PAGE FOUR Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings aUflelli DallyUnivity year. the Collegian is a shadiest operated newspaper. Astored as rmnr - 7 , 77771w7TTn Managing Range. Mae Miller: Citir gaiter. Eon Sloe' 0n... ABM elm MM. Roger Voiselsinger. Dorothea Rohlyss rakers Copy Editor. Dotty Stone: Sports Editor. Roy WU. Pr i l ill u tt i g f e f i la i lra r o Noldetehli National Ads. Mgr.. Jerry ea Him. Hilt Limb'. Christi's* Kauffman: Dam; Editorial Director. Jackie ,Hudgins Satiety editor. Promotion Mgr.. Date Hoer Co-Pe r sonnel Mgrs.. Mitts lase Althooses Assistant Sports Editor. Roger Soldiers Plotot• Mossback, Connie Anderson; Mee Mgr.. Ann Secneys Camel. mph, editor. Ron ~►alker. tied Record.r., Peggy Davies 13seretaty. Meths: Research sod Mgr.. Virgin% Latalusw. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Ron Leik; Copy Editor, Marnie Schenck; Assistants, Joe Ched dar, Anne Friedberg, Evie Onsa, Rog Alexander, Ann Beckley. Don't Amputate Spring Week. Dr. Cabinet „., Recommendations which would slice a good portion of the fun right out of Spring Week come up on the floor of tonight's All-Uni versity Cabinet meeting. We hope Cabinet does not do as it is advised, and does retain the Mad Hatters, He Man, and ;Ugly Man events. Joseph Barnett, Spring Week chairman, will recommend their untimely death. The purpose of the proposed changes is to lighten the load on students. To do this, Bar nett will recommend that the .Ugly Man con test be held at a different time and that the Mad Hatters and He Man contests be dropped. The effect would not be to lighten the load. It would merely put more emphasis on the re maining events, particularly the Carnivil. Spring Week at Penn State is the campus' silly season. It is true, as Barnett asserts in his telport, that not much school work gets done during this time. But to hold the Ugly Man contest any other timei would merely spread the silliness over a longer period and would result in less school Work being done. This is undesirable. 'o kill the Mad Hatters event would be to end the one aspect of Spring Week in which iiikat students can actually participate instead of merely observe. This would be a mistake. Independent students, for example, do not build floats, are not Ugly Man contestants, and are represented at the Carnival by one sole booth. But the Mad Hatters event is one in which individuals, not groups, participate. This is the event in which independents can partici pial,. Why kill their role in Spring Week? The He Man contest, likewise, has earned its phice in Spring Week activities. There's no good reason to end it. If these three events are ripped from Spring Week, the Carnival will gain its former im portance and all that has been accomplished to efid this will be wasted effort. With Carnival the one important point-mak- One More Birthday birthdays 1 1 1 : P ge child it marks a year's growth. -To the adolescent it means a bit more pres age Bat to the adult a birthday is a day of reali zation and evaluation. No longer must he get taller -or cut more teeth. Parents and guardians will not have to watch over him, and if he makes a mistake it is his own. No one else will take the blame. . The University's 100th birthday is not merely a mark of physical growth, nor is it just one more year of prestige. The University, as an adult institution now Las mars important things to do than .erect &hay new buildings and polish its medals. If the Centennial year is to serve as a year of realization and evaluation, the University must look back over the past year, not for physical growth, but for educational progress. University is responsible for upholding its academic standards and turning out useful citizens. But if some of its graduates turn out to be not so useful, the University suffers, its matur ity is questioned, and a hundred years of growth are a mockery to the principles for which the institution was established. ' The first part of the Centennial celebration has been centered about the theme, "Penn State through the past 100 years." The student Centennial committee has chosen "Tenn State through the next 100 years" as the theme to be followed when student return in the fall. "Here's what we've done in the past 100 years" is not nearly so hard to say as "Here's what we're going to do in the next 100 years." 'Happy birthday' is a challenge to an adult— and so to a University. But Mr. Dennis ... In regard to Mr. Dennis' vehement commen tary on the current crisis in student govern ment's fight for so-called progress, I feel he has erred in some of his conclusions. First, the past Elections Committee had very little time in which to survey the proposed amendment to the Elections Code, and even less to call a meeting of the members, whom it was difficult enough to reach by telephone. There fore, the 'poll' taken of those members whom it was possible to contact was the only means of getting the group's views. Secondly, had Mr. Famous resigned (at a time when his successor had already been named. and he was all but out of office anyway), it would merely have left the job undone, and 01111) ii : tip Calltatan iseensor Se TIM name LANCIL aft. UN 'natant Jeff I. 11/114 at the Mai* Callan, Pa. Peat Mho siadot —Jackie Hudgins Safety Valve • • . THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA AlNgb. JACK . ALBRECHT. Busbies* Manama ing event, its undesirable elements—keen com petition with resulting lowering of standards— will inevitably result. And this would :ead to the ultimate death of Carnival and-Spring Week itself. There are good reasons why this should not happen. Spring Week is a noisy, rollicking. very un academic time. But we think its existence can be justified. It comes during the long hard haul between Spring recess and the end of the school year. It comes about the same time Spring Fever hits the student. So the time and energy it consumes would be wasted anyway— but over a longer period. Barnett's recommendations, if adopted, would remove from Spring Week its uniqueness as a University event and would cut from the many to the few the number of students who actually participate in it. There are all too few occasions at Penn State in which a lot of students can be participants, not merely on-lookers. Cabinet would be doing the, students a dis service by endorsing Semen's plans , tonight. It would most definitely not be reflecting the opinion of the students. Grab a Link ... With the simple toss of a tassle from left to right the class of 1955 will become alumni of the Pennsylvania State University on June 11. Members of the class ,need _not end what will prove to be one of