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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.
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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? Waring Hall;
Foundation Committee, 8 p.m.,
217 HUB
Cabinet Judicial Committee, 9
p.m., 218 HUB
Chem-yhys Council, 7 p.m., 216
HUB
Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m.,
218 HUB
Collegian Ad Staff, 6:45 p.m., 9
Carnegie
Collegian Classified Ad Staff, 6:30
p.m., Main Office
Collegian Promotion Staff, 6:45
p m , 215 Willard
Dancing Class, 4:15 p.m., 6:30 p.m.,
HUB ballroom
Delta Sigma Pi, 7:30 p.m., Phi
Sigma Delta
Freshman Council, 6:30 p.m., 217
HUB
Fr,
•eshman Regulations Boar d,
12:30 p.m., 212 HUB
amma Sigma Sigma members,
6 . 30 p.m., HUB assembly room;
pledges, 6:15 p.m., HUB assem
bly room
is - tory Round Table, 7:30 p.m.,
203 Willard
Home Economics Student Coun-
eil, 7 p.m., Sewing Center
Intercollegiate Con fere nc e on
Government, 7:30 p.m.. 203 HUB
Liberal Arts Student Council, 6:30
p.m , 212 HUB
Mineral Industries Colloquium,
4:15 p.m., Mineral Sciences
Auditorium
Neu Bayrischen Schuhplattlers, 7
p.m., 2 White
Panhellenic Council, 6:30 p.m.,
203 HUB
Physics Colloquium, 4:15 p.m., 117
Osmond
Phi Epsilon Kappa, 9 p.m., 218
HUB
Science Fiction Club, 7 p.m., 218
HUB
Science Institute for Teachers,
4:15 p.m., 112 Buckhout
Tau Beta Pi, pledge meeting, 7:30
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p.m., 102 Sackett
WSGA Judicial, 5 p.m., 217 HUB
Young Republicans, 8 p.m., Cam
paign Headquarters
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
John Aber, William Bianco, Ann Cooke,
Richard Desarra, Katherine Dietrich, Allen
Cordon. 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
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"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
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