PAGE TWO The Daily Collegian Editorial Page Editorials and relaying appearing an rins Day CsNesMtt regragm tlus opinions of the write,. rim make no claim to reflect student or University consensus. Unsigned editorials are written by thq WNW. On Its Own Association of Independent Men is born. But what a puny, scrawny, anemic creature it is! In searching for reasons for an overall down town participation of less than five per cent, we wondered if Collegian could have been negligent in its reporting, or if the All-College AIM commit tee might have failed. A check of Collegian files reveals that seven stories and two editorials have been written to explain, interpret and promote AIM. The commit tee designated wards, posted maps in two promi nent spots, and mailed post cards to every down town independent whose address they had. What more could have been done? Perhaps the Collegian publicity was slanted the wrong way, by too much emphasis on the "gripe-correcting" activities, and neglecting the organization's social and athletic benefits. Personally contacting every man to inform him of AlM's program, an obviously impossible task for such a small committee, probably would have yielded a more respectable representation at the ward polling places. Now AIM will become whatever its members, that is all independent men, make it. In about a week, the Council will have had its organizational meeting, and will have elected its officers. Then it will be on its own. Much work at the grass roots level remains to be done. No committee or editor could ever ac complish what the independent men must do for themselves. An intensive, personal campaign is required to acquaint all independent men fully with all aspects of AIM. Those elected as ward representatives have been given a great responsibility; they have also re ceived a great opportunity. Upon their efforts and devotion rests the future of AIM and of independ ent students. Next week lists of ward memberships will be mailed to each representative. By enlisting the support of interested friends, the representative should have each of his "constituents" personally contacted, for the purpose of explaining AIM, arousing interest and stimulating participation. Emphasis should be placed upon the social and athletic possibilities inherent in the embryonic organization. Mixers can be arranged, and teams can be entered into competition in practically any sport. An all-College dance, sponsored by AIM and Leonides, its independent women's counter part, is in the offing. Although this editorial has specifically dealt with the downtown segment of AIM, it applies equally to campus dorms, where the problem of non-interest has not been so acute, and to Wind crest trailers. Each unit of AIM can become whatever it de sires in a social sense, if its members are willing to work for a desirable goal—better social, ath letic, governmental and scholastic opportunities for independent men. Out of the Bag Students are not quite as out-of-this-world as our cartoonist above would have us believe. This showed up on campus recently in the political poll conducted by the Daily Collegian. It is showing up on other campuses all over the nation in other similar polls. Students seem to be predicting the results of the coming election along the same lines as most political analysts. At least if they're hiding their heads in bags, the bag seem to be the same ones used by the most astute observers of the Amer ican political scene. Of course many students might be ignorant of the real workings of politics on local, state and national scales. They may not know of ward heeling, patronage, intimidation, and ballot-box ,tuffing. But neither do most people outside of uni versities. Many students on the contrary are probably better informed as to the real facts of political life than are their non-scholasitc brethren. His tory and political science are required of most college students these days. And if Mr. Burck would investigate some of the college level courses in these subjects he would find that they are not all pure, unrelated, rosy tinted theoretical. In answer to Mr. Burck's drawn question—yes, the college student today can see—and in as many cases as possible, is taking advantage of his sight to vote, to organize, and perhaps eventually to ,iccomplish his aims. Edit Briefs The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia Univer -Ay's excellent student newspaper, editorially castigates Penn State students for booing, jeering and rudeness to the Mountaineer players. Although we agree that unsportsmanlike play ing should not be followed by unsportsmanlike "cheering," it is difficult to prevent a keyed-up crowd from venting its disapproval when one of .ts favorites is the victim of foul play. One of the most ironical events of the year was the failure of the president of one of the leading independent men's organizations to show up for the election of his ward's Association of Inde pendent Men representatives. A fraternity man tias been knocking himself ont all semester trying organize the indeperiderit —Elliot Shapiro. Oh, say can he see ;;•,..?"; • 4; - / v Another Man s *SAO 6, 7 - • Poison By Arai Garton The other evening as I was cleaning the Collegian office after an editorial candidate meeting, the phone rang. It was our pheline newsman Phineas T. Glockenspiel. "Hi, P.T.," I grudgingly said into the phone. "Where have you been and what's wrong now?" He cleared his throat and began, "Well, it was like this. A weeks ago I dropped over to Shapiro's residence to talk over a matters of Collegian policy. He wasn't around, though, and no one knew where he was. I was just shooting the breeze with a friendly mouse who lived in the house, when from out of the ceil ing came Shapiro, boards, plaster, wallpaper and Shapiro." I was a little confused by this statement because though Shap iro is everywhere, I never heard of him coming out of walls or ceilings. 'What really happened?" I asked• "That's the truth," he said. "That character had been up in the attic looking for something superversive when the whole works and your managing editor came down. The next thing I knew he was sitting on the 'desk talking to us and picking plaster out of his ears." "Look Phineas," I said, "that's all very well, but what has that got to do with your long ab sence?" (not that I missed him— polite formality.) He explained, "When the plas ter came down a piece conked me on the head and, well, Doc Griess etc." I wanted to get rid of him as I had a lot of sweeping to do. "Phineas," I said, "Hallowe'en is coming. Why don't you pick up a nice witch and take a ride! Get lost in a fraternity house. I hear the upstairs of the houses have been quite empty lately, so you won't have much trouble." He came back at me with the verbal onslaught of, "Arni, take your mask off, the costume par ade won't begin till tonight. "You're bound to take a prize even if it's a ride in Juba's wa gon." "Alright, Phin," I said, "we're about even now• Goodbye and don't get into any mischief. "Hey wait! Speaking of mischief I've got some good ideas for the Daily Collegian," he purred into the phone. "Nothing doing, you animated inkblot, "I replied. "You've got no scruples at all. You'll make me play tricks with the loves of my life. You're the kind of guy that would cross my path just before a blue-book. Not that I'm supersti At the present time there are in active operation in Pennsyl vania fourteen State Teachers Colleges, forty-six private col leges and universities, and Penn BIM& E I =PT ' :5P;t11,;.' »r tious, but I just don't like to be crossed," I shouted. That cat was getting me angry! "Now take it easy Arni," he purred. "Just because nothing is sacred with me, you don't have to carry on that way." `l'm so mad I could spit. Don't give me any more of that Boyer purr, you flea circus . • ." I hung up on what sounded like a barrel of wet cats. AIM Elections (Continued from page one) of the electorate participated in the elections. "We wish to get the council organized and the n let them de cide wether to have the elections re-run," he added. Tri-Dorm Elections Results of the tri-dorm elec tions which were run oil Tues day night were also made avail able. At the second elections, or dered because only 15 percent of the eligible voter s turned out for the first ones, almost 50 per cent of the dormitory me n cast ballots. William Prosse r and Clayton Wilson from Jordan hall, Edward Arnsby and Bernard Linn, Irvin hall. and James McCallum and Phillip Barker, Watts hall; were named AIM representative: from the tri-dorms. Windcrest Still to be named to the council are six men from Witnicrest. The manne r of electing the Wind crest delegates will b e left to the Windcrest council. Names of independent men liv ing in each representative's ward will be mailed to the newly elected council members some time next week, Little First meeting of the AIM coun cil will probably be held next week One of the council's first problems will be t o dec;de how representatives to the six wards which did not have elections will be named. To meet the housing problem or married veterans, 305 trailers were brought to the campus on a rental basis by the Federal Pub lic Housing Authority and set up in