PAGE fcm PfcfclUfc— fMtter thrMffc Satarrf*; ■•rafiir* 4«r««c tfet Uaitvenity rr«r, Uw Daily C«<l«xtfeß u a •perated nrwfDiprr- I SS.Ot per lemtilrr )S.OI per year L—. EatrrW eccaad-riaa* uiui Jalr ». IM« el Mia Suta Collete, Pa. Poo« Office under the act of March I. Uff. MIKE MOYLE, Acting Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Jini Kopp; Copy Editors, Paula Miller. Judy Harkison; Assistants, Jack Mt Amhur, Thom Slue's, Ruth Grossman, Marty Nash, Ken Ishler, Mickie Cohen, Bill KHng, Ric WolpiT, Mary K<‘!!v, Roberta Levine, Carol Dom'nick, Ralph Manna, Riley Johnson. Does the Lion’s Den Close Too Soon? The Lion'.-. Den is an integral part of the stu dent social life at the University. Recently the weekend hours of this jumping social center were changed from 11:30 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. for the closing time. We have heard complaints against the new closing hour from many students and feel that they have good grounds for a complaint. Since the independents are affected the most, the Board of Governors of the Association of Independent Men was well advised to make pro test against the new closing hour. Fraternity men usually are in their houses on Friday and Saturday nights, but independents have no such regular place to congregate. Therefore, many of them use the Hetzel Union Building for this purpose, and a very large number make fre quent use of the Lion’s Den on weekends. The new 10:45 closing hour is having a drastic effect on the social life of many independents. Perhaps the Department of Food Service has not fully considered this possibility. It was re ported that two methods'were used to find that it was not worthwhile to keep the Lion's Den open the extra 45 minutes. One method was by counting students present in the “Den" at this time and the other was by figuring the amount of money taken in during this period. We wonder how accurate the former count was. Perhaps this count was taken in the spring when many students are outside but in any case we do not feel that this count would indicate the situation at this lime of year, or for the next several months to come. Lash Howes, AIM president, last weekend took an approximate count of the students in the Lion’s Den. on both Friday and Saturday nights. Wc feci 'that, since this was Penn week end. the count was more than indicative of the Newspapers Are Serving America The country is observing, from Oct. 1 to Oct. 8, National Newspaper Week. The theme of this week is, “Your newspaper—freedom’s key to better living." Lest this week fly by we will make comment on this most important of special ■"weeks.” Newspapers are an American institution which is under-rated and taken for granted by the general reading public. They are necessary objects in the everyday life of Americans but the. public does not really appreciate all news papers do. The wonderful system of government under which we live is made possible partly through the work of newspapers who act, as Socrates once .said, "as a godfly of the state'' in scruti nizing governmental work and criticizing when criticism is needed. In this way public agencies and elections and other facets of government function to the advantage of the electorate. This is just one way which newspapers serve the public. There are numerous other ways which news papers are helpful in helping people gain a better way of living. Through its columns you Are We Responsible? Recently there has appeared to be a tendency in student attitude that as members of the uni versity we are only responsible to that par ticular ethnic group. Whether we realize the fact or not we do belong to a privileged class— tomorrow's leaders in the community, nation, and world life. In consideration of this factual reality it seems almost paradoxical that we as students, supported financially by citizens of this stale, should have a mental picture of accountibility that includes within its scope just- the university. No doubt the unique socio logical structure of a university leads itself to the air of “world unconsciousness” with pre occupation in business. However, we are reach ing or have attained the age of full citizenship privileges; it is not only our right to utilize these privileges, but it is our duty for our obli gations begin now. not after we graduate. Throughout the country this November elec tions .will take place on both a national and local level. For one to say that my vote can’t make any difference or I don’t know the candi dates well enough to vote for either one. is in effect to say that mv time and effort is too valuable to exercise one of the great franchises -with which we have been endowed. If govern ment, whether on a national scale or on the university level, is not what we think it should FUTURE TEACHERS OF AMERICA. p.m.. <O5 Old Main INSURANCE CLUB, 7 p.n».. Kappa Surma Fraternity SIGMA ALPHA ETA, 7:IG Main Lounjre Home Ec. BMk. , , BLOCK AND BRIDLE CLUB. 7:20 p.m.. 216 Hettel Union ACCOUNTING CLUB. 7 p.m,. Delta Chi Fraternity FROTH ADVERTISING STAFF. 