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DAVE JONES. Editor
Managing Ed., Marshall O. Donley: City Ed., Chuck
Obertance; Copy Ed., Chii Mathias; Sports Ed., San Pro
copio; Edit. Dir., Dick Rau; Wire-Radio Ed.. Bill dost:
Photo Ed., Bruce- Schroeder; Soc. Ed. Lynn Kahsnowitz:
Asst. Sports Ed., Dick McDowell; Asst. Soc. Ed*. Lix Newell;
Feature Ed., Nancy Meyers; Exchange Ed,. Gua Vollmer:
Librarian, Lorraine Qladus. *
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Peggy McClain, Copy editors, Tammie Bloom, Jack Reid; Assist
ants, Phyllis Propert, Sue Conklin, Ted Serrill, Stan Frolic, and Rod Felix. Ad staff, Bill Nudorf.
More About AIM Reorganization Flans
The proposed amendments now pending be- called for election of AIM officers by the popu
fore the Board of Governors of the Association lar vole of independent men. This has been
of. Independent Men deserve every consider- changed to restrict voting to the proposed gan
ation by independent men since the proposals eral assembly.
are in line with the planned reorganization of Restriction of the voting power to the general
•AIM. assembly is an extension over the . presently
The proposed amendments reveal some oi limited system of voting by the board of gover
ihe constructive work being done in ironing out nors. The extension is from about 28 inde
objections raised to the original reorganization pendent men to approximately 101 independent
plans. The question of proportional representa- men.
tion raised one of the more outstanding head- The idea behind the franchise change is prob
aches for the planners. ably based on the independent man’s display
The newly proposed system provides for a of + a P at R past Having only a handful
more stable basis of representation than'under ? ut . of 63 °° bothering to vote wi!l certamiy not
the present constitution. The present constitu- f as fnay ln g a. high p e reent a g e of
tion provides for no more than 75 and no less § ene . l ' a l assembly vote, but at least the
than 30 independent men for each representa- opportunity would be there. ' ■
tive. The amendment sets limits of 70 and 44. T he IXI ? I \ S Tl9 Jj? +°
... . _ ■ . vote will be in the hands of the independents
-bbe adjustment of the advisory capacities of themselves. Only through instructing their rep
the executive committee in preparing the agen- resentatives to the councils and therefore
da is evidence of thought given the revisions tn through the board of governors can the inde
msure more democratic operation. pendent men let anyone know whether they
However, the one shining point in the original want a chance to elect their officers on the lop
AIM reorganization proposal has been changed, level. If apathy is the rule, then the men will
probably due to the indifference of the inde- make their decision by virtue of thesir silence,
pendent men themselves. The original plans • —Dick Rau
The Blue Band
The Blue Band Saturday added another spec
tacular performance to" a football season of top
achievements.
The band gave fine performances at each of
the four home games, and at Penn and Pitt.
•Not only has the band made a name for itself
and the University,. but it has added much in
the way of spirit and morale to the team and
student body.
The band did more than its normal job in ap
pearances at pep rallies and playing durins
the game.
Remember: The Blue Band sitting in the
snow at the Fordham game and playing "Jingle
Bells." And, by the way, many who helped
shovel snow from the field so the game could
he played, were band members.
There are those who refuse to praise the
band. They are the people who fail to stop and
think what the band means to the student body,
and to Penn State. — Bill Josi'
Today
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 6:45
p.m., 304 Old Main. ■ *
COLLEGIAN ADVERTISING STAFF, 7 p.m.,
102 Willard.
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF, 6:30 p.m..
Collegian Business Office.
COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF, 6:30 p.m .
Collegian Office.
PENN STATE FENCING CLUB, 7:30 p.m.
North Corridor Rec Hall.
STUDENT EDUCATION COUNCIL meetin
canceled.
INFIRMARY
Patricia Collins, W. Marshall Dawsey, Edward
Fleming, Marcia . Goldberg, Robert Jenkins.
Nancy Ann Pelz, William Selby, Libby Schore.
Grace Shoffstall, Wayne R. Troutman?.,ahc
Merle Umstead.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Waiters wanted for work on and off campus.
Student wanted for part-time work at the TUB.
Students wanted for work over Thanksgivinc
vacation. .
