PAGE FOUR Pubhefted faraday through Hatred*, •orning• during the Univerelty low the Daily Collegian t► • incident. einerted n►wed•wee Entered as ►ttond-clad mattt► Jut? i, Mt at the State College, Pa. Past Office under MIKE YEINHILBRIt. Editor MIKE MILLER, Aateetiate Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Al klimcke; Copy Editor', Barb Budnick, Rog Alexander; Assist ant, ,It,e C'he•ddar, Toni Werner, Matt I'odbesek, Lil Junkt,, Pat Tomlinson, Lynn Ward, Lianne cm <4,4 0 Flag Waving: But Should Fear Rule? Flag waving becoming antiquated. In,our modern era of Wisconsin senators and othei red•hunters this hallowed American tra dition of waving the red, white and blue is being replaced by a newer symbol of American ism—fear waving. Mote than a decade ago the late Franklin Itoo,eve•lt outl:,eled the world with the state ment' -Th.qe's nothing to fear but fear itself." however, has not been realized by a good Many American;-- Penn State students among them Thi, sad fact came to light yesterday when a tino.ersitv profe.,,or deviated from his course lecture and talked to his class about A and L----- Art, and Lynching. The profes,or admitted that the lecture could serve as ground., for a counter-spy report to the N a I lo ha I Review magazine's or .the Intercol legiate Society of Individualists' recent research project to ferret out subversive professors. How ever, he continued as his contribution to pre serving academic freedom. He pointed out that the current trend is to cloud our aesthetic appreciation by political feelings. That self-appointed guardians of the American tradition—such as the American Le gion—have taken it upon themselves to decide whether or not the American people will be exposed to certain entertainers, works of art and literature and so forth, depending upon the political views of the artist, k. was lamented that art for art's sake is no longer important, but art for politics' sake is the keynote of the times. lie said that these "guardians'' are lynching Sales Tax: nille Immediate Crisis Ends Pennsylvania finally has a tax. Normally, people aren't overjoyed about the adoption of a new tax, particularly as demand ing a one as the three per cent sales tax signed by the governor Tuesday, and there was some thing less than joy about this one, The reaction, rather. was one of relief. Since Aug. 31, when the one per cent sales tax expired, Pennsylvania was without a broad base tax, and, consequently, without a major source of income. Long months of bickering and petty politicking among members of the executive and legislative branches of the state government marked the period between the old and new sales taxes. The delay, was costly. Pennsylvania's tax- payers will have to dig deeper in the future as the result of their state officials stalling in the past. Taxpayers will have to make up the loss of income the state suffered during the six months it was without a major tax. School districts, and many institutions, in cluding Penn State, which depend upon the state for a large measure of their income had to borrow large sums of money to keep in operation during the tax squabble. The interest on these loans, running_ into the tens oc thou sands of dollars, must now be paid. This is the price of the reluctance of members of the legislature of both political parties to lace up to their responsibilities. The power to Safety Valve On May Day TO THE EDITOR: Hurrah, Miss Hudgins, I agree . . May Day is senseless, useless, and above all. children do it; ergo, we must not do it. Such senseless goings on are for the pro letariat, and we do not want ba place ourselves on that level; do we now? Of course we will be present at the May Day celebrations, not because we are enjoying our selves, but because we wish to gloat over our superiority and laugh at all the childish minds that participate. We already know that the dancing will not be good because we have seen it once or twice before and are therefore able to predict its caliber quite accurately. Besides, being so appreciative of the fine arts, we can not tolerate such clumsy demonstrations. • Letter cut Carnival Committee Collegian Senior Board Rod and Coccus Club to Meet The Spring Week Carnival The senior board of the Daily The Rod and Coccus club will Committee will meet at 7 tonightrollegian busines staff will meet meet at 7 tonight in 205 Patterson in 216 lletzel Union. at 6:45 tonight in 111 Carnegie to type blood. INTRODUCTION TO EUROPE Greed and Lust provide A PENN STATE SEMINAR TOUR ers wh a yearly crop ofo are just ripe f suck or the phony line of skillful con men June 30-August 11. 