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Purpose of Spring Week
Objectives and purposes behind Spring Week are questioned by
many of the students and faculty. And certainly everyone on a col
lege campus that is undertaking such a large scale affair deserves
to know what the objectives of that project are.
The administration, All-College Cabinet, or the Spring Week
committee—all of them can voice opinions on what the purpose of
Spring Week is. However, it is up to the little guy—each indi
vidual and each organization on this asmpus to determine what
the purpose of Spring Week is.
Then we must decide if the purpose is to do something creative
or destructive. Are we building a favorable name for the College, or
will some of the publicity that comes from this week leave a blemish
on the record and cause people to raise an eyebrow when a student
remarks he graduated from this college?
No one single person can decide what the objectives of Spring
Week will be. It can lapse into something that was tried at Penn
State and flopped, or it can mean something really big.
Each partaker in Spring Week activities must decide whether
this is going to be a method of awakening school spirit, of present
ing a united effort on the part of the students, and also of laying a
foundation of favorable publicity in the future.
A worthwhile program can be carried through if the entire
idea is entered into with the right spirit. It can be done.
Latest data on activities slated for the week include the 40th
anniversary issue of Froth: the intramural wrestling finals; and
playoffs for the mythical college basketball championship between
Pi Kappa Alpha, fraternity champions, and Section 10, independ
ent winners.
Thursday of Spring Week, the carnival on Allen street will be
one of the big highlights of a big week. Proceeds are slated to go
to WSSF, a charitable organization. Many college groups are already
backing this carnival as seen in the stories run in the Daily Colle
gian each day concerning the carnival.
Tommy Dorsey wilt be here for the IFC-Panhel Ball Friday
night. The final contest in the anneal IFC-Panhel Sing will take
place then also.
A "breakfast club" radio broadcast from the TUB Saturday
morning, a jazz concert in Schwab Saturday afternoon, fraternity
dances Saturday night, and the Men's Glee Club concert Sunday
afternoon wind up the week's activtties.
Hours of work and planning have gone into this affair, now
a little more than one week away.
Can we determine the right objectives for Spring Week?
Can we carry it through to a favorable finish, so that the Col
lege w have benefited from its connection with such a program?
—Pauly Moss.
Should We Let Communists Teach?
Because of the reverberations in the collegiate world follow
ing the recent dismissal of professors from the University of
Washington, the Daily Collegiation is publishing below excerpts
from the "Town Meeting" broadcast of March 1.
Dr. Harold Taylor, president of Sarah Lawrence College:
Communists should not be excluded from teaching in American
colleges. I believe that if we begin excluding Communists, we will
end by excluding anyone who says anything provocative, unortho
dox, or interesting.
The individual who deliberately distorts truth is a bad teacher
and should be charged and tried as an individual who is profes
sionally incompetent and not as a member of a political party.
Roger Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union:
The question . . . is whether our colleges are justified in con
ditioning the right to teach on any views and associations which
have nothing to do with professional fitness. If so . . . should we
not apply the same rule to member of the Ku Klux Klan, to anti-
Semites, white supremacists?
I would not regard democracy so weak, our students so supine,
our faculties so inept that we need to yield to indiscriminate fears
of Communism by quarantining all our higher education.
Dr. Raymond Allen president of the University of Washington:
Members of the Communist party should not be allowed to
teach in American colleges because they are not free. Freedom is
what we cannot be without in American civilization. Our educa
tional institutions are the foundation stones of that freedom.
If the purpose of education is to seek out and to teach the truth
wherever it may lead, as Jefferson taught, the first duty of the
teacher is to be a freeman. A member of the Communist party . . .
is a slave to immutable dogma and to a clandestine organization.
Dr. T. V. Smith, Syracuse University
We may owe ourselves a duty we do not owe Communists—
to tolerate even the intolerant, for the sake of a system of toler
ance. But such a duty . . . ceases to be our duty when it becomes
disadvantageous to us internationally, or disruptive to us . . , edu
cationally.
Russian tactics have rendered most questionable the use of
t ,, at.hers who are beguiled by loyalty to an alien power and might
511% , become . . . fifth colunutists.
She says. "If you want a date come to State."
Student Voters
Next fall's College calendar has been approved
by the College Senate, without provision for sus
pending classes on election day.
If students want to exercise their franchise in
future elections, without missing classes, they
should organize soon and petition the Senate to
reconsider its important omission.
It has been argued that the real need is for
absentee student voting in Pennsylvania, rather
than a voting holiday every November. This is
entirely true—it would expedite matters and
save the student the cost of transportation home.
But letting the matter go with a mere statement
of this fact actually is side-stepping the issue.
