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DIEHL McKALIP. Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, John Lawrence; Copy Editors: Mike Miller, Margie Blank; As
sistants, Jim Brown, Joe Cheddar, Evelyn Onsa, Barbara Budnick, Judy Harkison, Gladys Woodward,
Lenore Hamilton. Ad Staff: Dot Hughes, Betty Manifold, Harryette Gerhart.
NSA: $6OO Folly for Student Fees
Is membership in the National Student As
sociation worth $6OO to Penn State?
The answer is no, not now. Potentially NSA
is a fine organization in that it offers a labora
tory for student government and provides a
channel for an orderly exchange of ideas be
tween schools. This is fine and worth $6OO, but
it is not working at the University.
All-University Cabinet is pouring its $6OO
budget allotment for NSA down a bottomless
hole: bottomless because there are no interested
students waiting to take hold of the sum and
utilize it. In plain language, the student body
or the representatives of it do not give a hoot
about NSA.
Student interest in the organization centers
about those few who are named each year to
a committee to handle NSA affairs for Cabinet.
This causes the rest of the student leaders and
those they represent to wash their hands of the
whole thing. They sit back and wait for their
$6OO investment to bear forth fruit.
This disinterest, while readily evident at all
times, was particularly pointed up in Decem
ber when Cabinet decided to withdraw an in
vitation to the group to hold its 1955 national
convention at Penn State. In addition to several
ODK Should Replace Senior Hat Groups
The election of 19 men to the newly formed
chapter of the national leadership fraternity,
Omicron Delta Kappa, was announced yester
day. The election was the peak of a movement
that might well prove the best thing to hit
campus in many years.
We congratulate those men selected and wish
them luck. Each, as a member, now has a dis
tinction to live up to and may well offer a valu
able service to his school.
At the* same time, we commend the organizer
of the local group, Benjamin Sinclair, for the
success of his labors in bringing ODK to the
campus. Mr. Sinclair had help with the project,
but he did the bulk of the research and organ
ization and through such has made a very vital
contribution to the campus.
The national ODK is by no means a typical
men's activities honorary as the University
knows them. The local group should stay away
from the latency that often attaches itself to
Penn State men's hat societies.
There is room and a need on this campus lor
ihe potential services of ODK. The new group
might justifiably replace the present senior
men's hat societies. Parmi Nous and Skull and
Bones.
Safety Valve- —
Distribution --
TO THE EDITOR: I would like to make clear
the reason for the distribution of the Daily Col
legian at the Hetzel Union desk instead of the
Student Union desk in Old Main.
First, the HUB is centrally located and thus
makes it easy for students to obtain Collegians
there.
Second, the HUB is not too far from Old Main
and if a student desires a Collegian (which he
is entitled to), he will walk to the HUB in a
matter of a few minutes, which I’m sure won’t
cause any students to be late for class. At one
time every student had to walk a great distance
to get his Collegian—today, we distribute the
paper at places most convenient to all students.
Third, distribution in Old Main deprived a
great number of students from receiving their
Collegians because they were taken by so many
employees in Old Main, who do not pay fees.
With distribution in the HUB, this may al
leviate the problem.
Fourth, students living downtown can pick
up their Collegians at the Corner Room, Penn
State Diner, and New College Diner, if time
doesn't permit them to go to the HUB.
On BX Books --
TO THE EDITOR: On Saturday. March 12, I
observed that the Book Exchange in moving
from the TUB had dumped all of lhe unclaimed
used books in the trash barrel. These were sub
sequently ruined by the rain.
. This, of course, represents no loss to the BX
since they were probably books students had
turned in to try to sell and failed to reclaim.
There have been, however, in the past year
or so a number of drives on campus to collect
books for various libraries in the United States
and foreign countries. Could not these books
have been donated to some such drive?
—Gail Cutler
EDITOR'S NOTE: Benjamin Lowensiein, chair
man of lhe Book Exchange, informs us the BX
did discard some books which were at least
two years old and had been declared useless
because the material was out of dale. He ex
plained these had been offered to one of the
recent drives and were refused for the above
reason. Unclaimed books are held at least a
year and the discarded ones represented a six
year accumulation.
