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Editorial Opinion Little Man an Campus
What's the Matter With Penn State?
Secoul of a Senes
Take a long look at some of the things
th,it have been going on at Penn State in
I ec(•tit years
to‘Ve have some "temporary" em.;i
neemog buddllNS that have been "tem
pot ary" almost since World War I.
• ‘Ve have faculty salaries 'substantially
lo,;-ET than those at eight comparable East
(.l ii and Middle Western universities.
• We have fees approximately one-and
tunes higher than those of c•ompar-'
able tintversaies
aW( have a town with the pai king
;Ind ti it tie problems of a city of mole than
pnpulation
eWe have students who, by a 3-to-1
ratio, refused to vote in the last spring
( , lect ton
•\\e have an administration which
gave it.,olnavish gifts in the name of the
students every year for a decade.
Consideration of these long-range prob
-I,,ms and dozens of others leads to the in
escapable conclusion that all is not well at
whit President Eric A. Walker calls "the
best public university east of the Ohio
River
Cettainly no institution's staff and
students can allow such situations and
still make the progress they desire.
What's the matter with Penn State?
We all know many things which have
been the matter with Penn State over the
years. Yet here we are making even non
long-range mistakes that could be avoided:
•We have lost student recommenda
tions in the faculty-administration Senate-
Go-Round for periods of up to seven
months.
•We have told 1958 seniors that we
won't use their class gift as they intended
—not because it is impractical but because
it is not necessary to strenghten the in
structional program.
•We have a recently revised code of
conduct for women students—which al
though improved, is still based on standards
brought forth from the last century.
•We have a fine system of television
networks to teach some of the more basic
courses—yet, we use the system to broad
cast the instruction of some professors least
adaptable to it.
•We seem to be continually behind in
getting things accomplished, whether it be
installing a pizza oven in the Hetzel Union
Building, building a dam at Stone Valley
or constructing new i esidence halls.
It is too great an assumption to con
sider that all the above-mentioned situa
tions are isolated instances. It seems to us
that some more basic faults are involved.
What's the matter with Penn State?
Penn State is suffering from a king
sized hangover—physically, educationally,
emotionally.
Poor physical planning in the past is
exemplified by the many discordant styles
of architecture on campus; by the position
of the West Halls and the West Campus
fraternities on land that now should be
used for classrooms; by relatively poor
parking and traffic facilities.
Poor educational planning in the past
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is evidenced by the fact that the University
too often has neglected the "liberal" for the
"practical" arts; that the University in
essence has no basic college of arts and
sciences around which every great uni
versity is built—a situation which appar
ently has been considered grave only
recently.
01le Datil" Cilllrgiatt
Successor to THE FREE LANCE. tat. 1887
4rrpo
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
There is a feeling that the University
did not do all it could have done to gain
state support during some years in the
past. Nor has the University always had a
most active alumni.
And planning both by and for students
can be regarded only as fair in considera
tion of the work of some past student gov
ernments and many of the social and rec
reational facilities students don't have.
But the headaches we now are feeling
may well pale before an onslaught of new
problems that may arise from present and
future policies.
What's the matter with Penn State?
Penn State lacks the dynamic leader-
ship needed to build a great university. We
have the able, dedicated men who could do
the job—and many are trying to do it.
But we can only surmise that we also
have the grand old system of mammoth
back-stage faculty-administration-trustee
power and policy wars—a system that
makes for anything and everything but a
program of unified advancement and
smooth administration. We have inherited
a time-honored organization that paradox
ically permits neither real, dynamic admin
istrative leadership nor fair and complete
hearing of student and alumni views.
Oh, yes. we have made great strides as
of late—but if has been in spite of "the
system."
Our University is populated with a lot
of fine faculty and administration mem
bers—members who too often neglect the
University's future for their stake in it,
who are too scared for their jobs to consult
with students.
We have adopted the fine policy of
courting our alumni—who give money but
not advice—and ignoring our students—.
who give advice but not money.
And if you think the University lacks
something, look at the borough and the
students.
State College is woefully inadequate
to meet the needs of the students—profes
sionally, commercially, municipally,
cially. Certainly the University has ne
glected its responsibilities on the other
side of College Avenue.
And if we call State College provincial,
what do we call the students? Many of
us have little interest in what goes on out
side of University Park, our home town
and our draft board. Many of us have been
willing to leave the administration of stu
dent affairs to a little group of seniors
which often have adopted all the liberalism
of a wounded animal dragging in the un
derbrush.
What's the matter with Penn State?
Not a thing. Not one thing that won't
go away if we continue to pretend it isn't
there—as so many of us apparently want
to do.
ROBERT PICCONE, Business Manager
Fifty-four years
of
Editorial Freedom
the act of garch 3. 1879
ver here, Henry, I'd
et cetera
Motherly Rules
Rule Out Reality
The only thing I can think of that we on
have in common with the world is fallout.
And this University is determined to keep
touch with reality as possible.
Which is kind of frightening, since we
seniors must clutch now when
we think that our education is
not over, but
just begin
ning. We've
been pressed
into a state of
regression by
the motherly
rules that:
•Women
must be home
by 10 p.m.,
unless they're
seniors an d
have 3.2 aver
age s, which
by some logical process makes
them more grown up after
dark. Does reward for scholar
ship have anything to do with
maturity or morals.
FINEMAN
• Names of even very ser
ious rules and morals offend
ers may not be known so that
we may protect the reputations
of those who themselves have
shown that they care little for
their reputations.
• All campus organizations
have been gathered up into a
little basket so that their funds
can be counted and the growth
of their members checked in
the process.
-
•Students must attend class
es. This means that we have
less judgment and maturity
than our European counter
parts whom we, as full Ameri
can citizens, will be expected
to lead.
Some of these stringencies,
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1959
now our boy's room—:
by Dave Fineman
it seems, will disappear. For
example, we'll have so-called
community living soon, al
though this is an unfortunate
term, since there is little that
resembles a community on this
oitt-of-the-way campus with its
four levels of rule and respon
sibility.
Others, I fear, will be in
creased, such as the tighter and
tighter hold the University is
taking on organizations.
And, again on the other hand,
we may, in the future, have
unlimited class cuts, if the lint-
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TODAY
AIM Judicial Board. 7 p.m., 218 HUB
BX Candidates, 6:30 p m , 214-216 HUB
Chess Club, 7 p.m.. 7 Sparks
Christian Fellowship. 12:30 p.m . 213
HUB
Clover Club Meeting, 7:15 p•m , 111
Tyson
Constitution Committee of Freshman
AdNisory Board. 7 p.m.. 211 HUH
Engineering-Architecture Council, 6.16
P.m., '4'l2-213 1 - 1118
Kamm Phi Initiation Service, 7 p.m.,
Wesley Foundation
Newman Club, Professor Case Lecture
Series. 7 p.m . 101 Chapel Choir Prac.
Lice, 7:30 p m., Our Lady of Victory
Church
Sigma Theta Epsilon, 7 p.m., Wesley
Four da don
TIM, 7 p.m
203 HUB
UCA Fireside, 0:30 p.m., Thompson
Lounge
Women's Choir, 0 p.m , HUB Assembly
Hall
WSGA, 13:80 p.m., 217 HUB
by Dick Sibiu
the campus
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graduating