PAGE FOUR Published Tuesday through Saturday morning' during the University year, the Daily Collegian is • student operated new. . 'Catered am n d-elaae wetter July •, 11134 at *. State Callers. Pa. Peet Office ander MIKE MILLER, Acting Editor ROGER VOGELSINGER, Acting Business Manager Managing Editor, Roger Beidler: City Editor, Don Shoe Co-Asst. Bus. . Mgrs , John ICmets ' Dorothea Koldys• Local . Adv. Mgr., Fay e Goldstein• National Adv. Mgr., Jerry Fried: maker; Copy Editor, Dotty Stone: Snort. Editor, Roy Co-Circulation Mgrs., Israel Schwab, Christine Kauffman; Hans: Editorial Director, Jackie nudging; Society Editor. Promotion Mgr., Delite Hoopes; Co-Personnel Mgrs.. Alain Ines Althouse: Assistant Sports Editor, Ron Gatehouse: Pho- Manbeck, Connie Andersen; Office Mgr.. Ann Reeser: Classi tography Editor , Ron Walker. fied Adv. Mgr.,Peggy Davis: Secretary. Lil ilfelkot Research and Records gr., Virginia Latahaw. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Judy Harkison; Copy Editors, Al Klimcke, Nancy Showalter Assistants, Tom Buckey, Bill Kling, Pat Evans, Barbara Martino, George French, Joyce Bedrava Willa Neudorfer. Gray Flannel: Ensignia What's under that gray flannel uniform? What makes you any different from the rest of those enlisted in the ranks of collegiate con formity? Perhaps there's very little to set you off from the brigade of button-downs. Possibly there's nothing at all. But college has not always been the proving ground for conformity. Once upon a time the university encouraged individualism, but not any more. Every day more and more emphasis is being placed on how the, individual can learn to fit in with others in his society. If he doesn't fit in, he is maladjusted. If he is maladjusted, he waits in line to see a psychiatrist who reads a personality to him off an IBM card. For remedy, he is advised 'to buy a gray flannel suit and for exercise he is encouraged to stuff it with a plaid button-down. But more serious than this the collegiate ill ness doesn't end with graduation. Career men must remain collegiate men until their hair is too thin to be crew cut. They begin to conform again—not as class room collegiates, but as business collegiates. They have not been prepared to be radicals in the field of business or any other field. In fact, they have been convinced that being a radical, a subversive,. and an individual are all equally hazardous. So they are not radical. They conform rather than progress. The philosopher Nietzsche wrote he was dis turbed "that present mankind is not something to be standardized or thrown back into primi- Junior Week--Weak? Junior Week is no longer Junior Week. It is merely a few functions sponsored by the Junior Class. Plans for the "Week," Oct. 31 to Nov. 6, include the Junior Prom, a pep rally, a motorcade for the pep rally, and recognition of juniors at church services. The talent show, formerly included in the "Week," was dis pensed with this year, thus leaving the "Week" with only one major function. Either the class should add another function such as a jam session, which would probably receive enthusiasm from members of the class, or it should relinquish its present claim •to a week of activities. The only major function as it now stands' is the Junior Prom. Most people do, not even realize that Junior Week, as such, exists. If the Junior Class feels there is not enough interest in the talent show to 'keep it going; then it is right in dropping it from 'he schedule.. But it should be replaced With some activity . that meets the present interests of the students. A week (?) that lasts just three days is hardly. deserving of the title "Junior Week.' Don't hang 'on 'to an empty title supported 'only by tradition. —Sue Conklin To Mrs. Hibbs • . . The University was fortunate to have in its service an unselfish woman, the character of Mrs. Hibbs. And we, representing the voice of the stu dents, express our deepest sympathy at her passing even though the remembrance of her in the minds of those who knew her best is a far greater monument to her than we can build with words Gazette ... Today COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF (all boards), 6:30 p.m., Collegian Business Office HILLEL CULTURAL COMMITTEE, 6:30 p.m., Hillel Foundation KAPPA PHI KAPPA, 7 p.m., 6 Burrowea MINERAL INDUSTRIES STUDENT COUNCIL, 7:30 p.m., 208 Willard NEWMAN CLUB CHOIR PRACTICE, 7:30 p in., Our Lady of Victory Church NEWMAN CLUB DAILY ROSARY, 4:30 p.m., Our Lady of Victory Church NOVENA, 7 p.m. Our Lady of Victory Church NITTANY GROTTO, 7:10 p.m.. 121 Mineral Industries PENN STATE PLAYERS ADVERTISING, 7 p.m., Schwab Auditorium (loft) rERSIIING RIFLES CO. B-5 (active members and pledges). ? p.m., Armory THETA SIGMA PHI, 6:30 p.m., Grange Playroom Tomorrow CHIMES. 