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Daily Collegian is a student- I
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Entered as second-class matter July O. 1939 at the State College, Pa. Post Office ander
DAVE JONES. Editor
Managing' Ed., Marshall 0. Donley: City Ed., Chuck
Obertance: Copy Ed.. Chiz Mathias: Snorts Ed.. Sam Pra.
copio: Edit. Dir.. Len Goodman: Wire-Radio Ed.. Bill Jost:
Photo Ed.. Bruce Schroeder: Soc.. Ed_ Liz Newell: Asst.
Sports Ed. Dick McDowell: Asst. Soc. Ed.. Gus Vollmer:
Feature Ed.. Nancy Meyers: Exchange Ed.. Lorraine Gladus:
Librarian. Al Goodman: Senior Board. Jack Reid.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Mike Feinsilber; Copy editors, Don Shoemaker, Joe Beau Seig
neur; Assistants, Vera Wingert, Helen Hoover, Sally Sykes, Margie Pearce, Al Klimcke, Carole Gib
son, Brooke Moyer, and Sue Conklin. '
Carnival Precautions Are Justified
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of "unacceptable" will be given a warning by the
cure. Few persons will dispute the sagacity of Spring Week committee to revise the entertain
ment, and if satisfactory revisions are not made,
this timeworn adage, the booths may be closed.
A recent ounce of prevention was the action It would certainly be more to the credit of
of the Spring Week screening committee in re- the participating organizations, the Spring Week
•jecting the carnival booth applications of 34 out committee, and the entire student body to avoid
of 41 groups submitting them. The reason the the necessity of taking such action. Closing
committee gave for its explanation was lack of booths would indicate enforcement of high
sufficient detail. standards by police action and would still bring
Possibly . there would be no reason to view unfavorable publicity to the University.
with suspicion the type of entertainment which It is far better to have the screening commit
has been planned by any of the 34 groups. How- tee pass judgment now and enable those groups
ever the committee was wise in withholding which might risk having a show closed to plan
approval until more details were presented. acceptable entertainment and not waste time,
The 1953 spring carnival was the cause of an money, and resources on a show which would
undesirable stigma being attached to the entire invoke the police action.
week. Since the funds raised during Spring ' It should be the responsibility of the indi-
Week are used for scholarships for deserving vidual groups to make sure the booths they
students, the whole program should be viewed sponsor not only attract patronage from the
as a constructive enterprise, not a source of crowds on the midway, but also are a credit
embarrassment to the University. There is no to their organization' and their University.
reason why the persons planning and produc- Otherwise, the purpose of Spring Week would
ing the carnival booths need outdo one another be defeated, and the administration would be
in presenting off-color shows. Their resources justified in discontinuing the week entirely.
could be more valuable if used to develop clever Because of the precautions taken by the
and original ideas for .the shows. screening committee, it may be possible this
There is a pound of cure available to the year to open a carnival which will overshadow
committee in case some groups do not use good the criticism of last year's event.
judgment. Groups which open shows which are —Tammie Bloom
Boxing Championships Deserved Support
The University was honored for the second support, one can not point to the physical lay
time in 22 years this past weekend when it out of Rec Hall. The building will hold over
played host to the 17th annual National Inter- 5100 persons. This means that on the average,
collegiate Athletic Association boxing cham- the attendance at the four sessions filled Rec,
pionship events. Hall somewhere under one-third of its normal
But the response—student and otherwise—to capacity.
the tourney during the three day sessions left Remarks at Rec Hall during the sessions in
the impression that the "honor" was more of a dicated the fans thought the attendance comic.
drudgery, something that occurred periodically Maybe the comment that hit home the best was
and had to be put up with. the simple statement: "There were more people
Less than 6500 persons paid their way into here for the intramural fight finals." And there
Recreation Hall to witness the four sessions. is more truth than poetry in the statement. It
This is a figure that anyone connected with the is not to be laughed at.
University—from the President on down to a Even in the ticket sales, the fans got an un
freshman—should be totally ashamed of. expected break when the Federal excise tax
When looking for reasons for this lack of cuts were approved, reducing , the rates for a
reserved ticket for all four sessions to $1.30.
But the problems does not lie entirely in the
University's lackadaisical support last weekend.
Collegiate boxing itself, as a sport, is suffering,
and no one seems to have the right answer.
