PAGE FOUR ditorial 0 sinion Counselors Save Orientation Week There is 'spirit on the Penn State campus and there are 6000 freshmen and transfer students who are now pretty well oriented to Penn State life—and the credit for it all goes to the clutch performances of the student counselors and their chairmen. The deluge of rain at the beginning of Orientation Week threatened to dampen the spirit as much as the barren plots around the new Pollock halls. Orientation Week materials for new students had not been mailed early enough and several students arrived on campus with nothing but a suitcase and a blank look. After the first day's storm had been successfully weathered, several important parts of the orientation pro gram began to crumble. Alv. , ays reliable, Dr. Hummel Fishburn and Frank Gullo salvaged what was supposed to he a Faculty, Alum ni Variety Show Monday night with a song and cheering session for the new students. • The locations of some of the college mixers were changed over the summer with no notification to the students who last spring had already made arrangements for food, music and even sent out invitations giving the first locations. In the middle of the week the students discovered nothing had been done for the annual freshman Class Night. There would have been no Class Night at all had not a couple of students taken the initiative to do all the plannng with the able assistance of George Donovan and Ray Fortunato. But as in several instances this week, the student counselors came through when the pressure was on and planned programs that had previously been neglected. Orientation is immensely important to a new student learning to adjust to a college campus. And as many students who have attended other col leges and universities—and thus have a basis for com parison—can testify, Penn State's program is one of the best in the country. But it took the clutch action of the student counselors and their chairmen to save this year's orientaton so that 6000 new students could make a proper and easy tran sition to the status of Penn Staters: A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom 011 r Batty (I,rollrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian Is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5,193 t at the State College. Pa. Poet Office under the act of March 3, 1873. Stall Subscription Price' $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year Member of The Associated Press and The intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor City Editor, Carol Blakeslee; Assistant Editor, Gloria Wolford: Sports Editor, Sandy Podwe ; Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director, Susan Linkrount ; Fepture Editor and Assistant Copy Editor, Elaine Miele; Copy Editor, Annabelle Rosenthal: Photography Editor, Frederic Bower; Moke•up Editor, Joel Myerr Local Ad Algr., Brad Darla; Assistant Loral Ad Mgr., Hal Heisher; Credit Mgr., Mary Ann Cuins: Asal Credit Mgr., Neal Kelti: Classified Ad Mgt., Constance Co-rirculation Mgrs.. Rosalind Mies, Richard Kitzinger; Promotion Mgr.. Elaine Nikkei: Personnel Mgr.. Becky Kohudi•• Office Secretary, Joanne Huyett. (;ame, itc.,lol) university, 1:30 Stadium Fro.liman this, Night. Recrea ti.lit fLrll T NlO }t ONV Baptist Students. , upper, 5:14 p.m.: :3 , 1 ; ISaptist Church 411 S. Itin MVPs Si. Chanel Service, 111:6ri gm,. Schwab InllCh 'S . (11.111 executive committee, io In.. 217 HMI Christina Science Orßanization, recep tion, 7 p.m., 11.11 Chapel CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager Gazette ECR Students, picnic for freshmen, 2:30 p.m., St. John's Church, W. Beaver nnd S. Burrowes St. Hillel,- Brunch, 10:30 a.m., Mixer. 7 ffiliel Foundation Lutheran Students Association, 8:15 a.m, freshman breafagt, 6:30 p.m. student. panel. 412 W. College Ave. Newman Club, mixer and dance, 7 p.m., 111.114 Ballroom Protestant Service, 9 a.m., Eisenhower Chapel Roman Catholic Mass, 9 a.m., Schwab University Christian Association, Olen Bowe, 3-5 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE 'COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Froth, To the Freshmen All this week you have attend ed meetings, instructing and in forming you in the ways of this great University. Many things have been stressed over and over so that you might be guided into a compatible position in this large and impersonal place. The horror of registration is be hind you. The studying and big weekends lie ahead. But, even with your activities of the past week, you probably still don't quite feel a part of this sprawling campus. You'll get your opportunity this afternoon. If you're in the stands when the Penn State football team takes the field you help root• them on to victory, you will begin to acquire the feeling that you are a part of Penn State. The students who were on the campus last year have many fond memcl•les that 'center around past football games. None of them will ever forget the instantaneous demonstrations that followed the first win over Army in 60 years and ilia defeat of Illinois of the supposedly in vincible Big Ten. Thousands of students poured out of the resi dence halls and headed toward town. Fraternity men led a car Letters Student Obje . cts To Indifference On Race Issue TO THE EDITOR: Your editorial which appeared in Wednesday's Collegian is to be complimented for its righteous attitude toward the problem of racial discrimina tion on this campus. Having visited many campuses in this country, I have never seen any one where the univer sity authorities ignore this issue utterly as Penn State does. Most foreign students are un aware of this aspect of American life. It is to their surprise when they find it out, and surprise turns into indignation when they theni selves become the objects of dis crimination. Here lies a pakial answer to the question why American-edu cated foreign students are anti- American after they go back to their home countries. I heartily support your recom mendation that those rooming houses where foreign students are not welcome should be taken off the list at the housing bureau. This is, incidentally, the measure taken by many other universi ties, If any foreign student is having difficulty in housing in the State College area, the Foreign Stu dents Office is to be blamed for its ignorance and inability to con vince the landlords, who refuse to rent their houses, of the harm they might do. In case the For eign Students Office confesses that it cannot carry this out, the University might as well stop admitting foreign students to this campus. Used Gymsuit Sale A back-to-school sale of coeds' gymsuits will transform the