PAGE FOUR She Hatly Collegian S«ec«M«i tm THE fKEt LANCK, mu iin Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings melusivt during the College year by the ctaff of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered aa second-class matter July 6, 1934. at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March ft. 1879. Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ* ere. not necessarily the ooliey of the newspaper. Unsigner' editorials are by the editor. Mar-7 Krasnaniky Edward Shanlcen Editor Business Mgr. Managing 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 Vosburg; Asst. Society Ed., Greta Wearer; Librarian, Joan Knntz; Exchange Ed., Paul Beighley: Senior Bd., Bud Fenton. Asst. Bus. Mgr., Janet Landau; Advertising Mgr., Bob Leyburn; National Adv. Mgr., Howard Boleky; 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 Jackel; Secretary, Joan Morosini. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor: Jane Reber; Copy Editors: Gin ger Opoczenski, Jim Peters; Assistants: Sally Sapper, Mary Adams, Sam Procopio, Diehl Mc- Kalip, Lu Martin. Ad Staff: Dick Smith. Dave Shultz, Flo Ros enthal, Frances Crawforcl. Registration Plan Not Rad After All When the announcement was made last week that the two days originally left free for pre registration were being returned to the teach ing schedule and the first phase registration system was being dropped, there were imme diate moans of disappointment from the entire student body, and from the eighth-semester seniors in particular. But the hue and cry gradually died down and students began to consider the matter more seriously. When they did, the chief question which seemed to come up was how the registrar’s office expected to avoid the mass confusion which marked the centralized system of registration used a few years back. t The new system incorporates several im provements in the registration system since the days of the long lines at the Armory. First of all. the time period has been extended from two and.a half days to three and a half days. In addition, a time schedule has been set up which will control the flow of students into Recreation Hall. Under the old plan students went to the Armory whenever they felt like it. Another advantage is that Rec Hall is much larger than the Armory. Another question which has been brought up is how students whose names are toward the end of the alphabet are ever going to get into the courses they want under the new system. According to the new plan, seniors and juniors will have first choice at the courses. The rea son for this is obvious. But the plan also calls for the rotation of the time schedule, so that within a four year period every student will get a chance to register in the first half day at least twice. Still another question arises oyer why the system of first phase registration is being dropped at all. There has been a growing dis satisfaction with the pre-registration system for some time, the registrar has said. The depart ment heads want better control of section size; the instructors want more dependable class rolls; and the board of control would like to be a little more popular with both the faculty and the students. It had been suggested that perhaps the first phase registration system could be effectively overhauled. This was rejected, the registrar said, when it was found that about 60 per cent of all the students who registered made at least one change in their schedule after com pleting first phase registration. This resulted in places being held open for students who never showed up and at the same time depriving other students of enrolling in the course. The new system, while it will not completely elimi nate this trouble, will certainly greatly reduce the number of changes. We do not expect to see the plan work perfectly the first time, or even the second or third times. Neither does the registrar's office. A complete changeover such as this cannot be accomplished without som,e confu sion. But we think that in time, the new plan • will prove to be the most effective yet tried at Penn State. Of course, we’ll all miss those two wonderful days of relaxation to which we’ve been looking forward. EARN MONEY BY SELLING Student Magazine Agency and Time Magazine need rep resentatives to sell during the fall term. If you can sell and are aggressive: Contact Student Magazine Agency for Interview NOW! —Dave Pellnitz THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA New ROTC Plan Is Poor Selection Scheduling ROTC common hour for 4 p.m. Fridays next semester will place a heavy bur don upon many of the 1200 students affected. To many if will mean a compulsory delay in leaving for home. For others senior engi neering lecture will conflict. At tthe lime or another the inconvenience will affect all of the 1200. Ray V. Watkins, scheduling officer, yesterday explained that the 4 p.m. class period on all other days was filled. This is in part true, in that freshman engi neering lecture meets Monday, AROTC Tues day, NROTC Thursday, and Wednesday at 4 p.m. is taken up by a regular ROTC class sequence. The scheduling office apparently over looked that a 4 p.m. common, hour Fridays would conflict with the senior engineering lecture which is scheduled at the same time. Both the Army and Navy had complained to the College of the inadequacy of drill grounds <* and Armory facilities when both ROTC and NROTC groups meet simultaneously, as has been the case this year, Watkins said.. A Saturday meeting might be considered but this would not help matters. But there are three possible solutions. 