FOUR
aim Batty Collegian
Summer to THE FREE LANCE, at. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday 'mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
of Th• /P•mrisylvania State College.
Entered , as second-class matter July 5, 1934, at the State
College. Pa., Post Office under the act of Mardi 3. 1879
Collegian editorials represent the riewpolirt of the
writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Co
signei editorials are by the editor.
Dave PeUnlit .„ Franklin S. Kelly
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Senior Board, Nancy Marcinek. Ruth Pierce. Barbara Potts.
Betty Richardson and Elizabeth Widman.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Lorraine Gladus; Copy editors:
Bob Landis, Sheldon Smoyer; Assistants: Do
lores Spathis, Don Shoemaker, Peggy McClain,
Myron Feinsilber, Joe Hanania.
Gripes of 'Teachers'
Not Entirely Valid
At first glance, the gripes of women student
teachers that are being investigated by the Edu
cation Student Council seem legitimate. How
ever, further examination proves that they do
not hold up when all the facts are known.
Undergraduate regulations state" that all un
dergraduate women must live in dormitories,
including student teachers returning for a
weekend. This precludes any opportunity to
avoid the $1.50 a night charge for staying in
the dorms if a cot and clean linen are ordered
for the visiting student teacher.
Some of the coeds feel that their affiliation
with the College entitles them tcL the right to
stay in the dorms free of charge if they don't
use the cot and sheets. But Pennsylvania health
laws make it illegal to have guests in a com
mercial building unless clean linen is provided.
A compromise step has recently been taken
which allows a student to pay only cents
for clean linen to be used on a bed vacated
by a coed leaving campus for the weekend.
The coeds• then say, "What if we sleep on a
couch in a sorority suite?" It must be empha
sized that the chapter rooms of sororities are
designed as living rooms, not bedrooms.
Some coeds have returned for a weekend
and avoided charges by not telling their hos
tess that they are there—they think. Many
times the fact that they stayed in the dorm
"illegally" is on their record even though
their hostess said nothing to them.
The next question raised is how can coeds
take advantage of the full athletic fee they pay
unless they return to campus. In some cases,
they don't have the money to return. It should
be pointed out, however, that those AA books
are not just sitting in a drawer—they are loaned
to friends who are expecting guests.
Since the student teacher expects credit for
the work she does while practice teaching, and
expects to remain a student of the College, the
full. incidental fee is necessary to keep her
records and to pay the professors'• expenses who
supervise their teaching.
Next comes the problem of room assign
ments. Yesterday's Daily Collegian said a sor
ority woman cannot stay in her sorority suite
the semester she is to go student teaching. This
is true unless there is a sister to take her
place when she leaves.
Room assignment will continue to be the
rather confusing thing that it is unless 'one
specific place, such as Woman's Building, is
reserved for student teachers where they will
be required to live three-quarters of the year
they are on campus. We don't think the
women want that.
Truman Was Brave
Next week Harry S. Truman, 32d President
of the United States, will leave office.
He is leaving after nearly eight years in of
fice. During this time he has been called almost
every name in the book and has done a little
name calling himself. However, we would like
to try to foresee the place history will give
Harry Truman when, 20 years from now, men
think back to the time following World War 11.
We feel that men's thought, tempered by
time, will be more judicious with Mr. Tru
man than his more biased viewers in 1952.
The Age of Truman in American history will
be not an age of political poverty but an age
of action—a time when many decisions had
to be made . . . and were made. The time
will be known as a logical, even if not per
fect. complement to the Age of Roosevelt and
his New Deal.
For, whatever_ may be said, Harry Truman
was brave: he dared to use the veto; he had
initiative: the Korean action; and he was an
excellent politician: look at the 1948 campaign.
No, Harry Truman was not• a bad President.
We shall remember him not as a great man
or a perfect one, but as a brave man; a good
man, and an industrious President.
—Marshall 0. Donley,
—Lix Newell
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN: STATE COLLEGE : PENNSYLVANIA
What Does Word
`Communist' Mean?
A typical comment that might be made per
taining to Tuesday's release by the Senate in
ternal security subcommittee saying that "there
are hundreds of American school teachers who
are Communists and who must be rooted out
to protect future generations" is that "they're
at it again."
Throughout the reign of this Communist
search, given a far from desirable odor when
Sen. Joseph McCarthy began his name-calling
tactics about two years ago, we have not heard
these loyal Americans define what they mean
by the term "Communist." Is a person a Com
munist if he belongs to an organization that
is mentioned during the name-calling tactics?
Is a person a Communist if he reads magazines
that men like McCarthy don't like, because they
attack unjust name-calling and they often re
veal another side of the picture?
Further, is a person a Communist if he was
a member of the party 21 years ago—or will
officials admit that more recently the struc
ture of the party has changed because of
Russian-United States relations? And finally,
is a person a Communist if he refuses to
sign a loyalty oath?
The report of the Senators read, "Despite the
unquestioned loyalty and self-sacrificing devo
tion of the preponderant bulk of America's
teachers, there are yet many hundreds of
teachers who are Communists."
What they, don't tell us is "What determines
whether a man is a Communist?" It seems that
if they plan to remove subversive elements and
to have the minds of American youth educated
along loyal lines, they had better begin pro
viring some definitions not on 1 y for the
younger generation but for citizens in general.
They tell us testimony before the subcom
committee has indicated specifically that
Commun:st activity has taken place among
teachers in Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland,
Detroit, Buffalo and Madison, Wis. as well as
among teachers in other areas. But, .what is
this testimony?
Students are taught to be specific, to present
the facts. And, -claiming they are interested in
the protection of these students, the United
States Senate has turned to generalizations as
a means of saying there are Communist teachers
throughout the country.
