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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Pat Evans; Copy Editors, Anne Friedberg, Joe Cheddar; Assist
anti. Dick Sp ricer, McArthur, Elaine Huberman Hannah Ya,han, Mickie Cohen.
The Movies: It Isn't Quality but Quantity
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pre:te,itu t , nn of 1 / 1 ,0?"0 . ..V town and on
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Any uay you kruk at it • the• moving pictute
Situatton in State College and at the Unwerbity
prartwally d e plo t3 ht e
There• are• three theaters til town and evety
wevk they present film entertainment for the
students and those• adults of the faculty, ad
minishation, and townsfolk who care to buck
the student crowds.
But when one stops to think about the movies
shown. it becomes apparent that while the
quality of films may be up to standard the
quantity certainly isn't.
An average of six or seven movies play in
these three theaters every week. On first
thought this may seem like a reasonable
amount. But take a second look. One theater
may play a single film a whole week and each
of the other two may play two or possibly, in
rare instances, three movies a week.
This is a spazeity of movies for a town of this
:tat, especially a town encompassing within it a
univeLsity of some 12.500 students.
Pity the poor student without a car to carry
him to the drive-in theater or to a Bellefonte
!healer. If's Saturday nigh! and he has a date.
One of the theaters is presenting a movie he
was unlucky enough to have seen the Sunday
before. Due to a complex and unforseen state
of affairs called popularity, the movie has been
held in town the whole week.
Another theater is presenting a "children's
feature." a slight bit of nothing which appears
every Satuiday and is supposed to appeal to the
grade school student in town_ This is fine but
isn't very appealing to nioct students entering
their twenties.
This leaves the thud theate►. If the movie
happens not to appeal to his taste, or that of his
dat , "s. it's just too bad. For them this film is
Forecast: Cloudy with Silliness
The billy season, a petennial disturbance na
tive to college and university campuses around
this tune every spring, is sweeping on undaunted
towards the University.
The disturbance had its origin last Thursday
in New Brunswick, New Jersey. There, without
warning. 500 "mature fraternity men" at Rut-
gers University became involved in a water
fight which mushroomed into an all-out gar
bage throwing hassle with the local police, One
University official, perhaps a bit affected by
shock from the affair, declared the boys were
merely having a good time.
Continuing westwaid, the disturbance blew•
itself in a full fledged not when it reached
the campus of the University of Pennsylvania
Friday. There, - Just for fun" students set up
a roadblock on Locust street. one of the main
thoroughfares of downtown Philadelphia, when
several students became bored after dinner.
Police brought the incident to an end after
being pelted with eggs and stones by arresting
170 students.
With a quick Jump, our storm which we shall
Call Spring Silliness, eloped to Gettysburg Col
lege. Six students, evidently not fortified with
enough matureness, were struck down with the
symptoms. They organized a panty raid on
nearby Dickinson College. The outcome was
hundreds of dollars in damage, and six students
locked up by local police for disturbing the
peace.
The late-.t fort pl3et--; our Spring Stitt,
r rhOnlPSon Lineup'
About 550 freshman women were ineon
ventenced tannect-ssarily Saturday afternoon be-
cause of the poor planning and lack of foresight
on the part of the department of housing.
Saturday of Spring Week, one of the biggest
weekends in the year. these women were re-
quired to register for their rooms for next year.
Not only was the liming poor, but the in
adequate consideration the housing department
gave to registration dragged out the entire
process. AU freshman women were told to re-
port to Thompson recreation room at 1 p.m.
The crowd overflowed into the adjoining rooms
snaking it impossible for registration to take
place efficiently.
At 4 p.m. housing was just beginning to
register coeds whose last names fell m the Ws.
This means that these coeds had been waiting
for three hours.
We feel that the whole system is unfair. First
of all. by registering alphabetically, a coed is
penalized just because her name begins with
0 rather than a Even using alphabetization,
it would have been much easier for the coeds
and housing if the women had been divided
into small groups. These groups would have
a special time to report, thus avoiding all the
crowds and confusion
Housibg's excuse for bolding registration on
a big weekend is that - everyone will be here.-
Hoa►eesr, if the coeds had been notified far
Tim Daily ernitegian
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
DAVID RICHARDS, Business Manager
- the only movie in town."
