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Sailij Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, ret. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
»f The P-nnsylvania 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 ot the
writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un<
eigned editorials are by the editor.
Dave Pellnilz ajsfflSgs&B Franklin S. Kelly
Editor 55357““ Business Mgr.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Editorial Staff: Night editor, Safh Procopio;
Copy editors, Lorraine Gladus, A 1 Goodman;'
Assistants, Marcie MacDonald, Byron Fielding,
Dolores Spathis, Len Goodman, Harris Sacks;
Photographer, Bruce Schroeder.
- Ad Staff: Bob Potter, Kay Carr, Faye Hid
inger.
Debate Expected
On Calendar Plan
The first uproar over the newly proposed cal
endar policy has died down, and students have
been studying the problem more carefully. Last
week the Student Union Board, composed of
several students and George Donovan, associ
ated student activities manager, met with the
chairman of the calendar committee to see if
some other calendar arrangements could be
made. As willing as Mr. Callenbach was, how
ever, to make any reasonable change, the board
was unable to come up with much change in
the proposal.
The need for a definite calendar policy has
been recognized for some lime. In making up
such a policy, however, many things must be
considered. Of great importance is the summer
'work done at the College. The summer ses
sion follows a rigid schedule which does not
allow for too much variation in the lime which
remains.
Other departments which must be considered
are the Athletic Association, the housing de
partment, the Health Service, conventions which
meet at the College, the labor union, traditions
(which often have variable merit), and the fact
that students want to come back to school as
late as possible and leave as early as possible.
A new calendar is never joyfully received
by everyone. The proposed policy will undoubt
edly meet with some sharp criticism when it
comes to the College Senate for final action.
In ite study of fhe proposed plan, ihe Stu
dent Union Board came up with severed sug
gestions which might make the policy more
palatable to the students. These suggestions
were approved by All-College Cabinet at its
meeting Thursday night, and call for (1) a
resolution asking professors io avoid giving
bluebooks over ihe Thanksgiving weekend,
..(2) attempts io schedule a home football game
on Thanksgiving Day (this will be difficult
for a few years since .ihe football schedule is
prepared several years in advance), (3) ihe
, calendar io be reviewed ahead of time in
. order ±o provide deviations from fhe formula
when feasible, and (4) a week's vacation be
tween the end of fall semester finals and
spring registration. .
Most of these suggestions are self explanatory.
The fourth suggestion, however, can stand some
explanation. Most students feel that some sort
of a vacation is needed after finals. The faculty
also needs time to correct and grade the exam
papers and to get the grades out. Many students
cannot register accurately until they have all
their grades for the previous" semester. For
these reasons, the board felt that a week off
would benefit everyone, while not seriously
delaying the end of the spring semester.
These recommendations will be considered by
the Senate at the same time as the new policy.
Sharp debate on the questions is expected when
the group considers it Thursday. It may yet be
some time before a final decision is reached.
Campus Patrol Is
Not Always Right
While not defending persons who - illegally
park on campus, we believe there are legitimate
gripes on the part of students against the antics
of some members of the Campus Patrol. Cer
tain patrolmen, not content to merely give an
illegally parked car a ticket, resort to the child
ish occupation of towing away these cars.
In many cases, the patrolmen have, by some
means, broken in locked cars and have driven
them away. .The person who owns the car must
then make the rounds of all parking lots until
he comes upon his car. Sometimes the whole
business comes down to a game of hide-and
seek, with the patrolmen taking great pains to
place the car where the owner will have the
most difficulty finding it. One student has re
ported that he eventually found his car behind
a shed near the' Office Services Building, an
other that his car was in the midst of Hort
Woods.
Besides making ihe Campus Patrol look
somewhat ridiculous, there is the possibility
of the patrolmen doing serious damage to the
car in their attempts to enter it or drive it
away. The student should not have to pay
the penalty of such damages because it pro
vides some diversion for the patrolman.
. We have no sympathy for students who con
sistently violate the College’s parking regula
tions. We cannot feel sorry for penalties placed
upon those who flagrantly ignore the parking
rules. But, at the same time, we do not believe
the Campus Patrol should flaunt its legal right
to tow away cars illegally parked.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Coeds Should Go
To Senate Meetings
In a letter printed in Saturday’s Daily Col
legian, Joan Hutchon, president of the Women’s
Student Government Association, made it clear
that WSGA Senate meetings are not open to
senators only. She said that women students
who have problems are welcome to Senate
meetings, held at 6:30 every Wednesday night
in the WSGA room in White Hall.
