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Tim Batty Collegian
Since/am to THE FUZE LANCX, ..t. HIST
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings tuella/live
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegial ,
of The Pennsylvania State Dolltrze.
Entered as second-elate meatter only 8. 1934, at tha State
College. Pa.. Poet Office under the ant of March 8. 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ.
ens, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsisnee
editorials are by the editor.
Mary Krasnansky
Editor
Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City EA, George Glazer;
Sports Ed.. Ernie •Moore; Edit. Dir., Bob Fraser; Makeup
Ed., Moylan Mills; Wire Ed., Len Relasirmki; Society Ed.,
Carolyn Barrett; Feature Ed., Rosemary De!shanty; Amt.
City Ed., Lee Stern; Asst. Sports Eds.. Dave Colton, Bob
Vosburg; Asst. Society Ed., Greta Weaver; Librarian. Joan
Kuntz; Exchange Ed.. Paul Beighley: Senior Bd., Bud
Fenton.
Asst. Bus. Mgr., Janet Landau.; Advertising Mgr.,
Bob Leyburn; National Adv. Mgr., Howard Bolacy; Circa
lotion Co-Mars., Jack [(oratory!. Joe Sutovsky; Personnel
Mar., Carolyn Alley; Promotion Co-Mars., Bob Koons, Mel
vin Glass; Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax; Office Mgr:,
team [tither; Secretary, Joan Moroaini: Senior Board, Don
Jackel.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Bettie Loux; Copy editors: Lix
Newell,' Dick Rau; assistants: Lorraine Gladus,
Phil Austin; Bev Dickinson, Evvie Kielar, Chiz
Mathias.
Ad staff: Ed Steel, Nancy Supplee, Bette
Agnew.
GSA Should Grant
Infirmary Funds
Students like to complain. At Penn State
the, brunt of the complairits is borne by the
food service, the borough of State College, the
faculty, and the College Health Service.
A good many of these complaints are valid,
others are ill-founded.
In reviewing the facts concerning the health
service we find that there is little wrong that
a new $1,000,000 wing for the infirmary will ,
not cure.
The present infirmary was constructed in
1929 when there were but little more than
4000 students on campus. According to Dr.
Herbert R. Glenn, director of the health ser
vice, the facilities were not adequate when
The building was completed in 1929.
If that was the case, then the present facili
ties are woefully inadequate for a student body
of almost 11,000, or virtually three times the
enrollment of 1929.
Plans for two new wings to the infirmary
have been lying ~?n. the desk of Dr. Glenn for
more than a year. Unfortunately, however, the
$1,000,000 neeeded to make those plans a reality
has not been lying on Dr. Glenn's desk along
with the blueprints.
The money has not been- forthcoming be
cause the legislature has been unable to
justify an appropriation for the infirmary, on
the grounds that the building is not for "edu
cational purposes." It is for this reason that
such projects as the West Dorms, and Sim
mons and McElwain Halls have had to be
financed by the College on long term loans.
' The fallacy in this theory is that a college
located in a site such as Centre County must
be a virtually complete community in itself.
To use hyperbole, the state could have con
structed classroom buildings and told the stu
dents to go pitch tents for living quarters.
With the nearest hospital some 10 miles away,
some minimum of medical facilities for the
College is an absolute necessity. Since it is im
possible, however, to receive funds' from the
state via the appropriation route, an effort is
being made to get them from the General
State Authority, which is empowered under
the public laws to make additions and im
provements on. land grant colleges.
There is little doubt of the need for the
two new infirmary wings: the growth of the
College since the construction of the building
is evidence enough of that. A further illustra-
lion of the need for additional bed space was
evidenced in the recent widespread attack of
upper respiratory infection.
Normally, Dr. Glenn explained recently, stu
dents are admitted to the infirmary with a
temperature of 100, but, he went on to point
out, because of the crowded conditions and the
limited bed space the infirmary could only
admit those with a temperature of 102. The
others were sent home and told to stay in bed.
When the time comes that students who
should be in the infirmary are turned away
because of the lack of bed space, the time has
arrived for the infirmary to be enlarged.
Penn State, like Topsy, has just growed; in
many cases it has become just too big for its
shoes. The ever-increasing demand for higher
education has made it necessary for the Col
lege to expand its enrollment and some aspects
of its physical plant in order to meet this in
creased demand.
In some cases, however, the growth in
enrollment has simply run away from the
growth in physical facilities. The infirmary
is just such a case. For that reason additiOns
to the infirmary should be high up on the
list of projects for the immediate future.
