PAGE FOTjr Published Tuesday tbreagit Sat urday moraines inclusive during the University year by tfco staff of The Daily Collegian of the Pennsylvania State University. Entered aa second-class matter July S. 1934 at the State College, Pa. Pont Office trader tbo act of March 3. 1879. DAVE JONES, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Ed Reiss; Copy editors, Diehl McKalip, Phil Austin; Assistants, Sue ConkHn, Inez Althouse, Hank DiPipi, Shirley Stewart, Nancy Gray. I. Radio Station: It Has Potentiality (The first of two editorials concerning are always those groups that feel they are being WDFM, campus radio station.) purposely slighted. Student organizations must Penn State’s student radio station, WDFM, went on the air in limited operation Sunday night, culminating months and months of hard work by station staff and advisers. The station went into operation at 7:30 p.m. and broadcast its first full day. Sign-off was at 10:30 p.m. Although the station is not yet in full oper ation, its appearance on the air is. a big thing for those involved. And the station can be a big thing for the students if they use it wisely, for it has great potentiality. Station personnel made what appears an honest attempt to satisfy student wants in pro gramming. But that programming is still in the experimental stage. It will improve as the sta tion gains momentum. The station has also laid the groundwork for supplying student organizations with free time on the air. This will prove a big problem for the station. Many campus groups will be vying for time, and much dissension will result. There American Youth Today —What Is Wrong? .. What Is University Youth Hiding From? (The first of five editorials concerning the attitudes of American youth today.) Sometime during his years at a university, it becomes the duty of every student to examine himself and his fellow students in the light of the problems of the entire world. It becomes his duty to examine himself and to ask himself whether or not he is living up .to the standards that should be maintained by a university stu dent in one of the world’s most progressive nations. What happens today when the student asks himself this all-pervading question? What an swer can he give to the problems of the world? What attempts is he making to solve the ques tions, some eternal, some terrifyingly new. which now confront the nation and the world? ; A truthful answer to these questions is a sad answer, an answer that should wrench the heart of the modern university students, for the answer is that he not only has no. answers he thinks are right, but he has not formulated any answers of a tentative nature. In fact, he does not even understand the questions. - This is the stark fact'. In a time when the world is looking, nay, begging, for solutions to problems: at a time when crisis builds- upon crisis while stupid men fumble for solid ground upon which to stand; at such a time youth lies dormant. This was not always true. There was a time, not too far in the past, when youth would have yelled the answers. Youth would have- said “Look, you world-people, here is the way it should be done,” and youth groups would fight to show ways that it could be done. Many of the ways would be wrong, of course, but many would be right. Thus new ideas, new solutions, would arise from the hot turmoil of youthful suggestion and young leaders, and outgrowth of the turmoil, would step forward (no longer youths) and carry out the ideas which had been born from thoughtful innovation. But today where are these young men who ¥ f I | Remember Your Friends I t» I I ’ with | I CHRISTMAS CARDS I 'l . i I by | I • Gibson •Manville I I | I •Rustcraft % I 1 % ALSO winter scenes of Old Main i £? M I I « Great selection of boxed Christmas cards g g —variety of styles. Also personalized cards g I See them at | | KEELER'S I | CATHAUM THEATRE BLDG. W. COLLEGE AVE. | | I SHj* latlij Collegian i sSsITsrJS | ueirapnper, Unsigned editorial* | are by the editor. SaccostiW to THE FREE EANCK, <’•*■ ISBS THE DAILY COLLEGIAN.. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA VINCE DRAYNE. Business Mgr. realize the physical limitations •of the station. Students must also realize WDFM is still largely in the experimental stage. Those work ing on the station are not full-time radio per sonnel. Inaccuracies will creep into programs and many faults will appear. Still, the radio station must be given ample time to prove itself. .Room for inaccuracy and fault, will become restricted with experience. As thd station grows older, the student body may naturally demand more from it and its staff. Unless more is forth coming, and unless the station grows, the many man-hours put into its birth will have been wasted. Today, the station reaches only a por tion of the student body for only a portion of the day. Tomorrow, the station "must reach virtually all of the student body, virtually all of the time. Many obstacles will face WDFM as it attempts to serve the students'who-conceived it. Some of those obstacles it has; unfortunately, already met. These will be discussed here tomorrow in another editorial. would shout "Hfere's the way?" Where are the revolutionists, the thinking youths, the spon taneous groups that led American thought onto the present high plateau of daring life by their adventuresome natures? A logical place to search for leaders is among the intelligent of the country and it is still true that the largest concentration of the intelligent youth of the country is in the colleges and uni versities. So let us look in these institutions, where we may 'see the New American Youth in his habitat. When we look here is what we see: We see a generation of silent non-entities children cringing'in the shadow of the lack of knowledge, thinking, poor dumb creatures, that not to know means not to participate in. In such a way they would , avoid being part of the Korean situation, or .being part of economic conditions,- or "being part of the intellectual violence that may arise. These foolish ones are hiding from partici pation. The terrifying meaning of this is that they are also hiding from life itself. And just what are the things, specifically, that ihese frightened youths are hiding from? These will be discussed here in four, articles to follow. Gazette... Today ALPHA TAU ALPHA, FFA, CLOVER CLUB, 7 p.m., 109 Agriculture. BUSINESS STUDENT COUNCIL, 7:50 p.m., Penn State Photo Shop. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 6:45 p.m., 304 Old Main. EDUCATION STUDENT COUNCIL, 7:30 p.m., 204 Burrowes. NEWMAN CLUB, BASKETBALL TEAM, 7 p.m., Catholic Student Center. NEWMAN CLUB RADIO AUDITIONS, 8 p.m., Catholic Student Center. Round"! h e- World By Sea By Air {■iterator* SUms+mtim* Tiektte STATE COLLEGe'.TRAVEL, BUREAU! State Collff* Hotel PboM 7136 Locette Nwsten Jo Gettf? : —Marshall O. Donley IN STATE COLLEGE Better hurry. It's getting late. Buy your gifts. They'll remember State. Li I tie Mail on Campus World Leadership Depends On Solving Race Issues j Theodore O. Spaulding, judge of the Philadelphia Municipal ■ Court, said Sunday that the question of racial discrimination must be settled before America can be the world leader it professes to be. Speaking on the subject of “Equality in Education,” Spaulding told his audience in 121 Sparks that the Negro’s place in American ■ociety is rising slowly but surely. '— 1 By giving a sweeping picture of the rise of the Negro’s place in society since 1776, he showed how the stage was set for-the pre sent discussion in the United States Supreme Court on the sub ject of discrimination in educa tion in southern schools He said although the Declara tion of Independence made prom ises of the equality of men, these were altered through succeeding years and in 1857 in the Dred Scott decision the Supreme Court said that Negroes had no rights to be respected. In 1863, this was changed, when Abraham Lincoln issued his fam ous Emancipation Proclamation. Finally, Spaulding said,-in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment stat ed that Negroes are citizens and have equal rights with other citi zens. These laws, Spaulding said,- were supposed to remove the last vestiges of slavery from the Uni ted States, but did not. Cases re sembling slavery still appear throughout the country, he said. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1953 By EDMUND REISS Due to the help of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other sym pathetic groups, the Negro’s, po (Contimied on page jive) Tonight on WDFM 7:25 Sign on 7:30 Informally Yours 7:45 Record Review 8:00 LA Lecture 8:30 Tops in Pops 0:00 Call Card '9:15. :—. News 9:30 War of Words 10:00 Masterworks from France 10:30 Sign off La Vie Group Schedule The unofficial schedule for La Vie group pictures tonight at the Penn State Photo Shop: Women's Debate 6:30 Froth .......: ;.., 6:50 Inkling ’7:10 Engineer ... 7:30 Business Council . 7:50 By Bibier
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