1956 in 42 Days in Europe Total Cost, $695 'Alchemist— Visit England, France, Germany Switzerland, The Netherlands \ FRIDAY and SATURDAY For Full Information and Application Forms Center Stage 8:00 THE UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 304 Old Main, Extension 541 TICKETS AT NUB Olp Bally (Enlirgian Sweetie, tie THE FREE LANCE. tot. 1887 —Lawrence E. Pecan THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA -‘"-tZo ROGER VOGELSINCER. Businesa Manager the arts without due process of law; that they :ire using high-minded methods to force public opinion to suppress artistic. freedom—freedom that is within the bounds of the law of the land. Now the pathetic note strikes. At the close of such a lecture to a college class—the sup posed cream of the intellectual crop—a loud amen should have followed. But the largest per centage of the class which expressed an opinion set up a loud un-American howl. That they disagreed is an expression of de- mocracy. But how they disagreed gives cause for alarm. "America for Americans," they exclaimed. "We can't sit back and let anything with a com• munist tinge exist in our country or the next thing you know they'll think they can get away with anything." 'they parroted all the threadbare hackneyed phrases in the book. In every statement fear prevailed over logic. This gives reason to sit back and ponder whether these people are absorbing from a college education more than just book learning, such as the ability to think for themselves. It's a sorry state of affairs when the so called intelligensia can't comprehend that free dom cannot be supported when it is denied, that democracy cannot be made to flourish when it is taken out of the sunlight of freedom of choice. If the leaders of the future are not aware that by these methods democracy can be made as totalitarian in effect as Marxist communism and fascism then there is fear to fear. —Becky Zahm tax is an essential power of any government. Refusal to exert this power—and a correspond ing willingness to see this state ebb toward bankruptcy—is irresponsibility. Pennsylvania has passed its peak as an in dustrial state. It is losing the mining industry and it is not attracting new industry at a rate fast enough to enable it to afford fiscal foolish ness. But Pennsylvania's habit of adopting a new tax program every two years is not likely to make it attractive to new businesses. The tax structure of a state is one of the top consider ations in the minds - of businessmen when they seek new sites. A state which has demonstrated it is likely to change its tax structure every few years will not attract investments. Perhaps the answer involves a revision of the state's constitution to make possible a graduated income tax. If so, steps leading to this should be launched now that the immediate tax crisis is over. Although Pennsylvania finally has a tax, it still lacks a solution to its long-range tax prob lem. This should be the next order of business. —The Editor DAILY COLLEGIAN Senior Board Business Start, 6:45 p.m., 111 Carnegie , DELTA SIGMA PI, 7:80 p•m.. Alpha Sigma Phi INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 7 :SO p.m., 40S OM Main NEWMAN CLUB. 7:30 p.m.. Church hall NEWMAN CLUB DISCUSSIONS. 7:30 p.m., 304 Old Main NEWMAN CLUB TV, 8 p.m.. Student Center NEWS AND VIEWS Staffs. and Candidates, 6:15 p.m., 14 Home Economics ROD AND COCCUS CLUB, 7 p.m.. 206-206 Patterson SPRING WF.EK CARNIVAL COMMITTEE, 7 p.m., 216 Reuel Union Student Employment The following camps will interview at the student Em ployment Service, 112 Old Main, Sign up in advance for an appointment. CAMP WOODLANDS—March 10 CAMP LAKELAND—March 10 CRADLE BEACH CAMP—March 10 QUINIIIECK CAMP--March 12 CAMP CONRAD WEISER —biarcb 1140 CAMP MENATOMA—March 14.15 CAMP CANDOWANNA—March 21 University Hospital Meta BA 11Y, David Bamford, Barbara Cyganowski. Ralph F.iek leberk , Patricia Riles. William Galbreath, Clayton Hakes, Nancy Himmerreich, Allen Hower, Marilyn Kriebel, Joseph K runts. Richard McKnight. Henry Mago, lmerio Matus-Prieto, Donald Moses, John Pursell, Sally Schellen berg, Robert