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ManftC«r £d.» Utcbl BSeXalip; City Ed., Mike Feinsilber;
Copy Ed., Mao Lee Laoffer; Sports Sd n Dick McDowell;
Edit. Dir., George Baircty; Badio News Ed., Phil Austin;
Sec Peggy McClain; Asst. Sports Ed., Hera Weiskopf;
Asst. Soc. Ed., Nancy Ward; Featnre Ed., Baylce Friedman:
Exchange Ed., Edmund Reiss; Librarian. Marcie HscDonald:
denier Board, Bee Dickinson.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Editor, Inez AlthOuse; Copy Editors, Anita Oprendek, Roy Williams; Assistants,
Barbara Pressman, Rod Felix, Patience Griffin, Mike Moyle, Joy Sponsler.
Drama Loses to the Saturday Night Dance
Upon firsi hearing that Center Stage was'
undergoing a change of quarters, many of those
concerned worried about the possibility of
Players having to present their arena-type
shows every weekend in some unsuitable spot
as one of the neighboring barns.
However, it is now seen that fears were
all in vain for through the graciousness of the
University administration, the Center Stage
plays will now be performed- at the Temporary
Union Building.
Even though it is regrettable that the pro
ductions are scheduled for only Friday nights
instead of both Friday and Saturday evenings
as previously had been the case, it is now
realized that the old saying, “beggars can’t be
choosers,” does hold true.
We know there are more important things
than the theatre in this and any university,
but we wonder if Saturday night dances at the
TUB are one of these. The administration's
job in part seems to be keeping the students
happy, but it is questionable that the majority
is being favored in this case.
It has been pointed out that independent
students have the right of retaining a place
where they can date and dance. However, since
students living in the Nittany-Pollock area
may apply for membership in the West Dorm
Social Club and attend the Saturday night
dances there, it is difficult to see how the loss
of the TUB’S ballroom for Saturday night would
be a blow to these students.
When students graduate from the University,
they might retain some fond memories of dances
they attended at the TUB, but probably among
Today
ACCOUNTING CLUB, 7 p.m., Theta Chi
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF SENIOR
BOARD, 6:30 p.m., 9 .Carnegie
COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF, 6:30
p.m., Collegian office
COLLEGIAN PROMOTION STAFF, 7 p.m., 102
Willard
FROTH ART, EDITORIAL, AND PROMOTION
CANDIDATES, 7:30 p.m., Froth office, Car-
negie
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH AS
SOCIATION, 7 p.m., 208 Willard
KAPPA PHI KAPPA, 7 p.m., 2 Burrowes
MARKETING CLUB, 7:30 p.m., living center
of the Home Economics Building
MINERAL INDUSTRIES STUDENT COUNCIL,
7:30 p.m.'f 209 Willard Hall
NEWS AND VIEWS, 6:30 p.m., 14 Home Eco-
nomics
PENN STATE BARBELL CLUB, 7 p.m., 101
Willard
PENN STATE GRANGE MEETING, 7 p.m.,
100 Weaver
PENN STATE HOTEL GREETERS CLUB, 8
p.m., Home Economics' Cafeteria
PERSHING RIFLES, 7 p.m., Armory
PLAYERS’ ADVERTISING CREW, 6:30 p.m.,
Schwab loft
ROD AND COCCUS CLUB, 7:30 p.m., Mc-
Elwain, main lounge
STATE PARTY STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE
COUNCIL, 7 p.m., 103 Willard
TOWN AND COMMUTING WOMEN STU
'Chess' Gets $498
At Kick-Off Dance
A total of $498 was collected
Friday night at the Kick-Off
dance, the first event sponsored
by the Campus Chest, Ellsworth
Smith, chairman, said yesterday.
He said $435.50 was collected
from ticket sales, and $62.50 from
the refreshment stand operated
by Mortar Board, senior women’s
hat society.
Net profits from the dance will
be approximately $3OO after ex
penses are paid.
Co-chairmen of the dance were
Ann Lederman and Joseph Cut
ler.
Campus Chest is a consolidated
fund for local and national chari
ties.
Ed Fraternity to Meet
A meeting of Kappa Phi Kap
pa, men’s professional education
fraternity, will be held at 7 to
night in 2 Burrowes. The busi
ness and social meeting tonight
is for pre&Sßi only.
