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Ofe Satlg Collegian
SiKmar U TJ5* FKEK I.A.NCK, Mt. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday morning* inclusive
daring the College rear by the staff of The Daily Collegian
of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as «eeond-eiass matter July 5, 1934, .at the State
College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoint* of the writ*
era, not nccecearily the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned
editorials are,by the editor.
Msht Krasnansky Edward Shanken
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Msnsging Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed., George Glaser:
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
Vosbarg; 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 Bolkey; Circulation
Co-Mgrs., Jack Horsford, Joe Sutovsky; Personnel Mgr.,
Carolyn Alley; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Koons, Melvin
Glass; Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax; Office Mgr., Don
Jacket; Secretary, Joan Morosini.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor, Ted Soens; Copy editors, Dave
Jones, Dick Rau; Assistants, Helen Luyben, Bob
Landis, Mary Adams, Tammie Bloom, Gus
Vollmer.
Advertising staff: Alison Moi-ley, ad mana
ger; Phyllis Kalson.
Radio Plan Needs
Sound Thought
In reviewing the decision of All-College Cab
inet to delay student approval of the FM-slave
transmitter proposal for a campus radio station,
we find that the move might prove to be one
of the wisest made by cabinet all year.
Originally the delay of one week was asked
so that fraternity men and independents liv
ing in private homes in Stale College, as well
as the rest of the student body, could• be
given an opportunity to express their opinions
on the proposal. In the opinion of cabinet,
there were enough students who would not
be reached under this setup to warrant con
sideration of the proposal by the students at
large.
But this is not the only reason the delay has
proved to be a good move. Since the proposal
was first presented in cabinet, we have begun
to wonder just how much of this plan is based
on v sound business and engineering principle
and how much of it is based on guesswork.
According to the figures reported to cabinet,
the costs involved in establishing the station
would total $5500. Total available funds are
$6OOO. Even if we were to assume that there
is no margin of error involved in these calcu
lations, it would not be sound business principle
to attempt to operate any station—or business,
for that matter —on a cushion of only $350.
What makes the adventure even more pre
carious from a financial point of view is that
these costs do not cover the necessary amount
of experimentation that has to be done in the
establishment of a station. Nor does this $5650
figure allow for igishaps, or miscalculations.
If we have not been misinformed, there has
not been enough research done on the project
to indicate the exact costs of establishing slave
transmitters for the fraternities. There has been
no research done which would indicate, were
these, slave transmitters set up, whether radia
tion from such an operation might not run
afoul of Federal Communications Commission
regulations.
Cabinet has been provided with a good bit
of guesswork, an idea which sounds good on
paper, and a lot of enthusiasm. While the
FM-slave transmitter is on the surface a good
idea, a lot more research info the details is
necessary at this time before students can be
sure that the senior class gift of 1951 is not
going lo be wasted on a project which might
be doomed lo failure because of inadequate
financing and technical miscalculations.
It is true that President Milton S. Eisenhower
has it within his authority, under the provisions
of the gift, to use the money as he sees fit.
But once the station is established, student
money will be needed to finance it: These main
tenance costs have been estimated at $2OOO
yearly.
So while it is true that students through
cabinet have no direct say over the expenditure
of these funds, students Would probably have to
pay a small fee to support any radio station.
We think that before cabinet, speaking for
the student hotly, puts itself in favor of this
system, at the same time taking the financial
responsibility for its support in future years,
much more investigation into the technical and
financial aspects of the FM-slave transmitter
operation is necessary.
We are not opposed to this system; we are
opposed to making a hasty decision before all
the facts are presented by competent technical
authority.
The soundest proposal cabinet could now
make is a recommendation that a qualified
radio engineer be consulted before a decision
is made.
“The seven major planets now doubtless look
upon the world as an eight-ball.”—Shannon Fife
The tongue—that is the pen of the heart.
' —The Talmud.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Senate Should Note
Student Views
In a move which echoes student thinking,
All-College Cabinet went on record last week
as being opposed to the decision of the Senate
committee on athletics which limits competi
tion in National Athletic Association tourna
ments to those Penn State athletes who have
won Eastern titles.
The vole was unanimous, with but one ab
stention, so there should be no doubt how the
students, speaking through their representa
tive government, feel on the matter.
The resolution approved by cabinet will be
.forwarded to the chairman of the Senate com
mittee. The resolution takes full cognizance of
the fact that members of the committee made
their decision in the best interests of the Col
lege. The resolution is not a challenge to the
authority of the committee.