Mc- Elwain lobby into a "bargain base ment" from 8 to 10 a.m. today. An estimated 200 secondhand gymsuits have been collected by Cwens, sophomore women's hat society, to be sold to incoming women students. The original price of the official gymsuit is $8.50, but prices for the secondhand suits have been reduced for this sale:Betty Skade, Covens president, said. The suits—laundered and la beled for size—were collected last spring and this week by Cwens members, headed by Lillian Leis and Mary Kudos. Snowed Find a Place at PSU MYERS —A foreign student parade through the sidewalks and streets of the campus and town. The most memorable time of all was the week leading up to the "game of the year" with migh ty Syracuse. Unscheduled rallies broke out on campus nearly every night. Hundreds of students took day and night shifts guarding the statue of the Nittany Lion. It seemed as if nn one talked of any thing but football. The overflow crowd that racked New Beaver Field on the day of the game was the most enthu siastic we've ever seen. The heart of each Penn State rooter seemed to beat in time with the plays on the field. When the Syracuse elev3n scored their third touchdown of the afternoon to nut the Lions behind 20-6, a hush fell over the crowd. Victory seemed impossible then and each Lion rooter felt World At Tunisia, Ceylon Offer Proposal UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (..-P) --Tunisia and Ceylon tossed in a new proposal to the U.N. Security Council last night in a last-min ute effort to avoid an emergency session of the General Assembly on the Congo. Their resolution gave Secre tary-General Dag Ilammarskjold authority to continue the policies in the Congo which have brought him under attack by the Soviet Union. The two Asian-African mem bers on the council hoped to side track rival 'U.S. and Soviet resolu tions which had appeared earlier to be so far apart to make any compromise virtually impossible. The new resolution reaffirms specifically that no aid for mili tary purposes be sent to the Con go except as part of United Na tions action. Earlier the United States had ruled out any compromise with the Soviet Union unless it speci fically expressed full support for the secretary-general. Embassy Secretary Released in Cuba HAVANA (il 3 ) An attractive blonde U.S. Embassy secretary was freed last night after being held 4' :lours by Fidel Castro's military secret police. She was reported in good condition. Her arrest had plunged already strained U.S.-Cuba relations to a new low. The United States made repeated protests over her sei zure. Mrs. Marjorie Lennox, 26, a confidential secretary in the em bassy, was arrested shortly after midnight Thursday and held in communicado for hours. Shortly before she was released Cuban authorities had said she was being held for "interference in Cuba's internal affairs." Stagg Retires at 98; Grid Coach Since 1890 STOCKTON, Calif. (P) Amos Alonzo Stagg officially retired from coaching today at the age of 98, ending a football era. The grand old man of the game wrote Coach Larry Kentera of Stockton College that .he would be unable to act again in the capacity of advisory coach, a vol unteer job he's been doing for seven seasons. Stagg began coaching at Spring field College in 1890 after play ing at Yale where he was named to Walter Camp's first All-Ameri ca team. Capsule . of Discoverer Found and Lost in Sea VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (A)) The lost-and found capsule of the -Discoverer XV satellite has been lost again— this time in the wind-tossed seas of Christmas Island. The capsule may have gone down when a fierce rain squall hit the search area. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1960 by Joel myers like escaping to another world. Although victory did prove im possible, the Penn State football team managed to play an amazing last quarter in which they scored two touchdowns on breath-stop ping plays to bring the final score to a very respectable 20.18 count. The thing that most Penn Stat ers, who were, in the stadium. that partly cloudy afternoon, will re member in the years to come will not be the 100-yard kick-off re turn by Roger Kochman, but the wonderful emotions they felt as the chance of victory increased from a hopeless dream to a pos sibility. When the game was over, 32,- 800 fans just sat in their seats, stunned and dejected. They might not have been happy that after noon, but they certainly were a part of Penn State. A Glance Kennedy Warns About Tactics BALTIMORE, Md. (/P) Sen. John F. Kennedy warned Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev lar:t night that he will fail if he ex pects to divide this country dur ing an election campaign. In a prepared speech directed at the Soviet leader, Kennedy said: "Mr. Khrushchev, it has been suggested that your objec tive is to divide our country in the midst of our election. "Let me say as emphatically as I can: Those tactics will not work." Here lie said he wished to step out of his role as a presidential candidate, and speak a.; an Amer ican citizen. Khrushchev and many other Communist leaders are coming to the United Nations next week, and so, Kennedy said, this is a good time to speak of the things that unite this country rather than those that divide it. 'Cha Cha Cha' Chanted in Congo LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo "The Independence Cha Cha Cha" is still a smash hit in Leopoldville. Political leaders come and go and coup follows coup, but grin ning Congolese still wiggle to its tune. The words of the 'lndependence Cha Cha Cha" could not have been better chosen. They consist of the names of prominent Congo lese leaders, regardless of party affiliation, followed by "cha cha cha." If a supporter of Patrice Lu mumba gets angry when the band roars "Kasavubu cha cha cha" for the president, two bars later his grin is restored. Chadwick Tries, Fails To Conquer Irish Sea DONAGHADEE, Northern Ire land (Th Swimmer Florence Chadwick, who has conquered most of the world's challenging channels, yesterday was turned 'back by high winds and icy wa ters in her second attempt to swim Ole Irish Sea. Cleveland Brown Star Announces Retirement CLEVELAND vn—"The Toe" hung up No. 76 yesterday and retired to the sidelines. From now on, Lou Groza's job will be to turn up bright young prospects for the Cleveland Browns. Groza at 36 is the last player of the original Browns. Aussies in Net Finn! FOREST HILLS, N.Y. ' (/P) Neale Fraser and Rod Laver, a couple of left Banded Australians, meet for the twice-postponed Na tional Tennis championship today.,
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