PAGE FOUR Tubhefted Tueaday through Saturday morning• Jenne Sur raireraity year. The will Collegian is a student operated neer.paper. MOMM=.IIIMIEMEM. $3.611 p-c rwc.ler 5.5.011 per year Entered a. 6.10nd-clam, matter July MI at the State College. P■. Pokt Office under the act of March 3, En, MIKE MOYLE, Acting Editor Deanna Solti,. Asst Business M . Arnold Hoffman. Local Sot Conklin. Managing Editor. Es Dobbs. City Editor: Frs. Adv. Mir.; Anita Lynch. Asst. Local Adv. Mgr.; Janice Ander- Panacea Sport. Editor; Becky Eahai. Copy Editor: Vice* son. National Ad.. Mtr.; Anne Caton and David Posca, Co- Careen. Assistant Sport s Editor. Evirt Onsa. Peatores Editor: Circulation Meta.: Arthur Brener. Promotion Mtr.: Jo Fulton, Dime Bays,. Photography Editor. Personnel blur.: Harry Yaverbaum. Office Mgr.; Barbara Shipman, Classified Ad.. Mgr.: Ruth Howland, Secretary; Jane Croft. Research and Records Mgr. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Ginny Philips; Copy Editors, Anne Friedberg and Jack McArthur; Assistants, Thom Shiels, Hannah Yashan, Rocky Epstein. Roberta Levine, Wolf /Ober, Marie Russo, Mary Francis Cowley. Impersonality: A Necessary Evil This matter of the 'unperaonAlity' of instruc tion at large universities is one which has prob ably troublvd many people at one time or an- We have often thought about this situation; especially when we first entered the University, and now again when our college career AS draw ing to a close. This University is a very large place and is growing larger by the year. it is presently 10th in size in the country and shows definite signs of moving up among the top ten in future years. Naturally, the University asks for a larger appropriation each biennium. We say that this is natural because of rising costs and because there are more students—thus, more faculty and staff—here every two years. A Philadelphia newspaperman, Duke Kamin ski, of the Philadelphia Bulletin, asked Governor George M. Leader on Tuesday where the Uni versity's money was going, since classes were not being presented on a more personal basis. The expansion of the television program, con sidered to be quite progressive by most authori ties. prompted Kaminski to query the Governor. This presentation of classes by television is certainly taking instruction at the University away from the realm of being 'personal.' No one can dispute this. Despite the fact that polls of student opinion have shown that students like television on the whole, there seems to be quite a great deal of discontent with the new system. Many students have been heard to com plain about the fact that it is very difficult to pay strict attention to a TV set. This would seem to be the fault of the complaining student but we must admit from personal experience Christmas Too Commercial Christmas is getting to be mainly a buying and selling, commercial proposition. The com mercial aspect has been carried to such a point that there is seldom time or opportunity to think about the deeper meaning of Christmas. We find it more than annoying, almost re pulsive, that the towns throughout many parts of the United States should have Christmas decorations up for Thanksgiving. The later holi day at this rate will soon lose its identity and become a pre-Christmas holiday- When decor ations are put up this early their facination has worn off by Christmas. Soon fraternities and sororities will be hav ing Christmas parties for many of the small children in the area. We saw last year that the program, supposedly for underprivileged chil dren. turned into a farce. In the first place the children were mostly not underprivileged. In the second place it was just a competition be. , tween many of the children to see who could attend the greatest number of parties. Fraterni ties are also in competition for children. We found that several of the children proceeded to compare one party to another. Is such activity truly in the spirit of Christ mas? We feel that it is not. The fraternities and sororities who wish to make needy people have a more pleasant Christmas could do it more effectively in several other ways. They could send money. for instance, to the starving Hun garians. Or. they could send money to the poor in many other foreign countries. Or, if they wish to keep their work within the nation, there AFROTC Drill Team, 3:10 p.m., Armor, CHANUKAH PROGRAM, 4:30 p.m , Hind COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF SENIOR BOARD. 7:30 Carnegie FROTH AD STAFF DFADLINE. 7is.m.. Irnoth Lit• HILLEL BIIILE CLASS. Come,pus 04 Judi.... 7 1. m.. Hillel _ • _ HILLEL BIBLE CLASS. Bible Text anJ rm. Hi!API NEWMP:N CLUB DISCUSSION, 7 to For a Really Good Meal WIMMER'S or Just a Snack it's SUNOCO THE - - q E. College Hi block from PENN STATE ( f ,‘ Simmons DINER Jack Wimmer says It is tine saw to set the old heavy sit set your ear sod replace it with winter oil for easier 'Lading. sow that Try it Mac! cold weather is hem 111-3111 oil is your best bet at slightly extra east. It Elailg Cuitrijian t.. THE FREE LANCE. e‘L 18.17 DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager Gazette =EMI 04 Chapel that the complaint has some justification. We are thinking that perhaps the people in charge of the TV experiment who read the ac counts of Leader's press conference in yester day's Collegian are taking the story as a slap at the job being done by the television courses. This is not the case. The television experiment is being handled very well indeed. The question at hand, however, is whether or not the Uni verFity is justified in demanding more money from the state every biennium while at the same time the instruction gets less and less personal. We believe that the University cannot be reprimanded in any way for their practices in this situation. In fact, they are making well of a bad situation. These crowded conditions exist in practically every college and university in the country. Un fortunately, some universities cannot have as much money as others to further the cause of higher education. This means that the less for tunc.:e ones must make the best of it with what they have. In order to offer college educations to as many of the multitude as