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Published Tuesday through
ziaturday mornings during
the University weer. the
Daily Collegian is n student
operated newspaper
Entered as .teennd-class
DIEHL McKALIP. Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Phyl Propert; Copy Editors, Don Shoemaker, Joe Beau-Seigneur;
Assistants, Ron Leik, Dodi Jones, Judy Harkison, Dick Hufnagel, Alan Bomberger, Marilyn Burnett,
Ann Beckley, Pat Sherman, Jack Williams.
Students Deserve Graduation Exercises
Members of the Centennial graduating class
may not get to attend their own graduation
exercises.
Such will be the case if foul weather forces
cancellation of commencement exercises in Bea
ver Field on June 11. According to plans an
nounced yesterday by the University adminis
tration, the degree ceremony and its keynote
address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
will be postponed from hour to hour and will
be held outside even if there is mild rain. If it
is too bad, however, the proceedings will be
broadcast over the radio and candidates for
degrees and their guests will listen.
This is not giving the approximately 2000
graduate and undergraduate students a fair
deal. They deserve a fitting and formal fare
well. An impersonal send-off such as may come
about certainly is not a satisfactory climax for
many years of academic progress, especially
since this will be the last degree for the ma
jority.
It seems odd the University is departing from
its old practice of holding the exercises in Rec
reation Hall in the event of inclement weather.
While President Eisenhower could hardly be
expected to give his, talk twice as has been
done in the past, it is still possible to move the
ceremonies inside.
Previously, graduates have been split into
two groups, one graduating in the morning and
one in the afternoon. Each graduate received
Library Checkers
It is shameful that the Pattee Library has
been forced into placing checkers at its doors
to keep students from carrying off magazines,
and books.
University Librarian Ralph McComb has esti
mated that about 1000 books are missing from
the Library annually. He has said that many of
these are taken absentmindedly or because stu
dents are too busy to check them out.
But regardless of whether books are carried
off accidentally or deliberately, students who
do this are hurting the whole library system
and consequently themselves.
Admittedly, it may seem a bit picayune to
insist that a book be checked out when a stu
dent intends to return it within a few days any
way. But few can deny the "forgetting process"
that sets in so far as returning the book is con
cerned, when theoretically no one knows you
took the book in the first place. s
Those who insist that students have a right
to carry periodicals out of the Library will per
haps be enlightened if they stop to think of
their own disgust at finding a particular volume
missing for several days, when they themselves
have assigned readirg in it due for a class.
The checking system that the Library has
planned will no doubt curb some of the "thefts".
It is hoped that those students who have
brought about the necessity for this door check
will realize the inconvenience they've caused
all concerned, and grow up a little in the
process.
Halfway Mark
The first half of the Spring semester is over
and vacation begins tomorrow.
It's• been a fast moving eight weeks, and the
period has been full of activity. Citing only a
few of the accomplishments—the HUB opened,
the bar-2 was eliminated, new wings were
started on the Infirmary, the wrestling and gym
teams came in second in the NCAA's and two
University wrestlers won individual champion
ships, the bulk of the student government com
pensations were done away with, and the lead
ership fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa was
brought on campus.
The next eight weeks will be even fuller.
A new All-University Cabinet will be installed,
Tu Hears Nothing
On His Return
To Red China
Dr Lien-Yeuh Tu, associate in
engineering research at the Uni
versity and one of the 75 techni
cally trained Chinese students
who have been detained in the
United States for security reasons,
has not received any word from
the State Department that he is
among the students who have
been granted permission to leave
the country.
The dec;sion to permit the stu
dents to return to China was made
in the hope that the 15 airmen and
45 civilians being held in China
would be released.
Dr. Tu, who has been in this
country fee seven years, has a
r ' ", '' , ll in China.
11. - 7 certainly
anxi( u' t,. i inc , to see my
family, but I have not heard any-
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—Peggy McClain
Kountz Submits
Process Paper
R. Rupert Kountz, professor of
sanitary engineering, has pre
sented a paper, "Simplified Dairy
Waste Treatment," before the
Dairy Manufacturers conference
at Madison, Wis.
