1961_05 The Daily Collegian May 1961

              FRESNO, CALIFORNIA. MONDAY, MAY 1,1961
rmOMAL COMMENTS
Summer Follows DST
Comes spring in all its finery, then comes summer i
Its heat We have had one touch of summer already thi
but the onslaught of the hot season became a full reali
yesterday when the clocks of 27 states went one hour
fo the full rites of Daylight Savings Tune.
The wee touch of warmth that tipped the foreheads of
residents of this great agricultural valley
that are trapped within the
Not long ago, somewhere in the past, a group of n
in a "refrigerated" room and gave the approval for
campus for Fresno State College. Less than a half decade |
later some of these same men were faced with a new prob¬
lem, the one of cooling the dripping brow of the students I
and faculty at that new campus.
These men, sitting as a law-making body in Sacramento,
were faced with two problems — establishing Squaw" Valley
for the 1960 Winter Olympics, and passing a minor bill to put
air-conditioning in an institution of higher learning. Unfor¬
tunately they passed the former and only recently have seen
their mistake, a mistake that is costing millions of dollars.
The mistake is made, and each summer the students, fac- j
olty, and administration make their plea, but the perspira¬
tion continues to pour. The error is not to be given to all
the great white fathers of the north — one tried but he too I
failed. One uneventful day on the floor of the Californ a
Assembly, Fresno County's own Charles Garrigus suffered
a blow long to be remembered by the sweating personnel
atFSC.
Garrigus, his head hung low, admitted defeat and left that
session with this note:
You ask me for a poem, friends,
Appropriate when this session ends.
Alas, my inspiration's poor —
Not adequate to please this floor.
I truly wish my heart could sing
The joyous notes of finishing,
But Jess and Tom have cut my throat
And drowned the optimistic note.
No matter, friends, how hard I tried,
These two, my working hands have tied.
When spring and summer pay their debt
My Fresno students all shall sweat.
Because I would not vote the dough
To activate Squaw Valley's snow.
But no hard feeling shall I keep
Although the purple shaft is deep.
All men who would possibly live
Must learn to suffer and forgive.
For us all fate's wheel shall turn,
And we all life's lesson learn.
When Tom and Jesse die as men do
They'll be for air-conditioning too.
Now summer comes knocking, Daylight Savings Time is I
here. A new twist comes to the eld problem, slightly '~
proved now with air-conditioning units bought on a piece¬
meal basis over the years. The local powers that be want to
make sure it will be warm for all time to come before theyj
throw the switch that brings us all comfort and coolness.
Then, when winter comes again, which is sometimes in
October and then again sometimes in November, the magical j
•witch will be closed.
Now we shall sweat and think of the future for after
a few must suffer now for the many to come, those who are]
expected to arrive for the summer session perhaps.
Professor Blasts Colleges
As Sick-Lack Confidence
A Fresno State College professor told its top students Friday night that there is a "creep¬
ing sickness" in American higher education that must be cured if education is to "lead to
more than the capacity for a permanently suspended judgment"
Dr. David E. Clark, professor of chemistry, spoke at the annual scholarship banquet
sponsored by the American Association of University Professors in the cafeteria.
Levine Will
Give Poetry
Reading Soon
ings and others too, «•» •—  , .
creative design. Their intent is to house the newly purchased
•ir-conditioning units, which haven't arrived. So. our geogra¬
phers, accountants, linguists, criminologists h'stonans.
authors, sociologists, mathematicians, etc., must all take tune
to dry their brow, recollect their thoughts and pray for the
time a switch can be thrown, reviving them, comforting
them, bathing them in cool and filtered air.
College Parking Fine Bill
Will Go To Assembly Floor
unc-d Judy Hughes.
Libby, Nobel Prize Winner
To Discuss Atomic Future
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Willard F. Libby will address
Fresno State College students and faculty May 16.
The world-famous atomli nUy a professor
of chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles,
will speak on "Our Atomic Future" at 1 PS in the Men's
Budgets For 13
Campus Groups
Submitted For OK
By Bob Byrd
I Proposed 1961-62 budgets for 13 campus organizations
have been submitted to the Fresno State College Board of
Directors committee on budgets for recommendations and
approval.
Frank V. Powell, professor of psychology and i
Curtain Up
For First
FSC Opera
e, uld proposed budgets
Triple S Forms
ATTENTION SENIORS
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potentialities.
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