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DART Collezian is a student
loperated newspaper.
Entered as second-class matter July S. 1934 et the State College, Pa. Post- Office louder
DIE.FIL McKALIP. Editor
Managing Ed., Mary Lee Lauffer; City Ed., Mike Fein
silber: CopyFAL. Nancy Ward; Sports Ed., Dick McDowell;
Edit. Dir., Peggy McClain: Radio News Ed., Phil Austin; Soc.
Ed.. Marcie MacDonald; Asst. Sports Ed., Herm Weiskopf:
A sat. Soc. Ed., Mary Bolich; Feature Ed., Edmund Reiss; .Ex
change Ed, Paddy Beahan; Librarian. Bill Pete; Photog. Dir.,
Ron Hoopes; Senior Board, BCC Dickinson. Ann Leh.
STAFF. THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Nancy Showaalter; Copy Editors, Roger Beidler, Dottie Bennett;
Assistants, Sally Sykes, Harry Davis, Tony Arthur, Barbara Budnick, Anne Friedberg, Ned Frear.
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'Lion' Platform: Unpredictable Experiment
(This is the first of two editorials examining by the party were not acceptable to the organ
campus political party platforms for the com- . izations above it.
ing elections. Tomorrow's article will deal with The Lion Party finally has realized that' it
the State Party platform.) cannot be run like a national party as far as
The Lion Party has gone off the beaten path platforms are concerned; the victorious national
, in forming its platform this fall and has pro-
party becomes the highest force in forming
policies, whereas the student parties do not.
duced a pair of planks that are quite revolu- A point that may hurt the Lion Party is that,
tionary to the usual campus political procedure. because of the intangible platform, the candi-
In the first place, the platform has- only two dates do not have anything to "talk up" when
planks. Secondly, both planks are intangible. they visit students.
Essentially the party has pledged itself to
Formerly candidates could say, "We will get
"deliberate and constructive solutions" to what-
a shorter customs period if you elect us, " or
"
ever problems arise and to work "to the limit We will get a study hall for the men in Nit
of our jurisdiction" for the good of the indi-
tany." Such "talking points" were good ways
vidual student.
of helping candidates start conversation when
The entire platform is admittedly an experi- they visited dormitories. Also, advocating a pink which the majority of students want is
ment in campus campaign procedure. It could a good vote-getter.
prove a huge success or it could harm the party However, having weak planks in , the plat
in the elections Thursday. form or having planks which students realize
A good point of the short Lion platform is are already under consideration by other or
that party members are not pledging them- ganizations can be more detrimental to a party
selves to planks which they suspect cannot be - than having no specific planks.
fulfilled. In past years many planks have been ' The election, of course, will not be based on
set down, but few have been fulfilled through platforms alone. Personalities of the candidates
the efforts of the party alone. always play a major part in determining elec-
Perhaps the lack of fulfillment has been due tion results. ,
to the ultimate authority of organizations such However, election results will show the party,
as the University Senate and All-University to some extent, the effectiveness of its experi-
Cabinet, which are above the individual party ment,
in hierarchy. In many instances, goals listed
Junior . N Y eek. Failed
Poor participation by the Junior class and in
effective planning by the Junior Week com
mittee combined to make this year's Junior
Week less successful than it could or should
have been.
The Junior class showed neither enthusiasm
nor cooperation in helping to make the week
outstanding, as evidenced chiefly in the small
number that voted for the Junior ProM queen
and the lack of support given the talent show
and pep rally,
While the committee members were coopera
tive in their efforts, they showed a lack of fore
sight in planning. For instance, many Juniors
did not vote for their choice of queen because
no pictures of the candidates were placed at the
voting locations; as a result, Juniors said, they
did not know one name from another.
Another example of poor planning was the
prom itself. The cordon of junior hat societies
had trouble in forming because of the large
crowd filling Recreation Hall. Next year the
committee should either dispense with the hon
or line or start forming it earlier to avoid such
confusion.
The crowning of the queen Friday night, too,
was a mass of confusion. Adequate plans were
not made- to gather the finalists in one place,
and there was unnecessary delay before they
all could be located.
When the queen and her attendants reached
the stage, an interval of about ten minutes
elapsed during which "nothing happened." The
trophy, flowers and crown could not be located
and an awkward situation was created for the
contestants.
Only a select few of the audience could see
what was happening during the ceremony;
what was said during the whole procedure will
remain a mystery to the student body. A micro
phone was standing on one side of the band
stand but unfortunately it was not used by the
people who presented the various gifts.
The general confusion is in part undertstand
able when one considers the immense crowd at
the dance. However, we would suggest that next
year's prom committee carefully study both the
weak and the strong points of former proms in
an effort to produce for the students a smooth
and effective program.
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Safety Valve
More Blood --
TO THE EDITOR: (. . .) I doubt if Miss Mc-
Clain's appeal to the students to donate blood
can be successful. It's the type of appeal that
has been used constantly in the past and as
usual, falls upon deaf ears. The majority of our
students have become indifferent to the whole
idea of blood donation. What they need are
some hard cold facts.
Last year the Red Cross visited the campus
twice, each trip lasting three days. Our quota
was 150 pints per day. Now here are some start
ling facts: on only one day were we able to
fill our quota and that was with a weak '152
pints.
Here is an almost unbelievable situation
where 14,000 young students, healthy and vigor
ous, were unable to contribute a paltry 150 pints
of blood for each of the remaining five days.
I shudder when I think of the effect these sta
tistics would have had on a young. GI who had
just shed two or three pints of blood on Korean
soil in order that these same students could
continue going to college.
