PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Start, Start, Almost everyone here realizes the University’s need to t ocxarninc its entire educational program. But realizing this need is not enough; there must be action. Four speakers at the Faculty-Trustee Seminar last night stressed this need for reexamination but more Importantly urged that the mechanics be started now for such a change. Piexy’s stress for excellence among students is only i start. If we demand more from students, more must be demanded ftom professors and the administration. Research is one of the keys to a better University. As one speaker put it, we may have to take in a few less stu dents. But we need the money for research to discover some new way to better educate, to make better use of our facilities. One feasible suggestion was that small committees be established immediately in each college to do nothing but review the entire curriculum and requirements. These committees should be formed of young, but not inexperienced, minds who can see the need for change, and possibly a radical change. As pointed out at the seminar, a better educational program will attract better students and better educators. It will make Penn State the goal of the gifted students and professors. We won’t be looked upon as a mere stepping stone to other educational institutions. But we can't sit around. It will take action, wise action. The call has come for “excellence for the many’’ and as a state university we must answer it. Keep Up The Interest A good deal of interest in the work of tha Student Govei nment Association was evident last night. The num ber of students attending the SGA assembly meeting was indeed greater than usual. Cultivation of such interest at the beginning of the first year of new student government could be attributed to several factors, but the two most prominent seemed to be the publicity preceeding the meeting and the avid spirit of the freshman class. It is a promising sign that students are concerned with the way student government operates. If this spark of interest is kept kindled, the major problem of apathy would be eliminated. Another definite indication of student interest was shown in the number of students who applied for com mittee work within the SGA. Though the majority of applications came from the freshman class, an improve ment over past years has definitely been shown. SGA members have done a noteworthy job so far in creating ways of arousing spirit toward their organiza tions. If tile work is continued, student government will soon become the concern of the student body as a whole, and not of just a few Parking Solution The Off-Campus Living Problems Workshop came up with some very good recommendations to solve the present parking problems—problems that cannot be made light of. The parking situation ig definitely in need of an im mediate solution, what with the year~by-year increasing enrollment. Students have been hard-hit by the recently imposed regulations. The Encampment workshop gave the parking problem close attention in hopes that University officials would bear it in mind and come up with more feasible and realistic measures. It is now up to these officials to give attention to the recommendations made and attempt to adjust their regu lations to meet the present conditions for student parking. iatlg (Mlfgtatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 CuMUhtd Tut.tday through Saturday morning during tho I’nlYrrsity yrar. Tho Dailr Collegian is a *tudent«operated newspaper. Entered as aecond'ctas* matter Jut/ 5. mt at tha State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March *, 1879. Mail Subscription Prices <3.00 per semester per year. DENNIS MALICK Editor * STAFF THIS ISSUE: Copy Editor, Nicki Wolford; Night Editor, Elaine Miele; Wire Editor, Jim Whalen; Assistants: Jim Serrill, Brenda Pezzner, Sue Weinman, Janet Rosenberg, Edie Beck, £,u*, tlppman. Start GEORGE McTURK Businest Manager CHE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Campus Beat Finding A Date -The Hard Way With one football weekend un der our belts, another social sea son is in full swing. And speak ing of social seasons brings to mind the young man who was de termined to get a date last Satur day. He was so determined, he went from door to door in a sorority suite looking for one. We’ve got a solution to the group of coeds on Thompson’s fourth floor who can’t bear hear ing the Blue Band practicing. Maybe they can apply for Nit tany Dorm next year. There the only distraction is a faint cackling of a rooster now and then. We've got all sorts of solutions this week. After doing a lot of figuring, we've found that if one would pile all the campus park ing rules and revisions one on lop of the other, and set fire to them, you wouldn't need any other fuel this winter. We wonder if the Class of '63 will have as much