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Successor FREE LANCE, est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff of rhe Daily Collegian
of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter July 6, 1934, at the State"
College, Pa. t 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.
/ Marv Krasnansky Edward Shanken
Editor “'sSSffif* 0 Business Mgr.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor, Lix Newell; Copy editors, Jake
Highton, Chuck Henderson; Assistants, Bob
Landis, Nancy Meyers, Dave Pellnitz, Marshall
Donley.
Waiting Appears
To Be Best Step
After considerable and unavoidable delay, the
student body has learned that the proposed
campus radio station is. still in the planning
stage. . .
The station—a long needed addition to
Penn Stale—seemed destined to be in opera
tion this Fall.
We were told that "'the gift would be suffi
cient to place in operation a closed-wire station
that would reach students on campus.
those students living in private homes and fra
ternities was a problem which would have to
be solved later.
Students who developed the plans erred in
their estimates of the cost of such a project. As
the radio committee indicated- in it's report to
All-College Cabinet Thursday night, the cur
rently available funds would enable a station
set up now to reach only 35 per cent of the
student body.
Even if it were deemed wise at this time
to start a station that would reach only 35
per cent of the student body—in the hope of
later expanding the system with additional
funds—such action would seem foolhardy in
fiew of the current Federal Communications
Commission action in regards to closed-wire
stations.
Several closed-wire stations on the college
level have already been closed, others are under
investigation. Many of these stations have ex
ceeded their legal power output—thus enabling
them to be heard beyond the limitations of the
clossd-wire system—and are violating FCC reg
ulations.
There seems to be at present a good chance
that all closed-wire stations will be declared
illegal by the commission. Under these ! cir
cumstances it would be foolish to pour $6OOO
into a closed-wire system now when one FCC
ruling could convert all wired-wireless into
obsolesence.
In _ view of the current uncertainty, the
decision of .the radio committee to adopt a
policy of sit and wait appears to be a good
move.
Timely Question
In Tonight’s Debate
In a world where even English-speaking na
tions misunderstand each other, it might be
worth an hour’s time to hear what two out
standing Oxford University students have to say
about their own country’s future.
Penn Slate students will have this chance
tonight, when William Rees-Mogg and Rich
ard Taverne, members of England's traveling
debate team, join with Clair George and
David Lewis in the 16th annual international
debate.
The question, Resolved: That the return of
Mr. Churchill as prime minister would be highly
regrettable, could not be more timely, what
with British general elections scheduled for
Oct. 25. At that time England will choose be
tween the Conservative leadership of Churchill
and the Labor rule of Clement Attlee.
. Opportunities to hear polished speakers
discuss vital topics at no charge are not many
at a college situated so far from major cities.
But Penn State has the chance at 7:30 tonight
in 121 Sparks. Let's take advantage of it.
—Beilie Loux
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE CnSSLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA «,
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Safety Valve—•
Phooey on,Movie Advertising
TO THE EDITOR: I should have expected it.
They ve done it again. Specifically, I refer to the
blatant, insulting piece of pornography currently
being employed to drag the bourgeoisie past
the box-office to gape at David, Bathsheba, and
the dancing girls.
Many scenes from the film would make much
more effective advertising than the insignificant
and irrelevant bits of action emphasized on the
lobby poster. But the hucksters deliberately
ignore the powerful religious message of the
film, and bate the public with a danse du ventre.
Implicit in this sort of display is the profound
contempt which the motion picture promoter
entertains for the cultural and intellectual level
of his potential customers. The mercenary ex
ploitation of sex becomes the basis for practi
cally all motion picture advertising. It becomes
a summary precept that the movie-going public
is motivated solely by a shrinking, lewdly
vicarious curiosity.
I reject that precept, the reactionary pseudo
intellectualism from -which it emanates, and in
fact-the- whole parcel of glamorous privileged
amorality, professional snoops, scandal mongers
and personality wreckers. I do not reject movies
per se.
Movies can be good, constructive, entertain
ing, and stimulating. They can be advertised
tastefully and honestly. And I think most of us
would actually prefer it that way.
Gazette • • •
Tuesday, October 16
BIOFORUM, 214 Frear Laboratory, 4:15 p.m.
CHESS CLUB, 3 Sparks, 7 p.m.-
. COLLEGIAN business staff, freshman, sopho
more and junior boards, 9 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN business candidates, 9 Carnegie
Hall 3 p.m.
DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB, TUB, 6:45 p.m.
FOLK DANCE GROUP, Hillel, 7:30 p.m.
FROTH advertising'staff, 100 Carnegie Hall,
6:30 p.m.
HAT SOCIETY COUNCIL, 204 Old Main, 7
p.m.
