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Editor
Managing Ed., Andy Mi.:S:411;o: t.:;t2 , Fd.. Dave Jonrs
Sports Ed.. Jake ilighton: Corry Ed.. Bettie Loav: 3i lit
Dir.. Jim Gromiller; Wire Ed.. C:stic.k Henderson; S. Ed.
Ginger Opoczenski: Asst. ~ports Ed., Ted Soens: Asst
Soc. Ed.. LaVonne Althouse; Feature Ed.. Jolir. 1W:0:son
Librarian and Exchange Ed.. Nancy Luca: el.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Editorial Staff: Night editor, Bill Jost; Copy
editors: Sheldon Smoyer, Marshall Donley; As
sistants. Bev Dickinson. Joe Obester, Mary An
gel, Evvie Kielar, Barry Fein. Ed Reiss.
Advertising Staff: Eleanor Ungethuem, Ethel
Wilson, Eli Arenberg, Sondra Duckman.
McCoy Seat Plan
Is Not Necessary
Dean Ernest B. McCoy has taken over the
School of Physical Education and Athletics with
a bang. Within the few months he has been
here, a great many advances have been made,
and there are plenty of big plans for the future.
Anyone who hears Dean McCoy talk realizes at
once that he is a man who takes his job ser
iously, and who is anxious to improve things
for the students as quickly but as thoroughly
as possible.
Just last week a great stride forward was
made. We refer to the provisions being made
for dances to follow athletic events in Rec
reation Hall, and the opening of Rec Hall on
Sunday evenings for co-educational partici
pation in volleyball, ping-pong, shuffleboard.
and similar sports.
In addition the Rec Hall facilities will be
available for the use of men students from 1
to 5:30 p.m. on Sundays and two football fields
are being constructed in the Nittany-Pollock
area for student use. Sunday morning activities
were not included in the program because they
would interfere with religious group meetings.
While we applaud Dean McCoy for this part
of the expansion program planned by the Phys
Ed school, we are not so happy over his two
suggestions for seating at athletic events in
Rec Hall.
One of these suggestions is that student
tickets for Rec Hall games be divided so that
one-half the students would be assured of
seats at these events. This could be• accom
plished, the dean explained, by distributing
student tickets of two different colors, with
each color entitling the student to see a spe
cified half of the athletic events scheduled
for Rec Hall. This division would be made in
such a way that the good and poorer matches
would be evenly distributed.
We do not believe such a plan is necessary
at Penn State, although we readily admit that
Rec Hall is too small to handle the crowds which
now turn out for the athletic events. In the
first place, there is no , assurance that these
crowds will continue to turn out in such num
bers in the future. It was only a few years ago
that plenty of empty seats were seen in Rec
Hall when the Penn State basketball team
played a home game. Granted there probably
will be huge crowds for the next few years,
particularly if th e basketball and wrestling
teams keep up their successful seasons. But
can we even count on this with assurance?
People are funny.
In the second place, we doubt that many, if
any, students have ever been turned away from
Rec Hall because the place was too crowded.
While some undoubtedly moan about standing
for an entire evening to watch an event, they
at least are there, able to witness the contest.
We have no doubt that there would be long
and loud protests if they were refused admit
tance to Rec Hall entirely.
We appreciate the fact that Dean McCoy
is trying to aid the students, but we feel
certain that the major!ty of the student body
is content with things as they now are, even
if it means arriving at Rec,Hall an hour-and
a-half before game time in order to be sure
of a seat. •
As for Dean McCoy's suggestion concerning
the reserving of 300 seats in Rec Hall for faculty,
alumni, and townspeople, we will comment on
that tomorrow.
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TU DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Frosh. Set Pace
For Senior Meeting
Tonight is scheduled the first meeting this
year of the Class of 1953. In the past class meet
ings usually suffered from very poor attendance,
but with the question of senior finals once
again being raised, there are •hopes for a good
,
In addition to the finals question, students
will be asked to discuss Dean Ernest B.
McCoy's Recreation Hall seating plan, the
:::ropo.sal to have freshmen also pay the $2
LaVie fee now being paid by sophomores,
i.uniors, and seniors, and the question of whe
ther P-1/-College Cabinet should give $2OO
the Chess Club. All three questions should
be rf some interest to the members of the
senicr class.
The freshman and junior classes recently held
meetings. Nearly 400 frosh showed up for their
meeting, the largest class attendance in recent
years. The junior class also turned out in sur
prising number for its meeting.
These facts, backed up by the extremely good
behavior at football games, etc., are making us
wonder if perhaps the College student is fin
ally snapping out of , his apathy. It would be
well for. everyone if this were the case.
A frequent complaint of the freshmen is
that upperclassmen have too little school spirit.
The junior class has made a step forward in
proving . the frosh wrong. A large attendance
at tonight's meeting would be another major
step En that direction. Let's not be shown up
by the underclassmen!
Display Materials
Need Not Be Stolen
This week fraternities are beset with the
problem of where to find sundry items needed
in the construction of their Homecoming • dis
plays. The easiest solution often is to send'' out
the pledge class with instructions to "procure
and not fail."
This year fraternities are beset with a "Nit
tany Lion Harvest Time" theme which invites
swiping Af pumpkins, corn stalks, etc. from
the farmers in the vicinity of State College.
