RAGE V:OUR. Itle gaily Collegian Successor to .CBE FREE LANCR, set. 111117 Published fuesday tiircesirti Satarday mornings inclusive during the College rear by the Staff. of, rho Daily Collegial , of ,roe Pennsylvania State CoHetet Entered al second-clan matter July i. 1924, at the State CoHeee Pa. Poet Office ander the t of hare! S. 1879 Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writ ers, not aecessarib the polies of the newspaper. Ungignn . editorials are by the editor Mary Krasnansky Edward Shanken Editor Business Mgr. 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 Delahanti: , Asst. City Ed., Lee Stern: Asst. Sports Eds.. Dave Colton. Bob Vosburg: Asst. Society Ed., Greta Weaver; Librarian, Joan Kuntz: Exchange Ed.. Paul Beighley: Senior Bd., ,Bud Fenton. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor, LaVonne Althciuse; copy editors, Dave Jones. Jake Highton; assistants, Lu Mar tin, George Bairey, Marjorie Cole, Bill Jost, Mary• Lee Lauffer. Ad staff—Alison Morley, Betty Lou Yarnell, Phyllis Kalson. Coordination' Is Aim Of Revised Customs With the proposed plan for revising the fresh man customs program now under consideration by several groups, it is a good time to review the purposes of the system as it would be set up if approved. • What the plan hopes to accomplish is the coordination of the freshman customs • pro grams of men and women. One of the tough est problems facing Tribunal and the Fresh man Customs and Regulations Board in rela tion to customs is the lack of coordination. One hand has not known what the other was doing or planning to do. While it may seem to some that coordination isn't as difficult a problem as has been pictured, in actual operation over the past two years the customs programs of both men and women have run head on into each other on numerous occa sions. Another problem the program is designed to deal with is the setting of a: uniform date for the end of customs. One of the major com plaints of the frosh—and a legitimate one—has oceurred when customs for men have been lifted in advance of removing freshman wo men's customs. Still another goal of the plan is the creation of uniform rules and uniform punishment for both freshman men and women. We think this too is an improvement over the now un coordinated system and is much fairer for all concerned. One of the points raised by a member of the Freshman C o unc 31 of the Women's Student Government Association is that requiring mem bers of a joint customs board to be approved by cabinet might take away some power from WSGA. Those familiar with the functioning of cabinet know that this is not so. "Subject to the approval of All-College Cabi net" in practice means that recommendations for appointments are read by the president who then asks if there are any objections. In almost three years of observing the operation of cab inet, we have never known an objection to be voiced to any of these recommendations. Those who raise this point are looking for an issue, for it is not one which now -exists: Under the proposed customs plan, WSGA would not lose any of its power. As a matter of fact, WSGA would gain power, for it would now have its say in the entire customs pro gram rather than merely , over the women's . customs program. Flash Card Plan Best Offer to Date For several years now efforts to eitablish a flash card system for Beaver Field have ;met with little or no success. The reason 'for the past disappointments has be9n.the• unwillingness of students to cooperate with the system set up. by members of the cheerleading squad. In an .effort to work out some plan to make possible the flash card , section, a special All- College Cabinet committee has Come up • with,, a proposal - for a preferential seating, section • to be set aside in the student section of Beai6r . -Field. Under the plan, section EH would: be desig nated as the preferential seating' section. Parti cipation in the flash card system would be .on a voluntary basis, so that students taking• part in•the displays would, be doing so. not because they were told to, ut rather because they• wanted to. Since section EH is in the senior. part of the - stands, seniors will be given first preference, followed by junior, sophomores, and frosh. Since only 500 seats will be available in this' section, it is very unlikely that seats in this section will be given to students other than juniors and seniors. As the plan is now set up, students wishing to sit in the section will be allowed to indicate during pre-registration in the spring. Juniors in the spring will be seniors the following fall and will be given first preference. In the fall during final phase registration, • special Athletic Association books wily be given to those who signed up for the section in the spring and had been chosen to sit in the section on the basis of senior priority. Each student sitting in the section will be assigned , a seat, so that if he fails to cooperate or is'ab-. 