The Egyptian, July 31. 1962

Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC July 1962 Daily Egyptian 1962 7-31-1962 The gE yptian, July 31. 1962 Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_July1962 Volume 43, Issue 92 Recommended Citation Egyptian Staff, "The gE yptian, July 31. 1962" (1962). July 1962. Paper 1. http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_July1962/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 1962 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in July 1962 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. r " '?i4 SIU Athktic Officia~ Eye MVC Meet SlU officials are eyeing die sentatlves wtll meet August iogs thst formal action In ex Missouri Valley Conference 27-28 at the Bismarck Hob;! pansion would he taken at meetings later this mondi for in Chicago with expansion t:tie tbe AUgust meetings. Neve a , clue on which way SlU ath key topic on the agenda. could not be reacbed for letics will go In the future. comment Monday morning but Missouri Valley athletic his secretary Della ZIpk said No longer a member ' of directors and faculty repre that expansion would be the . the Interstate Intercollegiate sentatives bave discussed ex main topiC for discussion. Athletic Conference, Southern pansion for die past three E YPTlJN is looting (or conference years but no formal action This fall SlU has twO SHIt/i.e.. 9tl.Uui,~ 1t~~ affiliation and is interested has been taten. in tbe Missouri Valley. Missouri Valley members on Ca....... dal •• lIIinoi. , Norvall Neve, Missouri its foothall schedule -- Drake Tv ••day. Jvl, 31. 1962 Hu.M,92 Missouri Valley Confer- Valley commissioner, said and North Texas State. Last ----------------________________________~~~~ ence membersfacultyrepre- alter die May spring meet- year Drake beat SIU. )egree Without Maior Field Proposed llisease Hits Faculty Council CommiHee t Dutch Elms Studying Plan By L.R. Tucker A proposal to allow some Coleman. Englisb professor, ()~ Campus students to graduate Without Plan A advisor and opponent Four campus elms, two on a major field Is being studied of over-specialization. iJe front lawn of SlU Presi by a Faculty Council com ... A student in this program ent Dvlighr W. Morris' home, mittee. would tell u~ be just wants r", dying of the Dutch E lm The proposal. an IB-year an education," Coleman said. isease, according [0 Dr. Wil old brain child of Lowell R. Then he might take. such cour iam Marberry. Tucker, associate professor ses as philosophy, geology, Marberry. assis tant pro In the Plant Industries de anthropology. speech and a ,ssor of botany and s uper partment, is aimed at stu few others. 'isor of the University physi dents who want a broad rath :al plant greenhouses, said er tban specialized education. Coleman feels this type of program is needed because .bout 15 elm trees on ca m It would build on the frame >u s have died during the past the public schools aren't do work of the university's re Ing an adequate job of edu wo or three years. quired courses. uFortunantely only a few cating their students. t ucker said he first saw "1 wouldn't advise it at all ,Ims are on the SIU campus , the need for such a program vhere a wide variety of trees if we had better public scbool s growing," be added. whe n his four children were education," he said. The University is carry going to college here. They bad to major in a particular Less than 1 per cent of the ng ~ on a tree planting pro subject despite wanting less students would probably be af l ra~ but no elms have bee n fected if tbe proposal was ,lat,ted for 10 years. Tree bours In their major field and more hours elsewhere. adopted. he said. ' Iuitlng does not usually take uNone of their majors were )lace at tbe location where .... For example, a student in fields they eventually went from Chicago comes down ;nfected trees have been re tnto," he said. moved because of possible here to study forestry be 1anger to the young trees, Pointing out that 10 per cause he's tired of the City. ;aId Ralph Carter of the physi cent of the firm s which con By the time he decides for v , tact placement center about estry really Isn't his main : al plant. '- , . ,. prospective employees aren't Two other elm trees have interest. his grades have slip CQHST·RUCTION WORKER John Wilkins •••• an acetyl ... interested in their major field, oeen stricken adjacent to torch to bum a hole in the thick concrete wall of the under ped and he's on probation." Parlc.inson Laboratory. Most Tucker says some students ground heat tunnel just southeast of the University Center are limited In the scope of ) f tbe diseased trees have been "If be wants to