P.'.GS FOUR Published Tuesday through Sat- I a a /tfP I I «a a Collegian editorials represent urday mornings inclusive during |§Lrfl> wf-fjjgfl IT irj 1 ■ I the viewpoint of the writers, the University year by the staff w W i!4*l not necessarily the poliey of the tif The Daily Collegian of the newspaper. Unsigned editorials Pennsylvania State University Entered sa second-class nattei July &, X9S4 at tfre State College, Pa. Feat Office under tbe act «f Marci 3, 1579. DAVE JONES, Editor Managing Ed.» Marshall O. Donley; City Ed., Chuck Asst. Dos. Algr., Mark Christ; Local Advertisiag Mgr., Ohertance; Copy Ed., Chi* Mathias; Sports Ed., Sam Pro* Robert Carruthcrs; National Adr. Mgr., Dare Burke; copio; Edit. Dir., Dick Ran; Wire-Radio Ed., Bill dost; Circulation Co-Mgrs., Prank Cressmau, Diaue Miller; Photo Ed., Bruce Sehroeder; Soe. Ed. Lynn Kahanowitz; Promotiou Mgr., Ruth Israel; Personae! Mgr., Patience Asst. Sports Ed., Dick McDowell; Asst. Soc. Ed.. Lix Newell: Ungethuem: Office Mgr.. Gail Sharer: Classified Adr. Feature Ed., Nancy Meyers: Exchange Ed.. Gus Vollmer Vlgr., Jean, Geiger: Sec.. Carol Schwing: Research and Librarian, Lorraine Gladus. Records Mgrs., Virginia Bowman, Francis Crawford. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Tammie Bloom; Copy editors, Don Shoemaker, Diehl McKalip; Assistants, Jim Jacoby, Dave Bronstein, Jane Wickizer,. Bill Pete, Joan Park; Nancy Fortna. Ad staff, Sandy Duckman, Cindy Manarin, Estelle - Caplan. , . Campus Radio Station Still Has Problems Campus Station WDFM, in its attempt to get portion of the station’s support, and because on the air and before the students, has been the idea of the station was that it be a “student” faced with a multitude of problems. But with station. Therefore, any programming done must the recent announcement of plans for dry-run be aimed primarily at students, operation, it appears the radio station will be It seems the radio station is always “six to on the air sometime next month. _ eight weeks” away. This has caused some dis- Aside from engineering problems which are . content among students who were told the sta holding up operation of the new station, there tion would be a reality by this time, and who are two basic programming problems. ® re anxious to hear what they are paying for. , . , , , , ~ Some connected with the radio station favor 1. What type of programs io broadcas . its going into operation as soon as physically 2. When to broadcast. possible. This would mean before translators In attempt to solve the first problem, the station has taken a student and faculty survey to determine what the University community wants in programs. Results of this survey should be forthcoming soon. The second problem is more complex. There are some who prefer to have the station begin with one or two hours of broadcast an evening and, after sufficient time in development, ex panding. Others would prefer to put the station on the-air four hours each evening at the start, with expansion from that point. A slow and deliberate start, with improve ment and expansion along the way. seems most logical. It seems better to do small things weli than large things poorly. There is no real rea son to believe, however, that the station would necessarily be poor merely because it chose to start off on a larger scale. The station, as a result of the 1953 Student Encampment and its own policies and proce dures, is dedicated to the student interest. This is logical because students are paying a large Student Apathy, the Same Old Hack There seems to be a lot of harping about leadership training program to teach students student apathy, especially with respect to the parliamentary procedure and leadership quali troubled Town Council. And it isn’t that anyone ties. . , ■ , ", has anything against the council. It’s just that Penn State, for the .large part, has a poorly the council provides a good number of harp- informed student body, uninterested in, student strings affairs. We may need leaders, but we need in- After a mountain of confusion concerning the telligent followers just as bad. It seems time town elections and its illegality, a new election for us to stay awake all day after we get up in was held this week. Of over 2200 independent the morning. For if student government means town men eligible to vote, only one showed up, noihing to us, why have it at all? aside from those nominated. As a result, nine of 19 wards in the council have no representatives. These students, then, as town independents, have no voice in student government. Fortun ately, however, the council did muster enough nominees to function. The apathy characterizing Town Council re cently seemed to permeate the whole inde pendent organization when a quorum failed to present itself at the Association of Independent Men Board of Governors meeting. When it is realized those not interested in this event were elected representatives, it is obvious something is sadly lacking. The reason for