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Editorial Opinion
AM Station
Best Senior
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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.
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of rho Daily Collegian and do not necessarily represent
the •lews of the University or of the student body
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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
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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.