PAGE POUR allt Batty Collegian Softener to THE 'EMI LANCE, lee. UM 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 6. 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. Unsigne editorials are by the editor. Itlary Krasnanski Editor - Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed., George Glazer; Sports Ed., Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir., Bud Fenton; Makeup Ed., Moylan Mills; Wire Ed., Len Kolasinski; Society Ed., Carolyn .Barrett: Feature Ed., Rosemary Delahanty; 'Asst. City Ed., Lee Stern; Asst. Sports Eds., Dave Colton, Bob Vosburg; Asst. Society Ed., Greta Weaver; Co-Librarians, Bob Fraser, Millie Martin; Exchange Ed., Paul Beighley. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor: Millie Martin; copy editors: Joan Kuntz, Dave Pellnitz; assistants: Robert Landis, Al Friedman, Laura Badway, Nancy Meyers. Ad staff: Nancy Supplee, Robert Patter, Ruth Peirce. Too Many Blanks hi. Schedule Books Pre-registration time at Penn State is the time for students in many curricula to guess, pray, or throw darts at their time tables in an attempt to schedule instructors of their choicer A hasty check of the time table for the spring semester disclosed the interesting in formation that 21 of the 105 courses listed did not carry the name of a single instructor. Other courses were marked by large blank spaces. The purpose of this procedure is in many cases to prevent students from 'gang ing up" on the "easy" profs. In some of the basic courses, such as French 1,2,3, and 4, it would be difficult to list the in structors for each section, since graduate stu dents do a good bit of the teaching and who will be available is not known, where profs are known to specialize in particular subjects, who is teaching what section is generally known in advance, and in the cases in which it is not, known, it easily could be. About. two weeks after the start of ,the se mester the College scheduling office requests the course' information from the academic de partments. The department heads are given a month to get this information to the scheduling office. Any department head who does not know or have a pretty _good idea who is going to be on his staff—especially in the upper levels-- ought to do a bit of organizing. We will grant that there are factors which in some cases might make it difficult for all courses to be accompanied by the name of the instructor teaching each section. Changes in the faculty seem to be the greatest single reason for the lack of these listings. But it is possible to list the instructors, as a glance through the time table can show clearly. One example of this is the Department of His tory. Of 25 sections in history 20 and 21 only two are not accompanied by the name of the instructor. One of the accepted methods to get the most out of college, passed on to us by a prof in our freshman year, is to seleCt professors, not courses. What can be gleaned from a course often is not dependent on the subject matter but on the prof. The failure to print the names of the instruc tors is a denial of the right of the student to select his instructors. Students have a right to know, wherever possible, who their instructors will be. GIFTS FOR MEN ONLY Gift-buying is no problem at CRABTREE'S—Iet us help you with your Christmas list. All Engraving Done In Our Own-Store Edward Shanken Business Mgr. Game-Bird Ash Trays Cigarette Lighters Tie Chains and Bars Cuff Links Watches' Rings cifa..\ I:: 1. .11, ElErt sa. Gilsr . Pa. jegiblialL • - . THE DAILY 'COLLE I 6IAk, 'STATE PENNSYLVANIA Safety Valve--- Brundage Action on 'Olympic Athletes Has Been Needed TO THE.EDITOR: ln regard to your editorial concerning the announcement of Avery Brun dage on eligibility of athletes for the Olympic Games, it seems to me that Mr. Brundage's announcement is something that all real sports men have been waiting to hear for a long time. Pressure on big time college sports has been increasing steadily over the past few . years. Yet no one with any authority has taken any con crete action until Mr. Bvundage made this an nouncement. Not very long ago an article in the Daily Collegian ,called for action instead of talk—not that it had anything to do with Mr. Brundage's decision. Undoubtedly Mr. Brund age talked football' becanse most sports fans are more familiar with the subsidies handed out in that sport in spite of the fact that it is not one of the Olympic Games. In your article you also inferred that even scholastic scholarships would ban the athlete. That is not true. In another article the Daily Collegian sports editor condemned Mr. Brundage for hampering the United State's chances in the Olynipic Games. So what! Isn't it the emphasis on win ning