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Published TuesdaY through Saturday mornings inclusive
daring the College year by the staff' of The Daily Collegian
:4 The P..anaylvanis State College.
Entered as ceeand-elasa matter July a, 1934, al the State
Cf:Hem Fa., Font Office under the act of March 3. 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoint of
writers. not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Cin•
4g editorials are by the editor.
Days , Felinity. Franklin S. Kelly
Editor Business .&gr.
Managing Ed., And McNeillie; City. Ed.. Dave Jones:
Sports Ed., Jake Dighton; Copy Ed., Bettie Long:. Edit.'Dir.,
Mimi Ungar; Wire Ed., Chuck Henderson: Soc. Ed.,LaVonne
Althoune; Asst. Sports Eds., Ted Seem, Bob Scoellkopf:
Asat, Soc. Ed., Lynn Kahanouritx; Feature Ed.. Barry Fein:
Librarian and Exchange Ed.. Bob Landis: Ph oto Ed.. Bruce
Schroeder.
Aast. Bus. Mgr.. Richard Smith: Local Advertising Mgr.
Virginia Bowman: National Adv. Mgr.. Alison Morley:
Circulation Co-Mgrs., Gretchen Henry, Kenneth Wolfe; Per-
sonnel Mgr., Elizabeth Agnew; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Terese
Moslak. Don Stohl; Classified Adv. Mgr., Marty Worthington:
Office Mgr., Mary Ann Wertman; Senior Board. Nancy
Marcinek, Ruth Pierce. Betty Richardson and Elizabeth
Widman.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Editorial staff: Night editor, Chiz Mathias;
Copy editors, Chuck Obertance, Nancy Ward;
Assistants, Betty Koster, Joe Beau Seigneur.
Joan Park, Bill Rohrer.
Ad staff: Eli Arenberg, Cindy Manarin.
Faculty Should Get
Daily Collegian Too
In a report published yesterday in the Faculty
Bulletin, Professor Banner, head of the Journ
alism department, urged that a College subsidy
be set up to allow free distribution of Daily
Collegians to faculty and staff members. At the
present time only about 200 of these persons
receive_ copies of the paper.
Professor Banner suggests that faculty mem
bers would have in their reading of student
affairs and activities, an excellent basis for
understanding the students and working with
them in classes. We share this viewpoint.
It is of times overlooked that faculty and
staff members also spend a lot of time at the
College—many of them were here lOnger
than most of us will be. Don't they; then,
deserve to be informed about campus events.
-if only to help them in their teaching?
Couldn't the instructor who reads about and
knows of student issues better lead into class
discussions? We feel that the use of local
example and relevant, local instance could
improve and bring down to earth much of
the subject material in' any course.
Not only the faculty who instruct students,
but the administrative members of the College,
too, could benefit by a plan to provide them
with student news. Last week, just prior to
Poverty Day, confusion arose at the last minute
over administrative approval of the day. The
Daily Collegian published a story almost one
week before on cabinet approval of the day.
Would not familiarity with the student issues
among more administrative personnel have
helped clarify this issue sooner than the night
before Poverty Day itself?
The benefits of a faculty and student dis
tributed Collegian are evident. It is our hope
that the Senate might consider this suggestion
in the near future.
Election Code Rules
Should Be Upheld
Every year as the time for final nominations
for the State , and Lion parties comes about,
many students, either ignorant of the All-Col
lege election rules or trying to "beat" those
rules, attempt to gain admittance to this final
meeting without ever having attended a pre
vious meeting. According to the elections code,
a person must have attended at least one pre
vious clique meeting in order to attend the
final clique meeting at which the slates are
decided.
Those who do not meet the requirements
might just as well stay home from the clique
meetings tomorrow night. The elections com
mittee will be checking all students .to see if
they are qualified to take part in the final nom
inations and voting.
But those students whO are qualified should
make every effort to be present at tomorrow's
meetings. The more students voting, the more
representative the candidates finally chosen will
be of their party, and the better the candidate
is likely. to be. A strong showing at the clique
meeting will also give the candidates more con
fidence in the task that' lies before them.
Running for an All-College, senior, or junior
class office is not an easy job. The people
who devote their time in trying to win these
offices deserve the whole-hearted support of
not only the students in their particular party,
but the whole Penn State student body.
Good turnouts at tomorrow's meetings can
very well mean another record-breaking turn
out in the elections to be held April 22 and 23.
