PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Great Shovel Robbery A slogan often applied to U.S. postmen reads along these lines: "Neither rain, nor snow, nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." It would appear that a similar slogan—with particu lar reference to "gloom of night"—might be applied to University students getting into trouble. Two sophomores and two other youths have been charged with commandeering a "steam" shovel at 4:30 a.m. Sunday and causing $lOOO worth of damage to it trying to make it go in two different directions at once. Playing both ends against the middle in this case resulted in the boom and shovel becoming stuck pointing straight up. twisted the bucket, broke a window in the cab, snapped a cable which then rolled up inside the machine and snarled a number of other cables. It also brought fines of $61.50 to each of the four, along with charges of malicious mischief answerable before county court. We suppose spring weather and all that goes with it, along with the accessories of a "big weekend" and the animal-spirits of "growing boys" occasionally result in stunts like this in colleges throughout the country. For Instance a couple years back someone tried to drive a caterpillar tractor up the steps of the Pattee Library. But these factors are simply excuses, not reasons for such conduct, for nobody wins in these events. Four persons already have paid dearly for the adven ture. Probably they will pay more. And there is not much question as to the justice of such punishment in cases like this. Borough policemen are reported up-in-arms over student conduct in the affair. And they should be. But the persons they should be most annoyed with are those who regularly use the steam shovel—legally, that is—the borough-paid workmen who did not take sufficient pre cautions to keep the machine from being tampered with. This incident most certainly proves that the con tractor's steam-shovel policy is lust as dangerous. if not more so, as the fraternity open door policy, which has contributed to fraternity thefts in the past. The net result of the whole incident appears to be a lot of grief—for the students involved, for borough police men, for the contractors, for the steam shovel's owner, and for student-town relations, which have been so pain stakingly built up by Greek Week work projects and other such constructive programs. Spreading a Good Idea Student encampments are becoming increasingly popular. Last year there was one; this year there may be three. Plans have been underway for a few weeks for the annual general Student Encampment, scheduled for the Mount Alto center from Sept. 4 through 6. A second pro gram, the newly-created Independent Retreat, will be a 1-day encampment for independents to be held on Sept. 13 at the Forestry Cabin in Stone Valley. And now a third program—a fraternity encampment—is in the planning stage, according to Edward Hintz, president of the Inter fraternity Council. The encampment idea has been tried and proven suet cessful by the general encampments held in recent years for the all student leaders. The expansion of the idea seems to be a good trend. The trend ,of course, could be taken too far—there are few student organizations large enough to make an en campment worthwhile. The Independents and IFC, how ever, should both be capable of having successful indi vidual encampments. The results of the new programs—provided the fra ternity encampment becomes a reality—should be Interesting and may be quite constructive. A Student-Operated Newspaper Oltro Daily Tralrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance. est. 1887 Published ruesdae through Saturday morning doting the University year, The Deily Collegian Is s stadent•operatcd newspaper Entered ea second•claea matter Jai, 6 1934 at the State College Pa Post Office ander the act of Marsh S. ISM 11.11 subscription Priest 13.00 pet semester f,5.1111 per rear ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor sag* STAFF THIS ISSUH: Night Vito). Diane Dieck ; Copy Editor, Jeanette Saaal s els International Expositi on July 2, 3 and 4, the White House WiKe Editor. Jett Pollack; Asaistants, Barbara Greenwaid o John Root, Betsy Anderson. /Jodi Kota. „ „ , 4 announced yesterdayo *4 ).., THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager 'Week' Group Lauds Jimirro TO THE EDITOR: The members of the Spring Week committee wish to publicly express their thanks to Chairman James Jimir ro for his untiring efforts in mak ing this year's Spring Week an outstanding financial success. The Carnival alone took in a gross in come of approximately $7OOO and a net profit of $3300 after ex penses, as compared to an over all profit of $2900 last year. Behind the scene s, Jimirro started to work in December and consistently spent over 20 hours a week coordinating the activities of the chairmen of each event. Also, our thanks to the students and townspeople, the real heroes of Spring Week for lending their support in number: 17,000 who bought 50,000 tickets at Carnival and the 2100 who attended Awards Night. Our thanks also go, to the 34 participating groups who worked long and hard to con struct ingenious floats and booths. We wish to remind students that the proceeds are plowed back into self benefits. Tn past years the funds have gone to the Penn State Scholarship Fund. . —The Spring Week Committee Officials Commend Safety at Carnival TO THE EDITOR: The University Safety Division wishes to express its appreciation for the coopera tion of all student organizations participating in the annual Spring Week Carnival held Wednesday night for having adequate fire protection at each booth. It was most gratifying to note at this event when everyone was work ing and enjoying themselves, that the seriousness of this situation was realized. We hope in the future that we can have as good a response as this year, thereby having each event a great success. —Lorin J. Elder, Supervisor of the Safety Division - —Howard 0. Triebold Jr., Safety Assistant Gazette TODAY ACE!, Senior Send-off, 8 p m., dining room A. HUB AIM. 8.15 p.m., 203 HUB Arnold Air Society. 