PAGE FOUK Satly Collegian Saccesser im THE FREE LANCE, eat. 188 T Published ruesday through Saturday moraines inclusive during the College year by the staff of Vht Daily Collegian of rhe Pennsylvania State College Entered as second-class matter July 8, 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 oolicy of the newspaper. Unsigne editorials are oy the editor. Mar. Krasnansky ,-gsg*,, Edward Shanken Editor ' Business Mgr. Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed., George Glazcr; Sports Ed., Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir., Bob Fraser; 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; Librarian, Millie Martin: Exchange Ed.. Paul Beighley; Senior Bd„ Bad Fenton. Asst. Bus. Mgr., Jerry Clibanoff; Advertising Mgr.. Bob Leyburn; National Adv. Mgr., Howard Boleky: Circu* lation Co-Mgrs., Jack Rorsford, Joe Sutovsky; Personnel Mgr.. Carolyn Alley: Promotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Roons. Mel vin Glass: Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax: Office Mgr.. Tema Kleber; Secretary, Joan Morosini: Senior Board, Don Jackel, Dorothy Naveen. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor, Ginger Opoczenski; copy editors, Janie Reber, Chuck Henderson; assistants, Laura Badwey, Bobby Lock, John Phillips, Lorraine Gladus, Steve Pontier. Athletes Must Be Students As Well The mid-year difficulties encountered by some of Penn State’s athletes —as reported earlier this week in the professional press— served to highlight a problem facing Penn State and intercollegiate athletics: the athlete as a student. In some educational institutions an athlete is not a student; he only goes through the motions of attending classes, is graded on a special scale, is never dropped from ’ the rolls, is never flunked out of school. From the very start, when. an athlete is ■ often admitted to college without the back ground, capacity, or qualifications to do col lege-level work, he is involved in a dishonest procedure. The set of values the athlete ac quires in these cases colors his entire life, for he is deluded by the belief that everything will come just as easily, that there is a way to beat the game if you know the right people. The athlete suffers from such practices, for he is cheated of the opportunity and the un equalled pleasure of achieving something which is the product of honest labor. ’ - The college itself suffers, for it loses prestige in the eyes of a large percentage of the public and in the eyes of almost all educators.' Cor imption in athletics, as President Milton S. Eis enhower has said, is like cancer, in that it spreads through the remainder of the institu tion. Where a scholarship athlete remains in col lege for a year or two and is then dropped from the rolls for academic deficiencies, it can be likened to an investment which fails lo mature. One or.two years of training and one or two years of scholarship money are washed down the drain. If college athletics are to maintain a degreq ‘of respectability and if the athlete is to get the most out of the opportunity of acquiring a col lege education, then the athlete must be able— and should be required—to do normal college work. The primary purpose of any educational in stitution is education. Any college which is the home of the athletic' goon is prostituting a sacred trust. Better, faster, more professional athletics should not be the wages of this prostitution. Departments Should Give Grades Early It has been brought to our attention that certain departments—not all, mind you—have been too busy to let students find out their marks in advance of the issuing of transcripts. In one case we know of, a student's regis tration was completely "fouled up" because a certain department wouldn't lei him see his grade. The' student learned subsequently that he had flunked the course. Since he had al ready registered, he had to revise his sche dule. The come-back to this is “Why not send a post card in with the final exam?” But suppose you forget to take a post card to the exam or it isn’t returned? We see no reason why all departments can’t make grades' known in cru cial cases in advance of the issuance of tran scripts. All departments are busy at the beginning of a new semester, and this courtesy might take some extra time. But it certainly wouldn’t be that much of an inconvenience to leave a list of grades with a secretary and let her take a few minutes to look up the grade in question. It's bad enough to flunk a course; it's even worse to have to re-register, switch classes - around, and be forced to forego certain courses because they are filled to capacity. A more courteous attitude on the part of the departments in question would solve the prob lem. "Those who refuse to take sides in a conflict are likely to find themselves alone when it is over. —Moylan Mills THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA, College Pay Boost Helps Student Too While students were preparing for the agoniz ing experience of finals, members of the Col lege faculty and staff were having a more pleasant time of things: they were hearing the details of the College’s salary increase program. What fhey heard amounted to this; the salary increase for the period from July 1 lo Jan. 25 would be paid in a lump sum. This was not a retroactive increase, since the raise had been authorized for July 1. But since the College ran short of funds when the' legisla ture failed to come through with an appro priation, the College had been unable until now to start paying the higher salaries. In addition to this lump sum payment, the College will grant another salary increase amounting to approximately half of the first raise, effective this month. All these increases would be on a merit basis, for only by such a method of granting wage boosts can the College hope to attract and main tain competent instructors. - Although the salary increases still leave Penn. State somewhat behind the leaders among land-grant colleges, they are hoped to be the first in a series of raises that will make them equal to the average for such institutions. Penn State faculty members have been under paid for too long, and the raises go a long way toward alleviating this situation. Although students would not appear to have an imme diate or personal interest in the raises, they will be among those who will benefit from the action. A well-paid faculty assures instructors cap able of college caliber instruction. Respect able salaries also attract belter instructors. The better the grade of fhe instruction, the more a student stands to achieve in the class room. So looking at the increases from the student point of view, the boost in faculty salaries will make a Penn State diploma worth just that much more in dollars and cents. Phone Time Limit Best Idea to Date The recent announcement that administration officials are consideraing setting a 9 p.m. dead line on phone calls to women’s dormitories leaves us wondering how this