Then in a few weeks will come Halloween,
and another invitation.
Dr. Frank J. Simes, as one of his first public
acts upon taking over as dean of men, has by
letter appealed to fraternities to refrain from
obtaining the materials for their displays in
this manner.
He indiCated that since fraternities have in
the past been held responsible for losses suf
fered by farmers in the area, that to keep their
names clear now they should be particularly
careful.
Thefts will be reported to the borough police
officials, which may in the long run mean a
costly fine if a housecaught.
The real factor, hoW - ever, should be the
name that such practices cause to fall upon
the fraternity system.
Farmers, it appears, have suffered at the
hands of fraternities for a good many years.
In recent years the practice of raiding farm
yards has fallen off, and we would like to see
it eliminated completely.
Corn stalks, pumpkins, bales of hay—all of
these are very effective in building upon a
harvest or Halloween theme. And we doubt if
very many farmers would refuse to fill a frat
ernity's decorative needs—if asked first.
The answer then would be for fraternities
to contact farmers or other businessmen when
they need items to complete , a decoration
theme, rather than ruin the good name of all
fraternities by stealing them.
Gazette ...
Wednesday, October 15
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL
ENGINEERS, 105 ' Agricultural Engineering,
7 p.m.
ASSOCIATION OF IN D E PENDENT MEN
Board of Governors special meeting, 102 Wil
lard, 8 p.m.
CHEM-PHYS STUDENT COUNCIL, 103 Os
mond, 7 p.m.
CHESS CLUB, 3 Sparks, 7 p.m.
DEAN OF MEN'S COFFEE HOUR, 106 Old
Main, 4 p.m.
NEWMAN CLUB lecture-discussion, Profes
sor Case in charge, rectory basement, 7:15 p.m.
OMICRON NTI, Home Economics living cen
ter. 7 p.m.
TOWN COUNCIL,. 101 Willard, 7 p.m.
WRA BOWLING CLUB, White Hall alleys,
7 p.m.
WRA MODERN DANCE CLUB, White Hall
dance room, 7 p.m.
—Jim Gromiller
Little Man on Campus
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interpreting the News
Assembly Will See
U. S. Double Objective
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
The United States will be working toward a double objective
as it presses the Communists for a truce in Korea during the present
meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.
Primary, of course, is the actual desire to get out of the war if
that can be done without sacrificing any of the fundamental ob-
jectives which brought about the
original U.N. entry into it.
This fight will be made even
though nobody really expects any
thing to come out of it.
The one concr et e result,
therefore, will be a further fix
ing of responsibility for the kill
ing, which will in turn serve to
help scotch the newest Russian
"peace offensive."
The "peace offensive" already
has gotten off to a bad start. Pei
ping radio reports on the big
peace Congress there indicated a
hackneyed program conducted by
jaded men with no new ideas
about how to talk peace while
waging war. The Peiping meeting
was also crowded into the back
ground by world interest in the
Russian Communist party Con
gress.
Renewed heavy fighting in Ko
rea, threats against Turkey, a
flustered reaction to a few com
paratively . mild remarks by an
American ambassador to Moscow
who could have said a great deal
more, stepped up militarization of
Eastern Germany, continuation of
the Soviet Government's "hate
campaign" among its own people
—all these things are working
against the success of the "peace"
propaganda line.
Western diplomats, however,
are not inclined to rely solely
upon Russia's habit of vitiating
with one hand what she does
with the other.
The Allies are going through
a trying economic period when
wishful thinking could easily
influence them into a false trust
in the estimate that Russia is
neither prepared nor hoping for
war now . . That is just the effect
the Kremlin would like to pro
duce with it new emphasis on
the ' need for commercial rela
tions between East and West
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1952
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and the possibility of peaceful
co-existence.
Expert Am e r i c an observers
think this represents a definite
though temporary switch in So
viet policy. They expect the Soviet
delegation to the UN to play
heavily upon it, even to the point
of making concrete proposals
which may be seen through by
those familiar with Soviet tactics,
but seem reasonable to less ex
perienced and poorly informed
peoples around the world.
That is why Secretary Acheson
and General Ridgway have chos
en this time to issue warnings
against underestimating either the
power or the intent of the pos
sible aggressors.
Criss Named
'Edits' Head
Francis Criss, seventh semes
ter secondary education major,
has been named editor of "Edits,"
bi-weekly newspaper published
by the School of Education. Ruth
Abt will serve as assistant edi
tor.
Others on the staff are Mary
Graham, Mary 'Emma Kear n s.
Henrietta Webb, Terese Moslak,
Annamary Burket, and Barbara
Reynolds, reporters; June Chris
toff, Betty Ann McDermott, Jean
McDowell, Suzanne Mos e in an,
Richard Whitney, Bette Grabin,
Robert Graffius, Betta Hirko, Ja
net Horger, and Nellie Spedding,
production staff.
Faculty advisers for the publi
cation are J. W. Remaley, Mary
Stella, and Hazel Daniels.
The first issue of "Edits" came
out this week. Future publica
tion dates are Oct. 27, Nov. 17,
Dec. 15, and Jan. 12.
By Biller
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