PAGE FOUR Pablachef: fueacia, through Saturday mornings. drtriog the univeraiti rear. the ; Oally ColleZian is a atadent aperatad riewfusper. Entered as second-class, caattar July 5. Mil at the State College, Pa. Post. Office ander t DIEHL McKALa2, Edi2or STAFF THIS ISSUE; Night Editor, Mike Miller; Copy Editors, Marjorie Blank, Inez Althouse; Assist ants, Rod Felix, Joan Hickerson, Tom Smith, Dodi Jones, Alice Grubb. Ad Staff, Mona Signorino, Claire Murray, Esther Donovan. _ State Party Lists Concrete Planks . This is the second of two editorials analysing port behind the plan in order to expedite its campus political party platforms for the approval. If the party makes an effort to do current elections. The Lion party platform this, the plank has a legitimate place in the was diScussed yesterday. platform. ..,..„ . The political parties have taken a new ap- The other planks in the platform deal with proach to the problem of platforms this fall, problems which seem to be more workable: en- Both have tried to avoid the problem which has larging of the laundry and pressing facilities in plagued campus politics for years—loading the the dorms, revision of the parking procedure so platforms with unworkable planks which are that students will be able to park near their therefore meaningless. living units. the inauguration of a committee to determine the classification of activities as ma- Lion party has done this by releasing a plat- jor or minor, ..in reference to joining campus form that is admittedly nothing more, than a statement of policy—a pledge to handle prob- organizations, and a more even split of student government' appointments between fraternities lems as they arise. and independents. , State party, on the other hand, 4s advocated In regard to the plank on the parking situ planks• that are more concrete, but seem to be atior., it may be worthwhile to point out that workable. the Association of Independent Men is also Perhaps the weakest plank in the platform deals with the elimination of the Bar-2 grade. It calls for "a single failing mark which would be in accord with the present systems employed by other American colleges and universities." The approval of such a plan would be in the hands of the administration. Plans for the establishment of such a system have been underway since last spring. Such a proposal was studied by Hat Society Council and was presented to University Senate: A Sen ate committee was appointed to set up the plan and is working on it at present. Under these circumstances, it seems that all the State party can do is solidify student sup- • On 'State' Pubhcity • _TO THE EDITOR: Things are getting serious. I must have appeared very furtive as I walked up the Mall yesterday with my coat collar turned up against the wind for as I turned around to acknowledge the tap on my shoulder and the "Hey, Buddy, wanna' buy a . . ~" I recognized an old friend of mine that I hadn't seen since last spring. It was "Louie the Fence" who had sprung out from one of the bushes be hind the Armory. We exchanged greetings and gold bricks for uranium mine stocks and talked about busi ness as we walked along. "Something new is up," he told me as he climbed out of the manhole after the campus patrol passed. "This year I got a real hot deal." In answer to my question of what it was, he whispered into my ear that there was a "hot" party on campus. I hated to try to disillusion the boy when I told him that I agreed, and that I had been to quite a few myself. "Naw," he said looking at me with a scowl of disgust which pleaded for seriousness. "This is something altogether different." He told me that he rushed back from Klinger Heights where he was collecting old "Vote for McCarthy" buttons when he got the scoop: "The State Party was being stolen." I couldn't suppress my laughter. As he stood there before me with a very astounded look, I reassured him that it couldn't be so, since every one of the opposition was being discharged. After he caught up on all the news from back issues of Collegian and elsewhere, he regained his composure, but he still retained a cynical, Tifokenhearted look. "Who would want to steal it anyway?" he said. "This looks like the raunchiest campaign in years . .. well, anyway, since last year." He considered some of the campaign publicity Today CHESS CLUB, 7:30 p.m., 3 Sparks CIRCULO ESPANOL, 7:30 p.m., TUB DANCE CLUB, 7 p.m., Rhythm Room, White Hall FORESTRY CONVOCATION, 11 a.m. 121 Sparks FROTH AD STAFF, 8 p.m., Froth a.m., Carnegie GRANGE, 7 p.m., 100 Weaver MARKETING CLUB, 7 :30 p.m., Alpha Chi . Rho NEWMAN CLUB CHORAL GROUP, 7 p.m., Our Lady of Victory Church PERSHING RIFLES MEETING, 7 p.m.,Armory PLAYERS' ADVERTISING