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Pubtiiihed Tuesday thromth
Saturday morntma durlnr
tha University year, the
Dally Collegian la a student*
operated newspaper.
Entered ae eecond-elaie Matter Jnlr t, 1914 at tha SUM Callete, Fa. Feet Office ander the act af March 1. I»T».
MIKE MILLER. Acting Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dodi Jones; Copy Editors, Shirley Calkins,. Ted Serrill; Assist
ants, Marilyn Zabusky, Paul Wriggle, Rog Alexander. Ad Staff: Dianne Halleck, Arnie Hoffman.
Lantern Possibilities Not Fully Developed
Can Penn State support a literary magazine?
Liberal Arts Student Council has decided
the University can, and voted to revise its
subsidized magazine, the Lantern, into literary
format.
There are good and bad points surrounding
this decision.
In favor of the Lantern is the fact that it is
subsidized and, therefore, does not have to de
pend on advertising and circulation for its con
tinued existence.
But since its subsidy is limited, the magazine
will be restricted in the number of copies it
may print without risking its financial security.
This may hinder the Lantern in achieving its
stated purpose of creating interest in things
literary throughout the University.
The revised Lantern would also be primarily
a student publication, according to the editor.
This shows a commendable spirit but past ex
perience reveals that such magazines have been
anything but successful.
The most recent student .literary magazine,
Inkling, folded in 1954 due to lack of support.
And even while in existence, Inkling barely
managed to scrape along and could hardly be
called successful.
Previous to Inkling there were other student
literary magazines, none of which could be
called successful or outstanding with the ex
ception of the Old Main Bell which flourished
from 1925 to 1940, a relatively long life-span
for a college literary magazine.
Perhaps one of the reasons for the rise and
fall of literary magazines at the University can
be traced to the lack of continuity on ; the staffs
of the literary periodicals.
Primarily for this reason, the communica
tions workshop of this year's student encamp
Hours for Men: A Sensible Step
When Tribunal announced Tuesday that it
planned to experiment with restricted hours
for men as an additional type of disciplinary
action, a lot of students laughed because they
couldn’t picture men being confined to their
places of residence in the evenings and they
thought a strict campus for a male student was
hilarious. ,
As hasty and ill thought-out judgments usual
ly are, this immediate reaction is little justified.
And the body that formulated it deserves com
mendation rather than ridicule, and cooperation
rather than indifference.
Punishments or penalties recommended to
the Dean of Men’s office from the several men’s
judicial bodies are not levied on the student
merely to brand him as ah offender. Instead,
the judicial body has as its prime concerns the
welfare of the individual student and the Uni
versity community.
If a student’s grades fall below the accepted
standard in his college he is usually given aca
demic probation by a scholastic committee of
his college, limiting the activities in which he
may participate. Academic probation -is not
meant as a punishment for having low grades.
It is intended as a measure to help the student
do satisfactory work, raise his average, and
Safety Valve ... Academic Honesty: Give It a Chance
TO THE EDITOR: In her editorial of Sept. 20,
Jackie Hudgins opposed the “basic principle
of the new academic honesty policy.”
In answer to her editorial, I would like to
try to both explain the policy and give the
reasons behind, it.
To begin with, there is no now policy. Wo,
the students and faculty members of the Sen
ate sub-committee on academic honesty, have
only elaborated on the present Senate regula
tions concerning classroom honesty and tried
to make them more effective.
What we have done has been to try to es
tablish a uniform set of penalties for cases of
dishonesty which may occur and to recommend
wider use by the faculty of the already estab
lished classrObm procedures which are known
to be effective in discouraging cheating.
Miss Hudgins seems to be concerned not with
the penalties, but rather with the procedures.
Again, I want to stress, these are not new.
They have been in wide use in the University
for a long time. What’s more, the majority of
students appear to favor them.
Students at Penn State have cheated in the
past. Although cheating should not be expected
from the type of students admitted to the Uni
versity, the policy takes more clearly defined
steps to prevent cheating in the future.
It is all wall and good to say "Honor and
honesty go hand in hand." Buz putting this
ideal into practice takes years and years of
effort. It takes an established tradition at the
University. It takes a concentrated effort on
the part of every student, every faculty mem
ber, and every one of the University's adminis
trators.
