PAGE FOUR leublished fu.,aday through Satnrday mornings, during' ,• the (Jniverslty sear. the t - 1 Da ily Collegian la n studtent- I operated ay....matter. Entered se eecond-elaes maner July a. 1934 - at ttie State College. Pa. Peals Office under STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night-editor, Herm Weiskopf; Copy editors, Nancy Fortna, Don Shoemaker; Assistants, Ron Gatehouse, Cynthia Bell, Mike Moyle, Nancy Showalter, Ed Martinez, Anita Opren dek. Ad staff, Tod Adams, Cindy Manarin. L Campus Politics: An Interesting Semester (First of four editorials - art campus politics) This is an unusually big year for campus poli tics--and campus politicians. There have been plenty of fireworks. Most students are watching the fireworks with amusement, as well they might. The tragedy, however, is that the situ ation is not funny. It is pathetic. Politics in the spring semester has had an interesting history. And the All-University elec tions committee has had quite a time. Perhaps the hardest part of the election is over for this committee, and the campaign has not even begun. First came decentralized voting. Critics said it would allow, perhaps encourage, error. Ad vocates said it would increase interest in stu dent government. The elections committee voted in favor of increased interest in student govern ment. Next came rotation of offices between fra ternity and independent students. Some said it was unfair, others it was wise. The elections committee decided no fraternity student would face an independent for office. Next, one party tried to run a junior for All-University vice president. The elections committee said "no." The party said "we will decide." Result: a junior is not running for All- University vice president. Next, a party's All-University presidential candidate withdrew from the campaign one night, re-entered the next day. This provided interesting comment. Then, some students decided they would clean up politics. This is something students have been deciding since time began. This time, they had a meeting. They said the meeting was to stop dictatorial practices and one-man parties. Those who attended either liked dictatorial practices and one-man parties, did not believe they exist, or did not like cleaning up student government. Those who attended the meeting turned against the cleaners-up. The meeting did nothing but convince many students politics is a joke. Next, All-University Cabinet was presented with a proposal to charter campus parties, form The Class Gift Two groups of students—seniors and non seniors—may have a part in selecting the senior class gift. The responsibilities of both are vital to the selection of one that is worthwhile. Both groups may submit gift suggestions at the Student Union desk in Old Main. Only seniors may participate in final voting. Underclassmen should be concerned with the usefulness and need of the gift since they may benefit by it before they are graduated. There fore, underclassmen should exhibit interest by submitting suggestions. These suggestions should be carefully considered. Seniors who for four years have paid the University-assessed damage fee, from which the class gift money is derived, should be interested in where their money goes. In addition, it is to be expected that through longer experience at the University, seniors will have more and possibly better ideas concerning areas of need a Class gift could fill. A $9OOO gift is an object for serious consider ation. A wise selection can only be made from a variety of good suggestions Gazette ... Today AMERICAN SLOVANIC ORGANIZATION, 7:30 p.m., Home Economics Living Center CENTRAL PROMOTION AGENCY, 7 p.m., 119 Carnegie HAT SOCIETY COUNCIL, 7:15 p.m., 204 Old Main MINING ENGINEERING SOCIETY, 7:30 p.m., Mineral Sciences Auditorium NEWMAN CLUB DISCUSSION, 7:30 p.m., Catholic Student Center PENN STATE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, 7:30 p.m., 218 Mineral Science PENN STATE GRANGE, 7:30 p.m., 100 Horti- • culture PERSHING RIFLES, 7 p.m., Armory—Class A Uniform PHI UPSILON OMICRON, 6:30 p.m., Home Economics Living Center PLAYERS' ADVERTISING WORKSHOP, 7 p.m., Schwab Auditorium Loft PSCA "RELIGION AND THE ARTS" SERIES, 7 p.m., 304 Old Main INFIRMARY Annette Bair, Ervin Baker, Joan Blissman, William Cramp, Elizabeth Elliott, Joseph Gor desky, Theodore Jackson, Joyce Kerr, Janet McKinley, Kenneth Meredith, Sylvia Pence, Cecilia Poor, Robert Waltemeyer, Harvey Wolf son, Rebecca Zahm. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT The following camps will interview at the Stu dent Employment Service, 112 .Old Main: Abington YMCA Camp on March 24; Camp Onawa-clo'. on March 26; Camp Mr- - n'Dma, Maine, on March 29 and 30; Clear Pool Camp, aim Battg Cattrgiatt Soemaso; es ram PRIER LANCE. ext. MO —Nancy Ward THE DAILY COLLEGIAN!. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA a new elections board, and set up a permanent elections code. This was sent to committee. There was some question as to whether these were wise proposals. After this, one party refused to remove a plank from ii platform. The elections commit tee said "remove the plank." The party said "we will not remove the plank." The party removed the plank. * • - And while all this has been going cm, there have been charges against parties, clique lead ers, and candidates. This has led some students to believe campus politics is in a worse situ ation than ever before. It ain't necessarily so. No one can be sure whether campus politics is in more of a mess than usual. Most students do not care. The big problem, it seems, is that things are not going the way some old poli iicians want them to. It seems they are shocked because some students have succeeded in doing what they could not do—gain strong control on a party and its candidates. This does not mean the parties have been right in what they have done. It merely means the pot is calling the kettle black, as it so often does. It merely means some students are step ping on the wrong toes. Everyone involved, waving the blue and white flag, is shouting "Better student government" and "Better Penn State." Yet, in all the shout ing, better student government and better Penn State are being overlooked. Party leaders have taken unfair control of parties. Old politicians have made unfair charges and held an unwise meeting on the problem. Both parties and their critics could stand some improvements. Campus parties are still avoiding issues. Plat forms released last week are little more than mouthwash. If parties want better student gov ernment, they must employ the best candidates toward the best ends. The best ends are being overlooked. Platforms are, as usual, meaning.' less. Again, elections will end in a popularity contest. An analysis of both party platforms will follow this week. On Honors Day Honors Day died last week, but it will not be missed. For few but the honored ever attended. The honors program, designed to recognize outstanding scholastic and professional achieve ment, was discontinued because of "lack of interest." Apathy, apathy, apathy has been denounced before. Perhaps, then, those institutions that Meet with apathy should be eliminated. Or bet ter yet, those deserving honor should be recog nized in programs which already attract the public's eye. We have honored the ugly, beautiful, and talented with pennies, votes, and cheers. Be cause a special Honors program per se did not appeal to students, the just-plain-smart were met with little more limelight than midnight oil. Handling the honors awards in established, well-attended functions, as will be done this spring, will give recognition to_ those entitled to it. Discontinuing Honors Day was a realistic acceptance of conditions. Certainly the empty auditorium characterizing the honors program did little more than substantiate the theory that it pays to be ignorant. Safety Valve Explasns Sing Move TO THE EDITOR: Many people have been ques tioning the reason for the change in location of the Interfraternity Council-Panhellenic Council sing finals. Schwab Auditorium was engaged the second week in February froth - Thespians. At that time they agreed to 'allow us to use Schwab on Sun day, March 28, 'from 7 to 8 p.m. The first week in March, Thespians informed me the stage would be occupied, but that we were free to use the portion of the stage in front of the curtains. To this I agreed . . . Saturday last I was informed Thespians would' be work ing on the stage . . . Monday noon I was told the sing finals would have to be moved . . . Fortunately, - Jo Hays, supervising principal of the State College High School cooperated fully and hence' the IFC-Panhel sing finals will be held there . . N.Y., on April 1;' Camp Kiwanis on April 2; Camp Conrad Weiser on April 7. Sign up for interviews in advance. UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT - - - - This is a -partial and unofficial listing. Complete informa tion on placement may:. be secured at 112 Old Main. SEABROOK FARMS CO. of Bridgeton, N.J. will meet with freshman, sophomoreS, and juniors interested in summer __employment, on March 30 in 105 Forestry to arrange inter views for. March.' 31. Seniors interested in employment upon graduation will' ; also be interviewed. THE KR9GTH 0 0 NeM:lbe or! •••••• ,, - . ....s March 31 and April 1, to .;T.1.t..r. - v.:cw - - n• - s Names should be listed with G.N.P. Leetch, 112 Old Main. Editorials represent the viewpoint 'of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper. Unsigned edi torials. are b► the editor sot o 4 Horeb 3. 