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IPAOF, TWO
Reconsider' Politics' Plan
The proposal to introduce party politics into
student council elections, voted down by the Lion
party Sunday night, has merits which might well
tbring reconsideration from clique bigwigs.
Protests given by representatives at the Lion
rally, were based chiefly on the trouble of con
ducting student council elections in the orthodox
party manner and the necessity of keeping poli
tics out of the councils if they are to remain
independent.
Both reasons arc grounded at least partially in
tact. Even Robert Keller, sponsor of the proposal,
admits that the solution to the first problem, get
ting around the difficulties incurred by having all
student councils elected on a party basis, would
take a great deal of concerted thought. Currently
there is no such solution, but that is no reason to
believe one can't be found.
On the other hand, complete rejection of
Keller's idea may cost All-College Cabinet the
opportunity of becoming what it should be now
—a body truly representative of the students on
campus.
At present, seven of Cabinet's 22 members are
student council presidents. Once the School of
Home Economics forms its council, the number
will be raised to eight. In other words by next
semester over one-third of Cabinet will be com
posed of council chiefs.
Only a small minority of the students in any
school elect student council representatives. At
the last elections of the Engineering student coun-
Good Conduct
Any doubts concerning Penn State sports
manship were dispelled during 35 bouts of last
weekend's Intercollegiate Boxing Association
tournament in Rec Flail, and after 34 of them.
The announced decision of the Benglian-Hol
lingsworth chase, which precipitated concerted
booing, must have caused even the most ardent
advocates of good sportsmanship to suppose that
there was a limit to quiet aquiescence of certain
verdicts.
. Yet the underlying decency of the vast majority
showed through when Hollingsworth was pre
sented his championship medal, applause drown
ing out the jeers of the "unreconstructed" few
who vented their dismay on an innocent symbol.
Perhaps even the judges were not to blame,
although they are human, and prone to err. Dif
ferences of opinion have been expressed by sev
eral persons who know more about boxing
than we.
The testimony of those who agreed with the
verdict is significant. It seems that aggrestiveness
is counted only when points for effective hitting
are even, and may be outweighed by ring gen
eralship (which in this case consisted of running
away).
Something should be done to reward, instead of
penalize, aggressiveness, before intercollegiate
boxing bouts reach the ultimate of two gladiators
slugging it out back-to-back!
51te Sa/et, Valve
The Choice
TO THE EDITOR, THELMA HOBAUGH AND
JOHN McKELVEY: If Alvin Heller was advo
cating the acceptance of tolerance towards So
cialism, and the commercial decay and industrial
slavery that it entails, I too could be understand
ing and probably more sympathetic for his cries
than you have been.
However, Alvin pleads fur leniency toward
communism and for teachings that were products
of the blood-bath of 1924, namely Leninism. You
accuse me of losing my objectivity; perhaps I
have. But ask yourself this question. If we are to
sanctify insurrection by the allowance of people
to "teach and advocate" the overthrow of the
United States government. then why not also
glorify murder. rape, and thievery? (Fur aren't
they but different sides of the same coin?) There
was a time when it was fashionable to be slightly
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STAFF THIS ISSUE
Managing Editor
Kowa Editor
'opy Editor
i,tanth
Jane Crane. Art !terming. Hill Anderbon
___..- Don Raker, ou Landon. Dal Rack
,iiiehn Stall
Business Manager
Vance C. Klepper
ti)bia Ockner
Frac) MLI ormick
Charlotte :s...adman
cil less than 40 per cent of the school's member
ship went to the polls. The Chem-Phys turnout
was less than 25 per cent.
But those figures are high. The School of Ltla
eral Arts often elects members who have polled
less than 100 votes.
Yet these unrepresentative councils elect a
president who sits in All-College Cabinet, sup
posedly a representative of a large bloc of stu
dents—actually a representative of a minutely
small group.
Keller's plan, while posing difficult practical
problems, would bring at least two major im
provements into council elections. By use of the
greater financial and promotional facilities of the
two parties, greater student enthusiasm and thus
a vastly greater voting turnout could be procured.
Secondly, with the necessity of selling a can
didate, the chance that misfits possessing no
greater attribute for council office than a suit
able all-college average will be elected, would
be vastly lessened.
If nothing more material than a majority vote
at elections were produced, the proposal would
still bear rigid examination by both parties before
being cast aside. If Cabinet were composed of
members elected by a MAJORITY of the students,
its influence on the College administration would
be vastly strengthened.
Perhaps the Lion party's action was a hasty de
cision, made by poorly-informed representatives.
If so, reconsideration would seem to be in order.
—Red Roth.
Collegian Gazette
Tuesday, March 15
COLLEGIAN Advertising Staff, 100 CH, 7 p.m.
SOCIOLOGY Club, 418 Old Main, 8 p.m.
PENN STATE Psychological Society, 204 Bur
rowes, 7 p.m.
NAVAL Electronics Warfare Unit, 200 Eng E,
7:30 p.m.
MEN'S Bridge Club, TUB, 7 p.m.
PHI Mu Alpha, 200 CH, 8:30 p.m.
STATE Party Steering Committee, 400 Okl
Main, 7 p.m.
WRA Bridge, WH playroom, 7 p.m.
WRA Fencing, 1 WH, 7 p.m.
WRA Bowling, WH, 6:30 p.m.
PENN STATE Bible Fellowship, 409 Old Mein,
3 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Arrangements for interviews ehoutd be made in 204 ON ?Isis
at once.
Hamilton Standard Propellers, March 29 six
months training program for Mechanical, Meclzi
cal and Aeronautical engineers.
Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., March 16,
June grads in EE and ME interested in the elec
tric public utility field.
Aetna Life Insurance Co., March 16, June grads
for sales and service work in their group division.
Also Math majors to train for actuarial positions.
Linde Air Products Co., March 16 and 17, June
grads in Chem Eng, ME, EE, CE, lE, Metallurgy,
Chemistry, and Physics. Also M.S. and Ph.D. can
didates in Chemistry and Physics.
Shell Oil Co., Inc., Tulsa, Okla., March 17, June
grads in 8.5., M.S. in Geology and Mineralogy,
Mining Eng, Petroleum and Natural Gas Eng
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., March 17,
June grads with 8.5., M.S., and Ph.D. in Chem
Eng and Ph.D. in Chemistry.
Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. March 17
and 18, June grads with B.S. and M.S. in ME,
Chem Eng, and Chemistry. Major number of op
portunities are in operations and laboratories.
Continental Oil Co., March 18, June grads in
Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, ME,
Geology and Mineralogy, CE.
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, March 18 and
19, June grads receiving 8.5., M.S., and Ph.D. de
grees in Chem and Physics, also men with 2.0
averages in EE, Chem Eng, and ME.
Air Material Command, Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, March 21 and 22, June grades in Aero
nautical Eng, ME and EE, receiving 8.5., M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees. The work will be in conjunc
tion with the U.S.A.F. research and development
program.
Bailey Meter Co., March 18, June grads in ME
and EE.
Philadelphia Electric Co., March 21, June grads
in EE and ME. Also a few juniors for summer
employment in above curricula.
The Texas Co., March 21 and 22, June grads
with 8.5., M. 5.,. and Ph.D. in EE, ME, CE, Chem
Eng, Chem, and Physics. Opportunities are in re
search, development, engineering, processing, and
foreign service.
Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., March 23, June
grads in C&F and A&L. Positions open for field
representatives and surety representatives. Meet
ing for interested students on Tuesday, March 22,
110 EE, at 7:30 p.m.
Men who filled out preliminary applications for
the Pennsylvania Railroad should report to Col
lege Placement Service at once.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., March 24 and 25,
June grads in Chem Eng, ME, EE, and lE. Need
for Chemical Engineers lies chiefly in the fields of
product and process development. The majority of
mechanical, electrical and industrial engineers
will be needed in the field of production manage
ment. A few men will be required for plant engi
neering, machine design, and product develop
ment.
Aid and Comfort.
Your Lion
In less then three weeks a periocrse influx will again flood our
tiny mountain hamlet with—IMPORTS--who above all the living
creatures that infest the earth are most despised by coeds.
DECKED OUT in their finest, these silk-and-fur-clad females
descend upon the Nitt-any Valley every few months about "Big
Weekend" time and vainly attempt to restore some semblance of
normality to the abnormal Penn State men-woman ratio.
Perhaps that is the reason college women detest these members
of their own sex so violently. There certainly seems to be no other
logical excuse. Most of them are just as intelligent, pretty, and cul
tured as our own fair crop of powder-puffs, and indeed many at
them are coeds themselves at other institutions of higher learning.
That's what makes this mass hatred so surprising. Being a mere
man myself, I can't understand how a young lady at Penn State
can dislike a young lady from, let's say, Syracuse simply because
she's come down into the State miss's lair. Even after all the imports
get here there's still more than enough men so that every coed, if
she desired, could be escorted to the IFC BaK by two sturdy he
males.
THUS BY LOGICAL DEDOCTIOII it seems to boil down to the
fact that college women, en masse, suffer from some perverted form
of inferiority complex. Like some Frankenstein monster this fear,
and in turn hate, of imports gnaws at the vitals of every coed until
it becomes an obsession. rve heard that in the ladies' dorms the one
term that is sure to get you a fingernail gash across a cheek or a heel
scar on the top of the head is to call another coed an `import."
Some men insist they can spot "strangers" a block off. Pin them
down and they have no concrete mannerism or item of dress and
appearance that separates the two groups—they just know. My
theory is that imports lack that harried, fearful look brought to the
face of the coeds by fear of their opposition.
IF I'M RIGHT, girls, don't bother to send me letters and catch
of thanks. It's all in the line of duty for a conscientious journalist.
Just wipe the terror-ridden look from your mascara-begrimed eyes
and face the world with new courage.
What if he does date you all semester and then brings in an
import (there's that nasty word again) for the big Tommy Dorsey
ball? Remember, Monday he'll be all yours again.
An Encouraging Omen
Probably the most startled and amazed person last Thursday
was the Collegian editor, about the excitement, interest and enthus
iasm aroused by one small beauty contest, which had started out as
a whimsy, half-baked notion,
Those results should be encouraging to those working so hard
to make the forthcoming Spring Week a successful inauguration of
a new tradition which it is hoped will develop in the future until it
rivals old-time affairs like the Dartmouth Winter Carnival.
The experience obtained, and the knowledge of mistakes made,
in the previous promotion, should aid Collegian in backing the AM,
College function.
With many individuals and groups participating in the planning
and work involved, success should be assured. An All-College week,
promising fun for all, should create more active interest than a
beauty contest which benefited so few.
Photography Contest
Prints for the Penn State Photo
Shop's "Miss Penn State Fresh
man" photography contest must
be submitted to the Daily Collegi
an office at 5 p.m. today, accord
ing to Marlin 'Weimer, promotion
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Penn State Engineer
The March issue of the Pena
State Engineer will go on sale to
day. Featured in this issue are
Large Screen Television,
Frequency Heating, an article i ,r
scribing engineering electives,
Talk of the Campus, two Stinto
• and Sly Divehi.