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PufotUhed Tuesday through
Saturday morning* daring
the University year, the
Dally Collegian la a student
operated newspaper.
Kntered aa second-class matter July $, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office tinder the act of March 3, 1879,
MIKE MILLER, Acting Editor ROGER VOGELSINGER, Acting Business Manager
Managing Editor. Rog.r Beidler; City Editor, Don Shoo- . , Co-Aaat. Boa. Mgra., John Kmrtt. Dorothea Kojdjra; Local
. „ Adv. Mgr., Jerry Fried: National Adv. Mgr., Eateile Caplan;
maker: Copy Editor. Dotty Stone: Sport, Editor. Roy Wil- Co-Circulation Mgr,.. Israel Schwab. Christine Kauffman;
liama: Editorial Director. Jackie (fudging: Society Editor. Promotion Mgr., Delite Hoopee; Co-Personnel Mgrs.. Aletta
Ine, Allhouse: Assistant Sports Editor: Ron Gatehouse: Pho- J?* nb ‘S k> Connie Anderson: Office Mgr.. Ann Keesey: CUeel
. „ ... „ „ , „ . _ , fied Adr Mgr., Peggy Ds*is; Secretary. Lil Melko; Research
togrsphy Editor. Ron Walker: Senior Board. Ron Leik. »nd R(cord , Mgr.. Virginia Latshaw.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Larry Jacobson; Copy Editor, Shirley Calkins; Wire Editor,
A 1 Kiimeke; Assistants, Becky Zahm, Jim Kopp, Gladys Strohl, Paula Miller.
For Best Results ‘Do It Yourself
Now that a new semester is approaching it
seems like as good a time as any to complain
about the scholastic advisor system.
There is a regulation that stales students must
confer with their advisors at least 24 hours
prior to registration. Bui for all the good some
advisors do the student might just as well see
him after he registers.
Advisors are faculty members in a student's
major field who are supposedly well enough
acquainted with requirements and outside elec
tives to help the student choose the most ad
vantageous courses.
But this is not always the case. Too often the
advisor is a rubber stamp. He will approve any
schedule just so long as his advisee has not
signed up for two classes the same hour. This
haphazard scheduling does not allow the stu
dent to make the best of this eight semesters
of study and sometimes it prevents him from
graduating at the end of four years.
These problems exist but it is not certain
who is to blame. An advisor who does not
know what the requirements for graduation
Members Remember
Memorable things have always happened at
Penn State. But recently it seems that more
of them have been worth remembering or so it
would appear from Alumni Association sta
tistics.
For years only about one third of the Uni
versity's graduates joined the association but In
the past two years the enrollment has come close
to the fifty per cent mark.
January graduates will have until Commence
ment Day to get rate reductions on membership
in the organization whose dual purpose is serv
ice to the University and its alumni.
For a first-year membership fee of $2 the
association offers alumni seven issues of the
Alumni News, the Football Letter and official
U.S. May
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
AP Foreign News Anaylst
Instead of raising once again
the specier of nuclear war
fare. the United States might
score a decisive success-in the
cold war by calling the Com
munist bluff.
The Soviet Union has retained
the propaganda advantage in this
argument. The position stated by
Communist Boss Krushchev in
India is this: Lacking agreement
to end nuclear weapons tests, the
Russians are forced to continue
experimentation. But the Soviet
Union, he says, stands for outlaw
ing such, weapons.
The American reply, as il-.
. luminated by' various state
ments indicate that the United
States was prepared to use nu
clear weapons in Asia. In the
second place, they serve notice
that the United States will con
tinue to lest nuclear weapons.
Both these statements are like
ly to resurrect the basic fears of
the Asians which were so appar
ent two years ago when the sec
retary of state was speaking in
terms of “massive retaliation.”
Wilson to Give Paper
At AIEE Meeting in N.Y.
Dr. Warren E. Wilson, professor
of engineering education, will de
liver a paper, “The Engineering
Science Curriculum at the Penn
sylvania State University” at the
general meeting of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers
in New York, N.Y. on Feb. 1.
French to Head Study
Dr. Cyrus E. French, professor
of animal nutrition, will leave
" next week for Pakistan to head
a team making a study of the
nutrition problems in the armed
forces of that country. He will
return in April.
(Flip latlti Collpgtatt
Successor f THE FREE LANCE, fit. 1887
Call Red Bluff
Moreover, the secretary has been
quoted as indicating that the
United States is willing, as a
means of deterring the Soviet
Union, to bring the world to the
brink of war and take the long
chance that the world would not
be pushed over that precipice.
