PAGE FOUR j t*ablLc;w<i tliroaffh S«t* iurdsy ncminco inclusive faring '.lie University year by iiie staff )f The Daily Collegian of the State tTiiWeraitv a* «econd-claa* Miatter July fr, A93* at tfe« State Uoiiejre, Pa. Poet Office ander the aet of March 3. 1879. DAVE JONES. Ediior Managing Kd., Marshall O. Oonley; City Ed., Chuck Obertance ; Copy Erf., Ch>z Mathias; Sports Ed., Sam Pro* copio; tftiii. Dir., fjcodmau; W : .re-Ra«!io Ed., Bill Jost; Photo Ed. Bruce Scliroedcr; Soc. Ed., lAx Newell; Asst. Sports Ed.. Piet McDowell; Asst. See. Ed., Gus Vollmer: I'Vatiirc Ed.. Nancy Meyers; Exchange Ed., Lorraine Gladus; Librarian, AJ Gt^maa; Senior Board, Jack Reid. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Phil Austin: Copy editors, Bev Dickinson, Mary Lee Lauffer; As sistants, Hank DiPipi, Sian Frolic, Marnie Schenck, Anna Saylor, Sue Conklin' Margie Blank. Ad Staff, Vince Tempone, Don Harting. Decentralized Voting: Nov/ that the Ail-College elections committee has tentatively set April 7 and 8 as dates for Spring elections, the question of decentralized voting systems and its manifestations again arises. In past years, campus balloting has been done at one centralized point, usually in Old Main, on the theory that this point is the easiest for students to reach when they wish to cast ballots. In the past few years, however, members of both the I .ion and State parties have been talk ing about a system of decentralized voting. The basic idea behind any plan for decentra lized voting is that the more places there are to vote, the more students will cast ballots. Some persons who want the decentralized sys tem are speaking in terms of eight or ten ballot ing areas. Others suggest only about four. This lattfer plan seems to have much merit. A four-area decentralized voting plan, for example, could operate with polls in Old Main, for town students and some women’s dorms; polls in the West Dorms, for the residents and others who use the lounges and snack bar there; polls in the TUB, for convenience of Nittany- Pollock residents and women in Simmons and On Athletic Policy A refreshing clarification of Penn State ath letic policy was given, last week- by Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the College of Physical Educa tion and Athletics. McCoy's statement was clarification of a policy made some time ago by the University in an economy move. That policy said only Eastern champions would be permitted to participate for Penn State in national championship compe tition. There was much student criticism of that policy when announced. Many felt sending only Eastern champions to national competition would kill Penn State’s chances for national titles in most events. McCoy, not yet on campus when that policy was announced, obviously agrees with this student point of view. McCoy’s clarification explained that not only would Eastern champions travel to national events, but so would any team member whom the coach honestly thought would have a chance to bring Penn State points. This is good news to the many who feared Penn State's defending national championship wrestling and gymnastics teams would not enter national competition as teams. McCoy has as sured the student body that any Penn State athletic team defending a national title will compete as a team, regardless of the number of Eastern champions. It is good to know that Penn State will not sacrifice its chances for athletic success merely to conform to this policy. One reason for an athletic budget is to produce creditable teams. It seems senseless to produce creditable teams, and then, for economy’s sake, devoid them of the chance to do the institution credit. This clarification has been much needed. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Graduate student in EE wanted for part-time laboratory work. The following camps will interview prospective counselors. Students may sign up at the Stu dent Employment Service: Delwood —Feb. 17; Barree—Feb. 24; Trail’s End—Feb. 27; Hiram House—March 2; Abington YMCA—March 16. PLACEMENT SERVICE THREE DIVISIONS OF U.S. STEEL CORP. will interview graduating* seniors in Chem., Phys., ChE, Aero. E, CE, EE, lE, ME, SE, & Mng. E, Math., Ceramics, Geology & Mineralogy, Min. Prep., Metal., PNG, and for sales Bus. Adm., Industrial Psy., and L.A, on Feb. 18. WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORP. (Research Labs. & Atomic Power Div.) representative's will interview Ph.D. candidates in Chem., Math., Metal, Phys.. ChE, ME & EE expecting to receive their degrees in 1954; and M.S. candidates in the above fields who have completed at least one semester on Feb. 19. E. I. DUPONT will visit the campus to interview grad uating seniors in Chem., Comm. Chem., Phys., Science, ChE, EE, lE, ME, and Mining Engr. on Feb. 22, 23, 24. EASTMAN KODAK CO. will interview graduating seniors and M.S. candidates who have completed at least one semester in Bus. Adm., Acctg., Bus. Mngt., Eco., Finance, Trade & Transportation, Chem., Phys., Science. Math., ChE, EE, lE, ME on Feb. 22 and 23. FEDERAL AGENCY ENGAGED IN NATIONAL SECURITY WORK will interview graduating seniors in Bus. Adm., A&L (Eco., History, Pol. Science), Languages (not Ro mance), Geography, and Secretarial Science on Feb. 22 and 23. ... BETHLEHEM STEEL CO. will interview graduating seniors in ME, CE, ChE, EE, lE, Mining Engr., Metal, Ceramics, and a few students