PAGE TWO afir Batty (Collegian Sueemlow to THE 'REE LANCE. at, 11$? Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings In elusive during the College year by the staff at Tiro Daily Collegian at The Pennsylvania Stale College. Itstaid se settes4.44ess stet ter Jnly 5, 1934. at aka State College. Pa.. Poet *like es der the act of Nardi 3, 1879. Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers, and do not necessarily reflect the policy of the newspaper. Unsigned editorials are by the editor. Editor . Business Mgr. Dean Gladfelter '<a t " Owen E. Landon STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor, Julia Ibbotson; Assistant Night Editor, LaVonne Althouse; Copy Editor, Joe Breu; Assistants: Bob Vosburg,* Dick Martz, Dot Bennett, John Garretson-Butt. Advertising Manager, Bob Leyburn; Assistants: Mary Cly mer, Phyllis Weiss, Jack Glick. More on Customs If All-College Cabinet reconsiders the customs code adopted by the previous Cabinet, one of its first actions should be to set a deadline on how long freshman customs shall apply. UNDER THE PRESENT CODE, Tribunal, the men's judicial body in charge of enforcing cus toms, shall recommend to Cabinet dates for starting and ending the customs period. Without some deadline, it.would be possible for the customs period to drag on indefinitely. Once something of the kind is in full swing, there probably will be little inclination to put it to an end. In the pre-war years, men's customs generally ended sometime around Christmas. Such a prac tice next year certainly would be at odds with. the program for freshman women, since most women's customs extend only for the first three weeks of classes. This applies to dress and dat ing customs, and to early hour restrictions. Certainly there should be some correlations • between the customs periods for men and women, if customs are to exist, and it is up to the new Cabinet to see that this is done. Some points listed in the prbsent program also should be reconsidered. For example, why should not freshmen be allowed to smoke on campus? We fail to see what this will do toward advancing any of the announced aims of the customs program. It is unlikely to produce spirit, it Will be of no value in making friends, it will not help develop loyalty to Penn State. As far as adding color to the campus is concerned, the contribution of such a restriction would be nil. THE SAME THINGS MIGHT BE said of the provision that freshmen will not be allowed to place their hands in their pockets while on campus. It might also be pointed out that an inherent contradiction is to be found in the customs pro gram, one which obviously must be clarified by Cabinet. According to one section, Cabinet is to have a hand in customs enforcement, and is tc, be the final board of appeal on customs viola. tions. Yet another section states that "sole power to interpret any of the foregoing rules shall rest with Tribunal." These sections obviously conflict, since many decisions of Cabinet in appeals cases would in volve interpretation of 'tile code. If Cabinet is not able to interpret the code, it will be incap, able of sitting in judgment either on violations or appeals. Pressures and The Press A recent editorial in the University Hatchet, campus newspaper at Geogge Washington Uni versity, makes interesting reading for anyone who wonders about just how much freedom the average college paper enjoys. I DEFINING HIS PAPER'S position, the GW writer effectively asserts problems that are peculiar to a campus publication when he says: "A straightforword, honest paper is a credit to any university. Reporting both the school's good and bad points, although in isolated situations it may perhaps prove disadvantage ous to the institution or to some of its mem bers, in the long run adds up to a healthier, more progressive atmosphere. Cream puff, rah-rah tactics are an insult to the reader and ultimately serve to lower the respectability of the school." A college newspaper is subject to an amazing number of pressures. It occupies a precarious position, basically, because it is not quite inde pendent financially but at the same time does not like to think of itself as tied to the adminis tration or as in cases such as Penn State, to a journalism department. HAPPILY THE COLLEGIAN'S position with regard to the latter two organizations has been such that pressures are almost entirely self imposed. In any given school year, of course, all sorts of groups and individuals will throw criticism at the paper which refuses to take its particular bent. They divide themselves, roughly, into two groups—those who feel that the paper ought to campaign on practically everything and those who would like the paper to deal with the news from the top, strangling everything that doe,s , not advocate sonic , limited point of view. It is our opinion that the college news paper's sympathies ought to be with neither of these sides. It should aim for a path be tween the two. This position, like the cat on the back of the fence, invites abuse from both neighbors but is the only one which we can see that honestly leads to that better - Penn State. . Gazette • • • . Saturday, May 13 WRA GILF CLUB: This morning from 10-12, 4 Caddy House. SAE-7:30 p.m. Monday, 110 EE, R.R. Faller, manager of training of the Ethyl Corporation, , guest speaker. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Further infoination concerning interviews and job place. meats can be obtained in 112 Old Main. J. C. Penny Co., May 19. June grads ht C & F for retail sales work. Kawneer Co., May 19. June grads in Engineering - for I a sales training program. Men with technical background and soma experience in business preferred. No priority. National Supply Co., preliminary applications returned by May 17. June grads in Accounting. Line Materials-Co., May 16. June grads in EE and MK for sales and design, few in reseaarch. No. priority. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Information concerning these positions can be obtained at the Student Employment Office in Old Main. 1 Interviews for full time summer sales with Wearever, May 16. Part time during school year. Interviews for Camp Christmas Seal. May 16. Waiters and Dishwashers for ne year. Must be able ( to start now. Weekend subs needed. Juniata Valley CoUncil Camp, aquatics director. I Admitted Thursday: Harvey Reiseman, Will iam Abbott, Daniel Parrish. Admitted Friday: Ted Kline, Edward Ramin. Discharged Friday: Donald Kump, William Abbott, Kenneth Weidner, Raymond .Rusted. AT THE MOVIES Saturday CATHAUM: The Big Lift. • STATE: The Damned Don't Cry NITTANY: Challenge to Lassie. --Herbert Stein • ri-TE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE HOSPITAL Monday CATHA'UM: The Big Lift. STATE: The Damned Don't Cry. NITTANY: The Chips Are Down Safety 'Valve .... Letters to the Edifor should be, addressed—The Daily Collegian, Box 261, Boro. The writer's name will be withheld upon request, but no letter will be printed an• less it is signed. Hits Trustees on Lorch TO THE EDITOR: It was shocking and dis turbing to read The New Yo4c Times account of the trustee's action in, dropping Dr. Lee Lorcb becadse he loaned his vacant apartment in New York to a Negro family. And to have that action characterized as "extreme, illegal and immoral, and damaging to the public relations of the Col• lege" is fantastic. Dr. Lorch's apartment was in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's vast housing develop ment, "Stuyvesant Town." The Metropolitan Wit this project because the city agreed to exempt it from taxes. In sh6rt, the citizens of New York subsidized "Stuyvesant Town." Nevertheless, -Metropolitan insisted that it had the right to 'discriminate against certain tax paying American citizens—namely, Negroes. - Dr. Lomb and. a number of other tenants felt this discrimination, especially in the midst of New York's housing shortage, to be unfair, un just and un-American. When/Dr. Lorch left New York he loaned his apartment to a respectable, hardworking Negro family with one child. It has lived there since without trouble. For the College trustees to characterize this action as "extreme, illegal and immoral, arid damaging to the public relations of the College" and to droP Dr. Lorch because of it shows no concern for the' facts, the constitutional issues involved, or the name of the College. Indeed, the trustees show concern only for the feeling of the Metropolitan Life and its directors, a much 'harassed group of tycoons who are looking des perately for someone to take their side in sup porting rabial 'discrimination. While Dr. Larch's action may have outraged the ghost of the late Senator Bilbo, it could pos sibly be as damaging to the College's public re lations as this admission that the Metropolitan's racial discrimination policies govern who, is hired by Penn State. Where is that academic freedom America is famous for? Has no one told our trustees that "Dixie" is not Penn State's song? Has anyone told them Penn State is not a Jim Crow college and cannot how-tow to racial discrimination? Has anyone told them that the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company should not determine who is on Penn. State's faculty? ' Have they heard of the U.S. Constitution, 'of academic freedom? Apparently not. -Arid these gentlemen need to• be told by every • type of communication the stu dents, the faculty, and• the alumni can find. They need to learn they cannot become the•lackeys of racial discrimination without jeopardizing Penn State's standing as an American institution of higher learning. Write them tonight. —Harry. Henderson Collegian Editor, '36 Will Continue to Import TO THE EDITOR: Was very glad not to see my picture amongst the five guilty in Friday's Collegian of the "Rats who dated coeds." Will• continue to import now more than ever, less I be represented in the next picture of "Rats for dating imports " THERE'S AN OLD saying that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, but it wasn't 'until the first of May that the lamb-like weather we were expecting at the end of March finally descended on Nittany Valley. Perhaps the weatherman until now had decided tipor what the weather shoal be for the' Lions. 