The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, March 07, 1950, Image 2
PAGE TWO Laxness The end of the nation-wide coal strike means, among numerous things,. the return to normal power consumption on campus. Those who have cooperated in conserving steam heat and steam generated electricity can take it easy now. BUT THE END of this emergency shouldn't call for laxness in the use of utilities. During the winter, 4,000 to 7,000 tons of coal are con sumed at the Power Plant each month to satisfy heat and electrical demands. Electrical con sumption during the other months means addi tional thousands of tons of coal in the fire boxes. It takes just a second to see that the lights are out when leaving dormitory rooms and classrooms. There aren't many State College nights so cold that the radiator must be kept going full blast. Conservation of this type might not mean much to the individual, yet it can mean a sav ing of tons of coal—and in turn, a financial savings—to the College each month. WASTE SELDOM IS easy to justify. In this instance, the College's fuel bill affects educa tional rates as readily as the cost of a new build ing. Wise use of campus utilities is asking little, especially when it might help to bring a reduc tion in over-all educational expenses at the College. —John Ashbrook Safety Valve Reverse Themselves TO THE EDITOR; It seemed a bit ludicrous, to see your article the other day concerning removal of restrictive campus organizations. If you read the article it seems that they accepted a new charter of a restricted organization just before they passed the resolution. Furthermore the committee professed inability to remove restrictive covenants already on campus, it seems to make a sham of this new law. , .--Floyd Sand Lees Be Thankful TO THE EDITOR: Mr. Roth's article con cerning ex-GI discontentment over "dirty brown envelopes" containing "green cardboard" inter-, ested me very much. As for myself I live on $l2O each month from Uncle Sam and I'm not making any fuss. In fact I'm very happy to have the chance to come to college—which was made possible only by the government. I'm quite sure Mr. Roth would find the ma jority of GI students thankful for their oppor tunity for an education. You know, Red, I used to gripe about every thing that didn't suit my fancy—just like you've done—until I was sent to Europe. While traveling through Europe I saw such things as homes being shelled, dead and dying people and starving people begging for food - and glad to gather up slop, if you please, with their fingers for the nourishment of their fam ilies for another day. In fact the food these starving people were forced to eat would turn the ordinary persons stomach. I suppose you say, "So what!" I am not bragging because I had the opportunity to see first hand starving, dying, and dead people. I just want to say to anyone interested, we should control our share tongues to the extent of abbut 99 per cent. This also includes "Rathful Red." r We as citizens should be thankful for what we have, little or great, including ex-Gls, non GI students, faculty, townspeople and, of course Rathful Red." • Name Withheld ED. NOTE: Letter cut. Mr. Roth assures us he is thankful for many things, al! we are too. One of these is our GI checks. Tip Daily Collegian Ilusesmor to THE TRIM LANCE. sot 11181 Published Tusoday through Saturday mornings to. eluivo during the College year by Us. staff of Ths Dab Collegian of TM. Pennsylvania State Collets. Entered as eseond.splass 'matt*, Jolla 5. lOU. at ths State College. Pa.. Post Offie• under the act of March 3, 1873. 1 Editor Tom Morgan Businen Manager " 4 66 0 " Marlin A. Weaver Managing Ed., Wilbert Roth; New's Ed. Jack Keen; Sports Ed., Elliot Krone; Edit Dir., Dottie Werllnich; So ciety Ed., Commie KeUer; Feature Ed., Bob Kotzbaner; Asst. News Ed., Jack Senior; Asst. Sports Ed., Ed Watson; Asst.. Society Ed.. Barbara Brown; Photo Ed., Ray Banter; Senior Board: George Vadasz, Kermit Fink; Staff Car toonist, Henry M. Preget . - Mat. Business Mgr., Rodger Bartel*: Advertising Dir., Ad.' Mgr., Mark Arnold; Promotion Co-Mgr.. Harold Wol. lin. Rothe Philips; Circulation Co-Mgrs., Bob Bergman and Tore Karoicik; Classified Ad Mgr.. Shirley Faller; Person nel Mar.. Betty Jane Hower; Office Mgr., Ann Zekauskas; Secretary, Sue