This is likely to do little to calm
the fears of the Asians and other
people who dread the prospect.
Soviet propagandists likely will
seize upon the statements.
The "wake-up-A merica"
statement endorsed by the Pres
ident and the secretary of stale
is likely to be welcomed
throughout the United States
as a courageous assessment of
the condition of the country in
the cold war.
It might have been followed
up most effectively by a frontal
assault on Soviet propaganda. A
strong statement that the United
States not only opposed nuclear
warfare but was prepared under
safeguards to end experimenta
tion with atomic weapons would
have an electrifying effect on
world opinion.
Up to now the Soviet Union's
horror of nuclear weapons has
been a matter of words alone.
When the chips are down, Mos
Faculty Club Elects
Steering Committee
Five faculty members were
elected to the steering committee
of the Faculty Luncheon Club for
the Spring semester.
They are Merwin W. Humphrey,
professor of forestry; Dr. Robert
T. Oliver, professor and head of
the department of speech; Leland
S. Rhodes, professor emeritus of
civil engineering; Dr. Margaret B.
Matson, assistant professor of so
ciology; and Dr. Beatric L. Hagen,
associate professor .of mathemat
ics.
Co-ed Swim Scheduled
A co-ed swim, to be held from
7 to 9:30 p.m. in Glennland pool,
will be open to couples only.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
are for each of his students may be held ac
countable, but the student himself is not blame
less. For even though his college provides him
with an advisor he should not allow all the
responsibility rest with him. If he is not suf
ficiently interested in his college career to see
that he graduates on time his advisor cannot
be expected to be.
A lot of advisors consider it an extra chore
to work with undecided and sometimes mixed
up students and it is easy to see why they do
a poor job. It is also apparent that these same
indifferent faculty members can not be paid
to take a personal interest in each of their stu
dents. But they are obligated to keep up with
department and college changes in required
courses and check to see what substitutions can
be made.
The administration is working to improve the
whole area of scholastic advising and it is cer
tainly a field that needs looking into. But in the
meantime we suggest that you students not
rely on faculty advice and ‘do it yourself’.
—Jackie Hudgins
Gazette *..
ROWLING PARTY. 7:30 p.m., Lutheran Student Center
MIXED SWIM (couples ooJyl, 7 p.m., Glennland Pool
SABBATH EVE SERVICES, 8 p.m., Hillel
University Hospital
James Addis, Dorothy Applegate, Sidney Brindley, Don
ald Devorris, George Fish, Joseph Fox, Gail Gilman, Stan
ford Click, Joseph Gordesky. Marcia Greifer, Albert Jacks,
Barbara Leonard, William Meyer, Willard McGaffick. Ward
Mulier, Roderick Perry, Charles Slanicka, Harry Troutt,
and Sally Winnet.
ties with over 60 alumni district clubs all over
the country
During the past three years the Alumni Fund
has contributed to furnishings for the Hetzel
Union Building, freshman scholarships, re
search, the library, and the All-Faith Chapel.
The tangible reminders provided by the Alum
ni Association will always be helpful in bring
ing back those moments you want to remember.
—J.H.
cow is likely to be found in a
poor position lo follow up the
words with action. If the Unit
ed Slates were lo say: "We are
against experimentation with
nuclear weapons and here is
how we propose to stop it," a
set of conditions could be laid
down which' could be most em
barrassing lo the Kremlin. The
realist knows the U.S.S.R. is
not going to throw open to in
spection its position in nuclear
weapons, and the stalemate is
likely to persist.
The world has been waiting for
American action. The welcome
accorded President Eisenhower’s
“open skies” proposal at the Gen
eva summit conference, and the
temporary embarrassment it evir
dently caused the Kremlin, could
have served as guideposts for the
direction of U.S. policy.
But the way matters stand now,
much of world opinion unjustly
blames the United States- for a
state of affairs which causes peo
ple everywhere to live in dread
of a catastrophic war.
The U.S.S.R. says it is for peace
and prohibition of nuclear weap
ons. So far nobody seems to
have thought of asking them
bluntly to prove it.
ACE Invites White
To Ed Conference
Dr. Marsh W. White, professqr
of physics, has been invited by
the American Council on Educa
tion to participate in a conference
in Washington, D.C., next week.
