PAC PYYpTi Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive clothig the College year by 'the staff of The Daily Col legian of the Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class smatter July 5. 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office ander the set of March 3. 1879 Managing Ed., Marshall O. Donley; City Ed., Chuck Asst. Bus. Mgr., Mark Christ; Local Advertising Mgr., Obertance; Copy Ed.. Chia Mathias; Sports Ed., Sam Robert Carruthers; National Adv:. Mgr., Donald Hawke; Procopio; Edit. Dir., Dick Ran; Wire-Radio Ed., Bill last: Circulation Co-Mgrs., Frank Cressman, Diane Miller: Soc Ed., Lynn Kahanowitz; Asst. Sports Ed., Dick McDowell: Promotion Mgr., Ruth Israel; Personnel Mgr.. Patience Asst. Soc. Ed., Lim Newell; Photo Ed., Bruce Schroeder: Ungethnem; Office Mgr., Gail Shaver: Classified Adv. Feature Ed., Nancy Meyers; Exchange Ed., Gus Vollmer; Mgr., Jean Geiger; Sec., Carol Schwing; Research and Librarian, Lorraine Gladua; Senior Board, Mary Lou Adams. Records Mgrs., Virginia Bowman. Eleanor Hennessy. DAVE JONES, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor: George Bairey; Copy editors: Herm Weitkopf, Shirley Musgrave Assistants: Bob Dunn, Anne Saylor, Joan Packard, Kay Krause, Jo Rowland; On the Senior Class Penn State has survived another academic year and is about to graduate another senior class. Despite the threats of draft, panty raid and a rampaging Spring Carnival, the College has been able to pull through once more. It will probably do so in the future. Early next month, the 1953 graduating class, as every college and high school graduating class in the United States, will be told: The future of the world rests with you. This is true. It has been true for some time. So true, in fact, that college educators and graduating classes must be getting tired of hearing the same old story. In this age of the Silent Generation, college graduates are becoming an ever increasing animal. These ever increasing animals generally go out into the wild world with one of two feelings: a little scared or a little confident. There is not much reason to be scared; there is good reason not to be too confident. Many college graduates will receive their diplomas next month without having attained much knowledge. This is the sad outgrowth of mass education. Robert Hutchins. Chicago Uni versity's former president, has said "we do not know what education could do for us because we have never tried it." Sadly, he is correct. Because they - have turned college into a money-making proposition, many students have missed a real experience in life. Those who have become educated—there are some—have, enjoyed an experience they still do not fully realize. Most of Penn State's graduates will leave the campus with a professed joy. They will be glad to be rid of studying and book-for awhile. And then they will return, gradually perhaps, but eventually, to take a look at the place all over again. There is nothing 'more pathetic than one, or a group, of returning alumni. The campus has grown out of proportion, friends are gone, and the college itself is a strange place. Norman Thomas pictured the situation well when he said: "The last audience in America to which I would make a serious address would be a Spring Week's Flaws The dissatisfaction voiced by the Senate com mittee on student affairs in a letter read to All- College Cabinet Thursday night must be con sidered seriously by the student body as well as student government leaders. The Senate committee showed consideration in letting its sentiments be known before taking action that would 'be considered arbitrary by the students. In their enthusiasm to boost Spring Week and to back their booths, some student organizations digressed to some extent from their academic commitments and put on shows that have been considered risque. Although the trend toward forgetting every- Interpreting the News Choosing a time when Euro pean enthusiasm for a top-level peace conference had been re newed by hope of agreement among the Western Big Three at President Eisenhower's Ber muda conference, Secretary Dulles has explained once again why the United States does not share that enthusiasm. What's the use of expecting important results on broad gen eral issues when the Communist bloc continues to promote ag gression in Asia and refuses freedom for Austria, he, asks. Dulles was talking again about the three points he and President Eisenhower have listed repeatedly as places where Russia could demon strate t h e sincerity of her Gazette ... COLLEGE HOSPITAL Joseph Bell, Ralph Brooks, Gordon Carpenter, Jose Carreiro, John Connerton, Charles Diehm, Glenn Grove, Nancy Kern, Lee Kummer, Ger aldine Lalli, Ralph Laudenslayer, William Marsh, Ann Menges, Gino Mori, Thomas F. Owens, Pat Runco, Walter Segi and Robert Thomas. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Students from Philadelphia area wanted ter summer jobs is sel g. ahr Battg Collegian Successor to THE FEES LANCE, cwt. 1887 peace talk. They sometimes include Germany, though the broad issues there are more subject to discussion at gen eral levels. They involve the interests of every country in Europe and some of the issues involve the whole world. In Indochina and Korea, how ever, all that's needed for peace is for Russia to say: "Peace." And in Austria a treaty has been all but negotiated, the only remaining gimmick being Rus sia's willingness to end her oc cupation. At these as well as all other conflictive points of contact between Russia and the West, around the world, the initia tive was Russia's in the be ginning, and can only be Rus sia's in the end. The West has THE DATT.,7 COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr. , tA and Graduation reunion of college graduates. In such reunions men honoring ancient shrines of learning with one accord breathe one prayer: 'Make me a sophomore just for tonight.' And few prayers are more unfriendly answered." Many of Penn State's graduating seniors will laugh at the implication that they are reluctant to leave Penn State. They announce enthusiasm in graduation. These are the students who have perhaps missed the education most. These are the students who have lost four years of life. It is easy to become maudlin about grad uation. That is not desirable. It is not easy to admit Penn State means more than books and classes, especially when such a feeling is labeled "Joe College." Someone has said life is ,hort. Those who will graduate next month have passed a great part of it already. If they have thrown it away here, they may well throw it away in the future. If our graduating seniors have the future of the world in their • hands, let us hope they do something with that future. Let us at least hope they do more with it for their children than our parents did for us. It Says Here . . 0 After police found a New Haven, Conn., bookmaker in possession of betting slips writ ten in Hindustani, they called in a Yale lan guage professor, who translated the slips, and sent the bookie to jail. We don't know how to say it in Hindustani, but crime doesn't pay in that language either. • Overheard from a student council president last week: "Now we have 25 cents from each student. Over the summer figure out some way we can spend it." °The bill to continue the House of Repre sentatives investigation of obscene literature has been pigeonholed by the House rules com mittee. Froth is safe! Deserve Thought thing except Spring Week activities and toward more lively shows to meet competition did not actually reach extremes, students involved in future Spring Week activities should pause now and give every consideration to the extent to which Spring Week is observed • and to the limits to which shows may go. If Spring Week is to continue, it will be better for the students themselves to set up their own system of checks and regulations before less responsible and - unthinking students car r y Spring Week to the point where the administra tion will feel obliged to stop the activities for the good of the College. Men wanted for meal serving jobs on and off 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 wcr:ks of August in State College. Pottstown Community Camp will interview waterfront =an Mai 23. • Collegian editorials repro sent the viewpoint of the writers. not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un signed editorials are by the editor. By J. M. Roberts Jr. Associated Press News Analyst taken no initiative, and no ini tiative is open to it except force in one form or another. In power politics, persuasion doesn't get far. That was the point Dulles was trying to get across to the In dian press, along with the need for a Middle Eastern defense ar rangement and for restricting non-Communist trade with Red China. The statement may have con tained, too, some of his answers to topics which he' and Prime Minister Nehru have been dis cussing. One of the great ob jectives of his trips to the Mid dle and Far East is to clarify the doubts in the neutralist In dian mind about the motives of the West, and particularly of the United