this apathy may be lack of in terest or incentive, or lack of confidence in the student government machinery. Such lack of interest has been evidenced even in All-College Cabinet, highest student government body. When apathy reaches this height, it is time to instill some confidence or junk student govern ment. Many times this year, cabinet has been either a tomb-like chamber or a stage for parliamen tary show-off. This is a reflection upon cabinet’s members, and not the elected officers. The of ficers cannot make members think. The Daily Collegian has also been criticized because of this apathy. Students, as normal humans, read things into Collegian stories, or do not read carefully. As a result, many do not actually know what is going on throughout the campus. Among these poorly-informed are many student leaders. A recent move has been made to institute a Physician Claims Eke in Good Shape NEW YORK, Nov. 20 (IP)— The physician who has attended Pres ident Eisenhower since 1945 said today that the chief executive is as healthy as he was 14 months ago—and that he is not suffer ing from heart disease. The report was made by Maj. Gen. Howard Snyder at a confer ence of the New York Heart As sociation. The main thing troubling the President now, Snyder said, is “a very modest form of what is known as ‘tennis elbow’.” The White House doctor de scribed that to a newsman as an inflammation of an elbow muscle. He said it resulted from a bruise last August and keeps coming back because such oresidential ac tivities as handshaking won’t give the muscle a atoMwaa to rest. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Siccewr to THE! FEES LANCE, art. I*B7 4000 to Be Listed I Presumed Dead ' WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 OP)— The Army today announced that about 4000 men now listed as missing in action in Korea will be declared ’’presumed dead” in Jan uary if there is no new informa tion about them by then. As of now 1 , the Army lists the number of its missing in Korea as about 6300. The 4000 who prospectively will be listed as “presumed dead” in January include men who have been missing for more than a year. The other 2300 have been miss ing less than a year or else the Army has some report, not yet fully explored, to indicate the pos sibility they are alive. VINCE DRAYNE. Business Mgr. may be installed in the dormitory areas to change the station FM signal to AM. Under this set-up, only those with FM radios could hear broadcasts. But this type of operation, these people say, would at least give some service, and would give the station staff badly needed experience. Many students still do not realize the limi tations of thestation. Students living outside the dorms will need FM radios to hear WDFM broadcasts, until the station is able to go into AM operation. Students in the dorms will be able to hear the station on AM sets after the translators are installed. The translators, too, are "six to eight weeks" away. It is easy to' ask why the station is not on the air. For those involved in station operation, the'answer is simple: lack of hard-to-get equip ment, and further necessity for staff training. But those working with the station cannot be come so involved as to forget their promise to get on the air. And to much of the student body, the station’s explanations seem like alibis. Gazette... HOSPITAL George Riemesderfer, Patricia M. Collins, % Marshall Dawsey, Fred Ernest, Ray Evert, Ste- * phen Fodor, Marcia Goldberg, Lilly Ann Grei der, James Kennaday, Edmund Lutes,. Lee Schore, John Shelly, Joseph Stennett, Merle Umstead, Ruth Wagner, Stanford Zeiders, and James Wood. . • • PLACEMENT SERVICE The companies listed below will conduct interviews on campus. Schedule interviews now in 112 Old Main. U.S. STEEL CORP, will interview Jan. B.S. graduates in all engineering curricula on Nov. 23. OHIO DEPT. OF HIGHWAYS - will interview Jan. B.S. graduates in CE on Nov. 23. THE ATLANTIC REFINING CO., CRUDE PROD. DIV.: DALLAS, TEX. will interview Jan. B.S. and graduate students in CE, EE, ME, ChE, and P.N.G.E. interested in production, research and field work on seismograph crews, on Nov. 23 and 24. # PROCTOR AND GAMBLE will interview Jan. graduates n Bus. Adm., Liberal Arts and Psychology on NovJ 23. U.S. RUBBER CO., will interview Jan. B.S. and B.A. graduates in lE, ME, EE, ChE, Chem., Bus. Mngt. and Acctg. on Nov. 24. FIDELITY MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE will interview Jan. B.S. and B.A. graduates interested in life insurance selling. Interviews should be scheduled : by Nov. 24. WHEELING STEEL COMPANY will interview Jan. B.S. graduates in Ch.K, Chem., CE, EE, lE, ME, Fuel Tech, and Metal, on Dec. 3. BENDIX-WfiSTINGHOUSE (AUTOMOTIVE AIR BRAKE CO.) will’ interview Jan. B.S. graduates in ME on Dee. 3. CBS President Quits Fraternity On Race Issue Frank Stanton, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, resigned from Phi Delta- Theta fraternity in protest, of a bias clause in