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Spring Week: A Little in the Dark
• Although Spring Week was generally con- and townspeople. In previous years, the parade
sidered to be a success, some criticisms and has preceded the Miss Penn State coronation,
recommendations should be made before it is which, as usual, was a well-organized event.
forgotten and laid aside for another year.
The major fault in Spring Week this year lay
In the Mad-Hatters contest. The event ran over
time, the .judging was poor and nobody seemed
to know exactly what he was doing.
This state of confusion cannot be attributed
to anyone. The event was as well-organized as
possible beforehand, but due to unforseen things
such as 6000 participating in one event it was
impossible to keep everything running smoothly.
The number involved in the contest was also
the main factor in the poor judging. It is a
physical impossibility for six persons to judge
6000 hats fairly. It even seems doubtful that the
judges eoujd have seen all the hats.
These faults could be remedied by cutting the
number of participants. However this defeats
the purpose of the contest which is supposed to
give everyone a chance to be creative.
A better solution would be to eliminate the
contest and to substitute the float parade, which
was discontinued two years ago.
The proposal to eliminate the float parade
completely" and to cut the carnival from two
days was recommended at the 1955 Encamp
ment by Panhellenic and Interfraternity Coun
cils in order to eliminate much of the academic
and physical strain on the students.
If the Mad-Hatters contest is eliminated the
float parade could be reinstated. It would prob
ably attract more interest from both students
50 Cents Adds Up
When each graduating senior casts a vote
for the senior gift, he will be selecting a class
remembrance for which he has paid about $4.
The class gift, which amounts to approxi
mately $lO,OOO is purchased with the unused
portion of a general "damage" fund.
Ever}' semester a damage deposit of 50 cents
is tacked on the student fees. This fee covers
all damages a student might do to University
property.
At the end of four years and four dollars, if
there remains four dollars, the fund automatic
ally finances the senior gift. Included in this
are the deposits of both January and June
graduates of the particular year.
Last year the class gift was an ambulance for
the University Hospital.
. This year the gift will be one of five sug
gestions—collection of books for the Fred Lewis
Pattee library, money for some portion of the
Stone Valiev recreation project, furnishings for
the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Memorial Chapel,
photostat machines for the library and furnish
ings for the planned School of the Arts building.
Seniors should remember, when selecting the
class gift, that S 4 worth belongs to each of them.
—Judy Harkison
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Tribunal Applications {Tickets Are Available Prof Leads Workshop
Applications for Tribunal are For Insurance Banquet i Dr - Douglas Jackson, assistant
now available in the dean of men’s' Tickets for the Insurance Club professor of psychology, was the
office. ! banquet which will be held at leader of a workshop and served
The applications must be re-;fj 3o P- m - Thursday at the Eutaw as a consultant for the Arkansas
.....J h , r Caturdiv Fourth' available tn 111 Sparks, experiment in teacher education,
turned b> noon Saturday fourth Dr Davis Gregg, president of,supported by the Ford Founda
and fifth semester men may the College of Life Underwriters, tion, last week in Little Rock,
apply. 'will be the guest speaker. ’Ark.
Young American
Art
CLOSER THAN YOU THINK
On Mother's Day, a student art
exhibition will be held at
ALPHA RHO CHI FRATER
NITY. 220 East Foster Are.
The show will include oil
drawings, and pastel sketches,
all done by students in Archi
tecture and Fine Arts. Open to
public from 2 to 5 on Sunday
Afternoon. Don't miss this en
lightening show of student art
work.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
One of the more serious consequences of the
Mad-Hatters contest running overtime was that
the He-Man contest had to be held in the dark.
Lights from cars and even flashlights had to
be used. Performers were especially handi
capped in the steeple chase since the obstacles
were not visible until the runners were on top
of them. The Queen of Hearts contest, which
spectators and participants seemed to enjoy,
also ha‘d to be held in the dark. Accidents could
have occurred very easily in both events.
