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alp Daily Collegian
Sateeseer Its THE,, FREE LANCE. sig. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter July fr, 1934, at the State
College. Pa. Post Office under the aet of March 3. 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ
ers. not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Unsignee
editorials are by the editor.
Mary Kzasnansky •
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Editor
Managing Ed.. Ron Bonn; City Ed.. George Glazer;
Sports Ed.. Ernie Moore: Edit. Dir., Bob Fraser; Makeup
Ed., Moylan Mills: Wire Ed., Len Kolasinski: Society Ed.,
Carolyn Barrett; Feature Ed., Rosemary Delahanty: Asst.
City Ed., Lee Stern: Asst. Sports Eds., Dave Colton, Bob
Vosburg; Asst. Society Ed., Greta Weaver; Librarian, Millie
Martin; Exchange Ed., Paul Beighley; Senior Bd.. Bud
Fenton.
Aast. Bus. Mgr., Jerry Clibanoff: Advertising Mgr..
Bob Leyburn: National Adv. Mgr., Howard Boleky: Circu
lation Co-Mgrs., Jack Horsford, Joe Sutovsky: Personnel
Mgr., Carolyn Alley: Promotion Co-Mgrs., Bob Koons. Mel
vin Glass: Classified Adv. Mgr., Laryn Sax: Office Mgr.,
Tema Kleber: Secretary. Joan Morosini: Senior Board. Don
Jackel, Dorothy Naveen.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Bettie Loux; copy editors: Andy
McNeillie, Shirley Vandever; assistants: Laura
Badway, Jim Peters, Louis Mueller, Jocelyn
Wilson, Mary Lee Lauffer.
Advertising manager: Doris Groomes; assist
ants: Alison Morely, Barbara Potts.
Government Must
Better U.S. Health
Those who have been impressed by the cam
paign of the American Medical Association
against some form of national health program
need to re-examine the case in view of the
Tecent disclosure by Col. Henry M. Gross that
50 per cent of the men being examined by the
Selective Service in Pennsylvania are being re
jected for physical and, mental reasons.
Fifty per cent is an appalling figure. It be-
comes more appalling when contemplated on
a personal basis. A 50 per cent rejection
figure means that one out of two of the men
you know between the ages of 18 and 26 is
not eligible for military service.
The AMA would have us believe that present
medical facilities in the United States are ade
quate. We doubt that they are adequate, but
even if they were, then we would have to come
to the conclusion that adequate facilities are
being wasted. How else account for such a high
rate of rejections for the armed forces?
The primary problem in the 'present medical
setup in the United States today is not our
doctors. What is wrong with American medi
cine today is that it is not serving the needs of
the people who need it most: those Americans
in the lower 'income brackets.
A large percentage of the American people
are today financially unable to purchase the
medical care they require. The inability of these
people is not a personal problem, for the health
of the nation is at stake.
A 50 per cent rejection rate indicates that
the medical profession has not been doing an
acceptable job. Private industry—if you wish
to call it that—has failed. In so essential a
sphere as medicine, the failure of private in
dustry should be met by the action of the
federal government.
Some call it socialism; we think it is the
intelligent thing to do.
Hazing Is Harmful
The recent release of scholastic averages adds
increasing strength to the stand that hell weeks
should be eliminated and constructive work
programs be substituted.
In comparison to the 1.48 over-all average
made by students at the College, fraternity men
made a lowly 1.38. We feel that hell week con
tributed greatly to this drop.
It seems that brothers fare no better than the
pledges during such affairs. The entire setup
seems to be calculated to eliminate all sleep
for the entire fraternity house.'
The high 1.82 average achieved by sororities
seems to point out the need for a reform in the
hell week program even more strongly. So
rorities hell weeks are not as violent or pro
longed as the fraternity versions.
As was pointed out in a previous editorial,
one purpose of the fraternity system is to pro
mote high standards of scholarship. This- is in
cluded in practically all fraternity rituals.
The Interfraternity Council Workshop, held
earlier this semester, came to the conclusion
that there is a need for improved public rela
tions and a very good way to accomplish this
is by work weeks—not hell weeks.
The University of North Carolina newspaper,
the Daily Tarheel, recently ran an editorial
lauding the movement started by the IFC com
mittee on hazing to abolish such practices.
In the editorial it called for hazing to be "ruled
out" including "such activities as scavenger
hunts, 'rides,' detrimental public display, pad
dling, all-night work details, and any other,
form of humiliation or physical abuse to which
pledges might previously have been subjected."
