PAGE FOUR Published tagsalag *lutamit Satartiag akoaniags daring rho Courtrai!, tear. lit Daily ralirtion ka t atakiart, ea d asyspatar kattre4l u sattlad-tlaaa matter /alp S, Int at Ma Stats Cettege, Pa. Past Office •ader the set at March 3. 1879 MIKE &liter MIKE MILLER, Associate YAW*, STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Terry Leach; Copy Editors, Pat Hunter, Al Klimcke; Assistants, Joy• Cheddar, Rill Kling, Paula Miller, Mickie Cohen, Ann Richards, Tom Shiels. When James Milholl,ind enrolled at Penn State in 1907, it a school of 898 students. Today, it is a University of more than 11,500 student:,. There r, more than a comeid:ental re lation between the-.e facts Judge MilhoHand served on the University's Maid of Trustees for 26 year.; and held the po , .ition of president of the board for 11 of tho,c Befor e that, the alumni of the Uni versity elected turn to two terms Ll` president of the Penn State Alumni Association. DUI trig two of his years on the Board of Till , ,tees, between the death of President Ralph Dot Bette' in 1947 and the election of Presi dent Milton S. Eisenhower in 1950, the Judge was acting president of the University. Judge Milholland was acting president dur ing a crucial transitional period in the history of the University. Thousands of veterans of World War 11 were flocking to the nation's campuses. The needs of the Commonwealth for Penn State were lieleTr more pressing. Under Milholland's leadership, important steps were instituted to fill those needs. Simmons and McElwain Halls were built at a cost of $6 million. The Nittanv Dormitory area was completed. Clearing and excavations for the West Halls were started. Three classroom build ings, Willard Hall, Mineral Sciences, and Plant And for the Seniors ... Prestige An engineering major has announced he thinks it would be desirable to exempt grad uating seniors from taking final examinations. This sounds good to us. We don't like finals either and we suggest they be thrown out along with eight o'clocks, Saturday classes, blue books, tough courses, and mean professors. The final exam issue has been hashed over probably as much as any academic controversy we know of. Students are traditionally opposed to them and the faculty, prompted by conserva tive department heads and deans, insist upon them. Students have a right to object to some finals. In a writing course where ability is de termined by development of skill a two-hour examination is no measure of the student's comprehension nor is it particularly indicative of his progress through the semester. Courses of a practical nature such as physical education, typing, and shorthand also do not lend themselves to two-hour tests at semester's end. Therefore, according to some criteria certain Safety Valve Education and TV: A Sense of Balance Needed TO THE EDITOR; May I begin by congratu- strafed and in a few cases, students in tele lating you and the staff of The Collegian for vision sections actually learned less than those what is, generally, a comprehensive and fair not so chosen. 3. A rather considerable number—well over coverage of the day's news. There is, however, half—of both instructor and students do not one problem on which I cannot help but feel favor classroom TV. Your paper itself reported, some distortion has been permitted. I am re- in bold headlines, that "30 per cent of Penn kiting to a rather considerable number of State students chose TV in one section" distort articles that have appeared about television ing the fact that 70 per cent did not choose it! teaching. Television is a powerful and wondrous tool It has been implied in these, quite strongly, and has many fine potentialities; but let us not that: (1) television teaching is "the boon of the lose our sense of value in this matter and allow future"; (2) such methods have proven spec- the brilliance of the gem to blind us to the tacularly successful at Penn State; and (3) just fact that it must have a firm setting in order about everyone is heartily in favor of classroom to make a valuable diadem for Penn State's TV. Unfortunately, none of these is quite cor- future. One might almost say that there is more rect. here than first meets the headline-scanning eye 1. In regard to the values of classroom tele- —Dale D. Drum vision (und motion pictures) one very impor tant factor has been overlooked. As long as thew are but an adjunct, no particular harm can acrue from them; however, when one speaks of replacing instructors with such de vices the old problem of conformity arises at once. If we assume that all education is simply a matter of communicating set, unchanging, and timeless "facts" to students and that there is no controversy over what is good, true, or beautiful, then class TV