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Ot liatig Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE. cut. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday. mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
of The P-misylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter .luly 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- Ulu
signed editorials are by the editor.
Dave Pellnitz Franklin Kelly
Editor '''4oi" Business Mgr.
Managing Ed., Andy McNeillie; City Ed., Dave Jones.
Sports Ed., Jake Dighton; Copy Ed., Bettie Loux: Edit
Dir., Jim Gromiller; Wire Ed., Chuck Henderson; Soc. Ed.
Ginger Opoczenski; Asst. Sports Ed., Ted Soens: Asst
Soc. Ed.. LaVonne Althouse; Feature Ed., Julie Ibbotson:
Librarian and Exchange Ed.. Nancy Luetzel.
Asst. Bus. Mgr., Richard Smith; Local Advertising Mgr.,
Phyllis Kalson; National Adv. Mgr., Alison Morley; Circu
lation Co-Mgrs., Gretchen Henry, Kenneth Wolfe; Personnel
Mgr., Elizabeth Agnew; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Marion Morgan.
Therese Moslak; Classified Adv. Mgr., Eleanor Mazis; Office
Mgr., Mary Ann Wertman; Secretary, Patricia Shaffer;
Senior Board. Nancy Marcinek, Ruth Pierce, Barbara Potts,
Betty Richardson and Elizabeth Widman.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Dick McDowell: Copy editors:
Lynn Kahanowitz, Janie Reber: Assistants: Phil
Austin, Diehl McKalip, Peggy McClain, Al
Goodman, Gus Vollmer, Bill Snyder.
Ad staff: Mark Christ. Bruce Michaels, Don
Zappin.
Non-Partisan Ruling
Holds in Politics
While college newspapers all over the coun
try are reportedly coming out in favor of either
Dwight D. Eisenhower or Adlai E. Stevenson,
the Daily Collegian will continue to stick to
its policy of non-parisanism in campus and
national 'politics. This does not mean, however.
that the staff of the Daily Collegian is indif
ferent to the campaign. Nothing could be fur
ther from the truth.
Since it would be virtually impossible to
ever have a sen i or board agreeing on one
candidate in the national political race, the
non-partisan policy rule was put into effect.
This does not mean that we will not editor
ially comment on one candidate or another.
As is our policy on every issue except those
on which the senor board arrives at a set
policy, editorials on both sides of the political
fence will be published.
In addition, the Daily Collegian will carry
as much news of the national political scene as
possible, especially between now and Nov. 4.
We will offer news of both candidates, without
purposely giving one
.party bigger play tnan
the other. We are somewhat limited, however,
by the amount of news which reaches our of
fice before our evening deadline,-and by the
importance of the news which is available.
While we do not endorse one candidate over
the other, we do urge that students who are
eligible to vote do so. The current campaign
is probably one of the most important in our
nation's history. Every person's vote will be
important.
Students may be excused from classes Nov.
4 if they intend to go home to vote. Excuse
blanks are to be picked up at the Student
Union desk in Old Main and are to be signed
by a member of the home town election board.
So; no matter how you intend to vote, at
least vote. It's a duty as well as a privilege.
Finance Lion Suits
From Gift Funds
The campaign drive for a new Lion suit has
been progressing satisfactorily. All types of or
ganizations have been helping toward the goal
of $4OO which would provide the badly tattered
Lion, the symbol .of Penn State, a new suit
in which to cavort at football games.
We have little doubt that the drive will
evenutally go, over the top. But what about
four years from now when the Lion is again
in need of a new suit? It seems fo us that
some sort of permanent fund should be set up
to handle this situation in the future.
One possibility would be to take $lOO from
the senior class gift fund each year and put it
toward a Lion suit fund. In this way there
would always be a backlog on hand so that
in the future there would be no need for cam
paigns similar to the one now beina. conducted.
In addition, by having the fund always on
hand the Lion would never be forced to appear
at games in a shabby condition, which is the
case this year. With funds available, a new suit
could be ordered far -enough in advance so
that it would be ready at the beginning of the
football season.
Should the time ever-Caine when the backlog
grew too large, the $lOO gift could either be
cut down or eliminated entirely. But this is
far in the future, and the need for such a fund
has been demonstrated now. Tomorrow's senior
class meeting would be as good a time as any
to get the ball rolling in the right direction.
