PAGE FOUR o . lle i3atly Collegian Successor so THE FREE LANCE, oot. 1U Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The P.r,nsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matter July 4, 1934, at the State College. Pa.; Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Collegian editorials represent the viawpoisa of the writers. not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un signed editorials are by the editor. Dave PeUnits Franklin S. Kelly Editor '`lgMi ) " Business Mgr. Managing Ed.. Andy McNeillie• City Ed., Dave Jones: Sports Ed., Jake Dighton; Copy Ed., Bettie Lour; Edit. Dir., Jim Gromiller; Wire Ed., Chuck Henderson: Soe. Ed., Ginger Opoczenski; Asst. Sports Ed.. Ted Soens; Asst. Soe. Ed., LaVonne Althonse: Feature Ed., Julia Ibbotson: Librarian and Exchange Ed.. Nunez Luetzel. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor: Nancy Meyers; Copy editors: Mimi Ungar, Dick McDowell; Assistants: Iry Weiner, Neida Fralich, Lee Wheeler, Joan Pack ard, Nancy Van Tries. Advertising staff: Bill Nudorf, Faye Hidinger. Judy Brown. Veterans Unjustified Tn Phys Ed Gripes Just before Thanksgiving vacation, the Daily Collegian printed a story which contained ex planations by Physical Eduction school Dean Ernest B. McCoy of why Korean veterans should not be exempt from College courses, particu larly, physical education and health courses. This story was based on a letter McCoy sent to All-College Cabinet in explanation of the Phys Ed school's view on the exemptions. McCoy emphasized in his let ter that the school was "completely opposed" to any ex • emptions. Since the appearance of the story two letters from veterans have been received and ,printed in the Daily Collegian. Both these letters, one signed by the acting president of the Penn State Veterans Club, were complaints against McCoy's opposition. Although maturity is evidenced by both writers. it should be pointed out that their reasons for wanting exemptions are, in some cases, not-too-adult. For example, one of the veterans says he wants to be exempted because World War II veterans were not required to take these cour ses. In addition to being a •kind of "me-too" philosophy, this request implies that no changes in curricular activities at Penn State should be made "because they weren't done before." Both veterans who wrote letters rhetorically asked McCoy if ROTC courses were not ex amples of exemptions. (McCoy said the College makes no exceptions in other courses, and therefore there is no reason for exempting stu lents from phys ed and similar courses). Of course, veterans and many other students are exempted from ROTC, but it should be remembered that ROTC is not a course of the College but is a course of the United States Government. If anyone doubts this, he may ask the ROTC department—they will point out with impunity that they are not really a part of the LA School. Mr. Hanania, one of the veterans who wrote a letter, says that McCoy "uses a poor parallel" when he says a soldier who travels around the world is not exempt from geography and so a veteran who has some physical training should not be exempt from phys ed. Mr. Hanania misses the point. Regardless of the previous experience of a person who enrolls as a regular student at the College, he should be required to take the courses prescribed by the College as long as the College rules say so. An exception in the case of phys ed is no more in order than an exception in thermodynamics. This afternoon the College Senate, an admin istrative group which has the final word on such Only One More Day to Gef Your Date for THE HARVEST BALL Ag Hill's Semi-Formal Dance No Corsage 9-12 Rec Hall $2.00 per couple Tickets at S.U. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA things, will ntdi a. -OU/' I. Ul its committee on academic standards from Prof. Lawrence Perez, chairman. ThiS report will probably urge that no exemptions be given and the Senate will' act upon the committee suggestion. This action, if and when taken by the Senate, will be -a turn-about from the action of All- College Cabinet which publicly suggested that veterans be exempt. We believe cabinet was in error in taking its perhaps hasty and certainly not-too-well thought-through action. The mature veteran student should be content with the College's requirements. He. knew about them before he enrolled. Safety Valve Phys Ed Plan Disputed TO THE EDITOR: This letter, which is in reply to the article "Veterans' Phys Ed Exemp tions Hit," i. written by a veteran and there fore subject to bias, but certainly no more so than the views of Dean McCoy. set forth in the Nov. 21 issue of the Daily Collegian. Some of Dean McCoy's reasons for not want ing to exempt vets from physical education are seemingly excellent However, of those reasons listed in the Daily Collegian, a few will bear close examination. Certainly some of the rea sons tend to put the veteran of today in a class lower than a freshman, if such a class