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ROGER ALEXANDER. Editor
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Assistant ropy Editor, tie nry Shorr•lter: A soistant Sports Arthur Brener; Personnel Mgr.. Jo Fulton; Office Mgr..
Edits, Vine • rts l'hotography Editor, Da•e Bator; Harry l'avcrbamia; rlavvified Ad.. Mgr.. Barbara Shipman;
Eatilesite• I.ditar, her 7:oh ; Librarian. Et ie Una.. Secretary, Roth Howland Research and Reeorda Mgr., Jana
Gra( f.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Bob Franklin; Copy Editors, Pat Hunter, Lynn Ward; Assistants,
Clack Polak, Tom Werner, Paula Miller, Jane Klein, Pat Tomlinson.
Dancing With Dollar Signs in Their Eyes
Whit• browsing through the student news
paper of the Umver-ity of Connecticut, we
came across an article that may be of interest
to the senior ball committee when it is count
ing the profits or deficits from last week's
dance.
The University of Connecticut with a student
enrollment of 8900 held its annual carnival ball
April 29. Music for the dance was provided by
the Billy Butterfield orchestra. A second group,
Stan Reuben and his Tigertown Five, alter
nated with Butterfield on the bandstand. The
price for the entire package was four dollars.
Exactly one week later, Penn State with an
enrollment of over 12,00) held its senior ball.
The Billy Butterfield orchestra was also booked
for this dance. The price—five dollars.
We would like to know why students at this
University should pay more to attend a big
weekend dance with only half the entertain
ment than students at another college with a
much smaller enrollment.
It seems the dance committees are operating
strictly as profit making organizations. They
are overlooking their actual purpose—to put
on a Junco for the student body, and at the
same time, give the students their money's
worth.
The 515.000 surplus in All-University Cabi
net's treasury was built up largely from the
profits of the two class dances. Recently the
treasury was tapped for funds for an outdoor
recreation project. But does the student pur
chase a ticket to the dance with the knowledge
that large profits will be realized on the dance
and these profits will be turned over to Cabinet
for whatever use it sees fit?
We rather doubt it. The student buys a ticket
with the intention of getting his money's worth
of dancing to the music of a name band. Very
few students will attest that they have been
receiving their money's worth of entertainment
Out of the class dances lately.
Operating expenses are high, orchestras are
expensive, but there should be no financial
problems wtih the large turnout at these big
weekend dances. The simple truth to the mat
ter is the students are being taken for a ride
by the dance committees and having their
Correction
The Daily Collegian mistakenly accused the
Department of Housing in connection with its
editorial yesterday concerning the poor plan
ning in registration for sophomore women's
rooms Saturday. The dean of women's office is
responsible for all coed housing, and also the
registration difficulties which occurred.
Gazette
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Roger A rtm.tn,rair. Roaeln•rae Asia Lai no. William Itlias,
Vincent Coecodralle, Robert Comfort. Susanne flat tag. Ter
renee Dunbar, (.rail Forman. James Cahill, Robert Hoover,
Cabinet to Vote'Sale of Lantern
On Appointees ;Con tinues Toda y
The Lantern will remain on sale
Four appointments wlll be cot-at the Hetzel Union desk today.
ed on by All-University Cabinet; Five hundred thirteen of the
at its meeting tomorrow night!
GOO copies of the Liberal Arts
Robert Bahrenburg,
rsity president, announced yester-!literary publication printed, have
day. ;been sold, according to Business
Cabinet will meet at 7 p.m. in, Manager Robert Nurock.
the Iletzel Union Building Stu-i Nurock said' last night that in
dent Government room.
,comparison to successes of past
The appointments are Traffic; magazines at Penn State,
Court chairman: Richard Kurtz-Ith e present sale has been very
junior in business administration!encouraging.
from Binghamton, N.Y., Elections! "Because of the popularity of
Committee chairman; W ill i am. the magazine, current plans for
Johnson, junior in pre-medical l its expansion for next year will
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from Arnold; Joint Committee on:b e continued." Nurock stated.
Town Affairs chairman; Leonard!
Phillips, junior in education from AIM Judicial Board
Philadelphia; and Student Lead
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ership Training Committee chair
man; Robert L. Stroup, sopho- 1
more in industrial .engineering.t
from Muncy. i
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—The Editor
7 :SO p.m.. Catholic
Application forms for the Asso
ciation of Independent Men's Ju
dicial Board of Review are avail
able at the Hetzel Union desk.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
DAVID RICHARDS, Business Manager
pockets fleeced by the absurdly high ticket
price.
The increase ;n the cost of a ticket has not
hurt the atter. .nce at these dances because
there are many students who will endure the
high price for the sake of dancing and listening
to any so-called name band. There are even
more students who complain they can't afford
the heavy price of the tickets. These big week
ends are for the students. Granted that some
students do not even consider going to the
dance, it is still unfair to the others to charge
an unjust price which many can't afford.
The Penn State Jazz Club in the past has
certainly presented good musical programs at
a price that all students can afford. And, al
though they are not dances, every program has
been a financial success. Perhaps the appointed
dance committees should take a page from the
Jazz Club book and determine a fair price to
charge before they foolishly spend students'
money.
The dance committees have two alternatives
to the problem. They can leave the price as it
now stands. But in doing so they must give the
dancers their money's worth while counting on
a smaller attendance than former years. Or else
they can reduce the ticket price and have a
legitimate excuse for the Class F orchestras
they book.
The big weekend dances used to be an event
worth looking forward to attending. The way
the situation appears now, more enjoyment
can be had at less than half the price by going
to a downtown movie. If the committees cannot
work out better arrangements in the future.
they might as well do away with the big week
end dances entirely.
