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Editorial Opinion
A Break for Frosh
The Lion’s Den in the Hetzel Union Building soon
may be open an hour and a quarter later on Friday and
Saturday nights.
The question of later hours for the Den yesterday
was referred to Ossian R. MacKenzie, vice president for
business administration, by the Hetzel Union Board.
Tha board recommended that the food line hours be
extended from 11 p.m. to midnight and that the Den
itself remain open until 12:15.
The action was taken despite a 2-weekend experi
ment by Food Service which indicated the Lion’s Den
would not break even financially if later hours were
allowed. Under the experiment the Den and the food line
remained open until 12:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday
nights Oct. 4,5, 11 and 12.
Food Service went to a great deal of trouble to make
the experiment. Food line employees had to work over
time. Cleanup crews were delayed. A check on the num
ber of paying customers was made every 15 minutes.
For their willingness to cooperate with the Hetzel
Union Board and to conduct the experiment, and for the
manner in which the experiment waa made, Food Service
staff members deserve a vote of thanks.
But basing their estimate on figures derived from the
experiment, Food Service officials predicted that between
$2O and $25 would be lost each night the Lion’s Den would
remain open until 12:30, if this were done on a permanent
basis.
This figure should be reduced substantially if tha
food line is closed by midnight and the Den itself shuts
at 12:15.
Members of the Hetzel Union Board believed the
financial loss involved is outweighed by the welfare of
the students—especially the freshmen and other inde
pendent men, who would be expected to benefit most from
the later hours.
The board members’ feelings toward student welfare
should be shared by the administration.
Hear This, Vets of '9B
The Daily Collegian has received the following press
release from the Veterans Administration regional office
in Wilkes-Barre:
“Spanish-American War veterans should not assume
that Veterans Administration can pay bills for their care
in non-VA hospitals, the agency cautioned today.
"A substantial number of these veterans have en
tered private hospitals under the assumption that their
care would be at VA expense and later have found that
they were not eligible for this benefit.
“The veterans and their families have had to accept*
responsibility for the cost of the hospitalization, which
often has been expensive . . .”
The release runs on for five more paragraphs on the
plight of the Spanish-American War veteran.
Now we don’t know for a fact how many Spanish-
American War veterans read The Daily Collegian. If any
do, we’d like to hear from them, since we’ve just asked to
be removed from the VA mailing list.
But the point is that this release is typical of the
Junk mail that Collegian and most other newspapers re
ceive from government agencies (yesterday The Colle
gian received three identical releases from the Civil Serv
ice Commission).
Most of this stuff is not of general interest and is
good only for lining wastebaskets in newspaper offices
from coast to coast. It burns almost as well as the tax
payers’ dollars it represents.
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Washington
1800 Politicos
Campaigned.
On the Side
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON (A 3 ) Here are
President Eisenhower and former
President Truman hurrying about
like bird dogs during quail season.
Although politicians love to
quote the founding fathers as gos
pel, no one mentions this fact:
The men who set up this gov
ernment would have been horri
fied by such behavior.
Watching Eisenhower speak
from Chicago, reading about Tru
man in Wilmington and points
east, you may get the idea this
type of pleading for votes has
gone on forever.
Yet this country had been in
business for almost a half cen
tury, and had had seven presi
dents, before anyone campaigned
openly for the job.
William Henry Harrison broke
the precedent in 1836. He took a
tour from New York to Illinois,
making speeches and leaving the
impression that he was -willing.
But presidential politicking did
not immediately become accepted
practice. Many a candidate still
thought it was smarter to keep
quiet. Lincoln, for instance, made
no camoaign speeches, either in
1860 or 1864.
Not until modern times did a
President concede that a man
doesn’t stop being a politician the
moment he moves into the White
House. Not too surprisingly, Theo
dore Roosevelt was the first to
churn out political statements.
Yet some of the old feeling
lingers. To this - day, we hear of
this or that political comment be
ing beneath the dignity of a Pres
ident or a former President.
And the man who seeks the
office must be careful not to ap
pear 100 eager.
