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Tile 13aity Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE. gat Mr
Published Tuesday through Saturday atomism Inelasive
daring the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
of The Plansylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter July b. 1934. at the State
Caere. 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. tin•
signed editorials are by the editor.
Dave PeUnite Franklin S. Kelly
Editor 4761 0 " Business Mgr.
Managing Ed.. Andy McNeillie; City Ed., Day. Jones;
Sports Ed.. Jake Dighton; Copy Ed., Bettie Lon:: 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 ibbotoon:
Librarian and Exchange Ed.. Nancy LuetzeL
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Janie Reber; Copy editors: Lu
Martin, Marshall Donley; Assistants: Evvie Kie
ler, Peggy McClain, Bev Dickinson, Diehl Mc-
Kalip, Craig Sanders, Mike Feinsilber.
Advertising staff: Eleanor Ungethuem, Ethel
Wilson, Sondra Duckman, Eli Arenberg.
AA Board Decides
Important Policies
One of the lesser known of the many boards
and councils connected with the activities on
campus is the Athletic Advisory Board. Al
though often in the background, the board is
responsible for many decisions which affect ath
letic policy at Penn State.
At present, the board consists of 13 voting
Members and two ex-officio members. Of the
voting members, five are members of the Alum
ni Association, elected by the Alumni Council;
four are members of the College faculty; three
are student representatives, (t h e All-College
president, the president of the Athletic Associa
tion, and the editor of the Daily Collegian);
and one is a member of the College Board of
Trustees, who must also be an alumnus of the
College. The two ex-officio members are the
dean of the School of Physical Education and
Athletics and the graduate manager of athletics.
While in the past the board has merely been
what its title implies, an advisory board, Dean
Ernest B. McCoy has stated that when he
brings a question before the group for discus
sion, he expects to follow its advice on the
matter.
The most recent example of the board's au
thority was the change made in the policy for
the allocation of tickets for away football games.
After the storm of protests over the ticket situa
tion for the Penn game, the board realized that
some definite policy was sorely needed. At the
same time, however, the group was aware of the
many problems involved in the distribution of
tickets.
The new plan calls for students to receive
seats in the bottom rows along the entire section
allocated to Penn State. In other words, if the
College receives tickets from end zone to end
zone for the next game at Franklin Field; stu
dents will receive a number of rows extending
from end zone to end zone. The plan is similar
to the one used for the Pitt game this year.
It is not expected that the new proposal
will meet with unqualified approval. Undoubt
edly there will be complaints over the students
being given the bottom rows. In additicin, the
cheering section will be so spread out that it
will be almost ineffective. Other objections
will probably be raised.
It is obvious that not everyone will be satis
field with any ticket policy. The board has de
cided on a plan which it believes will be satis
factory to the greatest number of people. If, in
the future, a better plan emerges, the board
can make changes in the plan. Until that time,
however, the plan should be given a chance to
prove itself.
Town Rooms Need
College Inspection
A need which has been apparent too long now
is an inspection regulation for State College
homes and apartments accommodating students
at the College.
The need for such a policy was voiced just
about a year ago, after the disastrous Gentze]
building fire in which 19 students lost all their
personal belongings.
An inspection regulation even reached the
platform of one of the campus political par
ties. But so far, nothing concrete has been
heard from administrative sources.
The department of housing has been in a state
of flux all semester. However, .it is useless to
wait until a major fire again brings the matter
to light.
There is no intention to damn all housing
accommodations in State College. A great many
are excellent. There are, however, some which
are fire traps.
A policy whereby the department of housing
would set up regulations to be met before a
unit could be given an approved rating would
gc a long way to eliminating the difficulty.
A policy similar to that outlined above is
maintained at a great many colleges at which a
large segment of the student body rooms off
campus.
We feel that some sort of program is needed
at Penn State. The department of housing
appears to be the ideal agency to administrate
—Jim Growlller
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Safety Valve
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Vets Don't Need Phys Ed
To the editor: The protests of the School
of Physical Education and Athletics, and more
specifically that protest of Dean McCoy as re
cently expressed in his letter to All-College Cab
inet with regard to physical education exemp
tion for the Korean veteran, appear to me to be
ill-founded and the product of incomplete ob
servation, consideration, and understanding.
