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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
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STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor Stan Degler
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Virginia Opoczenski, and Bill Reese ,
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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. ,
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By RED ROTH
by Bibler
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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
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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