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DAVE JONES. Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Mary Lee Lauffer; Copy editors, Herm Weiskopf, Nancy Ward;
Assistants, Carole Gibson," Nancy Fortna, Bill Snyder,.Roy-Williams, Mary Loubris, Nancy Showalter.
Ad staff, Fay Goldstein, • Anne Sherman, Barbara Bohrer.
The Last Hurdle: A
Spring Week was given its biggest shot in
the arm yesterday when the Senate com
mittee on student affairs approved the week’s
plans.*
Plans and proposals for ihe week have been
going back and forth among campus groups
since September. There was a wrangle about
the carnival holiday and a problem about set
ting up a student screening committee to ap
prove events. All that now remains to be set
tled is the carnival location.
The Senate committee made a wise decision
in approving a four-day Spring Week with a
two evening carnival. There were complaints
about class cutting due to last year’s carnival.
This year, the carnival will be on Wednesday
and Thursday, but booths may be set up Tues
day night. This should eliminate much cutting
formerly necessary to construct carnival booths.
The one remaining hurdle—a location for ihe
carnival—could be a high one. Since its birth,
the carnival has outgrown Allen’street and Os
mond parking lot. Last year, considerable dam
age was done to shrubbery near ihe parking
area" behind Sigma Chi, where the carnival was
held. This has brought about a necessity for a
new location.
The physical plant has suggested the part of
the Windcrest trailer area being cleared of
dwellings. The area there is definitely large
enough for the carnival, but there is another
consideration: weather. Spring Week is notor
ious for its rain. Spring carnivals are tradition
ally rainy affairs. Even a light rain on the
Windcrest area could make the carnival site so
muddy that the carnival would fail. Students
are willing to fight the rain, but they should
not be forced to fight mud too.
Safety Valve
TQ THE EDITOR: There has evidently been
some discussion on the selection of those people
who, will appear in Who’s Who Among Students
in American Colleges and Universities. Twenty
one people on the list are members of All-Col
lege Cabinet. This left nine places to be filled
by nine out of approximately 2000 seniors.
Unquestionably, there are many seniors who
deserve this recognition, and if the most out
standing had been chosen, the committee could
have picked a list of 50 or more, instead of the
allotted 30. No mailer who had been chosen,
there would be criticism. The committee is not
infallible, but it tried to pick as well represen
tative a group as possible. The members were
chosen from every area of campus activities in
proportion to the number of students partici
pating in these activities.
As anyone belonging to a group selecting its
members knows, there must be a criterium for
judging. In addition to the number of activities
and service to the College, the persons in “Who’s
GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION, 9 p.m.,
118 W. Beaver street. '
PENN STATE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP, 7:30 p.m.,
405 Old Main.
WRA PLAY NIGHT, 7-9 p.m., White. Hall..
Sunday
HILLEL FOLK DANCE GROUP, afternoon,
Hillel.
HILLEL PUBLIC SPEAKING COMMITTEE,
1:45 p.m., Hillel.
ONEG SHABBAT
Hillel.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Students to work on campus during Thanks
giving vacation.
, COLLEGE HOSPITAL
William Appleton, Barton Burke, Chdrles
Cooper, Marion Ludwig, Charles McMinn,
Thomas Maxell, Mary Monroe, James. Noel,
Tami Shima, Joseph'Slotnik, James Smith, Don
na Springer, Priscilla Street, Nancy L. Thomp
son.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT SERVICE
The companies listed below will conduct interviews or
campus. Schedule interviews now in 112 Old Main.
J. C. PENNEY CO., INC. will interview Jan. graduates
interested in Merchandising on Nov. 16.
STANDARD OIL DEVELOPMENT CO. will interview
Jan. B.S. graduates, M.S. and Ph.D. Candidates in Com
mercial Chem. on Nov. 19.
THE YOUNG WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
will visit the campus on Nov. 19 to discuss opportunities
in the organization with interested students.
For a Treat
that can't he beat
drop in
at
CAMPUS
RESTAURANT
JnljT s. 1934 at tks State Cslleire, Pa. Past Office under the act of Kerch 3. 1879.
