THURSDAY. OCTOBER 15, 1953 j' - ohortil.'i::::.Pikotso, Morality:,.F.-i:objom. "The real puzzle with moral problems Is that it is easier to con . -demn 'immoral behavior' than it is to get people to live in a respon sible .world," Dr. Paul L. Lehmann said ,in an informal discussion ..„ of student •• problems. . . • • Dr.. Lehmann, professor of applied Christianity and director of graduate - studies at Princeton Theological Seminary, has been on campus working with the Penn State Christian Association on an "Institute in Religion" program. • In discussing social problems, Dr." Lehmann said, "Drinking in itself is• not wrong. It is a symp-• torn 'of something else that is wrong. Attempts to correct the evils by prohibiting raises more problems than they settle.. The bad side, habitual drinking as an escape method, should be attacked by bringing young people together in social.relationships so meaning ful that they will learn how to become -responsible persons and the values by which to live." Dr.. Lehinann feels religion isn't meaningful to students un less it is concerned with, their interests and problems. Religion should teach - students what it takes' to be concerned with each other and to join together in coin mofr'interests. When questioned about the re cent condemnation of Penn State students for their behavior, Dr. Lehmann said, "Taxpayers have no right to say -how students be-, have. They support education be cause of its importance to public; life, if they try to control, they 1 defeat the purpose of education.! Character is made, not bought. "The indifference of students to campus activities is a sign that they don't realize they are a part of a community. The values with which they approach education are too narrow.. Far too many students consider education as only a means for getting,not giv ing. Maybe they don't ow how to belong to society." "These problems can be over come by spreading responsibili ties .in and for campus "affairs among many students instead of among cliques, and ,by teaching students how to be a living part of a community," he said. _ "College should be a• sort of laboratory where students can meet, discuss and try to solve their own problems and those of people living outside their im mediate circle " In closing, Dr. Lehmann re marked, "There is too much draw ing of rules. More risks' with all kinds of groups and programs should be taken which will help people to discover that it is 'fun to be good'." WSGA House Meeting Set for 6:30 Tonight WSGA House of RePresenta - - tives will meet at 6:30 tonight in White, Hall, Maud Strawn, speak er of the house, announced. In voting on the tie for dormi tory presidents in Units 1 and 4 McElwain, Patricia Colgan was elected president of Unit 1 and Winifred Rhoad vice president. In Unit 4 Susan Wescott was elected president and Barbara Kilmer vice president. Frosh Council to Elect New Officers Monday Freshman Council will elect officers at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the day student room of Wom an's Building\ according to Bar bara Stock, president. The council voted to enter , a booth in the Mardi Gras Carni val Oct. 30 in Rec Hall. • Gamma Phi Beta 'Gamma Phi. Beta recently held a slumber party in the suite for new pledges. SALLY SAYS: "It pays to advertise in The Collegian SALLY'S 140 S. Pugh, Ph. 2373 By AL MUNN coeds ;Vie .For WSGA, A Posts Final elections for two Wo men's Student Government Asso ciation and three Women's Rec reation Association offices will, be held from 10 am. to 7 tonight in women's .dormitories. Two freshman senators to WSGA and one sophomore and two freshman representatives to WRA will be elected. Nominated in primary elections Tuesday to run for WSGA fresh man senators were Suzanne Loux, Majorie • Babb and Beth Casey. first semester arts and letLers ma jors and Barbara Hendel, first semester chemistry major. Candidates for sophomore rep resentative to WRA are Judy Cor field, Lois Piemme, Mary Bu chanan and Shirley Mix. The Misies Piemme and Mix are third semester physical edu cation majors. Miss Corfield is a third semester bacteriology ma jor and Miss -Buchanan, a third semester home economics major. Janet Lee, Sally Rosser, Mariarh Jones and Martha Patterson will compete for WRA freshman rep resentatives. The Misses Lee and Jones are first semester home economics majors and the Misses Rosser and Patterson, fi;Ft sem ester education majors. Women living in Grange Dorm itory, Woman's Building, the cottages and town may ,vote in McAllister Hall. Town women must present matriculation cards. All other women may vote in the main lobbies of their dormi tories. Newman Club Opens Radio Series Tonight The Newman Club radio pro gram will broadcast for the first time at 9:15 tonight on Station WMAJ. Perions interested in the radio committee will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Catholic Youth Center. risque sayings no more bad moods =- they'll keep you laughing The Treasure House E. College Ave. THE DAM? • COLLEGIAN'. STATE gOLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA (Coyttinued from page four) lively personality creeps out - to the canvas. • Come i 4 Pfal r ueo decorate your Malls with Wiiispptitig . :Gallery ‘: • Asa child he' took art seriously and strove .to attend the Philadel-: phia MUseum School of Arta His dream was -realized in the early thirties with •his graduation and degree