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Work or. Loaf?
Stal wcs prove summer loafers lose out when
hiring Limnee come around.
This Starthog bit of figures and facts is the
result of a sindy conducted by one Alice Ram
say, d(...1% taw of personnel at Connecticut Col
lege for Romer,. Bi-! deduction. based on ques
tions rslred orlwials from business, industry,
and cud.qces, was that students who had sum
mer •Kock experience to supplement their de
grees were the sought. after applicants.
"I :'•' coavinced," she reports, "that students
learn a great (teal alicuit themselves and other
people in rte ximiner while being a factory
worker, coo►•, chauffeur, department store de
tective, ranch hand, radio station handy man,
Christmas o, dement decorator, bamboo drape
proc"s.or, or as a member of an archeological
lined ition.
litas Ramsay goes on to say the three most
profileble ways to spend your summer are
working, studying, or traveling. Most work,
while the fewest occupy their summers by con
firming their studies.
While the above observations may not apply
specifically to the University, we feel the gen
eral results apply to any student, anywhere.
The student who spends his summer engaged in
constructive activity is way ahead of the chap
who lounges around and takes it easy, saying
he will "have enough time to work after he
graduates."
There are several considerations to be looked
into in studying the question. These jobs are
more than something to keep one from loafing
they provide an income. Possible earning is
limited only by the time element, and, for ex
ample, one group of 770 students studied earned
$132,683 during the summer months.
In seeking summer employment, the student
should also realize it is often possible to find
jobs directly related to his field of study. Thus.
the work becomes more than just a summer
job—it is a chance to train for a future career.
Lastly, there are those things less tangible
than money or experience. In these summer
jobs one can develepe himself physically and
mentally and observe society at work. It is the
golden opportunity to sample living and work
ing with people befc s ire being forced to do it by
graduation.
Numerous openings are available, from fac
tory work at home to educational tours. The
chances to broeden and still have a change of
pice are indicated by the 'University placement
service. For c•zamine, they now are arranging
interviews for positions as eounselors in sum
mer camps.
The opportunities are there and it is impos
sible to challenge the fact that summer work is
an asset to post-graduation hiring. Consider this.
All Women Included
Wuinen students were confused yesterday
over just wi,•rf. they could visit for the Cen
tennial exnhange dinners. Apparently freshman
women anal those eating in the Mac Allister Hall
&rang ioont tht , nght they had been "left out"
of the birthday party plans.
For clarificatlon, all women interested have
been includert in the plans. Those from Sim
mons, McElwain, and Atherton will visit fra
,Arn'ty lonine.s; those eating in Mac Hall will •
either visa or entertain men from the Nittany-
Poilock area: and freshman women in Thomp
son wi)l with men from the West Dorm area.
So far, women students' interest in the pro
gram has lagged, especially in Simmons and
Athe:ten. Those students hesitating to sign up
for an extbange dinner are passing up fine
c.haiima to "socialize."
The progr.un was planned so all students, and
noi just thr,se invited to the Birthday Party in
th. HUB, could feel a part of the celebration.
sr.
Aaianyok; that everyboy likes a party, this
hesitancy to join in the fun is hard to under
stand.
11 is possible women will receive 11 o'clock
permissions the night of the dinners. This favor,
combined with dinners and a multitude of hosts,
should be incentive enough fo: any coed.
—Peggy McClain
Jazz and Charity
Students will have a chance to go to bat for
a worthwhile organization tonight—Campus
Chart -and have fun at the same time.
_
The Campus Chest is bringing Max Kaminsky
to campus to give a ilia: concert tonight in
Schwab Auditorium. The project is a means of
making up the deficit in the goal set by the
rheas in its !ell campaign. In its initial drive,
the cheat fell short of its goal by approximately
S2OOC.
Many organizations, such as the Red Cross
and American Cancer Society, receive benefits
Jhr Datil) Collegian
Sueaseser to THE FIRER LANCE. wt. lief
4,41 10 . WILLIAM DEVERS. Business Manager
THE DAttY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Hellweeks
Those mei, wandering around campus in a
semi-conscious state are not necessarily victims
of third-degree brain-washing .grills. They are
most likely Penn State fraternity pledges. If
they survive their sordid hellweeks, we hope
they have the spunk—as brothers—to throw
such stuff back in .the cradle where .it belongs.
