PAGE FOUR Chrome'', iietwrfay Oloritheirs disriNt tis thaiversiti year. the Daily Collegian 16 r, student inntrated otwapapet. MOO per semester $5.11 per year Catered a. eacormi-elasa smatter July 6. Ma as the State College. Pa Peat Office ander MIKE MOYLE. Acting Editor Deanna Solti.. As.it. Business Manager: Arnold Hoffman. Local See Conklin, Managing Editor; Ed Dobbs, City Editor; Frau Adv. Mgr.; Anita Lynch, Asst. Local Adv. Mgr.; Janice Ander- Faniscri. Sports Editor; Becky UWE, Copy Editor; Vince son, National Adv. Mgr.; Anne Caton and "David Prism Co- Carocei, Assistant Sport, Editor; Erse Onsa, Features Editor; Circulation Mars.; Arthur Brener, Promotion Mar.: Jo Fulton, Dave Boyar. Photography Editor. Personnel Mar.; Harry Yaverbauss, Office Mar.; Barbara Shipman. Clas.ified Adv. Mgr.: Ruth Howland. Secretary; Jane Groff. Research and Records filar. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Pat Hunter; Copy Editors, Greg Huntingdon, Jack McArthur; As stAant.,, Jane Klein, Ken Ishler, Mike Dutko, Dave Fineman. WDFM Manager Mixed George Mastroianni. WDFM student station manager, accuses us of misinforming the read ers, but we find that there are several points which he, himself should check into. Mastroianni says that the Aaff wants more than anything else to have all the students hear the station. Ela they made no move tward find ing an AM station until the idea was presented front outside. Jerry Radosh and Bruce Lieske, last year's Association of Indepndent Men presi dent, did the original research and presented the idea. We were at the student encampment commu nications workshop when Dr. Walker discussed the improbabilities of obtaining an AM fre quency. We realize the Dr. Walker practically said it would be impossible because the chances are so small. Mastroianni says that WDFM has faced reality. He also said that station personnel have done their utmost to use it for maximum student benefit. If this is maximum benefit we suggest the station give up now. Instead of waiting and standing by as WDFM has done for three years we suggest that it start investigating other methods of getting the FM signals to the stu dents. Mastroianni mentioned a few possibili ties to use yesterday. We have seen no research done on the matter. Mastroianni says that students who paid for the Hetzel Union Building did not benefit from Student Government The clamor has been loud and persistent for the last two weeks. Everyone is worrying about the possibility that the student agitation over the Christmas vacation issue might die out. Many people were determined that this should not happen; thus there have been many letters written to the editor blasting away at both student govern ment and the administration. The administration was hit as being the cause of the shortened vacation and student govern• went was generally described as being a bunch of idle, "do-nothings" who were being pushed around by the administration. Well, we hope that everyone is satisfied now that the explanation of the whole situation is out. If the camplainants think their student leaders car: do any more, they should send their ideas to The Daily Collegian or to their student representatives on Cabinet. Student government is going all-out to have WDFM Trying TO THE EDITOR: I would like to present the facts about WDFM to Sue Conklin and to the readers she is misinforming. It seems she failed to examine these facts before writing her edi torial for last Wednesday's paper. WDFM is hardly a practice laboratory for the Speech Department, as Miss Conklin said. As a matter of fact. of the sixty active WDFM per sonnel. there are nine who are Speech majors. WDFM's studios and facilities are used daily by radio classes ... this is true. but for the most part. these facilities were supplied. not from student funds, but by the Speech Department budget. Miss Conklin advocated that the staff mem bers of the radio station and the cabinet ap pointed radio committee, should work on ob taining an AM frequency. A preliminary fre quency search sponsored by the University has been underway for over a month. The WDFM staff wants more than anything else to have all the students hear the station. We want an AM outlet if possible. Since the station is owned by the University and con trolled by the Federal government through the Federal Communications Commission, the stu dent staff can only express its wishes to the University ... and it has done this. Miss Conklin was present at the Student En campment Communications workshop where Dr. Walker explained the AM-FX problem, and These 'Polite' Operators TO THE EDITOR: In as much as I am new to this campus I am not as yet familiar with all the customs of this institute of higher learning. But I am sure that students aren't required to listen to the smart remarks of the campus "Mil ton Berles" who call themselves operators, every time they pick - up the phone- to place a call Granted, there are some nice, polite ones but the wise ones highly surpass them with their quick tongues and big mouths, I am not the only one to notice their superior attitude and sample some of their wise re- Oltr Elailg eutirgiatt Satteibett es THE FREE LANCE. est art Safety Valve THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager it. The money spent here is an investment. Students who graduate can come back and use it. Also, the many students here now are bene fiting from buildings built with the money frogs former classes. With a radio, newspaper, or show a student should expect to get what he pays for at the time he pays. He indicates that only about half the number of papers are printed each day as the number of students that attend the University. We might point out that two people can, and should read the same paper. And even if a student only got a paper• every other day, he would still get far more proportionally . than the amount he pays per semester. Mastroianni also asks about the students that pay for the •Hort Show in comparison to the number that attend. We might point out that only agriculture students pay for the show and probably a higher percentage of them attend than the percentage of students at the University who attend basketball games. He says that WDFM is broadcasting an above average program for four hours every day and giving some 60 students valuable experience. The fine broadcasts are of no good except to those who broadcast them and the meager few who hear them. Silent radio is not worth 20 cents a semester. Let the 60 students who benefit pay for it if it is such a valuable ex perience. Work the Christmas vacation extended one day. They believe, like all students that the present set-up is completely out of the realm of the reasonable and they will try to prove this to the University Senate on Dec. 4. We feryently hope that the complaints will stop now and that students will