PAGE FOUR fattiMl Tbm<lT IkrMfk Bmtmrdmf •ominfi 4mrimg Um University rear. Um DtHr Ccllffiaii m * etade*t> •aerated ntwipap*r I 22.99 p«r xaeiter SS.OI per year __ Catered a* ••(Ur Jaly 9. 1924 at Uu State Catlece. Pa. Peat Office cadet the act ad March 1 1879. MIKE MOYLE, Acting Editor Deanna ,Soltir t A»i>t. Business Manager; Arnold Hoffman, Local Sec feoklin, Manarinf Editor; Ed Oubb», City Editor: Fraa Adr. Mgr.; Janire Anderson, National Adr. Mgr.: Anne Fsewcri, Sport* Editor; Becky Zeh«. Copy Editor: Vince (!«ten and David Poeca, Co-Circulation Myra.; Arthur Brener, Caracrt. A*«i»tant Sports Editor; Evie Ones, Features Editor; Promotion Mgr.; Jo Fulton, Personnel Myr.: Harry Vaver- D«*« B**»r, Photography Editor. baum. Office Mjr.; Barbara Shipman. Classified Adr. Mcr.; Rath Howland, Secretary; Jane Groff, Research and Rec ords Mar. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Larry Jacobson; Copy Editors, Lynn Ward, Jim Kopp; Assistants, Matt Podbesek. Lil Junas, George French, Tom Reese, Mike Maxwell, Randy Murray, Shelia Miller. Barbara Stone. Pat Thomas. Barbara Barrow. Leadership Training: Tonight the Leadership Training series will make its 395 G debut. This year the program is showing a * new” format. It is now—wisely directed toward freshmen. Someone around here is always trying to make ‘‘student government more effective.” Every one agrees wholeheartedly that it certainly needs to be made more effective and they go to great lengths to do this Anyone who sat through the Encampment report on this subject at Cabinet some weeks ago will attest to this. However, it seems as if someone finally has come up with a pretty good way to get at ac complishing this magic deed. This year's Leadership Training program has been met with astounding enthusiasm by the freshman and new students. Enrollment has bit the goal within a very short time. It looks as if these people who enrolled are really interested in getting a good grounding in basic principles and facts about Penn State student government. This group may be deceiving and perhaps they have just signed the rolls to have some thing to do. Or maybe they will go to the first A Peek at Our New Since Dr. Eric A. Walker has become presi dent of the University, there have been reams of copy written about him, including many life and background stories. But there has been much speculation about the new president concerning his views on stu dent interests. Many also wonder how the Uni versity will fare under his leadership. We had an opportunity to meet the new presi dent for the first time Monday, and the only thing we can say to skeptical students is "At ease." It’s hard to put a finger on one characteristic and say “That’s why I like him.” but Dr. Walker won a spot in our hearts the minute we stepped into the office. The first thing that hits you is a warm sincere grin. His manner would make the most shy of students feel at ease, and one gets the im pression that success never went to his head. In addition, the president has the following attributes: 1. A genuine warmth and sincerity in every thing he says. 2. A deep interest in students, their problems, likes, and dislikes. Missing Something? Some weeks ago the Reader's Digest instituted a campus-wide contest which was open to all college students and faculty. This paper carried several advertisements notifying Penn State students of this simple contest and its rewards. Thus far there has been little response to this contest. This leads us to tlunk that students are possibly overlooking a very fine way to make some money for themselves and for the University. The first prize is S5OOO lor the winner and an additional S5OOO for the scholarship fund of the winner. -This strikes us as not being the run of the mill contest. The additional prize consisting of the gift to the scholarship seems to be a genuine ly fine contribution. The only thing the entrant need do is to pick what stories he feels will be most widely read in Reader's Digest during the month of October. Entry blanks are available at bookstores. The deadline is midnight Oct. 25. This is a worthwhile contest and we are sorry that more students here are not entering a con test which might do themselves and the Uni versity a lot ot good. Gazette LIEBIG CHEMICAL SOCILTV. 7 :*<) p.m.. Ali.li* ZcU Fraternity. • KAKK-l’P WORKSHOP. 7:00 p.m.. ScKwab basement. MODERN DANCE CLUB, 7 :tW p.m.. Rhythm Kuom, White Halt. MORNING WORSHIP SERVICE. Eisenhower Meditation Chapel. NEU BAVARIAN SCHUHPLATTERS, 7:*D p.m., 405 Old Main. PF.NN STATE CHF.SS CI.UB. 7:<W to 10 p.m.. 7 Sparks. PENN STATE SCIENCE FICTION SOCIETY, 7.00 p.m.. 10* Willard. PHI MU ALPHA SrNFONIA. 