1879 —Baylee Friedman —Alexander Zerban Sing co-chairman Little Man on Campus- "Rumor has it, Worthal, that you don't think much of your fraternity life." "By the Beautiful Sea" Whispering Gallery Theatergoers who have been eagerly awaiting the arrival on Broadway of the new Shirley Booth vehicle, "By the Beautiful Sea," will be doomed to disappointment unless the musical comedy at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia undergoes a 'complete overhauling before reaching New York. As seen in the Philadelphia production the period piece about the Coney Island of the early 1900's lays a golden egg. The star's name alone is enough to lure the wary ticket buyer into the thea ter. Advance sales were fantastic. However, this is not enough to insure success Although she is better known for her comic ("My Sister Eileen") and dramatic ("Come Back Little Sheba") roles, Miss Booth made her debut in musical comedy as Aunt Cissie in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." She was so good as the brassy blond that producer Robert Fryer had the Lottie Gib son role in "By the Beautiful Sea" tailor made for her. Writers Her bert and Dorothy Fields, who did the original "Tree," have collab orated on the book. Lottie, a Vaudeville comedienne and theatrical boarding house owner, is smitte nwith a down-on his-luck Shakespearean actor, and changes her booking to follow him to the Brighton Beach Theater in New York. Naturally, he must stay at her boarding house, by the beautful sea. (Actually it's abdut 12 blocks from the ocean, but Lottie thought the name sounded more romantic than By the / Hot Dog Stand!) The actor's first wife and child are also stay ing there, by coincidence.. Hi s frustrated 17-year old daughter, Baby Betsy Busch, is disguised as a 13-year old, be cause she plays juvenile .roles on the stage and to keep up appear ances. When Lottie learns that her dreamboat is broke, she forces him to accept a $lOOO check for money she doesn't have. Papa has been doing a little speculating with her funds. She's desperate and sets out to raise the fnoney'by doing a parachute jump from. a balloon at the height of 300 feet. For this marvelous v en t u r e she collects only $87.50 because some slob got himself shot out of a cannon and drew her crowd away. The slob turned out to be the redeeming Papa and all is saved. Meanwhile back at the board. Meanwhile back at the boarding house the actor's wife runs off and leaves him to look after his daughter, who immediately de velops a father-fixation and "re fuses to share him" with Lottie. But never underestimate the power of a woman! Lottie knows how - to handle the brat and it WEDNESDAY. MARCH 24. 1954 By CHIZ MATHIA all comes out happily, and rather dully, in the end. As the Shakespearean actor Dennis Emery, Wilbur Evans, star of the London company of "South Pacific," is still in fine voice but rarely has the opportunity to use it to full advantage. Indeed, his role is more that of a stage prop than anything. He does a nice. job of "Alone Too Long," which he sings to Lottie in a boat going through the Old Mill. The real show-stealer is Mae Barnes as Ruby Monk, house keeper at By the Beautiful Sea. With her buck and bounce rou tines during the "Happy Habit" and "Hang Up," she has the whole gallery and orchestra shaking in sympathetic vibration. It seems rather strange that song writers Arthur Schwartz and Miss Fields did not provide her with encore verses for "Hang Up." She had- to repeat the same routine to appease the enthusiasm of the audience. Perhaps overshadowing every thing else in this colorful, and yet pitifully mediocre show, are the wonderful settings by Jo Meil ziner. His midway, showing the exit from the fun house with coy chorines sliding down the tongue and out through the mouth of an enormous face complete with rov ing eyes at stage right and the Old Mill at stage left, brings back all the •false glamour of the old time amusement p ark "In the Good Old Summer Time." Even more clever is the Dreamland Ca sino with the roller coaster tracks in the background. With the aid of light flashing along the tracks and recorded screams and spin ning car wheels, the roller coaster takes the audience right to the track. Almost as spectacular as 'Cinerama! The musical score unfortunately never quite electrifies the audi ence, even in the title song and the "Alone Too Long" number which comes closest to being a hit. (Continued on page five) Tonight on WDFM 91.1 MEGACYCLES 7:25 MPH 8:00 ____ - Spotlight on State 8:15 _ Guest Star 8:80 9:15 Masterworks Hour Sias. Off 9:30 _ 10:30 - By Bibler Sign on BBC ,Concert Women's Angle Lest We Forget
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