PAGE SIX She Hath} Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 188? Published Puesduy through Saturday mornings inelusiv* during the College year by the staff of rhe Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class mattes July 5. 1934, at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879 Collegian aditorials represent the viewpoints of the writ* erm, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper Unsigne editorials are by the editor. Marv Krasnansky Edward Shankeo Editor Business Mgr. Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed., George Glazer; Sports Ed., Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir., Bob Fraser; Makeup Ed.» Moylan Mills; Wire Ed., Lcn 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; Librarian, Millie Martin; Exchange Ed.. Paul Beighley; Senior Bd.. Bad Fenton. Asst. Bus. Mgr., Jerry Clibanoff; Advertising Mgr.. Bob Lcyburn; National Adv. Mgr., Howard Boleky; Circa* lotion Co-Mgrs., Jack Horsford, Joe Sutovsky; Personnel Mgr., Carolyn Alley; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Roons, Mel* vin Glass; Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax; Office Mgr. Tema Richer; Secretary, Joan Morosini: Senior Board. Don Jackel, Dorothy Naveen. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor: Dave Pellnitz; Copy Editors: Bettie Loux, Jim Gromiller, Andy McNeillie; assistants: Sam Procopio, Dick Rau, Charles Obertance, Norma Zehner, Bob Baumgardner, Jim Peters, Tom Saylor, Ad Manager: Alison Morley; assistants: Phyl Kalson, Frank Kelly. Cagers Put State In Sport Limelight Although there we; Coach Elmer Gross team when they returned from their all-vic torious road trip, we are certain that the campus recognizes and appreciates the way they have put Penn State on the collegiate court map. The cagers' four successive wins during mid-year vacation gave them a surprising 11 game victory string and a seasonal record of 13 victories against a lone defeat. Over looked by basketball observers at the start of the season, the Lions have moved into national prominence. Skeptics refused to rate the Nittanies even while they were compiling the winning record, but Saturday’s upset of tenth-ranked West Vir ginia should open the eyes of the country’s leading sportswriters. The victory over the Mountaineers, coupled with successes over other top teams like Navy, Syracuse, Michigan, Pitt, and Colgate should elevate State from last week’s 24th place national ranking. This week the dribblers will attempt to fur ther their accomplishments and .snap the Col lege’s all-time one-season winning streak of 12. If the Lions should maintain their great play and defeat Rutgers Wednesday, and George town Saturday, they would establish a new winning streak. The team has already broken the modern one game away from home record and number of total points scored in one game. It’s 89 points against Dickinson snapped the former mark of 76, and the 155 points scored in the 85-70 Gettys burg win set a new two team total. Undoubtedly, the baskeieers owe much of . their success to Coach Gross and his magnifi cent handling of the team. But not to be over looked has been the team balance and effort. ! The boys have been able to come' through -when the pressure was on, and that's the .sign of a good team. . The cagers still have ten games left and all will be tough—for when you’re on top everyone likes to beat you. Each victory adds more pres tige, and with it pressure. But no matter what it does the remainder of the season, the 1951-52 quintet will long be remembered. —Dave Colton An Eye for an Eye ; .. From Time Magazine, Feb. 4—ln Rio de Jan eiro, after a snake bit him, Francisco Feliciano chased and caught the viper, bit it to death. . “A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and then reflects on what he has uttered.” —Delile Planes in the Berlin airlift carried 2,343,315 tons of food and coal into Western Berlin be tween April 1, 1948, and Sept. 30, 1949. El Paracutin, Mexico’s youngest and most active volcano, erupted Feb. 20, 1943, in the middle of a farmer’s field •e no huge throngs to greet and his Lion basketball THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Profs Neglecting Fair Play Rules Every semester we hear reports of battles between professors and students’ over finals. Each one adds up to something we do not like. The other day we got first hand a story about a certain professor who refused to show a student his final examination paper. The student had gone into the final with a passing grade and ended' up with a failing mark. He couldn't figure it out so he went in to.the professor's office. He received no satisfaction. Another student in a more .or less similar pre dicament, was not even permitted to see his professor. Rumor has it that this student was the vic tim of a “perfect curve” in which some students must fail a course, regardless of their final average. It was an understanding we had -when we arrived on the campus that professors were something not to be afraid of, but, to the con- • trary, people quite human and more or less eager to' assist students in obtaining a broad, unbiased education. There are. of course, situations contrary to these examples, but they .have of late been forced into the background by recurring in stances of sheer hard-headedness. Why couldn’t the student see his final exami nation if his failing or passing the course de pended on it? If there is any reason for it, we want to find it. An editorial appearing in the Daily Colle gian several days before the suspending of publication for final examinations, which dis cussed "piling up" of work on students in the final week of the semester, received many loud and dissenting comments from various members of the College faculty. We hope pro fessors will view this more constructively and "take the hint." Everybody Benefits By BX Plan As a student-initiated, student-supported pro ject, the Penn State Book Exchange and Used Book Agency cannot possibly hope to function without student interest. That interest is needed now, and it is the kind of interest from which students can profit—in a very real way. The Book Exchange is short on used text books—2ooo-3000 short—by the latest count. One of the prime reasons the Used Book Agency was set up as a part of the BX was to act as a means by which students could get a fair return for their used books. In most cases—where texts are in reasonably good condition—the student can get back as much as 60 per cent of his original investment. We doubt that there is another place in State College where such a fair deal is