:PAGE SIX frabludica froaday tbrailli Saturday rearstuus lariat the University year, Th. Drab Cariettan re a strident , operated ael.eaariet. 11101.11.11110111.1.11 $2.00 per semester 02.00 per year stored u second-dui matter Jal7 6. 1131 at the State Collets, Pa. Post Office sande MIKE MOYLE. Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dick Fisher; Copy Editor, Anne Friedberg; Wire Editor, Judy Hark ison; Assistants, Lianne Cordero, Dick Drayne, Marie Russo, Mary Kelly, Marcel VanLierde, Bonnie Jones, Edie Blumenthal. Voting Begins Today—Let's Last yea, several of the candidates in the spring elections said that they were shooting for at least a 50 per cent voting turnout. They got 29.6 per cent. It is quite probable that candidates have been hoping for 54 per cent turnouts (or higher) for quite a number of years—and being similarly disappointed. Here ar. the voting percentages for the lest few years: 1956-29.6; 1955-37.7: 1954-46.8; 1953-44.9; /952-44.3. Voting percentage has never topped the 50 per cent-mark. 1953 was the record year. One car see that the turnout has gone down hill since 1952. At the same rate it will be at a very critical point in five more years. The apathy seems to act in a vicious circle. Whether or not it started with the general stu dent body or with student government isn't important. What is important is the fact that practically qii the enthusiasm has gone out of student government. There are really very few student leaders today who are genuinely en thused about student government. The ones who are, and who aren't laughted at, are even fewer. These student government enthusiasts are usually stronger among the freshmen and sophomores. But by the time they complete their career in student government they are hopelessly disillusioned. This disillusionment has even reached the up per echelons of the organization. All-University President Robert Bahrenburg told Cabinet Sun day night that he had received a great deal from student government, but that he was_ glad he was getting out. His reason? Only 14 Cabinet members showed up for Sunday night's meeting —a bare quorum. We have noticed a change in the editorials which have appeared on this subject of voting in the past years. There was a time when they sounded like the typical Electlons Committee poster: Get Out and Vote; We Need YOUR. Vote! RAH! RAH! There was a time when this kind of thing affected some students, also. Now, however, the editorial writers have ap parently tired of this method. Finding that it didn't work, they turned to a mild form of cyni cism and sarcasm and anything else they thought might catch the students' eye or might spur him to unexpected action. Nowadays everyone is blase. If a novice comes - into student government with high faluting ideas about how good it is, it is quickly pointed Out You Go Sick or not, you've got to go. This is what Dr. Herbert R. Glenn. director ol the University Health Service told three students in the in firmary yesterday according to David Peffer, freshman in business administration from Erie. Peffer said that he and two other students did not return from the sun porch to their rooms for the doctor's visit because no one told them that be was coming. He admitted that when they saw him they should have returned to their rooms in the hospital, but that they did not. Feller said that on this basis Dr. Glenn re fused to look at them and said they must leave the hospital. Peffer said that this was par ticularly unfair to one student who had not yet received a medical examination. Sanford Meade, freshman in electrical engi neering from Philadelphia, said that he was dis charged for not being in his room and had never been given a medical examination. The third student had entered the infirmary on Saturday night with a temperature of 104, but it was almost normal by today. When asked to leave he said he would go but that he would like some medicine to make sure that his tem perature stayed down. Peffer said that Dr. Glenn refused to give him medicine because he was being given a disciplinary discharge. When asked to comment Dr. Glenn said that the students should be courteous to the senior medical officer and that these three students had been quite rude by not going to their rooms. He said that the three students all had normal THE FACTS HUNGRY? i . : In Celebration of International One s It costs you at least 70 cents to mail your laundry home to be Try Theatre Month Our . . . I Sandwiches • • • . . washed. This does not include T Steak 51,, _Via of the Ad, A . the time and trouble involved for both you and your mother Hot Sausages and the cost of return postage. A j Submarines t Presents Marshall's charges on I y 65 cents to wash and dry 9 pounds i Beef Bar B-Q. RT Crowd of clothes. It's twice as con. COUNTE RPA venient and half as expensive A Chili • • . N Vegetable Soup to take your laundry to . . . Marshall •at MORRELL'S ' March 19 at 3:30 p.m. 'A Program of Mime and Music Fri.-Sat.-Mer. 22 & 23 Self-Service - 112 S. FRAZIER ST. Schwab Auditorium Player's Production Laundry Phone AD 8-8381 , No Admission Charge (rear) 454 E. College Ave. We prepare carry outs ' 01It El* enlirgian SOCIASIIO7 to THE FREE LANCE. est- IU7 ... DAVE RICHARDS, Business Mannger THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA out to him by the "veterans" that it is actually a large farce and that no one really believes anymore that student government ever accom plishes anything. This eases the novice's mind and the inevitable relapse into apathy can be made with a great deal less pain. When we first came to Penn State the big complaint was "apathy." Everyone was angry because the. students just didn't care about what their student leaders were trying to do for them. Now the kick is student government's' in effectiveness. The source of the problem? The unwieldy administration. Most snags student government runs into these days are finally at tributed to the fact that students can do nothing unless the administration wants to do it