PAGE TWO Beyond the Pale of Old Mt. Nittany From the staid New York Times (which prints all The news that * , s fit) t time, an interesting article trirrough the courtesy of one of our readers) which yrigrat be of interest to some of cur student body. Forty Williams College students trudged through falling snow the other morning to picket a local barber shop which is charged with !having discriminated against a Negro student. Two plek.C.,, worked at a time xvilb different men VCPY i 171 1 1: hour; they' wcre scrvcct hot coffce and I;oughnot,', and announced that they would continue ~ ndelinitely until assured by the barbe r that his i•'ermc r cfi.icrinlinotion would never happen in I . ilarust own again. The rAvner of the shop said that he had always I , eett friendly with the students and he did hot see vihy they were causing hint so maKih trouble now. He said that he was tired the day the Negro Letters—From the Editor's Mailbox Mrs Confusing TO. T'HE EDITOR: As an observing reader of yout 7)utillicartion, on e CC Ull dn't help noting an obvious L'ontradliction of the supposed policy of the Colle_ an when looking over the ads in you r issue of 20 (to be specific, a florist's ad on page three). As I recall, it was Collegian's policy (editor ial and reportorial) to favor a ,no-corsage Junior Prom, due to absurdly inflated price s in State P.uilliCity following the Junior class meeting to f tecide the issu e gave me (and =Si other readers, f.'m sure) the impression that Collegian supported the negtativ•deeision of the majority of the Juniors With The Editor From a reade r of the Daily Collegian comes a gentile s lap on The wrist Tor "an. obvious contradic tion of the supPesed policy of the Collegian." We will nct try to argue that the.poliey has not been contradietory but some readers Might want an O.x=udanation, ince the Student becty---through the Junior class, ithe . EFC voled :fo r a no 'corsage EEC Ball, and the Engineering School Ccuncil. and the Penn State Enginee r which voted for a no-corsage Slide-Buile aOinst paying inflated prices for cor sagees, then Oolle,gian wlas only too happy to go atong and publicize the Stand of the student body. no one will deny theit we did. But—this is a free country, dear readers. This is the land of the free and the brave and Collegian Gazette • All calendar .items must be in the Daily Collegian office by 4:30 p.m. on the day pre ceding publication., Thursday, Feb. 27 SKULL AND BONES ,meeting, 417 Olc Main, 12:4.5 o'cicek. LIIBERAL ARTS Stuicient Council meeting 12.5 Sip2r!vs, 3:20 o'clock, PISICA OOFNIMEISION VI meeting, 304 Old Malin, 6:30 o'clock. LA VIE Art Staff meeting, 223 Engineering "IF," 7 'o'clock. WRA, Bowling Clvlb, 'Waite Hall, 7 o'clock. IVIIINIEIR I.II\II)US'PRI ES So cieit,y meeting oil: alil don'antmeni.s., 12i1 Mineral Indui.[tries, 7:(1.5 o'clock. WRA Swim Chill), White Hall, 7:30 o'clock. WRA Feno: n g Club, White Hall, 7:30 o'clock. BRIDGE CLUB meeting, 401 Old Main, 7:30 4o'lclook. NEWMAN CLUB Council meeting, Rectory, 7:30 oVock. CA CLUB meeting, 301 Old Main, 7:30 o'cleck ALL-C'CLLECE Citlynet. meeting, 201 Old Muln, 8 n'elnek. CRITIQUE Sit , aff and candidate mcdtir.ig, 5 Clarncg . :o o'clock. • CONIiNION S'ENSE Current Events Commit_ tee aneeting, 4110 Oki Main, 8 eebotk. PI TAU SEC!MA meeting, 10(i Main Engi neering, 7:1.15 o'cicuk. At the Movies • ICATHAIIIM: "Nora Prenti:is," with Ann Sheridan. STATE: "I've Atwlays Loved You," with Philip Dorn. NITTANY: "Paris Underigrotuld," with Con sitiante Bennett. College Health Service Disdhianged from the infinnlary Tuesday: Jloseiplh Grumblatt, Donald Hiatt and John Sheethe. • Admiititeld Tuesday: Carolyn Rive 'and Bar bara Tcihtrnls. • Ada - el:Red " Wednesday: Diana Hallman, Me Katinsky and Christie Post. • Discharged Wednesday:, David A'dolphsen, Jiadk Behnke:l, Lucil e Burrell, Patricia Lu doll, Esther Martin, Shirley Place, Barbara Diceone and Leon Rethberg. College Placement Service frem the Texas CO. will be on tlle Weclntascay, IVlnrch 12, to inter view ci. , :.111;i:1 f-: - .:mte r men clove. the curclAtla: ChE, C'Ch, CE, EE, 1E and 1\11;', The Firci . tene Tire and Ruh tier Co. will have rcpruentativei; on Vie. can us Thursday and lisrliloy, Maicia 13 and id, to interview senior men intercz,led in selling, credit, and accounting. Praetor and Git:mble