r PC)UR Otirt ElaitH Collegian Somostoor to TUX FUUX LASCR. sot. nun Published Tuesday through Saturday oaeraloge illehulivo during the College year by the staff of The Daily IZollegiaa of The P.masylvaaia State College. Entered as second-class setter July 5, 1934, at thS State College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879 Collegian editorials elopement the viewpoint et the writers, not necessarily the policy or lie sonselleen U*• signed editorials are by the editor. Franklin S. Keillr Dave Penniti Editor BUSiIIeSS Mgr. Managing Ed., Andy hfeNeillie: City Ed., Dare Jones; Sports Ed., Jake Dighton; Copy Ed., Bettie Lou': Edit. Dir., Mimi Ungar; Wire Ed.. Check Henderson; Soc. Ed., LaYonne Althonse: Asst. Sports Eds., Ted Soens, , Bob Schoellkopf: Asst. Soc. Ed.. Lynn Kahanowitz; Feature Ed., Barry Fein; Librarian and Exchange Ed.. Bob Landis: Photo Ed.. Bruce Schroeder. Asst. 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. Naive, Marcinek, Ruth Pierce. Betty Richardson and Elizabeth Widinan. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor, Dave Pellnitz; Copy editors, Bet tie Loux, Andy McNeillie; Assistants, LaVonne Althouse, Bob Landis, Bob Schoellkopf, Barry Fein, Jake Highton, Mimi Ungar. Ad staff: Eli Arenberg, Cindy Manarin. New Ticket Plan Answers Problem The Recreation Hall ticket exchange plan passed Thursday night by All-College Cabinet provides the answer to a problem which has perplexed cabinet members all year. Beginning early last semester cabinet was confronted with an idea to set aside 300 seats in Recreation Hall for sale to alumni, townspeople, and faculty in terested in watching an indoor athletic event. For several weeks a great deal of discussion was heard concerning the idea, and cabinet fin ally turned "thumbs down" on the proposal. In doing so, however, -cabinet recognized many merits to such a plan and a close watch was kept on indoor events during the year for a possible solution to the problem. By the time the season ended, most people were convinced there was plenty of room for improvement in the set-up. It was discovered that at 15 events held in Rec Hall during the season, the average attendance wa s about 3400, or about 1600 under the capacity of the building. This opened a number of eyes, and work began immediately on a new idea to remedy the situation. The solution was the Rec Hall ticket exchange plan formulated by Joseph Lemyre, retiring president of the Athletic Association. Not only will this plan give students every opportunity to attend Rec Hall events, but it will give fac ulty, alumni, and townspeople ample chance to secure admission to the athletic contests. In other words, the plan will assure the maximum occupancy of Rec Hall at all times, without being unfair to anyone—a vast improvement over the 300 seat idea. Chief objection to the new plan was that an inconvenience might result to the student. This possible inconvenience centers around the neces sity of exchanging AA book coupons for admis sion tickets to Rec Hall. However, since this exchange will begin several days before the scheduled event, and since there will be two places where the exchange may take place (Rec Hall and the AA office in Old Main), there seems little likelihood that much line-standing will result. For the many obvious benefits of the plan, this relatively unimportant objection cannot be too seriously considered. In passing the Rec Hall ticket exchange plan as one of its last functions under the old regime, All-Collegp Cabinet has performed a definite service to the College. It is hoped that when the new cabinet, is formed, it too will find a means of substantially improving student-faculty-alumni-townspeople relations at the College. Student, Student, Spare That Grass! Every year, after the snows melt and the grass makes its first attempt to grow, the stu dents hear an appeal to give the grass a chance and to wear out the walks. This is that appeal. It seems that no matter how many walks are laid on campus and how convenient they are to use, students and faculty repeatedly find a shorter path across a nice stretch of green grass and then proceed to wear a trail there. . . The campus is already covered with webs,and webs of sidewalks. But students, always seeking the shortcut to the shortcut, manage to find some grass to walk upon. There is certainly nothing wrong with walk ing on the campus grass the walking is done intelligently and not in ihass movement. After all, there is no use having a nice campus if it can't be enjoyed. But there is no excuse for a concerted pilgrimage across one spot until the• grass wears out and gives up the ghost. There is a big difference between enjoying and destroying the campus. A little thought fulness in taking shortcuts must be exercised. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA There is no excuse' for beating the grass to death every spring. ' There are, of course, certain campus short cuts that are more established than many walks. The trail from College avenue to the Mall, south of• Holmes Field, is an example. Such paths should be paved. There is no excuse, however. for the unsightly paths developing in front of Atherton Hall and across Holmes Field. Such paths destroy the looks of the campus. The current construction campaign is eating up enough of the campus without students de stroying the rest themselves. And unless stu dents stop this destruction, there won't be a decent patch of grass left. If students who want a nice campus don't watch out, Penn Staters will soon be out of grass to take shortcuts on. It might be better for the College to pave the whole place with concrete. If nothing else, such action would at least provide additional tennis or roller , skating space. Self Government Earned by Voting Since less than half of the Penn State student body does not care how All-College Cabinet spends $12,000 next year, cabinet should have an easy year, free from criticism. The record breaking percentage of 44.9 is only six-tenths of one per cent higher than the percentage last year. This indicates that roughly half of the student body is the only segment from whom cabiziet may expect to hear criticism. The other half by virtue of their lack of interest should probably forfeit their usual prerogative of governmental criticism. It is ttue that there are a few students who could not vote due to being assigned to student teaching posts and there are those who were in the College Infirmary. However, these few cer tainly do not make up the better than 50 per cent who did not care enough to vote. Two of the first excuses offered by the non voter is that it doesn't matter who gets into office and that his vote won't make any differ ence. In one office election, if 48 students hadn't felt that way, the results would have been either changed or more decidedly determined. The biggest group of non-voters is in the senior class—the class that the incoming fresh man is told to watch as a guide for his actions. In this year's senior class only 27.9 per cent are apparently worth watching. Probably the only reason the senior class is allowed to vote is that the senior's judgment formed from three or four years' observation of campus activities places him in the best posi tion to vote intelligently. After seeing Wednes day and Thursday's exhibition of senior leth argy, perhaps it would be better to rescind their right to vote. The senior, if he is fortunate in the coming final examinations, is about to be thrown out into the cold, hard world, whether he is pre pared for it or not. Judging again from the elec uon results, the senior may be prepared teen nically, but it is doubtful if he is politically mature. The right to govern ourselves extends only as far as we are able and are willing. And if the outgoing crop of seniors is any indication of our political future, we are in for a period of political immaturity such as we have never seen before. The Last Stand Often for the sake of objectivity and complete peace of mind, the Daily Collegian refuses to comment on certain crucial issues. Such was the case in the past national and more recent All- College elections. There are certain • things, however, about which no newspaper can be silent. And, so, breaching ifs attempt at complete objectivity in this case, the Daily Collegian wishes to announce that it is unanimously and unequiv ocally in favor of spring. We are probably safe now that the April snows are gone. —The Retiring Senior Board On a New Fee... Thursday night All-College Cabinet set some sort of precedent in passing a 25-cent "effi ciency" fee raise. This is one of those rare cases where fees are raised to save money on bookkeeping expenses.. Nonetheless, students must not become down hearted. Remember, that quarter you pay today may be worth only 20 cents in the future.. —Byron Fielding Gazette April 25, 1953 FENCING CLUB, 1 p.m., Rec April 27, 1953 PENN STATE VETERANS CLUB, Monday, April 27, 7 p.m., in 219 Electrical Engineering. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Roger Ahlers, Paul Beane, Rose Brein, Terry Friedman, Marvin Goldberg, Aron Hoffman, Howard Kalodner, Richard Patterson, James Se ton, Jordan Smith, Raymond Soffa, Abing Ro Sorriatmadja, and Daniel• Van Sickel. • STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Boy to work on farm for room and board Boys wanted for waiters and dishwashers Students' wives for evening counter , work Boy with car for.service station work. —Dave Jones Last night we inserted the headline we ever will for the Dai fouls up next week and begs us t for our successor, Chiz Mathias, inserts commas brilliantly and pr boobies, but will also write colum We expected this moment to be fraught with sentimentality, but alas, this 'is not so. This is the moment we have been waiting for. As of today, or at least after the weekend, we can begin doing the work that has been assigned since February. As things now stand, we have 4 1 / 2 books to read •for Lit 6, four books and a paper due in Lit 56, two papers plus reading for Comp 418, book•. re port and bluebook in the History of Journalism, and a bench to refinish and salad bowl and tos sers to complete in Home Art. This Home Art course is quite the thing. As a future writer of food and fashion articles, if we ever find a job, it is deemed imperative that we learn how to dig bowls out of chunks of tree and sand irregular, wormy slices of tree into "f lower boards." We are being creative. Have you ever wondered how to make a bowl? I came to the College for the express purpose of learning how to make a bowl, and when I receive my diploma in June, I will have attained my mark. My bowl should be fin ished by then. • It all started back in February when a group of women who didn't know a piece of walnut from plywood over-ran the lum beryard of a patient, long-suffer ing old codger out in Boalsburg. Despite his efforts to keep his better woods hidden from the mob, an hour or so later the band returned to the Home Economics Building, triumphantly clutching, pieces of tree to their bosoms. The class then concentrated on being creative and settled down to making trays, bowls, and "flower boards." Do you know what a flower board is? It is not what mother rolls out cookie and pie dough on. Rather, it is an irregular shaped pieCe of wood; perhaps one-half inch thick, which is sanded and varnished ad infini tum. The purpose is to have a somewhat rust ic, naturalistic background against which to ar range flowers. Women learn how to arrange flowers, incidentally, in Hort 151. But we're off the track. We decided to make a bowl, and one fine day held, hammer and chisel . in hang aiit-papiwialiiii its —Dick Rau Little Man On Campus O rthal, it appears to me that if you have ay's outside assignment ready—you copied it." It's A Loux-Lu By BETTIE LOUX SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1953 By Bibler ast comma a ly Collegian, unless the new staff o come back. But this is unlikely, is a meticulous lad who , not only -omises not to let. Froth find any ns with some degree of regular#y. gouge out the wood.' This . :a. long, intricate process, for:.one must be careful not to gouge too deeply. A too-deep . gouge might result in a hole in-the bottom of the bowl, and, then it • could not hold whatever it may someday hold. , Does a bowl evoke a round image in your mind? Shame, on your closed mind. Bowls in -the modern sense of the word are elongated, canoe-shaped affairs, monstrous objects indeed. Ours measures 18 inches length Wise and 'nine inches at its widest point. The 'nearest thing it re sembles is a boat, and if an in tolerant husband should someday refuse to see it on- the table; it should make a dandy present for a nautical-minded little boy. The shape was most discon certing while we were pains takingly ,carving it out; for the picture of an Indian indolently burning out the inside , of a similar shaped object kept com ing to mind. • Yes, = vocational education is a great thing. They even give Bachelor of . Science degrees if you live through four years of it. THINGS WE'D LIKE TO SEE WHEN NEXT WE RETURN: the sanctity of the Women's Student Government Association ballot box violated—voting returns made public . . . smaller classes, with more opportunity to talk with pro fessorS .informally ... less griping about meals—you can learn to eat even "hunter's dinner" . . . desire to take interesting, challenging courses rather than "snaps" . . cigarette machines in the wom en's dorms . . students reading bobks for pleasure's sake . . . a philosophy course required in every curriculum, even Home Ec onomics . . . all the friends we've made in three years in . the valley. So this is' the last "Loux-Lu" to save the editorial director from haying to use "Interpret ing :the News." Who can tell what's in store? Someday a fab ulously rich Penn State grad uate may open the Wall Street Journal and, find a colunin by that famous authority on stocks and bonds, Bettie Loux-Lu. Both are unlikely, but . .'. till .then, ' .
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