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Saeeoror to THE . FREE LANCE, est.-1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in
allusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College.
Watered as deond-claw matter July 5, 1934, at the State
College„ Pa.. Pod Offiee,under the act of March 3, 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers,
Mt necessarily the policy of . the newspaper. Unsigned edl•
lowish" are by :he editor.'
Dean Gladfelter
Editor '46D''''
Managing Ed., John Dalbor; City Ed., Herbert Stein;
Sports Ed., Ray Koehler: Edit. Dir., John Ashbrook; Wire
Rd, Art Denning; Society Ed.. beanie Krebs; Feature Ed..
Janet Rosen; Asst. City Ed., Jack Boddington; Ant. Sports
Rd., Joe Bren; Asst. Society Ed., Bettina dePalma; Senior
Board, Bill Detweiler.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Paul Beighley; copy editors:
Mary Krasnansky, Lee Stern; assistants: Vir
ginia Opoczenski, Arnold Bloom, Anne Cohen,
Jack Cunningham.
Advertising staff: Dick Smith, George Yus
eavage, Bob Walker, Nancy Marcinek, Rita
Keeney, Janet Londeau; Carolyn Green.
Students To Hear
Final Exams Views
Much general interest has developed in the
senior class proposal to eliminate final 'exams
for graduating seniors. The proposal has re
ceived All-College cabinet's support and now is
being examined by the senate committee on
academic standards.
MANY STUDENTS, especially seniors, have
given the idea their unqualified support. Per
haps they have done so without carefully con
sidering the numerous aspects of the plan.
Many problems would have to be solved
before any plan for elimination of senior finals
could be effected. What provisions should be
made for those seniors who wish to or, be
cause of low grades, would have to take
finals? How would faculty members view the
program? Would elimination of senior finals
affects the academic standing of the College?
What provisions should be made in courses
where the final is the only exam given during
the semester? Is elimination of finals for
seniors the best method of alleviating exam
week congestion?
Questions of this nature will be argued to
night in a debate sponsored by the Liberal Arts
student council. The issue to be debated is,
"Resolved that eighth semester seniors be
exempt from final exams." John Erickson,
senior class president, and cabinet Parliamen
tarian Marlin Brenner will take the affirmative
side. Arguing the negative will be all-College
Vice-President Harry Kondourajian and David
Lewis, member of 'the varsity debate team.
Prof. Joseph O'Brien, debate coach, will serve
as chairman.
STUDENTS WILL FIND tonight's debate a
valuable opportunity to hear a variety of view
points on the exam issue. Especially, it should
be of value to graduating seniors who, if a
change in exam policy is approved, will be the
first to be affected by the new policy.
. The senior exams debate will be held in 10
, Sparks, beginning at 7:45 o'clock. There are
at least 408 interested persons to fill 10 Sparks'
408 seats, so better get there early.
Smaller Diploma
The old sheepskin—despite the fact that it is
supposed to symbolize achievement after four
years of hard work— is the butt of many jokes.
No doubt part of this is due to the very physical
characteristics of the diploma itself.
PENN STATE DIPLOMAS, like those of
many other colleges, are monstrous things,
larger for example, than a page of the Collegian.
Few students will frame - and hang on their living
room walls something of that size, and so,• to all
intents and purposes, many of the sheepskins to
be handed out this June virtually will be wasted.
As the senior class president pointed out to
cabinet recently, for some years to come few
of us will be living' in large mansions where
there is sufficient wall space to hang these
- mammoth sheepskins. The small apartment is
the mode of living to which many June grad
uates will have to accomodate themselves,
and many diplomas will remain rolled up in
their containers without serving any useful
purpose.
Some colleges have adopted the smaller size
diploma—perhaps one fourth the size of the
present monstrosity—which is much more suit
able for display about the house and is much
more easily moved. Many of these come- in
leather covers which provide added conven
ience.
A CABINET COMMITTEE, with the senior
class president as chairman, now is investigating
the possibility of having the smaller size
diploma adopted at Penn State. It is now too
late for anything to be done to provide smaller
diplomas for this year's graduates, but, if the
committee is successful in its project, future
graduates will be' able to have more displayable
symbols of their four years of college work.
The possibility also remains that this year's
seniors who are particularly interested in having
small diplomas may be able to obtain them later.
Every graduating student receives a diploma
and every student who expects to be grad
uated from Penn State therefore should have
some interest in the committee's progress.
