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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.
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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
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