PACE TWO
IFC Stand
THAT INTER-FRATERNITY COUNCIL by
an informal straw vote opposed unanimously
the College's granting a charter to Alpha Kappa
Psi lends plexus-punch power to a protest which
so far has drawn support from the PSCA and
NAACP, with a possibility of like action by
AIM.
It shows that the group linked closest with
fraternities and the fraternity system is op
posed, unofficially at least. to another restric
tive organization's coming on campus, even
though a charter was granted 20 years ago and
not taken up by AKPsi. By its unanimous
straw vote taken long before Senate Commit
tee action in granting the charter, IFC demon
strated that it is not living morally and ethic
ally in a period of two decades ago, but in a
mid-century year of growing public concern.
IFC will probably meet Wednesday. It will
be a chance for IFC to reiterate its stand on
admittance to the• campus of another restrictive
organization. But of still greater moral and
ethical scope, and perhaps bearing the charac
teristics of a powderkeg threatening to burst, is
the opportunity for IFC to demonstrate more
thoroughly its stand on restrictive clauses.
CLAUSES THAT RESTRICT membership
because of race, religion or creed are today not
practical for the well-being of any fraternal
group, social or honorary. They are an anathema
to clear-thinking and logical people. They are
the cause, party, for countless charges leveled
at fraternities by educators, the press and
others.
At an institution of higher learning in 1950,
they are as anachronistic as a bebop hound in
a 19th-century Southern plantation reception
hall.
The College has taken a bold step in refus
ing to charter any more restrictive groups.
IFC by its straw vote supported that view for
the future. At• this point it is left to . the Col
lege, or better still—to IFC—to attack a
double standard of shattering future fraternal
discrimination on one hand, while on the other
appearing—through inactionto sanction a
potful of restrictive clauses existing in con
stitutions of groups already established at
Penn Stale. •
That this is a powerkeg is unquestionable.
The National Inter-fraternity Conference rea
lized it by not going so far as to repeal all
restrictive clauses in fraternity constitutions.
The NIC only recommended their repeal.
IFC SHOULD SACK its opposition to Sen
ate Committee action in chartering AK.Psi with
consistent, constructive action directed at IFC
member groups. With or without a restrictive
constitutional clause, a fraternity chapter will
still go about choosing whom it wants to live
with in natural, human ways; in at least nine
times out of ten those chosen will be the same,
with or without the restrictive clause.
With a ban on the infamous clauses, frater
nity life will be the same, but multiplying
critics of fraternities will be happier.
aim Daily Collegian
Suicessor to THE FREE LANCE. oii. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings us.
ellusive during this College year by the stuff of The Daily
Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College.
Itatered as second -slags matter inly 3. 1334. at the Stat.
College. Pa.. Post •ffice under the set of March 3, 1879.
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STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor L. D. Gladfelter
Assistant Night Editor Myrna Isaacman
Copy Editor Deanie Krebs
Assistants Marguerite Kober, Bob Lambert,
Norma J. Philip
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'Needs' of the Students
TO THE EDITOR: With respect to Mr. Hostetter's answer re
garding the practicability of having both five and seven day meal
tickets--it is not a question of offering dining hall service for less
than seven days a week. It is rather a question of the philosophy of
the college in meeting the "needs"
of its students.
I am quite certain that the din
ing hall managers plan on a defih
ite proportion of the students not
eating each weeken:d. Not to do
so would imply negligence and
wastage of food. The, issuance of
five day meal tickets would thus
put their planning on a more defi
nite basis, eliminating the occas
ional halts in service while a new
The Irony of It
TO THE EDITOR: Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I can
oe seen ripping off mileage around our beautiful expansive campus.
No, I'm not in training for cross country running. I merely fell prey
•.o the insidious mind of the man who allocates class room space.
My first class at 9 is in Eng. C.
My ten o'clock (Corn 63) is in Ag
Eng. That's the building that can
be seen on the horizon, if one is
looking from the tower of Old
Main on a' clear day. My 11 o'clock
is a course in• transportation (the
irony of it) in Sparks.
Originally my 10 o'clock met in
406 Old Main.' There were about
20 more stud&nts than there were
seats. Prof. Wherry noticed an
empty room down the hall. In
Does Nat Apply
TO THE EDITOR: The Pennsylvania State College, a state en
dowed institution, has for the past week or more, been violating sec
tions 816 and 1023 of the State Motor Vehicle Code by the juvenile
act of pasting stickers on the windows of cars parked on campus
This puerile act of the campus
patrol, may not only jeopardize
the reputation of the College; but,
may also subject the perpetrator
to a fine of $25.00 plus casts.
