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Editorial Opinion
Welcome 63
The class of 1963 enters the University today and
another school year for appioximately 15,000 students
begins.
A word to freshmen —right now everything may seem
contusing to you. The campus is large, but in a short
time you will feel as if you have known it all your life.
Advantages of this immensity will come to your eyes soon.
First and foremost, you must acquire the wish to lake
advantage of the opportunities offered to students on this
campus. Most of these take root in the academic spirit of
a University. Once this spirit becomes a part of you, other
highlights of college life will follow.
To those of you who may be interested in extra
cuincular activities, them is an extraordinary selection
from which to chose. But activities on a college campus
should take a back seat to studies. Once the study problem
has been overcome, these activities can be pursued to a
degiee in which a happy medium is reached between the
two.
Students pievious to you have recognized this prob
lem. In trying to provide a solid academic start they have
enacted such piograms as deferring membership in fra
ternities and sororities until the second semester.
To most of us who have been here for one or more
years, the University has become an object of pride. You
freshmen will develop and cultivate this pride eventually,
and through this development you will become an integral
part of the University. But it should be kept in mind that
student action of any sort reflects upon the institution
from which it springs. Good action can only make the
University a finer institution. Detrimental action will
harm both the student and the University.
You have four wonderful years ahead of you as college
students if you will learn how to use these years to the
best advantage both to yourselves and the University.
Good luck to you in your opening days on campus and in
the many days to follow as students of The Pennsylvania
State University.
Frosh Class Gift
Freshmen will have an opportunity during their first
week at the University to take pat in one of its best tra
ditions—the Senior Class Gift.
The traditional gifts of graduating classes may be seen
throughout campus—the Nittany Lion shrine, the western
gate, the new Beaver Field scoreboard, the Mall gate, to
name just a few.
Under a program to begin this year, students will
contribute toward their graduating class gift each semes
ter. The final gift selection is made by a vote of the class
just before graduation.
Contributions for the Class of ’63 gift will be made
during registration in Recreation Hall this week together
with those for the Classes of ’6O, ’6l and ’62.
Goal for the gift collection is $4 from each class mem
ber by the time he is graduated. The new plan enables a
student to do his part to maintain the class gift tradition
on an "easy pay" basis.
Graduating classes of the past look with pride upon
their gifts, especially when they return to campus. Fresh
men can show upperclasmen and alumni that they mean
to continue the gift tradition by contributing readily
this week.
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.4 Student-Operated Newspaper
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DENNIS MALICK
Editor
Managing Editor. William Jaffe: Assistant Editor. Catherine Fleck; Public
Relation* Director. Lolli Neuharth; Copy Editor. Roberta Levine: Sparta Editor,
Sandy Padwe; Assistant Sports Editor. John Black: Photography Editor, Martin
Schorr: Member, Board of Kdilors, Robert Thompson.
I.ocil Ad Mgr., Sherry Kennel: Ass't. Local Ad Mar., Darlene Anderson: Credit
Met., Mary Ann Zittle; National Ad Mxr., Leila Lhler; Classified Ad Mgr.,
Sara Brnwn; Co-Circulation Mgrs., Loretta Mink. Murray Simon: Promotion
M*r. Ruth Briggs; Special Mgr.. Alice Mahachck; Personnel Mgr., Dorothy
Smeal: Office Secretary, Bonnie Bailey: Research and Records, Margaret Dimperio,
STAFF THIS ISSUE. Bobbi Levine, Sandy Padwe. Johnny Black,
Lolli Neubarth, Marty Schorr, Cathy Flock, Bill Jaffe, Denny
Malick, Dcx Hutchins, Jeff Pollack, Bill Barber, Carol Blakeslee,
Marty Levin.
GEORGE McTURK
Business Manager
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Collegian Starts
55th Year
Uncensored
Entering into its 55th year of
opeiation with this issue, The
Daily Collegian can make this
statement—‘fifty-five years old;
55 years fiee’.
Collegian is one of this coun
try’s few student-operated col
lege newspapers which us still
fice from censorship and day-to
day supervision.
Collegian is operated by two
staffs—editorial, headed by Den
nis Malick and business, headed
by George McTurk. They are re
sponsible to Collegian, Inc., their
publishing body, composed of six
students (of whom Malick and
McTurk are two) and six faculty
and administration members.
James H. Coogan, Jr., director
of the Department of Public
Information, serves as presi
dent of the board.
