PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion No Time for Studies This time of the spring semester often finds students affilicted with bad cases of "activities-itis" with rehears als, meetings, work sessions and frantic last-minute cramming replacing studying. Many students find them selves weeks behind in Glasswork and still losing ground. This springtime plague spreads faster than German measles and lasts quite a bit longer—usually through the entire semester. Contributing factors include sorority and fraternity rushing, Greek Week, Spring Week and multitudinous elections. There appears to be no real cure for the problem ether than dropping extra-curricular activities. While many students could well afford to drop some of their individual activities, it would hardly be desirable or even very fea sible to eliminate from the calendar such events as Greek Week, Spring Week, rushing and elections. But the crowded spring schedule means that being a student in the true sense of the word is next to impossible. A partial solution would be to move Greek Week to the fall semester. It might be scheduled for the relatively slack period between the end of football season and the beginning of the pre-holiday rush. The only Greek Week activity which could not be held In late fall Is work projects, and these could be scheduled for an off-weekend during football season or for the spring. Nor would scheduling Greek Week for late fall inter fere with Interfraternity Council workshops, since these are usually held considerably earlier than the end of the football season. The Association of Independent Men and Leonides switched Indie Week to the fall semester only this year, apparently with some success. A similar move by IFC and Panhellenic Council might prove equally successful. Perhaps the two programs might be scheduled con.. currently, with some Joint events sponsored by all four groups. The IFC-Panhel Ball, which is notorious for losing money, might be combined with the fall AIM-Leonides dance. • A number of problems, including the scheduling of big weekends, would have to be ironed out, but moving Greek Week to the fall semester and perhaps scheduling it and Indie Week at the same time would appear to be a sound way to improve spring semester scholarship and at the same time promote even better feeling between Greeks and Independents. Damp Ground, Not Spirit The weather man has other things to consider besides Spring Week Carnival. Someone might have wanted rain yesterday. But don't let the postponement in carnival postpone your spirit for the once-a-year evening. An evening on the Greek midway is a festive- event. It's the other side of college life and human nature that people are always talking about. And it's student ingenuity at its best. - Students ignore elections and football games, but they can't ignore carnival. This is the final test of com bined efforts—of cooperation—in the student body. Let's face it, it's a lot of fun. A Student-Operated Newspaper Mle Battu Oltairgiatt Successor to The Free Lance. est 188? published ruesday through Saturday morning during ths University yarn, Th. Daily Collegian Is a student-operated newspaper Entered as second-class matter July t 1931 at the State College Pa Post Office under the act of March I. 117$. %tail Subsetlotion Price! o=.oo per earnests! $O.lO tier cans ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor vcc,)4 . i City Editor, Darid Fineman; Managing Editor. Richard Drayne; Sports Editor. Lou Prato; Associate Sports Editor, Matt Mathews: Personnel and Public Relations Director, Patricia Evens; Copy Editor. Lynn Ward; Assistant Copy Editor, Dick Fisher; Photography Editor, Robert Thompson. Credit Mgr., Janice Smith; Local Ad Mgr., Tom Mickey; Asst. Local Ad Mgr.. Robert Pirrone; National Ad Mgr., Betsy Brackbill; Promotion Mgr., Kitty Bur• Bert; Pereornel Mgr., Mickey Nash; Classified Ad Mgr.. Barbara Ryan; Co. Circulation Mgrs., Mary Anne First and Murray Simon; R h and Records Mir. Mary llerbeln; Officio Secretary. Myla Johnson. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager One View Many Snakes Are Harmless Students are not the only crea tures that enjoy the sunshine on a warm spring day. All kinds of moving things come out of their winter hideouts, even snakes! I know of two cute little garter snakes that were sunbathing last week for the last time. Because of the stigma of their kind, they paid for the sunbath with their lives. Two teenage boys were walk ing down the road and noticed the garter snakes enjoying the sun. These boys had undoubtedly been taught that all snakes were dangerous and "no good," so they ran for help. Dad and the boys came back armed with a .45 automatic pistol and gloves. Dad used the pistol and the boys did the rest of the work with their heavy shoes. The two little snakes didn't have a chance. What brave boys!! When I asked them why they did this, they simply answered that all snakes are bad, so why not kill them? This is just another example of human ignorance and how it is carried on from one generation to another. These boys probably will teach their children that all snakes are bad, and so it goes. Actually, Pennsylvania ha s only three species of poisonous snakes. They are the timber rattlesnake, the copperhead and in a few counties, the massasaugua or swamp rattlesnake. There are no water moccasins here, only harmless watersnakes. Garter snakes are the most com mon of our snakes and are com pletely harmless. The boys could have picked them up and the snakes wouldn't even have tried to bite them. Some people who know, think garter snakes make good pets. —George Harrison Gazette TODAY Az Hill softball league deadline, contact Bob Devlin AIM, 7 p.m., 203 HUB ASAE, student branch, 7 p.m., 206 Aff ErIA Camera Club, 7 p.m., 212 HUB Chess Club, 7 p.m., 7 Sparks Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m., HUB Choir Practice. 