The process described was de
veloped at the University under
a research contract sponsored by
the United States Department of
Agriculture.
The process not only is simple
to operate, but installation of the
system costs a dairy approxi
mately one-fourth of the amount
that the usual treatment plants
cost.
Treatment is necessary to pre
vent stream pollution.
'ping fiorn the Department of
State or immigration authorities."
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
WILLIAM DEVERS. Business Manager
four tickets which would admit guests to the
exercises. Mathematically, it would seem that
even with a single ceremony, each student
would receive two tickets, enough for his or
her parents.
To our knowledge, the complete absence of
person-to-person commencement exercises has
never been the case at the University in its
100 years of existence. This degree granting by
radio is also seldom done anywhere, and it
would be a poor thing to start it here in Cen
tennial Year. About all it would provide would
be poor publicity for the University.
If there 'was any great difficulty involved in
scheduling an alternate ceremony in Rec Hall,
the request that this be done would not be
made. Past experience, however, gives no evi
dence this is the case, and it is in this light
the request for an alternate plan is made.
Speaking for the 2000-odd degree seekers who
are looking forward to June 11, it is a small
request to ask that arrangements be made so
they may attend their own graduation and, if
possible, bring their parents. This represents
the goal of many years of work and much
money, and this, added to the attraction of
President Eisenhower. should not be done by
remote control.
The University administration
_must take
steps to see that members of the Clair. of 1955
and graduate students receiving degrees in June
may attend their own graduation exercises.
On False Alarms
Wolf! Wolf! Such was the cry of the shep
herd lad in the oft-repeated fable. Several times
when this cry was answered there was no wolf.
Finally, there was a wolf and no one heeded
--
the plea for help.
This would not be the case where our friends
of the Alpha Fire Co. are concerned. Still, the
culprit who turned in an April Fool's Day fire
alarm that proved to be false is asking for the
same treatment.
At 1 a.m. Friday morning, the local volunteer
firemen were called out to battle a blaze in the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity house on west cam
pus. Within minutes 30 men had arrived on the
scene, but there was no fire and no one knew
anything about it.
Pranks like this are not funny, and/ certainly
should not be indulged in by students at the
University; not saying this alarm was set off
by a student. It does not contribute to better
relations between the student body and the
residents of the borough of State College. This
one immature act, if done by a supposedly ma
ture college student, could undo all the good
done by the Greek Week work projects.
Also, the danger that comes to mind is that
while the fire department is out chasing this
false alarm a sincere call for assistance will be
turned, in and there will be no equipment or
men available.
The action of Friday morning was in very
poor taste and was dangerous. It is hoped it was
not a University student, but if it was we warn
against it happening again.
Gazette • • •
Today
SQUARE DANCE, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., HUB
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 7 p.m.. 304 Old
Main
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Lawrence Cisek, Dorothea Ebert, William Erb, Norman
Cenkinger, Donald Herskovitz, Charles Kiehl, Nicholas Rich
ards, Donna Stein, Lois Stringer, Joseph Warnick, Donald
Harter.
dozens of campus organizations will be under
going a turnover of officers, and possibly the
most time-consuming operation of graduating
some 2000 seniors will get underway.
Meanwhile. everyone gets a seven-day breath
ing spell. Happy Easter.
'Who's in the News'
Available at HUB Desk
Copies of 'Who's in the News
at Penn State' will be available
until noon tomorrow at the Hetzel
Union desk.
Two copies are being distrib
uted to each person included in
the publication. Fraternities and
sororities may each pick up a
copy.
Fire Alarm Probe
Borough police reported yester
day that the case of the false
alarm is still under investigation.
An unidentified person called
the Alpha Fire Company about 1
a.m. Friday morning to report that
the Phi Delta Theta house was on
fire.
