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Published fuesilay through
Saturday mornings during
the University wear. the
Daily Collegian is a student
operated news
entered so second-elan natter July 11. 1134 at tits State Co am Pa. Pest Ofiea Esau
DIEHL McKALIP. Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dottie Stone; Copy Editors, Rog Beidler, Ted Serrill; Assistants,
Anne Friedberg, Jane Casselberry, Evie Onsa, Mike Moyle, Don Barlett, Judy Harkison, Dick Hut
nagel.
When You Vote Tomorrow
Men and women of Penn Stale, one day re
mains before you are asked to go to the polls
to name next year's student government lead
ers. If you are to be intelligent voters tomorrow
and Thursday, this must not be an idle day.
All three parties have by now distributed
campaign literature, listing pictures and activi
ties of their candidates and platforms they
promise to try to fulfill. This literature is pub
licity for the parties, but it can also be put to
your own use.
Scrutinize this literature. Familiarize your
selves with the faces of the candidates, so you
have at least a running idea of which candi
lates you're voting for.
Take stock of these candidates' qualifications.
Remember that it's not so important just what
activities they were in as what they did in these
positions. Talk to people who know and worked
with these men and women and find out if
thdy are capable leaders or just "ladder-climb
ers" who have passed slip-shod over responsi
bilities.
Analyze the promises these people are mak
ing via their platforms. The promises aren't
binding, technically, nor can they be fulfilled
very often by only one or two victorious can
didates.
But their degree of feasibility and ther fore
sightedness show to a certain extent the candi
dates' capacity for straight thinking.
Your votes this week are going to put six
officers in All-University Cabinet seats. When
you elect them, you 'hand over to them the
power to recommend how much money students
should pay in student activities fees.
At present, every student is assessed $5O each
semester. Part of this $5O are fees which are
Debate Team
Will Compete
At West Point
The University has been chosen
to be one of the four colleges and
universities to represent District
VII at the national debate tourn
ament at West Point the weekend
of April 30.
The Men's Debate Team heard
the announcement during the
West Point Regional Elimination
Tournament at St. Peter's College,
Jersey City, N.J.
The regional tournament was
a switch team debate, in which
the team debating affirmative in
the first round took negative in
the second round. Debated was
the national intercollegiate topic
Resolved: That the United States
should extend recognition to the
Communist government of China.
David Meckler debated first af
firmative and first negative for
the University. Benjamin Sinclair
took the second affirmative and
aecond negative.
The team scored ten decisions
against five lossez. They defeated
Westminster College, Bridgewat
er College, and Morgan State
College in the preliminary round;
split with St. Peter's College, and
3eorge Washington University;
and lost to William and Mary
college. In the playoff, the team
lefeated George Washington Uni
versity.
The last time the University
entered the national tournament
was in 1952. The team will be one
,f 34 groups participating in the
debate.
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Nitrauer Crowned
Freshman Queen
Anne Nitrauer, .second semes
ter education major, was crowned
queen of the Freshman Centen
nial Dance before approximately
150 couples Saturday night in the
Hetzel Union ballroom.
Miss Nitrauer, who was spon
sored by Hamilton 4, was pre
sented a bouquet of red-pink
roses and a loving cup, by Arthur
Schravesande, freshman class
president.
She was chosen from a list of
nine candidates.
Engineers to Hear
Zimmerman Speak
Dr. R. E. Zimmerman, retired
vice president of the United States
Steel Corporation and a former
president of the American Stan
dards Association, will give a lec
ture at 8 p.m. Thursday in 110
Electrical Engineering.
The lecture, "Standards—Your
Able Assistant," is sponsored by
Tau Beta Pi, engineering honor
ary society in cooperation with
the Society for the Advancement
of Engineers, the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers,
American Institute of Chemical
Engineers, and the Electrical En
gineering Society.
The lecture is open to the pub
lic.
Clover Club to Hear Bedenk
Joseph Be den k, University
baseball coach, will speak to the
Clover Club at 7 tonight at Alpha
Zeta.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
recommended by Cabinet. The students elected
this week will have power to recommend either
lowering or raising this amount.
The students you elect this week will have
constitutional control over your Tribunal (which
recommends discipline for men students), and
Traffic Court (which levees fines on students
for traffic violations).
Possibly more important than this, your votes
are going to single out ten men and women who
will, in a great number of instances, be held
up to the public eye as typical student leaders
of this University.
Make sure these votes are intelligent ones.
Every haphazard vote cast chisels away at the
esteem of Penn State students.
Gazette ...