We had assumed that such distorted routines
as night-long "push-ups" sessions and contests
to see who can go the most nights without sleep
ing went out with the flapper age. Evidently
we were wrong.
Hellweek, hazing, 'pseudo-homicide—call it
what you will—has been justified throughout the
years as a means of uniting the pledge classes,
even if such must be accomplished at the risk
of the pledge classes' health and mental sta
bility. Because few actual deaths have ever re
sulted from these, forms of basing. men laugh
at it (after it's• over) and call it a necessary evil
for fraternity► "oneness" and loyalty.
The resulting "oneness" is inevitable. No man
that's risked life and limb for a brother's badge
would have the energy to oppose conformity
after the ordeal ends. Beat a dog for a few
hours straight. When you stop, he won't leap
up and bite you, or scamper away either, for
that matter. He'll just lie there and pant, if he's
got that much breath left in him.
Shape them up, fraternities! Maybe in the
long run it's the best way—that is, if straight
forward leadership, companionship, and just
plain appeal won't do the trick.
Stamps Prove Spirit
Congratulations!
Critics of Penn State spirit can swallow• their
words this week.
Students, faculty, and townspeople alike have
combined to give the Centennial celebration a
grand kick-off.
In two days the borough posit office has sold
the amazing total of 911,111 Centennial stamps
commemorating the 100th birthday of the Uni
versity. The University accounted for 800,000
stamps in the sale but that still leaves an im
posing number of over-the-counter sales.
In addition to the Centennial stamps 10,000
special envelopes bearing the University seal,
a replica of Old Main, and a few lines about
the University have been sold by the Student
Centennial Committee at the Student Union
desk in Old Main. The initial supply was ex
hausted by yesterday afternoon; demand for
the envelopes was so great that a new batch
had to be printed to go on sale this morning.
We have been assured by Student Centennial
Committee chairman, Diehl McKalip, that enve
lopes will be available as long as there is a
demand.
And judging from the lorig lines in Old Main
and the borough post office, Penn State stu
dents will be "demanding", these tributes to
their school for some time yet.
Critics of Penn State spirit can well afford
to take an accounting of their judgment. When
people are willing to stand in line to do honor
to their school they certainly must have a lot
of pride in the University. •
Gazette ...
Today
CHESS CLUB, 7 p.m., 3 .Sparks
MARKETING CLUB, 7:80 p.m., Phi Mu Delta
MINERAL INDUSTRIES STUDENT COUNCIL, 7:80 p.m,
200 Willard
NEWMAN CLUB. Daily Rosary, 4:30 p.m., Novena, 7 p.m.
MUTANT GROTTO, 7:30 p.m., 106 Mechanical Engineering
PERSHING RIFLES, Class A Uniform Inspection, 7 p.m.,
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Armory •
PLAYERS' ADVERTISING CREW, 6:46 p.m., Schwab Loft
MA ASSEMBLY, 7 p.m., 804 Old Main
WOMEN'S CHORUS. 7 p.m., 1 Carnegie
UNIVEP.SITY HOSPITAL
Joseph Bellwoar, Bois Beruulst, Jerome Breiter, Clarence
Bryan, Carl Bun, Christine Donchez, Barbara Foss, James
Garrity, Harryetta Gerhart. Vincent Girardy, William Grist.
Harold Harding, Doreen Hayward, Andrew Hibler, Irene
Jacob. Marilyn Krieger. John Kurtz, Bernardino Malabed,
John McNeill, Vincent Odhner, Sandra Pogesky, Robert Reid,
Joan Shaddinger, William Shawley, Barbara Shafer, Qtrl
Shoat:hind, Robert Sproule; John Szendrey, John Tunell,
David Williams.
from Campus Chest. The chest-sponsored pro
gram to help these and many other groups will
need strong student support to be successful.
Students going to the concert will be doing
a double favor—having a good time and helping
a worthy project at the same time.
