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DIEHL McKALIP. Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Mike Miller; Copy Editors, Joe Beau-Seigneur, Marnie Schenck;
Assistants, Jane Casselberry, Jim Brown, Marilynn Zabusky, Joe . Cheddar, Mike Moyle, Gene Reeder,
Barbara Pressman, Nancy May. Ad Staff: Betty Manifold, Henryette Gerhart, Dot Hughes.
The Missing Half
Approximately half the women students voted
Tuesday in the Women's Student Government
Association primaries.
This means that about half the women stu
dents enrolled named the WSGA candidates.
Half of these candidates will administer wom
en's government next year.
At this time, about half the women on cam
pus will have to admit they have had no say
about who will compose next year's WSGA.
This particular 50 per cent vote can be par
tially attributed to the number of women who
are student teaching off campus.
But 50 per cent of the women are not en
rolled in education. Where were the rest of
the students? Not more than 10 of them were
confined to the Infirmary. It is very doubtful
if any significant number were off campus "for
general purposes" on a weekday.
Today is the final WSGA elections. The
WSGA president will be named, plus the
senators.
Let's throw out that 50 per cent voting esti
mate and make sure every woman on campus
has a say in today's elections.
—Peggy McClain
TIM Is Needed
TO THE EDITOR: We may be able to answer
Mr. Healy's question of "So what?" (Tuesday's
Daily Collegian, Safety Valve) by taking a look
at TlM's constitution. This constitution was es
tablished "in order to insure more equal rep
resentation in student government and to pro
mote better social and athletic opportunities"
for town independent men.
In student government, we have members
representing town independents on the AIM
Board of Governors: the board has a repre
sentative on the All-University Cabinet.
At first glance student government may not
seem to be a very important matter, but stu
dent government does have a role in forming
University policies.
The most recent example of this is the new
grading system. The AIM Judicial Board of Re
view, which tries independent students for mis
demeanors, was made possible through student
government.
A Student Committee on Town Affairs is a
recent development in TIM. The purpose of
this committee would be to act as a liason
agent between the students and townspeople.
One of the reasons for Dean Simes' rejection
of this idea was lack of student interest.
For.those of you who think TIM is a use
less organization and should be done away with.
you may be happy to hear that the town inde
pendent men are on the verge of losing their
say in student government.
For those of you who think TIM can be made
into a better organization, we invite you to at
tend TIM meetings and offer your ideas and
suggestions on how TIM may better serve you.
•Letter Cut —Members of TIM
Editor's Note: This letter was endorsed at
Tuesday night's TIM meeting.
Free Phones?
TO THE EDITOR: Why is there no way to call
the dorms from the new HUB without cost?
An arrangement similar to that at the Student
Union desk in Waring Hall is needed whereby
students could call their friends in the dormi
tories from college-line phones at the SU desk.
—John Lohman
Genuine Italian Hoagies
These mouth-watering hoagies are made from
the finest of Italian meats, cheese, and spices.
They also contain an appropriate amount of
lettuce and tomato. This delicious mixture is
placed in our freshly baked Italian bread.
For parties and such we have a constantly
fresh supply of cakes and cookies
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Is Culture Dying?
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNS-VIVA:4IA
Class Groups Dead
The Sophomore Class seems to have found
the key to promoting better attendance at class
meetings; mix class business with a liberal
amount of monkey business.
Added attractions at class meetings have
definitely been called for by poor attendance.
It is not uncommon for classes having from
2000 to 4000 members to have only 10 or 12
students show up, including the officers. A case
in point was last night's freshman meeting
when only 20 of some 4500 eligible attended.
Under the entertain as well as train plan of
the sophomores, however, it was estimated that
700 at least mixed with their fellows of the
class of 1957. This is good, for even if they paid
little attention to business, they gave a show
of class spirit.
The sad fact is that it is now necessary to
have a floor show and a dance at no cost in
order to bring an interest in class functions.
