1 - aisc PENN STATE COLLEGIAN Successor to The FITe Lance, established 1887 Pub'lshii]sCinhweeltly during the College year; except on holidaYs, di students of The Pennsylvania State College, In the interest of the lullcue. the students. faculty, silumnl, and friends. 10,114L•EFITLID rope ATiONAS. ADV.M11111,11.3 National AcNertising Service, Inc. Canes, Psiblishirs Re!mental.: NewYO,oc. N.Y. cl.lc.r.cococroN • SAN r00.m...c0 Los /MOLL. • PORTLAND • SLATILIC fIARLF.S M. WHEELER, JR. '3B JOILN C. SATIF.LLA I 8 Editor Business Manager JEROME WEINSTEIN '3B JAY H.'DA3\'IELS '3B Managing Editor Advertising Manager FRANCIS 11. SZYMCZAK 18 ROBERT S. McKELVES."33 News Editor Circulation Manager WOOIIIIOW W. MERL? '3B CARL W.' DIEHL '3B Feature Editor Promotion Manager SHIRLEY It. HELMS '3B 'ROBERT E. ELLIOTT JR. '3B Women's Editor Foreign Advertising Manager nEoßcin IL POWERS '3B KATHRYN K. JENNINGS '3B Associute Women's Editor Senior Secretary CAROLINE TYSON '3B Associate Women's Editor ASSOCIATE EDITORS Thorn. A. Boni '39 Herbert U. Cohan '39 Bruce M. Trabne '39 William B. Joachim Jr. .39 Alun C. Mclntyre '39 toy Nichol.. Jr. '39 Salt...tore S. Sala '39 John A. Tronnovitch '39 WOMEN'S ASSOCIATE. EDITORS .ncillr E. Greenberg' '39 Florence E. Long. '39 . Rein, E. Sheen '99 Ralph II Con/11nel/ '99 Richard W. Kaiman '39 Dallas R. Long '99 Jerome Shun'er '39 Francia A. C. Vosterr. Mitry J. Sample '39 liditoe his Nem. Kotitor Thin Inoue 1936 Member 1937 Rssocialed Calesicde Press Distributors of Colle6ate Disest Tuesday, May 11, 1937 THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH REFUSAL OP THE Senate Committee on Student Welfare to recognize the Penn State chapter of the American Student Union comes . as a distinct It was thought that . the A§U' would be duly recog nized as any other undergraduate' organization of sim- 111!!1=19 There arc two possible explanations for the Sen ate's action. Either the ASU was given the "run around," dr there was an evident leek of understanding of what the ASU represents. The Collegian, with no ASU members on its staff, in viewing the situation ex ternally feels that the ASU should have the right of free expression of views in the same manner that op posing views arc approved by the College administra tion. The Senate Committee minutes say that the ASU is a promotion group and the College cannot•by police permit the use of its facilities for the support of parti san ideas. Yet the College has done this many times in the past. It has done this under thellnited States Con- stitution which grants free sneceh 'to everyone. The statement further reads,. "In keeping with this purpose (function of College is to' enable its members to benefit by searching, impartial' inquiry 'and instruc tion) and to maintain its position of academic freedom, its facilities should not be readily available•for partisan campaigns, no matter how legitiniate . might be the ob jectives of such campaigns." • It would appear that the Senate Committee has sanctioned free speech and expression of ideas for ac ademic advancement, and then • in the next breath shut In expressing the views of not only this paper but many campus leaders' opinions that appear elsewhere in - this issuo, there is no promulgating of the aims of the ASU, but there is a definite belief that free speech should be 110 discrimination. It must be presumed that the Senate; Committee has Misunilerstood:the ASU. Ttlmiist li . e:t.idstinied that the iSe . Mite„Ccniniitte'e' O4clniiltion as radical instead of, liberal. In, Mule 'Of theIASU platform planlfs is there an element .of radicalhim;. in none" is there a connotation of violence and force. The . ASU is liberal, to be sure, but not radical. In refusing the recognition of the ASU, the Sen ate Committee has set a precedent more than it has fol lowed a "tradition.' If followed this precedent would shut MT free speech to every undergraduate organiza tion; it would close dOwn practically every campus ac tivity. In refusing sanction to a group that is promotional and that gives partisan viewpoints, it has touched upon many groups. The Peace Action COuneil promotes peace and is partisan; the P. S. C. A. promotes Chris tian living and is partisan in that respect; Scabbard promotes better military training and thus becomes par tisan; the Collegian promotes free