PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion The University's Fall-Out ti nivel mty's counseling service is a relatively unsung plogiata yet the i esults achieved seem to have paid off in an amazing retention rate of students as compared to other public institutions The New Yotk. Times in an editorial page column. Sunday cited the tintvetsity':3 20-year program as having succe , ,,ttdl attacked the "fall-out" rate through confer- um; with patents and the incoming students on their abilitie , , and aptitudes An important cause of failure, the Times said. is the advice and desires of parents that often send their chil- dren off on ill-suited courses of study that generate prob- lems and often end in disinterest and failure. Through conferring with patents, the counselors are able t i t;«•e to them a frank appraisal of the abilities of their child and the appMopriateness of the youth's career clinic' f f u vc vor, the counseling service can only advise stu dent,-; on what field of college studies to pursue. It is up to the students themselves if they wish to follow the advice given them by the counselors and in doing so p , ,,ibly save both their parents and themselves time and MBES The Univetsity has achieved a great deal through 'hi, woi thwhile program. It has been altered in the past few ;,ears from a voluntary to a required preliminary to enrollmit in their college course of study. Other colleges and universities have been attempting to implement similar programs—another indication of its apparent success. Good advice that is well received by both students and their parents will in the long run be a stepping stone to a bi ight future in a career that is pleasing to both. Challenging the Posters Political platforms are often nice to stand on but hard to work with—particularly when the candidates standing on them know only as much about the planks as their publicity posters tell them. But both Campus and University parties are trying to avoid the failing of the "meaningless platform" during the compalgn for the Spring Elections. Campus has chal lenged University to a dehate among each party's top five candidates on the platforms, and University has said it ‘‘ ill accept the challenge. Thi, platform debate has been held in years past, and it is good to see that it is becoming a yearly event. The committee on student government reorganization has been considetin:; such a debate, but the parties are to be com mended fin• taking the initiative on the issue before any definite action was taken by the committee. The debate should help both politics and student gov- ernment A Student-Operated Newspaper l'Ir• Batty Tallegiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 luesilsy through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily tolicaiso is a student operated newspaper. Entered as second•ciass matter July 5. VW at the Stale College. Pa. Post Office ender the act of March 5. 1015. Mail Subscription Price: $l.OO per semester $5.00 per year. ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor 003),,,t City &Diaz. nand Fineman: Alen/aping Editor, Eithard Drayne: Sports Editor, Lau Prato: Assad'« Sport Editor. Matt Mathews: Persnnnel and Public Relations Director, Patricia Evans: Com Editor. Lynn 'Arad; Assistant Copy Editor. Dick E'ishero- Photography Editor, Hobert Thompson. Credit Mai. Janice smith; Local Ad Mgr.. Tom Mickey; Asst. Local Ad MEN George Melnik; National Ad Mar., Iletsy Orackbill; Promotion Mgr., Kitty Bur- Bert; Peroonnet Mgr., Mickey Nash; Classified Ad klgr., Rae Waterst Co• Circulation Mar*. Mary Anne First and Murray Simon; Research and Records Mgr., Mary Militia; Office Secretary, ROA Jahassa. STAFF THIS ISSUR: Night Editor, Bill Jaffe: Copy 'Editor. Lolli Nenbarth: Wird, Editor, 111410 Linkrotini. Aniktaitta. Barbara Yunlc. Corihe Lewis, Barb Green- Pnt Dave YoMick, Ctsig Yerkes, Cliff Logan, Diaya Still. Lee Gahn. Brenda Beach, Kateia Shalleroa4, Paula Dranol. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ROBERT PICCONE Business Manager Aram h to/ 4 11 W AMC* r 4444,, r SAY, LINOS_ ABOUT THAT BLANKET.. OR I THOUGHT MAYBE YOU HAD BROUGHT IT OUT ONTO THE FIELD WITH YOU, AND I JUST DIDN'T THINK THAT'. took.v 47.4 44. _ a ilk . .....,....,... 4 ,„ ~..____, • ......_ o (.c. ) ') 4.-..---. r.. ... =I ._ --T....,..-7.--. •:k illiAaa— :_ . 77 ,1 6 . ki .: .... - ....0.. , ''''‘' II 4 Gazette TODAY All-UnileraitY Cabinet, 7 p.m., 201 HUB American Rocket Society. 7 pm . 105 Mechanical Engineering Big-Little Slater Committee, S p.m., 213 HUB Bridge Club, 7 p ni., 211-15-1.6 HUB Chrktian Fellow.thip„ 12:30 p m , 218 HUB Faculty Women's Bridge, 7 :15 p.m 212 HUB Froth ad staff, 7.30 p m., Froth office, HUB basement Gamma Sigma Sigma. aisters & pledgea. 