PAGE EIGHT ' Editorial Opinion Welcome, New Student Welcome to Penn State: e hope you're glad to be here. We're glad you are here to gain a college education and to carry on the traditions of the University. We hope you'll be just as welcome when you come back next year as you are now. Whether you will be, of cour,, , , is something we can't tell yet—something that depends entirely on you. Your welcome next year naturally will depend on your actions this year. And if those actions are aimed toward bettering Yourself intellectually and socially and toward building up the traditions established by classes of the past, you will he welcome indeed. Everything you do in your college life here will be ao closely associated in some way with the University that your actions will become Penn State's actions. When you walk down the street in your home town, you are Penn State. When you wear a Penn State jacket or drive a car with a Penn State sticker, you represent the home of the Nittany Lions. When you eat in a State College restaurant or attend a sports event, you are the University. Of course we will not be able to welcome many of you back next year. You won't be here. Surveys have shown that approximately 50 per cent of freshmen entering the University fail to graduate. Scholarship is of great importance, and your first reason for being here is to get a scholastic education. But we hope you will not neglect the other phases of education. If by the time you graduate you must admit that you have never donned a dink, never watched a lacrosse game, never visited the Penn State Room, never' attended a chapel service or never at least seen the inside of a fra ternity, then you will not have given yourself a very complete education. We hope you , vill avail yourself of these oppor tunities. And we hope you will take a part in Penn State's activities, upholding her traditions and working for her betterment. We want to welcome you back next year Roar, Young Lions! It has often been said by visiting spectators, coaches, and even game officials that Penn State fans are good sportsmen. We like it that way and we want to maintain our reputation. You are going to be part of these sports crowds, crowds that we hope will continue to enjoy and help others enjoy Penn State sports by being sportsmen—by supporting the Nittany Lions enthusiastically, apprecia'ing and applaud ing good plays by both teams. So when you witness an outstanding Lion play, don't be afraid to let yourself be heard. You won't lose any of your sophistication by letting loose and cheering. Your class's enthusiasm can lead the way to strong support for, and fine performances by, the Nittany Liens. We hope this freshman class, the University's 100th, will be the finest and most enthusiastic sports fans in her history. teditorials •re written bf the editors and staff s saber a of the U•Ily Collegian and do not neceuarllf represent the view, of the University or or the etudent body. A Student-Operated Newspaper MR Battu Tottrogintt Successor to The Free Lance est 1889 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. no Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper Entered as second-class matter July i 1914 at thy Stale College Pa Post Office under the act of March 3 Mt Mall quharriplion Prirst 13 00 per semester IS 90 per /Mt ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor 41.';.' City Editor, David Fineman: Managing Editor, Richard Drayne; Sports Editor, Lou Prato; Associate Sports Editor, Matt Mathews; Personnel and Public Relations Director, Patricia Evans; Copy Editor. Lynn Ward; Assistant Copy Editor, Dick Cisber: Photography Editor, Robert Thompson. Credit Mgr Janice Smith: Local Ad blur.. Tom Buckley: MM. Local Ad Mgr., Rolicrt Pirrone: National Ad Mgr, Betsy Brarkbill Promotion Mgr., Kitty Bar ren: Personnel Mgr., Mickey Nash; Classified Ad Mgr., Bambara Ryan; Co- Ciri illation Mgrs.. Mary Anne Pirst and Murray Simon; Research and Records Mgr., Mary Ilerbein : Office Secretary, Mita Johnson. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Bob Franklin, Dave Fineman, Dick Drayne, Lou Prato, Matt Mathews, Pat Evans, Lynn Ward, Bob Thomp son, Denny Malick, George French, Ron Kerr and Lianne Cordero. . THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager One of Country's Few Collegian Enters Its 54th Year As Uncensored Student Paper The Daily Collegian, one of the nation's few student operated newspapers which are free from censorship and day-to-day direct su pervision, enters its 54th year of publication with this issue. The State Collegian, an 8- column, 4-page weekly ap pealed in 1904. In succeeding years, the name was changed to the Penn State Collegian and finally to The Daily Col legian. Actually, The Collegian can trace its history further back, to the Free Lance, a combina tion literary magazine and newspaper in booklet form es tablished in 1887. -Behind the News 1 PFA N u:r-s WHAT IF NOBODY NAD Enrollment Grows, EVER DISCOVEZD AMERICA? I Farm Work Goes ..... 