1934_02 The Daily Collegian February 1934

              THE.COLLEGIAN  .
COLLEGIAH EMTOftlAymATUM E4CE
The Activist is circulating again, and hand in hand
with it a petition calling for a change in method of editor |
appointments insofar as the Collegian is concerned. Nuts!
Criticism of the press, it tnust be assumed, is always
legitimate, no matter how addle-brained it may be. The
right to pass opinion on what appears in the paper one
-reads certainly should in no way be restricted, but when
an attempt is made by some benighted individual to inflict
his own ethereal ideas upon a suffering and possibly
suspecting student body, the time arrives to put a stop
e activities.
Of all the wild, hare-brained ideas which have
the attention of the editorial staff of the Collegian
space of the present college year, this one proposed by the
petitioning editor of the Activist stands out as the shining example of utter senselessness. It still seems impossible that any person who has reached the stage of inte ■
ligence usually attributed tocollege students could be so
blind to the practical phases of getting out an amateur
publication of the size arid scope of the. Collegian. Certainly it is difficult to imagine anything that would produce more confusion than the rotation-in-office scheme
for editors proposed in the petition. Does the Activist e< -
itor have any idea of the amount of work necessary to
put out a Collegian twice a week? Or does he assume that
it is a self-sufficient demon that rolls off the pqess regularly whether anyone sets to its editing or not?
The Activist stressed the need for watching carefully
from what quarters came opposition to his proposal. If
' 12-point type on a 14-point slug needs careful perusal,
then he is correct in his contention. At any rate, the Collegian herewith voices its opposition and utter contempt
for the proposal.
But the Collegian can still be philosophical. It
find time to wonder what conflagration the Activist editor
fell into and cooked his brain, that such a scheme should
be evolved.
Editorial Exchanges
Colleges Clean House
» perfectly scandalous and scandalized
felt a few years ago at the Carnegie Foundation expose of college
athletics? Well, the situation seems to be righting itself, according to President Thomas S. Gates of the University of Pennsy -
vania, who reported to the Association of American Colleges that
college sports hsve undergone s housecleaning.
Many of the too-obviously commercial aspects of intercollegiate athletic competition are being toned down and there is less
subsidization of athletes, according to Dr. Gates, and ihe movement toward de-emphssizing sports seems to be moving along
nicely.
However, there is a danger, more real than apparent, that
we may try hard to stand straight that we may lean
wards.   In other words, simply because
college sports, need they be less interesting and
either to the plsyers snd psrticipants or those of us who sit on
the sidelines and watch ?
And—to be more specific—while the increasing populsrity of
il footbsll may hsve a salutary effect on colleges and
.   universities by making the grid contests of the tetter less like
commercial spectacles, whafs wrong with making college football
just ss interesting.aw professional?
Those who hsve seen *JrofesSional .fames declare thst the
style of play and ths rules governing the play make thsie
far sirperiftr to CbUege game*, frotn the point of view of excitement, thrffl and safety. H would be waif tf the roles makers for
the college sport would study the professionals with a View to revising thoroughly some of the existing methods of plsy.
PATJTONIZB OUR ABVHtTISESS
__,. Advertising Menace
, of Retrenchment
FRESNO, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1C, 1934
ID high-minded, idealistic circles,
w lament the tendency of
jnodern journalism to devote
.„,„nin after column to display
Ktvertisirig paid for by allegedly
evil, depraved, and morally de-
fenerate capitalists who, once
hiving seized control of the
•nas via the business snd cir-
F. S. C. WORK STARTS!
UNDER FEDERAL AID
COLLEGE PROGRAM
Deans    Receiving
for  Employm
FERA  F
JFIN)
n—i channels to sinister pur-|      ,  -
^ Of course   exclusive Jgpft* _°~«Af^«<"
irol of the press by the moneyed I
Interests hss its evils, but there j
ue two  sides   to  this,   as   to     Preparations   for
ather, question.  Who,
ot the i
i,  pay
»r th.;
politan dailies, a service which
brings readers in the remotest!
villages of the United States into |
contact with the work of scholarly, highly trained journalists?
Who but the adverttserr. are responsible for the fact in all parts j
d the country the drab inte -1
iects of shopkeepers and sma I
business men are enlivened by
the clever literary endeavors of
the world's best writers ?
Ponder well a question before j
issuing any dogmatically worded]
petition. In nearly every case
gumentative ^advantage  lies
j$l,00O-a-month education
program of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
lite shape at Fresno
State College this week after
difficulties caused by conflict of!
F.S.C. Association Will
Seek $11,000 In CWA Aid
To Rehabilitate Stadium
Board of Directors Plans to Borrow $6,000 to
Complete $17,000 Project; Field House
Would Be Enlarged
|        While college administration leaders worked on preparations
I!to employ students on a part-time basis with Federal Emergency
BOARD COMMITTEE
ACHIEVES BALANCE
IN SmiNGJUDGETS
• Finding    Group    Submits
Suggestions For Allocations Of Funds
FLAT 2 PER CENT CUT MADE
Action   Due   At   Meeting
■S.C. DEBATERS
WILLLQCKHORNS
WITH STANFORD
SPRING SEMESTER
FROSH RECEIVED IN
F.S.C. SOCIAL HALL!
balanced   budget   schedule
resno State College organizations and activities during the
Spring   semester   waa   achieved
eek by  members of the
special fact-finding committee of
itudent association board of
tors, and next Wednesday's
board meeting should find the
[ a rumor at present being
ied about, to the effect that
impending slice in the appro-
lions for our college looms
be based upon a knowledge of ,h, „.,.,k _,,.
fact and not upon merely a
vague premonition, there is one
change in the academic status
too of the college which should
be given the thoughtful attention of the college authorities.
Rather than reacting to the appropriation cut in the customary
manner, to wit, raising the f -
dance at the college, let the pos-l
sibility of raising the scholastic
requirements be given due consideration. If we must have retrenchment, let the almost in-1
rotable attendance restriction
show prcfenence to the scholar |
rather than to the well-to-do
man-about-town, whose proper
habitat is not the college, any
"ay, but the boulevard.
WTiile debate teams representing various Pacific Coast educational institutions wend the r
»»}• across the United States
and, in some instances, around
»he world, the standard bearers
tl Fresno State College's forensic
banner will be confined within
the limits of California. "What
of it?" i.i the obvious question.
Occasionally there will be
tailed to our attention an objure item buried deep among
the advertisements of some
Mwspaper informing the read-
'»« public of the death, mar-
"age, or appointment to an aasis-
•«t Postmastership of an ind -
"dual whom we recognize
»ho, in bygone days, enjoyed renown and social prominence
f    his    f
1 till
h» obscurity In the world of]
wery-day life with his halo of
celebrity enjoyed during college
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