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atm Elatig Collegian
Successor to I'llE FREE LANCE, eat. 1882
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 net 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
Mary Krasnansky , ry e Edward Shanken
Editor Business Mgr.
Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed., George Glazer;
Sports Ed., Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir„ Bud Fenton; Makeup
Ed., Moylan Mills; Wire Ed., Len Holasinski; Society Ed.,
Carolyn Barrett; Feature Ed.. Rosemary Delabanty; 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, Nancy Luetzel; copy editors, Pat
Nutter,u Jane Reber; assistants, Lu Martin, Dot
Bennett, Bab Landis, Rose Geha.
Ad manager. Joan Morosini; assistant, Dick
Smith.
Legion Showdown
Long Overdue
The six-month long charges of communist and
subversive activities at Penn State have
,come
to a long overdue head with the disclosure that
a special committee of the College Board of
Trustees will hear the evidence. Although the
establishment of the committee has not been
confirmed officially by th e College, 'reliable
sources indicated that the committee would be
set up in the near future.
Ever since the charges were first made
against the College by the 23d district of the
Legion July 22, the Legion has been chal
lenged to present the evidence. The (challenge
has been "Put up or shut up."
The charges by the Legion have from the
start been marked by double-talk and misrepre
sentation. And even in finally agreeing to take
its "evidence" to the College for investigation,
the Legion has engaged in the same double-talk.
When the charges made 'against the College
July 22 were repeated DeCember 2, the Daily
Collegian inquired whether the Legion had ever
submitted any of-its evidence to the College.
Reported the Daily Colle g ian of December 4,
"Renewed charges of "un-American activities at
the Pennsylvania State College" were accom
panied by an admission by an American Legion
official yesterday that the Legion had never
submitted any evidence to the College."
The Legion official credited with that state
ment was Paul W. Beardslee, 23d district com
mander.
This is the same Paul W. Beardslee who
Thursday night stated that attempts had been
made to present evidence of communist and
subversive activities at Penn State to proper
College authorities. Efforts to get this evidence
to the College was' "blocked" Beardslee said.
The fact is that the Legion had never made
any attempt to get the facts before the proper
College authorities.
In a reply to the Legiori's original charges,
President Milton S. Eisenhower said, "If evi
dence were presented to me in good faith, I
would make an immediate investigation and
would recommend to the trustees whatever ac
tion seemed appropriate in light of the facts."
At that time the President pointed out. that
One case had been brought to his attention,
that the matter had been thoroughly investi
gated, and that the loyalty of the faculty mem
ber had( been established beyond any doubt.
The President acted in good faith in this in
stance and the Legion had no reason to doubt
that he would do the same again. But the Legion
never presented its evidence to 'the President.
The conduct of the American Legion
throughout the entire controversy leaves , us
to doubt the sincerity and honesty of the
charges.
We feel certain that this showdown will
prove the Legion's charges to be irresponsible
and reckless.
Instructor Listings
Thursday's recommendation to the College
Council of Administration by cabinet for the
listing of all instructors before the pre-regis
tration date seems almost a foolproof system.
There appears to be no reason for the viola
tion of this system by any school or depart
ment if it is accepted by the council.
The recommendation asks all schools to - list
their instructors if at all possible, but it also
presents a plan for the listing of instructors not
made known in time for publication in the time
tables. Those sections would be given a symbol
and instructors would later be posted under
those symbols on the school's bulletin board be
fore preregistration.
By this system students could still choose
their instructors even though they were not
listed in the time table.
This system might also pay dividends for the'
administration. Working . on the assumption that
students choose the best instructors, the admin
istration would have a kind of "measuring stick"
to the relative value of the College's instructors,
at least from the student viewpoint.
Past systems of measuring instructor's
ability have proved unsatisfactory, but here
is a system that could work. Why not give it a
try?