4 p.m Simmons Walnut Lounge NEWMAN CLUB DAILY ROSARY, 4:30 p.m., Our Lady of Victory Church Dobyns Is UCA Speaker The Rev. Lester L. Dobyns, ex ecutive director of the University Christian Association, will speak on the position of the Christian student in the University at the UCA assembly at 7 tonight in 304 Old Main. Xhe Eatig Collegian !Nemo*, •• TEI rant LANCE. avg. MT ---J.H. Correction The Future Teachers of Amer ica wiener roast will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20 in Hort Woods instead of this Thurs day, as reported in yesterday's Daily Collegian. The 25 cent charge must be paid by tomorrow. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA of the Conformist Live annonymity, but surpassed." But according to Edgar Ansel Mowrer of the Saturday Review, present mankind is being standardized. He said: "The potential Fords and Edisons and Firestones—if they manage to pass the preposterous 'personality testers' and are hired—soon get the gate. The nonentities and yes-boys stay and are promoted. As a result we have a new class of big business directors who are less outstanding than the corporations they boss." No wonder people are crowding psychology courses and mental illness clinics, says Mowrer, they're bored with over-standardization. This group living and group-getting-along-with has been played to the hilt. People hiding behind their gray flannel suits are afraid to think. They shy away from de cision making. Malcomb Muggeridge, editor of Punch, has been quoted as saying: "The basic fear of our time, future historians may well decide, has lain in the too ready acceptance of current orthodoxies, whether through fear of being suspected of rebelliousness and conse quently punished, or just as a result of suc cumbing to mass persuasion." Mass persuasion works best on the conformist, the collegiate insect, members of the herd state, for true.. Democracy, according to Muggeridge, requires a non-conforming ctiizenry. The citizenry can dress any way it wants to, but in its self-analysis it must see beneath the goay flannel suit a mind—not just a plaid but ton-down. Half-Holiday Time This year as in the past, a movement has been started by campus organizations recom mending that a half-holiday be , granted by the University 'so students may attend an away football game without cutting classes. • All-Unlversity Cabinet sent the official wheels .rolling last week . by passing - a.recommendation to 'the University. Council of ' , Administration that a half-hOliday be 'granted for the Penn weekend. Thwr proposal:niust receive' final ap proval. from the council, before .. a" free half-day will be given. • The same movement has taken ; place . at this time of the year during the- lastseveral years, and , in each - case - the - -half-holiday has been granted. This year:the &aeon* is still- in doubt. Some :believe that • the holiday.. wilt not be granted because it Watt not 'provided for on the University calendar this year..Mccre optimistic Pertons .thinh that .studehts- will .be granted the I orning off and'-University officiaili".will" tack the time off ,on to ,some , future vacation. Regiordlms of: the outcome this—year, stu dents . nrod inembers,of the adMinistration should now roalise..that this, problem will arise - every year that we play away: football genies. Thep should , have the foresight to try, to eliminate this siivation by allowfitg a "floating holiday" or devising soirie such method so that each year Uniiersity, official; are not accused of trying to, spoil the students' fun by not letting them have the-Saturday 'morning off before the Penn or Pitt game.' A "floating holiday". has been suggested in the pait but was not put in effect because it could not be inserted into the 'calendar sched ule at the time. Another objection to . the plan was that instructors would plan their Saturday classes only to have Cabinet declare a half holiday and mess up the educational proceed ings. But if such a plan could be• instituted, with the provision that Cabinet give sufficient no tice of the holiday, the worries of the instruc tors and students could be eliminated. Profes sors would know about the vacation and could outline their courses accordingly. Students, at the same time, could make their own plans about attending the game without the worries of unexcused cuts. Such a plan should be put into effect if stu dents are to continue to get football half-holi days. We hope that University officials keep this in mind when they plan future calendars. —Rog 'Seidler PSYCHOLOGY CLUB. 8 p.m.. Psychology Laboratory PERSHING RIFLES PLEDGE PRACTICE. 