This is a good idea which should be put to
practice by some of ihe women on campus.
There are gripes, often pertaining to hours
and judicial matters, and students can be sure
of having their gripes aired if they go io
Senate meetings. Although only senators have
a vote on Senate, any woman student will
be recognized from fhe floor.
The WSGA room is a small one, probably a
little larger than the room in which All-College
Cabinet meets. Cabinet, also with a restricted
voting membership, often hears students and
considers their problems. The same arrange
ment is possible in the WSGA Senate if women
would only take the time. When a problem like
freshman hours comes up, the Senate could
properly, hear points of view and come to a
satisfactory decision for all parties involved.
The fools and devices are there, if students
want io use them. The room will not hold all
the women on campus, but it can hold a suf
ficient number of coeds who could attend
Senate and provide a wider student opinion.
—MimiUngar
Safety Valve—
Frosh View Presented
In answer to the recent editorial and letters
on the freshmen Military Ball hours, we would
like to present both sides of the issue from the
freshman viewpoint.
There are three points to be considered: first,
we were told to use as our guide both the
■‘bible” and the WSGA Handbook; second, if
special permissions are to be given, it would
have been nice to know earlier; and third, sec
ond semester freshmen are allowed in only
approved fraternities, and that list for Mil Ball
weekend was minute compared to that for the
other three “big weekends.”
The average freshman should remember that
Orientation Week counselors and the “bible”
itself implicity stated that the WSGA hand
book was to be the final authority for coeds.
We admit that the WSGA handbook, states on
an obscure page that Mil Ball is not a big
weekend. .
Housemothers and upperclasswomen told
interested- coeds early that special hours
would probably not he granted. While we
appreciated the permissions, numerous com
plications could have been averted-had the
hours been announced earlier. .
Those freshmen who worried about hours for
Saturday night fraternity parties should have
stopped worrying upon viewing the few houses
approved for them. WSGA would find more
attention paid to their rules if they didn’t re
quire girls to renege on dates for big parties
at the last moment when the approved list
arrives on Friday afternoon.
We believe that all special permissions
should be announced at the' beginning of the
year to prevent all controversy, that - the
"bible" and handbook should coincide, and
that approved lists for fraternity parties should
appear, earlier;
WSGA has a definite place on this campus,
but a better understanding between ihe gov
erning and the governed should be reached..
. —AI Munn ■
—Ann Leh
Gazette...
March 3, 1953
AIM JUDICIAL BOARD OF REVIEW, 6:30
p.m., Student Government Room.
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS CANDIDATES, 7
p.m., 1 Carnegie.
EDITORIAL CANDIDATES, 7
p.m., 2 Carnegie.
COLLEGIAN JUNIOR AND INTERMEDIATE
AD. BOARDS, 7 p.m., 9 Carnegie.
DELTA SIGMA PI, 8 p.m., Phi Sigma Kappa.
INDUSTRIAL ED. SOCIETY, 7:30 p.m., 208
Willard. ,
INSURANCE CLUB, 7 p.m., Sigma Nu. '
FENCING CLUB, 7 p.m., North Corridor of
Rec. Hall.
PENN STATE. BARBELL CLUB, 7 p.m., Sig
ma Nu. ' . '
PENN STATE CLUB, .7 p.m:, 405 Old Main. .
SOPHOMORE CLASS MEETING,'B p.m.,
110 E.E. - „ ’ .
TOWN COUNCIL, 8 p.m., 202 Willard.
WRA OUTING CLUB, 7 p.m., White Hall
Game Room.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Complete lists of visiting representatives are available
at the College Placement Office in 212 Old Main. Interviews
can be arranged and information secured at the. office.
Kimberly Clark Corporation will interview B.S. candidates in
Phys., Chem., Accounting, Chem. Eng., C.E., E.E., 1.E.,
and M.E., March 9.
Touche, Niven Bailey & Smart will interview Accounting
majors, March 9.
Hercules Powder Company will interview June and sum
mer B.S. candidates in Chem. Eng... Chem.. E.E. and
M.E., March 9.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Couple without children wanted for summer job near State
College. \
Camp Cherokee, Pa., will interview March 6.