exists. The dean said that credits are not given vet erans for any other course they do not take at the College. Could it be that he has over looked ROTC? I know that I and other veterans have re ceived six credits for this course. "No other college grants this exemption," another reason of the dean. according to the article, I simply refuse to believe, mainly because I know of schools that do grant exemptions. If so many veterans of the last war elected to take physical education even though they were exempted. why not let the vets of the Korean War choose if they want to take it? The training given me in the service may not have been exactly in line with the physical education program here at Penn State, but I had four years of it. This is more time than was spent in the service by many of the World War II veterans who were exempted. I was in Korea, and now I'm back in school frying to acquire a long-deferred academic education. I'm also well over 21 years old, and I think I'm old enough to know how my time can most profitably be spent. Gazette ... Thursday, December 4 AIR FORCE HONOR GUARD, Armory, class A uniform, flights 1 and 2 at 7 p.m., flights 3 and 4 at 8 p.m. ALPHA LAMBDA DELTA, Grange basement, 6:30 p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 304 Old Main, 6:45 p.m. DEMOLAY MEETING, 208 Willard, 7 p.m. NEWMAN CLUB, lecture-discussion, "Saving the Unborn Child," 107 Willard, 7:15 p.m.- NITTANY GROTTO, 316 Frear, 7:30 p.m. PLAYER'S TECHNICAL WORKSHOP, loft, Schwab Auditorium, 7 p.m. WRA BRIDGE CLUB, White Hall game room, 7 p.m. WRA OFFICIALS CLUB, 2 White Hall, 6:30 p.m, WRA SWIMMERS CLUB, White Hall pool, 7:30 p.m., beginners, 6:30 p.m. WRA HOCKEY CLUB, Holmes Field, 4 p.m. YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB, executive committee, 164 McCormick avenue, 8 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Budd Co. will interview January B.S. and '53 M.S. and Ph.D. candidates in E.E. and M.E., Dec. 11. Bendix Products Division will interview January B.S. can didates in M.E., E.E., C.E., and aero eng., Dec. W. Rural Electrification Administration of U. S. Dept. of Ag riculture will interview January B.S. candidates in EE. Dec. 17. - STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Couple to work for room and board. Boy to work from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. three evenings per week in restaurant. —Marshall 0. Donley —Richard W. Smith ittle Man on Campus "Who th' heck turned this Talk About Monopoly Football By JIM GROMILLER Several we, carried a small item on its front page indicating that the College had turned down aanoffer of the Dumont television network to televise the Pitt-Penn State game giving for its reason that acceptance would violate the TV formula set up by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The College cannot be critic: fact that all nine other schools approached turned down similar offers during the season—Colum bia, Navy, North Carolina State, Pittsburgh, Yale, Harvard, Vir ginia, Washington and Lee, and Princeton.. Then, after the offers were declined, Dr. Allen B. Dumont made his survey public. "We did not bid on the restricted NCAA football p r o g r am for 1952 because we are opposed to monopoly and because we believe the NCAA plan is il legal and against the public in terest," he said. "We addressed our request to the institutions themselves rather than to NCAA because we believe that under our American system they should have the right to make their own decisions," his statement continued. "We doubt that many heads of America'S educational institutions realize the extent to which . . . (they) have sur- is the most dearly cherished . longest remembered. So, if your heart is really irt your gift ... say "Merry Christmas" to hire with jewelry from CRABTREES! 7aIZr'IM'DA7, ~ ~J~ zed for its action in view of the rendered . . . to a collectivist type of activity which disre gards public interest and sub scribes to the principle of en forcement by boycott," he said. That was the charge, and with it came indications that a great deal of planning was in store for the NCAA before a policy could be settled on for next year. The threat of NCAA's boycott power without a doubt kept each of these colleges from giving a second thought to the Dumont of fe r. Broadcasting-Telecasting magazine, the pulse-beat of the radio ; TV industry, indicates there is growing sentiment in TV and -advertising circles in favor of putting up the first serious resis tance to the NCAA monopol y. NCAA and opponents of the col lege TV plan have carried on a running fight over anti-trust as pects of the monopoly, and the subject has received serious at (Continued on page eight) OF FINE JEWELRY Aft Engraving Done in Our Own Store CR. :1'0: FES Jtagaieta 7 ,4 - By Bible , t v Le. r lcrr- C I / • ' , •/,,, , i, \, ? 4 1 i~ '~ -~ =ME in for criticism?" ‘Lsir .79 / 19 he g-,09T- 4, 1932
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