PA GE POUR Pabashod TameTay throes* Sea ..ar4ley members int.:quire allying the University year by The eteff et The Daily Cetierian et Ike Peaaeybrassie Slate University. Eintemi so eiteand-:leas twiner Jab S. 1914 GA Elbe Slate Cake*. --Pa. Pea °Caw' • DAVE JONES, Editae Managing Ed.. Marshall 0. Donley: City Ed., Check Obertance; Copy Ed.. Chiz Mathias: Sports Ed., Sans Pro. copio; Edit. Dir.. Dick Ran; Wire-Radio Ed., Bill Jose; l'hote Ed., Bruce Schroeder; Soc. Ed. Lynn Nahanowitst Asst. Sports Ed., Dick McDowell; Asst. See. Ed., Lix. Feature Ed., Nancy Meyers: Exchange Ed.. Gna Vollmer; Librarian, Lorraine Glades:. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Mike Feinsilber; Copy editors, Al Munn, Marcie MacDonald; As sistants, Bill Snyder, Dave Bronstein, Joanne Wohleber. New Buildings: $2.7 Million Worth The $2.7 Million appropriated for the T.lniver- Another benefit of the new wings will be sits by the General State Authority prior to increased bed space. The Infirmary now has 33 Christmas recess will go a long way toward beds for students. With the new wings, capacity ' improving the educational value of Penn State. will be almost doubled. The GSA money will be used to construct Just as important to the University will 12,e a classroom building and wings for the Infirm- the addition of treatment rooms and technical ary. The classroom building will provide neces- facilities. Then too, more rapid and complete sary space for expanding classes. The Infirmary student health service is sure to follow. wings will allow consolidation of the hospital In a recent Daily Collegian poll, students and dispensary services into one building. These preferred a doctor on duty 24 hours a day. This new buildings are but two in the still unfolding would present a multitude of financial compli construction program at the University. cations for the University. However, combin- Contrary to what some students are wishfully ation of the two services in one building may thinking, addition of the new classroom building help answer that problem. will not wipe out Saturday classes. Classroom Students also suggested a better plan for space needed at Penn State cannot be solved class excuses. Under, present health service op merely by construction of one building. But eration, only students confined to Infirmary office and class space to be in the new building beds may receive class excuses. Students too will alleviate crowded conditions now existing ill to attend class, but not ill enough to be put throughout the campus. in the Infirmary, are caught in a dilemma. Perhaps more of student interest is the pro- But expansion of health service facilities could posed addition to the Infirmary. For several make it possible for more students to be hos years students have been bemoaning inade- pitalized than before. quacies of the University Health Service. One The new wings will not be completed for complaint has been the separation of the hospi- several months, but approval of funds for their tal and the dispensary. Under the new plans. construction bringS many student hopes near the two will be combined. reality. • A New Game: Fill in the Blanks Eeny meanie miney moe. This means of selec tion—quite adequate in grammar school days— has hit the campus again in the form of course scheduling blues. Only this time it's worse. More than 100 courses have been listed in the spring semester timetable without names of instructors who will teach them. For the student who cares little about how much he gets from a course, this presents no problem. But students sometimes have a habit of caring, and, more often than not, the value of a course depends upon the man who teaches it. There are reasons—some justifiable—for the appearance of white space or the word "staff" adjacent to so many courses. For example, the schedulers in various departments have no idea how registration will effect course enrollment. There are problems of section overflow, under registration, and availability of specialized pro fessors at certain times. In the case of basic courses like economics 14, assignments to instructors are more practical when made a f ter registration, because the scheduler cannot predict the magnitude and trend of section enrollment. Often, when a new section is created, the new class meets simul taneously with another of the assigned profes sor's classes. Also the employment of graduate students in survey courses depends on - the avail ability of those students, which ,is generally unknown at scheduling time. White space, then, for some basic courses, seems to make sense. But what is the sense of omitting the names of instructors in advanced courses—courses that should be predictable in the registration area? Not one instructor is listed for mathematics courses. There are 27 math courses. Even less scheduling sense is evident, when Sign of the Times The sites for both