PAGE FOUR Sty? Sa% CoUegtati Saeeessor to THE FREE LANCBt Mt 188 T 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 fi, 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 ths newspaper. Unsigned editorials are by the editor. Marr Krasnansky Edward Shan ken Editor Business Mgr. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor, Millie Martin; Copy Editors, Jim Gromiller, Mary Stark; Assistants, Fred Singer, Dick McDowell, Jean Berg, Lu Martin. Goal Post Damage Adds Cost, Danger For the past three home football games Penn State students have contrived to tear down their own goal posts. The epidemic of destroyed goal posts began with the last home game of the season;' At that time a, fighting Penn State team came out of the jungle in the second half to overtake Rutgers and ring up a tingling victory. An exuberant student body stormed the goal posts, and despite the efforts of the campus patrol and some students, tore down the goal posts after an extended battle. The next time the posts went t down was at the start of this season when State opened with a victory over Boston University. Last Satur day—following the loss to Michigan State —the goal posts went down again. The practice of tearing down the posts if allowed to continue may well become —and not too far in the future, either—a tradition. Not that we are against the establishment of Col lege traditions. But the tearing down of the posts after every game can become a costly and dangerous tradition. The posts cost money, $75 per pair, to be exact. And the cost of replacing the posts is met by dipping into the student breakage fund. For the uninformed, the student breakage fund is accumulated, by a semesterly student fee. So in essence the students are' not tearing down the College’s goal posts, but their own. Further, the milling crowds around the goal posts are always a threat to the safety of the individuals posts themselves have sharp ends, and the jagged breaking points pro vide an added danger. There is no logic to the tearing down of the ppsts. The destruction of the posts is a tradition \frhich stems from the practice of getting for souvenirs the home team’s goal posts after a. victory. How or why the tradition has been transferred to tearing down your own goal posts is a question which we don’t think ‘we can answer. The destruction of the posts has become a costly and potentially dangerous practice. If Penn Slate students are mature, they will call a halt to the practice. Blood Drive Brings Conflict Closer Anyone who read last week’s issue of Life knows how desperately the United Nations forces in Korea need whole blood and blood plasma. The photos of the young men of our generation lying wounded on the bleak Korean ridges brought home to us the nearness of the conflict. Not so lohg ago, iwo outstanding young men at Penn State, Bob Keller and Red Roth were graduating seniors looking forward to-a bright future. Now both have been wounded in Korea. Perhaps some of the blood which students contributed to the' Red Cross blood drive last spring saved their lives. The bloodmobile unit will be back on campus Nov. 14 and 15 at the TUB for more donations. This year’s drive, sponsored by All-College Cabinet, has been planned to take in double the amount of blood received last semester. Penn State students are being asked to give 400 pints of valuable blood, the majority of which will be in Korea within 48 to 72 hours after it has been donated. The mere fact that the blood will be speeded to the front so soon after it is given should be proof that this life-giving substance is urgently needed. What can we do? At present pledges for the drive are being distributed at the Student Union desk in Old Main and in the main lobby of the West Dorms, the TUB, and 112 Old Main. Members of various student groups are also distributing the pledges which we can sign and use at the TUB Nov. 14 and 15. Blood is precious stuff for everyone, but we at Penn Siaie have sufficient supply. How ever, several hundred thousand men of- our generation need it greatly just north of the 38th parallel. - For anyone who takes these blood drives as just another solicitation, we suggest the person look at the first several pages of last week’s Life. The person will - probably realize that giving a pint of blood in .the' TUB is nothing compared to giving several''pints'-in a lonely foxhole. —Moylan Mills THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA La Vie Staff Needs* Cooperation Each year members of the La Vie editorial boardj set deadlines for pictures and articles pertaining to campus organizations and each year the staff members have to chase around in vqin attempts to fulfill their