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MIKE MOYLE. Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Joe Boehret; Copy Editor, Maggie Lieberman; Wire Editor, Ginny
Philips; Assistants, Pat O'Neill, Les Powell, Gary Young, Sherry Kennel, Pam Chamberlain, Pat
Earley, Walter Shepps.
Student Discount Job: Messed Up
It has come to our attention that the story
in the Wednesday's Daily Collegian concerning
the possibility of obtaining a student discount
from State College merchants was incorrectly
reported.
The story said. "Most of the merchants feel
that their periodic sales on merchandise elimi
nate th, need for a student discount."
Complaints from merchants and investigation
turned up the fact that far from all the down-
town merchants were contacted on the issue.
We are sure all the merchants had opinions on
it which they would have been glad to express.
The whole idea was begun by the Nationa.
Student Association committee about three
weeks ago. The committee sent out letters to
merchants explaining the discount plan and its
merits.
The story in The Daily Collegian on Feb. 9
stated, "Members of the committee will then
notify the merchants personally to find out their
response."
Wednesday's story was based on information
received from Jacob Timbers, head of the NSA
committee on student affairs. Timbers told a
Daily Collegian reporter that the merchants
voiced adverse opinions to the proposed student
discount plan.
When the story appeared in the paper, the
Collegian began getting complaints from some
merchants who seemed not to know anything
about being contacted and naturally resented
the story's inference that practically every mer
chant in State College had voted down the plan.
Naturally Timbers was contacted and then the
fur began. He first said that only three stores
had been contacted personally. Later he recol
lected that two more had been contacted by
members of his committee. This is a grand total
of five stores.
Timbers also admitted that he had difficulty
in getting his committee together to work on
the plan.
It now is beginning to appear that a huge mis
understanding came about between Timbers and
the Collegian reporter. This resulted in givin
Who's Who in the News?
Who's Who in the News? That's what we
would like .to know.
Among those not in the news at Penn State
are the All-University president, vice president
and secretary-treasurer; the Interfraternity
Council president; the Association of. Indepen
dent Men president; the Chemistry and Physics
Student Council president: the College of Busi
ness Administration Student Council president;
the Physical Education and Recreation Student
Council president: and The Daily Collegian
editor, managing editor, city editor and copy
editors.
Among those in the news was one student
who had one activity—Sigma Delta Chi, profes
sional journalism fraternity and co-sponsor of
the booklet with Theta Sigma Phi, women's
professional journalism fraternity. The reason
for this student's entrance into the news lime
light at the University is that all members of
the co-sponsoring organizations are automatical
ly given invitations to be entered in Who's Who
in the News at Penn State.
The student leaders mentioned who were not
entered were almost certainly given invitations
and turned them down. One reason might be
that they were not willing to pay the 52.50 when
they knew that a profit was made on the booklet.
We grant that the profit is not great, but still
it should be stated in the invitation, and it is
not. Another possible reason that they refused
to accept the invitation is that many students
who are listed have activities which do not put
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Carew, Jane Caunoin. William Davidson. Lillian Fischer,
Vetro.k - y, Linda Weiner, Samuel Weiner, Judith Weiss,
Kenneth Follweller, Maxine Gratt. George Hawk, Frank
Rocking, Jean Holcombe, Nilds Lopez, Amalendu .Maiumdar. Keith Wingard.
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everyone a false impression about the views of
downtown merchants on the student discount
plan.
This we regret deeply. But from the inter-
view with Timbers we were led to believe that
"most of the merchants opposed the plan." Now
Timbers defends with the statement that he
meant to say, "most of the merchants CON
TACTED, opposed the plan."
This brings us down to brass tacks on the en
tire issue. The committee has had almost three
weeks to ask the merchants their views. We
consider this plenty of time to get a good idea
of how the merchants felt. (A good idea being
more than five merchants.) If the committee, for
some reason, needed more time to get this in
formation why, then, did they release anything
for publication this week? Why didn't they wait
until the job was done?
We will admit we may have misinterpreted
Timbers' statements on the matter. "Most of the
stores," and "most of the stores contacted" are
two very similar statements. They have mean
ings which are a world apart, however. It is
very easy to insert a word.