'me; DAILY COLLEGIAN.. STATE ct.t...,LEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Dimes Policy Poor En Fund Refusal With the national March of Dimes organiza tibm having turned doyen the possibility of ac cepting funds . from the Penn . State " Cainpus Chest, 'the problem now arises as to what All- College Cabinet should do with the money set aside for the polio fund. Over $325 of the last year's Chest funds was allocated for and given to the , March of Dimes. That money has been returned. In addition, six per cent of this year's Chest was supposed to go to 'the polio fund. , One final effort will be made to turn the money over to the March of Dimes. With the approval of cabinet, the March of Dimes will be' offered the money as the donation of the students . of the Penn Sylvania State College. Such a move might get around the insistence of the March. of Dimds that it cannot take funds from any community or joint drive. • If this attempt • also proves to be a failure, All-College Cabinet will be faced with the prob lem of what to do with almost $BOO of un claimed Chest funds. Two alternatives have al-' ready been suggested: , that the funds be re allocated among the remaining Chest 'partici pants,' or that another benefactor be named, to replace the March of Dimes: One way or the other, the problexi will be resolved. But beneath it all is the rather vexing insistence on the part of some• national organi zations such as the :.March of. Dimes- and the Red Cross to remain 'aloof from community drives. In effect they are' saying, we are not interested in the money, but in how it was ob tained. . _ These organizations insist they must be in control of the means of fund raising. They seem to be ignoring the fact that their princi pal purpose for 'existing: is in' aiding those needy of assistance. ' The argument for control of the fund-raising holds water when used in relation to a town, or city. Under these conditions, the Red Cross and the March of Dimes can probably do a better job of •raising funds by doing the job them selves rather than by delegating the task to a community drive. But a college campus is another problem. With the Campus Chest ruling out the possi bility of • soliciting on campus, the March of Dimes and the Red Cross are placed in the posi tion of either participating in the Chest or get ting .nothing via direct solicitation of students. Basically, for these organizations it is a question of all or nothing. Strangely enough both the Red Cross and the March of Dimes have decided -to take nothing. • Safety Valve-- Forum Should Not . Condone Close as Campus Speaker TO THE EDITOR: I cannot, agree with the reasoning nor the opinion of the editorial, "Forum Should Not Ban Upton Close." The "if's," the "and's" and the "but's" of this edi torial bespeak a reluctance to actually meet the problem and cope with the only real solu tion—that of "banning," as you say, ClOse from the campus. • How can you truthfully state that censoring of bigots and, hate-mongers would be worse than their condonence? Freedom of speech has never been an absolute right in this country. Piotection of the minority has always been one of the basic tenets of 'a democracy. If we do not "censor" this man ... we shall be, in effect, condoning his actions and his words, giving greater prestige to his type of speaker in the very fact that he is being permitted to speak at one of America's larger colleges, and, indeed; robbing subscribers of Forum lectures of an• evening that could be spent in a much more worth-While fashion. *Letter Cut Collegian Fails to Instill 'Greater Interest' en Art TOI•THE EDITOR: On Thursday, Feb. 27, the most' wonderful thing that ever came to State College performed to a full house. The Buda pest Quartet, played excellently, and was re ceived 'most enthilaiasticaßy. Why did the. Daily Collegian ignore this group? We're , they ashamed that the State Col lege Choral - Society could. attract music , of such higher, quality than could the College?. Or was there no • one on the'-staff' who- was educated enough to be interested? A. program• before, the, concert, and• a brief statement. after it, would not have taken much room. -The' least little college or high school performance normally gets more - than that. Come, Collegian, help instill a greater interest in the- fine things Of life into our undergradu uates. , -Ed. Note: • Witli; a .bit• more care, Reader Hearne might 'have been able to read about the 'Budapest Quartet on, any number of occa sions. A' rough check :indicates at least three adVance notices: Feb.