To be sure, a student's entertainment woes
don't often reach these heights. There is usually
one movie playing at any time of the week likely
to appeal to him.
This helps point up a simple fact, though—
there too great an audience waiting to see
the movies that come to town. If a film is any
way near good or great the crowds it draws
are more than likely to keep it around some
five to eight days.
This spoils a night fora student wishing to
see a movie if one or two of the movies playing
were around four or five days ago and the
remaining show is reportedly pretty bad.
A popular film is murder on a Saturday night
—but for different reasons. The theaters' seat
ing capacity is so small if a person doesn't buy
his ticket by 6:45 or 7 p.m.. he is liable to stand
an hour or so. At least he will stand until the
feature is over and some of the crowd disperses.
The basic problem is that the more popular
the movies shown the longer they run, and the
longer they run the remoter the chances for
other movies to be shown. The small seating
capacities help in their waY to extend a film's
run.
As a result fewer movies come to State Col
lege. There are many first rate films that take
months to make their appearance in town. They
are many second and third rate films, entertain
ing enough. that may never come to town.
Are there any ways to alleviate this situa-
tion Could means be found to show more mov
ies—not only new but old and foreign movies—
in town and on campus? Can a method be
found to shorten the runs of movies to fit a
total population of 25.0007
These are not small problems interesting a
few. They affect the entertainment-seeking
values of many if only unconsciously.
—Ted Serrill
news sornel.vhcre between Harrisburg and Uni
versity Park with no end to its unpredictable
happenings in sight.
We fervently hope this silliness, with all the
destruction and harmful publicity that accom
pany it, bypasses the University and blows it
self out before it can harm any other college
campus.
Students at Penn State are by no means im
mune to the effects of Spring Silliness. There
fore, extra precautions on their part should be
taken to insure against a recurrence of the
near-riot that plagued the campus last year at
this time. In a burst of spring fever, several
hundred demonstrators gathered in the West
Dorm quandrangle and were almost successful
in inciting a panty raid on the girls dorms.
It's a funny thing ... as soon as the symptoms
wear off and the campus returns to its normal
state, the ringleaders of the crime can't imagine
what prompted them to act in the manner in
which they did. Perhaps the sobering influence
of the damage they left in their wake or the
mud smeared on the reputation of the Univer-
silt had something to do with it.
A University stands or falls on-the conduct
and reputation -of its students. If a little more
thoughtfulness is displayed by the students
who are considered mature enough to be ad
mitted as members to the University, Spring
Silliness and all of the potentially dangerous
events that come in its wake can be removed
forever from the face of the campus.
Gazette
AMERICAN ROCKET SOCIETY. 7 p.m.. 105 Mechanical
Engineering
ANGEL FLIGHT. Ilusinea-s Meeting. 7 p.m:. 203 Willard
ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY. 7:30
p ni.. Alpha Epsilon Pi
RELLES LETTRES. 7:30 p.m.. Athertom Lounge
COLLEGIAN. Ad Staff meeting. 6:30 p.m.. 9 Carnegie
COLLEGIAN. Business Staff. 7 p m.. 1,09 Willard
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION. 7 p.m., 304 Old
Main
DAIRY EXPOSITION EXHIBITORS. Practice Scasioa. 7
p.m.. new Dairy Barna
ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL. 7 p.m.. 214 Hetzel
tin ion
FROTH. Circulation Staff. 6:30 p.m.. Helsel Union Audi-
tormni
ItILI.EL. Elections. 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.. 1 to 9:30 p.nt.. 7
to s p.m.. Hine{ Foundation
N EV:I4 k 24 CLUES. Publicity Committee, 12:50 p.m.. 208
Old Main
YOUNG REPUBLICAN CLUB. 7 p.m.. 208 Willard
Mr=
MARKETING CLUB. Siam& Phi Epsilon
'University Hospital
Rosemarie Asquino, Vincent Comodrilli. Gail Forman,
Janim Goodwin. Irsin Heikki,. Mary Krause. William Shan
non, John Salathe. William Troutman, Charles Weidman,
Richard Winn. Rebecca Zahm.
enough in advance of the registration date,
plans would have been made so that all the
women would be present.
