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HatUj Collegian
Successor to THE LANCE, est. 7587
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in
clusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily
Collegian of The Pennsylvania Stale College.
Entered as second-class matter July 5, 11)34, at the State
College, Pa.. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879.
Dean Gladfelter
Editor
Managing Ed., John Dalhor; City Ed., Herbert Stein:
Sports Ed., Hay Koehler; Edit. Dir., John Ashhrook; Wire
Ed., Art Benning; Society Ed., Deanle Krebs; Feature Ed.,
Janet Rosen; Asst. City Ed., Jack Boddington; Asst. Sports
Ed., Joe Breu; Asst. Society Ed., Bcttina dePalma; Libra
rian, Bill Detwcilcr.
Asst. Bus Mgr., Thomas M. Karolcik: Advertising Dir.,
Harold L. Wollin; Local Adv. Mgr., Norma Gleghorn: Pro
motion Mgr., Laura Mermelstein; Circulation Co-Mgrs.,
Edward W. Noyes, Gerald F. Yeager; Personnel Mgr., Edwin
Singel; Classified Adv. Mgr., Shirley Faller; Office Mgr.,
Sue Halperin; Secretary, Winifred Wyant.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor: Jack Garretson-Butt; Copy Edi
tors: Moylan Mills, Ernie Moore; Assistants:
Joan Kuntz, Dick Kolbenschlag, Margaret
Trolier.
Advertising Manager: Norma Gleghorn,"
New Services
This is the first issue of a new Collegian,
made possible by the increase in the news
paper’s student fee. We hope the Collegian,
w&h its new services and expanded content,
will find acceptance and approval among the
student body.
It is a new Collegian in two senses. First,
enlargement of news content makes it possible
for the paper to function more efficently in its
specialized field, that of recording events and
conditions on the Penn State campus. Secondly,
this enlargement also makes it possible for the
Collegian to cease to be, in a strict sense, merely
a specialized newspaper, and rather to report
also events from the outside world which are
"affecting the lives of students.
OF COURSE, the Collegian never can become
a complete general newspaper for example,
it does not print comics and wouldn’t have the
spaee even were the inclination present. How
ever, we feel that this step beyond mere spe
cialization is one which should benefit every
reader.
We also would like io ask our readers, in
cluding those who have news for publication,
to bear with us during the early days in which
we will be experiencing growing pains. It's a
big jump to eight pages daily, and a news
paper can't do it one page at a lime. Our
work now will become more extensive and
more intensive, and this necessitates working
out new methods of handling news. Some of
these new methods already are in operation,
but by and large they still are in the experi
mental stage and cannot be perfected imme
diately.
Coverage of campus news will be our major
problem, and in it we ask the cooperation of
every group in the news. Our files, we suspect,
are not complete, and organizations which have
not been covered regularly will do us a great
favor by so informing us and requesting news
coverage.
TO THOSE who supported the Collegian in
its request for additional money to enlarge the
paper, we wish to extend our sincere apprecia
tion. To those who opposed the request, what
ever their reasons may have been, we express
the hope that the expanded and, we believe, im
proved newspaper will convince them that the
project was justified.
To be seen in its proper perspective, the
expansion of the Collegian must be viewed as
a step in the march toward a bigger and
better Penn State.
Owen E. Landon
Business Mgr.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Colloquy Plans
In looking about for worthy projects on which
to expend its energy, All-College cabinet could
do far worse than take steps toward holding a
colloquy on drinking problems. Recent appoint
ment of chairmen for a committee to investigate
possibility of holding such a colloquy was an
action for which few, if any, will deride cabinet.
John Barleycorn has been with us for many
years, and our crystal gazer, when he’s not oc
cupied in Bellefonte, keeps telling us he will
be around for a good many more years.
JUST HOLDING a colloquy to discuss John
Barleycorn won’t scare him away from these
parts by a long shot. But, if planned and exe
cuted properly, it should throw some light on a
problem that has been with institutions of
higher learning since their founding. Drinking
is a problem for all society, but in colleges,
where young people are just beginning to feel
their oats, it is of special significance.
Last fall’s dispute over bars in fraternity
houses shows how close to home the problem
comes. Such a colloquy will not provide auto-'
matrically the answers to this and other ques
tions, but it should go a long way toward helping
students to understand aspects of drinking and
how it affects them.
Personally, we believe in moderation and
we can't see the merits of either the Omar
Khayyam hell-bent-for-guzzling school or the
prohibitionist viewpoint. The only way one
can be moderate about drinking is to under
stand drinking. Few will disagree that many
college students need education on the ques
tion of drinking.
Such education the colloquy, if plans for it
are successful, should be able to provide. The
colloquy can contribute greatly to the welfare
of the student community by helping students
to meet intelligently the problem of liquor.
Gazette. •.
Tuesday, February 6
COLLEGIAN photographers, 7 p.m., 1 Carne
gie.
