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Managing Editor, Judy Harkison; City Editor, Robert Frank• Elias; Asst. Local Ad. Mgr., Ross Ann Gonzales; National
tin; Sports Editor. Vince Carocci; Copy Editor, Ann Pried. Ad. Mgr., Joan Wallace; Promotion Mgr., Marianne Maier:
ben; Assistant Copy Editor. Marian Realty: Assistant Sports Personnel Slur.. Lynn Glastburn: Classified Ad. Mgr.. Steve
Editor. Hatt Mathews: Make.up Editor. Ginny Phipps; Pho- Milstein: Co-Circulation Mgr.., Pat Miernieki and Richard
toirraohy Editor. George Harrison. Lippe: Research and Records Mgr.. Barbara Wall; Office
Secretary. Marlene Marks.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Ed Dubbs, Robert Franklin, Vince Carocci, Matt Mathews
We're Delaying Our Welcome to You
Today a new freshman class arrives at Penn
State, the class of '6l. We welcome you—but
with reservations.
You probably expected to see an editorial
in the campus publication welcoming you to
Penn State, but chances are you. didn't expect
this "but with reservations" to be tacked onto
it.
Why haven't we just said "Welcome to
Penn Stale, we're glad to have you" and let
it end there? To be truthful and blunt, we just
don't know whether you're what we want. We
hope and think you are, but you must prove it.
That last paragraph needs some further
elaboration, and when we finish, we hope you
will understand why we welcome you with
reservations.
We do not know how you are going to treat
Penn State. We hope you will treat it well.
Other classes have helped build for you what
Penn State is today: a good university on its
way- to greatness.
However, a few classes—and mainly the
fault of a few persons in these classes—have
not done all they could to build a better Penn
Slate. In fact, at times they have hurt Penn
State.
We are sure you have no intentions of doing
this. But then the persons in the past had no
intentions of hurting Penn State either.
Here are. just a few things you should
remember:
• When you walk down the street in your
hometown, you are Penn State to the persons
who see you and know you go to Penn State.
• Whenever you wear a Penn' State jersey,
you're Penn State in the eyes of the persons
who see you.
•Whenever you drive a car with a Penn
State sticker on it, you are Penn State.
Students Will Have to
Squeezed between growing costs and a state
legislature which failed to appropriate the need
ed funds, the University again has been forced
to increase student fees.
The latest increase, as you have probably
noted, is sizeable. The costs to the students have
more than doubled in the last decade.
Fees would have probably been increased
even if the Republican-controlled state legis
lature had come through with the funds re
quested by President Erie A. Walker. but the
size of the increases would have undoubtedly
been much less.
President Walker had originally requested
more than Sal million, which would have en
abled the University to begin meeting the crisis
in higher education in the state. Seeing the
going rough, he later knocked down his request
to something like $35 million. The state ap
propriated a little more than s29,million.
The University needed more money and
about the only place left to turn was to the
students.
Besides the state and the students, the Uni
versity has few other places to turn to for
money. The University can borrow money, but
interest must be paid. Gifts from alumni and
friends give the University about 4 per cent
of its income, and this can't be increased over
night. President Walker has said the University
is obligated to forego any possible profits from
"auxiliary enterprises," which include dormi
tories and food service.
The University does not like to raise stu
dent fees, for it is the land-grant college of the
Commonwealth. Therefore, it is obligated to
provide the best possible education at the lowest
costs.
Frosh—You Can Help the Football Team!
Another school year, another football season.
And with both come new faces—this year some
4000-plus new faces to be exact, the new Penn
State freshman class.
And you, the freshmen, are the ones we're
speaking to here. We feel that one way you will
find college life a bit more interesting is to fol
low the University athletic teams in their quest
for national prominence.
To start the year, the Lion sports calendar
unveils three new varsity squads—football, soc
cer and cross-country. Since football is the big
gest fan attraction, we'll speak chiefly on that.
