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Tile Daily Collegian
Saceenno► to THE FREE LANCE. cat. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday ' mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1939, at the State
College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoint of the
writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un
signed editorials are by the editor.
Dave Pellnitz Frank in Kelly
Editor .eP'' ' Business Mgr.
Managing Ed., Andy McNeillie; City Ed., 'Dave Jones:
Sports Ed., Jake Highton; Copy Ed., Bettie Loux; Edit.
Dir., Jim Gromiller: Wire Ed.. Chuck Henderson: Soc. Ed.,
singer Opoczenski: Asst. Sports Ed.. Ted Soens; Asat.
Soc. Ed.. LoVorine• Althouse; Feature Ed.. Julie Ibbotson:
Librarian, Dot Bennett: Exchange Ed.. Nancy Luetzel.
STAFF THIS ISSU E
Night Editor: Lynn Kahanowitz; Copy Edi
tors: Marshall Donley, Sally Sapper; Assistants:
Evvie Kielar, Marcie MacDonald, Diehl' Mc-
Kalip, Leonard Goodman, Lou Mueller.
Ad•staff: Bette Agnew, Ed Steel.
Aid Plan Needs
Serious Thought
Thursday night the Interfraternity Council
heard assistant football coach Sever Toretti ex
plain the new "subsidization plan" by which
fraternities may receive an annual assistance of
$350 toward the board and room of certain ,
recruit athletes.
Fraternities should approach this plan with
caution and give it careful consideration before
deciding upon the advisability of it.
Although a financial problem will•not worry
some houses which have extra room anyway,
still it will mean a major, policy decision for •
many houses which have frowned upon-sub
sidization in the past.
According to the plan, the College will pay
$350 annually toward the board and room of
certain athletes who wish to join fraternities.
This amounts to about one-half of an average
fraternity's yearly house bill. It would be up
to the fraternity and the individual athlete to
come to some agreement concerning the balance.
The fact is, however, that there should be no
need for any sigicial agreement nor should there
be any cause for fraternities to subsidize any
athlete further.
With the $350 annual gift from the College,
any college student, athlete or not, should be
able, through summer employment and odd
campus jobs, to earn sufficient money to meet
a full house bill. True, by staying in the dorm
itories the athletes will not have to worry
about making up the difference in board and
room, but the fraternity system should prove
incentive enough for any worthy athlete who
honestly wants to become a part of it.
We respect Mr. Toretti's views as a member
of the coaching staff and understand that his
entire plan is founded on better teams for Penn
State. We would also be the first to grant that
fraternities are of tremendous benefit person
ally to any man, athlete or not.
But we cannot go along with a general sub
sidization plan for athletes which might tend to
make some "free loaders."
Some fraternities have broad subsidization
plans for athletes—in some cases financed by
alumni groups—now in operation. These houses
apparently feel the prestige angle makes it
worth their while. We cannot concur, but then
this is a decision which must be made by the
individual fraternities themselves.
Needy students deserving of help can be
found everywhere, not only on the football
gridiron, baseball diamond, and basketball
court. If fraternities wish to be benevolent,
their policy should be a general one, open to
all men, not just athletes.
• Live Comfortably
MMHG
SUMMER SCHOOL
•• SUITE ACCOMMODATIONS
•
• PRIVATE TENNIS COURTS
• HOME STYLE COOKING
• PARKING SPACE
• $17.00 PER WEEK
Situated in the residential part of town, Delta Tau Delta
fraternity offers quiet, comfortable accommodations for
those attending summer sessions. Overlooking Mount
Nittany, Delta Tau Delta is completely .equipped for leisure
summer living and study.
For Reservations Call 4979
DELTA TAU DELTA
—Jim Gromiller
TAE DAILY COLLEGIAN.- STATE. COLLEGE. PE,NNSYLVNIA
Ratings of Faculty
Have Real Value
With the end of the semester approaching,
in scattered departments of the College, in
structors will distribute faculty rating forms to
their classes.
On these forms students will be asked to rate
their instructors on various points—knowledge
of subject matter, ability to arouse interest,
presentation, personal peculiarities, grading,
testing, text, and others.
The student does not identify himself with
the form, nor is the instructor supposed to read
any of them until after the semester closes.
The value which such personal ratings can
provide should • be -'ipparent, since no one,
department heads included, can rate instruc
tors as well as can the students who sit before
them each week.
