PAGE FOUR Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings. during the University year. the Daily Collegian is a student. •perated newspaper. entered ea second-class matter July fr. 1934 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under DIEHL MOICALIP, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Carole Gibson; Copy Editors, Ted Serrill, Joe Beau-Seigneur; Assistants, Bill Eisenberg, Evelyn Onsa, Terry Leach, Jack Williams, Marilyn Zabusky. Proper Counseling Means Happier Students Last spring All-University Cabinet passed a recommendation to the nine student councils that they set up student advisory programs within the individual colleges. Essentially these recommended programs would work like the big-little sister system employed now by the School of Home Eco nomics. Students newly enrolled at the Uni versity are "assigned" to an upperclasswoman for academic guidance and counseling in such matters as arranging schedules, ,study habits, and generally becoming acquainted with Uni versity life and students. While the recommendation has been discussed to some extent by college councils, it has been neither approved nor rejected; it has been merely "tabled." By such tabling actions, councils are passing by a program that could be well utilized to orient new students and thus alleviate in part student reaction to "bigness" and "strangeness" of a University as enormous as Penn State. A need for some kind of new orientation sys tem, in addition to the week-long one now in effect at 'the beginning of each semester, defi nitely exists. New students, the majority of which have just come from high schools or colleges with enrollments of little over a thou sand, are quite justified in their complaints that they are not sufficiently indoctrinated to such a large community as Penn State. . For instance, when a freshman arrives on campus he is thrust into a living unit housing several hundred students. He is given a small mountain of literature telling him the rules of the University, the location of buildings on campus, where his mailbox is, and the hours during which he must attend Orientation Week meetings. This literature is invaluable, as far as it goes. But its influence lasts only the short span Safety Valve—' Defends Famous TO THE EDITOR: The decision of Ernest Fa mous, Elections Committee chairman, that the State party could distribute its controversial handbills was far from lacking responsibility (Thursday's Daily Collegian). It was correct and unreproachable. The State party admits the handbills were in bad taste. No matter what his personal feelings were regarding the taste of the literature, Mr. Famous realized he had no right to forbid their distribution. If this was a clear and obvious violation of the election code, the course could have been different. This is not a question of whether or not you like or dislike the publicity. It is a question of whether or not Mr. Famous should have stopped the political ^ampaign, a few days be fore elections, on his own personal opinion. Had he stopped the publicity, and the State party lost the election, he would have had' to share the blame. The power of prohibiting a party from using publicity, it believes legitimate, is the power to destroy. It is conceivable the Elections Corn mittee in the future, could muzzel party pub licity programs . . . on the grounds' - of "mud slinging." Mr. Famous was wise in not muzzel ing the State party. If the entire Elections Committee, determines a publicity violation, changes are then presented to the party, and not before. The State party has obviously made a great political blunder. It has paid the price in the way it should. To blame the Elections Commit tee chairman for not making a decision, he had no right to make, is wrong . . . —Mildred McCowan President, Women's Recreation Association He has half the deed done, who has made a beginning.