LIEBIG CHEMICAL SOCIETY, movies, 105
Frear Laboratory, 7:30 p.m.
. MARKETING CLUB, Theta Kappa Phi, 8 p.m.
NEWMAN CLUB, business meeting, 217 Wil
lard Hall, 7 p.m.
NITTANY BOWMEN, 209 Engineering C,
7 p.m. '
PANHELLENIC COUNCIL, 1 White Hall,
7 p.m.
PARMI NOUS, 103 Willard Hall, 8 p.m.
S.A.M., 107 Main Engineering, 8 p.m.
TRIBUNAL, 201 Old Main, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE'HOSPITAL
Joseph Asher, Herbert Cheskis, Elizabeth
Funk, Jerry Goldress, Theodore Gracia, Eve
Harrison, John Hess, Kenneth Herman, Courtney
Howe, Clark Isenberg, Patricia Keating, Mary
Catherine Kerr, i Lawrence Levine, Donald
Luebbe, Peter* Smith, Eugene Sprague, James
Stamm, Walter Whicher, Howard Wright.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM: David and Bathsheba
STATE: Warpath
NITTANY: Gypsy Fury
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
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., Ch.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.
Combustion Engineering company will interview Jan
uary graduates in M.E. Thursday, October
Continental Oil company will interview January grad
uates in Chem., Phys., and P.N.G., Monday, October 29.
United States Steel company wiir interview January
graduates in M.E., E.E., 1.E., C.E., and- Metal., Monday,
October 29.
Sohio Petroleum company will interview January grad
uates in M.E., and P.N.G. Tuesday, October 23.
. Columbia Gas system will interview January graduates
in ' C.E., E.E., 1.E., M.E., Ch.E., P.N.G., and Home Ec.
Friday, October 26.
.Union Carbide and Carbon corporation will interview
Ph.D. candidates in chemistry Monday, October 29.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Man to set pins for bowling league.
Woman to do full time housework.
Cook for 30 day experiment; prefer student wife.
Babysitters for October 20.
Men with several half days for farm work; should have
own transportation.
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The Life of Jesus Christ
Also Selected Short Subjects
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"Sings like a bird, wouldn't you say Professor?".:
A Column, by George!
Actors Work Hard,
Bat
Have Fun Too
If you’ve ever taken the time or the trouble to drop in von the
Thespian rehearsals, you begin to wonder how they stand .the gaff,
and the added. ; insult of sneering cynics with one comment,
“Amateurs.” ;. „.
We took a run over to Schwab the other night, and while’there
was a lot of hard work being done, on “Bottoms Up,” there still
was quite £ bit of evidence that
everyone was having a good time
too,
The first sight that greeted
us was Frank Lewis drilling,.the
chorus line in the outer lobby.
This is funny in itself.
There were 16 people all to
gether. Frank, eight women and
seven other men. Lewis was try
ing to whip them into shape for
a precision turn that was sup
posed to work in with the rhythm
of the song the chorus sings as
it goes through the routine.
First, he tried the women. At
the first turn, two of the bunch
were left behind. They were
going in a southerly direction
while the other six headed off
to the north. Frank rolled his
eyes and made choking noises.
"No, no. Like this. One, two,
three, voom! One, two three
voom! You gotta move with it.
You're not wooden indians.
Everything's got to come into
play."
There were a few more
“vooms” and a “whamo” thrown
in for good measure, and Frank
seemed to be satisfied. Then he
went to work on the men. This
was no small accomplishment.
The seven of them are rather
large. The eight girls are rather
small.
There comes a part in the rou
tine, when the men are supposed
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to step through the ranks of the
girls and end up in front of
them. The first time, six made it.
The seventh was mousetrapped
and retired to the rear. He' felt
silly and looked lonely back there
all by himself.
Mailers came to a head on
ihe fifth ' time around. Frank
wrote ihe music for the show'.
Dave Weiner the lyrics. Now,
to be honest, Lewis doesn't
know the words to the songs
as well as his chorus line. He
started them out all right, but
forgot the lyrics in the middle.
When he finally got lh:em
strainghiened out, it was too
late. Mike ■ (she's a girl) Clay
smith depleted Frank's male
chorus by four for a number
that was going on inside.
We drifted in with the crowd.
Mike, five other girls and six
men were going through a rou
tine called “Manhattan”.
Mike seemed to be having the
same trouble Frank was-running
into in the lobby. It must be
recorded here that Frank was
a little hoarse. However, we must
also say that Mike sounded like
a drill master. She ordered the
men to close ranks. She yelled
at the girls to get closer to the
men. And through' it all, she
went through with the routine
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