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Inez Althouse, Roger Beidler, Joe Beau Seigneur, Sue Conklin, Ted Serrill, Norman Smith; Ad staff,'
Stephen Wyman, Constance Anderson, Patricia Dickinson.
11. Seating Plan: A Forward Glance
(The last of two editorials concerning .the is possible. The seating plan is not near success
new Recreation Hall seating plan.) if—as with last week’s basketball game—Rec
Despite claims to the contrary, the present Hall is empty sometimes, and— as with Satur-
Recreation Hall seating plan does not work, and day’s double-header—overflowing at other
never will work in its present form. times. A real seating plan could eventually
The idea behind a seating plan is to allocate equalize this,
some seats for non-students at indoor athletic The logical solution is to allocate about 300
events. The ideal situation would be to deter- seats for non-students at most, indoor events,
mine the number of students planning to attend The original seating plan was to reserve .300
an indoor event, and to sell the remaining seat- seats for non-students. However, under the new
ing space to non-students. This is a principle in • suggestion, those seats would not be reserved,
the present plan provided for in early exchange They would be general admission seats, and
of student tickets. But the plan has already purchasers would take their chances,on getting
proven • faulty.
There is no way to determine with much ac
curacy how many students will attend indoor
sporting events. Such factors as other social
activities, examinations, and weather often de
termine attendance. Attempts in the present
plan to determine student attendance have
failed. Under the ticket exchange plan, students
secure tickets in case they may want to go to
the event. In the two times the plan has been
employed, hundreds have exchanged tickets and
failed to attend events. '
The University cannot close the ticket ex
change period before the event for two reasons:
1. All-College Cabinet approved the plan on the
basis that the tickets would be sold on the day
of the event; and 2. Each student must pay for
an athletic book, and the University cannot re
fuse him admittance to an event for which he
has already paid admission.
Under the present system, students stand in
lines to exchange tickets at the Atheltic Associ
ation office, and more students stand in more
lines to exchange more tickets at Rec Hall prior
to game time. But no accurate count of student
attendance is made, or can be made. As a result,
tickets are sold to any number of non-students.
Over 5000 students exchanged tickets for Sat
urday night's sports doubleheader. Enough stu
dents attended the event to fill all seats. Yet
tickets were still sold to over 200 non-students.
This so crowded Rec Hall that spectators stood
two deep around the balcony and five or. six
deep on one end of the main floor. And this
condition was called "almost perfect" because
no one was turned away. This situation was far
from perfect.
A more logical solution to the seating problem
11. Saturday Classes: Last Two Points
(The last of two editorials concerning Sat- First, is there any guarantee that students will
urday classes at the University.) study even though they remain on campus? The
Arranging free hours for meetings at 4 p.m. courses themselves ultimately determine stu-
Tuesdays and Thursdays does not seem to be dent interest and long weekends,
an advantage over the present set-up. Under For, if a student is more interested in long
present class sequences, there are usually four weekends than a college education, he can still
days with no classes at 4 p.m. The advantage in avoid Saturday classes, even if a worthwhile
having two open hours for meetings rather than course is offered at that time. Yet, the number
four is indeed a mystery. of those taking long weekends seems somewhat
A much better suggestion seems to lie in the exaggerated. An estimate of one weekend
possibility of scheduling the many evening claimed 50 per cent of the dormitories were
exams during the free hours not included in any empty that weekend.
sequence. There were 43 evening exams sched- The paternal instinct of the administration in
uled for the fall semester by the end of the first this matter is touching, but it should be re
week of that semester. Yet even here the four membered that ultimate responsibility for
4 p.m. hours are better than the two under the tudies remains with the individual student. ..
new schedule. —Len Goodman
If, on the other hand, the idea is to reschedule
extra-curricular activity meetings, seminars,
and miscellaneous classes and tests held in the
evenings to those two free hours, the effect
might be damaging. About ten per cent of these
sessions are for one hour, and the rest for up to
four hours.
The final reason stated deserves special men
tion. It was stated that the previous scheduie
was encouraging many students to take long
weekends off campus without doing any study
ing.
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a seal, as students must.
Past experience shows student attendance
does not appreciably fill Rec Hall except on
weekends, or in the event of doubleheaders. If
a maximum of 300 seats should prove unsatis
factory, the number could be quickly, adjusted.
If Penn State should produce a championship
basketball or boxing team, and student attend
ance rose, sale of tickets to non-students could
be diminished. And in the event of double
headers, sale of tickets to non-students could
be abolished.
This system would require repeated adjust
ment. But as experience in attendance grew,, the
correct number of tickets to be put on sale could
be more easily determined. The maximum of
tickets to be placed on sale could be set by the
Athletic Association, subject to All-College Cab
inet's jurisdiction.
Under this plan, some chance of empty seats
or overflow attendance would remain. But it
would not be as fluctuating as it is now, it would
provide some non-student seats at almost every
indoor event, and it would stop the senseless
ticket exchange which does no good. _
Under the present set-up, there is no seating
plan! Any student may attend, but he must
trouble himself to secure a ticket. And any non
student may attend, since tickets are being sold,
regardless of student-ticket exchanges.
A plan to sell a variable maximum of general
admission seats to the public is feasible. Ex
perience with such a plan would gradually im
prove its operation. The present plan is in
operative. All-College Cabinet must reconsider
the seating question and present some modifi
cation if it pretends to serve the best interests
of the student body.
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Interpreting the News
US. Policy to Rely
On Atomic: Weapons
Russia and Red China are-now on notice from the United States
that they can no longer promote wars. abroad without expecting
to suffer war at home. .
Secretary of State John. Foster Dulles
to offer swift and massive retaliation at the
The American military organ
ization already is being planned
that way. He was clarifying 1 the
manner in which it may be used:
He already had warned that
direct Chinese intervention in
Indo-China would be. met by di
rect American attack on China, as
would a resumption of the Korean
war. Now the implication is. clear
that the United State's will launch
atomic war at: the base of the
aggressor in any situation where
an attack represents. a sufficient
threat to the free world. No spe
cific commitment is made, but
neither are there any specific ex
ceptions which might encourge the
Reds to miscalculate American
intent as they did in Korea. '
. This is a momentous state
ment. It marks an estimate by
the administration that the situ
ation has' reached a turning
point toward which the free
world has been working for
years It says America now has,
or will have in the immediate
future, the ability which it once
so sadly lacked to back its di
plomacy with real power.
President Eisenhower describes
it as a “fundamental truth.”
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bound to have a powerful effect
on Russian policy from now on.
She’will have to calculate any
move, she desires to make with
regard, to the seriousness with
which it will be taken by the Uni
ted States. She 'will have to rea
lize that a miscalculation will
make, her the target for fearful
retaliation.'
. The obvious hope of the ad
ministration is that this will
deter Russia - from dangerous
gambles', just as swift retaliation
oh a local basis in Korea has
deterred hhr from further ad
ventures of that type for the
past three years.
The Dulles statement also served
as an explanation to other mfim
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