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MIKE MOYLE, Acting Editor
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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Jack McArthur; Copy Editors, Pat Evans, Greg Huntington; As
sistants, Liann.• Curdeio, Dick Fisher, Lil Junas, Barbara Stone, Ralph Manna.
ilungarian Drive: A Great Service
• The piles of donated clothing behind the
Christmas tree at "Co-op Corner" provided a
striking symbolic background to the biggest
non-profit fund-raising drive ever experienced
at Penn State.
The drive was spearheaded by Alpha Phi
Omega, national men's service honorary, and
Gamma Sigma, women's service honorary soror
ity, in conjunction with many groups from the
University and the borough.
Over $ 2OOO and two trailer truckloads of
clothes were taken in for Hungarian Relief.
Unlike past drives, this one had all the ear
marks of good planning„ Furthermore, the dif
ference in publicity may have made all the dif
ference in the world. On past occasions, such
as the one-day stand of the Mall of Dimes, peo
ple did not become aware that there was a drive
till it was too late. In such cases the full poten
tials of these drives were not realized. Rather
than evaluating the situation accurately, it was
automatically blamed on student apathy.
Two things distinguished the Hungarian Re
lief Drive from Campus Chest. During the Cam
pus Chest solicitations the students would con
tribute only if they were caught with the money
or perhaps they would evade it altogether. In
the case of the Hungarian Drive, however, stu
dents went out of their way to bring in funds.
Secondly. students actually sacrificed. Some
sororities donated their record funds, and stu
dents of McKee Hall gave a total of slo4—un
doubtedly the largest donated by a single hall.
It was a bigger chive than many people rea
lized, and included many organizations on cam
pus as well as various groups from neighboring
areas. WMAJ, the local radio station, ran a
four-hour marathon: Burgess Mackey of State
College declared it Hungarian Relief Day and
gave all the funds from the parking meters and
the use of the Municipal Building. The State
College Council of Churches had proclaimed it
Austerity Day in which members ate the plain
est of dinners and gave what they would have
spent to the drive. Members of Alpha Phi Omega
Get Out and Meet the. Faculty
Those students who wish to make the - big
play with the professor for their course grade
will have their star opportunity tonight at the
Women's Student Government Association Fac
ulty Reception in the Hetzel Union lounge.
We hope there will be few students at the
reception for this purpose. On the other hand,
we hope there will be a great many students
attending the event.
Since it is only open to junior and senior
women, we feel that they will be making a grave
mistake if they do not take advantage of this
opportunity to meet their professors as a per
son. rather than as the usual class room lecturer.
With a limited number of students attending
each and every one will have a chance to meet
the faculty.
As the University grows larger, which it is
doing at rapid rate, students will more and
more feel as though they are a machine in a
large factory. Social gatherings between stu
dents and faculty are one of the few remaining
reliefs from the business of education. Here,
students will see a new side to their professors.
Coeds Merit Spot on WH Council
West Halls Council has shown itself as a lead
er in a somewhat progressive movement at the
University—that of integrating the lives of men
and women.
Monday night the council voted to have the
four presidents from Thompson sit with the
presidents of the men's dormitories on a com
plete West Halls Council. The four women will
have a vote on every issue except that of the
constitution.
We commend this move. Many of the prob
lems faced by The council are common to both
men and women, and can be dealt with in a
more competent manner by integrating The
sexes.
For too long men and women at the Univer
sity have lead the unreal life of complete sepa
ration. We feel that the council's decision is the
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and Gamma Sigma gave their time from Thurs
day through Sunday to sorting clothes and col
lecting money.
It is true also that the drive was blessed from
the very start with fair weather, wholehearted
co-operation from students and townspeople
alike. Also it was a cause that aroused the in
terest of the students.
Student apathy, except in a few isolated
cases, had disappeared. Usually a fund-raising
marathon on WMAJ is plagued with people who
pledge fictitious sums in the name of other
people or groups. Although the marathon did
not receive every dollar pledged, there was little
evidence of welching.
To say that the cause was well worthwhile.
and that the drive itself was an exhibition of
teamwork and brotherhood, would be an under
statement.
However, to say the drive was backed whole
heartedly is not to say that there were no
skeptics when it began. Indeed there were, and
University officials were among them. It must
be made clear, though, that although they
thought the drive would fail, they co-operated
in every way.
In the past this campus has been considered
by some as tightfisted when it comes to giving.
Instead of such an attitude the solicitors find
not pennies and nickles—but dollars and five
dollar bills. Instead of worthless, worn-out
clothing, most of the articles were in surpris
ingly good condition. Many coeds brought per
sonal clothing such as sweaters.