6:30 p m , McElwain lounge Billet, Fassoser program, 41:13 p m , Eisen• bower Chapel ; public lecture, 8 p ot, Mlle! Newman Club. Legion of Mary. 7:30 p 111.1 Student Center Outing Club, Canoe dtviiion, S P m , 2nd floor, Presbyterian Church Education Bldg Sports Car Club, 7 p.m., 217 HUH ['CA. 7 p.m , HUH assembly hall WSGA dancing dais, 5.15 and 6.30 p 213 HUB WSGA Publicationn Stuff, 6 30 p to , Ma• Elwain Study Lounge UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Susan Abbey, Shelda Bachm, John Baer, Gail Beam. Albert Blaekhuist. Clark Cable, Heiman ( - anion', Janet Cohen, Patricia Couch. %%alter Cußneth, Lee Cunningham, Jane Eisenbrey. Barbara Engelhard. Jose phine Errigo, Ann life. Richard Fineberg, Sydney Fisher, James Gilbert, George Glynn. Joseph Haberstroh, Bertram }Pr.. man, Henrietta Hertzog, Henrietta How. ard. Cicala Jones, Allen Reiser, Roberta Mac Marian& At den MacHatton, Carol Mapel, Andrew Moconyi. Rona Nathanson, Jane Newman. Jack Parks, Deborah Res nick. Linda Rosner, Raymond Schoch, Nancy Senior, Richard Shields. Robert Stone. James Stoup. Keith Straley, Justin Ssnne,tredt, Elizabeth. Taylor, Call Tice. Cornelia Willard. U. of P. Religion Prof To Give Talk at Hillel Dr. Moshe Greenberg, associate professor of biblical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak at 8 tonight in the Hillel Auditorium on the "Biblical Quest for Meaning." His lecture will be followed by a reception and ques tion period. Election Survey.- (Crottinued from page three) business" was the most prevalent reason given Others said they didn't have the time, even after it was point• ed out to them that it could be done between classes in less than five minutes. Other students said they would vote if they happened to pass by the polling places (and few knew that this year there would be sev eral polling places set up). WDFM THURSDAY NIGHT 6 .55 Sign•On & News 7 :00 Potpourt 7:30 Album Review 7:55 Pennsylvania News S .00 Starlight Review A. 5 5 Sports News 9 00 Just New in Music 9:15 Washington Reports 9:10 Rho Tau Sigma Presents 9 :55 __ Campus News 10 :00 Background 16:05 Chamber Concert 1/ ad __ Sum-0111 from here to infinity Souse the Rushee —Via the Waterbag - 64, 4A,c,- Ah Spring! The season of white ducks, cord suits and panty raids. This year a new item may be added to our list of traditional springtime pastimes. At other universities across the country and—to add the international zest to the season—in England's stately institutions of higher edu cation, the fad has been "crowding." The rage hasn't spread to the main campus of the uni versity, but those in one un dergraduate campus have tried their luck at seeing how many men they can get into a for eign car. Students at the Ogontz camp us managed to sardine 41 in a Volkswagen-- and they have produced the picture to prove the feat. This spring has brought the revival of another sport that was initiated at ma n y flat roofed frater nities last spring. It's water - bag dropping. This pas time has also been car ried out by those dwellers of the peaked ro of houses, but the parti cipants are more prone to a dousing THOMPSON from someone on the floor above The local laundries have been very cooperative with the indulgers of the waterbag sport. They've been returning shirts in re-usable plastic bags. ACROSS 1 Column. 7 Projection on a wheel. 10 Surfeited (with "of"). 14 The procurator of Judaea, 15 Unclose: Poet. 16 Joint of a horse s leg. 17 Aviators. 18 Conjunction. 19 The ordinary crowd. 20 Have as a dinner partner: 2 words. 23 Co about seeking excitement. 26 Speaks tenderly. 27 Most recent. 31 Nautical term. 33 Philter. 35 City C°lf e te ni c ie a e s. t" i 36 38 Creek mountain. 39 Levantine name. 90 Little. 41 No one else but me, 42 Job of delivering newsnaners. etc. Clvin i=h noble. Migs Turner. 47 It covers optics. 48 Old name of Tokyo. 49 Sitting Bull's domicile. Crossword Puzzle 51 Parting point. 23 City in Alabama. 52 Bird. 24 Fashionably. 54 Ottoman 25 Relatives of the standard. Roosevelt% 56 Sawbuck. 28 Shoulder. 57 Reeler. ornament. 60 "King day"! 29 Cracker, 2 words. 30 Had a fitting; 63 Greek letter. 2 words. 64 Fragrances. 32 House wing. 68 A table at bridge. 34 Equal: Prefix. 69 Homo sapiens. •37 CoMpletely 70 Beasts of burden. wrong: Slang: 71 Prepositions. 2 words. 72 Streets: Abbr. 41 One of the . 73 Skin layers. Siamese twins. 43 Poetic DOWN contraction. 1 Very soft: Abbr. 46 The USAF and 2 Three: Rom. the RAFt 3 Legal degree. 2 words. 4 Region in 47 May's birthstone, Indo-China. 50 Drink. • 5 Garret . 53 Rulers. 6 Pauses again. SC Actress Oberon, 7 Vehicles of the 58 Mountain pass in pioneers: 2 words, India. 8 Addresses for 59 Tiger talk. G. L's 60 Ooposite of I 9 Sheep. Down. 10 Small mouselike 61 Goose eggs. 11 Poker mamma payment. l. 62 Capek's play. 12 Three hundredt 65 Three thousand: Rom, Rom. Ho 13 Hooded. 66 Sign for some organization. motorists. 21 Hoot. 67 Draft 22 Tenfold, organization. Weekly THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1959 by bob thompson In fact some other merchants have even outdone the laun dries by returning dry-cleaned suits in plastic coverings. Although these suit bags are large enough to dousc , several persons with wat e r when dropped from a roof, they are extremely difficult to maneu vet. Quite often those trying to heave the bags end up wetter than the wouldbe recJpients of the missiles. The suit baggers, of course, work in 2-man teams. This year's waterbag season will more than likely last longer than last year's. The proponents of the sport have been saving bags all winter, whereas last year's players were caught rather empty handed with a small supply. At that time, the most likely times for a bag drop were be tween Saturday and Tuesday. By Saturday the shirts were back from the laundry, and by Tuesday the baggers had let go of the last bag covering shirts cleaned the week before. A few innovations have been added to the sport this season. New slants on the game in clude "Dampen the date on Saturday night"; "Plaster the (Continued on page five)
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