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Pahlished Tuesday through .
Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by Tile Ottfig (fl-utteglau
the staff of The Daily Col
legian of the Pennsylvania
State College,
Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 I • s I ' v :7.
DAVE JONES, Editor
Managing Ed., Marshall 0. Donley; City Ed., Chuck
Obertance: Copy Ed., Chiz Mathias; Sports Ed.; Sam
Prucopio: Edit. Dir., Dick Rau; Wire-Radio Ed., Bill Jost:
Soc Ed., Lynn Kahanowitz; Asst. Sports Ed., Dick McDOwell:
Asst. Soc. Ed., Lix Newell; Photo Ed., Bruce Schroeder:
Feature Ed., Nancy Meyers; Exchange Ed., Gus Vollmer:
Librarian, Lorraine Gladus: Senior Board, Mary Lou Adams.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Mike Feinsilber; Copy editors, Betty Koster, Jack Reid; As
sistants, Patty Beahan, Joyce Simpson, and Bob Dunn. Ad Staff: Eli Arenburg, and Cindy Manarin.
Class Functions Would Fight Apathy
. Tonight's freshman class dance in Recreation
Hall is the only remaining activity of a once
hoped-for freshman class weekend. Class com
mittees had also planned a musical revue and
talent show, both of which failed because the
class itself would not respond.
This is typical of the disinterested attitude
Penn Stale students have toward class func
tions. It is not difficult to understand this
situation. •
Freshmen, when they first arrive on campus,
are forced into a group. They are oriented and
undergo customs together. In this, they are
differentiated from all other students. They sit
together at foothall games and are, in general,
a homogeneous group.
But when customs and football games end,
the freshmen are lost among other students at
the College. There are no longer •green dinks
to set them off as a group. And as the force
which has held them together passes, their
group feeling passes.
As a result, the - freshmen fall into groups
within their schools or curricula. It is with
these students they communicate most closely,
and it is among these students that their
interests rest. Through this change in group
feeling, the class spirit dies.
Those who would increase class spirit, there
fore, must find some way to draw the class
together throughout the year. Class social func
tions and participation events must arise im
mediately after customs if the class is to be
held together.
This lack of class feeling obviously carries
Campus Chest Plans
The Ugly Man contest which begins Wed
nesday is, in the minds of most students, nothing
more than a contest which will point out the
worst made-up man on campus. However, there
is another facet to the contest which merits
some thought. This is that funds collected from
the penny-a-vote contest will go to the Campus
Chest.
The Campus Chest has for the past two years
tried many and varied means of raising money,
the most prominent being the annual fall solici
tation drive. This year, however, it was neces
sary to hold a post-Christmas vacation drive
in the town area. The results of both drives
have not been such as to make the Campus
Chest officials leap forjoy.
The drive this year reached more students
than ever before, according to drive leaders.
Results indicate, therefore, that students are
just not willing to hand out money gratis,
even with the possibility of not paying at the
moment and having it added to next semes
ter's fees.
One objection in donating money to Campus
Chest might lie in the choice of recipients made
by the Chest committee. If this is the case, next
year's Chest committee will do well to sound
out student opinion concerning recipients and
Faith. Will Combat Communism
By GEORGE CORNELL
NEW YORK, May 1 (EP)—You
hear a lot of talk these days
about the battle of faiths.
Faith in things. Or faith in
God.
Over and over again, spiritual
and political leaders say this is
the basic conflict of our age—a
conflict bet wee n, communism
and individualism, between ma
chines and morality, between
the supremacy of the state and
the supremacy of th e person.
between the robot and the vis
ion.
They say if the vision is not
strong enough, the robot can
win.
They say that to beat corn
munism —with its one-track
faith in things, tools, techniques
and total man-rule—there must
be a more dynamic faith—in
COLLEGIAN
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COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Rosetta Berger, Sidney Blecker, William Bru
baker, Philip Carothers, Electra Catsonis, Ned
Clark, Samuel Friedman, Lorenz Getz, Leroy
Harris, Robert Homan, Mary Lathrop, Abing
Sorriatmadja, Lawrence Thaller, Donald Thom-.
as, Alvin Tomb and Natasha Walters.
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
the importance of each man and
his neighbor.
