TWO. ME DAILY COLLEGIAN "'For A. Better Penn State -1140. Successor to the Penn State Collegian. established 1.904, and the Fres Lance, established 1837. Published daily encept Sunday and Monday during the 4t.1..u1ar College year by the student) of The Pennsylvania /Pate ( J.4l..tge, Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934, sit post-0,-_ce at State College, Pa., under the act of -44 4 5.r.ch 3, 1879. Editor Business Manager .A.ctaxn Srnysec "41 ' Lawrence Driever '4l Women's Editor—Vera L. Kemp "41; Managing Editor --)'pert IL Lane '4l: Sports Editor—Richard C. Peters ( 41. ; News Editor—Wijliam E. Fowler '4l; Feature Editor —Edward j. K. McLorie '4l; Assistant Managing Editor— lil.foyard Bloom '4l ; Women's Managing Editor—Arita L. -frefferan. '4l; Women's Feature Editor—Edythe B. Rickel ' '4 i Advertising 'folamager—John H. Thomas '4l ; Circulation ....15.aontrer—Robert G. Robinson '4l; „Senior Secretary—Ruth C.;4ldstein •41.; Senior Secretary—Leslie H. Lewis !C.. - - Junior. Editorial Board—john A. Baer '42. R. Helen • 0...f1an '42. Ross B. Lehman '42, William J. McKnight '42. . Alice M. Murray '42, Pat Nagelberg '42. Stanley J. PoKemp:- Auer '42, Jeanne C. Stiles '42. Junior Business Board—Thomas W. Allison *42. Paul Goldhe.rg '42. James E. McCaughey '42. Margaret L. Ern ,,,Aonw '42, Virginia Ogden '42, Fay E. Rees '42. 471,8xhiate <,,minselor -..-40;fozial and Bop laeiN 613 Old Main Bldg. Phone 711 -.l,s•u)asinp Editor This Issue _ Stanley J. PoKempner '42 40—wu Editor This Issue David Samuels '43 Ar.t.istant bianaging Editor This Issue __Samuel L. Stroh '43 W.rman.'s Editor This Issue Jeanne C. Stiles '42 Saturday Morning, January 11, 1941 All-College Elections Committee Can Set A Precedent )4)ew that the All-. College k,lections Committee 41J:: been appointed, Collegian hopes it will con s:der a suggestion for earlier electiOns made in this editorial column last May 17. The committee, it is understood, will meet next 'Tuesday night and perhaps it will decide on a date '.then. If it does, Collegian believes it should give considerable consideration to the idea for earlier cleCtions,. Since it was first passed eight .months ago, the idea has received only favorable criticism. The objective of the plan, briefly, is to strength cn student government by giving it a more con tmuous organization, giving new appointees a -longer time to understudy the positions they will yep, into. Thus, if elections were held in March. the successful candidates would have two months or more in. which they could understudy the jobs they were to assume. Last May the Cabinet - went in "cold" and the linngress of the student government was slowed. .4ilot -until last November did the present group to. mould itself into. tho really democratic .governing body it should be. Had its members understudied their jobs two months before they stepped into them the new Cabinet might have - '-'-1. - been able to take up. where the old group left off. Just how the situation shaped up last spring is 'ibodicated by this editorial reprinted from the May 1940, issue of the Penn State Collegian: "Probably the biggest problem facing the All- College Cabinet which took office Tuesday night that it is uninformed. . "Its members for the most part have not trained . ..r.ior Cabinet membership or long planned for it. • .7410 t more than a handful, of them attended more than one Cabinet meeting before they took office. .Vecaus.e of these things. none are fully aware of the possibilities and limitations of the Cabinet. "Under an educational system that completely • 'turns over its student body every four years a cer t.,-,M. amount of newness must be expected. But the fact that all 22 members of the All-College C!ihinet are new to the group is to a degree an in- . dictment of the present system of student govern- A»ent. "The present planning does not presuppose leadership. Only notable exception's like the Pan - 40eilenic Council presidency are decided any con ..siderable time before the student takes office. Other organizations simply pick out a popular or capable student for leadership—and pray that he will learn what his job is after he steps into it a week, a day, or an hour after his election "The new leader often comes into a job which Tile: has not studied very carefully. For him the attainment of the