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Progress
While Panhellenic Council's rushing code is
still complicated and antiquated enough to
bring cheers from an anarchist, at least they're
making progress.
LATEST DEVELOPMENT in ridding itself
of excess formality was the abolishment of
"silent periods"—days on end in which sorority
members are not permitted to converse with
rushees. ,
The new ruling, which was passed before
the Christmas ,vacation, now limits silent
periods only to that time between the end of
formal rushing and the ribbonings. It does
not interfere with free intercourse between
sorority members and its rushees during the
formal rushing period itself.
The advantages of abolishing this ridiculous
hangover are obvious. The best way for soror
ity sisters and potential pledges to become ac
quainted is through talk, and not grimaces.
NOW IF PANHEL will only abolish its fool
hardy rotation system of choosing a president,
it might really start making substantial con
tributions to progressive student government.
The matter, while it has been brought up
at council meeting, has not yet been carried
back to the individual chapters far their
vote. This procedure is required on all mat
ters of more than average importance.
Several arguments have been advanced to
support continuation of the status quo in re
gard to selecting a sorority prexy. One is that
it's the most democratic method utilized by
any campus 'organization. Another is that it
is recommended by National Panhellenic Coun
cil, which follows the same procedure.
NEITHER OF THESE arguments holds
water. While it's true the present system is
democratic, it is equally true democratic in
stitutions can only survive if competent lead
ers hold office. The rotation system certainly
does not make for able Panhel presidents.
While National Panhel does recommend
that the rotation system be used, it also states
that it is not compulsory. Why shouldn't
Penn Slate's Panhel be progressive enough
to snap the hamstrings of a system that is
proving inadequate.
The sororities must remember that their
president is not only chief of Panhel, but also
a member of All-College Cabinet. The least
they can do for students who must live up to
the measures she helps pass, is to insure a
worthy Cabinet representative.
On Letters
The editor of a student newspaper such as
tide Daily Collegian receives many assorted
brickbats and bouquets—some aimed at the
Collegian but most of them meant for different
campus groups. Of course we reserve the right
to print what we think is best, but our point
here is that letters hitting our desk unsigned
have at least two strikes against them.
A Collegian letter-writer, after signing his
name, may if he chooses ask that his name be
withheld if the letter is printed. But if he fails
to sign his name when writing the epistle we
can't print the letter, in just about 100 per cent
of the cases.
We gotta have names. Otherwise people
might accuse us of writing all the letters we
print.
allgb Daily Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE. set. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in•
'elusive during the College year by the stun of The Daily
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934. at the State
College, Pa., Poet •ffiee under the act of March 8, 1879.
Editor Business Manager
Tom Morgan Marlin A. Weaver
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor Bill Dickson
Assistant Night Editor John Pakkanen
Copy Editor Bettina de Palma
Assistants Audrey Lipsky, Leonard Kolasin
ski, Sally Miller, Nancy Lins.
Adveitising Manager .. . Bill Schott
\ssistants Sue Halperin, Lee Berger, Pete
cad Lueark„ aoe Feit.
-RED ROTH
THE DAILY COttiEGIAN, STATE COLLErrg. PENNSYLVANIA
LITTLE MAN . ON CAMPUS
"Thank you, Worths', for pointing out to the class just where
and how I was wrong—l really appreciate your help."
The Gripes of Roth
In addition to pleasing a capacity audience at Schwab auditor
ium Wednesday night, I think Carl Sandburg's successful appear
ance here proved a point which the top brass who arrange next
year's Community Forum series might do well to take into account.
THAT POINT IS, give the people what they want. Personally,
I think the choke of forum speakers this year was poor, except for
Sandburg and Dr. Ira DeA Reid, who will speak at Schwab March
30.
Men who were selected to address audiences on various topics,
with but few exceptions this year, are not experts in the fields
they waded into.
Of the three scheduled speakers who have already appeared,
only Sandburg could be legitimately called, an authority on his sub
ject. It might be just coincidence, but Sandburg's talk was also the
only one which has been sold out so far.
DPI. UREY, the ,first speaker, is undoubtedly a top man in his
field, which is chemistry. But rather than talk on atoms and mole
cules, he chose to give his views on politics—Atlantic Union in par
ticular.
Very few, if any, realistic political science exT4rts would go
along with Urey's views on the subject of an Atlantic Unions The
idea is just not feasible at the present time. But the Nobel chem
istry prize-winner wanted to talk about politics, so he did—to a
house that was only slightly more than half-full.
The second Forum speaker, Hanson Baldwin, military analyst
of The New York Times, knew whereof he spoke, but on a subject
like "Security in the Atomic Age," might it not have been better
to select some government official, preferably from the State De
partment or the Military, who is in a position to give the govern
ment's view on the matter?
IN THIS PARTICULAR instance, Baldwin can be only a theor
ist. Students, I am sure, are more interested in what the semi
official view, at least, is on the topic of atomic security. ,
Our next speaker, Senator. Styles Bridges, is scheduled to ad
dress a Schwab audience on the topic "Afe We Edging into Social
ism?" The honorable Sen. Bridges is a Republican, who has con
sistently opposed President Truman's so-called "Fair Deal" program.
Need anyone ask what his view will be?
Without even attending the address, most students will prob
ably be able to hazard a good guess as to the content of his sure
to-be biased talk. Not that he doesn't have a right to air his views.
He does. But this type of unobjective speaker is just the kind the
students will probably avoid in droves.
Give the students , what they want, and perhaps the cry that
Penn Stater's won't support programs like the Community Forum
series will become but a dim echo lost among the Nittany hills.