PLACEMENT SERVICE
The companies listed belosr . will eonduct' interviews on
campus. Schedule interviews now in' 112 Old Main;
THE ATLANTIC REPINING CO., CRUDE PROD. DIV.:
The Infirmary Story
Health Service
By BEV DICKINSON
An excess of 50,000 cases
per year are treated by ■ the
University Health Service in
one of its two divisions, the
Dispensary, located in the base
ment of Old Main, or the In
firmary, situated at the corner
of Pollock and Shortlidge
roads.
From November to May,
the Dispensary treats from
300 to 400 outpatients every
day, in addition to the 50 to
75 students treated daily
during the summer months.
The average admission to
the Infirmary in the past few
years has been between 1200
to 1400 students each year.
In the years 1952 and 1953,
the dental department of the
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Gazette ...
Treats Over 50,000 a Year
Health Service examined a to
tal of 5620 patients per year,
and in 1951 and 1952, the psy
chiatric department interview
ed and treated 840 students.
Approximately 2000 x-rays
are given by the Health
Servi c e, per year, out of
which, oh the basis of the
findings of the x-rays, some
100 students are treated.
In 1915 the Health Service
was established at Penn State
by President Edwin Earl
Sparks, following a severe scar
let fever' epidemic which
caused the death of several
students. The epidemic, plus
the simultaneous establishment
of several other health services
in the country, stimulated
Sparks in setting up a service
that would be responsible to
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLBUS,
VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr.
Asst. Bus, Msr., Mark Chriit; Ueal Atfrcrtiaias Jdgr.»
Robert Carruthers; National Adr. Hgr.. Dave Burke;
Olrculatioa Co-Mur rs. ( Praak Cresemaa, Diane Killer:
Promotion Mgr., Ksth Israel; Persoaiul Mrr., Patience
(Jngethuem: Office Marr., Gail Shaver; Classified Adv/
Mgr., Jean Geiger; See.. Carol Sehwinr; Research and
Records Mgrs., Virginia Bowman, Francis Crawford.
On Spring Week
The Spring Week committee has taken a
realistic approach to its point awards system
this year with a reshuffling of point values.
Too often in the past the Spring Week
achievement trophy has gone to a group for
merely winning the Spring Carnival. Granted,
the carnival is the biggest single event in the
week. But as participating groups came to rea
lize the over-emphasis on the carnival, other
events began to suffer. And winning the trophy,
before. long, could, have become a malignant
form of trophy-buying.
But the committee has stopped this trend
by halving the- carnival point values and in
creasing the number of points possible for win
ning the parade and other group events. This
sh.ould give a big boost to the entire week.
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. 24.
U.S. RUBBER CO. will interview Jan. B.S. and B.A.
graduates in lE, ME, EE, ChE, Chera., 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 Nor. 24.
WHEELING STEEL COMPANY will interview Jan. B.S.
Traduates in Ch.E, Chem., CE, EE, lE, ME, Fuel Tech, and
Metal, on Dec. 3.
BENDIX-WESTINGHOUSE (AUTOMOTIVE AIR
BRAKE CO.) will interview Jan. B.S. graduates in ME
in ’Dec. 3.
ATLAS POWDER CO. (CENTRAL RESEARCH LAB.)
will interview Jan. B.S. graduates in Chem., Ch.E, Mining
3. lE, CE: M.S. candidates in Ch.E, and Chem.'who have
completed at least one semester; and Ph.D. candidates in
“'h.E and Chem. expecting to receive their degrees in 1954
on Dec. 8. .
FIRESTONE TIRE AND RUBBER CO. will interview Jan.
graduates in A and L, Bus. Adm. { and Acctg. on Dec. 10.
M. W. KELLOGG CO. will interview Ph.D. candidates in
Chem., Ch.E expecting to receive their degrees in .1954; M.S.
candidates in CE, ME, and Ch.E who have completed at least
one semester; and B.S. Jan. graduates in Ch.E in Dec. 7.
STANDARD PIEZO CO. will interview Jan. graduates in
Bus. Adm., Bus. Mngt., Eco., lE, Arts and Letters, Labor
Management Relations, and Math, on Dec. 7.
VISKING CORP. will interview Jan. B.S. graduates in
Chem., Ch.E,, and ME; M.S. candidates in Chem., Ch.E and
ME who have completed at least one semester; and Ph.D.
candidates in Chem., Ch.E, and ME expecting to receive their
degrees in 1954 on Dec. 9.
the institution for the health
of the students.