However, when firemen reach
ed the scene there was no sign
of a fire. Borough officials termed
the false alarm a probable April
Fool's joke.
ttle Man on Campus
He's the most sought-after "rushee" on campus—it's rumor
e can cut hair and may even have a barber license."
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MODERN-DAY GRADUATIONS-
The announcement by the University administration that an
attempt to hold commencement exercise's outside at all costs will
be made and, barring that, the exercises will be conducted by radio
starts one to wondering. Is this the trend in modern education?
Penn State may have seen the step toward this rash move
earlier this academic year when
classes instructed by television
were introduced. Now they have
added graduation by radio.
One can see in the future an
entire education from kindergar
ten on without leaving one's bed.
No more cold walks to eight
o'clock classes. If you want to
smoke, go ahead and smoke. If
the professor is in poor form,
close your eyes and go to sleep.
All the comforts of home while
earning a college degree.
We can see graduation this
spring, however, if the monsoons
decide to descend on. University
Park as they often do. Betty Co
ed is up in her room on the third
floor of Simmons with her mother
and sister, of course her father
and brother could not come up.
President Eisenhower delivers his
oration through the static, and at
the appropriate time Betty reach
es up and flips the tassel on her
mortar to the other side. She has
been graduated.
ON SQUIRRELS—.
Listening to James Hagerty
talk the other night to a group of
state newspapermen, we realized
what a job he has as press secre
tary to President Dwight D. Ei
senhower. Every word he said
was the President speaking as far
as everyone in the room was con
cerned.
Referring to the squirrels who
were recently removed from the
White House lawns as unwanted
guests, he said they have made
no complaints. It seems the Demo
crats are making more noise now
thaw the squirrels did before their
removal. They are not as lucky
as Penn State squirrels in having
heating tunnels to live in.
Another comment pertained to
the. President's game of golf
Asked what the gentleman's
handicap was he said it varies
with the season and the amount
of practice. Generally it ranges
from the high 70's through the
low 80's with an occasional dip
down but more often a hump up
to the near-90's.
THIRD HANDED—
Parts from an editorial which
was reprinted from the Centre
Daily Times which printed an
editorial which was reprinted
from an editorial which was print
ed in the Williamsport Gazette
and Bulletin are reprinted below.
The work asks: "Where is Uni
versity Park?" It points up the
background surrounding the set
ting up of a postal sub-station on
the campus and explains the poor
progress the institution is mak
ing in getting this new name ac
cepted. To quote:
-P.M.
Impressions
TUESDAY. APRIL 5. 1955
By Bibl
By DIEHL McKALIP
"For if you asked folks where
is University Park, Pa., right now
we are not sure how many peo
ple could tell you. We assume the
University hopes the number will
grow. In a sense it became the
University's obligation to make it
grow. It being an agricultural
school, expert in the ways of
growing things that ought to be
easy. We see. Meanwhile, the
University must accept the pub
lic as its student body for the
purpose of teaching it just what
and where' University Park, Pa.,
is. Wonder how easy the public
will learn?"
This excerpt points out the
problem that faces the University
and its student body. You did not
ask for the new name, students,
but pass the word while you are
home anyhow.
Grad Award
Won by Beers
Thomas Beers, eighth semester
forestry major, has been named
to receive the $lOOO graduate fel
lowship of the St. Regis Paper
Company, of New York.
A national award, it is the 'only
one of its kind given by the com
pany. Beers is the first University
student to receive it.
Word that Beers was chosen
was released Thursday by Dr.
William C. Bramble, head of the
School of Forestry.
At the same time Dr. Bramble
announced that Beers has just
completed arrangements to enter
the University's graduate schcol
I following his graduatioi in'June.
An honor student, Beers plans
to continue his education in for
est management. He is reccgding
secretary of the Forestry Society
and secretary-treasurer of Xi-Sig
ma Pi, forestry honor fraternity.
Scholarship Blanks.:
Applications for the'tieholarship
offered by the Cwens, sophomore
women's hat society, are due to
morrow in the dean 91 women's
office, 105 Old Main.,, • •
Tonight on WDFM
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