PAGE El Gi•IT Published Tuesday Cheeses Saturday mornings during the University year, The Daily Collegian le • student. *periled newspaper. $2.11 oer semester 185.00 per year Entered as second-class matter July 2. 1931 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under ED DUBBS, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Dick Fisher, Lianne Cordero, Barb Martino, Dick Drayne, Ted Wells,' Rick Wolpert. Denny Malick. A Good Start but Most nev: students Monday night saw and heard President Eric A. Walker for . the first time. He was wearing a suit, white shirt and tie. He stood on a stage and spoke to an audience of new students. But now picture the President in bermuda shorts and a sport shirt. Take him off the stage and put him in a huddle with students wearing bermuda shorts. This is Student Encampment. The difference between these two situations is what we like the most about Student Encampment. This retreat is held annually at the Mont Alto Forestry School just before Orientation Week begins. Students, faculty members and adminis trative officials sit down in an informal setting and talk over problems facing the University, especially the student end of these problems. This was our third Student Encampment. It was the best of the three we have attended. One of the reasons this year's Encampment was more successful than many in the past is That the participants didn't get bogged down in details. And in most cases they still did a Thorough job of examining the problem and came up with some possible solutions. All-University President Robert Steele served as chairman of the plenary sessions, when the reports of the different workshops were heard by the entire group. It was through his re minders that most of the discussions didn't get bogged down in details. At the same time. everyone had a chance to New Booths and In one week called "orientation." freshmen and transfer students will be filled to the satur ation point with regulations, tests, curriculum counseling and social as well as organized stu dent activities. Two brand new additions have been made to this year's schedule—an activities exhibition tomorrow in the Hetzel Union ballroom and a lecture series by University professors today, tomorrow and Friday The purpose of the activties exhibition is to acquaint new students with organized student activities. Approximately 19 information booths will be set up in the ballroom where information about one activity or a group of similar activi ties is available. Extra-curricular activities play a big part in University life—such as student government, publications, clubs, drama and music groups. Through this collective exhibition, a student can see in what activity, according to his time and interest, he would like to participate. In addition to the activities exhibition this week. new students will have the opportunity to hear nine distinguished University professors discuss important topics—topics which will play an important part in the personal adjustment of each student. The speakers selected are not only outstand ing in their respective fields, but they are also well liked by students and considered "favorite" lecturers among campus groups. At 2 p.m. today Luther H. Harshbarger, Uni versity Chaplain: Hubert W. Frings, professor of zoology: and Aaron Druckman, associate professor of philosophy, will discuss "Making Sense - of Your Life: Tomorrow afternoon Henry A. Finch, profes sor of philosophy, will talk about "Logic and a Sense of Humor"; Converse H. Blanchard, as sociate professor of physics. "The Atom: Is it Changing Your Life?' ; and William M. Smith Jr., professor of family relationships, "The Fam ily of Today and Tomorrow." Friday's lecturers will include Alfred G. Pundt, professor of European history, "Can Europe Survive with a Divided Germany?"; Harold I. Tarpley, professor of electrical engi- Scurry for Shots The University Health Service moved fast in ordering Asiatic flu vaccine so it could be gin administering shots to students as soon as school opens Monday. Dr. Herbert R. Glenn, director, and his staff, with the cooperation of President Eric A. Walker and his staff, ordered the vaccine early in August from five companies producing it. The University was successful in obtaining part of its order long before many cities in the state received any supply. The University has moved fast in order to prevent an epidemic on campus. Nov it is up to the students to scurry down to the dispensary in the west wing of the University Hospital and obtain their shots. The new vaccine, about 70 per cent effec tive, is the only known preventive. Also- per scribed are clamness and building up a high resistance. It doesn't appear safe to stand back and say, "I probably won't get iL" The odds are poor when one considers that up to 33 million Amer icans may be laid up with this flu. There may be more than 60,000 deaths. This is the second time this year that Health Service has performed an invaluable service to students through offering of vaccine. The dispensary began a program of Salk vaccine shots early in January. 53 Years of Editorial Freedom Mle DAR enlirgian Successor to THE FREE LANCE. aL 1881 , „ : Editor, , THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA STEVE HIGGINS. Business Manager Not the End discuss the recommendations. Nothing was rail roaded through. The Daily Collegian next week will print a series of articles on the recommendations coming out of this Encampment. Many of them are good; most of them need study, and quite a few are a long way from being put into effect. Student Encampment should not end when the students, faculty members and administra tive officials leave the forest retreat. The work ends when the recommendations are put into effect or found to be unfeasible. President Walker put a challenge to student government at Encampment. He challenged the students to keep with the recommendations and study them further. He promised the administra tion would do the same. This challenge should be meL Too often in the past recommendations have gone without further study on the part of stu dents and the administration. This can happen easily. It's the same as put ting off writing a term paper or doing an as signment. Two years ago a mid-year "reunion" was held for persons attending Student Encampment. At this time, a look was taken to see just what had happened to the recommendations coming out of Encampment. For some reason, it was dropped last year. It should be revived. Old Profs neering, "The Electric Brain: It's Place in Your Future"; and Harold E. Dickson, professor of art and architecture, "Who's Picasso?" The participants and lecture topics have been well chosen and will undoubtedly fulfill their purpose—that of giving new students a sample of the intellectual experiences that lie ahead. The University has added two fine supple ments to the usual program. We hope that new students will attend both the lecture