PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion AM Station Best Senior (Continued from page one) a 6300-acre piece of University land about 12 miles from campus, will boast a 70-acre lake for the use of administra tion and faculty members, alumni and students. The $lO,OOO gift would be used to build cabins or other facili ties or in construction of the lake's dam, planned for com pletion by October. We believe the senior class gift, since it is given by students, should primarily benefit students. Students could use the Stone Valley facilities to best advantage about one or two months out of the year since, we believe, it will be many years before most students will be attend ing the University on an all-year basis. Stone Valley would be a wonderful summer resort for administration and faculty members, but to provide such a resort is not the purpose of the senior class gift. Nearly $60,000 of the $200,000 needed for completion of Stone Valley already has been raised. It is inconceivable that there is any doubt that Stone Valley will be com pleted. The gift funds could better go to some project which might not be undertaken because of a lack of money. 2) An east campus entrance is probably one of the least-needed gift suggestions proposed in years. While it would be nice to beautify one of the roads into campus, no one seems to know just which entrance would be chosen. Plans for the east campus areas appear so unsettled as to warrant holding off any permanent entranceway con struction for years. 3) A circulating art collection has obvious advan tages in furthering the cultural aspects of the University. But it is questionable whether 30 paintings hung in cam pus buildings would have the direct effect upon the stu dent body which cultural programs alone would have if broadcast over AM facilities. 4) While the University has been ranked among the top 12 U.S. schools in enrollment, our library has been ranked 54th in size out of 107 colleges and universities. Certainly the library—which received the gift last year— is in need of funds, but it cannot depend upon the senior class, year after year. The library is the responsibility first of the University and it is the University's duty—. not that of the senior class—to make it adequate for the students' needs. 5) Making WDFM heard by the student body has been the big problem behind campus radio ever since its founding. When the idea of using transponders was thrown out, WDFM began its campaign for AM facilities. While it is true that the radio station would have problems to work out,including clarifying its own goals and revising its organization, WDFM should be available to all the students. A campus AM radio station is the only gift suggestion which has a chance of being completed within one year. And prompt action on AM facilities is imperative, for any delay would appear to lessen the chances of gaining them. A report endorsed by All-University Cabinet states that the only immediate block to AM facilities is lack of money and that the money received from the senior class gift together with reserve funds, would be sufficient financial backing to make the conversion. The Class of '5B, in giving its gift•for an AM campus radio station, would provide a permanent memorial which could directly affect every student every day to the ad vantage of both the University and the student body. Editorials are written by the editors and staff wtensben of rho Daily Collegian and do not necessarily represent the •lews of the University or of the student body A Student-Operated Newspaper 0 . 41$ Battu Toiltgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1587 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper Entered as creand.claris natter July 1 1131 at the State College Pa Poet Office ender the act of March 8. 1890. Mall duharription Priest 13.011 per semester 85.06 per ran ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor 46)" STIFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Cathy Fleck; Copy Editor, Jeanette Saxe: Wire Editor, Neal Friedman: Agsistants, Betsy Anderson. Carol Blakeslee. Marie Moran., Katle.Daels. Anti, Rosenthal., Would Be Gift Choke —The Board of Editors FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Prefers Huxley To Evangelist TO THE EDITOR: Last Sunday, WFIL-TV in Philadelphia an nounced that it would not carry the Mike Wallace show for the next few weeks in order to air Billy Graham's San Francisco crusade. Mike Wallace inter viewed Aldous Huxley this past Sunday, but WFIL-TV viewers were subjected to Mr. Graham's dogmatic diatribe instead of Mr. Huxley'S profound and intellec tual analysis of contemporary so ciety and its fulfillment of the prophesies outlined in "Brave New World." Perhaps here we have a tan gible inkling as to why the U.S. is taking a secondary position to its adversary in areas of scientific achievement, world respect and general cultural level. True, at present our living standard exists on a higher stratum, but the ad vances which are being made by Russia are astounding. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, on re turning from her recent Russian visit, remarked that Russia's peo ple are comfortable, well clothed and fed contrary to popular American belief. More important is the fact that dire poverty, slums and mass juvenile delin quency is non-existent in the USSR. . It is time to revamp our thoughts and take an active in terest in sociological problems rather than running up to Billy Graham's altar to be saved. While not suppressing the religious fac tor, we must give secular matters much greater consideration if progress is to be assured. Certain ly then we might attain a mutual understanding with joint efforts for the better of society rather than our present useless coex istence. —David Boy Pressman, '59 No FBI 'Swarm' Seen at Antioch TO THE EDITOR: In an article of May 9, City Editor David Fineman stated that "The stu dents at Antioch College have re cently been informed that a swarm of FBI agents in students' clothing had surreptitiously been observing the functions, members and speakers of their campus or gan izatons." Investigation of this alleged oc currence indicates that one An tioch student was approached by the 'FBI 'and asked to inform on the activities of the Socialist Dis cussion Club (a small group comprising less than a handful of students). While such actions, whether performed officially or unofficially under the FBI aegis, are not to be condoned under any circumstances, they do not repre sent a wholesale invasion of the Antioch campus by federal agents—as was implied by Mr. Fineman. Such stories should be more thoroughly delved into before finding their way into print! Antioch College, '57 EDITOR'S NOTE: While perhaps only one Antioch student was approached, authoritative sources —including a college official-- have verified that several were investigating organizations on the campus, Gazette BX. all boards, 6:30 p.m., 214, 215. 216 HUH Calendar Committee, 3 p.m.. 218 HUB Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m., 218 HUB Collegian Classified Ad Staff, 6:30 p.m., Collegion , Business Office Ed Connell. 8 p.m., 217 HUB Extension Home Ee Workshop. 8:30 a.m to noon, HUH Auditorium Extension Home Ec Workshop, I to 6 p.m., 212 HUB Flush Regulation■ Board, 12:30 p.m., 216 111J11 Honors Day Program, Eng-Arch College. 4:10 p.m.. Schwab Management Club, 7:30 p.m., Delta 'Upsilon Orientation Week Counseling, 7 p.m., HUB Auditorium Outing Club, Canoe trip meeting, 7 p.m., Rec Hail Plant Science Club, 7:30 p.m., 111 Tyson Psych Club. 7:30 p.m.. 214 Boucka "Public Relations in Business," 1:10 p.m.. 121 Spark 4 Senior Class Board, 8:30 p.m.. 214 HUB Vesper Service, 4:30 p.m.. Chapel WSGA Judicial, b p.m., 217 HUH —Allan Pred. TODAY tie Man on Campus by. Dick 11W., I find it oasis Take It or Leave It Old Main Strikes —But Won't Tell It's hard enough to tell time with the clocks in class room buildings anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes off, but when Old Main also goes on the blink, the result is complete confusion. The Old Main tower clock was chiming incoherently on Sunday, and was about 45 min utes slow Sunday night. At 9:45 p.m. one coed and her date were walking leisurely down Pollock Road when the chimes began sounding 9 o'clock. Thinking the lime was 10, they raced for Simmons, arriv ing just as the bells stopped. As the breathless coed headed for the door she was informed by an onlooker that Old Main was "all goofed up." Another unfortunate coed miss ed 45 minutes of a class yester day. She didn't know the clock had been fixed, and strolled into class just __as the prof was con cluding his lecture. . We, too, were late to class yesterday, but the fault lay with an alarm clock that just didn't bother ringing. At least one University tele- 1 phone operator was "faked out", Sunday night by Old Main's nine chimes at 9:45. She began inform ing callers trying to get through to girls' dormitories that it was past the 10 p.m. deadline. And, as usual, the operator won the resulting arguments. We won ' der how many conversations were cut off 15 minutes early. Actually, the only really re liable clocks on campus are those in the coed residence halls. Unfortunately, they're never slow. We're willing to wager that even Big Ben doesn't keep better time. But back in our freshman days a coed (an enterprising neighbor of ours) thought up a scheme to =MN °-- ---: • • spi k y L ••••=z - .......-• a mor- -- 0 lite --'‘'- . 0. - -;- -4 "" - ----,,te.......... • - - 4.- 1- ga-ii" /THERE'S NOTHING THAT AAK!! LINGE THE YOUR MOUII-t LiaTASTE OF AN Api k ?hooeq! -THAT'S OLD TENNIS g BALL! r :p ie % I 'a ENOUGH OF 1 THAT!tI . 1 c-i_av 1% _ tli L s-20 ....A.z.met(#5.0..... 141 TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1958 r to get dates now that I have_ a car by Pat Evans gain a few more moments of nightly freedom. Every week she'd turn the hostess' clock back three minutes. Of course, in about two weeks the discrepancy would be dis covered. But it wasn't until the fall semester was nearly over' that the hostess found the cul prit. Until then she had been calling an electrician periodical ly to have him check her clock. We're very happy - that Old Main is back to normal (not more than four minutes off) again. Now if someone would only synchro nize the- clocks in Boucke and Willard the campus timepiece situation would be just about per fect. Just one more thing would be necessary—getting our alarm ; clock fixed. High Court Hits Va. on Integration WASHINGTON (IPA—The Su preme Court has nudged Virginia a big step nearer a showdown on its policy calling for closing of public schools rather than deseg regating them. Without comment, the court yesterday rejected a last-ditch, ef fort by Virginia to stave off an order for admission of seven Negroes to white schools of Ar lington County, just across the Potomac River from the national capital.
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