PAGE TW.O Pr Daily Collegian Successor to TIM FREE LANCE, . oat. 188? Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings in. siboalr• during the College year by the stmt et The Daily Collegian of The Pitansyhas& State College. Mater,/ as sesead-alass natter Jody 5. 1934. at the State College, Pa.. Post MTh* sacks the act of March 3, NM Dean Gladfelter Editor sa>" STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editor: Joyce Moyer; Assistant Night Editor: Virginia Sinclair; Copy Editor: Ernie Moore; Assistants: Greta Weaver, Bud Fenton. Advertising Staff: Dorothy Naveen, Carolyn Alley, Elaine Notari, John Horsford, Don Jackel, Laryn Sax, Tema Klever, Joan Wallerstein. The College Helps Only a few people in or outside the fraternity houses actually realized just how bad the man power situation was at the end of last week. FORTUNATELY, members of the College administration did realize the seriousness of the situation, and, along with the officers of Inter fraternity council, took steps to correct it. The IFC meeting Tuesday took care of a lot of things. First of all, it definitely ended the worries of all the houses, or alleviated them to such an extent that they would be able to con tinue as active organizations. But better than that was the understanding of the administration members toward the fraternities problem.. The Board of Trustees last Friday voted to release 100 men from their dormitory contracts to help the houses. After the IFC met Monday night, the minimum figure the council arrived at was 133 releases. And the administration complied with that figure. It is clear even to those who know nothing about the problem whatsoever that by this act, the administration is in a sense, shoring up the fraternity system at Penn State. THE COLLEGE is losing money on every man released from the dorm contracts today. The rents of those remaining in the dorms will not be raised to cover the departure of the belated pledge class. The price and quantity of the food will remain the same. The College is taking the ss, and no one else. But with this loss, we believe the College has gained something that it will hold for ever: the unqualified support of the 50 odd fraternities on the campus. The fraternities must not forget this, for it could easily be that in these times, which we like to refer to as the "New Era" at Penn State, the need for a solid group to lead the student body in one project or another may arise at any time. DESPITE the somewhat unique organization of independent men on' the campus, if any group is needed to take the lead in a school project, the fraternities should be the ones to shoulder the burden. For no independent group. no matter how powerful, can, with more or less one word, spur into action over 2000 men. Still another group must gain some recogni tion out of the situation as the smoke clears away. Monday night, fifty odd fraternity representa tives sat down together, all with the same problem—an almost desperate need for men— and compromise figure after compromise figure was reached as the houses strove for the com mon weal, the more fortunate houses stepping aside to let those hardest hit take in men that they themselves could have used. It's nice to know that somewhere, no matter how trivial it seems to outsiders, there are people and groups who take into considera tion the needs and feelings of others before their own little comforts. STARLITE • NOW! At Your DRIVE-IN Warner Theatre On Bellefonte Road Shows 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. eathaum THURSDAY & FRIDAY Gail Russell MacDonald Carey If Happens Every Spring "The RAY MILLAND JEAN PETERS • Lawless" Also Selected Short Subjects ( - 7 to to SATURDAY Brian Donlevy DOUBLE FEATURE / Wake Island // "Song of India"—Sabu • "Rimfire" . Mita. with Jane Powell James Milligan Ann Southern Mary Beth Hughes Also Selected Short Subjects " Na ncy Goes To Rio" "Take A Drive To Starlite" Owen E. Landon Business Mgr. —George Glazer THE DAILY COLL'2,CHAII, STATE, COLL= PENN::;YI_.7.I!TI6I Cuts For Brains Students at the College have for many years been subject to a more or less compulsory, helter-skelter system of class attendance regu lation. With no overall policy, each department and in some cases each prof set individual rules. These currently range from an automatic drop for over-cutting in one department to practi cally no restrictions at all in another. WE WOULD like to propose a uniform pro gram for at least one part of the general problem of cutting rules. It is fairly evident that a stu dent who can compile a 2.5 average, the dean's list minimum, during a semester, is a pretty good student. Such a student might reasonably be expected to know by himself what classes he can safely cut and which ones he must attend. For this reason we propose the following for mula: Any student who has compiled a 2.5 average or better the previous semester, with no grade lower than 2 in any subject, should be granted unlimited cuts in any subject as long as he maintains this level. The program automatically would be self checking, since any student who overcut dan gerously would lose his average and be re stricted again. Dean Ben Euwema of the Liberal Arts school has endorsed this plan. He said, "I would be very happy to see such a policy established. I do not see any objection that could be raised to it." With the support of the dean of the College's largest school, this plan merits serious consideration. WE SUGGEST the College Senate consider this plan with a view toward shaping a consis tent policy for all schools of the College. Safety Valve ... Insult To Intelligence TO THE EDITOR: In the Collegian of Sept. 27 it was stated by Mr. William