Student opinion should make itself known_
and should datetiakieill smemelk&iliefis Sir emir
Owen E. Landon
Business Mgr.
—John Ashbrook
_
TEE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Fac,ulty Rating Plan
Worth Close Study
The NSA proposal for a faculty rating plan,
presented to cabinet recently, deserves close
study and careful consideration. It is true that
the technique of students' rating their instruc
tors still is in the experimental stage, but this
should' not. preclude consideration of a program
that may prove valuable to the College, the in
structors, and the students themselves.
THE RESULTS of rating questionnaires, if
students:answer the questions candidly and in
structors are willing to "view them dispassion
ately, could be of aid to the faculty in improving
its quality of work. (This is not to charge the
Penn State faculty with low level teaching, but
rather to note that t,here usually is room for
improvement, no matter how go6d the prof and
the course.)
By studying questionnaires results, the prof
can take steps toward. strengthening himself'
on these counts. It will provide the' prof with
information about himself that usually is not
available and which may help him greatly in
getting ideas and information across to his
students.
The College, too, could be aided, if only in
attaining a more valid self-appraisal based upon
investigation rather than intuition. Cases of
flagrant incompetence could be spotted more
quickly and faster remedies could _result. Fur
thermore, any improvement in the faculty would
add increased prestige to the College.
THE STUDENT, should such a plan prove
successful, would benefit most directly by an
increasingly high level of instruction, and that,
after all, is what everyone involved in the
educational process should be aiming for.
Such a program, if it is undertaken, should
not be.viewed merely as a chance foi students
to "get back" at their profs, but rather as a
coperative process at Penn State. It would
require a willingness of the students to give
their objective, candid opinions, and a willing
ness of the faculty and administration to ac
cept, those opinions for what they are worth.
Self-knowledge is the -starting point for all
pr6dUce the self-knoWledge necessary to pro
self-improvement. Faculty rating might well'
vide a basis for further improvement of teach
ing at Penn State.
Gazette ...
Tuesday, March 6
ACEI Atherton lounge, 7:30 p.m.
ALPHA-KAPPA PSI mixer, 'Delta Chi,. 7:30
CHESS clitb, 3 Sparks, .7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN business candidates, 2 Carnegie
hall,• 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN business junior and sophomore
boards; 9. Carnegie. hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN editorial candidates, 1 Carnegie, ,
Hall, 7:30 p.m. •
COLLEGIAN circulation sophomore board,
Collegian office, 7 p.m.
ENG. STUDENT council, 107 Main Engi
neering, 7 p.m. •
HAT SOCIETIES council, student government
room, Old Main, 8:30 p.m.
MARKETING club, 124 Sparks, 7 p.m.
MI STUDENT council, 107 Willard, 7 p.m.
NEWMAN club, movie, 110 Electrical Engi
neering.
PENN STATE club, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m.
PSYCHOLOGY club, 204 Burrowes, 7:30 p.m.
• SIGMA TAU, discussion of local constitution
and by-lays, 219 Electrical Engineering, 8:30
p.m.
WRA BOWLING, White hall' alleys, 7 p.m.
WRA FENCING, White hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Farther informatlan concerning interviews and lob place
ments can he obtained ,M , 112 Old Main.
Seniors' who turned in• preference sheets will be given
priority in scheduling interviews foir 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.
Shell Prpduction company will interview June graduates
at the B.S. and M.S. level in Chem. Eng.. E.E. Geol., Min
ing Eng., and P.N.G. Eng. and at the Ph.D. level in Phys.
Thursday, March 15.
Philadelphia Electric company will interview June grad
uates in EX and M.E. Thursday, March 15.
Corning Glass works will interview June graduates' in
Chem. Eng., Chem. Phys., Arch Eng., C.E., E.E.,
and Metal. Friday, March IG.
Babcock & Wiltox company will interview June graduates
in M.E., 1.E., Metal., E.E. Chem Eng., Chem., Fuel Tech.,
Cer...Bnic. Phys..and C.E. Friday, March 10.
U.S. Geological survey representative will be on campus
March '7 to explain opportunities to interested students.
both juniors and seniors. Students are invited to attend
meeting at 2 or 3 'p.m. in 304 Old Main.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs, applicants
should stop in 112 Old Main.
'Electrical draftsman who can give three consecutive
hou'rs several times . a week.
Student wife for' permanent, full-time job on' campus
handling mimeographing and supplies.
•Agriculture student who, will be in State College through
the summer, to work in local tavern in exchange for room
and board; preferably of small stnture.
