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The Last Gasp: How We Stood
(Editor's Note' This 13 a recap of our editorial
views on the nrijor z;itte'; this year. Monday a
new Board of ElsletAri toke; over operation of
The Daily College/lu.)
University Growth
•The University must obtain the fullest pos
sible use from its plcwrit facilities to help meet
the crisis in higher education, even it this means
more evening and noon clas,es, more televised
lectures and a year-round school year.
•The state cannot expect the University to
meet the challenge in higher education if it
keeps providing "disaster budgets."
•The University must attempt to keep fees
as low as possible.
•Salaries must be increased not only to main
tain but increase the quality of the faculty and
staff.
The Graduate School must be increased not
only in size but in stature if Penn State is to
become a great university.
•Penn State cannot become a great univer
sity without a great library.
•In order to become a great university and
to offer a broad education to all students, Penn
State must place in central focus a college of
the basic arts and sciences, for around it centers
the atmosphere of a great university.
Academic Affairs
•The loyalty oath should be repealed.
•The University must guard that these 3-
credit general education courses such as Arts I
do not become too general with students learn
ing too little about too much.
•The trend toward honors courses and honor
systems could . be encouraged.
•The Commonwealth and the state need not
only professional people but also semi-profes
sional people. Therefore, the 2-year associate
degree program should be expanded as well
as the regular baccalaureate degree program.
•A cut system which imposes penalties is
not in keeping with modern trends in education
giving students a greater degree of responsi
bility and control of their activities.
•A junior-year-abroad program should be
set up as soon as funds are available.
•The ROTC program should be made volun
tary.
Student Government
• Student government must represent the stu
dents if it expects to command the support and
respect of the student body.
•Membership in the National Student Associ
ation should not be revived until a realistic
plan of how NSA will operate locally is pre
sented.
• Cabinet membership should be revamped
to make it more representative of the students.
• The Women's Student Government Associa
tion Honor Code should be dropped and a new
start made, but not before thorough planning.
• WSGA acted realistically when it modified
its no-drinking regulation to apply only to wom
en of minor age.
•Cabinet, to be most effective, must look
into the' future, for the University is already
planning for 197 Q.
Fraternities, Sororities
•Hell Weeks should be abolished.
•Fraternities and sororities should eliminate
their racial and religious discrimination clauses
and give brotherhood a wider meaning.
• Penn Stats does not have a serious drinking
problem, and what problem there is should be
dealt with realistically and not with such cover
up bans as the one on freshman minors.
•The fraternity man will become the "man of
extinction" if steps are not taken for expansion
of the fraternity system.
•The sorority system must also grow as the
enrollment increases.
Independents
•The Board of Trustees wisely adopted the
principle of community living for future resi
dence halls.
•Independents should not be pampered, for
this will never help to unite them. '
Gazette
TODAY
Bible Fellowship, 7.30 p.m., 214 Boucke
Fluld 3lechanice Seminar. I tlO p.m.. I Sackett
Hillel Sabbath Eve Service, Foundation
Newman Club, Forgotten Frolic, 8 p.m., Church Hall
Hubrapoppin. Walt Cedeckie Quartet. 8 p.m., IiUB Audi.
**tuna Players, "Tonight at 8:312," II p.m.. Center Stags
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Administration
• The Board of TrUstees should hold open
meetings.
0 Prisident Eric A. Walker has wisely re
moved much of the secrecy in Old Main, but
more remains to be eliminated.
•The dean of men's office should stop pres
suring the fraternity system to 'cover up its
problems and help it to meet them realistically.
• The University must start treating students
as young adults and stop protecting them.
Campus Politics
•Any student should be free to run for any
office.
•Elections Committee should conduct elec
tions—not control them.
•The "Gentleman's Agreement" is a wise sub
stitute for unfair vote-docking.
•The campus political parties should be de
signed to operate more in line of national par
ties. thereby aiding in the educational process
of students.
•The parties and candidates must encourage
larger vote turnouts to become more repre
sentative of a larger number of students.
State and National
•Horseracing should be legalized in Penn-
sy vania.
• The Daughters of the American Revolution
pulls off too many goofs.
•The first step at banning nuclear weapons
—and putting nuclear power to peaceful use—
is banning tests. And the sooner the world does
this, the better.
•A far more dangerous man than Stalin is
now premier of the Soviet Union.
*The American adult population should not
be permitted to read and see just what is fit for
child! en.
•The government should return J. Robert
Oppenheimer, the father of the A-bomb, to
"respectability," for this would be a symbol to
American scientists that the heat of McCarthy
ism was really off.
•Federal aid to education need not bring
federal control.
