PI'C [ FOUR Editorial Opinion Vti: - ,c;t Poky on Cass Cuts? 11 , , '... l' ( CIO \‘'(_' WA liaVe a Univet,ity-wide policy on ( , col -,1 ancwel is n Sendte Rule K-1 states that a student "should attend e•,(.lk , cld,•, for V inch he is scheduled. "Should" implies thlt he ouL;lit to attend but not that he has to attend. Rule K-9, which is perhaps even more superfluous than K-I, once required instructors to report students with three successive absences to the dean of the college in order to "prevent unfortunate incidents." This presumably meant the rule was made to help keep track of students living downtown. It a student who is in trouble does not contact the dean of men 01 women's office and, perhaps leaves the Univei-,it, the administration has no way of knowing it, The Senate Conifinttee on Rules based its proposal to di op K-9 partially on the idea that the time lapse between a student's leaving school and his absence in class being reported was too great to be effective in helping the student But the Senate decided to mend K-9 instead of drop ping it. Now, K-9 requites to report ''any such cases - - leaving it to the instructor to decide when a student's ah;ence in class might mean he needs help. In short, an instructor is supposed to be "aware" of whether or not a student attends class; and by some divine power, determine the emotional stability of each of his students all 220 or more. A student y,'ho cuts once might need guidance or be in ti uuble, but instructors could hardly report all students who cut one class. Some instructors might feel 10 cuts indicate that a student needs guidance. In most cases, two and a half weeks is a rather long lapse of time and a student who is having trouble will only be in deeper trouble after two and a half weeks of class absence. It is unfair to hold instructors responsible for class attendance. These men are here to teach those who "want" to be taught. not to act as baby sitters for people between 18 and 22. What this boils down to is that each instructor will continue determining his own policy on cuts under the facade of K-I and K-9. This is perhaps the best method of all. Some students in certain courses need not attend lectures in order to pass a course and some instructors do not particularly care whether students came to class as long as their work is satisfactory. Rule K-1 also adds that if an instructor feels a stu dent, through class absence, has become deficient in class work, he can "exclude" him from the class. What is wrong with simply failing him since it means the same thing? Those instructors who do care about their classes' attendance will continue to give lower marks to students who cut their classes in spite of any regulation or the achievements of the class cutting students. And K-1 and K-9 will continue to decorate the pages of the Senate Regulations for Undergraduate Students and little else. Ir Datil; Tallrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 188? Pubii.ihrit 1 umday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily ( collegian i a student operated newspaper Entered as second-class matter July 0. 1931 at the State College, Pa Post Office under the act of March 1. 189. Mall Subvcription Price, $3.00 per semester 15 00 per year. DENNIS MALICK Editor 0,,...M10 1 FARE SNOOPY! I'LL THROW 1145 \LL , AND YOU RASE ITI iKAY ? (NON, 30Y: HERE, SNOOPY! / BA, c OK B' ...w sr.. —a• A, ......• T ” 6, .44 V.* 4.d.. •.• 2 -26 d i d4.o- ..- • - fr.l/ .r THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA GEORGE McTURK Business Manager GOOD GRIEF! IF THERE'S ANYTHING I DON'T FEEL LIKE DOING, ITG CHASING A BAIL! s.NL( lig// us Beat Cam Snowy Week Brings Sleep; Candyßebellion Hello again, Snow people• Do ym have a happy snowy Thursday? You ROTC boys will notice that it has been sloppy and wet for the last two weeks The weatherman is getting rid of all his moisture so it will be bright and shining for coming common hours E=M:3 We noticed a slightly weary look on some of the snow removal crew yesterday They were deal ing away the big piles of snow along Pollock Rd. and it was start ing to snow again One bright student was sleeping through a boring lecture on one of those stimulating TV courses this week when he suddenly sat up in his seat and exclaimed in a loud voice: "My god! Turn on Band stand." There was a rebellion against the machine age in Carnegie Building Wednesday. First, a note appeared on a candy machine which stated: "Either fix this damn thing or junk it " A little later a couple of disgruntled cus tomers ganged up on the machine and turned it around facing the wall Revolt of the Hershey Bar Fan Club. fll Speaking of snow, one fresh man coed walked up to an upper classwomen who was wearing her Chimes hat and asked: "Are you a campus reprasentatiye of Bell Telephone?" =MI LOST PICTURES DEPT.: G. S. Morrison, 1895. President. A pic ture bearing this inscription was found in a men's room in Old Main. Everyone in Old Main is wondering—president of what? It wasn't Penn State. ==l Well, students, back to the snow shovel. Has anyone seen the snow pusher attachment to my motor scooter? —Prof Wayne Gazette AIM-Leonides Dance, 9 pm, HUB ball room Chrtntian Fellowship. 1 15 p m . 21S 7 4(1 . 8 Omicron Delta Kappa, noon, HUB dining loom D Senior Close Day Committee, :30 p HUB University Christian Association. 