is fine. But, actually, there is much controversy in teaching—and there always should be! Television gives to each individual instructor, potentially at least, far greater power over student's minds than at present and there is always the danger through this that a conformity—and consequent steril ity —of ideas may come about, surely the great est tragedy that could befall American edu cation 2. In a number of instances at Penn State. the value of television has not been demon- Gazette n A ILy coLLF,cIAN ItususEss STAFF CANDID kTES, .13 217 DAILY VOLLEMAN PROMOTION STAFF 292 Willard DAIRY SCIENCE CIXI9, 7 pm, 177 Dairy HILLEI CONVERSATIONAL. REDREW, 7 p.m_ Hillri HILLEI, COURSE IN MIME TEXT. p.m., Hind INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION SOCIETY, S p.m., I.Amh.iak Chi Alpha INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL SCIENCES, T p.m.. Dr Main Enisinrrrinq NEWMAN CLUII. 7:30 p.m 304 Old Main NEWS AND VIEWS STAFF AND CANDIDATES. 6:46 p.m.. i 4 Home Foonantim SOCIKTY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MANAGE MENT, 7:30 p.m Phi KAPPA Tam . Tile Datil! Catitgiart Editiorishe reproofs( ties viewpoints of tits 'sellout. sot semis* r lilt the Imik, .... et UN payee. tie student Successor to THE Pit VI LA NC X, *IC MIT body or the University. 403iP.. James 7:15. p.m., THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ROGER VOGEL:UNGER, Rtaristami Magmata. Mi 'holland Industries, were constructed. The College of Home Economics was organized. The Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel was dedicated. Exten sive work was done throughout the University's physical plant. Campus enrollment grew from 8410 in 1047 to 10,928 in 1950. In 1948, Judge Milholland said about Penn State: "No institution in Pennsylvania has a bright er future because none has greater opportuni ties for public service." Judge Milholland, throughout his nearly 50 years of service to the University, understood those opportunities for service and he recog nized Penn State's moral obligation to strive to meet the opportunities. After a permanent president had been select ed, the Judge did not relax his efforts in be half of Penn State and Pennsylvania. He con tinued in his role of president of the Board of Trustees until his death on Tuesday. The 1911 LaVie, commenting about "Ginger" Mi!holland, had this to say: "Although "Gin ger" is taking one of the General 'Cinch' cours es, he is a good student, an all around good fellow, and we expect to hear great things about him in the future." It is Penn State's good fortune that LaVie's prediction was an accurate one. types of finals are riot useful and should not be given. But we must frown upon Mr. Byron Smith's recommendation that graduating sen iors be exempt from them because of any sort of senior honor and prestige or because they are tied up with last-minute activities. Mr. Smith seems to have the idea that finals are tests of little value inflicted upon students. And his recommendation seems to take the form of a bonus for all students who have had to take them for seven semesters. We believe finals are given to benefit stu dents and not to punish them. By studying for them they are able to see the course as a com plete unit and not just as disjointed bits of in formation. If we assume the final is worthwhile Mr. Smith's recommendation would deprive eighth semester students of an academic activity they should not miss. But if we go along with Mr. Smith and throw them out we will be able to get in all those extra activities and acquire some last-minute prestige. Strange Requirement TO THE EDITOR: In a course I have sched uled, the class was instructed to purchase two copies of a particular magazine. I protested on the grounds that my roommate had already purchased copies of the same magazine. The prof said he would relay my protest to the head of the department. The department head replied that everyone would purchase two copies of the magazine (unless an economic burden was placed upon an individual.) It seems more than coincidental that the head of the department and the editor of the magazine are the same person. Nor is this man just an editor or a department head—he is also a businessman. The requirement for everyone to buy copies of the magazine, in a course which everyone is required to take, is a guarantee that several thousand copies will be sold in a given year since approximately one fourth of all students will be taking the course. What businessman doesn't like volume sales when he is assured of a market? To enlighten me the prof said, in effect, "You get these copies at half price." This isn't true, we get two copies for the price of one. And that isn't all. This same magazine, ac cording to the magazine