PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion On Solid Ground Something is finally being done about the Department of English The department’s faculty was presented Friday with a recommendation for changes in the English major re quirements. Dean Ben Euwema also revealed that a confi dential report on the department’s reorganization has been presented to President Eric A. Walker. Euwema won't reveal what the recommendations are, but It's good to know there will be some changes in the unhappy situation of the English department, for the department is not at all what it should be. First, the courses offered are not nearly so extensive and comprehensive as they should be, considering the size of the University. There also have been problems in personnel, on the question of who should head the depart ment and also in connection with the merging of the literature and composition branches. In general .neither students nor faculty members have been happy with the English department in the past few years. But a new head has been appointed to the department —Dr. Henry W. Sams, of the University of Chicago, an Institution well-known for its intellectual accomplish- ments. And with the evaluation now seemingly on solid ground, with definite recommendations being presented to the faculty, the department seems determined to build itself to the strength and prestige needed for a subject so important to any university. Killing the Ostrich The All-University Elections Committee has taken a step toward making student government’s attitude toward politics look a little less like an ostrich hiding its head in the sand. The committee took an uncommonly realistic attitude when it voted a recommendation to Junk all regulations on political party spending. The action, taken Sunday night, still must be approved by All-University Cabinet to become effective. The existing elections code sets forth spending “limits’’ of $4OO for each party’s spring campaign and $l5O for each party’s fall campaign. But, as elections committee members noted,- parties have found ways to circumvent the restrictions year after year. Often they have double-billed items or gone out of town to buy them, not bothering to list out-of-town ex penses which would be hard to check. By approving iho elections committee proposal and thus taking a more realistic attitude toward party finances. Cabinet would help take the committee itself out of poli tics. Political campaigns should run by the parties alone, not supervised by a control group. Elections committee should do no more than register party members, set elec tion dates, man the polls, count votes and find ways of improving these functions. Filt\j‘lour Years ot Student Editorial Freedom ®lf? iatly (Enllwjtatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily tollerlin is a student-operated newspaper. Entered aa second-class matter July S 1134 st the State College. Ps. Pott Office under the set of Msrch S. 1871. Mail Subscription Prices 53. 00 per semester $5.00 per rear. ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor <!£>■>■ City Editor. David Ftneman; Managing Editor. Richard Drayne; Sports Editor. Lou Prato: Associate Sports Editor. Matt Mathews: Personnel and Poblic Relations Director, PatrirJa Evans; Copy Editor. Lynn Ward; Assistant Copy Editor. Did; Fisher: Photography Editor Robert Thompson. • Credit Mgr. Janice Smith; Local Ad Mgr.. Tom Buckey; Asst. Local Ad Mgr., Georgs Mclurk; National Ad Mgr.. Betsy Brackbtll; Promotion Mgr.. Kitty Bur ger!; Personnel Mgr., Mickey Nash; Classified Ad Mgr.. Kae Waters; Co* Circulation Mgr*. Mary Anne First and Murray Simon; Research and Records Mgr. Mary (lorbein: Office Secretary. Myla Johnson. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Fditor, Denny Malick; Copy Editor, Carol Blake*- lee; Wire Editor, Cathy Heck; Assistant#, Bill Barber, Nicki Wolford, Barbara Foster, Katie DavU, Zandy Stepson, Sue Hill, Jim Whalen, Dick Goldbenr, Su*aa Weinman, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ROBERT PICCONE Business Manager *ft«* * i t » Letters Coeds Protest Dining Rule TO THE EDITOR: Last week a girl from Stephens' Hall was stopped whil carrying her half eaten hoagie out the Redifer Din ing Hall and was told by the sup ervisor to return it immediately. The next day, another girl, eating her ice cream bar as she walked out of the dining hall was told that she must finish it in the dining hall before dashing to her 12 o’clock class. Previously the rule had not been enforced. Most girls were not even aware that such a rule was in existence. How could a student be expected to know of a rule that was never announced, posted or printed in a handbook? One explanation (of the rule) by a supervisor vaguely indicated that the University was required to provide only three meals a day. We are in complete accord with this, but what objection can be made to students economizing by saving part of their meals for the snacks that often accompany late study hours? Another explanation given by this supervisor was occasional loss of silverware. We appreciate their belated concern for cutting down expenditures that in the end would fall to the student, but frankly, we fail to see how a piece of silverware or a salt shaker could be concealed in a half-eaten ice cream bar. That very week food vending machines were installed in the lower floor of Redifer. Far be it from us to insinuate that we are being unconsciously encouraged to patronize these machines, but it does seem a strange coinci dence. » As University students, we are willing to obey rational, legiti mate rules. Can this rule qualify as such? —Carlene Rarick, Brenda Kerpel men, Diana Walsh, Arlene Tomich, Marlene Bensinger, Bette Kulig, Barbara Smajda, Theresa Lesco, Mary Ann Tripp, Nancy Melin ger, Doris Oakes, Judith Me- Lellan. Richelle Naiburg. San dra Hartley, Jeanne Knauss, Carolyn Kaldon, Sarah Kem berling, Lora Ewing, Patricia Kampmeier. • Letter cut Gazette TODAY AIM. 7 pm.. 203 HUB AIM Judicial Board. 