available. At the same time that the BX enables some students to get a fair return on their used texts, it enables students who need texts to get them a a cost little higher than the price set by the seller. But students cannot get fair prices on their books and other students are unable to make a saving unless books are brought to the Used Book Agency. If you have a used book lying around col lecting dust, take it to the BX in the TUB. That book can earn money for you and save money for somebody else. ‘ New Frosh Face Bright College Era Freshmen entering the College this semester can look forward to a bright future as far as the College is concerned. These freshmen will probably be here to see the College reach' heights undreamed of in the Nittany Vale in the early days of the Farmers’ High School. With the $17,500,000 appropriation recently given the College by the stale General Assem bly, freshmen will see increased faculty sal aries, an added drawing card for a high caliber faculty. Better utilization of the present avail able classroom space can also be seen since the hasty building projects have ceased for the time being. College policy concerning the draft will be more stable because of the more or less stable policies of the Selective Service system. The athletic outlook at the College is much brighter for future years than it has been in the past. All the major sports show vastly im proved teams since the arrival on campus of the present senior class. - Penn State, long known for it’s middle-of the-road policies in athletics, has finally helped bring such actions into the limelight in an at tempt to place intercollegiate sports on a sane level. The days that the Pennsylvania State Col lege was considered "just another small-time institution" have indeed passed. Freshmen will have even more right to be be proud of fheir college than those who will leave in June. The Iranian oil field in the southwest terri tory at the head of the Persian Gulf is the richest single field in existence. —Bob Fraser A lot of people throughout the world still are unable to decide whom to believe—Russia or the Western powers^—about this matter of war intent. For many of them, it’s mere] ' kettle black, and a situation wher< way of both sides. The past week-end, however,' has brought the publication of figures as good as any which are likely to be obtained show ing who is preparing for war and wtio is reacting In self defense. The Soviet Union, says , the United Nations Economic Com mission for Europe, is devoting more of its resources to military preparations than it did during the feverish year of 1940, after war had broken out in Europe. In 1951, the report said, the Soviet devoted two thirds more to mili tary preparations than it did to defense and all other investment in its economy in 1937, when it was already known to be arming at a greater rate than any other nation in the world. When you stop to think that in the Soviet Union all invest ment in economic development is government investment, the result becomes aweso me. Seventy-live per cent of the en tire national investment for two years devoted to armingl And we can't know how much they are spending on atomic energy under their so-called "education" budget. , This compares with 30 per cent of the U. S. national 'budget in 1950, and 67 per cent in 1951, in the feverish effort to overtake in three or four years what the Rus sians have built up in six years of . such super-attention to the military field. And that’s govern ment budget, not nationwide in vestment. The Russian figures show few gains for many years in agri cultural production and con sumer goods, despite rapid pop ulation increases, where Ameri can consumer production has been at an all-time peak in an economy which already sur passed, in that respect, all the rest of the world. . But when, at the close of 1951, U. S. authorities decided Russia would probably not strike im mediately, the war program was s, “spread” from three to four years in order not to interfere with pri vate consumption and the coun try’s long-term .economic strength. The whole picture indicates it is Russia which has the dy namic plans; Russia whiph is Littli (. Man On Campus "The boys whipped up a little party for ybu, Worihal—Ed opened your letter from the dean's office." Interpreting the News Dynamic Plans Used by Russia By J. M. ROBERTS. JR' Associated Press flews Analyst TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1952 By Ribler ly a matter of the pot calling the i they' seek only to keep out of the preparing diplomatic adven tures and indirect aggression which might produce war, and Russia which intends to have the military machine to back these other policies if necessary. Gazette... Tuesday, February 5 AMERICAN CHILDHOOD ED UCATION INTERNATIONAL and FUTURE TEACHERS OF AMERICA joint meeting, Dr. Charles M. Long speaker, South east Atherton Lounge, 7 p.m. CAMERA CLUB. 1 Main Engi neering, 7 p.m. CHESS CLUB, 3-Sparks, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN business candi dates, 1 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN business staff, 9 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN sophomore edi torial board. 2 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB, TUB, 6:45 o.m. FENCING CLUB, Beaver Field water tower, 7 p.m. LIEBIG CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 105 Frear Laboratory, 7:30 p.m. PANHELLENIC COUNCIL, Grange basement, 7 p.m. PENN STATE CLUB. 405 Old Main, 7 n.m. TRIBUNAL, 201 Old Main, 7 p.m. WRA OUTING, White Hall playrom, 7 p.m. WRA SWIMMING, White Hall pool, 7 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Bethlehem Steel Co. will interview June graduates in C.E., E.E., Ch.E., 1.E., M.E., and Metal. Monday, Feb. 18. Persons •in the upper third of the class are pre ferred. • E. I. DuPont will interview June B.S. candidates and 1952 M.S.* candidates in Chem., Metal., Phys., Ch.E., E.E., 1.E., and C.E. Monday, Feb. 18.. National Supply Co. will interview June graduates in Acct., C.E., 1.E., M.E., Metal, and P.N.G. Monday, Feb. 18. Standard Oil Development Co. will in terview June graduates in C.E., 1.E., M.E., Ch.E. -and E.E. Monday, Feb. 18. Texas Co. (Beacon Laboratories) will in terview June graduates in M.E. Monday, Feb. 18. Westinghouse Electric Co. will interview June B.S. candidates and 1952 M.S. can didates in Metal. (Physical) Monday, Feb. 10 . ( STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Baby sitters for Wednesday afternoon. Students with Chem. background for part-time work,
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