position and not the operation of —ii was the goal. When he was . elected he celebrat cr., seldom does a student celebrate having accom -....4aished his job. - "There is one thing, this new All-College Cabi can do next year. It : can make itself a 'con 4,Lomous group by electing its successors early ivitough 7 -in February,, perhaps—to give. them time • 43 end rstudy the positions 'They will assume in *fay. • , • "This means a change in many elections, iAll "College, school councils, and others, but it is a . change that can he achieved Coeds have ap l.rooched the goal; men are farther from it. "The system would cut down on the fumbling I.4”ct muddling which the new All-College Cabinet trmst itc?..vitably do before it finds itself." __C. Russell Eck Downtown Office 119-121. South Frazier St Night Phone 4372 E11111111111111111111111111111111MWM11111111111111111H11 1 111111111 1111 ( 1111111 1: 11111 MMUMW tl 0% THE f7 ,:' :° ) - t , 4 MANIAC iIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII I III I I II I IIIIII IIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOIII We Apologize Before we write. a word, in this bright, peaceful, carefree:year of 1941 A. D. we want, in some small way, to make - retribution for any nasty remarks we-may have let slip during the-year just bombed into eternity. We really dein% think Larry' Driever and Bill Fowler are such bad guys. in fact we like them. But we, for some perverted reason, have always figured that if we didn't feel like ribbing someone we really didn't sincerely like and trust them. - We still think so and for that rea - son - We . think you guys should feel flattered that we took you for a ride and therefore refuse to apologize. But to one person we feel we should apologize br a few statements which.turned out to be not so innocent as we believed. We mean Miss Winnie Bischoff, one 'of the most glamorous,, charming, noised, and beautiful Penn State coeds we have ever been snubbed by. Winnie, we abjectly and humbly: seek your forgiveness for remarks made in an issue of this column and promiSe never again to mention your name in this column even if you get married and have quintuplets. We hope the above apology will save us from a duel with your two chivalrous Galahads, Riddell and Lovell. •Bven if they dig C'airils and Our Leader nincompoops we adinire their spirit. Quo Vadis? • • We attended the organization meeting of the America First Committee tae other night and were very much disillusioned in the size of the turnout. 'There were seven others besides myself. And three of these seven, including us, were there just to find out what - the 'score was, leaving a grand total of four America Firsters. In case you have not heard what the America First Committee is, it is a National organization backed by such luminaries as Henry_ Ford, Gen. Robert E. Wood, head •of Sears-Roebuck, Eddie Rickenbacker, and others, which opposes "all-out" aid to Britain and is in favor of the. isolation pol !cies- of Senator Wheeler. It is the antithesis of William Allen White's committee. This IS Propaganda • • This isa'f plOpoganda for isolationism nor is it propaganda for interventionists. It is propaganda for democracy and for A-nerica; you know, the United States of America. Even State College is -in the United States of Ameri.,:a and the opinions which emanate from here are every bit as iinport ant as the opinions which pour out Of New York or Chicago. Why not help form that opinion in stead of deriding or disclaiming it after it is tormed? 'After Snow Ball Lance The Comer Unusual THE DAILY COLLEGIAN It's Students Defend Academic Rights AUSTIN, Tex., January 10 Active supporters of academic freedom and student rights were recently shaken when the Univ ersity of Michigan with one-sent ence letters refused re-admittance to thirteen young men and women "because they were considerd dis turbing influences." University officials have' declar ed the action was -not taken be: cause of the students' poiltical ideas or activities, but the Michi gan Committee for Academic Free dom and the barred students them selves believe they have shown that this was the basic reason. If the problem of academic freedom is placed before the entire student enrollment of the United States, especially now during these war days of fifth-column scares and un-American activity