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:tie. Batig Collegian
Successor to rHIS BEEN LANCE. so, NU
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 /1. 1934. at the State
College, Pa. Poet Office ender the set of March 3. 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ-
erg, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsignee
editorials are by the editor.
Mary Krasnansky . Edward Shanksn
Editor Business Mgr.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor, Mimi Ungar; copy editor, Shir
ley Vandever, Ted Soens; assistants, Jack
Mounts, 'Nancy Luetzel, George Bairey, Laura
Badway.
Ad manager, Alison Morley; assistants, Bar
bara Potts, Doris Groomes.
Students Gang Up .
On Easy - Profs?
Although department heads offer a variety
of reasons for the failure to list instructors in
the spring time table, one of the principal rea
sons for this failure—and a reason not expressed
publicly by the department heads—is to prevent
students from "ganging up" on the "easy" profs.
In the opinion of a good - many members of the
faculty, the .students gang up on the profs who
have established reputations for being easy. A_
large number of students would take issue with
this point of view. While it is true to some
extent that students select sections instructed
by the easier of the available profs, many stu
dents attempt not to select the easiest prof, but
the best.
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This is a good time, we think, to offer a
definition of an "easy" prof. He need not be a
prof who does not require his students to work
for oa grade. He need not be a prof who gives
the same examinations year after year and
whose examinations are in the files of vir
tually every fraternity.
Most often "easy" is a relative term. A prof
may be easy in relation to another prof. who
has built up the reputation as a poor lecturer
from whom it is impossible to learn much, or
he may be easy in the respect that he gives
tests which can be passed.
Sometimes tile prof whose classes are crowded
is not easy at all. He is just good, and, to be
brutally frank, the prof whose classes are empty,
usually is 'a poor teacher.
About a year ago, All-College Cabinet was
presented with a rather complete report on a
faculty rating system. What has happened to
that report we do not know. But without
•realizing it, we have had such a faculty rating
system here at Penn State, although the sys
tem is crude and not 'especially effective. The
system has been based on .the time tables. The
profs who have been respected as good teachers
have had their glasses filled. Those profs whose
reputations have been poor have had the empty
classrooms.
It would seem to us that the prof who is
assiduously—and in a good many cases for
good reason—avoided by students should not
be on the faculty. In some cases the dismissal
of a faculty member because students do not
schedule his sections would be unfair. But
one thing is certain: when a prof is avoided•
year after year by students, the department
head should investigate to establish the cause,
and if the cause be a just one, action should
be taken.
If the cause of_ student dislike of a faculty
member be found unjust and students still per
sisted in staying away from the prof's classes,
a policy of first come first , serve would be the
proper procedure.
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THE DAILY 'COLLEGIAN, STATE CGZ.LEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
3,000,000 Koreans
Need Your Help
A Korean Clothing drive began on campus
yesterday. Bags have been placed in each floor
of the dormitories and in each fraternity house
and in College Sportswear, Inc., on the corner
of Ileaver avenue and S. Allen street _by Alpha
Phi Omega, service honorary, and some campus
hat societies.
The need for .clothing in Korea is acute—
more acute than we can imagine. An article re
printed from Pacific Stars and Stripes tells of
Tiny Kim, a small Korean boy befriended,
clothed and fed by some American soldiers. Tiny
Kim was typical of thousands of Korean chil
dren when found by American troops. He was
cold, hungry, and homeless.
Many such stories are told, not only in Paci
fic Press releases, but in letters sent home by
American soldiers in Korea.
For this reason :.American Relief for Korea
was organized and is now sponsoring a series
of drives throughout the country.
Yes, clothing is desperately needed by the
3,000,000 displaced persons in Korea today.
Surely you can spare a sweater or a coat.
Won't you try to help? •
Gazette ...
Tuesday, December 11
ALL-COLLEGE ENROLLMENT COMMIT
TEE, 410 Old Main,
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8' p.
ALPHA NU, 202 Willard - Hall, 7:30 p.m.
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY and stu
dent affiliates, Dr. Gordon Whitcomb speaker,
119 Osmond, 8 •p.m.
CHESS CLUB, 3 SPrkS, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN business candidates, 1 Carnegie
Hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN business staff, 9 Carnegie Hall,
COLLEGIAN editorial sophomore board. 2
Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN editorial junior board, 3 Car
negie Hall 7 p.m. : •
DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB, TUB 6:45 p.m.
EDUCATION STUDENT COUNCIL, 215 Wil
lard Hall, 8:30 p.m.
FROTH art, edito4ial candidates, 2 Carnegie
Hall, 8 p.m. •
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH
ASSOCIATION, 208 Willard Hall, 7 p.m. •
MARKETING CLUB, speaker, Theta Kappa
Phi, 8 p.m.
PSCA, Christmas worship service, 304 Old
Main, 7:15 p.m.
PHI SIGMA lOTA, 119 Sparks, 8 p.m.
RADIO GUILD, 304 Sparks, 7 p.m.
TRIBUNAL, 201 , Old Main, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Michael Brunner, Gloria D'Antonio, Karen
Gold, Michael Goldstein, Louis Gomlick, Elaine
Gottlieb, Ronald , Heisman, Nancy Misner,
Thomas Mulligan, Aviva Sare, Norma Waters,
Hardy Williams, Barbara Wynn•
AT THE MOVIES ,
CATHAUM: The Mue Veil
STATE: The Lady Pays Off
Nittany: Lovers Of Verona
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. will inter
view January .graduates in C&F Thursday, Dec. 13:
Haller, Raymond and Brown, Inc. will interview graduates
at all levels in E.E., Phys., and Math Monday, Dec. 17.
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 31 p.m. in dairy
store.
Busboy for Mondays from 9 to 12 a.m.
Woman for housework five days per week fiom 11 a.m.
to 5, p.m.
WOOL, NYLON, ANGORA,
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"Do you find it hard to teach English to draft-age students?"
A Column, by George!
A Weird Business,
This Safety Stuff
Each year, the National Safety Council d'Oes a roundup of .weird
accidents. It's purpose, apparently, is to prove that old saying,
"People is the craziest monkies."
For instance, this Year's article, written by Paul Jones, fea
tures a story about a dog' who wanted to be a hot rod' driver.
The canine and his master - were
riding in the farrilly truck. The
human side of the family was
driving at a reasonable rate of
speed. Then, the pooch, who
seemed to get disgusted w ith
everything, reached over and
planted his paw on the accelera
tor. The truck jolted forward,
went out/ of control and hit a
car. Four persons were injured.
As a footnote, Jones adds, "The
dog hasn't driven since."
Still .keeping to animals and
people, the article moves on to
a fish. A Michigan man was
ice fishing. All of a sudden,
believe it or not, a four-pound
pickerel bit him on his leg, and
it took three men to pry it
loose. It jumped off the hook
as it was being hauled up
through the ice.
Then one of the prize gems. An
eight-year old boy in . Portland,
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r a steamroller.
The kid was
talking beside a
free-ton steam=
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•abbed a pipe
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—Le steamroller started'
moving toward him. '
It knocked the boy down, and,
passed over his legs and-hip.
,He
was pushed down into hot, soft
asphalt. He came out with only
minor injuries. -
There's the story of the - man
and the electric fan. A polide•-•
man was sitting at his desk 'op
posite an electric fan, which ,
was on top of a 'filing cabinet.
The breeze from the fan caught
(Continued on rage eight)
from 5 to B:p.m.
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