CREW MEETING, 6 :45 p.m., Schwab Loft PRE-VET CLUB, 7 p.m., Alpha Gamma Rho UPPER CLASS BOWLING, 6:30 p.m., White Hall UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT SUN OIL COMPANY: B.S. & M.S. in Chem. & Chem.E. PhD in Organic or Phys. Chem. on Nov. 10. CURTISS WRIGHT (PROP. DIV.) B.S. in Aero.E., ME & EE; M.S. in ME & EE on Nov. 10. UNION CARBIDE & CARBON CORPORATION: PhD in Chem.. Chem.E., ME & Phys. on Nov. 10, 11 & 12. NATIONAL SUPPLY COMPANY: B.S. in CE. EE, lE, ME, Mining Engr.. PNG, Metal., Acetg., Bus. Admin. on Nov. 10. FEDERAL TELECOMMUNICATION LABS.: 8.5., M.S. & PhD in EE & Phys. on Nov. 11. OLIN MATIIIESON CHEMICAL CORP.: B.S. in Chem.E., ME, lE, BE, Metal., Phys., Math., Chem. Accts., & Bus. Admin.: M.S. & PhD in Phys., Math. & Chem. on Nov. 11 UNITED AIRCRAFT CORP. (RESEARCH DEPT.) 8.5.. M.S. & PhD in Aero.E & ME on Nov. 11. BENDIX AVIATION (98 DIVS.) 8.5., M.S. & PhD in EE, ME, Phys.. Aero.E. & Math.. IE & Metal. on Nov. 12. CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT: 8.5., M.S. & PhD in ME, Aero.E.. Arch.E., CE, EE & Math. on Nov. 12. GLENN L. MARTIN CO.: B.S. in Aero.E., ME, EE, lE, CE, Chem.E., Metal., Phys. & Ace*. on Nov. 12. U.S. NAVAL LABS IN CALIFORNIA: 8.5.. MS. PhD in Aero. E., EE, ME & Phys. on Nov. 15. CHAS. PFIZER & CO., INC.: B.S. in Chem. & Chem.E. on Nov. 15. R.C.A. CORPORATION: 8.5., M.S. & PhD in EE,. ME & Phys. on Nov. /5. Tim 13talli entirgiatt Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. 1887 Safety Valve Gazette ... THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. .PENNSYLVANIA FRANK CRESSM.A.N. Business Mgr. working on the problem. But a little cooperation never hurts. If the party carries these appeals through the proper channels, and gets the student body be hind them, the platform could produce results. In the long run, the success or failure of any party platform does not depend on how work able the planks are, but on how well the voters and party members support the planks. It is not our purpose here to tell students hOW they should vote when they cast their ballots tomorrow. But when you vote, remember that the success of the platform you support depends on whether or not it has your backing. —Don Shoemaker that had been distributed. "So some of the stuff was even outlawed from the girls' dining halls, eh? I would like to have seen that , one." He threw the other piece of publicity away (that was the one which implied not very subtly that the other party was the Lyin' one) and he walked away haughtily from the whole matter, expressing as he left his condolences for the candidates who were unfortunately tied up with the campaign scandal, and mumbling something about politicians, propaganda, and insecure paranoids. More 'State'---- TO THE EDITOR: A rather objectionable bit of political propaganda in the form of a circular was distributed in the dorms Monday night and came to my attention Tuesday morning. The printed matter on the sheet was merely a re iteration of the State party platform. The objectionable part of the circular was a 2 by 6 inch drawing of a sample "ballot" spread diagonally across the page. On this ballot were places to vote for freshman and sophomore slates with the voting boxes labeled "State" and "Lyin' ". To say the least, this clever little pun was in extremely bad taste and has done nothing, in my opinion, to enhance the State party's prestige. I have long admired the relative lack of pub lic "mudslinging" which has characterized Penn State politics. This Circular was a particularly low and childish attempt to degrade the other party and to me seems unbefitting a University environment. Penn State cannot help but suffer from this type of irresponsible politics. —Bob Conquest SCOTT PAPER COMPANY: 8.5., M.S., & PhD in Chem., Chem.E., ME, lE, Lib. Arts, Bus. Admin., Wood Utiliza tion on Nov. 15 & 16. STANDARD OIL OF CALIFORNIA: B.S. in Chem.E. & ME; M.S. & PhD in Geology, Geophysics, Chem., Chem.E. & ME on Nov. 15 & 16. U.S. RUBBER COMPANY: PhD in Physical & Org. Chem. on Nov. 15. CHARLES PFIZER & CO., INC.: B.S. in Chem. & Chem.E. on Nov. 15. ! R.C.A. CORP.: M.S. & PhD in EE, ME & Phys. on Nov. 15. SCOTT PAPER COMPANY: 8.5., M.S. & PhD in Chem., Chem.E., ME, IE, Lib. Arts, Bus. Admin., Wood Utiliza tion on Nov. 15 & 16. STANDARD OIL OF CALIFORNIA: B.S. in Chem.E. & ME; M.S. & PhD• in Geology, Geophysics, Chem.E., ME & Chem. on Nov. 15 & 16. U.S. RUBBER: PhD in Physical or Org. Chem. on Nov. 15. BABCOCK & WILCOX CO.: B.S. in Chem.E., lE, ME & Metal. on Nov. 16. ERNST & ERNST: B.S. in Acctg. & internship work for June grads. on 'Nov. 16. • S. 