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AIM Group to Investigate
Community Living Plan
For University Students
A committee drawn from the executive committee of the
Association of Independent Men's Boat'd of Governors will
investigate the feasibility of a type of community living
between men and women students in the new residence halls
to be built at the University in future years.
The committee, the establishment of which was recom
mended by the board's executive committee at last night's
meeting, will investigate the possibility with the idea of
formulating a statement of policy on the matter which would
Chem Phys
Votes to End
Senior Finals
The Chemistry and Physics
Student Council last night be
came the second council to vote
in favor of eliminating final ex
aminations for seniors.
The council passed the motion
after stipulating that seniors must
possess a "C" average in their
IMIMMI
Tuesday night the Engineering
Student Council passed a motion
to exempt all graduating seniors
from finals. All-University Cab
inet will hear the motion at its
Meeting tonight.
Council will sponsor an open
house on April 28. Joseph Eber
ly, junior in physics from State
College, reported Ella. 140 high
schools have received invitations.
At leaSt four tours through the
different departments of the Col
lege of Chemistry and Physics
will be conducted and faculty
members will lecture.
Appointed to the open house
committee were Kenneth Chris
tiansen, junior in chemical en
gineering from Fanwood, N.J.,
Harlan Kline, junior in chemistry
from Kutztown, and Marilyn
King, freshman in chemistry from
Hershey,
Lion Party Steering
Committee to Meet
The Lion Party Steering Com
mittee will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday
in 317 Willard.
Hobert Spadaro, Lion Party
Clique Chairman, said that at
tendance at the meeting is manda
tory in order that future party
policy for the corning
Alt-Uni
versity elections may be plan
ned.
lie added that all past members
of the steering committee are in
cluded unless previously noti
fied.
English Bothers Frosh
By EVIE ONSA
Why do so many students
have trouble with English?
About 25 per cent of the fresh
men are placed in a no-credit
English course. Last semester
41 per cent of these students
failed. Why?
According to Theodore J. Gates,
head of the English composition
department, the major cause lies
in the student attitude toward
language studies.
Some students are satisfied
with their present knowledge of
English. Professor Gates said that
a frequent student attitude is ex
pressed as, "this is the way my
ma and pa taught me—if it was
good enough for them, it's good
enough for me."
As an example that a change
in attitude may be what is need
ed, Gates told the story of a foot
ball hero at the University who
failed comp. 0 four times. But on
returning from the service passed
it the first time. "Anyone can
pass comp. 0, he said, if he ap
plys himself,"
"We flunk so many." he said,
"because they do not attain a
reasonable level of competence
for college students." However,
he said, this can again be traced
be supported by the board and
students in general.
According to Leonard Richards.
AIM secretary, the committee will
make an extensive investigation
of the matter which will consider
it from every angle, and will also
collect information on its applica
tion at other universities.
The committee will also seek to
determine what type of commun
ity living will be bes - t suited to
conditions as they will then exist
at the University.
Such community living would
prevent what AIM President
Bruce Lieske termed "the isolat
ing of men and women students
at extreme opposite ends of the
campus."
Richards cited community din
ing asone facet of community liv
' ing arrangement.
In other action last night the
,board agreed to set up a joint
committee with members of Leon
ides Independent Women's Organ
ization to begin planning a project
for Spring Week.
The AIM-Leonides Spring ben
t quet will be held May 5 at the
Nittany Lion Inn, and the AIM
' Leonides Dance will be held April
13 in the Hetzel Union ballroom
with music by the AIM Band.
A proposal by AIM treasurer
'Harry Martini to request that
Lieske protest the inequality of
representation of independent and
fraternity candidates in the Spring
elections at tonight's meeting of
AR-University Cabinet was de
feated.
Harold Dean, senior in ar t s
and letters from Uniontown, said
by such a mandate the board
I would be entering into politics,
which, he said, would be unwise.
Thomas J. Smith, junior in edu
cation from Wyomissing, was ap
pointed a delegate to the National
Independent Student Association's
convention to be held at Austin,
Texas, in April.
Other appointments approved
last night were James Gopdwin,
sophomore in physics from Phila
delphia, and Benjamin Winslow.
junior in psychology from Patton.
to the projects committee, and
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to the attitude of the student.
People in the Liberal Arts School
usually score better on the place
ment tests and make better grades
in English because they are in
clined in that direction. It is not
a difference in intelligence, he
said, but a difference in inter
ests.
Background Important
r By the time a student reaches
college his language pattern has
been formed. It was established
in the home and in the high
school, he said, but mainly in the
home. Aside from attitude there
has been a decline in proficiency
because colleges are now taking
a larger number of students.
In a study conducted by Dr:
John S. Bowman, professor of
English composition; Dr. Martini
L. Zeigler, research associate in
psychology; and Dr. Robert G.l
Bernreuter, professor of psy-I
chology, it was found that therel
is a definite relationship be
tween the students' marks on the:
English placement tests and onl
their general academic perform- 1
ante.
This study followed 1268 stu
dents through their four years at
college. Results showed that the
students who placed high on the
test had better grades both at the
end of their first and seventh se
mesters.
Correllation Exists
There is also a definite cc•rrel-.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Surprised Owner
Gets Back Auto;
Thieves Escape
A stolen auto, ditched quickly
on campus after being pursued
by a Campus Patrolman, has been
returned to its owner, who was
unaware it was missing.
The patrolman noticed a 1954
Chevrolet traveling at a fast rate
of speed at 2 a.m. Feb. 14. He
took chase and overtook it at
parking area 40.
Two young men then jumped
from the car, one running north,
the other south. The lone patrol
man pursued on foot after the
one who went north.
Both men got away, police said.
