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TUB Decision
Several town groups in State College par
ticularly the Junior Chamber of Commerce—
have been shouting forth the need for a youth
center for town kids. And they've stumbled on
many problems that are always in the way of
achieving something new.
To show the Jaycees and the town that stu
dents at the College realized the need for a
canteen and were ready to help pOint up that
need, AB-College Cabinet took action. Prior
. q the recent vacation, it requested the Stu
dent Advisory Committee of the College to
• grant use of the Temporary Union Building to
the town teen-agers for a one-night program
during the Thanksgiving holiday.
Nd student action could be better to spotlight /
the need for a town youth center, to show the
ltMe that students at the College are in sympathy
WTI them, and incidentally to promote town
'and -gown "good neighbor" relations.
THE PROPOSED KIDS' party was to cost
M , * to host in the TUB, and few people were
going to be inconvenienced.
But the Advisory Committee composed of
administration members— ditched Cabinet's' re
qUest. The kids did not have a party in the TUB
during Thanksgiving vacation.
THE COMMITTEE reasoned that giving sane
tigi to the Jaycees for the youth affair in the
TIER would attract a string of requests for use
o the TUB and other buildin_gs by the Women's
CIO, the Chamber of Commerce and a host of
914er town groups. There is probably meat in
this reasoning, since the College property re
sulted largely from State taxpayers' money and
should be maintained principally for 'use* b-
College groups.
Hot we maintain there is a happier chord
that fhotild have been struck in the TUB case
a chord closer to recognizing that the Col
lege and the town must live together her
riteidogetY since they are so close physically.
If folks in Wilkes-Barre or Houtzdale want to
throw a shindig in the TUB during a student
vacation, sure, turn them down. But since State
College is in mapy ways a part of the College
end is growing with the College, recognize that
faet and cooperate when coOperation is possible.
The kids could have used that party.
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Why does Penn State need a president?
Such a question might logically be asked since I have for the
past several weeks, in this column, been hammering at the trustees
to select the executive the campus has lacked for almost 26 months,
or at the least to disclose to the student body the progress being made
to name a successor to the deceased Dr. Hetzel:
The answer is probably best exemplified in a clipping from the
Nov. 27 issue of The NeW York Times.
The article in question dealt with the completion of Michi
gan State's thirty million dollar building program, one of the
largest college building programs in history. Sources at East
Lansing, the dispatch said, credited State's spectacular 'growth
to Dr. John A. Hannah, its president.
This situation paralleli, in many respects, the history of our own
institution. An examination of the history of the College reveals that
when Penn State had able presidents, the school prospered. Con
versely, when the administrative reins were in weak or mediocre
hands, it tended to decline.
Names like Dr. Evan Pugh, George W. Atherton, Edwin Earle
Sparks, and fthlph Dorn Hetzel, all past • great presidents, are in
extricably linked with the progress of our alma meter.
The importance of a dynamic, forceful president to apy univer
sity cannot be overemphasized, It is the man at the top of the adminis
trative heap who must institute new policies, wangle appropriations
from a tight-fisted legislature, and insure smooth functioning of the
entire administrative machine.
An excerpt from "The History of the Pennsylvania State Col
lege," by Wayland Fuller Dunhain stresses the point even further.
".. the decline suffered by the College in the period under
review (1865.1882) must be attributed chiefly to the failure of the •
Presidents to measure up to the situation."
The decline Dr. Dunham speaks of, followipg the death of the
College's first president, Dr. Pugh, "was a disaster , . threatening
veryexistence of the College."
Obviously, no one now expects that in the near future Penn State
is doomed to a downhill slide which may undermine its position in
the educational world seriously. And yet, there is grave danger that
not given a president soon, progress will cease. Once that point is
i:eached, Penn State can move only in one direction—d Own.
Lest readers think this argument far-fetched, we have only to
look at the progress, one president, Dr. Hetzel, was able to carry out
In the 21 years of his term, the "Prexy" was instrumental in
raising the enrollment from 4,000 to over 11,000; the value of the
physical plant increased from less than $4 million to more than
's26 million; facuity members jumped from 846 to more than 1500.