This, they say, is the ultimate
test. President Eisenhower said
it this way:
"Only a pe?rple strong 'in
Godliness is a- people strong
enough to overcome tyranny.
Today, it is ours to prove that
our own faith, perpetually re
newed, is equal to the chal
lenge of today's tyrant." •
' Many others the •big men
and the -least—have said it in
their own,ways.
Some may wonder exactly
what this means —this broad
talk of faiths and the spiritual
in a day of cyclotrons, napalm
and jets.•
If, as they say, religious tradi
tions are the greatest- weapon
in America's arsenal, what is
being done about it? • '-'•
May 5, 1953
CIRCULATION STAFF,
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVA,,NIA
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Asst. Bus. Mgt.. 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., Teresa
Nioslak, Don Stohl: Classified Adv. Mgr.. Marty Worthington;
Office Mgr., Mary Ann Wertman; Senior Board, Nancy
Marcinek. Ruth Pierce. Betty Richardson and Elizabeth
Widman. ,
on throughout college life. Students, accelerate
or drop back semesters, and their class standing
loses its meaning. Class identification is lost;
students are identified by school and major.
As a result, , sophomore, junior, and senior class
meetings suffer.
Class meeting attendance is ridiculously
low because of this feeling. Class members
turn out only to elect class officers, and even
then their response is low. Class officers as
a result are elected by minority and in class
meetings act with the advice of only a few
people.
It is apparent, then, that low class meeting
attendance is not necessarily a sign of student
apathy, but a sign that the class is not actually
functioning as a group. The only time class
meetings get -a large attendance is when they
offer a definite benefit to students affected. An
example- is high meeting attendance when
seniors attempt elimination of senior class
finals.
The proof of apathy in student government
does show, however, in student council elec
tions. Only 13 per cent of liberal arts students
this week voted in council elections.
It is disgustingly evident Penn State stu
dents do not care about 'student government.
This is shown, in over-all government election
returns. Many students do not know the All-
College president, for instance, receives ' s3oo
a year compensation.
All-College . Cabinet spends over $12,000
a year. If many students knew that, most
would certainly care. '
Need Inspection
the ratio of money collected for these agencies.
Personal student antagonism toward any one
group receiving Chest funds can be damaging
to all groups represented by the Chest drive
since there is no way for student donors to ear
mark funds for any particular group or groups.
Another student objection to donating funds
might be the idea that they are givipg money
away without receiving apparent benefit from
the expenditure.
Again the Chest committee might explore the
possibility of raising funds through ways other
than direct donation, such as the Ugly Man
contest. This is not a recommendation that the
Chest committee jettison the annual drive, but
rather, that the -committee also look into the
possibility of staging events for which students
will feel more like paying.•
One other point of consideration deals with
the internal operation of the committee itself.
No matter how apathetic students in this quaint
mountain . village are, there is usually a spark
of competitive spirit somewhere.
If the committee will
. set up machinery to
make public a running account of which
groups have donated a hundred per cent or
nearly so, more interest might be , generated
than is now evident, or rather, is not evident.
—Dick Rau
Gazette ...
' STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Lillian Taylor Camp, Pa. will interview men
and women May 14.
Sagamore, Pa., an adult resort in the Poconos,
will interview men May 6.
Students' wives for evening counter work.
Tuscorora Inn, Pa., will interview men and wom
en May , 8,
Waiters and dishwashers wanted.
FRANKLIN S. KELLY, Business Mgr.
The job, primarily, is in the
hands of an old, taken-for
granted institution—the church.
Things are going on in this
old workship. It is astir and
abustle. In sermon after sermon
there is a sounding - of the issue
and, by nearly every measuring
rod, studies show new life and
growth in the Congregations. '
How confident are the reli
gious leaders that the faith
can carry the day; How pow
erful is it? They cite this rec
ord:
Religion defied the" - shackles
of medieval Europe, religion
brought the first families to
America's shores. '
It gave America her faith—
that each man is important, a
creature above the dust, part
flesh, part spirit, an heir to his
(Continued on page eight)
Collegian editorials' repre
sent the 'viewpoint of the
writers, not necessarily the
pOlicy of the newspaper: Un
signed editorials are by the
editor,
Little Man on Campus
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"I told you what would happen if you cut away the ivy!"
