PAGE FOUR published Tuesday through Saturday mornings, during Battg Cattragtau the University year, the Daily Collegian is a student operated newspaper. Entered as second-class rn TAMMIE BLOOM, Editor Managing Ed., Diehl MeKano: City Ed., Mike Feinsilber: Asst. Bus Mgr.. Benjamin Lowenstein; Local Adv. Mgr.. Copy Ed.. Mary Lee Lauffer; Sports Ed., Dick McDowell: Sondra Duckinan: National Adv. Mgr., William Devers: Edit. Dir., George Bairey; Radio News Ed.,Phil Austin; Circulation Co-Mgrs., Richard Gordon, Gail Fromer; Pro- Soc Ed. . Peggy McClain: Asst. Sports Ed., Hrrn Weiskopf: motion Mgr., Evelyn Riegel; Personnel Mgr.. Carol Schwing: Asst. Soe. Ed., Nancy Ward; Feature Ed., Baylee Friedman: Office Mgr.. Peggy Troxell: Classified Adv. Mgr., Dorothea Exchange Ed., Edmund Reiss: Librarian, Marcie MacDonald: Ebert; Sec., Gertrude Malpezzi: Research and Records Mgr.. Senior Board, Bev Dickinson. Virginia Coskery. • STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Roy Williams; Copy editors, Dottie Stone, Gay Snodgrass; Assist ants, Carlene Samuels, Lee Hyatt, Bill Pete. Ad staff, Connie' Anderson, Diane Hallock. L Senior Class Gift: A (First'of two editorials on the senior class gift.) • When the senior class begins to vote for the 1954 class gift Monday, it will be faced with the problem of finding the best way to spend $lO,OOO, a problem .that is rather perplexing, a little unusual, and always enjoyable. However, there are two aspects of the prob lem to be considered. First, how many of the graduating seniors will bother to vote on the five gift proposals at all, and second, how wisely will they vote. Election apathy has been hashed and re hashed every time an election comes up on the University calendar. But, because selection of a class gift has a much more lasting influence and value than election of class or All-University officers, this election should not have to be hampered because of lack of support. After June, the accomplishments of the class of 1954 will soon be forgotten. The outstanding men and women of the class will be names, remembered for perhaps a few years by under graduate friends, and then forgotten too. The class of 1954 will be remembered only through the gift it leaves to the University. It is this gift that will have to record what the class of '54 really was. Even those seniors who never could quite trouble themselves enough to go to the polls On ROTC Parade Some of the results of the Reserve Officer Training Corps leadership laboratories were ap parent Tuesday during the Armed Forces Day parade. The parade was an impressive display of military organization in which thousands of men representing Air Force, Army, and Navy ROTC units participated. It was probably astounding to many onlookers to realize that many of the men who made up the total effect of smooth-marching uniformity were the same individuals who seemed to have two left feet during the first drill sessions of the fall semester. The large numbers of men enrolled in the ROTC program was another impressive factor. It is seldom that all the men are seen marching in one long continuous parade. It appears that 'the ROTC program, in ad dition to training potential military leaders and acquainting young men with military operations, is also doing something toward improving the mental alertness, dressing habits, and posture of the Penn State male. Scroll's Birthday Twelve months ago, students who cared were a bit wary about the creation of a new senior women's hat society. They feared Scrolls would be a cast-off group, a second thought, a means for recognition and not service. Those students have been proven wrong. In the short time since its organizational birth, Scrolls has developed at a pace amazing even last year's Hat Society Council members which created it. It has participated—and led— campus activities with the efficiency and in terest of other women's hat groups. And it has possessed even more—spirit—sometimes lacking in long-established societies. Twenty-two leaders, outstanding in their re spective fields, were tapped this week for mem bership in Scrolls. They have the potential to prove the faith placed in them by the outgoing group and the persons who tapped them. —Baylee Friedman STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Tuscarora Inn, Mt. Bethel, Pa., students for summer work on Tuesday, May 18. Sinking Creek Camp will interview men for summer jobs tomorrow afternoon. Students wanted for meal jobs on and off campus. Directory Deadline Names of new officers of clubs, honor societies, social fraternities, and other groups should be turn ed in at the Student , Union desk in Old Main before May 22 in or