in Purchasing, Acctg., Finance and Industrial & Public Relations on Feb. 22 and 23. CLEVITE CORP. (Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co. and Brush Electronics Co.) will interview graduating seniors in Acctg., Bus. Mngt., Chem., Phys., Metal., ChE, EE, lE, and ME on Feb. 22. . WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE COMPANY (Industrial Products and Air Brake Divisions) will interview grad uating seniors in ME and a few outstanding EE on Feb 22. GENERAL RAILWAY SIGNAL CO. will interview grad uating seniors in EE, lE, ME on Feb. 23. NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO. will interview grad uating seniors in. Bus. Adm. and Liberal Arts on Feb. 23# Site latlg CnUegum £Sg£Ta3S newspaper Unsigned editorials tre b* the editor Successor to THE PR BE LANCS, ect 188? •^sSHS* 01 Gazette Tt-ie DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA VINCE DRAYNE. Business Mgr. Asst; Bus. Mgr., Mark Christ; Local Advertising: Mgr., Robert Carruthers; National Adv, Mgr., Shirley Musgrave; Circulation Mgr.. Trank Grossman; Promotion Mgr.» Ruth Israel; Personnel Mgr., Patience Ungethiiem; Office Mgr., Gail Shaver; Classified Adv. Mgr., Jean Geiger; See., Carol •'olrwing: Research and Records Merr.. Francis Crawford. Worth a Try McElwain; and polis m the Agriculture Building' for agriculture and forestry students who are not often down-campus. Such a four-area plan could do as much as could be done to make it easier for the student to vote. Under the plan, a student could vote in any one of the areas. Election committee workers at the polls would punch the matriculation card of the voter so he could not vote at more than one polling place. A two-day period for voting would be maintained, as in the past. There is no way of knowing now whether this plan will work, or if it, will work well enough to merit its continued use. But there is only one way to find out: the plan must be tried. If, under a decentralized voting system, a sub stantial increase in the percentage of students voting is not seen, then the one-poll system can be re-instated. It would, of course, be the elec tion committee’s responsibility to determine what k ■ “substantial increase” in voting was. It does little or no good continually to discuss the merits of a decentralized or a centralized voting system; this has been done already. The only way to find out whether it will work is to try it. When the election committee has the facts, it can decide on the best system. A decentralized system has worked at other universities. Perhaps it will work here. But we must try. We cannot hesitate to make any sensible attempt to increase student interest in student government; we ca’nnot hesitate to give student government more backing. ■This plan is feasible—let’s try it. —Marshall O. Donley RIL Is for All This year’s Religion in Life program has something for everyone, and deserves student support, but even more, student participation. This year Religion in Life will be presented in a more concentrated form, thus lending to its intensity and interest. This is in accordance with the wish of cabinet. This year, too, as in past years, guest speakers will present and represent varying points of view, and lead student discussions of these points of view. There will also be classroom dis cussions Saturday and Monday. Besides these features, the program high lights a faculty dinner, a panel discussion, and services in the various churches and founda tions. The program will begin Friday with an interfaith service at the Hillel Foundation. The climaxing event of the weekend will be . the brotherhood banquet Monday evening at • the Nittany Lion Inn. This affair along with the faculty dinner will be the only one to charge for participation. Of course, no one expects everyone to attend every session; but for those who do attend, we can safely promise both an enjoyable and stimu lating experience. And, in the end, we won't say we told you so—though we did. HOUSEHOLD FINANCE CORP. will interview graduating seniors in Bus. Adm., Liberal Arts and Education on Feb. 23. AMERICAN SUGAR REFINING CO. will interview grad uating seniors in ME, lE, Chem., Engr., Acctg., and A&L' on Feb. 23. MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM CO. will interview graduating seniors in P.N.G., and Mining Engr. on Feb. 22. PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS . CO. (paint div.) will inter view graduating seniors in (Them., Commercial Chem., Bus. Mngt., ME, ChE; M.S. candidates who have com pleted at least one semester in Chem. and Chem. Engr.; and Ph.D. candidates expecting to receive their degrees in 1954. in Chem. and ChE, on Feb. 23. NORTH "AMERICAN AVIATION, INC. (Downey, Calif.) will interview graduating seniors in Phys., EE, ME, CE, Aero. Engr., and General Engr.; M.S. candidates in. the above have completed at least one semester; and - Ph.D. candidates in the above fields expecting to receive their degrees in 1954 on Feb. 24 and 25. AMERICAN STORES CO. will interview graduating seniors in ME, CE,, EE on Feb. 24. CHAS. PFIZER & CO., INC. will interview graduating seniors in Chem. (Analytical), ChE, and IE; and M.S. candidates in the above fields who have completed at least one semester on Feb. 24. COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, INC. will interview grad uating seniors in Fuel Tech., ME., and ChE on Feb. 