—Horace Fastest Service .I , , at Regular Prices ' , , After the Game Newman Club . NITTANY , take your date to Communion Breakfast Cleaners . Barnard Tea Room _ J: - for a. dinner that she . SUNDAY, NOV. 1 4th v‘ron't forget. You will 23-Hr. Service , 1 • have a choice of steaks, • . After 9 a.m. Mass at Schwab chops, and seafood in by 7:00 p.m. , , LAWRENCE DENNIS, Guest Speaker -. back by 6:00 p.m. - Barnard- Tea Room Get Tickets Today at 308 Old Main . "All Work Guaranteed" • : at your student 110 S. BARNARD 1 block west of, Atherton AD 84311 $l.OO per Member $1.25 Non-Member • d • cleaning agen TO Elattg enttrgiatt Successor to THE FREE LANCE. Cot. 18117 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK CRESSMAN. Business Mgr. of the first week on camp - us and is supple mented by little more than nightly counseling visits from hatmen and hatwomen for two or three weekg and the combined interpretations of a dozen or more classmates, equally strange to the campus. Hatmen and hatwomen, acting as counselors, cannot possibly fill all the guidance needs of a new student. The fact that one such counselor must meet with as many as 20 and 25 new stu dents at a time is sufficient reason. But added to this is the fact that only by sheer chance are these counselors, enrolled in the same cur riculums as ther counselees. Thus, through such a counseling system as now exists, new students do not feel the per sonal element of common bond so essential for a smooth acclimation. As a result, these same students usually suffer for weeks from severe doses of homesickness, foster a certain degree of resentment of their "unrecognized" status on campus, and in some instances even with draw from the University to go home to trans fer to a smaller school. Any one of these results hurts the University, They do not make for a perfectly harmonized student body, and they do to a great extent limit utilization of new students in both aca demic and extra-curricular activities until these students have, usually through their own inge nuity and curiosity, sought out the most effec tive means of becoming a part of all phases of campus life. New systems of orientation will mean work for present students. They will involve time, for setting up such systems and for implement ing them. But at the same time they will, if in tensified, offer that personal element of guid ance that is so imperative to a well organized student body. Gazette Today AG BILL PARTY, dinner, 5:30-7 p.m., Rec HILLEL LOX AND BAGEL BRUNCH, 10 :30 a.m., HIM Foundation HILLEL MUSIC COMMITTEE, 3 p.m.. Hillel Foundation HILLEL UPPERCLASS INDEPENDENTS CLUB, 6:30 p.m., Hillel Foundation NEWMAN CLUB, 'Jack Frost Party, S p.m., Catholic Stu , dent Center UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Ilona Bergman, Charles Boyles, Eugene Chomicky, Howard Cook, Roger Dietz, George Ebbert, Anthony Galanti, James Garrity, William Genetti, Lorenz Getz, Robert Harrison, Willard Hughs, Ellin Huttell, William Jashinski, Margaret King, William Klimek, Otto Kneidinger, Ruth Levy, Ronald McGrainor, William Miller, Lester Millman, Richard Myers, Sidney Schreiber, William Scudder, Russell Seitzinger, Joyce Solovey, Richard Washko, Edward Zielasko. UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT Those qualified for interviewing are: undergraduates who will receive degrees in January. 1955; M.S. candidates who' have completed at least one semester of study; and PhD candidates who will receive degrees in 1955. Arrange ments for interviews may be made now in 112 Old Main. S. MORGAN SMITH CO.: B.S. in ME & CE on Nov. 16 E., & Phys. on Nov. 17. MONSANTO CHEMICAL CO.: B.S. & M.S. in Chem., Chem.E., ME, HE, Phys. & Metal. ; PhD in Chem. & Chem.E. on Nov. 17 & 18. PROCTOR & GAMBLE DISTRIBUTING CO.: B.S. in any curriculum for sales only on Nov. 17. THOMAS' A. EDISON, INC.: B.S. in ME, EE, Chem.E., Chem., Phys.; M.S. & PhD in Chem. & Phys. on Nov. 17. U.S. NAVAL ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION: B.S. & M.S. in Phys. & EE on Nov. 17. NEW JERSEY ZINC CO.: B.S. in Chem.E., EE, Metal. & Mining Engr. on Nov. 18. ESSO STANDARD OIL DEVELOPMENT (NEW JERSEY): B.S. & M.S. in Chem.E., CE, EE, ME.