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Editorial Opinion
FM Action Lauded
The West Halls Council took action Tuesday that
should enable residents of West Halls to pickup WDFM
on their AM radios by Thanksgiving.
A transmitter capable of sending sound waves through
` , power lines in the West Halls area is to be built by the
Psychology Laboratory.
The Council cleared this plan with the Federal Com
munications Commission and the University administra
tion before going ahead.
In view of the unsuccessful attempts to obtain a
student-operated AM station in recent years, and because
relatively few students own FM sets, we commend West
Halls council for its action. We feel the other residence
hall councils should follow the lead.
The cost of the equipment needed to transmit WDFM's
programs over the AM band is relatively inexpensive.
The combined cost of an FM tuner and a sepcial
transmitter is somewhere between $l5O and $2OO.
West Halls Council plans to supplement WDFM,
which doesn't begin broadcasting until 6 in the evening,
with their own recordings earlier in the day.
The other residence halls councils, for a start, should
explore the possibilities of installing individual or com
bined systems capable of reproducing WDFM's broadcasts
on the AM band.
Only the students fortunate enough to have an FM
radio have been able to hear WDFM's full schedule in
the past.
The implementation of West Hall's idea on a campus
wide scale would permit WDFM to reach the audience a
student radio station chould reach—the whole student
2 Sides of Basic Policy
Harold Read, chairman of the Senate Committee on
Calendar and Class Schedule, indicated yesterday that
an extension of the Thanksgiving vacation would go
against "basic, policy."
What this reasoning implies is that basic policy is
rarely changed, even though such a change would serve
the best interests of the student body.
It's funny that there were no qualms about changing
this "basic policy" just for a football game when the
calendar was moved up a whole week at the beginning of
the fall term.
But then, maybe a football game is more important
than the interests of the student body.
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How much time are you
wasting, day after day, in
classrooms all over cam-
By wasting time I don't
mean the stock examples of
drawing pyramids on your
notebooks, playing with a
thread in your sweater or
reading the Collegian. (The
latter, naturally, really doesn't
belong in this category.)
In contrast to these time
killers, I mean
the way Nath-
an Glazer has
described it in
the current is-
sue of Harper's
magazine
In his article,
"T h e Wasted
Classroom,"
Glazerwrites
. . a very
large part of
what students
and teachers do
in the best, colleges and uni
versities is sheer waste, It is
not particularly vicious waste,
except insofar as it dulls niincls
and irritates and frustrates
students and leachers."
He blames, specifically, the
classroom system, the examina
tion system and the departmen
tal system for the unnecessary
waste, particularly in the social
sciences and humanities.
Al Penn State, we are deeply
embodied in these systems,
which, in turn, comprise "the"
system.
We are all very familiar with
the classroom system which
must, because of our number,
Letters
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World War
In Progress
TO THE EDITOR: I should
like to comment on one state
ment made by Joel Myers in
his article "A False Image of
Strength," in Tuesday's Col
legian.
He says, "II Russia had the
ability to take over the world
while preserving herself, Com
munist leaders would unleash
Word War 111 without hesita
tion."
It seems to me that World
War 111 has been going on since
the close of World War H and
it is the failure of the free
world to recognize this that has
led to the present state of
affairs.
The communists have told us
their intentions in no uncer
tain- terms, but yet our leaders
continue to talk about co-exist
ence and mutual respect.
The communists do not know
the meaning of mutual respect,
as they have demonstrated
many times, and it is only
wishful thinking to believe
that some day they will.
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Waste of Mind?
emphasize one-way communi
cation. Our professors talk to
us. Seldom is it possible for us
to talk to them, especially from
a 20th-row seat in 121 Sparks.
And what do our professors
say to us? Often, just what they
have written in the textbooks.
Glazer discusses this business
of lecturing and admits as I
will, that it can be stimulating
and "educational."
But can be is a far cry from
is.
The examination system, too,
is as much a part of us as cof
fee in the HUB. We know the
importance of good, detailed
notes because we know the
inevitable multiple-guess ques
tions we will face, even in such
courses as history, political
science and psychology.
