PAGE FOUR 011 r Batty Collegian Successor to TUE 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 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 tto Edward Shanken .11Aly? Editor Business Mgr. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor, Jane Reber; copy editors, Andy McNeillie, Mary Stark; assistants, Torn Saylor, Margaret Trolier, John Sheppard, Charles Mathias, Marilyn Yingst. Advertising manager, Ray Victor; assistant, Nancy Marcinek. Attendance Hurt Honors Program The addition of an Honors Day program to the yearly calendar of events at Penn State must stand as one of the most outstanding and worthwhile projects of the first year of Prexy Milton S. Eisenhower. Virtually every college or university which dares to call itself such has a program .similar to the one held here for the first time last Wednesday. Included in the program were the 'installation of the All-College President, the presentation of the 13 top scholastic honors, and the presen tation of awards to five distinguished alumni. • The innovation of the Distinguished Alumnus Awards is in itself a significant step forward. Since the College is not able to present honorary degrees, many of the outstanding men and wo men the College has sent into every walk of life have gone without recognition from their Alma Mater. The distinguished Alumnus awards fill that gap. A shortcoming of the program, as indeed the Prexy himself recognized, was the failure to recognize outstanding academic accomplish ments. Without burdening the program too much, service to the College could also be recognized at such an occasion. The major shortcoming of the affair, how ever, 'was the completely dismal showing made by the undergraduates and by the faculty. A generous guess is that less than 900 attended the ceremony. Faculty members have been wont to criti cize the students for failing to attend the ceremony. Let them remember, however, that there are appioximately 1000 on the _faculty. Where were they last Wednesday? For the student body there is little excuse for the poor attendance. Advance notice and publicity were ample. Classes were dismissed for an hour and a half. But the overwhelming majority of the students accepted the hour and a half simply as that much more time to loaf. The thousands of students who swarmed down the Mall past the open doors of Schwab Auditorium did so in disrespect for their own student government, for their fellow students honored during the ceremonies, for the honor ed alumni, and fc= the Prexy. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT For information eonc2rning the following jobs, applicants should stop in 112 Old Main. Room in exchange for work available for all summer EZEIM! Summer sales,. opportunities: Electrolux Better Brushes The Bible: commission basis; optional territory. . . . . .. . . .. . . _ Representatives from Lillian Taylor Camp, Valensia, Pa. will be on campus Wednesday, May 9 between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Positions in general counseling and maintenance are available for men and women students. See its many unusual feature; at the--- Centre Co. &lager 454 66 -7 . 404_408EW motto blear farm a Cason Siete State College THE DAILY COLLEGT.AN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Changes Made to Frosh Customs Customs returned to the Penn State campus last year for the first time since pre-World War II days. Despite the fact that program was new and different to most people on campus, the program went off well. There were few excesses, and what excesses there were were handled by the Hat Societies Council, the group charged with responsibility for carrying out the program. As was to be expected, the program had several shortcomings. In order to eliminate some of these shortcomings, three additions and six changes have been made. Women's and men's customs will be parallel in so far as possible. Because of previous plans by the Freshman Customs and Regulations Board, this coordination will not be complete this year. Although only men may "inflict" customs on men and the women on the women (as was the rule last year), the new code makes it possible for frosh of both sexes to participate in mixed cheering and singing under the di rection of upper classmen and women. In addition, incoming freshmen will be given advance notice of the program, and the program itself will be shorter. The six changes in the program correct some of the failures of last year's customs. No changes or additions however, compel upper class parti cipation in the program. With the program in its infancy last year, it was to be expected that en forcing of customs would be in the hands of the hat societies, which could function as organized groups. Even then, however, participation by the student body was requested. Upperclass participation was poor last year. It will have to improve next fall if a.sane and constructive customs program is to continue. Gazette . . . Tuesday, M ) ay 8 ANDROCLES, Phi