PAGE FOUR 01le Elatill Collegian Successor to TR MEE LANCZ, est. 1351 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inelusivft during the College year os the staff of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-clay matter July 6. 1984. at the State College. Pa.. Post Office under the act of March 8. 1879 Colleirian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ. en, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsignee editorials are by the editor. Mary Krasnansky I , f , d ' ~ Editor Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed.. George Glazer; 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.. Bud Fenton, Asst. Bus. Mgr., Jerry Clibanoff: Advertising Mgr.. Bob Leyburn: National Adv. Mgr., Howard Boleky: Circu lation Co-Mgrs., Jack Florsford. Joe Sntovsky: Personnel Mgr., Carolyn Alley: Promotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Koons. Mel vin Glass: Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax: Office Mgr.. Tema Kleber: Secretary, Joan hforosini: Senior Board. Don Jacket, Dorothy Naveen. STAFF THIS ISSUE ' Night editor: Bettie Loux; copy editors: Dave Pellnitz, Lavonne Althouse: assistants: Barry Fein, Marjorie Cole, June Reizes, Lorraine Gladus, Bob Baumgardner. Ad staff: Dick Smith, Lou Morgans. Code Revisions Show Improvement All-College Cabinet and the elections commit tee in particular are to be commended for revis ing the Penn State All-College elections code. The code may still not be perfect but it is ap proaching that goal by incorporating the recent changes. Under the revised code, political parties, by April 21, must submit samples of all printed material used during the campaign, as well as itemized expense accounts and bills, to the elections committee for final approval and eval uation. The committee claims if has full intentions of checking more closely the amount of money spent by each party in the campaign. We hope the committee sticks to this promise. It is only through careful adherence to the election code that a fair election can be assured. While the parties are assumed to be upright and honorable, a third group is needed to make sure there are no infractions of the fair election principle. This third group is the elections com mittee, so it is gratifying to see some teeth being put into the code which governs the duty of this committee. For several campaigns, the r e have been charges and counter charges that each party, while not ,actually cheating, was breaking the 'limit on money which could be spent on pub licity. The revisions point a solution to this problem if the elections committee really does evaluate the printed material against the bill submitted for the work. Political campaigns, by t heir very nature, present a perfect temptation for a relaxing of scruples. But in many cases, rules governing elections are allowed to gather dust year after year. To keep politics out of the gutter and make it a legitimate tool for government to use, these rules must be changed with the changing years. We feel it augurs well for the future of Penn State politics, when the governing body recognizes the flaws in its systems and goes ahead with revisions such as .the elections committee has proposed and cabinet has passed. From here in, the committee has to make the changes more than merely words on a piece of paper. More introspection and revision of this sort might solve some of the "political" problems .on the local and national govemmerktal levels. More of it might be in order in other spheres at Penn State. Gazette ... Tuesday, February 19 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 119 Os mond Laboratory, 7 p.m. ARNOLD AIR SOCIETY, Armory, 7:30 p.m. BLOCK AND BRIDLE CLUB, 206 Agricul ture, 7:30 p.m. CAMERA CLUB ; PUB darkroom, 7 p.m. CAMPUS CHEST COMMITTEE, 204 Old Main, 7:30 p.m. Reserved Tickets-85c • Are Now on Sale At Student Union Foi the' 12th Annual TALENT SHO To Be Held At 8:00 p.m. Friday Night February 22nd In Schwab Auditorium Edward Shanken Business Mgr. —Moylan Mills THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Senate Proposal Far from Sound As silent as the current generation might be, we are almost certain that the College Senate proposal to curb cutting will produce a few choice epithets from students. As introduced, the plan provides that one credit shall be added to the graduation re quirements of students who cut the last meet ing of a class within.4B hours before or after a vacatiow , The dean the - school could, under the proposal, grant excuses on an indi vidual basis. ` The provision granting this right to the deans looks good on paper. But we doubt if it ,will prove to be satisfactory in practice. What, we ask, is a "legitimate" excuse for absence. Is carrying mail at Christmas time or any other vacation job a legitimate excuse? Under actual' practice, a student in one school might be granted the right to absent himself from college for this reason, while in another school he might not. Further, as one member of the administration has noted, we'd hate to be in the shoes of the deans in the days before a vacation. The lines applying for excuses would probably rival the, breadlines of the depression, and each of the students would probably have as sad a story of the victims of the depression. An excursion into the history of another at tempt by the Senate to deal with this very same problem might be worthwhile. From 1924 to 1942 the Senate had on its books a $5 fine and/or a $5 "readmission fee" for any student who cut a class 24 hours before or after a vaca- tion. At the same time, the deans of th schools were allowed to grant "vacation extenion per mits" in those cases where there was a "valid ' excuse." In 1942 the Senate abandoned this policy because too many "vacation extension . per mits" were being granted. In other words, too many people came up with valid excuses to make the ruling effective or enforcible. We have no doubt that the same would happen again if the present proposal were adopted by the Senate. As a matter of fact, with the penalty —the adding of a credit for each cut—so stiff, we suspect there would be an even greater tendency for the deans to grant excuses. If indeed pre and post vacation cutting is as much of a problem as some would have us be lieve, then some action would appear to be necessary. We do not think, however, that the present proposal is sound. Gazette .