obligations. Pictures of fraternities, sororities, student government groups, and others must be taken and a complete list of the organizations' mem- ■ bers must be obtained. The staff cannot pos sibly do all this by itself. If students—hot only,seniors—want the Col lege jto have a yearbook’ Svith more than just a “fair” rating, they must .cooperate with the La Vie board. Last year the staff members were forced to go to each group after the picture was taken in order, to obtain a list of the group’s members. If this practice- is continued, quality will suffer" because of the rush and pressure on the staff: • Pictures have to be appraised as to quality, size, and position of those taken. If the campus group is tardy in returning their picture-com plete with names, a poor result is in the making. Even with the uncooperatve spirit of last year and the year before, the 1950 yearbook was given a first class rating by the National Schol astic Press Association at the University of Minnesota. The book fell only a few points ' short of All-American rating, the highest honor the group awards. The 1951 La Vie will be rated later this year. The 1952 yearbook could easily become another Penn State "All American"—with cooperation. Safety Valve— For Many the Concept Of Homecoming Is Alien LETTER TO EDITOR: Now as the cars and cargo reluctantly wend their way back through Nittany hills I reflect both, upon Emerson’s remark, “. . . he who would bring back the riches of the Indies must take out. the riches of the Indies . . .” and the many “might have beens” of Homecoming. There is something of thanksgiving in Home coming. It is a time when the shocks of wheat have given their yield and the ruddy glow of a job well done makes a man humble before his God. For thanksgiving is man’s .. . fertility, God’s. So at Homecoming, a man must bring in the harvest of his maturity—his growth, his experience, his right to belong. There is really no Homecoming; for Homecoming implies having been away. And in such measure as we feel and live away from the values which make home home, in that measure is lost the true meaning of home. When you live in the country you know how often untended crops can go awry. And so it must be with the hearty, “hello’ and “slap on the back” which goes untended. For indeed, the richness of Homecoming is more than just the firm handshake—it is the richness that comes from belonging. It is .that richness which per mits a man-to grow and to share; it is, that richness which accepts difference yet breeds loyalty and respect; and I suspect, it is also a richness which includes the affection of a firm handshake and what it should mean. For many, I imagine, this concept of Home coming is alien. For many homes are full with untended crops and are—in short—empty! But. if we but turn on that one day in the year which we label —Homecoming—to come home, we have reaped a sham harvest in which the shock of wheat dies untouched on its, stalk and the fertility of home lies barren of seed. Gazette... COLLEGE PLACEMENT. Continental Oil company will interview January grad uates ip Phys., Math., C.E., E.E., M.E., and Ch.E. Tuesday/ Oct. 30. Applicants should have at. least a 1.5 average. Link Aviation corporation will interview January grad uates in E.E. Monday, Nov. 5. Shell Development' company will interview graduates, at the M.S. and- Ph.D. level, in Cbem. and Chem. E. Monday, Nov. 5. Sperry Gyroscope company will interview January grad uates in E.E., and M.E. Friday, Nov. 2. American'Locomotive'Co. will interview January grad uates in E.E., M.E., 1.E., and Ch.E. Tuesday, November 6. General Electric Co. will interview January graduates in C & F and A & L Wednesday, October 31. Proctor and Gamble Co, will interview January grad uates in C & F and L.A. Tuesday,' November 6. Radio Corporation of America will interview January graduates in E.E., M.E., 1.E., Ch.E., Phys., C & F, A & L, and L.M.R. Monday, November 5. • Armstrong Cork Co. will interview January graduates in C &, F, A & L, Journ. and I.E. Tuesday, November 6. ‘They will also interview graduates in Chem. Eng. at the B.S. and M.S. level, and Chem. and’Phys. at all levels. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Man to' set pins for bowling league. Magician for one-half hour show. Student wife for permanent Friday and Saturday demon stration work in store. Women with mornings free of classes for baby sitting. Electricians.' Student .for preparing noon-meal; cooking may during the noon hour. