PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Better Lighted Walks A creditable safety precaution is being taken by the University with the installation of overhead lights in parking areas. This is good as far as it goes, but there are many other dark areas around campus that should be included in this light-up project. The increased attendance at night classes has created moie after-dark coed traffic on campus walks. Many of these coeds go to and from these classes alone. Instead pf taking the usual daytime shortcuts, many coeds have been taking the longer, but better lighted, walks. However, even Pollock Rd. is poorly lighted. Last year, attempts were made to pick up coeds who weie walking through the Hetzel Union parking lot. One coed on her way back to her room was forced to enter a car. Fortunately, no coed was injured and no attempt was made to do any harm. But University officials still shud der at the thought of the coed who was murdered 15 years ago after she was kidnapped from a parked car. The danger now obviously exists. A study should be made to determine what additional lighting facilities would be needed to sufficiently light Pollock Rd. and the main walks. And it should be given top priority over other projects. A Realistic Outlook Faculty and trustee members are meeting today in a seminar quite similar to the Student Encampment of early September. The afternoon and evening sessions will be composed of nine workshops which will discuss such topics as ad missions policy, public relations, use of campus facilities. University financing and the superior student. This year’s Student Encampment was complimented for its realistic outlook on problems of the University. As a xesult many of its recommendations are already in the process of adoption. To have any significance whatever, faculty and trus tee members must also be realistic in their thinking at this seminar. The discussions will be covering topics directly affecting students. Members will have to keep a keen eye to the students’ point of view. The best way to obtain the student's views would be to include students in the workshops, Just as faculty members sit in on discussion groups at student encamp ment. Obviously, this cannot be arranged for today's ses sions. But it should be in the future book. A Student-Operated Newspaper lailg (Mtegtatt Sfyt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Puhlinlifrf Tursdny through SMurdftv morning during the Univeriltv year. The Daily Collegian Is a student-operated newspaper, entered ns second-class matter July S. 19.11 at tha State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Mall Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester JJ.O9 per year. DENNIS MALICK Editor "W 01 STA: tor, Wolt Dran rFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Susie Linkroum; Copy Edi- Carol Blakeslee; Wire Editor, Jim Moran; Assistants, Rick tman, Cordie Lewis, Rona Nathanson, Meg Teichholtz, Paula nov, Ron Smith, and Diane Still. THE \ WELL, I'M A LOUSY CARPENTER, -*] / BIRDHOUSE \ I CANT NAIL STRAI6MT, I t 1 coming Along, cant saoj straight And r VCHARIIE mm?) ALWAYS SPLIT THE (P00D... I'M NERVOUS, HACK I SO,ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, CONFIDENCE, IM STUPID, IT'S COMING ALONG OKAY! I HAVE POOR TASTE AND “*5 ~ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA GEORGE McTURK Business Manager Letters Two Complain About Rules For Parking TO THE EDITOR: At 8:30 am. Sunday I parked in a visitor’s stall marked “University Busi ness.” This stall is alongside Schwab Auditorium and in back of Old Mam. I was going to church serv ices in Schwab. When I returned I found a parking ticket marked "wrong area ” Is there University business be ing carried out in Old Main on Sunday? During the last two se mesters here I have always used the visitor's stalls on Sunday morning, never before receiving a ticket. Now suddenly a more effi cient administration, and tickets to all who parked near Schwab to attend church. I think the regulations here are a bit on the off-color side and need to be re-examined so that these injustices are not carried on. In passing I noted that the many hundreds of cars parked in Lot 11 behind Rec Hall for Sat urday's football game 'were not tagged for "wrong area" park ing. Why not? They were also parked along Burrowes Rd., but no tickets for these. Apparently this offense occurs only on Sunday for church sendees not on Saturday for the football games. —James Fitzpatrick, *6l TO THE EDITOR: To put it mild ly, the new parking restrictions are infuriating. The irritation they cause is increased many times by the apparent lack of any good or logical reason for the 24 hour - 7 day parking ban. The situation has been eased somewhat by the opening of a few lots. However, these lots are bad ly congested (in particular, the HUB area) while the other lots stand practically empty outside of class hours. Also, no provision has been made for the needs of the grad uate student body. For instance, one cannot pick up a friend at Graduate Hall without getting a ticket. I would like to hear the reasons which prompted the announce ment of these regulations. If none are presented, I can only assume that there are no valid ones. If so, much could be said about the effect