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Pnblifthed Tuesday through
Saturday mornings during
the Unircrsity year, the
Daily Collegian is a student
operated newspaper.
Entered as second-class matter July 8, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879.
MIKE MILLER, Acting Editor
Section Hopping: Think Before You Jump
Today Penn State students have a chance to
prove themselves responsible adults.
Last week many students were indignant be
cause a reserved seat arrangement had been
effected at Beaver Field. The general feeling
seemed to be that the athletic department had
pulled one over on the student body. To an
extent the students were justified.
But through the efforts of their student gov
ernment association president and the presi
dent of the Athletic Association a compromise
was reached with the officials concerned.
The compromise was not difficult to effect.
When faced with the overwhelming protests
of the student body the athletic officials readily
agreed it would be unwise to attempt to en
force the original regulations.
Therefore, they agreed to allow students to
sit anywhere they desired in the sections to
which they were assigned.
Essentially this is the same system as was in
effect in previous years. The only difference is
that instead of sitting in any of the three senior
sections, seniors must sit in the one senior sec
tion to which their ticket assigns them; like
wise for juniors, sophomores, and freshmen.
The student leaders who consulted with ad
ministration officials in working out the com
promise plan were quite pleased with this
solution.
At All-University Cabinet meeting Thursday
night discussion surrounding the compromise
plan brought out the fact that some seniors
had received tickets which placed them in
underclass sections.
This mixup probably occurred at registra
tion when in their haste to get out the indi
viduals concerned probably switched over to a
shorter underclass line' without thinking, and
thus received tickets in underclass sections.
But a telephone call to Ernest B. McCoy, di
rector of athletics, cleared up this complaint in
a hurry. McCoy informed All-University Presi
dent Earl Seely that the ticket office would
be glad to exchange tickets with any student
who had been wrongly placed.
And so the student gripes have been recti
fied. Their student government and the ad
Safety Valve...
Ml Walls: Paint for Art?
TO THE EDITORS: Re: The Pennsylvania
Painters Exhibition which has been gathered
from 35 museums, galleries and private col
lections from Maine to Missouri and will hang
in the Mineral Industries Art Gallery.
It is preposterous to think of hanging a quar
ter of a million dollars on walls as filthy as
those. The dust, grime, fading and general ac
cumulation of atmospheric crud which has
settled upon and filtered into the fabric (Monk's
cloth) of those walls since their construction
will indicate more disrespect than anything else
for the paintings which will be hung against
them.
It is bad enough to see the work of students
and faculty members displayed there. This new
situation is less than bourgeoise.
It will be especially true if we are haying
representatives of the Whitney Museum of
American Art in New York City (One of.the
finest new galleries in the country) and the
Detroit Institute of Art to speak on the sym
posium. The walls of an outhouse are not the
place for some of America's greatest painters—
even if these are not their greatest paintings.
There are enough architecturally incongrous
structures on this campus'without having this
last travesty (especially during our Centen
nial celebration) take place within one of them.
To what extent must we show our hundred
years?
It is suggested, therefore, that a rush order
for painters be sent to the maintenance depart
ment in charge of such necessities and thereby
cover over this neglect as soon as possible be
fore the quarter of a million dollars' is ex
hibited against it.
Gazette...
Tod*?
WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION PARTY, 8 p.m., 182 W«st
Beaver
Sunday
COSMOPOLITAN CLUB, 2:30 p.m., 214‘ Hetsel Union
NEWMAN CLUB PICNIC, 2 p.m., American Legion Park
(Rt. 45)
Monday
CIVIL AIR PATROL, 8 p.m.. Armory
F.F.A. MEETING. 7 p.m., 112 Buckhout Lab.
INTERCOLLEGIATE CONFERENCE ON GOVERNMENT.
7 :30 p.m., 103 Willard
Retirement Plans
Announced by Young
Col. William R. Young, founder
of the Armed Forces Institute
and supervisor of correspondence
instruction at the University, has
announced he will retire April 30.
In the past 20 years, under his
direction, the correspondence pro
gram at the University has en
rolled 17,000 students and has
offered 255 courses. His work
with the Army Institute has led
to the establishment of 3000
courses, administered by several
colleges and universities.
