PAGE FOUR Lvjr;is/vx Qlhi* Satin Cnllpniait I “t, o 7Tr:«*i Litlle Man on Cam Pus by Bibier tlif University resi. The * %1 i? not necessarily the policy O*ll> {joll«*i« u • tlaienU SocefMor lo THE FREE LANCE. «L 1887 ° f Ui« P»P". the etodfiil <> •prraUd nr„.p.p. r . bodr. or the Unfrenltr I I $3.00 per semester SS.OO per year Entered as eecond-ciasi matter Jnly 6. 1934 at the State College, Fa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. \ I #/5S> I MIKE MOYLE, Editor DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager I Deanna Soltis, Asst. But. Mgr.: Steve Higgins. Local AdT. ' I Sue Conklin, Alanaglng Editor; Ed Dubbs, City Editor: Fran Mgr.: George Shambaugh, Asst. Local Adv. Mgr.; Marilyn /____ t _y_ i ,t!>\ | t^e-ZL/W Fanned, Sports Editor; Becky Zahm. Copy Editor; Evls Elias. National Adr. Mgr.: Don StohL Promotion Mgr.: Anna h I Onus, Aaaistant Copy Vince Carocci, Assistant Sports Caton and Dasid Posca, Co-Circulation Mgrs.; Jo Fulton, Per- 1 L*l 11 1 " 1 'A Editor: Pat llsnter. Features Editor: Dave Bavar, Photog- tonne! Mgr.; Harry Vaverbaum, Office Mgr.; Barbara Ship- 1 Li-'’* * 'jgj raohv Editor. man. Classified Ad Mgr.; Ruth Howland, Sec.; Jane Groff. \ ['£ J|r- rC Research and Records Mgr. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Jack McArthur; Copy Editors, Pat Evans, Jim Tuttle; Assistants, Mickie Cohen, Dick Fisher, Rozanne Friedlander, Bill Jaffe, Dick Drayne, Pam Alexander, Edie Blumenthal. Must the Show Go On? AU-Univeisity Cabinet may be $2OOO poorer after tonight's session. Cabinet has come out of more than one meet ing poorer than they entered, but the curious thing about tonight’s consideration is that there seems to be a chance that the $2OOO will not find its way back into Cabinet’s coffers. As an added attraction 1c- this year's fete the Spring Week committee has proposed a rather gigantic-sounding music festival com plete with name performers from various fields of show business. It seems that in recent years (and maybe be fore that) Spring Week planners have been try ing to outdo (and justifiably so) the previous year’s production. Thus it is natural that event ually we should go outside the University to add luster to Spring Week. At first glance this proposed music festival sounds like peaches and cream. There's no doubt that a show of this nature seems like a grand time for all. And just think Life magazine may honor us by sending its famous photog raphers to the campus. We might all become famous. The $2OOO is needed for retainers for the big-name entertainers which will make the show a success—if it is to be one. However, it is the feeling of many people, including this writer, that the students' money should not be risked for the sake of national charities which have already gotten student contributions through Campus Chest. Now there are also many who are loathe to call this venture in the world of show business a risk. The Spring Week people are positive that if a "big-name performer" is obtained Beaver Field will be packed with people from West Halls Waiters: According to freshman opinion many of fhe Waring Hall waiters are somewhat lacking in manners, This seems to be a contradiction of the situ ation in the other women's dining halls where the waiters have received nothing but praise as far as we know. In other dining halls the waiters are courteous and helpful on almost all occasions. Unfortunately this situation does not seem to exist in the West Halls women’s dining hall where waiters are neither so courteous nor so helpful. After hearing many freshman com plaints we made a point of noticing the con dilions which existed in this dining hall. We found that the waiters could stand a great deal of improvement and that the coeds had good grounds for complaint. Outwardly the waiters seem to be on good behavior. But when the Thompson Hall house mothers leave they become very discourteous. While the housemothers are present the waiters hold themselves to making sly. whispered com ments to the coeds. Some of the coeds seem to encourage these comments while others seem somewhat disgusted by them. Not all the waiters in the dining hall are guilty of these unmannerly acts. However, *.Forgotten dess' Issue TO THE EDITOR: I must take issue with Mr. Moyle on his editorial of Feb. 5 concerning the “Forgotten Class.” When he stated that the new students enrolling for the spring semester were, “given no sort of official greeting and not