The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, April 15, 1958, Image 4
PAGE FOUR Editor :al Opinion Wanted: The disci(' ,of J B. Long, president of the Board of Truite.), tint he personally favors opening the board's meetings to the press and the public seems to be what a number of people would like to have said—but didn't have the courage to. Long's position that open meetings would create a "healthy situation" 'agrees exactly with comments ex pressed by this newspaper nearly two months ago. But members of All-University Cabinet only last month voted against even asking the board to seriously consider opening its meetings. CAbinet members then turned around and voted to investigate possibilities of having the All-University president sit in on the meet ings, apparently indicating that they really would like more direct information after all. Probably the argument advanced most widely against open trustees meetings—and one of the major reasons for Cabinet's switch—was that the protective shell of secrecy is in some way responsible for keeping the board a body of men of unusually high caliber. This argument, which was advanced by Cabinet opponents of open trustees meetings, also has been ad vanced by high administration officials. The University is indeed fortunate to have as trustees men of the stature of James B. Long. But it is highly im probable that such men need "protection." And it is also highly improbable that Long—who has served 15 years on the board—would form a personal opinion for opening trustees meetings without giving the matter a great deal of serious consideration. Many persons—students and administrators alike— appear to have acquired a deathly fear of change, an over powering concern with what administrators and trustees might thing of their actions and a resulting inability to decide issues on their merits. These persons appear to have dominated much of the action of the 1957-58 All-University Cabinet. It is most fortunate that the trustees themselves have never operated on these premises,_ which would virtually end Penn State progress. It is our sincere hope that the 1958-59 All-University Cabinet will have learned a lesson from the pitfalls their predescessors failed to avoid, and will decide issues with the courage of their convictions and those of the student body. The Changing University It appears that whether students like it or not, they will be going to more and more noon and night classes as they are now attending more and more televised lectures. And although we still prefer small classroom instruc tion to large televised lectures, morning and afternoon classes to evening classes, lunch at noon instead of class, and school nine months a year instead of 12, it appears these things are on their way out. The expected influx in enrollment is causing the University to use as fully as possible its present facilities. The University has been a pioneer in TV-teaching, which allows one instructor to teach hundreds of students, all with front seats. The University has just revamped its class schedule to obtain more use from the present facili ties during "off-afternoons," noon hours and evenings. The University is also studying the possibility of going on a quarter, trimester or similar system of gaining more year-round use from its present facilities. While students may grumble about all this, the fact remains the University has an obligation to the Common wealth to use its facilities as efficiently as possible to help meet the crisis in higher education. &Merle's ere written ey the editors and start members of the Dslli Collegian and de not eteeeesarily represent the elm, of the University or of the student body A Student-Operated Newspaper 00 Battu Tottrgiatt Successor to Ole Free Lance est 1887 Published rand*: through tialnrday morning Marina the University Year. rh. Dalll Colberian is a atudent.opereted newspaper Entered es savona-rises wetter MY ► 1931 at the Elate College Pa Past Offkt ender the act of Uarrh 11. 1.1319, gnharription Pares 13 170 per remoter $5.55 per erne - ED DUI:BS Editor 6 7 ; .h STEVE-HIGGINS. Bus Mgr. blattagins gditot lady Hiatt:loon. City Editor Robert Pranklia: Spurts Editor. Vines Corned Copp Editor Marian Beatty: Assistant Cop, Editor Ralph Manna. Assistant Sport* Editors. Mall Matthews and Lon Prato: Make-ais Editor Gino Phillips: Photography Editor Georg* Harrison: Board of Editors. Larry Jacobson STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Jeanette Saxe: Copy Editor, Linda Segar; Wire l.lito , Bennis Malta; Aim!stools. Sally Wilt, Amy Rosenthal, Barb Green. satald. Marie Moran. Carol Blakeslee. Neal Friedman, Lynnette Sabre. Guts! THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Le_ Alumni Lauds, Defends Coeds TO THE EDITOR: In regard to "Two Specimens of Womanhood" (April 11 Collegian), I would like to comment on Mr. Pressman's observations, In my experience with Penn State *coeds, covering about six years, I have found them to be as fine young women as can be found anywhere. In these troubled times, it is much to their credit that they can so calmly go about their main purpose of finding a husband, marrying and having babies. Today, in sight of the Iron Cur tain farmers are tilling their farms, fishermen are casting their nets, and life goes on: and it must go on, regardless of the cries of alarmists and scare-mongers. Perhaps one of these frivolous females will one day be married to an engineer working on a mis sile development project. If so, I hope that at the end of the day she greets him with a big kiss, a smile and a well-prepared dinner; and permits for him a few min utes to steal a little peace and quiet from the strain he is under. If Mr. Pressman could not find intellectual stimulation. with his two friends, perhaps he should take notice of their more obvious ly desirable points, by virtue of which