We go along whole-heartedly with the
Daily Tarheel, and we feel we are even more
justified—look at the All-College averages.
—Bob Fraser
"Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind
are agreed."—Cicero
Edward Shanken
Business Mgr.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN.' STATE COLLEGE. .PENNSYLVANIA
Freshman Customs
Must Be Improved
In a short time, as the spring semester begins,
new freshmen will undergo customs.
To start off with, all concerned will admit
that enforcement of customs, and the program
as a whole, was almost a complete bust last
February.
When customs were first renewed last Sep
tember, the program lacked much that was
needed to make it a success. But, by comparison,
the first renewal was a smash hit, and spring
semester customs were still sad.
A lot of the blame for February's poor show
ing can be laid to careless planning for the
second semester period, to lackadaisical en
forcement by hatmen, and no enforcement to
speak of by upperclassmen.
This semester's customs period showed a
great improvement. But it too had its bad
points, one of the more glaring shortcomings
being almost no enforcement of customs by hat
women or upperclass women.
We hope student government leaders respon
sible for the customs program have benefited
by the past year's experience.
It is time to start thinking about the customs
program, and then to do something about it. The
plans are undoubtedly already made. The next
step should be• to start them moving.
Make' sure there are no shortages of customs
at the BX; have meetings of the hat societies
and familiarize them with the customs program
and impress upon them their traditional role of
enforcement; set up a plan now—and make R.^
stick—where there will be joint enforcement of
custorris.
Either make sure the dating customs will be
enforced or do away with them altogether.
Customs seem to go over big in Sptember,
and fall flat in mid-winter. Possibly it's the
weather.
But more likely, it's due to the fact that over
the summer everybody has a lot of time to think
about what he's going to do in the fall, and
makes plans.
When the mid-year freshman class arrives,
they sort of seem to sneak up on everybody-. As
a result, no real plan can be put into effect. •
Now is the time to start thinking about a
plan so that customs will run smoothly and
accomplish their purpose.
But Where Can You
Park a Plane?
JONESBORO, Ark.,—(P)—How's this for be
ing modern?
Bob McGinnis commutes between his home
and college by plane He has a ,pilot's license,
but he doesn't yet have a permit to drive an
automobile.
Bob, a sophomore at Arkansas State College
here, resides on a 'farm at Ettov.sah, 40 miles
from Jonesboro.
In order to go to school and still be of °con
siderable help around the farm, he flies a
daily round trip—and he makes it to class and
back in less time than do many students living
off the campus in Jonesboro.
Even though he expects to get his drivers'
license shortly, he has no intention of motoring
between farm and college. "Travel by air," says
Bob, "is safer, faster, and more thrilling."
If he gets up early enough, he flies his• cub
plane and travel time is about 25 minutes. If
Bob is running a bit late for his 8 o'clock 'class.
r he hops into a Cessna and lands in the college's
cow pasture in about 15 minutes.
* *
Perhaps 'McGinnis has come up with a
solution for Penn. State's parking problem
now being studied by an administration com
mittee. Instead of driving to school, some
students and faculty members could fly in.
A better solution might be the construction of
additional parking facilities.
Gazette • • .
Tuesday, January 8
CHESS CLUB, 3 Sparks, 7 p.m. ,
COLLEGIAN business candidates, 1 Carnegie
Hall, 7 p.m
COLLEGIAN business staff, 9 Carnegie Hall,
7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN editorial sophomore board, 2
Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. •
DELTA SIGMA PI, Phi Kappa Phi, 7:30 p.m.
. DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB, TUB, 6:45 p.m.
FENCING CLUB, Beaver Field water tower,
7 p.m.
MARKETING CLUB, speaker, Sigma Chi,
4 p.m.
PENN STATE CLUB, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m.
RADIO GUILD, followed by executive coun
cil meeting, 304 Sparks, 7 p.m.
TRIBUNAL, 201 Old Main, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co.- will interview January
graduates in C&F and L.A. Thursday.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. will interview January grad
uates in L.A., C&F, and Journ Thuriday.
North American Insurance Co. will ' interview January
graduates in C&F Friday, January 18.
Mound Laboratory, operated by Monsanto Chemical Co. will
interview 1952 Ph.D. candidates in Chem. Tuesday.
Solvay Process Division of Allied Chemical and Dye Corp.
will interview 1952 graduates at the M.S. and Ph.D.
level in Chemistry Thursday.
