PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion 94 Per Cent of Students Await New Auditorium Nine hundred students or six per cent of the entire student body will have the opportunity to see Robert Frost pei form tomoi iow night. The other 94 per cent will have to content themselves with sitting beside their room radios a misfortune, indeed, to that large percentage. Ninety-four per cent excluded from a University function all because of an outdated auditorium which would've satisfactorily accommodated the student body of about 40 years ago. Recreation Hall cannot be obtained for the perform ance for two reasons. First, it has already been scheduled for another event and secondly,it . is definitely not the proper place in which to ask any renowned artist to give a performance. Six per cent is an extremely low rate when you con sider that finances for the Series come from all students' fees. And it is quite apparent from the number of com plaints registered, from the long lines, from the extremely rapid ticket distribution, that many, many students are distressed over the situation. The Artists Series program has been very successful in the past, and Judging from this year's schedule it promises to be even more successful. It is a shame that a program embracing such a large number of avid fans has to disappoint so many of them. The fault lies not with the Artists Series committee itself, but with University officials who, in endorsing such a program, cannot provide sufficient accommoda tion for said events. An enlarged auditorium is included in the Univers ity's long range expansion program but that does not solve the immediate and pressing problem which arises many times during the year. In order to alleviate this problem, since a new audi torium is out at the present time, the Artists Series com mittee should, whenever possible, schedule more than one performance, especially when the popularity of the per formance is evident—and popularity of Frost has been evident since the year's schedule was announced in September. • It still remains that the 94 per cent will not see the performance and this example should serve as a reminder when negotiating for future performances. TOMORROW NIGHT IS 0012 1316 NIGHT, 1 1 , 111 ARE YOU , OF SVRE THATG COLZE,ITS LEakL? LEGAL! A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom ilatig Tultegian Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Publighed Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July F. 1931 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the est of March 3, 1879. Flail Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester 10.00 per year. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press DENNIS MUCK Editor , °Oeo STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Barb Yunk; Copy Editor, Zandy Slosson; Wire Editor, Dex Hutchins, Assistants: Don Smith, Jan Rosenberg, Sue Weinman, Brenda Desch, Jim Karl, Bill Kraft, John Morris, Lorna Kiick, Lynn Marvel, Barbara Dippl, Karen Miller, Ellie More, Saplee Orton, Jeanne Swo boda, Trudy Gerlach, Alice Blair, Valerie Kuszynski, Judy For brich, Lois Dontzig, Ellie Hummer, Fayenola Zalmon. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ALL YOU RAVE TO DO IS WALK OP lb A HOUS, RING THE DOORBELL AND SAY, 4 ' TRCKS OR TREA GI " G00D... I WOULDN'T WANT' TO SE ACCUSED CF TAKING PART IN A Rum' i GEORGE MeTURK Business Manager Letters Letter Explains Grading System TO THE EDITOR: In explana tion to Mssrs. Taft and Luther, and to all students who are ques tioning the grading system, its SGA discussion and disposal: Pros and cons on a new grad ing system were again studied and considered at this fall's Stu dent Encampment in the Work shop on Academic Affairs and Curricula Revisions. Administration officials present in the discussion defended our present system and explained it as a 5.0 system—i.e. A, B, C. D. and F .. . thus allowing for five grading divisions. Work shop recommendations, however, recognized the inade quacies arising in our present grading system, but also realized that a finer grade division of stu dent achievement was impossible until testing procedures could be ome more reliable. Therefore, a grading system change at this time would be of little value to the University and would only serve to smooth the surface without solving the crux of the problem. As a more immediate solution to students' complaints, it was recommended that the numerical percentages be dropped from all University publications such as transcripts, regulations and hand books. . (Numerical percentages are not officially a pert of the existing grading system—i.e. An A is only to mean excellent not 90.100 per cent as is the popular belief.) These recommendations on the grading system have been passed by the SGA Assembly, and at that time it was urged that the standing committe on academic affairs begin to function imme diately . . . but these things take time ! ! ! —Carol E. Frank, Chairman Academic Affairs & Cur ricula Revisions Workshop Coed Hits Critics 01 SGA Assembly TO THE EDITOR: Everyone is panning the new SGA. It seems to be the thing to do this semes ter. Everyone is quite eager to criti cize the Assembly, the legislation not brought up, and the "long winded debate which accom plished little." How many of these same critics have suggested ideas for legisla tion to Assembly members; has anyone thought of introducing an idea of their own? If these in terested persons would apply just a little of their criticizing time to trying to help the SGA progress, much might be done. Everyone sits back, expecting SGA to fall on its face—and it may if the students fail to realize that this is their SGA and that they, and only they, can make it succeed. —Mary Dugan, '63 Gazette TODAY Alumni C.C.L.E., 8 p.m., HUB assembly room Christian Fellowship: 12:15 p.m., 218 HUB Fluid Mechanics Seminar, 4 :15 pan . 