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Take That Picture
Stop . . . Look . . . and take a picture. That’s
the advice the Penn State Alumni Association is
offering candid camera fiends at the College.
The contest, which started last month, termi
nates May 10. It offers to students and faculty
members of the College an opportunity to win
recognition and cash prizes for pictures of college
life and campus scenes.
"WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR." says Ross*
Lehman, editor of the Alumni publications, "is
plenty of good pictures of campus activities, clubs
and organizations in action. Of course we also
need some good photos of different spots and
buildings on campus.”
The Alumni Association is offering a $l5 first,
$lO second and $5 third prize for the best snap
shots entered. Even if the camera enthusiast
doesn’t win any of these prizes, he stands a very
good chance of seeing his shots used in the 1950
edition of the Penn State engagement calendar.
; The primary purpose of the contest is to obtain
' photos suitable for that publication.
IN THE CALENDAR, published annually by the
Alumni Association, the photographer will be
, given full credit for his picture, his name being
printed directly beneath it. Pictures submitted in
the contest may be used in the Alumni News
i Magazine.
Any number of entries may be submitted to the
Alumni Office, 104 Old Main, but all prints must
be 5 by 7 verticals on glossy finish paper. The
t name and address of contestants and identification
} of the picture must be given on the back of each
t entry.
AMATEUR "CAMERA BUGS" ON CAMPUS
have talked about their scenic and student activ
ity, but until this contest began there was no
effort to coordinate these activities.
For years this campus has needed a continuing
file of photographs of student life and activities.
Since Penn State students and their activities have
not had the “freedom of expression” in camera
i studies that some other universities have had, this
is the time to inaugurate such a photographic
library.
So stop .
look . . . and take that picture.
—George Vsdass,
Collegian Gazette
Friday, May 6
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Admitted Wednesday: Fred Larson, Cas Borowy,
t Clifford Hoch, Joan Harrison, Frank Orendo.
Discharged Thursday: David Evans, Frank
i Orendo, Cas Borowy, Lois Bair, Mary Louise Acki
' son, Donald Hirzel, Clyde Wilson, William Redin,
.Kenneth Wyerman, Henry Weiler, Emyln Row
'land.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
iawi«Mati fa* Wenlm dwell be owl* in Ml OM Mete
The Sinclair and Balieitne Co., Ridgeway, Pa.,
is interested in organic chemists. Work largely in
control laboratory in dye pigments and dyes.
H. J. Heinz Co., May 9 and 10, June grads in lE,
ME, Chem Eng, and Phys.
Strawbridge and Clothier, May 10, June grads
in retailing.
Essex Rubber Co., May 7, June grads in Chem
Eng.
Armeo Steel Corp., May 9 and 10, June grads in
Arch Eng, Civil Eng, EE, lE, ME.
Wear-Ever representative will interview stu
dents May 11 and 12 for summer and permanent
employment.
State Department of Highways, May 13, June
grads in Ag Eng, Accounting, Chem Eng, Engi
neering seniors, Forestry.
Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware, has
openings for two or three dieticians. Applicants
should be Food majors.
National Supply Co., May 9, June grads in ME
for plant work.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM—Flamingo Road.
N ITT ANY—A Night at The Opera
STATE—My Dream is Yours.
Edit Brief
• Photo pages, such as the one in today’s Daily
Collegian, will become commonplace, and will be
more timely when the student press becomes a
reality.
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J(n ow *lJour doite^e
The duties, responsibilities and jobs performed by the President
of the College have become increasingly expanded, diversified and
much more complex than they were in 1864, or even in 1905.
For, “no professor or student shall absent himself from the
campus without his (the President’s) knowledge and consent,” ruled
the Board of Trustees in October, 1864, while in 1905, the President
and his secretary read the proofs of the College catalog.
TO SAY THAT THE PRESIDENT IS RESPONSIBLE for the
operation of everything concerned with the College, while absolute
ly true, is to miss completely an understanding of the array of work
he must accomplish.
His ex-officio positions of secretary of the Board of Trustees,
chairman of the College Senate and of the Council on Administra
tion, and member of the faculty of each school constitute the frame
work within which much of his routine and formalized duties are
performed.
As secretary to the Board, he is the intermediary between the
Trustees and the faculty and students, as weli as adviser to the
Board. All requests, recommendations and suggestions to the Board
are submitted via the President of the College.
IT IS UP TO THE PRESIDENT to assure that the rulings of
the Senate are consistent with those of the Board of Trustees, and
that the actions of each school do not violate Senate legislation.
He must either have the personal qualifications, or delegate the
authority to those who have, for the functions of public relations,
finances and business management, educational policies, student
life outside the classroom, building an adequate faculty and direc
tion of research in the interests of the State.
AMONG THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL of the President’s long
range and continuing responsibilities are the related ones of taking
the educational opportunities of the College to the people of the
State, securing a worthy standing in the State and Nation, and
arousing public sentiment to the advantages and needs of the Col
lege.
The baroad nature of the College’s extension activities testifies
to the fact that the College’s campus is the state of Pennsylvania.
The President must not only oversee the management of existing
operations, but assume active leadership in planning for the future.
To accomplish both of these aims requires the President to
obtain adequate appropriations, and to handle other legislative mat
ters pertaining to increased services of the College.
THAT IS WHY HIS PUBLIC RELATIONS DUTIES are so all
important. Not only must the College be sold to the legislators and
the governor, but the people, too, must be informed of the College’s
direct value to them.