Edward Shankan
Business Mgr.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Cut Study Should
Cover Wide Ground
Now that the College Senate has 'tabled '
proposal which would have added one credit
to the graduation requirements of students cut
ting classes within the 48 hour period before',
and after a vacation, we think the next step
should be a complete overhaul of the regula
tions governing class attendance.
The proposal tabled at Thursday's Senate
meeting was aimed at only one phase of the
cutting problem, and the aim was not too
accurate at that.
Scholastically, we believe it is unwise to
tamper with the academic requirements of
an institution in order to enforce regulations.
In enforcement, the plan would have been
weak, as past experience illustrates. When a
similar plan was attempted several - years
ago—with the punishment of a $5 fine—so
many students were being granted vacation
extension permits that the system collapsed
under its own weight.
Many faculty members are of the opinion
that cutting has become a major problem, with
the problem being accentuated just before and
aft e r vacation periods. One solution which
might handle the cutting problem at large and
the vacation problem in particular would be
to set a definite limit on cuts, beyond which
a student would flunk, and counting as double
cuts those made within 48 or 24 hours just
before or after a vacation.
Under this plan students with 2 or better
averages might be extended unlimited cuts.
Such a provision might encourage students to
strive for higher grades during their first two
years, and provide an incentive for the main
tenence of a 2 average in 'the junior and senior
years.
If we understand the Senate proposal of
Thursday correctly, such a general study of
the cutting problem will be undertaken by
that body. Students harassed by conflicting
and confusing regulations from one depart
ment and school to another will welcome
any kind of fair, uniform regulation which
will apply to the entire College.
Safety Valve
Collegian Accused of Making
'Whoopee' with Upton Close
TO THE EDITOR: Anot h i e r bride, another
groom, another pleasant honeymoon; and like
wise, it seems of late that our own Daily Col
legian's idea of making whoopee or news, is:
editorial, another ambiguous statement.
Regarding the editorial, "More Care Needed
in Forum Choices," I, again, fail to see the
logic of your statements.
You -would not have it that we should "ban"
Close from the campus, but that we "should
have banned'! Close in the beginning. You
would seek to -"protect" this abstract campus
freedom of expression at the ,present time, but
would not consider it of enough importance
to be protected when choosing a prospective
speaker and a man who would possibly present
a "controversial opinion,"- to say the least.
I can see no credit reflected on the committee
that settled the issue. The fact remains, which
the Daily Collegian so promiscuously circum
vents, that Close, undesirable as a forum speaker
in his bigotry and hate-mongering, did not de
serve a forum then, and does not deserve one
now.
No matter what kind of .a precedent such
action might set, the "banning" of Close from
the campus is still the only rightful solution.
The conflagration of the six million during
the last war proves beyond a doubt that we
cannot, and must not, tolerate bigotry and hate
mongering as simple statements of opinion.
Again: freedom of speech. is not an absolute
right.
—Leonard Goodman
Party Constitution Answers
Mills on Reforms Question
TO THE EDITOR: Mr. Moylan Mills, in his
editorial "Party Moves Good if Made in Faith,"
asks "are the reforms merely a superficial ap
peal to the voters, a mere outward sham, or
are the changes sincerely contemplated and
wholeheartedly desired by the politicos in both
parties?" The answer to this question cannot
be given here for the State Party, but the Lion
Party, in adopting its constitution, is making a
permanent statement of . ideals which is bind
ing upon itself. The constitution is not con
sidered as an experiment to dabble with nor
as a "superficial appeal to the voters."
When the Lion Party was reorganized this
fall, the strength of the party was built On a
political idealism, a sincere desire for the better
ments of the student's situation at Penn State,
and an idea of campus politics completely anti
thetical to the bargaining and pay-offs which
had previously been so common. The constitu
tion would never have been written and pro
posed, much less adopted, were this; not the
will of the students interested in the Lion Party.
The constitution serves as a guarantee of
the good faith of those at present associated
with the Lion Party. But the "minimum of
back room smoke" which Mr. Mills hopes for,
can only be maintained by an active interest
on the part of many, not a few.
Campus politics can easily become a signifi
cant means through which the individual can
express his desires to All-College Cabinet. Poli
tics can be the means through which the Col
lege administration will grant more and more
power to responsible student governtnent. This
will only be done if the students use this newly
widened channel for expression of their in
terests and. desires.
—Thomas F. Umholtz
Little Man On Campus
"What a foul dealin', miltrustin', atrocity committin'
Prof old Snarf is—This test he gave us was completely
different than th' one he gave in yer 10 o'clock class."
Fundamental
Issues
When the United States unhesitantly threw in troops to stem
the invasion of South Korea by its northern brother, it gave form
and substance to a United Nations which until then had been a
debaters' convention. The "free world' now possessed the initiative,
and the communists were, no doubt, surprised by the move.