8 pni HUB card room HOSPITAL Dairni Bair. Stephen Itarom Virginia liaudeL Stephen Berem, Wayne Berfieltl, Arlene Constable, Lawrence Dugan, Diane (limber, Ronald Kulhaeki, John Lacks, Bonnie Mortis, Frank Nappi, !Incitell Naylor. Thomit , l Newell, William O'Mal ley, Joleph Opa!nick, Albert Reynolds. Deena Sainielq, Nancy Stang. Joyce Thomp son, Gel ald Thonike, Joan Van Den Queen of Hearts Contest Applications Available Applications for the Queen of Hearts Contest for Spring Week are now available at the Hetzel Union desk. Preliminaries for the Queen of Hearts will include skills in bowling, swimming and either basketball, volleyball or both. The preliminaries will open the Spring Week activities on April 28 ODK Will Meet Today Omicron Delta Kappa, men's professional leadership fraternity, will meet at noon today in dining room A of the Hetzel Union Build ing, AnANT TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler WRoNoNvf ati INTERESI% depityids on mow , yolk ck,view, 7 - 1 AseQA Me 1 wt s,eer I , Acv qrs ~.,.a.mtr.rsro , ON A ILEAC PARIS Nirr. —•—•• • ‘J • • U TNE HEAVENLY f3oGY WE WANT TO STUDY TONITE IS ONLY V16113L-E FOR _I-lORT. F - RICX)S OF 11ME",if World At Ike Cheered In Sao Paulo RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil UP) —President Eisenhower bared his head to the rain in Sao Paulo yes terday and beamed at the most enthusiastic acclaim he has got ten so far on his South American tour. A half million or more cheered him along drenched, con fetti-strewn streets. Eisenhower made a flying trip from Rio, Brazil's political capi tal, to Sao Paulo, the industrial capital. for an activity-packed, six-hour visit that, despite the rain, caused a stir exceeding even that of his official welcome here Wednesday. He laid a wreath in a drizzle at a momurnent to Brazilian troops of his command who died in Italy in World War 11. He rapped the Communist sphere's methods and extolled fre enter prise in a luncheon address before 1,200 businessmen and officials. Eisenhower flies today to Ar gentina, the second country on his four-nation, 10-day goodwill tour. Then he goes on to Chile and Uru guay IBomb Scare Hits Harrisburg School HARRISBURG (IP) The latest in a series of telephone bomb: threats in the Harrisburg area. forced officials of John Harris High School to send students home at noon yesterday. It was the second time 'in 16 'days that the 1,300 pupils were 'dismissed in the middle of the day after officials received calls that a bomb had been planted in the school building. State, county and city author lities laid plans for a concentrated effort to stop the current surge and local officials issued stern , warnings. Monday, three bomb threats were reported in the area. Schools in Middletown and York Springs and a Hummeistown candy com pany were shut down while au thorities searched for the alleged bombs. Italian Airliner Crashes In Ireland After Take-Off SHANNON, Ireland (P) An Italian air liner bound for New York crashed shortly after taking off from Shannon Airport early today. An airport official said, "There are casualties but the number is unknown." The plane is understood to be a DC7C four-engine aircraft nor mally used by Al Italia on its transatlantic runs. An official at Ciampino Airport in Rome said it was believed the plane was carrying at least 22 .• ssengers plus tits! crew. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1960 -, ~, Ati , 4 A Glance Israel Tells UN 01 UAR Actions UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (W)— Isreal told the United Nations yes terday it views recent actions by President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic as open incitement to war. Israel added that the situation had reached dangerous dimensions. The Israeli statement was is ;sued amid reports from the Mid dle East of increasing troop move ments by Israel and both the ;Egyptian and Syrian parts of the U.A.R near the tense border 'areas. Israel delivered its alarm in a letter addressed to British Am bassador Sir Pierson Dixon, Feb ruary president of the U.N. Se curity Council. No council meet ing was asked, but Israel said the letter should be circulated to all 82 U.N. members. Israel accused Nasser of mak ing a series of aggressive declara tions in his current tour of Syria. It said he "repeatedly proclaimed his country's policy of war, block ade and boycott against Israel, threatening her with destruction In a "sacred march " ' "These war-like threats are ac companied by extensive military preparations, in both provinces of the United Arab Republic, di rected against Israel," Some U.N. diplomats saw a ,parallel with events that preced ed the 1956 Middle East blowup. House Falls Short Of Overriding Bill WASHINGTON (/P)—The House fell 22 votes short yesterday of overriding President Eisenhower's veto of a bill to increase federal spending on water-pollution con trol. The roll-call vote was 249-157 in favor of enacting the measure over the President's veto. This was 22 short of the 'two-thirds needed to override. The House vote killed the legis lation without any action by the Senate. A two-thirds majority in both House and Senate is needed to override a veto. The House acted first in this case because the bill originated there last year. On the roll call, 15 Republicans joined 234 Democrats in voting to override. Voting to sustain the veto were 130 Republicans and 27 Democrats. When the bill passed the House last year the vote was 253-142, with 27 Republicans and 226 Dem ocrats for it and 114 Republicans and 28 Democrats against. The legislation would have raised to 900 million dollars the amount of federal money that could have been spent at the rate of 90 million a .year to help states and municipalities construct sew age-disposal plants.
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