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DAVE JONES. Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Baylee Friedman; Copy editors,' Don Shoemaker, Len Goodman;
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American Youth Today—-What Is Wrong?
111. Lack of Attack on
(The third of five editorials concerning the.
attitudes of American youth today.)
Youth’s disinterest shows itself again in the
field ox national affairs. What opinions does the
modern youth have or express on national prob
lems? Is he for or against public power projects
as now proposed? Or, to take a more burning
national issue, how does he propose to fight
communism in the nation?
The lack of inieresi here is almost asionish
ing. In other eras, and today in other countries,
a bug-a-boo such as McCarthyism would never
be allowed to rise without pulling forth dra
matic and dynamic opinions from youth. In
other times, and other places, student strikes,
mass meetings, and group actions would have
resulted in defiance to such actions as those
taken which we label McCarthyism.
This national issue has even come onto cam
puses itself without incurring the wrath or re
action of students in any numbers; Professors
have been fired, university presidents dis
credited, and college newspapers blasted: all
this done unfairly in the name of cleaning up
communism, and yet no student groups rose up.
What is wrong?
In Canada a number of college men got to
gether and burned McCarthy in effigy, but no
such reaction, in fact, no reaction at all, was
seen among American youth. Are we waiting
for orders?
Another national issue of importance is that
of racial prejudice in our country. Here is a
field that is made to order for university action,
since, again, a lot of the action has been cen- ,
tralized in universities in question of admission
of Negro students to all-white colleges. The
University of Georgia stands as a sole recent
example of any student action on the issue, and
this action was quickly put down by Southern
oldsters.
At Penn State, student reaction to these a~ x
to other national issues is limited to an atti
tude of “well, I don’t know” or “I don’t think
we should talk about that.” The only serious
talk about national issues around this campus
emanates from some professors who dare ex
press their opinions in and out of classrooms.
The field of art and writing seems also to
be suffering under this trend toward disinterest
shown by the American student. Where once
student groups would gather, study new fields,
and begin to paint or write—and to hell with
the old school—now they sit meekly in the
classrooms, doing their best to imitate the “new”
writers or “new” painters who led schools in
the early part of the century.
This has gone on to such. an extent in, the
writing field that a collection of the works of
new writers in the country now includes those
around the age of 40 or 50. The occasional new
comer follows meekly after these “radicals”
and is satisfied.
Religion arid education are two of the most
important fields of interest in the country or
the world today, and both are today in such
a condition of disrepair and age that both cry
for reform. The threat of atheistic communism
makes ever-important a strengthening of the
intellectual side of religion, yet today the larg
est growing religious sect is the Baptist funda
mentalism, an emotional religion hardly equip-
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Current Problems
ped to combat the thoughtful anti-God being
spread by the Reds.
Religion is also built upon the promise of
the dignity of the individual, a promise over
thrown by the communist doctrine wherever it
becomes inbedded. It is the duty of every per
son today to know of this threat, and it is the
duty of youth to plan means of combatting it.
One of 'the leading educators in the United
States, Robert M. Hutchins, former chancelor
of the University of Chicago, said recently the
present system of education in this country has
no future. He indicted our schools for their lack
of concentration on thoughts of great men. Our
own president, Milton S. Eisenhower, has been
urging university programs that would train
the whole mind without sacrificing essential
specialization.
When men of this caliber see things wrong
with our education system, there are things
wrong. And it will not be the old men of today,
but youth—those in colleges and universities
now—who will, who must, find solutions to
these problems of education and the many other
problems mentioned before.
Why is that youth not attacking these prob
lems today?
Gazette «,..
Today
ALPHA EPSILON DELTA, 8 p.m., 121 Sparks.
DELTA SIGMA PI, 7:30 p.m., Delta Upsilon.
LIBERAL ARTS MAGAZINE MEETING, 8
p.m., 105 Willard.
NEWMAN CLUB REFORMATION DISCUS-
SION, 7:30 p.m., 117 Osmond.
PENN STATE HELLENIC SOCIETY, 7:30 p.m.,
TUB.
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN MILITARY ENGI
NEERS, 7 p.m., 1 Carnegie.
INFIRMARY
Robert Banfield, Arthur Bates, Dorothy Blay
potch, James Demcheck, Margaret Fenster
macher, Byron Fielding, David Fizz, Eugene
Greenberg, Philip Hetrick, • Charles Junker.
Alexander Kalenak, Robert Kauffman, Robert
Kisner, Barbara Larpenteur, Norma Laughner,
Roberta Lereh, Sally Ostrom, Joanne Roberts,
Moren Shapiro, Ronald Solovitz, Leo Synnesf
vedt, Karl VopderLinden.
PLACEMENT SERVICE
Placement interview information is available in 112 Old
Ham. Daily Collegian placement -lists cannot be complete.
FIRESTONE TIRE AND RUBBER CO. will interview Jan.
graduates in A and L, Bus. Adm., and Acctg. on ’ Dec. 10.
TOUCHE, NIVEN* BAILEY AND SMART will interview
Tanuary graduates interested in Public Accounting Dec. 10.
BELL TELEPHONE LABS, will interview Jan. B.S.
graduates in EE, ME, Engr. Mech.; M.S. candidates in EE,
.VIE, Engr. Mech., Math., Physics, and Chem. expecting to
receive their degrees in 1954 on Dec. 14 and 15.
THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS will inter
view women in Recreation, Phys. Ed., and Health Ed. Dec.
14, and 15.
ARMSTRONG CORK CO. will interview Jan. B.S. grad
uates in Bus. Adm., Eco., and L.A. for non-tech, sales,
EE, ME, lE, and CE for Tech, sales, IE for Industrial
Engineering work, and Chem. and Phys. at all levels for
research and development on Dec. 15 and 16, 1953.
ALLIS-CHALMERS MFG. CO. will interview Jan. grad
uates in ME, EE, and IE on Dec. 16.
A representative of the city of Philadelphia will conduct
a group meeting on Dec. 16, for all students from the Phila.
area interested in civic Jobs., Further information concerning
opportunities and the,'time of the meeting can be obtained
in the University Placement Service, 112 Old Main.
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are by the editor
ider tbs met of March 3. 1879.
—Marshall O. Donley
Fine Selection of Christmas Cards and Wrappings
METZGERS
111-115 S. Allen Si.
i I tie Man on Campus
"Looks like we'll be writing research papers all term—l under
stand Prof. Snarf is writing a book on lh' Orient."
Hook, Line and Sinker
Whispering
Gallery
Despite endless bluebooks and an avalanche of end-ofrthe-se
mester assignments, we called time out the other night and stalked
into the Armpit to see the really fine adaptation of Rachel L. Car
son’s revealing novel, “The Sea Around Us."
Perhaps it was the Barnum-like sideshow publicity outside lur
ing the public to “See lone diver)
battle for life against a killer 1 , , -W7"r-ki
shark,” and “See the earth born fit OH W JLJJ
before your very eyes.” Maybe
it was our faith in the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sci- ”11" in s ?
ences which awarded the film the Record
1952 Oscar as the best documen- • Open
tary of the year. Hamburg
Anyway, we followed the line ”~r~~II~"r"caini
into a completely dark theater. Ballet
A fiery nebula writhed its way :
forward and exploded with ter
rific fury. A voice loomed through
the sound track, “And God cre
ated the heavens and the
earth . . .”
Good agnostic that we are, we
would have fled to the hills, but
the screen soon flashed a macabre
blue as the rains came and sof
tened the crust of the planet
From the H. G. Wells and Jules
Verne type beginning, the film
(Continued on page five)
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