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lattg entlegiaft
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1881
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff or The Daily Co:legian
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 , mo.
Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Ted Soens, night editor; Andrew McNeillie,
Pat Nutter, copy editors; Dick Martz, Tom
Saylor, Martha Petrus and Jean Lathlaen,
assistants;
Ad Staff—Tema Kieber, Dorothy Naveen,
Laryn Sax.
Driver's Mistook
Poll for Purge
All students, during registration last week,
were asked to declare if they planned to. drive
on campus this semester, and if so to list - the
auto license number.
It appears now that many students took the
form as an underhanded method by campus
patrol to obtain a file on all student drivers
and consequently failed to complete the form
in the affirmative.
Few seem to realize that campus patrol has in
its office a file of Pennsylvania license plates
as complete as that in any city. police depart
ment. Bound volumes containing some 10,000
each are received regularly from Harrisburg.
What the College had in mind• in requesting
the auto registration was a future system of
student parking with each student driver re
ceiving a parking permit -to some parking lot
on campus. These permits at present are re
stricted to employees of the College and to
physically disabled' students.
An accurate count of student drivers is neces
sary before additional parking facilities can
be accurately planned.
Student drivers who completed the forms
with a blunt "no" in ozder to escape the campus
police may now find themselves the object of
the patrol's attention. Capt. Philip Mark, cap
tain of the campus patrol, has indicated that a
check is planned as soon as the forms are
alphabetized. Drivers who completed the form
incorrectly may find themselves barred from
driving on campus.
Since the true purpose behind the survey
was not apparent, during registration, per
haps students should be given an opportunity
to correct the forms without, penalty. In this
way the value of the survey would be in
creased, and adequate student parking would
be that much closer to reality.
Profits from Oil
For Education Aid
. A recent newspaper column by Senator Lister
Hill (D-Ala.) should be of interest -to every
present and future student in the United States.
It concerns the problem of federal aid to edu
cation and offers a solution which would over
come the most serious objection to that aid—
the added load to the already overloaded tax
payer.
Off the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, and Cali
fornia are immense fields of recoverable oil, the
famed tidelands oil. The Supreme Court has
decided firmly that this oil belongs to the
United States, not to any one state near which
it lies by geographic, accident. The present value
of this oil is estimated by the Department of the
Interior at $40,000,000.
Now two plans have been offered concerning
the disposition of the tidelands oil. An entente
of state-interests and the biggest oil companies
(which can expect far more lenient adminis
tration of the oil under state than under federal
control) have combined to lobby for a bill to
return the tidelands to the states. The bill has
passed the House and is now in the Senate.
Meanwhile, a group of senators has proposed
another use for the tidelands oil. Keep it under,
federal control, where the Supreme Court says,
it belongs, and turn over the income to a pro
gram of federal aid to education. Nor are the
senators backing this plan starry-eyed idealists
or political opportunists. The list reads like a
bi-partisan honor roll of the 82nd congress—
Douglas i of Illinois, Kefauver of Tennessee,
Morse of Oregon, Neely of West Virginia, Tobey
of New Hampshire, Hennings of Missouri, Ben
ton of Connecticut, Humphrey of Minnesota,
Chavez of New Mexico, Lehman of New York,
Sparkman of Alabama, and Hill. Montana con
gressman Mike Mansfield is also backing the
measure.
The issue is clearly drawn. On one hand,
the "vested interests" demand that the fields
be exploited for the benefits of the great pri
vate oil companies. On the other, a group of
the country's 'outstanding leaders find a dif
ferent solution. They read of a strike• of
teachers who haven't been paid for eleven
months because of a treasury deficit. They
remember the studies on overcrowding in
American schools, underpayment of teachers,
colleges floundering in seas of debt. And they
say, invest this money in the future of Ameri
ca, in coming generations.
Clearly, American students and schools would
do well to exert all possible influence on Con
gress for the passage of the oil for, education
measure.
Edward Shanken
Business, Mgr.
—Jim Gromiller
.—Ron , Bona
THE DAILY 'COLLEGIAN,STATE' COLLEGE.F.***A**,H,,,
Activities Round
Out College ~Life
Gazette macle its official return to the
Collegian editorial ' page yesterday. And the
return of Gazette is synonomous with the re
turn of campus extracurricular activities.