Safety Valve:..
TO THE EDITOR: The most lasting memory that many future
alumnus will nave of his alma mater will concern a dreamy night
when he took a lovely coed in his arms, drew her close, lowered his
lips to hers, and was rriet by a warm, embracing cloud of cigarette
smoke. When are our coeds going to learn that their smoking, while
being quite dramatic, is frowned upon by the, majority of the men?
If coeds must have their cigarettes, let them have them in their
rooms, not on the dance floor. Often what appears to be a gentle
manly gesture of making room No. Smoking Buying
for a girl as she moves through Men 22 2 1
a crowd is merely the man's ef- Coeds 15 , 0 8
fort to protect his clothing, be- In case the coeds are alarmed
cause she leads with her cigar- about the brevity of this •survey,
ette. I would like them to know that
My roommate and I have long we had enough faith in them that
shared the opinion that the coeds we did snot stop counting after
here smoke more than the men, the first six girls to enter each
Fearing that this was perhaps the purchased a pack, As you see
product of our imaginations, and in the end the coeds did come
wishing to be fair to the coeds,
through with only a little over
half the buying. •
we conducted a short poll at the John Henry Berry
TVS Irina the following results: Warren Lee Cooper
1E3E61
By RED ROTH
Frowned Upon
by Bibfer
This is the second in a series of 'columns by
Arthur R. Warnock, Dean emeritus of Men.
"A guy can chase a gal only so long before
she catches him,"—that is a twisted aphorism
that bobs up now and then in newspaper col
umns. I saw it recently in 011ie Crawford's
witty column in the Philadelphia Inquirer. I
don't know who said it first—probably some
wit who had been caught by the 'girl he was
chasing.
I became a college freshman in 1901. In every
one of the next 49 years I have' lived on or
near a college campus. Thus I have seen a
lot of campus boy-girling.
It has been going on for a long time, and most
of the more or less austere faculty teachers of
present-day students on the campus engaged in
it at some time. Probably only a few of them,
however, caught or were caught by the first
girl they rushed. That is, campus boy-gitling
has involved a lot of it—not just the "boy pins
girl" kind. I think that's all to the good..:'
Speaking more seriously as a dean of men
of many years' experience I may say that
campus boy-girling atAimes made official head
aches for me, but those headaches were not as
serious or perplexing as some problems made
by some students who were suffering from too
little boy-girling, or who shunned it 'entirely.
Though it didn't come in my time as a Penn
State dean of men, I hope that at some time in
the near future this campus will have com
paratively adequate recreational facilities for
providing all students with a temperate amount
of rational, diversified social life.
Normality in adolescence helps to make nor
mal society later on.
Gazette . . .
PENN STATE BIBLE Fellowship, 405 Old
Main, 7:30 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Further information, concerning interviews and job place
ments can be obtained in 112 Old Main.
National Lead Company, Jan. 20. February
and June grads ai PhD.,M.S., and B.S. levels
in Chem, ChemE, and etallurgy interested in
research in field of titanium chemistry. High
scholastic 'standing is essential.
The General Electric Atomic Energy Plant
at Hanford, Wash., Jan. 18, 19. February and
June grads in Chem and ChemE for develop
ment work. Applicants must have 1.8 or better
average.
Dupont Co., Jan. 'lB, 19, 20. February and
June PhD. candidates in Chem, ChemE, ME,
Bact, BioChem, and Phys.
, The General Electric Co., Jan. 16. February
grads with accounting backgrounds, for their
business training program. Applicants must
have 2.13 or better average and be between 21.
and 26 years of age.
North American Insurance Co., Jan. 19.
February grads in AL, CF, .ME, EE, and
ChemE.
McMillen Feed Mills, Jan. 17, 18. February
and June grads in Ag courses or any men with
farm backgrounds, for sales positions.
June grads in IE who are• interested in gen
eral industrial engineering work with The
Armstrong Cork Co. should report to .112 Old
Main at-once to out 'preliminary applica
tions. • • •
June .grads in ME and IE who are interested
in sales engineering positions with The Indus
trial Insulation Division of the Armstrong Cork
Co. 'should report.to 112 Old Main` at once to
fill out preliminary applications.
The Fidelity Mutual Co., Harrisburg Agency,
Jan. 13. February grads for careers ,as life
agents in counties around Harrisburg. Inter
views can be arranged for other dates if neces
sary.
Admitted Wednesday: Allan Gibson, Mitchell
Epstein. ‘•
Admitted Thursday: William Kebblish, Will
iam Bridge, William M. Erbe, Kenneth Shen
gold, Sara Lee 'Hausman.
Discharged Thursday: Nellie Mae Davis.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM—Bagdad.
NlTTANY—Neptune's Daughter.
STATE—Hasty Heart.
Going to Funeral
In Louisville, Kentucky, a man was brought
up before special Judg'e Neil Fink and charged
with drunken driving. He v;ras hitting the road
at 70 miles per hour and pleaded that he had .to
get to Nashville in a hurry in order to attend a
funeral.
Two Forestry students were overheard talk
ing by an naive coed. Said the first, "Heard
you shot somebody's mother on Saturday."
Before the startled coed could catch her
breath the second replied, "Yep, she was nice
and plump—real good eating."
So ended hunting season, ad nauseatum.
Criptic disapproval was literally showered
on the Chapel Choir as they rehearsed in
Schwab one Sunday. Someone opened the trap
door above the stage and the baritones and
tenors were surprised with dribblings of very
dirt water.
A Chat With A.R.W.
Friday, January
,13
COLLEGE 'HOSPITAL
—Arthur R. Warnock