What we have done is only the start. By
making dishonesty as close to Impossible as it
can ever be. we hope to eliminate dishonesty.
This must be the first step.
Of the 12 recommended procedures, there
are some that are most applicable in every
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Batumi U THE FREE LANCE. ML IIST
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
JACK ALBRECHT. Business Manager
ment, composed of representatives from the
administration, the School pf Journalism, the
department of speech, the ' Daily Collegian,
LaVie. WDFM, Froth, and the Student Hand
book, in discussing the need for a literary
magazine, favored a periodical operated by both
students and faculty.
Supporting this proposal is the record of the
Old Main Bell which was at least heavily con
tributed to by faculty members. Whether or
not faculty members at any time served on
the board of editors is not discernable in re
- ports on the history of the publication.
But a faculty-student staff would not only
provide continuity to a literary magazine, but
would also create a -medium where staff mem
bers and students could work closely together
on a common project. At present few such op
portunities are available in the University com
munity.
Also, the type of magazine discussed by the
Encampment group would be a “literary-cul
ture” magazine, including fiction, non-fiction,
and articles on the arts, music, theater, and
the like.
The Lantern, as visualized by the Liberal
Arts Student Council at its meeting Monday
night, would primarily be devoted to creative
writing. A broader scope, such as the commu
nications workshop had in mind, might induce
a wider readership.
If the Lantern staff so desires it is in a per
fect position to form the structure for a
“literary-culture” magazine. If it opens its
columns to faculty as well as student contribu
tors and perhaps places a few interested faculty
members on its board of editors its future
would look brighter than any literary periodi
cal of recent vintage
after a prescribed period, re-enter extra-cur
ricular activities perhaps to a slightly limited
extent.
With the same idea of correction, social mis
behavior deserves a social penalty. A usual
form of disciplinary action imposed on a stu
dent proved to have taken part in an act un
becoming a University student is probation, a
period of time during which the student must
show he is capable of conducting himself in an
orderly fashion. Whether or not a . record of
disciplinary action is placed on the student's
transcript depends upon the seriousness of the
act.
It would probably be social misconduct which
would warrant a student being given restricted
hours. But just because Tribunal voted to add
the restricted -hours penalty to its list of varied
penalties, it does not mean dozens of .male
students each week will be ‘campused’.
Tribunal handles, on the average, about two
discipline cases a week. The new penalty would
be appropriate for only a few of them due to the
difference in types of students, places of resi
dence, and nature and extent of offense. Under
no circumstances will mass restrictions on men’s
hours be levied.
classroom. All the recommended procedures
need not be put in effect, but those which the
professor feels will be most applicable to his
class should be selected and enforced.
A University community is not notably dif
ferent than any ordinary community. Although
only superior individuals are admitted to • the
University community, special stresses and
strains on the citizen of the • University com
munity do exist and must be allowed for.
What we are trying to do with the recom
mended procedures is to reduce these stresses
and strains thus reducing the incentive to
cheat, and to work toward our ultimate' goal—
full-fledged honor.
Another part of our report, one which Miss
Hudgins agrees with, is the establishment, of
uniform penalties in order to achieve a reason
able and uniform stand in condemnation of
dishonesty.
Recognition of the existence of the problem
■ and discussions of solutions for it have been
and are being urged as one of .the necessary
steps in solving the present problem of dis
honesty, Why should we play ostrich and stick
our heads in the sand when everyone knows
academic dishonesty is prevalent.
At one time an honor system was tried at
Penn State but it didn't work; not merely be
cause of large numbers of students here but
also because there was no orientation to the
program.
A program of this-typo can only work hrhea
everyone, students and faculty alike, want it
badly enough that they will work for it and
truly condemn the cheater, not ignore him or
pretend he does not exist or it does not matter.
I ask that every student citizen of our com
munity give the program an opportunity to
work. It may not be the complete answer to the
problem, but it is a beginning.
—Curt Schafer, ,
Student representative to the Senate
subcommittee on academic honesty.
Editorials rtprsssnt tht
viewpoints of the writers,
not necessarily tho policy
of tho paper, the etadent
body, or the University.
