PAGE EIGHT evablisbed fin.wlay tinted* Saturday mernsnota the Unietrasty rear. the Daily Collegian II a student *oersted newspaper. $l.llll per oenneoter 15.01 per year • t •• . to 1 • ROGER ALEXANDER. Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Editorial; Mike Moyle. Fran Fanucci, Ed Dubbs, Sue Conklin, Vince Carocci, Evie Onsa, Larry Jacobson, Bob Franklin, Lianne Cordaro, Lynn Ward, Pat Evans, George French, Lou Prato, Th.nn Shiels. and Matt Podbesek. Business; Dave Richards, Art Brenner, Ben Petersohn, Alan Grossman. and Arnie Hoffman. But Officer, Where Shall I Park My Car? Uppercliy,s students driving back to school this year were surprised and baffled to find parking rest] iction signs dotting the so-called picturesque landscape around the fraternity area of Stale College. While most vehicle owners shouted with cries of 'We've been robbed'. the town fathers shook their wise old heads and said, 'We warned you so way back when.' The parking situation is perhaps the most , complex and hardest to solve problem either the University or Borough faces. The number of cars on campus this year is expected to hit an all-time high, while downtown a traffic specialist viewing the fieups declared the bor ough had a traffic problem of a town of 50.000 population. This surpri. , move on the part of the Borough seems unfair. It is aimed directly at student car owners residing in fraternities and other living facilities along fraternity row. And we feel another solution to the problem could be found. We rather doubt Borough officials would pull such a trick on townspeople who vote them in office arid pay their salaries without sufficient warning. - In defense the Borough claims it sent out let ters to all fraternities in 1954 warning them that measures would be taken 'sometime in the future: Well, two years passed. Then during vacation when the persons who will be most affected by the ban were not around to protest or take steps to conform to the ruling, the signs suddenly appear on the streets. As a matter of fact, neither the University Ready? Get Set Monday will mark the start of customs as well as the beginning of classes. The class of 1960 can best show the University its enthusiasm and cooperative attitude by joining whole heartedly with the customs program. Customs, like the orientation program, was designed and is continued for the benefit of The freshmen. The University has no desire to degrade the freshman, or to make him feel ill at ease in any way. Customs is as much a part of the college education as any course taken during the four years. The main purpose of customs is to give the freshmen a chance to become acquainted with the University and with their fellow students. It is also designed to acquaint them with the Penn State tradition, an integral part of any university. By wearing signs a freshman will discover that he meets many people who have some common experience—perhaps the same cur riculum. By wearing dinks a freshman will stand out as a member of the class of '6O. It is a privilege and an honor t• 1 wear the dink; it is one that no freshman should turn down. By being required to answer questions about the campus and the different phases of the Univer- Put a Nickel in the Slot, Sonny "Automation." that new-fangled word which has industry jumping with glee and workers casting a suspicious eye, has hit the University at the West Halls Snack Bar. The snack bar we used to know—with a counter and waitresses behind it—has been changed to a row of mechanical monsters. This is good in some ways and bad in others. Miss Mildred A. Baker. director of food serv ice, told us the change over to vending machines was necessary because the "business didn't cover the cost of operation." This surprised us, for we thought the "old-fashioned" snack bar did a good business. We cannot, and we would not even try, to refute Miss Baker since she more than anyone knows the operation of her service. She told us that food service only• wants to break even, and no one can deprive food service of that wish. The old snack bar is still there, behind a par tition behind the machines, which do give the students a snack but less variety and few hot items. The mechanical monsters are there on a "test run," according to Miss Baker. The Uni versity is thinking about placing them in future dormitories, she said. It seems that food service has a nice setup Art Education Curriculum Approved. • The program in art education at the University, now a major un der the curriculum of education, has been approved as the curri culum of art education. The action was taken by the Board of Trustees of the Univer sity in approval of recommenda tions from the University Senate. The program will be adminis tered by the department of art education which was established as a unit of the College of Educa tion. ilt 3aitti Callrgiatt Successor Is THE FREE LANCE. est. 1W Button Frosh Johnstown Firm Sets Scholarship A $5OO scholarship has been established at the University by the Hiram Swank's Son's Refrac tories Co., Johnstown, to help to encourage young men of ability to enter the field of ceramics. The scholarship will be award ed to an entering freshman, be ginning this semester, and it may be renewed for each of his four year if he continues to meet re quirements for the scholarship. THE DAILY COUEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA DAVID RICHARDS, Business Manager nor the Interfraternity Council. whose members are hardest hit by the ban, were notified in ad vance of the proposed action. The two months reprieve granted by the bor ough is barely enough time for fraternities and other living units to plan, finance, and construct parking lots for its members. As a result, until better facilities can be arranged. automobiles will be parked on the beautiful lawns which fraternities are so proud of. And in a few weeks time they will turn into mires of mud. Borough officials gave several plausible rea sons for the parking ban. We feel these excuses are merely a cover-up for the true reason-- lack of foresight and poor planning. Years ago, the town fathers threw some gravel on dis-used cow paths and called them streets. In the years that followed since the advent of the automobile, the University, which the town centers around, has progressed rapidly while the Borough has remained motionless. As a result. State College is a mass of gutterless, poorly surfaced, narrow roads. The problem is that of the Borough. Yet it is up to the fraternities to solve. In the long run, we doubt that such parking restrictions will be the answer to the problem. Perhaps the answer . . lies in the construction of wider, well-laid out streets—throughout the town and not merely in some sections. We have a parting thought to the policemen who will brax;e the elements at 2 in ihe morn ing this November to tag these overnight vio lators: Good Hunting. The fine will be well worth it if the money goes towards the con struction of better roads