Glazer says simply "The na
ture of examinations in the
humanities and the social
sciences must be different." He
explains and qualifies but the
essence of what he has said re
mains.
We are treating these courses
like Math 2.
Too often we can't discuss
the social sciences in class and
we can't discuss them on the
types of examinations we take.
When do we discuss them? Or
think about them? Or don't we?
As for the departmental sys
tem, Glazer says it means that
"liberal education is hurt in
another and crucial way—edu
cational programs that cannot
be fitted into the departmental
scheme are shortchanged,"
He advocates joint courses
or should we say interdepart
mental courses, in fields which
may, and often do, overlap—
sociology, anthropology, etc.
Interpreting
Market Membership
Reaffirmed by Britain
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Great Britain, with the approval of both the Labor
and Conservative parties, has reiterated her acceptance
of the aims and objectives of the European Common
Market and her intention to join.
The Europeans are asking when she intends to accept
the Continent's rules, and how
she hopes to ac
comodate Com
monwealth in
terests to them
Britain began
exploratory talks
in Paris this
week. She seeks
to avoid the ne
cessity of in
creasing, impor
tantly and ab
ruptly, her low- ROBERTS
tariff regulations with the other
Commonwealth nations.
The French and some other
Europeans are privately saying
that it may be possible to ar
range some sort of transition
period, but that the structure
of ECM is established, and that
Britain will have to abide by
it eventually,
The Common Market, to
over-simplify, aims at event
ual free trade among its mem
bers, accompanied by protec
tive tariffs. In the eyes of
Europe the entrance of Great
Britain into the arrangement
is important to them all.
But they see her as asking
for membership, rather than
being bagged, and recall that
she tried to avoid it as long as
possible through creation of
what is called a Free Trade As
sociation among European non
members of ECM.
There is, however, some
precedent within the market
structure for continued eco
nomic cooperation, with for-
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The departments involved,
however, cry out that their
courses must be treated inde
pendently.
But just how many times
must we endure a lengthy dis
cussion of group, ego and moti
vation.
In toto, Glazer expresses
concern for our education and
offers some suggestions for its
improvement. But in one par
ticular way, I think he misses
the boat,
He states that "educational
reform must -be the work of
the administrators and the pro
fessors who are truly concern
ed about the minds of under
graduates."
But we are the undergradu
ates. They are our minds.
Shouldn't we be concerned the
most?
Everytime we groan because
a professor's lecture can't be
written down in strict outline
form, every vote we cast for
an objective lest with a giant
curve, everytime we call an
essay question ambiguous when
we really mean that we don't
have the first idea what is
going on, we help to entomb
our education in a "black is
black" casket.
If we want to prevent this
funeral and get a true educa
tion, especially in the social
sciences and humanities, we
must encourage, if not demand
it.
Simply because we attend a
large University; simply be
cause "you know how it is," we
cannot forget that learning is
a process of the mind and the
mind, to quote reliable Web
ster, is "that with which a
living body thinks."
mer dependencies. France in
sisted on that in conneetign
with her interests in Africa.
It takes the form of an eco
nomic aid program designed
both to bolster independence
among the African countries
and ease any difficulties they
might encounter with ECM
rules.
The pressure on Britain to
meet ECM requirements is
great.
As an indication of her sus
ceptibility to economic pres
sures, she is now undertaking
new immigration restrictions
to ease population pressures,
considering them more im
portant than the political
drawbacks of being accused, as
she most certainly will be ac
cused, of racial discrimina
tion,
There will be a strong impact
on the West Indies, from
which many of the immigrants
have been coining, and in which
there is always a serious split
among the proposed units of a
federation which was designed
to provide the vehicle for in
dependence.
Yet the economic considera
tions have proved so great that
the British government has de
cided it must act despite these
political handicaps. It is in
dicative of a situation in which
Britain may have to give the
Europeans what the Europeans
ask in return for ECM member
ship.
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