From term to semester system
University calendar may change
By JERRY SCHWARTZ
Collegian Staff Writer
September still will have 30 days, but after the
University calendar committee is through the Penn
State calendar year may look drastically different.
The committee, made up of students, faculty and
administrators chosen by University President
John W. Oswald, will recommend to Oswald
whether the term system should be abandoned for a
different unit, such as the semester.
The committee is experimenting with both 14- and
15-week semesters and month-long semesters.
Under the semester system, classes would be
shortened to about 55 minutes.
James Bartoo, dean of the graduate school, said,
"Whatever we come up with, it will have to be_c
flexible enough to fit about 300 different academlc
programs."
Other requirements for a new system were
discussed at a committee meeting Friday. Corn
mittee members said the school year should begin
after Labor Day and end early in May to allow
Energy forum to feature Sawhill
By MIKE SOLLY
Collegian Staff Writer
Causes, realities and future options
on the world energy crisis will be the
major topics of a comprehensive
energy symposium to be held this
week in Schwab.
Sponsored jointly by the University
and the federal Office of En
vironmental Quality, the conference
will be held in the auditorium from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and
Thursday.
The conference's primary purpose,
according to the sponsors, is to bring
together ideas on the energy crisis
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and to introduce all members of the
University community, including
students, to the causes and possible
solutions.
Opening the symposium at 9 a.m.
Wednesday will be keynote speaker
John C. Sawhill, director of the
Federal Energy Office lin Washington.
Sawhill replaced William E. Simon as
director of the FEO in April when
Simon became Secretary of the
Treasury.
Sawhill is expected to outline the
country's present standing in regard
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The survey showed that
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students to take summer jobs, and most said the
first semester should end before Christmas.
The committee also hopes to allow students the
same size workload under a new calendar as under
the present one.
Committee members discussed the faults of the
term system. Asa Berlin, committee chairman and
professor of speech, said Summer Term has failed.
"The 12-month system has been a failure, not
because courses were not offered, not because of the
instructors but because students did not enroll,"
Berlin said.
James Dungan, deputy director of planning and
budget, noted that other schools, such as University
of Pittsburgh, Temple University and the
University of Pennsylvania, start school after
Labor Day and finish weeks before Penn State.
Dungan also criticized the way Winter Term was
broken up this year, saying the worst time to split a
term is in the beginning.
But Lamarr Kopp, assistant dean of liberal arts,
said, "We have a great deal more flexibility under
cent of the male students in
dulged while only 42 per cent
of female students had
smoked the substance.
When asked whether they
had streaked, only one in 25 of
the students said they had. A
Gallup spokesman said 4 per
cent projects to a quarter of a
million nude runners for the
total college population.
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A total of 30 speakers are scheduled
for the symposium's two days. They
will lecture on the definition of the
crisis, how it came about, its impact
and alternative solutions and
priorities. Representatives from 10
University colleges have been invited
to participate.
Individual speakers will con
centrate on issues such as supply vs.
demand, the relationship of the
economy to the crisis, energy vs. en
vironment, energy's impact on
agriculture and the various
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Mike Ostroff (6th-liberal arts) said he had talked
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Ostroff said some students de4ded to come to
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Berlin said the committee also is looking into
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Berlin said the committee almost had decided two
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