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Editorial Opinion
Button Frosh
The annual customs seems to have started -on the
light lout. Yesteulaj was a lively clay tor both freshmen
and uj>|K-iclassmen, and it looks as if all are getting a big
bang out of the tiachtional banter.
These days are an opportune period for freshmen to
become acquainted with their fellow students and the
landmarks of the University. But there are freshmen who
slink away from this, and upperclassmen who won’t bother
to participate.
To those who fall in these two categories, some words
of advice and warning.
The tiaditmn of customs was not originated to let the
upperclassmen embarrass or heckle the new students. It
was and still is designed to make the new students feel
mote a part of Umveisitv life, especially on a large
campus such as ours. This purpose can be achieved if
cooperation and spit it become the keynote of the period.
Freshmen need not disappear as soon as they catch
sight of an upperclassman. Customs only pay back what
is put into them.
In previous years, Ihe major problem faced by mem
bers of the Customs Board has been to keep spirit up
throughout the period. Customs have had to be discon
tinued after a few weeks because apathy was apparent
in the attitudes of ihe upperclassmen.
This is not an example to be followed, as continued
apathy will lead to the discontinuance of customs in future
years. Let's keep the present attitude and in doing so,
retain the tradition.
Artist Series
Tossy Spivakovsky, world famous violin virtuoso,
will perform Sunday night in Schwab Auditorium.
This is the first of at least 18 programs scheduled for
the University audiences for this school year.
The Artist Series in its short existance has been one
of the most successful programs undertaken for the stu
dents. It often provides a once-in-a-lifetime experience
to see these excellent performers and only for the
$2 pei student taken from the semester fees.
Students have to stand in long lines to obtain tickets,
but it’s definitely worth the time. Very little can be done
about this problem until a new auditorium is built. This
is being planned.
Upperclassmen need no encouragement to patronize
the Artist Series programs. Freshmen should also take
advantage of these performances all at the low cost of
one hole in a matric card.
A Vote for Class Gifts
The $7OOO contributed to the Senior Class Gift Fund
during registration definitely shows that students are in
favor of continuing this tradition.
It’s now in the gift committee’s hands. It must evaluate
the collection system used and determine if there may be
an even better way to support the fund.
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o{ The Daily Collegian and do not necessarily represent
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
GEORGE McTURK
Business Manager
Interpreting
Nikita Trying
Suave Attitude
For Ike Talks
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Nikita Khrushchev is trying to
remove the suave supersalesman
who appeared before the National
Press Club in Washington a week
ago.
But water, and temper, has
flowed over the dam since then.
The Soviet Premier is now go
ing out of his way to reassure
President Eisenhower that the
flumes of conflict stirred by peo
ple critical of the Soviet regime
will not affect their consultations
this weekend.
He also is moving to repair his
relations with the American busi
ness world, first damaged at his
Economic Club dinner in New
York. He finds a manufacturing
plant and its wages something to
admire. He says he gets along
better with businessmen-who to
him represent the capitalistic sys
tem-ihan with politicians.
Business with the United States
is one of the things uppermost in
Soviet policy now, as witness the
appeals for trade.
Khrushchev also must have
realized that his rejection b y
APL-CIO leaders was internation
ally damaging to the Communist
claim to leadership of the world’s
workers. So he suddenly arranged
to be welcomed by Harry Bridges
left-wingers in an attempt t o
prove that the AFL-CIO leader
ship did not speak for all.
The British press reminds lhai
there were similar flurries when
he visited Britain.
Some British papers, however,
share much of the feeling dis
played in the United States-that
Khrushchev has been heckled in
to many revelations regarding his
policies and the way his mind
works, and this is good from a
know-your-enemy standpoint.
George Meany, president of the
AFL-CIO, who did not dine with
Khrushchev in ,San Francisco,
has seized the occasion to remind
that Khrushchev and his policies
mav not be disassociated from
Stalin and Lenin and their poli
cies of world conquest.
There are important questions,
however, which Khrushchev has
raised, and which the free world
must carefully answer if its own
posture in the cold war is to be
effective.
