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Bucking the Line
Events at four eastern colleges recently showed
that the oft-criticized younger generation has what
it takes to buck the line which for too many years
has restricted the activities of students on the
basis of color alone.
The Yale and Harvard football teams chose a
Negro for captain and student manager, re
spectively.
Students at Lafayette College in Easton staged
a mass demonstration when their team was de
prived of a game in the Sun Bowl at El Paso,
Texas, because laws of that state forbid a Negro
to play in a state-owned stadium, according to
press reports.
Perhaps the most important and certainly a dis
turbing event, however, was the action of the
executive council of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, in
unanimously upholding the suspension of the Am
herst College chapter for its insistence on its right
to initiate a man on merits other than the artificial
one of race.
According to the New York Herald Tribune, the
10-man council met in an eight-hour “closed”
session, before issuing a statement. The council
found that the “overwhelming majority of its
chapters and alumni associations firmly opposed”
the initiation of Thomas Gibbs, a Negro, into the
Amherst chapter.
The fact that Gibbs was a member of the col
lege student council and its cross-country team
was adroitly overlooked by the councilmen. Ap
parently the expressed desire of his fellows to
initiate him as a fraternity brother also counted
for little in the deliberations of this “executive”
body.
Additional fog hovered over the released state
men when, as the Tribune reported, the council’s
secretary “refused to amplify” the statement. He
also “declined to give the names” of council mem
bers. Others, the story said, “refused to comment
and to give names to reporters.” ,
Secrecy could be understood, if not tolerated,
had these councilmen been dealing with matters
of war or perhaps the adoption of a new “hand
shake,” but one looks in vain for a good reason
why executives of a professed social organization
should be reticent about their proceedings.
They may well claim the “right” to privacy in
such matters. In these days, however, when the
fight against racial prejudice and discrimination
is being waged'op many'fronts, it would be diffi
cult indeed for the council to succeed in keeping
its action out of the day’s news columns.
Thanks to the New York newspapers, it ranked
as page-one news, along with the United Nations
and the longshoremen’s strike.
Stye Sailg Collegian
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Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive dur*
ing the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The
Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second class matter
July 5, 1954, at the State College. Pa.. Poet Office under the
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school year.
Editor
Lew Stone
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Managing Editor Ray Benfer
News Editor , Bob Rose
Copy Editor John Bonneil
Assistant _ Janet Rosen..
Advertising Manager Ruth Edelstein
Assistants . .. Norman Borish, Marion Goldman
Coed
Froth
Lorraine Muni
Lorraine Munz, popular
coed, says, "Froth is the
magazine I’d most like to be
stranded with on a desert
island.” You’ll know what
she means when you read
the new “Down with Demon
Rum” issue, next Tuesday,
Dec. 7.
—John Bonnell.
Business Manager
Vance C. Klepper
Picks
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Opportunity doesn’t keep a-knocking’. Perhaps the High
Command put out the “Not Welcome” mat too soon, before
we could check the desirability of Miss Harbor Bowl. We
might not have dated her anyway, but that old “we have
nothing to say” feeling hurts.
The Harbor Bowl, to be played with Nevada in San Diego,
is the baby of National Broadcasting Company ... or to ex
plain it tritely, the child of necessity . . . since NBC found
itself in the embarrassing position of having no bowl to
broadcast on New Years.
Rumored chief objections are that it wasn’t a major bowl
. . just a bastard bowl. And that it wasn’t guaranteed. Ir,
fact the fosses could find no good reasons for acceptance.
We’d chuckle if a big-name team,, say Michigan, was un
nvited to a bowl, and became a party to a “manufactured”
bowl, or was satisfied to play in the Soup Bowl or Fish Bowl
. . or some other silly sounding affair. But was the Harbor
Bowl such a laughing matter?
Maybe so. But maybe the Big Guns will have red faces
come New Years.
Bowls are born of the desire of a chamber of commerce to
stimulate trade by means of a good football game. When the
event becomes popular and reaches large proportions, a major
network picks it up. There’d be no working-up period for the
Harbor 80w1... NBC would be plugging right from the start.
Well there’s no use crying over spilled bids . . . ’specially
since Villanova has already lapped ours up. Said the Asso
ciated Press, “The squad voted unanimously to accept the bid,
and the Board of Trustees approved their action.”
Glad their team had something to say about the deal . . .
sounds like a democratic way to run athletics.
A Wonderland of Toys That Will Provide Hours
of Fascinating Enjoyment for That Youngster
Lovable Dolls that will capture the hearts of
all little girls, and games, sleds and a myriad of other
gifts to thrill that little fellow.
Allen Street
Corner Rumors
By Jo Fox
Don’t wait to shop for your Christmas toys, but
hurry on down to the newly decorated basement
of METZGERS while the stock is complete. We
have the finest assortment of toys in Centre Coun
ty for you to choose from.
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Where Was She?
TO THE EDITOR: In reference to writer Wer
linich’s article in last Wednesday’s Collegian, “In
Body, But Spirit?”, I’d like to ask where she was
sitting; Probably among the Pitt rooters! A good
reason for poor cheering? Some students sat in
section 20, some sat in section 34 completely across
the field and the rest were scattered hither and
yon with some even helping Pitt by sitting in
their sections. Why aren’t the tickets so distrib
uted that there is a student bloc that can really
generate noise?
I think Miss Werlinich should try her hand at
reshaping athletic association distributing policies
rather than denouncing the valiant attempts of a
very loyal student body.
Collegian Gazette
Wednesday, December 1
CAMPUS CENTER Club, 418 Old Main, 7:30
HOME ECONOMICS Club, Living Center, 7 p.m.
IFC, 405 Old Main, 7:15 p.m.
PENN STATE CAMERA Club, 1 Main Eng, 7
p.m.
NAACP, 409 Old Main, 7:15 p.m. Executive
Meeting, 6:30 p.m.
College Placement
S. S. Kresge Co., December 6, eighth semester
rrfen in C&F and Arts & Letters.
Calvert Distilling Co., December 6, eighth se
mester men in ME, lE, Chem Eng, Commercial
Chem, Chem, and Physics.
Boy Scouts of America, December 7 and 8,
eighth semester men interested in working as field
executives.
Naval Ordnance Lab., December 7 and 8, fifth
and sixth semester men for summer employment
in CE, EE, lE, ME, Chem Eng, Chem, Physics and
Metallurgy.
Institute of Textile Technology, December 10,
seventh and eighth semester men in Chem Eng,
Chem, Commercial Chem, Physics and ME.
Owens-Corning Fiberglass Co., December 13,
eighth semester men in Arch Eng, EE, lE, ME, and
Chem Eng.
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., December 14,
eighth semester men. accounting.
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., December 14 and 15,
eighth semester men in CE, ME, Arts and Letters
and C&F.
Hagan Corp., December 15 and 16, eighth se
mester men in EE, ME, Sanitary Eng, Ceramics,
Chem Eng, and Chem.
Supplee - Wills - Jones Milk Co., December 17,
eighth semester men in Dairy Husbandry.
Insurance Co. of North America, December 8,
CE, ME, EE, Chem Eng, for field work; C&F, for
accounting; Math, for statistics; C&F, A&L, with
some engineering, for technical representatives,
underwriters.
At the Movies
CATHAUM—Untamed Breed.
STATE —For the Love of Mary.
NlTTANY—October Man.
—Donald Sloughfy.
State College