7 Froth Office PSYCHOLOGY CLUB. <3 p.m.. 217 Hetxet Union KAPPA PHI KAPPA. 7 pm.. Siema Phi Epsilon Fraternity NEWMAN CLUB FRATERNITY AND SORORITY COM MITTEE, 7 p.m., 101 Osmond Lab MOANING WORSHIP SERVICE. S;l9 Eden Eaki* (Sl Hath; Cnllpgtatt SatccHM U THE PSEI LANCE. Mt IMT Safety Valve Gazette THE DAILY OOUEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager frequent use of the Lion’s Den on these nights. At 9 p.m. Friday there were 143 students in the snack bar, and at 10:30 on the same night there were 167 students. At 9 p.m. Saturday there were 93 students and at 10:30 p.m. there were 96 students. On both nights there were more students in the Lion’s Den at the time when it starts closing and the counter is open for carry out service only, than there were earlier in the evening. The HUB was built to be a student union building, and as 'such to serve the students. Last week the president of all the student unions visited the University and commented on how well the HUB serves the students. He said that he thought this was the most important func tion of a student union. Is the HUB properly serving the students when the Lion’s Den closes at 10:45 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights? We say no. If the students are there in such large numbers as they were last weekend, and we feel that there will probably be more on weekends when football games are played here, then the snack bar is not giving adequate service by closing at this early hour. It. certainly is not staying open long enough when 167 students are forced out by the closing hour. The HUB is a much better place for students to spend their free time than in some of the local public establishments. Should the Depart ment of Food Service encourage the students to frequent these places by closing the Lion’s Den? Again, we say no. The department should return the Lion's Den to its former schedule of closing at 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday nights. By doing so it will give the students the full advantage of the Hetzel Union Building, built for this purpose. Sue Conklin learn if community projects needed to improve your community. Business gains knowledge of needs which it is prepared to fill. The world of medicine also finds out from newspapers what the public wants. All these ways and more are examples of how newspapers set themselves up as invaluable parts of the community. The trouble is that people just don’t take these things into consideration when they read and utilize newspapers. However, when somelhing goes wrong or when something appears in a newspaper which they disapprove of the clamor is tremendous. People are quick to criticize newspapers but they still go on reading them because whether they realize it or not newspapers are the best means they have of finding out what is going on in the world. This goes despite the progress made recently by television. If the public couldn’t get newspapers on a certain occasion they would be indeed lost. Newspaper? are constantly doing a job of serv- ing the American public. If the public will stop and think about it they will realize this fact. too. —The Editor be, it is r duty to act for as a famous Ameri can thinker once said “tolerance is the virtue of doing nothing." A large segment of the student body lives in State College. Regardless of whether we live on or off campus we must assume responsibility for our actions and be participants in the com munity (mainly requiring our interest). Another example of where we as students are answerable is the Campus Chest. When we are asked to give to Ihe American Heart As sociation as one of the Chest benefactors, will we say that this, the American Heart Associ ation, does not concern us in any way? If we do, then here again we.are separating at least in our minds, the university from the world about us. How can we in whom Americans have much at stake ignore our rightful responsibilities not only to them but to oui nation and our Creator? For this world is popuiated by man; therefore, our citizenship responsibilities _ transcend all man made socioeconomic structures. It might be well for us to re-examine .our due concerns, and fulfill our expected obligations to society to the best of our ability—remembering always that we are not only part of Penn State Uni versity. but also State College, Pennsylvania, the United States, and the World. —Glen H. Elder T.i**?nhower Meditation Chapel, conducted by the Eastern Orthodox Society VESI’ER SERVICE, 4:30 p.m.. Helen Eakin Eisenhower Meditation Chapel, conducted by the Wesley Foundation. UCA COFFE&'HOUR, 6:45 p.m.. Memorial Lounge, Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel. * Saturday DATKY SCIENCE CLUB BARBECUE, 6:30 p.m., Hort Woods OUTING CLUB EXCHANGE. 