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Legitimacy of a Student Press
Acceptance by the Board of Trustees is a little-known but
very important consideration in the selection of class gifts.
Some question has already arisen concerning the accepts-
Wray to the trustees of one gift suggestion for the senior
class, a student press.
Would the Board of Trustees, in view of its original posi
tion concerning the campus Co-Op store, refuse to allow th
establishment of a student press on the grounds that it would
compete with private enterprise? Careful analysis of the
activities of such a press and the present printing set-up
sboukl convince them of its legitimacy.
Basically, student publications, Collegian, Critique, Engi
neer, Froth, and several others now defunct because of high
printing cams, exist to fill student needs. Student needs as
readers, and particularly as staff members. Literally hun
dreds of undergraduates augment or receive their instruction
and experience in writing, editing, advertising and business
managment through student publications. As such they
parallel the service offered by the College dairy, for instance,
in instructional value.
The department of journalism has long urged its students
to seek positions on the Daily Collegian, English composition
instructors universally accept the value of having student
work published in Critique and its predecessors, and the
approval of the Engineer by that school is well known. The
business experience gained by student managers of publica
tions is unquestionably valuable.
Unfortunately, many of the publications periodically have
nisi into financial trouble, and had to be bailed out, or even
discontinued. The Penn State Farmer, The Ag Hill Breeze,
Portfolio, and the Old Main Bell have all passed from the
scene chiefly because of financial difficulties.
Commercial printing establishments must make a profit
to exist, and few would question their right to a fair margin
of gain. A non-profit student press would be designed and
operated to keep charges at or very near to actual costs.
Those who remember the situation of now-defunct publica
tions will agree that a relatively small percentage cut in
their printing bill would have saved several of them.
The charge of competition with private enterprise might
best be answered by those most directly involved. The Daily
Collegian furnishes perhaps the most typical example. His
torically, Collegian has been published by the Nittany Print
ing and Publishing Company as much to serve the College
community as for business reasons.
Anyone who has printing done locally knows that com
pany is busy enough otherwise cheerfully to bid farewell to
callous undergraduate editors, assorted curious proof
readers, and the nightly personnel turnover required to put
out a daily newspaper without flunking the staff out of
school. Various members of the printing company organiza
tion have expressed its willingness to friendly separation
from Collegian.
As a legitimate adjunct to instruction, as a cost-saver for
student printing work of all kinds, and as a non-competitor
with private enterprise, a class gift for a student press should
be readily acceptable to the Board of Trustees.
The first stage in the construction of the new classroom
building has been completed. A shiny wooden outhouse now
reposes on the site back of the Armory.
The
TAVERN
annouocos ids official *pontos
Wednesday, May 12
Open Daily (Except Sunday)
1:00 P.M. to Midnight
Dinner from 5:00 to 7:30 P.M.
—Malcolm Whit.
Edit Briefs
DI AND DIAR IT
"Your work has sunk to a treasonable depth, Comradel—Word
arrives that one of you r compositions has reached the top of the
Capitalistic Hit Parade!"
Placement Service
Arrangements for interviews should
be made in 204 Old Main immediately.
Connecticut Mutual Life In
surance Company, May 18, eighth
semester students interested in
this field.
North America Companies,
May 18, eighth semester men in
C&F. Group meeting, May 17,
228 Sparks, 7 pm.
Westvaco Chlorihe Products
Corporation, May 13, eighth-se
mester men in EE for trainee in
power department. Chem Eng
students for production depart
ment.
West Penn Power Company,
May 18 & 19, sixth and seventh
semester men for summer em
ployment. EE, ME, lE, CE.
International Telephone &
Telegraph Corporation, May 17,
eighth semester men in EE, lE,
ME.
Standard Oil Company Research
Department of Indiana, May 13,
seventh and eighth semester stu
dents with B.S. or M.S., Ph.D.
degrees in Chem, Chem. Eng.
Kelly-Springfield Tire Com
pany, May 14, eighth semester
men in EE, ME, AE, Chem, Chem
Eng.
Standard Oil Company of In
diana, May 12 and 13, eighth se-
mester men in ME, EE, Civil
Eng, Petroleum, and Natural Gas
Eng.
Burroughs Adding Machine
Company, group meeting for
C&F, A&L students interested in
sales work, 228 Sparks 7 p.m..
