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®Jjp Satly Collegian
Sueceaaor to THE FEEE LANCE, rat. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in
clusive during the College year by the staff of “The Daily
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934, at the State
College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the 'writers,
■ot necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned edi
torials are by the editor.
Dean Gladfelier
Editor
Managing Ed., John ttalboz; Newa Ed., Stan Defiers
Sports Ed., Ray Koehler; Edit. Dir., Herbert Stein; Society
Ed.. Deanle Krebs; Feature Ed., Janet Rosen; Asst. Sports
Ed., Art Benning; Asst. News Ed., John Ashbrook;
Asst. Society Ed., Bettina dePalma; Photo Ed., Wilson
Barlo: Senior Board: Jack Boddington, Bill Detweller.
Asst. Bus. Mgr., Thomas M, Karolcik; Advertising
Dir., Harold L. Wollin; Local Adv. Mgr., Hugo R* Mandes;
Promotion Mgr., Laura Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mgrs.,
Edward TV. Noyes, Gerald F. Veager; Personnel Mgr., Ed
win Singcl; Classified Adv. Mgr., Shirley Faller; Office'
Mgr., Loretta Stempinski; Secretary, Winifred Wyant;
Senior Board: Norma Gleghorn, Delores Horne, Mary
Kauffman. Sue Halperin.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor: Ernie Moore; Copy Editor: Marv
Kfasnansky; Assistant Night Editor: Bob Vos
burg; Assistants: Laura Badwey, Lenore Ka
hanowitz, Sheldon Smoyer.
Ad Manager: Ted Dulick; Assistants: George
Duff, Tony Lawless, Benet Rosenthal.
Registration Fine
In recent years there has been great striving
for efficiency in the registration process. To
date, the actual business of filling out forms in
Rec hall has been boiled down to a 15-minute
process, with the result that fewer gray hairs
are noticeable on students’ heads at the begin
ning of each semester.
NOW THE COUNCIL of administration and
the senate have come up with another sugges
tion that should simplify and streamline first
phase registration, the filling out of schedule
cards for the next semester. By devoting two
class-free days to the process, and by scheduling
students at 15-minute intervals, this streamlin
ing should be accomplished.
However, laudable as the plan is, we can’t
really see the need for a fine for late pre-regis
tration. Under the new plan, students who
fail to pre-register during the specified days
would be required to make out their preliminary
schedules with the board of control at the be
ginning of the next semester.
This means that late registrants will not be
certain of getting into classes they want, and
that they will have to wade through the torture
of the board of control.
To us, the board of conirol is the worst pun
ishment imaginable, yea, verily, worse than
banishment to Pollock Circle.
As to possible cabinet endorsement of a fine,
•we cannot see how an agency devoted to«student
government has any right or duty to interfere
with a matter which, in its major aspects, is
administrative and academic.
Pool For Ideas
National Student association is in effect an
idea pool for students in colleges throughout the
nation. It was started in 1946, but already it has
325 member colleges.
NO ONE WILL DENY that NSA is a good
idea. The primary complaint heard on campus
is over the cost of belonging to the organization,
and the cost of. sending delegates to conven
tions.
Certainly it would be nice to have an organi
zation of this sort which costs nothing, but the
fact remains that the only organizations which
accomplish things are the well organized ones
and whether the organization is non-profit as
NSA is, or whether it is a profit-making group,
it costs money to keep an organization going.
AS FOR SENDING delegates to the national
convention, this has been attacked by a member
of Cabinet. The fact is, if you belong to a na
tional group with the prestige and backlog of
accomplishments that the NSA can show, the
membership is meaningless unless you can bene
fit in every respect from the opportunities of
fered.
At the conventions, there are. not, despite
the attacks of Cabinet members, long an d
meaningless squabbles over trivial political
doctrines. Rather, there is a group of public
spirited college students who are interested in
exchanging ideas on how to improve iheir
colleges.
If, for example, Penn State has a Campus
chest —which incidentally was started by NSA
.—the delegates tell the convention about it and
how it operates. Then if any other schools are
interested in the idea, they get the benefit of
Penn State experience.
