PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion One Down, One to Go Students with heavy course loads may be able to boost their semester averages considerably next spring. They will have an extra day and a half between the end of classes and the beginning of finals in which to bone up for the exams. Spring semester clases will end at 11:50 a.m. Saturday, May 23. By discarding the custom of scheduling finals for Satui day afternoon, the University will make sure that no students go immediately from classes to exams with little chance for concentrated study. The day-and-a-half gap between the end of classes and the start of finals is a much-needed "study break." The University has acted wisely in granting it and in trying to make plans to continue the break in future semesters. To establish the break, the administration discarded the Memorial Day holiday, which few students celebrated anyway. But, although students will he taking exams that day, University offices will be closed! Establishing a "study break" such as the one the Uni versity will put into effect next spring was recommended to the Senate Calendar committee by All-University Cabinet this fall. Another recommendation of Cabinet was establish ment of a floating half-holiday each semester. The fall half-holiday probably would be used to enable students with Saturday classes to attend away football games. The spring holiday could be used to help students to attend athletic contests or other University events. The dates of the half-holidays could be determined by All-University Cabinet or by a method (such as a student referendum) determined by Cabinet. Students have won half the battle to gain a more flexible schedule for both study and recreation purposes. But the other half has yet to be decided. They Care Enough . . . Voting will be held today and tomorrow for eight college councils. Six of the elections will be held for freshman, and two for both freshman and sophomore representatives. The student council is an important rung in the ladder of student government. We won't say that student gov ernment is all-powerful. But we will say it wields much power—and the reason it does is perhaps so deceptively simple that it is often ignored: Student government—as good or as poor as we choose to make it—is the only official organ of student opinions and student desires. Does that sound 100 much like a hollow platitude? Then look at it this way: If student government wished to drop the half-holiday issue, the University would have no choice but to assume the plan was contrary to student wishes. If student government turned its back in the question of dropping penalties for class cuts, the University could only think students did not care. If student government turned its back on the question physical education voluntary for veterans, the University must only guess the entire student body wished to ignore These are only a few familiar issues—there are count- less others, If those eligible to vote care at all about who is going to voice these questions for them, they should vote for their council representatives—and develop the habit and interest to vote in every election where their leaders are being chosen. A Student-Operated Newspaper Gilt Battu Tritirgtatt Successor to The Free Lance est IU7 ra►llahed ruesday through Saturday morning daring the lUalverslty year, no Daily Collegian Is • •todent-operated newspaper Entered as second-class natter /all 3 1931 et the State College Pa Peat Office ander the eel of March 3 ISM Nall Subscription Price' 03.00 per emeeter Si AO pet me ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor 'tiEV)•' Cite Editor David Fineman; Monsen' Editor. Richard Drayne; Sports Editor, Loa Prato: Associate Sports Editor. Matt Mathews; Personnel and Public Relations Director, Patricia Evans; Cope Editor, Lynn Ward; Assistant COI* Editor. Disk Fisher: Photography Editor Robert Thompson. Credit Mgr. Janice Smith; Local Ad Mgr., Tom Mickey; Asst. Local Ad Mgr., Robert Pirrone; National Ad Mgr., Betsy Brackbill: Promotion Mgr.. Kitty Bar. god; Personnel Mgr., Mickey Nash; Classified Ad Mgr.. Rae Waters; Co- Circniation Mgrs. Mary Anna First and Marra, Simon: Research and Records Mgr.. Mary Herbein: Ottlre Secretary, Mitt Johnsoa. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor. Jeanette Saxe; Copy Editor. Cathy Fleck s IN ire Editot. George French: Assistants, Sieie Armon, Judy Rosenblum. Beta) , Anderum„ Dec Hutchins, Jim Semi!, Karyl du Chacek, Barbara Yunk, Sally Hoover, Judy Grundy. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager SeWee WHY NOT TRY COOKING rs" AIT i t ,‘ ColvEgsgal ).; PIECE? 41- Gazette TODAY AIM Board of Governors, 8 p.m., 202 Willard Agriculture Student Council, 7 p.m., 214 HUB Angel Flight drill, 6:30 p m., Ar- mory Bryan Green Executive Commit tee, 2 p.m., 12? 