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Published through
Saturday mornings, during
the University year, ~the
Daily Collegian is a student*
operated newspaper.
Entered aa sccoxeti-class
TAMMIE BLOOM UNANGST. Editor
Managing Ed., Diehl McKalip: City Ed., Mike Feinsilber;
Copy Ed., Mary Lee Lauffor; Sports Ed., Dick McDowell:
Edit. Dir., George Bairey; Radio News Ed., Phil Austin:
See Ed., Peggy McClain; Asst. 3porte Ed., Herm Weiskopf:
Asst. Soc. Ed., Nancy Ward: Feature Ed., Baylec Friedman:
Exchange Ed., Edmund Reiss; Librarian, Marcie MacDonald:
Senior Board. Bcv Dickinson.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Nancy Showalter; Copy Editors, Dave Bronstein, Jackie Hud
gins; Assistants, Margie Blank, Ruth Barnard, Fran Fanucci, Harry Pavis, Don.Barlett.
Can Customs Be Called a Success?
The customs program ended lor some 2700
freshmen noon Saturday and the question to be
answered now is could the freshman customs
program be called a success?
For students who actively participated in the
program it can be called a success. However,
for more than half of the freshman the program
was a failure.
Enthusiasm was lacking on the part of upper
classmen the first week and this lack of spirit
spread to the freshman class the second week.
The first joint customs day was successful, ac
cording to the Freshman Customs Board, and
students. The other three lacked the vigor of
the first, however. Frosh walked, around cam
pus without dinks, signs, or, handbooks.
Upperclassmen watched everything with
equal unconcern. Frosh themselves said that
they were seldom asked to button or curtsy.
Groups of frosh singing the songs or giving a
Safety Valve
Clarifies Cabinet Statemen
TO THE EDITOR: In. Saturday’s Collegian,
Diehl McKalip saw fit to “censor” me, on the
grounds that my statements (before All-Univer
sity Cabinet last week were not carefully pre
pared. In other words, I was taking “a shot
in the. dark.”
Allow me to clarify a few things for Mr. Mc-
Kalip. First erf all, I. am not the uniformed
tabby cat or would be martyr that he would
make me out to be. I know how the political
system on this campus works from some past
for State Party Elections Chairman for AIM
etc.). Let me add further that the know
ledge I have gained led up to my attack in
cabinet. In fact, I would contend that my
speech in cabinet was probably better prepared
than Mr. McKalip’s editorial.
Both Mr. McKalip and the Collegian report
er that covered the meeting seemed to miss the
real point I was striving to put across. I was
calling ter a little more democratic idealism
and dear thinking on important issues as op
posed to the selfish ambitions of some of the
representatives and the muddled thinking on
semantical trivialities. Of course, I made the
mistake erf telling the members I was speaking
from an idealistic point of view when I called
for the revamping of our present predatory
political system where one ambitious Lion (or
Stated feeds on ■ the carrion mistakes of the
other. I should have realized that idealism is
more erf bogeyman around here than McCarthy
ism.
As for intelligent comment, let me quote
'from the only member who did make any kind
of a comment, Robert -Dennis. Mr. Dennis said,
“Any changes made would’ have to be made
slowly." May I remind Mr. Dennis there is a
point reached when a moving object is moving
so slowly that it is impossible to tell if it is
actually moving Or standing still. In the two
years I have been at the University I have seen
only one change. Every year the names of the
members in cabinet change.
. . . All that I ask is that the members of our
student government think about where they
are and what they should be. They are in a
University, and they should, have some spark of
idealistic, value in them. They will see enough
of the practical, mediocrity of every day living
when they leave here. There is no sense in
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
FRANK CRESSMAN. Business Mgr.
Asst. Bus Mgr.. Benjamin Lowenstein; Uocai Adv. Mg*„
Sondra Dnckman; National Adv. Mgr., William Devers:
Circulation Co-Mgrs., Richard Gordon, Gail Fromer: Pro
motion Mgr.. Evelyn Riegel: Personnel Mgr., Carol Schwing:
Office Mgr.. Peggy Troxell; Classified Adv. Mgr.. Dorothea
Ebert; Sec., Gertrnde Malpezzi; Research and Records Mgr..
Virginia Coskery. • '
Short Yell-State were hard to find after the
first week.
