PAGE FOUR PttbU»he4 TiumU; UtrAvfti Baturdfty morning* during tk« UaUenity jrenr, tht Dally Colleilm U a student* •prrated newspaper. Entered a« second-elf matter July 5, 1134 a* the State College, Pa. Poet Office under the act of March 3* 1371 MIKE MILLER. Acting Editor ROGER VOGELSINGER, Acting Business Manager Edi Ur. K.r.r BtidWr; Citr Editor. Doa Shoo- , C®-A«.l. B».. Meri.. J.hri Kaictx. Doroth«» Kaldr,: Lmsl , ~ r» s* -s». „ . _ *„• Ada. Mgr., Faye Getdstein; National Ade. Mir.. Jerry Fried; mmktr. Copy Editor. Datt, 8Un»: Sport. Editor. Koy WII- Co-Circal.tloa I.ratl Schwab. Chri.tin. Kaaffai.a: llama: Editorial Director. Jaekie Hudgins: Society Editor. Promotion Mffr., Delito Hoopeo; Co-Personnel Min., Alotta Ine. Alth A.ni.tant Bp.ru Editor: R.a Gatohoa.o: Pho- <:•■»>• Aaderjon; Office M*r.. Ana Ko M «r: Cla..i- P ... . _ ... fied Ad* Mgr., Persy Dstis: Sacretory. LH Melko: Research toerophr- Editor. Roa Waik,r: Scaler Boord. Kea Uik. an d Record. Mrr.. Virriaia Latchaw. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Judy Harlcison; Copy Editors, Sue Conklin, Vince Carocci; As sistants, Dick Fisher, Pat Hunter, Lou Prato, Jane Klein, Pat Evans, Bob Franklin, Greg Huntingdon. All About Next Week’s Classes When Monday is Monday that's not news, but when Monday is Thursday that is news. And today because just such a thing is soon to happen we’re carrying this story of explanation. Not only is Monday Thursday, but Tuesday is Friday and Wednesday morning is Saturday morning. But later on Wednesday (miraculously, in the word ol a political science professor) be comes Wednesday afternoon. Without giving this phenomenon much thought students and faculty people have been confused by its complexity thus they have ridiculed it and made all manner of fun of the committee on calendar. But we should like to explain why such a schedule was devised. In the spring of 1953 the University Senate, which is the governing body of the University, passed a statement of policy covering the de velopment of the calendar from which we quote: 1. The calendar for any academic year shall provide exactly 15 meetings per semester for each class hour in the week. 2. The fall semeste'r classes shall begin at 8 a.m. on the second Monday after Labor Day. (This means the third Monday in September.) In order lo have each class meet 15 times per semester for each class hour in the week Crammed Schedule Needs Relief All the recent talk about the need for half holidays and more time between the end of final examinations and registration has so far failed to bring out another need for a break in the University calendar. With final tests fast approaching it is be coming increasingly evident, at least to the student body, that there isn't enough time to get all the studying done. Bluebooks, additional assignments lo catch up with lagging assignment schedules, and last minute papers are rife. With with finals, the student body is "snowed." A common complaint at this time of the year? Perhaps, but at least a partially legitimate one j»nd something can be done to alleviate the situation. Fall semester classes end at 5 p.m., Jan. 18. Final examinations start at 8 p.m. the follow ing day. Does this schedule allow students ade quate time to prepare for final tests consider ing the heavy load of “regular” assignments common at this stage in the semester? We do not think so. If a one day buffer was provided between the end of classes and fhe start of final exam inations students would have more time for necessary review. This fact cannot be denied. ALPHA KAPPA PSI BUSINESS MEETING, 7:M p.m r,Hinl>itA Chi Alpha CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 7 p.m Main DAILY COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF. 7 p.m.. 218 Willard DAILY COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF. 7 p.m.. 104 Willard ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETY, 7 p.m., 21* Elec trical Engineering ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL, 7 p.m., 106 o*m<md Foreign Policy Gains Importance By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst In an election year, with Unit ed States foreign policy definitely thrust to the fore as a campaign issue, it is going to be difficult to come up with a formula to save the Middle East from subversion and chaos. Yet, there may be a way. There seems to be general agreement that the cause of many of the Western Alliance’s woes in the Middle East—and indeed in Asia—stems from over-emphasis on the military aspects of defense against communism. The search for the formula then, would seem to be in the other direction. In Europe's perilous years af ter the end of World War 11. the economic aspects of Ameri can assistance injected new life, strength and faith into weary and depressed people. The halt ing of communism at the bor ders of Czechoslovakia and East Germany testifies to the success of the American enterprise. The Middle East is in peril now. Anti-American and anti-Western sentiment appears to be rising in lath; Collegian t. THE FREE LANCE, «*. 