the All-Faith Chapel and the nuclear reactor were approved' simulta neously by the University Board of Trustees last month. This was a sign of the times. Who will deny the connections the mind makes between these two structures is typical of our thinking today and the age we live in? With our right hand we construct monuments of hope and faith; with our left hand we build power plants of despair. Yet these power plants of despair today may, become the source of a newer and better life tomorrow. Given time, we may yet, be able to put the atom to work for us. Let us hope we are given time. The problem is not only for our right hand to know what our left hand is doing, but also for our understanding and foresight to bring the two into harmony. It's about this time that a prayer is offered for our country—isn't it? Pa. Missionary Dies While Serving in India NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 5 (W) The U. S. Embassay here re ceived today a belated report of the death of an American mis sionary, Miss Marjorie Ann Smiley of Rural Route 1, Scenery Hill, Pa., in a fall into the icy Hima layan River Gori Ganga Dec. 22. Education—The inculcation of the incomprehensible into the ig norant by the incompetent. —Sir Josiah Stamp (lift a ally Cottrgian Suoteemer to TEE IPILSE LA-110E. me. IV* —Len Goodman New Unemployment Rise Of 400,000 Is Reported WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (R)— The Department of Commerce said today unemployment rose about 400,000 from November to December, increasing the jobless total to 1.85 million. The department's monthly re port on employment showed lit tle change in non-farm employ ment, but a• sharp drop in farm work with the onset of winter weather. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, . PENNSYLVANIA VWCE DRAYNE, Business liftgg. Amt. S. Mgr.. Mark Ckrist Local Advertising Mgr., Robert Carruthers National Adv. Mgr. Dave Burke Circulation Co•Mgre., Frank Creasman, Diane : Promotion Mgr., Ruth Israel; Personnel Mgr., Patience Ungetkeem : Office Mgr.. Gail Shavers Classified Adv. Mgr., Jean Geiger; Sec.. Carol SeAwing : Research and Records Mgrs., Virginia Bowman, Francis Crawford. we realize that course information is requested from the academic departments by the Uni versity scheduling office about two weeks after the start of the semester. The department heads have a month to prepare the information. And when a department head knows fairly well who will be on his staff—as he should—there is little trouble at all. However, department heads sometime have the idea that students will "gang up" on re putedly easy professors if those professors are listed. This—like eeny meanie miney moe— reminds us •of our grade school days. For stu dents who want to learn will avoid these pro fessors if they have comparatively little to offer. Not listing instructors, therefore, can lead to placing a conscientious student in a not-so conscientious class. A recommendation made to All-College Cab inet in 1951 asked all schools to list their instruc tors "when possible" and presented a plan for the listing of instructors not known by the publication deadline. Those sections • would be posted before pre-registration. Such a plan seems sensible for administration as well as students, presenting a kind of measuring stick for the • relative value of the instructors, a value • demonstrated by class enrollment. As freshmen, we were told the importance of scheduling courses by professors. The desir ability of this became even more evident from • registration to registration. But it is scheduling time again, and department schedulers have made a "heads or tails" or "no Saturday classes forme" choice the only choice of many students. Unfortunately one thing has been ignored: the student's right to know and, in some cases, to learn. Gazette ... Today ACEI, 7 p.m., Home Ec. nursery school. CHESS CLUB, 7 p.m., 3 Sparks. NEWMAN CLUB, 7:30 p.m., Catholic Student Center. TOWN COUNCIL, 7 p.m., 108 Willard Thursday _ _ POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, 7:30 p.m., Home Economics Living Center. INFIRMARY Arnold Dalton, Janet Fetterolf, Donald Gar ber, Berna Joseph, Jeannette Kohl, Samuel Lear, William Matthews, Joseph Mijares, Dean Moyer, Phyllis Roberts, Norman Schue, Roland Taylor, Nancy Wenner, Joyce White. PLACEMENT SERVICE LOS ALAMOS SCIENTIFIC LABORATORY representa tives will visit the campus Jan. 13 to interview Ph D. can didates in Physics, Math. Chem. (Inorganic or Physical) and Metal. expecting to receive their degrees in 1954, M.S. can didates in Phys., Math., Chem., (Inorganic or Physical) and Metal. who have completed at least,one semester, and grad uates in the above fields who wish to consider summer work. _ . CAMP DELWOOD in the Poconos will interview students here on Feb. 16, 'who are interested in counselors' positions. Interested students may sign up for appointment at the employment office. Britain's Railroads Ask Freight Rate Increase LONDON, Jan., 5 (JP)—Britain's nationalized railroads, faced in 1954 wtih wage increases and higher operating costs, today ask ed the government for permis sion 'to hike freight rates 10 per cent starting Feb..l. If the application is approved, it will be the third time in as many years that Britain's state owned rail system, struggling to keep out of the red, has increased its charges. Collegian editorials -retirement the viewpoint of the writers. ant necessarily the policy at the edhariala are by the editor. the a aC Id/grail 3. 