SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER T 2. TYS4
of all things...
So you came to Penn State, eh?
Well, join the crowd. Stick around. Learn the ropes. Fight
The System. Stand in lines. Eat the food. Hurry up and wait.
You’ll survive.
The red tape hereabouts is the reddest, and yo'u’re a
.among strangers, living out of luggage and Thanksgiving
,is 73 days off. What’s more, if it
isn’t raining now, it will be soon,
This is Penn State!
Before you are physical exam
inations, English usage tests, read
ing tests, psychology tests, lan
guage placement tests, a photo
graph to pose for, registration,
customs, and—woe!—classes.
7 It’s all very sad.
Customs are very interesting.
•: ; Men and women students wear
V dinks, little caps which flop
.' easily from heads, and card
board signs worn around the
neck with string which twists
/ vin the breeze, choking innocent
Frosh. Lose more students this
way
Registration, too, is interesting.
It is also complicated. A college
education helps.
It’s an ancient process this regi
stration. Man against the IBM.
You see your adviser first, and
he hands you a wad of forms to
;be filled out in multiplicity. With
the University Catalog in hand,
■and a timetable (price: 20 cents)
you select courses which you sus
pect you are going to schedule.
Nobody ever was more wrong.
, Your education begins in Rec
creation Hall. Other people, > it
seems, by sheer accident of birth,
have names the first letters of
which come before the first let
ter of your name, last.
So these people—the Abboits,
"the Adams, the Alberts—get in
to Rec Hall before you and
schedule the courses you were
~ going to. I know a miserable
Zwalley who entered Rec Hall
in the spiring of '52 and, as
•sumedly, is still there, register
: ing.
\ Time you get in, you’re given a
choice. English Comp 1 happens
to be filled, but there ? s Animal
Breeding and Pedigrees 22 or
Spherical Trigonometry 13, still
open. You, the man behind the
desk gleefully lets it be known,
may schedule either one as elec
tives.
Smile for joy.
Slowly, sadly, painfully, but
inevitably, the delightful schedule
you had .worked a sweat over,
with nary an eight o’clock and
free Saturday mornings, fades
away.
The awakening: You find your
self with six eight o’elocks, Satur
day classes, and coffee hours
when you’re not normally thirsty.
“Oh well,”' consoles the Smile
behind the desk, “Early to
bed . . .”
So you've registered. Fresh
man. You've traded your sloppy
slips for crisp cards. You've
done battle with the IBM.
WELCOME...
DRY GLEAMING
By MIKE FEINSILBER
You are a student at the Penn
sylvania State University. Say,
hey.
Think nothing of it, kids, the
worst is yet forthcoming. Arm
yourselves on the first day of
classes with umbrellas and go
forth to classes. First, find the
classes.
It’s a little game we play here
at Penn State, find the classes.
Freshmen are best at it,, because
they have been boning up on the
locations of campus buildings as
a customs requirement: that’s so
forgetful upperclassmen can find
them.
Ten minutes are allowed to
get between one class and an
other, and, often, that ten min
utes must cover a lot of ground.
Try roller skates.
So you get to class. 'So the prof
spends the first hour elucidating
on how his name is spelled and
pronounced and calls roll from
those little pink cards. Your name
is pronounced wrong.
Prof _ also assigns reading ma
terial in the textbooks you’re
going to buy. You leave.
Trudge downtown, and buy
texts. Others have the same idea.
Join the queue.
. Textbooks are weighty tombs,
filled with small type on tissue
thin paper, selling at ridiculous
(ha, ha) prices. Consider- your
selves lucky, kids, if you get hold
of them. They’re rare. It’s a capi
talistic plot. '
(Students can also go up to the
Temporary Union Building and
get used books a mite bit cheap
er. But don’t let this secret get
out. Downtown thinks it’s Social
ism.)
Well, that’s The System. It’s
been here 99 years. By now it’s
an Ol’ State Tradition. Doff your
dinks, children. ■
WDFM Meeting Open
To New Students
New students may attend the
first organizational meeting of
WDFM, University radio station,
at 1 p.m. Tuesday in 305 Sparks,
according to David R. Mackey,
general manager of the station.
