PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Gift Problem: Partly Solved Members of the Class of 1959 received welcome news Thursday night—the University will pay for their class gift. Although it is regrettable that the University will appear to be paying for a gift to the University, actually the students may be doing the giving after all—though payment of fees which may be used to provide the gift or to take the place of money so used. The agreement represents a fair solution to the prob lem fur the Class of '59. The University had every right to refuse use of its funds for any more class gifts, but the suddenness of the gifts' withdrawal did not give the stu dents time to plan ahead. The agreement announced Thursday night also repre sents a victory for the effectiveness of student govern ment. All-University President Jay Feldstein and Senior Class President Charles Welsh worked quickly and effi ciently in conferring with President Eric A. Walker and other members of the administration—and they achieved results. One factor of the problem that has not been resolved is reaction on the Board of Trustees to the University paying for the gift. It is to be hoped that the trustees will not vote down the senior's choice because the board mem bers themselves would ordinarily not spend University money on such an item. But this is a problem of the future Now that the gift situation has been resolved as well as possible for the Class of 1959, students should concern themselves with the problems still facing the Classes of 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, and all classes not yet enrolled in the University. The Senior Class Advisory Board is considering sug gested ways of establishing a gift for future classes. Its members must work with both speed and care if they are to work out the best possible plan in time for action by the Class of 1960. But the Class of 1958 is in a different situation. Having graduated, it is in no position to take any organized action. Its gift must be considered as having been made under a past agreement. As such it should be honored by the Board of Trustees when that body meets next weekend on campus. Praise and Respect This is newspaper week. All week long, all over the country, newspapers have been carrying editorials praising newspapers. This is only natural. We believe we would be the first to agree that newspapers serve a vital function in the community; that they deserve praise for the many duties they perform; and that their continued freedom to print and comment on the news as they see it is one of the bulwarks of American liberty. But too often many newspapermen forget that any newspaper is no stronger than the respect the public has for it. So it behooves the newspaperman to inform the peo ple as accurately and completely as he knows how; to treat the members of the community with a sense of re sponsibility; to work vigorously for the public welfare. The staff members of The Daily Collegian will con tinue to try to achieve these objectives. A Student-Operates Netospapet Otlr Battu Tottegiatt Successor to The Free Lance est 1887 Published fuesday through Saturday morning daring the University year. The Deily Collegian is 4 student-operated newspaper Entered as seeond-class matter July $ 1934 it the State College Pa Post Office under the set of March 3 Nail 4obarriptlon Prim+ $3 00 per semester $5.11t pet mat ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor <6O" City Editor David Fineman; Managing Editor, Richard Dram,: Sports Editor, Lou Prato: Associate Sports Editor; Matt Mathews: Personnel and Public Relations Director. Patricia Evans; Copy Editor, Lynn Ward t Assistant Copy Editor. Dick Fisher; Photography Editor Robert Thompson. Credit Mgr., Janice Smith; Local Ad Mgr., Tom Bucker: Asst. Local Ad Mgr., Robert Pirrone; National Ad Mgr.. Betsy Brackhill; Promotion Mgr.. Kitty Bar gert; Personnel Mgr., Mickey Nash; Classified Ad Mgr., Rae Waters; Co• Circulation Mgrs.. Mary Anne First and Murray Simon: Researeh and Records Mar., Mary flerhein: Office Secretary, Myla Johnson. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Cony Editor, Denny Manch: Wire Editor, Lianne Cordero; Assistants Helen McCafferty, John Root, Judy Rosenblum, Toni Eggler, Judy Menotti. Jim Mortn. Deg Hutchins, Joyce Rubenstein, Jim Semi!, Charlotte Flack. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager Letters Vets' Phys Ed Policy Queried TO THE EDITOR: Does Mr. Brickman, chairman of the Uni versity Senate Committee on Aca demic Standards, who is himself a veteran, consider three or four years of active duty as fulfilling the requirements of a "minimum physical education program?" Evidently some colleges do; some exempt veterans from physical education, and some even grant academic credit. I am sure that Mr. Brickman, who is himself a veteran, knows that the veterans do not object to the physical side of education. To many, it is just a question of mathematics. Four 3-hour 1-credit courses add up to 12 hours, three ci edits; four 3-hour 3-credit cours es add up to 12 credits. If a person does not know how to keep himself "in shape" after a tour of service and after 21 years or so, I don't think that four se mesters of phys ed will help much. , , Perhaps the exemption plan should be changed to an optional