PAGE fOUR unhsneo luesda? through Sturdily mornings daring Cm rer pity rear, the Hail? Collegian is a student* unrated newppauer Knt'rrd a« "eond-tla>. mattar Jalj *. I*l4 at Mm Stata CaHaca, Pa. Paat Offlca aadar da ad at Harab (. IST*. DIEHL McKALIP. Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Rog Beidler; Copy Editors, Ron Gatehouse, Jackie Hudgins; As sistants, Cynthia Bell, Larry Jacobson, Bill Eisenberg, Marion Beatty, Alan Bomberger, Pauline Mctza, Student Special Fiasco Sometimes there is no excuse for making a mistake. Such is the case with the student special in the Terrace Room of the Helzel Union Building which has cost more at the special price than at a la carte prices several times since its inception. , The people in charge are more than willing to admit red-faccdly that on at least two oc casions there has been a mistake, and it was possible to buy the same items cheaper by the item than grouped together under the student special. They assure us it will not happen again. We will be the first to grant these people in food service that mistakes can be made, but why do they always have to be made when they affect the students' pockelbooks? When food service has done such a fine job designing, equipping, and staffing the dining facilities in the HUB. why must there be a foul-up on that last important item, the prices? Food service, while providing a student neces sity quite adaquately, often proves unsympa thetic to the student as a human being. In the striving for the efficiency of institutional feed ing, the personal touch is all too often lost. The feeling is that the student should be glad to get what he is getting for the reasonable price he is paying. Thus food service treats students. When thei o are complaints, the authorities are more than glad to sooth out the trouble for the sake of good public relations. Normally, however, these people are about as willing to pay enthusiastic attention to students as a father to a hungry babv at 3 a.m. on a cold night. We would like lo see food service watch out • student needs as they pretend to. The ob On 'Pollock Quorum 1 TO THE EDITOR: I would like to reply to the editorial in yesterday’s Daily Collegian. The editorial has a valid criticism. Pollock Council did not have a quorum at the meeting held last Saturday. . . . . . . The meeting on Saturday was a special meeting and not a regularly scheduled meet ing: hence, the council members had made pre vious commitments which did not enable them to attend the meeting. Another factor, I believe, is the present con stitution of the Pollock Council. The constitu tion requires that a quorum consist of at least 13 members. Pollock Council presently has s total memebrship of 18. ... The council needs more than a majority c. the membership to conduct business. This as pect shall be corrected soon since a new const i tution for Pollock Council is being drafted. The editorial also pointed out that this is th first time this semester Pollock Council failed to have a quorum present. This, indeed,, is re markable since the constitution requires a quorum of such a great number. Pollock Council has a problem. The council ■■ -cognizes the problem and the council is tak action to resolve the problem. —Harry Martini President, Pollock Council Today AIM BOARD OF GOVERNORS, 7:30 p.m., 108 Willard BIZ-AD BULLETIN, candidates and staff, 7 p.m.. 11 Sparks CHESS CLUB, 7 p.m.. 3 Sparks NEWMAN CLUII. Daily Rosary, 4 :30 p.m.; Novena, 7 p.m., Church: Choir Practice following Novena OUTINO CLUB, 7 p.m., Rec Hall PENN STATE BARBELL CLUB. 7 p.m., 102 Willard I'KRSHINO RIFLES, 7 p.m., Armory; Class A Uniforms «P*2ZZ2£7 METZGER'S • GREATLY REDUCED PRICES • See and choose from our large assortment of books ... novels and fiction. Twenty different sets of color prints suit able for framing or to hang “as is.” Odds and ends of used text books... from lOc to $2.50. You can get it at METZGER'S SHr* Bath] Cflllrgtan ! SSSJTEfeS •f Un him. Uniln«4 •Jfterial* *r» b* Uu tjitet. Sncc«M»r to THE nil LANCE, tot. IIIT wfjSjPSfr*, WILLIAM DEVERS. Business Manager Safety Valve... Gazette... THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENrortYAPnA Sign of Negligence iect of a student special is to save the student a few cents a day, but yesterday the 80-cent special cost only 76 cents a la carte. Let's not worry about decor, streamlined service, and how we look to an outsider. Food service is here to serve the student and this includes sav ing him money. There are no excuses—and apologies are rath er weak for actions such as the student special f ; n=co. Unneeded ‘Buffer’ The proposal that All-University presidential candidates' scholastic average requirements be raised from 1.0 to 1.3 is most generous. It is intended to allow these officers a "buffer" in case their averages should drop, during a school term, below that figure necessary to remain in activities. Assumedly, this would prevent the All-Uni versity