P.A.CIF, SIX
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DAVE JONES, Editor
Manses*: Ed., Mari.hall 0. 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 Jost; Circulation' Co-Mgrs., Frank Cressman, Diane Miller;
Soc. Ed., Lynn Kahanowitz; Asst. Sports Ed., Dick McDowell: Promotion Mgr., Ruth Israel; Personnel Mgr., Patience
Asst. Sor. Ed.. Liz 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 Eladns. Records Mgrs., Virginia Bowman. Eleanor Hennessy.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Jack Reid, Nancy Gray, Ann Leh; Mary Lee Lauffer, Phil Austin, Mike Fein
silber, Don Shoemaker, Al Goodman, Peggy McClain, Baylee Friedman, Ed Reiss. Ad Staff: Vince
Drayne, Bob Carruthers, Don Hawke, Eli Arenberg.
Slick Advice May Slide Wrong Way
With many upperclassmen on campus today
for registration, some freshmen are probably
receiving all kinds of advice on how to beat the
College's registration timetable. Forget it.
The best advice for freshmen and upperclass
men comes from C. 0. Williams, registrar:
1. Be on time.
2. Register for yourself and yourself only.
The question of punctuality raises several
points. First of all, by being on time we do not
mean being one, two, or three minutes late.
Those who are late will have to wait until the
last to register. The unfortunate students who
have to wait until last soon discover that many
or possibly all sections of some courses are
filled. This situation can produce:
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1. A bad case of nerves.
2. A bad temper.
3. A worse schedule, consisting in the main
of eight o'clocks, Saturdays, and a few other
odd hours scattered in between.
There are times when tardiness may be caused
by the disappearance of advisers. In this in
stance Williams advises the student to go to his
department head immediately if the adviser
cannot be found. If the department head cannot
be found, the student should go to the dean of
his school. However, the registrar points out the
student should report to his adviser at least
24 hours before the student is to report to Rec-
Used Book Agency. Benefits Students
New students on campus will soon discover
the student-operated Used Book Agency in the
TUB is one place where they may buy and sell
used books at substantial gain. The agency—
called the ÜBA—is a non-profit service to stu
dents, handling only used text books.
Through the ÜBA, the student realizes two
benefits. First, he may price his book at what
he thinks it is worth and generally is able to
sell it for more than he could get at a book store.
Second, he may select from many books of
varied prices, generally finding the book he
wants at a lower price than he could at a book
store. He may sell the book at the price he sets
and purchase books at the price he can afford.
An outstanding benefit of the ÜBA is its self
service operation. Hundreds of used books are
arranged by courses on tables on the TUB dance
floor. Students may browse through the books,
select a book with price marked in it, and make
a purchase. This wide choice of books gives the
purchaser an equally wide choice of prices.
Even though the seller receives higher prices
for his books, the purchaser still benefits. Prices
asked by students are usually much lower than
those asked by other agencies.
The agency will open today and will be open
from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily until Sept. 25. More
used books are still needed and will be accepted
until Tuesday.
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Freshmen will get an early look at the BX
when they go there for official dress customs.
The BX is a year-round operation. The ÜBA
operates only at the opening of each semester,
when used book sales are being made.
The ÜBA's biggest drawback has been lack
of used books for sale. Hundreds are offered
each semester, but ,hundreds more are never
taken to the ÜBA or are sold to bookstores. If
more students took their books to the ÜBA,
more students would benefit from the agency.
The constant growth of the Book Exchange
and the Used Book Agency points out the deep
need for such an operation at Penn State. The
BX and ÜBA have established themselves as
definite student services. And only through in
creased and continued support may students
demonstrate their appreciation for these. services.
THE DAILY COLLEMAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
reation Hall for registration. Adequate time
should also" be allowed for the payment of fees
before registration.
There are two rather cogent reasons for a
student to register for himself only. These are
sections C-4 and W-7 of the Senate Regulations
for Undergraduate Students, 1953-54. Section
C-4 states: "No student shall register for an
other student or permit anyone to register on
his behalf." Section W-7 provides for disciplin
ary action for the students who violate section
C-4.
