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MIKE MOYLE. Acting Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Jack McArthur; Copy Editors, Terry Leach, Pat Evans; Assistants,
Them Shiels, Jane Klein. Ruth Grossman, Marie Moran, Mary Sarver, Barbara Hodge, Wolf Alber,
Gary Young, Dick Drayne, Mate Dutko, Frank Vojtasek, Pain Chamberlain, Pat Earley, Joan Brans
dorf, Bob Gullo.
Student Teachers Gripe
Student leachers have complained of the
change made in the method of selecting the
time and place that they will go student
leaching.
There are two sides to the problem. The
student teachers feel that they should be able
to go teaching with their friends, and at the
time when they choose, and to the place they
choose. In the pa9t there have been meetings
for all prospective student teachers where such
details have been worked out. To a limited ex
tent the student teachers have been given what
they asked for.
Under the new program. which will go into
affect next year. students will be given assign
ments as to time and place. According to Dr.
Lawrence Park. associate professor of elemen
tary education, students who have a reasonable
complaint or reason for teaching at a particular
time or place will be allowed to change. He said
that students who hold leading positions in their
sorority or in campus activities will be able
to teach the eight-week period which best fits
in with their activity work. He also said that
students who need to teach in a particular town
for financial reasons will be allowed to do so.
Dr. Park explained that the reason that the
College of Education had to make the change
for student teaching lies basically in the fact
that the University is expanding. The College
is attempting to remove the limit on the num
ber of elementary education majors it can take.
In order to do this the student teaching system
had to be made a little less personal so that it
No Cooperation, No
This is the last of two editorials concerning
the purchase of television sets for dormitories.
The purchase of a television set should not
be a dormitory project unless 100 per cent of the
students are in favor of it.
There are always some who refuse to con
tribute and they cannot be forced to pay. Very
often it seems that these are the students who
will watch TV more than anyone else. There is
no possible way to exclude these freeloaders
and it isn't fair to those who did pay.
Many students refuse to contribute because
they feel they wouldn't get anything out of hav
ing a TV set in one of the lounges.
One housemother said that this was a "selfish
attitude to take." Perhaps this is true but if it
is there are a great many selfish students on
this campus.
On these standards, then, it would also be
selfish not to hand out money for anything
anyone wanted. What would happen if someone
decided it would be nice to have a hi-fi set,
Fight Team Fight!
TO THE EDITOR: Pena State's football team
left for Syracuse Friday morning ranked 12th in
the nation. A win at Syracuse would have made
possibilities brighter for an Eastern champion
ship and a New Year's Day game in the Cotton
Bowl. Largely because of this, spirits on campus
were high.
Everything was fine. Some students saw the
game. Those who couldn't or didn't made sure
there was a radio at their side Saturday after
noon. At half time, the score read: Penn State 9;
Syracuse 6. Again, everything was fine. How
ever, the final score stood: Syracuse 13; Penn
State 9. Now things weren't so good. Penn State
had not only lost its national ranking but the
support of its student body as well.
To print in the Collegian that the team will be
royally welcomed back from Syracuse win, lose,
or draw (Saturday's paper) is simple enough,
but to put this idea into effect is a different
proposition. This was proven by the number of
students (200, not 500 as has been estimated by
some sources) who greeted the team Saturday
night.
Student's want half-holidays. Students want
unlimited absences from classes. Students want
extended Christmas vacations. Students want a
free choice of seats at Beaver Field. All this they
not only ask of, but demand of their student
government leaders. But just how many of the
student body are interested in participating in
the furthering of their interests? In Saturday's
case, 200.
Congratulations, 200. Judging from the looks
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would be able to accommodate the large number
of student teachers who would be going out
each year.
Dr. Park said that it is often difficult to get
centers to take student teachers. None of •the
places are required to take them! they only
volunteer. Several of :them, he said, only volun
teer for certain of the eight-week periods. The
University must send students according to the
offers it receives from the centers. This means
that there will be inequalities in the numbers
which may go each eight weeks. '
Often in the past students have been given
very little choice in the place or time that
they may go. It may have seemed to them that
there was more choice involved because they
helped plan. Still there is not a great deal of
change in the new system. This, of course, will
depend upon how much the students needs are
considered.
The basic difference is students will not now.
be able to go student teaching with their friends.
Dr. Park explained that this must be sacrificed
with the expansion of the student teaching pro
gram. Although students may feel that this is
putting an unnecessary hardship on them, we
hope that they will see that" the new program
will enable far more students to benefit from
the student teaching program.