Walsh, Diane Wanner, Robert Forrest. Bruce Weiner, Richard Christian and Sharon Gallagher. griltortahl represent t►e elevepoints of the writers. Sot necessarily the volley of the paper the student body. sr the University the ■ct el March 3, 1.313 Gazette Little Man on Campus "I thought you said fraternity boys A Tradition Of Scholarship By President Milton S. Eisenhower This is the first in a series ,of columns written by members of the faculty and representatives of the University administra tion at the invitation of The Daily Collegian. An old saw has been going the rounds of University campuses for many years to the effect that a student who just skims by in his studies but manages to have enough extra-. curricular activities to qualify as a "big man on campus" will eventually make more money than one who takes his studies seriously and gets good grades. This may be a comforting the story just isn't so. The op posite is the truth. Studies made by leading industries show that a startling correlation exists be tween good grades and high sal aries—and low grades and low salaries. In general, top students in their subsequent careers earn at least 50 per cent more than average students. Now, no thoughtful person would deny the value of extra curricular activities in the de velopment of whole, well rounded persons. But the very fact that the old canard about The "C" student still crops up dramatizes a far-reaching prob lem we face at Penn State. I am worried, as many students must be, by the fact that too few young men and women who be gin their university careers at this institution remain here to earn their degrees. Furthermore, the records of those who do finish their four years at Penn State are not as high as they should be. The statistics are astounding: Of the students who ranked in the highest fifth of their high school classes, only a little more than 55 per cent remain at Penn State to get their degrees; of the second fifth in high school schol arship, only 38 per cent earn their degrees here; of the third fifth, only 30 per cent get their degrees. This problem of student mor tality has received many hours of serious thought on' the part of faculty, administration, and stu dent leaders. Most have come to the conclusion that, while there is much the University can do, and is doing, to help correct the situation, the main responsibility must lie with the students them selves. Many of us feel that only ATTENTION -.- FACULTY, STUDENTS & GRADUATES ASSOCIATION OF PRIVATE CAMPS - COMPRISING 250 oustanding Boys, Girls, Brother- Sister and Co-ed camps, located throughout the New England States and Canada . . . Invites your inquiries concerning Summer employ ment as counsellors, instructors or administrators. Positions are available in all areas of camping ac tivities for children. WRITE: ASSOCIATION OF PRIVATE CAMPS - DEPT. C . 55 W. 42nd St., Room 749 New York 36, N.Y. THURSDAY. MARCH 8. 1956 By Bibler more spending moneys" rationalization for some, but students can establish a tradition of scholarship here. For that reason, I should like seriously and sincerely to invite students to give me their sug gestions on how we can lift the level , of student scholarship at Penn State. We now give wholesome recog nition to political, athletic and social achievement. Surely* schol, arly attainment merits at least equal recognition. True, we have honor societies and scholarship awards. But when the University sought to have an honors assem bly each year, it was not possible to induce students to attend and salute their fellow students of high scholarship. The honors as sembly threatened to become a mockery of its intended high pur pose and was dropped. Let me state a fact bluntly: High scholarship is not con sidered fashionable at Penn State. I do not know why this - is so. There is no incompati bility between scholarliness and achievement in other fields. Some of the outstanding Penn State athletes are also excel. lent students. Several .of this year's political leaders are top students and scholarship win ners. But, on the whole, the (Continued on page five) Tonight on WDFM M.l MEGACYCLES 7:15 __ 7:20 __ Sign On News 7 :25 Sports 7 :30 Starlight Review 8:00 Jars Club MIME!EIIaI 9:00 ' A nnusl Debate Voncrefts 9 :30, News 10 :00 • Se.ensrio 10 :30 Sign Off _ Just Out
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