The car, which was not dam
aged, was returned to the owner,
Elwood McClellan, 325 E. Lamb
tsreet, Bellefonte.
The car had been parked in
Bellefonte, according to police.
5 Scholarships
Are Available
To Eng Students
Five scholarships available to
students of the College of Engi
neering and Architecture total
ling $2200 have been announced.
The American Brake Shoe
Scholarship will award $5OO to a
sophomore in engineering, chem
istry and physics, or mineral in
dustries for his junior year. The
scholarship may be continued for
the senior year if his scholastic
record is satisfactory.
The Cincinnati Milling Machine
Company Scholarships are two
awards of $5OO each to sophomores
in electrical engineering, engi
neering science, ir.dustrial engi
neering, or mechanical engineer
ing for their junior year. These
scholarships may be carried over
in the senior year if a satisfactory
scholastic record is met.
The Martin Aircraft Scholarship
will award $250 to a sophomore
in aeronautical, electrical, engi
neering science, or mechanical en
gineering for hisjunior year.
The Square D. Company Schol
arship is an award of $450 to a
sophomore in electrical engineer
ing, engineering science, industrial
engineering, or mechanical engi
neering for his junior year. This
award may be continued in the
senior year if a satisfactory schol
astic record is kept.
Application forms for these
scholarships may be obtained from
204 Main Engineering. Applica
tions should be submitted before
March 1,
Dairy Science Club to Meet
The Dairy Science club will
meet at 7 tonight in 117 Dairy.
News and Views to Meet
News and Views staff and can
ididates will meet at 6:45 tonight
lin 14 Home Economics.
lation between placement test
grade and the withdrawal rate.
Two out of three comp 1 students
will graduate while only one out
of three comp. 0 students will
graduate.
What is the solution to this?
Professor Gates said that if the
good students can be separated
from the poor ones by testing
after they arrive on campus, they
should be separated before they
are admitted. This may be part
of the answer.
Next fall an experimental test
ing program will be set up at the
University's 11 centers. This will
be primarily a counseling pro
gram and will provide general
testing for those students already
admitted. It will not be com
pulsory.
GUADALAJARA
SUMMER SCHOOL
The accredited bilingual school
sponsored by the Universidad
Autonoma de Guadalajara and
members of Stanford Univer
sity faculty will offer in Guad
alajara, Mexico, July 2-Aug. 11,
courses in art, creative folklore,
geography, history, language
and literature. $225 covers tui
tion, board and room. Write
Prof. Juan R. Rael, Box K,
Stanford University, Calif.
Question Raised
Over Specialization
In an unanimous straw vote, the Physical Education Stu
dent Council decided the physical education curriculum is
over-specialized.
At the council meeting Monday night, Ann Farrell, junior
in physical education said she had been asked to raise this
question for discussion:
"Are the curriculums in the
schools of the University becom
ing too specialized so that students
are unable to take the electives
they need for a well-rounded edu
cational background?"
Divided Into Committee
The council divided into com
mittees to study the problem af
ter some of the members gave
reasons why they thought there
was over-specialization in their
school.
A physical education major said
that students in his curriculum
were only able to take six cred
its of electives, and so w ere
forced to overload or audit to
take all other courses.
Repetition in Courses
Recreation and Health educa
tion majors are not as severely
limited in electives a recreation
major said, but he suggested that
all students in the Physical Edu
cation School would have room
to take more courses for their
own information and for a minor,
which is encouraged by the
school, if some of the repetitious
physical education courses were
omitted.
Divided Into Committees
The council divided it'to com
mittees to study the problem. The
four committees formed were:
minors, repetition and activity
blocks, recreation, and intercol
legiate sports for women.
The committee on minors is to
study how more room could be
made for the student to take
courses required for a minor in
to their four-year course of study.
Repetition and activity blocks
r will be studied to see if sugges
tions can be found for removing
repetitious courses, and eliminat
ing repetition in the a c t i vit y
blocks. Suggestions may also be
made by this group of ideas that
could be used in the activity
blocks.
Recreation Committee
The recreation committee is
made up of a group of recreation
majors, who come under the jur
isdiction of the Physical Educa
tion School, but will bring up
suggestions on the problem which
relate to their course of study.
The last group, although not
'directly concerned with the idea
of over-specialization, was formed
to study a problem of women's
sports.
The ideas of the committees will
be brought to the council at 6:30
p.m. Sunday in the Ifetzel Union
Building.
After ideas on these and other
related subjects are formulated
they will be discussed with a fac
ulty group from the Physical Edu
cation College.
Convocation Planned
Plans were discussed for the
Physical Education Student Con
vocation to be held Thursday,
Feb. 16 from 11 a.m. to noon in the
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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 1956
Psych, Soc Clubs
To Hold Combined
Meeting Tonight
The Psychology and the Sociol
ogy clubs will hold a joint meet
ing at 7:30 tonight in the Hetzel
Union assembly hall.
Dr. Edward L. French, director
of psychology and education at
the Devereux • School in Devon,
will give an illustrated talk on
"Treatment of disturbed and re
tarded children." The meeting is
open to the public.
Dr. French will also interview
graduating seniors in the fields of
psychiatry, psychology, education,
recreation, art and musical ther
apy for positions at the Devereux
School.
The interviews will take place
on Thursday and Friday. Appoint.
ments can be made in room 130
Sparks with Dr. Duane V. Ramsey,
assistant professor of sociology.
and Fredrick R. Matson, professor
of archaeology.
Talent Tryouts Set
For Sophomore Dance
Talent tryouts for the Sopho
more Class Dance will be held
from 7 to. 10 p.m. in the Hetzel
Union assembly hall March 4.
Sophomores are eligible to try
out. The talent show will be held
during intermission of the sopho
more dance on March 10.
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