Short 'Change
They "never had it so good" are the words of students at
Michigan State College where dormitories are housing students of
both sexes. Reason: a housing Shortage.-
Penn State students don't seem to appreciate the fact that
they've had this advantage for two years now—the West Dorms.
In making up the student news
paper at Teicas A&M, someone
accidentally pulled an ironical
fast one.
At the top of the page was a
review of the movie "Ruby Gen
try" which read: _
"Ruby Gentry" gives Jennifer
Jones and Charlton Heston a
chance to practice r o ugh and
tumble necking everywhere-from
the front seat of a moving con
vertible to the foggy swamps of
North Carolina.
"Before the film ends, Ruby's
tight sweater and loose morals
have helped cause the death of
three men, bankrupt several oth
ers, wreck a marriage, practically
close down an entire, town and
ruin. a multimillion dollar irriga
tion system."
Closer to the bottom of the
page, in the letters to the editor
column a letter read:
`lt it a sad -state of affairs when
a man can't take his wife to a
movie once in a while without
being 'graced' by the presence of
those (in simple words) who in
sist on using nasty language."
In a column in the Temple Uni
versity News an article defined
a topic questioned by an unin
formed freshman. It went like
this:
"Freshman—What do you mean
by slinging the bull?
"Sophomore 7 ,--To sling the bull
is to prevent the professor from
realizing that you are saying
nothing in -a great many words.,
"Junior—To sling the bull is to
say little in a great many words,
so as to give the impression that
you are familiar with whatever
the text is covering.
"Senior—To sling the bull is to
say as much as possible in well
chosen words so as to 'convey the
impression theft you are familiar
with the material under exami
nation, in spite of the fact that
you have been unable to devote
sufficient effo r t to study ade
quately an unduly difficult as
signment."
Michigan State Normal News
has come up with a new defini
tion for colleges. -
According to them, colleges are
institutions whi c h sometimes
lower entrance requirements
with an' end in, view—not to men
tion promising tackles and. backs.
An embarrassing situation de
veloped at Drake University in
lowa when a coed rushed into a
Spanish class a few minutes late,
threw off her coat and-'started to
sit down. = = - .... . .. - ... ..
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1953
By. Bibler
By GUS VOLLMER
Students began to chuckle. The
coed looked down horrified,• then'
quickly threw her coat around
her and ran out of the room.
She had fogotten to wear a
skirt.
The Akron Buchtelite recently
quoted a poem which read:
"When I have done with college
The thing I'll miss a lot, •
Is technically .intangible
It's the sleep I never got."
* * *
The Akron Buchtelite also had
this to say:
Typical Joe College: Height—
five feet, four inches. Teeth—
buck. Eyes—crossed. Hair—laden
with . grease. Legs—bowed and
pigeon toes. Ears—look as -if he
could take off.. Line—mushy, and
the same for blonds and -brun
ettes. Dancing—too, too divine.
Money— depends on Dad. De
meanor—'Here I am you lucky
people !' Athletics—ping-pong.
Type—telephone romeo. BUT HE
HAS.A GOOD HEART."
* * *
University of Nebraska students
were a little chagrined, says -the
Daily Nebraskan, when a usually
slow talking psychology instruc
tor suddenly star te d • racing
through his • lectures.
-
.One coed waved her hand to
tell him that she was having
trouble keeping up.
"I know I've been going very
fast," replied the instructor, "but
the . next topic on the outline is
sex and the Kinsey Report, and
several• men in- the class have
asked me to hurry up." -
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According to an article in the
.aeintia . :*Tech Technique, "the
students at the Polytechnic Insti
tute of Turin in Italy went on
strike recently in order to bring
about a 'complete reorganization
of curricula that are by now 50
years.: old. ' •
They said they would have t 6
work 13 hours a day to get
through with their assigned tasks
of attending lectures and semi- 0
nars, rewriting notes, and making
drawings.
Dilienberger to Speak /
At Annunl PSCA Dinner . 1;
Dr. John Dillenberger, actirig
head of the Department of Reli
gion at Columbia University, will
speak at 6 tonight at the annual
Penn State Christian Association
dinner at the Autoport.,
Annual reports and installation
of new officers will be included