'AGE FOUR - - t'oblished Tuesday thrOsik Sot- .011 Collegian editorials . represent u:day mornings inclusive during I u tt ia ll c a tt egiati the viewpoint of the writers. the College year by the staff Mat necessarily the policy of the r.t The Daily Collegian of the 'newspaper. Unsigned editorials rennsylvi.nia State College: Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est_ 1887 are by the editor. Filtered as at coad-clasa matter July 5. 1954 at the State College, Pa. Post — Office! an DAVE JONES. Editor TAFF THIS ISSUE: Night, editor, Mike Feinsilber; Copy editors, Betty Koster, Marcie MacDonald; Assista ats, Joe Beau Seigneur, Anna Saylor, Bill Pete, Bob Dunn, and Robert Hertz. Ad staff: Linda Holmes, John Craig at►d Eenie Wolfgang. .. _ • Senate Action on the Spring Carnival Some students breathed a sigh of relief last - through 'the carnival.. the scholarship fund .is week after. the Senate committee on student built. affairs set up a student screening board for Some events in last year's carnival were too Spring Week. loose. Some groups did overemphasize sex and After Spring Week, and particularly the student drinking was uncovered. This, however. Spring Carnival last semester, the Senate corn- by no means indicates the carnival is bad. mittee indicated prior approval of all events The Senate committee may •have made a in this year's program would be necessary. wise move in setting up the screening board. Students felt this meant Senate censorship of _ The board will review entries and give one all events, with elimination of those undesirable. warning to any group not conducting itself The Senate action, however, can prove an properly. If changes are not made, the board intelligent set-up. Under arrangements this may close the event. - - year, every Spring Week event will be screened This seems a fair enough standard and should by a seven member student committee. Assist= produce results. The Senate cannot expect the ant Dean of Men Harold W. Perkins will advise screening board to be hypocritical, however, the group. . and there should probably be few, if any, in- Spring Carnival last year was a thorn in the stances of warnings. side to both administration and- faculty. Some If the student screening board dcies not pro objected to overemphasis on , sex. Others corn- duce a more cleanly carnival this year, the plained of excessive class cutting. Senate may clamp further restrictions on the However big a thorn Spring Week or the - affair, or eliminate it all together. Thus, this carnival may be to some, it is rapidly becoming board may well have the tremendous responsi a tradition at Penn State. It has enthusiastic bility of saving the carnival. student support and is one illustration of student Those who breathed a sigh of relief with the ingenuity. Such events as Mrs. Dwight D. Eisen- Senate action had better withhold that sigh hower's crowning Miss Penn State can bring until after the carnival. There is nothing wrong the College good national publicity. with making sure the carnival does not stain Too often overlooked is where Spring Week the name of the College. The Senate action ap profits, go. It has been policy in the past to pears wise, but its merits cannot be determined contribute proceeds from the week to the Penn until after the carnival is 'held. State Student Scholarship Fund, an infant stu- The College must recognize students have a dent aid program. Practically all of the week's right to raise a little hell. As long as the carnival profits are from the carnival. stays within reasonable bounds—which it prob- Some too often forget the good points 01 ably was last year—there is no reason to stop Spring Week and would strike out those points it. If it gets out of hand, action must be taken. slightly distasteful. The carnival, admittedly, It is very doubtful, however, if the Spring was the chief objection' in Spring Week. Yet Carnival has ever gotten out of hand. Saturday Classes: They Shall Return Saturday classes, whether students like them or not, are on the way back under a new class scheduling plan. The new sequence goes into effect next semester. Classes on Saturday morning were quite com mon in 1950-51 when many three-hour, three credit courses met Tuesday, Thursday and Sat urday. The last two school years, however, Saturday classes have been mainly labs or two hour periods. The College has several reasons for resuming Saturday classes. A paramount reason is the difficulty Penn State has in justifying its need for new classroom and laboratory buildings when State legislators find few or no rooms in use Saturday morning. What the legislature apparently overlooks is that it is a physical impossibility to utilize all rooms all the time. The scheduling difficulties encountered in attempting to do this would be unbelievable. In the nation, 60 per cent utili zation is considered efficient, and Penn State averages far above that figure. Another prime reason for Saturday classes is the increase in classroom space it will pro duce. Classes will be scheduled Monday, Wed nesday and Friday, and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. In most cases Tuesday and Thursday' afternoons will be kept open for labs and two-hour class meetings. It is hard for the layman to see how shifting classes thus will produce more class space, since courses and rooms are static. However, it does. Labs are planned for certain afternoons and are removed from other times of the day when they interfere with normal class sequences. Thus, a four-hour lab that would normally interfere with four or more sequences would be held in'an afternoon when it would inter fere with no sequenc'es. This would leave the Today CHEM-PHYS STUDENT COUNCIL, 7 p.m., 103 Osmond. GENERAL AG CLUB; 7:30-8:30 p.m., 210 . Ag. NEWMAN CLUB discussion group, 7:30 ; p.m., Student Center. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Counselors—The Iron Rail, Mass. will interview experienced women Oct. 26. Girl to cook every evening 4-7 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT SERVICE The. companies listed below will conduct interviews on campus. Schedule interviews now in 112 Old Main. THE PHILADELPHIA GAS WORKS will interview Jan. graduates in CE, EE, .lE, ME, and Ch.E on Oct. 27. CARTER OIL LABS. will interview Jan. graduates in ME, EE, Ch.E, P.N.G. and Geo-Chem. on Oct. 28 and 29. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CO. will ' interview Jan. graduates in ME, IE, EE and Phys. on Oct. 29. PROVIDENT MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. of PHILA. will interview Jan. graduates in Bus. Ad. and Arts & Let ters on Oct. 30. CELANESE CORP. OF AMERICA will interview Jim. graduates in Ch.E, lE, ME, Chem., and Labor-Management Relations on Oct. 30. WEST PENN POWER CO. will interview Jan. graduates in ET and .AIE on Oct. 30. ' DOW CHEMICAL CO. will interview Jan. graduates in Metal., Chem. Ch, E, ME; M.S. candidates in Metal., Chem, Ch.E and ME who have completed at least one semester, and Ph.D. candidates in Metal., Chem., Ch.E. and ME ex.- pectineto receive their degrees in 1954 on Oct. 28. RADIO CORPORATION OF AMERICA will interview January graduates in RE, ME, ChE, Physics and Ceramics Oct. 21. RCA VICTOR will also interview Jan. graduates in 1E and Metallurgy on Oct. 20-21. PROCTOR AND GAMBLE CO. will interview Ph.D. can didates in Chem. and Ag. Bio-Chem. expecting to receive their degrees in 1954 on Oct. 21. THE DAILY. COLLEGL4.I%7:: STATE COLLEGE.' PEDIV Acil IA lab room open for four courses instead of only one. As a result of this type of new-found space, more sections may - be scheduled. How can more sections help the student? They give him a wider choice of class hours and perhaps a wider choice of courses. Through his wider choice of class hours, and more sec tions, the student may be able to more easily schedule out of Saturday classes. Thus the para dox—Saturday classes may allow the student a better schedule .after all. There will be much confusion over what courses are scheduled on Saturday. For the College, the ideal situation is to hold required courses on Saturday, thus insuring enrollment. For the professor teaching the required courses, this is not such a good idea: Nor is it for the student. Still, it .is hard to visualize the student who will enroll in a Saturday class when he may take the same course on Friday. Saturday classes, it seems, are all very nice for the College. They are' not necessarily nice for the student. Many students must work to stay in college, and working on Saturday morn ings can mean much. Often it is desirable, or necessary, to go home on a weekend. Saturday classes also prohibit this. These are the days of the 40, and sometimes 35, hour week. The student is expected to spend two hours of study for each hour of class. This means a student with 18 credits spends 54 hours in college -Mork a week. Of course, this isn't physical labor. But two full days without class es may be much more profitable than one and one-half days. The Saturday class plan will lighten and standardize the-student's schedule during the week. But where is the student who , prefers Saturday classes to the present helter-skelter scheduling set-up. Obviously the plan does not have the student immediately in mind. Gazette ... SOCONY-VACUUM OIL CO: • will interview is!unary graduates in the fields of CE, ME, Ch.E, Bus. Adm., arid Liberal Arts on Oct. 21. DU PONT will interview Ph.D. candidates sin Ch.E, ME, Engineering Mechanics, Chem. and, Physics expecting to receive their degrees in 1954 on Oct. 21-23. THE BURROUGHS CORPORATION will. interview Jan uary graduates in ME and , EE on Oct.-22. FEDERAL TELECOMMUNICATION LABS. will inter view Ph.D. candidates in EE and Physics expecting to re ceive their degrees in 1954, M.S. candidates in EE and Physics who have completed at least one semester, and January B.S. graduates in: EE and Physics on Oct. 22. DU PONT will interview M.S. candidates in Ch.E, ME, lE, Chem., and Physics who have completed at least one semester, and January B.S. graduates in Ch.E. ME, lE, Chem., and Physics on Oct. 22-23. SHELL DEVELOPMENT - CO. will interview Ph.D. can didates in Physics expecting to receive their degrees in 1954 on Oct. 22-23. SYLVANIA ELECTRIC PRODUCTS INC. will interview January graduates in Chem., Physics, Accounting, Busi. ness Management. Mathematics, Ceramics, Metallurgy, EE, •lE, ME, on.. Oct. 23. NORTH AMERICAN 'AVIATION (COLUMBUS DIV.) will interview Jan. graduates in Aero. Engr., ME, EE, CE. and Arch. Eng. on Oct. 27. NORTH AMERICAN AVIATION, LOS ANGELES DIV. will interview January Graduates in Aero, CE, EE, ME, Arch. Engr., Ph.D. candidates in Aero, EE, CE, ME, •Arch. Engr., M.S. candidates .in Aero., EE, CE, ME. and Arch. Engr., on Oct. 26. THE NATIONAL TUBE DIV. OF U.S. STEEL will inter view January graduates in ME,',EE, and Metal. on ,Oct. 26. CURTISS-WRIGHT (PROPELLER DIV.) will interview Jan. graduates in Aero. Engr., ME. EE, and Metal.; and M.S. candidates in Aefo, Engr., ME, and EE who have completed at least one semester on Oct. 27. PITTSBURGH CONSOLIDATION COAL will interview January graduates in Chem. and ChE. ' Ph.D. candidates in Chem. and ChE. expecting to receive degrees in 1954, and M.S. candidates in' Chem. and ChE. who have completed at knot one semester on Oct.. 26. er the act of hlareh 3. 