treated to a special program as were their Fall counter parts,” he made a completely false accusation. An orientation program very much the same as was conducted in the Fall was carried out for these new students. Counseling sessions with halmen were an official part of their Orien tation Week schedule. Just as in the Fall, these sessions were avail able to every student who took the trouble to attend the meetings for which he was scheduled. As for an “official greeting,” each student who attended received a letter of greeting and en couragement from President Walker. This, I would say, was fairly official. In addition, each student who attended received the same bro chures and aids as did his Fall counterpart. tTnWeralty Hospital Pot Kinney. Roger Lloyd. George Mansell. George H. McKay, Barbara A 1 beck. David Ferraro. Daniel Friday. Sandra Virginia Price, Joseph Santoro, Steve Savintaink and Ira ’Gusky* Annette-Jacoby Gayle Kelchnet* William Stares. ~ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA all parts o! the central counties. Rain insurance will cover any possible threat from the heavens. We believe that this whole matter was foisted upon Cabinet rather suddenly last week, espe cially the extremely touchy matter of letting go $2OOO. We feel that a good many of the Cabinet members were in varying degrees of confusion last Thursday when asked for $2OOO by the Spring Week Chairman Robert Krakoff. Perhaps the main point of hesitation in arriv ing at a decision on the matter was the fact that so little concrete information was available about the music festival. As it turned out no one was able to say who would be the stars of the show, or even who might be willing to come here. There were only a few vague names thrown out to pacify those who seemed to hesi tate. Whether or not any of those named appear at Penn State is strictly in doubt. We would be the last ones to spike something that would be so good for Penn Stale as this music festival. A big consideration is, however, fhe dependence by fhe committee on getting a number of entertainers to turn their checks over to charity. As it was pointed out last week at Cabinet few stars will be willing to do this if they know the money is going to the Penn State Student Scholarship Fund, Yet, we main tain that's where the money should go. The first vote got by with little or no oppo sition. We like to think that this was because no one had time to think over all the possible repercussions of the whole thing. If the scholarship Fund gets a fair shake and if Cabinet is given sufficient evidence (like naming names) that a profit will be made, then we say, “On with the show.” Learn Manners enough of them lake part so ihaf the whole group seems out of hand. On several occasions the waiters have un necessarily separated groups who wish to sit at the same table. Many of the coeds seem to feel very strongly that they would like to sit with their friends. We realize {hat sometimes this can cause a problem, but we also feel that the waiters are not very considerate of the coeds’ feelings on the subject. Perhaps the worst fault of the waiters is that after the housemothers leave they lose all sense bf decent dining hall conditions and act ob noxious. They stand over the coeds who are still eating and keep telling them to hurry. They laugh and yell and make comments at the few remaining coeds, making it almost impos sible to finish, let alone enjoy, the rest of their meaL Some of the comments are jokes, and others are equally out of place for dining con ditions. The minute the last coed leaves a table they jump on it like a “pack of vultures.’’ The women at the remaining table are left with the feeling that they are guilty for finishing their dinner. We hope something can be done to remedy the West Halls dining situation so that it may be on a par with other dining halls where the waiters are an asset rather than a detraction. —Sue Conklin Safety Valve Naturally, the program was somewhat tailored to meet the needs of a slightly different group, one with a large proportion of veterans and students who were transferring from other educational institutions. However, every at tempt was made by the President’s office, the offices of the dean of men and dean of women, and the Student Orientation Committee to help these students identify themselves with Penn State. These facts were not secret and were certainly available to anyone interested in evaluating the actual situation. —Robert Steele, Chairman —Orientation Committee Ed. Note—The editorial in question was never in a month of Sundays intended as a criticism of anyone—least of all the wonderfully ef ficient Orientation Committee—but was mere ly slating in broad terms the accepted dif ference between the attention showered upon the Fall frosh as the comparatively quiet en trance of those new students in the Spring semester. Gazette bach vs. blue suedes- WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (,/P) Sen. Clifford P. Case (R.