The conference will consider
problems facing colleges and uni
versities as a result of increasing
enrollments and difficulties con
nected with maintaining teaching
staffs of high quality.
Ag Short Courses Open
Two short courses in dairy farm
ing and livestock farming will be
given by the College of Agricul
ture from Feb. 1 to 29. Applica
tions should be submitted to the
Director of Short Courses, College
of Agriculture.
Editorials represent the
viewpoints of the writers,
not necessarily the policy
of the paper, the student
body, or the University.
e Man on Campus
Litt
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—— the cobbler's bench
Make Mine Money!
Over Christmas vacation I indulged in a
—watching television. This is unusual for two
of all the average television show just doesn’t
and second, while I’m busy playing the part
time for such things is limited,
But over the holidays, bet\
papers, I found myself with some
time on my hands.
And, having nothing better to
do, I sat in front of a television
set.
The most significant thing , 1
noticed was that despite all the
crying over the national debt
someone seems to have a lot of
money these days.
And it seems everyone is try
ing to give it away.
In the course of one program
alone, I saw well over $40,000
and a couple of Cadillacs
change hands.
And to top it off, during the
next half-hour, a lucky couple
won $lOO a week for the next
year, and a chance to win $lOO
a week for life as long as they
keep answering questions.
These two programs aren’t the
only ones running the race.'
The one which claims to have
the biggest jackpot gives away
$lOO,OOO. Another, in an effort to
keep up with the mob, has upped
its ante to $25,000.
One show, which claims to be
the grand-daddy of them all,
claims to have given away over
$5 million during the years it has
been on the air.
Even the non-quiz shows are
getting into the giveaway act.
A show that is primarily musi
cal has arranged to give away
new -cars to four lucky- con
testants every year for the rest
of their lives.
This race, which appears des
tined to allow mankind to retire
for life, must have some social
significance. I’m not quite sure
what it is, but I'm sure it’s signi
ficant. ~
Maybe it shows that people
are becoming mercenary. After
all, I remember only a few years
ago when people answered ques
tions for a top prize of only $64
on the popular quiz show of the
day. And then there were the
Quiz Kids, who: did it- for prac
tically nothing.
The ironic thing about the sit
uation is that a contestant who
wins the big money won’t ever
see more than half of it.
I’ve done research on it. Say a
person correctly answers “The
$64,000 Question.” Now assuming
he is married and has a couple
of kids he will get only about
$25,000 —under half. Taxes take
the rest
Makes one wonder if the
whole struggle is worth it. Af
ter all, what's a paltry $254)00
these days?
I should be so lucky.
FRIDAY. JANUARY 13. 1956
By B
By DON SHOEMAKER
rare pastime
reasons: first
appeal to me
of a student,
een working on several term
Orchestra
To Present
Winter Concert
The University Symphony .Or
chestra, under the: direction of
Theodore Karhan, will present its
annual winter concert at 3 p.m.
Sunday in Schwab Auditorium.
Music of different European
countries by well-known com
posers will be represented.
The program will include: Car
neval Ouverture (Dvorak), Sym
phony No. 5 “Reformation” (Men
delssohn), Eight Russian Folk
Songs (Liadov), Prelude and Lie
bestod from Tristan arid Isolde
(Wagner), and Espana Rhapsody
(Chabrier).
Admission is free.
Twelve Initiated
IntoHonqrary
, Nine students andthreeprbfps
sors from the. school df jourhalism
have been initiated into the'Penri
State chapter of JCappa Tau-Alpha;
national scholastic honoraryVirat
erpity. • •• .
Undergraduate charter.members
are Susan Brown, James Jacoby,
Martha Ueirrf,. Charles Pennell,-
Mona Signorino, Mary" Ann,
Spranca, Nancy Snyder* Marilyn
Aubitz, and Betty Smith. ,
Faculty charter members are
Donald. W. Davis,"professor! of
journalism and head of the ad
vertising department; Charles H.
Brown, ; associate professor i, of
journalism;: and Guido H. Stem
pel, v instructor, of ' journalism.'
Stempel was named adviser of the
chapter. . " ■
Paintings on Exhibition
Seventeen oil paintings by Jean
Osborn of State College will con
tinue to be exhibited in the Hetzel
Union Building until Feb. 3.
Head studies, still lifes, and in
teriors are included in the ex
hibition.
Tonight on WDFM
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7:15 Sunt On
7 :20 Newa ana Sports
7:30 Just For Two
8:30 News Roundup
9:00 Light Classical Jukebox
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