PAGE FOUR Published Tuesday throsgl Saturday mornings, darini the University year, .tin Daily Collegian fa a etodenf operated newspaper. Entered as second-clan* matter Jvly 5» 1934 at the State College, Fa. Post Office ander TAMMIE BLOOM, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Joe Beau Seigneur; Copy Editors, Betty Koster, Nancy Gray; Assistants, Marnie Schenck, Earl Kohnfelder, Ruth Barnard, Tom Smith, Elaine Shaffer, Becky Zahm, Doug Millar. Ad Staff, Connie Anderson, Diane Hallock. Final Exam Scheduling: Grossly Unfair With final examinations scheduled to start 1 Saturday it becomes increasingly evident that the University’s present scheduling method for the tests is grossly unfair to students. This may seem like the same old tale of woe one hears every semester at this time but it is true and it is time for the problem to receive attention. This week many students are faced with the: prospect of studying for bluebooks their - profs decided to throw in at the last minute, complete reports 'which often run into a couple of thou sand words or more, and study for finals at the same time. On top of that this year the University has allowed only one week in which to give the tests. And since graduating seniors have to take all their tests before Tuesday this gives them., only three days for their finals. As a result many students are scheduled to. take as many as three tests in one day. This situation exists despite a University, rule for bidding it. With final examination counting in most cases from 25 to 33 per cent of a student’s grade surely it is unfair to allow so little time to*study for the tests. It might be argued that students should be prepared for finals from their work through the semester and should only need to review in. order to make a good mark on the tests. There is undoubtedly a lot of truth in; this statement. Police Action It’s said the pen is mightier than the sword. Campus Patrol obviously is trying to disprove the theory. . . .. . . Yesterday the sword—two campus patrolmen —summoned a student who's pen had disturbed the patrol and took him to a conference with the dean of men. The student had written a blistering letter condeming the practices of the patrol. Patrol has a right to answer; the charges against it, certainly. It has the right to ask the. student to discuss his complaints. It. has the right to answer the complaints in .a letter to Daily Collegian. But patrol has no right to summons students by means of uniformed policemen to settle per sonal gripes. This smells of police stale methods. —Mike Feinsilber Safety Valve Calls for Action TO THE EDITOR: Hurrah to Baylee Friedman for her article on Lion's Paw in Tuesday's-. Co llegian. Russia is run by the Politburo and Penn State is similarly run by Lion’s Paw. It is cer tainly time for Penn State students to awaken and get together and do something about these so-called “influential” men on campus. . . . Why is it that whenever an election. is being held, all strong candidates for major of fices are withdrawn in order that a puppet of Lion’s Paw may be “pushed” into office? , Also, why is if ±ha± whenever a Lion's Paw member is questioned about things such as these, he can always manage to completely satisfy the public with the beautifully all explanatory statement, "no comment?'' I sincerely believe it is time for these publicity-shy campus leaders to permit those whom they are leading to know what the poli cies of the organization are. Secret organiza tions have no place in a democracy or a re public and if these men were true leaders they would know that without having to be re minded of the fact! Defends Campus Cops TO THE EDITOR: ... I am no campus "cop," but I feel I must say something when someone makes such unjustified charges as (Stuart Horn's) in Wednesday's Collegian. (Horn’s) first complaint is that . . . students are getting a poor return on the money we pay the campus patrol. . . . Does this imply that if they didn’t get $1 or so of (Horn’s) money, (he) wouldn’t care how they behave? ... It is my experience, as the driver of a car on campus that though with police on the scene things may get confused, without them things are infinitely worse. ... I am definitely not a supporter of this ruling on lovemaking. However the ruling is not a reflection on (the campus patrol), but rather on . . . administration. Today , UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL nTTrrmc r<r ttd o„ „ mo Sandra Cunningham, Roger Dietz, Marvin PENN STATE OUTING CLUB, 8 p.m., 109 Ag- Goldberg, John Higgins, Nancy King, Kenneth nculture Lange, Charles McMinn, Sidney Melnik, Roger TRIBUNAL, 7:30 p.m., 204 Old Main Owens, Cecilia Poor. Margaret Reilly, David WSGA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 6:30 Richard-on, Victor Schwab, Robert Simmons, p.m., WSGA Room, White Hall : Elmer Strauss,‘Eihriia Jane Swanson. :fa ig te ®if? Saihj Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887 —Joan Edith Smith —Donald Eberhari Gazette'..'