9:00 p.m.. 117 Carnegie. PHI UPSILON OMICKON. 7:IS pm.. Hume Economies ZJvinir Center. STUDENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM, 6:30 p.m.. 119 Osmond. university: Christian association cabinet, 6:3c p.m., 209 Helen Eakin Eisenhower ChipeL Tomorrow KAPPA PHI KAPPA INITIATION, 5:9# p.m.. 209 HeUel - Union Building. -■ University Hospital Veronica AfiLrioi, Charles Knn, Bernice Fas tow, Cslw QHjr Hath} Collfgtan Siccmmi U THI FREE LANCE. «L ltd —The Editor 3:10 a.m.. Helen Eakin THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA - DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager Looks OK few meetings and decide the student govern ment act isn’t what they are looking for in the way of extra-curricular activities. We hope that this is not the case. This could be the best Leadership Training course of the short history of the program. The people be hind it have worked hard at selling up the best possible program and they have chosen Dr. Albert Christ-Janer. director of the school of the Arts to be the first speaker. They couldn't have selected a better person to open a discus sion of student government than this man. Judging by the opening meeting the program should be of real value to freshmen and any other who are enrolled. In the past anyone was allowed to enroll in the course an It seemed to lack direction. At times some of the instructors didn’t know as much about the subject at hand as did the per sons who were supposed to be instructed. This year gives every indication of being quite different, however. By directing the pro gram mainly at freshmen perhaps in a few years the student government at Penn Stale will be just- a little more effective. Leader 3. A logical mind, and a firm conviction in his beliefs. 4. Many ideas which will benefit the Univer sity and students in the long run. Then 100. Dr. Walker showed a sincere desire to talk frankly with students. He took students' views into consideration and weighed them heavily when making decisions. An example of Walker’s warmth and friend ship presented itself Monday night when the new president paid a visit to the University Hospital to see Jay Livziey, who was critically injured in Saturday’s football game with Holy Ci oss. He told the player. “Jay, since Saturday’s game everyone I’ve met has asked me about your health and I just had to find out for myself.” To us, the president made a wonderful first impression. Of course, first impressions can be misleading, but we have a funny premonition that students and faculty alike need not worry about the Universities fate under the new presi dent. To use Ihe colloquial expression, "He's a regu lar guy." Extra! Extra! Extra! Extra! Read all about it . . . but you can’t. Let’s not hide one of the mainstays of educa tion fiom the students. Reading newspapers is an integral part of a student's education. It should be encouraged particularly at an institution of higher learning. The University should make all possible efforts to see that newspapers are easily available to the student. This is not being done. Approximately 1000 newspapers are sold by the Student News Agency in Waring Hall each week. None are offered in the Hetzel Union Building. Two or three copies of some papers are available at the Hetzel Union desk for stu dents to read, but none are offered for sale. Students who live on campus, mainly those in the women’s dorm area and the Nittany-Pollock area, may find it inconvenient to buy downtown papers. As a result they show a crucial lack of knowledge of what goes on outside State Col lege. This unnecessary narrowing of education is ridiculous. The University could drastically improve the situation simply by allowing newspapers to be sold in the HUB. Two reasons were given for refusing to allow the-sale of newspapers in the HUB. The first is that discarded papers clutter up the lounges, and the second is that strewn papers present a fire hazard. Are these reasons adequate? If the reasons are so valid why don't they apply to Waring Hall? We do not consider these reasons to oui - weigh the advantages of large newspaper sides. The University does not have to take respon sibility for making students read newspapers, nor does it have to take responsibility for making students learn about world affairs. But it should take responsibility for making broader knowl edge available to the students, particularly when this could be accomplished so easily. We suggest the University allow the Student News Agency to sell newspapers in the HUB. —Sue Conklin man GoldsborougV Eldred Hitchcock. Edward Horaie. Todd Keepfer. Diane Krause. Harlene