Schools are currently dropping the sport as
fast as football was temporarily suspended dur
ing the war. The catch is that the schools drop
ping boxing are doing it on an almost permanent
basis. The sport seems to be dying with the right
answer yet to come.
Perhaps the fraternity of coaches themselves
has an answer to the problem. John Walsh, of
Wisconsin, and Jim Owen, of Louisiana State
.University, have come up with an idea whereby
they hope to line up a television• network to
carry a series of dual meets every Saturday
afternoon for about ten weeks throughout next
spring. Under the plan, the network would wind
up the series with the NCAA championships.
No one will dispute that Walsh knows what
he is talking about. The Wisconsin coach has
credit for fourteen team championships. And
on his home grounds, nis teams rarely fail to
draw over 10,000 fans for each dual meet—lf
Walsh has the secret of drawing fans other than
the age-old maxim, "everybody loves a winner,"
he would be the first to tell.
Perhaps the television angle will save the
sport. And if it does, fans can always look back
and say they knew the sport when it was at its
lowest ebb—at Penn State,
Safety Valve .
Political Rotation
TO THE EDITOR: We have just learned of the
recent fraternity-independent rotation amend
ment to the All-University elections code . . .
We understand that this action was ostensibly
based on a similar "unwritten law" acknow
ledged within both the Lion and State Parties
in the past.
Contrary to the prevalent opinion, this "un
written law" was never a fact within either
party—at least from 1947 through 1951 . . .
Instead, in each of these years an honest effort
was made by both parties to obtain the most
able people who could amass enough votes to
win the respective offices . . . The true "un
written law" of the past was to pick an able
winner, not to rotate.
The advantages of the previous free non
rotation system are obvious. Why should the
respective political parties be bound in choice
by restrictions based on social affiliations or
living circumstances? Why should capable men
and women be completely ineligible to hold
office—and have their initiative and enthusi
asm killed—because it is not "their year" to
hold office? . . .
The recently-passed amendment smacks of
the same unrealistic, restricted system used by
the Panhellenic Council, in which each sorority
is automatically given the Panhel presidency
once in two decades . . .
The All-University rotation system just passed
is unfair to both independent and fraternity
men and women. . It is not based on past
"unwritten" precedent. Therefore, this might
well be one of the first items to be brought
under consideration by the newly-elected All-
University Cabinet, by the next All-University
elections committee, and by the student body .
—Morton Snitzer,
'49-'5O Lion Party chairman
—Robert Keller,
'4B-'49 State Party chairman
—Bill Shade, _ _
Harkins to Speak
William M. Harkins, dental
prosthodontist, will speak before
Sigma Alpha Eta, honorary speech
correction society, at 7:30 tonight
in 19 Sparks. The lecture, on the
"Cleft Palate Prosthodonia," is
open to the public.
Successor to HIE FREE LANCE. est. 18W1
'49-'5O All-College elections
committee chairman
Sigma Xi Lecture
John A. Wheeler, professor of
physics at Princeton University,
will speak at the Sigma Xi lec
ture at 8:30 tonight in 119 Os
mond. His topic will be "Our In
substantial Universe."
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' Asst. Bus. Mgr., Mark Christ: Local Advertising Mgr..
Robert Carruthers: National Adv. Mgr., Shirley Musgrave:
Circulation Mgr., Frank Cressntan; Promotion Mgr.. Ruth
Israel; Personnel Mgr.. Patience Ungethueas: Office Mgr.,
Gail Shaver: Classified Adv. Mgr., Jean Geiger; 'See.. Carol
chwinte: Research and Records Mgr.. Francis' Crawford.
Gazette .
Tonight
ART ED STUDENT FORUM, 7 p.m., Temporary
Building
BELLES-LETTRES, 7 p.m., Northeast lounge,
Atherton Hall
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 6:45
p.m., 304 Old Main
INFIRMARY
Beth Casey, Isaac Evans, Wallace Feather,
Joseph Geubtner, Lynn Harbold, Carl Held,
Marie Hint, Rhymes Humphreys, Marvin Jack
son, Harry Link, Esta Malish, Howard McKee,
Richard Rigling,`v Robert Suhadolnik, Robert
Sullivan, Helen Sidman, Muriel Stein, Susan
Tornatore, Robert Urban.