Sty? iatly CoUpgtatt
Successor la THE FREE LANCE, est. 188 V
—Robert Saunders
Traffic Court to Meet
Traffic Court will meet in the
Traffic Court office on the sec
ond floor of the Hetzel Union
Building at 7 p.m. Monday.
It will continue to meet there
the same time ' each Monday
throughout the semester.
'Breeze' Candidates
Students interested in working
for the Ag Hill Breeze, student
publication of the College of Ag
riculture, will meet at 7:30 p.m,
Monday in 105 Agriculture.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
JACK ALBRECHT. Business Manager
ministration has gone all out for them.
Everyone can get a seat where he is sup
posed to sit. It is not really very important if
one senior is sitting in a better section than
another. After all it requires three and one
half sections to accommodate the entire senior
class and someone would have to sit on the
ten yard-line no matter what system was in
effect.
The problem of sitting with friends and dates
can be solved without too much difficulty, pro
viding they are in the same class, by trading
tickets until all are in the same section. This
is a practice to which the athletic department
has no objection.
There have been grumbles that the old sys
tem of sitting anywhere within a class group
of three or more sections should have beerr
brought back. That system encouraged mass
section-hopping and required those who de
sired good seats to go to the game two or more
hours before kick-off lime. It was also the
source of many complaints from seniors who
found themselves behind the goalposts looking
at the freshmen and sophomores in their seats.
The compromise system now in effect guar
antees a student a seat in his assigned section.
If he arrives at a game late and his assigned
section is filled the athletic department has
ordered a row-by-row showing of tickets until
the section-hopper is discovered. That person
will then be sent to his own section and the
student assigned to the section will be seated.
The present system is not perfect. It has cer
tain flaws and that it is an inconvenience to
some cannot be denied. But it is better than
the previous system which encouraged rowdi
ness.
Students should realize this fact and ap
preciate it. Any section-hopping or rowdiness
at today's game will be a slap in the face to
those people who stood up for the students'
rights. A display of .section-hopping could force
administration officials to revert to the re
served seat plan.
Remember that if you are tempted to hop
the fence to a better section.
Movies for Sunday
In the November election in the Borough of
State College a long contested question will
again be put before local voters: Should moving
pictures be shown in State College on Sunday?
Twice before, under similar circumstances,
the issue was defeated in a referendum vote.
In 1951 the margin of defeat was 13 votes. In
1947, the margin was just five votes.
It is clear from this information that the ban
on Sunday movies locally is not one imposed
by a vast majority of the voting populace, but
rather the swaying of sufficient public opin
ion by group leaders.
The question of whether movies should or
should not be shown on Sundays is insigni
ficant, in this case, compared to the question of
whether these pressure groups have a right to
impose their will on the entire moviegoing
population.
This question assumes even greater signifi
cance when if is considered that by far a large
majority of the local moviegoing public, the
University students, has no voice in the matter.
The issue of whether or not movies should
be shown on Sunday shrinks beside the prac
tical issue of. in effect, a minority, probably
without realising it is doing so, imposing its
will upon a vast majority. This is not the
American way.
University students, greatly needing a broad
er variety of weekend entertainment, and es
pecially Sunday night activity, can perform a
great service for themselves by making known
to the voting population their stand on the
matter.
This can bo done in several ways, without
creating animosity. Principally, by tactful word
of mouth.
From the students point of view, Sunday
movies would be a definite step toward improv
ing an undesirable weekend activity lag. It
should be stressed that those who have imposed
the ban would display great broadmindedness
by acknowledging this fact.
PENN STATE SCALE MODEL RAILROAD CLUB. 7 p.m.,
19 Hetzel Union
UNIVERSITY STUDENT CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE,
7:30 p.m., 218 Hetzel Union
University Hospital
Naomi Dunn, Richard Gerry, Melvin Getzoff, Marlin
Grove, Doris Harriff, Suzanne Ittel, Charlene Low, Ben*
jamin Maleaky, Frank McFaden, William Popowniau, Thao*
dore Rapchick, Larry Ridenour, Cly Shelley, Gaylord Smith,
Leo Stankavage, Jerome Summerly, and Benjamin Williams*
Centennial Envelopes
On Sale at HUB Desk
Centennial cachet envelopes
bearing the University’s seal, the
tower of' Old Main, and a few
lines about the University are on
sale at the Hetzel Union desk.
