P: FO UR Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive I during the College year by the staff of The Daily Col- Ilegian of the Pennsylvania State College. • • ft • DAVE JONES, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Shirley Musgrave; Copy Editors, Peggy McClain, Herm Weis kopf; Assistants, Marcie McDonald, Bob Dunn, Roger Beidler. What Good Is Student Encampthent? - Recommendations from the 1953 Student En- The Student Encanipment, properly utilized, campment will begin flowing into All-College may bring together good ideas and solve many Cabinet for final approval tomorrow night. problems. But these problems cannot be solved Cabinet must act favorably upon each resolu-- merely by resolution. They must be effectively Lion before it may go into effect. implemented. Getting the ideas has been accom- The Student Encampment was held prior to plished. Actuating them is another thing. Orientation Week at Mont Alto Forest School. The encampment proposals are the result of The second such event, the encampment brought long, hard, and generally good thinking which together about 130 students, faculty, and ad- cannot be reproduced by cabinet in the short ministraxors to discuss, no holds barred, mutual time it has to consider them. Some proposals Will be poor, but most will be good for both problems. The purpose of the encampment is students and the College. Cabinet should listen to bring together good ideas, to solve those problems with resolutions, and to present those closely to the encampment proposals and realize resolutions to cabinet. they are the result of solid thinking. Cabinet had better deeply consider the implications of Cabinet tomorrow • night will consider the the proposals they are about to act upon. most pressing of these encampment recom- If the encampment -and its purpose is to be a mendations. The recommendations grew out of success, then the College also must heed the encampment discussions on 13 topics. resolutions. If the proposals represent solid Bringing together leading students and Col- thinking to cabinet, they must also represent lege personnel to pool resources is no small solid thinking to the administration, faculty, task. In accomplishing the task, the encamp- and the student body. The encampment pro ment committee made mistakes. In some cases, posals are largely the result of student think proper students and administrators were not ing. If Penn State is .to provide better educe invited to the encampment. Too many problem tional opportunities, the College must also give areas were handled in the length of time pro- the students liberal control over themselves. vided. In general, there was not enough time . One way is for the College to effectively carry to discuss, and were not enough heads to think out the cabinet-approved resolutions which together. But as the encampment grows, these have grown out of the '1953 Student Encamp problems will diminish. ment. Vets and Frost. Can Live Together Since the first years of the Korean police under Public Laws 550 and 346. The club has action have elapsed, there have been veterans also helped plan social events for 12-‘th veterans of that action arriving on campus. Last year a and non-veterans. sizable group arrived on campus. This - year However, one of the best ways to avoid con there will probably be a larger group in our flicts is a little understanding between the non midst. veterans and the veterans. Both should realize With the arrival of these men, problems may they are in some respects poles. apart. The vet also arrive; not that these problems will be erans have _received some training through the brought on by the veterans as such. They will - armed services for resolving differences that be problems that are inherent with the placing aren't to be found in Robert's Rules of Order. of one group of people, who have grown up in They also may have learned some means of rec-' an environment totally different from that of reation that differ somewhat from the non college, into a group that has known little else veteran's idea of sport. but either the high school or home environment. The non-veteran freshmen in their youthful Methods have been suggested to ease the exuberance may at the same time become ex conflict between the two groups. The Veterans tremell irksome to the veteran. Each can learn Club, for example, was organized to help the something from-the other. Since both the vet veteran, particularly the Korean veteran, gain ' eran and the non-veteran have supposedly the information concerning educational benefits same purpose in mind, namely a college edu cation, there exists a common basis for the solution to conflicts that may arise. With the common basis in mind, plus a little understanding and respect for the rights of others, both the veteran and the non-veteran can get more out of college than the memory of battles won and lost. - Safety Valve Protest Wearing Ties, Coats in Dining Hall TO THE EDITOR: A notice from the Dean of