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Bernard Ambrose," -Dorothy Balfour, Jphn Bouch, John Boyce,: Jam e s Dean, Harrison Hartman, Robert Kartavich, Gwendolyn Kelly. Jack Kirsch, Claire Lewis, Charles Libertino, Joan Lustig, William Markley, Eugene Morley, Nancy Nelsen, Arnold Papairazo, Peter Smith, James Stanley,. Thomas Ward, Louis Webster. —Bob Fraser —Horace Mann Little Man On Campus r . y ,/ y : /- - / "Awfully thoughtful of you to bring along a pledge, Worthal." The Old Millstreum If Pennsylvania’s conservative censors continue to follow the' trend set recently by New York censors, Penn State students wiil miss two of the year’s finest foreign films and see a cut version-'of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” a sure Academy Award contender; ; Last spring, New York and quite, a few other states; banned Roberto Rosselini’s “The Miracle” a few weeks after the picture’s New York opening had caused a flurry of shocked comment from laymen and clergy. Many persons rushed to the defense of the film, but the ban upheld by a court decision. . "The Miracle" was pulled out in the middle of its New York engagement and has been seen only in California since that time. The latest examples of motion picture censorship have occurred within the last month. A finished print of “Streetcar” was passed by the Breen Office, Hollywood’s <• official censors, . but Warner Brothers cut-the picture after the Catholic Legion of Decency threatened to give the picture a “C” or “.Condemned” rating. The other recent example of film censorship came to light two weeks ago when New York ban ned “La Ronde,” a new French picture widely heralded in Europe. “La Ronde” has been called mor ally corruptible in New York, arid Pennsylvania will presumably go along with that decision. . • "La Ronde" is playing io ca pacity crowds in Washington,. D.C., where it ’ has been com pared to' "Kind Hearts and Cor onets." - • “Band Hearts and Coronets”- has played all over the United States and apparently was. not considered censorable.- • Certainly, the current “A Place in the Sun” and “The Prowler”. are as adult and provocative ,'as., “Streetcar” and yet they;.have not been cut-or : banned. This leaves us-to wonder just how I consistent, film - censor •ship.'is. ‘ “The Miracle” and - “Streetcar’’ have been banned mainly' because of the. clamorings of-.the- Roman Calthohc- Church; The.; Hollywood 'censors:'passed the complete “Streetcar” But' the Gazette... GAZETTE —.. wc Thursday, October 25 ALPHA'RHO OMEGA, 304 Old Main, 7:30 p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. OR GANIZATION, 304 Old' Mam, 6:45 p.m. CIRCLE AND SQUARE, Ar mory, 7 p„.m. - COLLEGIAN - editorial candi lates, 9 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. FORESTRY SOCIETY, 10 5 Vhite Hall, 7 p.m. HELLENIC SOCIETY, TUB. p.m. THURSDAY,' OCTOBER 25,1951 By MOYLAN MILLS company voluntarily cut it for fear - the legion “C” rating would have drawn away the Catholic trade. Elia Kazan, director of the film,- had some interesting things to say ' about this subsequent cutting of his picture after he'thought it had been approved. Kazan, in a New York Times article, said the cuts '■ would not necessarily change the overall impact of- the film, • but would change many of the subtle mood-, changes and motivation buildups. According to Kazan, the picture comes, out cruder and rougher than originally planned, and the characterizations “are not as clear. . Many of the “Streetcar” cuts, as explained by Kazan, seem arbi-. trary. One example is the cutting of “on the mouth” following the words “I would like to kiss you softly and, sweetly. . . ” Questions raised by this recent censorship of films are many and should.be considered by the gen eral public as well as film-makers. Who has the -right to censor films? Hollywood,, the states, or pressure groups such -as the Le gion of Decency? Should Holly wood cater 'to these certain groups in order to get the patron age of the potential customers these groups represent, or should the?' movie public as a whole be considered? Why can’t American audiences take the adult kind of film fare which Europeans see everyday?. Can there ever 1 be any consistency - to -motion picture Censorship? Answers for these questions can and should be found, elst . the film-goer will be losing the jright of seeing.certain fine films '.being -held- back for reasons vague and? arbitrary. NAVAL . RESERVE RADIO UNIT; Oct. 29, '2OO Engineering E, 7p.m, -, - '■ -‘NEWMAN CLUB, scholastic philosophy lecture .- discussion, John Hammes in charge, 317 Wil lard ~Hall,; 7:15 p.m. u SCABBARD AND BLADE, business meeting, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 8 p.m. ■ SIGMA TAU, 107 Main Engi neering, 7:15 p.m. WRA HOCKEY, Holmes field, 4 p.m. WRA SWIMMING, White Hall •pool, 7 p.m. . . -
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