102 Sackett Mineral Industries Colloqium, 4:16 p.m., Minei al !mimicries Auditorium Newman Club Dance, 7 p.m., HUB ball- room Players' "On Borrowed Time," 8 p.m., Center Stage Philo.4oolY Club, 7:30 p.m.. 217 HUB USF Halloween Party, 8 p.m., Fellowship Hall, Faith Church HOSPITAL Patients in the University Hospital Yesterday sure: Emily Adamson, Carole Baker, Patrick Botula, Reuben Dworsky, Stanley Foster, Margaret Frazier, Brenda Cogliotta. Earl Harbaugh, Arlene Her• mann, Helen Hill, William Jansen, Shel don Katz, Forrest Kohler, Roger Lewis, Robert Morosky, Roy Shook, Robert Skin• ner. Robert Toothman, Robert Wllkea, John Zerbe. Brubaker Will Attend Phoneticians' Congress Dr. Robert S. Brubaker, asso ciate professor of speech science, `has been invited to participate in the first World Congress of Pho neticians, to be held at Tokyo, Japan, in 1960. The purpose of the Congress is to encourage an international scientific exchange of research on speech and language: t . Little Man on Campus by Dick Bible, 101 . ' 15111 I I NO 1 11 -11 11,11111111 0 na 0 , of , " lout . 1 pR9FANIr( s co , 1 j PAT a coat I ,1 l i ' . _ :..•.; • I,• 1 11 1 I ' 1 •' ll 1 ' 1 ' ri lu slllw f:l4 l- 14. 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Reports to President Adolfo Lo pez Mateos' office said that as many as 800 are believed dead in Minatitlan, a farm community of about 10,000 population 24 miles northwest of Colima, the Colima state capital. Many other places were still to be heard from. The tragedy in Minatitlan boost ed the death toll of the weekend disaster. Scores are still missing, hundreds injured, and thousands homeless. Full losses at sea were still to be determined. Five vessels were reported sunk off Manzanillo. Strike to Curtail Business Advance PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (JP) Government economists were pre pared yesterday to tell industry leaders that the steel strike—if ended quickly will prolong the nation's business advance at least through 1960. But the shutdown already has stalled the boom in its tracks, of ficials told reporters privately, and will delay until early 1960 the attainment of a 500-billion-dollar a-year production rate. Side effects of the strike now are spreading so quickly, one high official said, that the administra tion may be faced with a decision whether to call Congress into spe d& session. Such a session might be asked to deal with the prob lem if the Supreme Court rebuffs the government's attempt to get an 80-day Taft-Hartley Injunc tion, and if a bargained settlement is long delayed. U. Gen. Trudeau Attacks Educational Complacency HARRISBURG (W) Th e Army's chief of research and de velopment called yesterday for a three-pronged program to boost the nation's intellectual quality. "I firmly believe that our coun try can no longer afford to be complacent about education," de clared Lt. Gen. Arthur G. Tru deau in an address prepared for delivery to the 39th annual Penn sylvania Education Conference. Alston Inks Pact LOS ANGELES (PP) Manager Walter Alston has signed a new one-year contract to pilot the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers and he gets a raise in FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1959 Steel Shortage Cuts Production PITTSBURGH (VP) A grow ing shortage of steel due to the 107-day strike is causing wide spread production cut backs throughout the n a ti on , adding thousands of workers to the job less lists each week. The latest Associated Press check, completed yesterday, shows nearly 325,000 workers laid off In industries allied with steel. The nation's biggest auto producer, General Motors, is reported ready to shut down. Added to the 235,- 000 are the half-million striking members of the United Steelwork ers Union, idle since July 15. Across the nation small and medium size manufacturers either have closed or drastically re duced work schedules because of mounting steel shortages. For oth ers it's only a matter of time. With 56 days remaining before Christmas, the economic picture cannot help but dampen Yule plans for the families of nearly a million workers—including those now working part time. Soviet Newspaper Attacks Reuther By ASSOCIATED PRESS The Soviet Union's government controlled trade unions leveled a bitter blast at Walter P. Reuther yesterday, accusing him of desert ing a Russian wife in the 1930'5. Reuther, AFL-CIO president, responded that this was a propa ganda attack "based upon com plete fabrication and falsehood." The attack in Trud, the trade union newspaper in Moscow, is an outgrowth of the September de bate Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev held with Reuther and other U.S. labor leaders when Khrushchev was in San Francis co. 2nd Apalachin Defendant Felled by Heart Attack NEW YORK (IP) —A heart at tack has felled the second of 23 defendants charged with hiding the purpose of the underworld convention at upstate Apalachin two years ago. The latest attack, involving John A. DeMarco, 59, of Shaker Heights, Ohio, was disclosed in Federal Court yesterday shortly before the prosecution and de fense presented, their opening statements, ' Joseph "Joe Bananas" Bonanno, 54, of Tucson, Ariz., won a trial severance Monday because of a heart attack. The severance post )ones his trial until his health permits. •
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