Men's office has recently been posted in the Nittany-Pollock area which specifies coats and ties will be worn for the Sunday noon meal. What folly! We feel this regulation is not only unnecessary but impractical. The Nittany dining hall is not one of the showplaces of the College. It lacks the restaurant-like atmosphere of the West Dorms. It is more the "greasy spoon" type of eating establishment. Our apologies to the dining hall personnel who do the best with what they have. , We feel that persons responsible for this rul ing have no right to dictate our manner of dress. However, if a majority of the persons eating in this dining hall feels there should be a ruling of this type, we would be willing to abide by it. Why can't we of the Nittany-Pol lock area decide on this issue for ourselves? Rollin Mann, Walter Whitcher, Francis Yagelowich, John Wallis, Ronald Lehmen, Raymond Oberleitner. and Sherwood Hill. Engineers! Buy Your PENN STATE ENGINEER Yearly Subscription . . . $1.25 8 issues a year Get Your Subscription NOW On Sale at Corner Until Friday Collegian editorial's repre 01PN • extlirgiait sent the viewpoint of the writers, not necessarily the • policy of the newspaper. Un signed editorials :re by the Saccesser to THE FREE LANCE. eat. ISlr7 editor. THE DAILY' COLLEGIAN. STATE cuLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr. Gazette ... Today COLLEGE RADIO STATION candidates, 7:30 p.m., 304 Sparks. DAILY COLLEGIAN BUSINESS Staff Candi- dates, 7:30 p.m., 2 Carnegie Hall. DAILY COLLEGIAN SOPHOMORE Board, 7 p.m., 9 Carnegie Hall. FROTH ART CANDIDATES, 8 p.m., 9 Carnegie Hall. FROTH EDITORIAL STAFF and Candidates, 8 p.m., 9 Carnegie Hall. HILLEL RADIO and Crew Tryouts, 7-9:30 p.m., Hillel Foundation. WRA HOCKEY CLUE, 4 p.m., Holmes Field, all students welcome. WRA MODERN. DANCE CLUB, 7 p.m., Rhythm room. • WRA LIFE SAVING CLASS, 7 p.m., locker room. Non-credit class. Thursday, Sept. 24 ' CHAPEL CHOIR rehearsal, 7 p.m, Carnegie. —Dick Rau A CHEERFUL WELCOME to all and. our good wishes for a successful 1953-54 school year. Frorri the CORNER unusual Purveyors of the Finest Foods ,THE CORNER WILL BE OPEN UNTIL MIDNIGHT EACH DAY ON OPEN DAYS. Shortage of help has forced us to close at 9 each night. ttle Man on Campus "I put a desk at both ends of th' classroom—confuses' heck out of those students who always sit in th' back row." glancing Around encampnient There comes a time in everyone's life when he is called upon to think. This, unfortunately, has happened to me—twice, and before .::chool started yet. The first time it was the first student encampment at Mont Alto last year. The second time was Sept. 10-12, another en campment. The first time I helped cover the affair for the Daily C. The second time I enjoyed it. Encampment resolutions, as you will find out shortly, sometimes have a tendency to be varied and long. That, fortunately, is some one else's worry this year. Since no one has yet expounded on the lighter side of the encampment, I• thought I would take a few liberties. My first view of some of the encampment personnel was somewhat startling. There, spread out on a vast expanse of green, was a representation of students, faculty, and adminis trative personnel crouching and wildly leaping about, occasion ally emitting shouts of glee. My first impression was that some of the men had been standing around under the mid-day sun too long without a hat. Closer examination revealed they were engaged in the time honored pursuit of catching grass hoppers. Of course, what else would they be doing? In Mont Alto, everybody catches grass hoppers. It's almost a national pastime. It's not the effect of the altitude on the population. It's the trout. In every society,there is a group that, in the long run, calls the tune • for 'everyone to follow. In Russia, it's the communists. In the WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1353 By DICK RAU United States, it's one of the pol itical parties. In Mont Alto, it's the trout. The trout 101 l about in their humidified atmosphere all day while highly educated hu mans Chase around the greens ward capturing grassoppers for the trout's table. Considering the number of times the grasshoppers outwitted the College men, I would say either the grasshoppers are quite clever or else our edu cation system is faulty in its stu dent selection procedure. I failed to learn who insti tuted the practice of keeping the trout well fed. It certainly wasn't the grasshoppers. The grasshopper population takes a rather dim view of this state of affairs judging from their mute protestations. The grasshoppers try to take care not to get their feet wet. It can be hazardous. The trout are not so lazy that their meal must be served to them personally on a platter. They will even stir themselves to come to the surface for their repast. It is really quite a sight to see a yawning mouth break 'through the water to snap (Continued on page five) By Bibler
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