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FOR A BETTER PENN STATE
VOL. 52 -- No. 6
Eisenhower Rejects
Baseball Post Again
By GEORGE GLAZER
-President 'Milton S. Eisenhower
hit night again stated that he
could not consider any offer,to
become. commissioner of orgn
ized baseball.
The President said he would
stand on a statement' issued• in
February of this year when ru
mors first cropped up that he was
one of the top choices for the job,
vacated by Happy, Chandler.
For the past two days, the
Associated Press has reported
that the President was still one
of the top choices.
The clubowners are meeting in
the Palmer House in Chicago to
day in hopes of reaching a deci
sion.
• Clubowners 'are backing' War
ren Giles, • president' of the Cin
cinnati Reds; for the $65,000 job,
and are waging an intensivellast
minute campaign to gather.- the
three additional votes he reporte&
ly needs for election.
According to the, • Associated
Press, Giles received nine votes
in preliminary balloting at screen
ing sessions.
The President, Ford Frick,
president of the National League,
and James A. Farley, chairman
of the board of Coca Cola Export
are the only remaining names on
the list of the "top five" being
considered by the baseball _then.
Gov.,Frank *Lausche, :of :Ohio,
withrew his name from the list
Saturday.
The President, in ' his 'state-
150 .‘ h l / 2 41 , 70:: - Ret - Ltro
To Campus .Today
Hatmen. will return to campus
today 150 strong to enforce fresh
man customs, Marvin Krasnan
sky, president of Hat Society
Council, said last night. The hat
men were conspicuously absent
during the first three days of
customs, reportedly meeting in a
cabin hideaway on Mt. Nittany.
.In last year's customs program,
hatmen took the lead in enforce
ment.. So far this year upperclass
men have been enforcing customs
without prompting from the hat
societies.
Unauthorized persons have re
portedly been hazing Penn State
freshmen during the customs
period. Krasnansky remind e d
frosh to ask to see matriculation
cards if they doubt the identity
of their hazers. Only upperclass
students, including sophomores,
may stop freshmen.
He also instructed freshmen to
pay no attention to "ridiculous"
questions from upperclassmen
that.:are ,not, covered in the Stu
dent 'Handbook.
Freshmen have been permitted
to use handbooks while singing
and cheering so far this week
so they may 'learn the words to
College songs and cheers. How
ever, batmen. will not permit this
any longer, Krasnansky, said.
Some freshman men are still
violating the regulation prohibit-
Collegian Calls
For Ciindidates
meeting of candidates for
editorial • and photographic staff
positions on The Daily Collegian •
will be held at 7 tonight in 9
Carnegie Hall.
George' Glazer, Daily Collegian
city editor, will be in charge of
the meeting. Glazer said -Marvin
Krasnansky, editor Lin-chief, Ernie
Modre, sports editors Carolyn
Barrett, society editor,- and An
drew McNeillie, head photogra
pher, will ,also speak to the pros
pective 'staffers. •
Glazer stressed the fact 'that
all - studehtS are' eligible to .try
out for positichis even: ththigh
they; are riotjournalism
STATE COLLEGE
Refuses Offer
ment on the matter last winter,
said a committee of baseball men
had approached him at Christmas
time. He said he stated then that
he _definitely -"could not consider
aw'offer, if tendered; . that I wish
only to, ,carry on: my work at
Penn- State."
The Preaident had. been at
Shawnee:bri=Delaware for a meet
ing, of the Board of Trustees, and
had ,•been unavailable for com
ment until last night.
ing them from using the west side
of the .11/fall, butupperclassmen
have posted themselves along
that walk to keep the frosh from
using -it.--
Meanwhile, other upperclass
men continue to enforce customs
both on campus and •in the bor
ough. Freshmen are being stop
ped near Schwab Auditorium,
the Old Willow, and on down
town street corners to sing and
cheer.
Service Groups to Help
In Chest 'Kickoff Dance'
Eight groups on campus have agreed to aid the Campus Chest
committee with its "Kickoff Dance" program which will be held
Friday, Sept. 28, in Recreation Hall, the night before the first
football game with Boston 'University.
The 1 951 goal for the Campus Chest will be $12,000.. Last
year the drive fell short of its $14,000 goal by $3500. ,
Marvin Krasnansky, president
of Hat Society Council, said that
Androcles, junior men's hat so
ciety, C w ens, women's sopho
more hat society, Druids, men's
sophomore athletic society, and
Alpha Phi Omega, national ser
vice fraternity, will assist in .
selling tickets to the dance which
will follow the rally: Tickets will
go on sale tomorrow at the Stu
dent Union desk in Old Main for
50 cents each. •
Chimes to Aid
Blue Key, - junior men's society,
Will handle the sale of soft drinks
at Rec Hall.
Chimes; junior women's ha t
society, and Skull and Bones and
Parmi_- Nous, senior men's hat
societies,• will assist at Rec Hall.
The Blue Band has been. sche
duled to• parade past fraternitieS
and dormitories .before it reaches
the LiOn _ Shrine where the first
football . pep rally Will be. staged.
The ,dence Arilo)egiti 'righeiftek
PA., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20, 1951
Loyalty
Blasted
The Time is Short
The noose has tightened about the neck of academic free
dom and freedom of political action and thought in Penn
sylvania.
