PAGE FOUR Published Tuesday through Saturday Rimming. inclusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Col legian of ties.,.Pensaylvanisi State Collegm• • ' Entered as socoad-elase =atter July -5. 1934 at the . State College, Pa: Past Office ander, the • act •of March 3, 1579: Managing Ed., Marshall O. Donley; City Ed.. Chuck Asst.' Bus. Mgr., Mark Christ; •Local. Advertising Are.. Obertasee; Copy Ed., Chia Mathias; . ' Sports E. am Robert Carruthers; National Adv. Mgr.; Donald Hawke; Procopio: Edit. Dir., Dick Ran; Wire-Radio Ed., Bill Jost: Circulation Co-Mgrs., Frank Creasman , Diane .Miller: Sot Ed., Lynn Hahanowitz; Asst. Sports Ed., Dick McDowell: Promotion Mgr., Ruth Israel; Personnel Mgr., Patience Asst. Soc. Ed., Li: Newell; Photo Ed., Bruce Schroeder: Ungethuem; Office Mgr., Gail Shaver; Classified' Adv. Feature Ed. ' Nancy - Meyers; Exchange •Ed., Gus Vollmer: Mgr., • Jean. Geiger; Sec., Carol Schwing; Research and Librarian, . Lorraine Gladus; Senior Beard, Mary Lou Adams. Records Mgrs., Virginia Bowman, Eleanor Hennessy. DAVE JONES, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor: Nancy .Ward: Copy editors: Diehi McK alip, Ann Leh: Assistanti Anne Campbell, Janice Laird, Torn Werner, Jane Montgomery. Ad staff: Tom Garrett, Bill Nudorf Steve Elabarger. Annual Fight: Seniors vs. Finals The College Senate -next month is expected to discuss what has become of the Penn State student's perennial fight: elimination .of final exams for graduating seniors. Fortunately for the Senate, most students will be home when the decision is revealed. . A final examination committee, which studied final exam policies at about 100 colleges, is presenting the proposal to the Senate to remove final exam requirements in any course in which a graduating senior has a 2.0 average. The com mittee reports 25 per cent of the schools an swering have a special senior final exam plan. Elimination of senior finals is a touchy and interesting problem. Students in genera 1— especially seniors—feel a strong need for their elimination. And as a freshman nears his senior year, he gradually realizes that final exams for seniors are the most terrible-, of all animals. This is a natural feeling. Looking at the exam problem in a disgustingly objective way, the student point of view seems merely an attempt to get out of work. Elimina tion of senior final exams is supported mainly by one argument: a student who has completed seven semesters of college, and is passing in his last semester, may flunk out merely by failing one final exam. Sad but true. Safety Valve---. On the Class Gift . . . TO THE EDITOR: Using the knowledge gained from four years at Penn State we have come up with an excellent use for the extorted funds in the senior class treasury. Our idea is to divide the fund by the number of people in the class and make a refund. to each member. We are sure each recipient will be able to put the money to good use; whereas, the College has to tax its ingenuity to find another useless item to add to the collection of many others.-- —Ken Harris, Andrew A. Vicker, • William F. Shaw, Morton Solo mon, Danny Fagan " Editor's note: Are these the five Penn State students who never .sit on the campus benches, never pose for pictures at the Lion shrine, and never set their watches by the Old Main chimes? Interpreting the News When and if the three great conference with Russia, about value of risking a diplomatic Western Allies hold their Ber- which the 'U.S. is skitty. Clement failure, with its consequent muda conference, France and Attlee, former Laborite Prime spiritual let-down among free Britain will be chiefly interested Minister; made some statements peoples everywhere, the pres in relations with Soviet Russia which stirred great anger in the sures have been growing for a and the first interest of the Uni- U.S., although later perusal of four-power conference ever since ted States will be in relations his full text took out some of the Stalin died and Rdssia intena with Britain and France. sting. For days statements have fied her talk about -the possi- That was made clear in the been flying back and forth. bility of peacettir: settlements. statements issued Thursday by Then, Wednesday, Churchill France, Britain, India the Vat- Eisenhower, Churchill and May- was asked in Parliament if he ican . and many lesser poviers er-didn't think he ought to get have taken official stands for it. _ . _ _ Mayer may, not be there—his Eisenhower over theike andAry Russia has , said it suits her. cabinet fell Within hours of the to straighten out the policy dif- They just don't think the announcement of plans for .the ferences between the two na.