PA GE FOUR rehlUhed fo•eda g th aril [ illaterday 111Moralaga Zing the University rear. The Rally Cone/flan to a student. mental neeregianer .. _ _ ... 011 e Eiatiti entle.gtau Baceessor to THE FREE LANCE. est. IEB7 MOO per semester 05.08 per year Zaterei as second-class matter July 0. 1031 at the State Collets, Pa. Port Office under MIKE MOYLE. Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Jim Tuttle; Copy Editor, Barb Martino; Wire Editor, Lianne Cordero; Assistants, Anne Friedberg, Bill Jaffe, Mike Dutko, Judy Berkowitz, Les Powell, Thomas Readling, Pam Chamberlain, Rose Schmidt, Joe Boehret. Bahrenburg's Puzzling Request All-University President Robert Bahrenburg left his chair at the head of All-University Cabi net last night and suggested that The Daily Collegian improve itself. Bahrenburg said his action was prompted by a sampling of student opinion over a period of a few months and he urged Cabinet members to offer constructive criticism of the paper. He said it was something which had been on his mind for some time and that he wanted to get it out in the open Bahrenburg didn't think the thing over long enough. The unprecedented move was one of the un wisest moves we seen made by an All- University president in four years at Penn State. Bahrenburg, at the outset of his statement. admitted that Cabinet could do nothing in the way of a motion, but said he thought it could make a suggestion to the Collegian. He said that opinions gathered from students, and the administration (we assume that the ef ficient Mr. Bahrenburg talked to faculty mem bers, too) justified bringing the matter to the floor of Cabinet. Before the All-University Secretary-Treasur er's motion to close debate, Collegian was graciously defended by Daniel Land, Inter fraternity Council president, and Joseph Hart nett. Senior class president. The "constructive criticisms" Bahrenburg asked for never transpired. He spoke entirely in broad terms—never bringing up a specific com plaint. We hope that no member of Cabinet had any which were out of the ordinary, or were of a terribly urgent nature. Bahrenburg practically admitted that his sud den action was not a particularly personal at tack. This means there was some other moti vating force. If he thinks we are expected to believe that he took the trouble to bring such an undoubtedly Future Engineers Need Better Background "Let's have more engineers!" Today this is the lightly, and in many cases, discouraged by the cry of industry all over America. There just teachers. Naturally this will not create in aren't enough men capable of filling the new terest among the students. roles which our expanding scientific world Another point to note is the grading system. creates. Thi s has proven to be almost fallacious in t 0... ... . . . . An immediate question most likely to be brought up would concern the increased en rollment in engineering in our nation's colleges. Doesn't this fact show the interest of youth in a scientific world? Not necessarily so. Let's look further into the situation. Take Penn State for example. The College of Engineering definitely has the highest enroll ment of all the nine colleges in the University. But now look at the percentage of men who finally make it through the four or more years of hard, constant study. Is this relatively small amount of graduates equal to the number of aspirants who continually fill up our engineer ing schools in hopes of making a career out of engineering. To really understand why we do have an engineer shortage, and why college freshmen fail to continue on with the subject, let's go back a few years to high school. There is no doubt that youth definitely needs better preparation in high school science and mathematics. This lack of scientific knowledge is one of the main reasons why today's youth fail to con tinue on with higher education along scientific and research lines. They merely haven't had the opportunity to gain a liking or even an opinion about the whole matter. Just what are some instances in which the high schools show lack of adequate training principles? "For one thing, scholarship needs improve ment. Teachers merely go over the material with the class so that they may attain a cer tain passing grade on their tests. Any questions the students might have beyond this are taken Today p.m.. 112 Old Main INTERLANDIA FOLK DANCE. 7:10 p.m.. HUB Ballroom SABBATH EVE SERVICES, 13 p.m., Hillel, Phi Epsilon PI, INTERVIEWS for New• Jersey Y.51.&W.H.A. camps. 2-5 Hosts g0,,5_ _.......... THE TOWN HOUSE GIVES TO YOU Fs OWN FORMULA FOR FUN with JERRY MILLER COMBO 4:30 ti' 6:00 :tiff• ~~: WIMMER'S SUNOCO 4 _,— cj E. 