speech and is parti san in this respect; the YoUng Democrats Club promotes ideas of the Democratic Party and is partisan; Student Board promotes better student government and is par tisan; the Penn State Club promotes the rights of the non-fraternity man and is partisan to him 'as Philotes is parisan to non-fraternity Women. Surely the Senate Committee does not propose to muzzle these activities. Yet that is whit it has said in its statement of reason for refusing ASU recognition. Organizations that oppose . ASU principles exist here. There is no reason why they should• not. Logical ly there is no reason why the ASU cannot be recognized. No one has or will be forced to join its ranks. Those who wish to may. The Senate Committee has . ihistinderstood the ASU petition:and in doing so has jeopardized the rights of all undergraduate activities. The ASU, it 'is understood, will petition the Sen ate Committee 'again..Suiely a • thonght to'the right of free speech and expression for 'everyone, stidents in cluded, will gain rightful recognition. Etaoin and Shrdlu Tins IS the reek for eoronaton fuss, what with the guy with the sane sex life making out in England and our own May Dunaway grabbing off the local honors. I feel. that too many people arc making too much of a fuss over the crowning of King George and not enough over the local proceedings. Surely the cos tumes for both events are equally fetching. It appears to me that humans go out of their way to make their fellow-beings feel silly. A good many of them look. :silly naturally. Why aggravate it? At that the local Venuses have less to moan about than do the little stooges that will be running all over London tomorrow in silk panties. It will be quite a show-down on the shapeliness of the male leg, which is not a very sexy organ to begin with. When the English settle down to keeping sex out of it, they do a good job. They make it so revolting that probably there will not be an evil thought in the whole ME= Bruce M. Trullue..39 __William B. Jonchim Jr. 'MI As customary with such proceedings, there will be dancing afterwards. Chemistry In Sex Up in chemistry laboratories where they created artificial sex hormones last summer and where they did right about the male of the species this spring, the chew students are getting kind of tired of the whole idea. They can't get any work done. One of their labs had to 'knock off the other day to catch the Women's Building babes in a sun bath peek fest. In view of how they do things in the labs up there, I am kind of sheered to think about what the boys will see on the roof next week. M. D. M. W There has been a tradition around here of picking from time to time the M.D.D.O.W. Which means the most disgusting drunk of the week. Inasmuch as all traditions are great things. I have an idea that a few more abbreviations might become traditionalized. I submit N. 1). N. W. This means most disgusting neck of the week. The only trouble with this idea is that there are so many applicants this week that it will be necessary to start things• oil' with a bang and name a couple, or Number 1 on the hit parade this week is the combi nation of Hazel "Body Beautiful" Woods, and Chuck Glennon, pink elephant. Ask any beta sig, ask any theta xi, ask anybody in the corner room, ask anybody on the campus, ask anybody. In fact, I heat and see that they are so frequent that they rival the all-time endurance pair of Libby McKeon and Bill McEwan, who scored a lot of goals for the soccer team, too Number 3 are the Mac Hall endurance champions, Rhoda Koch and Clyde Rinker. Being champion of Mac Hall, I hem•, is indeed an accomplishment in the face of so much competition Miss Marie Haidt, who teaches phys ed to' the gals, is well acquainted '%vith this combination, as she in- terrupted the entanglements one night some time ago long enough to demand friend Rinker's exodus. Her indignant storming up the Mac Hall staircase pro duced results. The entanglement resumed where it left off. Incidentally it is now spring, I learn, and .Miss Ilaidt's advice for Mac Mailers to seek the bleacher, is well in order since they were Increased in' size • • V.. 2, +++ Sane Sex Life, The Password Of Royalty CZ= 11 - LE PENN STATE tGIAN Campus Leaders Give Views On ASU Action Leiters To The'Editor 'Voice 'Protest (The following 