That advantage has been lost' by the West through the pro
longed, indecisive, and ofttimes
ridiculous truce talks to end the
Korean war. Even the propaganda
value of the Korean situation has
been squeezed for
,the last bit of
uisuable material, just like -an old
tube of toothpaste.
The, UN truce negotiators
seem to have bent over back
ward too far in -an effort •to
gain the armistice. Perhaps they
are flat •on their backs with a
war that has become of secon
dary importance and a truce
that seems as obtainable as a
nickle beer.
Thus, the UN command aks
that patience be shown while its
truce team deals with the commu
nists, and the people of the Unit
ed States and other nations grow
impatient, and, what is w or s e,
seem almost indifferent to the
half-war across the world. Pa
tience is a virtue that knows no
place on the field of battle, and
truce talks are a part of the bat
tle.
But what is behind the freeze
by the communists? One answer
hovers with latent danger over
the horizon. Reports indicate that
Red China is becoming more ac
tive in Indochina and may be bbl
stering the Viet Minh forces in
that area. This may be directly
attributable to the slackening ac
tivity on the Korean battlefront.
To counteract these pressures
Gazette .
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RELIGION' IN LIFE WEEK
COMMITTEE, 304 Old Main,
2:30 p.m.
EMME=I
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6:30 p.m.
Monday, March . 10
ELECTRONIC WARFARE
UNIT 4-3, 200; Engineering E,
7 p.m.
INTER COLLEGIATE CON
FERENCE ON GOVERNMENT,
213 Willard Hall, 7 p.m.
IN K LING PRODUCTION, 9
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PI TAU PI SIGMA, 1 Armory,
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COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Dixie Cup Co. will interview June grad
uates in Ch.. 1.E., M.E., Chem. and Corn.
Wednesday, March 19.
Federal Telecommunications Laboratories,
Inc. will interview June graduates in E.E.,
Ch.E. and 'Chem. Wednesday, March 9.
National Carbon Division will interview
Jutie graduates-. in Ch.E. M.E., 1.E., 'E.E.,
Car., Pbys., and,,Chetn. Wednesday,, March
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1952
V/3 .
By LEN KOLASINSKI
from the north and to reinforce
sagging French defenses, the
United States is sending war
equipment and arms to Indo
china. " And unofficial sources
suggest that the United States
may commit some military for
ces if Red China openly moves
into the French territory. How
much or in what form this mili
tary force would be is not dis
closed.
But another commitment of men
to fight for foreign lands will not
be welcomed by many Americans
in or out of government circles.
Of greater importance, however,
is that an Ainerican ground force
in Indochina will be one more
point of bleeding to sap American
strength while the Kremlin con
tinues to build a military striking
force and suffers no loss of man
power.
.Predicting the outcome of the
talks at Panmunjom is no easy
task. Contact with the enemy
over •the conference table has
shown his reluctance to accept or
compromise agenda items except
after days—sometimes weeks—of
haggling. Neither will the crystal
ball reveal for what purpose the
talks are stalled on each and
every agenda item. But one thing
is sure—the United• Nations has
lost the initiative in the struggle
for that part of Asia. .
New Jersey Zinc Co. Will interview June
graduates in Ch.E., M.E., Min.E.,
C.E., Geo. and Metal. Tuesday, March 18.
They will also interview 1952 M.S. and
Ph.D. candidates in Ch.E. and Metal. and
Ph.D. candidates only in Phys. and Chem.
'Solvay Process Division • will interview
June graduates in Chem. and Ch.E. Wed
nesday, March 19.
American Cyanamid Co. will interview
June graduates in Ag. Ed., A.H. and Pre.
Med. who are over 26 or are veterans and
1.E., and M.E. Wednesday,
both B.S. and M.S. candidates in Chem.,
Ch.E., E.E,,
March 19.
Eagan Corp. will interview June grad.
uates in M.E., E.E., and Ch. E.. Thursday,
March 20.
International Harvester Co. will inter
view June graduates in M.E., 1.E.. E.E.
and Metal. Thursday, March 20.
Kurt Salmon Associates, 'lnc. will inter..
view Tune graduates in I.E. Wednesday,
March 19.
Line Material Co. will interview June
graduates in M.E. and EX. Thursday,
March 20.
Parke, Davis and Co. will interview June
graduates and 1952 M.S. candidates in
Bact. and Zool. Friday, March 21. They
will interview both men and women in
Chem. and Ag.Rio.Chem. '
Piasecki 'Helicopter Corp. will interview
June •graduates in Aero.Eng. and M.E.
Wednesday, Marcia 29. ,
By Bibler
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