Hiram House Camp and Camp' Cleveland will - interview
March 9. ~
Camp Conrad Wefser, Pa., will: interview March 10.-
Trail’s End Camp, Pa., will interview March 14,
Boys wanted to work for meals on Fridays, Saturdays,- and
Sundays, for the rest of the semester.
Licensed beauty operator wanted for. full or. part-time -job.
little Man On Campus
\\lik- 1 *''«!'/$ ' %,t f
"It'S a wonder I don't 'get kicked out of class—my work seei
require so much individual instruction."
WISE AND OTHERWISE
The Philosophy
It is a good, idea to stop sometimes to evaluate what you are
doing. Unfortunately for the American people, this is one of those
times.
This is one of those times because today it is becoming increas
ingly difficult, and sometimes dangerous, to express a different idea.
In this day, different ideas are
too often stamped subversive
merely because they are different.
It is a normal human reaction
to withdraw from a new idea
and cling to the conventional.
Yet it is only through intelli
gent discussion of hew and dif
ferent ideas that progress can
be made. And only' through a
conflict in ideas can we find a
logical conclusion to a problem.
A logical conclusion cannot be
drawn from one point of view.
Like many governments before
it, the American r government is
becoming more and more afraid
of free expression. Free expres
sion criticizes the existing . sys
tem, and anything attacking the
existing system is subversive,
some would lead, us to believe.
Too few people are willing to ac
cept criticisrri as the price •• for
free expression. Such unwilling
ness could result in suppression
of that free expression, and as a
result the death of freedom.
The unwillingness -to accept
different, ideas is unnecessarily
strong today. Americans have
unconsciously, but methodically,''
developed a mass hysteria, a.
highly undesirable philosophy
of fear. This fear philosophy has
been a direct result of commun
ism and the precarious . world
situation.
The philosophy of fear is a ter
rible one. It is a philosophy that
is already beginning to stifle some
of America’s most brilliant minds'.'
And ■ it has 1 developed, to such a
point that intellectuals are being
branded subversive without evi
dence.
. Too many colleges are suf
fering from excessive' fear and
caution as a result of this in
discriminate name - calling, a
disquieting development on
American campuses. Faculty
members are becoming reluc
' lanl to discuss controversial is-,
sues in public because even the
slightest liberalism is too often
marked Communistic. If this
philosophy of fear continues, to
grow, it. will produce a sterile
academic generation.
Despicable are those who shout
Red without apparent reason,
proof, or pretense of proof. Such
character assassination is one of
the, biggest contributors to this
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Of Fear
fear philosophy. Yet there are
those who believe this method of
routing Communists is actually
effective.
' This Red hysteria has material
ized itself in a tragic joke: The
Loyalty Oath. Those who rely
upon loyalty oaths to find Com
munists are relying upon false
security. Loyalty oaths are gen
erally useless. There is something
tragically wrong in America
when loyalty must be reduced to
the tired uniformity of an oath.
Loyalty ' oath vs. academic
freedom is a much discussed
question/' Americans, in their
mad attempt to save their way
of life, are digging into its very
roots. If we cannot have free
expression among intelligent in
dividuals, and if we cannot have
different ideas on college cam
puses without the philosophy of
fear,, then we cannot have free
dom. And without freedom,
America will die. '
Student Jailed'
In Auto Crash
Walter Sachs, 22, eighth semes
ter arts and letters major, was
arrested Sunday for drunken
driving when his car crashed
head-on into a parked car owned
by Roland Singer, graduate stu
dent in psychology.
The crash caused an estimated
$6OO damage to "each car, and
Sachs received a laceration of the
lip. • '
Sachs was placed in the . bor
ough jail and then released on
$3OO bail for a hearing before av
justice of the peace.
Best to Give Reading
On Vincent Van Gogh
. The .third in a series of lecture
readings will be presented by
Eleanor Z. Best, assistant pro
fessor of fine arts, at 4:15 p.m.
tomorrow in the Mineral Indus
tries Art Gallery.
The reading on Vincent Van
Gogh will include letters from
him addressed to his younger
brother, Theo. Slides of his works
will be shown to illustrate des
criptions read from the letters. .
TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1953
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