PAGE TWELVE Packard Against By KATIE DAVIS "I've written my books because I've felt uneasy about the the trends in America toward over-commercialization and the presures put oh people to admire these treats," Vance Pack ard said in an interview with The Daily Collegian. GSA Voices Complaints On Parking The Graduate Student Asso ciation took action at its re cent meeting to voice a protest concerning the night time parking regulations which re strict the students to certain parking areas. The council voted to have the GSA president Robert Richey set up a committee to suggest correc tive action and to voice the opin ions of the students concerning the regulations to President Eric A. Walker. Mordecai Treblow, graduate student in chemistry from Phila delphia, said that petitions to open parking areas to graduate students have already been cir culating on campus among stu dents and faculty members. These petitions were drawn up, he said, as one means of bringing the present parking situation to the attention of those who are re sponsible for the "tiling. GSA decided to hold back these petitions until they see what ac tion comes from the newly-formed committee which will arbitrate the ruling. In other business, the council appropriated $l5O for a Lecture Series co-sponsored by the Grad uate School and other colleges The Lecture Series committee has tentative plans to engage two snore speakers for the spring se mester. The council also moved to allot money in the budget for the inter est groups and for a revision of the unofficial guidebook bwen out to new graduate students at reg istration. —The first use of nickel plating on an automobile was made by Oldsmobile in 1906. Writes Trends "Some advertising practices struck me as outrageous and yet i companies were using them all the time," Packard continued in ex- 1 plaining his reason for writing "The Hidden Persuaders" and "The Status Seekers." Packard said he wrote "The Status Seekers" beause he thought' the public should be shown the I great contrast between the com monly held view of America as a "classless" society and the find ings of sociologists. "For example." Packard said. "the Horatio Alger story in American business is a thing of the past. Now a college degree is the admission ticket to man agerial positions. A college graduate has a lateral entry to a company: he does start from the bottom and work up." In commenting on some trends ,he found disturbing in colleges, Packard said that colleges ha v been taking too much t function of trai ing colleges st dents to be tea players for lar organizations. I dividualities a being ironed o he said. Packard lout some good pain in status seeks at the college level because students are put on a fairer basis than we find in the typical American community. All are put on an equal basis and status derives from talent and ability to interrelate with other people, he said. "Status seeking on the basis of achievement is fine," he con tinued. "In college very few stu dents rate their friends on money or background." Packard is writing another book , now on the impact of the busi ness culture on behavior patterns. It will be published next fall. Packard was graduated from the' University in February 1936. He majored in journalism for three years and switched to English in his senior year. He received his' master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Van Tassel Drops Committee Position Jean Van Tassel, junior in art education from Hillsdale, N.J., resigned Tuesday from her post as chairman of the Reorganiza tion Committee of the Student Government Association. Jesse Janjigian, senior in arts and letters from Kingston, has been named to fill the post, Miss Van Tassel said. Miss Van Tassel said she re signed because her "academic load was too great." WRA Cancels Playnite The weekly Women's Recrea tion Association sponsored Satur day playnite scheduled for this evening has been cancelled due to the inability of the association to obtain the required lifeguards for direction of the swimming fa cilities. Playnite will be resumed as usual next Saturday night. Association Offers A $3OO scholarship to aid a stu dent enrolled in the College of Agriculture has been established by the Pennsylvania Division of the Woman's National Farm and Garden Association. The scholarship, established ef fective with the current semester "AN EVENING WASTED WITH TOM LEHRER" Is Now Available At The UNIVERSITY RECORD SHOP ACROSS FROM ATHERTON HALL OPEN TILL 9 P.M. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1 g Scholarship is available to a student of a class, although preference will given to an entering freshman. The recipient must have co ,pleted high school in the top tw 'fifths of his class and must be need of financial assistance, a live in Western or Southweste Pennsylvania.
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