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PiMiiiltetf Tuesday throifk
Satnrday morninra daring
th« University year, the
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operated newspaper.
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MIKE MILLER, Acting Editor ROGER VOGELSINGER, Acting Business Manager
„ . p . u _ r ,i_ pju., n n ii skA*. Co-Asst. Baa. Mgra.. John Kmets. Dorothea Koldye; Local
Managing Editor, Roger Beldler. City Editor, Don Shoe Adr Mjrr># Faye Goldstein; National Adv. Mgr., Jerry Pried;
maker; Copy- Editor, Dotty Stone; Bporte Editor, Roy wil- Co-Circulation Mgra., Israel Schwab, Christine Kaaffman;
llama: Editorial Director. Jackie Hudgins: Society Editor. Promotion Mir.. Dellto Hoopet; Co-Pereonnel Mire.. Aletta
.... . . ......... cjii., p.. n.i.hnns*' pho. Monbeck. Connie Andereon; Office Mir.. Ann Keecey: Class!-
Inn Althonae. Assistant Sports Editor, Ron Gatehouse, rno- AdT p tglT Davis; Secretary. Lll Melko: Reeearck
toiraphy Editor, Ron Wolker. and Records Mir.. Vlrilnia Latchaw.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Nancy Showalter; Copy Editors, Larry Jacobson, Fran Fanucci;
Assistants, Ned Frear, Anne Friedberg, Lianne Cordero, Audrey Sassano, Lynn Ward, Lillian Junas,
Pat O’Neill.
Sophisticated Religion:
University undergraduates like to think of
themselves as mature. They are mature in many
ways. They are called professional-like on the
stage, their art work is exhibited, they lour
Europe on concert, and they graduate as lieu
tenants.
But they are not mature in all ways. The
mass of University students are aware of re
ligion in much the same way that they were
aware of it in grade school.
Religion to too many University students is
Church or Chapel on Sunday morning before
the funnies can be read, singing or listening to
music, hearing scripture, being preached to,
being in youth'activities programs, and having
official status as a church member.
This shallow mold into which childish re
ligious ideas have been pushed cannot hold
its own in the face of higher education. It is
inadequate—often it is abandoned in disgust
during four intense years of study.
The co-editor of the Daily Tar Heel in Chapel
Hill, North Carolina, said that the result of this
educational advancement is that the student
can’t sing the old hymn, “Give me that old
time religion . . .” without pangs of conscience
and loss of intellectual self-respect, and hence
he stops singing hymns altogether. He finds a
few rotten apples in his barrel of religious
ideas, and concludes that all of them are be
yond saving.”
What happens as a result, the co-editor said,
is that the student's university days never take
on the meaning they should as a period of
honest questioning, of sincere search; and, still
further, the graduate may never come up with
a sound faith of philosophy but will relax into
patterns of social and moral conformity which
make him little more than an automaton.
In an editorial in the Cornell Daily Sun,
Keith Johnson said: “All too frequently, We see
men and women who come to college practicing
some form of religious faith which is on a high
school level, if possessed of any intellectual
sophistication at all.
“And what happens? They encounter many
new ideas, many new solutions to the great
questions to which their faith has previously
provided the answers, or at least suggested
them, and out goes the faith for what is some
times a perfectly candid hedonism, an avowed
pursual of virtually animal pleasures and com
forts for their own sake.
"We would have no objection to this process
whatsoever, save for one thing. In the process,
the faith which has been affirmed is never
given serious, mature, intellectual, or emotional
examination. So, for example, a grade-school
version of Christianity is discarded for a serious
version of what-have you—on the rather du
bious assumption that a little bit of cheap
sentimentalism is what has been responsible
for the development of Christianity from
around A.D. 30 until the present day.
“Religious belief can certainly be rejected
fairly, but this is a travesty upon intellectual
honesty which students permit themselves with
rather alarming frequency.”
Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, Protestant theologian,
said, “The fact is that the religious faith which
Gazette...