18»T Gazette... 304 Old all corners of that vitally stra tegic area. It is a sentiment feed ing on fear and resentment. President Eisenhower's pro posal that the United States as sure its friends abroad that there will be continued Ameri can economic assistance has a particular meaning for the coun tries of the Middle East. It of fers. at the same time, a pros pect that may be possible to push into the background the military aspects Of American and Western policies in the Mid dle East, and to accept the So viet challenge of economic com petition in the area for its ulti mate benefit. Although it is not a signatory power, the United States is given the credit and the blame in the Middle East for the military as pect of the Baghdad Pact. The United States can take part in the activities of the alliance, however, and it can take the leadership in pushing those military aspects far into the background. It might yet be possible to transform the alliance into a sort of organization for Middle East THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA the Wednesday afternoon, Thursday,' Friday, and Saturday morning classes must be made up and at the end of the semester the days left happen to be Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. If we just attended our firsl-of-lhe-week classes we would be attending those classes 16 limes leaving the end-of-the-week classes at tended only 14 times. Another solution would be to begin classes in September on a Wednesday afternoon instead of Monday morning thereby making up the Thanksgiving recess before it would be taken, but according to the Senate rule this would be impossible. Even if the Senate rule could be changed the complications that would arise as a result of starting classes in the middle of the week might not be worthwhile. For such a thing might re quire students to return to the campus as much as a week earlier than they do now. If classes began on Wednesday afternoon, what would the students be doing all day Monday and Tues day? Other solutions may be possible and there is a Senate committee studying the procedures at other institutions of comparable size. Their findings will soon be printed. After all it's really not so bad. Anyway, this might develop into some sort of Penn State tradition. Who knows— And we are not asking for “cram” time. There is a difference between “cramming” and reviewing. “Cram” time is what we have now. One night is not sufficient lime to review the content of a college course. And a general review before a final lest is universally advo cated by teachers. But. this cannot be accom plished in one night unless the student studies into the wee hours. And this is universally con demned by teachers who say . all-night no-dos binges with the books do more harm than good. But what is the student with a final exam ination the day following the end of classes to do? He must try to “review” for the test; Therefore, he “crams” late into the night. In the light of this situation we submit that a one day buffer between the end of. classes and the start of final examinations should be built into the calendar. We believe. that this is as necessary as half-holidays and more time between the end of examinations and registra tion. Of course, it is too late to remedy the situa tion this semester._ But we ask the University Senate Calendar Committee to seriously con sider this proposal and to provide a buffer day, if possible. _ FRESHMAN COUNCIL. ft:3o p.m., 21T Heteel Union PANHELLENIC COUNCIL. 6:30 p.m.. Initiation room. Simmons PENN STATE FARMER. 8 p.m., 217 HeUel Union PHILOSOPHY CLUB. 7:30 p.m., 209 Hetsel Union WOMEN'S CHORUS MEETING, 7 p.m. f 100 Carnegie University Hospital Sidney Brindley, Robert Dorw&rt, George Fish, James Foyle, Thomas Fridy, Stanford Click. Robert Knee. Donna Smith. William Thompson, Charles Vance, Harry Wisner, Gary Zook, and Benjamin Petcrsohn. economic cooperation, similar to the arrangements which enjoyed success in Europe. The machinery already exists under the treaty. There seems to be a large de gree of skepticism in Washing ton about the possibility of a regional approach' to the devel opment of Middle East economic ' . programs to bolster the area against pressures from the Com munist world. The arabs them selves are bound to be suspi cious now of any such.move. Yet if the situation in the Mid dle East is to be rescued at all, it is going to require bold and dramatic ideas—ideas which can capture the imagination of ambi tious Middle East leaders and of that section of the population which is responsible for the rise and fall of