der to be included in the Student Union Directory, George L. Don ovan, director of th e Student Union, has announced. $l9 Levied' in Fines Traffic Court levied $l9 in fines at a meeting Tuesday night and referred one case to the Dean of Men's Office. Four collars in fines was collected at the meeting. Successor to TUE FREE LANCE, est. 1887 atter July 5, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under t Gazette . . . will interview Dorm Phones Get Change of Plates The Bell Telephone Company is now changing the number iden tification plates on dormitory room telephones. The new "Ad ams" exchange and the old 8-5051 are on the pl ate as well as exten sion number. On some telephones an incorL. rect extension number was insert ed that did not correspond to the room number. These plates will be changed in the next few days by the .t2lephone company to cor respond to the room number. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK CHESSMAN. Business Mgr. ;1 r IMtc. $lO,OOO Problem during student government elections certainly should want .to vote for their class gift. After all, it is their ego which will be enhanced by a good class Moment°, and their pride that should suffer if there is nothing by which fu ture students at University can remember the 1954 graduates. Apathy has no place in an election to select a class gift, For those students who do not feel that pride in self or pride in one's class is enough of an in centive to vote, there is still one other voting inducement. The class gift , fund totals just about $lO,OOO. There are 1933 in the senior class. Each senior, therefore, has slightly more than $5 at stake in this election. There are very few people on campus who would contribute $5 to arty cause and not want .to approve of the way in which it is spent. And, although the $5 per senior may not have come from voluntary contributions, each senior should want to get his money's worth. Any senior who has the least amount of pride in his class or who wants to see his money spent well will vote for the class gift of his choice next week. Tomorrow's editorial will deal with the im portance of a wise senior class vote. Safety Valve On ROTC Drill Meet TO THE EDITOR: On Saturday, May 8 the Daily Collegian announced: "Pershing Rifles, Army, and Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps drill teams will take part in a drill meet at 2 p.m. tomorrow in front of Old Main." On Sunday, the drill meet was held. It is the first of the annual competitions to be held between the drill teams. Prexy presented a beautiful cup to the commander of the winning team. There was quite a large crowd to watch the competition, which lasted until nearly 4 p.m. Radio station WMAJ managed to get the pertinent facts and announced the results today (Monday) over their 12:15 news program. The Collegian made no mention of the meet. I will leave it to your able reporters to find out who won. However, to get you off on the right foot, Air Force, Navy, and Pershing Rifle teams were entered. There is, to my knowl edge, no Army drill team. —Warren McLaughlin Ed, Note: McLaughlin's letter was dated May 10 (Monday). There was to our knowledge, no Daily Collegian published between Saturday and Tuesday. The story was prepared for Tues day's issue, but. did not appear because of space limitations. Refutes Quotation TO THE EDITOR: (The Daily Collegian's May 7 statement concerning Governor Fine and at tributed to me is not only a grotesque mis quotation, it is patently false. The influence of any governor of this Commonwealth is pro found and most certainly does not terminate with his tenure of office. All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.—Anatole France UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL John Anderson, David Arnold, Richard Blank, Evelyn Grubb, David Hamrick, John Lowry, Betty Miller, Judith Newell, John Pine, Cecilia Poor, Jack Reinhart, John W. Robinson. Justice is truth in action.—Benjamin Disraeli Editorials represent the viewpoint of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper. Unsigned edi torials are by the editor. e act of March 3, 1879. —C. S. Wyand Executive Assistant to the President HEe. Council Candidates Students who ran for Home Economics Student Council seats may pick up their pictures at the main off i c e in the Home Eco nomics Building. Freshman candi dates wh oran for office in the fall semester may also get their pic tures. Correction Thomas Elberty, first prize win ner of the comic category in the Mad Hatter's finals Tuesday, was sponsored by Kappa Delta Rho and Thompson Hall instead of Al pha Gamma Rho and Delta Delta Delta as previously reported. Little