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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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