Newspaper policy and the pa
per's day-to-day opeiation is de
termined by the Board of Editors
of the editorial staff.
The other three editorial boards,
Board of Advanced Reporters,
Board of Intermediate Reporters
and Cub Reporters, are respon
sible for gathering and writing
the news and features which ap
pear in the paper daily.
Advanced and intermediate
reporters cover assigned beats
and take general reporting as
signments. Advanced reporters
also assist with editing jobs in
the daily operation.
Cub reporters aid in writing
stones and headlines while they
attend classes taught by members
of the editorial board. They also
receive individual coaching from
advanced reporters under a big
and-little brother and sister plan.
The business staff consists of
three departments advertising,
promotion and circulation —
which also use the ‘'board” sys
tem Local and national adver
tising is handled by the ad staff
while the promotion staff handles
Collegian publicity and the cir
culation staff distributes papers
to their pick-up points.
Collegian is published Tues
day through Saturday morn
ings and is'usually eight pages
long. Four of these pages are
devoted to local and campus
news; one page is held for As
sociated Press news; one page
contains editorial comment and
columns; and two pages carry
sports.
The Collegian will issue its
first call for candidates during
the second week of classes. A coke
party and open house will be
held in held in the city room in
8 Carnegie.
This is the first of two formal
calls for candidates made each
year. The second will made at
the start of the spring semester.
However, students may join
the staff by reporting to the Col
legian office from to 6 p.m. week
days. Staffers need not be journa
lism students.
Grad Oral Exams
Set for Sept. 16-19
Graduate students who plan to
take written foreign language ex
aminations on Nov. 2 and who
have not taken the preliminary
oral tests, should arrange for the
oral tests immediately.
These tests will be given
Sept. 16-18 and the morning of
Sept 19. Students should regis
ter for German in 227 Sparks and
for French and Spanish in 300
Sparks.
Students who have passed the
oral tests but failed the written
examination should register for
a le-examination no later than
Oct. 12 in 227 Sparks for German
and in 300 Sparks for French and
Spanish
Written examinations in English
for foreign graduate students
should be completed by October
5 in 247 Sparks.
University Given $7OOO
For Corn Hybrid Study
The University has received a
$lOOO grant from the Cooperative
G. L F. Exchange Inc., to be used
for a study of the evaluation of
corn hybrids for silage.
The project, which hopes to pro
vide farmers with fundamental
information for producing good
silage corn, is under the direction
of Dr. John B. Washko, professor
of agronomy.
Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler
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by President Eric A. Walker
I should like to welcome each
and every one of you to The
Pennsylvania Stale University.
All of us here at the University
—the upperclass students as
•well as the faculty and the staff
—are glad to have you with us.
I believe sincerely that 'you
have made a wise choice in
selecting Penn Stale for your
collegiate studies. The Univers
ity is one of the largest insti
tutions of higher education in
the country. It is also one of the
best. As a Penn State student,
you are now a member of a
distinguished community of
scholars a community in
which almost the only vocation
—perhaps the only vocation—
is the search for truth and
knowledge. Here you will find
the resources to pursue that
search in almost every area of
interest to human beings and
to pursue it as far as your am
bitions and your abilities and
your desires dictate.
The primary purpose of a
university is to discover, con
serve, and disseminate impor
tant knowledge. To carry out
this purpose, your professors
have gone to great lengths to
see that your education is the
A TERRIBLE
THING... ,
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1959
Welcomes
Students
best that can be designed.
But you are not here to be
taught. You are here to learn.
There can be indoctrination but
there can be no real education
unless you—each and every one
of you—are driven by your
own thirst to know and to un
derstand; unless you are moti
vated within yourself to seek
out and examine phenomena
independently and to resolve
problems in your own terms;
unless you are deeply commit
ted to the proposition, laid
down over 23 centuries ago by
Socrates, that "the life which
is unexamined is not worth
living."
Education, pursued in this
fashion, is one of the most ex
citing and personally reward
ing experiences in which man
can participate. If, during your
studies at Penn Slate, you be
come deeply impressed with
this truth—if you master the
techniques and the tools of
learning and become imbued
with a passonite desire to use
them for the rest of your life—
the University will have
achieved its purpose. And you
will have realized the highest
possible return on your invest
ment in-your education.
Gpod luck and best wishes!
I -KNOW. CHARLIE BROWN...
ANO ISN'T IT STRANGS HOW
YOU CAN SOMETIMES FEEL
LONELY EVEN WHEN IN A CROWD?