PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Tea and T-Shirts The first full-scale community living project will become a reality when the new Pollock Circle'Residence Balls are completed. The present Nittany area dining halls will be torn down when the new lulls are completed, Director of Housing Otto E. Mueller said yesterday, and men from Nittany will dine with coeds in the new dorms area. Along with the change for Nittany residents, the men in the new Pollock Halls will be split into three groups and will dine with coeds in McElwain, Simmons or Redi fer Dining Halls. All of these halls are now being used exclusively by coeds. The new dining arrangement should prove to be an effective step toward the overall community living setup which has been the goal of many students and adminis tration members for years. Probably the outstanding benefits of the new system will be the boost it should give to the social life of the students involved. Men in Nittany now have very little chance to meet coeds, except in classes, and are virtually "shut out" socially because of their isolated living area. But the new arrangement should give them an op portunity to make contacts which should make their social lives much more enjoyable. Another benefit of the new system is the improvement it should bring to the dining standards currently pre valent among many Nittany students. The complete lack of decorum which is often so evident in the Nittany Dining Hall should vanish when the men begin dining with coeds. We assume that such practices as dining in T-shirts will not be tolerated in the community dining halls. These are just a few of the benefits which the new system should provide. In general, community dining should be a lively and interesting experience for all stu dents involved, and should be especially important in building morale. Open Season on Voters The political catnpaign season is upon us. Office seekers are scurrying from town to town throughout the state and nation. The voter who follows the campaigns closely often appears to be subject to more mental exhaustion than the would-be senators, governors, congressmen, legislators, councilmen and poll-watchers. While the office-seeker may set his campaign on a high plateau or in the mud, the voter is subject to a barrage of almost every conceivable level from every direction, Since it is difficult to determine whether a voter goes to the polls to cast a ballot for or to cast it against a candidate, it isn't easy to tell how hard the voters are on the office-seekers. But we hope that during this campaign the office seekers won't be too hard on the voters. editorials an written 01 the editors end staff mewiliers of l'he Daily Collegian end do not nec sssss lb represent the glews of the University or of the student body A Student-Uperatea Newspaper MR Batty Toilrgiatt Successot to The Free Lance est 1887 Published teem*, through Saturday morning during the Univereity year. The Daily Lollegian Is a student-operated newspaper Entered es second-dues matter Jelly 6 1924 at the State College Pa Poet Office under the get of March a tint Mali Subscription Priee: 13.110 pee lesuster 115.1111 per me ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor '<eg*• City Editor David rifleman: Managing Editor, Richard Draynes Sports Editor, Lou Prato: Associate Sports Editor. Matt Mathews: Personnel and Public Relations Director. Patricia Evans• Copy Editor, Lynn Ward: Auistant Copy Editor. Dick Fisher: Photography Editor Robert Thompson. Credit Mgr., Janke Smith; Local Ad Mgr.. Tom Hockey; Asst. Local Ad Mn, Robert Pirrone; National Ad Mgr.. Betsy Brarkbill; Promotion Mgr.. Kitty Ran Bert; Personnel .Stgr„ Mickey Nash: Classified Ad Mgr., Rae Waters: Co. Circulation Mgrs., Mary Anne First ■nd Murray Simon; Research and Record. Mgr.. Mary lierbein: Office Secretary, this Johnson. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Janet Durstine; Copy Editor, Lianne Cor. derv: Wits Editor, George French; Assistants, Katie Davis, Judy Rosenblum. Barb Mee:maid, John Root. Des Hutchins, Edith Beck, Jim- Moran, Nancy Thant, Mary Gomhar. Susan Fmminger, Linda Carle, Ginny Croft, Marla rather, Karel: Boater. Joni Nathan, Judi Hyman. Jamey Hut THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager Letters Frosh Asks More Spirit TO THE EDITOR: Upon coming here as a freshman, we were told by our hat girl that we should give our ideas 'and viewpoints since we, just arriving, could see things more objectively than those who had been here. I would like to say a few words about the so-called pep rallys. My high school had more spirit than I saw displayed in front of Old Main last Thursday. First of all, the percentage of the 14,000 campus students in at tendance was not very good. And I don't believe that those who were there put their hearts into it. r think the techniques of the cheerleaders need revision. I be lieve that they could have done a better job if just four or six of them faced the crowd and the rest mingled through it. Isn't there a more peppy song than the one that was sung? We were there to cheer the team on, not let them down. Instead of bellowing out with lots of spirit, everyone sounded as though they were trying out for a chorus. I like the Alma Maier and I think it's one of the most beau tiful I've heard. That's just the sort of thing that shouldn't be the finale of a pep rally. If it must be sung at such a meeting it ought to be at the beginning so that the crowd will know just exactly for what it is cheering. To be a successful pep rally, it should be put into high gear and kept there. Everyone should leave Old Main feeling keyed up and ready to ROAR. —Suanne Catterall, '62 Gazette TODAY Accounting Club, 7 p.m., Mineral Science Auditorium Ag Hill Party Committee, 6:30 p.m., 212 HUB All-University Cabinet. 