?AGE FOOK Hatly CflUc^tatr Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian erf The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class 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 writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un signed editorials are by the editor. Dave Pellnilz <a g^sgt ia Franklin Kelly Editor Business Mgr. Managing Ed.. Andy McNeillie; City Ed., Dave Jones; Sports Ed., Jake Highton; Copy Ed., Bettie Lour; Edit. Dir., Jim Gromiller; Wire Ed., Chuck Henderson; Soc. Ed., Singer Opoczenski; Asst. Sports Ed., Ted Socns; Asst. Soc. Ed., LaVonne Althouse; Feature Ed., Julie Ibbotson; Librarian. Dot Bennett; Exchange Ed.. Nsjncy Luetzel. Asst. Bus. Mgr., Bichard Smith: Local Advertising Mgr., Phyllis Kalson; National Adv. Mgr., Alison Morley; Circu lation Co-Mgrs., Gretchen Henry, Kenneth Wolfe; Personnel Mgr., Elizabeth Agnews Promotion Co-Mgrs., Marion Morgan. Therese Moslak: Classified Adv. Rlgr., Eleanor Mazis: Office Mgr., Mary Ann Wortman: Secretary, Patricia Shaffer; Senior Board, Nancy Marcinek, Ruth Pierce. Barbara Potts. Betty Richardson, and Elizabeth Wxdman. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor: Bob Landis; Copy editors: Tam mie Bloom and Sam Procopio; Assistants: Bob Shoellkopf, He r m Weiskopf, Helen Luyben, Peggy McClain, Myron Feinsilber, and Bill Pete. Collegian Defends Its Press Freedom Last night at All-College Cabinet the Daily Collegian was once again forced to stand up to defend its freedom. The attempts to abridge this freedom were not malicious, nor were they in tended to restrict the total operation of the newspaper. They were well-meaning sugges tions made by a committee trying to fulfill its assignments, but they were suggestions made in ignorance of how a newspaper is run. Let us first fill in the background events which led to the current situation. Last spring, when debate over the senior class gift selec tion was going hot and heavy, some people charged that certain of the gift suggestions were getting more publicity than other sug gestions. The charges eventually came near to name-calling. To prevent such situations in the future it was suggested that All-College Cabinet form a committee to investigate ways of equalizing publicity on the gift suggestions in the future. This committee was set up and made its report to cabinet Thursday night. In four of the committee’s five recommenda tions definite advances were made toward solv ing the problem. The committee went off base, however, in its recommendation concerning the Daily Collegian. The committee wanted Col legian to give each story on the class 'gift suggestion the same position on the same page. It also asked that each story be given the same amount of space and that the stories be written by the groups backing each gift. Anyone who knows anything about the op eration of a newspaper knows that to promise such a thing is impossible for many obvious reasons. First, the position of news is de termined by its relative value in comparison to other news available that day. In the sec ond place, the amount of space that can be given to any one story is determined by the amount of space available for all the news. Third, more can be said' about certain gifts, like the student press and the student radio station, than can be said about a scholarship fund, for instance, or a statue. As for the request that the groups backing cer tain gifts write the stories on their gift that are to appear in the paper, we think it only fair to warn that in most cases these stories will probably have to be rewritten to conform to newspaper style. The Collegian is willing, on its news pages, to try, as far as is humanly possible, to give equal prominence to these stories. This has always been our policy. As for the editorial page, our policy will continue to allow staff members to plug one gift oyer another as long as their editorials are factual and in good taste. Students who wish to make their views-known on the gift suggestions, as on any issue, may write letters to the editor. We realize the cabinet committee did not have as its objective the trampling of the free dom of the press, -and for this reason we did not, and have not, become too upset over the matter. However, we resent, as any newspaper re sents, any attempt to abridge our freedom, even though the attempt is made in ignorance. We are aware, too, that success in one attempt may lead eventually to other similar attempts. We are giving fair warning now that such attempts will meet with stiff opposition. We believe we will have the backing of the stu dent body in our opposition. Parking Are Limited Beginning Monday strict enforcement of 'the new traffic regulations will begin. At that time only student drivers with permit stickers on their cars will be permitted to drive