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11. r• Elattg Collegian
.ticeessor to THE — PREE LANCE. est. 7881
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 ander the act of March 3. 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers
net necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned edi•
teriala are by :he editor.
Dean Gladfelter
Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE
- Night editor: Ernie Moore; copy editors: Paul
Poorman, Len Kolasinski; assistants: Jake
Highton, Sally Miller, Bob Landis, Virginia
Schar, Bobbie Betancourt.
Advertising staff: Bob Leyburn, Dorothy
Naveen, Don Jackel, Reddie Morgan, Alison
Morley, Marty Cooper, Eliabeth Slotta, Morris
Shanken.
Improved System
For Coed Elections
WSGA and WRA are takin an ambitibus step
towards more enlightened elections with their
new self-nomination plan. Indeed, the old one
needed an uplift. Under it, the WSGA senate
and WRA board of control drew up slates of
candidates, which were augmented at mass
meetings. The mass meetings were usually
poorly attended and unorganied. As a result,
the chosen candidates were not aware of the
duties of their
• offices, campaigns were inad
equate, and the turnout at the polls was un
satisfactory.
ALL OF THESE ILLS are offered due remedy
in this new procedure. Every woman student
has the opportunity to seek nomination, upon
filing an application and being interviewed by
an application board. This board, in addition,
primes the girls on the duties of their positions.
Thus, it can be presumed that those who display
this initiative are interested in holding office.
The innovations do not end here. With the
hope of getting the women students acquainted
with their candidates, both WSGA and WRA
are campaigning for all their office-seekers.
They introduce the candidates at house meet
ings and display posteri containing uniform
pictures in the dormitory lobbies.
In order to make the individual campaigns
more democratic and less annoying to the wo
men students, restraints have been included in
the election code. Door-to-door electioneering
and posters in the lobbies are now tabodi, and
candidates are restricted to a $3 campaign ex
penditures minimum.
• GRANTED there are loose joints in this frame
work—there are still no clear-cut standards for
eliminating applicants. But, the foundation is
firmly based on democratic election procedures,
the enthusiasm has been excellent; the possibili
ties are manifold. The final proof will be in the
ballot boxes on March 15.
Safety Valve . . . .
Beg Breakfasts
TO THE EDITOR: In reference to the num
bers in the Foods building story by Bettie Loux
(March 7), I have made some calculations which
don't seem to check too closely with those in
the article.
Assuming that breakfast rolls are four inches
square, one can calculate that the College must
produce 722,004 rolls to place them end to end
for 45.6 miles. This is done by taking 45.6 miles
times 5280 feet per mile times 12 inches per foot,
'and dividing by four inches per roll. Even if
10,000 students ate in the dorms, it is doubtful
that each student eats 72 rolls for breakfast. My
figures may be off by several hundred thousand
but that's still a lot of rolls.
The amount of hot cereal consumed is another
point I would like to argue. Modern trailer tank
cars hold 4000 to 5000 gallons of material. Hot
cereal is usually served in the dorms in four
ounce ladles. Calculating in the following man-
Students!
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before Easter so bring
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Case For Retaining
Present Sheepskin
Serious consideration is now being given to
the possibility of altering the College's diploma.
Plans advanced call for a reduction in size from
tie present 14 x 17 to about a quarter of that.
THE CAUSE FOR THE CHANGE was set
forth and vigorously supported in a recent edi
torial on this page. The article went so far as to
call the conventional_sheepskin a "monstrosity,"
cited it as inconvenient, and claimed that it had
outlived its usefulnes.
Let us not be so hasty to part with tradition.
Let us remember that this completion of four
years in college, this conferring of a degree, is
a big thing, and that it merits big recognition—
physically big.
Let us remember for how long the sheepskin
has been the symbol of this big achievement,
until the slang term "sheepskin" has become
synonymous with the technical "diploma."
NOW ONE ARGUMENT ADVANCED against
the "monstrosity" is that "few students will
frame and hang on their living room walls
something of that size." Well, few students will
frame and hang on their living room walls di
plomas of any size—it isn't being done in living
rooms nowadays. And no matter how small the
apartment, if a student does want to frame his
diploma, he'll want to enough so that he can dig
up a wall bigger than 14 x 17.
Many have said that diplomas should be
handed out individually to graduates by the
President. This is a wonderful idea. They also
say it would be easier to give out the small di
plomas than the big ones. This is an annoying
idea. Must we always do things the easy, ex-
pedient way? Must we sacrifice a rather fine
tradition for convenience's sake? Certainly it
would be easier to give out the small shingles,
but as long as it is not impossible to give out
the big ones, the argument is not valid.