8 pm , Delta Tau Delta Chi Epsilon. 5:15 p.m.. 209 HUB Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p in, 213 HUB Collegian Business Staff. 7:10 p m., 202 EMMIIIMENI negie Collegian Promotion Staff, 8:30 p.m., 209 Willard - Collegiate FFA. 7 p:ni., 214 HUB Delta Sigma Pi, 7:30 p m., Pi Siiffill Upsilon DOC Council. 8 p.m. 218 HUB Ed Student Council, T p.m.. 231 HUB Emerson Society, Coffee Break, 3:30 p.m., small lounge, Chapel Encampment Interviews, 8 :3040 :30 p.m., 216 HUB Eng Council, 7 p.m.. 212 HUB Five O'Clock Theatre, "Sour Grapes," 5 _ p.m.. Little Theatre Freshman Regulations Board. 12:30 p.m.. 216 HUB Gamma Sigma Sigma. aliters and pledges. G:45 p.m, Grange rec room Home Management. 9 a m., 215 HUB ICR. 3 p.m., 203 HUB Junior Claes Advisory Board, T p.m., 214. 215 HUB Marriage Series, Exploring for Marriage, 7:30 p.m., Chapel lounge May Day rehearsal. 4 p.m., Old Main Panhel, 6:30 p.m., 203 HUH Senior Class Advisory Board, 9:45 p.m., 218 lIUB Sociology Testing. 1 p.m., 217 111.78 Test Air Raid alert, morning Vesper Service, 4 :30 p.m., Chapel WR A Tennis Club, 1:30 p m., 3 White WSGA Judicial, 5 p m., 203 HUB UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Dorothy Ammerman. Darlene Anderson, Mark Baker. Elizabeth Coffman. Steven Conn, Robert Dallas, Richard Dill, James Durkin. Jane Elliott. Michael Gabor, Don ald Idilderbrandt, Mayer Horwitz, Louis Lopreato. Matthew Mathews, Stuart Mon roe, William Nelson, Juan Perez, Agneg Rollins. WDFM Programs Tuesday night: 6:50. Sign on and news: 7. The Individual Coed: 7:30, Sinfonia Time; 7'50, State News and National Snorts: 8, Folk Festival: 8 :30, Oven to Question: 9, News'; 9:15. As You Be. lieve'; 9:30, Cabinet Reports': 10, News; 10:05. This World of Music. 'Also carried on WMAJ. Hoover Named Envoy WASHINGTON (?P) Former President Herbert Hoover, re covered from his illness, will be President Eisenhower's personal representative for the United States' official days at the Brus- Little Man on Campus by Dick Bible, "Okey, who's the wise guy?" from here to infinity Photo Adventures: Bull, Flying, Talks Several times in the dark past, the photography edi tor has attempted to write a column for Collegian. During the past two years, however, the custom has almost com pletely disappeared. I hope that I'll be able to revive it —at least until I find something constructive to do with my free time. Maybe I should try studying! (After you read this masterpiece, you'll probably wish I had stuck to studying.) My first thought as I sit down in front of a typewriter—other than where each letter is on the blasted machine is what I can say for a column of print. But after sitting here and hunt ing and peck ing for two hours, I have managed to fill over three inches I could talk for a couple of inches on techniques of photo graphy, but that would be as boring to you as it is to me. Besides, if I were to tell you about the techniques used by Collegian photographers, you would never believe me. Actually, things aren't as bad as they are painted we do manage to put out some fair photos. There is always room for improvement, though. A photographer's lot is far from a dull one. After all, where can one person witness a campaign speech by Harold Stassen, eight gooney birds, the Little International live- lo -4.11. I HAVE OBSERVED THAT WHENEVER YOU WY TO MI GOVE3ODY THERE ISA TENDENCY FOR THEM *to TRY TO HIT YOU MU TUESDAY. MAY 6. 1958 i fi r - zi .„---s--.„ ,tl,,"'i by bob thompson stock parade and the contro versial tobacco spitting contest —all within 36 hours? Maybe there is some connec tion—the bull, flying and the speech. It's a good thing we didn't get the captions mixed up! I remember a time during the last Presidential campaign when Adlai Stevenson spoke in Philadelphia to a packed house. The same day there was a mass amphibious landing exercise at Little Creek. One of the Philadelphia pap ers had pictures of the crowd listening to Stevenson and the landing craft lined up on the beach waiting for the Marines. Someone goofed and got the captions mix ed. Stevenson's caption read: "lined up for an other load." Fortunately, Collegian hasn't pulled one of those boners in years. Every once in a while there has been a slip in mug shots for columns. Seems that someone can't tell the differ ence between Larry Jacobson and Ralph Manna—or was it Bob Franklin and Lou Prato? So there. That was a lot less boring than the "f" stop to use when taking indoor stock car races in action with available light. By the way, what the heck ould you use for an exposure n that case? HOW COME YOU Mar NIT NIM? IF . . . . . . w i iii 7 , . :. . , e Lc 411 F ii. ...fi You ARE A 514RaUD JUDGE OF NAM NATURE, CAARUE BROWN e-',/ 'l5 no I dt twower:Go.
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