We certainly hope that housing will profit
from the blunders it made last Saturday and
that next year's freshmen wilt benefit from the
inconvenience this year's class suffered.
reatariela repreeest ttr
vieerpoiala of Ik. writers,
mat sereassrily the policy
at tile paper, Om stades!
Imlay. se tie Uaieereit7.
—The Editor
—Mickie Cohen '
Little Man on Campus
rofessor Snarf—l've never heard a class lecture
important points were more cleverly disguised."
"Wonderful talk. 1
in which the most
dubbs-za-poppin'
Let's Jazz Up
These TV Lectures
The University may not know it, but what this television
teaching needs is a little jazzing up.
The way it is now, it's dead. It's not hep with the times.
What do we have now? A little music before the lecture
begins and maybe a shot of Old Main or the Nittany Lion.
Then the music stops, the prof
looks at the camera, and keeps
on looking at the camera won
dering if he's on
Each televised lecture should
be made into a major produc
tion. Yes, even a "spectacular, -
minus color for the time being.
Wouldn't an introduction like
this be effective
as the music
fades out?
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71
3
. 40 ;
T h e Pennsyl
vania State Uni
versity presents
Dr. Maher Hus
ter, professor of
political science,
in Poli Sci 30.
And here he is
the man who
thinks politicians
are honest Dr.
Huster..
This would Ed Dubbe
really add something to a tele
vised lecture.
And then Dr. Huster could say
something like this:
"Hello, Hello. Hello. Before
we begin today's lecture, a fun
ny thing happened to me on
the way to the studio . . . (no
tice the word studio, which is
replacing classroom at Penn
State)."
Then Dr. Huster would have
his students (viewers, rather) in
a good mood.
The program could end just as
dramatically, with the final words
of the announcer being: "This is
the Penn State Broadcasting Sys
tem."
However. this TV teaching
could go so far that the Univer
sity might have to install dress
ing rooms and hire professional
makeup artists in order to keep
competent profs. This could lead
to trouble since maybe the ac
tors' union would insist that
profs join the union.
What would the Air Force's TV
stars—Capt. Aiken and Capt. O'-
Neill-4o then? They couldn't
join the union.
And pretty soon, we'd expect
the announcer to be saying at the
end of the program•
"Dr. Huster's sport jacket is
through the courtesy of Jack
Marker. West College avenue.
State College. This handsome.
three-button. Ivy League jacket
is available in a variety of sizes
and colors. Drop in and try one
TUESDAY. MAY 8, 1956
By Bibler
on in your size and favorite
color today."
But the University has been
missing a good bet here. It surely
must be worried over the in
creased costs of running a uni
versity. So why doesn't it run
about three one-minute spot com
mercials during a televised lec
ture?
Advertisers, we're sure, would
jump at a chance like this. Where
else could they get a captivated
audience?
Yes, * don't you agree? All this
TV teaching needs it a little
jazzing up.
This column the other day was
insulted. Campus station WDRIVI.
blamed us for stealing Dubbs-za
poppin' from its show, Hubszapop
pin'. How could they think such
a thing? -
All kidding aside, we hope
that Dubbs-za-poppie will be
just half as enjoyable as Hubs
zapoppin'.
Supervisor to Speak
To Marketing Group
William A. Hart Jr., an account
supervisor with Batten, Barton,
Durstine & Osborn, Inc., wilt
speak at a meeting of the Market
ing Club at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow
at Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.
During the meeting, members
may sign up for the club picnic
to be held May 19 at Hecla Park,
a club officer said.
Agriculture Course
A two-year applied course in
agriculture, which has been offer
ed for many years at the Univer
sity, has been reorganized as a
two-year program that will lead
to the degree of associate in agri
culture.
Tonight on WDFM
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