Here too, a large vote not only indicates that
the students are behind student government,
but will give a more representative feeling
of the student body. In most cases, too, a
large vote will carry the best'people to victory.
—Marshill 0. Donley
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
College Support
Needed for WSSF
More than $3OOO °is needed this year by the
World University Service to finance food, medi
cal service, and educational opportunities for
students in Europe and the Middle East.
These aids are being supplied to WUS by
college students through their action in Campus
CheSt, student church groups and foundations,
UNESCO, and CARE.
WUS is the American branch of the World
Student Service Fund, sponsored by the major
nationally organized_ student groups on Ameri
can campuses.
WSSF is directed by a board, composed : , of
representatives from the • student YMCA and
YWCA, the Protestant denominational student
zsroups, Hillel foundations, Newman clubs, and
the National Student Association.'
With 32 other countries, the World University
Service sets up and carries out a program of
cooperative living centers, hospitals and clinics,
textbook and equipment projects,, and food and
clothing provisions, all of which link together
the university community around the, world.
In Delhi, India, 3000 refugee 'students hold
. daylong jobs and then' Attend classes from
5:30 to 10 p.m. The classrooms are crowded,
and housing is so difficult that 150 of these
students are living in tents.
A student hostel is already being constructed
in Karachi, India, on land given by the Amer
ican government. The WUS is now , campaign
ing for funds .to equip and run this and other
similar cooperative' living centers.
The WUS is also building a sanitoriuin in
'Tokyo to combat an increasing rate of tuber
culosis among Japanese students. Medical ex
aminations, begun among students in Madras.
have found the majority of 'these students with
diseases now in an early stage. If the student
health service can find the means to secure
and finance drugs and hospitals, treatment of
these diseases would be expedited.
Hundreds of refugee students, uprooted by
war and political oppression, are arriving daily
in Paris. Through the WUS, these scholars are
ll , eing assisted - with food,- books, and% lodging.
One of WSSF's greatest powers lies in its
attacking the underlying causes of Asian and
European education problems, rather than
merely treating the symptoms of illiteracy and
destitution. ,
The cost of maintaining this power is great,
and falls, to a great extent; on college students.
The cost of neglecting this power—of neglecting
the ignorance and disease that infests so many
nations—might well fall, in later years, upon an
entire generation
Safety Valve
Chem 2 Bluebocik
TO THE EDITOR: The Chemistry 2 blue book
on Wednesday night should make certain mem
bers of the Chemistry department turn a trifle
pink. Either some of the- chem professors think
they are teaching a group of junior Einsteins
or they are ogres whose aim in life is to frus
trate students, not to teach them. The test con
tained 125 points. In order to keep enough stu
dents in the Chem-Phys department to keep
it open, the grades had to be lowered far enough
to make a 35 a zip.
Something is radically wrong somewhere. A
test or blue book is supposed to test a student's
knowledge, not to drive the poor individual
to' distraction.
A certain graduate instructor decided to take
the test during lab period to see what it was like.
He finally resorted to skimming frantically
through the text book to find the answers. He
is supposed to be well-informed enough to teach
the class, but was unable to' take the test with
out the aid of a text book.
The , Department of Chemistry and Physics
would find a lot more time and energy taken
in preparation and study for the lectures and
tests if the students felt they could get some
thing out of the courses by study and work
instead of being subjected to several hours' work
on a glorified jig -saw puzzle.
Gazette ...
Saturday, March 28, 1953
THETA SIGMA PHI, skit practice, 10 a.m..
Grange playroom.
Sunday, March 29, 1953
CANTERBURY CLUB, supper meeting, 5:30
p.m., 300 S. Frazier street.
Monday, March 30, 1953
ICG, 7 p.m., 103 Willard.
TOWN COUNCIL, 8 p.m., 1,02 Willard.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
David Christian, Reed Dunn, -Wilfred: Hauer,
Vernon Moyer, Barbara Rollo, William Scherer,
Vincent Vossbein, and Donald Weiner.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Boys wanted to work for meals on Fridays, Sat
urdays, and Sundays for the rest 'of the
semester.
Camp Skycrest, Pa., will interview boys March
28.
Couple without children wanted for summer
employment near State College.
Waiters wanted for permanent work.
Camp Wood Haven, Reading, will interview
girls, March 29.
Camp Mesacosa, N. Y., will interview girls
March 31.