series and the activities exhibition so that next year the programs will become a permanent part of Orientation Week. New Law, a Crisis President Dwight D. Eisenhower this week signed into law the history-making civil rights bill, the first legal implementation of the 14th Amendment since Civil War days. Meanwhile, while the President was signing the measure on his -Newport, R. 1., vacation, a civil rights crisis was flaring in Little Rock, Ark. The new law has no direct bearing on the Little Rock situation since it is primarily a right to-vote measure. However. it does point up that the new law is not all that could be desired from Congress. It was a compromise, not just among the pro civil rights persons and the anti-civil rights persons but even between the two groups. The moderates of both parties won out, and for this reason the measure was approved. It will be difficult to say which of the two parties deserve the most credit, for here was bipartisanship at its best. It is indeed unfortunate that the quiet signing of the civil rights bill had to be marred by the Little Rock crisis. But, on the other hand, may be it's actions like those of Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas which will make the second legal implementation of the 14th Amendment easier to come by. 'No Straightjacket' "To impose any straightjacket upon the in tellectual leaders in our colleges and universities would imperil the future of our nation. No field of education is so thoroughly comprehended by man that new discoveries cannot be made. Par ticularly is this so in the social sciences, where feu, if any, principles are accepted as abso lutes. Scholarship cannot flourish in an atmos phere of suspicion and distrust. Teachers and students must always remain free to inquire, to study, and to evaluate, to gain new maturity and understanding; otherwise our civilization will stagnate and die. "Equally manifest as a fundamental prin ciple (if a democratic society is political free dom of the individual. Our form of government is built on the promise that every citizen shall have the right to engage in political expression and association . . . All political ideas cannot and should not be channeled into the programs of our two parties. History has amply proved the virtue of political activity by minority, dis sident groups, who innumerable times have been in the vanguard of democratic thought and whose programs were ultimately accepted. Mere unorthodoxy of dissent from prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness in our society . . "We do not conceive of any circumstance where a state interest would justify infringe ment of rights in these fields. —Chief Justice Earl Warren, Swee,zy v. New Hampshire,l9s7, Editorial• represent the viewpoints of the wrkere. not necessarily the POlier of the paper. the student body. or the University MI:TMAIEIMMI —The Editor —Judy Harkison —The Editor , Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler we Efrigou IA -vW e..?;71 ..., : , i',; , r - . 04 . . -;-,---:-. -1. 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Now, registration is actually a simple procedure if you just follow the person in front of you. Never, even for an instant, pause to figure out just what you are doing. . Before leaving your room, make; sure that you have the pink fee' receipt instead of the pink room' deposit receipt. And it is always a sound policy to carry extra iden•J tification, for the checker at the door may not believe the picture, on your matric _ card. Once in the. ,y _ - door, the first five minutes con- • . - sis t of merely , walking down the corridor of Rec Hall with' metric card, fee 't receipt and offi- • . cial registration I form in a con- k '• I spicuous po s tion. The first difficulty may arise when you stop to pick up the mas ter card. Since master cards are arranged in the chronological or der of matric numbers, it is here that you must match your matric number, say 34235501, with one of five tables reading something like "Numbers 29415401 th r o ugh 34625401." Now you are ready for the arena. Although traffic moves in all directions, it is advisable to take a right turn and circle the floor—this way it is impossible to miss a single department booth providing you have uncanny eye sight. It is amazing how many Mon day-Wednesday-Friday course sections are closed. Instead of rearranging your schedul e, just announce that you are an eighth semester senior and it is impossible to graduate without this particular course. When you have collected two cards for each course in the left hand, plus the fistful you walked in with in the right hand, someone has the audacity to ask you to sort them. They usually end up on the floor. The next stop, and the last one for our purposes, is the metric card picture. Don't blink or you'll miss the whole operation. It is the experience of this writer , that one should start smiling three steps before stop., ping before the camera and con tinue smiling three steps after ward. No one has ever known just when the camera snaps, „and, later, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11. 1957 By Judy Harkison .1 there is usually good reason to wonder, Well, that's it:Like we said be fore, though, registration is a sim ple procedure. See for yourself. Grad Students Elect Council To Voice Views The Graduate Student Council, governing body of the Graduate Student Association, is composed of three representatives from each of the nine colleges. Elections are held each fall for terms of _one and two years. Any graduate student may run for the council. The council meets month ly. An annual session is held with the University president to dis= cuss graduate student problems, including housing, recreation, fees 1 and academic standards. Made Evaluation Evaluation of th e graduate school was one of the council's projects last year. It also pub lishes an unofficial guide to grad uate students, sent _to all grad uate students prior to their ar rival on campus. The graduate association, which was organized in 1952, includes all graduate students enrolled dur ing the academic year. Its pur pose is to knit them into a -more unified body, to promote their welfare, and act as their voice in campus affairs. Publishes Newsletter A monthly newsletter to in form the students of the group's activities and accomplishments is published by the association. The annual Graduate School Convocation will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 27 in Schwab Audi torium. Following the convoca tion a dance-mixer will be held in the Hetzel Union Ballroom, where council representatives will be elected. Tarpley Gets New Post Harold L Tarpley, who has been serving since last September as director of computer facilities, has been Earned director of the Uni versity's Computer Laboratory. He continues to serve also, as professor of electrical engineer ing. _
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