of unfair restrictions on the integrity and morale of the student body. Let’s hope the ad ministration will show an ex ample of integrity by admitting their mistake and dropping these unneeded restrictions. —Peter Cooper, Graduate Student tongue In cheek —— Beauty is as Beauty Does by bobbi levine “He’s the best thing to happen to womanhood since lipstick!” To me, the significance of this popular expression is more than just a statement that Saturday night’s date was —as the song says—“a walkin’, talkin’, breathin’, livin’ doll. It seems to me to be point ing out the importance of lip stick, and its companion prod ucts, to the average American woman. This idea was further brought home last week by an article I read in a back-issue of a state newspaper. This article asked how a girl who goes into the five-and-len looking like Little Orphan Annie can come out looking like Daisy Mae. The credit for this meta morphosis goes, according to the article, to the various paints, powders, creams and devices which the average woman uses to lift herself out of the average class. Or, to ex pand on the words of another popular song—“what Nature doesn’t do for us can be done by our fellow man.” Statistics show that the cos- ittle Man on Campus by Dick Bib! 11 X JUST tfEAfcP A 101-6 PLIMC’S. —THAT THE WILL ALL ffe>f£6sof?6 "ft? Pa55"TH' ENTKAF4# EXAM/' Coeds Answer Protest Music TO THE EDITOR: We are writ ing in regard to the Thompson Hall coeds’ letter complaining about the Blue Band practicing during study hours. We live in McKee Hall, directly across from the band's practice areas, and it doesn’t bother us in the least. We assume that since you live in Thompson Hall, you are among the new arrivals on campus. Many college freshmen seem to think that the entire University will re spond to their individual wishes. This seems to be the case here. Let us remind you that Penn State will not adjust to you, but you must adjust to Penn State. Short customs have always indi cated above-average freshmen spirit. Could this year’s have been a mistake? The Blue Band must be com mended for the outstanding per formances they have always giv en. Do you realize how much preparation time it requires for just one halftime show? They are using their study time to give Penn Slate students, in cluding you, a band to be proud of. In closing, we would like to say metic business in the United States alone has reached stag gering proportions. Women, it seems, can do without a new dress or a new washing ma chine. But can they do with out a new lipstick?— never! What a far cry from the days When “painted women” were looked upon with scorn. The feeling imong women he s e days iems to be lat if they en’t painted, ley won’t be ioked upon all. What a lange from ..ie days in Miss levine which a wom an who wished to appear un usually pretty when her fa vorite beau came to call, stood before a shiny metal wall plaque pinching her cheeks to bring out some color. The days of pinching cheeks, rubbing lips with berries or dabbing a bit of vanilla behind one’s ears are gone. Today, a woman starts by taking a good look at herself in a mirror. She then decides THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1959 that if you cannot study under these circumstances why don't you take the advice you gave the Blue Band and go home. —Coeds proud to be Penn Staters TO THE EDITOR: We live in a room in McKee facing the golf course. Very few people who live in dormitories have heard the Blue Band practices quite as loud ly as we have during the past week. When we watched the halftime performance of the Blue Band at the Penn State-VMI game, which, incidentally, honored freshmen, we were glad we got a chance to hear the practices and could be more appreciative of the work these men are doing. We laud the Blue Band, and say to fourth floor Thompson— “ Close your windows!” Elaine Ammaiurs '6l —Carole Baker '6l AF Drill Team to Hold Rush Smoker Tonight The Air Force ROTC Drill Team will hold a rushing smoker for all interested air force cadets from 7 to 9 tonight in the Armory. Included in the program will be a trick drill exhibit, talks by the AFROTC leaders, and re freshments served by members of Angel Flight. that what she sees isn't the 'real her' at all. So out she goes to get (with the aid of Playtex and Max Factor) Kim Novak's hairdo, Deborah Kerr's complexion, Elizabeth Taylor’s eyes, Deb bie Reynold’s nose, Audrey Hepburn’s mouth and Marilyn Monroe’s figure. This is the ‘real her’! She runs into a problem, however. Sometimes her date that night doesn’t recognize the ‘real her’, and complications arise. On top of the change in his girl’s exterior appear ance, the young man some times finds himself faced with Brigitte Bardot’s personality on one night and Carol Lyn ley’s on the next. What makes it even more discouraging for the poor male is that he can't even tell any more what his girl is going to look like in 25 or 30 years. There used to be a time when he could look at said girl’s mother and get a pretty accurate idea, but now even Mom has gone in for ‘modern art.’ What do all these observa tions prove? No one is quite sure just yet. We can deduce however, that things may not be quite what they appear oa the surface.
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