& Fuel Tech.; PhD in Chem. & Chem.E. on Nov. 18 & 19. SWIFT & COMPANY: M.S. & PhD in Dairy Chem., ME, EE, Chem.E., Home Ec., Animal Husbandry, Org. & Physical Chem., As Bio Chem., Phys. on Nov. 18. MINNEAPOLIS-HONEYWELL REGULATOR COMPANY: B.S. in EE, ME & Phys. on Nov. 19 ; MS in Bus. Ad. who has BS degree in engineering. CELANESE CORP. OF AMERICA: BS in ME, EE lE, Chem. E.. Chem. & Phys. on Noy. 17. BETHLEHEM STEEL: BS in .ME, CE, Chem.E., RE, lE, Metal., Mining Engr. & Ceramics on Nov. 22. U.S. STEEL CORP:: BS in all fields of engineering ' & Metal, on Nov. 22. BELL TELEPHONE LABS.: BS & MS in ME & EE ; PhD in ME, EE, Phys. Mitth & Chem. on Nov. 22 & 23. CARTER OIL COMPANY: BS in Geo. Phys; MS & PhD in Geology, Phys & Geo. Phys. on Nov. 22 & 23. Editorials represent the viewpoint of the writers, not necessarily the 'policy of the paper Unsigned edi torials are by the editor ~ stet of March S. 1879 —Peggy McClain Sunday Little Man on. Campus "I've got one student th College, USA, VIA The Paddy-wagon New Paint Jobs - If the Nittany Lion wasn't painted last night, it may be due to the lesson learned by six Rutgers sophomores who literally Painted the town red while in Princeton for the Rutgers-Princeton game in September. The brush-happy six coated the Princeton Tiger statue, various landmarks, and the Nassau Tav ern door before police caught up to them. Their explanation was, "It's just an old rivalry. As a sophomore, you begin to under stand what college means to you?! Princeton just couldn't get in to the spirit of the thing—possibly because Palmer stadium had been doused with red the last time Rut gers played at Princeton. The University fined the six $125; the borough fined them $l5 apiece and ordered them to write a 2000 word essay explaining their "premeditated and deliber ate defacement of public prop erty." Lehigh, didn't take any chances. In October the Lehigh and Rut gers student councils signed a peace pact. Because Syracuse and 'Colgate were planning a similar pact, a couple of Syracusans evidently decided to get their orange licks in on the Cornell campus. Statues of Ezra Cornell and Andrew White were decorated with orange shoes, buttons, and beards Syracuse rivals avenged them selves by painting lingerie on the statue, "Supplicant Persephone," or "Magnificent Obsession" as it was labejed by a Penn State fan. At Syracuse, by the way, Al pha Tau Omega is appealing for stockings for the ATO cannon. The cannon, a genuine Civil War field piece, is fired after Syracuse touchdowns; the stockings are used to make powder charges, or so the brothers claim. Time is Cheap Women at Ohio State will be able to stay out up to half an hour later on Jan. 29—if their SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1954 at I dread to see put By PADDY. BEAHAN dates have an extra 30 cents. The one o'crock curfew is lifted pro vided the students pay a penny a minute for the extra time. Women Student Government Association sponsors the "Penny a-Minute Night" to pay for the cost of sign-out books in the wom en's dorms. The Bell Tolls? Ohio Stale received a Victory Bell from three alumni groups. this fall. The 2,420-pound bell cost $2,535 and was installed in the tower of the stadium. The school, said • the Ohio State Lan tern, waited with baited breath' for the first melodious tinkle. And it was only a tinkle; the public address system had to be (Continued on page five) This Weekend On WDFM 911 MEGACYCLES Sign On Sports Roundup Bomberger Stand .2 Prisoner at the Bar Just for Two ._ Ili-Pi Open Rouse Sign Off Tomorrow 7:25 _-_. 7:30 ___. 7:35 __L. 8:15 8:45 9:30 ------- 10:30 7:30. 10:30 ___ Monday _ ---- Guest Star - _ Sportlight UN Story 7:30 -_ 7:45 -- 8:00 8:15 Top Drawer 8:30 Progressions in Rhythm 9:00 Spotlight on State 9:15 News Symphony Hal Sign Of 9:30 _ 10:30 _ By Bible hand.. up his Tonight Sign On Third Program Sign Off Sign On
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