So, in summary, cabinet and the administra
tion would do well to think long and hard about
abridging the diploma. For when students are
graduated, they want and deserve a true di
ploma, not an elaborate lower division certifi
cate.
Gazette .
Friday, March 9
BEGINNERS' HEBREW class, Hillel founda
tion, 4 p.m.
PENN STATE BIBLE fellowship, 405 Old
Main, 7:30 p.m.
PENNS, VALLEY SKI club, square dance,
Faith Reformed church, 9-12 '
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Socony Vacuum will interview June graduates at B.S.
level in Chem. Eng., Geo-phys., E.E., and C.E., at M.S.
level in Geol. Monday, March 19.
Columbia Engineering corp. would like to have preliminary
application blanks from June graduates in Chem. Eng.,
C.E., E.E., and M.E.; blanks obtainable before Tuesday,
March 20.
American Smelting & Refining company will interview
June graduates in Metal. Monday, March 19.
General Motors corp. will interview juniors or graduate
students interested in summer employment in E.E.,
Chem. Eng., and Metal. Monday, March 19.
Campbell Soup company will interview' June graduates
in Ag-Bio.-Chem., Bact., Chem. Eng., M.E., Phys.,
Org. Chem., Biol., Ag Ed., Aa . . Ec., Bot., Acct., and
Agron. Monday, March 19.
General Motors corp. will interview June graduates at
the B.S. or M.S. level in M.E.. 1.E., E.E., Chem. Eng.,
Chem.. Metal.,Acct., Eng. Mech., Aero. Eng., and at M.S.
ar Ph.D. leve in Phys. Monday, March 19.
ner, one comes to the conclusion a great many
people eat more than their fair share of cereal.
Calculations: 128 ounces per gallon divided
by four ounces per serving times 10,000 gallons
gives the rather large number of 320,000 serv
ings. Again assuming 10,000 students eat in the
dorms, one cannot visualize anyone eating 32
bowls of cereal each morning.
By the way, just why would anyone want to
place breakfast rolls end to end from here to
Altoona?
—James Goodwin
Ed. Note—Wouldn't have enough rolls to go
any further.
Ron Bonn
PETE'S
PLACE
Our Specialties
Boneless Sirloin
Steaks
Ham Steaks
Pork Chops
Sea Foods
Lunches
Atop Nittany Mt.
Turn Right At
Pleasant Gap
On Route 53
Little Man On Campus
"It's of no use to try to impress me, Worthal. I'm afraid I'll still
have to put you on probation!'
Business School
For. Penn State
By JACK BODDINGTON
(The second of two articles dealing with the expansion of
business education at Penn State.)
With the Department of Economics and Commerce facing the
immediate problem of how to continue its remarkable progress
toward a notable standing in the field of business education, it
would seem essential that a solution be put into operation as soon
as possible.. The most complete and logical solution is the establish
ment of a separate school of , business.
THE PRESENT STAFF and administration of the department is
today is proving its ability, there
fore, most of the necessary man-
Power for such a plan is at the
College's disposal. Additions
would be necessary only as fur
ther expansion justified them.
What would be the major ad
vantages of the school? First
of all„sttnients desiring a corn- .
prehensive education in spe
cialized business fields have
been seriously hainpered by
'rather heavy liberal arts re
quirements, and recent sugges
tions by the LA planning com
mittee hint at an even gredter
burden. With rninirqum basic
commerce requirements 'added,
the student under the present
system will have only about 15
semester hours at his disposal
for those subjects most impor
tanf in his selected field.
Language requirements, absent
in the curricula of most of the
nation's better business schools
(including Bucknell, University
of. Pittsburgh, and University of
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FRIDAY, MARCH. 9, 1951
By Bibler
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Pennsylvania), have in the past
caused many students interested
in commerce to avoid the curric
ulum and even the College. Cer--
tainly the value of a broad edu
cation cannot be ignored, but a
separate school of business could
more effectively adjust its own
requirements to the needs of its
students. Fr e e semester hours,
now pitifully inadequate for
specialization, would be avail
able for concentrated study in ac
counting, marketing, retailing
an d merchandising, insurance;
etc.
AS DR. W. N. LEONARD,
head of the department, has ob=
served, there should not be a
clash between vocational and
academic work. There is now
that clash.
A second advantage would
lie in the raising of 'standards
and subsequently more rapid
acceptance in the business
(Continued on page five)
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