PAGE FOUR ditorial 0 'Pinion On More Step The new honors program, originated by the Senate Committee on Educational Policy and recently authorized by the Board of Trustees, could be one more step up the ladder toward academic excellence. This new program does not necessarily grant distinc tion to those who graduate with high all-University averages but recognizes outstanding work in special fields of study For example, a student who has a 4.0 in his major field of study but only a 2.5 all-University average may participate in the new program. The llonor's Diploma, in addition to the degree, will be awarded to a student who has done excellent work in a special field of study. The students who have high averages but have not participated in the new honors program still receive degrees indicating they have been graduated with distinction, high distinction or highest distinction, • When the new plan is operating in all colleges, it should provide more stimulus for those students who have not found their work at the University particularly challenging The program should also provide a little incentive for those who do well in their major * field but whose averages are lowered by the courses they 'take outside their special fields. The possibilities of the new honors should be rec ognized and it should be fully utilized by colleges and the students within them, . Beat Syracuse! We would like to move that this week be henceforth known as "Beat Syracuse" Week. • In order to celebrate this week in style, we would also like to move that the entire student population recognize the importance of pep rallies, bonfires, etc. We also hope that the Nittany Lion, which received a coat of orange paint from some subversive element last year, is guarded a little more adequately this week. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom 01le Bang Totirgiatt 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. 1934 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March 8.'1879. Mall Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor 3 City Editor: Carol Blakeslee; Assistant Editor, Gloria Wolford; Sports Editor, Sandy Pmlwe; Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director, Susan Linkroum; Feature Editor and Assistant Copy Editor. Elaine Miele: Copy Editor, Annabelle Rosenthal; Photography Editor, Frederic Bower; Make-up Editor, Joel Myers. Loral Ad Mgr„ Brad Davis; Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Hal Deisher: National Ad Mgr„ Bessie Burke; Credit Mgr,, Mary Ann Grans: Ass-'t Credit Mgr., Neal Keil,: Classified Ad Mgr., Constance Kiesel; Co-Circulation Mgrs., Rosiland Abes, Richard Eitringer; Promotion Mgr., Elaine Michal; Personnel Mgr.. Becky 1(01111E1k; 01 lice Secretary, Joanne Duyett. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Dcx Hutchins; Wire Edi tor, An Palmer; Night Copy Editor, Polly Dranov. Assistants: Diana Ilyesky, Karen Wrem, Margie Alprin, Estelle Levine, Linda Williams, Barbara Baer, Eve Bowers, Susie Robbins, Joan Hartman, Lois Miller, Sue Bicksler, Doti Drasher, 011ie Ilimcs, Alice Brunton, Dick Leighton, Lillian Berger. THE FOREMAN CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager THE KLUX ZERS THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Orchestra's Encore Identified TO THE EDITOR: Your• read ers might like to know about the encore played last night in Rec Hall by the National Sym phony Orchestra with Howard Mitchell conducting. It was the final movement of a ballet suite entitled "Estan cia" (ranch) composed by Al berto Ginastero of Argentina whose music North Americans rarely have an opportunity to hear. It was based rhythmically on an old gaucho (cowboy) dance, the Malarnbo, a rhythm fre quently recurring in Ginas iero's music. Ginastero has won highest honors not only in Argentina but in the U.S.A. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and has had commissions from the Eliz abeth Spague Coolidge Foun dation and the LoUisville Or chestra. Latin American Music was requested as a possible encore Friday afternoon by phoning Washington. The "Estancia" score is available only by rent ing from the publisher. A quick phone- call to New York in formed the National Symphony manager that the score was in Boston being used by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Boston was reached, the mu sic was put on a Washington airplane and received at the National Airport by a member of the orchestra's staff and so brought to State College in one of the buses. And thus Penn State stu dents had a brief contact with a great living composer and his artistic expression of Argen tinian ranch and cowboy life. —Georgia K. Seism, Assistant in Music Applaud Only After Final Section, Please TO THE EDITOR: In regard to the audience behavior at. the concert presented at Rec Hall on Sunday night by the Na tional Symphony Orchestra, I hope that the following criti cism of those concerned will be accepted constructively. For the many who seem to be ::naware, it IA not appro priate for the audience to ap plaud when the orchestra com pletes a movement other than the final one while performing a symphony. It is rude to the artist con cerned when the audience be gins leaving the hall while lie is taking a bow. The impression we make on visiting artists should be con sistent with our status as stu dents at a university. We owe it to ourselves as well as the performing artists to follow the rules of common courtesy. •Letter cut Gazette Advertising Committee, 4 p.m., 212- 213 HUB Ag Student Council, 7 p.m., 211-216 HUB Block `S' Club, 8 p.m., 217-218 HUB 1. V. Christian Fellowship, 12:46 p.m., 218 HUB LA Student Council, 6:30 p.m., 217- 218 HUB Leonides, 7 p.m., 212-213 HUB Mock Elections Committee, 7 p.m., 216 TB Newman Club, 8 p.m.. 212 HUB pgr,..Bel, 6:30 p.m.. 203 111111 Pollock Halls AIM Board of Governors Elections, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Pollock Circlr Riding Club Trip Committee, 8 p.m., 213 HUB SGA Public Relations Committee, 3 p.m., 214-215 HUB SCA Stone Valley Committee, G 212 HUB UCC Forum Committee, 3 p.m., 216 HUB UCC Politics Series, 4:16 p.m., 218 HUB Varsity 'l4' Club, showing of Army game films, 7:30 p.m., 119 Osmond Young Democrats, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., HUB ground floor Young Republicans * 7 p.m., 110 lEB Bldg. —John Theon, Graduate Student Letters Frosh Urges School Spirit TO THE EDITOR: This Satur day proved to be an exciting