Stern. • STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor Stan Degler Assistant Night Editor Paul Poorman Copy Editor John Ashbrook Assistants John Pakkanen, Cordell Murtha, Virginia Opoczenski, and Bill Reese , Advertising Staff H. R. Mantles and Jim Cod:kraus TIM DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Little Man On Campus "Well, they don't wear 'hearing aids' in my classes, and they insist on sitting at the back of the room." The Gripes of Roth On legal grounds it's hard to quarrel with the action of the Senate Committee on Student Welfare in approving Alpha Kappa Psi's petition for a charter. Technically, the professional commerce fraternity received College approval 20 years ago. Then too, at the time the charter was granted there was no written statute speci ik.ally, forbidding the establishment of a discriminatory group, social or professional, , MORALLY AND ETHICALLY, however, it's a different story. Throughout its history, and more particularly in recent years, Penn State has been one of the leaders in the fight against discrimination. Nittany Lion teams have been withheld from sports Contests in which Negroes were barred. The College imposes no admissiOn "quotas" because of race, religion, or creed. The Sehate Commit tee, itself, has for several years followed an unwritten policy of not granting College approval to organisations whose con3titutlons contain restrictive membership clauses. - Yet the college which does not officially permit discrimination, which has refused to enter intercollegiate sports events because a certain race was excluded, now creates on its campus an organization which recruits members only from among "gentiles and members of the Caucasian race." SUPPORTERS! OP THE charter/may point to several social fraternities and even Alpha Kappa Psi's rival, Delta Sigma PI, as examples of organizations which already possess College charters and at the same time have constitutions -incorporating restrictive membership clausei. This argument is only as sound as the principle that one mis take deserves another. A line must be drawn' at some point. Why not here? The promises of Alpha Kappa Psi's members to fight for removal of the 'clause, although undoubtedly given in good faith, may not wean much to this campus. The national organization has a number of chapters in the prejudice-ridden South. Despite their most sin cere efforts, it may be impossible to effect the constitutional change. •• * • MEANWHILE THE BLIGHT of prejudice will remain like. a festering boil at Penn State, for in effect Senate's action constitutes recognition of the impossibility of ever eliminating the similar claiise in Delta Sigma Pi's constitution. It is hard to. see why members of the local chapter, after re peated avowals that they do not approve of the clause, ever con sented to affiliate with the national fraternity. If, as Dr. Tanner contends, our commerce department needs more than one honor ary, a local would have probably served the purpose even better. The local could draw on the reservoir of Jews, Negroes; and Asia tics not tapped by Delta Sigma PL. Last year when barbers in State College refused to cut Negroes' hair, a deluge let loose on this tiny mountain hamlet. CORE, PSCA, and even Cabinet backed a boycott of local batbershops. These catn pus organizations, as well as several others, did everything but blow up Old Main to correct a town evil. • 4. • NOW THAT A situation involving similar principles has arisen right at our very doorstep, hardly a murmur of disapproval has broken the traditional Centre county tranquility. If students believe in the abolition of intolerance, now is the time for them, both individually. and in groups, to express their disapproval of Senate's action. It may not be too late to have the Committee reconsider its action. On the other hand, if only lip service is to be paid to racial and religious equality, permit Alpha Kappa Psi's charter to be granted unchallenged. Enrollment Still Grows In spite of the fact that college enrollment on a national scale is apparently decrdasing, the enrollment at Penn State has in creased. This could be attributed to the quality of service rendered in wartime programs of resident instruction, extension, and research; :tower fees than endowed