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Editorial Opinion
Stop and Go
Returning students have been greeted with a new
intersection at Shortlidge Rd., College Ave. and Garner
St. The intersection was definitely needed to alleviate
the traffic jam at that corner. But now another problem
piosents itself—the need for a traffic light at this inter
section to speed traffic.
The corner ia similar to the one at Burrowes Rd. and
College Ave. where a traffic light speeds traffic safely
and efficiently through the intersection.
Last year the Town Independent Men looked into
the situation and investigated the possibility of the bor
ough placing a light at the Shortlidge Rd. intersection.
At that time, the committee was told that the decision to
place a light there would wait until the proposed clover
leaf intersection is constructed on the Benner Pike, east
of campus.
Traffic jams will be common at the intersection at
morning, noon and evening rush hours and especially
during Friday and Saturday night date hours. Besides
causing congestion, the new street is a traffic hazard be
cause of the speeding traffic on College Ave., the blind
corner at Gainer St. and the two-lane traffic traveling
south on Shortiidge Rd. toward College Ave.
The cost of a traffic light would surely be offset by the
number of man-hours policemen will be required to spend
at the corner during the peak hours.
A joint University and town effort would effect a
solution to this dangerous intersection.
Your Class Gift
Today marks the inauguration of a new plan to
raise funds for the Senior Class Gift. All full-time stu
dents will be asked to contribute $1 toward their class
gift fund.
For the senior class, the success of this drive will
detei mine whether or not there will be a 1960 class gift.
Every dollar given will be matched by the University.
Theie will be some members of the class who will be
leluctant to donate to the fund. It will be this reluctance
that may stagger the whole idea of a class gift both this
year and in the years to come.
The junior, sophomore, and freshman classes have
an opportunity to work gradually toward their goal, but
the work should begin right now. If all classes wmuld
keep in mind the gifts given in past years, and the pride
shared by the givers, the drive is bound to be a success.
Collective cooperation is the only way to insure the
continuance of this tradition started years ago. It is now
up to the individual student to decide the merit of such
a tradition. The idea of gradual fund-raising is a worthy
one—it alleviates the burden of donating a lot at one time.
Bear these things in mind when you are approached
at registration. And do your best to keep an aged tradition
of the University alive.
Washington Today
Ike Appears Glum; Mr.
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON (JP)
Dwight D. Eisenhower was
glum, somber. He even
looked a little peeved, as
if he were faced with a visit
from unwelcome in-laws.
Nikita Khrushchev was
cheerful, bouncy and impish,
Any unbiased observer of
yesterday's fust meeting be
tween the leaders of the two
mightiest nations on earth
would have to concede that
Mr. K stole the show. And he
would also have to say that it
looked as if Krushchev had
deliberately planned it that
wa\.
Once during the exchange of
pleasantries, which went on so
long n seemed more like' a
Senate fillibuster. Mr. K ap
peared to wink jovially at re
poi tors.
And while Eisenhower was
reading his welcome, Krush
chev held his black hat up to
shade his eyes, thereby at
tracting attention away from
the President.
When it came time for Mr. K
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
to read his speech, he causally
tossed his hat on one of the
brass posts that held up the
colored rope around the re
viewing stand.
Through it all, his eyes dart
ed around, like the eyes of an
old ham actor who can’t resist
counting and sizing up the
house.
No one knows why Eisen
hower appeared so glum. As an
old military man. he has al
ways seemed willing to make
the best of these formal occa
sions.
Possibly a foulup at the start
put him in a bad mood.
As you may have guessed,
the extent of preparations for
these affairs is fantastic.
Everything is accounted for.
Hundreds of hours go into plan
ning.
Reporters were handed a de
tailed map of the area in which
each object and each dignitary
was plainly marked. For ex
ample, one spot on the map
was marked “grass,” which in
vestigation showed was exactly
right.
And what happened after
all this scheming?
The Soviet plane, which was
(howa heading couth on the
Main Theme
Stressed Now
Is Excellence
By DENNY MAUCK
Editor
The most prevalant theme to
emerge for the start of the fall
semester has been that of recog
nition of excellence.