Fortunately such a situation isn't nation-wide.
For instance Stanford University, with an en
rollment of 7000, was able to contribute the
amazing total of 4640 pints in one day. Here
is a university with one-half as many students
we have contributing between 35 and 40 times
as many pints of blood within the same amount
of time.
To show that Stanford is no great exception,
I cite the case of Texas University, which gave
3653 pints in one day.
Wherein lies our difficulty? Are we un
patriotic? Definitely not. Are we selfish? Cer
tainly not. Are we afraid to give blood? In
most cases, no. Then what is the "reason for
this campus-wide dormancy? I am quite con
fident that each student, calling on his own
mind and his own heart, can answer that much
better than I can.
On Junior Prom
TO THE EDITOR: In view of Friday night's
performance, (by the Dorsey brothers' orchestra)
I think in the future more attention should be
given to the selection of an orchestra for big
dances.
The Dorseys provided good music for listen
ing, (at the Junior Prom) but the music was
certainly not suitable for dancing under the
prevailing conditions. The large crowd, always
present at big dances, makes dancing• to a fast
tempo rather impossible; yet over half the se
lections heard at the Prom could be classified
as fast.
Thus, most couples had to be content to stand
around the bandstand and listen while a very
few were able to actually dance. If we are going
to pay $5 for a dance, let's have "danceable"
music and not just a jazz concert.
Perhaps the selection committee and students
are more interested in the name of the orchestra
than in how the orchestra plays. If this is the
case, future dances might well be held in
Schwab Auditorium where we could at least
sit down while we listen.
berth Lerch, Robert Metzger, - Lester Millman, Clark Mit
chell, Richard Myers, Diane Ola, David Watkins, Carl Week
erlY, Austin Wells, James Wood and Frances Fineman.
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—Nancy Farina
—Joe Hodorawis
—Stuart Horn
Little Man on Campus
"I believe we pledged the Leroy V
were here last."
The Weekends
Impressions
(BAND DAY—
Saturday over 4000 musical sons and daughters of proud parents
descended on the campus. They were guests of Hum Fishburn.
and Jim Dunlap and the music department. They caused the editor
to miss his lunch.
Fishburn, head of the music department, had spent many weekS
working out the routine performed on the field and had grown many
a gray whisker in his mustache
hoping the elements would co
operate. Last Band Day was ac
companied by 18 inches of snow
forcing, the cancelation of the cel
ebration. He also reported trou
bles in fitting the 4000 and some
bandsmen into the 53 1 by 100
yard gridiron.
According to a friend of ours,
a professional member of the cam
pus patrol, who had seen the spec
tacle from the press box, the re
sult was "the most beautiful thing
I have seen in over 20 years at
the University." He explained the
colors were very tastefully inter
mingled and, in addition, the
bands were arranged to form a
gigantic PSU, no doubt standing
for Pennsylvania State University.
It was nice to know what the for
' mation was since from our seat,
low and to the rear of the Dußois
band, it was not readily apparent.
The direction and coordination
of the 61 bands, once Fishburn
had them on the field, were
under Dunlap, director of the
Blue Band. From his perch high
atop a flight of steps on wheels,
he literally shook the stands and
without using all the percussion
instruments he had. As he
lerched about on his precarious
platform, we were reminded of
the movie about the pianist who
could not rest until' he had 50
child pianists play for him sim
ultaneously.
At the parade, which wound
through town and campus for two
hours prior to the game and which
kept us from lunch, we were par
ticularly impressed by the bands
from Hollidaysburg, Altoona, and
neighboring Bellefonte. It is pos
sible, however, that in the case of
Altoona our untrained ears were
influenced by our eyes. As the
musicians played a very unmar
tial air entitled "Steam Heat," a
well developed corps of majorettes
and other assorted young ladies
turned on their own brand of heat.
After the parade we were
talking with two junior high
musicians from Renovo and ask
ing them how the football con
test between their school and
our own Smethport high had
gone this year. Without batting
an eye, they informed me the
series had been dropped "since
your boys were always so rough
and tried to hurt our boys." It
is funny, but we always
thought the same of thlm.
The most gratifying moment,
outside of the halftime ceremony,
was hearing the high schoolers
TVESDAY: NOVEMBER 9; 1954
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By DIEHL McKALIP
cheer. With the encouragement of
several of Bruce Coble's cheer
leading crew, they easily out
shouted all but the freshman sec
tions.
The enthusiasm• of the musicians
and the men who worked with
them was exceptional and causes
us to offer them a big vote of
thanks. And, a special nod to
Hum Fishburn who started this
thing and nursed it through a
snowstorm.
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PERSONALITY—
We picked our personality
from a story we heard over the
weekend and not from the ac
tual happening. The honored
one (?) is John Juba, borough
police chief.
One of his fellow peace pre
servers with the campus patrol
tells of the time some years back
when an irate borough citizen
asked the police , to eliminate sev
eral pigeons that were creating a
nuisance around his home.
The Chief piled several of the
local gendarmes, armed with shot
guns, into a car and went on the
offense. At the objective, the un
wanted birds were found to be
conveniently lined up on the ridge
of the roof.
Drawing his men up on line,
the Chief barked, "Fire!" The
guns cracked in unison and
belched smoke. The roof rattled,
shingles splintered, and feathers
filled the air.
As the smoke cleared, a lone
victim came tumbling off the roof
and lay flopping on the ground.
The Chief dashed up to the
wounded bird and finished the
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