PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Individual Responsibility President Erie A. Walker said at the convocation open ing Orientation Week that students would have to accept moie individual responsibility in their college lives. Walker pointed out that the expanding University made it virtually impossible to maintain a close relation ship between professor and student. Larger classes are necessary to handle the increased enrollment. This means that students are being forced to work on their own or flunk out. The honor system, whereby examinations are given with no proctor, was one of the first steps toward more individual responsibility. The College of Mineral Indus tries is operating its advanced courses on this basis. Another fot ward step that could be taken would be to initiate unlimited class cuts. The Chemistry-Physics Student Council plans to pre sent to the University Senate a proposal for unlimited cuts for students with a 3 5 or better All-University average. Many colleges and universities throughout the nation have unlimited cut systems. European universities gen erally have the same policy. But the question is, can it work at Penn State? Quite a few administrators, faculty members and students think It can. Unlimited cuts would instill even further the idea that you get out of something only what you put into it. It would undoubtedly serve to give students a more mature and more realistic attitude toward life. It would also develop peisonal initiative, a necessity in the post-grad uation working world. The period during transition from a definite no-cut to unlimited cuts would be a difficult one. The Chemistry- Physics council's proposal is one idea. This, at least, should be accepted, with a goal of unlimited cuts in the near future. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom utye iaihj (ftnUegign Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning daring tha University year. 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Little Man on Campus by Dick Biblsr * OH, THEY HAVE A LOT Cf FUN ALL RI6HT, PUT THEY HAVE A KATHEP KEPUTAnCH^ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA GEORGE McTURK Business Manager tetters Flag Wavers 'Shot Down' By Carter TO THE EDITOR: In regard to super-patriot Johnstone’s contri bution (letter in Thursday's Col legian), my H months in Korea, during which I was rather reg ularly shot at in a 4-point zone, added little to my ability to judge the actions of my government. (Any serviceman who is not blinded bv high regard for his “contributions” will readily ad mit that the battlefield, where unbiased information is at least difficult to come by, is perhaps the wor.:t place in the world to come to an intelligent decision as to what constitutes reasonable ex pectations in regard to loyalty and what constitutes suppression.) Should we not concentrate our attention on fundamental issues here rather than on our patriotic emotions? Mr. Gerhearl: paying interest on a university loan rather than submitting to a requirement in which I don't believe sems like a small contribution and hardly merits Ihe erroneous conclusion that I couldn't possibly, need money. Have we really reached a point at which we can't believe a oerson is willing to make sac rifices for an ideal? I hope not! The man who, on grounds oth er than those of “Conscientious Obiector.” refuses to sign a loy alty oath for induction into the armed forces is not inducted and is prosecuted accordingly. In 1952 I signed the standard loyalty oath. At that.time, I had no real philo sophical obiection to this require ment. Had I had one. I doubt that it would have sustained me on a path leading inevitably to pris on. Therefore. I don’t consider my actions in this area as incon sistent Please note that I am ignoring such jewels from these leters as “misguided kiddies, worshipners of the trivial, Dseudo intellec tuals,” “idiotic interpretation of an oath,” “sadly lacking in brain power and original thinking” on the asumotion that such ex pressions condemn themselves and their writers in the eyes of those readers to whom I am interested in communicating. By the way. did you happen