PAGE FOUR A Statement On Collegian Policy With this issue a new staff assumes control of and responsi bility for the editorial content of the Daily Collegian. Although there may be, in in dividual cases as they arise, changes in Collegian policy under this new regime, there will be no change in the basic policy of the Collegian in regards to the cov erage of campus news. So that there may be no confu sion, let Collegian's news policy be clearly defined. . Collegian makes every reason able effort to cover all the major news on campus and to print in formation of interest to special segments of the student body. Although as a student newspaper we are under obligation to cover the news in general, we are under no obligation to publish any par ticular item. News play is a relative matter, contingent upon what is happen ing on an uncounted number of news fronts. We cannot at any time promise to give major pro minence to any story, or even to guarantee that it will be printed. Naturally Collegian does its best to print as much of the sig nificant and interesting news that it can, but each story must be evaluated in relation to other stories breaking the same day. As regards campus politics, Collegian favors neither party, but cannot always alot equal space for news which is not of equal or significance. Collegian editorial writers are given virtually free rein in order `Please Vote' Old But Worthy Story With student council elections due to begin this morning, it is once again time to run off the usual "please vote" editorial. Last year, an unprecedented turnout for the elections of council members in six of the Col lege's eight schools resulted in a record of 30 - per cent participating in the balloting. This ridiculously low figure does not indicate anything in particular, except perhaps apathy. The reason could be because not enough stu dents know what the councils are for and what they do. Each year $lOOO is divided, among the eight school councils to be used for whatever they see fit during the year. Concern over $lOOO of student money should, in itself, be sufficient to bring more than 30 per cent to the polling places. The student councils, since they are in posi tions to maintain close contact with the deans of the schools, often help in formulating policies that very directly affect all the students of the respective schools. The councils are not compact bodies, but are fairly large groups, composed of representatives of all four classes. Large as they are, they find it necessary to convene from two to four times a month in order to conduct their business. Since those nominated for the positions have shown themselves inclined to do this work, the favor of a vote is not too much to ask of the individual student. —Bud Fenton • Mlr %jig Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive 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 i State College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March .3. 1879. Collegian editorials represent the 'viewpoints of the writ ers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned editorials are by the editor. Mary Krasnansky tl> 1 Edward Shanken Editor Business Mgr. Managing Ed.. Ron Bonn; City Ed.. George Glazer: Sports Ed., Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir., Bud Fenton: Asst. to the Ed., :Dorian Mills; Wire Ed., Len Kolasineki; So ciety Ed.. Carolyn Barrett; Feature Ed.. Rosemary De lahanty: Asst. City Ed., Pan! Poorman: Asst: Sports Eds., Dave Colton. Robert Vosburg: Asst. Society Ed., Greta Weaver: Librarian, llob Schooley: Exchange Ed., Paul Reichley; Senior Board, Lee Stern. Asst. Bus. Mgr., Jerry Clibanoff: Advertising Dir., Tiow•ard Itolacy: Local Adv. Mgr.. Bob Leyburn; Circu lation Co-Mgrs., Jack Ilorsford, Joe Sutovsky: Personnel Mgr.. Carolyn Alley; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Koons, Melvin Glass; Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax: Office Mgr., Tema Kleber: Secretary. Nan Bierman; Senior Board, Don Jacket. Dorothy Naveen, Joan Morosini. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor, Bob Fraser; copy editors, Joan Kuntz, Janie Reber; assistants, Tom Saylor, Lix Newell, Alice Doles, Nancy Luetzel, Sally Miller. Advertising manager, George Yuscavage; assistants, Dick Smith, Janet Wallace, Ray Vic tor, Nancy Marcinek, Rita Keeney. VIE DAILY COLLEutAiI, bTATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA to present as many viewpoints as is possible. Editorials express the opinion of the writer and are sub ject to standards of good writing, good taste, and good sense. In its editorial columns Collegian feels free to criticize student govern ment, the student body, the ad ministration, and any other cam pus groups and individualS, and to comment on off-campus events. There is not a