-PAAIE FOUR . "For A Better Penn State" • , . -Established 1940. • Successor to the Penn State Collegian,. established 1904, and the Free Lance, established 1887. Published every Friday during the .regular College year -by the staff - of the Daily Collegian of The Pnnsylvania State College. Entered as second class. matter Jilly 5,1934 'at the' Post Office at State College;• Pa. under tre act of March 8, 1879.„ Suscriptions by. mail only at •$l.OO a semester. . • ... . . Editor-in-Chief • • • Business Manager • • Jane H. Murphy , t Philip -P. Mitchell,. • 10 111 0 ' . • Managing Editor • ' Advertising Manager: Larry T. Chervenak.. Richard- E. , Marsh- - • Ex' litorial and Business Office Carnegie Hall Phone 711 "Managing Editor, _ Assistant Managing Editor __ News Ed:tor Assistant Advertising Manager These Are Revision Days Campaigning strains tighten this week for the last time of the semester as primaries for frosh elections close and they throw their last bait before the finals. • The frosh have proved one big thing with their action in the primaries held yesterday. The fellows who wear the and the coeds who tie their hair in green are still, even during wartime program, the ones who have the enthusiasm. That should be gratifying to those who felt that it might have waned or who.'imagined a great laxity in the spirit of the Col lege newcomers. Mit theif balloting, as well as the votes that were cast at the beginning of the semester for upperclass offices, point out a bigger thing. The elections code, as it stands for the du ration, needs a bit of a revision. - Problems have shown themselves, difficulties have aris en which could not be foreseen. Since- they have been found, now is the time for action to change parts of the set-up which will make for more, efficient elections and which will elimi es should be defined further: It should be made clear just' who has the capacity to electioneer, and in what boundaries such -person can be active. Provisions are needed concerning the reasons for penal ties, and further power should be given the elections commit tee to act on tAose mistakes made by candidates. Too few errors were listed and in many cases, the corn mittee had to overlook things that they felt should have been punishable. If they are to inflict punishment, they must first have the wrong-doings classified. The code says nothing about candidates having, repre sentatives present at candidate meetings with the committee if the runners themselves are not available. It doesn't indicate whether or not nominees may be present at the vote counting. It leaves too much open for committee decision in these cases and limits their activities on other questions which would ordinarily be at their disposal. The code does not set a limit on the number of candidates which can participate in the elections of one class, thereby making it possible for ridiculous numbers to run. In so doing, the code allows the one polling a plurality to win unless spe cial arrangements are made for primaries as they were in this past week. It would seem wise for Cabinet or the Elections Commit tee to call in those persons who participated - in the last two Aections and through a round table discussion find flaws in the code from the two points of view represented. Ln that way, new ideas can be chanced upon and old gripes can be hashed over. A meeting of the two groups most involved should result in a code proving satisfactory to everyone con cerned. Short-Cut To Success • We'd like to offer a tip to any Penn Stater who might want to spend less time at his studies and still get even high- er grades A unique combination? . . . Yes. But unique is a pretty exact description of the pioneer course being offered by the department of education and psychology for the first time this semester. Officially earmarked "Ethication 100 L-Reading Clinic," the experimental course sets out to diagnose and correct read ing, study, and spelling faults. Basically, it teaches college students to read. The reading clinic course is a notable milestone in the career of Dr .Emmett Betts, reading clinic head, who has spent years in 'proving his theory that learning to read pro perly is at least as important to success as learning to speak and to write well, and that the incorrect reading habits owned by most college students are serious impediments to their scholastic efficiency. •To prove that theory, Dr. Betts has studied hundreds•of THE COLLEGIAN Staff Thin Issue Friday, August 13, 1943 Downtown Office 199-121 South Frazier St Phone 4372 Rita. M. Belfonti Serene Rosenberg Alice R. Fox Rosalind Becker THE COLLEGIAN test cases. With the 'help 'of graduate assistants, he has devised scores of special• tests—and .spe cial testing: maehinek when trcessary:—to . break down the "simple" , process of :reading into its component parts, in order to find ekactiy. what phases of seeing _or reading: • wee slowing•. down.or muddling up the' works: He worked out specializ 'ed practic&plans aimed at • the 'correction of each specific . haw, and he tested and re-tested On ac= • tual "test cases" until• he found the • most effec tive procedures. The most successful of the testing devices have been embodied in the pioneer course now under way, and the outstanding corrective machines and methods have been adapted to meet the personal ized needs of each of the 22 course enrollees. "Early returns" from every one of the course's members we've talked to sound like excerpts from the case histories recorded earlier by Dr. Betts— already paragraph comprehension is increastig, words are assuming more meaning, key ideas are sticking' longer, and speeded-up reading ability is cutting down on study time. Dr. Betts has made a contribution we predict will be of widespread and major importance; the