However, historians appear a
greed that only George Washing
ton ever got the job without mak
ing a move in his own behalf,
carrying out the belief of many
of the founders that this could be
a nation without factions, that is,
parties.
The others may not have lifted
a' finger publicly, but they man
aged to sneak in a few rabbit
punches behind scenes. Jefferson,
for example, kept up a continuous
correspondence.
Although the presidency was to
remain a special case, political
campaigning was to become more
open and more industrious.
By 1840 John Quincy Adams
was writing:
“One of the most remarkable
pecularities of the present time is
that the principal leaders of the'
political parties are travelling
about the country from state to
state, and holding forth, like
Methodist preachers, hour after
hour . . .
“Besides the prime leaders of
the parties, numerous subaltern
officers of the administration are
summoned to the same service,
and, instead of attending to the
duties of their offices, rave, re
cite, and madden round the land.’’
They’ve been raving, reciting
and maddening round the land
ever since.
Gazette
TODAY
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8 p.m., Hillel Foundation
Home Economics Extension, 10
ajn., 217 HUB
Inierlandia Advanced Folk Dane-
..ing, 7:30p.m., 3 White
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship,
12:45 q,m, 218 HUB
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship,
7:30 p.m., 214 Boucke
Lutheran Student Association,
“Olde Tyme Movies,” 7:30 p.m.,
LSA Student Center
UCA, 4 p.m., 214 HUB
Wesley Foundation, open house,
8 p.m., Wesley Foundation
William Bailey, Barbara Bell, Julia Cal*
deron, Anne Cypher, Mary Davenport,
Marlin Ebert, William Eckel, Linda Fir
rell, Michael Fullerton, Ronald Gray, Barry
Herr, Marjorie Kapelsohn, Joseph Kere
nick, Patricia Kern, Linda Mannen, David
Nelson, John Orr, John Rapchak, Russel
Stevenson* Kenneth Sullivan* David Wtt»
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tile Man on Campus by Dick Biblcf
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■Behind the News
Psych 2 Lecture:
'Shut Up and Deal'
The ultimate in television course programming has
happened—Psychology 2 has produced its own version of
“Shock Theater.”
However, the show still looked to us more like “Bob
and Ray" than the chilling program which rocketed
Roland Philadelphia’s "Cool
Ghoul”—to nationwide tame
It all started in Wednesday’s
class with a friendly little card
game among students who
traded the cards with each
other to try to accumulate four
of a kind. The players won
points for their speed in reach
ing the goal—the points count
ing toward the ultimate prize,
a s2’pot.
But as lha students became
more engrossed in ibeir little
game, the stock-market-type
trading got wilder, which
moved the silver-tongued ora
tor who sits next to us to re
mark, "They ought to put the
whole bunch in a cage."
As the game reached fever
pitch, a professor unkindly
dumped a
white rat right
into the mid
dle of the pot.
It sort of
broke things
up.
One coed re
coiled amid
screams of
horror. An
other just sat
there with a
franklin startled look
on her face. One of the male
students also looked shaken,
but quickly recovered and be-
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24, 1958
By Boh Franklin
gan playing with the rat with
a card.
The dealer, who reminded us
of a Las Vegas croupier with
out his green eyeshade, calmly
ignored the whole mess and
kept on passing the cards
around, as if to say, "Shut up
and let me deal!" (By the way,
he won the pot).
However it affected the stu
dents, the whole thing was ra
ther wearing on the rat. Not
only did he perform rather in
delicately over a Sparks-wide
TV hookup, but later forced
one of the professors to set
him down suddenly.
This type of lecture does
pro vide something different
in the way of classes even
Music 5 by TV was never like
this. Psychology 2 is the only
class that makes us wish for
commercials so we can go to
the kitchen for peanuts or
something without missing
anything.
But perhaps there are no
commercials' because of ■ the
talk-back speaker system.
During Wednesday’s lecture
the students around us stifled
their urge to call in to ask
“What’s Wild?’’—but they are
looking forward to the day
when there will be a roulette
wheel in every TV classroom.
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