PAGE FOUR j Pvtfcliab*tf i'ae?c»ar throsgh | Saturday vmorniftgs, daring thr University rear, the I IVin? Colicgiim a student' { operated nerrsiyaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 at the State Colkee s Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. TAMMIE BLOOM UNANGST, Editor UrsArin? Ed., Diehl McKalip; City Ed., Mike Feinsilber; Asst. Bus Mer., Benjamin Lovensteis; Lrocai Adv. Ugr^ Copy Ed., Mary Lj# iasffer; Sports Ed., Dick McDowell: Sondra Dackraan: National Adv U;r., William Devers: Edit. Dir., George Bairey; Radio News Ed., Phil Aastin: Circulation Co-Mgrs., Richard Gordon, Gail Fromer: Pro- Sex Ed., Vczzy McClain; Aset. Sports Ed., Hera Weiskopf: motion Mgr.. Evelyn Riegel; Personnel Mgr.. Carol Schwing: Asst. Soe. Ed., Nancy Ward; Fcntnre Ed., Baylec Friedman: Office Mjcr w Peggy Troxell: Classified Adv. Mgr.. Dorothea flxchswge Ed.. Edmund Reiss; Librarian, Marcie MacDonald; Ebert; Sec., Gertrude Malp'ezzi: Reaearch and Records Mgr.. Senior Board, Rev Dickinson. Virginia Coskery. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Editor, Don Shoemaker; Copy editors, Nancy Showalter, -Gay Snodgrass; As sistants, Sally Sykes, Ted Serrill, Jo Wohleber, Ad Staff: Frank Cressman, Dick Smith. Political Parties: Deserving of Freedom? The ability of campus political parties to gov ern themselves internally and assume their place in student government responsibly and sensibly is becoming more questionable with each semester. During meetings of the student encampment workshop on nominations and elections, repre sentatives from both State and Lion parties argued strongly against any regulations which they felt would interfere with internal party affairs. They sought to protect, the freedom of the parties, stating confidently that party mem bers could and would deal with violations of constitutions or ethical practices. The way the parties deal with problems at times can scarcely be called dignified. The na tion scoffed at Georgia when two men claimed to be governor of the state. American eyebrows are raised each time one of the frequent turn overs in the French government occurs. A simi lar campus reaction can be expected to a poli tical party which has had four different persons assume the clique chairmanship in one week and is now disputing the legality of the election Forum Line-up Includes Impressive Names This season's Community Forum program committee has come up. with another outstand ing lineup for - the coming forum series. The speakers themselves need no further introduc tion than the mention of their names. The four speakers for the 1954-55 season will be Clifton Fadiman, Agnes Moorhead, Carlos Romulo, sind James Hepbron. For the uninitiated, the Community Forum is the means by which faculty members and students combine efforts and bring internation ally famous speakers to the University. Last year’s lineup ran like this: Charles Laughton; Gen. James Van Fleet; Sen. Wayne Morse, and Edwin D. Canham. The forum is held in Schwab Auditorium. Fadiman will make the first appearance Nov. 9. Miss Moorhead will talk Dec. 6; Romulo, Jan. 13, and Hepbron, Feb. 15. To make it easy on the pocketbook as well as for mere convenience sake, the forum ticket committee had devised a season ticket system, season ticket—priced at $4.40 —will re- New Bus Ad Project Tonight at 7 in Waring Hall, the former West Dorm lounge, the Business Administration stu dent council will hold a mixer-reception which will bring together in a friendly atmosphere the dean of the college, faculty members, and both new and old students. This is the first activity of its kind to he sponsored by the Business Administration council since its organization last year. At the mixer freshmen and other new stu dents in the College will have the opportunity of meeting the faculty and their wives, as well as upperclassmen. Council - president Richard Favro said the council plans to make the mixer an annual af fair. He said that as a student group, the coun cil feels more should he done in the early stages of college life to bring about closer faculty student relationships. This is certainly a stride in that direction. 1 Dean of the College Ossian R. MacKenzie also endorsed Favro’s statement. He expressed the hope that there would be a good turnout of both new students and upperclassmen. He com mented that the occasion presents an excellent opportunity for furthering the good liaison that already exists between students and faculty in the College. The need for strengthening faculty-student relations in a university the size of Penn State is obvious, and certainly hard-felt. Councils holding such mixers deserve the support of students and faculty members of the college. —AI Klimcke Today AG STUDENT COUNCIL,. 7 p.m., 103 Agri culture COLLEGIAN AD STAFF, 6:30 p.m., 9 Carnegie COLLEGIAN BUSINESS CANDIDATES, 7 p.m., 10 Sparks COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF, 7 p.m., Col legian Business Office COLLEGIAN EDITORIAL CANDIDATES, 7 p.m., 1 Carnegie ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL, 7 p.m., 107 Main Engineering PENN STATE CLUB SMOKER, 7:30 p.m., 411 Old Main ©tf? Hatty CoU?gian Sflttwnr t« THE FREE L.ANCE. at. 188? Gazette... THE DAftY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. FRANK C-RESSMAN. Business Mgr. in which the fourth chairman gained the' chair. The other party lost dignity through an internal dispute last fall. Continued upheavals within the parties will probably result in closer supervision by the elections committee or All-University Cabinet. Outsiders would probably not be concerned about party responsibility if the clique were not so vital a part of the present student govern ment system. The parties are the device for nominating candidates for top campus govern ment positions. It is important that good stu dent government and not personal gain be the goal of party members. It is difficult to see how students can be assured the best candidates will be selected by a seemingly disorganized group of persons who appear to be more concerned with who should run the show than with the quality of the production. If parties lose freedom it will undoubtedly he because they have demonstrated their inability to operate under free rein. Where freedom is present, responsibility is essential. serve a seat in Schwab for each performance. The season ticket will not reserve a particular seat. This is done for the individual who feels he cannot afford the money for a season ticket and desires