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Editorial Opinion
Senior Gift Deserves
Serious Considerations
In the course of four academic years, members of the
senior class have at one time or another given a frank
appraisal of the University's facilities and needs. In some
cases this appraisal has been voiced; in others, the opinions
have been silent ones.
Now, through suggestions for a 1960 class gift, these
opinions can become real and one or more may emerge as
definite solutions to some of the University's problems.
Senio►s each year have the prerogative first to offer sug
gestions for the annual gift, and second, to render a final
decision on what the gift will be.
The University needs many things, small as they
might seem when considered singly, but large enough
when grouped together to benefit future students and
help it on its difficult path to the realization of its ideals
as an educational institution.
Numerous letters have come into this office contain
ing complaints on the library situation. According to these
letters, students have found the library to be lacking in
many respects. Through suggestions of this sort, more
books, a bigger library or other reference facilities might
be provided as a partial solution to the existing problem.
The library problem will not be solved overnight,
through one class gift. Our present library facilities may
be lacking in some respects, but this lack does not now
have the drastic effect on the student body that it might
when enrollment climbs the upward path.
The gift fund could be utilized for purposes of in
creasing the number of books for student reference. It
could also be the initiative to unite our alumni behind us
In building a bigger library that would more adequately
serve the student body.
Since a good library is the backbone of every educa
tional institution, our library should at all costs be made
to serve the student body in the best possible way.
There are many other suggestions that could and
probably will be made when seniors are called upon. And
no doubt, many of them will be worthy enough to merit
serious consideration when the final choice for the gift
is made.
The major point is that the seniors as a class should
take a definite interest in making the 'right choice. Every
senior should consider all possible suggestions before
making his final one. The University can use many types
of gifts. Let's hope for a worthwhile choice that will give
other classes in the future something to - be thankful for.
By all means, take part in this campaign to choose a
senior gift. It is a project that every senior should be
proud to undertake.
O'iir Batty Tollrgiati
Successor to The Free Lance, en. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The
Daily Collegian la a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter
July 8. 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the set of March 8, 1879-
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DENNIS MALICK
Editor 4EO'3
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Copy Editor Meg Teichholtz and
Barb Yunk; Wile Editor, Pat Dyer; Headline Editor, Diane Still;
Assistant:, Maryanne Furia, Margie Zelko, Saralee Orton, Nancy
Langsner, Jeanne Sw•oboda, Bob Kilborn.
nterpretin • :
Free China Faces Election Problems
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
President Eisenhower, re
ferring to the possibilities
of Formosa as a show win
dow of the advantages of
economic development tin
der free institutions, raised
a delicate point of particu.
lar moment tofree Chinese.
The Chiang Kai-shek regime
at the height of its power over
all China was always accused
in some quarters of paying
only lip service to democracy.
Under pressure of almost con
stant war, Chiang did act like
a dictator. And democratic in
stitutions were frequently un
dermined by administrative
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
GEORGE McTURK
Business Manager
corruption and the ascendency
of special interests.
But in 1946, during the Chi
nese civil war, Chiang spon
sored a new constitution con
taining most of the elements
stressed by the constitutions of
Western democracies.
- Under it, a new national Leg
islature was elected which in
turn elected Chiang as presi
dent of China. The setup be
came effective in December,
1947, not long before the Com
munist victory and the Nation
alist flight to Formosa.
But Chiang holds great emer
gency powers, governs largely
by decree, and many civil lib
erties are suspended. This has
happened in some of the other
emerging countries, too.
Now a delicate situation has
arisen in free China.
The constitution says the
Letters
Student Asks SGA
To Retain Average
TO THE EDITOR: Do we lower
our standards because we cannot
easily achieve them? Do we low
er our standards for personal con
venience? Why is it so difficult
for an intelligent person to make
a 2.4 average?
Certainly: standards are not
lowered because they are diffi
cult to achieve. They wouldn't be
standards if they were. The SGA
Assembly is the highest student
legislative body at Penn State.
It should have the highest stand
ards.
It is very shallow to lower the
standards for the sake of a few
individuals. This shows short
sightedness as well as lack of
character.
The failure of an intelligent
person to make a 2.4 average un
doubtedly is the result of poor
organization of attitude. How can
a person lead others if he can
not lead himself?
