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Editorial Opinion
Small But Good
The academic atmosphere of most summer session
classes is most stimulating and a change from the rapid
pace and mass television instruction predominate during
the regular academic year. This is a welcome change for
most students, especially those interested in becoming
"educated."
Summer session classes provide instructors with a
rare opportunity also. As cne professor aptly said, "There
is a big difference between 10 people staring you in the
face than 30 of 40 students. The atmosphere is much more
relaxed and informal." Professors can depend consider
ably on class-room discussion and individual student re
t,ponse to determine whether a student is comprehending
the matter.
Smaller classes also provide the professor with a
chance to experiment with new teaching techniques and
course outlines. Granted, courses must be condensed from
a 16-week-program to 6 weeks but liberal arts and educa
tion courses should not suffer from the compactness of the
course. Perhaps the engineering or physical science
courses, where laboratory work and experimentation is
involved, do become too trying in a short period of time.
A large number of 400 and other graduate level
courses are given in the summer sessions and these can
best he taught through small groups and spontaneous dis
cussion. The University gets away from its "factory-like"
educational system during the summer months as the
television cameras and mass lecture classes are put in
three-month mothballs. It is a welcome relief.
But by September 21, there will be over 14,000 stu
dents preparing for another year of learning—and the
cameras and impersonal lectures will once again return
to the campus life. Which is better? Mass education of
Commonwealth's students or small, informal classes con
centrating more upon learning than grades.
Lines, Lines, Lines
The lines of people waiting to eat in the Terrace Room
of the Hetzel Union Building have been increasing in
length during the past weeks. And there is not much you
can do about them except being patient and waiting your
turn.
Louis A. Berrena, food service manager at the HUB,
said tl•at nearly 1200 students, faculty members and guests
of the University pass through the cafeteria-style room
each noon and another 1200 in the evening. Over 750
people are served breakfast. That's over 3000 meals served
daily in the HUB. "This is our most popular year and we
have tried to anticipate our growing needs and have pre
pared for the larger number of people," he said.
All this points up one thing—the HUB must be ex
panded, especially the dining and recreational facilities.
Plans are now underway for enlarging the present build
ing but how soon this project will be undertaken is not
known. All-University Cabinet approved a HUB Expansion
report last winter which called for additional facilities
and enlargement of present facilities to meet the needs
of the anticipated student population of 25,000 in 1970.
The report was turned over to the 'University's Board of
Trustees who accepted it and suggested that initial plans
be drawn for enlargement of the ultra-modern building.
With the year-around operation of the University
being so strongly supported, the HUB will continue to be
overcrowded and long lines will prevail.
If it is any consolation—it takes roughly 12 minutes
to move from the cigarette machines in the Lion's Den to
cafeteria square in the Terrace Room!
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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Wayne Schlegel, photographer; Janet
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SUMMER COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Campus Beat
Night Visitors,
Plastic Bags,
Graduation
Four college-age men climbed
from a ground level window of a
coeds' dormitory —Thompson
Hall. It was a little after 1 a m.
and we were amazed at the sight.
As the first stepped out he walked
past us and quipped, "Don't look
so surprised, there are three more
coming." And they did, right out
of the same window, The last
one to pass us gave us a sly
glance and said. "Nothing im
moral, you know."
The photography editor of this
paper missed possibly the best
shot of the year last week. The
scene was the new dormitory con
struction in the Pollock area. The
spectacle was a fully-loaded ce
ment truck which was backing
toward the building forms, ran
off into a ditch. and ended in a
vertical position with the front
of the truck pointed toward the
heavens and the cement carrying
tank snuggled comfortably in
the soft-dirt ravine.
We wish to offer a warning,
Everyone is now conscious of the
life-taking disasters occurring
across the nation as a result of
careless disposal of plastic bags.
Here at the University each week
thousands of these clingy plastic
bags are distributed as wrappers
on shirts and blouses from the
laundries. We ask you to please
discard them carefully or destroy
them.
Instead of wasting valuable
man-hours patrolling nearly
empty parking lots the campus
patrol might constructively spend
its time on Pollock Road between
4:45 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. where il
legally-stopped cars cause a ser
ious hazard. Another hot spot
that deserves some attention is
the HUB ballroom where dancing
turned into fist fights earlier this
week.
The traditional long hot pro
cession of candidates for degrees
is to be eliminated, a commence
ment speaker has not been sched
uled, and a University Summer
Session Band will play at grad
uation ceremonies August 7 at
the University. The sheepskins
will be awarded to all candidates
by their respective deans in the
exercises beginning at 7 p.m. on
the Mall at the Pattee Library
steps. The graduation has been
cut in order to award more than
550 degrees to over 200 ur. der
graduates and more than 300
candidates for advanced degrees.
We hope we see you there.
We often watch some of our
less fortunate students who can
not afford a large American car
and have to put up with those
tiny European vehicles. While
observing the small cars we can
not help but think of a fellow
prof who was driving down the
turnpike one afternoon and col
lided with a 20 pound raccoon.
His M.G. was a complete wreck,
to say nothing of the poor coon.
It seems two students have
been reported for suspected cheat
ing in a Psychology 2 course this
week but no one is willing to
talk about it. Collegian reporters
were given a deaf-ear by the ad
ministrators involved. Is this the
way to create 'a better academic
honesty system—by covering up
cases of suspected cheating?
Well, my students, we wish a
happy and prosperous future to
those of you who complete your
studies tomorrow, I just hope
none of you had plans to be em
ployed in the steel industry.
—Prof Wayne
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Russian-American
Goodwill Trips
The United States and Russia are engaged in an ex
change of visitors. I guess you would call it a reciprocal
trade agreement.
First it was Russian ballets, then diplomats and now
athletes are pounding the American capitalistic pavements,
so to speak. American gover
nors recently finished a month
long tour of Russia and now
the American-R uss i a n ex
change trade exhibits are
drawing numerous spectators
in their respective countries.
What does all this combine
to produce? Is it goodwill or
just more propaganda and
ways of sneaking spies into
each other's nations? Every
one seems to have a different
view on the subject.
Two years ago a member of
the Russian Embassy in the
United States
visited the
University
and was rude
ly greeted
an d treated
by a few stu
dents. On
the whole,
though, his
visit was cor
dial and with
out incident.
The startling
Jaffe discovery
made by one student was that
the Russian diplomat wore a
"Robert Hall" suit!
A preview of the American
fashion show was given re
cently in New York and sev
eral scenes were recommended
to be cut. These involved
scenes showing whites and ne
groes together in wedding pro
cessions and were labeled as
not the right thing to show our
Russian friends.
American industries were
banned from giving away free
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samples in several of the ex
hibits because the Russians
claimed they would cause a
stampede. However. Pepsi-Co
la did manage to get permis
sion to give away free drinks
—an American tradition.
Soviet cameramen shot ev
ery scene available on Soviet
First Deputy Premier Kozlov's
recent nation-wide tour. One
of these cameramen was sup
posedly the top man in the So
viet's secret security depart
ment. Now why would he want
pictures of steelmills, atomic
power plant and other Ameri
can industries?
Kozlov also spoke at the Na
tional Press Club but required
that all questions put to him
by reporters in the Ater-din
ner period be handed to him
in advance and he carefully
screened out all controversial
issues.
These are probably just a
few of the constant incidents
of bantering back and forth
between the "peace loving
friends from across the world.
Even after these exchanges of
culture, talent and men, we
still seem to reach the same
conclusions about the Russians
and they still say the same
things about the American way
of life. Anyway it's fun watch
ing the diplomatic warfare and
at least it is better than atomic
warfare.
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