“The College’s only endowment is the good will of the people
of the State,” was a favorite expression of the late Prexy, Ralph
Dorn Hetzel.
Our relations with other Pennsylvania colleges and universities
must be treated with caution and diplomacy, especially in connec
tion with the College’s extension activities. For the land grant
philosophy concerns itself with the educational well-being of the
entire State.
Some may claim that the President has so many assistants that
he never has to do any work himself, but the growing list of aides
actually represents increasing burdens of responsibility.
HE SUPERVISES THE DUTIES OF ASSISTANTS in charge
of resident instruction (including research), extension, business and
finance, and student activities (a newly-created post), as well as an
administrative assistant and an executive secretary.
Obviously a single column is grossly inadequate to portray the
multitude of requirements which must be met by the President of
Penn State. Perhaps that explains the time and care needed by the
Trustees in making tbek-Anal choice-
u. DL President
By Lew Stone
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laugh of the Weak
TO THE EDITOR: Well, Soli, you are either
being pitied out here, at the house or have become
the laugh of the week. True you come from
another country with different standards concern
the male sex, but stop judging this country by
your old fixed ideas. The wise and thoughtful thing
would have been to wait until the results were
known before you claimed that only a few thought
less individuals would participate. A glance at
Tuesday’s Collegian would have indicated that
plainly speaking, you just put your foot in your
mouth.
It is too bad that the pie throwing booth made
an unfavorable impression, as it indicated that
you still have a long way to go before you under
stand the American people. How then can you
claim to know or judge what makes up clean de
cent fun? To me, you are an example of old cul
ture narrow mindedness.
The fellows in the house had as much or more
fun than the pie throwers, and the money is going
to a good cause. I wonder if the money had been
for Indian relief what would you have had to say?
—Robert L. Richards.
Cheer ftp, Old Boy
Cheer up, Old Boy! AH, is not lost or even great
ly endangered. The pie that smeared the face or
man has not crumbled the foundations of his
dignity. The Spring Carnival booth which caused
you such distress seems to have been a great suc
cess, even if it did record what you choose to call
a very low level of intelligence. The purpose of
the carnival was to raise money for WSSF, money
to be used to help students in other countries.
Perhaps this is another sign of the lack of Ameri
can intellect. Maybe we should keep our filthy
capital and our inferior technical ability on this
continent instead of attempting to rehabilitate the
world.
America has no two or three thousand year
record of culture. If we did we would probably
be content to rest on our laurels and point the
finger of scorn at newer Ipnds, as other puts of the
world do today. This world wants our wealth, is
envious of our progress and power, and yet con
siders us to be a boisterous, half-cultured mob of
colonists.
As for the fellow who conceived the idea of the
booth; they are intelligent, capable men (slightly
practical, if that is a crime) who will make good
teachers, business men, engineers, and most of all,
American Citizens. They have a different outlook
on life than you. They have different customs and
ideas. This does not condemn them to the Indian
caste system ideas. . . .
After Ms Outlook
TO THE EDITOR: When a man travels from trip
homeland there are many changes which must
occur. He mast not only change his dress add
language, bid most important, he must idler his
outlook. There is no necessity of embracing every
culture with which he comes in contact but it is
important to look upon aH aspects of a new cul
ture as such.
There exists differences in notions jost as much
as there are differences in persons. Yet one is not
necessarily less right then another. Yonr culture
is centuries older than ours. Its charm and fame lie
in its background of quiet wisdom and deep
thought; oar unique qualities are those of original
ideas and mechanical efficiency. The aged are
honored in your home; in mine it is youth that is
admired.
As you travel wider yon see it is that very aspect
of pie-throwing, eating hot dogs and yelling in
your neighbor’s ear at football games which is our
culture. It is the energy of youth released. (Better
it may be, too, Mr. Bapuji, that these energies of
a young nation are directed there instead of to
ward war!)
I know you are intelligent enough to realise we
cannot condemn ,a culture because it is different.
Appreciate nations, cultures and even persons be
cause of their differences and not in spite of them
and you will have lived a rich and full life.
Misunderstanding
TO THE EDITOR: Apparently my letter has
created some misunderstanding among my fellow
students. It was meant to be quite casual and I
certainly did not mean to make much ado about
nothing, and it was strictly on a one-student-to
another-student ( or students) basis. I certainly did
not mean to create an international situation about
customs and culture, out of this apparently child
ish situation.
If I have hurt the feelings of my American fel
low students, I stand guilty. It was not meant to
be so. But I still do not see any point (here it goes
again) in throwing pies at a person, when the
person does not in turn retaliate and make it a
sort of fair and amusing game.
Having been brought up in a European system
of education, maybe I am a bit of a "stuffed shirt"
as you Americans would put it. Nevertheless, the
fact stands (now get that straight) that I really
appreciate your great country, in spite of all its
pie throwings and other inexplicable and quaint
customs. This U.S.A. where a man can get tbe
finest training in the world and where he can ex
press his opinions freely, thank God, and expect
it to be taken in a sporting manner, (without get
ting a pie in his face). I hope.
The Author Is
TO THE EDITOR; You have made a mistake in
copying the name of the author of '‘America'* 00
Families." The author is Ferdinand Lundberg.
—Herbert BatafMk
kY. MAT 8.
—Bad Pile#.
—D. Hubbard.
—Sell J. BapujL