. THE DAiIY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA FRANK CHESSMAN. Business Mgr. but it does not justify crowding the examin ations into such a short period of time. • Even if a student is'“up” in all of his subjects and needs only to review, under the present set-up there is not enough time for an adequate review. When a student is scheduled for a final oh Saturday at 1:20 p.m. and finishes his last class at 11:50 p.m. the-same day itmakes it next to impossible to be adequately prepared. And even if a student can prepare Sufficiently for finals, when he is scheduled for two or three tests in a day, : or even .one test a day . for five straight days, he is .in danger of losing a good mark because of the mental strain of taking so many tests in such a short time. ' Final examinations count too heavily toward determining grades to allow this ■ situation to exist any longer. It cdn be corrected. The best - solution, and the one that could be accomplished easiest, would be to lengthen the school year or shorten the vacation period, a few days. -Of course, the University will claim students. would; object to such action far more strenuously, tlraii- the. present examination set up. But .would they?" There is a way to find out. When registration takes place next fall ques tionnaires. on the subject could be distributed. This.way the entire student body would be pre sented with a solution to. their problem and could take, their choice of which they prefer— a few more days of class or a fair chance on their finals. ' Safety Valve... Oh Personal Motives TO THE KDjITOR: We have a group of students who wish riot only to “bring Lion’s Paw out into the. open” but also to discredit its work and its members. Why is this? What do these students hope to gain? .. . .These students are employing McCarthy methods against a group of men who have been elected or conceded to be the outstanding leaders 1 of! the student body. They are doing this under the guise of trying to help remedy certain ills in the campus political situation. Yet it is a fact. that these . . . men . . . have done as much as anyone to bring power politics to the campus scene. Some of these men have personal grudges against certain members of Lion’s Paw which they wish to settle by destroying one of the key ways that. student sentiment on various issues is brought to the attention of the adminis tration. B,en Sinclair and Rick Kirschner do not like (a member of Lion’s Paw) so they attack one of the organizations to which he belongs. .Kirschner says that in 1953 he was offered a •bribe to lose an election, yet he does not name the person, so offering the bribe. John Lyon says that the Clean Up Politics meeting was staged by. three stooges for Lion’s Paw. I, being one of the “stooges” named, resent this because it is not true. In fact, this meeting was designed to bring to the attention of the students cer tain facts which they otherwise would not have learned, and to bring about a campaign in which men of equal ability and popularity would run against each other. Lion’s Paw as such had nothing to do with the meeting, although my brother (Richard Gibbs) supplied certain facts used at the meeting. May. I. nipt submit to you, the student body, that it is. not what you see and hear but the hopes and desires of a certain few men that are the underlying causes of this controversy? . . , —Charles A. Gibbs Confused Freshman TO THE EDITOR: . . . Since entering Penn State last fall, I have heard criticism both pro and con .on the actions and objectives of Lion’s Paw. I have spent two semesters here at State and as of writing this letter, I am a thoroughly con fused freshman. I am confused to the point of asking what is . Lion’s Paw . doing. Someone told me Lion's Paw is for the better ment of Penn Slate. They (Paw) seem to be de stroying Penn State unity by some of their actions. With these secret meetings, things, seem a little "fishy." Sure we must have a high ex ecutive body, which should be (All-University) Cabinet, but if Paw is to assume this high role, a little should be known about its actions. .The members of Paw are persons who were chosen because of their leadership ability. If the Paw members .are true leaders, let them use soirie of that leadership ability to get things straightened out before things get too far out