States, in Asia. F,NNSYLVANI4t‘. Little Man 'on Campus "Well, guess we may as well get ready—here's Professor Snarf with the Econ. 14 finals." Book Review Dry Sun, Dry Wind, David Wagoner's first volume of poetry, is deficient in one thing—quantity. Wagoner, a graduate of Penn State and how an instructor in English composition—has given us just enough of his poetry to make us want to read more. Published by the Indiana University Press, Dry Sun, Dry Wind is available in bookstores downtown. The book is divided into two parts. The first contains 22 lyric poems. Eight narrative poems, character sketches in the form-of soliloquies, complete the volume. Wagoner's - subject is the piti less encroachment of a dry death upon the landscape and, later in the book, upon people. "Sun car ries death to leaves," "The dunes alter . . ." Death to Wagoner is "Sleep, tenderest, beneath a bro ther sun." And when the preceed ing line, from "At Last, Compan . ion Season,". is read aloud, the second word sounds like "tender rest"—a lovely way to think of death. Wagoner writes beauti fully rather than bitterly about an ordinarily depressing subject. The poet, who is from Whiting, Ind., writes of the water, wind and sand of the Lake Michigan territory he knows well. His de scription is concrete and clear and hi s imagery, original and bright. "Dust goes dancing in the. room," "Autumn whirls the weathervane," "October pulls the awnings down." In "Late October" he sketches vividly "junior witches" and "a knee-high ghost in sneakers and a spotted sheet." The . poem ends with these three lines: "I shall take to bed Last year's pumpkinhead With the same little light in side." —Dick Rau When Wagoner's poetry is read aloud his lines almost sing: The napkins and the cigarettes . Are sifting through the tennis nets." In his thirteenth poem, "Shape," the poet describes man as two concentric spheres; "The outer sphere begins his body where . . . He can be seen in barren, sunlit air . . . The inner sphere starts where he can be heard . . . The rest is dreams, symmetrically ab surd." Wagoner's personalities in the character sketches reveal them selves brilliantly. There is "Erich the Printer" who says: "If letter heads were love, I would be Christ . . . Incarnate in this room, where the ink leaks . . . Like blood , from the chipped bottles . ." and "All day, men come .. . Out of the cracks in sidewalks, flashing . . . Their key-chains and their coins like fifes . . . Asking the bodies of my type, dear star velings . . . To spell their names." Many of the poems were pub lished originally in Poetry, The Folio, Voices: A Journal of Poe try, Harper's Bazaar, ' and The Sewanee Review. Mr. ,Wagoner studied under Theodore Roethke, formerly pro- I i 1 II - "*•:;.; Dry Sun, Dry Wind SATURDAY, MAY :23,953 % , 11 , 1 j %lkk By HELEN LOUISE LUYBEN fessor of English composition at the College, to whom Dry Sun, Dry .Wind is dedicated. The first student to earn a master's degree in creative writing at Indiana University, Wagoner was given national recognition in being asked to spend a summer a Yad do, the subsidized artist's colony in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. If at First YoU Don't Succeed, Quit! NEW YORK, May 22 (W)—Grp.ce Orennan, a Hinsdale, 111., secre tary painted a self portrait and didn't think she did too good. a job. So she used the reverse side of the picture to paint a cat. She liked that painting and entered it in a National Amateur Art Festi val Competition here. Today she has a prize from the festival judges—for the self por trait. Building Rate Hindered by Korea Conflict Construction rate at the. College is considerably behind' schedule due to the Korea conflict, Walter Wiegand, director of the College physical plant, said yesterday. • Additions are being - made to five buildings on campus and three new buildings are under construction, he said. Additions are being made to Pattee Library, Buckhout Labor atory, Mineral Science Building, and Nittany Lion Inn. A south wing is being added to Recreation. Hall. The addition to the inn will cost about $1 million. One of the new buildings un der construction is the Animal Disease Research Building. This project is located on Farm 9. A new Chemistry laboratory is being erected behind Walker Lab oratory. Biggest project is the Student Union Building. It is expected' to be completed in the fall of 1954 at a cost of $2 million. It is being built on HOlmes Field, across from :•Osmond. - Laboratory... By Biblei ~~~~ --;qe
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