Today
BOTANY CLUB, noon. 202 Buckhout
BLOCK AND BRIDLE CLUB, 7:30 p.m., 209 Agriculture
CHIMES. 4 p.m.. Simmons (Walnut Lounge)
DAILY COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF SENIOR BOARD,
6:45 p.m.. 111 Carnegie
DAIRY SCIENCE CLUB. 7 p.m.. 117 Dairy
FUTURE TEACHERS OF AMERICA, 7 p.m., 217 Willard
HILLEL CHOIR. 7 p.m.. 224 Locust Lane
NEWMAN CLUB ROSARY, 4:30 p.m., Our Lady of Victory
Church . _. . - .
rOULTRY CLUB. 7 p.m.. Home Economics Living Center
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB, 7:30 p.m.. Psychology Laboratory
HILLEL SABBATH EVE SERVICES. 8 p.m., Hillel Foun-
PERSh'iNO RIFLES PLEDGE PRACTICE, 6 a.m., in front
of Old Main
University Hospital
Barbara Albeck, Will Brown, Charles Dißocco, James
Donahue. Ned Finkbeiner, John Gamer, Carol Grannis.
Phillip Howes, Margaret Nichols, Paul North, Anthony
Pelullo. John Ritchey, Maurice Schleicher, Michael Sikorski*
Joyce Simpson, James Swart7.welder, and Harold Walz.
Centennial Cachet
Sales Reach 1400
Approximately 1400 Centennial
cachets have been sold, accord
ing to Robert Krakoff, member
of the University Student Cen
tennial Committee.
The cachets bear the Univer
sity’s seal, the tower of Old Main,
and a few lines about the Uni
versity. Envelopes will remain on
sale at the Hetzel Union desk
until the present supply has been
sold. They are sold in groups of
three for 5 cents.
Elections Committee to Meet
Elections committee will meet
at 7 tonight in 9 Carnegie.
Daily Collegian
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Tomorrow
Chimes to Sell 'Suckers'
“Lick the Navy” suckers will
be sold at the Navy-Penn State
football game Homecoming week
end by members of Chimes, jun
ior women’s hat society.
Proceeds from the project will
be put into a scholarship fund,
national project of the society.
Hatwomen with the suckers will
circulate through the stands dur
ing the game.
Queen Contest Entries
Entries in the Centennial Home
coming Queen Contest may pick
up their pictures beginning today
at the Hetzel Union desk.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
For Mature Thinkers
was regarded as completely outmoded in the
days when those of us who are now old were
in college has become a live option, not only
for the 'simple and credulous’ but for the
sophisticated.”
It is not altogether the student’s fault that
he is religiously apathetic as well as religiously
immature.
We are aware of the professor who lakes
potshots at religious belief from Monday until
Friday and shows up for services on Sunday
morning.
Frank Sheed, Catholic publisher, has pointed
out that a world modeled according to the
teachings of many cold-blooded classroom ma
terialists, with their mechanistic theories about
man, would not be safe for people as gentle as
professors.
The main thought, though, is not' that Uni
versity undergraduates are turning away from
religious concepts for strictly scientific ones.
The trend, according to Will Herberg, book
critic for Commentary Magazine, is toward that
which was shunned in the twenties. Mr. Her
berg, in a recent issue of Commentary, said:
"Of course the mass of students like the mass
of Americans are still religiously illiterate and
secular-minded. But the intellectual tone has
begun to change. Even the obduracy and indif
ference are of a less order: the indifference is
less assured, the obdruacy is more serious and
sophisticated. Increasing numbers of students
are aware of a deepening religious concern.
And the intellectual vagabond on the campus is
definitely thinking along new lines that made
Kierkegaard, Niebuhr, Tillich, Maritain, de
Lubac, Buber, Rosenzweig and Heschel the
'idea-men* of the lime."
Dr. Nathan M. Pusey, president of Harvard
has said the University’s obligation is “to con
front the evil idea current in the East with
the ideals which have been fundamental in
the growth of Western civilization.”
The baneful ideas Dr. Pusey referred to, ac
cording to Herberg, may be current in the East,
but they were born in the West. Karl Marx
was no Oriental; neither was Adolph Hitler.
The unpleasant fact, Herberg added, is that
modern totalitarianism is a Western phenome
non which has taken root in the East. It is not
without meaning that the aggressive secularists
and forthright materialists of the Orient today
in many cases got their intellectual formation
in American Universities.”
If American Universities can be blamed in
any way for the decline of the importance of
religion in other parts of the world, it is cer
tainly a responsibility of American Universities
to lead the present-day trend toward religious
intervention in intellectual thought.
Intellectual religious thought does not emerge
from the grade-school concept of God, for many
of the roots of wisdom may be found in the
realm of the intangible and within the scope of
religion.
The University without a mature attitude to
ward sophisticated religion may house all the
branches of knowledge but none of the roots.