- dangers which preoccupy the meeting, having tripped over tions, particularly with regard United States are as great as the 'strictly domestic issues. But his to Russia - and the Far East. possible benefits, or that, any attitude is indigenous to France, Churchill carefully • replied that stone should be left unturned, r and he or whoever forms a new he wasn't magnifying the dif- as an expression of .attitucle, Cabinet is expected to attend the ferences by any such idea, but even if benefits, are impossible., conference and work from the that he'd like to see Eisenhower The Prime .KiniSters' will come same viewpoint. There may have over there, of course. ,to Bermuda eager on this point. to be a change:-iri. date. Al the , sane time, in . Wash- Eisenhower will say let's get to- The State department made it ington, a new- storm was being gether on these other things- clear, after the French and Brit- created by charges in Congress Britain's warmish policy toward ish Prime Ministers . had ex- that.. British ships out of Hong Red China, France's ratification pressed their hopes that the Ber- Kong had been. used to transport of. the European Defense Treaty, muda conference would lead to Communist troops in the Korean establish a common front toward a larger one with Russia, that area. The iin plication was Russia and keep it that way_ the U.S. was not committing it- promptly and' flatly denied;: the and then -see about the time self to anything beyond the British saying that if any such liness of a four-power confer- President's expressed desire for thing occurred it involved ships ence. "a further development of ' corn- captured by the Reds. Eisenhower and general State mon viewpoints" among the Big But the storm was at a new department policy 'has made .11 Three.peak. Eisenhower held late ses- perfectly clear that there is no . . This was also implicit in the ions with his advisers Wednes- closed mind about such a con developmbnts which led to the day, the suggestion for . a con- ference. The administration just President's invitation. Just when ference went to Churchill and wants what it considers a proper his idea began to germinate was Mayer overnight, and accept- lineup, including some indica not known. Churchill made a ances were swift and eager. lions of good faith from Russia, speech suggesting a top leiel Despite U.S. doubts_ about the before it plunges in. Gazette ... COLLEGE HOSPITAL Joseph Bell, Ralph Brooks, Jose Carreiro, John Connerton, Charles Diehm, Glenn Grove, Kent Kiehl, Lee Kummer, Geraldine Lalli, Ralph Laudenslayer, Lloyd Lupfer, Gino Mori,, Thom as Owens, Walter Segl, Robert Thomas, and William Wright. . STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Students from Philadelphia area wanted for summer jobs in selling. Men wanted for meal serving jobs on and off atill Collegian Successor •to THE FREE LANCE, 'est. 1887 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNg'YLITANTA. VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr. ~.: However, this argument overlooks one thing: college is not seven semesters, nor Seven and one-half, but eight. And the student who, rea lizing he must pass a course and its final to be, graduated, usually has no one to blame but himself if he fails the final and flunks out altogether. It is hard, sometimes, to• see why final exams should be eliminated fox seniors as a reward for reaching graduation. If a student is worth graduating, he should be able to pass the final. Graduation in itself - is the reward, not the elimination of finals. This' type of thinking is contrary to student thought in general, however.. Perhaps the stu dents here have a right to look out for their own welfare, especially when a college diploma is at stake. The committee's proposal that a 2.0 course average be required for exemption from a course final is a compromise. It may be a good com ?romise. It may inspire students to better grades. .f.t may also remove incentive to try for a three course grade by hitting the final. One thing is sure: it will ease the end of the trail for weary seniors. Another thing is sure: no matter what the decision, the pToblem will come up again next year. On Exam. Editorial . . . TO THE EDITOR: I would like to answer your editorial "Do We Need a New Exam Rule?" with this question: What is the purpose of an - exam? Aren't exams designed primarily to ,give the instructor a fairly reliable indication as to the extent of learning . . . thereby enabling aim to assign a reasonable grade to the student? If that is the purpose, then what does - it 'natter how many exams are given in one week, assuming that the student's physical energy is - iot exceeded? Aren't we students supposed to :earn the course material as we go along? . No, I don't feel that an exam rule is neces sary. I might even go so far as to advocate the other extreme; that is, give the instructors-more freedom in the scheduling of - exams. ',Letter cut —Joe Hanania campus next fall. Men wanted for• garden and lawn, housework, and odd jobs. . Men wanted for production work near Lan- • caster. Full time summer work. Boy or girl with medical lab experience wanted for latter