-N.J.) Knows now that even a senator has to be careful not to step on the blue suede shoes of Elvis Presley fans. A fighting bunch, these Presley followers, who cherish every lock of his abundant hair, though one did tell the —The Editor senator: i "Even if he was bald, we would still love our Elvis." •t I This all began after a lady con stituent of Case’s wrote in that she had read a news story on Presley’s draft examination. It said that, as an entertainer, Pres ley probably would go into the special services branch, and therefore “could forego the GI hair cut required of the ordinary soldier.” Was it irue, the constituent asked, that Presley would get special treatment? Well, Case wrote the Army, and after appropriate high-level con ferences, the verdict came back: Nonsense. Presley would be treated like any other recruit. And if the local ground rules called for it, this would include bobbing Elvis’ hair and curtail ing his sideburns. This fact was duly passed on to the lady constituent, and was relayed to the press, but it proved to be far from the end of. the matter. Presley fans can rock ‘n’ roll in those letters, too. Take the Philadelphia girl who said she'd lake Presley bald if she had to. She said she heads the original Presley fan club, invited Case to join, and said: “Senator, Elvis has been grow ing sideburns since the age of 16. They are not only a trademark, but they are cherished by Elvis and by us. As for the rest of his hair, well, it is so dark and wavy that it would be a sin to chop it off.” One point that rankled especial ly; When Case, an admirer of Bach, first got the letter from his constituent, he asked his admin istrative assistant: “And just who is Elvis Pres ley?” A girl in Little Silver, N.J., had this reaction: "I'm disappointed that one of my senators doesn't read the news and keep abreast of the times." And a Cincinnati disc jockey asked if this was a tongue-in cheek remark. Yes, the senator said, it was. At last report Sen. Case had retreated to Bach, whose follow ers are considerably more re strained. But then Bach never wore blue suede shoes. Case Learns Power Of PresLey Legions By ARTHUR EDSON THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1957 W'\ >vi RtftRENCE UBRARY l' i l ' 1 ’ 1 • 11 ■ Bt® ,‘l 1 -I I 'llium HomeEc Drops Frosh Meeting The , convocation for freshmen preceding the Home Economics Spring Weekend will not be held this year. To replace the former method of acquainting the home eco nomics freshmen with the mean ing and program of the annual Spring Weekend, the Home Eco nomics Council has decided to write a letter to each freshman. The council feels this will be a more personal method of expla nation. Final instructions were given at a council meeting Tuesday night for the Freshmen-Faculty Tea to be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday in the Home Economics Building. The chairmen for tha tea were asked to report early Sunday. The council voted to hold elec tion of officers on March 26. Panel to Discuss Social Sciences Experienced researchers in the social sciences will hold the first of their “how-to-do-it” sessions at 8 tonight in the Hetzel Union assembly room. Two more are planned for the Spring semester. With Dr. Howard A. Cutler as moderator, the panel will consist of Dr. Neal Riemer, Dr. George E. Brandow and Dr. Philip S. Klein. Tonight’s symposium will be devoted to “How to Select a Sound and Significant Research Topic.” Correction: Hat Society Council Hat Societies Council will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Hetzel Union Building, not Monday as was reported in .yesterday’s Col legian. Tonight on WDFM 91.1 MEGACYCLES 6:50 Sign On 6:55 ... News 7:00 7:55 ~ Sports 8:00 - r As You Believs 8:15 BBC Weekly 8:30 Jazz Panorama 9:00 News Special Events Chamber Concert 9:15 10:00 | Cl ‘A” Train Sign Off
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