■Defense of Who's Who Selection
Today
Tomorrow
COMMITTEE,
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Carnival Site
Selection of a carnival site is no little prob
lem. A faulty site—one that could be rendered
useless by rain—could kill the carnival quicker
than anything. And since there can be no con
trol over the rain, wise control must be ex
ercised in the site selection.
. .As has been .pointed out before, the carnival
provides all income for Spring Week. Its social
and financial success is tantamount to the suc
cess of the week. A carnival that flops could
bring a Spring Week that flops, and could re
sult in no Spring Week in ihe future.
The last hurdle, then, may be the highest.
Let’s not count the race won before we cross
the finish line.
Safely Valve *..
On Forced Attendance
TO THE EDITOR: Certainly this is an old hack,
but again it has come up: forced attendance at
classes. Why must it be that allegedly mature
men and women attending Penn State to. get
an education must be forced to attend classes?
For their own strength of character, let students
attend classes at their own discretion. Grades
will soon reveal who is here to be educated.
Perhaps some professors would make attend
ance in their classes dependent on interest
aroused by good presentation of material in
stead of the College, "truant" rules.
A quiz inflicted before and after holidays
hardly seems the way to convince mature stu
dents to Attend classes.
Who” had to have honesty, character, and
scholarship. The number of people the person
represented figured in the selection as did the
fact of whether his main jobs were elected or
appointed.
There were nine College seniors on the selec
tions committee, each one given his job by the
All-College ‘President. The- candidates were
viewed objectively and impersonally. Since each
member of the committee was a representative
of his respective school, he was in a position to
do this; in fact, objectivity was a responsibility.
Each member had only one vote and the final
selections were approved by the director of stu
deni affairs, who probably knows more about
student activities than anyone else.
In criticizing the selections for any honor,
people too often see only one side of the pic
ture. The 30 seniors on the list meet all the re
quired qualifications, more so, the committee
feels, than others considered. This, in itself,
houid prove justification.
Gazette...
UNION CARBIDE AND CARBON CORP. will interview
Ph.D. candidates in Chem. expecting to receive their de
grees in 1954 on Nov. 12 and 13.
MONSANTO CHEMICAL CO. will interview Jan.
graduates in EE, ME, ChE, Commercial Chem., and Chem.,
M.S. candidates in EE, ME, ChE, Commercial Chem., and
Chem., and Ph.D. candidates in EE, ME, ChE, Commercial
Chem., and Chem. expecting to receive their degrees in 1954
on Nov. 17.
DEERE AND CO. will interview Jan. B.S. graduates in
ME, Ag E, lE, EE, CE, and Commerce students on Nov. 17.
CHICAGO BRIDGE AND IRON CO. will interview Jan.
8.5.. graduates in CE on Nov. 17.
CURTISS-WRIGHT CORP. (WRIGHT AERONAUTICAL
DIV.) will interview Jan. B.S. graduates in Aero. E, ME,
and Metah, M.S. candidates in ME, Phy. Metallurgy, and
Atomic Physics who have completed at least one semester,
and Ph.D. candidates in ME, Physical Metal., and Atomic
Physics on Nov. 17.
MINNEAPOLIS-HONEYWELL REGULATOR CO.
(BROWN INSTRUMENT DIV.) will interview Jaa.' B.S.
graduates in EE, ME, lE, and Phys., M.S. candidates in
EE, ME, and Phys., who have completed at least one semes
ter; and Ph.D. candidates in EE, ME, and Phys. expecting
to receive their degrees in 1954, on Nov. 17.
ERNST AND ERNST will, interview Jan. graduates in
Acctg. and Bus. Adm. on Nov. 16.
NATIONAL SUPPLY CO. will interview Jan. B.S. and
B.A. graduates in CE, EE, lE, ME, Commerce and Finance,
Acctg., Metal., P.N.G., and Mining Engr. on Nov.. 16.
ARTHUR ANDERSON AND CO.
graduates in Accounting on Nov. 16.
