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Published fuesdhsy through
Saturday •ornings during
the University year, the
Daily Collegian Is a student•
operated newspaper.
Entered se eeeemd-elase matter July e. HU et the State College. Ps. Peet otne. 11111der
MIKE MILLER, Acting Editor 4/110, 1 ROGER VOGELSINGER, Acting Business Manager
Fay. Co-Asst. Bus Mgrs., John Emits Dorothea Moldy': Local
Managing Editor, Roger Seidler; City Editor, Don Shoe-
Adv. Mgr. , .IFa • Goldstein; National 'Adv. Mgr., Jerry Fried;
maker; Copy Editor, Dotty Stone; Sports Editor, ROY Wil- Co-Circula tion y Mgrs., Israel Schwab, Christine Kauffman;
Hams; Editorial Director, Jackie Hudgins; Society Editor, Promotion Mgr., Delite Hoopes; Co-Personnel Mgrs., Aletta
Ines Althouse; Assistant Sports Editor; Ron Gatehouse; Pho- Manbeck, Connie Anderson; Office Mgr., Ann K ; Classi
fied Adv. Mgr., Peggy Davis; Secretary, Lii Melko; Research
tography Editor, Ron Walker; Senior Board, Ron Leik. and Records Mgr., Virginia Latshaw.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Ed Dubbs; Copy Editors, Al Klimcke, Marnie Schenck; Assist
ants, Dick Hufnagel, Barb Budnick, Pat Hunter, Barb Martino, Pat Evans, Lou Prato, Lianne Cor
dero, Jane Klein. Ad Staff: Faye 'Goldstein.
Frosh Car Ban: Founded on Good Sense
The importance of the enforcement of the ban
on freshmen operating cars in the State College
area has been effectively demonstrated by the
Senate subcommittee on discipline.
A student was suspended for the spring se
mester for failure to obey the car ban rule.
This is harsh punishment, but it is justified.
It may be difficult for freshmen to compre
hend the urgent necessity for this ruling, but a
little thought should convince the harshest
sceptic.
The facts are these:
There are over 12,000 students on campus. A
conservative guess as to how many would have
access to cars for at least a portion of the school
year would be about 2000. Add to this the cars
of the faculty, administration, and other Uni
versity employees and the number of cars that
would glut the campus area would be stag
gering.
Thus, the University is forced to take steps
to prevent a free-for-all fight for parking areas
on• campus which in the end would cause hard
feelings by both the faculty and student bodies.
And, of course, a mammoth parking problem
and traffic tie-up would ensue on campus every
school day.
To combat this problem these steps have been
taken:
1) Women, with the exception of eighth se
mester students, have been refused permission
to have cars. This is a long standing rule and
is rarely questioned.
2) Parking areas available to students per
mitted to drive on campus are restricted. This
Is Cabinet the Best "Sounding . Board "?
During elections All-University Cabinet is Athletic Association, the board of Dramatics
often referred to as "the sounding board of stu- and Forensics, and the Board of Publications.
dent opinion." But catchy as this phrase may 2. That, as possible replacements or additions,
sound to students it is little used except to the extension of an invitation to the president
wangle support from traditionally apathetic of the Graduate Student Council and a Foreign
voters. Student representative. '
It is a good phrase, though, and in this elec- To begin with, it is not all together fair to
lion month maybe it would be wise if Cabinet assume Cabinet, seats must represent a majority
could re-examine or examine itself to see if it of students. In actuality, if not by definition,
really is the sounding board—to see if it is the Cabinet is a hodge-podge of special interest
best-organized representation of the student groups—WßA, AA,. Panhellenic Council, As
body sociation of Independent Men, Leonides, Inter-
As as result of the 1955 Student Encamp- fraternity Council. Board of • Dramatics and
ment the All-University President was asked Forensics, Board of Publications, the eight
last week to appoint a committee to look into councils, and the four classes.
the possibility of reorganizing Cabinet. And the object for being assigned a seat on
For one thing, the workshop recommended the sounding board should be according to
that membership be reconsidered in order that scope, influence, and contact with campus af
"those seats which do not represent the ma- fairs—not necessarily according to tht number
jority of the students be eliminated with the of students that elect a legislator to office or
possibility that membership be extended to the enrollment he claims to represent.