they are able to make life easier for those around them. —Bob Hawk, '56 Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle Gazette Agriculture Council, 7 p.m., 214.215 HUB Angel Flight, 7:30 p in.. 201 HUB Christian Fellowship, 12:15 p m , 218 HUB Collegian Advertising Staff, 6:45 p m , Carnegie Collegian Business Staff, 6 .30 p.m., 202 Willard Collegian Promotion Staff, 7 pin , 202 Willard Committee on Inter religious Affairs Lec ture. Dr. Henry L. h:amphoefner on ”Contemporary Church Architecture," $ p.m.. HUD Delta Sigma Pl, 7:30 p.m., Alpha Sigma Phi Emerson Society, 3.30 p m., Chapel Engineering Council, 7 p.m , 212 HUB Frosh Council, 3 p.m., 214 HUB Froth Advertising Staff, 7 p.m., Froth office Gamma Sigma Sigma. aktera and pledges, 6:45 p.m.. Grange Rec Room Rome Economics Council, 7 p.m., Living Center Newman Mass, 7 and 8 a m., Church Neu Bayrischen Sehuhplattler, 7:30 p.m., 2 White Plant Science Club, Dr. W. H. Gray on "By Car over the Highway to Alaska," 7:30 p.m., 111 Tyson Physical Education Council, 7:30 p.m., 218 HUH Senior Class Advisory Board, 8:30 p.m , 218 - HUB Professional Business Fraternities Lecture, C. A. Maher, on "Career Opportunities in the Federal Government," 1:10 p.m., 121 Sparks Simmons Lecture Series, Dr. Harold Dick. eon on " 'Barnard and His Statues': Tragicomedy M Harrisburg,' 121 Sparks WC:A Tennis Club, 7:30 p m., 3 White WSGA Judicial Board, 5 p.m., 217 HUB Jeanne Anderson, William Benton, San dra Bibler, Philip Bloom, Paul Chlavacel, JoAnn Cooper, David Byham, Valerie De- Lacy, Clifford Dietrich, Carol Fitzsimons, Edith Gross. John Gysling, Lee Hammer strom, Peter Henise, Susanne Ittel, Harry Klapner, Anthony Mereantino, Lewis Mil ler, Shirley Ominsky. Edward Pautienus, Richard Potter, Robert Roberts, Ruth Steinberg, Arthur Stevenson, Donald Thompson, Patricia Thompson, Patricia Turner, George Voyzey, Rafeal Crespo-Cin tron, Sally Gearhart. Job Interviews Companies interviewing Apr. 30: Allied Chemical & Dye: BS in Chem E. Chem. EE. ME. Mng E. Douglas Aircraft Co: BS MS in Aero E. ME. EE, CE, Math, Phrt, Eng Sri. Pomeroy*: BS in Bus Ad, LA, Psych. Ed or anyone interested In a career in re. tailing. (Male's onlyl Lincoln Electric: BS in EE, ME, Metal. Chem E. CAMP INTERVIEWS Camp Wonderland I Penna. i. April 16 Hansen to Talk Tonight On 'History of Jazz' Dr. Chadwick C. Hansen, in structor in English literature, will speak on "The History of Jazz" at the meeting of the Belles Let tres club at 7:30 tonight in Sim mons lounge. Hansen, who received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Uni versity of Minnesota in English and American studies, wrote his doctoral thesis on jazz. Bank Official to Spook David Eastburn, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, will speak on "Cur rent Monetary Policy"' at 7:30 to night in 109 Osmond. ~ ' 8:30 p.m., UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ittle Man on Campus by Dick Bible, ;' ,l "Didn'tcha see th' sign. buddie?" Washington Beat Ike's Big Moment— Pitching the Ball WASHINGTON Vll—The sun shines brightly. The band plays loudly. The infield grass is a beautiful green. What a day to be president of the United States! For thanks to a tradition that goes back to Willian Howard Taft, a president is expected—nay, almost com manded—to be around for the opening of the major league baseball season A president may not give a hoot for baseball for the rest of the year, but on this day it would be downright un-Amer ican to admit it. And so they come, in steady procession, to throw out the first ball. The weakest arm is generally thought to have been Wilson's, the best is conceded to have belonged to a pinch pitcher. Vice President Henry Wallace got off a magnificent throw, al most all the way to second base. Which proves the value of practice at throwing the boomerang. That was one of Wallace's hobbies. Dwight D. Eisenhower isn't much for spectator sports 7 -he repeatedly has said he's more interested in playing the game than in watching it—but who is he to trifle with such a po litical tradition? He flew about 500 miles from Augusta, Ga., and his beloved golf to be here for this game between the Boston Red Sox and the Wathington Senators. Thirty-five minutes before game time, the preparations are almost finished. Know what the most impor tant piece of equipment is at an opening day baseball game? No, it isn't a fielder's mitt. It's a stepladder. The photogra phers already are perched on WELL, FIAT IN ME WORLD IS LL)RONG WITH SECOND RASE? TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1958 o', , tt-, By Arthur Edson them, like al er t starlings, around the presidential box. Lots of nice contrasts. The Capitol, magnificent in the dis tance, if you can see around the big beer ad. And during a lull in the spir ited band music, you're startled to hear chimes ringing out, "Nearer my God to Thee" from the church across the street. The U.S. Army band, tooting c h e e r f ully along, suddenly switches to "Hail to the Chief' without missing a beat, the first sign most of the customers have that the President is ar riving. There is a brief moment of excitement when a flashbulb explodes near the President but, except for nervous flutters among many of the Secret Ser vice men scattered throughout the stands, no damage is done. And now, the big moment. The President draws back, makes a fake throw, and then tosses one that Whitey Herzog, Washington outfielder, grabs. largely because he had the foresight to stand up front, like a third baseman watching for a bunt. • Then Eisenhower throws an other one, and this is hauled in by the Senators' batboy, Jim my Ryan. And so the season is on, and all the traditions are observed. But the consensus is the Presi dent needs a little practice on the boomerang, NOT ON YOUR LIFE!! (YE GOT TOO NtUOIPRIDE! tow r " 44 4 4 . 0 110/ 4.„ :AA ‘4 lllA't 1‘ V1'2213.