1271. —Baylee 'Friedman iffle Mau cm Campus '—Well, did you see that silly .ad I put in-yesterday's newspaper Glancing _Atrannd ,-ireative At the r I There exists in this Universty one of the been developed since Kinsey invent:ed . the photography—press photography. • The fact that the course is cal ered me at all. I still- continue One of the primary advantages in. taking the course is.the• sense of imagination that it builds -in the student. I understand one of the professor's compensations:Ad teaching us the.artis.the .privilege of first-hand observation .of --the . variety of errors that can be made:: I'm - gunning for --the •reCbrd: : I thinke The %course involVeS traipSing . about campus with enough equip ment to make one almost look professional. This illusion 'fades when the picture-taking start The cameras are not of the m ai;in the-box-trip-the - shutter variety: They have a number of gimmicks'l and gadgets which • enable one to take. pictures of .varying degrees-i of quality in almost any situation. The gadgets also proVide - "a greater variety of 'ways to , make mistakes than. a , treivel , . guide written ,in Hindustani:. For ample, everyone in - the Icourse• • is provided with a mieographed.. list of picture assignments . tthat must be completed by the : ' end:: of the term. • • " "• ' Included in the list is 'a pictUre of a newsworthy event. Good newsworthy pictures seldom come by when one happens to have 'a camera signed .out. I was fortun ate in having one newsworthy event w a I , k into Carnegie: one night. This particular newsworthy event happened to, be sur-. rounded by a window. screen. My trigger-quick, mind decided• • that this was not an ordinary occurrence. Most men on cam pus prefer belts. He did not look particularly pleased with the situation. His companions on the other hand didn't seem to mind at all. I didn't mind either. In fact I was de lighted. One of my problems was solved. His friends wanted his picture taken. I wanted his picture. He looked like he wanted a can ,opener. After carefully checking the camera adjustments, I calmly stepped forward and in my best professional manner I preserved the poor boy's pan and position for posterity. There was only one thing that I overlooked. I was just a wee bit too close. I chopped off the top of his head. If anyone else cares to get himself, jammed into the open ing of a Nittany dorm window screen, I would appreciate knowing about it first. Despite these little annoyances, WEDNESDAY; JANUARY - 6, 1954 for a roomlnate?" ed press: photpgraphy hasn't both king 'pietniesi:not worth printing. my interest in the art has in creased: So much so, that when I received •a bit of currency at christmas, I decided to invest it in' a . tank'and some smelly chemi- Cals for developing roll filth. My only experience with a - roll tank deVeloper before was 'a sad one: I blithely-started to load film into it when the realization that did not; know what I was doing slowly 'sank in. Perhaps it was because .Ihaci 'the film all wadded up. ;The :dass . "-vvas told originally that the best results are obtained when the .film fits on the .reel smoothly.' The professor bailed me out: of tifat jam. • ;It; was -with considerable relief thenAhat learned that the roll tank I- was considering buying would practically load itself. The merchant even included a prac tice roll of film to try, before us 'the- tank in. the darkroom. • ' 1 trotted home with my proud po s s s n' and immediately \ started leading the film.. This - - tithe there' ..would be no - mis- - takes. There were two conditions pre sent-that demanded a dark room. One, the 'Elm in my camera *had' beeonie jammed somehow and would have 'to be unloaded in the dark. , Two,"the film would have to be loaded 'into the tank in' tile dark. • . The architect who designed our apartment, however, did nctttake into • • consideration my future thoughts and desires. ne glected to install a dark -room. 'I (Continued on page five) Tonight on WDEVI 7:25 • Sign on .:Prerue -7:30 ' ~ BBC Brims: (Who'll Buy My Fresh Herring's)' , :00 Record' , Prevue :15 Spotlight cull :State.; 00 _____ . Semi-pops. 30 ----------- , Masterworks Midi '3O , • , .Sign:• off 8: 8: 9: 9: 9: 10: . . • LaVie Group. 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