1879. VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr. ttle Man on Campus V%; or, c=, d better go in now, Worthal—l see th' dorm hostess got back gancitzg .Arounal At a efoodielling. In everyone's life there comes a time when following a principle in 'which one believes gets one into a somewhat inconvenient situ ation. have a knack for getting into thdse situations. I must be talented. For example, about four weeks ago, the chance came up for a group in which I am interested to put a display in a downtown window. In view of the short notice, - the question arose as to whether or not we could do it in the required time. When asked what I thought about the possibilities, I answered in a burst of enthusiasm. The re sult was almost predictable. "All right, you're in charge of it." "Thanks." And so it goes. Once I be lieved in the principle of help ing one's fellow man every time one's fellow man seemed desirous of having a bit of in formation. This resulting situ ation was not , quite as predict able. The fellow man I was about to meet was standing in front of the public library at home tugging vainly at the door. Failing in either getting into the home for unwanted wood pulp *or iin pull ing the handle off the door, he turned: to me and asked when the library opened. I leaped .to the opportunity to provide information for a man who wished to join a more intel lectual climate than is found on the streets, and pointed out the sign painted in rather large let ters 'that said during the summer the library.was closed Wednesday evenings. Seeing that his attempt to mix with the literary works of the intelligentsia was thwarted, he.. changed his objective and asked where the nearest - house of impoverished virtue was. 'Sometimes I don't .q ui t e understand intellectuals. • The 'policy of following my principles was pursued with some what less vigor after that little incident—Until last week. •There was a call for blood. I heeded it. Just why I did it, I haven't quite figured out yet. Certainly the general behavior pattern of grab bing for a soft absorbent bit of material after a one-sided bout with a razor blade hasn't become one 'of my' conditioned reflexes. But the principle was followed to its normally bloody conclusion. My first indication, that I was acceptable to the corpuscle col lectors arrived in the form of a postcard, containing' all sorts of information about where and when I - should appear and what I should eat: Eating hadn't been too much of a problem with me. It was easy. All I had. to do was walk into a diner, find a menu, study the right-hand •margin..until I WEDNE S/J.A , ou - TUBER 21, 19 By Bible found the lowest figure, and order. With the arrival of the post card, my firmly established rou tine was in for a blast. The post card proclaimed proudly the glories of eating dry toast, black coffee, vegetables raw or boiled in water, and condemned the con sumption of fats or fried foods. I happen to like toast soaked in butter, coffee with. cream, fried foods, and vegetables any way they happen to come along. Unfortunately in the past year I acquired the habit of going to the same diner three times a day, seven days a week. In doing this it-has also happened that I have had the reasonably good fortune of having the same waitress' at about every noon meal. She is one of the more *efficient order takers, and it is understandable that after about a year of hear ing orders for a bowl of soup, a gooky sandwich, and coffee with cream that she' had trouble when I ordered two . tomato and lettuce sandwiches, an order of toast, and black 'coffee. My stomach was confused too. On the way to the collection point, I met a fellow Daily C worker who regailed- me with conversation on how . people have passed out at these com munity bloodlettings, and then proceeded to tell me how badly he felt after working all night. I resisted the urge to send him into the basement of the new Student Union hole and we shortly found ourselvei at the end - of a line of students—one of those 'evidences of an ad vanced civilization. The line eventually led past a desk with records of previous do nations. I judged from the bitter protestations of the clerk that the record's had_ been filed under a sygtem known to the person who did the filing, but carefully con cealed from everyone else. While we were waiting for a physical examination, I casually scanned the questions listed on the. form. There was one I was strongly tempted to X in the "yes" column. The reaction froth the nurse might have been inter esting to observe. The question: "`Have you been pregnant dur ing the past year?" The job of tapping my finger for a sample proved to be in teresting. The puncture was made. I •sat back down on the chair. A red corpuscle stuck his head -out, snared a the nurse, • (Continued on p ate five). 496 , 1 ' 9l O. * (..c. dr, -4• N 7 ' E y DICK RAU
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