from the • school. "This was a grim fling , for everybody and artists in partic ular found it hard to belieVe. that prosperity, was just around the corner," he admitted. "People were too busy trying to pick up the pieces of a shat tered stock market to worry about fine arts," he said. Artists couldn't even , break into the commercial field, through, agen cies." Jack set to work as an inde pendent business man and made his living by lettering trucks and business shingles. But few trucks were put on the highways and very few shingles were hung. Most people were -trying to forget their finandial panics over a. Saturday night been Jack followed the crowds into the taverns to paint. Although he swears he had noth ing to do with "the face on the barroom floor," he did paint fine murals behind the .bars and on the walls of dining rooms. Real estate transfers were to his ad vantage too and he built up al most a monopoly of painting "For Rent" and "For Sale" signs in Bucks County. Meanwhile his work progressed from the whims of youth to 'a finely hewn maturity. On week ends he stole away across the woods and mountains of Bucks County to discover old covered bridges, and waterfalls and moun tain shacks to preserve on his canvases. "Sometimes I pailited from na ture, sometimes from memory. Often I took photographs to use as models. This makes it easier," he said. For many years he devoted his talents almost exclusively to quaint street scenes of New town, or bucolic landscapes in the Delaware Valley, or an .oc ca'sional _portrait of his wife, Rita,' or a friend. These he ex hibited in Philadelphia shows or in' his wife's . beauty parlor, sometimes selling a canvas to an art enthusiast. Then his temperaments shifted to abstractions— flattened fishes and owls and flora painted in a weird medley of bright and som bre -shades. Three years ago he began paint ing neo-objectives, a combination of the natural elements and ab stracts in his ' earlier works. On weekends and after lecture hours at the Museum School of Att, where ke ' is now an instructor, he is constantly working on new paintings for future exhibits. Of ten he works on several studies at the , same time. He still paints partly from mem ory, partly from photographs he has shot himself, and partly from model setups. The result is a mon tage effect—an outrageous clash of the realistic and the abstract —giving a superimposed pattern that is • surprisingly pleasing to the eye and as mentally arousing as anything concocted by Dali. Critics, professional and amateur, are praising Foster for his strik ing, use of color, good draftsman ship, and realistic third-dimen sional effects. Spectators at the exhibit tried to run their fingernails up and down the cracks in some boards he painted and to pluck precious • and semi-prescious stones from their canvas setting. Butterfly i collectors would have had a field day. Subject matter in the i paintings varies with objects taken from a particular period of histdry and mixed with na ture, as is evidence d - in the George Washington mugs, cracked Christmas • bulbs, early American steeds from weather 1 vanes, Colonial coins, antique coffee pots, chickens, insects and autumn leaves. "Objects have no particular meaning," he told us. "I discover some of them in peop'le's homes. Others are taken from, newspaper clippings and sights in American museums." "Iconograph" was awarded the annual Philadelphia Sketch Club gold. medal this year as the best oil painting entered in their show. The painting is a study of world religions - with a line drawing of the crucified Christ overlapping images of Buddha, an Egyptian diety taken from the wall of a IiETME/41"804PVCE • -Q) 24 SOUTH ALLEN ST. STATE COLLEGE,PA tomb, and an African ceremonial mask. • "Most of my pictures .do not have a definite story," Foster ex plained, "but they represent a vis ual expression without narrative." Last year Foster received the Dana medal from the Philadel phia Water Color Club for his "Nocturne," a study of a lone girl looking over the back fence in a tenement district at twilght. tenment district at twlight. The artist was commissioned by Robert Halter, proprietor of the River House restaurant in New Hope to paint the "Chil dren's Hour," a study of Ameri can toys used by children dur ing the Civil War. Models were taken from Mr. Halter's own prize collection of antique toys. "Another. Day," and "Birthday," inspired by character's from Goethe are also owned .by the River House. Other Foster • works can be found ih the Tow Path House on the Delaware barge canal in Bucks County, the New Jersey Depart ment of State Highways in Tren ton, bars and restaurants in New York City, and in private collec tions in the East. He has exhibited at ;the Aca demy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and at the Philadelphia Art Al liance in• addition to the New Hope Galleries. If you're wandering through a public lobby in Philadelphia one day and find the wall enhanced by a picture-puzzle-like painting, perhaps one engraved "The Let ter," take a look at the name on the address—chances are ; you'll be face to face with an original Fos ter! Tau Kappa Epsilon Tau Kappa Epsilon was enter tained recently by Gamma Phi Beta with a skit followed by dancing and refreshments. ANOTHER name that makes the CHARLES SHOP the leading fashion shop . . 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