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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
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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.
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