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The Daily Cotjeglan Editorial Page j*hursday, September 30, 1948
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Sorority Phones
With each new semester, numerous adjustments
must be made among students themselves, between
students and faculty members and between stu
dents and administrative officials.
This semester marked the opening of “a new era
for Penn State women,” to quote Dr. Pearl O.
Weston, dean of women. This era seems to have
been ushered in on a wave of serious differences
between the coeds and the dean. These conflicts
should be settled as soon as possible to alleviate
tne diction that has developed.
The major controversy concerns private outside
telephones in sorority suites. A donege regulation
supposedly prombits outside telephones (tnose not
on t>7ll or aUolj on campus. Sororities were ex
empted from this rule aoout 1940 by Miss Char
lotte E. Kay, then dean of women.
This privilege was granted in about 1940 be
cause there were freshmen living in town dorms,
and every time a sorority wished to contact them
it had to pay a 5c phone toll. As more sororities
located on the campus, this privilege was extended
to them through the courtesy of Dean Weston.
Now. with the increased dormitory facilities,
members of the administration feel that sororities
should forfeit their privilege of an outside phone.
This acti'on was taken without any notice or con
sultation with sororilies. Through the years a pri
vate phone has become a necessity for sorority
business.
Members must contact alumnae in town, as well
as merchants and business men. Long distance and
personal calls must now be made in public hall
ways. It is very inconvenient to always hunt for
a nickel before making a call, and only being
allowed, to call until 10 p.m. It is equally incon
venient to be unable to receive calls after 10 p.m.
Before summer vacation many sorority officers
requested Bell Telephone Company to relocate
their phones in their new suites. They paid for
the phones during the summer, but the dean of
women’s office countermanded the relocation
orders.
The sorority girls in the new dormitory appre
ciate the administration’s kindness in having
phones placed in every room, but in Grange the
suites have one hall phone to about 18 girls.
The girls feel that certain privileges go with
being sorority members, in view of the fact that
they pay dues to such an organization. They firmly
believe it is most essential for them to be allowed
their own private phone, which they themselves
pay for.
Edit Briefs
Registration figures reveal an all-time high en
rollment at the College, With prices also at such
a high level, how can its academic excellence be
long maintained without corresponding increases
in legislative appropriations?
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Unchaperoned Dating
Certain segments of the student body are seething about the
recent ruling of Dr. Pearl O. l/Veston, dean of women, restricting
sophomore women from unchaperoned dating in fraternity houses.
This action circumvents the Interfraternity Dating Code, ignores
the jurisdiction of the Senate Committee on Student Welfare and
was taken without previous discussion with the presidents of IFC,
Woman’s Student Government Association or Panhellenic Council.
These student governing bodies, representing students they be
lieve most directly concerned, resented the fact that they weren’t
consulted before the action was taken. They feel that a satisfactory
solution could have been reached short of such a drastic measure.
A serious problem unquestionably exists. Anyone acquainted
with fraternity dating practice, as distinct from the code, recognizes
the existence of a problem. It has existed ever since there have been
fraternities, and will exist as long as they do, and as long as grains
are fermented and men and women are mutually attracted.
Dean Weston's actions were based on what she termed non
conformity of a majority of fraternities to the two sections of the
IFC Code for Unchaperoned Dating, adopted January 21, 1947. These
sections are:
3a. “Women guests will not be allowed above the first floor or
in the rooms of men, excepting in special situations approved
by the Dean of Men and th,e Dean of Women.
3c. “It will be understood that alcoholic beverages will not be
served to or used by members and women guests while participating
in dating under this code.”
Dean Weston indicated her willingness to lift her restrictions
if IFC shows evidence of its serious and sincere intent to enforce its
own unchaperoned dating code.
So if IFC does not choose or is unable to govern itself, it may
lose the dating code which was ten long years in the getting. For
Dean Weston will certainly attempt to convince the Senate Com
mittee on Student Welfare that it has no other course than to termi
nate unchaperoned dating.
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TO THE EDITOR: Alter two days of classes, it
is time the Nittany Dorm dining hall supervisors
realize that a student with an 6 o’clock must eat
breakfast by 7:30 in order to get to class on time.
Yet, they refuse to open the doors before 7:15, and
with several hundred students in line, it is impos
sible for all to be fed and still get to class by 8
o’clock.
Why don’t they wise up and open the doors at
6:45 or even 6:30, if possible?
Many moans were heard from the Pollock Circle
men last semester, but even though we eat from
plates now, I’m sure the majority of the men don’t
like having fancy trimmings.
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I’ll cite one day’s dinner, for an example, which
consisted of one hot dog, a small quantity of baked
beans, two slices of bread, a pint of milK, and one
peach. No secondsl Maybe they think that we are
all on a diet—but it certainly is not enough for us
to survive till supper time.
Also, the Pollock Circle men must walk to the
far end of the mess hall and the Nittany Dorm men
come to the end nearest Pollock Circle. If that’s
management, I’m the queen of Shebal
Why not a little sensible thought on the part of
whoever is in charge of this set-uo?
—Lester Musser, Jr.
• Doors to the dining hall are now opened at
7 o'clock for breakfast, according to Miss Hasel
Pall, supervisor, who added that there was no
line at 7:40 yesterday morning. The mix-up
about who enters which door has been cleared
up, according to the secretary of William Gross,
supervisor of men's dorms.
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