to hear only one or two of the speakers. This year the forum will offer a bonus in the form of a fifth and extra speaker. The name of the fifth speaker will be announced as soon' as final arrangements have been completed. This is extra, free, a bonus''with the purchase of a season ticket. Bargains like this do not come daily, especially with the calibre of the already announced speakers. The individual who likes to think that he is in the know of worldly and otherwise matters will miss a sure thing if he fails to get a season ticket this year. The season tickets are sched uled to go on sale early next month at the Stu dent Union desk in Old Main. This year’s pro gram—with or without the bonus—is too much to pass up. Safety Valve' Oil Party Dispute TO THE EDITOR: After reading Saturday’s Collegian and the accusations of Rudy Lutter, it is obviously evident that his .major objective is one of personal gain rather than overall in terest of State Party. The elections committee ruling validated the legality of the election of clique officers held by State Party Wednesday night; however in order to stress the true sense of democracy which they hope will prevail in the present political system, the elections committee requested a reelections with a 24-hour. previous notice to the Student Representative Council. It should be noted that Lutter’s remarks at i the fore-mentioned election degenerated into - ' degrading accusations against personal integ rity and character. It is quite sad that Lutter, in his quest for recognition, permitted himself to make such slanderous and defamatory un truths. Other State Party leaders can verify that I fulfilled my secretarial obligations previous and prior to the reception of the nomination and subsequent election as clique chairman of State Party, Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.—Quintilian VARSITY LACROSSE PLAYERS, 7 p.m., Base ment—south wing of Recreation Hall UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Samuel Aldenderfer, Jesse Arnelle, Jane Bac zewski, Edward Brogan, Catherine Ensign, Da vid Friedenberg, Gale Friedman, Roosevelt Grier, William Kern, Allen Kine, Sheldon Od land, John Olsen, Malcolm Perry, Elizabeth Rodgers, Emery Schreckengast, and William Straub. PLACEMENT SERVICE WESTINGHOLSE -ELECTRIC CORPORATION will inter view January graduates in the fields of electrical engi neering:, industrial engineering, and mechanical, engineer ing Oct. 12 and 12. Editorials represent Che view-point of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper. Unsigned edi torials are by the editor. —George Bairey —Rae DelleDonne State Party Secretary Little Man on Campus "Well, well, if if ain't our coach!" By Proxy Faculty Club Gets Labrador Tour Members of the Faculty Luncheon Club were taken by proxy on a tour of Labrador during their weekly meeting at the Hotel State College yesterday. The '■‘tour” was conducted by Francis Nitchie, Jr., and David Whitmarsh, both associate professors of engineering research, who were members of a party of five from the Ordinance Research Lab oratory sent to Labrador by the United States Air Force to observe the total eclipse of the suif last July. According to Nitchie, the ex pedition started out to be a lei surely auto trip into Canada''to observe the eclipse. However, the group heard that the Air Force was looking for personnel to man 15 observation stations along the rouje of the eclipse, extending from Iran to Labrador. The stations were set up to measure the time of total eclipse, so that the Air Force could use the information in determining navigation data. The group contracted to man one of the stations, and so the “vacation” was turned into a sci entific expedition. “We went to observe an eclipse we never saw at all,” Nitchie said. On the day of the eclipse, skies became overcast, so that observa tion of the eclipse had to be made by a photo-electric method. This method enabled the party to mea sure the brightness of the cloud bank, thus enabling it to follow the progress of the eclipse with out actually seeing the sun. The party established its station on a small lake in Labrador, near the Quebec border. The men left State College June 6 and flew to Westover Air Force Base in Massachu setts. From Westover, they went to Goose Bay, Labrador. After a’ week "on that overgrown sandbar" as Nitchie put it, the . party .went on to Knob Lake. The final stage of the journey, made by helicopter, brought the expedition to its station on a smaller lake just north of Knob Lake. “We even had a reception com mittee,” Nitchie said. “There must have been a million mosquitoes there to meet us.” . The men illustrated their talk with colored slides. Encampment Pictures This is the final week that pic tures taken at the Mont Alto stu dent encampment may be pur chased at the Student Union desk in Old Main. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1954 By DON SHOEMAKER Outing Club 'Roust' Held on Mt. Nitfany Despite'wind and rain approxi mately 150 members of the Penn State Outing Club held a wiener roast atop Mt. Nittany Sunday af ternoon. This was the first of regularly scheduled Sunday afternoon out ings by the club: Students interested in the club may attend the first meeting of the cabin and trail division of the club at 7:30,p.m. Thursday in 121 Sparks. A movie on the Appala chian Trail will be shown. Thespians Name Nine Production Chairmen Crew chairmen for the Thespian production, “Funny Side Up,’' which is to be presented October 14-16 in Schwab Auditorium, are: are: Richard Hamer, stage; Norma Weiner, costume; Jeanette John son, make-up; James Paremiter, advertising; Sherman Franciso, lights; Frank Cressman, house; John Beachley, properties; Sol Cohn, program; and Catherine Stark, designer and technical manager. Home Ec Cafeteria The newly-decorated Home Ec onomics cafeteria and tea room will open for the fall semester at 5:30 p.m. today. Cafeteria service will be avail able Monday through Friday from 11:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. WD Council to Meet The West Dorm Council will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in 127 Waring. Newly elected represen tatives of the various units are required to attend, Stanley Juras, president, said yesterday. Tonight on WDFM 91.1 MEGACYCLES 7:30 One Nigrht Stand 8:00 Behind the Lecturn 8:30 : Music of the People 9:00 _ Informally Yours 9:15 News 9:30 This World of Music Shm Off By Bibier
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