Is he sincere even for this mo
ment in wishing to confine the
conflict to a “may the best sys
tem win without war" basis?
If so, what will be his attitude,
and that of his Communist suc
cessors, when the Soviet Union
has attained economic parity?
Gazette
TODAY
Bus Ad Student Council, 6:45 p.m., 205
Boucke
Chem Phys Council, 7 p.m., 217 HUB
ChfM Club, 7 p.m., 7 Sparks
Christian Fellowship, 12.45 pm, 218 HUB *
DOC Council, 7 p.m. 212-13 HUB
Ed Big-Little Sister Party, 6:30 p.m,.
Cooper ret* room
Electrical Utilities Registration, 8 am,
HUB lobbv
Freshman Customs Board, 6*30 p.m., 218
HUB
Grad Student Club o( Bus Ad, 7:30 p.m.,
Sigma Pi
4-H Club Activity, 8 p.m., 203-12-13-11-15
HUB
Kappa Phi, 7pm. Wesley Foundation
Pershing Rifles (CO B-5) Rushing Smoker,
7 p.m , Armory
Science Institute, 7 p m., HUB main
lounge
Scrolls, 9pm, Delta Gamma suite
Slzma Theta Epbilon, 7 p m., Wesley
Foundation
Women’s Chorus, 6*30 p ni., HUB assem
bly room
WSUA, p m , 203 HUB
WS(»A Senate (open meeting for fresh
men f, 6:,H) pm., 119 Osmond
Zoology Club, 7 pm., 113 Frear Lab
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Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibb
"Roof L COLD ffJ W/ftllH?, NEEPS PAINT, ANP \
PENSIVE ROOM 06CAUS£ Of TH' l/lEltf-THATS A Glßtt 1
—; — penny candy
Like Activities, Man;
Hats, Hats, Hats
The bleary-eyed Penh Stater we saw scurrying across
campus at 8 yesterday mox-ning looked like he was starting
the second day of exams instead of the second day of
classes,
Activities, activities . . .
he tripped up the steps of Old
Main.
This is Organization Man—
Penn State style. He apprecia
tes the value of worthwhile
activities, carefully chosen to
benefit him and his fraternity.
He has doffed the freshman
dink and donned the hallowed
HAT—the status symbol uni
que at Penn State.
A hat can reveal to the ob
servant passerby many facts
about ihe person wearing it.
First of all, he has below a
2.0 All. University average.
If he doesn't, he probably
will next semester.
How acquire a hat?
Ask wide-eyed freshmen after
they have been told they can
cannot be bought in the BX
along with the Freshman Hand
book. Read and heed, our
freshman friends, and we will
reveal the road to Penn State
success-spelled H-A-T.
It’s really very simple. One
devotes enough time to activi
ties to become a Big Man On
Campus (BMOC) and if possi
ble go on scholastic probation
(this last is considered of pri
mary importance)
What are activities? Activi
ties are what keep students
busy when they aren't in
class. Activities keep non
students busy when they
should be in class. They keep
people from eating and sleep
ing regularly. They do not
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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1959
by lolli neubarth
we heard him mutter as
keep people from drinking
regularly.
At Penn State, you can find
an activity to suit your indi
vidual talents and interests. If
you enjoy writing about spec
ialized topics there are such
publications as the Engineer,
the Ag Hill Breeze, the Penn
State Farmer and Circa.
If you like to write about
more varied subjects you
should join the Collegian staff.
If you like to write, but
don't know how, there is still
a place for you on Froth.
Students who like to work,
live and eat together join fra
ternities. Students who frown
on the social and intellectual
limitations of such groups ex
press their freedom of spirit by
joining the Association of In
dependent Men.
The love of group singing
lures many new students to try
out for University choruses
and choirs. But competition is
keen, and many aspiring sing
ers must settle for a place in
Tau Kappa Epsilon.
Organization men work
for as many as jiO campus
activities. Reorganizalion
men concentrate on one—the
Student Government Asso
ciation.
But in spite of their limita
tions, we love activities. In fact,
we wouldn’t give up OUR hats
for anything!
IV MOST Bir
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