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01le Eiailll Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. 188?
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings Inclusive
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
of 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 PeUnite Franklin S. Kelly
Editor '<BO' Business Mgr.
• Managing Ed.. Andy McNeillie; City Ed, Dave Jones;
Sports Ed., Jake Highton; Copy Ed.. Bettie Loux: Edit.
Dir., Jim Gromiller; Wire Ed., Chuck Henderson; Soe. Ed.,
Ginger Opoczenski; Asst. Sports Ed., Ted Soens; Asat.
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: Chuck Obertance; Copy edi
tors: Lix Newell, Nancy Meyers; Assistants:
Nancy Fortna, Marcie MacDonald, Winnie
Schell, Ranny Wiant, Clare Yenney, Baylee
Friedman, Bill Pete, Chuck Berryhill.
Disinterest Shown
In. Study Checks
Most fraternities take an active interest in
scholarship and urge that their members main
tain a serious interest in their classes.
This is especially true in the case of pledges,
who enter fraternity life usually in their soph
omore year. Fraternities realize that at first,
with an entirely new social surrounding, pled
ges may tend to neglect their studies.
And fraternities have found from exper
ience that by emphasizing scholarship and
keeping a close check on pledges, the number
who fail to make the required average for
brotherization is cut to a minimum.
In keeping this close check on pledge schol
arship, some fraternities mail out, or have their
pledges hand in, return post cards asking in
structors to indicate the pledge's standing to
date.
These cards are usually sent out about the
middle of the semester. In some houses the
results of these cards determine the degree of
freedom individual pledges should be allowed
in choosing their own study time.
Yet each semester fraternities have just
cause for criticizing the "don't care" attitude
• of a goodly number of instructors who can
not be bothered filling out the cards and mail
ing them. We have seen cards drifting back
only a day or two ago, and everyone will
agree that it is now too late to offer help
to a pledge bar-grading a course.
The measure of blame must be thrown with
full measure upon these negligent instructors.
Perhaps fraternities will notice a decided im
provement in their grade card replies now that
the College Senate has decided to require man
datory below-grades from all profs. The interest
in scholarship by fraternities, however, should
not be stifled ,by the "I've got enough to do,"
attitude of some instructors.
What to Call It!
A new building is about to go up on campus,
a building with a two-word name Student
Union. If past practice of nicknames for almost
everything over one syllable holds true, we
wonder into what form the words Student
Union will evolve.
We doubt if the letters SU as such could
mean students in a couple of years will be
stopping at the "S
-U," but they might be call
ing it the "SU" (Sue). Or patterning after our
present Temporary Union Building (TUB), it
might get the nickname "SUB."
Perhaps the best name of all would be simply
"Union," but on a campus predominantly Re
publican, in a predominantly Republican town,
in a predominantly Republican state, and with
a Republican administration in Washington, we
doubt if this would be satisfactory.
One thing is sure. If no one coins an easily
pronounceable name officially—the building
will surely be tagged with an unofficial nick
name which will become as familiar as Rec
Hall, or West Dorms, or Hort Woods to the
frosh of a few years from now.
`The President Said-2
We have a problem! This month Dwight
Eisenhower will lose his title of President-elect,
and be sworn in as President. In looking ahead
we can easily forecast references in the same
news stories to President Dwight along with
mention of younger brother Milton. But how
do we make such references clear?
We can foresee "President Eisenhower met
briefly with President Eisenhower!"
About the only answer which the Daily Col
legian has been able to arrive at is to refer
to Milton as Prexy Eisenhower and Dwight
as President Eisenhower.
—Jim Gromiller
-J. G.
--J:G.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Let's Solve Medical
PrOblems in 1953
Students at the College have long entertained
themselves and others with jokes about the
hospital service. The medical rates as high as
the nutritional as jesting material on the cam
pus. But the time for - jokes about the College
hospital has passed—it has become too hard to
tell the jokes from the facts.