Representative of Camp Kowa, Bench Lake, Pa., will
be in 112 Old Main this afternoon; men interested in sum
mer.jobs as nature and sports counselors.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL'
Nancy Allebach, Carolyn Alley, Barry An
thony, Dan Babcock, Georgette Babos, Wayne
Baldwin, :Thomas Cooke, John Duecker, Edwin
Godfrey, James Halton, Betty Healey, Edward
Kamykowiki, Raymond Kenra, Andrew Kras
sowski, David Lowitz, Sam Marino, William
Mullen, John Pagonis, William Reagan, George
Rohrer, Nancy Rust, Lawrence SchniePp, James
Segmiller, Mary Lou Specht, Fred Stanley,
Charles Vandenberg, Charles Walton, Peter
Little Mast Oat Campos
• nd as a member of our house; you'll enjoy our
friendly rivalry with the fraternity next door."
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Jeopardizing My Happy Room
If you haven't met my landlady, you have missed one of the
more fascinating elements of local culture.
I'm probably jeopardizing my happy room by writing this, but
I'll chance it on the grounds that she doesn't read the Collegian..
THE LATEST of her activities,
for instanee, is a campaign to
send fruit:
_juice to the boys in
Korea: I'm not exactly sure that
the bOys in Korea need fruit juice
or that Centre county needs to
distinguish itself, by sending the
stuff, but if she says so, it's okay
with me.
There'-are undoubtedly many
other worthy ladies aiding in
the search for. extra cans of
fruit juice' but, knowing her, I
Suspect she is bath the organ
izer and. leading collector. She
has a personal interest, of
course, as' her son has, been in
Korea: since soon after the
fighting brake out.
I also suspect the boys would
prefer to be sent a few cans of
beer, but 'this would never do,
since she is 'also -an ardent sup
porter of the Women's Christian
Temperance /union.
But not• a • stodgy one. Oh, no.
She would ,never tell me, "You
shouldn't drink." No, she's much
too intelligent for that.
SHE WILL simply quote from
the latest issue of Tap and Tav
ern on the fabulous amount of
money Spent each year for booze.
The United Nations spent an un
believable sum on liquor last
year. She says the world would
be much better off if the dele
gates spent more money getting
Pleasantly Profane Thought-Provoker
You know those stories about the French? Well, here's the
latest edition, straight from the wires of the Associated Press, and
a pleasantly profane little throught-provoker it is too. To quote:
"A Catholic labor leader today
was named to examine whether
models who pose in the nude are
entitled to social security bene
fits "
Now, offhand, we can't think
of any way we'd rather have our
Marshall p 1 a n dollars invested
than in support of indigent nek
kidness, but we must register a
violent protest on one point at
least. If Americans are footing
the Americans are darned
well entitled to examine the mod
els themselves; let the labor lead
ers have their fun on their own
coinage.
The, story goes on to say that
22-year-old Micheline, who
brought
• .the suit, did not want
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1951
You
Name It
By HERBERT STEIN
down to cases of fad instead of
cases of brew.
At one point she even sug
gested, subtly, .that I ought to
change my name. Stein, she
said, was too mu- •
Cation. She suggested kbg.. same
thing to the editor of the town
pa per, a longtime frienu of
her's. His name is Weinstein
and she couldn't stand that at
all. It's a double barreled temp
tation, she said.
State College should lay claim
to being ,the bongiest town in
Pennsylvania. Walking down
South Allen street about 6 o'clock
some evenings you can hear in
succession the bongs of Old Main,
the bongs of a town clock and
the bongs of a local church. They
ought to get together and work
out some kind of harmony.
THE ATMOSPHERE, of college
life which brings out all those
gags you hear about absent
minded profs is not as far-fetched
as you might think. I found my
self staring at my socks one day
last week trying to figure out
why they didn't match when
I discovered that' one was on' in
side out. If this sort of thing
keeps up, I may apply for a
teaching position.
her full name used since it was
"a friendly case." It's nice to
know that Michelins is friendly,
and even nicer to know that she's
22 years old.
But if we may offer a friendly
word of advice to'friendly Mich
eline: Should you fall victim to
a female jury and lose your suit,
(as you evidently have in the
past), you needn't starve. Flash
the word by way of the AP, and
we are sure the sympathetic men
of Penn State will forward your
passage here.
Don't bring a lot of clothes,
though.
By Bibler
Ron Bonn