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Published Tuenday through
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Daily Collegian in a student
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Entered an second-class matter July 5, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the set of March 3, 1879.
DIEFii McKALIP. Editor
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sistants, Shirley Calkins, Terry Leach, Joe Cheddar, Pat Hunter, Roger Alexander, Rosemary Bass,
Gladys Woodward, Ed Dubbs.
Graduation Problem May Be Solved
Students expecting to receive degrees in June
and University administrators charged with
planning the commencement exercises have
moved a step closer to a meeting of the minds.
The possibility of holding ceremonies inside in
case of extreme weather is being explored and
"extreme" weather has been defined.
In a statement issued by Wilmer E. Ken
worthy, director of student affairs, it was re
emphasized that plans are to hold ceremonies on
Beaver Field. It states: "Only storm conditions
would alter this plan. Inclement weather would
not
Conversation brought out that only a storm
"like Hurricane Hazel" would drive the Centen
nial commencement off Beaver Field and on to
the radio. In past years showers and even
threats have started the move for an indoors
graduation.
• The statement continues by pointing out the
difficulties which would be encountered in ar
ranging an indoor alternate ceremony. It is pos
sible Recreation Hall could not be arranged to
hold all the candidates for degrees, two guests
of eAu.th, Blue Band, press sections, radio and
television personnel and equipment, and a num
ber of special guests.
Immediate reactions are for students to ask
if the exercises are not for them and therefore
should not all but the speakers and the students
and their guests be excluded. This is not the
case. If a class wants a name speaker, the price
Will It Work?
Today begins a three-day period of attempts
to know, to understand, and to be friends. The
Pan American Day celebrations begin at noon
today.
The program looks like a good beginning
toward integrating all the American students
at the University. Two functions especially
should promise a degree of success in fulfilling
the purpose of the celebrations—the dinners to
be given today for Latin American students
by 24 fraternities and the informal dance in
Waring Hall lounge Saturday night.
If students will take these two events serious
ly and give them support, they cannot help but
produce a bit of the needed familiarity among
American students.
The celebration is adorned, as such programs
always are, with several projects which will
no doubt go , unnoticed by most students at
the University. These are the Pan American
exhibit to open in the Pattee Library today,
and two radio broadcasts tonight of Pan Ameri
can music.
While pictures and music admittedly lend
themselves somewhat to understanding a cul
ture, they can be considered only secondary to
actual personal contacts for a successful inte
gration program.
The Pan American Day committee has given
students a good basis for getting acquainted
with each other. But the committee by no
means intends the next few days of celebrations
as an immediate end to any promotion of good
relations.
The entire purpose of the program will be
defeated unless students—United States stu
dents and Latin American students—take ad
vantage of these particular celebrations and
carry what they learn there into their every
day living.
The celebrations are a means to an end. It
is up to all students at Penn State to make
sure that end is at least attempted.
—Peggy McClain
Fewer P. A. Blurbs
The Senate Committee on Student Affairs
acted wisely in limiting the use of the mobile
public address system to the hours of noon to
1 p.m. and after 5 p.m.
Groups using the loudspeaker to publicize
their doings had much maligned the privilege
and deserved to be restricted.
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Not only were classes and offices disturbed
by the use of the speaker after and before the
ten-minute breaks, but those attending the
public address seemed to feel it necessary to
continually provide an odd sort of entertain
ment (for themselves). .
An advertising campaign is supposed to win
friends and patrons for the advertiser. It is not,
to our knowledge, a media to broadcast greet
ings to one's friends at the expense of the ma
jority's hearing. Nor do whispered conversa
tions followed by gales of amplified laughter
contribute to any legitimate promotion program.
Perhaps the groups using the public address
system will benefit from the restrictions in the
end. Now those in charge of the public address
may be forced to adopt some sort of a script
to guide their mouthings.
No one ever achieved any good will by aim
less, inane blaring.
Glle Batig Collegian
Succeonor to THE FREE LANCE, eot. 1887
—Mike Miller
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
WILLIAM DEVER& Business Manages
paid is that the event becomes a public rather
than a private affair.
Where the President of the United States
goes. so goes the press. The University, like the
individual, has many friends who expect to be
invited to the commencement exercises. This is
the price.
Another item in the administration state
ment is that all available chairs and large
amounts of equipment will be on the field in
preparation for the outdoor ceremony, and it
would involve hours of delay to load them and
replace them in the building. Twelve-hundred
folding chairs are to be on the field. The Uni
versity is now contacting a rental service to see
if it can supply those needed for an alternate
ceremony in Rec Hall.
Finally, the statement reports, a considerable
number of seniors have expressed the opinion
they would not want to select two of their guests
to go indoors and not be able to include the
others. According to this, seniors want to brave
the weather or switch to the radio. This is ques
tionable—most would pick their parents. How
ever, no poll has been made.
The determined attempt by . the University
to hold commencement exercises Outdoors is
commendable and certainly is necessary in this
Centennial Year and in light of the speaker.
With a prayer for good weather, we are never
theless happy to see the University is still look
ing into an alternate indoor plan in case of "ex
treme" weather. The students do deserve a for
mal ceremony.
Opportunity. Knocks
Elections for student council representatives
are just a little more than two weeks away.
This means that students interested in seeing
good academic programs either maintained or
innovated in their particular colleges should
be considering running for election to the
councils.
