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MIKE MOYLE. Acting Editor
Aunt Dithinc.. Mn.-.age Deanna Soltis; Local Ad•. Mgr-.
Sue Conklin. Managing Editor; Ed Dubin.. City Editor: Fran Arnold Hoffman; National Adv. Ider., Janke Anderson:
Eanucci. Sport. Editor; Becky Zahn, copy Editor; Vince Co-Circulation Mgr,. Ann Caton and Darid Posca; Promotion
Carucci, A.eirtarit Sport. Edotor: E.ie Onaa, Features Editor; Mgr„ Arthur Brener; Personnel Mgr, Jo Fulton; Office
Darr Ba.ar. Photography Editor. Mgr., Harry Vaverbaum; Classified Adv. Mgr.. Barbara
Shipman: Secrelarr. Ruth Howland; Research and Records
Mgr.. Jane Graf.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Ginny Philips; Copy Editors, Lynn Ward, Bob Franklin; Assist
ants, Mi,tt Pudbesek, Torn Reese, Marian Beatty, Maggie Lieberman, Chet Zimolzak, Carol Dominick.
Some Words on a Half-Holiday
Weeping wailing and general discontent
with the University's decision not to grant a
half-holiday for this weekend's football game
with Pennvylvania is rife over the entire campus
today.
Students who have made plans to go to the .
football game Saturday have taken the atti
tude that "they wuz robbed." They, after all
have bought tickets and have made plans for
rides and have, in general, mapped out the
entire weekend. Now the administration has
dropped this bombshell in their collective laps.
is the administration nothing but a bunch of
old fuddy-duddies who are too old and decrepit
to appreciate the tun a student can have at a
football game—especially the Penn game? Are
those nine deans who doled out this fateful_de
cision too shortsighted to know that this is one
of the year's biggest weekends?
Students today are wondering about these
things and are even holding a faint glimmer of
hope that the decision might be reversed.
It will not be reversed. All minds may rest
assured of that.
When the news of the half-holiday got around
(Monday night) students immediately began
thinking of ways by which they could, if not
have the decision reversed, at least let the ad
ministration know that they were highly dis
pleased. A few even burst into the Collegian
office and demanded a strong editorial on the
matter. Well, this is it.
There are many facets to this final decision.
One point which should be made is that the
University's reason for not granting the half
holiday was not only the fact that the students
possibly would be driving home for Thanks
giving in bad weather. This entered into it but
was far from being the only consideration.
The main fact which students will want to
know i's the fact that over the past few years
faculty-administration sentiment in favor of a
half-holiday has been steadily declining. The
half-holiday matter has undergone three steps
in past years. First. the half-holiday was taken
off the University calendar. Second, the student
government group asked to have it put back on
and was granted its wish. Third, the half-holi
day was again left off the University calendar
and this time the student government request
was denied.
The faculty, once they see the year's calen
dar like to plan their schedule accordingly and
do not like to have scheduled lectures and ex
periments cut into by a football weekend.
This was one big factor. There were many
more. One of these deals with this matter of the
University calendar. This is drawn up in the
form of a recommendation by the Senate calen
dar committee and presented to the Council of
Administration for approval. The half-holiday
had been left off this year's calendar and this
made any further change difficult. This year's
calendar is tighter than ever. About the only
place to insert make-up classes would be the day
the Thanksgiving vacation begins. This, the
deans felt was unwise because students would
have to leave for home at 5 o'clock instead of at
noon.
Lighten the Load
TO THE EDITOR: At Cabinet meeting last
Thursday night I presented a statement of my
view that too many appointive positions in stu
dent government are given to too few people.
I also suggested that the various student leaders
who hold the appointive powers should make a
stronger effort to bring new and capable in
dividuals into the student government picture.
It was my feeling that this would give more peo
ple an opportunity to take part in something I
believe in. and that it would serve to reduce the
burden of the select few who now share the
many appointments. -
In Saturday's Collegian an editorial appeared
which saw fit to criticize my suggestions. It
implied that sharing the wealth (of appoint
ments) was socialization, and to attempt to
pump new blood into old veins by personally
contacting people who are capable but inactive,
was "clearly unfeasable."
I do not 'particularly resent this charge of
socialism. I realize that in our times if you do
not agree with a person the easiest method of
attacking him is to hurl this somewhat blunted
spear and be done with it. It saves the trouble
of developing something new.
Likewise, when there are appointments to be
made the easiest method is to heap the load
on the same old reliable shoulders. This saves
the trouble of developing someone new. It also
relieves the responsibility, on the part of the
student leaders, to get out and meet some of
the people he professes to represent.
A number of Cabinet members have privately
expressed their complete accord with my posi
tion on the matter and thus far I have heard
none offer a single word of disagreement. In this
sort of . atmosphere I am optimistic enough to
hope we may even achieve the "clearly un
feasable:'
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—Lash Howes
AIM President
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager
Another factor is that this year the Penn
game is first on the schedule and not enough
time is left for students to get steamed up about
it as in past years when it appeared nearer the
middle of the schedule.