—The Editor
—Jackie Hudgins
Little Man on Campus
"This is the most important class you'll be taking—so I'll
expect a little extra work from you this semester."
Centennial Lore
Library Originated
With 14 Volumes
A gift of fourteen books marked the start of the University
Library in 1857.
Today, that meager collection has swelled
and for the first time in its history, the library
to meet its needs. ,
Completion of a $1,250,000 addition to'the
1953 tripled its stack capacity for
books and doubled the space
available for students and read
ers.
Actually, in the early years of
the University, the library did not
play the important part in in
struction it now does. Since' the
school had been established to
teach the practice as well; as. the
theory of agriculture, when stu
dents were not in classes; they
were doing hard manual labor on
the campus and nearby farm.
First librarian
Not until 1874 did the Univer
sity acquire its first librarian, W.
A. Buckhout, professor of geol
ogy, zoology and botany, was
placed in charge of the books and
reading room. During this period,
the library was not yet open at
regular hours.
When George W. Atherton as
sumed the presidency of the Uni-*
versity in 1882, one of his main
goals .was'the of'li
brary facilities. Although appro
priations were slow in coining, he
did succeed in obtaining an as
sistant for Professor C. L. Reeves,
who 'was then serving as part
time librarian. This assistant re
ceived one dollar a week.
The decade of 1880 to 1890 her
alded a period of. progress for the
library. The number of volumes
increased, the reading room was
opened six hours daily, " and in
1889 the lbirary moved from the
room it had occupied in the main
campus building to larger quar
ters therein. A full-time librar
ian, Miss Helen B. Bradley, was
appointed in 1894.
Outgrew its'Space
, By now, toe library had quite
outgrown its quarters. President
Atherton appellee! to the Board
of Trustees; saying:
“A great library is alrn°St the
soul of a great institution; the
limits of our work in every direc
tion will soon be closely, marked
arid restricted unless the means
of nelp and inspiration can be
provided.’* ' 1 '
A means of help seemed ,to be'
provided in 1899 when Andrew
Carnegie, a trustee, offered to
construct a library pudding pro
vided the Legislature appropriat
ed $lO,OOO annually for mainten
ance. The Legislature remained
indifferent. At last, the trustees
thmselves assumed responsibility
for maintenance and, in 1904, a
new three-story building was
THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. 1955
By Bibler
to 370,000 volumes,
has sufficient space
library building in
completed.
This structure could accommo
date 35,000 vloumes, and had a
potential; shelf space for 20,000
more by witting alcoves and read
ing rooms With, shelves. When the
move to the ' Carnegie Library
Building- was. made,-the Univer
sity had 22,203 volumes in its
general library.
Report Received
■ But within ten years,' the. trus
tees received toe following re
port from librarian. Erw i n W.
Runkle:; “The stacks erecfull, the
tops of cases are.used, ‘temporary
wooden shelving in. intolerably
crowded ' quarters is built in the
stacks,-; and books - are even per
force placed om the floor.”
VA quarter ,of - a century more
had to pass,, however, before work
was started on a mew . and larger
libr a r y. building, j Meanwhile,
space somehow was found, in Car
negie .to hoUse the constantly
growing.'collection.
HeadJngtoetree-lined mall in
the center of the;campus, the new
library was, ready for occupancy
in .1941. Original plans for it . had
been altered due to a shortage of
funds, and . the spurt in enroll
ment following .World War II
once - more necessitated finding
additional’space.
Adequate Space
Today, librarian Ralph W» M.c-
Comb estimates that facilities will
be adequate:for at least-lg years
to comCi .l i - ' ..
Although over the years, the
University. library, has • suffered
from time to time because of in
adequate funds, it has never lack
ed. mends,- Since its first, gift Of
14. boobs, hundreds .dr. persons
have donated volumes.
Indeed, the library is named af
ter one of its donors, Ere<f Lewis
Patte. Dft Pattee taught .*t' toe
University for, 34 years;, holding
what was probably toe first pro
feasoribiP Of American, liteirature
in this (Country. beqUeathed
his library of some 2000 volumes
to toe University.
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