May 11. Arrangements for indi
vidual interviews on May 12 may
be made after the meeting.
Third United States Civil Serv
ice Commission, group meeting
for seniors, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m.
May 13. Curricula: Aero Eng,
Architectural Eng, Ctv i I Eng,
EE, lE, ME, Sanitary Eng, Min
ing Eng, Petroleum & Natural
Gas Eng, Ag & Bio Chem., Ag
Eng, Chem Eng, Chem, Commer
cial Chem.
Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety, May 20, eighth semester
men in C&F, A&L for sales work.
Must be from Pittsburgh district.
Army Security Agency, May
13 and 14, eighth semester men
from EE, ME.
Scovell, Wellington & Com
pany, May 19 and 20, eighth se
mester men in lE, Accounting.
Seabrook Far ms Company,
May 14, sixth, seventh, eighth se
mester men in Ag Ec, Ag Ed,
Agronomy, Hort.
IM Track
All intramural track entries
must be turned in to the In
tramural Office by 5" o'clock
this afternoon. Any entries
handed in after today will not
be included in the program.
TutaDAT, Kim 31.01
Uellty
CALENDAR
Tuesday, May 11
COLLEGIAN junior editorial
board, 8 CH, 8:30 p.m. Sophomore
editorial board, candidates, 9 CH,
8:30 p.m. Junior and sophomore
business boards, 100 CH, 7 p.m.
Candidates, 1 CH, 7 p.m.
AG-ENG Club, Elections, 204
Ag Eng, 7:30 p.m.
PSYCHOLOGY Club, 204 Bur
rowes, 7 p.m.
BIBLE Study and Discussion
Group, 101 Main Eng, 4:10 p.m.
WRA Bridge Club, beginners,
WH, 7 p.m. Fencing, WH, 7 p.m.
College Hospital
Admitted Saturday: Eleanor
Fehnel, Emily Stanley.
Discharged Saturday: Leon
Finger, Phillip Howe, Vincent
Kolenda, Anna Williams, Glenn
Zech.
Admitted Sunday: Sidney
Simon.
Discharged Sunday: Francis
Cain, Daniel Curran.
Admitted Monday: Barbara
Amberson, Sheldon Baldinger,
Donald R. Brown, Esther Holtz
inger.
Malice
TVA Trip
TO THE EDITOR: Several stu
dents have been planning a trip
to visit some of the TVA proj
ects. Since these projects cover
such things as agricultural ex
perimental farms, power plants,
electro-chemical industries, and
community developments, we be
lieve that other students and fac
ulty members may be interested
in joining our group. We would
plan on being away during the
first part of June. Those inter
ested may contact the under
signed for further information.
—Vernon L. Dutton.
430 E. Foster Ave.
How About Interest?
TO THE EDITOR: We consider
the $lO which the College re
quests from each one of us Wed
nesday, May 12, as a loan, since
they intend to return it next
semester.
If 10,000 students give $lO, it
represents a sum of $lOO,OOO
which, if treated as ordinary
loans, should yield 6 per cent per
year or $2,000 for the four month
period.
We propose that the College
return to each investor $10.20 in
September or, better yet, build a
balcony on Dorm 26.
Sincerely yours,
—Guy D'Hana.
—Bob Marsilo.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Successor to the Free Lance. set ten
Publishes Tuesday through Saturday
mornings during the College year by
the staff of the Daily Collegian of the
Pennsylvahla State College. Entered as
second class matter July 5. 1934. at
thee
act College. Pa.. Post Office under the
act of March 3. 1919. $3.50 a semester:
54.25 the schot,l year.
Editor . .
Business Manager
STAFF THIS ISSUE
mun.ging Editor _ ___ Charlotte Seidman
Assistant Myrna Tex
News Editor - Ed Gazda
Abhistant _ _ Bill Herrmann
C o py Editor ..--__ Pauline Moss
Assistant Shirley Taper
Ad Manager Mimi Pomerine
Assistant Margaret Breeee
NOTICE
Due to Circumstances Beyond
the Control of the
Management
TOMMY DORSEY
WILL NOT APPEAR
at
HECLA PARK
on
TUESDAY NIGHT, MAY 11
as Previously Announced
WATCH YOUR LOCAL
NEWSPAPER FOR A
FUTURE DATE
_ Lew Stone
Vance C. Klepper
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