The Nittany Lion is the symbol of Penn
State. The senior class gift fund is used to
present the College with something from• all
students on the campus. What could be better
'than having a 1 1 the students contributing
toward the upkeep of their school symbol?
rHE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Post-Game Dances
Answer to a Need
Free student dances will follow Saturday
night sports activities in Recreation Hall this
winter. The dance schedule was announced last
week as part of an expansion program by Er
nest B. McCoy, new dean of the School of
Recreation and Athletics.
The dances will probably be record dances
-ccasionally, according to a statement by Mc-
Coy. but plans are in the works to have live
llent present.
Without undertaking to comment on other
McCoy suggestions regarding seating in Rec
reation Hall, which already have drawn forth
considerable opposition—we feel that the Sat
urday dances will fill a real need of a large
segment of the student body—the answer to
the question of what to do and where to go
after the game.
In addition to the dance program, McCoy
also announced the reservation. of Sunday ev
enings for co-educational volleyball, ping-pong,
shuffleboard and similar sports in Recreation
Hall.
Each of these will definitely improve the rec
reational program of the College.
Forensics Board
Should Get Rolling
All-College Cabinet has been meeting for a
month now and at every meeting one vacant
chair stares everyone in the face. The chair
belongs to the chairman of the Board of Dra
matics and Forensics.
Just what is holding up the choice of the
board's representative? For several weeks one
member of the board has been trying to get a
meeting scheduled. Unfortunately, nothing has
come of these attempts.
_We find it hard to
believe that all the members of . the group are
disinterested in having a voice in student 'gov
ernment at Penn State, yet their disinclination
to do anything about it - makes one wonder.
Among the representatives on the council
are the managers of the men's and women's
debate teams. Surely these people should be,
and apparently are, vitally interested in get
ting their views on campus problems aired.
Yet attempts on one manager's part to get
some action have met with-failure. Apparently
no one on the board knows just who is re
sponsible for calling a meeting, or the one
responsible has failed to do his job.
It is -obvious from this that something must
be done to make the board a more effective
group. Very few people on campus have ever
beard of it, and even fewer .know just what
it is. We suggest that when the board even
tually gets around to meeting, it consider ser
iously the possibility of revising its setup to
prevent such confusion in the future.
Toward the end of last year some discussion
was raised over whether the Radio Guild should
become a part of the Board of Dramatics and
Forensics. Finally All-College Cabinet passed a
constitutional change which made the guild
part of the board. If the group was so inter
'sted in obtaining board membership, why has
it not done something to put some life 'into it.
Let's get moving, board members! You have
a scat waiting for you on cabinet. Your rep
resentative's opinions can be of value to the
rest of the cabinet members. It's about time
you did something about it. Let's see your
representative at the next cabinet meetin,r.
Gazette ...
Tuesday, October 13
AMERICAN • SOCIETY FOR METALS, 219
Electrical Engineering, 8 p.m.
COLLEGIAN advertising staff, junior and in
termediate boards, 9 Carnegie, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN business candidates, 1 Carnegie,
7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN business staff, Collegian office,
7:15 p.m.
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COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF, Col
legian office. 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN editorial candidates, 2 Carne
gie, 7 p.m.
EDUCATION STUDENT COUNCIL, 108 Wil
lard, 8:30 p.m. '
FROTH advertising staff, 200 Carnegie, 7:30
n.m.
INSURANCE CLUB, Delta Chi, 7 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB, Sim
mons lounge, 7:30 p.m.
RADIO GUILD. 304 Sparks, 7:30 p.m.
TRIBUNAL, 201 Old Main, 6:55 p.m.
. WRA BADMINTON CLUB, White Hall gym,
7 p.m.
WRA OUTING CLUB, White Hall game
room,. 7 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. will interview Ph.D. can
didates in chem. and phys. Thursday and Friday, Oct.
23-24 .
Shell Oil Co. will interview January B.S. and '63 M.S. and
Ph.D. candidates in chem. and chem. eng. Thursday and
Friday, Oct. 23-24.
Westinghouse Electric Corp. will interview January B.S.
candidates in M.E.. E.E., 1.E., and chem. eng. Thurs.
day and Friday, Oct. 23-24.
Columbia Gas System will interview January candidates in
M.E.. E.E., C.E.. chem. eng., pet. eng., home ec. and
accounting Thursday, Oct. 23.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Substitute waiters for girls dormitories.
Boy to work for room.
Girl to cook main meal in evenings for two people five days
per week.