Today
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COLLEGIAN AD STAFF, 6:80 p.m., 111 Carnegie
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS CANDIDATES, '1 p.m., 217 Willard
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF, 7 p.m., 218 Willard
COLLEGIAN CIRCULATTON STAFF, Junior Board, 7 p.m.,
.103 Willard
COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF, Intermediate and
Sophomore Board, 6:30 p.m., Business Office
COLLEGIAN PROMOTION STAFF, 6:30 p.m., 103 Willard
ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE STUDENT COUN-
CIL, 7 p.m., 107 Main Eng'
FRESHMAN COUNCIL, 6:46 p.m., Commutor's room,
Woman's Building
NEWMAN CLUB, Daily Rosary, 4:80 p.m., Church; Bishop
Sheen on TV, 8 p.m., Student Center
SQUARE DANCE, 6:48-0 p.m., HUB
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
John Arnst, John Barry, James Bates, Stephen Behman,
Paul Benkert, Richard Brown, Bettie Caskey, James Gar
rett, Norman Knopman, Milton Linial, Marjorie Miller,
David Millner, Teresa Netcher, Richard Phillips, Richard
Powell, Richard Rigling, Joseph Tomei, Robert Wainscott.
Four to Talk
At NYC Confab
Four members of the speech de
partment will take part in the an
nual convention of the Speech As
sociation of the Eastern States
Thursday through Saturday in
New York City.
Dr. Robert T. Oliver, head of
the department, will discuss
"Speech Behind the Iron Curtain"
and will head the staff meeting of
the association's publication, "To
day's Speech."
"Some Implications for Persua
sion from the Discipline of Social
Psychology," a paper by Dr. Or
dean G. Ness, Assistant Professor
of Speech, will be used in a sym
posium of problems and needs.
Dr. Ness will also take part in a
public reading.
Joseph F. O'Brien, Assistant
Professor of Speech, will preside
over the Rhetoric and Public Ad
dress sectional meetings. His
paper, "Who Wrote the Wilmot
Proviso," will be included in the
program.
Harold P. Zelko, Professor of
Public Speaking, Clayton H.
Schug, Associate Professor of Pub
lic Speaking, and Harriet D. Nes
bitt, Assistant Professor of Public
Speaking, will participate in the
committees.
Dr. Hine Fife, David R. Mackey,
William W. Hamilton, Edward R.
Gilke, Alan McLeod, and Marion
B. McLeod, all members of the
speech department, will attend
the convocation.
Beaver avenue was named for
James A. Beaver, governor of
Pennsylvania and president of
the Board of Trustees at the Uni
versity.
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viewpoint of the •rtbrs.
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Little Man on Campus
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Wind Blown
Impressions
By DIEHL McKALIP
SEEN INSIDE A LOCAL GRADE SCHOOL—
Saturday afternoon we took part in the annual Greek Week
work project day. That is the one day a year when fraternities and
sororities join forces and spread their combined strength over Centre
County in an effort to do enough good to add to scattered individual
•
Work Weeks and show how philanthropic they all are.
Our group was assigned to paint two classrooms and do general
fixing-up at one of the township
grade schools. It results in a good
feeling, but one realizes one day
a year is a rather low percentage.
What it did drive home, how
ever, was the severe handicap
our public schools are working
under in attempting to educate
the masses. There just is not
enough money to do the job right.
There was a cold garage convert
ed into a classroom, a classroom
converted into a cafeteria where
the students got their lunches and
took them to their rooms to eat,
and evidence of great ingenuity
on the part of teachers in making
their own equipment.
The thing that hurts is what
the parents who worked with us
said. According to them, Centre
County has the lowest tax assess
ment for schools in the state. So
that the office holders and seek
ers can brag about the low taxes,
the taxes are not raised. It is
enough to make the education
students transfer.
THE SPOILS SYSTEM—
Speaking of politics, we have
received a letter from a young
politicians group offering job op
portunities for the summer. The
positions are available from June
through September and are com
pensated from a yearly scale of
$2750 to $3175.
After all the explanation, this
sentence follows: "Naturally, par
ty clearance must be obtained for
these positions and I suggest that
you work on this as soon as pos
sible after you send form 57."
Shades of Andy Jackson.
THE SOUTH WILL RISE .. .
The touchy situation in the For
mosan straits prompted a news
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1955
By Bibl
•caster we heard the other day to
say:
_ .
"The Chinese Communists on
the mainland feel about the Na
tionalist situation about the way ,
we would feel if a Russian fleet
was steaming back and forth .
along the west coast between
California and some of the off
shore islands and on those is
lands was Robert E. Lee and 50,-
000 men ready to ' retake the
South."
DRINKING IS A WOTID—
. Everytime the word drinking is
uttered by a student or-creeps in
to the columns of the Daily Col
legian, the whole campus seems
to shudder. This seems- , to be a
rather immature attitude, and
there would be less excitement
over the word drinking if people
would use it normally.
It is not hard to see the women
swooning and the men cursing if
there appeared here what was in
a past issue of the Rochester In
stitute of Technology paper. This
question was asked by the rov
ing reporter:
- "You have heard about the con
troversy over the serving of liquor
in the War Memorial. Should beer
be served at the snack bar in the
new gymnasium?" Those ques
tioned were 100 per cent against
it.
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