7:30 p m., Our Lady of Victory Church Department of Education, 9 p.m., HUB Hillel. Beginners' Hebrew, 7 p.m., Rion. dation Hillel, Dr. Raphael Patai Lecture, B p.m., Foundation May (linen Court, 5 p.m., 218 HUB Metallurgy Seminar. 4:10 p.m., 317 Willard Mining Society, career opportunities forum, 7:30 p.m., Mineral Sciences Auditorium Novena, 7 p m., Church Neu Bayrisehen Schuhplattler, 7:30 p.m., 3 White Outing Club, field and stream division, 7 p.m., 317 Willard Penn State Flying Club. 8 p.m.. 110 EE Philosophy Club, 7:30 p.m.. 214 HUB Riding Club. 7 p.m.. 217 Willard Spring Week Carnival, 7-12 p.m.. Golf Course WRA Tennis Club instructions, 6:30 p.m., White Gym WSGA Honor Code, 8-9 p m , 211 HUB Zoology Club, 8:30 p.m., 113 Freer , Spring Concert To Be Given The University Symphony Or chestra will present its annual spring concert at 8 tonight in Schwab auditorium. The concert will be free to the public. No tickets are required for admission. The orchestra will open the program with a Russian Eastern Overture by Nicolai Rimsky-Kor sakov, followed by the Chorale "Let Nothing Ever Grieve Thee" by Johannes Bralims. Mary Jane West, junior in music education from Bethlehem, will be soprano soloist for "Mar ietta's Song from 'The Dead City' " by Erich Korngold. The program will also include "Serenade for String Orchestra" by Robert Volkman. and "The White Peacock" by Charles Grif les. The final composition will be "Through the Looking Glass Suite" by Deems Taylor, narrated by Raymond Brown of the music department. WDFM Programs Wednesday night: 6:50, Sign on and news: 7. Telephone Bandstand: 7:50, State News and National Sports; 8, Jazz Panor ama'; 9, News'; 9:15, At Your Service'; 9:30, ' Music of the People: 10, News; 10:05, Virtuoso: 11:30. Sign off.and news. •Also carried on WMAJ. ittle Man on Campus by Dick Bi "Imagine! A Phi Beta Kappa finding ME interesting) Why, I barely have a 'C' average!" Behind the News Our Infirmary Visit --Student Utopia The brick face of the Ritenour Hospital—also known as the infirmary—presents to many students a mysterious facade behind which lurks they know not what. . We recently made a first-hand investigation of the hospital—not because we were particularly interested in finding out how it operates, but merely because we got sick. cord and pulled the plug from We were admitted after wait- its socket. The nurses, we discovered, ing about 20 minutes to get to a are a pleasant, hard-working doctor in the dispensary for a lot who don't receive nearly diagnosis (we he praise they deserve. And,. knew what i ''' I - ready for almost any the trouble ' ' , *t ey 1 ua he l a ' - e io n n. was all along 4 . : one nurse began to and he proved 1 , ~..... take a paient's pul s e, he us right). / ,it loromptly reciprocated. "Aha," During our • oe announced, holding her stay in the t •-, , ' , wrist, "Your blood pressure is hospital we '' - • ' '' ' I own to 45. You're sick!" made a num- 3 • • "Oh, no," she replied, with ber of inter- I_, • out batting an eye, "It's just esting o b ser- ! " ' 1 / 4 hat you do to me." vations. For : , We found the infirmary a i n stance, we '--- --- -- - - wonderful place to get a rest— discovered via a wall plaque if one can kee from worryin that the building "is the gift about making p up the bluebooks g of more than 1400 Pennsyl- he is missing despite the vania potato growers." "early to rise" policies. It was also revealed to us A couple of our discoveries that one is not supposed to were less fortunate. For in bring radios into the hospital, stance, it appeared that the presumably to keep the noise hospital's pajamas were made down. Ours was locked up dur- for an ephemeral character ing the time we were there. know nas the "average stu- Bmt we also discovered that a dent," and thus would fit per portable transistor radio can be fectly only someone seven feet "smuggled in inside a shaving ta l l an d li ve feet wide. kit and can provide much quiet Also, many of the hospital entertainment if tun e d low personnel did not seem to share enough so as not to reach nur- our belief that when someone ses' ears. becomes seriously ill or suffers Another discovery of ours an injury of some kind that this involved contact with the out- IS generally news. side world. We were quaran- But with nothing to do but tined, so this was limited to a read, play cards and sleep and plug-in type telephone, which with the best food we have always seemed to be in use. found in any building on cam- We were cut off from all out- pus, what better utopia could side contact only once—when be asked by a student who is we tripped over the telephone not seriously sick? 1033=1, -- AY DAD HAG 'I A MY DAD NAS A BIGGER 1 THAN 1 it ~ A TTER DAD! YOUR CAR.. ..._YOUR DAD!) 11 c • ...- li ) 4.. c ~„ ~1 ......... 401v ..4- tiiii.......... - ~.. '4l4Abi •ft l s *ll b ..e..4-4•.a. -0‘4. '46 4 11, 4 1, •?-.-i li , -tt-s -,..4 , r ,. _ ~_ _Nils , . nil' 7..."•• --' -N.,. *-- .:-.1•—.. - -- - - - - --------. 1-.30 .... MY DAD NM A EON! . , C • ill — • • . ...; , 1 ,.....,,mk........ "....._:..._..... ...,... m .,... *._,..: _ . d ...., • _ NEE zi....- tizA., -.. . : ve5..... mp g ../..e.e.l,ekst ME... ------------------ 1 __ , _ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1958 By Bob Franklin 'et? k°l
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