PAGE Four Pauitaaea raeaday titireaska ilataseay amoral's,. efirrivic the Univeraity year. the Daily Calendar fa a stadert atoorarrel sterwaraper. 't ' 0 • O. DIEHL McKALIP, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Mamie Schenck; Copy Editors, Phyl Propert, Mike Miller; As sistants, Bill Eisenberg, Cynthia Bell, Ginny Miller, Don Barlett, Joan DeLacy, Ruth Barnard. Ad Staff: Deanna Saltis, Faye Goldstein, Liz Kraabel. Debate Ban Insult to Students' Intelligence The intelligence of the American college stu dent is being doubted. From our exchange of papers with other col leges and universities, it is found that much ado is being made over this year's intercol legiate debate topic. The choice is discussing the merits of extending diplomatic recognition to Red China. Seven schools have definitely gone on record as being against the topic and have refused to use it for their teams. They include West Point, Annapolis, College of Mount St. Joseph in Ohio, and four state-supported teachers col leges in Nebraska. Mount St. Joseph has opposed the topic on the grounds that "in order to present an en thusiastic and convincing case for extending recognition to Red China, students would have to absorb too much communist propaganda. The topic would greatly help the communist cause." In Nebraska the president of one of the colleges objected to the topic because he opposes debaters spending "half their time arguing the Communist side." Last night the Forensic Council held a meet ing to discuss this issue as it concerned them. They decided it would in no way cause them to favor Communist principles if they argued the topic and opposed the ban. _- This ban seems very poor judgement by those who oppose the topic and one could even say they were supplying Communist propaganda by attempting to surpress the comparison of On Class Make-ups Confusion has resulted over the announce ment made yesterday that classes missed during Thanksgiving vacation will be made up at the end of the semester. Many students have in terpreted the edict, to mean that these classes will be made up along with classes regularly scheduled for the make-up days. This is not the case. Classes missed on the Wednesday afternoon, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning of vacation will be made up on the last three days of the semester, Jan. 17 to 19—Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday morn ing. No classes, other than these, have been scheduled on the University calendar. In this way, the required 15 weeks of classes will be fulfilled in every course. The 15th week, however, will be split into two factions: the first half—Monday through Wednesday morning—to be held next week as regularly scheduled; and the second half—Wednesday afternoon through Saturday morning—to be completed at the end of the semester. Actually students will not be required to at tend any additional classes to compensate for those missed during Thanksgiving vacation. The scheduling is merely a form procedure to insure fulfillment of the minimum 15-week re quirement. —Peggy McClain Today DAIRY SCIENCE CLUB, 7 p.m., 117 Dairy FUTURE TEACHERS OF AMERICA, 7 p.m., McElwain Lounge MARKETING CLUB, 12:45 p.m., MI Building MI CLUB, 8:15 p.m., TUB NEWMAN CLUB, 7:30 p.m., 304 Old Main NEWS AND VIEWS, 6:30 p.m., 14 Home Economics NITTANY GROTTO, 7:30 p.m., 229 MI Building POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, 7:30 p.m., 127 Sparks POULTRY CLUB, 7 p.m., 108 P RADIO GUILD, 7:30 p.m., 312 ' ROD AND COCCUS CLUB, 7 p. aim Batty Cattegiart Seetemor to THU FREE LANCE. est. 18117 Gazette ... ant Industries parks ~ Alpha Zeta ME' OrAttY OXLEGI". STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK CRESSMAN. Business Mgr. the two forms • of government. It might even be said this is a case where freedom of speech as guaranteed in the First Amendment of the United States Constitution is being denied. Highest on our list of reasons for not banning the topic is that by so doing we are insulting the intelligence of the average student. It would be like saying he does not have ability to weigh the policies of one political party against an other. This latter we would not do. It looks like an attempt to drive the study and comparison of the American and the Com munistic systems of government underground. We are afraid to look at the record. The next step will be depriving the professional students of government, the instructors, of their right and duty to explore both sides. Also, as the council pointed out at its meet ing last night, the fact that one side espouses the argument favoring recognition of Red China does not mean those arguing affirmatively are proponets of the, idea or that it is good. The main reason behind advocating recognition would be because