would facilitate better handling of long distance • phone calls. The proposal, if effected, would supposedly make possible better service on long distance calls to and from dormitories. If the phone deadline, now set at 10 p.m., were advanced one’ hour, it would merely .crowd the dorm lines more seriously than they are now. Students who would normally call the dorms between $ and 10 p.m., would be forced to call' earlier, putting more student calls on the lines during those hours than ever before. It is doubtful if there are many Penn State students who cannot, and do not, stay up well beyond the 10 p.m. phone deadline to women’s dormitories. After that period, lines are com paratively clear and placing a long distance call to and from the College is comparatively simple. Moving the deadline forward to 9 p.m. would only inconvenience the majority of the student body for the minority wishing to place long distance calls. This minority is surely capable of waiting until the not-so-late hour of 10 p.m. before placing a call. The suggestion that students limit their calls to five minutes, although it has its faults, is a much better plan than shutting off calls to women’s dorms an hour earlier. Merely by consideration of others who wish to use the lines, Penn Staters can secure better phone service for themselves in the future. But cutting the _ phone deadline an hour short for the benefit of those who can surely wait until 10 p.m. for a long distance call, consequently crowding phone lines even more than they are now, would be a detrimental action justifiably opposed by the student body. —Dave Jones Registration Better The process of final registration for the spring semester in Recreation Hall last Thursday, Fri day, and-Saturday was probably as well-planned and expedient as it could possibly have been made. It was a pleasure to walk by the fables, seeming scarcely to pause while the forms we had been able fo fill out in our room were given a final check by the registration officials. One student who timed himself said it took him exactly four minutes to go through the whole process. This was at about. 10 a.m. Friday. We feel that regisration officials are to be highly commended for nearly perfecting the system and eliminating the torture of previous years. From what we have heard, we believe this is the opinion of most students on campus. - —LaVonne Allhouse The sun does not set from the middle of May until the end of July in the North Cape area of Norway. Mexico is declared to be a Federal Republic of 28 states, each having a governor, legislature and judicial elected by universal male suffrage. little Man On Campus "It must have been one of your students with a sense of humor. ■ The note says, Professor Snarf, your window is broken'/' Fundamental Issues Harmony in Western Europe has been soured once again. And as usual both parties of the duet believe they are reading the right On one side German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer wants equal ity for his country if German troops are to fight and die in the de fense of Europe. That voice from the'West German republic seems reasonable. But French quarters' quake with fear at the possibility of a powerful Germany. Equality, the chancellor said, can he shown in two ways—full partnership for Germany in the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion and a solution to the problem of the Saar. France does.' not like either prospect. She has rejected the German proposal to have free elections held to determine the status of the Saar, an industrial! ized section of Germany occu pied by France since the end of World War 11. Rather, French of ficials have expressed the idea that the Saar should be admin istered by an international agency. However, the German gov ernment fully realizes - that it holds a tremendous bargaining power in today's world of ten sion. And diplomats in Wash ington and London are aware that a strong Germany is an asset in the East-West strug gle for Europe. This is a time for positive ac tion. It is not enough to brand the stand taken by ’ Chancellor Ade nauer as a resurgent German na tionalism and leave the -whole affair at that point. Neither will a complete siding against France produce any desirable results. It should be remembered that the German nation cried for equality before and when the French blocked any effort to at tain it the frustration of that na tion produced a Hitler. Next year Chancellor Adenauer will have to face the battle of an election year. He cannot ignore the under current of feeling within his cabinet that desires a stronger, more equal Germany in the fam ily of nations. But it is not for that reason alone that the World War II allies should give the chancellor what he asks. The Saar is Ger man. And a free election super vised by the Western Big Three, as Chancellor Adenauer proposes, is a just method of settling the problem. Further more, the price of blood is high and the German will fight best if he fights for his country as a NATO partner. It's pride something soldiers the world over maintain with fervor. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY. 6; i 1952 '• **••*.» By LEN KOLASINSKI Gazette... AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AG RICULTURAL ENGINEERS, 105 Agricultural Engineering, 7 p.m. C. A. ROUND TABLE, 304 Old Main, ? p.m. COFFEE HOUR, dean of men and cabinet, 109 Old Main, 4 p.m. DE MOLAY CLUB, 213 Willard Hall, 7 p.m. RIDING CLUB, 217 Willard Hall, 7 p.m. WRA MODERN DANCE GROUP, Modern dance room, 7 p.m. WRA SWIMMING, White Hall pool, 7 p.m. AIM BOARD. 104 Willard Hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Rosemary Bishop, Mary Deemy,.. David Evans, Norman Fleekop, Richard Klingensmith, Marilyn Levitt, Rollin Mann, Martha Rex, Patricia Stimmel, John Taylor, Richard Tomaskovic. AT THE MOVIES CATHAUM: Room For One More 2:13, 4:06,' 5:59, 7:52, 9:45 STATE: Ten Tali' Men 2:11, 4:03, 5:55. 7:47, 9:39 NITTANY: Odette 6:25,. 8:19, 10:15 COLLEGE PLACEMENT Bethlehem Steel Co. will interview June graduates in C.E., E.E., Cb.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. <Bcacon Laboratories) will in terview June graduates in M.E; Feb. 18. - . • - Westfnghouse Electric Co. will interview June B.S. candidates and 1952 M.S. can didates in Metal. (Physical) Monday, Feb. Atlantic Refining. Co. will interview June graduates in if.E., C.E., E.E., C&F., Acct., Ch.E. and girls for stenographic and secretarial positions Tuesday, Feb. 19, 1952. M.S. candidates in Ch.E. will -also be interviewed. - Dept, of Highways of the Commonwealth of Penna. representative will speak to civil engineers graduating in June, Tues day, Feb.- 19.- Jefferson Chemical Co. will interview June graduates in Ch.E. and M.E. Tues day, Feb. 19. . . STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Baby sitters from 1 to 4 p.m. five days a week. - Students with Chem. background for part-time - work. By Bil
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