Sen. Robert Taft, Republican majority leader
in the Senate, has said the GOP policy commit
tee will work out how congressional committees
will divide up the investigative chore. Taft,
himself, favors a search for subversives in Col
leges where there is evidence of organized
Communist groups.
What exactly will investigators be looking
for? If they know, it's about time they told
the American public facts—not merely say
"Communist"—but give us a meaning for the
word. The term has been used so loosely that
we think youth has a specific question in this
case.
ÜBA Can Mean
Savings on Books
The semester's end is fast approaching and
before too long. it will be time to start buying
textboks and other supplies for next semester's
work. Most expensive of these supplies will
be the required textbooks for the courses be
ing given this spring.
Last fall, following headway made at the
All-College encampment program at Mont
Alto, the Used Book Agency, one section of
the Book Exchange, took over, the ballroom
of the TUB and provided a convenient and
quick way for students to buy and sell their
used textbooks. Operating as sort of a self
seivice book mart, the expanded ÜBA elimi
nates the long lines which were a familiar
sight in previous years.
In addition to the elimination of long waits,
the ÜBA has increased its hours of operation.
It will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. • Jan. 28
until Feb. 6 for the sale of books. It will open
Jan. 26 to begin taking books to be put on
sale.
Having pretty well solved its space problem,
the staff of - the ÜBA faces a more serious prob
lem—that of a lack of books to sell. At the
present time, the only books on hand are those
which have been left over from last semester.
The group has issued an appeal to students to
bring their books into the ÜBA. They will be
accepted up until two days before the ÜBA
closes.
There can hardly be a student at Penn State
who doesn't have at least one textbook he
no longer needs or wants. The ÜBA offers
him a chance to sell this book at a price he
himself sets.
Gazette • . .
Thursday, January 15
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION,
6:45 p.m., Old Main.
FRENCH CLUB, 7 p.m., Atherton lounge.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH AS
SOCIATION, 7:30 p.m., 208 Willard.
PENN STATE POULTRY CLUB, 7 p.m., 108
Plant Industries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, 7:30 p.m., 319
Willard.
YOUNG REPUBLICAN social, 7:30 p.m., TUB.
WRA BRIDGE CLUB, 7 p.m., game' room
White Hall.
WRA OFFICIALS CLUB, 6:30 p.m., 2 White
Hall.
WRA BEGINNING SWIM CLUB, 6:30 - 7*:15
p.m.
WRA. SWIM CLUB, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m.
—Mimi Ungar
If he gets to classes late, he's .an oversleeper.
If he gets to classes ahead of time, he's lost his watch
If he lets classes out early, he's run out of ideas. -
If he keeps classes overtime, he has no terminal facilities
If he gives a lot of quizzes, he's a slave-driver.
If he seldom gives a test, he's too lazy to read papers
If he hangs around after class, he's looking for apples
If he makes speedy exits, he's got a case of studentophobia
If he sticks to I?,is specialty; he has a one-track mind.
„ If he tours the encyclopaedia, he's a show-off.
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"If you think we're busy now —riu should
come - in sometime when it ain't close to finals."
Faculty Failings
The following lines, written' by Harold A. Larrabee of Union
College, were found pinned to a College bulletin board. They
seem particularly appropos at this time—the windup of the semester,
when moss students take .at ,last a few moments to evaluate the
profs they've struggled with•for a semester.
If he's brand-new at teaching, he lacks experience.
If he's been teaching all his life, he's in a rut.
If he does all the talking in class, he's in love with the sound of
his own voice.
If he leaves the discuSsionló 'others, he's just too lazy for words.
If he gets his name in the newspapers, he's publicity-mad.
If he never appears in the public prints, he's so much deadwood.
If he attends all athletic contests, he's a popularity-seeker.
If he never goes to a game, he's a public enemy.
If he dresses decently, he's trying to be a fashion-plate.
If he thinks about something besides clothes, he's a bum.
If -he seldom admits a mistake, he's arrogant.
If he ever admits a mistake, he ought to go back to bricklaying.
If he teaches at a different college every three years, he's , a
rolling stone.
If he teaches at the same college for more than three years, he's a
stuck-in-the-mud. -
If. he takes an active part in faculty business, he's a politician
If he never serves on a committee, he's a work-dodger.
If he plans an occasional joke in his lecture, he's a comedian.
If he never condescends to an academic nifty, he's dusty dull.
If he goes to chapel with regularity, he's a hypocrite.
If he shies at sermons, he's a heathen.
If he writes books, he's neglecting his teaching.
If he never publishes, he never had a thought worth printing.
If he hands out plenty of high grades, he has no standards.
If he hands out plenty of low grades, he's a butcher.
If he uses notes, he's unoriginal. ,
If he gets along without notes. he's an ad-libber.
If he's on good terms with the President, he's a sycophant.
If he doesn't wear out the stairway to the administration building,
he's disloyal.
If he presents both sides of a auestion, he's afraid to commit himself.
If he betrays his own opinions, he's a propagandist.
If he ever says a kind word about anything Russian, he's getting
monthly checks from Molotov.
If he ever says a kind word about the G.0.P., he's been reading
election returns.
If he listens to sports broadcasts, he's illiterate.
If he can't identify Fritzie Zivic and Jack Kramer, he isn't human.
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If he gets paid for outside work; he's greedy.
If he does outside work for nothing, he's a sucker.
If he praises a book, he's on the payola. N,
If he pans a book, he's just jealous.
If he stands up while teaching, he's oratorical.
If he sits down while teaching, his feet hurt.
If he's young, he needs more seasoning.
If he's old, he's seen• better days.
If he doesn't sign his ' name to anything, he's wise.
If he writes stuff like this, and signs it, too, he's .
A. L.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1953
Faculty Failings
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