institutions; and increased allotments of • state and federal projects at the college. ' Vet Enrollment Dropping The enrollment of veterans in American colleges has shown a decline of 14 per cent from last year. At Penn State the percentage of veterans dropped from 57.1 per cent a year to 46.8 per cent of the Total iinrallinent, this year. , L + - win .017 4IMP e • By RED ROTH by Bibler . IMP ...Ir. • 0 , MI With Hell Week in full swing, one fraternity sent 'a pledge to New York City to locate a ( beautiful actress girl-friend of one of the brothers—and get her autograph. The pledge wired back in two days that he had found her. But he didn't come bacic, and now the brother is worried. ' Further information Cencernini jnte_r_vlewii and job plot*. monk an be' obtained in 112 Old gulp. Seniors , who turned In Preference sheets will be riven Priority in schedulkir interviews for two days following the' Initial .announcement of 'the vielt of one of the corn. Ponies et' their choke. Other students will be scheduled 9)11 the third and subsequent days. Shell Oil C 0.,, Mar. 6, 7. June. MS. and BS candidates in MngE and Petroleum and Natural Gas Refining, MS 'candidates' in BE and ME, and PhD candidates in Phys. Duquesne Light .Co., Mar. 13, 14. June grads tin EE, ME, and CE. General Electric Co., Mar. 13 to 16. June grads in EE, lE, ME, and Phys. for its test engineering program. Bell Telephone Co. of Pa., Mar. 13, 14. June grads in EE and lE. The work consists of tech nical and business operations, and. engineering planning. Applicants •Must not be over 24 years of age and should 'have a 1.5 or better average. Dupont Co., Mar. 16, 17. Men and women BS and MS candidates in Chem and ChE: 'Bell Telephone Laboratories, Mar. 14, 15. MS candidates in ME, EE, and as candidates in EE who have specialized in communications. Bache lors candidates must have a 2.Q average or better. General Motors, Corp., Mar. 20, 21, 22. June grade ih lE, ME, ChE, CF for pro duct engineering, ' production operations, • and accounting. Applicanta must have a 1.5 or better average. Also PhD and MS candidates in Physics for research and development. • COLLEGE HOSPITAL Admitted Saturday: Dorothy Bennett, Rich ard Hoffman, Helen Jaskol. Admitted Sunday: Jack Kushner, Allan Goldinani John Kicker. . Discharged Sunday: Lois Varx. Vacter. • Discharged Monday: Nancy Nelson, Dorothy Bennett,lo Ann Winston. • AT THE MOVIES CATHAUM—Sands of ' Ditto Jima. STATE—lntruder in the Dust. NlTTANY—Symphonie Pastorale. Foreign Students Sixty-five students from foreign countries are enrolled at the College. There are 22frOm China, 9 from Canada, 5 each from I3olivia and India. Hungary is represented with 3 while Germany and Columbia are next with two. Seventeen other nations each co4tribdtB (Me steideat to make up the 6s. TIILPSDAY, MARCH f, Tracking - Down Tales Alp .77 •egaieoz— With The Man Did you ever notice how easily a few deft strokes of the , chalk could change the "NO SMOKING" sign in many classrooms to read, "NO SNORING." And "it would probably be just as pertinent. One student leaned over to his dreary-eyed neighbor and said, "Don't expect me to wake you if you fall asleep. It's the professor's re sponsibility. Ire's the one who's putting YoU to sleep." The Collefle's expansion program has many students wondering which is getting more administrative consideration instruntion or construction. A headline in a recent Pittsburgh newspaper said, "Friendless Girl Should Check Fau4 , 4. 0 xt might, also be good advice for any "faultless" girl to check her friends. Gazette . Tuesday, March 7, 1950 • CHEM-PHYS STUDENT Connell, 104 Os.; mond, 7 p.m. ' • DUPLICATE BRIDGE Club, TUB, 7 p.m. PENN STATE BIBLE Fellowship Bible study, 418 Old Main, 7' p.m. COLLEGIAN SOPH and Junior Ad Salesmen Meeting, 9 CH, 7 p.m. NEW SOPH Board of Collegian Business Staff, 9 CH, 7 p.m. PSYCHOLOGY Club, 204 Burrows, 7 p.m,' COLLEGIAN PROMOTIOI Staff, Collegian Office, 7:3o'p.m. , DEUTSCHES Vercin, HEc Living Center, 7:30 p.m. COLLEGIAN EDIT Junior. Board, .3 CH, 7 p.m. _ BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS, Collegian. Of fice, 9:30 p.m. BLOCK AND BRIDLE Club, 206 Ag., 7 p.m. NAVAL VOLUNTEER Eledtronies Warfare Co., Naval Lecture RooM, EngE 7, BELLES LETTRES Club, NE lounge, Ather ton, 7 p.m. COLLEGE PLACEMENT