PAGE SIX i Published Tuesday through ,Saturday mornings inehmive durum , the College year by o: g a in s:d o f f of Thi le Daikr Co i t 1 tLe . State College. Katered as Decoad.elaas natter July 5. 1934 at the State College, Pa. Poet Office under the set of !larch 3. 1879. DAVE JONES. Editor Managing Ed., Marshall 0. Donley; City Ed.,Chuck AJost... Ban. Mgr., Mark Christ; Local Advertising Mgr., Obertance; Copy Ed., Chis Mathias; Sports E., Sam Robert Carruthers; National Adv. Mgr., Donald Hawke; Frocopio; Edit. Dir., Dick Rau; Wire-Radio Ed.,Bild Jost: Circulation Co-Mgrs., Frank Cressman, Diane Miller; See Ed., Lynn Kahanowits; Asst.. Sports Ed., Did McDowell; Promotion Mgr., Rath Israel; Personnel Mgr., Patience Mat. Soc. Ed., Liz Newell; Photo Ed., Bruce Schroeder; Ungethuem; Office Mgr., Gail Shaver; Classified Adv. Fe 'tare Ed., Nancy Meyers; Exchange Ed., Gus Vollmer: Mgr., Jean Geiger; Sec., Carol Schwing; Research and I.,ibrat.s.ek, Lorraine Gladua, Records Mgrs., Virginia Bowman. Eleanor Hennessy. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Diehl McKalip, Phil Austin, Tammie Bloom, Mike Feinsilber, Bill 011endike, Joe Beau Seigneur, Don Shoemaker, Jack Reid, George Bairey, Al Munn. Ad staff, Vince Drayne, Bob Carruthers, Don Hawke. • 710 Shopping Days Until Graduation There are as many reasons for being at Penn State as there are students. But all the reasons, no matter how varied, eventually fall into some general classification. Some come to Penn State because college is the next step in an old process. Others come because going to college is the thing to do. Some see in college a draft deferment. Others want social life. And a very few want an honest to-gosh education. Penn State provides the next step in edu cation. It -offers students a chance to come to college because everybody's doing it. It may indirectly provide draft deferment. It has social life. And for those really seeking an education, it has that too. Most students can't understand educational opportunity too well. They want to remove finals and hard profs, and want to schedule only snap courses to graduate with the least effort. These students—and there are many— aren't willing to pay the price of work for the profits of a degree. These students cannot under stand why a college is run to provide good education for the minority seeking it. Penn State however, was established to pro vide liberal and practical education. Not social AIM Has Problems' and In a few weeks the Association of Independ ent Men will start functioning as a student governmental entity. The association through its four councils—Nittany, Pollock, Town, and West Dorm—represents the independent man's means of expression on campus. Without the organization of independent men, there would be little or no chance for this largest single category of students to have its wishes known. Yet the average independent man cares little or nothing about the operations of the association except when those operations touch his pocket. It is with this lax attitude that AIM has its greatest number of troubles. Therefore, it is to AlM's credit that the group is able - to put on as many special events as it has. The Autumn Ball last year is one example of a project that started out amid considerable pessimism in some quarters—pessimism based on the inde pendent man's previous record of apathy. With the combined efforts of AIM and Leonides, in dependent women's. organization, the Autumn Bali attracted about 500 couples. Financially, the dance was successful. However, it was rather poorly attended considering the number of independents on campus. Possibly one reason for apathy is lack of re spect toward the organization by not only in dependent men, but other students as well. This lack of respect can easily be generated by errors of AIM. For example, two years ago AIM presented its outstanding independent man's athletic award to a fraternity man. Since the man was not living at the fraternity to which he belonged, but at a town address, the mistake might be understood. However, an error such as this' is not the sort of thing calculated 'to build confidence in any organization. When, a few weeks after the award incident, the AIM elections committee allowed a man to be nominated and elected to the AIM pres MIDNITE SHOW SUNDAY Doors Open 11:30 p.m. Stops You! Shocks You! HOLDS YOU! "ROBINSON PAu LE --TTE 'N,r6l GODDARD ~0 , area en, UNITED ART= alp Batty Collegian SVICC/14301" to THE FREE LANCE. ..t. 28457 Jack Wimmer's State College Sunoco Is Giving 100 GALLO S HIGH TEST BLUE SUNOCO FREE To the Class of '57 Only "It's alway great to be a freshman!" And this year it's better than ever, because This year for the first time WIMMER'S SUNOCO is giving 100 gallons of that wonderful HIGH TEST BLUE SUNOCO absolutely free to lucky members of the sure-to-be-famous CLASS OF '57. Prizes of 50, 25, 15, and 10 gallons of Sunoco • JACK WIMMER'S State College Sunoco EAST COLLEGE AVENUE THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA VINCE DRAYNE. Business Mgr. life, draft deferment, or a chance to do what everybody's doing. This, then, is why we have hard courses, hard, profs, and tests. If Penn State did not offer educational op portunities, it wouldn't have lasted 99 years. In four years at the College, some education is bound to rub off on even the most reluctant student. So we may as well help the process a bit and seek a little education on