There are other reasons dictated by common
sense rather than by regulation that should
deter a student from registering for anyone
other than himself. If, for example, one section
is closed when a student registers, he is the
only-one who can know what other time is best.
If a course is closed, he is the only one who can
decide on another course. No one would want
another student to decide which course he
should follow for the semester.
The schedule for registration must be main
tained: An exception for one would mean an
exception for all. With 11,500 individual sched
ules plus the possibility of registration by proxy,
an efficient registration system built up from
years of experience could, be reduced to absolute
chaos in half a day.
The ÜBA is part of a larger student operation,
the Book Exchange. The Book Exchange—called
BX—is also located in the. TUB. It is .a non
profit student operation which sells student
supplies on a cooperative basis. For each $5 in
purchases, the s tudent receives $1 free in mer
chandise.
Since 1949, the Book Exchange and its fellow
Used Book Agency increased by leaps and
bounds. Last fall, the agency alone handled
over $3OOO in used books. Last spring, the total
increased. This does not include money handled
by the BX.
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Third Dementia
Whispering
Gallery
Are you one of these curious. third dementia fans who pay any
where from 65 cents to $1.50 to rush into a darkened theatrical abyss
and be frightened by invaders from Mars, strangled by coiling boas,
trampled by stampeding cattle,, and run over 'by railroad trains?
If so, chances are you belong to the thundering .herd of celluloid
fanciers the industry is trying frantically to .keep within its clutches
to bolster fading box office prestige (and profits).
The current slump in the fabu
lous movie industry goes back
about five years when TV came
into its own as a common media
for entertainment. Box office lines
shriveled from 80 million to 40
million weekly patrons across the
nation.
Disaster for Hollywood! As
production slackened, producers
g r a b b e d for an overdose of
sleeping pills, glamour girls got
the ax in an economy drive, and
temperamental for e i g n stars
were packed up.and sent home,
finding their services no longer
required. Things have become
so bad that even Betty Grable,
for years one of filmdom's lead-'
Fng money makers, is out of a
job.
While Hollywood was busy cry
ing wolf, no one noticed Fred
Waller, a man with a new idea for
projecting movies on a curved
screen, giving an illusion of depth.
When "This Is Cinerama" opened
in New York last September to
full houses and money poured into
the Waller coffers, the whole filria
colony had to sit up and take no
tice. The feeling of "being there"
.
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'Jack Wimmer's State College' Sunoco Is Giving
100 GALLONS
HIGH TEST BLUE. SUNOCO
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• To the Class of '57-004
"It's alway great to be a freshman!" And this year ifs. better
than ever, because this year for the
.first time . WIMMER'S
SUNOCO is giving 100 gallons of that wonderlul'HlGH TEST
BLUE SUNOCO absolutely free to lucky _ " memberi of the
sure-to-be-famous CLASS OF '57.
Prizes of 56, 25, 15, - anci 10 gallons of Sunoco
JACK WIMMER'S
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WEDNESDAY; - :SEPTEMBER 16, -. 1953
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By CHIZ MATHIAS
—going over Niagara Falls, riding
the roller coaster, and flying over
Grand Canyon perked up audience
reaction like a strong hypodermic.
Hollywood snatched up the idea
and in November came out with
some hastily-made drivel, "Bwana
Devel," to, cash in on the .buying
public's stakes. "Bwana Devil"
was produced in "Natural Vision,"
a stereoscopic method requiring
polaroid_ glasses. Strictly a class C
movie, it is expected to gross sev
eral million dollars.
The audience . was attracted by
the gimmicks .of the picture with
the curiosityof spectators at a side
show. BuSiness boomed and 3-D
became a household word, the
greatest thing in theaters since
pop corn. ; -
Actually the -process was noth
ing new. It can be , traced back to
the turn of the century when a
demonstration was shown at the'
Paris Exposition. -But audiences
were not enthused. They Were
tired of sitting in parlors and
looking, at . stereopticon- slides
and sought something more en
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