PAGE FOUR raatt.haa /weeds, throash bdatardar arorain=s dwrons raw thowrervity rear the Daily Cottalcum is ■ student. seenstell newspaper EMEENN.M.= $3.011 pe• •els, ttttt $5.4111 per rear IlllME=l.ll.l=lll ft f *ft 01 -f 4 MIKE MOYLE. Acting Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Judy Harkison; Copy Editors. Marian Beatty, Bob Franklin; As sistant.,,, Dick Fisher, Matt Poclbesek, Lil Junas, Sherry Kernel, Barbara Stone, Anne Ruthrauff. Ad Stall': Doreen Hayward, Gladys Stu, Scanning the Lion Platform With freshman and sophomore candidates the issue of extension of phone hours to the buzzing around the campus trying to pick up students. votes in the third day of the Fall campaign we This is that kind of plank which if read over quickly by the average student sounds ,terrific. are now going to take critical look at the Lion Phone service annoys everyone at one time or Party platform. another. However, the present system of phone The very first item is that of the half-holiday hours has been in effect for quite a while. This for a football game. This, of course, has been is no reason that changes cannot be made, of cours hashed over a great deal this year and is not Wilye, but this is a longshot as far as feasi going to meet with anyone's disapproval—with Along the same lines the plank which advo the possible exception of the administration or cates giving Freshman women one o'clocks on the calendar committee. both Friday and Saturday nights. This sugges- Another popular issue appearing on the. Lion platform is that of the Supreme (bless its heart) Court. It contains the perennial comparison with the United States government and urges re tention of the court. of course, now the court has been retained, but in somewhat different form. Although we disagree with these views we cannot truthfully knock the plank as being part of a political platform since it seems so many of the student groups have favored the court. Lion Party has gone into great detail to bring Blood Drive Turnout Shameful Yesterday's semi-annual blood drive turnout was one of the lowest in history, This is par ticularly disappointing in light of the fact that the day was chosen specially to encourge par ticipation. In the past, Tuesday has been the drive's big day. It has also been found that the first day or the drive is always the most success ful. Mr. Loren D. Tukey, the drive's director, had hoped that the combination of the two would get favorable results. He was woefully disappointed. The Bloodmobile's semi-annual goal is 300 pints per day. Yesterday's total was little over half that amount. Eighty people pledged dona tions but only 51 showed up. Sixteen others were turned away for medical reasons. Contrast this with last April when 2'75 people pledgr,d dona tions. Or compare' this to Michigan State, where the blood drive lasts a week and averages 1000 pints. and usually has the backing of every sorority and fraternity. Who is behind State's blood drive? In the fall it is usually the Reserve Officer Training Corps contingents on campus. However. for some rea son it seems the Air Force decided they could do the job better this year without the assistance of the Army and Navy detachments. In a dis cussion with Mr. Richard Baker, Red Cross co ordinator, it was reported that the Air Force emphatically assured him of 100 per cent back ing; but only 97 pledges were received to cover Panhel - Get -With It Panhellenic Council. in true blue fashion, last night attempted to reorganize its rush program out of chaos. Sara Hawkins, Panhel rush chairman, told members of the council that the rush program, both formal and informal, could stand improve ment, and then asked for ideas from the floor. She got them—ideas that is. Not only did she get some suggestions, she got so many of so many different kinds that there was no organ ization or meaning to the meeting at all. Many of the ideas conflicted. Generally speaking there was no train of thought held during this part of the meeting. Perhaps Miss Hawkins wanted to get suggest ions from the members of the council and then sift them out in rush committee meetings. If this was her idea, it was a flop. Virtually noth ing could be gained from the chaos that existed at last night's meeting. Miss Hawkins would have been far wiser to have-discussed possible rushing changes in rush committee meetings first. Then she should have presented the results of research and work to the council for its vote. A large body can not Timlay DOTTANY GROTTO, 1 p.m.. 121 Mineral lodundrie4 CAMPUS CHEST. ALL SOLICITORS, c p.m., Schwal, PHI MU ALPHA SINFONIA, P p.m.. 117 Carnegie PENN STATE CHESS CLUB. 7-le p.m., 7 Spark* NEU BAVARIAN SCHUHPL.ATTLERS, 7:20 p.n... MK Old COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIED AD STAFF. $:4 p.m.. Colietiag. off ice ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS, 7 p.m.. Simmons Lounre WSGA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, It noon. Me ., Allister Hall PHI UPSILON OMICRON. :45 . p.m., Hume Ec • Lie inic . Center ATTENTION i_ . FRATERNITY MEN S.A.M. - MEETING - . . Management Convocation I THURSDAY; NOVEMBER 8 . . . 7 P.M. .. . . 121- Sparks Nov. 8, 1956 SaIIYIS 1 . at ' . .- 3-4 P.M.- ' - -- - . - MIL JOHN HANIGAN,. Vice • President • 2 Phi Kappa Fraternity - - has -- 1 Electrical Products Division ' • . •pizza parties at reduced rates 350 Fairmount Ave. - MR. THOMAS BRASHER *pretzels and chips in bulk . . • _. . . .. _ . , _ . . , ~ . , ,Training Department • wholesale sandwiches Guest Speakers: - •. • - , • and Sub-Ho'sM r . Carr—Corning Glass Works Plant Mgr. - •- OF • . • at prices you'll appreciate Mr. Baldwin—Chief College Recruiter at Corning .