our own. As students, we have 710 shopping days until graduation. During those 710 days, many of us look for bargain courses and get stuck with inferior goods. Some of us pay the high price of study for the quality goods of knowledge. Most of us do not bother to shop during each of the 710 days. Classes begin Monday. To the freshmen, 710 days seems a long time. To ,the seniors, who are now beginning to realize the time they have wasted, 710 days is not a long time at all. Regardless of why we are here, it might be wise to make good use of our money and seek an education. It is too-bad four years must pass before we finally realize what we have missed in the line of learning. When the freshmen begin college Monday, they would be wise to utilize the 710 days. After graduation, they will never have the chance again. Potentialities idency without the required scholastic average, and the two incidents were duly condemned on the Daily Collegian's editorial page, a rec ommendation was favored by the AIM Board of Governors that the Daily Collegian refrain from tearing down AIM. Unfortunately, this was not the answer to the problem. The answer to the problem that faced AIM then and bas faced the group since, is not to be found in one editorial, or many, condemning occasional blunders. The answer to AlM's blunders can only be found in the men who are elected to fill the seats on the AIM Board of Governors. There is no substitute for compe tence and sincerity. . Almost every large organization has some amount of politics. Whether it be an openly organized political party, or several small cliques of individuals with similar interests, the political pattern still exists. It is unfortu nate that these cliques have in looking at their own glory, in some instances, worked to the disadvantage of AIM, and to the disadvantage of independent men in general. The prestige that AIM needs is not gained overnight. Nor is it gained by feeling resent ment toward a headline that mirrors and meas ures the importance of a group's activities, correct or incorrect. Prestige is gained over a period of time by the successful implementation of projects. Projects that are many, varied, and noteworthy. There are many men on campus who are independent by choice. For these and for those who are independent by rejection, AIM has the responsibility of keeping its name some what above ridicule. AIM has the necessary potential to build prestige and it has shown that it can build prestige with some of its past. fine projects. With a new school year ahead, AIM will again be faced with the opportunity to build the prestige it so sorely needs and deserves. —Dick Rau 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 1it......1 EN R - He k o z 'P ot , SINORNAL, 7-41. i 4"s giancitzy .Around _At AtinateJ, new and Oil Judging from how fast the stack of paper towels has been going down in the Carnegie Hall men's room, I would say the stu dents are returning to campus. ' It was this observation that of Carnegie the other night in ti out of cracks between buildings made of the relationship between the number of buildings toured and the number of couples that dropped out due to sore feet, etc., mostly etc. There were some upperclass men around, too. They were found hanging around such in tellectual centers as the inter section of the Mall and Pollock road, the Corner Room. and Graham's, leering at the fresh men. Three males were leering at each female and each fe male was leering at thr e e males. The ratio is inevitable. As the Week progressed more upperclassmen returned to Twist eded Ankle Acres. Twisted Ankle Acres—that's the place where very recent high school girl grad uates are referred to as women and where saddle shoes and loaf ers are set aside at least once a week in favor of high heels. With the return of more upper classmen, the methods of bird dogging progressed. To the un initiated, bird-dogging • is an an cient Roman sport brought to its peak when a guy named An thony wandered into Cleopatra's backyard to build sand castles or some such thing. Engineers! Buy Your PENN STATE ENGINEER Yearly Subscription . • . $1.25 8 issues.a year Get Your Subscription NOW Stop at Booth at,Registration FRIDAY, 'SEPTEMBER 18, 1953 51A0i0 "1 want to enroll." ed me to climb to the first floor e to see mobs of freshmen oozing An interesting study might be Since that time convertibles have replaced sandals as the chief mode of transportation and the upperclassmen can now lean over the side of a car to get a better look at Little Red Riding Hood. The frosh women, having been warned about upperclass men early in their orientation life, look back with genuine, although slightly morbid, in.; terest at these male animals that roam Twisted Ankle Acres with the freedom granted them under game conservation laws. WhiCh reminds me of Coca Cola. Some bright person in the aforementioned industry saw the financial possibilities ,in estab lishing stands outside Recreation Hall during registration. It's too bad it wasn't done a couple of years. ago when there were board of control lines in and out of and around nearly every building on campus. Of course then there would .have been the problem of a wood supply for the stands. Speaking of wood reminds me of the Pollock dorms. There are women in one of them now. My! I understand some of the (Continued on page seven) By Bibler By DICK RAU
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