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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
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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
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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?
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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.
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University Hospital
Rickard Bouchet. Arthur Cohen, David Friedenhert.
Leiria Cold. Beth Evans. George Goldstein. Carole Griffiths.
Lenore Hamilton. John Kersh. Charlotte Klippel. Herman
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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.
The awards, covering the costs
of fees and books, will be made
in payments at the' beginning of
each semester.
President Milton S. Eisenhower
will make the final selection in
considering need and ability of
students for the awards.
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