1953_01 The Daily Collegian January 1953

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EDITORIAL    .
COMMENTS
FSC library Serves College Well
Today we offer a tip of The Collegian bat to a
the most efficient and helpful and least appreciated
departments of Fresno State College—the FSC li-
brary.
This institution, under Dr. Henry H. Madden, main-
' *     sccellent services for the benefit of this school's
f and students and affords them aa complete
 les for curricular research as it possibly
under a limited budget MLb*k
The library also offers many interesting and helpful little "extras", such as the attractive, informative
and cultural displays in the circulation desk room,
the browsing shelf containing recent drama and fiction, the recently instituted microfilm facilties that
provide for research from microfilm records, etc
The library's existence also provides many job opportunities for students.
The librarians deserve a great deal of credit for the
efficiency and courtesy continuously demonstrated
on their jobs. Expected to be combination statisticians, walking information booths and bouncers, they
sometimes have to put up with quite a bit of foolishness.
Students are always taking up the librarians' time
with questions the students would have known the
answers to had they bothered to read the clear and
easy-tc-understand instruction sheets furnished in
the library.
In the librarians' desire, successfully fulfilled, to
provide adequately quiet and undisturbed facilities
for students, they are continuously on the flert for
disturbing elements, although the situation isn't
quite so bad as that depicted in the adjoining
toon, which suggested this editorial.
Although these "watchdogs" of the quiet may be
unpopular with some loquacious students who still
make attempts, though sporadic, to change the library's function into that of a coed lounge, the librar-
ts should be given a real vote of thanks from FSCs
Cagers, With 4-8 Mark,
\lnvade Southland Tonite
The Battlin' Bulldog five invades the Southland this weekend to play game* with the highscoring Pasadena Nazarenes
tonight, a weak Los Angeles State five tomorrow night, and a
so-so San Diego quint Monday night
Fresno State's chances in the LA State and San Diego
Attend Basketball Game Next Week
Last Saturday night at 10 o'clock we were
optimistic mood, a good mood. Our spirits were high.
We had just left the Roosevelt High School gymnasium. There, a few moments earlier, the Fresno
State College basketball team had lost to the team
from Santa Clara University, 74 to 67.
Why were'we happy about a game that FSC lost'
Not just because the Bulldogs, matched against i
perienced sq
rough, rugged, smooth-working, experk
(that is considered among the top indepent	
the coast) fought tooth-and-nail right down to the
endents i
e and momentarily gave the Broncos a scare; but
because the gymnasium, the largest in town, was
literally jammed with fans — relatively few of whom
were students, largely because of the holiday date,
but most of them were paying customers.
And — primarily — oecause the spirit and fight
shown that night by the Bulldogs was of the type
that, if maintained, will in itself serve to draw goodjy
numbers of townspeople to the games, and the spirit
shown by the audience waiof the type that means-
quite a bit to the guys out~there on the floor and of
the type that forebodes a carry-over to the next game.
There was a good feeling in the air, pervading that
to come through for that crowd, earnestly trying to
deserve the generous support.
It was a feeling strong enough to give a healthy
boost to the outlooks of such optimists as ourselves.
Visions of the new FSC gym being initiated this year
with a series of well-filled houses and; hard-fought
basketball games, visions of increased gate receipts
and the hundred-and-one other beneficial "results to
night—these all entered our mind.
n Saturday
its next home game. In 	
homegame. They will play in FS(£s brand-new men's
gymnasium, a home of their own/Jor the first-time.
The first entrance into a new home is a good time, it
seems to us, for the first vital sparlcof a new spirit to
flash in the student section at the games, to continue
what the team and the townspeople^! ready have
begun to develop.
It is our sincere hope that each student who reads
this will, if at all possible, be among. those in the J
rooting section at that game next-Friday night We
can't help feeling that those who do go will, as they
'leave the game afterwards, know the.spirit we are
speaking of here — and maybe have the nucleus of
vision or two bouncing around in their own heads.
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