THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1968
REBECCA GROSS, editor of the Lock Haven Express, will
be guest speaker Sunday when the University's student
chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, professional organization for
women in journalism, initiates eight women from the State
College area.
Theta Sigma Phi
To Initiate Eight
Eight State College area women will be initiated Sun
day into Theta Sigma Phi, national professional organiza
tion for women in journalism and communications.
Sunday's ceremony will be the first initiation for
women already working in journalism, conducted by the
student chapter, Alpha Tau.
The initiation will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. in the
Living Center of the College of Human Development.
Rebecca Gross, editor and vice president of the Lock Haven
Express, will be the guest speaker. Refreshments will be
served.
New Initiates
Chosen for membership for their contributions to jour
nalism are Eleanor Blakely, publications writer in the
Department of Continuing Educatiop; Elinor Chamberlain,
writer in the Department of Public Information; Jean
McManis, publications manager for the University Press.
Nancy Miller, television specialist in the Department
of Public Information; Alice Murray, home economics edi:
for for the Cooperative Extension Service; Mary B. Rogers,
women's editor for The Centre Daily Times.
Evelyn Saybel, adviser to the College of Human De
velopment student publication, News and Views; and
Marion Stocker, College of Human Development editor.
The initiates will organize a Theta Sigma Phi club to
work with the student Alpha Tau chapter.
Recipient of Award
Miss Gross is an associate member of Alpha Tau
chapter. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she
joined the staff of the Express in 1925 and has served as
editor since 1932.
Last year she was awarded the Pennsylvania Press
Distinguished Service Award for dedication to journalism
and widespread community involvement.
A native of Lock Haven, Miss Gross has been presi
dent of the Pennsylvania Associated Press. She has also
been active in work with the Associated Press Managing
Editors organization on the state and national level .
She has traveled to Europe several times with groups
of writers and interviewed Fidel Castro on - a -- trip to Cuba."'
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By DENISE DEMONG
Collegian Staff Writer
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a ser
ies of articles examining the results of a
student poll sponsored by the Undergraduate
Student Government and the Department
of Sociology and conducted Spring Term.
Subsequent articles will explore student
opinions about the draft, the Presidential
race and campus activism.)
Are those Penn State students who are ready
to become actively involved in demonstrations
supporting student grievances going to remain
an extremist few? Or is the prospect of a mass
movement by the general student body becom
ing a reality?
With the birth of Walkertown and the Free
Speech Movement, local as well as national in
terest is focusing increasingly on campus ac
tivism.
In a poll taken of Penn State students last
Spring Term, 65 per cent of those questioned
indicated it was in some degree likely that they
would take part in grievance demonstrations.
Questioned about specific forms of protest
employed by dissatisfied groups, half of the
students supported the right of groups to "sit
in" or "walk out" and stage mass protest
demonstrations. Twelve per cent of the stu
dents condoned the use of civil disobedience,
and an equal number felt its acceptability was
dependent upon the situation. Only four per
cent agreed with the use of riot tactics, while
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65 Per Cent Support Demonstrations
another eight per cent were unsure
The survey was, initiated by Philip Klopp
(10th-law enforcement and correction-
Richland) and backed by the Undergraduate
Student Government. Klopp was responsible for
the dating polls which created a considerable
stir on campus in 1967 and 1968.
Klopp developed a set of questions to deter
mine whether a correlation exists between
ones degree of "political awareness" in
terest and knowledge and his opinions about
the Vietnam War.
He secured the aid of David L. Westby, assis
tant professor of sociology and Richard G.
Braungart, instructor of sociology. The survey
was expanded to include variables tapping col
lective behavior on campus, propensity for stu
dent activism and student mobilization. Ques
tions concerning campus issues. the selective
service and civil rights were added.
755 Students Polled
The poll turned into a unique situation of stu
dents and faculty joining together to explore an
area of mutual concern. The Department of So
ciology provided funds and guidance, while un
dergraduates provided manpower and motiva
tion.
A force of interested students were enlisted
to poll a selected sample of 755 students, re
presenting males and females, Greeks and in
dependents and undergraduate and graduate
students' proportionate to the number enrolled
here.
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The material gathered in the survey Is cur
rently being processed to relate responses of
the individual to his background and knol
edge.
In the meantime, the available marginal data
provides some surprising and interesting in
formation about Penn State students' knowl
edge and ideas.
Rockefeller Favored
The survey was taken in May, after Lyndon
Johnson's withdrawal as a 1968 presidential
contender and before the assassination of
Robert Kennedy. Nelson Rockefeller emerged
as the favorite candidate, supported by 23 per
cent of the students polled, and edging out
Eugene McCarthy (22 per cent) and Kennedy
(20 per cent).
The two-later-to-be-nominated candidates.
Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, were
supported by 15 per cent and seven per cent
respectively. At that time, George Wallace was
backed by one-half of one per cent of those
questioned.
Has college altered the political orientation of
the Penn State student? Twenty-nine per cent
of the students indicated that they had become
"more liberal" since attending, and ninety per
cent said they were now "more conservative".
23 Per Cent 'More Aware'
Twenty-three per cent felt that they were
basically "more aware". Slightly over one-third
of those polled indicated no change in political
orientation.
Although nearly one-fifth of the students said
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that politics was "very important" to them, ac
tual membership in political groups was low.
Three per cent claimed membership in Young
Republicans, one per cent in Young Democrats
and a total of fewer than three per cent in any
other political organizations.
The survey was largely intended to discover
how much Penn State students actually read
and know about current events. Nine-tenths of
the participants successfully identified John
Lindsay as the mayor of New York City, and
nearly as many knew that Saigon is the capital
of South Vietnam.
Questioned on Bookstore, Pot
Nearly one-quarter, however, were not aware
that Hanoi is the capital of North Vietnam. Al
though the survey was taken soon after the
death of the Rev. Dr. dartin Luther King, only
40 per cent of the students could name Ralph
Abernathy. new president of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference.
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concern. Seventy-one per cent of the students
were acquainted with students who smoke or
had smoked marijuana. Nearly half felt that
laws concerning "lesser drugs" such as mari
juana should be less stringent, while 27 per cent
felt that drug laws should be made tougher.
The poll found students fairly equally divided
about whether the downtown bookstores treat
students fairly and about the effectiveness of
the Undergraduate Student Government as re
presentative of the student body.
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