That must not be.
Safety Valve...
Expresses Thanks
TO THE EDITOR: We wish to express our
thanks to . . . Jack Fry, Ernie Young, and Fred
Spott, who helped tremendously when Ann
Forster, Peg Forster, Ellen Donovan, Judith
Pendleton, Harry Leopold, and George Althouse
were injured in a car accident on Route 6 on
their way to the Army-Penn State football
game.
They stayed with the students for four hours
helping in any way they could. Penn State can
be proud of these three men. Thanks fellows.
—Esther Donovan
Mary Krause
Ed Society to Meet
The Industrial Educational So
ciety. will hold an organizational
meeting at 7 tonight at Lambda
Chi Alpha.
Committee appointments will
be made. All industrial arts and
vocational educational students
may attend.
Complimentary Tickets
Members of the cast and crew
of “Take Ten,” Thespian musical
comedy production, may pick up
complimentary tickets today and
tomorrow at the Hetzel Union
desk.
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—Jackie Hudgins
Lillie Man on Campus
"It's no use to try to get 'fresh' with mel
I've heard about you fr.aternily menl"
The Smile Offensive
Russians Offer
Advice to Canada
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
Associated Press Foreign News Analyst
A torrent of Soviet advice greeted Canada’s foreign sec
retary, Lester B. Pearson, on his arrival yesterday in Moscow.
The solicitous words of Pravda and Izvestia brought into bold
relief the aims of the many-pronged Soviet diplomatic of
fensive.
Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, advised Pear
son that Canada should break out
of her deficit trade with the Uni
ted States and start taking ad
vantage of the markets offered
by the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, Red China and the rest
of the Communist bloc.
Pravda told the visitor Canada
was really a neighbor of the So
viet Union and should start think
ing about cutting down arms ex
penses and ending the cold war
against Moscow.
The Moscow press casually ad
mitted that the Kremlin regards
the arrival of Pearson at this mo
ment as most fortunate in view of
the new mar. red improvement in
east-west relations. It then told
Canada that she could sell sur
plus wheat to Communist coun
tries and that she has an unfav
orable trade balance with the
United States.
The Canadian visitor is not
the first to undergo this sort of
treatment in Moscow snce the
smile offensive began. The Com
munists have decided it is high
time for them to take advantage
of the basic weaknesses of capi
talism on the economic front to
win more victories on the politi
cal front.
Canadians have been treated
to a taste of what the new look
might amount to. The Canadian
government this summer exe
cuted a couple of deals with
European Communist countries
to take shipments of Canada's
surplus butter and wheat.
Canadian business has been
given to understand that this
was only the beginning—that
an almost limitless market
awaits them.
But now, with the visit of the
Foreign Secretary, the implication
is that it is all up to the Canadian
government and the course of its
future policy. Trade requires nor
malization of relations with the
Communist bloc—including Bed
China and normalization re
quires an end to the cold war.
In order to end the cold war,
Canada is given to understand,
she must break away from the
lead of the United States.
If the Soviet Union sees signs
of irritation between the United
States and its closest ally, it ob
viously is going to strike while
the iron is hot. This sort of think-
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 6. 1955
By Bibler
ing unquestionably is the very
foundation of the Soviet new
look, whose basic aim is to splin
ter the unity of the west by
using every weapon and every
advantage that comes to hand.
4 Chairmen
Appointed
By Council
Four committee chairmen were
appointed at a Pollock Council
meeting Tuesday night.
The appointees were Bruce
Keeler, freshman in agricultural
bio-chemistry from Bethlehem,
gublic welfare committee; John
lennis, senior in civil engineer
ing from Stroudsburg, projects
committee; Clyde Young, junior
in arts and letters from West
Elizabeth, social committee; and
John Rhodes, sophomore in arts
and letters from Falls Church,
Va., recreation committee. David
Cummings, junior in business ad
ministration from Olyphant, was
appointed fire marshall.
Walter Waltemeyer, council
president, suggested that the con
stitution needed revision. He said
the constitution conflicts with the
new Association of Independent
Men election code. The discussion
was tabled.
Suggestions that candy be sold
in each Pollock dormitory and
that improvements be made in
Pollock area roads were referred
to the projects committee.
Suggestions were made to have
menus posted a week in advance
and to have dinner music in the
Pollock dining hall. The suggest
ion was referred to the welfare
committee.
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