PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN "For A Better Penn State" 3:,tablished 1940. 'Successor to the Penn State Collegian. established 1904, and the Free Lance: established 1387. Published daily except Sunday and Monday during the regular College year by the students of The Pennsylvania :hate College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 of. the Post-office at State College, Pa., under the act of March 8, 1879. Editor Bus. and Adv. Mgr., RV a Rose Lehman '42 - ' James McCaughey '42 rlditorial and Business Office Downtown Office Carnegie Hall . 119-121 South Frazier St Phone 711 Phone 4372 Women's Editor—Jeanne C. Stiles '42; Managing Editor— Ton A. Baer '42; Sports Editor—A. Pat, • Nagelberg 32. Feature Editor—William J. McKnight'42; News Editor— Stanley J. PoKempner '42; Women's Feature Editor—Alice M. Murray '42; Women's Sports Editor—R. Helen Gordon Credit Manager—Paul M. Goldberg '42; Circulation Man ager—Thomas W. Allison '42; Women's Business Manager —Margaret L. Embury '42; Office Secretary—Virginia Ogden '42; Assistant Offiee•Secrerary-- , Fay E. Reese '4g. • • Junior Editorial board—Goidon L. Coy, Dunald W. Davis, iDominick L.. Golab, James D. Olkein, David SamuelS, Robert E., Schooley, Richard S. Stebbins; Herbert •J. ukauskas. Emily L. Funk, Louise M. Fuoss, Kathryn M. Popp. Edith L. Smith; • , • • , Junior Business Board,-Leonard E. Bach, Roy E. Barclay, Robert E. Edgerly, Philip Jaffe, Frances A. Leiby John E. ool; Sara L. Miller, Katherine E, Schott, Marjorie L. Les.. Managing Editor This Issue • Assistant Managing Editor .This Issue. KIENI=M=I Wv . urhen's Editor This Issue _ C radnate Counselor Saturday. February 7, 1942 the Sc ibitil Coiifiens ..... Some campus sttiderit lede coMmelited" xes- IR.r . ci.4y thdi iheie was; "much' ado ahMit . nOthina" tivhen a recent editCrial was written on the school . councils. •We rk... that is, .abbi.it the "ficithina" iNwase. • . . . We contend that school 6611161 s are . f4he#6l-1- hag like a rattling Old. M6del T Ford that should trelegated to the Sunk hegii. We say That this °del T Ford has not outlived its uadfillfiesS, . it . can reconditioned ••i • ehicle. HOwever, the vehicle now is a bUrieh of tin and a twisted frame. • We - Picked on the Liberal Arts Council as an "is-A • • ex...mp.e. That un As ,no worse!, bud probe:icilybet than most school councils. The Liberal Arts COVnail President, *Midi 0. Meyers '42 hhnesily and sincerely has qttempted, accomplish a well-roUnded prokrani this . year. • In' faCt he has shown more evidence of a Than atn ' iSther President of any school council, with the . bossible exception of the Agriculture School ' Council. In.defense of the. Liberal Arts president, he has ii)een the only president who has visited lean Charles W. StOddartarid has been known by • the dean. He has sought to institute new reforms conditiOns in the Lileral Arts School. But, hte has-been stymied, just as other . cotincil presi dents have been. What is wrong with the council system? How it Collapse into the junk heap and bbcothe the •?,. - eak sister of student government here at Penn state? Here are a few ainsWiers.• First, students who belong to the councils feel ,chat they do not have important enough positions student government, and it has Veen knoWn ;that many of the councils, during the meetings, could never transact any official business be cause there were not enough members present to ,:onstitute a quorum. These students an. right, in one respect. School t:ouncils do not have an important pOsitiOn, as ;';hey now stand, in student government. But, on the other hand, 'this has been the fault of the .I;ouncil members. They attempt no reform; they no evil because their eyes are closed; they pass no helpful legislation to . improve school fa i:;ultY and student relationshiPs because they show v.o interest; and, like ducks in a mill pond, 'they lAvirl around in a never ending rut. They are willing to shift the brunt of blame upon the coun- L.;il president. What do school councils do? So far, all that einey haVe shown is an empty hand. What pur i)oses are they to fulfill? What improvement Cave they made and what obligations have they met? We would say none. We have seen none. The school council, as a representative unit in All-College Cabinet, is needed. This is one ;uedium in which all the problems of students in itheir curricula and student-faculty relations can Ibe ironed out. However, the school councils have acted as that iron; instead, they degenerated ti t i.O a medium which has no expression, no plan, ,;mrpose. call a challenge to these groups to show , v/11,1 , . they have done. We do not challenge thitz cougkat presidents ithey may deserve part of the rhtionei, but we chi llenge the council members. school, and the energy of the coutieit --Dominick .L. Golub Jack W. Vogel Robert E. Sinter nMilf Lduis H. lien THE DAILY COLLEGIAN 111111i111111111411111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111i1111111111i11111111111111116 Old