anyway. That is. students can bring absolutely no pres sure to bear upon the administration. Many spe cific cases can be cited which will back up this statement. However, in a way, we can't blame the ad ministration. Many student demands involve weighty decisions on the part of the administra tion. The whole matter of apathy and poor vot ing percentage and ridiculing of student govern ment efforts makes the decision relatively easy. How can some of these radical (to the adminis tration) changes be granted when the University officials aren't sure the views they hear from student leaders are the real views of the stu dent, body? You see, there is an answer to the excuse which is now growing thin—that of no co operation from the administration. This editorial is a good example of what is happening to student interest in their own elect ed representatives. It has been quite discourag ing to find that no matter what path is taken, students don't want to even take enough time to stop in the Hetzel Union Building to vote. We find ourselves at a complete loss for words. There are no campuses where there is a 100 per cent voting turnout. Penn State is not dis tinctively apathetic. There are similar problems on other campuses. The voting turnout for the national elections is poor also. So, all we can say is we.hope everyone turns out to vote. All the pleadings in past years, no matter what off-beat tack they have taken have all gotten around to this one basic plea arc the eve of elections: DON'T LET THE LONG LINES AT THE HUB DISCOURAGE YOU. VOTE! temperatures and it was alright to discharge them. but he also said that he thought the stu dents should be discharged because he saw no reason why he as the senior medical officer of the hospital should take such rudeness from the students. Dr. Glenn also said that the student had been examined—in fact that all three students had been examined. We do not wish to credit or discredit the statements of the students or Dr. Glenn, but we do feel- that, in view of the fact that the stu dents were sick, Dr. Glenn could have been a little more patient with them. It would not have been a great deal of trouble for a nurse to get the students to come into their rooms. We think it is poor practice to refuse students medicine as a disciplinary measure. If Dr. Glenn wanted to turn the students out he could have at least given them medicine if they needed it. Here we must agree with the students. It is virtually impossible for anyone to get any figures on what percentage of the student's fees go to the health service, but whatever the figure is, the parents pay,it with the thought that it will guarantee their child of at least a minimum of medical care. Ordinarily the hospital and the dispensary seem to give adequate service. We hope that a situation where students are refused medical care as a disciplinary measure does not occur again. We believe that the dean of men's office is capable of handling all disciplinary problems. —Sue Conklin Editorials represent the viewpoints of the welters, not necessarily the Palle, of the payer, the student body. or the Universld the aet of March I. 18111 —The Editor tie Man on Campus From Here By Ed Dubbs Tranquilizers Newspapers and magazines have been carrying quite a few stories on tranquilizers, which in 2 1 / years have mush roomed into the second most commonly prescribed drug in • the United States. All of the reports I have teen have been favorable, and a check of a borough drug chain showed that some students are apparently using them with satisfaction The drug chain spokesman said "some" students were using them but said they were "few" in com parison to the total number of students. The number of prescrip tions for them increases around examination time, he said. He al so Said he had several prescrip tions from the Dispensary. Dr. James G. Miller, a psy chiatrist at the University of Michigan, has, described tran quilizers as a "possible answer to America's problem of mod ern day tension," according to the Associated Press. But, warned Dr. Miller, "there are still many questions to be an swered." At a meeting of the Michigan Clinical Institute," he said "our tests show there is no effect on a person's- reaction while under double the normal dose of 'Mil town' or Tquanir." ('Miltown" and "Equanil" are two common brand names for me probamate, the type of tranquil izer prescribed for common ner vousness. "Miltown" is manufac tured by the Wallace Laboratories of New Brunswick, N.J., and "Equanil" by the Wyeth Labora tories of Philadelphia, two large chemical firms). They are designed to relieve mental tension and relax mus cles without the dangerous ef fects of other habit-forming drugs such as narcotics. In Dr. Miller's experiment at the University of Michigan, 50 persons were fed double the nor mal dose of "Miltown" with var- TUESDAY. MARCH 19. 1957 by Bibler ious controls ranging from whis key to harmless sugar pills' and dexedrine. "Alcohol," Dr. Miller said, "significantly worsened perfor mance as expected, but subjects given alcohol plus meproambaio were no worse than wheh given alcohol alone. - "I see no reason why people should not take tranquilizers for their whole life if they feel better for it," said Dr. Miller. "But, it's always better to try and arrange our lives so we do not need arti ficial help to calm our nerves." In the words of the immortal. Alfred E. Newman: "What, me worry?" Music, Humor Program Scheduled by WDFM " For People Only," music • and humor show, has replaced "Scott Unabridged" on WDFM, the stu dent radio station. The show is. broadcast from 7 to 7:55 p.m. Mondays. Jon Cam bell, junior in psychology from Butler, is master of ceremonies. Tonight on WDFM 6:50 _________ ______________ Sign On 6:55 News 7:00 —_-- Simmons Lecture Series 7:55 ___ Sports 8 :00Face to Face 8:30 • Sounds In The Night 9:00 News 1 9:15 Review of The European Press 9:30 ' Marquee Memories 10:00 - This World Of Music in:3o —___- 11:35
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