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Editorial Opinion
A Dedicated Dean
Next semester's class of freshman coeds will be the
first in 13 years not to he greeted during Orientation Week
by Dean of Women Pearl 0. Weston.
Miss Weston will retire July 1 after 17 years at the
Univeisity. Last night the Board of Trustees named her
dean of women emerita—an honor well deserved by the
woman who has served as dean to more than 10,000 coeds.
The job of dean of women is not always a pleasant
one, and it can be far from easy. Policies arising in the
dean's office often are controversial, and Miss Weston
frequently has been criticized. But no one ever has ques
tioned her sincerity or devotion.
Miss Weston has been noted as a capable administrator
—thorough and efficient.
I ler duties have included such "extras" as advising
Alpha Lambda Delta, women's scholastic honorary so
ciety, and All-University Cabinet. Cabinet advisors aren't
required to attend the meetings, but Miss Weston nearly
always is there.
She has been a dedicated dean of women. Her girls
have meant much to her, and she will not be forgotten by
Coeds' Cooperation
Two recent and short-lived conflicts between the
Department of Housing and women's organizations have
proved that student interest and initiative can often patch
up problems in a hurry.
The first conflict arose when Housing announced that
the number of rooms allowed for each sorority suite would
be cut from 40 to 25, beginning next year.
Panhellenic Council organized some stiff resistance
and within a few days• President Phyllis Muskat presented
an alternate plan, which was approved. The sororities
ended up with a guarantee of as many rooms as needed
for suites, a considerable improvement over the original
guarantee of 40.
The Panhel plan also specified that women who would
have to move to make way for the sororities would receive
first preference for unassigned rooms. This provision was
cut, but was reinstated following protests by Leonides.
Both Panhellenic Council and Leonides solved their
housing problems by appealing them to University offi
cials. Both campaigns were marked by cooperation be
tween the groups and by initiative and quick action by
each group's leaders.
Fifty-four Years of Student Editorial Freedom
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Editor SEB*,
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Richard Black, Lester Bower. William
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long, Robert Gingerich, Ronald Glou,
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Price. Louis Quatrini. Martin Roche.
Dennis Royer, Barbara Tomasic. Mary
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Letters
'5B Grad Hits
Gift Decision
TO THE EDITOR: As an old hand
at fighting for a student-operated
AM station, I would like to make
a few observations, a few of them
quite candid.
There are two main reasons
the administration and the board
of trustees frown upon AM facili
ties for WDFM:
•The University does not want
to compete "unfairly" with com
mercial station WMAJ of State
College.
•The University Is fearful
something may go over the air
waves which ,may hurt the good
name of Penn State.
Neither argument holds much
water.
Admittedly, a student-run AM
station would take student lis
teners from WMAJ. However, the
University has no obligation to
see that students listen to the
State College station.
There are many good things a
student-operated station cmtld do
in providing additional entertain
ment plus. educational program
ming for the student body.
A student station which can be
heard also would help build
much-needed school spirit as the
student body grows larger and
larger.
No one has asked for a station
which can be heard throughout
the state. No one has even asked
for the freauencv power to be
heard in Harrisburg. Some 20
miles away from State College,
and you can't pick up WMAJ, at
least not very easily. The station
need only be heard in State Col
leer. and University Park.
Certainly we must asume the
students operating the station will
show the highest responsibility
for good taste in presenting the
beet of radio nrogramming.
Now for a few observations a
bit more on the candid side:
Thomas Hollander. last year's
senior class president, said he
feels he was "speaking for the
class" of 1958 in "saying that the
action taken by the (trustee) com
mittee . . . is quite acceptable."
(Quite acceptable to WMAJ?)
Hollander certainly does not
speak for the entire class. He
seldom did as an undergraduate.
