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Responsibility
We realize that the Daily Collegian has a
definite community to serve and a responsi
bility to uphold.
Further, we realise that the community
to be served is the College community, and
that all the responsibilities to be fulfilled
center around the best interests of the in
stitution at large and the student body as
a whole. Hence our motto on page one, "For
a Better Penn Stale." '
What we want you to realize is that re
flecting the community’s best interests often
amounts to much more than reflecting the in
terest of just one person or group. Through its
Senior Editorial Board, the Daily Collegian
aims at weighing issues on the scales of the
College community to arrive at a construc
tive editorial policy.
BUT WE REALIZE what we don’t know,
you may know—and what we think may be
directly opposite to your line of reasoning. So,
the Daily Collegian regularly provides space
for Letters to the Editor, under the heading
“Safety Valve.”
FOR OUR OWN Protection we ask that let
ters be signed ,although the names .of contribu
tors are withheld from publication upon re
quest. Because of space limitations, we also
ask that letters be limited to 200 words..
We further want you to realize that the
Daily Collegian attempts to reserve its news
. columns .for fair. and unbiased accounts of
student and College events which have
happened, are happening, or are to happen.
Again we face spatial limitations, but in re
porting we seek to be objective.
And last, we want you to realize that we
believe one of a college, newspaper’s top func
tions is to entertain students during moments
of relaxation. In this field we try to bring
human interest to the fore.
THIS IS OUR three-fold, self-assumed re
sponsibility—truth, objectivity and entertain
ment. You can be the judge of our success.
We can’t
Voting Holiday
A perennial headache for student and ad
ministration at the' College is the desire of
many voting-age students to go home and cast
a ballot on election day.
It is a headache because the College
calendar is made up one or two years in
advance and does not make provision for a
holiday from classes come election day. It
is alto a headache because student leaders
year to year are often not cognizant of the
College's practice of drawing up the calendar
years in advance.
Thus, a yearly student cry is raised in vain
against the absence erf a general College elec
tion holiday, and many students and profs
deem unsatisfactory the College’s arrangement
of “voting excuses” to solve the headache. Ex
cuses are not the best remedy, since the stu
dent is actually being penalized for wanting
to exercise his voting privilege: to vote he
must miss classes and fall behind scholastically.
ONE OF THE PRIME facets of democratic
government is the act of voting and one of
the foremost aims of the Collets should be
to foster a sense of civic responsibility and
will to "vote in the student.
The best way to do this is adjust the
calendar permanently to provide a yearly
voting holiday in November for the entire
student body. Whether he be of voting age
or not, this will tend to accustom the Penn
State student to taking, time out for voting.
That’s certainly why a host of grade schools
and high schools close their classroom doors
on election day.
ultje Imlg CnUegtatt
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
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elusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
“Want Me To Help Unify You Again?”
The Gripes of Roth
They, held what was supposed to be a debate in Schwab audi
torium Friday night. Fortunately, it was advertised as such, Which
probably kept quite a few listeners, including myself, from think
ing they had blundered into a Thespian comedy by mistake.
TO ME THE “debate” looked more like a cross between a
minstrel show and a “ham” production of one of Shapesrears
comedies.
Perhaps the condemnation is too harsh, because at least half
the speakers (Richard Schweiker and John Fedako of Penn State)
tried to make a verbal duel out of the farce.
. . Our two. disiinguised visitors from the Tight Little Isle,
Messrs. Geoffrey Johnson-Smith and Robin Day, had other ideas,
however. They seemed determined to avoid the topic, "Re
solved: That the public ownership of basic industries and essential
services is in the best interests of a democratic society," and in
this respect, it must be admitted, they succeeded rather capably.
Occasionally one or the other would slip iii a sentence or two
designed to bolster the affirmative side of the argument. These
lapses were rare, though, Geoffrey being the biggest violator.
* * * |
THE TWO SPEAKERS from Oxford Union, the debating
society of Oxford University, were heralded in advance as two
of Britain’s top student speakers. In all truth, they lived up to
their notices. As speakers, they were superb. As debaters, they
could give Danny Kaye a run for his money.
Robin Day, second of fhe affirmative duo, seemed *o be
having a jolly old lime when he look the platform. First he
started off by quoting literary bits from Pravda and Time, inter
spersed with accounts of his arrival in New York. From there he
quipped his way through a train ride, which was supposed to
demonstrate in some obscure way that socialism was a superior
economic system to capitalism.
When the timer indicated he had used up his quota of minutes,
Day was" outraged. He hadn’t yet started on the topic.,'He then
proceeded to rant on for another 10 to 15 minutes, but the closest
he approached the subject was by saying something about “Britain
will never go Fascist” followed by a fervent “Amen.”
...
JOHNSON-SMITH,. in his rebuttal, gave a good imitation of
George M. Cohan. He stood on the platform waving his arms im
pressively and shouting '‘they’re waving Old Glory, b’Gawd.’.