The meeting, which was pri
marily called for last year’s staff
and all students who signed up
for participation at the end of
last semester, is also open to any
student who is interested in join
ing the staff, Mackey said.
The station will start broad
casting September 21, the first
day of classes for the fall se
mester.
CLASS of '5B
Office and Dry Cleaning Plant - 307 W. Beaver Ave.
THE dMTLY eOtiSSIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Encampmenf
Airs Problems
Of University
MONT ALTO, Pa. Approxi
mately 130 students, faculty mem
bers, and townspeople attended a
four-day conference discussing
student and University affairs at
the third annual Student Encamp
ment held Wednesday through
yesterday at Mont Alto Forestry
School.
Discussions were centered in
eight workshop areas, with final
recommendations approved by the
full body at a plenary yesterday
afternoon. .
stranger
vacation
Some of these proposals will
next go before All-University
Cabinet for action. Others will
be sent to appropriate groups for
their consideration.
Topics discussed were: Making
Student Government More Effec
tive, Nominations and Elections
Systems, Centennial, Academic
Honesty and Judicial, Cultural
and Social Aspects, Campus
Chest, Campus Community Gov
ernment, and Academic Policies.
“The fundamental reason for
the conference,” according to Al
lan Schneirov, chairman of the
encampment, “is to solve prob
lems and make recommendations
as to where .andhow these prob
lems may be handled.”
The meeting was established as
an opportunity for students and
members of the University admin
istration to meet together inform
ally to discuss- mutual problems,
and to acquaint student leaders
with overall campus affairs.
Students Take
Academic Woes
To DIR Office
The Division of Intermediate
Registration is a service depart
ment designed for students who
are experiencing academic diffi
culties.
Contrary to popular belief, all
students in DIR do not have low
All-University averages. Some
students enroll in the program to
take advantage of the counseling
service, to transfer to other col
leges, or for other reasons.
However, students whose grade
point average at the. end of the
second or third semester falls be
low 0.50 are not permitted to con
tinue in any college of the Uni
versity, but are referred to DIR.
Students referred to DIR may be
accepted for enrollment with a
view of later transfer to a col
lege. If not accepted for enroll
ment, students are dismissed from
the University for unsatisfactory
scholarship.
A student admitted to DIR re
mains enrolled there for at least
one semester. With approval of
the < director, enrollment may be
continued for a second semester.
If, after being in DIR, the student
Little Mara on Campus
'Oh, my roommate is a nice enough guy—it's just that he's
o dang big."
2 Magazines
Give Campus
Literary Touch
Students at Fenri State publish
two literary magazines once each
year. They are ‘Pivot’ and
‘lnkling.’
Pivot is the poetry magazine
written chiefly by the students
in English Composition 13, a po
etry workshop. Poems by other
students, are also considered,
however.
The poems are usually about
nature, college, and people’s char
actune. It is . published in the
spring. Profits from the magazine
are usually contributed to some
worthy literary cause.
Inkling is a prose magazine and
is also published once a year in
the spring.
Inkling is published by a staff
headed by co-editors.. It contains
stories written by students. Any
student may contribute.
The magazine also includes a
picture and short, biographical
sketch of each student who has a
story printed. Last year’s issue
also included reproductions of
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s
paintings.
Inkling will soon be sending
out a call for candidates.
meets the qualifications for ad
mittance into one of the nine col
leges, he may transfer.
Oriental ion —!
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dormitory council and Association
of Independent Men in dormi
tory lounges.
10 p.m. Women: dormitory
meetings. Men: consultation with
resident counselors.
Friday
6:45 pun.—Women: WRA open
house in White Hall. Men: Song
and cheering practice in Schwab
Auditorium.
2 p.m.—All students: “Dink De
but” dance in Temporary Union
Building. 5 .
7 p.m.—All students: Fun Night
in Recreation HalL
Women's Chorus
To Hold Auditions
The Penn State Wometf’s
Chorus, formerly known as the
Treble Singers, is open to all wo
men students. Raymond :H.
Brown, assistant professor .of
music, is director.
Members of the chorus are
chosen by auditions, which will
be held some time during Orien
tation Week. Between 65 and'.7s.
women compose the group.
The chorus presents concerts dn
the fall and spring. Brown said
he hoped an out-of-town con
cert could also be scheduled this
year.
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