itself, has its head quarters at Penn State, on the campus, in an office of a campus building. I wonder if the University gets rent for the space, heat, and light this concern might use in the conduct of its business? Ail this seems strange to me! •Letter cut —Harry Martinni —Jackie Hudgins Little Man on Campus "OK, you "pledges" n Ike's Decision Medical OK's Spur Speculation By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst A good many people, on the basis of what the doctors had to say, are assuming now that President Dwight D. Eisenhower will seek a second term. Indeed, the terms in which the doctors spoke—and bearing in mind that they had been talking to Eisenhower about the very point —are hardly those which would have been used if they had any inkling he would not run Dr. White's reference to the possibility that the President would make himself clear about the intensity or lack of intensity of the campaign he would con duct seems strongly indicative. Of course, a lot of people have become conditioned to think of the President's decis ion as being based entirely on his health. However, even be fore his attack, he had carefully refrained from any public in dication of whether he would run. On Monday the odds seemed to be that the President would not gamble on the possibility of being able to carry through an other term. On Tuesday the doctors went further than had been expected. The good report on the Presi dent's condition was not surpris ing. Then, at their news confer ence, they were finally led by questioners into a comparison of the President's capacity for work with the requirements of the presidency. OK, they said. There was jubilation in the Re publican camp and in the busi ness community despite the re peated assertion of the doctors that the President's decision would be personal. Eisenhower himself had said that he would probably rely more on his own feelings than on the medical report. He had applied this specifi cally to whether he felt he could carry on the world's heaviest job efficiently. The doctors said he could carry on for five to ten years at the rate of the last five weeks. Press secretary Hagerty indicated the rate was quite heavy insofar as business was concerned, with any reduction' from normal being largely on the social side. But whether the President considers this rate efficient will be one of the things he ponders while away from the White House. Taken all together, the Presi dent's public statements on the subject since his illness have seemed on the negative side. The apparent shift to the positive may be there because he was trying to get an indication from the doctors about what he couldn't do, and accepted in good humor their de cision that he could if he wanted to. It may not be truly indicative. But the odds have certainly shifted. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 16. 1956 By Bibler —II time for bed!" Student Paper, University Feud The editors of The Daily Texan, campus paper of the University of Texas, are feuding again with the administration of the University. The administration feels that the editors are being too critical in editorials concerning state and national affairs and politics. The New York Times last week reported that the latest feud con cerned the paper's opposition to the Fulbright-Harris gas bill, re cently passed by the Senate. The editorial was rejected by the fac ulty editorial director on the grounds that it did not present both sides of the issue equally. Th e university's permanent fund of $240,000,000 comes primar ily from oil and gas production. The state Board of Regents or dered tighter restrictions on the editorial policy of the paper. They cited a state law prohibiting the spending of state money to influ ence the outcome of an election or the passage or defeat of any legis lative measures, and said that The Texan has violated this law sev eral times. Engineers to Discuss Plans for New Society Dr, Hipsh, head of the Depart ment of Aeronautical Engineer ing, will discuss the formation of a student branch of the Ameri can Rocket Society at a meeting of the Institute of Aeronautical Engineering at 7 tonight in 107 Main Engineering. James Tedeschi, chairman of the lAS, will present the plans for the annual Spring banquet. Lantern Circulation Staff The circulation staff of the Lantern may turn money in to the Hetzel Union desk, Jacque line Hudgins, editor, announced yesterday. Executive positions and boards will be announced next week, she added. Tonight on WDFM MI MEGACYCLES 7 :2S Sign On 7:30 Starlight Review 8:00 Jast Club 8:30 Juat Out 9:00 William Edgerton 9:15 News 9:30 ____ Scenario Cavalleria Arusticana 10:30 Thought for the Day 10:33 Sign Ott
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