Co. will be represented on the campus Thurisiday and Friday, 11111andh 113 and 14, to interview e'ghith semester mien iii ME, lIE, ONE and Ch---43.5., M.S. or PhD. THE DAIIX COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA student asked for a haircut, and that the stu dent had such a large amount of hair that $3 was .a fair price. ITe was the. first Negro to enter his shop, the bar ber added. He had no feeling or racial prejudice, but was afraid his white custc'mcrs would no longer patronize him if he cut the Negro's hair. No one has yet crossed the picket line and legal action in tilt cas e has been directed' to the Civil Libertier: Union of IVlasF.nehusctts. It scums that a law in—Massaeltusctts provides that "vslhc cvc r makes any distinction, discrimina tion, Cr rcstulcrt:en en account of colo r or race . . . in a l3 , ariberstep . . . shall be punished by a fine . . or by imprisonment. An editorial in trle sclu 01 paper staled that "the vast majority of Wiilliamstown's r esidents will join the studlents of Williams (a small sehnol of OW in eonderming this flagrant example of Jim-Crowism." Who voted on the problem On the diay before the event, an ad. appeared stating: "Don't Be Misled . . . Flowers ARE Being Worn tcr junio r Prom." In'any opinion, no one was misled before that advertisement. was printed—the ,issue was sup posedly cics.ed. The confusion certainly did be gin at that point. without a doubt. The subject of this letter may be a dead issue, The Prom is over. The writer, h OWE' ver, in bringing this Waite r to your attention, thinks "A Bette r Col legion" is needed before the paper's avowed earn-. paign, "For .a Better Penn State," can be success fully concluded. we in America have alway s prided ourselves also, on protecting the rights of minorities. The %crisis , are in a minority and had a right to present their side. Since the party in question chose to do it through advertising, would the s tudent body deny him this right? Of course, the next question that might come to mind is "but wasn't th e s tatement, 'Don't Be Misled . . . Flowers ABE Being Worn fo r Jun ior Prom,' false advertising?" No, it wasn't. A check revealed that there were students who insisted on buying corsages for the ;In - niter Prcm (and after all this is a free country— Who can deny 'a minority its rights?) so the adver_ titsement was dorreet insofar as it went. While there might have been a few readers who were confused and misled, the vast major ity of those attending the dance evidently had the right word for corsages were - few and far . between. Les !C than ZO percent of the 1 . 00 , 0 couples at the dance had corsages which is undoubtedly proof that there, weren't too inany misled. • Suggestion Box Near the end of last selnetei• All-College Cabinell aUthorized the placement .ott a.suggestion box at the Student Union desk for a twio-weeks' trial period. If was felt that such- a box might enable student suggestions for the improvement of • campus life to reach the persons best able to cope with the problem, and thus eliminate many letters to the Collegian editor and much griping among the students. At Cabinet's first meeting of the spring semester Mary Lou Waygecd, clneirrclan of the suggestion boN conin:ttee, renontcd on the suggestions :received. Some. of the suggestions were for more milk in campus dining commons, steps to be plac3d on the bank at the rear of Jordan Hall, waste baskets in the second floor lounge of Old Main, more publicity about available facilities and the lack of other facilities and services at the county hospital, and hatter lighting at, the en trance of Rec Hall. Shill other suggestions were fo r tne Improvement of eating condition s at the Sandwich Shop (use of tafbleckths at evening meals and on Sundays was a suggestion), more publicity about the College along the highway approaches to State College, renewal of the bandstand at Rec Hall, revival of "Hello Week" (wiltheut glVing Money as prizes). Twlo suggestions have already been acted upon. One of these was the suggestion that evaluation questionnaires of courses be •distribulted to Student s so that / they might have a way of telling instrucitors what they think cif various courses. This idea has already been carried out in the School of tAgricuiture, through the efforts of the