plan. Whatever the decision is, I feel sure that there won't be any grip ing from veterans—if a decision isn't reached, that's OK too. —George Sirelakos'6o Gazette TODAY Club Hubanna, 1:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., 214-215-216 HUB Cross Country—Navy (home), 1 p.m. Entre Nous mixer, 8 p.m., Wesley Foundation Job Interviews, 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., 217 HUB Student Movies, 8 to 10 p.m., HUB Assembly Room TOMORROW Circa Literary Magazine Staff Meeting, 7 p.m., 109 Boucke Delphi, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., 217 HUB Entre Nous, speaker—Mr. Kelly Yeaton, 2 p.m., 217-218 HUB Jazz Club, Ted Heath, 8 p.m., Rec reation Building Junior Class Advisory Board, 2 p.m., 212-213 HUB Newman Club, 7 p.m., 214, 215, 216 HUB Student Movies, 6:30 p.m., Assem bly Hall Swedbordjan Services, 10:30 a.m., 212 HUB WSGA, 2 p.m., 214 HUB MONDAY Alpha Phi Alpha, 7 p.m., 215 HUB Alpha Phi Omega, 8 p.m., 214, 215, 216 HUB, 7 p.m., 212, 213 HUB Christian Fellowship, 12:45 a.m., 218 HUB College of Liberal Arts, 2:10 p.m., 218 HUB Dancing Class, 6:30 p.m., HUB Ballroom Engineering Mechanics Seminar, 4:15 p.m., 203 Engineering "A" Faculty Luncheon Club, 12 noon, dining room "A" HUB Gamma Sigma Sigma, 6:45 p.m., Assembly Hall Job Interviews, 11 a.m., 217 HUB Vesper Service of Worship, 4:15 p m., Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel WSGA, 7:30 p.m., 217 HUB UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Barbara Andrews, Elaine Caplan, Thom ea Crawford, Christine Englund. Burton Golden, Barbara Greene, Shirley Green baum, Linda Hunt. Philio Johnson. Dale Alice Lang., Walter Makinster, Alan Mc- Fall, James McGovern, James Mitchell, Robert Moss, Joseph Patton. George Satin tiel3. John Schmidt, David Titus, Marilyn Trimble, Colin Wiggin, Joseph Kunsman. Posters Are Available For Ugly Man Contest Posters for Ugly Man contest publicity may be picked up at the Hetzel Union desk. Pledges and members of Alpha Phi Omega have been urged to pick up the posters and distribute them on campus and in town. Junior Advisory Board The Junior Class Advisory Board will meet at 2 p.m. tomor row in 212-213 Hetzel Union to discuss plans for the Junior Prom. Food Service Extends Hours in Lion's Den The Lion's Den of the Hetzel Union Building will be open until 12:30 a.m. tonight. This is the first of two trial weekends to determine whe ther sufficient student partici pation would warrant later snack bar hours. Little Man on Campus by Dick EDWIN 'STUDENT I UNION O - - - 0( ------ 7 ( trd _z___ : . .&//--- "----------=7----*. 4/"' C -2 c..--- (i.LIC y,---. i 1 il l / —/ -,: ), , .. . . -, >;,;17/-7:,, "Oh-oh—guess too many of us 'skipped' today— he followed ua over here." top of the mall Ohio Game Spirit— Could It Return? Late last night at the Collegian office several of the staffers were recalling what overwhelming student spirit had done to the campus the weekend Penn State beat Ohio State just two years ago. It was something the freshmen and sophomores have never seen at the University —but suppose it happened to day, Suppose we beat Army to day. What outlet of expression for the traditional football spirit would students find? On the afternoon of October 23, 1956, when the final game minutes came over radios in dormitories, fraternity houses and rooming houses in town, hundreds of students ran shouting and cheering through State College. All most people could say was that it was un believable. And it certainly was for the usual quiet of an off-weekend on campus. We wondered if students would go running through the downtown movie theaters this a f t ernoon as they did two years ago. We - w o n dered if • • the Mall would become a tho- . VFx, rough-fare be tween campus and town a gain for cars of all vintages and snake-line • • dancing s t u - dents. Jubilant stu- WARD dents carried banners, stream ers and other students (who really didn't know they were HERE COMES CHARLIE BROWN IF HE CALLS ME "FuIIY FACE"AGAiN TODAY, I THINK L I'LL SCREAM! , SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1958 by lynn ward being carried) across the cam pus shouting cheers and sing ing the Alma Mater. But this wasn't just a chance for students to go wild, so to speak—t he s e students were proud of a football team which made a fine showing to the whole country. All, their spirit was tempered with this sense of pride. We could evert- draw a par allel. Two years ago there was a pep rally just like Thursday night's rally. In fact two years ago Sever J. Toretti, line coach, spoke at the pep rally, as he did Thursday night. At the rally before the Ohio State game, Toretti told a small crowd, "There are only a few (about 600) of you here tonight but you will be proud you were here when you join the thousands who will be here Sunday morning. Toretti called it right. Early Sundy morning some 2000 students showed up at Recreation Building to wel come the victorious Lions back. No one could recall when a student demonstration had been so great; we doubt if any one will forget it. • But we wonder now if it could be repeated and what sort of spirit the students will show when the Lions return— win or lose. THAT'S THE FRST TIME 1 I'VE EVER A H EARD DOG . , SCI2EAM: , sc - Mee 1-23 ~ d 4 0,
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