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We were the questioners on this topic. It was not because we distrust the administration that we asked, how ever. Frankly, Bahrenburg's outburst slightly flabbergasted us. His motives puzzle us. We can't help but think that there is something behind his action. II caught virtually every Cabinet member off balance. With very few exceptions, we feel sure that any complaint which could have come from Cabinet (especially on such short notice) couldn't have been something of which we aren't already aware. Helpfully, Hartnett (perhaps trying to make Bahrenburg's request look not quite so off base) cautioned Collegian not to misquote or to attack withcut facts. He was perfectly in line and justified in saying this. Collegian has done both—both to its discredit. We know, try to avoid, and correct these mistakes. Any news paper does this. This is basic. This is not some- thing which should be brought before Cabinet. We think Cabinet realized this by dropping the mailer before it really got started. Bahren burg will be wise if he leaves all ideas of this kind at home at future Cabinet meetings. —The Senior Board day's secondary school systems. High school teachers rely too much on the personal aspect of education,—how well they know the students. Teachers also fail to make courses interesting. Many of them fail to realize that students of today might become leaders of tomorrow if given the right kind of, material and allowed to express themselves in the classroom. Surely there must be some solutions for this situation. I don't think it is too late for action. One approach would be to form a "good" science club within the high school. By "good" I mean a club that meets regularly and allows its members to express themselves more than they would be able to in the classrooms. Recent scientific innovations might be discussed and explained, with questions - and further com ments more than welcomed. This certainly would not hurt the student and in most cases would probably aid him ten times more than a boring class lecture in which the teacher merely sticks to the book. If students could be exposed to the fact that scholarship is desirable, if they were aware of the many career opportunities awaiting them, if there were more scientific contests (such as the current popular Wetsinghouse Science Tal ent Research), if there were more modern books, and if the student began to realize the potenti alities of the future, of building a stronger na tion, I believe the scientific future of engineers would become a thing all youth will want to step into. Then there would be no fear of our nation falling asunder to the rapid and improv ing technological developments of the Soviet Gazette Editorials represent the • viewpoints of the writers. ' not nietessarily the polio of the paper. the student body. or the University the set of Karel L 18711 —Mike Maxwell Players Present: O ne ff s A Crowd Premiere of a new comedy Fri.-Sat., 22 & 23, 8 pm Center Stage $l.OO Man on Campus Littl too crowded up here for you—there's more room in back.' "If it's 1 - Morals Hamper Ike In Israeli Crisis Associated Press News Analyst The agitation caused in Washington and in the United Nations by the Israeli-Egypt situation is a good example of the difficulty of trying to establish a world order while the cold war continues. President Eisenhower agrees with the African-Asian bloc, which includes nations whose hands are far from clean, that the UN must bring such pressure as it can to enforce its demands on Israel. The United States, in the interest of world order, which Secretary of State John Foster Dulles says he thinks is advanc ing among the free nations, is thus taking a roundabout way to something that may not suc ceed, whereas she could act directly and finally. From a practical standpoint, al though there is no American in tention of taking advantage of it, Israel is a satellite of the United States. The little state would not have been created except for the support of the United States in the United Nations, and could not have existed without American aid. That aid could be cut off at a moment's notice. When a country like Poland be gins to violate Moscow's wishes, the Kremlin does not hesitate to apply economic sanctions. This is strictly a colonialist and power politics attitude. • Because of it, the Russian bloc is better organized than the freedom bloc. It is not ham pered by the morals which the President hopes will eventually prevail with Israel. To promote its interest, the Red bloc would not hesitate to destroy a coun try, as it has practically des troyed Hungary. On the other hand, the United States is determined to preserve EUROPE At minimum cost, with regularly scheduled. airline (charter flights), available to Penn State students and faculty members. Sponsored by The University Christian Association. Contact Miss Brown; Ext. 594, The Helen Eakin Eisen hower Chapel. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 22. 1957 By J. M. ROBERTS a free Israel. This policy is even more specific with regard to Is rael than to some other free coun tries. Israel knows that no truly destructive sanctions will be ap plied. , Thus the free world, trying to act within the limits of what is right and what is wrong, and to consider degrees of rightness and wrongness, directs a great deal of energy away from the major ob jective of winning the cold war. And a lot of new, weak free nations put their own nationalist interests ahead of a world ordered by international law. And the United States, caught between her desire to promote such an order and her loyalties to her major allies such as Brit ain and France, who want no sanctions against Israel, finds herself in one muddle after an , other. •Thirty-nine per cent of the 13,- 147 students enrolled on campus during the fall semester were -liv ing in University residence halls. Tonight on WDFM 91.1 MEGACYCLES 6:50 --- Sign On 6:55 —__ News 7:00 -- Contemporary Concepts 7:55 _ Sports 8:00 5:30 _--_ Just For Two 9:00 ......______ News 9:15 ___________ Just For Two (ain't) 9:30 ______ The Keyboard 10:00 _ Light Classical Jukebox _ __. _ _— News Sign Off FLIGHTS by Bibler r" -- 1 . ,-._‘
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