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©ty? latly Collegian
Soeeessor to THE FREE LANCE, wt 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*
era, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. .Unsigned
editorials are by the editor.
Marr Krasnanslcy Edward Shanken
Editor Business - Mgr.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor, Bob Fraser; copy editors, Bettie
Loux, Ginger Opoczenski; Assistants, Nancy
Meyers, A 1 Goodman, Paul Crofford, John
Sheppard, Dick Eau.
Ad staff, Nancy Supplee, Ruth Peirce, Don
Jackel, Bob Potter.
Tonight Marks sth
Arena Stage Year
Tonight’s premiere performance of “The Great
Big Doorstep” at Center Stage will mark the
fifth anniversary of arena staging, or theater
in-the-round, at Penn State.
The campus Players group was one of the
pioneers of arena staging in the East. Even
now only two other eastern universities,
Fordham and Juniata, have a regular sched
ule of arena productions.
The first theater-in-the-round production
seen at Penn State was in the State College
Hotel in 1946, when Players presented “Sky
lark”. under the direction of Kelly Yeaton, still
recogized as one of the authorities in the East
on central staging.
The present site of Center Stage, near the
corner of Hamilton and Allen streets, was first
used for a Players’ production in 1948, with
Robert Reifsneider staging the comedy, “Out
of the Frying Pan.” The policy of continuous
Center Stage shows, two each semester with
each running six weekends was begun at this
time.
In 1949 Center Stage was the site of the per
formance of “This Side of Bedlam,” on original
comedy written for central staging by Warren
Smith, associate professor of drama. This was
the only original play ever to be seen in Penn
State’s theater-in-the-round.
The College can well be proud of the accom
plishments of its far-seeing and progressive
drama division.
. If you have never seen an arena produc
tion, with the audience sitting on all four
sides of the playing area, you'll have your
chance again this school year. And the greater
degree of intimacy, plus the still-novel method
of presentation, will almost always afford you
a night of pleasure.
Negro Fighters
An army survey team has recently returned
from Korea • with enthusiastic reports on the
Army’s non-segregated combat units. The Army
has broken up all Negro units in the theater so
that Negro Americans are fighting alongside
white Americans.
The experiment has worked so well that in
the event of an all-out war all Negro units will '
be broken up and the men assigned to units as
individuals.
\ The ability of Negroes and whites to fight
and die along side each other in Korea leads
us to wonder why some people contend that
they cannot live together in peace.
The color of a man's skin should not pre
vent cooperation, whether the scene be a
bloody Korean ridge or an apartment house
in Cicero.
Results of Seminar
Depend on Actions
A Seminar on Human Relations closed" Wed
nesday night and what it will amount to, other
than a brief respite in the busy lives of the 28
participating United Steelworker directors, has
yet to be seen.
If these men fake away with them some of
the principles and beliefs expounded during
the. sessions with the hope of using them in
their work as leaders in labor, the seminar
has been infinitely successful.
On the other hand, should these leaders leave'
here remembering the words on civil rights,
discrimination, and constructive guidance only
as the beliefs of “preachers, sociologists, and
teachers,” the seminar served only as a holiday.
.In the words of Philip Murray, steelworkers’
president, the four days of talks could “serve
as a kind of beacon light which will help attain
these goals to which we all aspire.”
Indeed Mr. Murray, they could. But whether
they will or not cannot be answered soon since
it would appear that equality of human rights
is not to be had in these steel-producing United
States overnight.
Probably the one key factor in whether
seminars of this type are to be successful is
the attitude of the participants. Mr. Murray,
are we all aspiring to attain these goals? The
seminar alone will not serve as a beacon light
but work of the men who were the seminar can
be a beacon.
Gazette...
Friday, October 12
NAVAL RESERVE RADIO UNIT, Oct. 15,
200 Engineering E, 7 p.m.
PENN STATE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP, 405
Old Main, 7:30 p.m.
PENN STATE ENGINEER, Oct 15, 418 Old
Main, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Rosemary Beilin, Roger Bender, Sylvia Berk
owitz, Dave Fenton, Jerry Goldress, Theodore
Gracia, Gloria Handwerk, Sally Johnson Law
rence Levine, Joan McClane, Frank Smith, Lou
Webster, Gertrude Weidmann, Walter Whitcher,
Ronald Zweiganbaum.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM: The’ Day The Earth Stood Still
STATE: Painting The Clouds With Sunshine
* NITTANY: Excuse -My Dust
STARLITE DRIVE-IN: Half Angel plus
Dakota.