on campus during class hours, and tickets will be issued to all cars illegally parked. Many students are not happy with the cur rent parking plan. They feel that too many spaces have been given over to the faculty and staff and not enough to students. Un doubtedly some complaints are justified, buf we believe that in most cases the parking Costs Lot Factor THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA ’ t spaces have been fairly assigned. Everyone realizes that, although the new parking plan is designed to make the fullest possible use of the available parking spaces, there is still a great shortage of adequate park ing lots. The shortage of lots is not due entirely to the lack of space, however. According to the information we've re ceived, the building cost of a hardtop space for one car is approximately $lOO, while a cinder lot for one car costs about $5O to build. In addition to this, the cost of maintaining a one-car hard surface lot for one year is about $lO. It costs about $5 to keep up a cinder lot for one year. These maintainence costs ' in clude removing snow, patching, and painting in white lines. This money all has to come from the College. If the lots were -to be rented to automobile drivers, the fee for a hardtop lot would be $2O per year, $lO a year for a cinder lot. By the end of ten years, the average life of a parking space, enough money would have been made to pay the yearly upkeep and enough saved to con struct a new lot. However, it is very doubtful that this will come to pass, although’ it would seem to be an effective way of eliminating the parking space shortage. » Is It a Spy Group? Just what the newly-organized sophomore customs enforcement committee has for its ac tual purpose seemingly remains a mystery. Al though it was stated by theN:ommittee that its avowed purpose was “to stir up greater class spirit,” it was also stated, “that the main pur pose of committee members is to act as ‘plain clothesmen’ to see that freshmen are wearing customs.” Now the point arises. Are we io sacrifice school spirit for a more unified class spirit? And must we rely on outright spying and informing to enforce our customs system? We are losing sight of the very purposes for which freshman customs was inaugurated; namely, facilitating the intermingling of class men, learning of the school norms and tradi tions, and orientation into the College program, itself. A program, then, that works toward these ends is what we’re after, rather than a ‘spy system.’ Frosh meetings, Frosh singing and cheers, Frosh study-groups, or even dances, but not a ‘spy-system’! Safety Valve' Protest Frosh €ampusin.g TO THE EDITOR:. For the last few days we have been reading about the Board of Custom Regulations concerning freshmen going home on weekends. To quote Tuesday’s Daily Colle gian: “All other freshmen desiring to' leave campus for any reason during the customs per iod must appear before the board for’permis sion.” Then in Wednesday’s paper we read that 16 freshmen were “awarded” permission to go home. This is ihe most disgusting thing we have ever seen. Customs are, after ail, a tradition, but when they start to restrict a person's per sonal and private life it is time to slop. The wearing of dinks and signs and dating regu lations are one thing, but to "award" per mission to go home is another. Freshmen are paying just as much to come to school here as any upperclassman, so why should they be forced to ask another “group of stu dents’’ for permission to go home? • Letter cut Editor's note: It is unwritten College policy here as at most other colleges that freshman students should remain on campus for their first few weekends in order to gain a better foothold to college life. The Freshman Cus toms Board is attempting to fulfill this policy by requiring students to appear before it in order to encourage their staying on campus. CjrclZotto • . „ Sunday. September 21 LA VIE candidates, fifth semester, '405 Old Main, 7 p.m. LION PARTY steering committee, 104 Wil lard, 2 p.m. Monday, September 22 ALPHA PHI OMEGA, 3 Sparks, 7 p.m. FROTH Promotion staff, Froth office, 6:45 p.m. LA VIE art candidates, 105 Temporary, 7 p.m. PENN STATE ENGINEER, 211 Mechanical Engineering, 7 p.m. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Lura Akers, Edward Baranski, Bertha Creas ing, Stanley Gardner, James Hill, Albert Kerr, Carole Lipton, Gertrude Malpezzi, John K. Mil ler, Theodore Spaulding. AT THE CATHAUM: Jumping Jacks 1:30, 3:32, 5:34, 7:36 9*43 ’STATE: High Noon 2:03, 3:56, 7:42, 9:38 NITTANY: The Last Musketeer 1:30, 3:32, 5:35, 7:37, 9:45 COLLEGE PLACEMENT Continental Can Co. will interview January B.S. and M.S. candidates in M.E., 1.E., E.E., C.E., and Chem. Eng. and Wood Utilities Tuesday, Sept. 30. E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Co. will interview January B.S. and M.S. candidates in M.E., 1.E., C.E., E.E., and Chem. Eng. and Chem. Wednesday, Oct. 1. JE, I. DuPont de Nemours Co. will interview Ph.D. can didates in Chem. BioChem., Phys., Engineering Me chanics, M. 1., M.E., and Chem. Eng. Wednesday, Thurs day, and Friday, Oct. 1,2, and 3. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Boys from West Dorms interested in Student Dry Cleaning ' agency. Women for waitress work. Woman for housework (five days per week from 8:30 a,m. to 12 a^xu> —Leonard Goodman —Ed weird Hinderleter Charles Hamly MOVIES tie Man on Campus interpreting the News First Guided Missile Fired in Combat by U.S. The headline was enough to make your heart leap: . “U.S. Fires First Guided Missile in Combat:” . The reporters and the Navy experts were obviously and under standably enthusiastic. But the details left something of a gap between presently avail- able weapons and the push-but ton warfare which we have been predicting ever since World War 11. What actually happened Sept. 1 was that the Navy took an old light bomber, i: stalled radio co: trols somethii like those whii have been usi for years, put television came: and broadcasts apparatus in tl nose, strapped bomb under t] belly, and sent off with a mot it to its target. There were two major ad vantages over ordinary bomb- ing tactics, and one appendage which was primarily a thrill _ for the sponsors and a promise ' for the future. The personnel in- the mother plane could stay safely out of a major flak area, an important factor in these days when com plicated planes and tactics require long training of intelligent men of a type not too easy to find. The test was made in an area where there was practically no worry about enemy interceptor planes. Under ordinary circum- Npval Reserve Unit to Meet Monday Nights The Naval Reserve Electronics Unit 4-3 will hold scheduled meet-: ing from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. every Monday in 300 Engineering E. Veterans and other interested civilians between 17 and 64 years of age, who are not members of any other military unit, are eli gible for membership. Naval Reserve officers and pet ty officers are urgently needed to help out with the program, ac cording to a spokesman. A complete radio transmitting and receiving installation for Na val and amateur frequencies will be available for qualified per sonnel. , Morse' code records and auto matic code tape machines are available for instruction': Radio construction kits, test instruments and .’a radar set will be used for class instruction and laboratory - work. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER- 20, 1952 By J. M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News Analyst stances in modern war, both planes would have been in dan ger instead of the robot only. And harrassment by enemy fight ers might easily have broken the mother plane’s control of the mis sile-carrier. ' The second advantage was that the real pilot of the mis sile, sealed in the mother plane, had a kamikaze view of the target through the • television eye, making for accuracy in the last moments of the robot's ap proach which would be un . known to ordinary bombing. But the bomb-carrier was slow by modern conceptions, and just as prone to being shot down as a piloted machine, meaning that it is no more likely to reach its target. On this point, pilot saving- remains the great advantage. The thrill, and a portent for the future when there is real push button war, lay in the television room aboard the carrier from which the robot was launched. There, apparatus followed the ac tion all the way. Real- push-but ton war will come when missiles are launched and guided to their targets directly from home base. The horizons of that sort; of thing are still very short range. FMA to Report At 9FC Meeting The Interfraternity Council will hear a report by the Fraternity Marketing Association, large-scale buying plan for fraternities, at 7 p.m. Tuesday in 101 Electrical En gineering. William Hafl e y, association chairman, will report on the plan and its success so far this year. The FMA now works with 15 members, and is still open for membership, Hafley said. Interest ed, persons may attend the IFC meeting for more information. Home Economics School To Open Meal Service The Home Economics S c h o o 1 will open its public meal service for the fall semester with lunch eon on Monday. Luncheons will be served cafe teria style Monday through Fri day from 11:55 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Dinners are served from* 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Thurs day. Dinner on Monday will. be cafeteria style, and waiter serv ice will be used throughout the remainder of the week. By Bible
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