students lucky enough to be taking advantage of it now agree wholeheartedly. Other Penn Staters who might feel the need of a scholastic' boost might do well next semester to take advantage of an important home-front dis covery. Try learing to read. L.T.C. It's Your Tomorrow The College is fast realizing that it nears the end of its second wartime Summer semester as Summer school students have left the campus, post session people start to pack up their things, and the class of what was once '44 begins to plan for its future this Fall. The administration has done a remarkable job in changing this institution into a camp for ser vicemen and in still maintaining a high stan dard for its regular civilian curricula. The stud ent body, in the large part, has played its role well; it has registered in large numbers for . summer semesters when the time would ordinarily have gone for money making, vacation, and experience. Days of reckoning come about this ;time each year when the involved persons stop and eval uate•• the results of their job. Students, are you satisfied ,with the. wartime arrangement? Doi you feel that you have definitely missed some es sential thing? Are you eager to see the whole set-up continued in the post-war world or do you feel it should be destroyed as soon as possible? It should be thought about. Even if you are not sure• what your idea of the program is or how much it has benefited you, it is necessary for you to consider the situation. Do all this, State students .of today, realizing that you will build colleges as foundations for tomorrow. Plan to spend as much time prepar ing and perfecting a peace as you have in mus tering and fighting a war. "Think now and forever hold your peace." A Penn State Tradition The Corner unusual FRIDAY,. AUGUST 13, 1943 LiettetTo' , :'.:;E:ditoi . -'' , ..Prtol 4 .'Comiiient:Oli,..Edit •M'Etgaging 'Editor,. Collegian: Youi• .editorial "For Profs 'Only"' is incomplete without ;raising the ,equally - important 'question: "How can you. make the proverbial horse, drink after you led it to the fountain of knowledge?" Do you know the answer? Hans Neuberger Geophysical Laboratory (The answer to that question, we feel, is large- ly in meeting the standards. Dr. Lerner outlined, for it is our opinion - that "drinking from the fountain of knowledge" is largely a process which would come automatically in classes whose. teach- ers "measured up." Student attitude in any coll- ege, we feel, is largely a reflection of the work of the professors of that college; we cannot see how outstanding teachers can produce anything less than increased interest and learning. We feel cer tain of that stand because we've met a' few such professors in Penn State, professors who met and overcame conditions of student indifference 'at its worst—who were -able• to take •an apathetic -class in a required course and win 'from , that class a high. degree of -interest and original .thought. We ladmit that there will always be a few "stu dents" _ whose - background• or- interests . would keep them from responding to the -very•beit ir struction.:With*those,- however,- the"question of "forcing them to drink" would'be — tiiiimportant, for the teachers' great task is in "providing the means for • acquiring -knowledge;,,belief,,arad ac- tion. That's what most 'students .pay4or,:und what they expect to-get; • Whether he is providing the •student !with: that chance is what we wanted each' professor to' test for himself. . . . L. T. C.) DU, she Ilamen No Time For Isolation . Tradition has long dictated thae this col umn be devoted exclusively to the ,immediate problems, prides, and peeves of we the women on this campus. But that tradition was begun in the days when groups could isolate their thoughts and their actions without harming either them selves or the community. At a time like this, it is more than a little out of place for any group 'to feel that their 'own small problems merit so much attention. We live in too small a world as it is, from reality as we are in State College. There is no excuse for us to accentuate this iso lation by devoting column after column to fresh man customs, the lack - of dates, and coeds' lack of interest in college elections. This, then, is a double-barreled plea. It is a request that coeds wake up to the fact that news papers and the radio are still accessible in State College, and that the things that they tell of are well-worth more than a fleeting glance. • And it is a request that coeds wake up to the fact that there are more things happening on, campus than are dreamed of in their philoso phies of dates and frosh-Judicial allercations. It is a request that Coeds take advantage of the all tco infrequent visits of men who can fell of what's happening in that other world to which we pay so little regard. Every week at Chapel a visitor discusses a message that we could well afford to hear—but of course that would involve getting up early on Sunday mornings. • Several weeks ago Max Lerner spoke here— and the majority of the 1800 coeds were conspi cuous by their absence. Last night, at an open meeting of .the reading seminar, Dr. S. T. Hayakawa, professor of English at the Illinois Institute of Technology, discussed the importance of language as a science—but probably so few coeds knew of Dr. Hayakawa's visit, despite wide publicity, that it's hardly fair to pass judgment on their lack of attendance. . Sunday afternoon, Dr. Maurice SamuelS; noted author and travelar, will discuss "The Jew and the World of Tomorrow." It is a topic of no little significance to all of us despite, or maybe be cause of, our isolation. A fair showing of coeds at that discussion would make us happy to eat every _word of this jeremiad.. • •
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