J AGf FOUR Editorial Opinion Student Absentee Vote A bill has been introduced into the State Legislature that may extend absentee voting to college students. If this legislation is passed, it would undoubtedly pro duce a tremendous increase of voters among the state’s colleges and universities. Many students who are eligible to vote don't have a way to get home to their home voting districts. Many others just don’t want to take the time and trouble. Under present laws, only servicemen and hospitalized or bedridden veterans may cast absentee ballots. College students theoretically are among the best in formed of those eligible to vote. Students have access to expert opinion among the many professors, especially those in political science. A new group which calls itself the Student Lobby is forming on campus. Its purpose is to help bring the college student opinion before state and national policy makers. This absentee ballot issue offers an excellent opportunity for this group to make a good start. Good Grief, C.B. But we all love you, Charlie Brown. And just to prove it we ran two cartoon strips about you yesterday. In fact, every Tuesday henceforth, Charlie, Snoopy, Linus and the rest of the Fussbudgets will be appearing six times a week in the Collegian. Reason: Collegian publishes five times a week; there ate six Peanuts comic strips each week. Any complaints? Other Views intelligentsia? The arts are suffocating because of lack of new talent; private industry is crying for trained personnel: the government needs young, fresh minds with a clear outlook; the public is demanding more and better trained teachers—and the job of supplying the country with individuals to fit these requirements falls on col leges and universities. College students are supposed to be intellectually superior. Because they are college students they are supposed to think for themselves arid to have at their command a certain amount of discretion and foresight. However, look around you. Look at the "student" who comes to take an examination without a pencil or pen. Look at the inevitable-dunderhead who always neglects to put his name on the paper, or who can never figure oui how to mark the answer sheet. Go to any dean's office, any time of day, and you will always find someone there with catalog, schedule book and sheets of paper scattered around trying his best to figure out a schedule. Does the "student" need some sort of gifted intelligence to be able to compare the required courses, as listed in the catalog, with courses he has already taken? College students, especially freshmen, need a certain amount of counseling and guidance, but upperclassmen seem equally guilty of not being able to make decisions for themselves and must be taken bv the. hand and shown exactly what to do. The University obviously takes this into account, as can readily be seen by qiancing at the list of counselors in the "L" book. There are qeneral counselors, scholastic counselors, vocational, speech, reading, e»-''* ; o*’al, financial, housing and religious counselors. Th» "L" book suggests that anyone who needs reading coun seling should report to the Developmental Reading Bureau, What rinhi does anyone have to be in collecre if he can't read oroperlv? It’s no wonder the "student’' can't figure out his schedule, take an examination or correctly follow instructions. I S U nrobably is not the only state university faced with this problem, hut anvone who comes to college without being able to read satisfactorily, or to make h>s own basic decisions, is wasting his time end the state’s money. If this state, or this country, ex pects to keen turning out trained personnel the colleges and universities will have to weed out the deadheads. Because LSU is a state university, it cannot refuse admission to tv white Louisiana high school graduate. However, consider ing results of th-s policy, it wouldn't be a bad idea to think about changing the rule. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom ©lt? SatUf (Mpfjtan Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 PuMt-.l>tri Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily t'ollccian it a utudent-operatcd newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5. Hull at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Mail Sub-rription Price: $ll.OO per semester S.VOO per year. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press DENNIS MALICK Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dexter Hutchins; Copy Edi toi\ Katie Davis; Wire Editor, Elaine Miele; Assistants, Phyllis Pack, Lynne Ceretice, Ollie Himes, Karen Hyneckeal, Tom Eggler, Lorna Kiick, Ellie Hummer, Robert Kraft, Trudy Gerlach, Betty Smith, Denny McConnell, Fayenola Zalmon, Pat Haller, Dom Teitelbaum, Emily Nissley, Edie Smith, Eugene Maiale, Judy Everet —Daily Reveille Louisiana Stale University GEORGE McTURK Business Manager THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Campus Beat Bells, Band Make Campus 'Sound Off' The physical plant wasn’t kid ding when it .announced a few weeks back that the clock in Old Main would be on time. Now, not only is it on time, but every once in a while it strikes the hour 15 minutes early. We see that the Blue Band has tried to cement relationships with the population of Thompson Hall’s fourth floor. The band serenaded the girls Friday night. We've found a solution for all ihose iraie Chapel goers who are being "discriminated upon" by the Campus Palrol. If they got up five minutes earlier in the morning they could park behind Rec Hall and enjoy a pleasant morning walk. It's amazing what a walk will do for the soul. Why can’t Penn State give their team a big send-off to West Point like the Cadets give their team when it leaves for an away game? And sDeaking of the Army game—Who isn’t?