104 - t,. ..i,5 , ( ~., s 4;# By Bob Franklin The University would be in a fine fix if the Class of assargaimsemsomesr— G 1962—the 100th class—were to arrive today in circum- WI-lAT IF IT WA UNDISCOVERED, AND I D I CAME stances similar to the first rush to the campus. ALONG ANDMOOVERED IT? .. Only 69 of the 100 persons who had engaged places --- P showed up when the Farmers' High School opened on Feb. 16, 1859. - And when the students got ni _,...A 1 scientific subjects co m posed di i .t..v, 7=-7..,- - 0//.140 1 4 v/5..///s n e., here they found their dormi- most of the 4-year coll e g e ...i tory—O 1 d Ma i n—with only „,,,,,_ ...1.,31 . _ _ „........_ ...._,.. ... curriculum. Four one wing completed and with taught the subjects. no dining room, kitchen, or The original Old Main was WOULDN'T THAT if bathroom facilities. not completed until 1863. It BE 6NETPING? ff The dining room and kit- served as practically the en- fi r e chen were set up in nearby tire school and housed every- - .4) it wiii t e - washed construction thing except the livestock— „ ,- r s shanties. Water was obtained and sometimes even that at 1 r i from oth e r ,• -- - , , the hands of prankster stu- . \tl parts of the ' dents. campus. And what happened to the Mt ;4 A Tlie r e was , pioneer students who began 1 1 ' l-=-.1 I 1 4 A4 1 10 1..1/ only one en- .. - 7 , classes in 1859? Three years I vi v V i t t 1 11-- - ='- V ; '- 0 ,r/i lilt -kd i‘ trance to the , , later, the first class, composed im! _ .. View ....., _ building, and A of 11 members, was graduated. • that was gain- , . The next year the graduating I NEVER GET ANY BREAKS! ,ed on a cleat- ' - •'t -, class consisted of 15 members, ed board like 4 . the largest before 1890, accord- ----- 7 - 7 ---'---.—''''' _ . a ship's gang , ing to Wayland F. Dunaway, • plank. Pil e s -•`A , professor emeritus of Amen- ( - ...'i (1) , of stone, brick , ' ' can history and author of C' 3.) and Iu m ber , - "History of The Pennsylvania were all over State College." Owe _ . the place, and a large quarry The Class of 1962, with a hole yawned at the east side slightly eas i e r college life, • _ ---,- " ....----'" , wow,- _.-.-- , of the building. should be able to better that .g.vt-W- 1 • • • - 1 '.- _---- ----..i:: percentage. ..mgalhowimmio, .4.0."-'O4 Students who must begin the 1953-59 year living in tempor ary quarters at the hospital or in residence hall lounges are fortunate by comparison. The first classmen found three-inch-thick heavy doors put at the stairway entrance to each floor to be locked at night, thus forcing students to study rather than visit friends. The students' only means of getting to their rooms was to walk up and down the stairs. as many as five flights. And there were no fire escapes when the building opened. Of course the student's day was not all study and no work. He was required to put in three hours every day except Saturday and Sunday on farm work. The students of the Class of 1862 did have the - longer Christmas vacation more re cent classes have been clam oring for. But it had one draw back: it was also the summer vacation, sin'i terms ran from the middle of February to the middle of December. But the outlook couldn't have been too discouraging, since more students kept arriving. A total of 119 were enrolled during the session, but no more than 100 were in atten dance at any one time. President Evan Pugh com mented sadly on the with drawals and expulsions: "Ex perience soon proved that this flock was not without its black sheep." English, mathematics, phil osophy and a wide range of From its beginnings, the Col legian has been free from cen sorship by faculty and admin istration. The late President Ralph Dorn Hetzel was the first to clearly set forth the principle of free press at the University when he told the new Colle gian editor: "No member of the College administration will censor your copy in advance of publica tion." The Collegian, as a student newspaper, emphasizes in its coverage that which it does best—covering campus news. But it is not restricted to this. A lease-wire member of the Associated Press, the Col legian covers news from all over the state, nation and world. Because of its assured 14,000 circulation, the Collegian has Little Man on Campus by Dick di SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1958 been called the best way for both local and national adver tisers to reach the University students. Organizationally, the Colle gian is operated by two staffs —editorial, headed by Editor Robert Franklin, and business, under Business Manager Frank Vojtasek. The editor and the business manager are responsible to Collegian, Inc., publishers of the newspaper. Collegian, Inc., is a board composed of four students in addition to the edi tor and business manager and six faculty and administration personnel. James H. Coogan Jr., director of the Department of Public Information, is presi dent. Newspaper policy and its day-to-day running is handled by the Board of Editors of the (Continued on Page 21) -aywick—he's in char! iTeshman orientation:'
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