• Names Withheld
Ed. Note: Sections 816 and,
1023 of the State Motor Vehicle
Code apply only to the state
highways and not to private
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e girls that come out of that house."
batch of food is hurriedly prepar
ed.
Objections regardirig ensueing
bookkeeping complications an d
the possible need for more help
would be more Man compensated
for by the continuing decline in
wholesale food prices; which de
cline has not as yet been mani
fested in improved service or low
ered rates.
—Jesse Shapiro
this room there were 20 more
seats than there were students.
We changed classrooms. The re—
sult? Prof. Wherry was informed
that this room wasn't available,
but there was a beautiful room
with 20 more seats• than students
up in Ag Eng. '
Of course, things could be
worse. There's 'always the water'
tunnel and the riding stables.
e Name Withheld
property such as the roads on'
campus.
According to Philip A. Mark,
chief of the Campus Patrol,
section 816 states in essence that
it is not illegal to place stickers
on 'the windshields of auto.
mobiles, but that it is illegal 'to
operate the car while the sticker
is on it.
by Bibler
Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., Mar. 17. EE (power
'majors only) and ME. •
General Motors Corp., Mar. 20, 21, 22. June
grads in EE, lE, ME, ChE, Metal, CF for pro
duct engineering, production operations, and
accounting. Applicants must have a 1.5 or
better average. Also PhD and MS candidates in
Physics for research and development.
Sears, Roebuck, & Co., Mar. 21, 22, 23. June
grads interested in Retailing. •
In virtually all college fraternities the power
and authority to make major policy changes
and changes in constitutional laws and provis
ions—for instance, to remove or insert restric=
tions on membership—is in the hanas , of the
undergraduate delegates to national conven
tions.
THE NATIONAL INTERFRATERNITY Con
ference and the National Panhellenic Confer
ence do not have the power to compel changes
in the constitutions and policies of its member
fraternities.
TO' ADVISE AND counsel undergraduate
delegates to a'national convention' is the duty
of adult officers and tdvisers—but the voting
power is in the delegates.
From this fact I draw two conclusions. One
is that educational procedures intended to in
fluence fraterility , undergraduate Views are
likely to be more effective than coercion, in
timidatiOn and force, college undergraduates
being constituted as they are.
The other conclusion, based on my acquaint
ance, with what is taking place 'inside many
fraternities, is that racial and religious discrimi
nation in fraternity constitutions is on the way
out, owing to the liberal views of present-day
undergraduates who have the voting power in
the fraternities to which they belong. Many fra
ternities have never had' membership restric
tions based on race or religion; in those which
have such restrictions undergraduate opinion
in many cases is arousing itself.
—Arthur R. Warnock
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FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1950
Gazette . . . .
Friday, March 10
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Organization, 207 Car
negie, 6:45 p.m.
PENN STATE Bible Fellowship, 405 Old
Main, 7:30 p.m.
ICG, 117 Willard, 7 p.m.
SENIOR ENGINEER Lecture, Schwab, 4:10
p.m. •
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Farther Information eoncerninr interviews and job piss*.
intents can bs obtained in 112 Old Main.
Seniors who turned , In preference sheets will be given
priority in scheduling interviews for two days following
the initial announcement of the visit of one of the com
panies of their choice. Other students will be scheduled on
the third and subsequent days.
Duquesne Light Co., Mar. 13, 14. June grads
in EE. ME, and CE.
General Electric Co., Mar. 13 to 16. June grads
in EE, IE, ME, and Phys. for its test engineering
program..
Bell Telephone Co. of Pa., Mar. 13, 14. June
grads in EE and IE. 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 ChE. •
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Mar. 14, 15. MS
candidates in ME, EE, and BS candidates in EE
who have specialized in communications. Bache
lors candidates must have a 2.0 average or
better.
AT THE MOVIES
CATHAUM—Mrs. Mike.
STATE—Young Man With A Horn
NITTANY—Pinky.
A Chat With •ARW
This is another in a series of articles by
Arthur R. Warnock, dean emeritus of men,
who was in contact with thousands of under
graduates during his 30 year tenure as dean
of men.
Nor do national fraternity officers and ex
ecutive councils have the power to change
constitutions.
Nor do college administrations have - that
power.
As it should be in a democratic organization,
that power rests with the active members—
thatis, with the undergraduates.
StiOe College