McDONNELL AIRCRAFT CORP. win interview Jan. B.S.
graduates in Aero. E, Arch. E, -CE, EE, lE, ME, and Metal,
on Nov. 16.
WEST PENN POWER CO. will interview Jan. graduates
in EE and ME on Nov. 13.
OWENS CORNING FIBERGLASS CORP. will interview
Jan. B.S. and B.A. graduates in ChE, Arch., E, CE, .EE,
lE, ME, Chem., Commercial Chera., Phys.; Arch., Arts and
i Letters, Journalism, Labor-Management Relations and Cer
amics on Nov. 18.
NIGHT FOOTBALL IONITE!
BELLEFONTE
versus
STATE COLLEGE
Iron Kettle Game
At Slate College
PENN STATE STUDENTS -35 c
VINCE DRAYNE. Business Mgr.
—Craig Sanders
—Jane Mason
will interview Jan.
ittle Man on Campus
"I -wish. Snarf would seat this, guy farther away from the be!
he gets mad as t heck when he's waked up suddenly."
Short 'Change
The Marine Corps wants me! Yes, they do because yesterday I
received a letter addressed to Mr. Gus Vollmer, 217 Simmons. The
letter read:
“You have been recommended to us as an excellent prospect for
enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps.
“Being recommended for the Ma
rines, we are assuming that you
woujji be a good applicant, and a
good Marine, and we would more
than welcome the chance to talk
with you, in . order that we might
2xplain the features of the Ma
ine Corps, and what an enlist
nent would mean to you.”
The letter - continued with all
.he advantages I would have by
joining the Marines and at the
and a P.S. said, “See me in Belle
-'onte at the Post Office each Wed
nesday from 10:00 until 2:00.”
My only comment is that I owe
all my success to Steve Melmeck.
Thanks, Steve, for the recom
mendation.
And now we move from the
local front to other areas of this
fabulous nation of ours. *
Not so long ago the rowing team
at Cornell University was stopped
cold by a whirl of suds. A prank
ster had poured some Vel into che
practice tank, and the harder the
team rowed, the more suds they
churned up.
At Smith College, the girls ex
pressed their views on kissing,
drinking, and what not to do on
dates, in an issue of the Amherst
humor magazine. Most girls did
not like the “General collegiate
male attitude of ‘Have a drink
and let’s get down to • business’.”
Kissing on the first date was ab
horred by the majority of girls
polled,-but the Smithies were dis
appointed if the guy failed to
show any amorous tendencies by
the third date. They also agreed
that it isn’t necessary for a boy
to spend a great deal of money
after the second or third date.
Nice kids..
Another interesting poll turned
up in Tigertown, where the
Princetonian came out with ah
article on the Holyoke girls. The
results of a survey showed that
their interests lie in three direc
tions. The primary aspiration of
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1953
By Bibier
By GUS VOLLMER
the population is to get pinned,
next comes the desire to find a
husband, and running a very good
third, the hope of receiving a
good education.
The American college male
faces stiff competition if he seeks
the companionship of females. of
similar educational status. Statis
tics show that men outnumber
women in colleges' almost two to
one'.
Statistics also show that women
with brains have practically no
chance of finding a hubby, accord
ing to research done at Cornell
University. The researchers agreed
that men distrust women who are
culturally and intellectually su
perior. It seems that tile byword
is still “beautiful but dumb” but
I’ll bet you’ll find quite a bit of
dissenion.
Students at the University of
Kansas were very proud of their
football team when their • Alma
Mater was played at the Kansas-
Nebraska game at Nebraska. Some
people now really beieve in the
old saying “absence makes the
heart grow fonder.”
And as a closing thought . . .
a poem:
Now I lay me down to sleep,
The lecture dry, the subject deep,
If he should quit before I wake,
Give me a poke for Heaven’s sake.
Princeton Radio Holds
Charity Marathon
Princeton University students
recently completed a .13-hour ra
dio marathon over WPRU, stu
dent radio station, to solicit funds
for the campus charity drive.
A dozen musical organizations,
speeches and music were broad
cast during the appeal. Goal of the
charity drive is $25,000.