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Editorial Opinion
LA Science
Would Be Step Backward
Change as an end in itself can sometimes lose its
progressive purpose and turn out reactionary.
Some ultra-liberal thinkers in the College of The
Liberal Arts, trying to make sure students leave the
University with a broad education in many fields, have
come up with a self-contradictory plan to revise the
mathematics-science requirements.
The faculty now has three possible programs before
it, all based on a graduation requirement of 12 credits.
• Present requirements call for a minimum of six
and a maximum of nine credits to be chosen from one of
the al eas of physical science, biological science or math
ematics. Remaining credits may be selected from a wide
variety of subjects, provided they include laboratory
work
• Changes proposed by an ad hoc sub-committee
last May would require a 6-hour sequence in a "laboratory
science," and specifies those so designated. A student
could take all 12 credits in either the physical or biological
sciences, but not in mathematics, geology, geophysics or
astronomy.
This plan was tabled by the liberal arts faculty for
further studs'.
• The entire planning committee, in its zeal to protect
students from wasting their college years, then came up
with the most recent proposal. It would require every
student to take six credits in a specified sequence of
physics or chemistry, and at least three credits in the
biological sciences. The remaining three could be selected
from "a wide choice of options in other areas to provide
a latitude of choice for students with special interests."
The basic objection to present requirements is the
great variation in laboratory work in different fields. The
physical sciences are said to give a true picture of the
experimental method, while others are primarily observa
tional and require little analytical thought.
But because the committee is determined to give stu
dents "real" laboratory experience, a basic framework of
study which allows them great freedom of choice has been
twisted by "liberal" thinkers into a rigid set of require
ments.
Such a program is out of step with the apparent
philosophy of the college.
This is the faculty which recently created the Uni
versity's first honors program, a plan that frees the self
motivated student from conventional classroom routine
and allows him to do independent study in his major field.
This is the faculty that was one of the first to accept
a highly progressive Pyramid Plan for guided-independent
study. Under the plan students work in small groups with
a minimum of faculty direction.
And this is the University whose Division of Academic
Research and Services recently reported that educators
more than ever should encourage students to define roles
and objectives for themselves.
It would seem that the planning committee is taking
a giant step backwards by trying to promote a situation
where a student is relieved of any responsibility for his
own learning and development.
The committee feels existing requirements are not
based on a '`logical or defensible principle," that they
constitute a "ramshackle structure of assorted incongruous
elements."
We prefer to think they are based on the highly
defensible principle that the student is capable of evalu
ating and selecting courses for his personal benefit, that
they constitute a flexible structure of elements which,
fused, form the basic comprehension of the world a liberal
arts student seeks.
The rigid mathematics-science requirements, pro
posed are in direct opposition to the purpose of a liberal
arts college. By accepting them the faculty would be
undermining the academic advances it has adopted so
readily in recent years,
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TO THE EDITOR: Since the
appearance of the article con
cerning the decision of the De
partment of Housing to limit
the size of sorority suites to
25 spaces, independent women
have been questioning the mer
it of such a decision.
Independent women do not
want to see such a situation
as Housing proposes. If sorority
living spaces are reduced from
40 to 25, many living areas
with unaffiliated women and
sorority women will result.
Segregation, as Housing
states it, will not be present
in the dormitory. However,
Housing is overlooking the fact
that the present system of sor
ority suites and independent
blocs does not discriminate un
favorably between independent
women and sorority women,
but provides the opportunity
for all coeds, whether inde
pendent or sorority, to be a
part of a closely-knit group
with similar standards, inter
ests and activities.
Fr e s h man and sophomore
women who are decidedly in
dependent soon find them
selves part of a group that de
sires to live together for the
remainder of their college ca
reers. These women deserve a
chance to live in a homo
geneous grouping where they
can exercise the advantages of
independent living.
Similarly, sorority women
deserve the opportunity to ex
ercise the advantages of sor
ority life, to live with the wo
men they chose as close friends
and sorority sisters.
The only opportunity inde
pendent women have to parti
cipate in the campus-wide ac
tivities is through their living
units. Communications fr o m
administrative and ca mpus
leaders are presented to inde
pendent women via the living
unit. A situation such as Hous
ing proposes would destroy the
skeleton of independent organ
ization within the dormitory.
Panhellenic Council has an
alternate plan to present to the
Department of Housing that
seems to be more satisfactory
than both the plan in exis
tence now and the proposed
plan announced by Housing
last week.
Leonides and Panhel need
to join forces to see that the
needs and the desires of both
independent and sorority wo
men are represented in the
Department of Housing offices.
Panhel wants 40 spaces per
sorority and Leonides wants
homogeneous living units. It's
as simple as that!
—Rita Seltzer,
President of Leonides
Little Man on Cam
u a "do-it-yourself" project."
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 18, 1959
Pascal Is Quoted
On Ads for LA
TO THE EDITOR: "Any ads
for liberal artists?" asks Lynn
Ward. Here is one of the best
—from Pascal's Pensees:
"No one passes in the world
as skilled in verse unless he
has put up the sign of a poet,
a mathematician, etc. But ed
ucated people do not want a
sign, and draw little distinc
tion between the trade of a
poet and that of an embroid
erer.
"People of education are not
called poets or mathemati
cians, etc.; but they are all
these, and judges of all these.
No one guesses what they are.
When they come into society,
they talk on matters about
which the rest are talking. We
do not observe in them one
quality rather than another,
save when they have to make
use of it. But then we remem
ber it, for it is characteristic
of such persons that we do not
say of them that they are fine
speakers, when it is not a ques
tion of oratory, and that we
say of them that they are fine
speakers when it Is such a
question.
"It is therefore false praise
to give a man when we say
of him, on his entry, that he
is a very clever poet; and it
is a bad sign when a man is
not asked to give his judgment
on some verses."
The "advertisement" speaks
for itself, I think, without any
facetious asides.
—Martha Morrow, '62
Advantages Seen
In Local Taxes
TO THE EDITOR: In regard to
State College taxes, town stu
dents don't seem to realize
that the borough might be in
nocently doing them the big
gest favor in years.
It might do for some intel
ligent people to get busy with
the law books. Doesn't this
new ruling mean that in order
for the tax to be paid a stu
dent should be in residence for
a year? And doesn't this mean
that with this little tax re
ceipt you can prove your resi
dency and vote in State Col
lege?
Couldn't out -of - state stu
dents claim residency and
prove it? This would save out
of-state students $2OO a semes
ter in tuition (there is an ac
tual instance of a situation of
this type). Also, this might
mean that you could count
yourself as independent State
College residents, with your
apartments entirely removed
from University jurisdiction.
If the University refuses to
take a stand with its students
against a ruling that seems un
fair, perhaps it might be to
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