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Editorial* and columns appearing in The Daily Collegian represent the opinion* of the writer. They make no elaim to reflect student or Unlrerifty
Aptly Qualified
A food committee to end all food committees
has been appointed by William Lawless, All-Col
lege president.
In an effort to make a conclusive study of food
conditions in the Nittany dining commons, Law
less named himself and Edmund Walacavage, All-
College secretary, as co-chairmen.
Both former residents of Pollock Circle, they
are aptly qualified to conduct the survey and
solve whatever problem exists. Walacavage has
been concerned with the problem for two years,
as a member of the Cabinet food committee and
member and president of Pollock Circle Council.
So far the committee has enlisted the active
support of Miss Mildred Baker, Supervisor of
food service; and Samuel K. Hostetter, College
treasurer.
A preliminary session of the committee Tues
day afternoon revealed that an accurate definition
of the problem must be obtained if the group’s
efforts are to be successful.
Some question can be raised as to the signifi
cance of the petition which was circulated on the
Hill by Paul Kritsky’s Nittany Dorm food com
mittee and which precipitated the drastic meas
ures undertaken by Lawless to ferret out the basic
causes of the griping.
Personally contacted by their dorm presidents,
1364 Pollock and Nittany residents signed the new
petition that they were “dissatisfied” with food
conditions and that “no progress had been made.”
The last Cabinet food committee, with Richard
Schlegel as chairman, compiled a list of specific
complaints from 396 diners during the evening
meal of October 18.
Cabinet was evidently satisfied with Schlegel’s
report stating that remedial action had been taken
on many of the most frequently-mentioned faults
and explaining why others were unfounded or
uncorrectable.
Regardless of the findings of the committee, it
is hoped that the Nittany diners realize and appre
ciate the efforts that have been and will be made
to improve their situation. ,
Collegian Gazette
Brief notices of meetings mnd other events must he submitted
i<> The Daily Collegian office in Carnegie Hall by 2 p.ra. of
the day before the issue in which it Is desired to appear.
Thursday, December 15
PSCA dancing class, Armory, 7 p.m.
NSA, 8 Sparks, 7 p.m.
EDUCATION Student Council, 125 Sparks, 8:30
p.m.
ALL-COLLEGE Cabinet, 201 Old Main, 8 p.m.
College Hospital
Admitted Tuesday: Sara Ann Hill, Joseph
O’Donnell, William Hanley, Evelyn Smith, Inge
Hoffmann, Chester Doyle.
Discharged Tuesday: Howard Struble, Vance
Genzlinger, Walter Philip, Judith PoKempner,
Janet Cohen.
College Placement
Hagan Corp., December 15 and 16, eighth semes
ier men in EE, ME, Sanitary Eng, Ceramics, Chem
Eng, and Chem.
Piaseck Helicopter Corp., December 17, eighth
semester men in AE and ME.
Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co., December 16,
rjghth semester ME, EE, Mining Eng, Architec
tural Eng, CE.
Supplee-Wills-Jones Milk Co., December 17,
i ighth semester men in Dairy Husbandry.
Long Island Lighting Co., December 18, eighth
emester, in EE and ME for public utility work.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., December 16, eighth
semester, lE, EE, ME, Chem Eng, and Ceramics.
Training program in industrial engineering. Will
cad to factory technical assignments. Few openi
ngs in maintenance.
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Yes, you.
You’re a member of a minority too. Any group that you belong
to is a minority. Your religious- group is a minority. The number of
people who have your color skin is a minority. •.
As a member of a minority too you have an important function
to perform in a democratic country. Your group is making an im
portant contribution to American and world life and culture.
But your group is facing a great danger—today!
For there is discrimination against some minority groups, even
in this country. Today it’s one group, perhaps you’re one of the
ones who is discriminating, even. Tomorrow, it will be your group’s
turn. Once discrimination gains a foothold, it’s easy for it to change
its object. Today you’re discriminating, tomorrow you’ll be discrimi
nated against.