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—Mike Miller
—Rocky Zahm
Little Man on Cam
Classes—Obsolete?
Adam's Other Rib
Are classes—frosh, sophomore, junior, and senior—obsolete as
parts of student government at Penn:State? The more' we
. try to
figure out just why they are needed, just what they_ do, or in short
just what good they are, the more we are convinced that clats
organization i 5 way out of date.
For instance,.try to list the functions of each class. Traditiobally
speaking, the freshman class as a
whole sits together at football
I.;ames
The sophomore class, by virtue
of • Senate regulations, holds a
minimum of one class meeting a
semester.
The junior class_ sponsors the
Junior . Prom and usually two or
three special events such as a
talent show on the dance week
end.
The senior class sponsors the
Senior Prom .on Spring Weekend
and its various related social
events, • and votes for the senior
class gift and the winners of sev
eral personality contests.
It seems to boil down to the
fact that the essence of class or
ganization is the sponsorship of
social events. -To go further, to
carry out this organization (and
hence the. class social events) 12
men and women- are elected each
year (via Month-long political
campaigns), four of the winners
are given seats on All-University
Cabinet (campus legislative body,
to be distinguished from social
council), and these four presidents
I are given a portion of student
fees, slight though these portions
may be.
To go even farther, these 12 of
ficers are expected by the stu
dent body to keep the classes
organized, think up reasons for'
calling class meetings (to which
approximately 10 students includ
ing the officers and Daily Col
legian reporter turn out) and
manufacture some facsimile of
"class spirit" which the classes
themselve.; have evidently run out
of sometime within the past 10
years.
This is by no means a reflection
on the class officers. This year
especially, many of them have
spent considerable hours trying
to find means of "reuniting" the
classes and building them into
organized bodies. The majority of
these officers will' probably ad
mit it's like beating one's head
against a stone wall.
Two reasons seem to predomi
nate in those given by students
for maintaining the class system:
tradition, and encouragement of
class spirit.
"Tradition" is both a frequently
pointless argument and one
around which many people base
their entire lives. Henry Ford ran
into the same argument when he
invented the automobile;' even
Columbus got opposition with his
theory that the world was round.
We'd be living in a weird en
vironment were we still fans of
the "square-earth-horses-are-bet
ter-than cars" train of thought.
The opinion_ that class organ.
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 16,1955
Uto 1
By PEGGY McCLAIN
ization should be maintained- to
encourage class spirit carries a
little more weight, admittedly.
But even it is ironical. Should one
chart a graph showing class ac
tivities, one would see that the
higher class status ,reached i the
more organized activities one runs
into. (The freshman class, after
Orientation Week, functions at
minimum as a group-the senior
class sponsors the most organized
class activities.)
It is ironical that encourage
ment of class spirit (via organized
activity) is most intense during
one's last year in college, and at
its lowest ebb when such "tra
dition" would have the most of
fect and is, possibly, most needed.
The leading question among
class presidents these past few
years has been: What will reunite
this class and what incentive will
bring members into organized
class activity? To put' it another
way, class leaders are being
forced to find a way to produce
class spirit, not meet its demands.
Thus, perhaps a more realistic
question would be: Why carry
along dead wood? Why not dis
solve the:. classes as organized
bodies and .let spirit build where
spirit lies?
.For let's face it. The majority
of students are not interested in
their• classes as such. Class or
ganizations hay* become so much
dead wood. •
And there's no reason why' they
shouldn't be such. General " spirit '
(to overuse the word) is centered
now in more specific and concen
trated groups—dramatics, publi
cations, small organizations, and
fraternity, sorority, and inde
pendent organizations. Many of
these groups are comparable in
size to the highly exemplified
"spirited classes ' of the early
1900's.
To expect students to show for
his academic class a spirit com
parable to that shown for his
personally-chosen activity is like
asking a fraternity man to show
the same spirit for his own fra
ternity and the entire IFC. A
thing so personal as spirit can
not be forced; and a program
lacking spirit so consistently as
has organized classes most likely
is no longer needed. So be' it.
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