24. SPERRY GYROSCOPE CO. will interview graduating seniors in Phys.. Aero Eng., EE, and ME on Feb. 24. WEIRTON STEEL CO. will interview graduating seniors in Metal, and ChE on Feb. 24. WAGNER ELECTRIC CORP. will interview graduating seniors in ME and EE on Feb. 24. ALLIS-CHALMERS will interview graduating seniors in EE, lE, & ME on Feb. 25. MONSANTO CHEMICAL CO. will interview graduating seniors in Chem.. ChE, EE. ME on Feb. 25. MINNESOTA MINING & MANUFACTURING CO. will In terview graduating seniors in Bus. Adm., Bus. Mng£, Finance, Trade and Transportation, Marketing, Chem., Comm. Chem., ChE, EE. lE, ME, A&L, Ceramics and Metallurgy on Feb. 25. STANDARD OIL DEVELOPMENT CO. (Esso research cen ter) will interview graduating seniors in Chem., ChE, Fuel Tech., ME, EE (Power), & CE.; M.S. candidates in the above fields who have completed at least one semester; and Ph.D. candidates in the above fields expecting to receive their degrees in 1954 on Feb. 25. ANCHOR lIDI'KTNG GLASS interview graduating seniors in Acctg., Bus. Mngt., Marketing, Arch. EL, lE, CE, & ME on Feb, 25* —Lon Goodman Little Man on Campus 'Oh, Snarf isn't such a bad teacher-—I had his course almost, tvro Excursion 1: Sntroductio Walden Secs ! _—! By LEN GOODMAN No doubt, at one time or another, most of us have heard of Henry David Thoreau, Yankee apostle of individualism. His works are fairly well-known, though not as well-known nor as widely read as they once were, and possibly should be. Asserting that the individual had a moral obligation to resist when government pursued what he considered a wrong course of action, Thoreau had no choice other than to escape to Walden Pond, or to be forever landing in jail as he pursued his philosophy; Thus, Walden Pond became his “retreat,” in both senses of the word. Today is a far cry from, -the relatively incomplex era of Thor eau’s Walden Pond; and how changed are so many of our val ues and aspirations. Yet, it is be cause of these changes, rather than in spite of them, that the im portance of Thoreau’s message— at least in part—is magnified. : But, since you . have success- ' fully read, this far, having first escaped the beguiling .ways ..of Bibler and Prof. Snarf, you should be rewarded with a straight-forward statement of the biases and prejudices that this column will promote. It. may persuade you to read fur ther, or prevent the accident from happening again. My main concern—or “beef,” if you wish—is the individualism, or lack thereof, in the makeup of the modem American. Yes, it’s a time-worn thesis, but the peculiar manifestations of it today are well-worth the -time. of. reading and the effort of writing. But, the purpose is not to preach, or exhort, or to chastize: there may be ranting, but -never raving.. Rather, let’s. review the dangers to, and the pitfalls of, a “modern individualism”; the need for such expression by both the democratic man and the democrat ic society;, and the possibilities and probabilities of success. Here, then, are the three as pects of "Walden Sea": . 1. Attainment of peace of mind in a hum-drum world —without escaping; 2. Attainment of an attitude conducive to reflection —without losing common sense } 3. Assertion of one’s own per sonality rather than mirroring the whims and fancies of Society (with the capital “s”) —while not neglecting one’s duties to society. Number 3 may be helped if we aftempl—once or twice—to escape the cult of Advertising, and the altar of the "market place psychology." By this I mean the effort expended to sell the personality would be belter spent in its development. But, this will probably be the most difficult of the obstacles to overcome. Keep in mind, however, that Walden Sea is any.place that- af- TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 1954 weeks before I dropped it." fords such a state of mind, though it may. afford more than, just an attitude, • even though how much more is not. quite certain. And, keep in mind, too, that this is a far cry from anarchism, or most any other formulated "-ism" of the day. There's no such implication: "Workers of the world, disunite!" 2 Frenchmen Dive 2/2 Miles Info Atlantic PARIS, Feb. 15 (JP) Two French naval officers today dived farther' beneath the ocean’s sur face .than man has ever probed before. They plunged their 35-ton bathyscafe more than 211 miles into the Atlantic off West Africa. Lt. Cmdr. Georges Houot and engineer Pierre Henri Willm made their, second spectacular world plunge, in six months—this time to a depth of 13,288 feet 160 ihiles off Dakar in “'the South At lantic. They beat by 2949 feet— more than half a mile—the pre vious record set by Swiss Profes sor August Piccard and his son, Jacques, last September in the Tyrrhenian Sea division of the Mediteranean off Naples, Italy. The Frenchmen spent six hours below the surface today. Hbiiot and - Willm used one of Piccard’s old bathyscafes, given to the French by the Belgian navy. It' performs something like a free ballon, only in the opposite direc tion. It operates from a mother ship to which it is not attached, I avigating freely when submerged by using small electric motors. ; Reading Festival Tryouts Students may sign up for the April Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Reading Festival at 6:30 tonight in 304 Sparks. Tryouts will b£ held next Tues day. , /,. 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