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MIKE MOYLE, Editor DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager I
Deanna Soltis, Asst. But. Mgr.: Steve Higgins. Local AdT. ' I
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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."
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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
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RtftRENCE UBRARY
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,‘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.
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