that has brought' basketball and big time football into disrepute in many schools? After all real sportsmen play for the love of the game and not for the love of winning. Since Mr. Brundage has taken a long needed step in set ting collegiate sports in its rightful position, I think that, sports fans, who wish to see college sports in all of its glory, should back him all the way. Ed Note: Pardon the inferente. • Horne 'Ec Free-for-All TO THE EDITOR: Whoever conceived the idea for the present registration free-for-all in the school of Home Economics is no longer living I am sure. Standing in line when the en rollment was small may not have been impos sible, but since the size of the school has in creased it is certainly' 'impossible to possess section cards that coincide with your schedule. The chaos that prevailed Monday afternoon created ill-feeling among students and faculty, along with delaying the process. May we have a system for registration, please? —Edith R. Young Ed. Note: Dean Henderson's office says that because of the lack of laboratory space many courses and sections must be filled on a pri-. ority basis, necessitating changes when too many people sign up for a course. It was also added that Most changes occur when students change courses after weekday sections are -closed. This way they avoid Saturday classes. she said. Gazette •• • Friday, December 7 PENN STATE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP, 405 Old Main, 7:30 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Columbia-Southerit Chemical Chemical Corp. will interview January graduates in Chem., Ch.E., C.E., 1.E., and M.E. Wednesday, Dec. 12. Burroughs Adding Machine Co. will interview' January grad uates in L.A. and C&F, who are draft exempt and have some sales experience, Monday; Dec. 17. Ohio Oil Co. will interview January graduates in M.E., Ch.E., C.E., and E.E. Wednesday, Dec. 5. Esso Standard Oil Co. and Standard Oil Development Co. will interview graduates at all levels in Chem., Chem. E. and Fuel Tech. Wednesday, Dec. 12: STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Room & Board for student and wife, including child. Stu ', dent must have transportation. Room & Board for Ag student or man with Ag background. Must have transportation. Women for waitress work from 7 :30 to 11. - p.m. in dairy store. Busboy for Mondays from 9 to 12 a.m. Woman for housework five days per week from 11 am. to 5 p.m. —Sam Curtis . JANE WYMAN CHARLES LAUGHTON "The BLUE VEIL" MITZI GAYNOR DENNIS DAY "GOLDEN GIRL" OPEN at 6:20 BETTY GRABLE "MEET ME AFTER THE SHOW" Little Man On Campus "Why should I wake him—you put hi Interpreting the News Never Pearl By J. M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News Analyst Ten years ago today, in the space of a few - minutes, the United States became a different nation. Historically speaking, the change had really begun years before, as a result of the war with Spain, when the country acquired interests far beyond the American coasts and began to assert herself as a world power. But what was happening then was far from being generally rec ognized by th e peoples them selves. They had waited through the early years of one world war before they learned America's true interest in its outcome, and were doing the same thing again. Non-Belligerent On DeCember 6, 1941, high gov ernment officials and many other people were well aware that a war vitally affecting the United States was being fought in . Eu rope. The nation, in effect, was a non-belligerent partner of one side in that war. But the prevail ing public desire was to avoid American entanglement and let the foreigners stew in their own 'uices. Then, on a quiet Sunday morn ng, Japanese submarines ap- The First National . Bauk Of State College . • Member of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Federal Reserve System FRIDAY; DECEMBER , 7;• 1051 to sleep. Another Harbor peared off . Pearl Harbor. Planes wearing the red ball insignia of the Empire of th e Rising Sun blasted away the backbone of America's Pacific Fleet. Ronie-Berlin-Tokyo Th e Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis had committed its fatal mistake. America's tears washed the scales of isolation from her eyes. An outraged nation plunged into .a war from which she would emerge the world's greatest power. When the war was over there was a brief return of compla cency, but world leadership had been established and its respon sibilities could no t be denied. Two great oceans had been re duced to narrow and unreliable ramparts of defense. The rest of the world was poor. America was rich. Richer, rela (Continued on page five) By Bible'.
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