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Ad. who has BS degree in engineering. • Editorials represent the viewpoint .1 . the writers: not necessarily the policy of the paper Unsigned edi torials are be the editor he act of March 3. 1879 —Stanley Juras President of West Dorm Council Little Man on e Campus 11 " 17- cj , 6m kite • Firing Squads— Adam's Other Rib On Homecoming Weekend Mr. James Pike spoke at Chapel ser vice. A record of the specific students who heard his talk would be impossible. The number who have chosen not to take his message to heart is growing ever more obvious. The theme of the talk was gaining a proper perspective of daily living. Mr. Pike emphasized the fact that so long as we dwell ex clusively within the boundaries of our own current thoughts and actions, we will be engulfed with the resulting emotions and con flicts of those behavior patterns. To illustrate, he referred to a moth engrossed in working its way across a multi-colored rug. While eating its' way through the yellow colored section, the moth acquires a bright and cheerful frame of mind; when it hits the blue pattern, it gets bogged down with dreariness and the "blues;" and when it crosses over to the red section, the poor moth be comes so captured by passion and wild emotion that it, as Mr. Pike phrased it, regurgitates all that it has acquired from the other sections. Had the moth risen above the rug, Mr. Pike pointed out, and viewed the entire scene from the advantage of altitude, it would have gotten an entirely different impression, or perspective of it. It would not have been so con cerned with the relatively small "blues" pattern, .or the passion producing red section, or even the light-hearted yellow. It would, rather, have seen the entire rug in its proper perspective of rela tive proportions. Such an attitude applies equally well to every phase of campus politics. Groans of bore dom with the topic will not be out of order at this point. This columnist, too, is weary of what seems td be an , inevitable pat tern of conflict and antagonisrin as far as campus politics are concerned. But because our cam- . pus politicians are University students, and because Thurs day's elections are possibly one of the most important events ' listed for this week, the topic must take its place in these columns. Campus politicians have lost perspective. They have allowed politics to grow out of bounds in their own minds, and they have, through both interparty and infra party conflicts, led the majority of the student body to mentally blow up politics beyond a reason able scope. They have distorted the concept of these activities un til they hold very little resem blance to their originally-desig nated place among other campus activities. However, - the politicians them selves are not alone responsible for, this distortion. They have been chided and too often en couraged in their attitudes by the entire student body. Because •we WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1954 -- I --. 0 4 ' - -3', \\ D V -- c - 1 - ma----- ver By PEGGY McCLAIN all are responsible directly and indirectly for what has become a preposterous situation, it now re mains for all of us, politicians and on-politicians, to help put campus politics back in their proper per spective. This cannot be done until the position of campus politics at Penn State is defined. They are an extra-curricular activity, op erating as contemporaries of dozens of other extra-curricular, activities on campus. Because they are supposedly an educa tional activity (that is, author ized by the administration for the primary purpose of offering practical training in the field of politics) they must necessarily work in conjunction with these other educational activities. As such, campus parties war rant a great deal of interest and attention from their constituents. It would be unrealistic to ask that this attention not be based on both personal and objective mo tives, but when the personal mo tives outweigh the objective and common-good ones, then this ac tivity loses its open, eduCational value. For instance, let us look at the recent "firings" within one of our campus parties. A subordinant chairman fires a committee mem ber; a fellow subordinant chair man supports him in this move; the clique chairman in turn fires both her subordinates. Technically, perhaps all this be havior is justified. Were the party a professional group, operating in (Continued on page five) LAVIE PICTURE • SCHEDULE Today LAVIE PICTURES SCHEDULE 6:30 Tau Kappa Epsilon 6 :40 Mortar Board 6 :50 Judicial 7:10 WSGA Senate 7:20 Hat Society Council 7:30 Traffic Court 7 :40 House of Representatives 7:50 Book Exchange 8:00 Collegian 8 :15 Froth 8:25 Alpha Phi Alpha Tonight on . 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