Situated in an old dDrm pop
ularly known as the “Devil’s
Den,” previously located be
tween the Armory and Electri
cal Engineering, the Health
Service had its start. A year
later, Warren Forsythe became
director of the service, moving
it to what is now Beecher Cot
tage, where the first floor was
used as the Dispensary. On the
second floor eight beds made
up the Infirmary. Two nurses
attended patients.
"The Pesihouse" was set
up at the edge of Hort Woods
in 1919. where all patients
with contagious diseases
were cared for until their
complete recovery. A name
less couple cleaned and cook-
.VANIA
Little Man on Campus
I
V ■■ J'ss
"Wonderful talk Professor Snarf—l've never heard a class leci
in which the most important points were more cleverly disguisi
irefing the New:
inter:
Stable Markets Call
For Technical Aid
When I was a child my mother used to adjure me to clean up my
plate at each meal,, holding it was sinful to waste food when there
were so many hungry people in the world.
It always seemed to me to be an illogical way to help the hungry
Chinese, and I could now do without , some of the pounds for which
the way was paved by this basic
feeding program.
This was, of course, long be
fore the days of farm subsidies
unless you count free seeds from
congressmen, production quotas,
little- pig - killings, third-row
plough-ups and ever-normal gran
ary programs.
The two ideas have always
been connected in my mind, how
ever, and now are revived by
the report of the United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organiza
tion on continued imbalances in
the world food situation and the
simultaneous suggestion by farm
ers of 27 countries for establish
ment of a world food reserve.
The FAO has been promoting
a program io increase food pro
duction faster than populations
increase. It has been succeed
ing. But it has developed that,
as usual, "them as has- gits,"
and the gap between the. well
fed and the poorly-fed has been
widened. In the meantime, farm
prices have fallen under the
production increase.
So the farmers represented by
the International Federation of
Agricultural Producers are pro
posing that the FAO buy up farm
surpluses, thus supporting farm
prices and keeping a farm slump
from setting off a world depres
sion. A part of the idea is to have
a reserve to meet emergencies.
Underfed areas would be pro
vided-with continued or increased
technical aid to increase their
ed for the patients, who were
called on daily by a physi
cian. Because of the complete
lack of nurses or attending
doctors, "The Pesihouse" was
abandoned after four years.
In 1918 Joseph P. Rittenhau
er took over the directorship
of the Health Service, holding
that position .until 1947, when
the present director, Herbert
R. Glenn, headed the service.
During these years, the
Health Service progressed
among the first five or six in
the country. In 1929, with mon
ey provided by the Potato
Growers of Pennsylvania and
other contributors, the present
Infirmary w&s built. It also op
erated as a . dispensary until
1932, when the present location
in the basement , of. Old Main
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, , 1953*
By J. M. ROBERTS Jr.
Associated Press News Analyst
ability to buy —at cut prices
what they have not the resources
to produce. . •
The emphasis of the farmers,
naturally, is on the stability of
their own section of the economy.
But the crux of the matter lies in
this business of creating an abil
ity to buy on the part of the un
derfed. For the underfed are those
who have little or nothing with
which to trade. The British on
their little island -learned about
that when they had to turn to
production of war goods
of trade goods.
A world food reserve-operat
ing on_a charity or part-charity
basis - is not ' the answer. The
giving and taking of charity is
a symbol of economic instability
and inequality.
Subsidies and donations are
both' sweetsops to overcome the
taste of bad economic manage
ment, though perhaps -.necessary
during a transition.
The transition itself must be
accomplished through things
like Point Four and UN techni
cal aid, which aim at. develop
ment of stable markets within
sound economies in areas which'
so far have neither. -
Proxy to Speak Dec. 8
President Milton S. Eisenhower
will conclude the Liberal, Arts *
Lectures this semester with his'</
address on “South . America” at '
8 p.m. Dec. 8 in 121 Sparks.
was chosen for the Dispensary.
The operating personnel of
the present Health Service con
sists of seven full-time 'a: hd
three half-time physicians, in
cluding a psychiatrist, a wom
an doctor, and Glenn, the
health director. In addition,
a full-time dentist and 15 Penn
sylvania registered nurses are
employed. Chemical laboratory
x-rays and physical therapy are
handled by registered techni
cians.
At the Dispensary, the slu- o.
deni is treated as. an- culpa—.;-'
lieni, in a manner similar, to.-
home treatment. : According --
io the medical diagnosis, he<
is given treatment, and- per-;; .
milled to continue in. /'
scholastic endeavors unless
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