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:fir Daily 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 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 , Edward Shanken
Editor Business Mgr.
Asst. Bus. Mgr., Jerry Clibanoff : Advertising Dir..
Howard Boleky; Local Adv. Mgr., Bob Leyburn; Circu
lation Co-Mgrs., Jack Borsford, Joe Sutoveky; Personnel
Mgr., Carolyn Alley; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Koons,
Melvin Glass; Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax; Office
Mgr., Tema Hither; Secretary, Nan Bierman; Senior Board,
Don Jackel, Dorothy Naveen, Joan Morosini.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Lynn Kahanowitz; copy editors:
Janie Reber, Mary Stark; assistants: Ronny
Lench, Paul Crofford, Bettie Loux, Ed Rolf.
Advertising manager: Morris Shanken; assist
ants: Bob Koons, Dorothy Naveen.
Change In Housing
Is Only Solution
Yesterday's announcement that part of the
West Dorm area would be taken over for wo
men's housing next fall will undoubtedly be
the cause of much campus discussion.
The outcome of all the talk must be that the
action, although unfortunate, has been taken
in the best interests of the College. An in
telligent view of the action cannot reach any
other conclusion 'than that the world situation
has made the move necessary.
Because of the world situation and the draft,
enrollment next fall is expected to drop to
around 8000. Currently there are more than
10,000 undergraduates enrolled here. In an effort
to offset this anticipated drop in enrollment the
College has opened up admissions to allow 700
more women to enter Penn State in the fall.
Classroom and laboratory facilities are avail
able. The only difficulty is housing. This prob
lem can only be met by turning some of the
male housing over to the women. There is no
other solution.
The additional women are necessary since
the College must operate its dormitories at
95 per cent of capacity in order to meet its
financial obligations. Currently the College
has a debt of $16,300,000. Financially there
is no other way out.
The President has said that a quota of rooms
in the West Dorms has been set aside for upper
classmen. A priority system, not yet worked out,
will determine what upperclassmen will live
in the area. We feel certain that student leaders
will be consulted to assist in the formulation of
this priority system.
The President has stressed that this is a
temporary policy. As soon as male enrollment
returns to normaL the College will return to
its former policy.
We take that as the solemn pledge of the
President. :We have never known him in the
past to go back on a pledge he has made to
the students. He will not this time.
AIM Necessary
For Independents
4 , If nothing else is accomplished, yesterday's
exposure of an organized attempt to discredit
and destroy the Association of Independent
Men should put an end to that effort.
And the end to the effort to destroy AIM
comes none too soon. The death of AIM would
have been the worst thing, that could have
happened to the independent man on campus.
It is a truism that the weakness of the inde
pendent man is that he is not organized. It has
been said that if independents were to organize,
they would be the most powerful group on cam
pus. Perhaps.
There is no doubt, however, that the future
of the Penn State independent lies in one organ
ization, not in two, or three, or four. At the
same time, AIM can be ná stronger than the
groups which compose it. This is true of every
organization.
AIM speaks for all independent men on cam
pus—all 4000 og more—not the 1600 in the
West Dorms, or the 1100 in the Nittany-Pol
lock area. And as the spokesman for all in
dependent men, it carries much more influ
ence than can a body representing any single
group.
An attempt to destroy AIM is an attempt to
strike a blow at every independent on campus.
AIM is every independent man. Without AIM
the independent man would be without a voice.
AIM must continue to function and grow.
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New Handbook
For Freshmen
The 1951 Student Handbook, which will be
distributed to the freshmen and new students
next September, seems to be the type of publi
cation which will become thp real "Freshman
Bible."
The Handbook, being compiled and edited
now, is being published by All-College Cabinet
for the first time, and is designed to include all
information that might be necessary or useful
to the "neophyte". at Penn State.
By combining several other pamphlets and
booklets with the usual Student Handbook, All-
College Cabinet intends, through the staff of
the book, to give the new student everything
he- or she needs in facts about the College.
The new combined Student Handbook, in
cluding the student gdvernment handbook,: the
All-College constitution, undergraduate regula
tions, and customs regulations, is a step by
student government to aid the students in their
initial campus days and can be fully appreciated
by those who recall the confusion that marks,
that period.
Safety Valve
Mr. 'X' Ripe For Business
TO THE EDITOR: Re: Article appearing in
the letters to the editor column under the title
"Language Hindrance" in the issue of May 10.
I often wonder why names are withheld from
your letters to the editor column, but in the
case of the person writing about the, School of
Liberal Arts, the answer is quite plain. Mr. "X"
was not very sure of himself. I should like to
answer his letter point by point.
He first writes of the "ambitious high school
graduate who enters Penn State to learn all
about accounting." According to Webster's in
fallible definition, a university is "an institution
for teaching and study in the higher branches of
learning and empowered to confer degrees in
theology, law, medicine, or the arts." It is to be
noted that a university does not confer a degree
in accounting. Since the Department of Com
merce and Finance finds itself within the School
of Liberal Arts - it is to be expected that its stu
dents are of a calibre to follow the curriculum
of the other students in the School of Liberal
Arts. If the "ambitious high school graduate"
is of that calibre , he will be able to do so. If Mr.