Satiy CutUyian
SaceeoMr to TEE FREE LANCE, est. IM7
latter July 6, I|H at tiu State College, Fa. Fast Office Bader
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Student injured
In Bike Crash
The condition of Richard Grime,
fifth semester electrical engineer
ing student injured in a bicycle
car accident on Pollack road in
front of McElwain Hall Monday
night, was called “good” by the
University Hospital yesterday.
Grime is expected to be released
from the infirmary today or to
morrow.
.Grime was cycling west on Pol
lock road near McElwain Hall
when a car driven by James Chi
orazzi, special Spanish student,
struck his bicycle from behind.
Grime was thrown off the bicy
cle against a stop sign, and re
ceived a laceration of the leg.
Chiorazzi said he did not see
Grime because of the glare of the
lights of a car parked across the
street in front of McElwain.
There are now 190 translations
•of the entire Bible.
WE DAHTY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE; PENNSYLVANIA
FRANK CHESSMAN. Business Mgr.
Asst. Baa Mgr., Benjamin Lowenstein; Local Adv. Mgr.,
Seadra Duckman; National Ad?. Mgr., William Devers;
Circulation Co-Mgrs., Richard Gordon, Gail Fromer; Pro
motion Mgr.. Evelyn Riegel; Personnel Mgr„ Carol Schwing;
Office Mgr.. Peggy Troxell: Classified AdT. Mgr., Dorothea
Ebert; Sec., Gertrude Malpeszi: Research and Records Mgr..
Virginia Coskery.
the more lasting remembrances will be those of
one or two good plays they saw.
Even from a utilitarian point of view it can
be pointed out that theater attendance will
further these graduates’ education and train
ing dnd make them more complete persons
than anything as a Saturday night dance
could do.
Safety Valve'
Better Late?
TO THE EDITOR: I want to commend A 1 Klim
cke for his fine editorial Tuesday, on the Busi
ness Administration mixer. However I wish to
apologize to any students who were confused
by the editorial and may have had the interest
to show up at Waring Hall Tuesday night. The
event was held last Thursday, Sept. 23, and
from the standpoint of the student council, it
was very successful.
I wish to thank ihe faculty and theix wives
for their attendance. The interest they showed
in meeting the students indicated a very bright
future for student-faculty' relations in the Col
lege of Business Administration. I also pass the
thanks of council along to the students who
attended and urge them to" continue their in
terest in such events. - T-
I hope that Collegian will continue to cover
us in the future with such fine editorial matter
and that the next time our timing will be more
coordinated.
—Dick Favro
President, Business Administration
Student Council
DENTS, 6:30 p.m., Woman’s Building, Com
muter’s room
WOMEN’S CHORUS, 7 p.m., 1 Carnegie
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Samuel Aldenderfer, Jesse Arnelle, Jane Bac
zewski, Edward Brogan, Roosevelt Grier, Shel
don Odland, John Olsen, Malcolm Perry, Eliza
beth Rodgers, Emery Schreckengast, William
Straub, Leona Hart, Elizabeth Hoekstra, Eileen
Gibble, Carol Schwing, Richard Grime, Eleanor
Duffan, and Norman Weingarten.
PLACEMENT SERVICE
WAGNER ELECTRIC CORPORATION will visit the cam-
pus Oct. 5 to interview January graduates in the fields
of EE and ME.
ROME AIR FORCE DEPOT will visit the campus Oct. 7
to interview January graduates in the fields of physics
and EE; M.S. candidates in EE who have completed at
least one semester; and PhD. candidates in EE expecting
to receive their degree in 1955.
THE TRANE COMPANY will visit the campus Oct. 7 to
interview January graduates in the fields of EE, lE,
and ME.
DIAMOND ALKALI COMPANY will visit the campus Oct.
11 to interview January graduates in the fields of Chem
istry & Chem. Engr.; M.S. candidates in Chemistry &
Chem. Engr. who have completed at least one semester;
and PhD. candidates in the above fields expecting to re-
ceive their degree in 1955.
GENERAL MOTORS will visit the campus Oct. 12, 13, and
14, to interview January graduates in the fields of ME,
EE, lE, Chem. Engr., Metallurgical Engr., Aero Engr.,
Chemistry, Physics, Math., L.M.R. and Ind. Ed. for Ind.
Management, Foundry Operation, Bus. Admin., and Liberal
Arts'.
S.K.F. INDUSTRIES, INC. will visit the campus Oct. 12 to
interview January graduates in the fields of IE and ME.
WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION will visit
the campus Oct. 12 and 13 to interview January graduates
in the fields of EE, lE, and ME.