• '2O; 26, and 27.) sent` (witho . ut•good Caupe), it will be possible to rescind the special bobk and 'issue a regular AA book:" ' - • The plan makes 'sense: It appears to be the best one submitted 'to date, which will enable cheerleaders to establish 'an' effective •flash card system. If• -tucdessful; I.the systein ' ,cpuld •add some. needed, color- to :Renn State's home football games: --••• —Leonard Goodman Monica Hearns Little Man On . Campus "Old Chick is finally whipping the track team into shape." U.S. Is Overrun By `lVlugwunips' WASHINGTON—(JP)—Are you a Mugwump? There - are lots of them in the United States. And they're glad they are. Then, again, those who aren't are equally proud. The whole question of Mugwumpery gets a good going over in the current issue of "The National Voter," the publication of the League of Women Voters of the US Mrs. Eugene Duffield is , a con firmed Mugwump. Mrs. Ja y Walz is mighty glad she isn't. What exactly is a Mugwump? In a. slangy way, anybody who considers himself .a man of im portance is subject to being labelled a Mugwump. But ever since 1884 the wox.d has become more or less asso ciated with politics. In that year, a group of Republicans bolted the party. and came to be known as Mugwumps. Webster says they we r e charged with "regarding them selves as superior to their party in character and intelligence.' In time, the term has come to refer to anyone who is ,a chronic objector, a .person who splits his ticket in• elections and votes for the candidate and, not the party. Mrs. Duffield, Cincinnati Lea gue member, says "I am a Mug wump—one of those awful birds with his mug on one side of the political. fence and his wump on the other, " "I seldom vote a straight tick et," she wrote in the publica tion. "Since, no man or party agrees with me 100 percent I swing between them, looking for the candidates and - the party, that most nearly agree Gazette ... Wednesday, March 5 AMERICAN METEOROLOGI CAL SOCIETY, Mineral Indus tries Art •Gallery. 7:30 p.m.- • • AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AG• RICULTURAL ENGINEERS, 1051 Agricultural Engineering, 7 p.m. CHESS CLUB, 3 Sparks, 7 p.m. COFFEE HOUR, sponsored by dean of men and cabinet, 109 Old Main, 4 p.m. • EDUCATION STUDENT COUN CIL, Student Government Room, Old Main; 12:30 p:m. INKLING - production: staff,' 9 Carnegie Hall, 7:30 p.m. NEWMAN CLUB lecture-di cussion, Prof.; Case • charge, Rectory basement, 7:30 p.m. NEWMAN CLUB radio pro gram, WMAJ, 7:45 p.m. . - RIDING CLUB, 217 Willard Hall, 7 p.m: PI•LAMBDA SIGMA. 102 Wil lard flail, 8 p.m. PHI EPSILON KAPPA, elec tion of officers, .Delta 7:30 p.m. WRA MODERN DANCE GROUP, Modern dance, room, AT THE MOVIES' CATHAUM: a,lliwCauntxy WEDNESDAY, MARCH ; 5,1952 By 13ibler with me. "Occasionally I find the .man, but never the party, because with so many spokesmen I. cannot- be sure of a' party's stand." - . And, she- said, "It's our. votes that win elections." Mrs. Duf field said about 20 percent of. the voters . are Mugwumps , and that it is those votes which "are be ing wooed' by both parties." Mrs. Walz, a writer - who lives in Alexandria, Va., says Mug wumpery "is highly irresponsi ble." She adds: "That the modern indepen dent . voter puts „personality over party has had, believe, a most adverse effect on, our native two-party system.- Too m tny 'millions vote fora per sonality—not for an adminis tration to, he run on clearly • defined principles." She blames radio and televi sion partly for the• rise of Mug wumpery: "The boys in the smoke-filled rooms will take to thinking like Hollywood casting directors.' It's a trend that may 'go hard with short blond men of whatever brainpower. They don't video as effectively as tall brunettes." 2:13„4:06. 5:59, 7:52, 9:45. STATE: The Lady and the Ban dit 2:11, 4:03, 5:55, 7:47, 9:39 NITTANY: Cyrano de Bergerac 6:25, 3:19„10:15. ,COLLEGE PLACEMENT Clark 'Brothers Co., Inc. will interview June graduates in M.E., C.E., E.E., Ch.E., and PNG Friday, March 14. , Ethyl Corp• will interview June grad uates in C&F, A&L, Science and Engineer ing.'F,riday, March 14. - Leeds 'and Northrup will interview June graduates in M.E., E.E., 1.E., Ch.E., Metal. and Phys. at all, levels Friday, March 14. Aetna Life Insuiance Co. (Group and Pensions Depts.) will interview June grad uates in C&F and L.A. Tuesday, March 18. Delaware Power• and Light Co. will in terview 'June graduates in M.E. and E.E. Monday, March 17. Factory Mutual will interview June graduates in 1.E., E.E., M.E., C.E. and Arch:E. Monday, March 17. „ Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. will in• terview June graduates in -E.E., M.E., Ch. E.. Ag.E., Chem., L.M.R. and C & F Monday,' March. 17. Radio Corp. of America will interview graduates •at all levels in Chem. ' Phys., M.E., LE.,• C.E., L.A., L.M.R. and. C & F Monday, March 17. Sears Roebuck and Co. will . interview jupe _graduates interested. in a career with Seari.,,Zonday, March 17. ••• Student Christian Movement. will inter view June graduates in Phys. Ed., L.A., Home Ec., Ed., Soc. and PO. Monday, March 17. ST TRENT EMPLOYMENT Girlh "for typing or shorthand. Married couple: for local summer work. 'Commercial' writing...on"a' - parttime• basic*
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