groups not now represented in that body." If this is true the problem of the reorganize-
With this conception of the apparent purpose tional committee will not be to determine how
of having a Cabinet the workshop committee an individual gets on Cabinet, rather it will
suggested: be to determine the relative importance of the
1. That the following groups be specifically group he represents.
reconsidered: Women's Recreation Association,
Gazette•••
BELLES LETTRES CLUB, 7:30 p.a., Northeast Atherton
Lounge
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 7 p.m.. 804 OW
Main
DAILY COLLEGIAN BUSINESS 'STAFF, T p.m., 218
Willard
DAILY COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF CANDIDATES,
7 p.m.. 217 Willard
DAILY COLLEGIAN PROMOTION STAFF, 6 :SO p.m.. 101
Willard
FRESHMAN COUNCIL, 6:15 p.m., 217 Hetzel Union
FROTH CIRCULATION STAFF. 0:30 p.m., Froth Office
in HUB basement
INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS AND THE AMERI
CAN INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS, 7:30
p.m.. 220 Electrical Engineerinit
LAVIE SPORTS STAFF. 7:30 p.m.. 412 Old Main
NEWMAN CLUB DAILY -ROSARY. 4:15 p.m, 209 Helsel
Union
NEWMAN CLUB EXECUTIVE ODMMITTEE. T DAIL. New
Church Hall
NEWMAN CLUB PUBLICITY COMMITTEE, 7:45 p.m.,
New Church Hall
PANHELLENISI COUNCIL, 6:30 P.m.. 212 Helsel Union
PENN STATE CAMERA CLUB, 7 p.m., 216 Helsel Units"
PENN STATE JAZZ CLUB, 8:30 p.m., 105 White Hall
Maven:lo Hospital
Challen Sonar, Gerald Bordk, Janet Cornell, Bernice
Faatow, Herbert Garfinkle, Lilly Johnson, Barbara Kline•.
4 Scholarships Available
Four $l2OO scholarships for stu
dents at the University have been
established, effective with the
current semester, by Thomas S.
Nichols, president of the Olin-
Mathieson Chemical Co., New
York City.
Students to receive the scholar
ships will be designated by Presi
dent Milton S. Eisenhower. The
scholarships will also be awarded
during the next three years.
LaVio Sports Staff
The LaVie sports staff will meet
at 7:30 tonight in 412 Old Main.
Pr Datil! Coritrgtatt
thseessair Ai THE "RR LANCE. sal. NW
LaVie Photos Scheduled
For Eight Organizations
Group pictures of eight organ
izations for LaVie will be taken
tomorrow night at the Penn State
Photo Shop.
The organizations and times
they should report are Women's
Student Government Association
Senate, 6:40; Omicron Delta Kap
pa, 6:50; Penh State Engineer, 7;
LaVie Staff,. 7:10; Froth Staff,
7:20; Agriculture Student Coun
cil, 7:30; Newman Club, 7:40; Hil
lel Foundation, 7:50;
sity Cabinet, 8; WSGA }Rouse of
Representatives, 1:10; Women's
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
is another long-standing policy which is rarely
questioned.
3) Freshmen are not permitted to operate cars
in the State College vicinity. This was insti
tuted as a stop-gap measure to combat the
growing parking problem and has often bean
questioned.
The freshman car ban is not an arbitrary rule
stemming from the whim of a high-ranking ad
ministration official. Bather, it was born of
necessity and may be only a temporary measure.
Whether or not the ban becomes permanent
may depend on the validity of another reason
which prompted the action.
The faculty and administration have long
suspected that the alarmingly high flunk-out
rate in the freshman class can be directly traced
to the large number of cars operated by the
yearling students.
The accuracy of this belief can only be tested
by the comparative performance of this year's
freshman class to those of previous years. there
fore, judgment of this reason will have to be
deferred, although it does seem that such a
belief would be well-founded.
In the meantime, the freshmen must realise
the good sense on which this regulation is based.
There is no other logical answer to the problem.
A way has been cleared through the efforts
of the Association of Independent Men and the
dean of men's office for those who absolutely
must have cars to.obtain permission to do so.
The rest of the freshman class must simply
accept the regulation. To attempt to circumvent
it is foolish.
Safety Valve •••
But We Do Dance!
TO THE EDITOR: In reply to David Houghton's
letter on Bad Trends in Dancing published in
Saturday's Daily Collegian, we disagree -that
"waltzing and folk dancing have , been com
pletely forgotten."
Quite on the contrary, students appear *agar
to learn provided these dances are taught so
that those without previous experience can
learn quickly while having fun.
No matter what the reason for lack of in
terest in previous groups has been, students
generally don't like to have to. go "to class" to
find recreational diversion. Enthusiasm in folk
dancing for fun is still alive at Penn 'State as
demonstrated by the ggrowing turn-outs at the
dances sponsored by the newly organized Inter
landia Folk Dancers.
burger. Jean .Kunkle. William Weakling, Patricia Mowry,,
Philip Potter. James Rooney. Hoirard Sherman, William
Snyder, Stanley Elliman, anal Dorothy Thompson.
Froth Circulation Staff
The Froth circulation staff will
meet at 6:30 tonight in the Froth
office in the basement of the Het
zel Union building, according to
Robert Gellman, circulation min
ager.