the fi nest and richest experiences of their lives—undergraduate days. at Penn State. For with the simple exchange of two dollars, they can join the 12,000-member strong Alumni Association. There are good, practical reasons to join the association and there are good soft, sentimental reasons too. The Alumni Association can point to services —the chance for new alumni to get acquainted with their counterparts in strange cities through membership in one of the nearly 70 alumni clubs across the nation; the chance to get first bid on choice football seats; the Penn Stater, a quarterly newspaper, which keeps alums in formed about University affairs; the Penn State Alumni News, a magazine, and the Football Letter, written for the relishment of the Mon day morning quarterback; the class reunions, held in June on the campus, and the files on the alumni. Or the undergraduate-about-to-turn-graduate can reason along this line: For four years, I have been taking from Penn State. I have learned and I have grown through my association with it. Now, I can give to it. Now, I can help others. This, the Alumni Association does. In the annual Alumni Fund's first two years, 1953 , and 1954, more than $300,000 was contributed to projects such as contributions to the lietzel Union Building, the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Memorial Chapel, freshman scholarships, re search, library acquisitions, and other campus needs. Hard-headed or tear-stained, the about-to-be alum can figure it two ways. Either way. it makes sense to join the Alumni Association and keep alive a rich association with Penn State. Gazette ... Today BIBLE STUDIES, / 7 p.m.. green lounge, Atherton SCROLLS. 8 pan.; Grange playroom STUDENT ENCAMPMENT COMMITTEE, 8:90 p.m., 217 HUB STUDENT HANDBOOK BUSINESS STAFF, 7 p.m., 208 Willard UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Allen R. Brenner, Lois Korona, Eugenia Loeber, Alice Noble, Robert Petroaky, Kenneth Ringle, Nelson Seidel, Raymond Stewart. no one to give a report to Cabinet on Sunday night, even to explain the resignation and the committee's feelings. Certainly Mr. Famous cannot be rightfully, accused of being arbitrary in reporting that the Elections Committee voted, 5-3 against the pro posed amendment. He was merely fulfilling his duty of reporting accurately the results of the committee's voting, and not making an arbi trary decision without support. Finally, since Cabinet has debated long and loud, and now decided to inform the present Elections Committee that it no longer desires the amendment to be passed, the program, if continued as planned, will still have ample op portunity to show its worth in training future student government officers liditetials represent the viewpoints et the writers. ■et neneuerily the Pan, et the paper. the student body. or the University. W et Mirth $. II? —Th. Editot —The Editor -$u SWIM ittle Kan on Campus"- X* 4 "Remember how they used to follow us before these, darn full skirts came in style?" the New Dull • campaig4„ . Finally Ended ', By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The British elections today wind up a• campaign which has b ee n dull, with a Conservative victory generally expected from the start. The Conservatives exercised the majority prerogative of pickhl its own time for the vote. They chose .a period of prosperity Mllcr than gamble that prosperity would last until the normal •tirne, 1 . 4 r next year. They, chose a period when the Labor party was going through a serious internal upheaval, due to the conflict between the Att lee moderates and the Bevanite left wingers. • They also chose a time when they could display regard for pub lic confidence by seeking its, ap proval of Anthony Eden's suc cession to Winston Churchill as prime minister. They are gambling a year of their present term in office against a five-year extension. Important issues in the cam paign have been few and pot well, defined. Eden knocked th e critical , plops from under the Laboritei so far as international - affaini' were concerned when he 'ob tained United States agreement, to a top-level Sig Four confer ence on European settlenienti. Many Laborites had' depended upon criticism of the Anglo-Amer ican atom bomb program 'and the rearmament of Germany to apt peal to the great mass of peace sentiment in the country. But the majority of the party, for the sake of national security, went along with the Conservatives ,in Parlia ment for manufacture of the atom bomb and ratification of the Par, is accords, foreclosing the matters as campaign issues, Labor is also handicapped bg the fact that all the dire things they predicted in the 1951 elect tions, if the Conservative's won, have not happened. The Conserv atives contended that they had no intention of turning the clock back on the welfare state, but, that they would give it better, management and not let it go overboard at the expense of the, l general economy. That, they said, would produce prosperity, Wheth er it was produced or not, pros perity arrived. Correction •Freshman women will have 8:15 p.m. permisSions for the first four weeks of the fall semester, and not 8:30 .p.m. permissions as was reported in yesterday's Daily Collegian THURSDAY. MAY 26. 1955 By Bibi' 4 Journ Students Win Cash Prizes In 'IAMA Contest Four advertising students in journalism• , have been awarded prizes in tbe Interstate Advertis ing Mana'g'ers Association contest. Jack • p iiv ,e ge r, junior from Harrisburg, ,received first prize of , $24. .Secnnd prize of. $l5 was awarded -to • Richard Fleming, Jazithity graduate from State Col tele. 'Robert. Bair. junior from Ygrk, :was presented with third prize• of - $5; and Elizabeth Means, senior fr o m Brookville, won fourth .prize' of $5. Honorable mentions were awarded to Jack Muse, senior from Mt. Lebanon, and Joyce Savage,-junior from Philadelphia. The Contest, was' based .one ex cellence in the preparation of an advertising campaign or a series of advertisements for a local news paper advertiser. Judges were eight advertising managers fr o m newspapers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey Ereg,rooncil Votes $2OO to W3YA ' W3YA,. the University's ama teur radio station has been allot ed $2OO by the Engineering Stu dent COUtioil. The money will be used by the station for research to investigate the feasibility of using a vertical antenna. The vet tical.antenpa would give the sta tion'tridre 'power. The mohey was given as a do nation, since amateur radio sta tions are forbidden by federal law to accept remuneration for re search on project work. ~. 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