President Eric A. Walker wasted
no time m initiating this theme.
Speaking before Student Encamp
ment last week, he said that too
much emphasis has been placed
on being just average, just a plain
ordinary- guy.
This appears to be the in
tellectual—as opposed to the
beat—revolution to conform
ity. Bui instead of regressing
to a stale of almost nothing,
Prexy presents a positive atti
tude of striving to better one
self.
Of course, the main character
istic of the excellence of which
Prexy speaks is a striving for
knowledge. To achieve this there
is one requirement—vigor and
enthusiasm of personal participa
tion.
About 95 per cent of the new
students this fall come from the
upper two-fifths of their high
school classes. On the surface
then, these new students should
be able to meet this call for ex
cellence.
To do this will require work,
a dirty word to a lot of peo
ple. Bui let's face it, in order
to get the most from our hard
earned college education it will
take more work than a lot of us
are used to.
It’s been a long time since this
little world has witnessed suen
ar. appetite for knowledge.
I’m for joining the intellectual
beat movement.
Cold to Penetrate
State College Area
There’s a nip in the air. This
wil be an often quoted phrase
today as the coolest weather of
the season invades the State Col
lege area.
Brisk northerly winds and
mostly cloudy skies will combine
this afternoon’s temperature some
20 degrees cooler than yester
day’s The high should be about
58 degrees.
Tonight should be quite cold
with frost and freezing tempera
tures likely.
K, 'lmpish'
map, pulled up and stopped
heading north. It had been
planned the other way.
The big moment when Mr. K
met Mr. E. was on the far side
of the plane and out of sight
to almost everyone.
It’s unfortunate the plana
headed the wrong way; mili
tary officials had worked hard,
maybe too hard, at trying to
get everything to run right.
The ceremonial detachment
from Ft. Myer. for example,
had been routed out of bed at
la.m. and by 5 a.m. they were
at Andrews Air Force Base. By
5;15 they had rolled out the
famous red carpet, a full seven
hours before anyone needed it.
As a result of being so early,
the soldiers had to work much
harder.
Giant vacuum sweepers were
going over the runways, suck
ing up trash that might foul
the plane’s engines. But they
also stirred up dust, small bits
of paper and a weed seed that
looks like dandelion.
No sooner was the carpet
swept than it was dirty again.
Someone would take an old
fashioned broom and start
sweeping.
Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler
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“I got them, and I only paid $lO apiece for them,” she
bragged as she walked down the boardwalk in Altantic
City.
What did she have to brag about, I got in for nothing
—and to beat that I had a free bar and sandwiches at my
disposal the whole time I was by a former Collegian Photo
there. The scene, of course, was Editor who was working for
about three hours before the the Associated Press at the
doors opened for the finale of Pageant. Miss Mobley was
the Miss America Pageant. kind enough to give me an
Besides getting in for noth- introduction to her sorority sis
ing I sat with my nose prac- " er ’ Lmda Mead, the new Miss
iically on the runway of the America.
filled-to-capaciiy Atlantic City course, the luckier ones.
Convention Hall. The city Press ? uch as . lh ® gentleman from a
Bureau treats all visiting press- * ar 9 e photographic firm, wer®
men with ihe greatest of cour- ° n e . x P ense accounts. This par
lesy and care, for they can *^ ular gentleman refused to
make or break ihe pageant a ! low me ]° P a Y *° r S Y own
through their publicity. dinner and cocktail. He rea
, ~ . . . lizes ihe plight of a college
The hospitality is not the student *
only advantage a photographer After' the contest was over
gets. I met some of the con- and the press was taking its
testants and visiting dignitaries flnal pictures on the stage of
?\F ert Par f k £ Go y ernor the Convention Hall one of the
Si^ < l rt A^? ynei 'a of r-r« W A JerS ?f’ sad-looking candidates, Miss
Mitch Miller and C iff Arquette Tennessee, came forth from her
better kown as Chailie Wea- heavily guarded dressing room,
ver- and to the dismay of her host-
Miss America, Mary Ann ess, announced "at least a
Mobley was introduced to me Southerner won it.”
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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 16, 1959
That and
Food Too!
by Marty Scherr