But, what we are about to say can be applied to
any sport, fall, winter or spring.
In our mind, the only way for a student to
enjoy Penn . t.ate sports, unless he's an actual
competitor, is to be an active follower of the
squads. And by active, we mean a cheerer. .
This season, in preseason ratings throughout
the East, Penn State figures to have a highly
successful football team. That's what the ex
perts say, and. for the most part, we agree.
The team has the material, the ability and
the brains to be a big winner. But, often times,
this is not enough. Fan support usually falls into
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN: STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
STEVE HIGGINS, Business Manager
*Whenever you brag about your "wild"
times here (and it's bound to be exaggerated),
Penn State becomes a "party school" and you're
a - party boy." -
•Whenever you attend a football game or
do anything and someone knows you attend
Penn State, your ' actions reflect upon Penn
State.
It's you, not the 16.000 other students, who
are Penn State. And its in your actions the per
sons see Penn State, right or wrong though this
may be. Whatever you are and whatever you
do reflects not only on yourself but on Penn
State.
We love and are proud of much of what
has come to mean Penn State. There's the beau
tiful campus, the fine sports teams, the Hetzel
Union Building, the Nittany Lion Shrine, coffee
at The Corner, Graham's and .its supply of The
New York Times.
There's more too: the student body, as a
whole; the professors and even their jokes,
terrible at times though they may be; the peo
ple—they're administrators—in Old Main, whom
we often think are against us, but, in reality.
are for us; and so much more.
But there are some things we don't like.
These include "panty raids," drinking at foot
ball games, and the student who thinks he
knows everything and thinks he can do what
he pleases without regard for the university
community.
And now you are a part of Penn State. We
hope you become a part of the Penn State we
can be proud of. And, judging from past ex
perience, you probably will be.
But, as we have said, you must prove your
self. We will be most happy some day to knock
that -"with reservations" off the end of the
welcome.
Dig Deeper
However, increasing costs have forced the
It is indeed unfortunate that the state only
appropriated a little more than $29 million for
the next biennium as the University stands at
the crossroads in its history. The University
realizes it must meet the crisis in higher educa
tion in the state. The budget appropriation
was definitely a setback, but the University,
we feel, will overcome it eventually.
In the battle for higher funds from the
state, there was one main encouraging factor.
It saw the University come before not only the
state but the people of the Commonwealth and
say. "Here's what we are doing. Here's what we
got to do. And here's what we will need to
do it."
It is quite possible that the University
would have received only $27.9 million for the
next two years (the figure Governor George M.
Leader recommended in his budget message) if
the University had not gone before the people.
President Eric A. Walker deserves the high
est gratitude of every student, the University
and the entire Commonwealth for his efforts in
trying to get the necessary funds for the crisis
in higher education.
Another University official, who doesn't re
reive much publicity because most of his actions
are behind-the-scenes. also deserves much
credit. He's C. S. Wyand, vice president for
expansion, who was in contact with Harris
burg almost daily while the funds were being
discussed.
Students will just have to dig deeper when
they pay their fees this week, and they will have
to keep on digging deeper until the crisis is met.
—The Editor
the picture somewhere along the line.
By your cheers and songs, you, the fans—and
that includes you, frosh—can add to the spirit
of the dub and force it on to greater heights.
A well-supported team usually figures to be a
winner. Take Milwaukee, for instance.
Nothing probably hurts an athlete's pride
more than to know that the fans are not en
thusiastically behind him. The only plausible
way the fans can let an athlete know they're
behind him and his team is by their vocal
support.
So this year, when you're at the game, let
the club know you're there and supporting it:
Cheer! This year, you may have much to cheer
about.
As we've said before, this applies to all sports.
Whether the club's a winner or a loser, support
it with your cheers—after all, it's your club.
Remember, this: No fan is better than a half a
fan. SO, let's hear it—the team will most cer
tainly appreciate it and you'll probably enjoy
yourself more. See you at Beaver Field.