Sttp Sailt} Collegian
Saeeoaaar to Tftx ran LANCS. M. ISSI
—Richard Gordon
Circulation Manager
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
*«j£f!st» WILLIAM DEVERS. Business Manager
technical problems, the bid was retracted be
cause, in the words of Robert Dennis, head of
the committee looking into the bid, the com
mittee "does not feel the student government
and the student body are sufficiently enthusi
astic about having the convention here."
Attempting to evaluate and show that, while
it might be worth $6OO a year elsewhere, it is
not worth the investment at the University,
is not a new thing. Each year Cabinet debates
it when it considers the budget for the coming
year, and each year Cabinet' renews its life.
This since it does not want to be the one to
kill it and maybe next year’s student govern
ment will be able to get something 'out of it.
Frankly, it seems Cabinet has fooled around
long enough for fear of being burned. The lack
of student interest dictates the membership in
NSA be dropped and the $6OO be given other
work. If the association is missed after several
years of non-participation, then is the time for
an interested student government to revive the
idea and make it work at Penn State.
NSA is not working and will not with stu
dents’ present attitude towards it. ’lt is $6OO
per year down the drain. Cabinet must not be
afraid to tackle the issue. Drop NSA now and
revive it if interest revives.
The role of the latter two organizations has
been reduced, through the past five or so years,
to one of recognition almost exclusively, with
little or no emphasis put on service. Many of
the actual members have said as much them-
selves.
It seems more detrimental than anything else
to encourage this sort of recognition without
combining it with any real value through
service.
Most of the members make their contributions
to the school through individual channels rather
than through Parmi Nous and Skull and Bones.
The organizations as such are almost function
less. Meanwhile, however, they are. perpetu
ating standards on which Penn State hat so
cieties as a whole are judged.
It is only reasonable then to ask that these
groups be dissolved and the members concen
trate their strength into comparatively active
upperclassmen's groups' like ODK and Lion's
PaV.
Recogniiion would not be stripped from those
whose services deserve it; at the same lime,
there would'be a partial end to the prostitution
of service-leadership groups.
Will Indies Meet Test?
Independent Week is more than just a series
of activities. It represents a challenge to in
dependents at the University.
They represent the largest and best organized
group of independent students in the East.
When the National Independent Student's As
sociation elects officers at the NISA convention
in April it will be looking to the schools with
strong independent organization for leadership.
Pictures of the week’s activities and complete
committee reports will be submitted to a con
test sponsored by the University of Tennessee.
The independent organization with the most
satisfactory group of reports will be awarded a
trophy. ...
A good report of NISA week and an out
standing delegation to the convention will go a
long way toward putting the University's in
dependents in the limelight for a national office.
Independents, this is your week. It's up to
you whether it lasts only seven days or is the
beginning of national recognition among in
dependent students.
Gazette...
AIM JUDICIAL ' BOARD OF REVIEW, 7:15 p.m., 2*3
Willard
DELTA SIGMA PI, 7:30 p.m., Phi Kappa Psi
ELECTIONS COMMITTEE, 7 p.m., 204 Old Main
FENCING CLUB, 7:30 p.m., North corridor of Rec Hall
FRENCH CLUB, 7 p.m., study lounge of McElwain
FROTH AD STAFF, 7 p.m., Froth office
RIFLE TEAM PRACTICE, 7 p.m., Rec Hall
WSGA HOUSE, 6:30 p.m., Atherton Lounge, third floor
east wing
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
CAMP INTERVIEWS, 112 Old Main, sign up in advance:
Trail Blazer Camps, March 19 ; Camp Pocono, March 19 ;
Camp Woodhaven, March 21; Hidden Lake Camp, March
22; Teela-Wooket Camps, March 22.
MEN'S MEAL JOBS, on and off campus, 112 Old Main
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Carolyn Baer, Elaine Bohorad, Sandra Booth, Angelo
Borzillo, Alfred Brooks, Barbara Englebach, Ellen Huttel,
Kenneth McClymonds, Jean McVicker, Paul Merkel, Robert
Raybuck, Jane Schrope, Norman Smith, Donna Vought,
Elmer Witter.
The world is not interested in the storms you
encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
—William McFee, Tales of Hoffman
There is no man living who is not capable of
doing more than he thinks he can do.