7 p.m.. 213 HUB American Rocket Society, 7:30 p.m., 105 Mechanical Engineering American Society of Agricultural Engl* neenng, special program, 7 p.m., 205 AgKng Chemistry and Physic* Student Council, 7 p.m.. 218 HUB Chesa Club. 7 p.m., 7 Sparks Christian Fellowship, 12:30 p.m., 218 HUB DOC Council, 8 p.m., 214-15 HUB Kappa Phi model meeting. 7 p.m.. Kappa Phi Room of Wesley Foundation LaVle Sophomore Board-Junior Board Test, 7 p.m., 217 Willard Newman Club, Stations of the Cross and Benediction, 7 p.m., Our Lady of Vic tory Church; Prof. Case Lecture Series, 7 pm., 101 Chapel: Choir Practice, 7:30 p.m., Our Lady of Victory Church Riding Club, 7 p.m., 217 Willard ROTC Cabinet Committee, 6:30 pm., 217 HUB Senior Clafts Advisory Board, 6:30 p.m., 216 HUB Women's Choir. 6 p.m., HUB assembly hall Women's Pre-Med meeting, 7:30 p.m., 216 HUB UCA, 7:30 p.m., 212 HUB UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Wallace Bishop, Michael Cnplan, George Dietzel, Virginia Dunkerton, Sara Dun mire. Joan Ertcson, Stephanie Estreicher, George Gaskin, Valerie Gneiser, Linda Griffey, James Hahn. Douglas Hal], Bar bara Hnnnum, Bernadette Kielczewaki, Ronald Kifer, James Macinko, Concetta MaHroianni, Josephine Mazzu, Richard Nieholli, William Nystrom, Beverly Robi son, Maxine Wexler. Job Interviews MARCH 4 Diamond Alkali Co.: BS & GRAD STUDS IN CH E, ME. CHEM. MARCH 6 Raytheon Manufacturing Co.: BS & GRAD STUDS IN ACCTG. ECON, FIN. EE, ENG SCI. lE. ME, PHYS. MARCH 10 Jertoy Production Research Company: BS IN CH E, PNG, PHYS. CHEM, GEO PHYS Camp Interviews The following camps will interview at the Student Employment Service, 112 Old Main. Appointment must be made in ad- Camp Menatome, Me.—Men —Friday, Feb, 27 and Sat.. Feb. 28. Camp Quinibeck, Vt.—Women—Thursday. March 19. Cradle Beach Camp, N Y.—Tuesday, Feb. 24. (Men ft Women) Camp Wise, Ohio—Men and Women— Thursday, March i and, Friday, March ft Little Man on Campus by Disk BIMm <pvfll •Hit Fishing Around That Sticky , Gooey Liberal Arts Mud Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink—it’s just MUD. The monsoon season (or seasons, depending on how our luck holds up) was bad enough with mud up to the ankles. But now we have another enemy—the February thaw. At least, in previous years the Spring thaw teamed up with the Spring monsoon and the end result was Spring mud. But if the scientists are right and the earth is becoming warmer (and nobody on cam pus would have believed that during the last two months) we're liable to have the gooey stuff right through the school year except for a few freezes and a few sunny days in the past, there has been a great hue and cry fisher raised about students walking on the grass. Penn State mud will certainly end this problem. With the con dition of parts of the campus, you could become bogged down indefinitely, to use a cliche. But it also could have the opposite effect . . . that is, if the physical plant people de cide that the mud is giving them 100 much trouble they' may try to get rid of it. And the only feasible way to solve this problem (anyhow, one of the ways) is to create a con crete campus. Of course, this EBsasr I'M GOING TO 111 WANT YOU TO TAKE CARE 1 / MfK? OP IT POkM, WNO MATTER l SShpS HOW m I PLOUX DON'T . 6IVEITBACKTO WB( WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1959 isii Il’OJ? - jgiiHXlL J 7 «=- <L> ° whrGE with Dick Fisher would be lough on couples in Ihe dry Spring, as well as bird lovers, squirrel feeders and others. But enough ideas like this. After all, ' the power of the press is quite impressive and far be it from us to try and en cite the administration or the students to any untoward acts. And many students did coma here to escape the all encom passing concrete thorofares of the “big city.” However, this is one lime when the so-called "rabble of Boucke" really have it well off. Once these much-maligned but much needed economic thinkers are entrenched on tha solid concrete steps of the busi ness administration home all danger of the mud is forgotten. Alas, those paragons of indi vidualism—the liberal arts stu dents—have not yet realized the value of such a haven. As you walk down Pollock Road you see them massing around the 'bulletin board, similar in a way to a herd of sheep. Here, as the crowd of free-thinkers grows larger, the milling edge comes closer and closer to the edge of the concrete apron. Closer and closer until they finally fall—into the MUD. VDU’RE weaker THAN I AM.'« i^dampa*' liftoSittflsN?
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