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ROGER ALEXANDER, Editor
City Editor. Bon Gatehouse; Copy Editor. Mike Moyle: Sports Asst. Bus. Mgr.. Deannn Sonia; Local Adv. Mgr., Arnold
Editor, Fran Fanueci: Editorial Director. Ted Serrill; Makeup Hoffman; National Adv. Mgr., Janice Anderson:
Editor and Personnel Director. Sur Conklin; Assistant City culation Mgrs.. Ann Caton. David Posca: Promotion Mgr.,
Editor. Eid Debt.: Assistant Copy Editor. Nancy Showalter: Arthur Brener: Personnel Mgr.. Jo Fulton; Office Mgr..
Aaaistant Sports Editor. Vince Earorci; Photography Editor. Harry Vascrbaum; Ciarwified Adv. Mgr.. Barbara
Dave Bawer; Exchange Editor, Recky Zahn.: Librarian, Secretary. Ruth Howland: Research and Records Mgr., Jane
Erie Onsa. Groff.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Lynn Ward; Copy Editors, Louie Prato, Judy Harkison; Assist
ants, Bill Kling, Pat Tomlinson, Jane Klein, Elaine Huberman.
. 4. . And the Faculty is Divided Into . . .
It was just a little "quiz" but the "furshlug
giner" hour-long bluebook was so difficult
nearly everyone flunked it.
This is a common complaint, one which nearly
every guy and gal has painfully related to a
friend.
- Quizzes - like this are the breaks, the perils
of the college game, the ire-inspiring phases of
an education which are always painfully borne
and bitterly talked about.
For these tests, pop quizzes to bluebooks, are
not the tests of conscientious professors and in-
structors who think of the interests of their
students.
They are not the tests of faculty members
who thoughtfully plan a test based on the con
tent and the meaning of their courses.
They are the tests of teachers who pick out
the difficult questions, who chose minor and
insignificant points from an assignment and
place them in a test.
Some would call these instructors "wise
guys.'" Some would call them "idiots." Most
would call them names we can't repeat.
We can think of nothing kinder to call some
of them than deluded neurotics obsessed with
power.
We wish we could offer some figures, some
percentage of the number of faculty members
who for their own reasons deliberately question
students on facts that no student would ever
dream of studying, much less memorizing.
We hope such a figure would be low: that
there are many more instructors who base their
tests on the meaning of an assignment, on its
basic content, and on the pertinent facts that
relate to this meaning.
We hope there aren't really too many in
Safety Valve
Lay Off Them Blue Suedes
TO THE EDITOR: Mr. Ed Dubbs' article con-
cerning "rock-an-roll" and "rhythm-and-blues"
appears to me to be a rather crude 'sample of
journalism. Naturally, because I'm a rock-and
roll fan, this crudeness seems even more ap
parent.
Dubbs states that after giving the subject
much thought, "we have decided that rhythm
and-blues and rock-and-roll are out of it" and
that they should be termed "junk" and "stuff."
It doesn't appear that the writer has 'given
much thought to the subject at all. judging from
the reasons he gives for his aversion to these
types of music. He says that the lyrics and
words are merely "hillbilly tear-jerking works"
and that the only reason for their popularity is
the beat. In the entire article, this is the only
reason that he has given to support his belief
that r-and-b and r-and-r are "junk."
It seems to me that the article is not the
product of careful thought, but only one man's
personal opinion. The writer should be more
careful when he uses such terms as "much
thought."
He also pans several well -known songsters
and hit tunes without giving any reasons for
doing so. Gale Storm and Eddie Fisher were
panned by Dubbs simply because he himself
doesn't like them. He expressed dislike for "The
Great Pretender," "Heartbreak Hotel," and
"Blue Suede Shoes" without giving any grounds
supporting his feeling that way about them.
Here again, this is a personal opinion put down
in writing.
If Dubbs had given more- concrete reasons
for his attitude, it would have been a perfectly
acceptable and intelligent article. However, as
it stands now. it is a bunch of words with
nothing more behind it than Coubbs" personal
opinion.
It was rather surprising to find an article like
this under Dubbs' byline because he is a good
writer and has done some very good reporting.
He should be commended for venturing an opin
ion on such a controversial matter. However, he
should have stated that it was a personal opinion
AMERICAN ROCKET SOCIETY, T p.m
Engineering
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF. Senior Board. 7 P.R.