Albert Druschel that freshman customs were lacking in spirit, etc. This letter was an insult to the intelligence of all upperclassmen. For Mr. Druschel happens to be a freshman who would be very glad to have customs discontinued. For in the same issue in which his letter appeared, also appear ed the story that Mr. Druschel had appeared before Tribunal for violation of freshman cus toms, and, had been.found guilty. Are upperclassmen and hatmen going to take this insult sitting down? • Letter Cut Gazette . . . Thursday, September 28 WRA swimming club, 7 p.m. White Hall pool. ,WRA outing, 7 p.m. 2 White Hall. CHEMICAL ENGINEER'S SOCIETY meet ing, 7 p.m. 119 Osmond. • FROTH ART STAFF meeting, members and candidates, 7 p.m. Froth office, CH (cartooning, story or fashion illustration, poster or window painting.) SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MANAGEMENT meeting, 7 p.m. 107 Main Eng. EL CIRCULO ESPANOL club, .7 p.m. main lounge, McElwain. SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS, student group organizational meeting, 7:30 p.m. 203 Willard Hall. AMERICAN. CHEMICAL SOCIETY, student affiliate chapter organizational meeting, 105 Osmond, 7:30 p.m. AI CH.E meeting, 7 p.m. 119 Osmond. DELTA SIGMA PI, Phi Kappa fraternity house, 7:15 p.m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE organization, 6:45 p.m. Hugh Beaver room, Old Main. —Ron Bonn —Gene Kolber, Druids History Repeats . . . . Campus Has Viewed Other Frosh Revolts Last night's freshman uprising was not the first time frosh pro tested customs with a mass meeting on campus. In 1926, freshmen kidnapped the sophomore class president and held him overnight to prevent a scheduled sophomore class meeting. Just before World War 11, freshmen called a mass meeting in front of Old Main to protest certain.stiff customs regulations, A. R. Frosh Stage Mass Protest • (Continued from page one) hooted down, but the frosh left shortly after he gave up trying to speak. There was some talk of going to a Hat Society council meeting later in the evening but the group dwindled away shortly. Hatmen Circulate Some freshmen remained in the West dorm courtyard when the main group stampeded down the Mall, and hatmen circulated among them to explain customs. The glass in a fire alarm box on , the third floor North of Thompson hall was broken, and the alarm rang ten or 12 times, before stopping automatically. A maintenance man, who was quot ed as saying "The little rascals were just feeling frisky tonight," replaced the glass. Comments of freshmen after the rally were both fearful and defiant. One commented, "We were fools to start anything like this. There are 8,000 Upperclass men and they could come up here and take care of the thous and of us just like nothing." An other said that "upper classmen don't give a darn," but another said, "Like heck. The hatmen are organized and the upper classmen are behind them." Others spoke of holding another demonstration. • The West dorm demonstra tions were punctuated by ex ploding firecrackers and strings of caps. These disturbances con tinued even after most of the crowd had dispersed. Hatinen To Meet A mass meeting of all hatmen had been scheduled and is still slated to take place tonight at 7 o'clock in 121 Sparks to discuss the customs regulations. Robert D a vis , All-College president, commented, "What happened tonight was the result of an improper attitude on the part of hatmen. Some of them haven't read the customs, don't understand them, and can't in terpret them' for the freshmen." Asked about the result, Davis replied that "There will prob ably be a tightening up of cus toms. But I don't , think there should be a tightening_ up unless the hatmen are briefed on cus- T !Ur'74.7, 172". T:2.1 - 7, - 'l. 23, 1050 By MOYLAN MILLS Warnock, emeritus dean of men, recalled last night. Student leaders addressed the • meeting, d is cuss e d protested practices, smoothed over questionable prac tices to the frosh's satisfaction, and the meeting broke up with the frosh and upperclassmen on good terms. Warnock said that if upperclass men circulated among the fresh men and fully explained .customs to them, as they did during other difficult periods, frosh would understand customs better , and future dissension might disappear. Warnock said, "It may be that the lapse of customs during the war years has broken the customs tradition, and it may be difficult, if not impossible, to reinstate freshmen customs now." The 1926 kidnapping was insti gated by freshmen when they heard that the sophomores were set to haze the frosh at a sched uled freshman meeting in the now demolished bull pen, former ly on Ag Hill. The frosh decided to jump the gun and torment the sophs first. The sophomores retal iated with very heavy paddling the followirig week Hatmen— (Continued from page one) • and Bones. He urged upperclass men to cooperate and asked hatmen to get four or five of their friends to help with cus toms. Answering questions as to when freshman customs might be removed, Samuel Vaughn, secretary-treasurer of Androcles, replied,. "Men's customs are sup posed to run until freshmen in dicate by their behavior that they are ready to take care of themselves." toms and what their purpose is." Neil See, Tribunal chairman,* said the frosh action "was not wise" and continued, "a group like that can get too excited. Somebody might have got hurt. I'm glad there was no destruc tion, but I'm disappointed it happened." Frosh leaders of the rally tried to maintain order and let speak ers be heard, but the crowd shouted down any talk of par tial removal of customs, de manding complete removal of customs. 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