The reason for this is that definite problems
now exist in' connection wit h • the College
Health Service.
Basically, these problems break down 'into
two categories. First, there is a need for addi
tional physical hospital facilities at Penn State.
The facts are these: Only about 35 beds
are available at the College hospital. The
enrollment has risen this semester to 11,460.
That means there is one bed per 330 students
and that the College can handle only three
tenths of one per cent of the students in a
given period. The nearest other hospital is in
Bellefonte.
The College is now spending millions of dol
lars on the Student Union Building and the ad
dition to the Nittany Lion Inn. We think that a
college rich enough to expand an inn (which
operates in the red) is rich enough to build
better medical facilities.
The second category of the hospital service
problem is the apparent. lack of accurate analy;•
sis of student illnesses. (Example a student
who was diagnosed here as having laryngitis
was examined later in a Philadelphia hospital
and found to have pneumonia. In fact, the stu
dent ' had already passed through the larger
part of the illness!)
A solution to this problem may not be simple.
It is doubtful if the College employs poor doc
tors. The difficulty may lie in a lack of enough
doctors or enough specialists_ Can we expect
a few doctors to be able to accurately analyse
every one of 11,000 students?
It is also possible that moie equipment, such
as X-ray machines and the like, are needed.
Perhaps the rise in enrollment calls for addi
tional funds for the, medical service.
Because the answer to these problems re
quires investigation and study, we believe
that a student group, associated with student
government, should explore -these problems.
A complete survey, with medical opinions
and comparisons with other colleges' health
cervices, would let Penn State know what is
needed . to improve the health service.
We suggest that the newly-formed Cabinet
Projects Council would be - an excellent group
to take up this survey. The council is now
working on other survey problems and might
well handle this problem and report to cabinet
and the students.
The time for jokes is over. The time for a
logical consideration of this problem is now.
We would like to see 1953 the year when
Penn Slate's medical problems are solved.
—Marshall 0. Donley
Next Radio Day
Should Be the Last
The third Penn State Radio Day will begin
at 7 a.m. Monday. We hope it will be the last
Radio Day at this College.
It seems a little ridiculous for a school the
size of Penn State, twelvth in enrollment in
the United States, to broadcast such a series
of programs from only 'one room to another
when many smaller colleges have a radio sta
tion of their own. By this time next year, we
hope Penn State, too, will be among those col
leges with a campus radio station.
- Just how far off Penn State's station is, is
hard to tell. The chief holdup at this point
is the need of $6OOO to defray the annual
operating expenses. Both the All-College Cab
inet radio committee and President Eisen
hower's radio committee are working on this
problem, and a solution should be forthcom
ing before long.
Those students who listen to part of Radio
Day in 304 or 307 Sparks should not expect the
day's sample of programs to be representative
of what will eventually be broadcast over the
College station when it goes into operation.
In fact, when the Penn State station begins
operation, it will be for only a few hours a day.
As the station crew becomes more experienced,
however, the program day will be expanded.
Radio Day has been designed to give students
interested •in that medium of communication
a taste of what it's really like to operate a sta
tion for 17 uninterrupted hours. This exper
ience will prove invaluable when the campus
station becomes a reality.
Let's hope that when this time next year
rolls around, Radio Day will be a thing of the
past. Let's hope by then that every day will
be Radio Day.
Gazette...
Saturday, January 10
WRA PLUNGE HOUR, White Hall, 7:30-
9 p.m.
Sunday, January 11
CANTERBURY CLUB, 6:30 p.m.
HILLEL FOUNDATION MOVIE, 224 S. Miles
St., 7:30 p.m.
•
Monday, January 12
TE R COLLEGIATE CONFERENCE ON
GOWRNMENT, 108 Willard, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Albert Bertani, Allan Bubeck, Frank DeSalle,
Gwen Hoover, Melvin Johnson, Philip Mul
vaney, Melvin Myers, John Plunkett, Doris
Reinoehl, Roy Salerni, Fred Sawczyn, Jeffrey
Sawyer, Jacquelynn Van Buskirk, and Alan
Watkins.
ittle Man on Campus
"Now I suppose you girls think yci - can give
ME one of your silly week-end campuses."