--Vince Carocci
Sports Editor
Editorials represent the
viewpoint• of the writers,
not necessarily the policy
of the paper, the student
body. or the University
—The Editor
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From Here By Ed Dubbs
Booby Traps arid Coeds
University Park is a tree-shaded campus, and one of the
prettiest in the country in our book
But watch out. It's a booby trap.
The National Safety Counci
predicts traffic fatalities on hi
things, has warned that tree
shaded campuses are bigger boo
by traps for college students than.
the roaring highways.
Although no specific mention'
was made to the University, it is
tree-shaded and it is a campus.
Therefore, it was probably in-I
cluded by this efficient organiza-I
tion
The council presented some
facts which may startle you, if
not even send you heading for
home. College campuses just are
not looked upon by the council
as tradition symbols of reflective
tranquility and of happy, care
free living.
Actually, the council said, stu
dies of accidents to college and
university students made in con
junction with the American Col
lege Health Association have re
vealed, among other things, that:
•Accident toll among college
students is alarmingly big and
growing bigger.
*College dormitories are the
scenes of more accidents than the
student sports cars and jalopies.
*When you add up all the in
juries from athletics, laboratory
experiments and other campus
hazards, the toll is greater than
that caused by accidents to stu
dents in their cars or elsewhere
off campus.
Well, welcome to one of the
most beautiful tree-shaded booby
traps in the country, and watch
your step.
Although more freshman wo
men (about 300) have been ad
mitted this year, this will hardly
make a dint in the old ratio.
Penn State men will still out
number coeds by 3-1. -
This is bad.
In fact, this is terrible—for us
men.
But it's a fact new students
must realize and make the most
of. There's no doubt the co
eds will make the most of it.
To do our little part in helping
you to make the most of this ter
rible situation, we are going, to
tell you what Penn State coeds
like in their men.
At the top of the list is a
"good conversationalist." Eigh
ty-four per cent of the 1511 co
eds interviewed last year rated
this as one of the most desir
able qualities of us men.
Personality was stressed by 69
per cent, and being a good dancer
was considered important to 52
per cent: Fraternity membership
came in a close third with 47
per cent of the coeds considering
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STUDENT
INFIRMARY
, that grim organization which
'liday weekends among other
it a necessary quality.
Less than 10 per cent wanted
their dates to dress —very Ivy
League."
Ugly freshmen should receive
encouragement that only 6 per
cent wanted their dates to be
handsome, and car-less freshmen
don't have that much to worry
about since only 4 per cent said
he need have a car.
But then there Is something
we haven't .told You about.
There are upperclassmen.
Scram, frosh, and don't try to
compete with us upperclassmen
who are good conversationalists,
good dancers, fraternity men,
gung-ho "Ivy Leaguers," good
looking and who can drive cars.
Call It Unfair,
But Sophomore
Governs Frosh
Call it injustice or what you
will, but a sophomore is now pres
ident of the freshman class, tha
class of 1961.
George Smith, sophomore in ag
riculture engineering from Phila
delphia, was elected president' of
last year's freshman class. Until
the incoming freshman class can
elect its own officers, the old
officers are still in power. .
Class elections will probably
be held early in November.
Three freshmen will be nomi
nated by each party for presi
dent, vice'president and secre
tary-treasurer positions.
The University uses the two•
party system in elections, with the
Campus and Lion parties seeking
student loyalty.
The sophomore class will - hold
elections at the same time as the
freshman class. Junior, senior and
All-University officers are elected
in the spring.
The freshman class president.
along with the other class presi
dents, sits on All-University
Cabinet, the highest student
government body.
After the new class officers are
elected, they will probably form
a class advisory board. The board
usually consists of about 30 mem
bers chosen by application..
The board advises the class offi
cers and works with them in plan
ning dances and other class• ac
tiyities.