Such lack of enthusiasm and spirit among
all the students is detrimental to the entire
customs program. If there isn't going to be any
enforcement or participation by the students,
then why should we have customs? The pro
gram is just a waste of time for everyone.
Certainly' the customs program cannot be
made any easier for freshmen. Men and women,
as freshmen, are allowed to date. Two. years
ago they were no allowed to date for three
weeks.
One solution would, be to cut the enforcement
period to one week. Some freshmen think the
program, to be effective; should only be one
week. Enforcement would have a good effect
because spirit would still be high and enforce
ment strong.
Gazette..«
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 6:45
p.m., 304 Old Main
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 CIRCULATION STAFF, 6:30
, p.m., Collegian Business Office
COLLEGIAN PROMOTION STAFF, 7 p.m.,
102 Willard
ED STUDENT COUNCIL, 7:30 p.m., 209 Bur-
rowes
LA VIE ART STAFF CANDIDATES, 7 p.m.,
105 Temporary
PENN STATE BRIDGE CLUB, .7 p.m., TUB
PENN STATE CLUB SMOKER, 7 .p.m., 411
Old Main
PENN STATE DeMOLAY CLUB, 7 p.m., 320
South Pugh Street
PHI MU ALPHA, 9 p.m., 100 Carnegie
PHI UPSILON OMICRON, 7:30 p.m., Home Ec
Living Center
PLAYERS AD CREW, 6:45 p.m., Schwab Loft
PLAYERS PROPERTIES WORKSHOP, 7 p.m.,
Schwab Basement
THETA SIGMA PHI, 8 p.m., 202 Willard
UNVERSITY HOSPITAL
Jesse Arnelle, James Clokey, William Doug
lass, Eugene Epstein, Norman Gittlen, Robert
Heilman, Margaret Jones, William Kanz, Peter.
Petroff, Rowenna Pounds, Joseph Racik, Harry
Richman, Carol Schwing, and Rosemary Yohe.
PLACEMENT SERVICE
WAGNER ELECTRIC CORPORATION will visit the cam
pus Oct. 5 to interview January graduates in the fields
of EE and ME.
THE TRANE COMPANY will visit the campus Oct. 7 to
interview January graduates in the fields of ME, lE,
and ME.
THE TRANE COMPANY will visit the campus Oct. 7 to
interview January graduates in the fields of EE, lE,
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.
adopting the worst features of the “outside
world” here merely for the sake of on the job
training. Let us be University students and un
' chain ourselves from the conventional ward
heelers’ morality.
Editorials represent the
viewpoint of the writers,
not necessarily the policy of
the paper. Unsigned' edi
torials are by the editor.
the act of March 3. 1879.
—Mary Bolich
Today
—Byron Fielding
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Education Vs. Specialization
Faculty Club Hears
English. Lit
By MARNIE SCHENCK
The problem of general education versus the specialization which
modern employers ..demand was discussed yesterday by Frederick L.
Gwynn, assistant professor of English literature, at the weekly
Faculty Luncheon Club meeting.
Gwynn said “that the unstable
to feel whole; he said there is a
that the very multipilicity of the
world has led to the great spe
cialization which exists in higher
American education. Gwynn add
ed that an almost “hero worship”
exists now for' the specialist.
Gwynn said the jobs- nowadays
have become so cut and dry that
there is no longer any reward for
the person.
He said''businesses are how
beginning to complain that the
college graduates come to them
with a general education. They
want people with general know-,
ledge and then to train their
specialists them selves. The
blame for this problem can not
be put wholely oh colleges,
however. Fortune Stated it
should rest, partly with the re
cruiters for jobs. Colleges have
failed, according to Fortune, be
cause a freshman learns imme
diately what techniques they
are going to need to get the job
of their choosing and then de
velop that throughout their
college career, and that the big
- ness of colleges is now a general
curse. Then to increase the
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world makes it impossible for us
feeling against the intellects and
graduates income be needs move
specialization.
The demand for specialization
led to the development of depart
ments in a college and then with
the - invention of the elective sys
tem around 1870 the departments
started vying with each other for
students, Gwynn said.
The movement which is now
starting. is not to ’ do away with
specialization, Gwynn said; it is
only to add a general education
to our curriculums.
There, are three plans now on
trial in various colleges through
out the country. The first ap
proach is the rationalist. This is
practiced by Chicago University
arid most of the Roman Catholic
(Continued on page five)
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