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ants, Barbara Hodge, Bobbie Levine, Dick Drayne.
Rec Hall Seating Misunderstood
There seems to be a general misunderstanding
and lack ol information on the seating situation
at Recreation Hall.
What some saw. and objected to, is that stu
dents were turned away from Saturday's basket
ball game with West Virginia University and
some townspeople were sold tickets. The stu
dents were turned away because Rec Hall was
too crowded and there was not room for all of
them.
Actually, by mistake, the doors were closed
too soon and there was room for some more stu
dents.and several more were let in at half time.
This was purely a mistake and has not occurred
before.
The townspeople were allowed in because
300 tickets are set aside for them each game.
Some students would say that all the students
should be allowed in, and then if there was
room, the townspeople could also be allowed in.
This would mean that for the few really popular
games each year the townspeople would not be
able to get into Rec Hall. Some students would
say that this is all right since the students are
attending the University therefore have more
interest in the games, and therefore should be
given priority in seating at Rec Hall even to
the exclusion of townspeople. .
We have discovered several fallacies in this
argument. The main one is that the townspeople
Send to be more interested in the games and
have a more steady attendance. The students
have not shown up in large numbers for any
of the basketball games previous to this past
weekend. One reason, perhaps for the more
consistent interest on the part of the towns
people is the tact that they follow the University
sports teams year after year. A student follows
the team for four years only.
Several vears ago townspeople were told not
Kadis Fund Gets Rolling
It seems to be a ripe time for various charity
drives. There are two or three going on on cam
pus at the present.
One which we hope will not be overlooked is
the drive, being sponsored by the Varsity "S"
Club and The Daily Collegian, to help pay the
hospital bills of Dick Kadis, an injured Geneva
College football player.
Kadis was injured severely in Geneva's first
football game of the year and has been un
conscious since then—except for short times
when he momentarily opens his eyes.
To many, it seems far-fetched,that we here
at Penn State should be giving such attention
TV: New Attitude • Needed
TV courses are not a cross to be borne, as most
students consider them: they are a challenge
and a necessary evil. They are part of an experi
ment being conducted to answer the most ur
gent problem facing all colleges and universities
—how to handle the increasing enrollment?
Although the first question we ask is, “Where
will we put them all?”, the main question is,
“How shall we teach them all?” Besides not
having enough classroom space, we also face
a growing shortage of qualified instructors.
We are being used as lest cases in an im
portant experiment to solve this problem. It is
up to us whether we sit back and grudgingly
accept our "injection” or take an active role in
the experiment. It is our responsibility, not
only to ourselves, but to the students following
us, to take a positive attitude toward TV
courses.
This doesn’t mean repeating to ourselves each
morning, “I like TV, I like TV.” It does mean,
however, that we should—and can—make the
experiment a greater success by trying to accept
the courses objectively.
It is a natural thing to resent or dislike any
thing that is new. We are doing this in our TV
courses without analyzing the "whys."
When students from the elementary’ school
through the college level who had been taught
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to come to the games anymore because the stu
dents had been turned away from Rec Hall.
The townspeople stopped coming and so did
many of the students. Attendance was terrible.
In addition to the poor attendance it did not
help town-University relations. After a while
the townspeople were again allowed to attend,
but it took a few years to build up their attend
ance again. Many of them follow the University
sports regularly and really enjoy the games
for the sport.
On the other hand, students cannot claim the
same. Their attendance is erratic and not all of
them go for the sport itself. For instance, we
suspect that the great drawing card for Satur
day night was Hot Rod Hundley rather than
the game itself.
Why then, should townspeople who really
appreciate the game be turned away so that a
few apathetic students who don't attend regu
larly can have seats for this special event.
The townspeople should not be turned away.
The students pay very little for each separate
game and townspeople pay for their tickets in
dividually. Many nights a few hundred dollars
is taken in from tickets sold to townspeople.
The students don't approach paying the
amount needed for the athletic program. Ad
ditional money must come in or the fees will
have to go up considerably.
Actually the students who want most to see
the game will get there early and be assured
of a seat. For the small amount paid for an
athletic ticket a student should not complain at
having to be at a game early. It is generally the
more apathetic student who is turned away at
the door, and this only on rare occasions.
The townspeople are perfectly.-justified in at
tending the games and we hope their regular
attendance and support continues.
—Sue Conklin
to an obscure football player in a small college
in Beaver Falls.
However, hospital bills for this boy have
gone far out of the reach of both his parents
and Geneva. They are well over $lO,OOO. ■
Under the wholehearted support of the Var
sity "S" Club a fund-raising campaign'is taking
form.
