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Published Tuesday through
Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by
the staff of The Daily Col
legian of the Pennaybrania
State College.
Entered as second-class matter July 5 4 1924 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March • 3, 1879
DAVE JONES, Editor
Managing Ed., Marshall 0. Donley; City. Ed: .Chuck Asst. Bus. Mgr.; Mark 'Christ; Local Advertising Mgr.,
Obertance; Copy Ed., Chix Mathias; . Sports Ed., Sant Robert Carruthers; .National Adv. Mgr., Donald Hawke;
Procopio; Edit. Dir., Dick 'Rau; Wire-Radio Ed., Bill Jost: Circulation Co-Mgrs., . .Frank Cressman, Diane Miller;
Soc Ed.,Lynn Kahanowitz :. Asst. Sports Ed., Dic McDowell: . Promotion Mgr., Ruth' Israel; Personnel Mgr., Patience
Asst. oc. • Ed., Liz' Newell:" Photo Ed., Bruce Schroeder: tingethuem; Office Mgr., Gail Shaver; Classified Adv.
Feature Ed., Nancy Meyers; Exchange Ed., Gus Vollmer: . Mgr., Jean. Geiger; Sec., Carol Schwing; Research and
Librarian. orraine Gleam; Senior Board,-Mary Lou Adams. Records Mgrs., Virginia Bowman, Eleanor Hennessy.
..STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, George Bairey; Copy editors, Herman Weiskopf, Tammie Bloom,
Assistants; Nancy Van Tries; Dottie Stone, Claire Yenney, Joan Packard, Roger Beidler, Roy Williams.
Council Heads Need No Conipensation
Ali-College Cabinet tonight will consider
compensating nine student council. presidents
$l5 a year as its annual budget comes up for
final cabinet approval. The budget was tabled
by cabinet last week so members could secure
opinion from their constituents as to whether
council preSidents should be compensated.
• According to their own statements, student
council presidents need not. be compensated.
Six of eight council presidents. 'contacted by'
the Daily Collegian said they feel compen
sation is not necessary. If the presidents
themselves do not wish compensation, there
is no need for cabinet to push it upon them.
This does not necessarily mean that students
should not be compensated for their activities.
This is an entirely different question. Council
presidents may well deserve compensation,
judged on the basis upon which other student
governemnt compensation is placed. But if
council presidents themselves do not think
compensation desirable, they need, not get it.
Most council presidents said they feel they
hold their offices as an honor and prefer to
pursue their duties for the betterment of;
111. Cheating. Action Should Be Equalized
(This is the third in a series of five edi
torials designed to outline and explain the
proposals 4or a Supreme Court in Penn
State's judicial system.)
The matter of a fair hearing for the student
in- a judicial action extends also to the reahri
of the faculty. The chief instance when faculty
enter the judicial Problem is in the -matter
of cheating in examinations—something which
may again be a major problem within a fe«•
weeks.
Although deans, professors, and instructors
have received specific instructions from the
President's office that any case of cheating
is to be turned over to the disciplinary sub
committee of the College Senate committee
on student affairs, this does not happen in
many cases. Some professors feel penalties
of the disciplinary committee are too strict.
others that they are not strict, enough. It is
these professors, and sometimes even deans,
who prefer to handle the cases personally.
Once again it is easy,to spot inconsistem
penalties which may reflct badly on the Col
lege. In one case, a student may merely get a
warning. If so, he is lucky. But what of the
student who is given a zip in the course, or the
one who is given a bar two? Are these fair
punishments when another student, whose ca'
might be almost identical, is expelled for tl
- of the .semester? -,
Recently we heard of another, case where v.
feel unfair treatment was given. It happene,
here in one of the schools notorious for its ill
will toward those caught cheating in an exam
ination. In this case, a student who had copied
from the man next to him was caught 'and given
a bar two for the course. The catch came when
the student who had been copied from was
May 7, 1953
AMERICAN SLAVONIC •ORGANIZATION.
7:30 p.m., Green lounge, Atherton Hall..
DEMOLAY CLUB; 7 p.m., 214 Willard.
FRENCH CLUB, 7:30 p.m., 20 Sparks. -
FROTH CIRCULATION STAFF, 7:30 p.m..
2 Carnegie.
MARKETING CLUB, 4 p.m., 305 Sparks.
NITTANY GROTTO, election of officers, 7
p.m., 316 Frear Lab.
YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB, 7:30 p.m.,
TUB.
Hat Societies' Banquet
A banquet sponsored by Skull
and Bones and Parmi Nous, sen
ior men's hat societies, will be
he 1 d 6:30 p.m. May •13 .at the
Boalsburg firehouse.
Xile Elatig Clitte,glau
Suceessor .. to TI3E FitEE LANCE, est. 1887
Gazette
Hellenic Society. Elections Ski Club Elects Officers
The College Hellenic Society
will meet at 7:30 tonight in the
Temporary. Union Building, to
nominate and elect officers for
the coming .school year:
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE.PEN'NSYLVAr&%.
VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr.
student governme/.. without compensation.
Education Student Council has backed the
compensation proposal. Another council pres
ident said he favors compensation if others
in student government • are compensated.' ,
The compensation provided in the budget is
not intended as payment kir handling 'the job.
It is merely a token remuneration for time and
work put into a. job. There is a principle in
volved in the compensation question, however.
That is whether or •not compensation should be
necessary for a student taking part in activities
of his own volition.