of hand. - v f Editorials represent .the viewpoint of the" writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper. Unsigned edi torials are by the editor. le act of March 3, 1879. —Mike Miller —Burt Jones Little Man on Campus ——Photographs and Paintings Singing The Wilderness Upon seeing a poster that Kelly Yeaton was having an exhibit entitled “Airbrush and Camera” at Schlow’s Art Gallery, we .de cided to hurry down before the rush to see exactly what an airbrush and camera exhibition was like. On one wall we saw a series of colored designs that might have been used as impressionistic illus trations for Coleridge’s ‘"The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner,” others for Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue;” and still others that might look appropriate next to a story of a Martian invasion of Earth in the 30th century. After reading a sign, we discovered that these were the airbrush paintings. Feeling that these 23 dreamy, mist-like works were a little hard to digest before lunch, we turned our attentions to the photographic part of the exhibit which was called “Perspections of New York.” These ranged in variety from various views of East River bridges to pictures of Wall Street to children roller skating in one of the city’s many squares. Allhough many, of these 11 photographs are reflections of scenes we seem to remember seeing many times before, we regarded two as outstanding. One was a view of the Brooklyn Bridge, and Yealon appears to have been very successful in giving a feeling of power and solidity as this giant construc tion swung itself across the riv er. The other, a picture of mid town Manhattan on a wet night, showed the hurried movement found in a metropolis. As we turned away from the photographs, two of the airbrush works, a series ,of bugs seemingly crawling up a rainbow and a group of playing amoebas, caught our eye, and with a shudder we fled from the room to the clean, pure borough streets. We feel that Yeaton, an as jsociate professor of dramatics, is I wasting his time directing plays'. !A real man of talent, he could instead be out taking pictures of bridges or . making paintings 'of one-celled organisms. Although we have never really appreciated his directing ability, we now look upon him with the highest re spect for it isn’t everyone who can create airbrush- designs apr propriate for science-fiction maga zines. We recently . want over to ; Schwab Auditorium, to see if.: Arthur Cloelingh, head of the Division of Dramatics, had any information, for-, us - concerning Players' schedule of-shows for*; next year. It seems to us that the selec tions made should prove to be one of the most well-rounded; complete programs to -be offered THURSDAY. MAY ; 27; 1954 jSORSNABF— /JIMfOSBOH J3OR.A MINUTE j By EDMUND REISS in several years. The variety ranges from ancient Greek trag edy to modern realistic comedy. Opening the season will be Thomas Heggen’s “Mister Rob erts” and following it will be John Van Druten’s. “Bell, Book and Candle.” The offerings then become a little deeper with Em 1y n Williams’ “The Corn. Is Green,” Euripedes’ “Medea,” and Edwin Justice Mayer’s- “Children of Darkness.” The season will then end on a lighter note with William Shakespeare's “Taming of the Shrew” and Phillip Barry’s “Philadelphia Story.” Also includ ed in the list is an original pro duction. ' - While talking to Cloeiingh (or Mr. C. as he is affectionately known in the dramatic circle), we discovered that the attend-, ance for shows of this year reached approximately 14,000. This amounted per : show, to about 19 per cent of the total' possible audience. -Cloeiingh as sured. us that this was a iairly) high percentage, as in large, universities, it runs to- about 12 per cent. He continued by saying that audience attendance has begn slowly increasing for the last ten years , and . . that this , year more people went to see “Hay Fever” than any. other show.. La Vies Available For Two Colleges Seniors in chemistry and phy sics and physical education may pick up copies of LaVie today at the Student Union desk in Old Main and vote for the senior class gift. ", Copies of the yearbook will be available until June ‘8 for student teachers and other, seniors who have not yet picked them up. Stu dents, fraternities, sororities, and Other groups wishing to purchase copies of LaVie may do so at the STJ desk for $l4. Tonight on WDFM MJ MEGACYCLES -753« - ! \ Radio Nederland Adventures in Research Semi-Pops 8:00 8 :15 8:30 9:56 , : Masie of America u-aa. ... - .. .Si«a. Otf By Bibler Wnt fau. "n SJftAP off | 3BHal Ml I Record. Review
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