This week the athletes will put their drive
into high gear. Through various means—like
the ice skating exhibition— these men are striv
ing to help a fallen athlete. Penn State students
should help them show Geneva College that
we are not alien to the cause of Dick Kadis.
—The Editor
by TV were asked their ’opinion of the course,
the majority’s answer was always the same.
They didn’t like it. Yet, in all cases the grades
of the experimental group were the same a 3
those of a similar class taught conventionally.
In some cases the TV section had a higher aver
age, but never was it lower.
The major complaint against TV is the lack
of personal contact with the instructor. We
must be realistic. In a university the size of
Penn State, the time of cozy little classrooms
is long past. With or without TV, our classes
- are growing larger.
TV's main advantage is that experienced in
structors can be made available for large groups
and instruction of many students can be im
proved.
The only alternative left for our colleges and
universities, unless the use of TV is found
feasible, is cutting down on the enrollment.
Fortunately, we all squeezed into school before
the enrollment boom. In condemning TV courses,
we are making it more difficult for the students
who shall follow us. For this reason alone, we
should try to consider TV as a necessary evil.
Now lhalit is in an experimental stage, it is
our responsibility to think of concrete ways of
improving its use or at least making it more
palatable.
Gazette
DAILY COLLEGIAN AD STAFF
TONIGHT~6:4S
CONTRACTS ... All Members Are Asked
To Be Present . . • Sea Your Accounts
th, set of March I. 1871.
—Mickie Cohen
Little Man on Campus
'Nice thing about this course—you only have one text to buy."
J4cre n
:'Most Anything
What could be more impressive to a group of sorority
rushees than smiling sisters'and coke chit-chats? The answer
—Cadillacs, of course!
Come Wednesday, we hear it rumored that a certain
sorority on campus will chaufi
in a fleet of rented Caddies v
looking and most eligible men be
hind the wheels
All this is strictly in accor
dance with Panhel rules and
Mrs. Aslor's hints on "How to
Waste Gas and Influence Co
eds."
And while Penn State' coeds
ride in style, an lowa Jjtate Teach
er’s College freshman is boasting
about his unique trip to Washing
ton last month for the presidential
inauguration. ■ Bored with the
thought of viewing the spectacle
on television, this ambitious lad
hitch-hiked 900 miles just to sav
“Hi” to Ike.
Give that man an Adlai but
ton!
Lack of parking facilities at the!
University of Buffalo has forced
campus' parking fines to be hiked
to the outrageous sum of $5. But
students there have found a way
to avoid paying such exuberant
fines. They simply park all day
in downtown Buffalo where they
can receive tickets at the more
reasonable rate of only $2.
And we think we've got prob
lems!
From an article in the Pitt News
headlined “Soster Says Snow
Shoe Splendid Small Size ‘Sity’:
Abel Soster, a freshman at the
University of Pittsburgh, told re
porters that his unusually named
town, Snow Shoe, Pa., is “about
30 miles |from State College—
though strictly speaking there’s
not a town for 60 miles.”
Seems our friend Soster
agrees with local merchants
who also think State College is
a "small, hardly-worih-men
tioning burg." So small, in fact,
that they're apparently sure a
student discount plan just would
not work.
* * *
COLLEGIAN PROMOTION
STAFF MEETING
TONIGHT
VERY IMPORTANT
Those Absent Will Be
Dropped From Staff
7:00 103 WILLARD
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19. 1957
by Bibier
i/ pat
iunter
:eur its rushees to coffee hours
rith some of the campus’ best-
Mixing |college and marriage
can sometimes be just too much
—so says the Northern Oklahoma
Junior College paper in a story
about a student who upon the
arrival of his second child
screamed:
"It's a father. I'm a girl! I'm a
girl!!
SAE’s please note. The Univer
sity of Michigan chapter of Sigma
Alpha Epsilon recently sent red
roses to over 600 pledges in the
university’s 16 sororities.
How 'bout pine cone corsages
for fhe Penn State pledges?
“Filler” to most newspapers are
short items used to fill empty
spaces on a page, but to Kansas
!U. students reading the Daily
Kansan it is apparently a major
source of information.
A few of the better ones are:
Light travels very fast.
* * *
“Aardvark” is the name given
to an animal. The animal in order
to be called an aardvark, must be
an aardvark. Otherwise, the name
is not correct.
There is no such person a*
Superman.
Some fish have teeth in their
throats used for crushing such
food as clams.
The blinking glow of the fire
fly is a signal between the sexes.
And wifh these gleaming bits
of essential information, you
too can win $64,000.
Rod and Coccus to Meet
The Rod and Coccus Club will
meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow In 209
Patterson.