part of July, beginning of August, to work in State College. Boy or girl with ability to take x-rays wanted for first two weeks of August in State College. Pottstown Community Camp will interview waterfront man. May 23. Collegian editogisis. rapre sent the sviesrpoint of the writers; riot ;neeiessarlil the nOlitylof , this newspaper. Un signed editorials are by the editor.' By J. Ro •ts Jr. Associated Press News Analyst Little' Man on Campus *A 4- ''''' "No more pencils—no more books—no more teachers' crosseyed looks." glancing APOttliCif Monday night I attended a borough council meeting. My at tendance was not spurred by a driving interest in the phenomena of borough government in State College, but by a professor's driv ing interest in my receiving an 'education. I did. There were quite a few of us there. Oddly enough they were all from the same class. Probably all spurred by the same professor. Everyone was there except one student—and the borough council. The meeting was scheduled for 7:30 p.m.; the class arrived at 7 p.m. The council and the profes sor arrived at 7:30. The class didn't arrive there cold. We got. a briefing before hand. We were told there would be a pool 'table over which we would have to peer to see the legislators in action. Again the wires were crossed. The pool table wasn't there. The class was disappointed. The antici pated aesthetic impression of observing the , councilmen coun, .sel over a field of rich green was one of the drawing cards of the evening (along with the professor's prodding). Shortly after several of us ar rived we discovered a very soft and comfortable couch near the door. It was also near the coun cilmen. , The decision to use the couch proved nearly disastrous. The warm room- and low babble of conversation had a most sooth ing effect. The council provided a type written .agenda for the class' in formation. There was only one item listed for discussion. This didn't bother the council. They I Lalked for an hour and a half ' anyway. The -item' scheduled for dis zussion concerned the width of -idewalks. It seems _there's an ordinance that says sidewalks to be constructed will be five feet wide. Someone in the bor ough apparently took exception to this ruling. • Their house was , only about four feet from the curb line. The only way you can get a five-foot sidewalk in to a four-foot space is to curve the ends up. Apparently some one in the borough doesn't care for this arrangement. I can't quite see their objection. There is nothing I like better than -a sidewalk, with a built-in hand rail. There were citizens at the meet ing two of them. They had a complaint. It seems that one street in the borough isn't. They want it paved. One said the conglomera tion of holes that the borough re ferred to as a street put undue mileage on cars, mileage going in to 'the holes and mileage getting out. • The council sympathized with the citizens, but told them they, would have to. contact an ,engi- rnrDAy,'lviAY 22;-:1953 By DICK RAU neering firm in Pittsburgh about sewers. This struck me as being a bit odd, but council continued the explanation. The council will have to find out exactly where and when sewers in that particu lar area would be installed before the • citizens could be answered. It seemed like a lot of fuss to get rid of dirty water and to fill up holes. A question also came up about increasing the local income tax from one half of one per cent to one per cent. The tax had been one per cent originally; but had been cut to one-half of one per cent - because they collected a sur plus. The surplus was used and now they need more money. Who doesn't? The class was jerked .out of its semicoma by the• professor's announcing that the important business had been handled and we could leave. I left with the rest, later dwadled over a. cup of coffee, and considered with respect the weightiness - of local self-government. Posy Picking Pack Pays Pretty Price Per Posy Plucked Tears ua the , eyes of members of Kappa Sigma fraternity at the University of California are from flowers but hayfever isn't the cause. Catise of the tears is the ' bill received for the flowers used to decorate at the group's last dance —slooo and suspension of social privileges for eight months. The group's last dance was the group's last dance for • quite a while. The bill was high because the flowers came from the gardens of nearly two dozen homes—with out authorization. The university's faculty committee and the Inter fraternity Council , ordered the fraternity to make full restitution and spend eight months on social probation. But they were mighty pretty flowers! Fehnel EleCted President New officers of COaly Society are Edgar Fehnel, president; Har ry Roth, vice president; Morris Brow n, . secretary; John Zug; -treasurer; Ned Clark, seigeant rat arias;. and Robert Dahle, historian. By Bible -'' ,--~ ~
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