Lit, Jar L«»tiey, Joeepk Moore. Sidney NeUoa, Nicholas Rock, Clyde Scott, Michael Siuaua. Editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers, net necessarily the policy of Utt paper, the ctsdent hody or' the University . —The Editor —Larry Jacobson “I Sgid, ‘Say Hello To The Gentleman’ •■» JAWOIgT »•* r»*l ** Hrrblock’* opinions are not necessarily those of this newspaper, the student body, or the University. lnterpreting the News- Independents Hold Key to Elections Associated Press News Analyst In a political.campaign which is stirring a little excite ment, some political prognosticators are beginning to wonder if the perennial imponderables, the independents arid the new voters, may not be more imponderable than ever. For one k thing, a great new force of voters became inde pendent, at least for the moment, in 1952, being pulled away from the Democratic party by Eisenhower. How many of them will settle back into the Demo cratic groove this year, or later? Is there a tendency, as some have professed to perceive in recent years, for new and younger voters to ignore tra ditional family voting lines more frequently than their fathers did? Are these younger voters more jealous of their political preroga tives, more inclined to make up their minds and go to the polls, thus creating a new force to re place their elders as the latter become apathetic? Fifteen and 20 years ago there was a strong trend of younger voters to the Democratic party. For one thing, the depression ad ministrations of Franklin Roose velt had placed great emphasis on aid to youth, -in the made-work projecets, the CCC camps and in the cultural pursuits. Young teachers were assigned to educa tional research projects, and then went on to teach. The idea that the Democratic party was the party for liberal youth snow balled. Then, with long tenure, con servative forces began to be more and more prominent in the Democratic parly. Younger and more liberal leaders began to attract attention in the Re publican party. Whether this, coupled with ihe Eisenhower popularity, has had any lasting effect on voting habits is a question which not even next month’s voting will answer fully. If no fundamental change has taken place, some evidence may be ; shown in better Democratic totals, but if there has been a change, voting for new reasons will be so mixed up with the Eisenhower popularity vote that no dependable conclusions can be drawn. There is no telling whether this year there is a broad cross section of apathy, or whether there is less interest among cer tain classes of eligible voters. The apathy about which every one is talking actually, at this point, is a feeling rather than a fact, since regisration figures as compared with population increases are by no means complete. If low registration is produced by pro-Eisenhower forces who WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 17. 1956 By J. M. ROBERTS feel he can coast in, he is in trou ble. The danger of this may be responsible for his constantly in creasing campaign activity. If it is produced by fatalism among Democrats, then no gen eral trends in American voting habits will be discernible for four more years. It does seem, however, that po litical slogans and tricky, syn thetic issues are losing some of their old-time appeal. And it does seem natural that, as the left-right distances between the two parties become less distinguishable, there should be more voters cross ing back and forth on the basis of the candidates and issues of specific years. HomeEc College Announces Plans For Graduate Day The College of Home Econom ics will hold a Graduate Day from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the Maple Room of the Home Eco nomics Building. The purpose of the program which is being held for the first time, is to acquaint juniors and seniors from Pennsylvania col leges with the courses offered in graduate work and the advan tages acquired from taking them. The program will include a pan el discussion on “Shall We Con sider Graduate Work.” Dr. Ruth. Ayres, head of the department of clothing and textiles, will be the moderator. Representatives from Drexel Institute of Technology and Tem ple University will be present to answer questions about graduate work. ' _ The program will, also empha size that graduate courses may be taken any time after graduation from college. Tonight on WDFM JI.l MEGACYCLES 6:55 7:6* .... 7:56 8:06 8:36 6:66 6:36 6:45 1. 10:66 11:66 , News — Jut Clab Music sf the People lnvitation to Helen Spotlite on State News VirtsM* Sis* Os Sira Oa ... Telephone Reqae*t»
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