governments. The immediate task, of course, is to prevent an Arab-Israeli war. But the long-range task calls for patient construction of a wall, combining Middle East indepen dence and free world interdepen dence, as a- bulwark against de termined Communist penetration efforts. Editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers, not neceaserliy the policy of the psper, the student body, or the University. —Jackie Hudgins —The Editor Tomorrow Little Man on Campus "Of course I said we were going 'she-ing' It's pronounced that way." n Assignment From the Notebook We went over to Rec Hall last Saturday night to find out who they were feeding to Oberly this time and in the process saw a really great Lion wrestling team in action before an SRO crowd of 5010. The Bill Oberly-Fillius match was the one the crowd was wa to a real bruiser, iii which the Lion NCAA champ used just about every hold in the book, but somehow just couldn’t pin the Big Red wrestler. No doubt, though, “The Obe” taught him a thing or two about wrestling. Congratulations to Charles Spei-j del on his 30th year as Lion wrestling coach—the ovation he received before the match was only a token of the esteem in which he is held by students of the game. Charlie is Mr. Wrest ling himself—after all, who goes to a wrestling meet to watch the grapplers? We go to watch Char lie Speidel, In case - you're interested, there's a fur-lined glove lacked to the Army ROTC bulletin board in Carnegie Hall under the section "Standing." Size 9Vi. We were looking through the letters to the editor in the Decem ber Bth issue of The Texas A & M “Battalion” the other day and ran across one we read over twice. Rather than make some subtle comment about its content (after all, the writer was serious) we are printing it in its entirety and let you think whatever you please: “Editor, Battalion — I am in the Air Force now after completing my MS degree in Chemistry in June and want to tell you of a few incidents. "While I was- in basic train ■ ing at Lackland Air Force Base starling in early September. I had the pleasure of saluting one of our own lieutenants, Lt. D. W. Lane from Newton, class of '55 and a very good friend of mine. He seemed to be in top shape in his work which. I be lieve. was officer orientation. Of course he was sharp because he was an Aggie. It made me feel very good to salute officers that are sharp, especially Ag gies. Incidentally, all those rumors that lieutenants that graduate from A & M are "Big Deals" is not true in any de gree. They act very orderly and are very nice to the enlisted men. “While I have been resting here at the Sheppard Air Force Base hospital, I had a three-day pass; and on one of these sunny afternoons, my dad and I de cided to go out for a round of golf. No sooner than we registered and paid our green fee, a gentle man asked me if I was an Aggie (I had on my Aggie coveralls). I told him that I was in the class of ’55. He said that he graduated TUESOAY. JANUARY 10. 1956 By Bibler By ROtf WALKEI iting for and they were treated in the class of ’5O, soi I had a friend from that moment on. His name was Doug Woodward,, work ing with-some oil' firm I believe. We had a great-time swatting at those little golf balls with our “misery sticks." ".Wherever I go I always wear • my Aggie ring and wear it proudly, for as far as. I'm con : cerned, it's still and always will be THE school. Tell all my bud dies, that are still there "howdy" for me. I really enjoy reading "The Texas Aggie." Sincerely yours, Thomas E. Cox ’55 *** From The Ohio State Lantern of December 9,1955, ina Campus Voice column -asking “Do You Believe in Santa?”: , Howard W. Clarke Jr., Grad— “No, but from a psychologist’s viewpoint I think' the belief in Santa Claus does no harm to the child. But it shouldn’t, be carried on after the child starts having doubts. When a person reaches college age, and if he still believes in Santa, I think it’s time some one told him the facts.” Approval of 10 Asked by Seely All-University President Earl Seely will ask Cabinet to approve the following appointments at the Board meeting Thursday night The appointees are: Richard Seng, Spring Week committee chairman; Douglas Moorhead, business manager; Elizabeth Rod gers, coronation; Dan iel - Van Duyne, carnival; Don Bostock, He-Man contest; Judith Btirns, Mad-Hatters contest; Irving Buck, donkey T&all game; and Arnold Hoffman, publicity. No One has been suggested for Talent Show chairman. Other suggested chairmen are Kenneth Cumblidge, the Commit tee on Sunday Movies;' and George Buckout, chairman of Or ientation Week. Tonight on WDFM •1.1 MBGACYCLBS :15 «... Sikh Oh :20 News and Sport* :30 Phi! Wein Show 00 The Nieked Penny ;30 Phi Mu Alpha :00 ; Top Drawer ;15 New* Thi# World of Musie ; gic* Off :30 i, i
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