The resolution is not a challenge to the au
thority of the committee because the student
framers of the statement are fully aware that
such an academic group is necessary as a check
on the College’s athletic program. Any college,
whose athletics are without an academic group
to approve of the program probably is not
worthy of its .standing as an educational insti
tution.
The resolution approved by cabinet is a
statement of student opinion, sent to the Sen
ate committee with the hope that they will
take into consideration the opinions of students.
The opinion was that the decision to limit Penn
State entrants in national tournaments to East
ern champions was unfair, and that the distance
of these tournaments from State College should
not be a factor in deciding who shall be en
tered.
We, as students, do not contend that we
should have the right to determine the stan
dards by which eligibility is to be determined.
But we, as students, do have the right to
express our opinions on the subject.
And we, as students, have the right to hope
that the Senate committee will be open-minded
enough to take our opinions into consideration.
Basic Point Missed
In Politics Battle
In the general scramble for the Republican
Presidential nomination one point of the great
est importance is being generally missed.
The issue is pointed out by historian Ber
nard DeVotb, in the April Harper's. He notes
that the Republicans are turning to Eisen
hower in large part for fear of Senator Taft's
isolationist-oriented foreign policy. Any Taff
campaign would of necessity be based on
domestic policy, DeVolo says, because his
foreign thinking would frighten away the in
dependent middle-of-the-roaders who swing
any election. But in the present world situa
tion, DeVoto says, the most important cam
paign issue must be foreign policy.
So the Republicans turn to Eisenhower as
the great white hope, a man who, though- his
domestic policy is nebulous, is an unquestion
able internationalist, a true global thinker.
What will happen if Eisenhower leads the Re
publicans to victory in .November?
In Congressional groups directly charged
with foreign policy, the House committee on
foreign affairs would go to Illinois’ Chiperfield,
who “voted against Eisenhower policy on every
question affecting foreign affairs in the last
session.” Dewey Short would head the armed
services, committee, and Senator Wiley would
get the foreign-relations group.
In Senate groups concerned with domestic
issues bearing on foreign policy, Styles Bridges
would become chairman of the committee on
appropriations, which, controls the purse strings
of domestic policy. Homer Capehart would head
the banking and currency committee; the “noi
some McCarthy,” as DeVoto titles him, would
control the committee on expenditures in exec
utive departments, “which can terrorize the
bureaus and agencies that administer domestic
policies;” Hugh Butler would head the com
mittee on interior and insular affairs; and Harry
Cain the committee on public works.
The House of Representatives would have
Taber chairman of appropriations, Hoffman of
expenditures in the executive departments,
Crawford of interior and insular affairs, and
Dondero of public works.
The most-powerful single Congressional voice
would be Robert A. Taft, to avoid whose foreign
policies the Republicans are switching to Eisen
hower,
DeVoto’s point, and one that will bear the
utmost consideration from the voters, is that
a President-can be hamstrung by a hostile
Congress, and that “domestic policies crucially
important to the Eisenhower foreign policy
would be at the mercy of this wrecking crew.”
The rules of seriiorlty 'are absolute. These ex
treme right-wingers are the men who will as
sume control in a Republican Congress, and no
power in the-party would dare try to change
•the system. So if the voters elect Eisenhower
as an internationally-minded Republican, they
are likely- to be betrayed byi what DeVoto calls
this Congressional “Murderer’s Row.”
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
—Cervantes
“Home cooking is something not enough
wives are.”—D. C. Halacy Jr.
Joe Stalin’s latest advice to Americans is, in effect, to keep their
, shirts on, stop worrying about war and about Russia’s intentions
toward other states.
If he could get away with it it would
Replying to questions posed by a group
editors who have been touring Europe but
an effort to see Russia and Stalin,
Joe says
It is possible a meeting of the
heads of the great powers would
be useful.
Now is a good time to unify
Germany.
Peaceful coexistence of Capital
ism and Communism is possible if
there is mutual cooperation, - a
readiness to fulfill undertaken ob
ligations, observance of the prin
ciple of equality and no inter
ference in the internal affairs of
other states.
Well, the whole object of Al
lied policy for years has-been to
see to it that conditions are cre
ated which will make Russia hesi
tate about starting a shooting war
when it becomes evident she is
not going to win the “Cold War.”
