PAGE TWO
The Other Half
It's necessary for education to train people
in making a living. But education also had
better teach them how to get informed, how to
express themselves, how to arrive at sound
judgments, and to know there is somebody in
the pond besides themselves.
—THIS ATTACK ON over-specialization in.
education comes from President-elect Milton S.
Eisenhower and packs a wallop that ought to
jostle a host of students who are wrapped up
solely in the silver electrode prepared by electro
plating spongy silver on a platinum-wire cathode
in silver cyanide. And conversely, it ought to
rock those whose college lives revolve only
around the "superb, florid still-lifes of the pagan
Flemish, Rubens."
The meat of the matter is that too many
students at the College are restricted, by their
own chosing, to the narrow confines of a rut
hedged on both sides by over-specialization.
Like a mechanical monster mired in the mud,
they are interested only in the immediate
mud, of specialization. Unlike the monster,
they apparently are content not to loose them
selves.
College life, more particularly life at Penn
State, is the ultimate in opportunity to see how
the other half lives—the chance for the engineer,
to observe the philosopher and vice versa, the
chance for the econ major to observe what
makes a cow tick on Ag Hill and learn some
thing in the process.
THIS PROBLEM OF driving the specialist out
of his rut to mingle with, and learn something
about, other fields of education is being com
bated by the College and its parts, both in ano
out of the classroom. The philosophy and politi
cal science departments hold open lectures, the
physicists stage exhibits, the farmers hold eros
ion-control seminars, the music department
brings a noted pianist to play at the College,
the Engineering School holds extensive open
house, the LA School sponsors a series of top
notch speakers on countless subjects, the College
sponsors art exhibits, and so on.
The crying shame of all this is that too few '
students emerge from the rut of over-speciali
zation to see• how the other half operates.
Most events scheduled by schools, depart
ments and other campus organs are not so tech
nical or specialized that nothing can be gleaned
from them in the line of appreciation and . even
a modicum of knowledge. Whether he under
stands everything—or even anything—is not
important; at least the brave specialist who for
sakes his rut has exposed himself to a different
type cf learning and thought.
He /as opened new side-streets of know
ledge. Uppermost, he is in a better position to
understand how his fellow students and spec
ialists in other fields think and act. For the
prime purpose of education must be to teach
one how to think and to judge.
Of strictly secondary stature are such things
as the greater simplicity and flexibility of motor
classifications, rates and charges in the pioneer
period of motor freight, or studying the main
winding placed in penendermic semi-boloid
slots in the stator of the turbo-encabulator, with
every seventh conductor being connected by a
non-reversible tremie pipe to the ' differential
girdlespring on the "up" end of the grammeters.
FORESAKE THE RUTS!.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor John Dalbor
Assistant Night Editor .. Rosemary Delahanty
Copy Editor Wilson Barto
Assistants Bill Boyles, Dorothy Laine, Vir
ginia Mayer, Ed Gildea
Advertising Manager Ed Singel
Assistants Herb Blough, Laura Mermelstein,
Winnie Wyant, Dick Schultheis, Dee Horne
THE ALLENCREST
TEA ROOM
Candlelight Dinner
Friday Evening, March 17
5 to 8 p.m.
THE
us Room .
Announces
Annual
St. Patrick's Day
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Little Man On' Campus
, - - ""leAest•
"I told you what would happen if you cu
Tribunal Tries
Three Cases
Three cases, all involving park
ing violations, were reviewed
Tuesday night by Student Tri
bunal.•
The first two offenders entered
pleas of guilty, each on two
counts wherein their cars were
parked in restricted areas. In each
case there was a $1 fine imposed
for the second offense, and for
one a first offense warning and
for the other a $1 suspended
penalty.
The third violator, who had
appeared before Tribunal sev
eral times last semester, admitted
and was fined for one of the two
new charges but denied the sec
ond. He did, according to
mony, knowlingly violate a pank
in'g regulation in the congested
area in front of the women's
dorins, deciding to "take the
chance."