Livestock Entered
In Eastern Exhibit
Three *mareg and a stallion
from the Morgan horses are
among the purebred livestock en
tered in competition at the East
ern States Exposition, Springfield,
Mass., William L. Henning, head
of the Animal Husbandry depart
ment, has announced. The horses
are the first ever shown in this
breed, Henning said.
A young Angus bull, two An
gus heifers, and a Hereford steer
have been entered in the expo
sition breeding classes, Albert Cel
ecki, fourth semester animal hus
bandry major, is showing the
horses, and Gail Long, a herds
man, is showing the cattle.
The University also entered a
judging team in the intercolle
giate contests.
MI Council to Meet
The Mineral Industries Student
Council will have its first meet
ing of the sem::i::r at 7:30 to
night in 209 Willard.
Editorials represent the
viewpoint of the writers,
not necessarily the policy of
the paper. Unsigned edi
torials are by the editor
ie act ef March 3. 1879.
—Edmund Reiss
Little
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Politics . . .
Adam’s Other Rib
Politicians and voters alike have more or less accepted the age
old doctrine, “To the victor belongs the spoils.” But completely dis
regarding semantics for the moment and using a rather weak pun,
as far as campus politics are concerned, the profits are so completely
spoiled by the time the winning candidates get hold of them that the
entire battle of campaigns and party cliques are a paradox of their
original purpose.
According to political science
courses and to several, perhaps
overused American heritages of
democracy, cliques and resulting
campaigns originated chiefly to
bring nominees before the public,
to tell voters what these nominees
will do for them if elected, and
(if readers will forgive a touch of
idealism) to draw a fair and
square picture of these same nom
inees’ abilities and capacities' as
leaders.
Civic and national campaigns
are probably as unidealistic a pro
gram as cliques
and candidal
can master. Ho'
ever, this is n<
ther an excui
nor a very va)
reason for Pe)
State politics
in th<
follow
footsteps.
Upon scrutii
df the past f(
years’ election
most, studei
should be able
realize that the Pesey McClain
political parties and their individ
ual cliques on the University cam
pus are rather worthless as far
as constructive education goes.
They have not taught students the
advantages of a democratic elec-,
toral policy so much as they have
drilled into them how to take
advantage of it. They have not
shown prospective voters and can
didates the fundamentals of party
organization so much as hpw to
disrupt and degrade it.
And perhaps the most pathetic
failure has been the fact that
instead of teaching an electorate
how to work together for a com
mon goal of well-being, they
have shown Penn State students
the most effective method of
killing friendships and ruining
academic careers and slander
ing 19 and 20-year-old men and
women past all lines of 20th
century culture and civilization.
Party leaders and cliques on'
this campus are not producing a
political education. They are quite
simply and quite obviously a farce.
They spend as little as two or
three evenings inventing a party
platform which has a maximum- of
voter appeal and which is equally
as impossible for a student body
to enact; they spend countless
Sunday afternoons showing can
didates how ..to ‘.‘get,,around” .any
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 29. 1954
By PEGGY McCLAIN
embarrassing or leading questions
about plans for putting such plat
forms into effect; and. they spend
even more hours drilling and re
hearsing candidates on their
spontaneous, “straight from the
heart” campaign speeches and in
troductions.
Campaign “master of ceremon
ies” are given strict instructions
to steer candidates away from any
conniving (or perhaps the word
is just plain interested) voters
who might comer them un-re->
heairsed for discussion of party
planks. The parties’ performances
are quite excellent—so much so
that they are wasted in dormitory
and fraternity dining rooms. They
might very well bring down the
roof if staged in Schwab Audi
torium.
Obviously the parties have de
feated any previous hopes for
educational value. And in so
doing, they have killed any de
cent purpose they might have
on this campus. Perhaps with
out their degrading and some
what embarrassing presence,
our student body would have a
chance to learn the qualifica
tions and reality of unadulter
ated leadership. So be it.
Pershing Rifles
ROTC Smoker Tonight
The Pershing Rifles drill team
will have a smoker at 7 tonight
for interested members of the Re
serve Officers Training Corps.
Lt. Gordon Fee, fifth semester
physics major, and pledge master,
will discuss the activities of the
drill team and the details of
pledging. The team will give a
drill exhibition and movies will
be shown. Refreshments win be
served.. .
Psych Test to Be Given
Freshmen who did not take
the psychology test during Orien
tation Week should report to 121
Sparks at 7 tonight to complete
the tests.
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