But if on th other hand, Temple, the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, or the University of Idaho has
an idea which might be applicable in State
College, such as a faculty and course rating
system, then we get the benefit of their exper
ience, and their help in setting up such a system
on this campus.
WITHOUT DELEGATES, we are in much
the position of a fraternity man who pays house
rent, and then goes to live in a rooming house.
Jack Garrelson Butt
• The football season is a severe test on the
turf on the athletic field. A. E. Cooper, College
extension agronomist, has been working with
county agents and school officials throughout
the state in improving the surface of playing
fields.
Owen £. Landon
Business Mgr.
Armistice Day
Armistice day, 1950, finds the world far re
moved from the peaceful hopes for which the
day is dedicated. The brief ceremonies to be
conducted here this morning by members of the
three ROTC units, are perhaps an indication that
while we honor the dead of other wars, we are
still thinking of the possible dead in future wars
to make .this a larger celebration today.
GOVERNOR DUFF'S proclamation is another
indication of this attitude. “Not only our demo
•cracy is threatened; the peace of the world is in
jeopardy. There may well be fears for the fu
ture, if we, by our own actions or inactions, fail
to remain a strong and united people,” he said.
“Let us dedicate ourselves again on Armistice
day to freedom and liberty and the rights of the
individual, so that human decency and peace
may come around the world,” the governor con
cludes. .
Safety Valve ...
Expensive Collegian
TO THE EDITOR: The Daily Collegian is get
ting rather expensive lately, isn’t it? The Wed
nesday issue has a price of five cents listed on
its heading on the front page.
Gazette...
Seniors who turned in preference sheets will be given
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
on the third and subsequent days.
General Electric company will interview chem. and chcm.
eng, at the M.S. and PhD levels, who will graduate-by
June 1062, on Monday Nov* 20.
Philadelphia Electric company will Interview' January
graduates in E.E. and' M.E. on Tuesday, Nov. 21.
Western Electric company will interview January grad
uates with an average of 1.0 or better at the B.S. level
in M.E., and LE. on Monday, Nov. 20.
Bell Telephone laboratories will interview January grad
uates in physics at the B.S. level; in E.E., M.E., and
physics at the M.S. level; and in chemistry at the PhD
level on Monday, Nov. 20.
THE DAILY COLLEUIAjn, iaxjs CULLHUB, PENNSYLVANIA
Meet The People
Student leaders sometimes like to talk about
the effectiveness of Student government at Penn
State. They often say the system here is good,
surpassing campus government operations of
other colleges.
WE WONDER how many of those leaders have
considered methods whereby effectiveness of
the system can be increased..
Real representation of the individual stu
dent is one point which, if obtained, would
greatly increase value of the government.
How many leaders now approach the campus
John Doe's to sound out opinions on specific
issues and general policies? We think very
few.
Admittedly, to approach each 10,000 students
personally would be a huge task. Still, the
school councils have a great opportunity to work
in that direction. At their disposal are the school
newsletters in which council president could
explain to constituents their stands on various
issues before Cabinet. Through this channel,
they could ask for students’ opinions on impor
tant matters.
OTHER METHODS of obtaining student views
on current issues include the use of question
aires and of small group discussions. In the
past, IFC leaders havfe employed the latter me
thod by having each fraternity representative
present important problems to his house for
discussion. The AIM dormitory council plan is
of a similar nature. Increased use of this -channel
could be used.
The questionaire method could be employed
hy the individual school council member, per
haps assigning to each member a certain num
ber of the students enrolled in the school.
Questionaires could be used on important sin
gle issues and in planning general council
policy.
Only a trial of these methods would prove
their worth. The important thing is, however,
that student government officials continually
keep in mind that to truely represent their
campus groups, they must know what students
of those groups are thinking.
Weather Flags
TO THE EDITOR: Could you please tell me
what the different flags on top of MI building
meftn? I know it’s supposed to be the “official”
weather but ... ;
Courtney McMahon
Ed. note A while flag indicates fair; red
warmer; blue—colder; red, while and blue
—cloudy; blue and white checked—precipita
tion (rain or snow); red and vihite—windy.
Ed. note—-The five cent price has been in
effect since 1943. This price, however, applies
ohly to individual copies or subscriptions. It
does not apply to students.