Wright Aeronautical corporation will interview Janu
ary graduates in Aero. E., M.E., E.E., Eng. Mech. and
Metal Tuesday, October 23.
—Lee Stern
National Biscuit company will interview January grad
uates in M.E., Cbem. 8., and E.E., if enough students are
interested. Those interested should apply at 112 Old Main
before Saturday, October 20.
U. S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory will interview Jan
uary graduates in M.E., E.E., 1.E., and Physics, Friday,
October 19;
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing company will
interview January graduates in C&F., L.A., M.E., E.E.,
Cb.E. Friday, October 19.
Air' Engineers will ' interview January graduates in
M.E. Friday, October 19. ,
Standard Oil company, Indiana, will interview MS and
PhD candidates, who'will receive their degrees in Chem. E.
in ’52, October 17.’ 1
Hercules Powder company will interview January gradu
ates at the B.S. and M.S. level in M.E., Ch.E. and Chem.
Wednesday, October 24.
International Business Machine corporation will inter
view January graduates in E.E., and M.E. Wednesday,
October 24.
Link Aviation corporation will interview January gradu
ates in E.E. Thursday October 25.
Lukens Steel company will interview January graduates
in M.E., C.E. and Metal Thursday, October 25.
Philips Petroleum company will interview January
graduates in P.N.G., Cb.E., E.E., M.E. and Metal Wednes
day October 24.
Piasecki Helicopter corporation will interview January
graduates in Aero.E. and M.E. Wednesday, October 17.
THE DALLY COLLEGIAN. STATS CGLLEGE. PENNSYLVANJfcfI.
The . shining light of such a gathering will
be practicing of the preaching. And may the
practice add fuel to the beacon so that it may
shine on the other needy groups and organi
zations throughout the country.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Man to set pins for bowline: league.
Woman to do full time housework.
Cook for 30 day experiment; prefer student wife.
Babysitters for October 2>
—Bud Fenton
Little Man On Campus
"Guess we'll have the slickest backfield in the country, eh. Rip?**
We have been writing, thinking, and talking quite a bit of late
about the tempest in which this nation now finds itself as a result
of the whipped-up hysteria and fear o.ver the shadow of communism.
It has always been £asy to
Jessups, the Adamics these men
victims of this country’s frenzy
to rid itself, of communist sub
version. It has been easy, to think
and write about these men, for
we have never had. the. oppor
tunity to meet them. They have
been names in headlines, distant
victims of our nation’s zeal.
But what is the communist
craze doing to the little guy,
the kids we went to high school
with, the guy down the street
with the good-looking wife and
the two cute boys? 1
We managed to get part of the
answer to that question this past
weekend when' we bumped into
an old high school chum of ours.
The experience leift us more ter
rified than ever over the course
this nation has been following.
We had known him in high
school as a good student, the
kind of guy who was everybody’s
friend, an editor of the school
weekly, a solid liberal thinker,
a good fygh school citizen. He
came from a ’ good home, his
widowed mother providing him
with what might be considered
an average home life.
His high school record was
good enough to earn him a four
year full tuition scholarship at
one of the country’s top univer
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Hartswick's
"Live Ammo" ■
"Hunting License "
Sportsman's
Shack
JIiUCKi (Calder Alley)
Want To Have A PEP RALLY
in Your Own Room?
Now! All the Penn State songs on one 12”; nonbreakable
standard record . . . sung by the Men’s Glee, Club in
vigorous Penn State spirit!'
THE phone Van
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V 303 E BEAVER AVE. & STATE COLLEaE
FRIDAY, OCTOBER' I*.: 1951
THE WAY
WE SEE IT
By MARV KRASNANSKY
think about the Remingtons! the
and others who have become the
Whaf shocked us was that in
the year or so since we saw him
last our friend had taken up
as his own what we would call
the "communist line."—The So
viet form of government is the
"true democracy," there is no
"real freedom" here - in the '
United Slates, the United Stales
is an invader in Korea, capital
ism needed the Korean con
flict in order to avert a disas
trous depression.
We do. not intend to apologize
for our friend. We think he is
wrong, have told him so and why.
What we want to know is why he
has turned to communism for his
refuge! Why has an intelligent,
sound-thinking young American
found the answer to the world’s
ills in communism?
We think he has found the an
swer in communism for the same
reason millions of people the
world over have been forced into
the communist camp. The fol
lowers of communism are being
multiplied constantly, not by the
success of communism, but in
stead by the failure of democracy,
•democracy has failed.,— and ,it
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