Panhel to Meet Tonight
Panhellenic Council will meet
at 6:30 tonight in 212 Hetael Un
ion to discuss revised rushing
rules.
Judicial Board, $:20; Student Tri
bunal.
Itlnertias represent as
d•wpoht• •t tM• writers,
net n•c•••ariy tM• pette►
•t tr• paper, the student
behy. •r the lhalvenftr.
• •et •t Kara S. NIL
—The Editor
—Jacid• Hudgins
Hans J..Huth
Little Man on Campus
"I believe we pledged the Leroy Van DuPont
chap since you were here last.'
the cobbler's bench
As Others, See Us
A friend of ours dropped by the office the other day with an
item clipped from the London (England) Daily Express.
Dated Oct. 13, 1955, it was a column bylined by one Rene
Mac Coll. The title, in large black
type. read
Oh Oxfoid!
Oh Cambridge!
. .. could you but see this scene!
We think you, gentle reader,
might be as interested as .we
were. The column appears below
(with our comments in paren
theses).
New York, Wednesday, I
thought it would be 'instructive
to take a close look at an Ameri
can university in this great • big
bustling "fall" of 1955. So from
Chicago I. flew to a -hamlet in
the State of Pennsylvania named
State College.
State college may be a hamlet
—but it is attached to, and indeed
exists only for, the third 'biggest
university in the U.S.A.—Penn
sylvania State College.
(News must travel slowly
these days—we wonder when
England will find out we have
Sunday movies . . . and' in
cidentally, we're onl y• . the
eleventh 'biggest university iu
the U.S.A. and we are
uni
versity—give us 'time, .Rene.
after
old.) all we're only. 100 years
This vast and seething cockpit
of learning has an "enrollment"
of 14,000 youths and girls., As I
wandered in its avenues Ewes
coping with a little matter of
9500 acres.
(Main campus enrollment— •
12.653. Area of main camp's—.
3627 acres ... but give us time.
'Rene.)
It 'marked its centenary this
very year, :which makes it, by
American standards,. high 'in the
Methuselah stake s. And its
"prexy" (president) is none other
than Milton Eisenhower, brother
and highly regarded political ad
visor to the American President,
and increasingly tipped as a dark
horse to suceed ' Ike in conse
quence of that heart attack.
Outlandish
Oh Oxford, oh Cambridge, .could
you but glimpse this scenes
The girls trooped past me in
"Bermudas" or "pedal pushers".
What this means is that regdrd
les* of the suitability of their .fig
urei—and I do mean suitability—
they were clad in form-fitting
shorts of the most outlandish
ty Go pe.
rdon tartan• shorts riding
uneasily over the - generous
haunches. Hunting S t e w a r t,
Campbell, Menzies corn. one
come all and no matter how ,far
out they had to go to cover the
subject.
Above the waist the "co-eds"
sported tight-fitting sweaters, and
oa • their heads "clinks", small-
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1955
By DON SHOEMAKER
brimmed hats with high crowns.
Down below they wore wool
stockings in crimson, navy blue
or charcoal grey, which came up
under the knee.
(Well, we like it . . . but we
can understand th e Mai Coll
point of view . . . coeducation
hasn't hit England yet.)
The men students either -re
sembled fugitives • from the chor
us line of a No. 3 travelling com
pany of ."OklahomaL" or else,
scowling and crew-cut, th e y
seemed to be members of a road
gang which had knocked off to
wait for the next section of cliff
to be 'dynamited.
Incongruous
I was finally led off to the
stadium where, far from recuper
ating,. I received new shocks. For
it so happened that . the college
football team, (meaning the big
business, mowd-pulling, money.
spinning game which . brings in
gates of some. Bo,ooo or 90,000 on
lookers every Saturday) was play
ing away that day, and the only
home attraction' was a , paltry
game 'of Soccer with a visiting
side.
(Ws should hops thus were
two teams.)
This pulled in only a few hun
dred spectators, but believe it or
not, the flame took place to ,the
Accompaniment of "cheerleaders"
—three pretty and , athletic girls
who gyrated• and leaped and ges
ticulated and bawled through
megaphones and generally "gave"
While the small crowd roared and
cheered Obediently •in unison.
Never have . I seen corners tak
en or dribbles made to , quite so
incongruous an accompaniment.
It was Aston Villa with a "rah
rah rah" background.
-, (But they till me we have a
fair wow team in spite of it.)
Oh! Oxford, Oh! Cambridge!
(Oh Well . . . I)
Collegian Staffs to Meet
The Daily Collegian promotion
staff will meet at GM tonight in
109 -Willard.
The business staff will meet at
7 in 218 Willard. Candidates for
the business staff will meet at '1
in 217 Willard.
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