in State College. sity, a freshman will quickly become acquainted with the institution which will be the focal point of his existance for the next four years. Upperclassmen also carry major responsibility in the enforcement of the customs program. They also take part in setting the spirit of cus toms week. It is up to them to make' the fresh men curtsey, button, and sing. Only through the cooperation of the upperclassmen can cus toms be a success. The responsibility belongs not to the hat men and women alone, but to all the sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Those upperclassmen who did not benefit from the customs program, we hope will help the class of '6O have a better reception: Customs affords a perfect opportunity for the entire student body to join in showing spirit and exuberance. If a student really has the desire to spend four years at college with a lack of school spirit and make every effort to ignore opportunities to meet new people, he should then avoid and disobey customs. We don't believe there are students who are this apathetic, however, so we expect to see the entire freshman class fully enjoying the many opportunities which customs offers it. here. for one of the persons in charge of the machines told us the University division can not possibly lose money on the arrangement. The company owns the machines, he said, and food service supplies the sandwiches and other things for the machines. The company buys these items from food service: The machines. which cost more than $12,000, are attractive but do take away some of the coziness of the snack bar, which has always been our favorite. Its coziness in many ways made it superior to the large Lion's Den in the Hetzel Union Building. We hope that the mechanical monsters will not keep students from using the snack bar as much as they seemed to do in the past. It is an integral part of West Hall living, the only place on campus where women and men students approach "community living." Probably the biggest advantage—and maybe the only one for 'file students—is the quicker service which should result from the machines. In many ways we hate to see the "old fashioned" snack bar go out of existence, but we do thank food service for finding an alterna tive to closing up shop altogether—an alterna tive Miss Baker hopes to break even on! —Ed Dubbs APhio Establishes $2OO Scholarship Alpha Phi Omega, national ser vice fraternity. has established a scholarship effective with this semester. The purpose of the scholarship is to assist a worthy student in need of financial aid to complete his education. It will provide a $2OO stipend, payable in two in stallments, one at the beginning of each semester. Editorials represent Me viewpoints of the Writers. not a ity the Petit, of the Paper. the student body. er the Unieereite. —The Editor —Sue Conklin an on Campus Little e e r,, ua, •:; j, MI FEES HERE L t , Ij j!~Ijll i~ ~, yv RITE, NOME fcg "Now I know what they mean by higher education:. According to Moyle by mike moyle Figuring out the freshman mind is a pretty tough job, we have been finding out these past few days. With the freshman's crowded Orientation Week schedule it is only natural that he has many things on his mind and is perplexed and worried about adjustment to a new community. Having talked with some of these freshmen, however, we seem to find that it is not the larger problems of social and aca demic adjustment that crop up in questions to student counse lors. For instance, one of the most asked questions 'is, "Do I have to schedule Saturday classes?" This is usually followed by a long string of arguments why it is ab solutely necessary for this poor frosh to go home on weekends. Of course, these pleas would be better spent on advisers or de partment heads but student coun selors hear them anyway. As one would expect, another big concern for freshmen is customs. Every incoming class hears tales of varying cred ibility about how the upper classmen treat new students. Some freshmen are told that customs at Penn State are akin to college hazing of the past when students were tarred and feathered and generally, beaten up. Others hear that customs around these parts, for all prac tical purposes, have died and that they have nothing to worry about because upperclassmen just don't care. With all such stories ringing in their ears what do the freshmen want to know about the customs program at Penn State? This is the classic question: "What's all this stuff about not being able to date the freshman girls?" The freshman mind works that way. WE HAVE HEARD: That there is quite a bit of „dissatisfaction over making the West Dorm snack bar into an automat. Someone remarked. '''You have to be an engineer to get a sand wich." That Certain faculty members in Sparks will sorely miss the old snack bar which held a dear place in their hearts. That the new policy of not announcing the end of customs is expected to give customs the shot-in-the-arm it needs. Titanium metal. which is vital for jet engines and guided missies, has its chief U.S. production cen ter near Las • Vegas. Nev, with 1.000 employes. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1956 By Bib!er University Uses Letters For Grades The tried-and-true system of A. B. C. D, and F will again be em ployed by the University for grad ing students. This will be its sec ond year of use. The system, approved last year by University Sena te, has re placed the two minus averages which had formerly designated failing grades. The letters are equal to the nu merical grades of 4 (100-90), 3 (89- 80), 2 (79-70), 1 (69-60). The last grade of "0" supplants the -1 and -2 as a failing mark. A student must complete the requirements of his curriculum and earn at least a C (2) average for alt courses taken at the University. Academic Probation If a student's grade point aver age falls below a 1.65 at the end of a semester, he will be placed in academic probation until his average is brought up to that standard. If an average remains below 1.65 for three consecutive semesters, the student will be dropped from the University. A student may, be referred to the Division of. Intermediate Reg istration if his scholastic record is unsatisfactory or if he seems not adapted to the work of his College. Grades Different •In the past, graduates _had to complete their required number of grade-points computed by mul tiplying the grade by the number of credits to a course. In nearly all cases, required averages for graduation would never fall! be low a "1", thus leading to the!im pression that all that was need ed to graduate was a "1". - Under the old method of grading, marks of 3,2, 1,0, -1, and -2 were stan dard. UCA to Hold Coke Hoiirs The University Christian A.iso ciation will hold coke hours for all new students today and tomorrow from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Memorial Lounge of the new All-F aith ChapeL
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