The Athletic Association has sold very few
tickets to Penn State students. The deans took
this to be a lack of interest in the game and also
took it into consideration in reaching .their de
cision. We are convinced that many of the stu
dents who are crying over the matter were really
planning to go home instead of to the game.
In argument to this students say that they
were waiting for the holiday to be granted to
buy their tickets. In this case it looks like this
move was a mistake since the ticket sale shows
that iO' or less of the student body has bought
tickets. This looked bad to the deans.
In essence the nine deans felt that it would
be senseless to inconvenience the majority, who
had things planned on campus for the weekend,
in order to convenience the minority, who
thought that the half-holiday was a sure thing.
Among the reasons 'students gave for being
disappointed was that old one of tradition. They
looked to past years when half-holidays were
granted and decided that this year would be no
different.
It might be well for the University fathers
not to overlook this matter of tradition. It should
not• be shrugged off. -Perhaps many feel that
something so insignificant as a football game is
not sufficient to establish any sort of tradition.
Especially a tradition which would throw the
admittedly very important and inflexible Uni
versity calendar out• of kilter.
These same fathers feel that a football holiday
is more typical of a small college rather than a
university of Penn State's size.
Our only answer to this is: no matter how
worried these people are about Penn State over
emphasizing football it is still one of a student's
biggest college thrills. A University is mainly
concerned with the advancement of learning
but it is also concerned with student welfare
in other fields.
For one thing a number of students have
bought tickets from the University of Penn
sylvania because they get a better price there.
This means that the present ticket sale may be
deceiving.
Keeping this point and the matter of tradition
in mind it seems that the overwhelming evi
dence presented by the administration is not
quite so overwhelming.
A Penn half-holiday is becoming traditionaL
Students are not so lackadaisical as it might
appear. If the calendar has been circumvented
in past years it can be circumvented again.
Somehow.
As the matter stands now it looks as if those
who have planned to
. go to the football game
are going to go despite Saturday classes. Those
who are going home will go home despite Satur
day classes. And those students who don't like
football and have exceptional profs on Satur
day morning will go to class.
Anyone want to buy a ticket at reduced rates?
—Mike Moyle
Valve
Do They Care?
TO THE EDITOR: The uncertainty is over. We
have no half-holiday. The administration and
faculty have expressed their reasons for deny
ing All-University Cabinet's request for the
Penn weekend. I will not deny, and All-Uni
versity Cabinet will not deny, that the half
holiday would cause a certain amount of con
fusion with the calendar, which has been set
up for the year.
However, because of these evident last-minute
difficulties, Cabinet and Student Encampment
requested a half-holiday be inserted in the calen
dar. When was this request made? One year
ago! The request was not put into effect.
I can only interpret this refusal as a willing
ness to ignore, the most reasonable of student
requests. It is' certainly a backward step in
University-student relations.
The one thought that springs to mind is . this:
Does the University care about the students?
I hope this question has a positive answer,
—Robert Bahrenburg
All-University President
Gazette
ACCOUNTING CLUB meeting. 7:00 tonight, Theta Chi.
MORNING WORSHIP SERVICE, 8:10 a.m.. Helen Eakin
Eisenhower Meditation Chapel, conducted by Westminxter
- - • -
Foundation Presbyterian
NEU BAVARIAN - SCHUHPLATTLERS, 7:30 tonight, 405
Old Main.
PHI MU ALPHA SINFONIA will hold its [lna meeting
of the year tonight at 9:0 in 117 Carnegie.'
THETA SIGMA PHI. 8:30 tonight. Alpha Chi Omega suite
taivorsity Hospital
Barham Budnick, Richard Bullock. Louis Camino, Rita
Chase, Mary Dorman, George Hafer, Thomaa Hart, Herbert
Hayes, John Lanire, Robert McCaah, Margaret McCloskey,
Donald Islikita, Nancy Moran, John Redmond, William
Roberts, Howard Schwartz. Robert Sommer. Juba Urban.
aai Judsort Voaburg.
Editenale represent ttwl
viewpoints st the writers,
net stereimmarily the 0011C7
or the paper. the student
bode or the Unie.roiee
the set of March S. 11711
ttle Man on Campu
"It's your turn to wind the alarms tonite."
'Round the Rim
Sidestepping
the Battleground
Since Penn Weekend is down the drain—and words like
half-holiday verboten—lll religiously avoid the subject and
move on to several milder controversial fields.
In the rock 'n' roll caldron even the Queen of England's
curious. According to the Associated Press, Queen Elizabeth
II decided it was high time she
found out what this rock `n' roll
craze sweeping Britain was all
about.
From Balmoral Castle where
she was on vacation, she sent out
an urgent royal command to have
the Bill Haley movie 'Rock
Around the Clock' flown up for a
special showing.
The film has been banned in
several British cities after teen
age riots in some of the movies
showing it.
Also in the rock 'n' roll scene
it was rumored that Elvis Presley
was fishing for offers to appear
at colleges and universities,
among them Penn State. But the
Penn State Jazz Club definitely
nixed the idea.