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—Peggy McClain
—Jackie Hudgins
—Henry Ford
Little Man on Campus
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'Now this is the one you've had so much trouble clearing.'
J3ea.ucoup
Whatever else he was, Polonius was a father, and his words to
his son, “this above all, to thine own self be true,” should still be
taken under serious consideration by young people reaching ma
turity in this confused and conformist world. ,
On the college campus, especially, are obviously rigid stereo
types into which students are gently but firmly molded during the
course of their matriculation. This
molding process is hardened dur
ing upperclass and/or graduate
work, when the pain of being
pushed by several different forces
into equally differing molds dur
ing the first year or so of college
work has passed.
This stereotyping does not
merely extend to fields of study;
even stronger social molds
await the unwary and unthink
ing person at the college gate,
or anywhere else, for that mat
ter. There is always some group
ready to absorb the uncrystal
lised personality and inflict its
doctrines upon ti.
A close-to-the-heart example is
the so-called college social group.
Another is a course of technical
study that gives the individual a
sadly lopsided view of the uni
verse. These little demons are
everywhere.
And so, at the beginning, the
neophyte suffers from a sort of
claustrophobia —he doesn’t like
being pushed in a hundred dif
ferent directions at once, and the
only answer is to give in to one
of these forces. Unless, of course,
he has the courage to be an indi
vidualist in a time when individ
ualism is encouraged on the sur
face and purged beneath it.
The longer he procrastinates
and avoids the choice of choos
ing his mold or standing alone
on his personally thought-out
philosophy, the worse his situa
tion becomes. If anybody lasts
for long in this stage, he must
have learned to withdraw from
the situation and put everythin
back in its proper perspective.
As a matter of fact, this is what
keeps the individualist what he
is.
Our generation has been called
the silent generation, the apa
thetic generation (particularly lo
cally) and the lazy generation.
And no wonder. Civilization no
longer knows what mud between
the toes really is. We move in
oircles of formulas; formulas for
success, formulas for happiness,
and formulas for peace of mind.
Formulas, for the most part, that
equal zero.
What is the price a free
thinker must pay? Is it worth
it? We need only to learn a
trade and follow it, and not talk
back to the internal revenue
men, and the government in
sures our old age. A million
years from qow will these times
be known as the Degenerate
Age? 1
THURSDAY. MARCH 17. 1955
By MARCIE MacDONALD
Grad Society
Elects Bucher
Henry Bucher, graduate stu
dent in education, has been elect
ed president of lota Alpha Delta,
graduate education honorary so-,
ciety.
Other officers elected were
Joseph Mazurkiewicz, vice presi
dent; Mary Kammerer, secretary;
and Mary Petitgout, treasurer.
The society also admitted five
graduates to membership. They
were James Davenport, Miss
Kammerer, Ralph Kennen, Miss
Petitgout, and Daniel Matto.
lota Alpha Delta wets organized
primarily to promote fellowship
among men and women interested
in guidance and student personnel
work. The honorary society holds
regular monthly meetings. The
next meeting is scheduled for
March 28.
Borough Society
Will Hold Concert
The State College Choral So
ciety will sponsor a concert at
3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday in
the St. Paul’s Methodist Church.
Admission cards • for the con
cert are available at the Hetzel
Union desk. There will be no
charge for the concert, but per
sons wishing to attend will not
be admitted without cards.
The program will include sec
tions of B Minor Mass and a small
section of the Passion According
to St. Matthew, based on the
narration of the Last Supper.
The entire program is by J. S.
Bach.
3 Students Win Awards
In Annual Rifle Drill
Three members of Company B
5, Pershing Rifles, placed among
the top ll in the seventh annual
Pershing Rifles Individual Drill
competition at Champaign, 111.
The students were Eric Taylor,
fourth semester aeronautical en
gineering major, who placed
sixth; Lawrence Altemus, fourth
semester student, who placed sev
enth; and John Yaag, who placed
11th.
Tonight on WDFM
7:25 Siyn On
7:36 Adventures in Research
7:45 —— As Yon Believe
8:09 —, .......... Concert Cameos
8:30 .... Just Out
9:00 UN Story
9:15 _ News
9:30 . Master's Palette
Bill „ Thought for the Dor
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