switch to neor Building 1-48. A new section of the tynnel, leading to tbelr stUdies. business management, his :>0 tbe campus outskins. the new Physical Educa,ion Building will be joined to the The first question raised Actually two diseases have average is too low to be ad old one a' this pain', Normally pneuma,ic hammers are used about the proposal was mItted. Added to tbat. some been killing the elm trees. to break concre'e on such jobs. (Photo by Don Heiberger) Dutch elm and phloem necro whether It would tend to lower colleges specify that students sis are the diseases. Dutch standards, Tucker said. Some must take the college's cour Elm is a fungus spread chief Agronomy Field Day Slated Faculty Council members felt ses as long as the student is ly \>y small European elm the students under the pro enrolled there," Tucker said. bark beetles a nd phloem gram might take only snap courses. The move to whip the idea necrosis is a virus spread Augmt 8 At Research Cenmr Into shape for presentation by leal hoppers. Tucker denies It would give Agriculture students at nois and plant industries fac the student anymore easy before the Faculty Council "Once trees ha ve become began about a year ago when diseased there Is little hope of tending SIU have been in ulty and researchers from courses than he takes now. vited to arrend the annual both institutions will conduct "'Naturally a student is ~o Tucker conferred with Cole surivial, to Marberry said. man about the program. Symptoms are a general pal Agronomy Field Day Wednes the discussions during the day. Ing to take the courses he day. August B at the Agrono does best in," he said. Although Tucker had sug Ing and withering of the lea ves. The day's sessions open at my Research Center west of He feels a non-major cur gested it two or three years The disease, which may stan 10 a.m. at the SIU dairy center . with just a few branches, tbe campus• riculum would eliminate prob ago, It was decIded to delay and move to the beef center lems be encounters during presentation of the proposal spreads rapidly and trees Purpose of the event is to and hay fields during the often die in one season. his work In the student ad until the General Area Stu provide up-to- date Ienowledge morning. Following a noon visement center. "'Many stu on the production and man dies program was put into Main bope of keeping break, the more than 100 ex dents get into academic action, he said. hea~thy trees from becoming agement of field crops for pected to attend, will visit trouble because they select It was referred to the 19- diseased Is to control the two area farmers, agriCUlture research plots at the Agron the wrong field," he said. Insects by spraying and a leaders and teachers. omy Research Center and get member curriculum and De community- wide sanitation The Agronomy Research reports on tillage, crop se He has support from Pro grees Committee at last ,program involving removal Center Is jointly operated by quence, fenilizer, moisture fessor Willis Moore, philoso week's meeting of the coun and burning of diseased frees. SIU and the University of 1111 - and herbicide studies. phy department, and E. Claude cil. Seeks Better Student-Carbondale Relations A plan to improve the re Committee chairmen are Fenwick is proposing the for~ prove relations between the lations between Carbondale Kenneth Miller. regional de matlon of a polling organi city and tbe campus. and SIU students is being velopment liason; Tom East zation. He feels students could "'If handled correctly, they launched by Student Body erly, zoning; Hans Fischer. be polled for opinions through could be a benefit to us and President William Fenwick. subdiviSion regulation; Mrs. the lBO-member Spirit Coun everyone in town," he said. The plan calls for tbe ap Walter Wills, urban renewal; cil Goss said he had no objec pointment of seven students Mrs. W.B. Schneider. capital tions to the proposal, but to attend city council and plan improvements; and Car I If the city turns down the added Ufrankly. I don't un ning commission committee Jones, master plan review. proposal. FenWick will try derstand it." meetings to express stUdent Fenwick said the plan had another approach to interest body opinion on matters af been germinating since the students in the community. Mrs. W.B. Schneider. head fecting students. leaders conference last spring "'But I think there will be of the capital improvement (00 much pressure for them The proposal was made by where Easterly and Fischer subcommittee, call e d the Fenwick last week in a phone discussed some ideas for im to turn it down," he Said.

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