111 Carnegie
LANTERN CIRCULATION STAFF, 6:30 p.m.. 103 Willard
NEWMAN CLUB. Discuasion. 7:30 p.m.. 304 Old Main
NEWMAN CLUB. Legion of Mary. R:2O p.m.. Student Center
NEWS AND VIEWS STAFF HEADS. 6:30 p.m.. 14 Home
Economics
Names of Officers Due IPart-time Employment
Names of the new officers of all
fraternities, sororities, clubs, so
cieties, and other organizations
should be turned in at the lietzel
Union desk by May 10 if they are
to be listed in the lietzel Union
directory, according to George L.
Donovan, director of associate stu
dent activities.
01Tr Baitll Coltrgian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. MT
Gazette
106 Meehan ical
A variety of part-time jobs,
among them painting, window
washing, digging, spring house
cleaning, gardening, lawn snow
ing, and waiting on tables, are
available at the Student Employ
ment Service in 112 Old Main. -
Camp and resort jobs for this
summer are also available.
ME DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
DAVID RICHARDS, Business Manager
structors who ask such asinine questions as
"How many hours did the heroine sleep in the
third chapter," or "How many were killed in
the third battle of the Revolutionary War?"
But from talk here and there, from experi
ence, from hearing almost a constant rim of
complaints—we fear there are more than we
hope.
Of course, the majority of these instructors
teach in the non-problem solving curricula, in
the liberal arts, in the business -administration,
and in the other non-scientific courses.
But these men and women do exist. Ask any
student and, even counting his biased opinion,
he'll tell you of his experiences.
Why do these faculty members like to tor
ture their students like this? What satisfaction
do they derive from it?
We don't know. They are only people—and
there have always been "good" people and "bad"
people. The reasons they teach like this are the
reasons people have always done anything.
But the situation is deplorable. Student-fac
ulty relations can never be bonding or as
friendly as they should or could be as long
as men and women wander through their fac
ulty careers leaving behind them a trail of
students' hard hearts and angry minds.
We thank the fine professors and instructors
on campus, the men and women who inspire
respect as teachers, who are sometimes loved
and admired by their students, and who are
surely looked upon by other faculty members
as the more honorable on campus.
As a student, speaking, we hope, for students,
we cannot respect those who are continually
inspiring disrespect. We only pity them.
—Ted Serrill
Trend for the Future
The Spring Week Committee and the indi
vidual groups that took part in Tuesday night's
carnival deserve a hearty pat on the back for a
job well done.
In Our opinion, this year's carnival was one
of the best, if not the best, the University has
ever seen.
Compared to other years, this was one of the
cleanest (literally and figuratively), best plan-
ned. and best executed shows put on during the
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annual Spring Week extravaganza.
A finger cannot be put on the exact reason
for the great improvement over previous years,
but the improvement was very noticeable.
Last year's two night show sold 51,000 tickets.
In one night this year, over 40,000 tickets were
sold.
The shows last year were for the most part
poorly planned. poorly executed, and bordered
on the fringe of being risque. In contrast, the
great majority of shows Tuesday night were
well planned. well executed, and most important
of all, generally in good taste.
There was much talk after Spring Weekend
last year of excluding the carnival from "Week"
activities. This year's show proved that a carni
val does have a place in Spring Week.
We feel that limiting the carnival to one
night was one of the factors leading to the
improvement. In all probability, participating
groups, knowing the show was only one night,
went all out to "do things up right.'
Then too, the Spring Week Committee elimi
nated the phlegmatic "Oh well, here goes two
nights wasted" attitude toward the carnival by
streamlining the event. This probably accounts
for the more enthusiastic attitude of participate
ing groups.
We hope this year's carnival will set a trend
for the ones to follow—a trend leading to better
planned, better executed, cleaner carnivals.
—Larry Jacobson
and not attempt to give it the appearance of a
theory based on actual facts.