positions from being vacated in the mid dle of a term in case one or more of the officers didn’t quite make the “academic grade.” It would be equally generous to set aside a trust fund for these officers in case they over spent their compensations and needed some more cash to remain in school. It would be far more realistic to raise the scholastic average for all activity participation to the extent that a slate of academically cap able student leaders would be assured, and Cabinet would not have to worry about losing :>nv of its officers to the plight of the below-1 A New Approach ~ TO THE EDITOR: I note the Daily Collegian has long been concerned with the alleged apathy of the student body toward campus affairs. More particularly . . . that those male students who are not members of fraternities show in sufficient interest in the conduct of student government. The traditional proof of this apathy has been the small turnout at student lections. .... As a solution I purpose a somewhat different use of an old democratic tool. The referendum ... it would increase the partici pation in elections of those students who are .lot interested in "politicing." Specifically I would recommend that certain mportant questions be placed in referendum before the student body as part of the spring elections. If more student interest in student Government is the goal, then this is the work able means of obtaining that goal. . . . Certainly we in a community of selected scholars can follow William Jennings Bryan in our own local student government when he said, "We are willing to submit any question that concerns the people of this country to the people themselves." • Letter Cut PHI MU ALPHA, 9:16 p.m., 100 Carnegie PLAYERS’ ADVERTISING CREW. 6:46 p.m.. Schwab loft RIFLE CLUB. 7 p.m., Rec Hall UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Douglas Bastion, James Bates, Herbert Bouquin, Donald Chapman, Joan Chase, Nancy Baker, Margaret Fisher, Lawrence Golden, Dianne Herold, Roberta Lerch, Mary Ann Lewis, Paul Merkel, Kenneth McClymonds, Frederick Mon tanari, Sheldon Odland, Evelyn Onsa, Richard Ormsby, Francis Parshail, Louis Schneider, Shelia Teplitz. —Peggy McClain —Arthur Greenslein Freshman Centennial Dance MARCH 26 9 -12 p.m. at the HUB MUSIC BY £ THE MELODY MEN FREE TICKETS FOR FRESHMEN ORLY AVAILABLE AT STUDEMT UNION DESK **—-*** LET'S HELP PENN STATE CELEBRATE!! Little Man on Cam "Now that we've boiled your paper down to this relevant material—l think you're ready to rewrite." That Word- Adam’s Other Rib For years and years Penn State students have been waging a major battle with themselves and each other over indifference, un concern—all the words that end up with the general label of apathy. The word is overused (and often misused). But regardless of just what source it stems from, apathy (in its truest sense) is with us on campus, and seemingly to a very significant extent this se mester. This is not to say there is no room for apathy—were it discard ed, those seeking advancement, we fear, would find far too much competition to make much gain. But's let's think a little be yond the campus as such, and take a look at what apathy means in a student's "life,"— not as a student, necessarily, and not as the proverbial "stu dent body being exploited by those junior thieves of .student rights." but just as a person. In the first place, we will prob ably all agree that campus or ganizations, if isolated, mean lit tle. Standing alone, they scarcely warrant the constant' drives for support. Each, if dissolved, could probably be replaced by another with grand success. All-University Cabinet, Wo men’s Student Government Asso ciatioh, even the Daily Collegian —none of these are indispensable. They are merely the symbol on campus of government and the press, and the same symbols could be vested in another governing body and another newspaper. In the same breath, we must admit that none of the leaders of these groups, and for that mat- WtDNESDAY. MARCH 23. 1953 By Bibler By PEGGY McCLAIN ter no student on this campus is any less dispensable to the Uni versity valuable, perhaps, but replaceable. BUT —we don't think this way. These groups and these persons, to us, cannot be re placed. Should we view our en tire environment with such a callous eye, we would soon tind ourselves without any form of security or stabilising factor to hold onto while we're trying to get through life. Objectively, every “thing” around us is only a symbol. But in our own minds, these same things are very real. Students aren't going to find conditions much different when they are graduated. The groups will be a little different, the pressure for interest probably (Continued on page five) Tonight on WDFM 014 MEGACYCLES Sign On 7:30 8:00 Open to Question 8:30 Masterworks from France 9:00 Call Card 9:15 9:30 ::::::::i:~~Light Classical Jukebox 10:30 Thought for the Day Stand By
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