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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