First Dean McCoy wrote that the "physical
conditioning programs of the armed services
are vastly different than that of the required
health and physical education program for men
at Penn State," or, essentially, the former is a
body-building program while the latter is in
structional. Since I have experienced both pro
grams, I am inclined to disagree. The physical
training program of the military is as instruc
tional, if not more, than the program here at
Penn State. Perhaps Dean McCoy meant that
the system here is intended to be more instruc
tional than that of the armed services. Assum
ing, however, that the program in practice at
Penn State is more instructional, why are all
members of major athletic teams exempted from
this instructional beneficence? If learning the
particulars of one of these major sports consti
tutes physical instruction, then I would ven
ture to say that the armed services is equally
as instructional. Isn't the reason behind exemp
tion based upon the fact that they undergo suf
ficient physical conditioning?
In his second point, Dean McCoy maintains
that no other exemptions are creditable be
cause of military service. Dean McCoy uses
a poor parallel in referring to geography
courses. The fact that a member of the armed
services travels all over the globe, is, at most,
a generality which varies with the individual.
Whitey Ford spent his entire enlistment at
Fort Monmouth, N.J., but he did, nevertheless,
fall subject to the Signal Corps physical edu
cation program. Dean McCoy overlooked the
fact that veterans are exempt from ROTC:
yet the ROTC courses cover material that is
not equally covered in the services.
The dean's next reason is that no other col
lege grants the exemption. Since Public Law
550, which entitles the Korean veteran to re
ceive educational benefits, has been in effect
for a period less than six months, I would ima
gine that such a statement could not be sup
ported by any reliable statistical data. At any
rate, just because Johnny pulls Susie's hair, we
are not necessarily justified in doing likewise.
I am under the impression that one of the pur
poses of our education is to free us from that
sort of reasoning.
Fourth, Dean McCoy mentions that some
veterans who were not required to take the
courses after World War II took them any
way. This, it appears to me, is irrelevant.
since there are always those among any large
group whose specific interests stray from
those of the majority—and I stress .the word
"majority." Incidentally„ there are also some
veterans taking ROTC in spite of the fact
that they are exempt. Does that mean that
the veteran should not even be exempted
from that course?
Another point that was brought up was that
physical conditioning must be practiced in order
to be maintained. Yet, Dean McCoy mentioned
that physical conditioning was not the purpose
of the program here at Penn State. I think no
one will deny, however, that practice is a vital
factor in the maintenance of any condition, whe
ther it be mental, physical, or otherwise.
Last, Dean McCoy writes that "subsequent
experience proved that it was. wrong and this
experience is our main basis for strongly op
posing it again." What experience, Dean McCoy?
In summation, I would like to say that bias
is a difficult condition to control. Since All-
College Cabinet should tackle each problem as
objectively as possible and avoid individual or
group biases, I would suggest that anyone in
the student body who is aware of additional ob
jective facts should submit those facts to the
Daily Collegian for publication or to All-Col
lege Cabinet for consideration.
Gazette ...
Wednesday, December 3
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURAL
ENGINEERS, 105 Agricultural Engineering,
7 p.m.
CHEM-PHYS STUDENT COUNCIL student
'faculty mixer, TUB, 8:30 p.m., lecture, 119 Os
mond, 7:45 p.m.
FROTH promotion staff, 100 Carnegie, 7 p.m.
INKLING editorial staff. 215 Willard, 7 p.m.
NEW BAVARIAN SCHUHPLATTLERS, 413
Old Main, 7 p.m.
NEWMAN CLUB lecture-discussion, 'Prove
There is a God', Professor Case in charge, rec
tory basement, 7:30 p.m.
PENN STATE BARBELL CLUB, McKee rec
reation room, 7 p.m.
PERSHING RIFLE S, Class A-Work Blue
Baker Navy, Armory, 7 p.m.
PHI EPSILON KAPPA, Sigma Pi., 7:30 p.m.
WRA BOWLING CLUB, White Hall alleys,
7 p.m.
WRA MODERN DANCE CLUB, White Hall
dance room, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Owens Corning Fiberglas Corp. will interview January B.S.
candidates in, C.E., 1.E.. E.E., chem. eng., arch., LA.
and C&E Dec. 15 and 16.
National Supply Co. will interview January B.S. candidates
in C.E., 1.E., M.E., metal, P.N.G. and C&E, Dec. 9.
Ohio Box Co. will interview January non-technical' grad
uates interested in sales or production trainee program,
Dec. 12 .