'statements hive been received by the Collegian con cerning'the Senate Committee's recent refusal to recognize the Ainerican Student Union. None.of the writers have ever been members of the ASU. —Ed note.) To the Editor: Denial of recognition of the ASU is equally a denial of the right% which every active student organization has enjoyed here in the Past. If the same line of reasoning were to be applied to the Collegian, for example, its char ter could be revoked for advocating voluntary ROTC, a reduction of the comp list, or that students study more and attend fewer dances. In each case the paper would be taking "a partisan stand on a controversial issue"— which the Senate committee seems to feel no organization has the right to do. If students want publications here that can do anything more than re write publicity releases and oppose booing and walking on the grass, they must fight this and every similar de nial of student rights. Johnson Brenneman, Colletian editor, 1936-37 P e To the Editor I don't see why 'Useless campus or ganizations just awarding keys and racketeering with, high membership fees should be allowed to exist while the American Student Union is denied the right of recognition". The ASU has conducted worthwhile activity during the past year—l think its aims are admirable. There is no reason why it should not be recognized. George Hacker '37, Ex-Chairman, IF Council * a a To the Editor: To a journalist, the lack of recogni tion of the ASU is a flagrant fore closure on every organizational right of free speech. The matter should be reconsidered more carefully. William D. Fish '3B, 'Editor-elect, La Vie * * To the Editor: I am wholeheartedly in favor of ASTI recognition. It is one of the few organizations really of service to the student body. The right of any stu dent organization' to express itself on this campus should,not . be denied. Robert Baxter '3B, Chairman4ndependent Party , •. To the. Editor: For an institution that has long prided itself on its progressiVe and constructive body in the field of edu- Cation, failure to recognize the ASU is tantamount. to deriying those aims. Every student organiiation, attempt ing to fulfill' Whatever aims it may haVe, is threatened by this arbitrary decision. Alvin MewrneVer '37, IFC:Board of Control, Manager of Soccer '36 OSTERIUND GIVES STUD BOARD'S OPINION Frank Osterlund '37, president of the senior class, last night made pub lic the minutes of Student Board cov ering the meeting of several' weeks ago while ASU recognition was still undecided. Dean Warnock appeared before the board as 'secretary of the Senate Committee on Student Welfare to ask if there :wei.e any objection. to yecognition' from StudetWßoard.: ;The inin'utdri Toll&v:Mt , i i`n 4 "Dean Warnock brought up the question of recognition of the Amer ican Student 'Union as a chartered student organization. In the discus sion of various results' of recognition the prOblem of a possible conflict be— tween the ASU and'the•prerogatiVes. of Student Government came up. Stu dent Board felt that they should have supervision over student government changes and they also stated that they anticipated no conflict between the two organizations; rather, they expected support and cooperation from the American Student Union. The Board therefore has no objection to recognition." Osterland' also made a personal statement on the matter. "One of the shortcomings of the ASU," he said, "has been its small membership. The organization should be given a fair chance to bring its ideas before the student body, for while it is de died the right to'come before the stu dent body, giving Other students a chance to"express their : Opinion, it ob viously cannot Maintain a healthy ex istence. Under full recognition it would have this chance to tell stu dents of its program." ZERN, ASU CHAIRMAN, PLANS NEW PETITION Cordon K. Zeit . ' '4O, newly 'elected chairman of the Penn State Chapter of the American Student Union, an nOtinted last night that a committee is preParing 'a new petition to be 'pro stinted immediately to 'the Senate, CoMinittee on Student 'Welfare,'ask ing . reconSidertiiin 'Of 'the recagni-: tion question. 