Person to upholster and refinish chairs.
Students from .Altoona area interested in Christmas work.
Babysitters for Nebraska football game (Homecoming).
For further information about job placements, contact Stu
dent Employment, 112 Old Main.
—Jim Gromiller
Little Man on Campus
"Boy, what some of those fraternity. men won't
try just to see the inside of a sorority suite."
Interpreting the News
Handicaps
In General
The United States, seriously handicapped by the political cam
paign, is going into a highly complicated and delicate U.N. Gen
eral Assembly session , against one of the strongest teams ever
sent by the Russians.
Secretary Acheson will try in his opening address to discount
in advance a prolonged Soviet propaganda campaign. But he will
be speaking as one who will be re
tiring in three months, for a State
Department and a national admin
istration which are in for a gen
eral reshuffling.
At the same time, experienced
U.N. observers consider the reg
ular U.N. delegation to be weaker
than usual. Sen. Austin, its 74
year old chief, is still suffering
from the after effects of long ill
ness; Philip Jessup has been criti
cized in Congress, Ernest Gross,
Austin's Republican chief assis
tant, is going to have to do a lot of
the ball carrying.
Russia will be represented by
Vishinsky, Gromyko, Sorin, and
Zarubin, with Jacob Malik, retir
ing chief delegate, staying on as
a sidelines coach. The lineup is
significant as to Russia's feeling
about the opportunity presented
by the American situation.
The one big thing the U.S.
hopes to do at this session is to
put the pressure on the Commu
nist world through a General As
sembly resolution, demanding a
truce in Korea. This will invove
obtaining endorsement of the
American record as steward for
the U.N. both in the fighting and
in the truce negotiations. It is
probable that it will be obtained.
But not without searching scru
tiny by India and some others,
and revelations of some pretty
broad cracks in the anti-agres
sion alignment.
Delicate steering will also be
required to get the U.S. past
the so-called "color issue s"
which face this Assembly.'The
U.S., will attempt to follow a
course of moderation when
dealing with complaints against
France and the South African
government in connection with
the latter's racial policies and
the. former's colonial problems.
In these cases, nationalism and
racialism have cut across all
the national boundaries from
Africa through the Middle East
into India. Th e Jewish-Arab
Palestine dispute presents simi
lar delicacies.
Russia has recently shown some
signs of playing down the violent
side of her conflict with the West
and playing up the economic and
political facets of cold war. She is
girding for great economic effort,
and consolidation of trade within
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14; 1952'
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
the Soviet sphere, while grumb
ling constantly about the barriers
to trade between East and West.
She may have devised some more
or less concrete proposal in an, ef
fort to put the West on the de
fensive regarding its embargo
policies. This might be tied to an
effort to prevent an embargo of
Communist China, which could be
the next U.N. weapon against the
Reds if the truce moves fail as
expected.
This session of the Assembly
may see the first withdrawal
from the ranks of U.N. nations.
More than one observer expects
South Africa just to walk right
out ,for good in proteSt against
consideration of her racial af
fairs, which she claims is a do
mestic problem not subject to
U.N. inquiry.
It would be just like Russia- to
grab this opportunity to propose
an investigation of racial affairs
everywhere, just for the embar
rassment she could cause.
Service Group
Pledges 39 Men
Thirty-nine men were pledged
last night by Alpha Phi Omega,
national service fraternity, Rich
ard Schuler, president, announced.
Each pledge will put in 17 serv
ice hours during their eight-week
pledge-ship for the school and the
community.
Those pledged are Richard Aus
tin, Wiley Behler, Robert 'Broom
field, James Carrigan, H arv e y
Cook, Robert Conquest, Donald G.
Drake, Bernard Davis, and David
Dixon.
Ernest Famous, Richard Favro,
John Finkbeiner, John Fink, Wil
liam Freed, Ralph Gutshall Jr.,
James Horten, Harry Hazelhurst,
James HoWard, William Johns
ton, 'Joseph Katz, George Kemp,
and William Alden.
John McNeill, John Leone, John
Williammee, Horace Mitchel 1,
Carl Nurick, Pierce Ostrander,
William Pavard, 'Joseph Polito,
Thomas H. Richards, Donald Sie
gle, Stanley Ulsh, Thomas Webb,
Rich a r d Eyster, Richard Co
dori, Warren Hommas Jr., Kay
Huston, and Alon Glou.
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