in some outlying areas.
Today should be partly sunny,
breezy and cool with a high of 57.
It will become mostly clear and
quite cold tonight and the low will
be near 32.
Tomorow should be mostly
sunny and slightly milder.
Predicts
Defense
This across-the-board reduction
in funds will affect all colleges
in Pennsylvania the same way,
Krecker said.
Because of the reduction, pref
erence will be given to students
who will be seniors or juniors
next year, Krecker emphasized.
Students who are non-Penn
sylvania residents may also be af
fected, he said.
According to Krecker, the Uni
versity will attempt to help as
many students as possible through
University loan funds and through
the United Student Aid Fund
program.
Appealing for student action,
Krecker said, “I urge all students
who are in need of National De
fense Student Loans to inform
their Congressman of the urgent
need to continue this program and
the need for additional funds.”
4 Faculty Members
From Department of
Four formal resignations have
been received by the Department
of Physics from its faculty mem
bers, John J. Gibbons, head of the
department stated today.
Among the four resigning are
Raymond Pepinsky, research pro
fessor of physics, and John A.
Sauer, professor of physics and
former head of the department.
NAMES OF THE additional two
faculty members were not re
leased by either the physics de
partment or the Department of
ards and make recommendations
to Congress each year.
Pilof’s bill was added to the
agenda after another insurance
bill was dropped by its sponsors,
Walter Wiewiora and Richard
Trigilio.
After passage of Pilof’s bill, the
sponsors of the withdrawn bill,
USG President George Jackson
and insurance advisor Arthur L.
Williams, pointed out that the
original bill did not explain the
specific handling of the insurance
planning.
The life insurance plan pres
ently endorsed by USG is planned
by University Life Plans, Inc., and
is presented to USG each year
for approval.
Jack son said the present policy
is the best suited to fulfill
student needs, and added that this
bill is designed to clarify matters
of administration.
In other business, Congress ap
proved renewal of the sickness
and accident plan for another
year after the recommendations
of Williams and James Shea,
member of the insurance com
mittee.
The policy needed, approval be
cause of a premium increase of
approximately 25 per cent over
that of last year.
William A. Marquette, repre
senting the brokeage firm of Hig
ginbottom, Marguette and Bur
roughs, explained that the price
increase was necessary because
hospital and doctor fees have risen
since the policy’s introduction in
1958.
Congress defeated a by-laws
amendment designed to limit a
congressman’s allowable excused
absences to two per term, by a
10-10 vote. Two-thirds of the con
gressmen present and voting is
the necessary margin for ap
proval.
FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA.. THURSDAY MORNING. MAY 23. 1963
West Allies
On Nuclear
Drop
Loans
OTTAWA (t P) The 15
Western Allies agreed Wed
nesday to the creation of an
Allied nuclear force that will
have at its disposal powerful
submarine and bomber contin
gents pledged by the United
States and Britan.
THE LONG-DEBATED plan
was quickly approved in a de
fense debate which was conclud
ed in two brief meetings of the
North Atlantic Council.
A spokesman for the alliance
announced the agreement in a
brief statement which said simply
that the “North Atlantic Council
of Ministers noted with approval
the various practical measures”
that have been taken and are be
ing taken for the reinforcement
Public Information.
Gibbons explained that the res
ignations must now be sent to
Ferdnand G. Brickwedde, dean of
the College of Chemistry and
Physics, and then to University
President Eric A. Walker.
Next in the resignation process
the letters must be given to the
Board of Trustees who must ap
prove them.
However, the formal route of
resignations has proven to be
merely a professional formality.
The next meeting of the Board
of Trustees is scheduled for June
6,7, and 8.
When asked, Gibbons said he
had no comment on the cause or
effect of the resignations because
“these things are personal things
to the people involved.”
He also explained that any com
ment would be unfair if the re
signing faculty members had not
yet found other positions.
Sauer confirmed to The Daily
Collegian last night that he had
submitted his formal resignation
Health Center
Called Excellent
The Ritenour Health Center has
been termed “excellent" by field
representatives of the Office of
General and Special Hospitals of
the Pennsylvania Department of
Public Welfare.
Following a recent visit to the
health center, the representatives
submitted a report which de
scribed the center as a “well
planned and equipped hospital
facility to provide adequate care
for the students at the - Univer
sity.”
