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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.
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SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1950
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