investiga tions, what is the concensus of this democracy's college youth?. Student Opinion Surveys of Am erica, of which The Daily Collegian is a cooperating member, has sam pled the nation's colleges and uni versities. It finds, everywhere overwhelming majorities opposed to any control of either student or faculty thought or activity. Polling a representative cross section of U. S. campuses, inter viewers asked, "Do you believe that a college has the right to con-. trol a student's personal political activities or expressions. of opin ion?" Yes, said. No. said, 96% Regarding control of faculty members' political activities or opinions,, these were the results: Yes, said No, said The slightly larger percentage in, favor of control of the faculty may be due in part to the influence of teachers themselves, many of whom believe that in times like theie they should show restraint. That feeling was expressed not long ago. by Professor Alonzo F. Meyers of Kent State University, when he declared, "Teaching should protect democracy, but in periods of stress it is of paramount importance that academic freedom does not provide the cause for •de nial of democratic education as a result of abuse of its privileges." Only one student in twenty, however, approves of control of undergraduates, the poll shows. And this opinion is prevalent from coast to coast in about the same proportions. "Our educational cen ters have always been the seats of freedom, and if we start censoring political views on the campus we are destroying fundamentals of democracy," said a senior in a Far Western university. In that group of states the largest opposition (97 per cent) was discovered. - Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa., is celebrating its seventieth year. YOU ARE WELCOME AT E MUSIC ROOM ti To Listen To Our Recordings. We nave The Latest In All Make RECORDS .Deceia • Victor • • • • Bluelikd • • -* ColiunbLi• - The MUSIC- ROOM 203 EAST BEAVER AVE. GLENNLAND BLDG. The Only Authorized RCA Victor Dealer In State College SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1941 CAMPUS CALENDAR TODAY: Tea dance, musical program, southeast lounge, Atherton Hall, 3 to 5 p. n-s. Swimming, Penn State vs. Car negie Tech, Glennland' Pool, 2 p. m. Wrestling, Penn State vs. Mary land, Rec Hall, 7p. m: - Penn State C1u1.5 - SnOw Ball Dance, Rec Halt, 9 p. m. to 12 mid night. Admission $1 per couple. Delta Alpha Delta meets in south-east lounge, .Atherton Hall, 1:30 p. m. TOMORROW: Hillel Foundation social, Phi Sigma Delta fraternity house, 7130 p. m. Freshman Council and Forty Forum cabin retreat party leaves. rear of 01( 4 Main, 2p. m. ' PSCA Project Council meeting, Room 304, Old Main, 4 p. League of Evangelical Students meets in Room 318, Old Main, 7:3a p. m. Alpha Lambda Delta "Informa tion Please" prcogram, Room 121, Liberal Arts, 3 p. m. Dr. Harold C. Case of the• Elm Park Methodist Church, Scranton, will speak on "Managers of To morrow" at Chapel services in Schwab Auditorium, 11 a. m. Russian Society's annual• Chris tmas `Zakusnii - ." Sandwich Shop, Old Main, 7 : 30 p. m. Don Bridge, advertising director of the New York Times, -will speak at c smoker sponsored Alpha. Delta Sigma 'at the -Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity hoUse, 7:30 p. m. All journalism men invited. • - MONDAY: Future Farmers of America elect officers, Room 405, Old Main, 7:30 p. m. , . Fhilotes meeting, Room 302, Old Main, 7 p. m.. Merrill Bernard,. supervising hydrologist of the United States Weather Bureau in Washingtolk D. C., will speak on "Flood Fore casting" at a meeting of- the stu dent chapter of the ASCE in Room .107, Main Engineering, 7 p. tn. A sound movie . will be shown. TUESDAY: All freshman candidates for the editorial and business staffs of The Daily Collegian are request ed to report to Room 405, Old Main, at 8 p. in. Tuesday. Prigfessor Sparks Called To U.S. Naval Reserve Ordered- to active duty as a lieu tenant in the U. S. Naval Reserves, Norman R. Sparks, associate pro fessor of mechanical engineering at the Pennsylvania State College, will not need to change his resid ence: ' • . He has been designated as officer in charge of the 30 Naval Reserve officers who began an intensive 16- week course in Diesel engineering hre this week.
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