THURSDAY, JULY 6 . , 1961 the megaphone Foot Feat The old adage about "still waters running deep" ac quired a novel but tangible twist last weekend ... my foot! Whipples is a quiet dam, a gentle dam, a body of water which seems only a puddle when compared to the Atlantic Ocean in which I have surfed safely since childhood. Yet when I , merged, from • cooling wat last weekend to a noisy n d steaming , ach someone diced a pool red liquid irrounding my ght foot. Call it the 2ollege experi ence" or what Miss Teichholtz you will, I have a certain hesitation about in firmaries and with all due re spect to the Whipples branch of the Red Cross, I swabbed the wound myself. The next day my cut emerged from its homemade bandage as a pencil thin line, one inch in length. Aside from some tenderness in the area, my foot and tranquility were still intact. Letters 'Open Door Policy' Asked For West Halls TO THE EDITOR: During this summer term, only two of the three Waring dining halls are open on weekends, The fact that most people find it neces sary to stand in line as much as 20, sometimes almost 30 min utes ,proves that those two dining halls cannot do the job satisfactorily, alone. The people who are spending their summer at West Halls are, for the most part, busy stu dents, not vacationing tourists. To most of us, time is precious and we lose as much as three hours a weekend waiting for meals. We have all signed "con tracts" and paid for our meals, now Food Service should keep its part of the bargain and "provide" those meals. Making people stand in line for 20 minutes and more, time after time on weekends, is not what one would call "proVid ing" meals, since many people must drop out of the stalled lines and miss their food com pletely in order to keep ap pointments, meet dates, or get to church on time. In the past it has been a fa vorite trick of Food Service to claim that not enough people eat at given times of the week so that it is wise to economize and close a dining hall for those periods. They can show the sta tistics to prove it. Of course they blithely ig• note the fact that many people are discouraged and driven away by those fantastically long waiting lines, and that is part of the reason for the drop in the number of diners on weekends. Twenty or 30 minutes is en tirely too long to stand around waiting for a meal when the opening of that third dining hall would relieve the situa tion. Food Service is not doing its job—not using all the facili ties available to provide the service for which we have paid. Perhaps if every person who is sick and tired of those gigan tic weekend lines would go to see the supervisor of the War in dining halls, we could get that third big, empty hall opened up. Let's all get to that super visor now and see if we can't get some results before another weekend drags by. —Edward N. Small Jr., '62 —Riva M. Rubin, '62 Cam • us Beat Try to 'Be Happy In Your Work' My item for today concerns the sanity of my secretary who is feeling intellectually obso lete now that the four-termer is really here. Under the old semester plan, you know, the University let clerical personnel take four hours of class work per week which meant one course each semester and included summer sessions. All this was on "com pany time." The new four-term policy however, although still per mitting four hours a week lim its the total to 80 hours for the academic year—meaning only two courses per year. Neither my secretary nor I can quite figure out the logic behind this, for if she is to be given four hours for two terms, why not for three or four terms? by meg teichholtz Not for long, however. A well intended friend with my very best interest at heart be gan to ramble about blood poi soning and gangrene and the various other major maladies and calamities that can result from ignored wounds. And so, heart in mouth and foot on ground, I carefully wended my nervous way to the mint green, air conditioned and sterile halls of Ritenour Infirmary, Little did I then suspect that. I was to become the first per son to walk in and limp out. Exactly 12 yards (that's 38 feet) of ace bandage was wound around my size 5 foot. This cov ered a white gauze pad soaked in boric acid and the whole thing, they told me, formed my very own "air conditioning sys tem." Yet somehow, as I've been watching Penn Staters trek out to the sandy shores and super ficially calm waters of Whip pies all week, and as I have limped in and out of the HUB, The Collegian office and the li brary, I have slowly gotten the feeling that perhaps the in firmary was wrong. It isn't air conditioning at all. It must be some new medical experiment designed to make man's right foot a vestigial or gan. So I've rationalized the prob lem out and am not really de pressed. After all, I have an other foot, haven't I? Whinnies, any one? DRIP TIP (TO THOU