The white envelopes, sold in
groups of three for five cents,
fire a project of the Student Cen
tennial Committee.
Over 27,000 envelopes were sold
during the birthday celebration
last February. The sale this fall
will continue as long as there is
a demand, Robert Krakoff, enve
lope chairman announced.
Editorials represent the
viewpoints of the writers,
not necesksrily the policy
of the psper, the student
body, or the University.
—The Editor
—AI Klimcko
Little Man* on Campus
East-West Controversy
Little Success
With Disarmament
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
Some people are in the habit of setting their watches ahead,
hoping thereby to kid themselves into being on time.
The practice has two faults, and any engineer would tell you
it is a helluva way to run a railroad.
Most of the time the mind wil
it knows what has happened, and
But sometimes the mind-will be
fooled by preoccupation and de
cide there’s no use trying to catch
the boat because it’s already gone.
Either result is possible from
the now-optimistic now-cautious
evaluations we are getting these
days about the Russian situation.
You never heard of setting a
watch slow, but all this hopping
around is becoming enervating.
Disarmament Disagreement
Prepublication reports on the
contents of Premier Bulganin’s
letter to President Eisenhower in
dicated that while it represents , a
continuation of top level negotia
tions, and therefore may be con
sidered encouraging, it by ’ no
means represents any great clos
ing of the policy gap on disarma
ment.
If Bulganin and Molotov want
to trade on the question of for
eign bases by eliminating all of
Russia’s while the' United States
eliminates all of hers, he’d have
to throw in Red China, North Ko
rea, North Viet Nam and the Eur
opean satellites to make it even.
A Fair Exchange
If Bulganin merely intends to
include foreign bases: invthe Eis
enhower-proposed inspection pro
gram, he might get somewhere,
'although the United States could
logically demand similar rights at
least in Eastern Europe, where
the armies are under .far , more
specific Russian • command - than
the NATO armies, are un de r
American command; In NATO, an
American general is merely at
the top of an amalgamated com
mand, and he has no political au
thority. In Eastern Europe Russia
has both political and military
command.
BusAd College Faculty
Represented at Meetings
Three faculty members, of the
Colleg of Business Administra
tion participated in the semi-an
nual Pennsylvania Farm Bureau
Cooperative Association confer
ence in Potter County on Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaking on the “What and
Why of Effective Management
Control,” Dr. Earl P. Strong, di
rector of the Bureau of Business
Research, opened the conference.
William S. Decker, assistant
professor of marketing, discussed
sales control. Dr. Kenneth G.
Nelson, associate professor of ac
counting, described budget con
trols.
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1953
11 discount the watch face because
the last minute rush is the same.
Centennial
Bidding Brisk
For School Site
Back in 1855
The act of the legislature in
1855 establishing the Farmers’
High School, predecessor of the
University, produced bids from
nine counties for location of the
new' institution.
These bids included several of
fers of land donations plus pledges
to . raise money for the school and
other offers to sell la d at a nom
inal price.
The Board, of Trustees, headed
by Frederick Watts of Cumber
land County, spent about three
months from June 14 to Septem
be; 12 examining the proposed
sites before it voted to accept the
Centre County bid.
The initial offer of lahd in Cen
tre County came from - James
Irvin, of Bellefonte, whose gift
was any one of three farms of
200 acres of “good limestone
land.” Later on, Irvin, A. G.
Curtin, and H. N. McAllister sent
a letter to ,the board guaranteeing
to raise $lO,OOO for the school.
Another gift of, 200 acres of
land was offered.by James Miles
of Erie Cbunty. The land was
about 18 miles west of Erie
boUhded by a railroad on the
south and the lake shore on' the
north. The land was described as
“a'sandy loam, highly fertile, with
about 100 acres of cleaned land
ar.d the rest with heavy timber.”
Elias Baker offered to donate
200 acres in Blair County on the
Pennsylvania Railroad about two
(Continued on page eight)
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Edi
tor. Ron LeUc: Copy Editors: . Ted
Serrill and Ed Dubbs; Assailants.
Anne Friedberg. Tom Buckey.
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