1962_02 The Daily Collegian February 1962

              -Th. Fresno Stat. Clkso. Collegia
Eejtoriel Comments
A Wise Decision;
A Wise Reason?
Of The End
Wisely, the California State College board of trustees has
voted to leave with the president of each college the decision
of permitting Communists to speak on its campus.
The board approved a resolution by chairman Louis H.
Heilbron directing the colleges to continue or develop the
policy most appropriate for each to assure that outside
speakers brought to the campus will contribute to educa¬
tional values, the pursuit of truth, and citizenship values.
Heilbron's resolution came after the state college chan¬
cellor, Dr. Buell G. Gallagher submitted a report based on
six months of study and observation. He said it led to the
clear conclusion that "subversive efforts within the campuses
of the state colleges are almost non existent, and in the rare
instances over the years in which such effort may have been re|as R.t a h^a |[fe w,( m
attempted, the colleges themselves have successfully AH* ^ „ '^ aew w .h|8 ^.ration ^.^ here
effectively defeated these efforts.
It should not be a matter of defeating those efforts. It
should be a matter of those efforts being wasted on a sound,
broad-minded student body.
It's too bad that the board of trustees did not lea^e the
decision up to the individual colleges because it felt the
students would not be receptive to such' speakers. Instead,
it merely shifted the responsibility to the individual college
president.
If the college president outlaws such speakers, he doesn't
have faith in the students; if he permits such speakers, he
is faced with the wrath of the community.
Ccllefian Quote*
The flnjinninij
Mandatory Insurance?
Following is an editorial from radio station KFRE in
Fresno:
Fresno State College officials have asked the state college
board of trustees to consider making health insurance
mandatory for all students. According to the college, the
move is necessary because some of the students who become
ill or have accidents cannot afford medical care.
The college also suggests an alternative: It would allow
each college to assess a health insurance fee on a local option
basis. It is assumed that this means at the "option" of th<
college ... not the students.
It is obvious that the move is intended to "protect" the
students. And, it is equally obvious that the college feels the
students don't have enough sense to "protect" themselves.
We do not quarrel with the idea of protection. The student
who learns early to provide for and protect himself in the
face of the unknown . . . learns an important lesson. It is
equally important to differentiate between protection that is
sought and protection that is applied.
Perhaps the students will question the validity of the
college diagnosis. Perhaps they will wonder if protection by
legislation or decree is the way of a free society. The siren
song of conformity is being sung on key to a growing
audience. Subordination of the will of the individual to the
will of the state or its duly appointed agencies, is the widen'
ing crack in the wall of the republic.
As individuals . . . students have the right to make this
decision themselves. Perhaps they won't accept amputation
of the intellect. .. where minor surgery is indicated.
Reality Vs. Theory
The KFRE point is well taken.
But we are dealing with reality and not theory. It's nice
to say we should have freedom to do this, to do that, to not
do that, to refuse to buy this, but the end result is that
when the student without insurance finds himself unable to
pay for his medical expenses he wishes someone had made
him buy insurance.
, The person who wrote the editorial pays unemployment
insurance because he has to. If it wasn't mandatory, he
probably wouldn't pay it. It is being levied for his i
protection.
We don't want to pay income tax, but what kind of pro¬
tection would we have without paying it?
It is conformity enforced by a few for the protection of
,_.many. It's a case of the end justifying the means.
McCall Elected
SAE President
Monty McCall. a Junior busi¬
ness administration major, la the
new president of the Sigma Al¬
pha Epriilon Fraternity, succeed¬
ing Carl Kimball.
Other or i iters Installed at a
recent banquet are Ron Walker,
vice president; Dennis Snyder,
recorder; Boa Lewis, treasurer;
Jay *Pleraon, chronicler; Darrell
Ruby, recording secretary; Bill
Passe ni. rush chairman, and
Ernie Jones, pledge trainer.
The new officers will serve one
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By Jim Church
Collegian Editor
. the start of a new semester. Have you
.resolution yet?   You'll  study  more, you
say. You'll spend less time ln the coffee shop and more time In the
library?  You'll burn a little more midnight oil? But where.
study desk or out on a date?