'Zers , ,iiiid that the de-. sCriptiOn in trie sake 'Coini7iittee. minutes - Of the 'AStra,s a "indinotion" Organization was correct. Ho further We Women Looking over the results of the Bell survey of current events which was given recently, we find that the total average of the women's questionnaire was 40 per cent, compared to the Men's 60 per cent. Names of seven teen men were listed to be identified in terms of their prominence in the news. Eight questions required defini tions of political parties and labor or ganizations. In spite of this Poor showing, the feminine cry is for equal status with men in the business world. How tan we expect 'to be accepted on the same plane with them when our rating in import:int activities is 20 per cent lower than the men's zip average? • It would have been excusable if the Bell had selected names of obscure Men . to trap us, but it deliberately picked out men who have been fea tured in "the news lately. Francisco Franco was identified incorrectly in over half the papers. Such boners as Leon Blum, French cabinet maker; Chang Hai Shek, re cently killed leader of royalist forceS in Spain; Leon Trotzky, conductor of a symphony orchestra; Mitchell Hep burn, father of Katherine, proved we must be devoting our reading to the comic strips. A communist to one co-ed was a "person who is very narrow-minded," to another, "Someone born 150 years too soon." A Republican was defined as a cross between a Democrat and a communist; a socialist, Norman Thomas and'PrqL Wyand. The Bell is to he congratulated for bringing us face to"face with our ig norance. We pass it off with the old "no time" alibi. It's funny though that we - find the minutes to read the latest hometown gossip in the Punx sutawney Spirit. If we are genuinely pressed for time like one of our 17- year-old 'chemistry students who made 96-per cent in the test, we can follow her example and read the news maga zines. —S. R. H. M. 1. Student Group Sees*Quarry Blast A group 'of 'Mineral Industries stu dents accompanied by Dr. Helmut Landsberg, assistant professor of geo physics, 'arid other faculty members attended a large blast at the Bethle hem Steel Company quarry near Mil roy last Wednesday, April 28. The blast which dislodged 100,000 tons of limestone in one blast was ac curately recorded by the - college seis mograph" on the campus, at a distinee of 20 miles. Fifteen tons of dynamite 'Were setoff in 41 holes which left a quarry; space of . 550 feet wide by 100 feet . high. Dr. Laodsberg took with him a portable seismograph from the col lege, but the name distinct record Was I gotten from the stationary apparatus on the campus. stated that the petition will list other campus organizations already recog nized which also are "promotion" groups. "The UniOn," said Zern, "will con tend that 'academic freedom' used as an argument by the' omMittee to sup port the ban, is the best argument we have for full recognition." The peti tion Will also show that the ASU has been accorded full recognition in most of the 1.1.3 other colleges with chap ters. Pointing out that the local chapter asks no more priVileges than' any oth, er undergraduate 'organization, Zern called attention to the action of Stu dent Board, which an two previous occasions stated to the Senate Com inittee, the, Arriericao . ,,Student. U] Vl ~,, inion conflicted in no ay with 'Stn. fent Board's conception of a legiti late campus activity. 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Charlie Prosser and Ken Appleby won a close one from Haigh' and Yingst, Delta Theta Sigma, 7-5, 6-4; tell you Long Distance'rates are reduced ALL DAY SUNDAY and after seven every night." • Everyone agrees that a "home run" by telephone saves time and money espeeially at the reduced night and Suhday rates. THE'BELL : TELFPHONE - bOMFANY OF PENNSYLVANIA Tuesday, gay I. ilirh Bacteriology Course Offered To Studer' A short course in bacteriology, signed for persons interested in coming laboratory .directors in bacteriological control of milk, be given by the college from Jun, to 20, Dr. Michael A. Farrell ,of department of dairy husbandry, nounced today. At least 10 students must regi to make the course possible, Dr. F rell'stated. Certification is access for directors of dairy control labe tories in Pennsylvania where grade A milk is produced. 'CASSIDY'S BEAUTY. SHOP THIS WEEK ONLY Shampoo, 'Finger Wave 'and Manicure $l.OO Phone 3 , 19.1" In Masonic Bldg
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