Allied officials also say war
is no nearer. But the Stalin
dictatorship is the only govern
ment in the world which has the
power to make war without re
gard for the will of its own
people, and so Stalin, not the
Allies, has the initiative. And
Gazette •..
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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AG
RICULTURAL ENGINEERS, 105
Agricultural Engineering build
ing, 7 p.m.
CHESS CLUB, 3 Sparks, 7 p.m.
DEAN OF MEN’S COFFEE
HOUR, 109 Old Main, 4 p.m.
NEWMAN CLUB, Rectory base
ment, 7:30 p.m.
RIDING CLUB, 217 ,-Willard,
7 p.m.
THETA SIGMA PI, Grange
game room. 6:30 p.m.
WRA MODERN DANCE
GROUP, Modem Dance room,
7 p.m.
Kimberly-Clark Corp. will interview
June graduates in M.E., 1.E., C.E., Ch.E.,
Ohem. and Phys. Monday, April 17.
Bendix Products Division of Bendix Avi
ation Corp. will interview June graduates
in M.E...E.E.,'Metal, and Aero.E. Tuesday,
April 18.
Cochrane Corp. will interview June grad
uates in M.E. and Ch.E. Monday, April 17.
Department of-the Navy, Bureau of Ships
will interview • June graduates in Arch.,
W.U., For.; Arch.E., C.E., M.E., E.E. and
I.E. Monday, April 17.
Franklin. Institute will interview grad
uates at all levels in M.E., E.E., Chem.' and
Phys..and-Ph.D. candidates in Math.~Mon-
—Ron Bonn
Little Man On Campus
"Don't rib Ron about not having a satchel—he's been
pretty hard-up’this first semester in Law School."
interpreting the News
Stalin Talk Follows
Standing Policy
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
•' A third World War is no near
er now than it was two or three
years ago.
Wednesday, April 2
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
WEDNESDAY, APRIL-2,-1952
By Bibler
be wonderful—for him.
of newspaper and radio
who got nowhere with
what he says has never seemed
lo have much bearing on what
he does.
Stalin’s propaganda machine in
sists. that Russia does not inter
fere in the affairs on other na
tions, so it is plain that under
Stalin’s “coexistence” the Allies
would be the only ones who
would have to stop that. They
would have to stop interfering
the placid life of the South
Koreans,' for instance, while Rus
sia . carried out her peaceful aid
for North Korea and her. improve
ment plans in Germany, Greece,
Turkey, Yugoslavia, France, and,
eventually, all the rest.
There is only one angle of
such statements by Stalin which
is really interesting and worth
studying. That is the difference
between his statements address
ed to the peoples of the West,
and his propaganda line among
the peoples he is trying to mobi
lize for his true purpose. To the
West he seeks to at least give
an impression of reasonableness.
But even at these moments his
propaganda machine in the East
never ceases its hammerings of
hate.
day, April 17.
United States Steel Co. will "interview
June graduates in Chem. and Ch;E. for
sales, Monday, April 17.
American Brake Shoe Co. will interview
June graduates in E.E., M.E., Metal., I.E.
and Ch.E. Monday, April 21.
Digital Computer Laboratory of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology will
interview June graduates in Phys. and-E.E.
who are in the top 20 % of their., class
Monday, April 21.-
Frankford Arsenal will interview grad
uates at all levels in Ch.E., E.E., M.E.,
1.E., C.E., Cer., Chem. and Phys. Friday.
April 18.
Hughes Aircraft Corp. will interview
graduates at all levels in Phys., E.E. and
M.E. Monday, April 21.
Latrobe Electric Steel Co. will * inter
view June graduates in I.E. Monday, April
21.
Naval Air Material Center will" inter
view June graduates in C.E., E.E., Metal.,
M.E., Zoo. and Ent., Chem., Aero.E. and
Phys. on Friday, April 18.’
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard will. inter
view June graduates in E.E., M.E., Arch.E.,
C.E., 1.E., Ch.E., Car., Bact. and Ent.
Friday, April 18.
U.S. Geological Survey will interview
view June graduates in .Geo., For., .C.E.
and Math. Friday, April 18. i
STUDENT. EMPLOYMENT
Room and board for man with car.
Married couple without children for per
manent summer job near State College.
Men interested in working, for meals.
Night guard and handyman for perman
ent job in Boalsburg. -
Permanent dishwashing jobs 9 a.m. .to
noon and l to 5 p.m. , ' •
Women for stenographic work . Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday from 8
until noon.
Farm-work for a man 'With oar*/