Man on . Campus It's Carnival Time . . . Adam's Other Rib —Ann Leh Since our ancestor Adam donated his famous rib to the creation of woman, the end results. have .become one of the most universally provocative—to borrow a phrase = bones of contention in sOciety. And so I've adopted "Adam's 'Other Rib" for my own stewing, possibly roasting, block of the affairs of woman—be it woman her self, man, Saturday night, Sunday morning, or even Spring Week. Spring Week is part of one of the greatest threats to an educa tion—that highly developed sys tem of special weeks and week ends that has managed, at Penn State, tO dominate the campus social calendar and, unfortunately, the academic calendar as well. Spring Week is not the only vil- 1 lain on the academic scene—it has lots of company. There's Greek Week, Junior Week, Frosh Week end, Homecoming Weekend, Mil Ball Weekend . . . All of which are fine in their own rights. Most of them began as one-night dances, with no in tention of taking up more than a Friday night of campus time. But through the semesters the campus legislature has had to set up committees for the dances, the committees add a few more events to the week end, the committees then have to appoint sub-committees . . which eventually involves months of preparation by hun dreds of people who did riot, or should not have come to Penn State to plan talent shows and proms at all. And not much comes out of all the trouble. Usually a below-grade or two, a -hangover for many, a fraternity pin occasionally, a very vague recollection of some 36 hours of activity so concentrated that it's all run into a big blur— which could all be achieved with out: the label "Great Big Week end" and thus without upsetting the status quo of the whole cam pus Take Spring Week for instance. As yet, I haven't heard of anyone actually looking forward to the events this year—except possibly to Senior BalL and houseparties. General comment last Sunday seemed to be, "Oh, no, it starts tomorrow!" And the more one thinks about such fantasies as a parade of col lege students wearing weird hats, or some hundred people standing in the rain on some forsaken field watching. 20 to 30 half-frozen men (who just happened to be unlucky enough to be thrust into the con test) doing push-ups in the mud— the more one wonders just where that grain of common sense that most infants reportedly are born . with, has fled. Idealistic as if may sound. Pena State wasn't "built" for It's me, Freda. I'm back with t MX.?'MACT. Jr : VI refreshments. By PEGGY McCLAIN fooling around with carnivals and parades and rather point less contests that don't prove much except foolhardiness. But ' it's no wonder that people irorn Pitt and Penn call our school the "Country Club of the Slate" and "Pennsylvania 'S Play= ground." Of course there's alwayS the opposite attack—that old slogan about "all work and no • play .; . ." But not too much "play". is left to Spring Week. Actually, attout all of it is downright work.- Which brings to mind another inconsistency about the week-The profits from the various events go toward a University scholar sip fund. Ironical, isn't it? .Pres ent , students practically flunk out of school raising money for a scholarship fund so thata' less financially-fortunate PenhsylVan; ian can come to Penn State and build floats and dance ItiCk lines and practically flunk ouf'of school raising money . . . It' could go on indefinitely, only Penn State wouldn't be much better froiri :the cycle and eventually that abstract "business world outside" would be inhabited by a growing num ber of university graduates who weren't good for -much except maybe painting signs about ugly men and making paper carnations to tie on floats. . , There is a bit of hope for us poor "illiterate" graduates in that business world. Unions can" always use good sign painters for picket, lines, and with the H=b m b and UNESCO, and simila r- political inventione, there must be quite a demand for workers to make crates to pack all these things in. HOw-' ever, it might be surprisingly interesting to grab a few hours study to learn how to endure, or survive—or whatever the word may be—that wide world, 'without the political inventions. But. in the meantime it IS 'Spring Week. Carnival, as a matter of fact. And what can we do ,but store our books somewhere. to night and all go over to east cam pus for a real 'terrific time at Carnival?. So be it. Tonight .on WPFM MA MEGACYCLES 7:30 8 :15 - - Adventures in Research 8:30 Semi-pops 9:15 NeWs • 9:30 */ • Drama • 10:00 Music of Ametica /had - Sign. -oeir B y Bibler -Record Review Radio Nederlaiid
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