The, rating forms are. of special value to the
department heads, who often are not aware of
the weaknesses of the members of their own
departments.
These rating forms should in one form or
another be made SOP (standard order of pro
cedure) for all departments of every school
in the College.
Safety Valve---
Spring Week Committee
Pleads for Return of Tarps
TO THE EDITOR: Three large tarpaulins
have been missing from various campus con
struction sites since May 15, Spring Carnival
day. The campus organizations which borrowed
these tarps have been requested to return them
to .the rear entrance of Old Main or to the sites
from which they were taken, on or before
June 1. No questions will be asked when they
are returned. '
The Spring Week committee begs that these
tarps be returned for the following reasons:
• 1: The missing tarps cast a bad light on what
might be termed a highly successful student
activity.
2. The Spring Week committee must foot the
bill ($6B) if the tarps are not returned. This
$6B might be better used for charitable• pur
poses,
—The Spring Week Committee
Gazette . . .
Sunday, May 25
THE NEW BAVARIAN SCHUHPLATTLERS,
304 Old Main, 7 p.m. ,
Monday, May 26
ELECTRONIC WARFARE UNIT 4-3, 200
Engineering E, 7 p.m.
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION SOCIETY, 104
Willard, 7 p.m.
SPANISH CLUB, 405 Old Main, 7:15 p.m.
WRA SWIMMING, White Hall pool, 7:30 p.m.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Man to work for part of rent of downtown apartment. No
children.
Work on College farms for Friday afternoons 'and all day
Saturday.
Clerking 20-30 hours per week during summer.
Boy for lunch counter work 11:30 a.m. to 1;30 p.m.
Work for room and board for summer or for summer and
fall.
Opportunity for foreign.student to work in western section
of country. Housework. Hoorn, board, transportation,
and good, salary offered.
Couple for local summer employment.
Wife to do office work on weekends for rent of apartment.
May have one child.
Husband for work in exchange for apartment for couple,
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
The Vulcan Soot BloWer division of Continental Foundry &
Machine Co. will interview June graduates in M.E.
. May 28.
Little -Man On Campus
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Jobs, Scholarships
Open to Students
Five writing contests, three examinations for job opportunitieS,"-
two scholarships, and a course in radio and television are now oPep-,
to Penn State students. . .
A $2OOO first prize will be awarded to a beginner or amateur'
short story writer in the annual Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
contest. Four $5OO second and five .$3OO third prizes will, also be
given. Stories should be • limited
to 10,000 words and submitted
to the magazine, 570 Lexington
avenue, New York City, before
Oct. 20.
College Life, national collegiate
magazhie beginning publication in
October, has openings for student
poems, stories, drawings, and ar
ticles, and for paid representatives
to serve as salesmen, correspond
ents, and talent scouts at the Col
lege. Interested students may
write to the magazine, 175 Fifth
avenue, New York, 10.
The National Council of Jewish
Women is sponsoring an essay
contest on "The Meaning of Aca
demic Freedom," open to next
year's seniors. First prize for the
maximum 2500 word essay is
$2500. A $lOOO second and three
$5OO prizes are also awarded. For
information students may contact
college officials next fall. The
contest opens Sept. 15.
A $2OO first and $lOO 'second
prize will be, awarded •by 'Lane-
Wells Co., Los Angeles, for the
best 20 page technical paper on
petroleum engineering writtep. by
JACK HARPER
SPRING
DOLLAR. DAY
SATURDAY - MAY 24TH
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SATURDAY, MAY 24, '1952•
By Bibler-
a student at the College. Graduate
and undergraduate petroleum en
gineering students may enter -the
contest before Sept. 15; the en
trant's subject must be approved,
by the petroleum and natural
divigion chief. Papers will be' dis:-
tributed to the petroleum indus
try and nine other participating'
colleges.
The Gravity Research Fotinda - -
tion is offering a $lOOO first prize
and five $lOO awards for the best
essays on the possibilities of har
nessing the power of gravity. The
essays must•be 150 words or less.
and must be received at the foun
dation office, -New Boston, N.H.,
before Oct: 15.
Job opportunities with the Uni
ted States : Civil Service Commis=
sion's federal agencies are open
to, college graduates with bache
lor's degrees in professional en
gineering. Candidates must have
one to three years professional
experience, part in highway or
highway - bridge „engineering.
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