PAGE FOUR raillohnSed Tuesday through Saturday o rat iota daring the Univensity gear. the Daily Collegian is a atedient opera toll newspaper. ROGER ALEXANDER, Editor illy Editor. Ron Gatehouse• Copy Editor, Mike Moyle; Sports Asst. Roc Mgr., Deanna Sokis; Loral Adv. Mgr., Arnold Editor. Iran Eanueci; Editorial Director. Ted Serial; Makeup Hoffman: National Adv. Mgr.. Janice Anderson: Co-fir- Editor and Personnel Director. Sue Conklin: Assistant City dilation Mgr.- Ann Canton. David Ponca; Personnel Mgr.. Editor. Ed Labbs; Assistant Copy Editor. Nancy Showalter; Jo Fulton: Office Mgr., Harry Vaverbauni; Classifies! Adv. Asaistant Sport. Editor. %ince Caroni; Photography Editor, Mgr.. Barbara Shipman; Secretary. Marion Overpeck; Re- Dave Boyar; Eschsente Editor. Becky 7.ahni; Librarian. search and Records Mgr.. Jane Groff. Evie Onsa. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Carole Gibson; Copy Editors, Barb Martino, Bob Franklin; As sistants, John McArthur, Clark Polak, Dick Spencer, Barbara Drum. Cooperative Education: Need for Students The instituting of a solid cooperative educa tion program could be a "shot in the arm" for the University. We imagine ... a student seriously interested in becoming an engineer would jump at an op portunity to supplement his college education with practical experience in working for an engineering firm. For he would realize that while the college education he receives in engineering techniques is probably very well taught—and assimilated —it is only academic. A chance to work part of his school year for an acknowledged industrial firm, to gain ex perience complimenting his school knowledge. and to learn any facets of the work not taught in classei is a chance very few serious-minded students would pass over. In devoting this editorial to the engineering profession, we mean merely that it is in this profession that we foresee the greatest oppor tunity for carrying out objectives of this pro grant. All the colleges, particularly business administration and chemistry and physics, could undertake such a plan and probably do wonders. The importance of such a program cannot be understated. For the past decade the nation's newspapers and magazines have been wildly de crying the shortage of engineers and trained Inanpower the United States as compared with reports of what the Soviet Union claims in numbers of engineers. If a college or university can turn out more competently trained engineers, and more en gineers, in a shorter lime using a cooperative education program than one not using such a program—it is an accomplishment. Every mechanical engineer, every industrial engineer, every chemical engineer. every elec trical engineer graduated from college to "take his place" in the working world is another feather in the United States' cap of science and industry. And one cannot dispute that this is vitally important. Just how can a cooperative education pro gram work to produce such results? What are the points in favor of it and those against it. Do the points in favor outweigh those against? The University's industrial engineering de partment is one of the few. if ,not the only. department of the College of Engineering and Architecture to use a type of cooperative educa tion program. A few sejected students are sent to work for one semester with the York Cor poration or the New Holland Machine Co. and undertake their regular classes for the remain ing semester. As far as this program goes. it works out very well, according to a department spokes- man. But there are many reasons why the pro gram or other variations aren't carried out fur ther in the industrial engineering department or any of the other engineering departments. They are good reasons. However, we believe the importance of such a program outweighs all objections to it. In order to complete the required schooling, anyone participating in a cooperative education program must take five or more instead of the usual four years of college. This is a hindrence to young engineers wanting to get out into the working world as quickly as possible. As such, it is undesirable. But why? Students who spend half their col lege careers in the drafting rooms or laboratories of some firm surely aren't wasting time. They are working for the firm, often a government Plight of the Grass Along with Bermuda shorts. baseball. and rainy weather, another sure sign of Spring is the appearance on campus of humorous signs placed by Alpha Phi Omega. national service fraternity, politely asking students to keep off the grass and "give the gay young blades" a chance to grow. It seems that no matter how many miles of macadam paths are laid on campus, and how convenient they are to use, students and faculty members repeatedly find a more convenient path across short stretches of green grass. re ducing it in no time at all to a mire of mud. There are two solutions to the problem. The University can survey the situation, and if it finds a new access is needed, install another path. • The alternate, and simplest solution is for students to stay off the grass and use existing walks. There is certainly nothing wrong with walk ing on the campus grass if the walking is done . _ by an individual or tw•o, and not in a mass move- ment. But there is no excuse for• a concerted pilgrimage across one spot until the grass wears There is a big difference between enjoying and destroying the campus. The few remaining grassy areas on campus are gradually giving way to University construction as well as stu dent destruction. A little thoughtfulness on the part of students and faculty must be exercised if our campus is to remain green. Ir Daily Coltrgiatt Successor to TIM FREE LANCE, at 1887 .4Ei13r..1 DAVID RICHARDS. Business Manager —The Editor THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA corporation, and are getting paid for it. A guy, and we are not excluding gals, who spends two or two and a half years working at his chosen job before he graduates surely shouldn't mind spending another year in school before begin ning to attempt to make his m^ - k. This person has begun to make his mark in his freshman year. There are other objections, many more plaus ible. The University would have difficulty working out a class schedule for such a stu dent. He probably would b e taking required _ _ . classes in odd semesters and there would be so few enrolled that the class quota couldn't be filled. The student would most definitely have to go to summer school, also. But to a student who is all for the program, this is a stipuation he wouldn't mind too much—if at all. Another problem connected with this is that, because of the short summer studies' time, the engineering college cannot present complete or efficient summer curricula. Could there be assurance students working for semesters at industrial and scientific com panies would be getting the experience they should be getting. Or, in other words, would it be worth it? Also, since at present engineering students are doing well in their courses and learning what they should and are getting paid well for their summer jobs, why go to all the extra trouble and expense to s ta rttt a program which in the long end accomplishes what they are already getting? A final objection: Students undertaking a cooperative education program would work, work, work. They would get very few general-, ized courses in other colleges or departments. Their college lives would be broken up in the jumping back and forth from college to com pany. They would become efficient automatons. These objections are formidible. But we re fuse to think that when the stakes are so high, when this program appears to be of vital— national, even—importance that the difficulties could_not be resolved. the rough edges smoothed. If enough time, effort, and money were de voted to initiating this program, the results would be worth it. We won't attempt to work .out the methods difficulties could be done away wtih. That isn't our purpose at the moment. Of course, to work well in a university of some 14,000 students all the resources of the engineering departments would have to be thrown into it. It couldn't be done half-way. Students would have to be made enthusiastic over the plan, they would have to want to sacrifice their social life. They would have to become semi-robots. But isn't it better that men become in part robots in this nation now bracing itself against an iron curtain; that they work more efficiently at an earlier age: that they do do all they can— rather than not be part-robots and know that a day of decision will come to them a day sooner? , Other colleges and universities, to name two, Drexel Institute and Antioch College, are of fering a cooperative education program—a prd gram that could be handled any number of ways. It is working with them and can work better. Is it not better that the Pennsylvania ,State University gradually adopt this program; with its eyes Open, and look to the future? After all, quality and quantity are better than just quantity. Safety Valve Measles vs. Grange Coeds TO THE EDITOR: Why is Grange Dormitory an isolation ward? Since the measles cases have been housed there, no fewer than five girls have come down with them. The door io the men's isolation ward is right next to our mail boxes and the girls with measles are housed on the first floor near the housemother's office where we have to sign in and out. Gazette AIM BOARD OF GOVERNORS. 