Speaking of the Jazz Club, it
certainly packed in a good crowd
in 121 Sparks last night. The
gathering bore striking resem
blance to a local political party
meeting except for the jazz blar
ing and the fact that lately po
litical' parties haven't drawn that
well. Maybe the politicos would
latch onto a better drawing card
if they would incorporate a jazz
session into their meetings.
As to politics the "New York
Times" came up with a good quo
tation.
"Diplomacy is the art of saying
`nice doggie' until you can find a
rock."
This hits close to home as the
quote of the week. A Cleveland
Juvenile Court judge said that
"Along with the three R's of
school days, we now have the
three D's—drinking, dating and
driving." This may also explain
why it's harder for some people
to get through school now.
Since a column can't be com
plete at the beginning of the year
without at least one good story
of a frosh faux pas—here goes.
It seems that Dave Bavar, pho
tography editor of Collegian
along with numerous other campus
publications, approached a good
looking freshman coed and asked
her if she would . be interested
in being photographed' for the
Penn State Engineer as 'Engineer
Girl of the Month.' Without bat
ting an eyelash, the gal sweetly
replied, "so, I don't think so, I'm
not an engineer.'
Bavar can currently 'be found
banging his head against a wall
in the basement of Carnegie.
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1956
by Bibl
y BECKY ZAHM
4.0 Grades
Earned by 9
Ag Students
Nine students in the College of
Agriculture finished the spring
semester with perfect 4.0 aver
ages. They are:
Edward Brown, Oliver Ginther,
David Mellor, Kathryn Simons,
Charles Stanislaw, Charles Stew
art, Phoebe .Trumbauer, Edward
Wickersham, and John Williams.
Others on the dean's list were:
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John Bitzer, 3.5'6; Marjorie Blank, 3.52;
Richard Biondi, 3.52: Charles Bowers,
3.65; Carole Bradt, 3.53; Albert • Carey,
3.75 Gerald Carlisle. 3.50: Axil Carlstron4
3.50; Richard Chamberlain. 3.66; Thomas
Claar. 3.72.
Betty Clugston, 3.75: Charles Crawford,
3.56; Mario D'Alessio, 3.50: Louis Doram,
3.62; Albert Dudeck, 3.55: Edwin Dull,
3.89: Clarence Dunkerley, 3.81; William
Eberhardt, 3.62: Edward Edinger, 3.64;
Marlyn Ernst, 3.54; Robert Ernst. 3.76;
James Fleeicer, 3.57; Norman Galvin. 3.86;
Edward Glass, 3.66; Dorothy Hancock,
3.83; James Harding, 3.81; James Hart
man, 3.51.
Clarence Haugh, 3.58; David Rixon, 3.51;
Denis H0ke,'3.83; Roger Hollenbaek, 3.66:
James Holler, 3.66; Stephen Horlacher,
3.52; Lawrence Hutchinson, 3.85; Robert
Jackson. 3.66; Clarence Johnson, 3.64;
Alice Jordan, 3.71; Sylvia Kaley, 3.84;
Edward Ker. 3.68; William Klopfenstein,
3.54; James Kondis, 3.68; Robert Korona,
3.93.
John Kuhl, 3.68; Robert Leight, 3.38:
William McCafferty. 3.57; Thomas Mc-
Kee. 3.57: Doris McKinstry, 3.94: Anthony
Marti, 3.68; Harry Marker, 3.87: David
Morgan, 3.93; David Morrow, 3.68.
Ruth Ott. 3.74; Thomas atton, 3.62;
William Pepelko, 3.54; Robert Radomaky,
3.57; William Rezrode, 3.70; Edwin Rhoads,
3.56; John Ritz. 3.75; Gerald Root, 3.88;
Margaret Ross, 3.75; Darlene Rumbaugh,
3.56: Kerry Schell. 3.94; Ronald Schrimp.
er. 3.95; Paul Shellenberger, 3.82; John
Sink, 3.50; Ned Skier, 3.50: Thomas Smeal,
3.60; Edgar Sclera, 3.82; Richard Stanley,
3.84.
Robert Stauffer, 3.50; Robert Steffy.
3.70:. Malcolm Stehman. 6.63 ; Nancy Ste..
Phens, 3.72; Charles Strauss, 2.71; Harold
Taylor, 3.50; Marjorie Taylor, 3.77; Arthur
Tennyson, 3.63: Robert Thomas, 3.61; Cali.
ster Valiet , 3.57' . Barbara Vorsey. 3.76;
Robert Ward, 3.68; Herbert Wetzel, 3 . 6 6;
Richard Williammee, 3.93. •
James Williams, 3.57;_ Edward Woods,
3.52; John Young, 3.56; 'Thomas Zeigler.
3.85; Milton House, 3.50.
Psych Tests for Frosh
Freshriten who did not take the
Psychology Tests given by the Di
vision of Counseling during Orien
tation. Week should report at 7
p.m. tomorrow in 10 Sparks for
the makeup examination.