Robert Keller, Tribunal head,
in admonishing him suggested
that drastic action might be taken
if the offender were brought be
fore the judicial group again. The
denied charge will be investigated
filither and acted upon at a later
date.
Keller stressed the policy of
holding campus car owners re
sponsible for violations involving
their vehicles regardless of whom
the driver may be.
"Best script seen on the Players'
boards this season extremely
worthwhile production . . . . two hours
of intense drama." . . . . Tom Lyon,
Centre Daily Times.
LAST TWO WEEKS
TIME IS A DREAM
Tickets at Old Main or Center Stage
Boxoff ice
Friday • 90c
Saturday $1.25
(Includes refreshments)
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Two Speakers Win
Contest Medals
Two Penn State speakers won
silver medals at the all-state ora
torical contest held at the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh last week
end.
David Lewis took second place
in the men's division of the tour
nament and Christine Altenbur
ger placed second in the women's
group.
The title of Lewis' prize
winhing oration was "Should We
Weep?" He took this famous
question of Alexander the Great
and showed its modern applica
tion, pointing out the futility of
complaining about modern social
problems instead . of seeking a
solution for them.
Miss ' Altenburger discussed
"Our Reign of Confusion." Her
oration concerned Uhited States
foreign policy and its weaknesses.
Dry Cleaning Agency
Grosses $3,267
After twelve and a half weeks
of, operation last semester, the
Student Dry Cleaning Agency,
under the supervision of Oscar T.
Fleisher, did a grOss business of
$3,267.11 .
Of thii, $472.57 has been re
turned to students in the form
of salaries for the employees of
the agency.
From the commencement of its
services on Oct. 13 of last year
until the end of last semester, the
agency handled 5,000 items.
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• Thursday, March 16
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INDEPENDENT STAFF, Daily Collegian Of
fice, 7 p.m,
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Organization,
Carnegie, 8 p.m.
WRA Fencing, 1 White Hall, 7 p.m.
WRA Badminton, White Hall Gym, 4 p.m.
WRA Swimming, White Hall Pool, 7:30 p.m.
PSCA BIBLE Study, 304 Old Main, 4:10 p.m.
PSCA Cabinet, 304 Old Main, 8:15 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further information concerning Interviews and Poi piano
manta tan be obtained in 112 Old Main.
Seniors who turned in preferenee sheeti will be :gives
priority in scheduling interviews for two days following
the initial announcement of the visit of one of • the com
panies' of their choice. Other students will be scheduled oat
the third and subsequent days.
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., Mar. 17. EE (power
. .
majors only) and ME.
General Motors Corp., Mar. 20, 21, 22. June
grads in EE, lE, ME, ChE, Metal, CF for pro
duct engineering, production operations, and
accounting. Applicants 'must have a 1.5„ or
better average. Also PhD and MS candidates in
Physics for research and deyelopment.
Sears, Roebuck, & Co., Mar. 21, , 22, , 23. June
grads interested in Retailing. '
Boy Scouts of . America, Mar. 22, , 23. .June
grads interested in professional scouting. Scout
ing experience is a prerequisite. Grads 24 years
of age or over are preferred. Will alsointer
view sophomores and juniors who are consider
ing scouting careers.
West Pend Power Co.. Mar. 23, 24. June 'grads
in EE and ME for power statidn work,,, , and
Home Ec for home service and commercial
demonstration.
Bailey Meter Co., Mai. 24. Juni grads . in
EE and ME.
National Carbon Division of Union Carbide
and Carbon. March 27. June grads in EE, ME,
Metal and an engineering physicist for domestic
production. Also Chem. engineers for both dom
estic and overseas work..' Students must, have a
1.8 or better average and show evidence of
extra-curricular activities.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., Columbia Chemi
aal Division, Mar. 27.. June grads in ME, ChemE
and Chem.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL N.
Admitted Tuesday: Harvey Reiseman, Hers
bert Blough, Herbert Arnold, John Hall.
Admitted Wednesday: Edward Karolak, Peter
Giesey, Mark Givler, Margaret Leister.
Discharged Wednesday: Joan Zeiden, Robert
Anderson, Rita Gould, Charles Kruger.
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