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Editorial Opinion
For Larger Audiences
A sell-out crowd will pack Beaver Field Nov. 7 for the
Syracuse-Penn State football game. And Schwab Audi
to.tium will be filled for the appearance of Robert Frost
Saturday night.
There will be many people including students turned
away from both events. Isn't there some way larger
audiences could be accommodated for these and other
equally popular events?
The answer might be closed circuit television.
The present closed circuit setup will probably stand
idly by while anxious students are standing idly by wish
ing there were some way to see these events.
The cost of televising programs that are almost cer
tain sellouts is a formidable problem. Such costs could be
defrayed somewhat by charging an admission fee to
rooms with closed circuit sets.
Sparks and Boucke already have the closed circuit
system and other buildings including residence halls will
soon be in the network.
Such telecasting could serve as an ideal training
ground for students in the new broadcasting curriculum
created this year.
But especially, this could reach a much larger au
dience for Lecture and Artist Series performances which
would otherwise be impossible until a new auditorium
Is built.
Let's Organize Rules
The recent discovery of conflicting University regu
lations can only lead to acute inefficiency in administra
tion if not corrected soon.
Three different rules have been made with regard
to eligibility for scheduling 500 courses. Each rule con
tradicts the other two. The completely different rulings
e found in the Undergraduate Catalogue, the Senate
Regulations, and the Graduate School Catalogue.
This is not the only example of contradictions in reg
ulations. Another one pertains to permission to have cars
on campus -- in this respect regulations come from the
dean of men, the dean of women, and the vice president
for business administration.
And so these regulations travel around in circles,
being interpreted differently at each spin. Confusion in
the observation of such rules cannot be the fault of stu
dents. Rather, the blame lies with the administrators who
make them.
If rules are to be obeyed and respected, University
officials would do well to come up with a systemized
method of making them.
This apace measures the amount of
legislation passed by the SGA Assembly
this semester.
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Editor - 4eCO°l
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Katie Davis; Copy Editor,
Elaine Miele; Wire Editor, Dick Goldberg; Assistants, Edie Beck,
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Nancy Langsner, Pat Bean, Craig Yerkes, Robert Kraft and
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN: STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
GEORGE McTURK
Busineas Manager
Help Wanted:
Church Needs
30 Gargoyles
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON (JP) —Gargoyle
lovers are getting the biggest
break in gargoyle- history.
They've been invited maybe
begged is a better word to de
sign gargoyles for the Washing
ton Cathedral.
This huge and beautiful build
ing, constructed slowly and sure
ly as a cathedral should be, still
needs 30 gargoyles, or highly or
namental rainspouts.
And so, in the prose of the
Episcopal cathedral dean, the
Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr.:
"We will welcome the entries
of anyone who, with some skill
and craftsmanship, would care
to make this a hobby."
No box tops to send in. No jin
gles to write. No advance coach
ing by a solicitious quizmaster.
No prizes. Just a chance for im
mortality of a sort as the design
er of a tiny portion of an
enormous cathedral.
Now for the benefit of those
whose knowledge of medieval
architecture is misty, let's step up
closer to gargoyles.
The words "gargoyle" and
gargle" have a common ances
tor in the old French word
"gargouille," which means
throat. That's what a gargoyle
really is. It's the throat that
sticks out a couple of feet and
throws water away from the
building.
Instead of a simple pipe, strange
monsters were designed to spit
out the water. Fish have been
especially prized by gargoyle de
signers.
If someone wants to give his
impressions of monsters seen from
a psychiatrist's couch, let him. He
may become the Frank Lloyd
Wright of gargoylery.
Models may be submitted in
clay or plaster, and they should
be in a form fairly easy to
handle.
The resident stonecarvers, Ro
ger Morigi and Edward Ratti, v, ill
take the models, climb up to
where the big blocks of stone are
in place, and do their carving on
the spot.
Anyone who thinks designing a
gargoyle would be fun can get
technical help by writing R. T.
Feller, clerk of the works, Wash
ington Cathedral, Mount Saint
Alban, Washington 16.