realize that student leaders are striving for the same goals as the student are. If two groups get together it could bring enough pressure to bear on the people who can extend the vacation. _ But everyone should realize that the work which was being done all the time the com plaints were flooding in is now known. Now the students can see and judge for themselves whether or not the student leaders are doing their jobs and keeping the best interests of the students first in their minds. We don't think that anyone can deny. that these interests are being protected to the highest degree. discussed the difficulties, expense and consider ations involved even before making application to the F.C.C. for an AM license. Recommenda tions made at that time are being followed. Miss Conklin also advises that WDFM face reality. We have done so since our first broad cast day in 1953. An FM transmitter was do nated to us. By accepting it, the University saved several thousand dollars. Now that we have the FM outlet, we have done our best to use it for maximum student benefit. We realize that many of the students cannot hear us. and we have sought to remedy this through the transponders and the frequency search. The transponders have not been satisfactory—the F.C.C. will have final say on an AM allocation —the University will say if we will build or not. As far as the 20 cent assessment per student is concerned, I would ask: How many people paid for the HUB and graduated before it was built? How many Collegians are printed, when some 12,000 students are assessed every se mester? How many people are assessed for the Hort Show and don't attend? My point is that WDFM is not only broad casting an above average program schedule four hours every day and giving some sixty students valuable experience, but it is doing its best to find a way for all the students to hear it. The student . assessment for WDFM now, will contribute in time to an outlet that will be heard by everyone. GEORGE MASTROIANNI Student Station Manager marks in reply to a simple question, such as, "When is it too late to call the dorms?" In reply to this question last night I received for my answer, "Where have you been since the start of school, sleeping?" I have to admit it took a capable and ready wit to come up with such a smart remark in such a short time; but don't you think it would have made things a lot simpler and have saved my time and hers without undue taxation of her feeble mind if she would have answered my question in a polite manner? —Sam Gates Ed. Note—Who said we haven't really re• ceived any complaints about University oper ators.? Editorials repreoent the viewpoints et the writers. Not nerresseily the policy of the paper the student hods or the Utiliserslta the set of Mardi L 111711 —Sue Conklin —The Editor Little Man on Campus "I said if I'm to be the faculty chaperon for this dance . I'd like the lights turned up a little." 'Round the Rim Why Ration Our Christmas Vacation? Ry BECKY ZAHM Now that elections are over the meager Christmas vaca tion coming up is in the student limelight. Everybody knows the too numerous to mention reasons why the vacation should be one has noticed that the rules for the Calendar Committee by the University Senate stipulated , that the Christmas vacation should be slated to run for a 14 to 15 1 / 2 day period. The rule was originally incor porated at the suggestion of the Calendar Committee but was am mended last May. According to an official source the attitude of the administration is—We make the rules, we'll break them. This brings to mind that old saying about city hall. The display menus behind the counter in the Lions' Den got a face lifting the other day. Some prankster revised Milk shakes, Ice Cream and Cokes to Go to read—Milkthakes, Ice Cv;ream and Coeds to Go. Shades of Elmer Fudd! While on the subject of food— a new organization has emerged. You've heard of the Pizza Club held traditionally on Thursday night at the Tavern. As of late a Friday at Four Rice Pudding Club is gathering at the Corner Room. The Corner Room is noted for its scrumptious rice pud dings, however yesterday it goofed. When the rice pudding club convened it sadly dis covered that the Corner Room had run out of it—yep, you guessed it—rice pudding. Seems like Ye Olde Daily Col legian is being assailed with let ters to the editor blasting our editorials for lacking the facts. Then these letters merrily con tinue composed of a myraid of half-baked truths and faulty facts themselves. Seems like these would-be William Allen Whites could mend. their own fences first. Or to paraphrase People in Glass Dwellings Shouldn't Pitch Pebbles. Now. I'll venture out on a limb. Unarmed with facts. stu dent opinion and what have you I'd like to express my dis taste for the large amount of onions dumped into - the dorm food.. Or more correctly, the small amount of food mixed with dormitory onions. No, I haven't taken an exten sive poll to find out how many students don't like onions. But I have noticed the excessive a mount of food filled with onions wasted by being left-on the tables untouched. As a matter of fact I haven't gone and won't bother to go to Food Service to find - • out why SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1956 by Bible]. engthened. But practically no of procedure originally set up they pollute with onions 90 per cent of the dishes served. I'm sure I wouldn't find a satisfactory answer if I did because I just plain don't like onions. As for student opinion. I didn't get any sealed affidavits, but I have heard numerous stu dents complain. I suppose this won't pacify would-be Letters to the Editor writers who ex pect facts worthy of a congres sional investigation, but that's life. Campus Chest-- (Continued from page one) "Those town men wh, did con tribute, gave very well," Long said. Long said that the drive was comparatively successful, on the whole. He noted that average con tribution per person to date was 62 cents. This is a 17-cent increase above last year's average contri bution of 45 cents. These organizations are the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, Penn State . Student Scholarship Fund, World University Service, and Pennsylvania Society for Crippled Children and Adults. In discussing the relative suc cess of the drive, Long cited three reasons why students did not sup port the drive as fully as he said they could haVe. They are: I. Students were not aware of the actual significance of what a dollar can do. If there is a Cam pus Chest campaign next year, the prime area of concentration will be informing students fully of what their money can do. 2. Students gave to other chari ties at home or through summer jobs, and felt it was not necessary to give again. 3. Some students might think a dollar is too much. 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