The carnival is the most popular and the best
revenue-producing event of the Week. Yet hav
ing it from 6:30 to 11 p.m. makes it impossible
for anyone to get around to more than half the
shows.
The two-day carnival was eliminated for good
reasons. But the carnival hours could be ex
tended until 12:30 or 1 a.m. with the women
students receiving special permissions.
The All-Service Revue, besides providing top
flight entertainment, was an excellent place to
award trophies to the Spring Week winners.
Another special event such as this should be in
cluded in next year’s Spring Week plans.
Th§ Spring Week committee did a commend
able job in giving students one of the best
Spring Weeks ever. With a few changes, next
year’s could be even better.
Leader and Racing
Gov. George M. Leader is now openly opposed
to the horse-racing referendum, which has hit a
muddy track in the House of Representatives.
Leader, who had previously said he would not
openly oppose nor support the referendum, put
up something like an 11-hour fight when the
bill came up for vote in the Senate" April 30.
His fight failed and the referendum passed
“by a nose.”
For b man who has been plagued by Republi
can "no-new-faxes" cries and has proposed the
largest budget in the stale's history. Leader look
an unrealistic—but maybe politically -wi s e
move in opposing the referendum.
Legalized horse racing in Pennsylvania would
mean revenue, revenue the state is now allow
ing to slip through its fingers to neighboring
states.
West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New
Jersey. New York and Ohio all permit pari
_ mutuel betting on horses. Thousands of resi
dents every year go to out-of-state tracks to bet.
There is no doubt the state could use more
revenue, and even for some of Leader's pet
projects, such as mental health and education.
Not only did Leader lose his 11-hour fight
to defeat the referendum, but it now appears
that he also lost some prestige, especially in
his own party.
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The Time McCarthy
Was Outshouted
WASHINGTON, May 6 (IP) —The final servees for Sen.
Joseph R. McCarthy were held in the Senate today, and
they stirred a lot of memories.
McCarthy’s friends and foes rarely found anything on
which they could agree, but certainly there can be small
argument in this: For better or for worse, the man had a
knack of making scenes stick in
your mind.
Curiously the memory that per
sists in returning today, dates
back to McCarthy’s early days
here, and it has for its co-star
the man who outshouted McCar
thy.
Even then he had the ten
acity of the investigator, driv
ing ahead relentlessly, disre
garding all roadblocks. Even
then he showed little concern
for the feelings or the rights of
the witness.
This was well-illustrated on
Jan. 29,1948, when McCarthy had
been in the Senate only a year.
He- was chairman of a Joint
Housing Committee that had
caUed in Isidore Ginsberg, a New
York building materials peddler
who had 301 pounds generously
spread over a 5-foot-4 frame.
The committee wanted to find
out why new homes cost so much,
and did the way Ginsberg played
the gypsum market have any
thing to do with it.
It wound up with congress
man shouting at congressman,
congressman shouting at Gins
berg, and Ginsberg oulshouting
them all..
The Ginsberg microphone tech
nique was simple. When McCar
thy raised his voice, so did Gins
berg, and he leaned nearer to the
mike.
This went on, interminably it
TUESDAY. MAY 7. 1957
By ARTHUR EDSON
seemed, until Ginsberg said he
wanted to make a statement, one
that would take him "“exactly 2
minutes and 45 seconds.” After
going on for, 11 minutes he wound
up with this comment directed at
McCarthy:
"I remember a line . from a
poem—l wish I could remember
its title—but it goes like this!
"Congress can't make a gentle*
man where God has failed in
the man'."
McCarthy gave up. It was one
of the few times he ever was best
ed in microphone combat. But
then he was.to learn some micro
phone techniques of his own.
Five Tapped, by Delphi
Five freshmen have been tap
ped by Delphi, sophomore men’s
hat society.
They are Richard Bullock, Vin
cent Marino, James Portman, Mar
tin Scherr and Carl Smith.
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