There is much more to college life than' books
and study. For a rounded four years at Penn ?
State, most upperclassmen realize that extra
curricular activities are vital. And for frosh and
new sophomores, now is the time to go out and
join campus organizations and activities.
We realize, from talking to several. frosh, ,that
new students on campus are snowed the/first
several weeks by classroom work. Keeping
marks up arid keeping abreas't of courses is the
main reason for. a college, .but once a new stu
dent gets into the swing of 'studying, he'll find
he has plenty of time ~left over. This time can , `
be put to use in an activity which would
supplement course work.
Campus' publications, dramatic organizations;
religious groups, and clubs - Ire starting again
this time of year and issuing calls through •
Gazette and Daily Collegian news columns for
new blood. Frosh and new sophomores have a
fine opportunity to get kin on the ground floor'
of an organization and work _their way with
increasing ability and experience to the top.. .
ASk any upperclassmen who • have arrived
in their senior year without activities, or,ask
some upperclassmen who waited till their last
years at the College before becoming active, and
the frosh or new sophomore will realize how
one-sided his college ,career will be made by
just sticking to the books.
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So we advise new students to look over the
variety of extracurricular activities offered 'at
Penn State. We advise them to join the activi
ties which interest them now when they have
three or four years With which to learn and
grow with the activity. These organizations are
always looking for new people, and in return
for time, the activity can introduce a new mem
ber to interesting friends,- more vital ways of
thinking, and new outlets for undeveloped
talents.
Admittedly, extracurricular activities are
not the only consideration of college life, but in
combination with intelligent allocation of study
ing time; activities make for a more complete
college career. The frosh and new sophomores
are losing out if they neglect the "second" side
of college life. Gazette is an open door to a full,
rich four years at Penn State.
Dinner Guests
One of the most oft-attacked departments of
the College has come up with a praise-worthy
plan of benefit to all dormitory students.
By making it possible for dorm residents to
have guests for weekend meals in the dining
halls, the service has drawn pleased murmurs
from the students concerned.
The foods service department, nearly always
under fire from all sides, gives us an oppor
tunity that we have had few times before this
as a propounder of student opinion. So, not
knowing when student opinion will once more'
let us cheer, we say, rah for foods.service!
Cheerleaders
Where were the Penn State cheerleaders on
Fun Night last Saturday night? Also, where
were they on the previous night, Dean of Alen's.
Night? •
Upperclassmen and women are constantly
asked to enforce the customs for freshmen. Tlie'
idea of customs is to give the frosh a feeling of
belonging.
Aside from. that feeling .of belonging, the
frosh are required to know all songs and cheers,
and although almost any one can teach them !
the songs, it takes a cheerleader to teach them
the chants we use to coax our teams to victory.
Remember how disgusted the cheerleaders
were last year when the present - sophomores
didn't know the cheers? They only made them
selves available on two nights last year .and
that wasn't sufficient; how do they expect
none to be enough for this year's class?
Let's have some cooperation from the cheer=
leaders, and malibe the frosh cheering section
can. hold up its head with the rest of the
school.
Gazette .
Wednesday, September 19 •
AGRICULTURE ENGINEERS, meeting at
C..A. cabin; leave , Agriculture Engineering
Building 7 p.m. N
ANDROCLES, 102 Willard Hall, 7 p.m.
LA VIE, senior board, 412 Old- Main, 7 p.m.
PENN STATE GRANGE, 100. Horticulture
Building, 7:30 p.m.
PENN STATE -RIDING CLUB, 217 Willard
Hall, 7:30 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL -
David Erickson, Patricia Johnson, Harold
Klemaw, Charles Meassick, Emil Studen.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM: Kind Lady
STATE: Millionaire For Christy -
NITTANY: The Mudlark
STABLITE DRIVE-IN:_Bird of atifaciAse.
—Moylan Mills
—Bud Fenton
.Freshinen bave been wonder
ing just ..Where the hitmen are.
No somber black hats have' been
seen patrolling the „ campus. No
pointedd - chapeaux have been lead!
ing throngs of eager-eyed, froSh
in •school songs. No .Skin'n Bones
or Parmi: Nous emblems •ha v e
-been :staring. at: lawn-walking
' frosh with THAT LOOK. in , their
eyes. 'And...the frosh - are wonder= .
ing.
o,ne.wor4 of warning. The
hatrrien aren't wondering where
the froSh are.'They'know. Soon
the frosh will be wondering
why•.the :batmen didn't_ stay
wherever they were. ,`.