Interpreting the News
Premier Forming
New French Policy
Rene Mayer, trying to form FrancCs 18th postwar Cabinet, is
a middle-of-the-road financier. He is vice chairman of the Radical
Socialist party. This party leans slightly left politically, slightly
right in economic affairs.
Grandson of Michel Mayer, grand rabbi of Paris, and related
to the Rothschild banking family through his mother, Mayer has
served France as minister — of fi
nance, justice, transport and na
tional defense. He was named
premier in 1949 but failed to form
a cabinet then because Socialists
opposed his choice of ministers.
Bright and alert in manner, the
New Premier is 57 but seems
nearer 50. Friends ascribe to him
a cold resolution and considerable
tenacity, but he is also quick
tempered on occasion
Relaxes At Piano
Mayer has never been much of
a back-slapper and hand-shaker.
He has a gift of _repartee which
he knows how to use with cut
ting effect on hecklers in the
National Assembly.
He whistles while working on
speeches and puffs a pipe when
deep in thought. He likes to relax
at the piano, playing Chopin,
Beethoven and Bach.
An he is one of the few French
men who drink milk.
Mayer served in the French
field artillery in World War I—
he was cited for bravery in action.
Then he made a career for him
self in business. At 30 he was
administering the busy Rhine port
of Strasbourg. The experience
made him an expert in transport
questions.
Headed Armament Mission
After serving on various boards,
he played a big role in national
izing railroads and developing Air
France, government airline. In
1930 under Premier Andre Tar : -
dieu, he negotiated an agreement
by which France imported Ger
man coal for nearly 10 years as
war reparations.
At the start of World War II
Mayer headed the. French arma
ment mission in London.
He returned to France after
the collapse of 1940, but later es
caped to North Africa where Gen.
Charles de Gaulle placed him in
charge of all Free French trans
port.
Helped Orangize OOEC
After a brief spell as commis
sioner-general in charge of Ger
man and Austrian affairs in De
Gaulle's liberation government,
he represented France at the pre
paratory commission for founding
the United Nations and later at
tended the 1947 General Assem
bly.
As finance minister in Robert
By GODFREY ANDERSON
Associated Press New Analyst
County School
Board Forbids
Kissing Games
PRINCESS ANNE, Md.,..Tan. 9
(IP)—There will be no more kiss
ing games in the seventh grade
general science classes at Wash
ington High School, not even in
the interest of general science.
The county board of education
has stopped them.
Louis L. Pund, the 40-year-old
science and mathematics teacher
who put "postoffice" in the cur
riculum, faced "further action,"
his supervisor announced.
Pund did not wait for the ac
tion. He resigned this morning.
Pund said his idea was to help
his 12-year-old seventh graders
overcome their inhibitions.
"I believe it would draw them
out," he said.
"Lots of boys and girls are
afraid. and have inhibitions."
Pund started what he calls his
experiment about a month ago
with the 65 pupils in his two sev
enth grade science classes.
Pund's classes tried postoffice
four times before parents started
complaining to the principal.
"I believe in being different.
Everybody who is a little different
is considered eccentric. My hobby
is psychology."
Schuman's Cabinet that year,
Mayer helped in floating the Or
ganization for European Econo
mic Co-operation OOEC. A year
ago he indirectly caused the fall
of Premier Rene Pleven's Cabinet
with his unpopular plans for re
forming the nationalized railroads
and the social security system,
both running big deficits. Since
then he has spent much time with
, his family—he has two children—
in his home village of Giverny.
"For nine or 10 months I have
spoken little but I have thought
a lot," he said recently.
One of the things he thought
about: how to give France more
stable government. His plan for
constitutional reform will soon be
outlined to Parliament.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1953
By Bibler