•Letter Cut
(EDITOR'S NOTE—AII columns published
in The Daily Collegian are purely the per
sonal- opinion of the writer.) ~
Tomorrow
LUTHERAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION. GrOup Diseinsion,
p.m.. Student .Association
LUTHERAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION, Indoor Baseball,
8 p.m.. Student Association
University Hospital
Noel Deeavalcante, Beth Evans, David Friedenberg,
George Goldstein. Ann Hafleigh, Irving Reicklen. Alan
Jones. John Kersh. Philip Lilo'''. Sera Mortensen. Ruth
Nissen. Donna Stein. Jerome Summerly. Sara Williams,
Walter Wrsocaanski, Harvey Cable.
Nittany Council to Meet
Nittany Council will meet at
10 tonight in Nittany 20 to elect
officers for the fall semester.
George Mauler, council presi
dent, said no other business will
be conducted at the meeting. '
Yellow pencils outsell all other
colors three to one.
F,ditorlais represent Use
viewpoints of the writers.
not necessarily the policy
of the paper. the student
body. or the University.
—Charles A. Welsh
Man on Campus
Little
fer the love of .. .
MIKE
A Column on Columns
Lately, a number of new faces and new names have
been appearing in this most unenviable position (under Bibler,
that is) and more are to appear. A new set of columnists has
taken over and new viewpoints will be expounded for the
next year. -
This. will be ameager, attempt to elaisify. - soMe . of the
types one finds in reading colum
nists
Some enjoy -the - intellectual
columnist who bears down hard
on the subjects of art, ' music,
theater and other elements •of
CULTURE (whaat?) Many -times
this columnist has only a limited
following because of somewhat
stilted - lanage, There are also
other reasons, one being that his
readers are immune to CULTURE.
This intellectual columnist is
oft-times prone to reviewing
things like plays, movies, and
books in his column.
Another type is the assorted
bits-of-information guy who takes
a joke here and a bright saying
there and throws them into a
kind'of humorous conglomeration.
This column is very often popular
because the student scurrying to
an 8 o'clock at 7:58 a.m. can easily
take in one or two of these jot
tings and save the rest till the end
of class. Also it doesn't require
as much effort on the reader's
part when he doesn't have to fol
low a central theme. Anytime
things are made easy for the
reader he enjoys it.
A classic example of this kind
of column was enjoyed 'during
the past year by readers of "On
Assignment," which dealt from
everything from the bell-tower
of Old Main to The tunnels
underneath the campus, liberal
ly sprinkled with direct quotes
from "The New Yorker."
This column may very well
turn into the assorted-bits-of-in
formation-type column since this
seems to have been most popular
with Penn State readers in the
past.
The "I
-heard-two-guys-talking
the-other-day" column dramatizes
everyday conversations which
may have been heard in the HUB,
the Waring Hall snack bar, metal
lurgy class, the Water Tower,
Hort Woods, or other such com
mon student gathering places.
The "Cobbler's Bench" has pro
vided us with some columns of
this nature: •
A few hardy collegiate colum
nists even have ventured into
-that amazing world of politics
and tried to analyze the goings-
THURSDAY. MAY 3. 1956
by Mike Moyle
on in that field. These are feel,
and far between. however; and
- most •of -this type of'''work4 is
left• to that- master observer 'in
world affairs, J. M. Roberts.
who-it is- rumored, will -never
' again grace this • space in The
Daily • • -
OBSERVATIONS
' It seems 'to this observer that
for the size of State College, more
construction work is continually
being. carried on here than in
cities more than twice as large.
That's not just including the Uni
versity, either. -
'Been wondering for some time
if it would be possible to re-ignite
a spark of controversy about the
long waits for service in the War
ing Hall snack bar. Didn't some
body at one time suggest some
kind of system of giving each
customer a number -and serving
him when his number came up.
This might again prove to be
working material for the AIM
projects committee or some other
stalwart group.
We're looking for another
sure controversy to develop over
the recent blast at "Rock and
Roll" which was delivered in
this space. Angry murmurs al
ready have been heard on cam
pus.
'S' Club Banquet
The annual Varsity S Club ban
quet will be held at the State
College Hotel on Monday at 7:30
p.m. for all Lion athletes and sup
porters.
Tonight on WDFM
91.1 MEGACYCLES
6:15 Sign On
6 :50News. Sports
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7:00 Dr. Henry Finch Philosophy
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7:45 Romance Language News la
French
7:60 News-Roundup, National and
8:00 Starlight Review
9:00 AA Out
9:3oMan On The Malt
9:45 The Day's News, Sports, and
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10:00 . Sammie's
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ibler