Just  out or finals and  Into a swirling,  bustling,  new
relax. If you relax you flunk. If you flunk you don't
make things easier. It they don't help . . . well, we tried anyway.
First, stay In line . . . It's better to have orga¬
nized confusion . . . Secondly, have your program
booklet filled out completely. If you don't, you'll
probably not rind a seat. Third, go In prepared to
find all your classes filled. If only half are filled,
then you'll come out feeling lucky . . . and fourth
and most Important, go in with a fat pocket book.
Education costs money, you know.
And   It  you've   been   through   this   before.  Just
remember,  there are only  12£  days  until
vacation.
— JC —
The rmit of a semester's toll was reaped last week when final
grades were mailed out. Some had good harvests; others went Into
scholastic bankruptcy. If you received all A's. chances are you're
happy. If you Just missed making the glorious 4.0 category, console
yoifrselt with the fact that many students struggle to earn Bs. If
you failed to make the B average, console yourself with the fact that
many students struggle to earn C's. And if you ended up on proba¬
tion, console yourself with the fact that under our educational
system you'll have another chance.
— JC —
One Fresno State College professor won't be back handing out
grades this semester. The Collegian expresses Its sentiments to the
family of economics professor Dr. Floyd B. Haworth. who died ot a
heart attack last Saturday In downtown Fresno. Dr. Haworth had
taught here this past semester after completing 20 years at the
University of Illinois.
— JC —
Dr. Edwin Lombard of the Speech Arts division passes along this
bit of doggerel he worked up regarding his television preferences:
The TV program of Dan Smoot
Sure gives me one big pain acute.
For fast relief, there Is this cure,
Turn off the set, bo premature.
— JC —
ON OTHER CAMPI ■ ■ ■
College Is Many Things
ONLY HUMAN . .
Educator Discusses
College Misbehavior
CHICAGO — Instances of mis¬
conduct on college campuses will
probably never be totally elimi¬
nated, college students, like
everyone else, being only human.
However, President W. W,
Ludeman of Southern State
Teachers College (Springfield
3.D.), writing in "College and
University Business." offers rive
suggestions to college administra¬
tors for reducing the amount of
campus   misbehavior   to   a   mini-
First: closer scrutiny of the
college applicant's previous con¬
duct record, as well as his mental,
scholastic,   and   physical   records,
in   determining   his  acceptability.
Second, full publicity should be
given, via bulletin notices, Btu
dent handbooks, group talks, etc.
to the college or university';
stand on behavior attitudes.
Third, the student government
should work with the adminis¬
tration in frowning on student
violations of accepted standards
or conduct.
Fourth, there should be closer
ad visor-advisee relations with stu
dent counseling placing more em
phasls on behavioral'problems as
well as those of an academic na¬
ture.
Fifth, students guilty of chron¬
ic misbehavior should be dis¬
missed, but only as a last resort.
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What is a college? Well, it's a
lot of things, writes editorialist
Jim Ayey In tbe Iowa SUste Dally.
A college la land and buildings
and the physical facilities that
make It possible for people to
learn. It's buildings that mean
sonic thine, and that provide more
than shelter from the elements.
It's buildings that carry famous
names, that grow in tradition
through the years and become a
living part of the entirety of a
college.
A college Is teachers. Not Just
ordinary teachers, but those spe¬
cial teachers who give much more
than Is required, who make the
learning process pleasant and In¬
teresting.
A college is students. It is that
undeflnable. always changing con¬
glomeration of restless humanity
which swirls and flows around
the buildings and across lawns.
hunting for something. Hunting
for the answers to the questions
of life, enjoying ihe arts, under¬
standing the world of protons and
microbes, light rays and bridge
beams, plant life an°d animal
growth.
A college Is the group of people
which screams at ball games.
sweats through tests, gets bleary-
eyed from acres of small print
In the library stacks, and occa¬
sionally blows off steam by hang¬
ing a coach In effigy or staging
an Impromptu snake dance on
sacred .-nil.
A   college   Is   color.   It   Is   the
flash Of the cherlesder's skirt.
bright Jersey against a green
Held, rippling splotches of color
In the stands, and the gleam and
danle of a marching-band.