The $135 now earmarked for student council
president compensation, plus $lO set aside for
Interschool Council Board chairman, can be put
to good use elsewhere in All-College Cabinet's
budget. If nothing else, it can be used as a
surplus, since the budget as now set up balances
exactly.
Next year's student government budget
calls for $1550 in compensation. Many stu
dents evidently do not realize their student
officers are being compensated. If they did,
voting in campus elections would climb
alzo given a bar two on the grounds that one
who gives information is as guilty as one who
receives it, and that someone had to be made
an example of.
• Now idealistically speaking this is perhaps
true, although there are degrees of guilt which
must be considered. In this case, however, the
student copied from was "three-ing" the course
at"the time, and apparently was too busy work
ing on the examination to be aware that he
was being copied from. This made no difference
to the dean of the. school.
• • Actually, under. the rules of the College,
the dean's action was illegal. All cases of
academic dishonesty are to be handled by the
Senate disciplinary committee. Any student
penalized by his professor or dean can, with
full backing of the President's office, take
his case to this committee. Unfortunately, few
students are aware of this situation. Such
action on the part of a few of them, however,
would considerably cut down the number of
cases - in which professors and deans usurp
the power of penalty. It is no a wise move
to openly disobey rules set down by the Pres
ident of the College.
The solution to this problem is .not an easy
,ne. To a great extent it must depend on the
.Yillingness of professors, department heads,
and deans of schools to cooperate. However, the
establishment of a- judicial public relations
Troup to explain procedure and organization to
these people would be a step toward obtaining
better understanding and cooperation on their
part. Increased administrative pressure would
also be: necessary to make the plan work
properly. . - '
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
John Bell, Rosetta Berger, Florence Ccfoke,
Ariana Dickson, John Epler, John Hershe c y, Ken
neth Hohe, John Johnson, Chris Karidis, Ben
jamin Kreider, Lee Kummer, Paul Makowski,
Edward Mantick, Nancy Schade, Abing Sor
riatmadja and Raymond Talipski.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Tuscarora in the Poconos, will interview men
and women May 8.
Men wanted for waiters.
Men wanted for garden and lawn work; house
cleaning and odd jobs.
The Penn's Valley Ski Club re
cently" has elected Richard Wahl,
president; Dolores McHugh, vice
president; Oila Horton, secretary;
and Madeleine Reilly, treasurer.
Collegian editorials repre
sent the •viewpoint of the
writers, not necessarily the
policy of the newspaper. ..Lin
signed editorials are by the
editor.'
—Dave Pellnitz
Retiring. Editor
Little Man on Campus
"Can't you type ypdr lecture notes after class?"
Interpreting the Mew
Oil
Is
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
AP News Analyst
• •
You haven't heard the last of the tidelands oil dispute by a long
shot.
The Senate has passed the bil
and only a few technicalities bet
remain before the bill goes to a
sympathetic President for signa
ture—in contrast to two vetoes
by President Truman.
For California, Louisiana and
Texas, the third time was the
tharm.
Senate passage, however, came
after weeks of bitter fighting,
with the Democrats building up
a record on which to make the
subject a campaign issue next
year.
The bill is a part of the Eisen
hower "states rights" program.
It is a part of a general` design
to reverse . the trend, so strong
during - 20 years of Democratic
control, to centralize everything
in Washington.
It had the support, of . a broad
section of legal opinion, too, in
cluding the American Bar Asso
ciation, although the Supreme
Court has ruled that the tidelands
are a part of the heritage of - all
the people, • and not just those of
a few states. -
It dissolVes a. - latent threat to
municipal and state control of
numerous port installations and
the like.
Opponents made a strong, point,
however, of the precedent estab
lished. They pointed out that it
might• very ,well• produce a de
mand from the states for title to
public lands within their borders,
traditionally , held by the federal
government. Vast areas through-.
out the West still fall in this cat
egory, approaching half the area
of one or. two of the less popu
lated states. The lands contain
vast explored and unexplored
natural resources, probably in
cluding oil` and uranium.
This subject of state vs. federal
control of natural resources, goes
back a long way. • Court battles,
over the federal assertion of con
.~.
Land Dispute
Not. Ended' . :-:.
1 vesting ownership in the states
ween Senate and House versions
trol over navigable stream's. have
stretched out almost interminably
over the years. Only the 'inter
state' character- of mail y such
streams .and the- connection' of
Water transport with national de
fense has saved the federariights
time after. time. • '
-Even if political, repercussions
were not to continue :for a:Jong
time, the congressional - - action
seems certain- to produce a-lorig
court fight. The Supreme Court
has always upheld federal — title.
It said the Change could' be:• made
by, legislation—lout has held' pre
vious legislation unconstitutional.
With this record-- Supporti;:op
ponents show no -signs ;of giving
up on the new bill. ' -
Tai End Sunday:
The Combined Art:s . "-Eihibit 'in
the second floor lounge:of Old
Main will continue untiL,Sundagi . .
The exhibit . 1s• part .of the' an
nual Combined . Arts feitiVal,
which brings - together . •. work :of
the students' in architecture, land
scape horticulture, drama, •dance,
art education, fine arts; speech,
music, and visual education. - • :
Other exhibits are being held
in - the Sehlow Gallery on S. Ath
erton street, foyer of the Pattee
Library, Home Eeononiies build
ing; fourth 'floor Main .Engineer
ing, and the west wing of Tempor
ary Classroom, Building.
Froth Circulation Staff
Froth circulation staff members
and candidates will meet •at 7:30
tonight in 2 Carnegie. •
THURSD~IY~ 11?AY::7.'~1953
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