Kappa Psi, 8 p.m. CAMPUS CHEST, PSCA office, 8:30 p.fii. CHRISTIAN. SCIENCE organization, •Home Economics living quarters, 8:05 p.m. • CIRCLE AND SQUARE, 304 Old Main, 6:30 p.m. COLLEGIAN business candidates, 2 Car negie Hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN business junior and sophomore boards, 9 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. ENGINEERING student council, 107 Main Engineering, 7 p.m. FROTH, .promotion, junior, sophomore, and candidates 100 Carnegie Hall 7:30 p.m. FROTH circulation staff, 405 Old Main, 7:30 p.m. MI STUDENT COUNCIL, 107 Willard Hall, 7 p.m. NAACP, 303 Willard Hall, 7:30 p.m. NEWMAN club, business meeting, 219 Elec trical Engineering, 7 p.m. PANHELLENIC COUNCIL, 208 Willard Hall, 7 p.m. PI LAMBDA THETA, get acquainted meet ing, McElwain lounge, 7:30. WRA BOWLING, White Hall alleys, 7 p.m. WRA FENCING, White Hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Further information concerning interviews and job place rents can he obtained. in 112 Old Main. s . . Koppers Company will interview Juniors in Chem. Eng.. C.E., and Chem. for summer work Friday, May 18. A 1.5 average and veterans are preferred. Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Company will interview June graduates interested in insurance sales who live in one of the following counties: Franklin, Cumberland, Juni ata. Perry. York, Dauphin, Lancaster, . and Lebanon on Tuesday, May 15. The Otis Elevator Company will interview June graduates in M.E. and E.E. Wednesday. May 16. 35min CAMERA by really new type, flat, compact, all metal little camera with built-in coupled range-finder. Developed by skilled Voigt lander araftemeas. Film Lab the new ... ESSA Little "It's hard to believe that in one week finals will make this busy students will come early just to . get a seat." Safety Valve . . Can 'Rides Wanted' List Be Returned TO THE EDITOR: I wish to register my disniay and general concern at the seem ingly uncalled-for movement of the information sheets for\ dri vers and passengers from Old Main to the. TUB. For over four years• noixi -I•lsave - rmade - use' of 'these sheets both as a passenger and, more recently, a driver and have:found them a valuable con- vemence. Their previous location has al ways seemed to be an ideal one since it can not be denied that Old Main is truly the crossroads of the campus. On the other hand, while the. TUB is a more conven ient location for some of \ the dor mitories, the extra time consum ing walk involved for the great majority of the student body is considerable. In addition, I find it hard to swallow the fact that the NSA intends to police and impose penalties upon the. student using this convenience when the lists have been operating successfully without interference for so long. Surely, the members of the NSA can find more useful outlets for their excess energy. I would very much appreciate hearing any reasons that the NSA might have, for not moving the lists babk to Old Main as soon as possible. —Gilbert H. Friedman STARLITE DRIVE-IN ON ,BELLEFONTE ROAD . SHOWTIME 8:30 P. M. TUESDAY "Saddle Tramp" (Technicolor) Joel McCrea Wanda Hendrix Also Selected Short Subjects Wednesday & Thursday • . • "Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town" Marjorie Main Percy Kilbride Also Selected Short Subjects On C It's Tough To Publish TO THE EDITOR: There are scores of young literary artists who have turned out novels that can't get into print because the publishers don't want to take any risk with unknowns who insist on turning out fiction that's far from the conventional. They're having a much tougher, time than the literary artists of thirty years ago. About eighty per cent of our post-1912 critics, novelists, poets, and - story-tellers were first print ed in little magazines. Now the little magazines have folded be- Cause of rising costs and the pub lic's preference for picture maga- , zines like Life, Look, Pic, and the like, or mass circulation maga zines like "Reader's Indigestion" ; which use their media primarily for the purpose of indoctrinating the public into a firmer accep tance of the "American Way of Life." Most magazines accept little original stuff today, pre- 1 . ferring to keep their own staff writers on tap to do hurry up jobs - along specified- lines. Such a stable of prize jackasses costs less, too. Many freelance authors are complaining that it is ten times as hard to sell a piece as it was, say, twenty years ago. The staff writers who do most of the wrif ing today are high-class pressi tutes. There's no doubt about it— the system is raising hell with artistic creativeness. 300 WAR N E d-utto arataatie HELD OVER! MARIO LANZA "THE GREAT CARUSO" glMt • GENE EVANS STEVE BRODIE STEEL HELMET l'reserded in Cooperation with Romance Language • Dept. ORPHEUS English Titles TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1951/ By Bibler= D ~r c=> 4==> c=, <=' • • f 1111 place so —A Druschel
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