Virginia Smelting Co. will interview January' graduates at /
the , B.S. level and 1952 graduates at the M.S. and
Ph.D. level in Chemistry, and January B.S. candidates '
• and 1952 M.S. candidates in Chem. Eng. Friday, Jan. 18. "
Eli Lilly and Co. will -interview 1052 candidates in Organic
Chem at the Ph.D. Teel Monday, .Tan... 14.
—George Glazer
Little Man 'On Campus
"Hey, George, these pledges of ours are complaining
A Column, by George!
1
Romance Is . Nice NIMMMIN
But Hazardous• too
By GEORGE GLAZER
In the normal course of human events, romance is considered
one of the nicest things that can happen to people. To people 'in
love, everything is usually rosy, everything goes right at work or
at play, 'and even - the'preispeetive Irf-ilaws are nice people, for the
time being.
But at college, the fraternity
everything possible to discourage
romance by making such an
undertaking almost hazardmii.' :
Take for example when a fel
low gives a girl his fraternity pin.
This is all very nice. It assures
the guy •of • a steady. date, .gets
his socks mended, and even
leaves the way open for an in-,
vitation to dinner, with .the girl
paying• for a change., •
That's, the nice .part
sooner or later,, I
p ayi ng for its
rash action
If they- sit -in
the living room
on a couch, and
just try to en
joy one another's
company, the
brothers, - pledg-
es, and their
dates start whis-
pering between theinselves and
wondering what the the
matter with those two anyway.
And if they Sit alone in a
dark corner, or get into a car,
or go for•a walk, everyone exl
changes sly glances,— .tw-i
knowingly and sings a pleasant
little ditty called, "We, Know
Where You're Goingen
Worse yet, if you happen to
have a love life that's not ;situ
ated in • the pleasantly isolated
confines of the Nittany Valley,
then immediately you become an
object of pity—pleasant, 'but still
pity.
For instance, we became en
gaged to a lovely, young lady, in
Philadelphia. Some ti m e s
weekends, we drift in on :the
social crowd to chat for a while.
Then the murmurs of • "P o o r
George, Mickie's in Philly," go
around the room.
That's not so bad, but it's
the physical part of the court
ship that hurts. , • •
It happen.'s like this.
The house was sleeping, sound
ly one • night, and • only a few
mutterings from ' a 'far . corner • of
the hall can be heard. Then comes
the giggling, and the whispers to
be quiet . and the shuffling and
the fun is on. •
Next step—a light tap on -the
door of the guy who is undoubt
edly dreaming of his sweetheart.
He obediently, and .politely . an-
rUESDAZ" JANUARY S. '1952
about the food• again."
system in particular seems to do
swers the door—which of course
is a fatal_ mistake.
That's when the rest of the
miniature Klu Klux Klan ap
pears. The body romantic is
swept from his feet all right—
and carried' to a bathtub filled
with ice cold water—just wait
ing for an occupant.
Tradition dictates that the vic
tim must fight to the : best of his
ability and ,-take his punishment
like one going to the chair, rather
than someone who is rather
sleepy, and just wants to get -it
over with.
Then .
• The victim's first thoughts of
apprehension come when the
bathroom is reached.
If - he is able to give it a
thought, that bathtub looks
like, a . snake pit. Just imagine
yourself there. You've been in ,
bed, are just feeling war m,
cozy and pleasantly drowsy.
when all of a sudden you're
on your way to Siberia.
Anyway, - the beginnings of real
protest start to stir about now
in 'the victim. His squirmings and
wrigglings become frenzied, and
the four letter Anglo-Saxon ob=
scenities become louder and more
frequent.
But is he put out of his misery
quickly?—nah—that would spoil
the fun.
So for a few seconds his con
vulsive form is held over the
water. Then, just as he relaxes
to get a fresh grip of his-,cap
tors—he's dunked.
Then the crowd scatters, and
the rescue squad comes clashing
to the scene, their ice picks and
warm blankets w a vin g in. the
brgeze.
In the meantime, the .assassins
have left on another mission, be
cause these things never happen
singly—that's against the rules.
If worse come• to worst, they'll
pick on the 'first guy they see,
and dunk him. • •
In fact it got so bad out at the
house, what with engagements
and pinnings and marriage plans
coming in such a steady stream,
that the boys worked on a regu
lar schedule.
One brother always stood by
and laughed.
, So for the last three dunkings,
he's gone too. As a matter of
fact, •he is fast on his way to
becoming a • tradition himself.
By B ibler