The report cited the “good
nursing staff,” which it termed
“well organized," the emergency
room which is considered pre
pared to care for emergency needs
of University students and the
medical records maintained for
emergency use and for students
admitted to the center.
According to the report, the
x-ray clinical laboratories are
modern, equipment is in good
condition and the laboratories
are apparently well-organized.
The physical therapy depart
ment is adequately equipped to
serve student needs and the de
partment appears “very, active,”
the report stated.
Housekeeping throughout the
building was also termed “excel
lent" in the report.
Herbert R. Glenn, director of
the center and University physi
cian, received the representatives’
report.
and regrouping of the alliance's
nuclear strike force available for
the defense of Europe.”
British Foreign Secretary Lord
Home announced his government
was committing the 180 planes of
its long-range Vulcan bomber
force, in addition to the 72 Can
berra and Valiant tactical bom
bers which already have been as
signed to NATO. He said Britain
also would place at the disposal
of the force its four Polaris
carrying submarines to be ready,
starting in 1908.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
then formally committed the three
U.S. nuclear-powered submarines
armed with Polaris missiles in the
Mediterranean.
In addition to the U.S. and
British nuclear forces contributed
yesterday, the alliance also will
have fighter bomber units of sev
en other NATO countries. These
Resign
Physics
to the department yesterday.
However, he would not state
his reasons for leaving the Uni
versity. The reasons for his res
ignation, he explained are "too
long and involved” to state at the
present.
HE DID SAY he had accepted
the position of head of the De
partment of Mechanics at Rutgers
University for personal reasons
and because the university is
closer to his original home and
closer to his family.
Sauer said he is sure he will
like the position and the educa
tional climate at Rutgers.
29 Honored by Phi Beta Kappa
The selection of twenty-nine
seniors and recent graduates as
members of Phi Beta Kappa,
national scholastic honor society,
was announced yesterday.
Maurice Natanson, distinguished
visiting professor of philosophy
and speech, was guest speaker at
the initiation banquet held at the
Nittany Lion Inn yesterday.
Those selected were: Irvin
Bromall, Dorothy Biakeslee,
Elizabeth Marsh, Barbara Eun
AN “UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT" was observed yester
day in front of Mineral Industries Building as two students cele
brated the arrival of spring with a fast game of "Frisbee."
Agree
Force
are Canada, West Germany, the
Netherlands, Belgium, Greece,
Turkey and Italy. France also
may be included with its two
fighter-squadrons stationed in
West Germany.
The French foreign minister, in
a speech lasting less than five
minutes, outlined the main points
of the plan and said: “We have
no objections to these proposals.”
The Cabinet-level discussions
got under way immediately after
the opening ceremonies of the
three-day session.
Six of the 15 Allies quickly ex
pressed approval not only of the
proposal to bring the various nuc
lear units in NATO under a uni
fied command, but also of the
more ambitious multilateral nuc
lear force.
The multilateral force calls for
creation of a surface fleet armed
and manned by mixed crews. No
action is expected on this at the
present session but negotiations
will continue.
Canada's Prime Minister Les
ter B. Pearson opened the meet
ing by calling for equal partner
ship between North America and
Europe in the direction of the
alliance.
THE FOREIGN and defense
ministers, gathered in the House
of Commons chamber, were told
by NATO Secretary-General Dirk
U. Stikkcr the West still faces
world-wide Communist perils,
“even though no open crisis faces
Europe.’!
Foreign Secretary Home, presi
dent of the NATO council, de
clared Allied nuclear power has
compelled the Soviet Union to
abandon major war as an instru
ment of policy.
Support of the United Slates and
Britain had been anticipated but
the contributions were promised
officially to NATO for the first
time yesterday.
gard, Augusta Adams, David
Rank, Barton Rusk, Richard
Frankhouser, Helen Boyer, Mary
anne Furia, Elizabeth Howe, Pat
rick Crowley, Mindelle Stayer.
Carole Gibson, Lucy Waskell,
Charlotte Gilson, Judith Sheibley,
Joan Ogden, Robert Wiseman,
Christine Lemieux, Kay Mills,
Sandra Kain, Bernice Betron,
Marla Stevens, Nancy Daughely,
Mary Angstadt, John James, and
Susan Siarbird were also se
lected.
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