'ln addition to family. re-unions, Mother's Day like most holi days peculiar to the United States, has certain traditions. Not the. least of these-is the sending "Mother's Day" cardra pleasant cus tomaut in State College, a difficult.one. Not being one to defy custom, I gaily walked into one of the local • drugstores with the purpose in mind of purchasing an endearing card for - "Mother." Racks of colorful greetings greeted - my roving eyes. "An easy task," ,I thought. Then, I started to read the saluta tions on the cards: "For My Wife on Mother's Day;" "To My Friend's Mother on Mother's Day;" "For a New Mother on Mother's Day;" "To Daughter on Mother's Day;" "To One Who Has Been Like a Mother to Me on Mother's Day.' And with the manure grains come the small growing things, on eager wino they come through the tattered dormitory screens, and they bite upon the populace and are made glad. And the small grow ing things are happy, well fed are they' and happy, and in their nos trils abounds the beloved fragrance of ' Fertilizer. , • —R. M. Gundel Little Man On Campus NOMEECON "And now, here's your final—eat what you've just cooked." NO . Cater To Mater COMES MOTHER'S DAY and come thousands of Mothers' to the Nittany "vale. Here midst the blossoming cherry trees and the Keep Off the Grass signs, these flower-bedecked ladies get a glimpse of what, their progeny are producing when they are back home in Pittsburgh or Mauch Chunk. But were there no cards for "Mother on Mother's Day?" I shuffled through the wilted stack of flower, kitten, and crawl ing-baby adorned cards. Finally, I espied one which had the desired greeting. Opening it, I read: • "I know I can't say it In big words Like grown-ups do, • But, I'll , tell• vou In some little words • Dear Mommy, I love you.", "Very charming,". I sighed, as a tear slid down my cheek and splashed. on a calculus book, "but did I endure two semesters of English compositiob for this?" i So, I sent flowers. . • HYthn Tp• Spirig, And lo! Spring is-come upon the vale of Nittany. And the frozen snows• of winter are, becoine but warm vernal dr4zles. And the voice of the tractor is heard in the land. And everywhere is to be found Fertilizer. BEHOLD, UPON THE MALL, small machines that putt exceed= ing great putts cast the fine manure, grains upon the outraged winds. Yea, even unto the ill-famed Ag Hill breeze cast they them. And all the populace rejoice and are glad as the zephyrs bear the fragments down upon them, like confetti fling they the grains of , . Fertilizer. AND NOW EMERGES A 'VAST ARMY of warriors, yea, of deadly warriors indeed, clad in their warrior grab of blue. Slowly -they proceed, and are exceeding thorough, and in their blasted track they leave*a fine, even topsoil of Fertilizer. • ' • Herds, yea, vast multitudes of horses, sheep, goats, pigs, cats, chickeng and mastodons must Mire existed ere all this could be. And the populace considers these vast- forces which are allied against them, and are humble. For is not man but an ant, a plaything of nature's caprice, who, at her whim, can be smelled from off the face of the sphere? Do not the heavens now declare the glory of Fertilizer? FOR THOUGH ALL THE LESSER ANIMALS of the earth be gathered unto the bosom of the earth, yet do they leave their - sign and seal upon earth's shining countehance. Yea, in small neat pyramids leave they their mark, and then cometh imprudent man, and re joiceth at the finding of the piles, and buildeth great factories to re fine the material to its basic essence, to make it, so to speak, even more so. Then cometh the vast trains to transport these accursed goods, long and shunned are the trains. Mighty the trucks that whisk the, product in terrified haste .across the cringing mountains: And then come the small engines of the great putts, and the small growing things of many legs, and the great engines of the throbs, and' the blueclad human warriors, and they grasp, all of them, with eager grasp at the powdered immensity of Fertiliser, And then swiftly . they descend upon the campus. And the College Is become a stinking paradise. ~-110411 3011 X • SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1950 zatrj ruam- -=JANET ROSEN by Bibler
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