Froth's All Gone
We can take Froth today. That's mainly be
cause there's not much there to take.
Froth calls this attempt at putting out a
humor magazine the "Vacation Issue." Judging
from the size and content, Froth members went
on vacation before starting on this issue. By
the way, it appears they haven't returned from
the vacation as yet.
Safety Valve
'Pure Trash' Writing?
TO THE EDITOR: I have just finished reading
Mr. Dubbs' odious column in The Daily Col
legian. After finishing it, I only hope for one
thing-'-that Dubbs is not a journalism major.
His article concerning "jazzing up" TV lec
tures was the most compact farce I've read in
recent weeks. He begins by making his readers
believe that he stands firmly behind a better
ment in TV programming and planning and
then turns around and backs into a corner by
taking an assinine and completely ridiculous
position on the subject.
This piece of journalistic misnomer appears
to be totally lacking in any mature thinking
whatsoever and in my humble estimation is
pure trash.
Can you find nothing better to clutter up your
fourth page? Some cigarette advertisers would
probably jump' at the chance!
—Evan P.. Maxwell
Mary Krause. William Myers. Paul Roberts. Jubn Salathe.
Nancy .Szbull. Wzthan.. Shannon. Richard Winn. Rebecca
Zahm.
Senate Adds
2 to Committee
All-University Senate approved
Thursday the addition of two stu
dents to the Senate Committee on
Student Affairs.
The change in the Senate by
laws, which was approved a sec
ond and final time, will add the
All-University vice president and
president of the Women's Student
Government Association to th e
committee. The only other stu
dent member is the All-Univer
sity president.
Senate also heard a report that
the executive committee of the
Board of Trustees has established
a degree of Associate in Agricul
ture for a two-year course in ag
riculture. The board also changed
the name of the new School of
Applied and Fine Arts to the
School of the Arts.
Editorials represent the
viewpoints et as writers
wee necegularily the pane,
of tit paper. the student
beefy. or the University
—The Editor
—Ed Dubbs
Little Man on Camp
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pebbles on the shore
Nightwatch
When the sun sets and the campus is draped with the
smells and sounds of a typical nightfall, a special sort of
Penn State student begins to come into his own.
He is the man who sleeps through the day, the man who
occasionally sacks out in his own bed but more often manages
to infuriate his professors by snatching 50-minute bites of
sleep throughout the day.
He doesn't comment much on
the campus' much-talked about
mystery, the weather. He can't
usually hold his eyes open long
enough to notice whether the day
is one of rain or whether it's an
alternate day—one of sunshine.
With the coming of nightfall.
he begins to come to life, stret
ches, yawns, and looks forward
to a night of adventure. And it
IS an adventure to this student.
He is not the man who continues
his day up to about 12 or 1 in
the morning and retires to bed.
Our man glories in the cool
moistness of the night. Extending
from 11 p.m. to 4 or 5 in the morn
ing, his night consists of studying,
or at best a pretense at studying,
bull sessions, card games, and
coffee breaks.
Who is he? He is many types
but few in number. He looks typi
cal. He lives in the dormitories,
in the fraternities, and in the
town boarding houses and apart
ments.
Trace the nightlife of this
many-s id e d individual. Follow.
him about the quiet haunts of
campus and town, follow him into
his room, down the corridors of
his fraternity into the many kit
chens, along the streets to the all
night diners . . .
Books and papers lie scat
, tered over the desk. The harsh
light streams down, pointing
out the black, glaring letters on
the paper. Lilting pop music
bursts from -the radio and the
ticking clock's big hand is inch
ing toward 1 a.m.
But they are not our hero's
papers and books. His books are
over in the corner, piled one on
another, haphazardly, looking as
if they hadn't been disturbed in
the past week.
The roommate is. preparing to
encamp between his bedcovers for
the night and our man—Carl, we
shall call him—must leave. The '
roommate does not like radios
playing or pages rustling or chairs
shuffling while he is asleep.
Carl is not one to mind. This
happens every night. Every night
the roommate wants to go to bed
just when he is coming in from
an evening of activities and goof
ing off. Almost every night he
clears out and runs together with
the gang. Grab a few books, a
notebook, and a couple of pencils
and off Carl goes with high hopes
of studying. But these hopes nev-
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er seem to be fully realized.
The gang can be found con
gregating in the lounge, or one
of their rooms, or the kitchen.
Books are tossed everywhere
and some guys are even study
ing; over in the corner is the
perpetual pinochle game. Fin
gers and toes are tapping softly
to the light record music.
But let us leave this group.
They are liable to go on like this
for hours, losing themselves in
talk about their friends, girls,
classes, grades, profs .
Then there are the bugs who
can't bear to leave their day-time
working places of work. One
would think they live there. Whe
ther it be engineer, ag major, or
journalist, some few can be seen
lurking in their offices and labor
atories, perhaps dreaming up
some secret incantation.
The lounges in the West
Dorms—as well as the typing
rooms—are usually filled with
their share of night birds. There.
those weary of noise and the
wise words of their friends can
find peace and comfort. But we
can't figure out those who seem
to prefer a couch to a bed. How
distract ing—to occasionally
come upon what appears to be
corpses sprawled out all over
the couches.
When certain campus citizens
are struck with political fever,
many and varied are the conver
sations that can be overheard at
all hours of the night. No one can
be as secretive or as furtive as a
campus politician. When a few of
them get together to plot and con
ceive new ways of defeating the
opposing party, the brilliance of
their words becomes almost over
powering. The intrigue is more
oppressive than that of "The Man
Who Never Was."
Laurels go to the crew in the
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