PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Veterans' PhysEd: Compound Confusion A vague and ill-defined committee report recommend ing that physical education be kept compulsory for vet erans will go before the University Senate next Thursday. The recommendation to continue the requirement for veterans, a report from the Senate Committee on Aca demic Standards, is in answer to All-University Cabinet's recommendation that phys ed be voluntary for veterans. The committee report says "the fact of military service is irrelevant to the question, though the facts of physical disability, greater maturity, greater age that sometimes accompany military service may not be." The report continues that if these "latter facts" are established in individual instances, they come under Item T.l of Senate Regulations for Undergraduate Students. This item says only that, where the case is not one of physical disability, a "cogent reason" must be given for exemption from voluntary physical education. The Senate committee recommendation thus indicates quite clearly that "greater age" and "greater maturity" may possibly be considered "cogent reasons." It follows that any veteran who feels he possesses either or both of these qualifications should be able to appeal physical education requirements and expect a fair hearing of his case. Now, since the committee would set up these two qualities as possible grounds for appeal, we wonder why It did not thing to clarify them. What, for instance, is "greater age"? Since the question of age can be neither relative nor questionable, it can he defined clearly. A certain age should therefore be set as grounds for appeal. And what is "greater maturity"? Are there to be definite standards set up to define maturity . . . and if so, won't they have to be set up by psychologists? Or, if maturity is to be a matter of personal judgment, who is going to do the judging? The man who is to Judge maturity should, naturally, be the most mature man available—and who will choose him? "Greater age" and "greater maturity" almost invari ably result from two years of military service. Who would say that the average freshman who is a veteran is not both older and more mature than the average freshman coming directly from high school? The difference is almost invariably obvious . . . and exceptions are so few as to be inconsequential in the forming of a general policy. Also, consider the administrative nightmare which might well be the result of adopting this recommendation. Any veteran who considered himself of "greater age" or "greater maturity" could appeal his phys ed requirement —and surely a great number would be willing to give it a try, since they would have nothing to lose. The hearings of these cases could easily become an absurdity. Judging individually on the maturity of all those who appealed could reach unbelievable heights of complexity, turning the whole idea into a philosophical farce. The Senate should vote down the committee's recom mendation and substitute for it exemption from physical education for veterans. Editorials are written by the editors and staff members of The Daily Collegian and do not necessarily represent the views of the University or of the student body. A Student-Operated Newspaper Otit "43ailti Tollrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published fuesdity tlikough Sitturda3 morning during the I nisersity year. The Daily ( ollegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered 114 second-clan matter Jule 5, 1931 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Mail Subscription Price: 11.00 per semester $3.00 per year. ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor City Editor, David Fineman; Managing Editor, Richard Drayne: Sports Editor. 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PENNSYLVANIA Washington Sticky Situation Found By ARTHUFt EDSON WASHINGTON VP) Post master General Arthur Summer field has received the bad news nn the sorghum situation in the Culloden, W.Va., Post Office. It's a riess. The problem was brought up by Dr. E. E. Dudding, 97, a local sorghum lover, who wrote Sum merfield to protest what had hap pened to a can of the stuff he had mailed to a friend. Sorghum Is a rich, hearty con coction, especially delightful on cornbread. Dudding got to talking with a friend, S. I. McGinnis, learned that the fine art of sorghum-mak ing had almost died out around Culloden, and, locating a cache of sorghum near here, decided to mail him some. The letter from McGinnis tells the lamentable story• "The can of sorghum arrived this morning at the post office. The contents was all gone. The lid had come off and the sorghum was all over the mail. The mail carrier said he would make out a report. "Paul Soward, postmaster, was out of town today. They had a time this morning, licking sor ghum off of the mall, ha, ha." Well, Dudding hustled the bad news off to Summerfield, thought fully including his own diagnosis of the problem. He figures that the railroads have cut out local stops, that the mail is tossed from trains doing 60 miles an hour, and that this is no way to treat sorghum. Well, Dudding is a hard man to lick. He has just mailed another can of sorghum to McGinnis. It would cut down on the corres pondence, and keep a much tidier mail sack, if the engineer would just slow down when he gets to Culloden. 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It gives a man that certain something that sets him above and apart from the average--" Take It or Leave It Smooching Lines— A Health Menace Kansas State College students got their "smooch lines" back The kissing lines had been a college tradition, modeled after the time-honored custom of kissing the bride after a wedding. Kansas students made this "best wishes" kiss a group ac tivity and extended the cus tom to cover pinnings and en gagements as well as weddings. _ But the student tradition came to an abrupt halt during last fall's flu epidemic. The di rector of the student health clinic isued an edict banning all smooch lines. And the as sociate dean of women backed him up. What's more, she reimposed the restriction this year. Smooch lines are "a bad health practice," she said. We quote from her state ment: "Trenchmouth and respira tory diseases can be spread to a great many people during one smooch line. We're not looking for another flu epi demic, but during the winter, colds are always with us." A committee of coeds went to battle against the ban, and were successful in_ having the ruling reversed. The new pol icy: "Smooch lines may occur during times of good health at the discretion of the indi viduals present." Kansas State's temporary ban on organized kissing at tracted a t t en tion throughout collegiate circles. Support for smooch lines came from the college's sis t e r institution, Kansas University. (We won ler if Penn students would P' k N 11. " I FOUND A NEW FRIEND HE S JUST ABOUT NY SIZE_ AT SCHOOL. ABACI c• c •) ‘• as. - NNW 11. r 0 ~ccivit 1 440 i, •rA • 'Oro 1 Alt tilijill4lo4222M I AND POLITE...HE'S _5O POLITE., A ihe • •1 kin THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1958 © S-38;,' by Pat Evans rally to support Penn State under similar circumstances.) A reporter from KU's stu lent news paper interviewed the university's director of student health on the kissing ban at Kansas State. Some of his comments follow: "The ban should be nearly impossible to enforce—you can vaccinate against a flu epidem. ic, but you can't vaccinate against kissing." Colleges and universities should not try to control kiss ing, he said. "It's as natural as nature." He admitted that smooch lines would be contact points for spreading flu viruses and colds. "But who is going to supervise the thousands of stu dents who participate in group activities of this kind?" he asked. "Two people drinking out of the same bottle or sharing a cigarette spread as many germs as if they were kissing. An unprotected cough or sneeze is more dangerous than any of these forms of direct contact. A sneeze or cough spreads a cold mdre widely." The health director said kissing continues in private even when group necking is outlawed. - "Nature should be left to run its course," he said. But he did have one word of caution "Students should be careful who they kiss." 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