7 • p.m., 203 HUB Androcles.. 10 p.m., Beta Sigma Rho Chimes, 4 p.m., 212 HUB Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m., 218 HUB Christian Science Organization, 7 p.m., 212 Chape! Cwens, 8 p.m., 212 HUB Dancing Class, 4:15 p.m., HUB Ballroom Eastern Orthodox Society, 7 p.m., 214 Boucke Education Student Council Coffee Hour, 4 'p.m., HUB Dining Room C Hillel Library and Public Speak ' ing Committees, 7 p.m., Hillel Foundation Junior Class Advisory Board. Of fice Hours, 1-3 p.m., 203-B HUB Management Club, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., HUB Lobby Navy Recruiting, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., HUB Ground Flobr Newman Club. 6:45 p.m., 214-215 HUB Outing Club-Ski Division, 7 p.m., 111 Boucke Philosophy Club, 7 a.m.-10 pan,, 217-218 HUB Science Institute for Teachers, 8 p.m., 214-215 HUB Thompson Hall Dance, 6:30 p.m., HUB Ballroom UCA Interfoundation Council, 6:30 p.m., Wesley Foundation Classroom UCA Service Committee. 7:15 p.m., 213 HUB WRA Officials Club, 6:30 p.m., 2 White Hall uNLVERSITY HOSPITAL Joseph Bohart, Barbara Burket, Pamela Enander, Harry Hager, Linda Hunt, Philip Johnson, Wanda Knepp, John Larimer, Bennett Levin. Andrew Moconyi, Francis Paolone. Matilda Scott, Freya Weister, Ann Yacaintia, Jack Miller, Margaret Por ter, Russell Noll, Stanley Clarke, James Roads. Alumni Will Register For Annual Homecoming Thousands of alumni will re turn to the campus this weekend for the annual Homecoming. Alumni registration will begin 1:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Hetzel Union lobby and will continue through Saturday. Tomorrow night's program in cludes a showing of current foot ball films at 8:30 in the HUB As sembly Room. . . Little Man on Campus by Dick Sibler "Masterfully written, Professor Snarf—it's seldom my pleasure to see a test with so many ambiguous questions." Behind the News Please Don't Steal The Buildings "It looks like the unbelievable has happened," ex claimed State Auditor Gen. Charles C. Smith. "It looks like the bridge has been stolen." Smith, according to an Associated Press dispatch, was referring to a 100-foot span that disappeared on its way' to a highway shed at Roches ter, The bridge spanned a stream at Fombell, Beaver . County, until September-1955, when it was hit by a car —and prompt ly collapsed. The State Department of Highways Pittsburgh district "MI office ordered ~,,,. ,' .. ~. the remains .-:, ~ z- - -k, removed. But • • ;-> - . . the remains ,--. .4 1, 1,1 never got to ,•: -., ~--•;. 9 where they ...-....• -.., :',•'-'''.': were supposed 7. - - - ••••- .f , '"4 ''''' ' to go. . l' 4.... , - , However, -.-.. -...., part of the '., --. . . ..:,. bridge has , - been traced.',; - ' - ~, ,-•„: ...- A :1 A high ways -',.., -'!.-, :, 1 7 .:' ' '4 department.. - ---- - - - " . =--' spokesman - .FRANKUN said more than 15 tons of steel from the span has been used in bridgework throughout the county including a replace ment for the original bridge at Fombell. To this, Smith has replied, "A ctuall y, it is immaterial whether the dismantled bridge ever reached the highway shed at Rochester or not. The fact is that it disappeared and there is no record that the state was ever paid a cent for the salvageable material." Now this is a serious situa tion. If the state highways de partment really needs the YOU THINK You CAN SAY JUST ANYTHING TO ME, DON'T YOU?, 11 Is II li i il - &l , t 1.,(141 •44j 4 ... THURSDAY, OCTOBtR 9. 1958 By Bob Franklin money—and after driving on many state highways, we are sure That it does—there are a number of ways 11 could go about collecting: Perhaps t 01l should be charged on the new bridge to pay for the old span. Or per haps tolls should be collected on all those Beaver County bridges that now contain parts of the old bridge—on a direct ly proportional basis, of course. But this could become trou blesome. Toll booths would have to be set up and this might necessitate another complete reconstruction of the bridge (or bridges). Another alternative would be for the highways depart ment to repossess the pieces of steel used in other bridges. But this would be pretty messy, too, and might tend to have an undesirable effect on transportation in Beaver County. Perhaps steps should be fa• ken to prevent a recurrence. Montgomery County parks, for instance, specifically prohibit removal of buildings. The University is fortunate in that it has only one span —a foot bridge in front of the President's mansion. But we wonder what regulations cover removal of "temporary" build ings, Walker Lab, Graduate Re s i dence Hall, McAllister Hall and the Armory. DON'T YOU THINK I RAVE ANY FEELINGS? DON'T YOU 'MINK I'M LIKE EVERYONE ELSE? 4 k. ) vid4o, THE TOPS OF YOUR FEET ARE GETTING FAT, CRAZE BROWN
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