By the former remark he intimated that the previous speaker,
Mr. Fedako, had been overpatriotic. Not to give the impression
he was of the same bent, he solemnly leaned on the. speakers
stand at the conclusion of his rebutting and tearfully whispered
“there’ll always be an England”—just once.
What- made fhe comedy so tragic is that fhe topic which was,
supposed to have been discussed is one of the major problems
facing every nation in the world today—state ownership of fhe
means of production. While the College speakers, Schweiker and
Fedako, gave a good account of themselves, some of their argu
ments in support of free enterprise were as holey, as Swiss
cheese. Particularly the statistics quoted. Debaters, not comedians,
could have given the advocates of capitalism a warm evening,
i But not Johnson-Sniith and Day. They wanted to act, and act
they did. Johnson-Smith at least had an excuse. He was once on
the dramatic stage. In the opinion of yours truly, he should have
stayed there.
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COLLEGE PLACEMENT
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COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Admitted Sunday: John Storer,
Kennetta Peters, and Gerald
Brand.
Admitted Monday: Jane Gil
bert. Nellie Davis, and Richard
Hughes.
Discharged Monday: Jack Jant
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1949
Safety Valve...
Consider the Ratio
TO THE EDITOR: In reply to the “Unfair to
Coeds” article which appeared in Collegian—
If this “overwhelming majority” that con
siders it unfair to them, that imports are legal,
would consider that the ratio of boys to
here at the College is little better than four
to one arid then look at the situation from a
male’s point of view, they’d see why they are
not being invited to these various weekend
affairs.
They must also realize that in order to ob
tain dates they must make themselves “avail
able.” The attendance of coeds at past mixers
has been pathetically poor. How can a boy
secure a date if it is nearly impossible to meet
a girl and get to know her at least slightly?
Then too; the girls needn’t play so hard to
get nor be so discriminating m their
They won’t give a guy a chance. They want to
be chased and babied and treated like gold until
a fellow gets disgusted or discouraged, gives
up, and imports a nice girl from back home —
a girl he knows, likes, and can enjoy being
with.
So, it’s not all up to the men—it shouldn’t
be. YoU girls will just have to climb down
off your pedestal and mix a little more i with
the opposite sex. »
You’re welcome.
Unique Service
TO THE EDITOR: While recently confined
in the. college infirmary I was delightfully
surprised by an unique service being rendered
there. The National Service organization, Alpha
Phi Omega, sends one of its members to the
infirmary every night to take orders for and
deliver any candy, ice cream, etc. which the
patients might like to purchase from the near
by TUB.
I should like to publicly express my apprecia
tion here and at the same time inform other
students who. may not be aware of the opera
tion of this fine seryice organization on our
* campus.
Undoubtedly this is only one of the bene
ficial activities of Alpha Phi Omega. Perhaps
more public acknowledgement should be made
of these and other similar services at the Penn
sylvania State College.
Coed Madness J
TO THE EDITOR: I am a little confused
after reading Thursday’s Collegian. Three
Penn State men said coeds had no more per
sonality than the man in the moon, had noth
ing to' be conceited about, and weren’t the
kind Penn State men would want to take to
a prom. They stated them "dates had been im
ports. Of course, they are entitled to -their
opinion. However, I am one of the above
mentioned coeds; the one who Tom Bradley,
of the writers of the letter, took to the prpm.
Only now he thinks I’m an import. What
madness is this? I’m Sure I’m a coed.
—Claire Van Server
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Down
Tales
With The (Staff
Perhaps "Safety Valve" writers aren’t far
from the .truth when they claim that these:
are the times—the era of imports—that try
coed’s souls.
A classified ad in the Daily - Collegian on',
Wednesday, advertising “For Sale: Three (3)
bows: 65* 47, 40 lbs. pull, respectively, brought'
a response from three Simmons gals. The.bows:
come with no strings attached if the purchaser!
so wished, the, advertiser informed the girls.
Unlike, so the coeds claim, many men on
campus. ?
* 7*
Who says professors don’t have a sense of
humor? Recently, a class after waiting the
regulation time for their prof, left the following
message on the blackboard: “We were here,
you weren’t, so we left.”
The next class period the class found the
following reply: “I came, you weren’t here.
We had a bluebook, you all failed.”
Eighteen members of Kappa Delta sorority
can attribute their silken complexions in fhe
future to genuine bunny fur powder puffs.
When Vance Scout, left on a hunting trip
he promised one of the'KD’s, Jean Heideman,
a rabbit tail for a powder puff. Not only did he
keep his promise he' did much better and
brought back a tail for each of her sorority
sisters. 1 ■
* *
The indenlical appearence of the lobbies of
Simmons and McElwain are a hazard to ro
mance according to one hapless lad who came
into the lobby of -Simmpns thinking it was
McElwaim ;
He then called hie date’s room in McElwain
and she; promised to come right down. He
waited patiently j for a 45 minutes before dis
covering his mistake. By this time the young
lady thinking she had been stood up Was nfo
longer speaking to him. Would sign’s help?
—Blair J. Smith
—H. P. Andrews