•. . COLLEGIAN business candidates, 1 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN business staff, 9 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN editorial sophomore board, 2 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB meeting can celled. FROTH advert i s i n g staff, Froth office, 6:30 p.m. HOME ECONOMICS STUDENT COUNCIL, 109 Home Economics, 7 p.m. INKLING literary board, 111 Carnegie Hall, 7:30 p.m. PENN STATE CLUB, 411 Old Main, 7 p.m. PSYCHOLOGY CLUB, 204 Burrowes, 7 p.m. TRIBUNAL, 201 Old Main, 7 p.m. WRA OUTING CLUB, White Hall playroom, 7 p.m. INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH AS SOCIATION, 208 Willard Hall, 7:30 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Armstrong Cork Co. will interview June graduates in Arch. E., 1.E., M.E., C.E., E.E., C&F, L.A. and •Econ. Wednes day, Feb. 27. They will also interview June graduates ' and 1952 M.S. candidates in Chem., Ch.E. and Phys. Babcock and Wilcox Co. will interview June graduates in E.E., 1.E., ,M.E., Ch. E.. F.T., Ch. and Metal. Friday. Feb. 29. Pennsylvania Power and Light Co. will interview June grad uates in M.E. and E.E. Thursday, Feb. 28. They will also interview juniors and a few sophomores in E.E., M.E. and C.E. for summer employment. Armed Forces Security Agency will interview graduates at all levels in Math. and Non-Romance languages and B.S. and M.S. candidates in science (Phys.) Boeing Airplane Co. will interview June graduates in C.E., Aero.E., E.E., I.E. and M.E. Monday, March 3. They will also interview advanced degrees in Math. and Phys. Bristol Laboratories; Inc. will' interview June graduates and 1952 M.S. candidates in Chem. and Ch.E. Friday, Feb. 29. Hercules Powder Co. will interview June graduates in Chem. and Ch.E. Monday, March 3. Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co. will interview June grad . uates in Ch.E., Chem., Com. Chem. and F.T. Friday, Feb. 29. St. Regis Paper Co. will interview June graduates in M.E., I.E. and Ch:E. , Monday, March 3. 3un Oil Co. will interview June graduates and 1952 M.S. candidates in Chem. and Ch.E. and juniors in the above / fields for summer work Monday, 'March 3. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Bartender with car to work from 3:30 p.m. to midnight. Registration for Spring Semester 1952 will be, completed by payment of fees on February 21 and 22, 1952. ALL FEES, including ROOM and BOARD CHARGES, will be due' on these dates. Veterans whose remaining entitlement is insufficient to carry them beyond the semester's mid-point should note that they will be required to pay their entire semester's fees. Those Veterans who have not been certified by the Veteran's,Administra tion will also be required to pay fees. Fees will be collected in Room 6, Willard Hall on February 21 and 22 from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. Little Man Ou Campus, "-----,_ - :-?.. . f..%.%%......".", 1... : ........ ...,._ : AP ... ....,f l .". .,• 1 . 0 1 ~. 1 . 17 '*.', •"i r'-- ...• ..., I' ..- ••• "If you ask me the fraternities and sororities aren't feeding so well as they used ,to." Poor Man's Paradise It's raining at Greriier Air Force Base, .and it's Monday morning and we're staring out a window. Every day we find this place more like Penn State. We have a Mall (up here it's called an air strip), we have beautiful curving .walks midst towering evergreen trees, and we have mud. What could be more like home? We didn't' begin this as a dissertation on comparative values of military and college life, however, because anyone who is smart enough to be in college can tell the difference and draw his own conclusions. What we did sit down at this typewriter for was to tell you all about the hockey match. We saw our first organized frigid free-for-all in Boston a couple of days ago, a so-called "game" between the Boston Bru ins and -the Montreal Canadians. After watching a drawn-out, two hour struggle that netted a 1-0 win for the Bruins and much bloody ice, we. have formed an opinion that we'll pass on to you now—the game is not for small boys. - • Everything . started off nice and easy with about 30 young men skating onto the ice in the Boston Gardens with an easy, graceful swing to their bodies and a jaunty air about their flashing blades. There was or gan music blaring from over head speakers, and the bright red and striped yellow' uni forms blended into a beautiful Picasso as the men swept in, ever-narrowing circles around the rink. - Those uniforms, too, were some thing just short of spectacular. They consist of ice skates, of course, and knee-length baseball socks, at the bottom. Then comes a sort of long-john affair, over which is worn a pair of basketball shorts which are too large. The chest • is kept modest. by a , foot- NOTICE Payment of Fees TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1952 By PFC. PAUL A. POORMAN ball jersey, and the hands keep their manicure beneath tobog ganing gloves. Under all this is worn a variety of pads, padding, and corseting, so that • all the players look like hunchbacks with knobby knees and elbows. Every , thing, in fact, is well protected but the head, which is left wav ing in the breeze above the afore mentioned mass of equipment. The head, apparently, is not con sidered a vital part. Each man is issued a mace (hockey stick) before the match, and it is this irhplement which causes all the trouble. There are six men on a side, which makes 'l2 men chasing a tiny rubber ob ject called a puck, trying to man uver this puck with their sticks so that it will fly into the goalie's mouth. When this happens, a goal is considered scored, the winner being the side with the most goals, the loser the side with the least teeth. The game begins when the referee drops the puck between two of the gladiators •and every body jumps into the middle of the ice and starts whaling everybody else with his stick. A cute vari ation of this occurs when the puck accidentally flies out of the melee and skitters to one end of the rink. One man is usually picked to chase the puck. Every-' body else skates madly along behind, timing their ,approach to 'Continued on page five) By Bibkr ~,,,,,,,,,,,,,...,,,,,..„. r „: ''''' A , z , ,..7 , A, • : . ... • . ~....54;54,, ,, , ~,,,,:, ii:;Y:-.• •'•:.•:-, ',.. „'.j:,Z,:?',,
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