to notice President Eisenhower's Wednesday press conference com ment which went: "When we sin gle out any group of citizens” and impose a loyalty affidavit on them as ''a matter of legal compulsion," then »« enuld "see why they are resentful." Perhaps Mr. Eisenhower needs letters to straighten him out. Johnstone, Gerhart-type —Kenneth Carter Graduate Student ♦ Letter Cut Gazette TODAY AIM-Leonides Dance. SM2 p m., HUB ball* room “John Gabriel Borkman,” 8 p.m., Center Stage Shakespeare Festival Players. “The Temp est," 2 :.t0 p.m., and “Measure for Meas ure," 8:30 p.m., Schwab University Christian Association Faculty Colloquy, 2 p m., Nittany Lion Inn TOMORROW AIM, 7 p.m.. 203 HUB Bible Fellowship, 2 p.m., 214 HUB Block “S" Club, executive committee, 3 p.m.; committees. 3:30 p.m., 206 HUB Chapel Service, Dr. Kenneth I. Brown, 10:55 am.. Schwab Chess Club, 2*5 p m., HUB cnrdroom Chimes, 6:30 pm, Simmons 2nd floor lounge Circa Staffs, 7 p.m., 205 Boucke Emerson Society, 6 p.m., 216 HUB Entre Nous, 1:15 p.m., 217 HUB Graduate Group, Westminster Foundation, 6 p.m.. 214 HUB Graduate Student Bridge, 7 p.m . 212 HUB International Relations Club, 4 p.m., HUB assembly room Journalism Club, Christmas Party, 7 p.m., PI Kappa Phi Newman Club, 7 p.m.. 218 HUB Protestant Service of Worship, Rev. Theo dore Biaun, 9 a.m., Helen Eakin Eisen hower Chapel Roman Catholic Mass, 9 a.m.. Schwab Sigma Delta Chi, 6:30 p.m., Chi Phi fra- ternity SGA Committee Center Integration, 5 p.m.. 218 HUB Speech, Dr. C. Cruise O’Brien, 4 p.m, HUB auditorium Swedenborgan Service, 10:30 p.m., 212 HUB USF, 9:30 a.m.. 217 HUB MONDAY A Phi O, 7 p.m., 212 HUB Botany Club, 7 p.m., 218 Buckhout Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m.; 7 p.m., 218 HUB IFC, 7 p.m., HUB assembly room Leonides Council Meeting, 6:45 p.m., 203 HUB Library Expansion Committee, 8 p.m., 203 HUB BGA Cabinet, g p.m., 217 HUB Women* Orientation Counselors, 10 p.m* Hi HUB re-FLECK-tions Old Favorites Turn New Frights Much emphasis has recently been placed upon im provements of television programming, but there seems to be another field of entertainment, namely popular songs, which could also use some renovation. Over Thanksgiving, I visited a home where some.chil dren were watching that ever-popular nationwide TV show—American Bandstand. ” ' Much to my amazement, I recognized strains of “God Bless America” coming from the television set. My first re action was one of pleasa' surprise bi cause of th. sudden \va\ of_patriotism, But not fi long. It tot only on glance at tl s e 1 to nolle I^^l7- ularized to meet the standards of modern dancing. Yes, many teenagers were gaily hopping around the dance floor while a sparked-up crooner went through the entire song. A similar reaction came over me not too long ago upon hear ing “Danny Boy” sung for a dancing audience by a scream ing, so-called record artist. The shock of hearing “God Bless America” aborted to the stan dards of the dancing set made my former lukewarm tolera tion for many popular songs turn quickly to disdain. Now, instead of worrying about deception encircling the Letters Nittany Wants More Phones TO THE EDITOR: In a recent article in the Daily Collegian I read that through a recent survey there was no need for any improvement in the Uni versity’s telephone system. I wonder if Mr. Diehl, who conducted this survey ever thought of investigating the telephone situation in the Nit tany area. In Nittany, there is exactly one telephone for 46 people. I have waited to use this phone not after just one per son but after a half dozen or even more people had used it. There is considerable room for improvement in the tele phone situation in Nittany. We are a part of this large and growing University which I feel should be felt by the peo ple in Old Main. —Hershel Richman, '64 Leonard Lichty. '63 —Another letter was received from John Holz, '63, stating the same complaints as Rich man and Lichty. (Editor's Note: The adminis tration is very concerned with making students at the cam puses feel a part of the Uni versity, Perhaps a little could be done along these lines for Nittany.) WELL, YOU HAVEN'T SEEM. Anything ontil y