Monday
PH'ILOTES meeting, WSGA room of White
hall, 6:30 p.m.
COLLEGIAN editorial senior board, 8 p.m., 8
Carnegie hall.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Farther information concerning interview! and job place
■tents can be obtained in 112 Old Main.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Patients: Judith Hutkin, Mrs. Ellinor Huppert,
Jacob Corman, .Frederick Dietz, Burton Tarr,
George Jacob, James Pollard, Paul Anders, Ro
bert Fatzinger, Richard Peyton,-Kenneth Horton
John Ashbrook
—■ Herbert Stein
E. B. Mariindale
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On The Record
The Space Problem
One of the major gripes heard by a Collegian editor concerning
Collegian is that many of the plethora of student groups on campus
just can't seem to get news concerning their activities into' the col
umns of the newspaper. The gripe—and it certainly is a legitimate
one—comes from many quarters almost every day of the week.
UNFORTUNATELY, because of the conditions that exist, Colle
gian just can’t do an awful lot about it. The principal reason .is that,
although the College has gone through a great period of expansion,
the size of the newspaper has not increased appreciably. Such ex
pansion of the College brings with it formation of many new organ
izations that have the right to have their news published, and pro
duces a great number of other situations—known in newspaper par
lance as “running stories” that must be covered. Because the size
of Collegian has not kept pace with the growth of the College, an
extreme problem concerning the news space available has developed
in recent years.
We realize it's no solace to campus groups to be told that there
just isn't enough room in the newspaper to publish their news, but
that's the saddest fact of Collegian life, and it's something we have
to live with.
Although a student assessment is the most important source of
revenue for the Collegian, the amount of advertising scheduled for
any particular issue determines the number of pages in that issue
and, consequently, the amount of news space available.
ACTUALLY, COLLEGIAN has printed more eight-page papers
so far this year than in the similar period of preceding years, and thus
has been'able to print more newsstories than previously. But even
this expansion has not been enough to provide adequate coverage for
all campus news, and at the moment there doesn’t seem to be much
that can be done to produce more eight-page papers.
Certainly, Collegian editors and the staff don’t like the situation.
We’d like to be able to get every bit of news available into the paper.
But until some method of further enlarging the newspaper can be
found, our readers will have to bear with us and hope for the best.
Dean Gladfelier
Feline Foolishness
On this campus, the week of Nov. 5-11 might be known as Local
Blue Book wec-k, but, on a national scale this seven-day period has
additional significance.
THE AELOUROPHILES (cat lovers) have choSen this week to
reform all aelourophobes (cat haters). Through the auspices of the
American Feline society, recognition is being sought for the 21,000,-
000 cats of America whose “utilitarian worth in the store, warehouse,
farm, and factory, as ‘rodent insurance’ is being brought to the at-'
tention of the public.”
Why all this furor over feline welfare? Well, it seems that about
12 years ago three cat-loving females, concerned about the demise
of the position of the cat, formed this society to “alleviate cat suffer
ing and abuse.”
In ancient days in Egypt, 'iis said, the cat was accorded muini
flcation equivalent to the most prominent citizens. From this exal
ted position, the cat has fallen to such a subservient state that he
has often been classified as a pest (the category of his arch-enemy,
the rat).
But, the day of the cat is approaching. Currently, the press, radio,
and television are giving him more acclaim than he has lapped up in
the past 79 years. Indeed, the news columns are filled with felines
giving fire alarms, helping the disabled, caring for children; also, in
the comic strips, our whiskered friends figure in de-tales.
And, then there is the position of the cat in industry. Even the
United States government makes annual appropriations for the main
tenance of cats in the Post Office and other departments.
EVEN WITH ALL THIS ACCLAIM, these unobstrusive creatures*
give generously to .man and mouse and ask little in return.
A little melts (spleen of pork, beef, or lamb), a saucer of milk
(not dehiydrated please), freedom from collars, a daily brushing, a
tennis ball to play with, and an old chair to scratch—these are the
Simple desires of the puss. ,
Such goodness should be acclaimed say the 63 chapters of the
American Feline Association. “Help save America’s Cats—adopt a
cat.”
SATURDAY,-NOVEMBER 11, 1950
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