2:00 p.m.. back o£ Old Main Vniversit* Hospital Edwin Biederman. Richard Bullock. Barbara Chastain, Marvin Garfinkle. Eld red Hitchcock; Charles Hughes, Audrey Jeraun. Alease Ma&senbersr. Alexander Mulligan, Robert Rom, Prodipto Boy, Charles Buppert Editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper, the etadent body, or the University li on "Today we begin another exciting and stimulating unit Interpreting the News- Saar Issue Faces Monetary Problem By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst France and Germany, in settling their differences over the Saar, ran into two of the difficulties faced by those who are supporting European unification In spite of the creation oi Community under supranatioi currency pool through which the participating nations can pay forj impoits in their own money. . Strange as it may seem, the West German mark has, in just eight years, become the hard money of Europe For that reason France had to retain large coal production ! rights in the Saar while agree ing to Germany political con trol. Otherwise she would have had to pay for the coal in marks, further deteriorating the franc. This is going lo be an important! factor in every country’s consid-j eration of the now-proposed l atomic pool and free trade areaJ ■ Another problem is to maintain the principle, under the supra national agreements now existing and being extended', of equal rep resentation for France and Ger many in the control authorities. These authorities so far work on the expressed principle that the delegates become non-national istic. In practice, political balance must be maintained between the' Big Two,’ France and Germany. In the Coal and Steel Community, representation is based .upon pro duction. In the case of the Saar, re turn of its coal production lo German control would have created imbalance in the com munity and might have pro duced a political problem there. A third problem, among many others, also is to the fore at the moment because of West Ger many's adoption of a one-year draft law -as compared with the longer terms of France and Brit ain. Long-term conscription places a heavy load on any nation’s econ omy. France and Britain are struggling to maintain their for eign trade in the face of a bril liantly resurgent Germany. Chancellor Adenauer has sought to place the blame for the short-term draft decision on the currency in' Germany of reports that the United Stales planned drastic cuts in its own military manpower. The so called "Radford plan" has been denied by the United States, but the denials failed to cor rect the political impact of the original reports. There are re ports. indeed, that the United Stales never conveyed the de- THURSDAY. OCTOBER 4. 1956 mpus in late medieval history." the European Coal and Steel lal controls, there is as yet no nials to the Bonn government until this week. Nowadays anything which gives West Germany even the slightest economic edge is a serious prob lem to France and Britain. Administration May Discuss Drinking Rule Daisy Zimmerman, president of the Women’s Student Government Association, last night .said that "indications point that the new coed drinking rule will be dis cussed by the Senate Committee on Student Affairs” soon. Miss Zimmerman made this statement to WSGA Senate. l The new rule, passed two weeks ; ago by Senate, revises the pres ent rule by permitting 21-year-old i-coeds to drink in accordance with ; state laws. The rule cannot go into effect, however, until approved by the Administration. The entire action is expected to take approximately two months. * Committee chairmen were ap pointed for the Junior-Senior Fac ulty reception to be held on Dec. 5 in the Hctzel Union lounge. They are: reception chairman, Claire Ganim; invitations, Esther Donovan and Mary Conrad; pub licity, Ellen Donovan and Grace Antes; and receiving line and floaters, Susan Walker. Young Democrat Club To Elect New Officers The .Young Democrat Club will meet at 7 tonight in 209 Het zel Union to elect officers. The group will also make plans for the November election cam paign on campus and in State College. Tonight on WDFM 9.1 Megacycle* 6:55 7:00 _ Sign On . - . ■ Record Rack ,ju— Newa As You Believe > .... 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