1. The two-hour Navy drill could he switched to Wednesday and the Army common hour re scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday. 2. The Navy drill could be scheduled to meet simultaneously with the. AROTC drill on Tues days or vice versa on Thursdays, opening either Tuesdays or Thursdays for the Army common hour. • v , 3. Less popular, but still the lesser of two evils, would be transposing the common hour ■on Fridays with the NROTC drill scheduled for Thursdays. This would mean that only about 300 NROTC students would be held on campus as compared with about 1200 ROTC. students under the present schedule. None of these possibilities appears too un reasonable, and a change could still be made with little interference to the rest of the fall semester schedule. Gazette... Tuesday, April 22 CAMPUS CHEST COMMITTEE, old and new committees, 204 Old Main, 6:45 p.m. COLLEGIAN business candidates, 1 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN business staff, 9 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN sophomore editorial board, 2 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB, TUB, 6:45 p.m. HAT COUNCIL, 101 Willard Hall, 7 p.m. NITTANY BOWMEN, 206 Engineering C, 7 p.m. PENN STATE CLUB, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m. PENNS VALLEY SKI CLUB, 110 Electrical Engineering, 7:30 p.m. PSI CHI business meeting, Hillel Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. i PSYCHOLOGY CLUB, 201 Burrowes Build ing, 7 p.m. WRA OUTING CLUB, White Hall playroom, 7 pun. • COLLEGE PLACEMENT Daystrom Instrument ■will interview June graduates in E.E., M.E. and I.E. Wednesday, April 30. Fairchild Aircraft Corp. will interview June graduates, in Aero.E., C.E., M.E. and E.E. Monday, April 28i H. H. Robertson Co, will interview June graduates'in Ch.E., PNG.* Chem., Com., Chem. and Phys. Wednesday, April Joy Manufacturing Co. will interview June graduates in M.E., 1.E., E.E. and Mir Thursday, May 1. SKF Industries,, Inc. will interview June graduates in M.E. and I.E. Wednesday, April 30. Talon, Inc. will interview June graduates in 1.E., M.E., Metal, and E.E. Thursday, May 1. Calvert Distilling Co. will interview June graduates in M.E., C.E., E.E., 1.E., Chem., Phys., Sci. and Acct. (men only) and' women in secretarial sciences Thursday, May 1. Fort Monmouth Signal Corps will interview June graduates in E.E., M.E., Ch.E. and Phys. Thursday, May 1. George A. Hormel & Co. will interview June graduates in A.H., Ag.Ec., 1.E., M.E., E.E., Ch.E. and Com. Friday, May 2. O-Cel-O, Inc. will interview June graduates in Ch.E., I.E. and M.E. Thursday, May 1. Roots-Connersville Blower Corp. will interview June grad uates in M.E. Thursday, May 1. Babcock & Wilcox Co. will interview juniors in M.E. and Cer. if enough students are interested. Cronheim & Weger will interview M.E. and Arch.E. juniors and seniors Friday, May 2. David Taylor Model Basin will visit the campus Monday, April 28, to Interview graduates at all levels in E.E., M.E., Aero.E., Phys. and Arch. Linde Air Products will interview juniors and seniors in Chem., Ch.E. and M.E. for summer work Friday, May 2. Pomeroy's Ir<\ will interview June graduates in Com. and A&L Thursday, May 1. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Camp Cherokee, Beach Lake, Pa., will interview men and women Tuesday, April 22. Variety of jobs open. Camp Conrad Weiser, Reading, Pa., will interview men Thursday, April 24. Variety of jobs open.' Camp Menatoma, Kents Hill, Maine, will interview men Wednesday, April- 23. Variety of jobs open. Man for outdoor sign work. Must have knowledge of painting and electrical work. —Jim Gromiller BILL HELICOPTER DIVISION has excellent openings in new TEXAS plant See our interviewers April 21^22-23 or write H. A. Hamilton, Jr., Mgr. Eng. Personnel, P. O. Box 482, Ft. Worth, Texas Little Man On Campus V / t i 9 't * »» * * "Oh. come now. Miss Swerf! Thai's the reason we star! you out on these little one-minute speeches, so you won't be so, nervous." Fundamental Issues Peace or war—that is the final issue. It is an issue as old as primitive man, as modern as the atom bomb. Since the development of the A-bomb, peace has become a more imperative goal and war increasingly more dangerous to pursue. The convenience of the battlefield in settling differences—whether political, economical, ideological,. or geographical—has become a bloody luxury. The chivalry of knighthood is dead, and the rules of war are relics of another era, .Who, then, will shoulder the responsibility for World War III? That answer cannot be' lightly dismissed with the guilt placed on the doorstep of the Kremlin. The war will begin as certainly in Washington as ft will in Mos cow. The responsibility will rest with the peoples of the world as a whole, 'more narrowly placed it will rest with- the Stalins, the Churchills, and the Trumans. The hand that will signal the des tructive forces' of Mars will be a hybrid appendage part Russian, part American, part British, part French, part etc. Take World War 11. For Ameri cans the rallying point was Pearl Harbor. But that was a surface indication. Behind the smoke of the ruined Pacific fleet, Bataan, Hawaiian territories was a series of diplomatic stabs that culmin ated in Japanese planes over Hawaii and the Philippines. There were notes- exchanged between the Japanese foreign office and the U.S. Department of State; neither nation backed away from original demands. Japan moved to war. History is the judge, and the judge will sentence the cul prit according to the location of the history being written. At this moment with the world divided into two camps, capitalism -and communism, peace or near peace is again on the auction block. The price, as always, is blood. And as usual, -each segment of. the t world'' is dedicated to the pres- TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1952 By LEN KOLASINSKI ervation of its own system. Each side is willing to fight to pre serve its system. What results? The leijt and the right call each other names,* not minding the his tory that has been written before. Huge armies, are again sent to tire fields to train for the day when war shall rip the earth and they will earn keep. It is not enough to. say that the terror of the atom bomb will prevent or deter nations from fighting. War is still a disease as uncurable as cancer. Therefore, just as medical men pit their brains against the rav ages of cancer, so too must the diplomatic doctors review the case of peace or war. Perhaps the United Nations is the answer, although so far that organ has only divided the world much more effectively into two worlds. Perhaps the answer is inherent in a new administration with fresh ideas on both sides of the water. In Russia new blood seems unlikely; here the horse can change colors. So the issue rests—buried in a grave that was dug after World War 11. The resurrection can be Peace, but the peoples of the world must make it so. As with all things, there is the black and the white, the hot and the cold, the war and the peace. But there are shadings— gray, warm, compromise. Un less the. statesmen of the world halt to reconsider the situation, the incident which will- plunge , armies into battle is as' certain to appear . as next year's- tax receipt. By Biljler
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