the fraternity’s constitu tion. Stanton’s resignation came after he read an article in The Pallad ium, official magazine of the fra ternity, which attempted to justi fy the national fraternity’s action in expelling its chapters at Wil liams and Amherst Colleges after Jewish students had been pledged. The CBS president stated that no action Had been taken, to alter the membership . require me n t clause which states that .only “male white persons of full Aryan blood shall be eligible.” ire by the editor. Lit lie Mail on Campus "Beicha three to one—one of the next five plays is a 'sleeper'. Interpreting the News Free Nation. Needed for Friday’s New York Times carried- on facing pages two stories of the type which, taken together, serve to illustrate why there is so much de'spair in the world over the prospects for peace. One of them was . the text of President Eisenhower’s speech saying that peace must be based hot on military might, not on economic arrangements, not on edicts and treaties, but on mutual knowledge and understanding between peoples. The other was a description of a motion picture which has been showing in Russian theaters and presented on Russian television. The theme is American bar barism and war intent, wrap ping up all the old time-worn facets of Russian hate propa ganda. The intent is to instill fear of the United Slates, so that the Russian people would follow their rulers into a "pre ventive" war if those rulers decide one is needed to further their policies. This effort is conducted behind a wall of secrecy which almost completely isolates the Russian people from either knowledge, or understanding of the free world. This apparent hopelessness of the situation is also Reading to an increase of confusion among peo ple everywhere as to how they should conduct themselves in the face of this great conspiracy against human understanding. Leaders fear that if the free nations cannot have both guns and butter that Russia will win the war in either field where they find a weak spot. A surprising number of peo ple and intelligent people, too, , doubt the wisdom of trying to spread American strength all around the world. They say the records of some Allies do not warrant the expense of build ing them up, and that the Uni ted States will be better, off to keep its own strength central ized. It is a return to isolationism, and a good many of these people no longer even mind the word. They never understood—a good case can be made for the thesis that a majority of American nev er understood —why the Korean War had to be fought, nor why it was a victory despite the stale mate truce. They have never understood just what it would have meant'if the Communists had taken . over all Europe after the war—which, they were in a fair way of doing when the Marshall Plan was put forward—and mobilized it for .the eventual attack on the United States. There is only one argument which brings some of these peo ple up short. That is the. re- SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1953 By J. M. ROBERTS Jr. Associated Press News Analyst minder that a "go-ii-alone" policy is the very thing the Kremlin is trying to promote. Its greatest hope has always been to divide the free world and conquer it piece by piece, not''through general war, but through Communist coups in individual nations, conducted with violence. If, then, there is desperation in the situation which prevents un derstanding between the free peo ples and those under totalitarian control, there is a corresponding urgency for greater unity among the free peoples themselves. Boston Fires Spy Suspect Boston University has sus pended Maurice Halperin, a pro fessor identified in a Federal Bur eau of Investigation report as a former member of a Soviet spy ring, the Associated Press has reported. Halperin, chairman of the uni versity’s Latin American Studies department, was suspended .Wed nesday after Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. read a re port, previously confidential, .to the Senate Internal Security Sub committee, headed by Sen. .Wil liam E. Jenner, (R-Ind.) Tuesday. The action. reversed a previous ruling by the institution that had retained Halperin after he re fused to answer questions before the Jenner committee in ah ap pearance before it last March in Boston. Harold C. Case, president of the university, said the report which Brownell read to the Jenner group was not available to the school -committees or trustees when Halperin was retained June 29. Brownell’s report was classi fied as top secret. The suspension became effec tive at noon Wednesday' and will continue -until a school committee can “restudy” the case for decis ion by the trustees, a spokesman at the university said. Halperin did not comment on the decision. In every one of our universities there are a number of (ilean-cut young men who are.dili gently working their dads through college.—Anon . Bv Bibler U nity Peace
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