COLLEGIAN editorial candidates, 7:30 p.m.,
1 Carnegie.
COLLEGIAN senior editorial board, 8:30 p.m.,
1 Carnegie.
COLLEGIAN sophomore and junior business
boards, 7 p.m., 9 Carnegie.
COLLEGIAN junior circulation board, 7 p.m.,
Collegian office.
FROTH circulation staff and all new and
old candidates, 7 p.m., 3 Carnegie.
FROTH art staff and candidates, Froth office,
7 p.m.
CHESS club, 7 p.m., 3 Sparks.
WOMEN’S DEBATE tryouts, 6:30p.m., 2
Spsrlcs
NAACP, 7:30 p.m., 303 Willard.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS club, 7:15
p.m., 218 Willard.
ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL, 7 p.m.,
107 Main Engineering.
PENN STATE CLUB, 7 p.m., 110 E. E.
WRA BOWLING, 7 p.m., White Hall alleys.
WRA FENCING, 7 p.m., White Hall.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further information concerning interviews and job place
■«nU can he obtained in 112 Old Main.
Bethlehem Steel company would like to have preliminary
application blanks from June graduates in M.E., E.E., C.E.,
Chem. Eng., Mining Eng., Metal, and Ceramics. Blanks may
be obtained in' 112 Old Main before Feb. 9.
National Bureau of Standards will interview . M.S. and
Ph.D candidates in .Physics, Electrical Engineering, and
Mechanical Engineering Monday, Feb. 19.
R.C.A. Victor division will interview June Graduates in
Chem. Eng., E.E., and M.E. on Monday, February 19,
E. I, 'Dupont de Nemours company will interview - June
graduates at the B.S. and M.S. levels in Chem., Chem. Eng.,
C.E., E.E., M.E., Mining Eng., Png. Eng., 1.E., Ceramics,
Metal, and Fuel Tech. Monday, Fob. 19,
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs, applicants
should stop in 112 Old Main.
SENIOR GRADUATE student for organic
chemistry research; permanent part-time job on
campus.
.MALE STUDENT, liberal arts major pre
ferred; to work in exchange for room; must
have late part of afternoons free.
TUB hours open to busboys and dishwashers
—Monday, 1 to 5 p.m.; Wednesday, 9 to 12 a.m.;
Friday 9 to 12 a.m.
HE'S HEADING FOR THE BX
BUY HIS USED BOOKS AT A
Also - BUY YOUR SCHOOL SUPPLIES
In Your Student Operated BOOK EXCHANGE!
BX IS LOCATED IN THE TUB
Little Man On Campus
"Aham a lookin' fera snap course, ma'am."
Safety Valve . „.
Exam Files For All Students
TO THE EDITOR: The Collegian recently reported that a final
examination given in a previous semester had been offered for sale as
“worth $3O because none of the fraternities had it in their files.”
At some institutions old exami- '
nations are bound like bookstand
placed on open shelves in the
college library. Why not at Penn
State? If an old examination is
worth $3O on this campus it should
be available to all. The open
shelf system, would give every
student a better understanding of
his courses and allow him an hon
est and intelligent means of meas
uring his ability against the prob
able demands of his instructors.
Objects To Exams In Schwab
TO THE EDITOR: On Friday, Jan. 18,1 was one of the multitude
who took a final exam in Schwab auditorium. The conditions under
which the exams were given not only discouraged concentration
but eliminated the possibility of
turning in A coherent bluebook.
The seats in Schwab were surely
never meant to be used as desks,
and the art of balancing boards
upon shaky knees and writing
upon them is particularly difficult
to master under stress. The light
ing in the building is horribly in
adequate, and the chimes of Old
Main sounded unbelievingly loud
and nerve-wrecking.
Perhaps it was because of ex
cessive anxiety that these physical
characteristics were so terribly
annoying, but it seems to me that
in a school such as ours where
so much emphasis is placed upon
• Some 3000 persons, most of whom are freshmen, take full
time College work under the extension services. Some 12,000 take
part-time evening instruction, while approximately 6000 others pur
sue correspondence courses. The informal instruction services reach
hundreds of thousands annually through short courses, institutes,
conferences, lectures, demonstrations and the like. Last year over
two million persons jvere served by the film library alone.
REAL SAVING
fUESDAy, FEBRUARY 6,1951
By Bibler
It- would also discourage the no
tion that there is something cland
estine about last year’s questions.
This guessing-game atmosphere is
childish and suggests what, let us
hope, is not , true that our
courses are so' limited or stereo
typed in their ideas, facts, and
techniques that examination ques
tions have to be frequently re
peated.
L.F.Peck
the results of the final examina
tion, and on a campus vast enough
to lavishly accommodate farm
animals, better rooms should be
made available to those who are
taking final examinations and as
piring to do well.
Name withheld
Ed. Note Scheduling Officer
Ray Watkins yesterday told
Collegian that the College rec
ognizes the inadequacy of
Schwab auditorium as an exam
room but that it is the only
room on campus now which
will hold the large numbers en
rolled in some courses.
To the BX
TO ,