WITH A NOSE KM WWI) You'll outlay lasting beauty when we care for you• fraglies r• - wash & weer. BALFURD Careful Cleaners Phone AD 7-7661 State College SUMMER COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Communist Enemy Throughout her history Russia has struggled to obtain ice-free ports. Today Russia faces another water problem, but it's of a vastly different character. Light rainfall, which is characteristic of most Russian and Red Chinese territory, ----- seems destined to limit the ag ricultural output of the Com munist homeland nations. Most of Russia and Red China lie in a climate that borders on desert type. The average rain fall for any period of several years is above that received in a desert. How ever, variations in precipitation patterns can ibling desert conditions and resultant crop failures to large sections of Rus •sia and China ifor a year or longer. MYERS It is possible that one of these dry periods is the cause of Khrushchev's current agricultural problems. These problems, evidenced by his "let 'em eat horsemear statement of last week, have Gazette AWS Faculty Dinner Guest, Dr. Helen Snyder. 5:45 p.m., meet at Waring Beginner'■ chess lesson, 7 p.m., HUB es rd 11)0f11. Freshman women's orientation, 11 au 219 HUH. Interlandia Folk Dance, 7:30 p.m.. War. ing lounge. Summer term dance, 9 p.m.. HUB bait. Bridge club, 7 p.m., HUB card room. Square dance, 9 p.m., HUH ballroom. Cabin party, g p.m.. meet at PrembY terimm center. 132 W. Beaver. For ro.ervatione call AD 8.2111 or UN 6.7991. Seminar, 9:30 a.m., Presbyterian Cen- Westminster Foundation graduate group picnic. 4 p.m., Whippl.s. Bridge dub, 1 p.m., HUB card room TueatlaY Claremont String Quartet, 7 p.m., BUB ballroom. If thoughts of financial planning leave you feeling this way, you should do something about it now. You may be surprised how little money you need to begin your lifetime financial program. Life insurance is the perfect founda tion because it offers protection and savings features. See your Provident Mutual campus representative for more Information now—while you can gain by lower premiums. George A. Borosque, Jr. Robert A. Szeyller 103 East Beaver Avenue ADams 8.9421 PROVIDENT MUTUAL Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia Snowed Tomorrow Saturday Monday by OW 'flyers been blamed on poor manage ment and insufficient rain. The management may be im proved, but the water supply cannot be increased with pres ent apparatus. The conversion of saline water into fresh water may be the ultimate answer to Communist problems, but it is doubtful whether that will be economically feasible for at least a decade. The inland position of most Russian territory makes it ques tionable whether saline water conversion will ever be eco nomically feasible for the heart of Russia, Khrushchev's boast that Rus sia would out-produce the United States by 1970 may sound reasonable in the face of recent gains, but much of that success has been due to , improvement in methods of production. Future gains must be made by virtue of victories over man's greatest adversary —the weather. THE FIFTY BILLION DOLLAR GENERATION! They're part of the "population explosion" you've read about. In just 10 years, there will be some 30 million more Americans like them! That's a big reason why you see huge new electric power plants going up all over the country. Giant power lines marching to the horiions. And you'll be seeing more. An additional $5O billion worth in the next 10 years—built by the investor-owned electric light and power companies. This is the way they meet their responsibility for power on a national scale. Plenty of power— for the zooming needs of industry, farms, hoMes and defense. We're doing our part of the job right here. WEST PENN POWER investQr-Qvynod, tax-payinp '.•. « B erYinp Western Penney'mail& More 'Chipmunks' TO THE EDITOR: I have al ways considered The Daily Col legian analogus to an enjoyable cartoon. However, the editorial content of Mr. Leighton's col umn two weeks ago (The Chip munk) reached an apex of hil arity and ridiculousness. Mr. Leighton describes one of the greatest perils occuring at this assembly-line Univer sity presently to be an inability to admire chipmunks. However ,if this is ad witty our most pressing problem at the University, then, perhaps, some sort of nature study course to stimulate intellectual curiousity should replace our other intellectual stimulants such as ROTC and Physical Education. In any case, I sincerely hope that Mr. Leighton continues to entertain my colleagues and myself during this period of crisis. —David Sigman, '62 •Letter cut SUMMER JOBS IN .EUROPE Earn your trip and expenses For Free Information Write To: American Sim:lfni information Servicr e.V. Johnstraone 56A, Frankfurt, Main, Germany PAGE FIVE
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