set, editorial policy on any particular issue. Collegian's idea is to present viewpoints rather than dogma. As to general editorial policy, we are for the College, but this does not prevent us from seeking to correct what we think to be amiss. Collegian is partly financed by student funds, is published by and for students, and it therefore feels an obligation to the student body as a whole. We believe that the Collegian can serve the stu dents best by being a newspaper, not a propaganda machine for any group or organization. No special group is synonymous with the student body. Thus, news stories are not considered by us as pub licity, but as news, and they are printed because of their news value. News stories are written as matters of fact, not because Col legian supports the views ex pressed therein. Reporters are ex pected to make every attempt to be unbiased and objective. It should be remembered that writ ing is a subjective process and re porters—even the best of them— Safety Valve ... Wants 'Linesman' As Senior Gift TO -THE EDITOR: Seniors! Penn State is fast becoming known for its good taste in acquiring outstanding works of art. We believe that such works as. Mr. Henry Varnum Poor's murals in Old Main and our Lion shrine are enjoyed by all students. These were senior class gifts of past years. This year, seniors are getting the opportunity to present another major piece of art to Penn State. This is the statue, "The Linesman," beautifully sculptured in red Swedish granite by William Zorach. Mr. Zorach was a guest lecturer last semester, making a lasting. im pression on those who had the pleasure of hearing him . "The Linesman" could be placed in the court yard of the new dorms, on the Mall, or in the main entrance plaza of our proposed Student Union building. The cost of only $5OOO would still leave $3OOO for another gift. Let's give something beautiful and memorable "The Linesman." Gazette ... COLLEGE PLACEMENT Further information concerning interviews and job Place ments can be obtained in 112 Old Main. Equitable Life Assurance society graduates in C&F Saturday, May I, National Biscuit company will interview June graduates in Chem. Eng., E.E., and M.E. Monday, May 7. Electric Storage Battery 'company" will interview June graduates in Chem. Eng., Chem., and E.E. Thursday, May 10. Bell Aircraft Helioeopter division will interview June graduates interested in working on heliocopters Monday, May 7. Harbison-Walker Refractories company will interview June graduates in Chem. Eng., M.E., and Cer. Wednesday, May 9. Pennsylvania Railroad will interview June graduates in E.E. and M.E. Monday, May 7. Air Preheater corp. will interview June graluates in M.E., C.E., and a few in E.E. and Cheni. Eng. Thursday, May 10. Portsmouth Naval shipyard will interview June graduates in M.E.. E.E., and C.E. Wednesday, May 9. Aluminum Company of America will interview June graduates in M.E., 1.E., Metal., and Chem. Eng. Friday, May 11. Standard Pressed Steel company will interview June graduates in Metal., M.E., 1.E., and C&F Wednesday, May 9. H. J. Heinz company will interview students with a basic training in Chem. & Biology 'for summer work Monday, May 14. Navy Bureau of Ordnance will interview June graduates in Chem. Eng., Chem., Phys., Aero. Eng., C.E., E.E . 1.E., M.E., S.E.. Metal., Meteo., Mining Eng., and PNG • Tues day, May 16 , Allen B. bumont Laboratories will interview June grad uates in E.E. Thursday, May 17. For information concerning the following jobs, applicants shOuld stop in 112 Old Main. West Dorm residents wanted for regular work in dining commons for remainder of semester at 60 cents an hour. Male student wanted to work all three summer sessions in exchange for room on 300-block East Hamilton • street. Waiters and counter boys for local restaurant at 60. cents per hour. are subject to the normal human failings. Collegian will not knowlingly withhold names from ne w s stories, nor suppress • information, merely because it might reflect to the discredit of some persons or groups. The persons and groups are responsible for their words and actions, not the Collegian. However, all such material will be wdighed and not be printed unless it is deemed to be in the public interest. Collegian has the right to report the proceedings of any meeting which is also open to the public and is a matter of record. We take a dim view of those persons who, in open meetings,, request that their words not be reported. We shall require good and sufficient reason for not publishing their remarks. Collegian also reserves the right to report details of any meeting to which a reporter has been admitted ,in his capacity as a reporter, and if secret pro cedings are to take place the re porter should be asked to leave. However, the fact that he has been asked to leave will be re ported if it is •significant. Since it feels free to criticize, Collegian is open to criticism from any quarter and welcomes it. We object strongly, however, to the attitude that Collegian is expected to support any particu lar group, person, or program. We reserve the right to think for. ourselves. . . —The Senior Board —Members of Scarab, architectural honorary, and Phi Gamma Alpha. art honorary. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT will interview Jane Little Man On, Cam "Avr, this course ain't so rough. I never crac lait semester." "Judge people by the company they keep" is an old proverb. Like most proverbs it sometimes applies and sometimes does not apply. In the current American scene it seems to be a watchword. "Judge people by the company they keep." Guilt by,lassociation. If you are unfortunate enough to have belonged to one of those organizations that _has been tagged "red" or "red front" by the United States attorney general or the committee on un-American activities, that makes you a red or red-fronter, This is the sort of thing' that can work both ways, however, as we will attempt ,to. show.. On April 11 Generalissimo Franco was given the Medal of Merit of the American Legion in recognition of• "his valiant fight against Communism."' The medal was presented. by a represenative of Earl Cocke. Jr., national com mander of the Legion. Were anyone to suggest that the Legion were a fascist or fas cist-front group, all heck would break loose. But, this is exactly the same kind of reasoning the Legion and other self-appointed patriotic defenders of the "truth" (as they see it) have applied. Pennsylvanians were given a taste of this kind of reasoning not too long ago when the pro tests of the Legion led to the can cellation of a dance program by the Pearl Primus dancers in Har risburg. That the protest of the Legion against Miss Primus was responsible for the cancellation of the show here at Penn State seems painfully obvious. What was the Legion charge against Miss Primus? Her associa tion with certain unnamed New York organizations. The Legion used this flimsy guilt by association technique with success against Miss Pri mus, and can be expected to use it again. The Legion succeeded in barring Miss Primus without even naming the organizations she is said to have been associated with. This is kangaroo evidence in a Gazette . . . U=MEM 7 .I BELLES LETTRES club, Prof. D. K. Merill speaker, North East Atherton, 7 p. m . CHRISTIAN SCIENCE organi zation, 409 Old Main, 8:05 p.m. COLLEGIAN business candi dates, 2 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN business junior and sophomore boards, 9 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. INTERNATIONAL RELA TIONS club, election of officers, 218 Willard Hall, 7:15 p.m. LIBERAL ARTS student coun cil, 108 Willard Hall, 8 p.m., NITTANY BOWMEN, 209 En gineering C, 7 p.m. PANHELLENIC council, 20& Willard Hall, 7 p.m. The Way We See It By MARV -KRASNANSKY kangaroo court. This is the same kind of evi dence, the same kind of logic by which the Legion could stand convicted of being a fascist or ganization. There is another interesting and important facet to the case under discussion. In its eagerness to fight communism, the Legion has probably contributed to the communist propaganda machine. President Eisenhower, among Others, has on more than one occasion suggested that the war we are fighting today is a war for men's minds. It is an ideological war, a war in which our footing is precariously weak if we choose the Francos and the Perons of the world as our allies. The memory of Commander Cocke may be short, but the people of the world have not for gotten who were the allies of Franco. As the New York Post asked, "why isn't (the Legion) presenting posthumous decora tions to Franco's ex-partners—a couple of guys named Adolf and Benito?" , - So we have the rather disgust ing picture of the voice of the American veteran honoring an ally whose former partners snuffed out American lives 'in a war from which the guns are still cooling. And neither, it might be added, is Franco himself en tirely clean of American and Allied blood. k • The men in the Kremlin must have had a big laugh over this one. PENN STATE club, nomina tions and movies, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m. PSYCHOLOGY club, movies, 204 Burrowes, 7:30 p.m. WRA BOWLING, White Hall alleys, 7 p.m. WRA FENCING, White Hall, 7 p'.m. WRA OUTING club, Southwest Atherton, 5 p.m. Geraldine Brown, Bea Cetlin, Bob Decker, Don Farley, Bernard Friedman, David Garfield, Joe Gratson, James Griffin, Bill Halt iwanger, Fred Hammond, Mary Kearns, Joe Mazurkiewicz. U iviPs. X -1, .1 bl. By Bible! ed a book in it COLLEGE HOSPITAL
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