Mickey Bergstein, sporty, bald
and highly competent manager
of WMAJ, is close to, and plays
golf with, members of the admin.
istratinrt. He sneaks for Bill Ule
rich, Clearfield publisher and in
fluential alumnus. Ulerich—also
a former member of the board of
trustees—is an owner of WMAJ.
It has always been a long, rough
road toward a student-operated
AM station. It now appears the
road is even more bumpy.
—Ed Dubbs, '5B,
former editor,
The Daily Collegian
•Letter cut
Counselor Blanks
Available for TIM
Application blanks are avail
able in 109 Old Main for town
men who wish to serve as orienta
tion counselors to new students
enrolling on campus next. Sep
tember.
Applicants must have third to
sixth semester standing, with
averages of 2.5 or better. The
form must be returned by next
Friday.
Those selected will be asked to
arrive on Sunday, September 13,
to counsel for a few day with a
small group on the. aspects of life
at the University and to serve in
other assigned capacities during
Orientation Week.
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sponsible for paying their own
expenses which are approxi
mately $l3OO per student.
Miss Panameroff who will rep
resent the University has received
a $350 stipend from the Univer
sity toward her expenses. She is
also seeking financial aid from
other sources.
Miss Panameroff is a political
science major interested in inter
national relations. She is a mem
ber of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi
Kappa Phi, national scholastic
honorary societies and Pi Sigma
Alpha, political science honorary.
She is also a member of Delta
Zeta, social sorority.
ittle Man on Campus by Dick Sibi
I al
Well, if your eyes are THAT bad—why doncha get glasses?'
Words to Spare
'Green Mansions' Is
Almost Comic Opera
"Green Mansions" doesn't work
Hollywood's adaptation of W. H. Hudson's classic
"Romance of the Tropical Forests" currently playing at the
Cathaum Theatre, is very much Hollywood and very lit-le
Hudson.
This film has been awaited with much apprehension
by devotees of the novel, be
cause it is such a peculiar and
delicate story, with a charm
that would seem almost im
possible to catch on the screen.
Hollywood has proved that if
it isn't impossible it is at least
highly unlikely.
Hudson's novel told the story
of an ethereal romance be
tween Rima, the Bird Girl, a
wispy daugh
ter of the for
est, and Abel,
a young and
a d v e n ture
some escapee
of a Venezu
ela revolution.
The story of
t h e romance,
with its com
p 1 i cations of
natives and
R i m a's diffi
cult "g ran d- DRAYNE
father," its long and harrowing
search for Rima's homeland,
and its tragic end, is both a
love story and a hymn to na
ture, Hudson, a famous natur
alist, handled the story with
imagination and taste, making
it a memorable novel.
But, sure enough, Hollywood
has brought "Green Mansions"
down to earth. The lush trop
ical scenery of the South Amer
ican rain forest remains with
all the color Hudson painted
it, but the other elements of
the tale survive only in vary
ing degrees, if at all.
Rime, played by Audrey
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Hepburn, is a rather sophisti
cated and straightforward Bird
Girl, who seems somewhat un
comfortable in the forest and
often doesn't appear to care
much for the whole business.
Anthony Perksins as Abel is
so wrapped up in his own
emoting that it is impossible to
believe he is very sensitive
toward the surroundings of na
ture which the original novel
handled so lovingly. Lee J.
Cobb as the grandfather, Nuf•
10, is overdrawn.
The natives are Hollywood
natives, and there's even a
Hollywood tribal dance thrown
in as local color. Plus hand
to-hand combat with knives,
during which both combatants
fly through the air into a pool
of water (analagous to break
ing through a large card table
in a Western). And the ending,
where Rima is spiritually re
incarnated against a glowing
horizon, is just a little too
much to bear.
There are some high points
in the film. The camera work
is excellent throughout, espe
cially in the few spots when
Rima is shown capering in the
forest with her pixyish face
flashing through the leaves,
The sounds which the Bird
Girl makes before she first ap
pears are striking and charm
ing, although she makes her
appearance too early.
Sometimes Miss Hepburn
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