It poses the question of whether or not class
organization may now be useless with the large
size of the classes creating an impersonal group
not needing unity for endeavors.
Seven hundred attended a class meeting, but
they came for entertainment, not business. The
object of the class meeting has been builed,
and it seems class organization is also dead and
in need of burying.
TO THE EDITOR: Two hundred people sat in
Schwab Auditorium on Tuesday evening to
listen to a long-time foreign correspondent dis
cuss an issue that is of paramount importance
to the United States, and to us as students.
Yet probably not more than 100 of those pres
ent to hear Ferdinand Kuhns were students,
out of a possible 11,000. If education is a cor
relation of classwork and outside experience
such as Mr. Kuhn's lecture, why is it the stu
dents are letting the Community Forum, that
has brought such speakers as Walter Judd,
Carlos Romulo, and many other equally out
standing names to campus, wither away of
malnutrition?
Or has the University become, indeed, a
diploma factory rather than an institution of
higher learning and understanding?
—Craig Sanders
Defends Indic) Apathy
TO THE EDITOR: Thanks to Miss McClain and
and her world-shaking article, "TIM is a Flop,"
(Saturday's Daily Collegian) I have discovered
I am living in a void because I don't partici
pate in student government.
I have seen that the primary function of
student government is amending constitutions.
All right, let them amend Constitutions. Let
them have their fun playing politics. Until I
have seen that student government can do
something more constructive, I'll have no part
of it. As of the present, I am not favorably im
pressed by student government . . .
•Letter Cut —Tom Wertman
Gazette ...
Today
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RADIO GUILD. 7:30 p.m.. 312 Sparks
SCABBARD AND BLADE BUSINESS MEETING AND
SMOKER, 7 p.m., Delta Tau Delta
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
QUINIBECK will interview for women counselor jobs March
25. Appointments made at 112 Old Main.
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The' Bronze Bean Bag award for this week goes to the hundreds
of thousands of employers throughout the nation who were, this
time four years ago, clamoring for the services of each and every
young man and women in, the country who was willing to spend
the next four years in college.
At least that's what every high school guidance counselor said
You can't get anywhere without
an education, they told us: How
ever, these employers must have
had a great change of heart while
we've been away, or else they've
been waiting so long they've de
cided to get along with the people
that already work for them.
' Granted, there are lots of jobs
for college graduates lying in
state in the placement bureaus in
lots of colleges. But we can't all
be apprentice sales representa
tives, and we don't all want to be.
But even college graduates have
to eat.
One difficulty appears to be
that many more people are
going to, and ultimately grad
uating from, college now. So the
jobs that really have some in
terest connected with them are
requiring progressively higher
and higher degrees. Hence, grad
uating seniors are besieged with
letters from their own and other
colleges urging them to go to
graduate work.
We know one coed who found
herself graduated in the middle
of the winter and did just that.
So now every morning she rolls
out of bed, does her Yogi exer
cises for ten minutes, puts on
slacks and a smock, and walks out
of the' door murmuring, "I'm go
ing to pot."
She is, too. She's getting her
master's degree in pottery in six
more semesters. Then she will
rHURSDAY, MARCH 24. 1955
By MARCIE MacDONALD
be prepared for the world.
To women, this problem of un
employment isn't quite so threat
ening. We can always give up and
get married. Just be careful whom
you marry, or you might be twice
as bad off!
The most appealing solution,
and least risky, is to become a re
cluse. Simply purchase or rent an
island off the coast of somewhere
and go there to live. To heck with
the world. Eat berries and nuts
and sleep in a cave. If you have
a typewriter, take it with you.
Grow a beard or long fingernails
(as the sex may be) and write
meaningless nothings and mail
them back to the mainland.
Soon a Life photographer will
arrive, then Ava Gardner or
Marlon Brando (again depend.
ing on you), and that's the end
of the story. Almost. The next
thing you know some university
will award you an honorary de
gree in humanities, and you
still won't be able to get a job.
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