7 p.m. 20S Hetvel 'Union CHESS CLUB. 7 to 10 p.m.. 7 Sparks HILLEL, Film, 'The Quiet One,' 4 and 6 p.m., Hillel Foundation MAYPOLE DANCERS. 12:30 p.m.. White• Hall NEWMAN CLUB. Choir Rehearsal, 7:70. Catholic Church PLAYERS. Advertising Workshop. 7 p.m.. Schwab RIDLNG CLUB, 7 p.m.. 217 Willard AMERICAN ROCKET SOCIETY. 7 p.m., 205 Mech. Eng. University Hospital Rickard Bouchet. Arthur Cohen, David Friedenhert. Leiria Cold. Beth Evans. George Goldstein. Carole Griffiths. Lenore Hamilton. John Kersh. Charlotte Klippel. Herman Koenig. Philip Litow. Ann McKnight. Sera Mortensen. Ruth Nissen. Harvey Nixon. Robert Rosen. Jerome Sum. merir. Daniel Valency. Hugh Wagner. Walter Wysocsanski. and Kati Yadisahock. Editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers. not necessarily the policy of the paper. the student body. or the University. —Ted Serrill —Phoebe English Little Man on Campus "And you wont have to be responsible for chapter 51 on the final." dubbs-za-poppin' R-und-B, Rand-R: Just Out of It After giving the subject much thought, we have decided that rhythm-and-blues and rock-and-roll are out of it. And do we mean out of it. Before we go any further we would like to consider r-and-b and r-and-r under one title, "stuff." For the life of us, we can this "stuff". The lyrics and words! are nothing more than hillbilly ballad, giving the impression of a tear-jerking works. The only an- sad clown, who makes the worldlaugh but not himself, when he swer seems to be the beat, that wasn't before the footlights. beat that makes all too many peo- When the song is viewed froth ple want to tap their feet. this angle, it isn't half bad. But if beat is what they want, Even the hillbillies don't like why won't progressive jazz, this "junk," and that is getting mambo, or dixieland do? pretty bad. This "stuff" apparently gained, " Ozark Jubilee," according to Says Si Siman, producer of its popularity in the high schools) Ozark worked its way up to col; International News Service: lege. This is unlike Bermuda 'Rock-and-roll is .p art of shorts, white bucks.. saddles, and country music today, but not by the other fads that started with our elect i o n. We rode (we the college crowd and worked thought he was a hillbilly, not down to high school students. a cowboy) against it until the A listen to the Hetzel Union demand became too strong, jukebox will show that this "stuff" then we included it with reser- . is popular at vations (now he's an Indian?)." Penn State. • The top two records today— And Steve Fish- ...:Art.,i.:.. • - ' "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Heart- Hotel"—are "junk." bei n, WMAJ's - 1 ; .. ' ' -PAC, break nighttime profes- -,•,:, And what is worst about this sor who doubles - 0 to stay. "junk"is that it's apparently here ~ as a student dur- 't , ' • ..,C7 -y ing the daytime, 11 1 .. . Oh well. Pass us a Sinatra conducted a sur- - - record, and, Morn, dig in the vey which prov- — if ' ' • closet and flip us our blue ed his listeners V . suedes. Yet, man! wanted the ~. y .s ! "stuff". Ste v e, who personally prefers jazz and • ballad-type Ed Dubbs music to the "stuff," is spinning it as a result of the survey. The more we think about it, "stuff" isn't a very good word to use. From here an in we will . call it "junk." What puzzles us is why Gale Storm has - to start recording this; "junk." She is by far a better' comedian than a singer, if you can call her that. We cannot blame anyone for not letting her come in. She could have knocked and yelled till doomsday and we wouldn't have left her in. And "The Great Pretender" gets our vote for one of the worst songs ever recorded. The only thing that guy was pretending was that he could sing. - . Maybe we've -been a little too harsh on "The Great Pretender." For it really isn't a half bad song. We heard Eddie Fisher, whom we have not particular love for, do it on his TV program between se mesters. He sang the song as a WEDNESDAY. MAY 2. 1956 By Bibler t see how anyone could enjoy Western Electric Donates Awards Western Electric Comp. a n y Scholarships have been estab lished to aid worthy and needy engineering students in any class. 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