Boy Scouts of America will interview January graduates
interested in a scouting career, Dec. 16.
West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. will interview January B.S.
candidates in M.E., C.E., and chem. eng., Dec. 12.
Representatives of the Grange League Federation (GLF)
will meet with January graduates at 7 p.m. Dec. 9 in
106 Forestry. Opportunities available for majors in C&E
as well as various departments m ag.
—Joseph Hanania
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"Boy we jus' got th' girls home in time—Smiley
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It's A
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By BETTIE LOUX
Fleeting thoughts while sipping• that 11 o'clock coffee and scan
ning the headlines . major fires the day after Thanksgiving
vacation getting to be •a habit in State College . . ~the blaze down
town Monday night carried on the tradition started last year with
the Gentzel fire. The year before, 1950, Pollock Dorm 7 went .up in
flames the Saturday after Thanks
giving, and a few days later Os
mond Laboratory was damaged
by fire.
Encroachments on freedom of
speech increasing . . . .'Aecording
to the Associated Press, haircuts
are up 25 cents in Newark barber
shops, and there'S bound to be
less chatter than usual. Along
with the new $1.25 price for hair
cutting comes a pledge from bar
bers to refrain from making con
versation unless "unmistakably
encouraged to do so."
The Pitt "victory celebration"
last week probably didn't seem
like an "amazing ' display of
school spirit" to the professor
in the Home Economics Build
ing who tried in vain to keep
the mob from turning off elec
tricity so important research
wouldn't be ruined.
Although the final - total of the
Campus Chest collections has not
yet- been computed, reports are
complete enough to make it evi
dent that the drive definitely can
be called unsuccessful. -
Whereas in 1950 the -new.• plan
netted $10,500 and last year
reached 99 per cent of its goal,
the chest to date has reported
$6900 collected.
Where does the trouble lie?
With the students, the solicitors,
or with the nature of the driye.
itself?
In some cases the blame lies .
with solicitors who didn't even,
know for what charities they
were collecting, let alone their
functions and services. It's near _
to impossible to enthusiastically
talk up a project with no'back
ground knowledge. Of ,course.
some solicitors were recruited
at the last moment since not
enough were appointed in ad
vance. These, therefore, did not
have time to get fully acquaint-
ed with the chest's agencies.
Students were generally apa
thetic about the drive, and in
some cases downright surly when
asked to contribute. A typical
excuse, we understand, was "I
gave last year."
The chest being set up the way
it is—so that the pledge can be
. tacked on to the next semester's
fees—one might • think a great
many students would automat
ically pledge with the idea that
"Pop will pay it." They didn't,
however, and therefore -it would
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1952
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seem there is something about
the drive itself against which stu
dents rebelled.
Some students have refused to
give anything to the Campus
Chest, not necessarily because
they are "tight," but as a matter
of principle because they either
did not agree with the percentage
allocations or because they did
not wish their money to go at all
to a specific service or charity
group.
Chief- among the complaints
we have heard was a feeling
that the Penn State Christian
Association was getting a very
large percentage (46 per cent of
student donations-78 per cent
of faculty donations and that
the Penn State Scholarship
Fund, a. fund providing for only
athletic -scholarships, was not
really a service or charity group
and therefore did not belong
with -the chest. Just the other
day we heard this remark: "I'm
willing to give to the Salvation
Army, the . Negro Student Serv
ice Fund, the heart and cancer
. driv es and the World Student
Service Fund, but athletes can
pay their own wa y through
school, just as I am .. ." •
The idea of combining many
drives into one concentrated ef
fort is . basically good, but when
students are kept from giving be
cause of certain objections it is
time to , consider the setup more.
carefully. It is, of course, im
possible tip please everyone, and
if the chest continues to operate
on the percentage setup some per
sons will always feel it is unfair.
The ideal situation would be one
where contributors could desig
nate those charities to which they
wished to give. This is done with
the faculty, who • may ask that
their money go to either the PSCA
or' WSSF. It would take a lot of
work, and probably entail extra
expense to perfect such a system,
but it is quite possible that 'in
creased returns would make it
worth the effort.
Mayo to Lecture
Dr. Frank R. Mayo of the Gen
eral Electric Co. will lecture on
the "Addition and Polymeriza
tion of Double Bonds" at 4:10 p:m. ,
today in 117 Osmond. The talk is •
part of the organic chemistry .k•c
ture series.
By Bibler