If we sit around and wait for an absentee ballot,
we'll never get it. If we merely agitate for an
absentee ballot, we'll never get it. As long as stu
dents can do little more than agitate—and their
means of raising a political ruckus are extremely
limited—the Pennsylvania legislature will do
nothing about the ballot. Why should they? They
know that we can't vote without greatly incon
veniencing ourselves and they have nothing to
fear from our ballots.
The only way students can put pressure on the
legislators is by actually taking part in elections
along with agitating for the absentee provision.
And to vote, without the absentee ballot, we need
the voting holiday. Once the absentee ballot has
been realized, the voting holiday would be dropped
as obsolete. But until that time, it is a necessity
for the students' political expression.
—L. D. GiacifeHer.
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Bunk and Phantasy?
TO THE EDITOR AND JAMES MACMILLAN:
Your letter of the 15th is to be considered a mas
terpiece of superficial plausibility. It is only when
the trimmings are removed and the remnants of
bare facts exposed for public view that its true
significance and implications emerge.
I would take issue with each of your paragraphs
and, like a physician attending a malingering
patient, demolish the fascinating combinations of
(1) sheer bunk and (2) interesting phantasy.
Your description of Socialism as ". . . commer
cial decay and industrial slavery . ." could not
have been better put even by that contemporary
genius of the press, Westbrook Pegler, or that
voice of "truth," Fulton Lewis, Jr. However, cute
as the phrase may be, it is extremely questionable.
There are more people today, throughout the
world, who adhere to the doctrines of Socialism
than ever before in history. If you will permit
yourself to indulge in some impartial reading
concerning the experiment which is now in prog
ress in England, you will learn much.
You are letting your fine emotions run away
with your equally fine intelligence when you lump
Communism, murder, rape, and thievery together.
And I would like very much for you to find two
people who would agree on a meaningful and
exact definition of "Americanism" without resort
ing to another appeal to emotional thinking—
which, in actuality, is not thinking at all.
There is no question that the Communist party
will not tolerate misbehavior on the part of its
members. I agree with you in singling out Trotsky,
and I shall add, as an afterthought, the name of
Tito.
However, Mr. Macmillan, the important fact is
this: The influence of the Communists in America
is nil. The denial of rights to them will be the
first. step in an insidious process—the pattern of
which we are only too familiar with. The next
steps, in order, will be (1) smearing, (2) discredit
ing, and (3) suppressing all other groups who,
while definitely not communistic, do not agree
with some of the convictions held dear by the
party (or parties) instituting the action against the
Communists.
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• "Resolved: the world would have been much
happier had not the American Revolutionists left
the British Empire."
The world, maybe, but not Col. R. R. MeCormid . Ir.
—Francis Poßini.
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PENN STATE Bible Fellowship, 410 Old Main,
4 p.m.
Monday. March 21
CWENS, WSGA Room, WH, 8:30 p.m.
CORE (important meeting), 409 Old Main, 8 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Admitted Thursday: Jeanne Hapgood, Eileen
Bonnert, Beecher Russel, Anne Hilieges, Carey
McDaniel
Admitted Friday: Eugene Maihorn, }Larry
Swimmer.
Discharged Friday: Rita Pierce, Clyde Dry.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
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at once
Air Material Command, Wright-Patterson Afr
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.
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.S., and Ph.D. in EE, ME, CE, Chem
Eng, Chem, and Physics. Opportunities are in re
search, development, engineering, processing, and
foreign service.
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.
Lukens Steel Co., March 25, June grads in ME,
EE, and Metallurgy.
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co., March 22 and
23, June grads in CF and AL who are interested
in domestic sales, accounting and credit work.
Harrison Construction Co., located at Pittsburgh
and Maryville, Tenn., March 24, June grads in CE
for either Pittsburgh or Knoxville vicinities, and
would be associated with engineering as it per
tains to construction.
General Electric Co., March 22, 23, 24 and 25.
June grads in EE, ME, and lE.
Dr. Paul E. Williams, representing General Fire
probtlng Co., Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., and
Timken Roller Bearing Co., March 28 and 29, June
grads in IE, ME, AL, CF, Met, ChE, and Ac
counting.
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc., March 28 and 29,
June grads in ChE, Phys, Chem, PNG for foreign
service only, and Ph.D. in Phys and Chem.
Colgate - Palmolive - Peet Co., March 28, June
grads with B.S. and M.S. degrees in ME, ChE,
also EE in upper third of class more interested
in general engineering than in strictly EE.
Pennsylvania State Civil ServAce Commission
has just announced examinations for the position
of senior visitor in the department of Public As
sistance. Applications must be submitted by
March 31.
YMCA, March 24, to confer with senior stu
dents interested in YMCA as a career. The eve
ning will begin with a complimentary dinner at
St. Paul's M. E. church. All interested in attend
ing are asked to notify the Christian Association
by 5 p.m. on March 21, in order that dinner res
ervations may be completed. Descriptions of job
opportunities are available at the Christian As
sociation or at the Placement Service.
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