—we know one fraternity man who got a transis tor radio to carry in his golf bag while he plays a round in the IM tournament Saturday afternoon. We're still trying to figure ouf whai the student was doing on the second floor of Boucke with a bi cycle on Monday. Mavbe he was trying to reach the 8-foot hiqh clothes free that was seen in the building last week. We wonder who this year's Homecoming Queen will be. Better yet, we wonder whohl know Saturday night of Home coming weekend. She seems to lead more of a sheltered life than a novice. , Can’t wait to se the December issue of Confidential. It’s going to have an expose on the morals of ~,e , . League schools. Now we ll finally see how the other half lives. Congratulations to the spirited ,® re Passing oui the BEAT ARMY" stickers. They the® 4 Up „!" ore morale than the Clyde Klutz" fad of two years ago. We don’t mind the idea of “June in January.” but August in Oc tober is carrying things a little too far. We hear tha McKee coeds want to wear bermudas in their dining halls. Who knows, maybe we’ll have another revolution like last year’s Nittany “T”-shirt rebel lion. Well, students, I guess I had better make the trek to class. See you all at Michie Stadium. Gazette AIM Executive Committee, 7 p.m., 203 HUB Association of Chemical Engineer!, 7 p.m„ Grange playroom Career Committee, 7 p.m., 212 HUB Chcm-Phys Council, 7 p.m., 217 HUB Chess Club, 7 p.m., HUB cardroom Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m., 218 HUB Dancing Classes. 4:16 p.m.. 6:30 p.m.. HUB ballroom DeMolay. 7:3(1 p.m., 213 HUB Glee Club, HiLo Section, 7 p.m., 100 Car- negie Graduate School Lecture, 8 p.m., 121 Sparks Newcomer's Faculty Wives Bridge Club, 7:30 p.m., 214 HUB Nittany Grotto, 7 p.m.. 121 MI Riding Club. 7 p.m.. 218 HUB Sports Car Club, 7 p.m., 109 Osn\ond Women's Chorus, G:3O p.m., HUB assembly room WRA Bowling Club, 7:30 p.m.. White Hall W'RA Dance Club, 7 p.m.. White Hall WRA Hockey Club, 5:15 p.m.. Holmes Field Zoology Club, 7 p.m., 105 Frear Dean of Men's Office To Be Open Saturdays The dean of men’s office will be open from 9 a.m. to noon Sat urdays on a trial basis. The extension of office hours began last Saturday. Previously, the office was only open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon day through Friday. * * * * * * * * ♦ + * * * * * * * * * * * * * * —Prof Wayne TODAY Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibfer MISS PITT A TEST? Letters Frosh Replies To Reply on Light Issue TO THE EDITOR: While read ing yesterday’s Collegian, I happened to glance at the let ter “Coed Replies,” and noticed the name “Mr. H. C. Lawrence Smith." The main reason I no ticed it was that it was my name. So I read the letter. After neatly clipping off the barbed point, and withdrawing the feathered shaft from a point midway between my shoulder blades, I sat down to study the problems brought to light, so to speak, by Miss Gor don. . During the course of the af ternoon, and evening (which was shorter, mind you) I made the following survey by study ing some upperclass coeds in the area described by Miss Gordon as the "short cut be tween Walker Lab and the Li brary.” There are two routes that can be used to traverse this area ... A coed' going down hill from the Library passing Pond Lab and continuing on to Walker Lab takes about two minutes and 40 seconds. A coed traveling downhill from the front of Burrowes past Graduate Hall to Walker takes about two minutes and 20 seconds. A coed coming up from Walker past Pond takes about three minutes. A coed traveling up from Walker past Grad Hall to the Library takes two miinutes and 50 seconds. In the field of "menaces to navigation" there are a num ber of poi holes in the Pond v I THINK (MISS OTHAtAR llf ..Andthen she said, 1 unus" THAT'S JUST THE WAY SHE SAID IT...“LINUS"..SHE CAME RIGHT OUT, AND SAID MY NAME JUST AS PLAIN AS DAY... _ ('•CO WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1959 I \o§k-\ 'AST HEPXO? SAID■ —• \ HOW DO Y9U EXPECT \ TO PASS ATgST UNLESS / vou pjtgpwLg y V fop IT/ AS=“ mm! -lay parking lot. and two five-inch curb stones back of Grad Hall. Both are close to lights. There are no hanging chains in back of Pond Lab. (All are missing, presumably carried away by rapidly walking co eds.) Now we return to the subject of lights, which inci dentally started this all (lest we forget). There are only three lights along this path. Not counting light from the many open win dows of Grad Hall. So it is for the most part dark. This we take for granted. When we travel from Walker Lab to the Library by way of Pollack Rd. and the Mall at coed pace, it takes a mere three minutes and 32 seconds. This route is well lighted. When the lighting system of this campus was planned, it was assumed that students would use the lighted areas to go from place to place. How ever, it seems that quite a few don’t. The main reason given by most is habit. A campus our size can be compared to a city. Cities have this same problem, and most girls'living in cities have some method of countering this problem. The routes used as examples were not planned as well trav eled routes, and if they be come so now. then there should be no problem of desolation. While viewing the area at night, the only problem I dis covered was narrowly being hit by a “delicate , flower" speeding down the path on a bicycle. The humor contained in this and other letters is not meant to be caustic, it merely con veys this thought, that by ma turely looking at the problem it can be overcome. If you are afraid of the dark do something about it yourself, first; —Lawrence Smith, '63 -amemoim MYSH OS /• a'
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