You can stop the chain too—by stopping discrimination. You’re
lowering the chances of your being discriminated against by lower
ing the amount of discrimination being practiced.
Bring 'Em Back Alive!
1949 is just around the corner. In fact, it’s only 16 days away.
Tomorrow the vanguard of about 8600 students will begin their
annual exodus for the Christmas vacation. It would be an interest
ing phenonomen if all 8600 came back alive and safe.
According to the National Safety Council 50,000 Americans will
be celebrating their last Christmas this year. Fifty thousand lives
with their ingenuity and abilities and spirit will be lost to their
loved ones and the nation because of carelessness, negligence and
just, plain stupidity.
With the bad break in weather, it is evident that most students
are going to drive carefully and slowly. But there are always those
jokers who want to get home a little earlier than the rest and who
insist on risking their own and others’ lives. It would be a novel
rciief if Penn State’s statistics would prove the experts wrong.
—Selma Zasofsky
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add warmth to your Christinas party, select one
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•hrome-plated shaker and tray, and six glasses,
ieed, this wil be a wonderful gift selection.
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Utiiffttcd editorUli me* written by the tilttntw
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Share Responsibility
TO THE EDITOR: Last February the State Col
lege Friends Meeting issued a statement regard
ing discrimination against Negroes in the local
barbershops. At that time we supported the pro
gram of the Council on Racial Equality to find
means whereby the barbers could be assured
against possible loss of patronage should they ex
tend their services to Negroes, and if such nego
tiations were unsuccesful, to proceed with the
estbalishment of a new, non-discriminatory shop.
Although the program received widespread pub
lic support, both moral and financial, subsequent
negotiations with the barbers were unsuccessful.
It is our understanding that CORE is now pro
ceeding with the alternative program of estab
lishing a new shop, while recognizing that this
alternative does not constitute either a complete
nor wholly desirable solution to the problem.
Recently the NAACP has asked students and
residents of State College and vicinity to support
the cause of the Negroes by withdrawing their
patronage from barbershops while discriminatory
practices exist. We realize, in all humbleness, that
the problem of racial discrimination in the local
barbershops is created by the community as a
whole, including ourselves, and that we mpst
share in the responsibility for a democratic
solution.
We wish to identify ourselves with those who
are persecuted by refusing to accept the privilege
denied the Negroes by the local barbershops, and
we encourage our fellow citizens to do likewise. It
is our conviction that to do otherwise, or to remain
silent when the issue has been crystallized, is to
condone practices which are contrary to our be
lief in the divinity and hence the equality of all
men.
—Slate College Friends Meeting
and the Young Friends Group.
Undiluted Education?
TO THE EDITOR: We the students of State
College are paying for -an education which should
include competent instructors..
If the use of graduate-assistant instructors in
the L.A. School (with particular emphasis on the
English Lit. Department) has been prevalent in
the past, what has happened to the requirements
for teaching? The student is being constantly
hounded by requirements. Are there no require
ments for instructors?
A few large classes with a few competent in
structors in charge is worth more than small
classes with people in charge who know little of
the art of teaching.
Would it be too costly to conduct a survey
to determine how the students feel about their
instructors, and the methods employed in in
struction?
In the past I had taken good instructors for
granted, but I now realize how impossible a situ
ation can become with dictatorial incompetents at
the helm.
I am not alone in my cry for an undiluted
education.
* The Liberal Arts Student Council plans to
conduct a professor-course rating survey before
the end of the semester.
Sty* latlg Collegian
Successor to THE IREK LANCE, tat. ISS7
Published Tuesday through Saturday moraines Ipcloflra Say
ing the College year by tho start of Tha Daily Collagtan of The
Pennsylvania State College. Entered aa second elsas matter
luly 5. 1914. at the State College. Pa., Post Offlee uhddi\ the
ret of March S. 1879. Subaeriy lona —SZ a semester, S 4 the
rchoo! year.
Editor
Lew Stone
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