6 a.m., Armory University Hospital - - Edward Bauman, Richard Begle, Susan Brown. George Bryan, Jack • Calderone, Joseph Casarin, Beverly Dean. Carolyn Dimntick, Charles DlRocco, James Donahue, Donald Green, William Hansen, Thomas Hollenbsch, William Mc- Govern, Rosanna Rote, Dennis Schweitzer. Nittany Grotto to Meet Nittany Grotto will meet at 7:30 tonight in 121 Mineral Indus tries. Homecoming Queen Entries Entries in the Homecoming Queen Contest may pick up their pictures at the Hetzel Union desk. &Revisits represent the viewpoints of the writers, net sweessarily the policy of the paper, the student holy. sr the University. • ••t of M•rea S. 11179 —Jackie Hudgins Little Man on Campus "This is when 2W coach ran out on th' field for a few words with the referee." On Russia Diplomacy Rules Dulles' Sayings By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst John Foster Dulles has to be more diplomatic in his pub lic pronouncements than his brother Allen or than George Meany, president of the American Federation of Labor. As Secretary of State, Foster Dulles' chief objective at this moment is to determine whether Soviet Russia's expres sions of policy are to be accepted or rebuffed. He's not' sup posed to take chances either way, or to say anything that might en danger the least hope of peace. Ai head of the Central Intelli gence Agency, Allen Dulles: pro vides much Of the infermation on which. Foster Dulles must bate his judgments, and isn't sapposed to say 'much of 'anything. • An intportant part of Moany's lob is to. ma ,to . it. that Arnold 'cin •labor , doesn't get audio in by !isms' which. deflect it horn • its main goal. His organization has been away* not miroly in combatting Communism, in the • United Statips. hut alio- in thwarting the • plans of ''tho - World Foderatiiin of TriidiAln- - ions. a lidoscow-iporisormi , or . ganization whose only. -'pUrptzse is to.. enlist 'labor a ll aim tho •'•world in the ' Red Rovolution. the success of which would con demn all labor ; organisations to . the impotency • and "collabora jionisiir of those in Russia. . These ' three Americans have all discussed Soviet policy ' this week. . Foster Dulles spoke in a. con siderably more conservative tone than when he first returned from the Big Four conference at Gen eva a few weeks ago. The United States is making a ceaseless effort,' he said in effect, to protect each and all of its own interests while , studying every possibility that a more peaceful world can be worked out. There was nothing remindful in his words of "peace in our time," but doors were being kept' open. His sober approach may or may not have been influenced by his. brother. A. short time before Foster Dulles spoke, Al len had been saying that he had no information to indicate that Russia was backing down on the cold war. The subversive campaign of International Com munism goes forward as usual/ he said. Foster recovnized the possibility that Russian peace ful emanations were merely a part of the old familiar Com munist tactic of "zig sag." .. Speaking from the same Amer ican Legion platform after the Secretary, Meany was more spe cific about the blacks and whites, especially blacks, of the situation. He was under no compusion to keep .any doors open. Nothing has happened. he said. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1935 By Bibler to indicate any change in, , RuS sian plains for world :domination. That's whir', he said the Federal %inn of Labor hat 'flatly turned down all propOsitians of exChang. log, delegations _with the 'coin; rnunisf,countriek".: - The ..natute" of th* different ant** of 'the three ttihn must. be taken'inte .cotteideratrod in bon sidering their words. Mt Council Sets • - Meetint:lbnigtit Mineral Industries ,, Stu d e a.t Council : will. meet.: at 7:3.0 ~tonight n 208, Willard. According Tooker, president. Included in the program will befit - discussion on forming a sti dent Mineral Industries news let ter, and plans foi 'holding coffee hours far, freshmen in Mineral In dustries. A Committee will bring up a resolution to purchase a bronze plaque naming the winners of the the Ellen Steidle Award for schol astic achievements and extra cur ricidar activities. The pla q ue would .be placed in the Mineral Industries Building. St. John's EUB Church To Hold Student Banquet St. John's Evangelical United Brethren Church will sponsor a student felloWship banquet at 5 p.m, Sunday at the church. Following the dinner, a panel discussion entitled "I Look at Philosophy" will be held. The group will also participate in a union service at the Faith Evan gelical and Reformed Church. TIM to Meet Tonight Town• Independent Men ' will meet at 7:30 tonight in 216 Hetzel Union. Tonight on WDFM Pl.l MEGACYCLES 7:16 7 :20 7:90 Student Encampment 8:00 Behind the Lectern S :30 Phi Mu Alpha 9 :00 _ Call Card 9:16 News 9:80 Music You Want 1040 ----- Men Oft _- Sias Oa
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