—Andy McNeillie
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE Ca:.LEGE, 'PENNSYLVANIA
Decision Making
Is Cabinet Function
(Ed. Note: This is the fourth in a series of
five editorials designed to present the back
ground and clarify the issues on a subject
which has been the issue of much discussion,
the proposed Student Union building and the
$7.50 student fee recommended to the College
Board of Trustees by , All-College Cabinet
and approved by the trustees 'in 1950.)
IV. Referendum
Some contend that the $7.50 Student Union
assessment' should have been put to a student
referendum: The facts are that it already had
been as we have indicated in previous editorials,
and thiat another referendum would have been
impossible to conduct in time for-the next meet
ing of the trustees. And, it should be added,
student leaders who presented the assessment
to cabinet did not plan to present it at such a
tide as to make it impossible to hold a referen
dum.
In the words of Thomas Morgan, Daily Col
legian editor 1949-50, and a student member of
the College SU committee. "It was impossible
for cabinet to be approachee on the fee at any
earlier time, simply because construction and
financing plans were not finished by' Mr. Hos
tetter's office (Ed. Note—College comptroller)
and the College architects until two weeks, be
fore the cabinet. meeting MacCallum (Ed. Note
—All - College/secretary treasurer; 1949 - 50)
broached the subject to cabinet; and the final
plans of facilities and methods of financing were
not, approved by the College's student union commttee until ten days before the cabinet
meeting. No cabinet meeting took place in the
interim . . . "
We have never had any reason to doubt
Tom( Morgan's honesty and shall maintain
that faith until such a time when we can be
shown otherwise.
We further doubt the validity of the claim
that a student referendum should s be held to
determine student opinion on every important
issue which comes before All-College Cabinet:
If there is to 15e a student referendum on each
important issue, why then have student govern
ment?
It is the function of student government,
through its leaders, to make these decisibns.
Penn State is either •going to have responsible
student' government or no student government
at all.
Safety Valve--
Charges Collegian 'Has Taken
A Nasty Swipe at NM'
TO THE EDITOR: The Collegian editor has
taken a nasty swipe at AIM. the largest student
organization at the school. He states that AIM
has had a superfluity of investigations. W_e are
not going to argue that point. However, he
points out sPecific investigations which were
useless, even detrimental.
It ain't so. Why the inyestigation of BX ring
sales? The Collegian says the charter restricts
sales in the BX to certain items. But Mr. D. of
the College says "The BX can sell anything it
wants to." An investigation was legitimate`
even if to find out who was right.
Why the investigation of the SU building?'
The Collegian says that the building is being
held up by the shortage of steel. Mr. L., high up
on student government, says that the hold up is
bequse of a controversy over architecture. Once
again, who is right? AIM felt an investigation
was in order.
There is a third investigation. of interest. Last
year many of the independents were asking for
Collegian editors' heads because of inadequate
distribution. AIM came out with a :committee
report fully backing Collegian policy.
It seems to us that AIM should be praised
rather than ridiculed •for taking particular in
terest in these matters. What would Collegian
have• the student government organizations do?
Maybe they should hold their regular meetings,
read the minutes, and then sit back and let the
benevolent protectors on 'All-College Cabinet
watch over them.
Finally, it might be said that there are a great'
number of unnecessary editorials written. But,
of course, if editorials come less frequently, edi
tors must necessarily become more scarce.
—Paul Zanoni,
William Brown,
Frank Reese
Gazette .
Sunday, December 16
CHRISTMAS PAGEANT, two performances,
St. Andrews' Episcopal Church,, 4:30 and 7:30
p.m.
RADIO DAY PERSONNEL, 305 Sparks, 4 p.m.
Monday, December 17
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION,
business meeting, Old Main lounge, 7:30 p.m. •
INTERCOLLEGIATE CONFERENCE 0 N
GOVERNMENT, Home Economics living center,
7 p.m.
• COLLEGE ;PLACEMENT'
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. have opportunities in sales
leading to retail management or wholesale . sales. Fur
' ther information may be obtained in 112 Old Main.-
.STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Women for waitress work from 7:30 to 11 p.m: in dairy
store.
Busboy for Mondays from 9 to 12 a.m.
Man for work on farm on edge tlf town; 4 to 6..eyery day.
