PAGE SIX THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA - TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1958 .. ..---. Editorial Opinion _ . Other Opinion• 1 Lithe Man on Campus by Dick Bigler ..--1-.....--.../..... 1 / /d..I4 NTEg J o' .....". . Deterioration ;vaivAark. GET MICMIT 1-0 uvezg. -041511 N Just an, Empty •Degree? ----------' ~. Of Teachers iot4ep ark p . ....ilJive.,,,, oIEcKy.R i nwl "Tho.,e rurni,rs that final examinations were out and i Dr. James A. Killian Jr., mak- EW GTOEli l5 ' reci6sol(4ooi Till 1 N i floating about fraternities are believed to be mainly just ing his first speech since taking • . 1 ' ACADEMIC I yew.. . office as Special Assistant to the that—rumors." we reported yesterday. Believing this are President for Science and Tech- C.4 ge il A1 .0. 14 0 M A rt:I C R k t ‘ 4 . t - E L S I ..".... 1 ge - 6 t mer 4TlN 5 fli, OUT professors we interviewed, Dean of Men Frank J. Simes, n010g2.•, said: ~.ssir o ae CougsL: t.gos and Lawrence E. Dennis, vice president for academic "At this point in the evolution i•s'XIED ii CARO _lr FOCKLET of our schools the highest priori- ' ARV . l MUST ' I' • . - affairs. ties should be given to better - provision for our intellectually 1 7 0 15041 1 . c' '. ; - 7 . 7.t..._ 5 /4E O Y - 06 MUST FILE A . i1;17 We are not sure, however, that we buy this. gifted young people. We should st-uvemrsi STATEMENT OF lay greater stress on the more --- 1 ____" ' RESIDENCE Finals do get out. There are many ways, and the most rigorous teaching of intellectual %DEO skills and 'on higher standards of ,---f - ,, } 1 common of .these is probably through carelessness in excellence for both teachers and liN j ~ (..)., L ----c -- E L_h PAYS rees throwin g away stencils and the first mimeographed copies. pupils." ZNowN cc ; .f,„.„5FEiz i,s__,,, Actually, a good deal would be , i 2 Some, in the past, have been sold by persons who had accomplished if it proved possible merely to halt the decline in gual. tr 4l6' - --4Alv4rt :lrtrt clf: 7dr D?" access to them. fly now occurring in the stand ards of preparation of college $4l - 41 1 - 7 4.,qy/ 571./DENr BOW ~ i p - :-,;-)_______ There is no doubt that the rumors were greatly exag- teachers. The National Education Associ- g—, ___________.. , . . ~ CARDS , ~,,.. ~,„,,, Berated. However, the rumors were so prevalent that we ation has recently issued -some , „ ow 'i ti , . .• TABLE 2, :5 . , r 1- 1 ri e r;^ cannot just pass them off as rumors, respite the fact, as startling documentation, the re- IC, FEE REcier ;,: '•• 3 -;,> A - :•e: , - az,,:if ~... , suit of a study of the individuals n il ,-----,---.---- ''''. •Vji ,-:- we reported, that no University official or faculty mein- who went into university teach- ri ••: • STUCTE NTS . ' ,---- i bet is known to be able to prove any examinations were ing during the academic years a , ~,,,,,i my.Q --- '4.----- , .. „. -.... c....,..y ' 414 6ra o - -- ~ „.. / , 7 ,/a . 1953-54 and 1956-57. --"------- • , , - 47 , fZ6- 4 74 / 4 , 6 , 7 " r5 Awe - .--- , ii p . ,,,e7-4 out. Rumors are difficult to track down. We are told that in that four- ' 4-- W ' re" ii o-o II; -/- -4 /1./....._ year interval, the per cent of When we interviewed professors about their examina- newly-employed full-time teach- "Don't think we'll have many students this year—not many tons possibly being out, some told us they had many corn- ers who had earned a Ph.D. de- intelligent enough to get through registration." gree drooped from 31.4 to 23.3. plaints from students. But most of the students apparently And at the same time, the per couldn't—or wouldn't—name names, although some gave notcent hired even though they had done enough postgraduate the impression of knowing names. work to get an M.A. rose from - 182 to 23.1. Campus May See - One of the best ways to prevent similar situations— Even with these low—and fall ing—standards, half of the 761 In addition to the professors and departments taking institutions studied had unfilled . . utmost security precautions—is for the good students to teaching positions-1196 of them —during the two year 1955-57. Maior Changes come forward and name names. The majority of these were in the areas where the training of ad- By Bob Franklin Good students should not take the attitude that the ditional students is very pressing: cheatin student is hurti 226 were in engineering, 225 in The second semester—and the second month of 1958 g ng just himself, for this is often the physical sciences. 148 in not true, especially in courses where the final examina- mathematics. —open with a number of major changes on the horizon This inability to hire trained at both the administration and student level, tion is curved. And besides, the students have an obliga- teachers is due in part to the lack lion to see that Penn State does not obtain a reputation of numbers at a time of rapidly To predict the news and views of University Park raising requirements, even though during the next year would be quite impossible, but we 'for cheating. the total of advanced degrees believe a number of basic trends are distinguishable. - awarded has gone 11D each year Whether or not the finals were out, the whole thing since 1954. with 59,300 M.A.'s and So we'll venture out on the may well have an adverse effect on attempts by students 8820 Ph.D.'s in 1956. But in a limb to suggest a few events Lions Committee will loosen larger part, the difficulty is due which we expect within the its grip on political parties to obtain more responsibility through