Miscellaneous
• Penn State needs a student-run, non-com
mercial AM station.
*The Alumni Association must be supported,
for the University must receive the aid of the
alumni if it is to meet the crisis in higher
education.
•Ways of improving the customs program
and its enforcement must be found to preserve
what Penn State tradition there is.
• A Campus Chest is better than many small
charity drives. _
*Football half-holidays should be included
in future University calendars.
•President Eric A. Walker has more than
earned the title of "Prexy."
• The student body showed it can unite be
hind a cause—Larry Sharp.
•Food Service has provided good meals as
far as institutional cooking goes.
• The Artists' Series has done more to bring
culture to Penn State than any one program in
103 years.
• Students are beginning to ask questions
about Lion's Paw, senior men's society, and this
secret organization should be made to come up
with the answers. •
• The University is lacking in necessary rec
reational and social facilities, with the Hetzel
Union Building already overcrowded.
•The student insurance program was long
overdue, and it is unfortunate it took a Larry
Sharp to make it a reality.
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• May Day is not worth the expense.
Collegian Policy
•This newspaper will print publicity only
when what is being publicized is also news.
0 This newspaper will print the truth even if
Borne readers would prefer not to face the truth.
•This newspaper will be influenced by no
group, and will strive "For a Better Penn State."
Mathematics Colloquium, 4:10 p m., 305 Sparks
Mineral Industries Colloquium, 4:10 p.m., Mineral Sciences
Auditorium
Me Man on Campus by Dick Bible,
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"Whadda ya mean ya got an examination-4d you come
here for an education or to play baseball?"
From Here
...And for the
Last Darn Time
By Ed Dubbs
I have just about had it as far as my undergraduate
Penn State days go. And this is my last column for The
Daily Collegian since I am giving up the editor's chair
to a younger lad.
People are already calling me a "has-been," and I
have been called worse things.
When people call me a "has
been," being the modest soul
I am, I reply: "Yes, that's me."
My roommate says he is go
ing to get a new roommate
since I will no longer be edi
tor. He says he'll move down
town and room with Warren
Carmichael of ---1
WMAJ fame..
Oh, well . . .
I could get
an inferiority
complex or
something out
of this. After ,
all, I may drop
from editor to
copyboy, after
one month's,
vacation, of
course.
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It may not be a vacation af
ter all. Someone has promised
me the chairmanship no less of
a committee on committees. I
hope Jay Feldstein keeps his
promise.
But even if I don't get the
appointment from Jay, grad
uation, afterall, takes time to
prepare for especially when
you're 10 weeks behind in all
your courses! -
Graduating from Penn State
will be difficult for most of us,
especially with no jobs waiting
outside.
But there's a big challenge
awaiting us. There may be few
jobs; its going to be a chal
lenge.
You may not have thought
about this: We are members of
Editorials are written by the editors and staff sesaban ,
of rho Daily Collegian and do not necessarily represent
the views of the University or of the strident body.
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ED DUBS. Editor. .4M,.. STEVE HIGGINS. Bus Mgr.
Manuring Editor. Judy Barkisons City Editor. Relish Franklin: Sports Editor.
Vinci Carucci: Cops Editor. Marian Beatty: Assistant CUM . Editor. Ralph
Manna: Assistant Sports Editors. Matt Matthews and Lou Prato: Make-en Editor.
Many Phillips; Photography Editor George Harrison; Board at Editors. Lam
Jacobson.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor: Mary Kelly; Copy Editor: Marie Russo;
Wire Editor: - Marie Russo: Assistants: Sally Wilt, Neal Friedman, LoIU Neu•
bartth Judi Wharton, Vicki Wo'ford and Marie Moran.
FRIDAY. APRIL 25, 1958
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the first college class to be
graduated into the space•age
world.
However, I don't feel like I'm
entering it. I feel more like it's
been tossed upon me by those
unsporting Russians.
But it could be a blessing,
you know. There may be jobs
on the moon!
A few serious notes:
To all seniors: Be sure to
join the Alumni Association.
Penn State needs your help
more than ever.
To all students not leaving:
Talk up Penn State and make
it better.
To the faculty and students!
That engineer running the
show over in Old Main is, quite
a man of action.
To the Bookworm: Keep
plugging away.
To my Board of Editors: My
sincere thanks for your co
operation and understanding.
No one person 'can, run this
newspaper, as you know.
Thanks also go to the entire
staff for what I consider a
great job.
To the faculty in the Sourly.
alism School: Thanks too for
the advice, criticisms and help.
Special thanks to our adviser,
John D. Vairo.
To Penn State: greatness
To Editor-elect Robert Frank
lin: My chair, my typewriter.
my desk and my sincere best
wishes.
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