Editorials represent the
viewpoint of the writers,
not necessarily the policy of
the paper. Unsigned edi
torials are by the editor.
set or Karel) 3. 1879
—George Bairey
Prof Misidentified
James H. Moyer, a resident of
Elizabethville, was caught in the
State College speed trap 1a s t
week. The Daily Collegian erron
eously reported that James H.
Moyer,, professor of education,
was caught in the trap.
' Little Man on Campus
. Bar two . . . because it's way out of line . . . an
me' that 'bad eye' routine again this year."
Excuesioa 9: Idea-010
Walden Sea
The evolution of ideas has been noted by many over the years,
but to each succeeding , generation the- phenomenon is ever fresh and
fascinating. Unfold the canvas of history and before you is spread
what we certainly like to believe is that steady, however slow,
"progress" of mankind. Of course, there have been dissenters, deny
ing progress of any kind, and
claiming that only a process com
bining specialization, complica
tion, and integration, has been the
outcome of the so-called stream of
history. The dissenters have been
definitely in the minority, how
ever; and few gloomy. prophets
remain.
But, those who see a straight
line development in history, down
to our own rational, highly tech
nical, culture, seem unable to
answer with any fair amount of
reason, "Where do we go from
here?" The conclusion is th at
either the line stops here and
now, which it surely doesn't, or
that it fades into a remote future,
which they think it does. Yet, a
study that tells you where you
are, possibly how you got there,
but not where you are going,
seems quite - a waste of time.
The "missing link" in the
process of straight-line progress
through the ears seems to 'be
the inability to view events in I
motion, which have direction,
but no real significance in them
selves. Instead, it is the influ
ence "of these phenomena that
seems to give them significance
—influence on those events
which we might roughly call
contemporary, and those other
' events that follow which we
term "the future." The exact
dividing line between these two
concepts ("contemporary" and
"the future") is sometimes very
hard to determine: an author
t h r o u g h posthumous biogra
phies and an increase in his
reading public oftentimes seems
more alive when he is dead. '
Thus, the straight-line becomes
an indefinable, almost illusory,
series of points in time and space
—as all good straight lines are.
At first glance, the stream of his
tory seems obvious enough, but
closer examination reveals a series
of seemingly isolated events only
whose summation makes any
sense.
If we accept this, "how can
there be an objective writing of
history?" you ask. "There isn't
any," I'd answer. There are too
many "points," or events, to con
sider, and no man lives for cen- 1
turies, is everywhere at the same
time, and at the same time is in
fallible in his judgment. A sub
jective choice of those events,
which are then loosely termed
"influences," is made, with the
result that other events are dis- 7:2D
regarded, and some given more 7 8 33
weight than others. 8:15 -----
But, enter: one "missing link": 8:30
when events in motion are con
sidered, the phenomena take
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on a meaning: and even if the
meaning turns out to be merely
a subjective evaluation of the
stream, still, something has
been accomplished.
And, what has been accom
plished? The individual has now
fixed himself in both time and
space, feels himself part of the
movement, and may even better
judge how to add to that move
ment.. There's even consolation,
I believe, in, the fact that others
are also lost, if that be your ver
dict.
Even t h.o u g h academicians
love to pull rank, there is al
ways room for individualism
in presenting the significance of
events. Each generation has its
historical spokesman, even if
the spokesman be a poet such
as T. S. Eliot. And, maybe if
we cannot understand our
spokesman, it merely shows we
cannot understand our age. - •
FIViA Explained
To Fraternities
Fraternity Marketing Associa
tion has sent letters explaining
the programs of FMA to non
member fraternities and to mem
bers not participating in the meat
plan.
Clifford A. Nelson, president of
FMA, said fraternities may apply
to join FMA before May 3. Mem
bership would begin with the fall
semester, Nelson said.
The letters contain an explana
tion of advantages in the meat
purchase program for members
not participating in the program.
Member fraternities may join the
meat purchase program: at any
time by signing a contract, and
paying a deposit equal to half
their monthly meat bill.
Belles-Lettres' to Meet
Kelly Yeaton, associate profes
sor of dramatics, will speak on
"Attack on Pedantry" before the
Belles-Lettres Club at - 7 tonight
in the northeast lounge of Ath
erton Hall.
Tonight on WDFNE
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