it would expedite negotiations with Red China regarding Asian problems. Thus we have a fine debate question which is being opliosed by a minority because they feel an affirmative study of the topic would cause the absorbing of "too much communist propaganda." This is foolish and an insult to the intelligence of the American college stu dent and the American .way of life. We are proud the Penn State debaters see fit to protest this action. Crime: Field Work? You can lose the coat off your back at the University! Capt. Phillip A. Mark of the Campus Patrol reports over a dozen coats have been stolen from hall coat racks in University classroom buildings. The majority of these, he points out, have been taken from Sparks and Willard. The interesting part is the statement by Capt: Mark that most thefts of clothing take place prior to Thanksgiving and Christmas vacations. This seems to indicate either students are feel ing the cold, they want to take a present home to a certain someone, or they squandered cloth ing money from home on something else. Regardless of the cause, it is evident this stealing goes on and something must be done. It is a sad state of affairs when a student can not hang his wraps in authorized places without having to fear they will be stolen. It is hard to apprehend the villains although the patrol is keeping particular watch for them. The 'only action is to warn you, the students, and recommend that maybe in the future you drape your coat over the back of your chair rather than hang it in the hall. WSGA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 6:30 p.m., 2nd floor lounge, Atherton WORLD UNIVERSITY SERVICE COMMIT TEE, 7 p.m., 304 Old Main PLACEMENT SERVICE Students interested in working in Altoona during the Christmas vacation should apply at Student Employment, Old Main. UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT BETHLEHEM STEEL: BS in ME. CE, Chem.E., EE, 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, BE, Phys. Math & Chem. on Nov. 22 & 23. CARTER OIL COMPANY: BS in Geo. Phys ; MS & PhD in Geology, Phys & Geo. Phys. on Nov. 22 & 23. Editorzele represent cite viewpoint of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper. • Unsigned edi torials are by the editor. he set of Karel, i. 1579 tie Man on Campus Marcie geaucoup Every week during the fall the American public spends an un told number of hours absorbed in observing and reading the ex ploits of thousands of favorite football teams and heroes. It weeps sadly over every injury to befall every player; it shrieks and re joices every good play for the home team or penalty for the foe. Meanwhile, in the shadows of the packed stadiums and stands, there is usually another athletic en counter going on—one far more dangerous and exciting to the minds of some than the revered gridiron war The sport of which we speak and sing is soccer, the original Continental "football." Not for sis sies or the thin-blooded is this game; while their pigskin broth ers sit huddled under blankets across the way, the soccer boys carry on in brief uniforms de signed to kill by virus all but the fittest. The hooters boast no helmets, nor shoulder any other kind of pads to stand between them and the vicious attack of the opponent. True, tackling is not a soccer skill as it is a football one, but elbows, knees, and steel-clad toes fly faster and higher on the soccer field than anywhere else. There is an in delicate word that describes the nervous constitution of soccer players. While football takes a certain amount of talent in coordination, soccer requires this plus unusual speed and stamina for every play er, not , just the backfield. As coach Ken Hosterman says, the halfbacks each run about six miles per game. Some of these boys should minor in cross-country. And as for speed in thinking, there.. is no pause after every Players present the final weekend of John Van Druten's comedy . Bell, Book, and Candle Friday, Nov. 19 8 p.m. Center Stage at the TUB Tickets at Student Union or the door THURSDAY, NOVEMBER tB,-1954 By MARCIE MacDONALD move of a soccer game for the players to congregate in a huddle to make sure every one knows what just happened and what they plan to do next. They have , to change from offense to defense in a fraction of a second. Besides, their field is usually ten yards longer than the 100-yd. football field. This year the Lion soccerrnen have fought their way toward their first unbeaten season in six years. They have one more game, with Penn this Saturday. Couldn't someone stage a small. quiet pep rally for them? This might be our only undefeated team this year. Tonight on WDFM 7:30 _____ 7:45 ___ • . • • -_ - • 8 :30 -- _- Just" Out 9:00 Serenade in Blue 9:15 - 7 -- . 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