PAGE, SIX Too Many Cars—Too Little Space By JOHN ASHBROOK Take the 2800 parking space:, on campus , only 1000 of which are centrally located. Then try to park the cars of faculty mem bers, construction workers, visi tors, and students, legally and to the satisfaction of all. That's the big traffic problem the administration faces today and the traffic problem they've been facing since the develop ment of the post-wag educa tional boom. In the fall of 1946, the late President Ralph D. Hetzel se cured trustee approval of a com mittee to study long range plans for fulfilling the overall require ments for parking on campus. This move was deemed nec essary in view of the proposed building program of the college on areas then used for parking cars, and because of the increase in the number of student auto mobiles. • ..3uilding Program The building program has come a long way since then and we find ourselves with less parking space than ever and with a substantial increase in the number of student cars. Just what progress has been made by the administration is not clear. Several new parking areas have been constructed and others enlarged. It has been re ported at various times,. that Hort Woods is being considered as the site of a large parking area, to be constructed in the near future. But the long-range, over-all plan has not been revealed Assuming that the College is planning to act soon on this mat ter, it will 'probably adopt one or both of two general pro grams. It could clamp down on the use of existing facilities; or it could construct new parking areas. Students Restricted In theory at least, student driving is restricted on campus. Under rules approved by the ad ministration an d All-College Cabinet in the fall of 1947, all students except the physically handicapped are prohibited from driving on the central campus roads from 8' a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon day through Saturday noon. The west parking area, south of Rdc Hall, and an area behind ' Mc- Elwain Hall are designated as student parking areas. Tribunal has created machin ery f. Dr hearing traffic violation charges against student drivers and :I:or imposing fines. Working in cooperation with the campus patrol, Tribunal apparently has made considerable progress in dealing with the problem. Building Complicates The situation has been compli cated by the College construc tion program. Parking facilities are required for the hundreds of workers, and ,the projects in themselves, as was mentioned, have chewed up, existing parking space at a steady clip. Critics of plans for the con struction of additional parking areas point to the cost—more than $lOO per car space—and to the burden of maintenance and repair costs. Funds for construc tion of parking areas come from state appropriations. In recent years, appropriations for the Col lege generally have been reduc ed from the figures recommend ed by the administration. ' Until the administration does act, the situation probably can be best eased through the co operation of the faculty and the student body in abiding by traf fic rules now in effect and by walking instead of driving on campus whenever it is possible. Eta Kappo. Nu Twenty-four men were initiated last week ,into Eta Kappa Nu, electrical engineering honorary, Frank 'Perkowski, secretary of the organization, has announced. New initiates are Robert Hick - mire, Charles Billman, John Campbell, David Christ, John De- Barber, William Fairer, Russell French, Douglas Grant, Robert Groff, Richard Hall, Charles Hazen, Rodney Hilbert, William Hill, John Klizas, Anthony Lordi, Walter Mammel, Vernon Ritter, Charles Ruler, Harry Savisky, Harry Schaffer, John Snook, Rob ert Walsh, Leo Welz, Mark Zim- THE DATT Y COT T.EGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA =y iri Because over 500 students have signed un for the new Thes pian show, "Girl Crazy," casting will not be completed until after the spring semester begins. Tryouts were held for the first time on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Dancing call-backs were Thursday, and speaking and voice call-backs, on Wednesday. It will be impossible for all applications to be accepted, an nounced Herbert Graves, club president. "It is particularly un fortunate," he said, "that so many freshman and sophomores will have to lie turned down. We hope that it will not discourage them from going out for Thespian shows in the future. Approximately 250 students have volunteered to work on crew, and nearly 200 have been auditioned by Voice Director Har old Leinbach and Speech Director Robert Sinclair. Choreographer Harry Woolever has tried out about 150 for dancing. "With such wealth of talent available," Graves added, "select ing leads and specialty numbers is proving particularly difficult." The picture shows Harry Woolever, Thespian choreographer, reviewing some dance aspirants for "Girl Crazy." The girls are (left' to right) Virginia Pruss, Doris Keller, Chris Sherrill, Polly Potter, and Betty Griffiths. Student Union-- (Continued from page one) ward through the second floor; one ballroom to be 425 by 75 feet, the other 55 by 80 feet, al lowing for two separate dances at once, or one big dance when a movable partition separating the ballrooms is removed; ball rooms to be applicable to use as huge banquet rooms, with food service supplied by kitchen on ground floor. Ballroom lounge. Chair storage room. Main lounge extending up ward through the second floor; main lounge to have huge glass partitions on opposite sides. Faculty lounge. Large browsing library. Listening and music room. Central control office for the entire building; scheduling cen ter for all rooms in the building; control area for piping music to any or all rooms. Lecture room for movies, or baby theatre capable of seating about 300 spectators. Lobby. Second Floor Upper . part of - two ballrooms, main lounge and lecture room extending from main floor. Three private dining rooms that can be separated into a total of six smaller ones. Two projection rooms for showing films in the ballrooms. Coat room. Lobby. Lounge corridor. . . Student Union administration section, consisting of a general office and several other small rooms. Student organizatiOns section, consisting of a "work room" and