• j*..s• *
Baia
Little Man' On Campus
E 2311
fiNotdIAIN
ffM,
"You know that new dormitory they built next door?
It's a• GIRLS dormitory!"
Poor Man's
Paradise
• New students in Agriculture have probably already been on the
flattened hunip affectionately referred to around here as Ag hill.
I've been here for three years. now, and I had my first brush with
the place on= Monday. I had scheduled an English Literature class
for a room in Sparks building. YoU know Sparks building. Closely
located l to any spot 'on campus, wheie you might happen 'to be.
This I thought as
_1 - naively
scratched my name on the regis
tration forms. I had a perfect
:schedule with all,. 'classes - in
Sparks and Willard, until the first
day of class. As I tripped :into
the designated room - in the LA
building, a
: notice inscribed for
ever in- chalk on the board caught,
my eye. "Eng. Lit. 5 will meet in
108 Plant Industries,"
With - a long .string 'of prospec
tive English Literates • I trooped
up the forbidding slants of -Ag
Hill to Plant Industries; Plant
Industries' is a nice, shiny, new
building, with- comfortable .seats
and good ventilation..-In short, it
has - everything one could ask 'in
a classroom, except accessibility.
You can't
_get much further from
the center.-of campus than Plant
Industries unless you are a vege
table, for-the only thing between
Ag Hill and' Erie •is•-a' greenhouse.
Like:- I said, new 'students in
Agriculture have probably .al
ready .been on Ag Hill ; unless
their Dairy Herd Draining claSs ,
meets in'the• Library. '
A very - new, very green' look
ing girl :stuck 'her -- head into a
classroom in Willard 'the other
• day. The Prof stopped 'lecturing;
the-class awoke with a start,Land
all, turned to-look at the intruder.
"Do you have any extra seats in
here We- could borrow to' take
'next door?" she asked. While the
prof and class - -were - looking at
the firmly \fibolted .- seats in the
room Wonderingly, another girl
aprieared;'gaire everybody- a.dirty
- - -,YAMDN'SI?At . SEIRII9;' - 11)111'
i',&<, j.. 1 1
- ;i c oisdie
y PAUL POORMAN
look,. and repeated' the question
in a tone• that let everybody knOw
that there had damn well better
be some extra chairs. The - class
pointed solemnly at the concrete
based seats, and the prof just ..as
solemnly offered his chair, the :
only portable' one in the room, to
the girls. They retreated in 'or
derly fashion, =mumbling some
thing about 'coming back • later
with a screwdriver. . •
- I see by' the paper that the
Navy is thinking strongly , of
court-martialing a seaman who
griped.,about the 'food• he was
offered. Let that 'be a -lesson to
all dorm residentd; Man •cannot
live by bread alone, but you'd
ben& not_ say anything about
'it. ,
What•more familiar sight is to
be sighted
,than thousands:of stu
dents trudging - up the- ; Mall with
an armload of brand new books.
If the money spentfor _these par-
Gels' •of knowledge 'were totaled
up, the result would sound like
a Kefauver report.,
I"• And, speaking of the money
spent, an experience of mine this
summer should illUstrate j u's t
where the business in the• Bor
ough of State College comes from:
During post" session, when ;:total
•
enrollment reached dow,w ; :tw:it's
lowest level, every •buainesa• in
town that ,is anything. was dosed
up tight.' Shoe shops, - :..e a fi-n
places, etc, had large.:Ogns on
their •window's saying something
I to the effect that their vacation,
would end' on .September 10. That
date ' closely , resembleS' the. open
' ing date of . the fall 'semester
orientation: • -
' ,Research finding in,rations 'for
poultry, dairy cattle, a n d-' live
stock will be reported by Penn
sylvania. State - college scientists'
at the annual Pennsylvania Axii
,mal Nutrition conference to -be
held in Harrisburg; September 24
to ns. The program, will be coin
-1 ined wi th the :Pennsylvania
Millers' and Dealers' Assg
ciatioa,- ' '
By; Biller