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Now the voters (or machines. according to the viewpoint) have
spoken, and have decided who will direct next year's student gov
ernment activities.
As usual in our competitive society, whenever there are win
ners, losers also exist. While a certain amount of disappointment
is natural, candidates in the past have recovered in time to con
tribute part of their talents to the betterment of student government.
THE RECENT CAMPAIGN has been a bitterly-fought one,
which could conceivably result in lasting bitterness and recrimina
tions, to the detriment of student government.
However, we feel that such will not be the case this year. From
past knowledge of the character of both Ted Allen and Bob Gabriel,
/ rivals for the All-College presidency, a healthy, whole-hearted co
operation for common goals of improved student welfare is to be
expected.
Our contention recently has been that political cliques are
necessary as mechanisms to allow the best available candidates
to be chosen, and to make their comparative merits known.
That this ideal is only approximated in practice results nat
urally from the many human elements involved, yet the system has
many merits over the general scramble that would result from its
0 abolition.
HOWEVER, PENN STATE HAS BEEN FORTUNATE in recent
years, that the ideal of individual, instead of party line, governMent
' has been the rule. Progress results from cooperation, not antag
onism, obstructionism or patronage.
(Incidentally, for the benefit of those who perennially complain
because the outcome is always decided by the better-oiled machine,
or that student government is ineffectual, you destroyed your legiti
mate grounds for complaint, unless you took the trouble to cast a
vote—with careful, discriminate thought.)
SaMy Value
Protest Voting Method
TO THE EDITOR: As members of the senior
class we are voicing our protest against the method
of voting for the senior class gift—a matter that
involves the amount of approximately $BOOO.
Balloting was supposed to coincide with the
ordering of caps and gowns but, seemingly, this
procedure has not been carried out in that no
check has been kept on who votes or how many
votes each person casts.
If the system had been carried out correctly,
the ballots should have been given out with the
receipt for cap and gown in order to eliminate the
possibility of stuffing the ballot box. Our recom
mendation is that the results of this voting be
declared invalid and that a new vote be taken.
—Ten Graduating Seniors.
Better Business Education
TO THE EDITOR: We unanimously support
the plea made by Mr. Manbeck in Collegian for
a separate School of Business at Penn State. As a
professional commerce fraternity it is our aim to
promote the idea of greater and better business
education.
Another point for the new school is the remark
made by a representative of a famous business
machine company that Susquehanna University
offered two courses in machine accounting where
State had none. Another complaint that occurs
time and again is the fact that a business student
has to wait until his senior year before he has all
the prerequisites out of the way in order to begin
to major in some specific business field.
We wish to congratulate the economics depart
ment in their work over the last two years in in
stalling over ten new subjects in business and
economics. This shows that progress is being
made toward a better curriculum as well as lay
ing the groundwork for a School of Business.
—Delta Sigma Pi.
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OW., Frances Keeney; Asst. Soc. Ed.. Claire Lee; Edit. Dir.,
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Latso; Local Ads. Mgr., Louis Gilbert; (*irc. Mgr. Brett Bran
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Snyder; Promotion Co-Mgr.. Marlin Weaver; Office Mgr.. K.
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Forget Parties
, Business Manages
Vance C. Klepper
Tracy McCormick
NATIONAL STUDENT ASSOCIATION is probably backing a
sure thing when it calls for Federal aid to college education.
College and government officials have come to realize that the
constant demand for better facilities and better teaching, coupled
with the anticipated fading out of veteran enrollment, make manda
tory some new source of money for American colleges.
Educators agree on the principle of Federal aid, but disagree on
the question of what form this aid should take. For example, some
favor a yearly Federal grant of 2% of the total value of college
buildings and equipment. This would bring roughly $100,000,000 to
the colleges.
ALL COLLEGE HEADS rightly insist that independence from
government influence must in no case be sacrificed. The NSA
backed "Civilian GI Bill" appears to be free of any danger of gov
ernment thought-control. In fact, a far greater threat may lurk in
our fears and wild talk of a war that must never happen.
Before the NSA scholarship plan materializes, certain aspects
of college education should be scrutinized. Recent statements by
educators have voiced dissatisfaction with teaching methods, aims,
and content of curricula.
One college president said: "Higher education (may) become
one massive quiz program." The student finds "an extension of
high school, with . . . fraternities and . . . the same subjects he has
been learning in high school, taught less well than before."
SUCH AN INDICTMENT may be exaggerated, for emphasis.
However, another Eastern professor who charges that many col
leges "fail to provide education with a mission," has a scarcely
disputable point.
He advocates the "problem" approach to education, wherein
students would learn all about social, economic, and political ills,
then try to solve them.
The goals of college education probably will come in for broad
discussion in the near future, along with college financing, conduct
of fraternities and the proper role of college athletics.
ONE HOPES educators will find ways of making college an
experience of lifelong value, insofar as it is within the power of
anyone but the student himself to do so.
• In spite of the above artistic assertion that Mr. Inflation has
lost his zest for life, we haven't noticed any State College prices
taking a nose dive. Just one of those exceptions, probably.