• . • . . CORNING GLASS ' WORKS _ for your weekend parties 1 &be Bailli Coitr.gian Sorcemor to ru FR E LANCE. est. lu7 ~E;1,.. Gazette THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager tion is based on the assumption that Freshman women are just that—women—and not young girls. This may be so, in some cases. But it will look good to the frosh coeds when election day rolls around. One point the platform makes about the "hours" plank is that it will serve to make Penn State a more up-to-date-thinking university. This, we feel, would be so. However, we are sure the administration has many good reasons for the present state of affairs. the 2 day period. It seems there was a mix-up in minors' releases. It is claimed that the AFROTC did not get the blood slips and the minors' teleases in time. This is denied by Mary Mergott, chairman of the Red Cross committee. who states that they were turned in almost two weeks ago. No matter what the reason. the Air Bence must take complete responsibility for the out come. Of course there is always the human element. Out of an enrollment of 12.000 surely 300 pints are not too much to ask. - The drive depends heavily on the State College are.i for blood which is hoped to supply the while district for the next 21 days. Whole blood must be used within this period, before the cells die. Every time a drive fails to meet its quota, it may be a matter of life and death to someone in a hospital. After donating his eleventh pint of blood, John S. McGill, graduate student in agronomy, asked if it could be sent to the patriots in Hun gary. He felt that a big reason for the dis appointing turnout was student complacency, and that if things happened here that are hap pening currently in Hungary this country could not survive. It seems that this pretty well sums up the situation. work effectively on such a complex question as rushing revisions. Miss Hawkins was also weak in her knowl edge of the subject'matter. She seemed confused, for instance, as to what research has been done in regard to rush programs at other colleges. We suggest that this is one excellent reason why discussions on rushing revisions should be done by a committee -and not by the council. We were criticized for not attending meetings; we were urged to attend last night's meeting; but our reporter was told not to attend the meeting. She was given a cold welcome at best when she attended anyway. We were criticized for pointing out a few points where the rush program had been weak. We were told that the rush program was better than before. We were. told that we were wrong in criticizing the rush program, and yet Panhel itself completely tore apart its own rush pro gram. , • We think' Panhel has born indecisive, un organized, and unaware in some areas. We sug gest that it get on the ball. PETROLEUM ENGINEERING SOCIETY. 7 p.m., SOS Willard LANGUAGE COURSE IN CONVERSATIONAL HEBREW. 7 p.m.. Hi!lel THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB. 7:30 p.m.. In Sparks AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING CLUB. 7 p.m., As Enc Building PENN STATE GRANGE. I behind Weaver Hall TJukiversity H»PiW Barbara Barnes. Frank Ifoitcher. •David Faust. John Patane, Cecile Respsonne, Ann Richards. Roy Romberger. Terry Shepherd. Nancy Showalter. Samuel Tolotta. Parol Weicker. Fredric Wilcoa, Julia C. Williams. Editortais represent tha viewpoints et the writers, not necessarily the pane, or the paper. the student body or the University —The Editor —Thom Shiels —Sue Conklin Man on Campus Little „iA fil) "SAY didja notice that NEW CHICK serving th' deserts?' According to Moyle The issue of extension of the Christmas vacation has been strangely silent for the past week or so. About two weeks ago every student council and other group on campus was up in arms about what they considered a too-short vacation. Cabinet did not bring it up and sent the matter to the University's calendar committee. What has become of it since is a mystery. Perhaps the committee is racking its collective brain in an effort to find a day to make up classes. Nowadays all you hear on the matter are a few scattered letters to the editor who think that get ting an extension by one day of the Christmas holiday is the only way student government is going to save face in the eyes of both the students and the administra tion. We seriously doubt this. However, the fact remains that it had seemed that the objection on the grounds of safety to stu dents had to receive considera tion from the powers that be. If they have it would be nice to know about. Has the calendar committee met? Are the two stu dent representatives doing any thing about persuading them to change the vacation? We suppose (or hope) that they are. But I wonder when well know? We learned over the weekend while in Syracus6 that the foot ball stadium up there—Archbold Stadium—was built in 1904. At that time it was the fourth largest stadium in the world. After see ing that monstrosity for the first time we can really appreciate good old Beaver Field. The pillars supporting the structure looked• like they were going to collapse at any moment. And the customers had to sit, for the most. part, on concrete seats! We were relieved to see that the Physical - Plant has finally - gotten around to putting some safety materials on the edges of the steps leading to the West Halls courtyard. These steps. have for a long time been a steps., to students WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1956 by Bibler by mike moyle in this area. Especially when hur rying to eight o'clock classes in a somewhat groggy condition. We've seen some real dandy spills taken down these steps. Battles still raging on Ag Hill. Only now it is getting more in tensive. Seems as if there may be some fraternity jealousy en tering into the thing. Thaden Will Discuss Russian Trip Tonight Dr. Edward C. Thaden, assistant professor of history, will discuss his summer trip to Russia at 7:30 tonight in 121 Sparks. The address, "Russia Today: Political Impressions," .is spon sored by the International Rela tions Club" and the Russian Area Program Committee. Slides will be shown during the program. LaVie Photo Schedule Six sororities are scheduled to have LaVie group pictures taken tonight at the Penn State Photo Shop. Women are requested. to wear white blouses and dark skirts. ' Alpha Chi Omega, 6:45; Alpha Omicron Pi, 7:00; Delta Gamma, 7:15; Kappa Kappa Gamma, 7:30; Pi Beta .Phi, 7:45; and Alpha Xi Delta, 8:00. . . . 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