honor codes and to the competitive attraction of next year: somewhat in the fall and allow the like. i non-academic occupations for •The administration, look- them and the students to as such educated manpower as is ing for more space for classes, sume more responsibility for available. The NEA estimates that will take steps to hold more their actions. There will be And many of the rumors involved fraternities. Thees of any 9000 new Ph.D.'s. the col- television and noon and 5 p.m. two parties campaigning in the certainly did not help the fraternity system. The Inter- leges cannot hone to hire more classes: curtail the expansion fall elections. than about 3500, including re- of offices into •Another major shakeup fraternity Council should try to get to the bottom of the searchers, administrators an d classroom space, : -- ''''' .7 . B , will take place within the ad simors. teachers . . . such as hap- . lilt ministration. At least one dean The speed with which an an- pened this year . N will resign or be retired by nual deterioration in the quality in Willard Hall, . - .7' September. The rumors certainly did not aid the University's of new hiring permeates a faculty consider hold- _ T --.....":- •* •A number of student gov prestige either. In fact, we wondered for awhile whether is shown by the fact that while ing more class- - ' l, - ernment org a n izations may in 1953-54:.,--lv just one in ten _ i es at night; and .- . - : ,.. :7 .., well adopt a directed-vote plan -Penn State students were trying to get an education or of the full-time teaching staff decd e to re- •.• . • A .• to influence their representa just an empty degree. -of colleges and universities had place the anti---:="-•,-,..z,.• . • tives on All-University Cabi not reached M.A. status, by 1956- quated Armory Y. , ','4 , :-_-. net. Some also will use corn - 57. almost one in four was thus wit h a class- minces more extensively, par 'it. - • t icularly meagerly equinped. room building for exhaustive study —The New Republic . sometime after of student problems. Without Fanfare . the Kennedy • Compulsory ROTC will re military science building is place NSA as a perennial stu . Yesterday the University quietly opened its doors to Two Billion Men opened. dent issue. The next All-Uni eThe administration wH I versify Cabinet will ask aboli -500 new students. These students entered under a Nandi- 'With Anger Needed make more immediate inde- tion of compulsory ROTC. as - pendent decisions on student will the _ student governments cap—they did not receive the fanfare of customs, orienta- What the world needs are two matters, passing fewer of these of a number of other colleges. tion program, or hat societies serenade that is traditional billion angry men who will make on to the Board of Trustees, •Neither an AM station nor it clear to their national leaders This tre n d was partly evi- • a student bookstore will be -with the incomin g fall students. that the earth does not exist for denced by the decision not to come a reality before this time the purpose of being a stage for ask trustee approval of the stu- next :year, but students will Although their arrival was inauspicious, and not offi- the total destruction of man. dent insuranceprogram. make substantial progress to- Two billion angry men can in cially heralded, this group is as much a part of the Uni- •This spFing i 's student pout- ward obtaining them. . sst that the world i s resources be ical camp vigorous in recent and downtown, will become an demand that the nations stop years. It will be followed by a increasingly difficult problem. In this day of increasing enrollment, these students usingor ra the e s t l iC c :e apsoia.znonospeanngetrart major reorganization in stu- The borough parking authority dent government designed to may well run into trouble in were fortunate in being admitted to an institution such as an end be put to uncontrolled de- give students more direct rep- its plans to set 'up its own lots Penn State, it is nw vices that pursue future gener o up to them to make their school as resentation. downtown, and bans on day ations by way of damaged genes. •The All - University Elec.- time parking may be increased. proud of them as they can be of Penn State. They can also compel the na tions to end the long age of- the cave and begin a real civilize- PEANUTS 7 - Ifs THE '• TOSE "SNICKER-Sls " Editorials are utitten by the editors and staff members of The Deity Collegian and do not necessarily represent tion. A war is now being waged i GREATST ADVANCE PEOPLE ARE REALLYON WE BALL the seas of the Uniseroity or of the student body. against the world's peoples and P IN CEREAL they have the need and duty to ri -- - \i A Student-Operated Newspaper defend themselves. Saturday Review ii - ...1-IIGTORY) g. —The- .i •• 1 ' i • • 3 Olir Battu Teitrgiatt._. . 0, .„ ..... Successor to The Free Lance, est. ISB7 Gazette lai N' kg,* ... "' '0 I ‘. *ll . il Published T u esda y through Saturday morning during the Un is e roily year, The TODAY 1 6, . g ....e::14...5.• • Daily Collegian in a student-operated newspaper Entered as second-class :natter Collegian Ad scam :!,.): W' t,c, il'ard. 6:45 p.m. 'aiiia i s, 4.00. JKb :P. 1534 at the State College. Pa. Poet Office under the art of March 3. lea s Collegian itu.gnes4 Staff. Si Carnegie. 7:30 Mad Subscription Price: $3.011 per semester - 43.00 per year Economics Seminar, noon. HUB Dinin g Room A 'MESE ARE TI4E NEW EACH TINY "SNICKER- t ED DUBBS. 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