Agriculture Student Council. Another sulggesition that has been already adtedi Von Was that for a Oaks shop for students.. Pno vision fora crafts slhell .htas been nalade in the new bulilang plans recently released by Grounds and Budldings. Cabinet ha s agreed l'o dontinue the suggestion box, arida permanent place will beUnd .tor it. All suggestions will be read by the Cabinet committee, and reports on them will be sent to the groups best able to act upon them. • Edit Quips 0 Molloy is being raised by the Georgn Tedh Chapter cf ODK to l'inanee plans and specitioations for a new sludenl union building. They hope to raise ten thnusand dollars. Maybe the solut!on to a student union is haying two governors. Editorials and features in The Collegian reflect the opinions of the writer. They make np claim to represent student or University opinion. All unsigned editorials are by the editor. —Voice of the "Misled" —By Joan Peters Fall Registrants Represents Various Educational Centers Last semester there were 7800 s;tild cats en rolled at the College. of \v hi c h 1495 prcvicusly had taken college work elsewhere. according to Dr. C. E. Marquardt: College Examiner. Many of this numbe r • were for mes s tudents of the College who heel studied throtigh the armed forces., or had taken correspon dence courses for wihileh they were allowed credit. CT the 1495 situdenlss, 1422 were men and 73 women. 1278 of wihom attended classes on the campus last semester while the r emaining 217 were enrolled in undergrad uate centers of the College. The students had earned credits at 329 dithe r colleges, universities Movies, Dancing, Food Monies. dancing. and refreiiii merits will 'highlight an evening of . .fun with the C. A. Club toniAlit. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m., 304. Old Main. Emory Brown, president 01 the Club, in vites all students to 1 -, C , Carne ac quainted with Canada in the pic ture, "Peace River" and with Mexico in "Road South." The committee consists or James Freyersmith, Anne Ditna way, afid Bqpnie Lee Sherrill, program; Joanne Hobbs, June Kircher, Marion Holmes, and Helen Ward, publicity;. Dorothy Kinowilos, cod tattr i 1 - 4:ib )itt, refreshments, CLAUDE THORNHILL MARCH 15 Alter The Game • EVERYONE'S GOING TO THE Ahiiversary Waitz"_ at HATE_ HALL • Music by rt The ARISTOCRATS;; \ • March Ist>ti $1.29 per ceple RIM f ," „ 1 -Justitionis MD . r as ~ ti rin,r , What Will the Soaring Fashions be— Shorter Skirts, the Pencil-Slim, Silhouette ? COME TO THE ANCHORAGE SAT., MARCH 1, TO SEE CHARLES SHOP'S SPRING STYLE SHOW Two Showings Will be Held 2: 8 5 a tieD P. it • 8:15 MO P. M. A speellai fashion show luncheon for 50c will be served at each showing. The ANKH AGE and schools, Dr. Marquardt said. Some had attended the Polarrit. American University in France and the Shrivenham American University in England. Credits were. received from the Armed Forecs Institute and foreign uni versities including those of Vi enna, Nancy, Paris, Leeds, Cam_ bridge and the Greek Naval Academy. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Successor to the Free Lance. est. 1877. Published Tuesday through Friday mornings during the College year by the staff of the Daily Collegian of the Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second class matter July 5, 1034, at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1870. $2.50 a semes ter $4.00 the school year. Represented for national advertising by National Advertising Service, Madi son Ave., New York. N.Y., Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francini). Michael A. Blatz Editor Rosemary Gimntous )3us. Mgr. Mgr, Ed., Lynette Lundquist; News Ed., Lawrence Foster; Co-Sports Eds., Stephen Sinichnk, Arthur 111 iI I r; Feature Ed.. Frank llnvis. Photo Ed.. Suzanne McCauley; Women's lid., Maril y.n Jacobson ; Asst. Women's Ed., Betsy Marshall; Wire Ed., Seymour Hosnberg; Sr. Board, Lucy Seifing. Ad. Mgr., Phyllis Deal; Asst. Ad.' Mgr., Dorothy •Leibovitz; Asst. Bus. Mgr.. Sally Holstrum; Circ. Mgr., Paul Bender; Sec.. Joy Eichorn ; Class. Ad. Mgr., Selma Sabel. Mallagi Mr Editor_ Assistant News Editor_ Assistant Adveftising 214 W. College Ave. STAFF THIS ISSUE _Teti itebil __Anne Ic.ovnlenl«, __Ben I. French Claire J. Lee Arlon Botts SLIDE RULE BALL
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