Boy wanted for front desk' clerk in hotel in
State College through the summer.
Boys wanted for counter work evenings. •
—Peggy McClain
—Name withheld
ittle Man On Campus
Now we'll see who takes that ole wrestling tourney,. eh coach?
Saling Wax
and Cabbages
I took a student's prerogative recently and did my duty as a
responsible member of the Penn State family. That is to say I at
tended an All-College Cabinet meeting, thereby becoming the first
student in history to view His Government in operation. '
I looked on and saw that it was good. _
Most of you•' have probably read stories in the Daily C, about
the cabinet doing this and doing
that. They're just about the big
gest weekly occurrence on cam
pus
won't go into detail about
what they do—you can read about
that any week. Mainly I want
to tell you what the one I saw
was like.
First of all they sha'ke hands.
Everyone shakes hands, laughs,
and inquires, about the physio
logical-and mental status of your
being. After everyone is as
sured of the welfare of every
body else they nestle themselves
into plush chairs in an equally
plush• meeting room (201 Old
Main). Symbolically, . the room
and chairs are green. It is the
same room where the Board of
Trustees meets. .
All-College President John Lau
bach calls the meeting to order.
It's quite a sight.
Each attentive face is scrubbed
to a point where it shines. Each
hair is in place, every shoe lace
is tied. The members resemble
advertisements in Mademoiselle
and Esquire. I envy them. I never
could get every hair in place. It's
hard. I'll always admire. the cab
inet for their ability to keep hair
in place. They don't fool around
,on that All-College Cabinet, boy.
At this particular meeting,
Frank Kelly gave a report on
how the ÜBA and the BX made
money, lots of it. Then Bill
Griffith gave a lecture on the
success of Religion-in-Life
Week.. It -was a good one too.
Griffith puts a lot of work in
those reports and they're really
worth hearing.
The administration plopped a
problem square in the laps of the
'cabinet. The most hideous mess
I ever saw. The College wants a
uniform student activity fee; col
lectable during registration. That's
not the problem.
It. seems that there are two
school fees—one in the School of
Agriculture and another in the
Home Ec school. No other schools
have fees. The Home Ec school
needs the fee to publish "News
and Views." Likewise, the Ag
School needs one for the "Perin
State. Farmer." Question: "should
all the schoolS pay for it, or What?"
Well, in a case like this; the
cabinet did the logical thing. They
dumped it on the Inter-school
SATURDAY, MARCH. 28,, 1953
By ROBERT LANDIS
Council Board, known fondly as
the ISCB. . I .
I had the pleasure of sitting
next to Pearl 0. Weston, who
had the pleasure of sitting next
to Frank J. Simes, who had the
pleasure of sitting next' , to
George Donovan, who had the
pleasure of sitting at the end •
of the row, next to nobody. ;;,:
Editor Dave Pellnitz had. a won
derful chanCe to give an, oration
on Freedom Of The Press 'when
somebody thought we ought •to
keep the unpleasantness over• ad
ministrative disapproval of• Pov
erty Day out of the Collegian.
But somebody moved the previous
question and the possibility of a
wonderful editorial series went
down the drain.
When the meeting was over
everybody laughed, and. shook
hands and went home.
Veterans Notified
To Check Policies.
National Service Li f e Insur
ance issued to Pennsylvania vet
erans either in 1945 or 1948..vii11
expire this year,• the Veterans
Administration has' announced.
Veterans holding policies. are
urged to reinstate them before
the anniversary date marked on
the policy. Delinquents will not
be eligible for further GI life in
surance coverage, the VA "office
announced.
The two policy groups affect
ed ,are those holding -eight-year
term policiesissued in 1945 - and
those holding five-year term pol
iciesissued in 1948.
Reinstatement of lapsed poli
cies may be accomplished' by ap
plying to the Veterans Adminis
tration office.
PO:Oinega Pi Initiates
6 at:Formai Ceremony
Pi,-,Omega ,Pi, business ecluca
tiOiMiridergiaduate h onorar y,
initiated: six Members at a formal
ceremony Wednesday. -
The, initiates are Dawn Beidler,
Barbara- Ehrenfeld, Janet' Hurl
beit,.:llBeVerly. Masters, Emmalyn
Schwing; and Sylvia Smith.
Margaret Spedding, Betta Hir
ko, and, Janet Horger, officers of
the organization, and Mary Stel
la, faculty:sponsor, conducted the
initiation. :
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