"X" would like to, learn only the difference be
tween a debit and a credit, he obviously belongs
in a business school where only commercial
subjects are taught and certainly has no busi
nes obtaining an A.B. degree.
He believes that a student studying one of
the foreign languages receives no benefit from
that study. It is a well known fact that a student
gets out of a course what he puts into it.
—Eleanor K. Paucker
• Letter Cut
Gazette ...
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Farther information _concerning interviews and job place
scents can 'ie obtained in 112 Old Main.
United States Steel will interview students for summer
work if enough are interested. Interested students should
leave their name in 112 Old Main before Thursday, May 17.
Clusters. Lock Haven, Pa. will interview June graduates
in C.E. Monday, May 21.
Fire Association of Philadelphia will interview June grad
uates in C&F and A&L Wednesday, May 23.
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Pennsylvania Water and Power Company representative,
Mr. Robert Meyer, will be on campus through Thursday.
May 17. He will be glad to discuss the power industry and
types of opportunities with any students in M.E.. E.E., or
C.E. He may be reached at the hydralics Lab, or at the
Nittany Lion Inn.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
For information concerning the following jobs, applicants
should stop in 112 Old Main.
Student with car to distribute Sunday papers for Stu
dent News Agency ; cash remuneration.
Stenographer available half-time and until November.
Man to lay church carpeting ; must be experienced ; must
have transportation; excellent pay.
Man over 21 to act as bartender ; local job evenings to
finish semester; can continue through summer.
. .
Ten to twelve men •to work on college farms today and
tomorrow beginning at 1 p.m.; transportation provided :
85c per hour.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
David Bain, Herbert Basselman, John Citron,
Carolyn De Hart, Gerhardt Eckelmann, Eugene
Finkelstein, Ruth Fry, Carolyn Green, Thomas
Owens, Thomas Huntley, Harry Laver, Leßoy
Loy, Ben Lukas, Bob Malburg, Don Powers,
James Ramsay, George Rosenkranz, Bill Schu
macher, Charles Wagner, George. Weber.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM: Goodbye My Fancy
STATE: Follow The Sun
NITTANY: A Life Of Her Own
STARLITE DRIVE-IN: For. Heaven's Sake
plus—Down Dakota Way
Little Man On Campus
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"They're ready but I think they're wise to our early-morning-duck
hunt They wanna know if we're taking guns."
Interpreting The News
China Embargo
Recalls 1935
• By J. M. ROBERTS ; JR.
Associated Press Foreign Affairs Analyst
For the second time in 16 years the nations which compose the
world's peace-loving community are about to try an embargo to
curb aggression.
Its effectiveness will depend heavily on something which hardly
existed the first time—the sincerity of the individual members of
the embargoing group
People everywhere got excited
in 1935 when the League of Na
tions voted sanctions against Italy
after Mmisolini's troops invaded
Ethiopia. The British government•
which had gotten on the' band
wagon only after some serious
dillydallying, found itself so pop
ular that it called a general elec
tion immediately to extend a term
of offide which was about to ex
pire.
The league started out with
a bang to enforce a virtual block
ade against Italy. Arms were em
bargoed, along with certain fi
nancial transactions and purchases
from Italy. But oil, coal, iron and
steel were never embargoed.
Pierre Laval , 1 .
It developed that France's in
famous Pierre Laval had made a
secret agreement with Britain's
Sir Samuel Hoare, before any
sanctions were adopted, that they
would not take steps leading to
military sanctions, naval block
ade or closure of - the Suez Canal
to Mussolini's shipments. They
also agreed on partial dismember
ment of Ethopia to appease Italy.
Sir Samuel lost his cabinet job
when the public found out.
The United States Government
tried to cooperate with League
aims. Having no embargo powers,
it obtained a voluntary agree
ment with the major oil com
panies not to supply Mussolini.
When Washington was unable to
assure Britain, however, that it
could control some of ;the small
independent companies, London
declined to include oil in .the
first sanctions. And later it still
resisted as Mussolini's military
successes made it appear 'an oil
FRIDAY MAY 18;-:1951
By Bil ler
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embargo might lead to military
unctions., Americans and Euro
peans continued a large part of
their business with Mussolini
throughout the "incident."
As the United Nations tries to
do something about war ship
ments to Red China, whose troops
are fighting men , from some of
the seller countries themselves.
there is no appearance of such
undercover tactics as scuttled the
League of Nations effort.
Some of the member countries,
such as Indonesia and India, how
ever, have indicated openly that
they will not go along. The British
ban on rubber Sales already is
being evaded. And more evasions
are likely amid the intrigues of
the Far East.
But despite all the shifting and
evasion by United Nations dip
lomats these days, morals do seem,
to be somewhat higher- than in
1935. •
'Farmer' Scheduled
To Appear Today
The Penn State Farmer is
scheduled to come out today, Da
vid Stabler, editor, announced
yesterday
The main feature of this issue
of the. Farmer will be the new
soil testing lab being installed in
Plant Industries Building.
Distribution points are the lob
bies of the Ag Hill buildings. The
magazine will be distributed both
today and tomorrow.
Anyone who does not get a
copy may pick one up in the
magazine room in the basement
of the Agriculture Building.