See .. . • alle 4. • : .., - : : :,59 4 (4 808 IRVIN . .. . • for that 2ztte...2:. - NEW OLDSMOBILE Machines Wash Yo u r Laundry in Less Than STATE COLLEGE an Hour. AUTOMOBILE CO. MAJRSHALL'S Phone: 3451 Automatic Laundry 454 E. College Avenue—Rear a file room for. all groups' rec ords; ten offices for All-College Cabinet and ' other stude n t groups. Third Floor Women's lounge. Storage room. ' Four meeting rooms of. vary ing sizes, from 16-by-20-feet, to 20-by-60. An international room, 48* by 25 feet. Penn State Christian Associa tion section, including a 48-by -25-foot social room, a reception room, general office, a storage and work room, six offices and a small kitchen. Alumni Association section, including a mailing and records room, a storage room, a visitors' lounge, and• six offices. Fourth Floor A hotel with 50 or more guest rooms for College visitors, sup plementing existing spaces in lo cal hotels and houses. Banner (Continued from page three) Nittany kind," he explains. "They came within 15 feet of the car winddws. The windowg," he adds firmly, "were closed." The ' professor doesn't think much of the bloody fiction writ ten about safaris. "There is no animal which will attack man without provocation," he says. Be that as it may, he still re calls the English lady who got a good healthy scare' when a bird she had been admiring in a tree suddenly developed, twenty or thirty feet of, neck ands proved to be a large, ugly giraffe. Strange To Americans Some of the journalisUc.prac tices Prof. Banner observed seem strange to an American. He noted that the entire continent of South Africa is supplied with news from the rest of the world by a single agency. He also found that the South African press is extremely monopolistic and con servative, most Of the papers be ing tied up by interlocking direc torates. American wire services, too, he learned, 'are very poorly supplied with South African news, em ploying only part-time help. On all the continent, there is only one full-time American news man. The news setup in Australia and New 'Zealand is closer to the American. In fact, says the pro fessor, all three of these nomin-, ally British countries show a marked American influence in news style. "While the papers still have a rather English fore mat," he says, "the emphasis on sports, pictures,, and human in terest is really Americana Most of the machinery used in printing their newspapers is American too." While in South Africa, Prof. Banner = spoke on "Freedom of the Press," on a national radio circuit. When his AustraliaNiosts asked him to do a broadcast, he proposed a repeat on the same topic. He laughs as he recalls their reaction. "Oh no," they cried in horror, "that's far too politi cal!" "I had thought that the politics of freedom of the press was settled about a hundred years ago," remarks . the profes sor, "but that's what happens when government takes 'a hand in radio." Spoke With Diplomats While in South Africa, he spoke with former Premier Jan Chris tian Smuts, as well as the less, well-known curj e n t premier, Daniel F. Malan. South Africa's race problems have been making news; and the professor, observed the, attitudes of these two men on the question. "Both," he says, "believe in white ascendancy. Ho w eve r, while Smuts, a truly great man, used the reasonable approach, Malan is interested in open, ab solute subjugation." He pointed out the magnitude •of the prob-' lem, there being 10 negroes in the dominion to one white. • "The negroes," he explains, "could .dominate the country if admitted to) universal suffrage, and they are certainly not now educationally fit to run South Africa." The professor 'believes the problem may be • a century in solving. Returning to the United States from such i anexotic tour was not such' a let-down as some might think. "When I got .back to the West coast," explains the .• . Monday -Tupsday Presented by. International Flint Co. "GERARD PHILIPPE is SENSATIONAL 1" Y. TIME "BOLD and EXCITING 1" -THE NEW YORKE - t. DOSTCrIATS Madioplsa taw No • . IT'S THE ►►►►• :2 . e •t 1 11 1 et It I ; OF THE SEMESTER But it's just the BEGINNING for WHOLESALE CANDY VALUES from' SALLY S . , . . „. 85c PER CARTON 140 S. PUGH sr:, . FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1950 Young Violinst To Give Concert Yfrah Neaman, noted young violinist, will present a concert in the State College High School auditorium Tuesday at 8:15 . p.m. Sponsored by. the Music Sec tion of the State College Woman's Club, this concert is for the bene fit of the State College High School Youth Center. Still in his mid-twenties t sea man has won, recognition in' the, United States, on the continent, and in Great Britain where he makes his permanent home. • Admission to the concert is .$1 plus 20 cents tax. Tickets may be purchased at the auditorium on the night of the performance or, from any member of the, Music Section. Classes Enlarged In IE-330 Course The number of clasi sections for, IE 330, "industrial ; leader ship," has been increised to ac comodate all those' who,. 'plan to enroll for the spring semester, it was announced yesterday. Dur ing pre-registration, existing sec tions were filled and many were unable to register for the cotirse. Stude'nts interested in obtain- ing additional information arid in making arrangements should contact E. Loring Roach, profes sor of engineering research, at, 203 Engineering E. • The move-ups included 6 sophomore board members raised to junior board and •43 candi dates promoted to the sopho more board. c • professor, , "I rode - fora distance on a train called "El Capitan." Now this is just a coach train, not e luxury special. Well, I sat there and looked at the reclining seats, the chromium bar, the pile rugs, and the pastel interiors, and I thought for a while about the rickety old sweat-box with hard wooden benches that took me across 3000 .miles ~ of Australian desert. You know, I was pretty glad to be ,home." • NOW! • At Your Warner Theatre • • Cathaum . Tyrone Power Orson Welles • Wanda Hendrix 'Prince of Foxes' .-C.. ate The International . Film Club Presents W. Somerset. Maugham's "Quartet" With 40 Famous Playeri nitt arty • William Eythe Latin. Elliot "SPECIAL • AGENT" '\
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