possible some schools have to use methods like television courses to lighten the load. ... So the critics who harp on impersonality must realize that as the University grows larger the small personal classes and personal attention from professors must be dispensed with for the most part. If this was not true, many potential college students would be turned away from the doors of the colleges. If we are to handle the swelling number of young people seeking college educations then we must bear with things like the television experiment.. are many slum areas in cities where the chil dren are really underprivileged. We realize that these ideas would not enable them to hold a party with some sorority, but would they not in the long run really add more to someone's Christmas. We believe some action along one of these lines would be far more ex pressive of the Christmas spirit. We understand that one fraternity did a some what extensive search for some underprivileged children in the area. They . were hard to find, but they finally did find a small group. We commend this group for taking a step out of the grouve the rest of the fraternities have made. We consider this step to be in the right direc tion. What is Christmas? To many it is the cele bration of the birth of Christ, although this seems to slip the minds of many people. To others it is merely a time to think of others and to give and take in this spirit. Whatever one may consider Christmas. we hope that people will not become puppets of the commercial tycoons. When students buy gifts we hope-they will think of the meaning behind and how the gift will represent it. We hope even more that this will be foremost in their minds when they receive gifts. It is only natural that business men should try to take advantage of Christmas buying. They make money on it. It is up to the buyers, the mass, to show that they do not want the com mercialization of Christmas. We hope Penn State students will do this. NEWS -AND VIEWS. 6:30 p.m.. Rome F..e. OFFICIALS CLUB, 6:30 p.m., 3 White Hall PSYCHOLOGY CLUB. 7 p.m.. 217 HUH WORLD AGRICULTURAL SERVICE SOCIETY, 7:30 p.m o 101 Agricultural Education WORLD UNIVERSITY SERVICE. 7 p.m.. .212 Chapel University Hospital Gary Mantes. Joseph BellwOar. Roland Dauber, Philip Hazen. Helen liaacman. Sharon Karr. Alfred Lester. Robert McCarron. Denis Make. Marie Moran. Vincent Starter, Jo Ann Vertmsky. REMINDER! MUSIC ROOM SHOW Today 4-5 featuring Roy Elwell °free records • interviews Editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper, the student body, or the University. —The Editor —Sue Conklin NSYLVANI A le Man on Campus TANK II / I • . , 7, k r , 7 4,411 , A r ECR. E TARX 16irrEg -reptcggs Foe OlOrkl - P eat 1111111111111 "That didn't take long how'd he like your termpaperr AP Correspondent I raquis Communist BAGDAD, Iraq, Nov. 28 (TP)—An Iraqi goyernment spokesman declared today that Premier Nuri Said has no intention of giving way in the face of Communist-inspired strikes and demonstrations. Information Director Kha view the Premier has no inten tion of stepping down or making changes in his Cabinet "for the time being." As Nuri's position on "appeals, to the streets"—a familiar term in: this part of the world meaning call to riot—was being made clear, the Baghdad military governor broadcast an appeal to the people. .He urged the public - to be calm and not yield "to subver sive elements" which the gov ernment says are trying to create trouble by inciting wide spread demonstrations. The intensity" of the Syrian, propaganda campaign is as much in evidence here as in Lebanon, with similar broadcasts of inflam matory rumors. In his talk with this correspond ent, Ibrahim spiked one such ru mor broadcast by the Syrians— that Gen. Tarak Said, commander of the Habbaniya Air Base, has been arrested. Ibrahim declared Tarak Said had an audience with King Faisal today and thanked the monarch for his military hon ors. "One of the biggest dangers in the Arab world today is that 'the streets' are tending to lead the governments," Ibrahim said. "Our response fo such attempts is to try to calm the streets." Ibrahim asserted the greatest danger in the Middle East springs from open efforts of world com munism to attack the stability of Arab countries. Ibrahim, in his interview, urged the United States to join the Baghdad Pact in a move to strengthen the alliance at a mo ment when American prestige is apparently rising among Arab nations. Iraq is the only Arab country member of the Baghdad Pact. Ibrahim added that the great est Western mistake in recent years was the action of France THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1956 n " I r 01111 ' A j) SNPAF, .• asvfccs .7\ 0E- _ - • • By WILLIAM L. RYAN it Ibrahim added in an inter- and Britain in joining with Is rael in an attack on Egypt, which he said lent strength to the antipacL propaganda. As for Syrian-Iraqi relations, Ibrahim expressed wonder at just what Syria and Egypt sought of this country. Cigarette Survey To Be Conducted By WSGA House The House of Representatives of the Women's Student Govern ment Association will conduct a survey in women's dormitories to see how many women students smoke and whether they would be in favor of the installation of cigarette machines in the dorms. The suggestion was made at a meeting of the housing commit representatives met with Otto E. Mueller, director of housing. Approval for such a plan is needed from the dean of women's office. Other suggestions discussed at the meeting include more extrac tors in the laundry rooms, more tables for writing purposes, better study lights in the lounges, roll away beds which could be used for - the accommodation of guests, hide-a-bed couches in sorority suites, hair dryers in the dorms, and mops and brooms to be placed at the disposal of women students in the hall closets. Reverend Will Speak Rev. Robert Cressy, pastor of The Blue Church, Springfield, will speak at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in 405 Old Main at a meeting of the University Christian Fellow ship Chapter, Intervarsity Chris tian Fellowshi f. by Biblet Resist Strikes
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