spirit in 1962 as they did Saturday when Cus toms was officially ended. And speaking of the end of Customs, we bet the grounds crew made out pretty well when it cleaned up after the game Satur day. There were a lot of pennies used to weight down the name sings that were tossed to the four winds. _ Let's hope that the hat socie ties get on the ball and collect the balance of the-funds needed for a new suit for the Niltany Lion. It would be nice to see a respectable looking mascot when the new stadium is opened next year. Well, students, Don’t forget the rally tonight and the game to morrow. Let’s "brush the field with Colgate.” Letters Lack of Light Causes Fright TO THE EDITOR: It makes me shudder to think of our poor de fenseless "flowers” developing more than the appropriate num ber of complexes about the dark. Gilds who fear the dark put a definite damper on collegiate life, and we don’t want this to happen, do we? Bui whal can we expect when this campus is so desolate at night? By day, we boast one of the nation's most beautiful cam puses. By night, we wonder where all the state-appropriated funds are going. There is absolutely no excuse for the very inadequate lighting facilities on our grounds. Night classes, co-curricular and extra curricular activities make it ne cessary for coeds to leave their dormitiories after dark. More street lights, spotlights on various buildings, or a combina tion of both are essential to their safety. ' There have been enouqh un pleasant incidents within the past few years to make the need for better lighting obvious. Why have no steps been taken to alleviate this serious problem? Why concentrate only on the parking lots? Why should we who have no cars be forced to carry torches? Perhaps machetes would be more appropriate. —Marjorie Kapelsohn, *62 Gazette Bridge Club«, 6:30 p.m., HUB card room Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m., 218 HUB; 7.110 pm. 11l Boucke Defu Nu Alpha, 6:30 p.m.. 218 HUB Graduate Mixer, 9 pm. HUB ballroom Induntrial Education Society, 7 p.m., Mon day. Pi Kappa Phi Jnteriandla Folk Dance, 7:30 p.m., fi White Hall - Pa. Dairymens Association, 10 a.m., 212 HUB WRA Open House, 7 pm., .White Hall Thomas Benford. Patrick liotula, Robert Carretta, Mary Crozier, Lois Dutso, Mar* jorie Ganter, Jay Huffman, Jacqueline Long, Samuel McHenry, James Mdore. Carols Pryor. Lois Kothenberg, Samuel Vernallia*' —Prof. Wayne TODAY HOSPITAL Little Man on Campus by Diek Bibier "fariSsl fg "Vfea.l'/A 6LAP TO SggIHEYVE FINALLY POMP 60V£TH|NGi tO SO-VB THE PAKKIN6 PROBLEM." Other Outlooks Fashioning Female; Is She All She? (Editor’s note: As the second part of a sort of one-two analysis of female deception, we are reprinting the following column en titled " Damsels’ Deception: That Shapely Girl —ls She ‘For Real’?" It was written by Dane Wert, of the Harrisburg Sunday Patriot-News, and appeared in that newspaper in early June.) A girl strolls through Market Square with a sil houette like Arthur Miller's wife and every male within blocks pauses . , . looks . . . and sighs. And then he wonders: “Is she ‘for real'?” ' Time was when rouge and lipstick were damned as decep tion. But now ... Can you be lieve anything you see? That gal with the 38-22-37 silhouette really may be bald, have no eye lashes or eye brows, be bpw-legged with gams like bent pjpe stems, chew her fingernails back to her knuckles and may measure in her (excuse the phrase) “all together” a very flat 24-24-24. After much research at great expense, it has been found that any girl with any old sort of figure can go into a Harrisburg store looking like Little Or phan Annie and come out look ing like Daisy Mae. Just take a walk through any well-stocked store* Hair pieces to make straggly Ann look like Lady Godiva. Artificial eyebrows and eye lashes that glue on in seconds. Rouge, lipstick, eye shadow f c K ro-Z FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1959 \v ll and a little device to pull in ears that flap in a breeze. Various sizes of conical hem ispheres. Jig-saw puzzles of cloth, el astic, strings, hooks and zip pers to “hold you in, push you out, lift up and hold up your stockings, too.” Stockings whose shade varies to give an illusion of curves where none exist and to visu ally correct bow legs or knock knees. And girdles with enough padding to take all the fun out of nasty tricks, like poising a thumb tack on the secretary's chair. And speaking of that, where . will it all end? Will the poor male forget what women really look like beneath the trappings of sci entific America? It started with Eve and that fig leaf. The only hope now is that science may come up with some gadget like a geiger counter that buzzes like mad to detect the difference between a store manikin and a real, live, breathing Sue with shape so true. /< <£>t\ g c Script.
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