- The noose, which has been dangling loosely for more
than eight months, was tightened Tuesday when the House
committee on state government approved an amended ver
sion of the Pechan loyalty oath bill by a 15-12 vote. The bill
is now on the docket of the House, having already been ap
proved by the
_Senate.
So the time is growing short for the people of Penn
sylvania.
Principally the bill would require loyalty oaths of all
state-employes, including school teachers. It would also re
quire the presidents of all state-supported universities and
colleges to submit yearly reports on their efforts to uproot
subversives on their faculties.
The Pechan loyalty bill the product of an hysterical
era is not, necessary, for state officials, for school teachers,
or for college professors. In the instance of school teachers,
the tenure bill, already on the books, provides that teachers
may be dismissed for the advocacy of "un-American or sub
versive doctrines."
The President of Penn. State, to cite - another instance,
already has the authority to dismiss from the faculty any
member whose disloyalty has been proved.
What then is the purpose of the Pechan loyalty oath bill?
We need only . to go back into the files of the Associated
Press, which on Mayl reported irOm HairisbUrg that backers
of the loyalty oath did not wish to curb educational phil
osophy so long as it "goes in the right direction."
We asked then and we ask again, who is to decide
what the "right direction" is, and how is he to decide what
the "right direction" is?
As far as Penn State is concerned, the legislators have
said that President Eisenhower.must do the deciding on both
counts. We have every faith in the President. Nevertheless,
the legislation compels him to file a report on the loyalty of
his faculty; that would necessitate his requiring oaths from
his faculty.
That would place the President in the position of being a
spy on his faculty.
• It might also be interesting to note some of the company
kept by Sen. Albert Pechan, author of the bill. The Senator
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the rally. Jack Huber and his
orchestra will play.
As th e regulations stand to
date, freshman women will be
unable to attend and freshman
men may not obtain dates for ithe
affair.
Matric Cards Read•
All new students on campus
received a temporary blue ma
triculation card which must
be exchanged today or tomor
row for - the permanent card,
announced A. W. Stewart,
chief recorder in th e regis
trar& office.
It 4s important to exchange
thet e cards immediately as
dietitians .w ill instruct all
checkers in camp u s dining
halls to' refuse admittance to
any person not .bringing their
permanent matriculation- card
with . jheir meaLticket.
rgiatt
Oath
by Kills • nin
EDITORIAL
Freshmen
Violators
Punished
By TED SOENS
Tribunal cracked down on cus
tom violators last night as five
freshmen were sentenced for for
getting their bibles and 11 am e
cards.
Two of the five freshmen were
sentenced 'to wear two by five
foot sandwich boards with rhymes
on the front and advertisements
on the back. Both men w ere
caught without their name cards.
Their "punishment" starts to
morrow and will continue until
the Boston U. game on Saturday,
Sept. 29, at which time they must
appear on the football field be
tween halVes.
The signs read: "Violations are
not for me, try it once and you'll
agree!" and '!Customs don't agree
with me, don't,l look cute with
pants to knee?" The first sigh
bearer must blacken his left eye
with burnt cork •and carry his
afin in a sling. The other fresh
man must roll - his pants to .the
knee.
The only argument came from
one of the violators who asked
'if he. could be shown a written
signed report by the man who
picked him up, as is stated in the
bible. . .
The other three violators were
(Continued on-:•eight)
Are You
A Pickpocket?
See Page 4
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Bill
Says Cabinet
To Be Asked
For Support
Blasting the Pechan loyalty
oath bill as a threat to academic
freedom, William Klisanin, chair
man of the Pennsylvania region
of the National Student Associa
tion, called upon the state's chap
ters to work toward the defeat
of the bill.
At the same time Klisanin dis
closed that •he planned to intro
duce a resolution before tonight's
meeting of All-College Cabinet
urging the defeat of the bill.
Passed by the state Senate last
spring, the bill has been amended
and re-amended since then. It
was approved by the House corn
mittee on state government by a
15-12 vote Tuesday.
"Fear and Hysteria"
The bill would require state
employes and school teachers to
take loyalty oaths. Presidents
of all state-supported colleges and
universities would be required to
submit yearly re p or t s on the
progress of their efforts to deal
with subversives. Penn State
would be effected by this part
of the bill.
"The Pechan bill, vague and
all-encompassing," _ Klisanin de
clared in a written statement,
"if enacted would create an at
mosphere of fear and hysteria in
place of the deliberation so es
sential in these critical times."
The NSA also opposes the •at
tempt to single out the academic
community as a special case in
the fight against subversion, Klis
anin said. Teachers should
the same rights as other citizens,
he continued.
The statement pointed out that
both the Pennsylvania regional
and the national conventions had
adopted resolutions condemning
any form of loyalty oath. .
Concerned - Over Freedom
"We press the belief," Klisanin
said, "that we have both the right
and the responsibility to . intelli
gent concern over the academic
freedom of our teachers. Aca
demic freedom is an essential
prerequisite to the efficient func
tioning democratic system of edu
cation."
Pointing to the results of the
California loyalty oath, Klisanin
said, "We must do all we can to
defeat the Pechan bill in it* pres
ent form, which violates all that
we stand for."
Klisanin announced that copies
of his statement would - be sent
to all members of the Pennsyl
vania region along with a mes
sage urging them to cooperate
with organizations fighting to de
feat the bill. He also planned to
urge member schools to send let
ters to their legislators.
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