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James Henry. Jerome Klink, Mi chael Nagel, Rove Robin. Robert Salem, Beelike Shopp, William Wilson. Ed Seniors LaVie Photos Set Seniors in education may have their La Vie portraits taken be tween 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. today at the Penn State Photo Shop. Letter_ Reader Attacks Automobileßan TO THE EDITOR: The University is not fulfilling its traffic and parking responsibilities. Many students believe that not permitting freshmen to operate automobiles in Centre County is unfair. The student has a large sum of money invested in an auto mobile which he is forced to leave at home. He can obtain no pleasure or other return for his investment in this situation. The student each year pays his state for an automobile license to operate his automobile anywhere in the United States. Yet, the University does not permit the student to operate his automobile in Centre County. Does the Uni versity have the authority to make such a resolution? Is this rule fair and just, or did the administration pick the "easy way out." Students would also like to make their own decisions concerning the scholastic distrac tion of having their automobiles with them. They feel that it is an other way to train themselves to self-discipline. The problem of limited parking space has existed for many years at the University. Why is the problem not solved by now? In other cities new parking lots were constructed, merchants pro vided free parking for their cus tomers an d traffic engineers changed traffic movement on pri mary streets and highways. In sharp contrast, State College has restricted parking during th e night on many of its streets. The downtown merchants are just now beginning to feel the loss of business caused by the newly established 30-minute park ing limit downtown.,Many people now shop outside town where free parking is provided. In addition to this, the Uriiver sity has constructed several new dormitories and has not provided enough parking space at each dormitory to accommodate the in crease in student-owned auto mobiles. This shows a definite lack of foresight in planning. Al so, many of the new streets con necting these new• dormitories are wide enough for only two auto mobiles. This leads to traffic con gestion during rush hours. I now offer some possible solu tions. Each automobile operator could be required to pay a small parking fee to be used to con struct more parking space. Per. haps the University or the state should pay for the additional space required. In some cities apartment own ers are required to supply a park ing area for their tenants; State College could adopt such a pro gram. New York permits parking on one side of a street Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, an d overnight parking on the other side of the street on the other Little Man on Campus by Dick Dilator V ~_ ~ ~ ; ~~z "Say, they've sure speeded up this 'chow line' TUESDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1958 days in the week. This arrange ment makes street cleaning pos sible. Maybe outlying parking areas with shuttle bus service to the University is a solution. On the other hand, many students and employes now driving automobiles would come in buses if such a long overdue service is ever pro vided. This would be especially true in the winter when driving conditions are so poor. In any case, the University should not take "the easy way out" and simply say that sopho mores are not permitted to own or operate automobiles in Centre County. The University admin istration should examine and solve the problem, not just say no. I urge every other student, with any other ideas, or com ments, to write a letter to the edi tor of The Daily Collegian. —Lawrence A. Esard,'6l eLetter cut 'Too True' Called A Theatrical Bore TO THE EDITOR: In reference to critic Fineman's review of Play ers' "Too True to be Good": The Monster in the play informs us at the end of Act I that we have now seen the whole show and what follows in the next two acts is only comment developing Act I. This is only too true. Shaw is jibing in particular all future producers of the play who hope to stage something, albeit intel lectually stimulating, out of the heavy string of monologues and polylogues in the second and third acts. What are these qualities of "co hesiveness" and "timing" that Mr. Fineman believes keep these grinding verbages from intruding? I was intruded Upon. It appeared as if the audience at the perform ance (second) I attended was in truded upon. Cohesiveness and timing, present or not, cannot help a play that a sa whole is unproducable and unact a b 1 e. Shaw knew that the play was theatrically a bore, excepting the farce of Act I and short scatter bits elsewhere. Director Smith knew it, tried to circumvent the problem by lectern speechifying instead of conventional acting, and failed. I think Smith should have gone the other direction, providing farcial stage action to accompany these dialogues, in keeping with the farcial slapstick of the re mainder o f the play. An audience, confronted with inexplicably fun ny stage action in connection with serious, if satirical, speec h e s, would be intrigued enough to be entertained. They might even lis ten to and understand more of these Shavian concepts. This whole difficult and as a whole unsolvable problem could have been solved if Players had left the play in the books where it can be read and enjoyed and had staged instead a play such as "The Skin of Our Teeth," similar (Continued on page eight) dace I was hero last."
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