a colony which the student flawed Windcrest. The Federal nortation of the trailers. ters Government. financed the trans- 7 , 71:77.0 . yi SATURDAY OCTOBER 30 1 Sae!y Valve Letters to the editor must he signed for inclusion In the safety Valve, although names will he withheld on request. Tole. Idiom. numbers and addresses must be Included to facilitate verification of authenticity of signatures. Letters exceeding 200 words in length may be cut when required by space limitations. Challenge TO THE EDITOR: It is time that the "Daily Collegian" realizes that its function is not adver tising. but reporting student activities. You can not truthfully deny that many items of student interest have been ignored or deleted in favor of business ads. The paper is a college bulletin, not a commercial enterprise, and the students are charged fees for its support, therefore are entitled to news of the College. , Wednesday's "Collegian," by actual measure ment of available printing space, was 45.4% ad vertising, not including the classified ads. This is a daily occurrence. Each day, almost one com plete page is devoted to tobacco ads; I'm sure you could get two or three pages from the liquor com panies also, or must you make a pretense of ethics? Who, among intelligent people, would listen to a radio program that was as much commercial as entertainment? Unfortunately, it's not as easy to avoid paying for the Collegian as it is to snap off the radio. Many times you have run editorials criticizing the student body for neglecting to support some cause, yet that failure is due to the Collegian itself, who has neglected its duty to inform. Let's get student news and accurate news in the Col legian or quit taking our money under false pretenses. I chalb•nge you to print this letter as an admis sion of the rotten paper you publish. • We admit only that we realize the partial truth of Mr. Hatch's allegations. However, our business manager assures us that 40% adver tising, exclusive of classifieds, is necessary to n"ovide a safe margin of operation. Liquor ads are, of course, against Collegian n-licy. The ad staff will continue to exert its efforts to increase the amount of advertising, with the goal of publishing more eight-page issues (paper supply permitting) and conse quently more news. COLLEGIAN GAZETTE Brief notices of meeting - a and other events mast be aubamitbed to The Doily Collegian office in Carnegie Hall by X pas. el the day before the Mime in •which it is desired to appear. Sunday, October 31 FORENSIC COUNCIL, 409 Old Main, 2 p.m. PLAYERS, Little Theatre, 3 p.m . Monday, November 1 SOCIOLOGY CLUB, 401 Old Main, 8 p.m. CORE, 304 Old Main, 7:30 p.m. SIGMA DELTA CHI, 114 CH, 7 p.m. College Hospital Admitted Thursday: Shirley Lane. Admitted Friday: Siegmund Kniew and Leon ard Bletz. Discharged Friday: Clarence Gorinski, Joanne Schlosser, Audrey Eppley and David Evans. College Placement Arrangements for interviews should be mode in 204 Old Main at once E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., November 1 to 5, seventh and eighth semester men from Chem istry, Chem Eng, ME and Mining Eng. Proctor and Gamble Co., November 2 and 3, niidith semester men from ME, EE, lE, Chem Eng, Chem, and Commercial Chemistry. Brown In:trument Co., November 9 and 10, ilhth semester men from EE, ME and Physics. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co., November 8 and 9, -ighth ;etne4l(.r men from ME, lE, EE, CE, Metal !tii.:!y and Chem Eng. Cake Chemical Division of American Cyana mid, t mid, November 3, eighth semester men from and Chem Eng. Sylvania Electric Co., November 8, eighth se mester men from EE, ME, Chem Eng, Chem, and C 'Cram i Armstrong Cork Co., November 11, 12 and 13, seventh semester men in lE, ME. Seventh and eighth semester men in Chemistry, Chem Eng, and Physics. 13e11 System, November 9, 10 and 11, eighth se me•:,ter men from F.E. ME and lE. 8.5., M.S., and Ph.D. men in EE and Physics. At the Movies ['ATHA UM --Sat. and Mon., Southern Yankee. STATE- Sat. and Mon., Walk a Crooked Mile. Nl'l".l"ANY—Sat., Nighttime in Nevada; Mon., Yanny. 011 e Daily Collegian SUCC.IBOI to THE FREE LANCE. us. len Pt/1.11:01,d tliniugh Saturday mornings inclusive y..Lr by the staff of The Daily Collegian of Tbe I't t-v ein Stale College. Entered as second clam matter July to it tin State College. Pa.. Poet Office andep the let of Nltteeh 1879. SuLscriplions —s2 a semester. $4 Ulm ieur. Ter national advertising by National Advirkbili• .n 1: tier' Made,uti Ave., New York. N.Y. Chlogro. Begiggi. 1,e6 A neck,' Sat. Frune6co. 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