This drive has caught the imagination of
many people in many other states. It has since
been carried by the wire service and has ap
peared in newspapers throughout Pennsylvania
and the nation. It has received recognition both
on television and radio.
Students and the organizations involved are
to be congratulated for the tremendous enthus
iasm which brought national recognition to the
drive and in doing so brought honor to the
University.
Too often students accept the trend of faculty
student separation. Too often they are lax in
their efforts to meet and know their professors.
We hope junior and senior women will take ad
vantage of the work done by WSGA toward
improving faculty-student relations.
The idea is vague, but certainly an important
one. Although the reception will only be a drop
in the bucket toward University-wide faculty
student relations it is an important step in the
right direction. Why, when WSGA has done
this before, the idea has not been used by more
groups on campus we do not know. We think
it is a lack that should be worked on. It will
become an increasingly noticeable lack as the
University grows larger. We hope more groups
will follow the lead of WSGA.
The reception tonight should be a welcome
change for all who attend. Those students who
have a real interest in their education and the
people who offer it will, we know, attend. For
those who do not, we pity their short-sighted
feelings toward the academic world.
—Sue Conklin
first step toward a more realistic dormitory
government.
- Many of the questions which come up be
fore the council are of a social nature. Most
social events include women. With the new set
up it is probable that social events can be
planned on a more cooperative basis and will
receive more interest and participation from
both sides.
It has always seemed somewhat strange to us
that women in the West Halls area should eat
in the same building with the men, go to their
social functions, plan mixers with the men,
date the men in the area, and yet have no form
of joint government—in fact no official means
of communication.
We hope the new council is a•success. We feel
that it will be.
Editorials represent the
viewpoints of the writers.
not nereasarily the policy
.r the paper. the student
body, or the University.
—Thom Shiels
—Sue Conklin
Little Man on
This is nuthi
'homecom
According to
Moyle
There's Still Hope
This matter of exemption from final exams
mester students who have A or B averages has
more than a little attention recently.
From what we can
. gather everyone seems
it is a real good idea (especial
and that it should have been
This system has been trying to
find its way onto the Penn State
scene for some years now but
mysteriously enough something
has always stood in the way. Jo
seph Hartnett, Senior Class Presi
dent, told Cabinet Sunday night
that President Eric A. Walker
favored the exemption plan. He
even favored extending the privi
lege to all students.
This sounds encouraging, cou
pled with the fact that many fac
ulty members have also given
their OK to the plan. As Hartnett
said, however, things which seem
to be gaining approval from many
important people individually,
have the strange knack of being
turned down by the administra
tion's rule-making bodies.
Anyway. we seniors can hope
for the best.
Alpha Phi Omega cannot be
given enough credit for its splen
did drive for Hungarian Relief.
This whole thing
was carried on
with the utmost
efficiency, imag
ination, and sin
cerity. The amaz
ing aspect of it
was the way it
was set up in so
little time.
If anyone is
looking for the
way to hold an
effective and suc
cessful drive of
any kind on this campus they
would do w ell to remember
this one as a prime model. APhiO
is certainly consistently living up
to its moniker, "service frater
nity."
Dormitory students recently
staged a foods riot at the Uni
versity of Michigan. They
threw vanilla pudding and as
paragus all over the walls of
the dining hall and then con
tinued the fiasco out in -the
streets firing snowballs at po
licemen and breaking car win
dows.
From some of the complaints
we've been receiving abou. Food
Service here, we're watching and
waiting.
Another midwestern university,
Marquette. has instituted a
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y the eighth semester crowd)
tituted long ago: .
unique rule. Men may not kiss
their dates goodnight when tak
ing them back to dormitories_
Thisapplies to both dormitory
lobbies and to the general area
outside the dormitory.
Can you imagine this rule be
ing in force at Penn State? Won
der if the Campus Cops would be
charged with enforcing it?
The recent issue of Froth,
which contained certain fea
tures which related fo this
paper is reported to have hit an
all-time sales low for that mag
azine.
We also hear that the Senior
Board may just be in for a little
reprimand for some of the more
objectionable material in the. is
sue. One of the ideas Froth had
this month was very original—
too bad they hurried through it
so fast they missed the entire
point of the thing.
While in the field of publica
tions we have heard that the
coming issue of the Penn State
Engineer (Tuesday) is going to
have some of the best photogra
phy seen around these parts for
some time.
UCA to Sponsor
Advent Services
University Christian Association
will sponsor the first of a series
of three Advent services from
12:30 to 12:45 p.m. today in the
Helen Eakin Eisenhower Membr
ial Chapel.
Brown Higgenbothan, assistant
to the chaplain, will lead the first
service. Emphasis will be placed
on short prayer and meditation.
Tonight on WDFM
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