But the fact remains that the committee only
contacted five stores at the most. If this is doing
a job, things are coming to a bad end. There
can be no doubt that this committee has botched
their noble undertaking from beginning to end.
Also we resent the intent of the committee chair
man to make this newspaper the scapegoat for
his own failings.
This report was obviously intended to be part
of the NSA report to All-University Cabinet. We
would guess it was to be known as just another
way NSA is working for the student welfare
right here on campus. It was to be timed with
NSA's annual fight for existence.
It is indeed unfortunate for those dyed-in-the
wool NSA supporters that this bit of gross in
efficiency had to mar their record for the year.
And we still haven't heard whether or not the
merchants like the discount plan.
them in the "news" at the University.
If the invitations were sent to a more select
group then probably many more would accept.
As it stands now it is only a somewhat dubious
honor to be listed in the booklet. •
The booklet is now only serving part of its
purpose. It is not a true index of students who
are leaders and in the news. We suggest that
the two journalism societies make an effort to
raise the quality of the book before it becomes
obsolete and no longer exists.
The booklet serves a function in publicizing
to home town newspapers the students who are
campus leaders at the University. We know
that many of the hometown newspapers use the
booklet as a guide and write articles about the
students in it who are from that town. It would
be more effective for this purpose if the stu
dents in it were all deserving of mention.
The University dropped its membership in
Who's Who in American Colleges and Uni
versities because it turned out to be a money
making organization which would not release
any information on what was done with the
money.
We know that Sigma Delta Chi does not mis
use the money that it makes on Who's Who, but
we do feel that it should be more forthright and
say that some of the money is profit and that not
all of it is needed to cover costs.
Next year we would like to see all leaders
and not unheard of names in Who's Who in The
News at Penn State.
March 4 and Friday, March
Last 2 days!!
4:00
Editorials represent the
viewpoints of the welters.
not necessarily the policy
of the piper. the student
body or the University
—The Editor
—Sue Conklin
Little Man on Campus
"OK. you 'pledges'—it's lime for bed!"
`Round the Rim
Cabinet—
A Comedy
It's the funniest show on earth. If some enterprising soul
would back it on TV it would jump to the top of the Trendex
ratings in no time flat. "I Love Lucy" would be as tearjerking
as "Hamlet" by comparison.
Yes, it's the AU-University
Cabinet presented every Thurs
day night in 203 Hetzel Union.
The show (misnamed a meet
ing) boasts an all-star cast of
select Penn State students in
the roles of clowns. Unfortu
nately, a few instances, of poor
castinc crept in as there are a
few sensible souls trying to
preserve some remnants of de
corum, but the clowns always
win.
Perhaps, no one laughs as much
as the members of the cast them
selves. With the absence of the
Cabinet advisers and All-Univer
sity President Robert Bahrenburg
brought forth wholesale mayhem
at last night's show—making it
perhaps the best production to
date.
As in any review we'll try to
present some comments from the
audience on this show:
"They need more mixed up."
(Given during Cabinet's discus
sion of handing out the delayed
NSA material at a Cabinet mixer
this weekend.)
"Have an open meeting? They'd
have the nerve to let anyone see
them?" (Given during cabinet's
discussion of holding an open
dent
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FRIDAY. MARCH 1. 1957
by Bibler
of Errors
y BECKY ZAHM
a recognized fashion, the disre
gard of procedure, the goofing off
and general lack 'of dignity are
completely out of order.
They moan about making stu.
dent government more effec
tive. Well, it would be tremen
dously more effective if Cabi
net gave a general effect of
adult dignity and intelligence
instead of one of being a partial
band of ,looming idiots.
Ca'"inet has vacillated from
good to poor all year and last
night it hit low for this term. It
was reminded of this last fall. I
think it needs another reminder.
Prof Elected to Office
By :Engineering Group
Elmer C. Queer, director and
professor of engineering research,
has been elected first vice presi
dent of the American Society of
Heating and Air Conditioning En
gineers.
The society is a national engi
neering group dedicated to
the advancement of professional
knowledge through basic and fun
damental research.