Nominating oneself for a council involves
very little work, energy, or initiative. Usually,
it is just a matter of signing a list, posting a
campaign poster at the polls, and waiting for
the results.
However, this next year especially, student
council representatives can make their jobs
some of the most significant student projects
at the University.
Re-accreditation is due here next year. This
means the University is undertaking and is in
the market for ideas and implementation of pro
grams that will give the University the best
academic standards possible.
The University needs the help the councils
are capable of giving for an improved academic
program. The councils, if taken seriously, can
prove the lifeblood of this. They can, for in
stance, organize and promote tutoring systems,
orientation programs, counseling services, and
closer faculty-student relations.
Because each college has its own individual
needs in these areas, the colleges must be the
groups to determine and fulfill these needs.
Unless students can say they are completely
satisfied with the policies of their colleges, they
have, in the coming elections, a wide-open
chance to help create a "school of their choice."
—Peggy McClain
Safety Valve
On Graduation---
TO THE EDITOR: We agree emphatically with
your editorial of April 5 (Daily Collegian) on
"Students Deserve Graduation Exercises." We
also feel that the University should provide
a gkaduation ceremony where the graduates
should be present at all costs.
We have been presented with no valid reason
why this cannot be done. Too much emphasis
has been placed on the speaker and not enough
on the graduates. If the personalized graduation
cannot be arranged for any weather conditions
another speaker should be obtained.
If the Penn State administration wants to
promote so much good will during this Cen
tennial Year. the traditional long-awaited grad
uation ceremony is not too much to ask for the
prospective alumni and their parents.
—J. Kirk Garber
John J. Robinson
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Marcie geaucoup
It's spring. Everything's blooming its fool head off. Birds are
casting coy glances at each other, flying suggestively by with bits
of nest material in their beaks. La-de-dah and fa-la-la. The most '
important thing is that the pre-season exhibition games are over
and the 1955 baseball season has begun.
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Even the Senators had a full house for their inaugural encounter,
but don't anybody dare say the
people were just there to see Ike
he does have some natural ability,
that boy would never make the
big leagues. Not in baseball, any
way.
So anyhow, the kids in every
town are going to school with
their gloves over their bike
handlebars dragging St. Louis
Slugger bats along behind them.
About ten windows in every ele
mentary school in the country
will be smashed by the middle of
June. In one small rural school,
the lady principal has stopped
fighting it and it turns out shp
is a pretty okay umpire. Only
thing Is, she calls games for rea
sons the kids don't agree with
entirely.
And in larger communities,
all sizes and shapes of kids are
turning out for Little League
practice. The farm system seems
to have extended right down in
to the kindergarten circuit, but
this is probably a good thing.
Some teams we know of might
do better with a few Cass Z
players! But leave us mention
no names.
What is it about baseball that
attracts thousands of fans in one
city and hardly any in another?
Baltimore last year had a huge
crowd of loyal followers who
cheered just as loudly on the
short end of a 10-2 game in the
top of the ninth as they did when
the bird boys were winning.
College baseball doesn't seem
to draw crowds very well, and
what's the explanation for that?
It's the same game, played, at'
times, nearly as well. At its
worst, baseball has more thrills
than football at its worst. Well.
some people think so. And at
college games you can sit so
close you can hear for yourself
what it is that the catcher says
to the pitcher when he strolls
out for a word of counsel. May
be not so spicy as a Berra
epithet, but choice, neverthe
less.
Locally, the Holmes field
(what's left of it) sandlot and the
West Dorms sandlot are produc
ing some fancy batting practice
and pitching exhibitions. And
every once in a while, a coed
answers the call of the hickory
and joins in. Not necessarily phys
ed majors, either. All kinds of
people report to the dispensary
for treatment for stoved fingers.
You'd be surprised.
And so it goes. the great
American national sport. Every
year the same old story. The
same superstitions, the same
general rules, the same hotdox i i ;
the Woe bowl beaches.
THURSDAY. APRIL 14. 1955
By MARCIE MacDONALD
same rhubarbs, and the same
team wins the American league
pennant, by darn.
Well, this year, maybe .
Changes Made
In Women's
Room Drawings
The schedule for women stu
dents to draw rooms has' been
changed, the dean of women's of
fice reported yesterday. Women
students will draw their room
numbers at the dean of women's
office, 105 Old Main.
Eight-week students who will
live in dormitories the first per
iod and who have not been as
signed rooms will draw rooms
during the regular office hours
today. The office hours are from
8 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m.
luntil 5 p.m.
Eight-week students who will
live in dormitories the second per
iod and who have not been as
signed rooms will draw during
the regular office hours tomor
row.
The remainder of the present
fourth semester students will
draw rooms during the regular
office hours Monday.
Present third semester students
will draw rooms during the regu
lar office hours Tuesday.
Present second semester stu
dents will draw as originally
scheduled on Tuesday night. Stu
dents with numbers from 1
through 150 at 6:30 p.m.; with
numbers from 151 through 300 at
7 p.m.; with numbers from 301
through 450 at 7:30 p.m.; with
numbers from 451 through 600 at
8 p.m.' ' and with numbers from
601 through 755 at 8:30 p.m.
Dean's List Omission
Roy Clark, eighth semester arts
and letters major, was omitted
from the Dean's List of the Col
lege of the Liberal Arts for the
fall semester of 1954.
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