We hope to see an understanding of the neces
sary change on the part of the students. We also
hope to see consideration on the part of the
administrators of the individual's requests for
student teaching time and place.
—Sue Conklin
or a pin ball machine, *or a juke box in the
dormitories? It certainly would be nice to be
able to dance in the lounges instead of having
to walk all the way up to the HUB.
• Since there is no possible way to exclude
freeloaders and because not everyone is willing
to go along with the idea, the project should
be abandoned completely.
. Somebody jumped the gun on having the sets
installed in the dormitories. This fall a Women's
Student Government Association committee was
set up to get TV sets in the dorms. Perhaps the
University might have paid for them if the
situation had been investigated before plans
were put into action. The WSGA committee is
now functioning to try and get sets installed
in the smaller dorms that can't afford to buy
them themselves. .
I'll wait for something like that to come along
before I contribute money to something I'll
rarely use.
Successful Mardi Gras
TO THE EDITOR: On behalf of the members
of Mortar Board, I wish to thank all the groups
participating in the 1956 Mardi Gras. Your co
operation coupled with the enthusiasm of the
patrons helped us break all Mardi Gras finan
cial records.
The net proceeds will be donated to the Helen
Eakin Eisenhower Scholarship Fund and, after
months of consideration, scholarships will be
awarded to deserving Penn State students and,
possibly, to a foreign student.
Through the efforts of last year's Mardi Gras
celebration we have been able to sponsor an
outstanding Swedish student for this academic
year.
We are sincerely indebted to you. .
• —Dodi Jones
President,
Mortar Board
of the pliyers and coaches when they stepped
off the bus Saturday night, it was more than
evident that they were pleased and grateful for
even this turnout.
We only wish that the number of studentS
who turned out Saturday night could have
equalled the number present when the team re
turned from Columbus, Ohio.
Again, congratulations 200. The rest of you„
keep asking, demanding, and doing nothing—
for the latter is what you'll get.
—Curtin Schafer-
Editorials represent Chu
viewpoints of the writers.
not necessarily the policy
of the paper. the student
hod? or th. Usiversit,
--Ginny Philips
ttle Man on Campus
"You boys will find it a little easier to draw if you step
back from the model a little."
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Chaotic Situation
Seen in Capital
Associated Press News Analyst
Regardless of which party reorganizes the Senate, Wash
ington is in for a far more chaotic situation now than re
sulted from Democratic capture of Congress in 1954.
The chaos which President tisenhower had predicted
then did not result. The Democrats generally supported
administration foreign policy and
other important programs, with
modifications of their own.
Partisanship was held .within
reasonable bounds. Party lines
were crossed back and forth on
many issues. Republicans dis
agreed with the President on
many occasions.
But there was a different
political situation.
An extremely popular Presi
dent was expected to seek a sec-1
and term. As the Democrats began
to prepare two years ago for this
year's electibn, becoming more
belligerent as time went on, the
Republicans began to close ranks'
and to hide their disagreements
with the President. Things rather
balanced up.
There will be no such coales
cing force among the Republi
cans now. With the President
barred from a third term, the
line of party hopefuls will be
forming very soon. Congress
will become the showcase for a
lot of different political wares.
Republicans voting, beginning
right away, will be influenced
by those seeking to establish
r e cords showing presidential
availability.
Democrats, on the other hand,
will take on new life with the
knowledge that they won't have
to try to beat Eisenhower in '5B.
They will be out to beat the Re
publican party.
This means trying to establish
a Congressional record which will'
stand clearly as their own. It
means a greater display of parti
sanship. It means trying to cut
the heads off- Republican hope
fuls as fast as they pop up.
In one way, the situation will
provide a test of whether the
nation was wise in banning
presidential third terms.
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 9. 1956
BY J. M. ROBERTS
Heretofore a President has al
ways been able to preserve a part
of his authority by keeping his
future plans to himself. Here
after everybody will know that,
as his term shortens, his power
is coming to an end.
One thing will obscure the
test. President Eisenhower's tre
mendous popularity may cause
some who would oppose him
to go slow.
NYU to Award
Scholarships
New York University's School
of Law will offer 20 Root-Tilden
scholarships for the next school
year to outstanding college sen
iors.
Two law students from each of
the 10 judicial circuits will be
selected for the awards on a com
petitive basis. The grants are
valued at $6900 and cover a three
year period.
Competition.is restricted to un
married male students between
the ages of 20 and 28. Applicants
must have their college degrees
or be scheduled to receive them
by Sept. 1, 1957.
Application .can be made by
writing to Dean Russell D. Niles.
New York University Law Cen
ter, New York 3, N.Y. - • .
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