Michael A. Garwood, '63
Gazette
"An Italian Straw Hat," Et pm , Center
Stage
Int. Farm Youth Exchange, 9 a m-5 p in.,
21S HUB
• . Young Farmers ikon., 10 a m -12
noon, 217 HUB
Student Movies, 7 and 9 p m , HUB aa-
sembly
I 7 C A Forum Series, B •30 p m., Eisenhower
Chapel. Speaker—Dr Prentiss Pember
ton, Coign te- Roe hes te: Divinity School
St'ND AY
Centre County Cinema Guild Film, S .00
p m , Hind Fila,lndian
Chapel Service. 10:55 a m.. Schwab
Chess Club. 2-5 p.m., HUH carthoom
Christian Fellowship. 2-4 p m., 217 HUB
Circa, b:10 p.m , 211 Ilaucke
Emerson Society, 8 30-R 30 prn 215 HUB
Float Parade. 8.20_9 p m.. 215 HUB
Freshmen Class Advisory Board, 7.9 p.m.,
203 HUB
Graduate Student Bridge, 7-10 p m., 212
HUB
Junior Class Advisory Board, 7-3 p rn.,
217 HUB
Newman Club. 7.8 p m , 214 HUB
SCA Judicial, 2-4 p m., 216 IILII
Spring Week Carnival, 7-9 p.m., 218 HUB
Student Movie, G 10 pin , HUB assembly
Student musk recital, p m Schwab
Swedenborgen Service, 10:30 a ni.-12 noon,
212 HUB
ITSF, 9:30-10.10 a m 218 HUB
WHF:II Announcing Auditions. 1 p.m., 301
Sparks
MONDAY
A Phi 0, 7-9 p m . 212 HUB
Bridge Tournament, 6:30-9:30 p m , HUB
cardroom
Campua 4-11 Club, 7 p m., 100 Weaver
Christian Fellowship. 12:154:10 p m., 2.113
HUH
CPR', 7-10 p m., 214 HUB
Engineering Aleehanies Seminar, 4 •15 p m ,
203 Engineering
Faculty Luncheon Club, 12 noon, HUB
dining room 'A'
ICCB, 7- 6 1 p m., 210 HUB
IFC, 7-10 p m., HUB assembly
Liberal• Arta Lecture Series, 3 p m., 10
Sparks
Placement, 8-5 p m , 203, 212-213 HUB
URA returns money on unsold books, 9-5
p in.
UCA, 6 :15-6 p.m , 211 HUB
UCA, 8-11 p m.. HUB cardroom
Mnmmers—
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which has already been given.
The $25 cleanup fee will be
replaced this year by a non
refundable $25 entrance fee.
With the 3-cent refund, groups
can recover their $25 if they
collect at least 833 tickets.
Money received from tickets
over this number can be used to
defray the cost of the carnival
booth and float.
Eight hundred fifty tickets will
be required to earn the maximum
250 points for tickets.
president and vice president
"may be re-elected for a sec
ond term," of six years. That
occurred in 1954, with the par
ticipation of all the members
of the National Assembly who
had escaped from the mainland
or who had been elected ori
ginally from Formosa.
The Assembly will meet
again next week with the full
intention of re-electing Chiang
and Chen Cheng, his vice pres
ident. But it is faced with a
3rd-term question under a con
stitution which does not forbid
but does not approve.
No great outcry is being
made, and there is little formal
opposition. But many Chinese
are aware of the accusations
made against Chiang in the
past .There is also the ques
tion of establishing• a dynasty*
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Letters
Advertising Gets Big Hand
TO THE EDITOR: Huzzah for
heralding "Advertising Week"
and the fact that advertising is
so useful in America today.
It's a rare privilege to some
students to hear this. Too many
of their professors go into a
tirade at a moment's notice.
Dr. Deane Malott, Cornell's
President, summed up this
overall situation in your same
issue. He said that education
was often "peddled" by those
"who have found it easier per
haps to criticize than to ex
pound the positive values of
our economics." And many pro
fessors don't seem to have the
vaguest idea of how our eco
nomic system works.
Advertising is an absolutely
essential sales tool in our econ
omy today. It has lots of faults,
'Professors' Column Hit
TO THE EDITOR: Without
any lengthy discourse, I shall
attempt to answer the passion
ate plea of the editor for a
"sugar-coated" educa ti on
dished out by a type of show
business personality rather
than a competent professor.
From an estimation of the
popularity of certain profes
sors, we cannot determine the
particular excellence of that
professor, or the worth of his
course. The attitude that an
_instructor must make a course
more palatable to the students
is dissatisfying to me as I am
sure it is to most professors.
The rewards of good educa
tion should not be easily ac
cessible. The "stuff" or "meat"
of learning is not obtained by
the use of condensations, out
line books, or the practice of
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and nobody seems to know this
better than most people in ad
vertising. Printers' Ink, for
example, is an advertising
magazine that is agonizing in
its recent appraisal.
Now these professors might
be advised to study how our
economy works today and find
out how advertising plays such
a significant part in it. Then
I dare say if they want to sug
gest a substitute change in our
economy that's their business.
But I hope they don't keep
trying to kill off this essential
"salesman". "He" is an im
portant link between workers,
who need their jobs, and con
sumers, who seem to like the
products advertised.
—Harvey Whitten
(Graduate Student)
plagiarism. (All of which is
common practice at the Univer
sity.) To advance scholastic
standing and improve intellec
tual honesty are problems that
we must come to grips with;
the shallow reflections of the
editor do not approach ade
quate solutions.
Presently, there is a tenden
cy in the United States towards
intellectual lethargy. The sta
tus of the egghead is common
ly that of contempt and dis
repute. Apathy and indiffer
ence towards current prob l
lems is the product of a poor
or narrow education. If there
are some who are unable to
stand the rigors of the Univer
sity, let them put away their
crying towels, step aside and
make room for someone else.
—Lawrence E. Hirsch, '6O
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