Letters
Student Muddled
At Nittany Mud
TO THE EDITOR: I wonder how
many people have attempted to
walk from Nittany Halls to the
civilized section of campus after
dark.
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Last evening (Monday), my
friends and I not only had to
stumble around through mud
puddles we could not see, but also
had to run an obstacle course
around the detour signs placed
at the sidewalk.
I realize that with such luxur
ious dorms, we cannot expect
EVERYTHING to be perfect, but
is it asking too much to have the
street lights turned. on between
Nittany and McElwain Hall?
—Fred Bender, '62
Gazette
TODAY
AIM Queen Contest, 7:30 p.m., HUB ball
room
American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
movie night, 7 p.m , 111 Boucke
Camera Club, 8 p.m..
213-16 HUB
Chess Club. 7 p.m.. HUB cardroom
Christian Fellowship, 12 :45 p.m., 218 HUB
Circa, 7 pm„ old staff members, 7 :30
p.m.; candidates, 404 Boucke
Dancing Classes, 4:15 and 6 .30 p.m.,
HUB ballroom
Englith Council, 6:45 p m., 2)7 HUB
French Club, 7 p.m., McElwain lounge
Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, 7 p m.,
105 Mechanical Engineering
Kappa Phi Dessert Party. 7 p ni., Wesley
Foundation
Resident Council of Student Christian
Association, 6:45 p in.. 212 MTh
TIM. 7 p m 203 HUB
Women's Chorus, 6:30 p m., HUB assembly
room
WRA Dowling Club. 7:30 p.m.. Whit*
WRA Dance Club, 7 Pm., White
WRA Hockey Club, 4:t5 p m., Holmes
Field
HOSPITAL
Patients in the University Hospital yes
terday wets!: John Barlett, Patrick Botula,
James Burrows, Elizabeth Foster, Stanley
Foster, Helen Hill, Sally Hoover, Sheldon
Katz, Frank Korbini, John Lang, Roger
Lewis, Robert Morosky, Michael Raiser,
Susan Randolph, Joel Spero, Patricia
Smith, Mary Stevens, David Truitt. Ruh.
*ea Milken. Carol Wrubleski
ttle Man on Campus
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Some Universities;
Maybe Not Here
"Many of America's 18,000 colleges and universities
rank with the nation's worst-run businesses. Their opera
tions are slipshod, their thinking stratified. Their officials
refuse to look facts in the face."
So wrote Ed Kiester in the
Sunday Parade Magazine re
cently.
However, President Eric A.
Walker strongly disagrees with
the argument concerning Penn
State. And he is right in many
respects.
Prexy said many universi
ties have followed Penn State's
lead in building residence halls
and dining halls on a self
liquidating basis. No student
funds are used to build the
halls and eventually they will
be paid for from the housing
fees.
But the University is not in
fallible in its business opera
tions.
Every leak in a college bud
get drains off money that
might go for faculty salaries,
better classrooms and new lab
oratories, the article points out.
And with the enrollments ex
• pected to dou
ble from three
to six million
students by
1970, colleges
will have' to
squeeze every
nickel to
maintain
quality. "I n
fact colleges
won't be able
to stream
line."
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could never be spoken at Penn
State, where the influx of stu-
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dents has and will continue to
rise every year. Streamlining
the faculty as well as the
courses can be most detri
mental to the education sys
tem as a whole.
The University has gone
about as far as it can go with
its televised courses. Although
students dispute and grumble
about their effectiveness, the
educators agree that televised
courses have received favorable
results.
The article suggests four
ways colleges can improve ef
ficiency by defining and
limiting what they are trying
to do; making better use of
facilities they already have;
improving themselves by set
ting higher standards for stu
dents; and by showing a will
ingness to consider new meth
ods, to explore and to inno
vate.
Although Penn State has es
tablished its objectives many
limes, a firmer and more defi
nite approach will have to be
taken in the near future. Each
year fewer high school stu
dents in the lower three-fifths
of their graduating class are
admitted.
A tri-semester or quarter sys
tem seems just around the cor
ner for Penn State students.
If this summer was any indica
tion, summer school is becom
ing more popular every day.
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