day on the Penn State campus. It cannot be said by most stu dents that the victory over Army wasn't a surprise. By its spectacular victory, our football team proved to us and the nation that it is truly a championship team one of the best in the nation, if not the best. On Saturday, our team will face the nation's top rated team, Syracuse. If we want to see a victory, we've got to show the team that the entire student body is behind them all the way. We've got to eat, think, and sleep with the idea of beating Syracuse. We've got to display a type of spirit that has never been equaled by any campus in the country. In these days preceding this crucial game of the season, we must let loose with our spirit by having pep rallies and bon fires not only planned ral lies, but spontaneous ones. Cheering Bil TO THE EDITOR: "In order to promote the welfare of the student body and the univer- sity as a whole • . , " this is the preamble of the SGA con stitution. Saturday's "Collegian" made an issue of the fact that SGA should not waste its time on such menial matters as cheer contests. We really don't need to justify the position of SGA on this matter. School spirit -certainly adds to the "welfare of the student body" as SGA's constitution states. Isn't it then very na tural for SGA to sponsor a cheer contest for the promotion of school spirit and for the pro vision of new cheers which are undoubtedly needed? Not only is this a natural function of SGA, it is part of SGA's responsibility to the stu dents. SGA represents the stu dent body and its wishes SGA is interested in bettering Penn State's school spirit and in turn improving Penn State! There fore, SGA is more than skisti fled in sponsoring a cheer con test. There are several things which have been overlooked by the Collegian article that should be made known to the students. • Contrary to what the article Boy, That Comp 1 is Tough TO THE EDITOR: To err is hu man, but to do so in an English composition course at P.S.U. is suicide. Having only been on campus for a month, it may sound trivial that I am com plaining. I should have waited at least, a semester before I started my remonstrations. No doubt the majority of students and alumni of Penn State have taken the course, "English Composition 1." I am sure that the major portion of these students have received no higher than a C in the course. I asked myself why? Why is the grading system so strict that one must be either an Er nest Hemmingway or a Wil liam Faulkner in order to get an A or B in. the course? I have not yet found the answer, and I doubt if I ever will. The incident which occurred, and tempted me to write this, was one which happened to a friend of mine. Mister X, as I shall call him, is a transfer stu dent from Ogontz. Iteems that he had failed in this course two years in a row. By this time Mister X, I thought, sure ly was disgusted, and lacking the self-confidence to write. When I first met him, I was surprised when he said that he was going to pass the course if he had to "spend eight hours writing a theme." I thought he would be so despaired as to give up . all hope. Last week he wrote his first theme. After he had completed his "masterpiece," he asked me if I would read the paper and TUESDAY. OCTOBER 11. 1960 When pep rallies are plan ned, the majority of the stu dent body should attend, not just a scant few hundred like those who were present at Ree_ Hall to welcome the team back from Army. If for this week we can work as a unit with the main pur pose of defeating the Orange then, and forget for awhile our infra-university disputes and differences such as the Univer sity political disputes which have been given so much pub licity, and put the coming foot ball game foremost in our minds, Syracuse won't know what hit them after they are beaten by us. The team will do its best. We've got to do our best in sup porting it. And when it's all over, the team will walk oft the field proud and with heads High, and this campus will ex perience a celebration like it has never seen before. ' LICK 'ErVI, LIONS! —David W. Curry, '64 Defended said, SGA members are not "writing cheers." SGA is co ordinating a committee com posed of representatives from the Block `S' Club, cheerlead ers, music, department, and SGA. This committee is set ting up the rules, the judging, and the procedure for the con test. The Block 'S' Club is a very new campus organization. At present the club is in the proc ess of getting on its feet and establishing itself. In this con dition the Block 'S' Club could not be expected to finance and coordinate a cheer contest. The cheerleaders too have given their wholehearted sup port to the contest. But, as a group they do not have the financial means with which to sponsor a contest as the article ..suggeMed it should. It is unfair to the student body to put a damper on school spirit through a discussion about whose job the sponsor ship of a cheer contest should be. The point is that at last something is being done to remedy our lack of good cheers . —a cheer contest is unierway NOW! —Barb Hackman, Joan Ca vanagh, Becky Hadden, SGA Assembly Members see if I could find any mistakes that he had overlooked. I thought the theme was one of the best I have ever read. The grammar was seemingly perfect and the idea was subtle and conveyed great thought. I told him that I thought it was great; with a gleam in his eye, and a smile on his face, he :W.'S off to English class. On Saturday I went to his room and asked him if he had gotten his theme hack. He gazed at me with a look that signified defeat. He had re ceived an F in the theme. He showed me the paper which was sadistically slashed in ev ery paragraph. What is the teacher's pur pose? I defy any English teach er to write a theme which is flawless. Had this student re ceived a C or even a D in the paper, it would have inspired him to do better and work harder. -- • I say that there is no point in this nonsense of ridiculously strict grading, and if nothing is done about it, we students ain't gonna learn no more about the English language. —Myron Kalina, '64 WDFM Schedule 5:00 p.m. Three it Five 0:00 p.m. Studio X 6:5,5 p.m. Weathescope 7:00 p.m. Children's Corner 7 :30 p.m. Guest Lecture 7:55 p.m. News Roundup 8:00 p.m. Accent on Sound 9:00 p.m. Drams Showcase 9:30 p.m. Focus 9:45 p.m. News, Sports, Weather 10:00 p.m. Contemporary Clasaics 12:00 p.m. Sign• Oft
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