A college Is desire. It's the de¬
sire to play a good game, to take
home a grade slip the folks will
like, to gain recognition from
others- It's the force that causes
students to burn the hour* over
seemingly endless and use lees re¬
ports and labs, and instructors
who wearily try. Just one more
time, to explain something to a
sleepy and  unresponsive class.
A college Is all these things
and many more. A college la tra¬
dition and spirit, test tubes and
dances, sweat clothes and Ph.D.'a.
It's a feeling of standing alone,
all wrapped up together. It's a
group of Individuals with person¬
al hopes and ambitions and a
common ground ot experience.
That's what a college Is.
Delta Sigs
Elect Long
Bill Long, a Junior business
major, was recently elected presi¬
dent of the Delta Sigma Phi Fra¬
ternity. Retiring president Is
Gerry Hoff.
Other newly elected officers are
Lionel Handel, vice president;
Dennis Forafccr. secretary; and
Keith Mohrhusen. treasurer.
New officers tor Delta Sigma
I'M will serve one year.
Oil Canps
with
iVfeSiroliTiari
{Author 0/ "Rally Hound The Flag, Boys", "The
Many Lose* of Debit Gtttis", etc.)
THE TRUE AND TRAGICAL TALE OF
HAPPY JACK SIGAFOOS
Who would have thought that Happy Jack Sigafoos, the boy
the sky never rained nn, would teeter on the curc of n life of crime*
Certainly there was no sign of it in his boyhood. His home
Ufe was tranquil and uplifting. His mother waa a nice fat lady
who hummed a lot and gave baskets to the poor. His father
was a respected citizen who could imitate more than 400 bird
calls and once saved an elderly widow from drowning in his
good suit. (That ia, Mr. Sigsiooa was in his good suit; the
elderly widow waa in swimming trunks.) Happy Jack's life
was nothing short of idyllic—till he went off to college.
Here Happy Jack quickly became a typical freshman—
tweedy, needy, and needy. He learned the joys ot rounding out
his personality, and he learned the cost. His allowance vanished
like dew before the rooming sun. There were times, it grieves
me to report, when he didn't even have enough money for a
pack of Marlboro Cigarettes—and you know how miserable
lAoi can be! To be deprived of Marlboro's matchless flavor, ita
easy-drawing filter, its subtly blended tastiness, its itfreshing
mildness, ita ineffable excellence, ita soft pack or flip-top box-
why, it ia a prospect to break the heart in twain!
Marlboro-less and miserable, Happy Jack tried to get more
money from home. He wrote long, impassioned letters, pointing
out that tho modern, large-capacity girl simply could not be
courted on his meager allowance. But all Jack got back from
a getting together to build our
home were tiresome homilies about thrift and prudence.
Then one dark day a sinister sophomore came up to Jack
and said, "For one dollar I will sell you a hat of fitjndishly clerer
bee to tefl your father when you need some extra money."
He gave Jack the list of fiendishly clever lies. Jack read:
2. A bunch of ua fellows are getting together to buy a head¬
stone for Rover, our late beloved dormitory watchdog.
3. A bunch of us fellows are getting together to endow a chair
of Etruscan Art.
4. A bunch of us fellows a
own particle accelerator.
For a moment poor Jack was tempted; surely his father could
not but support all these laudable causes. Then Jack's good
upbringing came to the fore. He tuned to the sinister sopho¬
more and said, "No, thank you. I could not deceive my aged
parent bo. And aa for you, sir, I can only say—fie I"
Upon hearing this the sinister sophomore broke into a huge
grin. He whipped off his black hat and pasty face—and who
do you think it wasT None other than Mr. Sgafooa Happy
Jack*! father, that's who I . ^"^
"Good lad I" cried Mr. Sigafoos. "You have passed your
test Ixfiffiaotly.'' With that he gave Happy Jack a half million
dollars in small bills and a red convertible containing power
steering and four nubile maidens, .
Crime does riot pay 1 -_„
Money mud girls hacen't changed Happg Jack. Except for
the minor bulge In hU cashmere Jacket caused by (I) a pack
ot Marlboros and (2) a box ot Jfarttoroe, he's thamirrxeoUt