Woman for housework five days per, week from u. a.m.
' to 6 p.m. .
Little Man On 'campus
_
"Progessor Snarf says that I stole this sentence for my theme but
HE'used it in the text HE wrote and called it a reference."
160 Needy Children
To Be Entertained
• 'About 160 children of needy families will be entertained this
year at seven Christmas parties, Agnes McElwee,' coordinator of the
Christmas project and president of the State College Welfare Fund,
said yesterday.
•
Six other campus groups, have cooperated with family projects
and 40 families received food baskets from various fraternities.
High School
`Talks Delayed
Over Holidays
Students fridm the College will
not speak in high schools during
the Christmas season, it was de
cided' by the All-College Enroll
ment committee at a meeting
early this week, because the holi
day season is too "hectic" a time
for both the 'high schools and the
College.
The purpose of these student
speeches• is to acquaint graduat
ing high school seniors with the
advantages of a Penn State edu
cation, Edw a r d Shanken, co
chairman of the committee said.
Students rather than the admin
istration are sent because the
high school students will ques
tion them more freely on various
aspects of college life, Shanken
said.
Fraternities, sororities, inde
pendents, and all other groups at
the College will be split up into
sections. Each section will have
a chairman who will contact stu
dents interested in speaking at
various high schools.
Those interested in working on
the committee and speaking at
schools may come to a meeting
to be announced in the Daily
Collegian after Christmas vaca
tion. '
The committee also discussed
plans and organization for the
rest of the school year.
Dinner, Pageant Set
For Canterbury Club
The Canterbury club will have
a dinner at 5:30 p.m. tomorrovrat
the St. Andrew's Parish 'House.
Following the \ dinner. the group
will present "The Christmas Pag
eant."
A Christmas .supper
,has alsa
been planned by the United •Stu
dent Fellowship of the Faith Re
formed Church. The dinner will
take place at 5:30 p.m. toxiorrow
after the- singing of Chris,tmas
carols. A Christmas play titled
"The Blessed• Vagrant" :will be
given after the dinner.
"Great talkers are, like leaky
vessels; everything runs out of
them."--Simmons
SATURDAY, DECEMBER.IS, 1951
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Kappa Delta Rho, Tau Kappa
Epsilon and Delta Gamma, Beta
Theta Pi and Alpha Omicron Pi,
Chi Omega and Delta Tau De 11.%
and Sigma Chi will hold parties
today. -
Started This Year
Delta Zeta and Pi Kappa Al
pha will entertain 20 five to
seven-year-old children tomor l
row.
A fraternity cooperating .with
the family project first finds out
what the family needs and wants.
Then after taking a food basket
to the family tomorrow, it will
bring the children back to the
house for dinner and give them
presents that they need. One
family will receive furniture, a
mattress, food, and clothing.
The, family projects were in
augurated this year because there
were not enough children to at
tend all of the planned parties.
General Party
Since many children attended
more than one party this year,
Miss McElwee suggested that
there be one general party in
Recreation Hall next year for all
the children. The patty would
cost little as students could pro-
Vide the entertainment. The
money thus saved could be 'used
for- more family projects, she
added., • •
Miss McElwee said the Welfare
fund appreciated the cooperation
of all campus groups which parti
cipated in this year's Christmas
project.
Davis Presides
At Convention
t •
Di. Arthur F. Davis, professor
of physical education, was mod
erator at the health_ education
section' of , the 30th annual con
vention for health, physical edu
cation, and recreation — held in
Philadelphia from Thursday un
til today. 1
Dr. Arthur L. Harnett, profes
sor of physical education, was
summarizer for this section of
the convention.
In a general session meeting of
the convention . yesterday after
noon, Dr. Lloyd M. Jones, pro
fessor of physical education, re
ported:- on the • national confer
ence on ' mobilization of health,
physical 'education - a n d recrea
tion.
Prof. Fred 'M. Coombs, of the
physical education s ch o 01, re
ceived an honor award fo r
achievement in recreation at the
banquet held last night.
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