Research Unit Forms
There will be a meeting of
all Reserve personnel interested
in joining a Volunteer Naval
Research Unit in 107 Main En
gineering, 7:45 p. m. Tuesday.
Eligible persons are those who
are members of the Naval Re
serve, Marine Corps Reserve,
and Coast Guard Reserve, in
cluding Waves, women Marines,
and Spars.
Commander J. H. Graham,
USNR of the New York offices
of the Office of Naval Research,
will be on hand to discuss the
procedures involved.
Jock Senior
Jack Keen
st His Appetite
Of Lifelong Value
Very Brief
St. Andre ws Episcopal
Palm Sunda: , services will be
held at 7:45 a.m., 10:45 a.m., and
7 p.m. The college student sup
per will be held at 5:15 p.m., fol
lewed by the Canterbury Club
program, the Reverend John N.
Peabody in charge. All are wel
come.
At 7 a.m. Wednesday, there
will be a Corporate Communion
and breakfast for students. Holy
Week services will be conducted
daily at 12 noon.
Thousands of students in
Madras, India, sleep on railroad
station platforms and in empty
railway cars every night because
of the lack of hostel space.
—John Donnell.
Bridge Team
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Places Third
Representing Penn State, a
team of two senior mechanical
engineering students placed third
among 150 pairs in Eastern play
offs of the National Intercollegiate
Bridge Tournament recently.
Robert Harris and Richard
Fisher, who had previously won
duplicate bridge eliminations at
the College, missed second place
in the Eastern by a fraction of a
point. The fraction of a point pro
hibited them from making the
expense-paid trip to the national
finals in Chicago. Two-man teams
from Howard University and
Franklin and Marshall College
finished first and second to cap
ture this honor.
Competing in the Eastern play
were 150 pairs representing 36
colleges in Pennsylvania, Mary
land and Delaware.
The annual tourney at the Col
lege to decide Eastern contestants
is sponsored by the Men's Bridge
Club. Robert Tobias, president,
announced yesterday that plans
are laid and a trophy bought for
an all-College bridge tournament,
the dates of which will be re
leased later.
The bridge club meets at the
TUB at 7 p.m. every Tuesday for
a duplicate bridge session.
Collegian Gazette
Sunday, March 10
PENN State Bible Fellowship, 410 Old Main,
4 p.m.
Monday, March 11
CWENS, WSGA room, WH, 8:30 p.m
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Arrangements for interviews should be made in 704 Old Main
Charles W. Bright Organization of Pittsburgh,
April 11, June grads in CE interested in building
construction field, particularly in estimating.
Kendall Refining Co., April 11, June grads (men
only) in Chem Eng and Chemistry (1.5 average).
YWCA, April 13, students for director-Health
Education Department, teen-age director, and
camp counselors.
West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., April 11, June
grads in ME and Chem Eng, and Ph.D. candidates
in chemistry.
Atlantic Refining Co., April 22, June grads in
EE and ME for positions in engineerir.,g and con
struction departments.
Reliance Life Insurance Co., April 20, June
grads interested in life underwriting.
Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation, April 26,
June grads in ME, Chem E, IE, and Accounting.
(1.6 average.)
Burroughs Adding Machine Co. is still inter
viewing June grads in LA and Accounting for
sales positions.
Fidelity & Deposit Co. wants applications from
students interested in the bonding field. (Single
men under 30 preferred.)
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM—He Walked by Night. Monday—
That Wonderful Urge.
STATE—Letter to Three Wives.
NITTANY—Last of the Wild Horses. Monday--
La Reina del Tropico.
Save Our Grass if
ow the grass is greener and lus er, so coo ,
refreshing and inviting to the eye. But at the same
time its tender shoots are more easily bruised by
gee-eye brogans or four-inch spikes—and the
muddy gashes in the greensward look especially
ugly by contrast with the lovely green.
Signs, barb-wire fences and whistles have been
Used in the past to remind study-minded students
that their wayward feet are crushing the life out
of the generous beautifying grass.
All these means have been termed fascistic, and
perhaps they are, except that they've been gen
erally ineffectual, but what could be more fascis
tic than the ruthless, sadistic unconcerned murder
of thousands of innocent blades of grass?
And anyway, the signs and barb-wire are nearly
as unsightly as the paths, while the whistle
blowers must have felt even sillier than the
whistle-ees.
What this College needs are students with an
eye for beauty . . . below foot-level that is . . .
students who are proud enough of their boast
that our campus is the loveliest in the East to
walk a few extra steps to maintain its position.
Besides they'll save on shoe polish and the effort
needed to clean their shoes.
Save our grass!
• Apparently Virus "X" isn't the only thing
that can spread from community to community.
West Virginia University's newspaper, The Daily
Athenaeum, this week carried two letters from
coeds protesting an earlier appraisal by a male
student in the letter column of that journal. The
male had accused coeds of being "smug" and of
having "stagnant personalities." Ia all this a pre
cursor of "biological" warfare?
SATURDAY APRIL 9 1949