Further, Hetzel initiated the "farming out" system for freshmen
students which allowed the College to expand greatly after the war,
revised and raised the number of curricula from 38 to 56, developed
the extension and research programs of the College to their present
level, and secured higher salaries, group insurance, etc. for facUlty
members, insuring a strengthened faculty.
• Projects like those named above cannot be accomplished in
weekends. It takes a full-time, competent, educator and administrator.
Something WE don't have.
'That's why , Penn State needs a president—and soon.
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ro THE EDITOR: I have been following the
gripes of the fellows and coeds on the dating
situation at Penn Satte with a great deal of in
terest. Apparently "gals is gals and guys is guys,
and never the twain shall meet," Now one of the
difficulties may be that the fellows seeking dates
do not know who the girls are who are also
seeking dates.
In the Hawaiian Islands the girls wear flowers
In their hair as part of their costume. These
flowers also have a message. The girl wearing a
a flower on the left side of her head indicates
that she has a boy friend, and the girl wearing
a flower on the right side of her head indicates
that she is available for dating. 'The sides may
be wrong, but you get the idea.
I have not seen any girls wearing flowers in
their hair on the Penn State campus, even arti
ficial ones. However, many of them do wear
sorority pins. So, I suggest that the girls having
a fella wear their pins on the left side of their
sweaters, and those looking for a man wear it
on the right side. Non-sorority girls might resort
to flowers in the hair, or hair ribbons, or some
thing, just so they let the fellows know which
side means which. •
OK . OK . . . It was Just an idea, so put
down that hockey stick.
—Available graduate student
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Lot of Bull
, TO THE EDITOR: In a recent issue of the Daily
Collegian, there was an article entitled Country's
Top Dairy Breeding Center To Open. In the last
paragraph of this article which describes the
equipment provided for the bulls, the stalls for
the bulls are described as having "running water
and flush toilets in each stall," Now, I don't ob
ject to the bulls having all the running water
that they can use, but .'
what the devil are
the bulls going to do with the flush toilets? The
Students in Pollock afid Nittany circle don't
have flush toilets in each room, and frankly I
don't see why the bulls should have them if the.
students' can't.
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Tuesday. December 0
PENN STATE BIBLE Fellowship, 418 Old
Main„ 7 p.m.
ENGINEER Student Council, 105 ME, 7 p.m.
PROMOTION Staff, Collegian, 8 pH, 6:330
p.m.
SOPH, JUNIOR AD Board, 9 CH, 7 p.m.
DUPLICATE BRIDGE,- TUB, 7 p.m.
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WRA BRIDGE Club, White all, 7 p.m.
WRA BOWLING Club, White Hall, 7. Axe.'
DAIRY SCIENCE Club, ASAE, 105 Ag Engil
neering, 7:30 p.m.
PRE-VET Club, 206 Ag Bldg.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Society 105
White Hall, 7 p.m.
CHEM—PHYS Student Council, 410 . Old
Main, 7 p.m.
NEWMAN' Club 109 Agriculture, 7:30
PANHELLENIC Council, Alpha Omicron Pi
Suite, 7 p.m.
SOCIOLOGY Club, Atherton Hall, 7:30 p.m.'
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
[Now inforination may bo obtained in 204 * Old Mein.
kriangemenie for interviews should be made imaailaio".
Armstrong Cork Co., Dec, 8; February grads
in Chem, ChernE for research work; arts and
letters, C & P. Econ ages 20 to 20, 'for, saies
work.
DuPont Co., Dec 12 and 13, February grada
In Chem, ChemE, ME, MineE.
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Dec. 13. Febru
try grads in IE, Ceramics, BE, ME' for (1) open
ings in sales; (2) possible ‘opening in highly
echnical. engineering requiring outstanding
analytical ability. Grade of 2.0 required for the
latter position. No openings in production,
manufacturing or service eng.
Smith, Kline and French Labs. Dec. 13.:
February men grads in LA, C & F, Science,
Pre-Med, Ag-Bio-Chem, Commercial -Chem,
ChemE, I.E, ME for their training program. Ap
plicants must have 1.95 average or better.
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