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Publicised Pnesday through Saturday moraine., illeittiliVe
staring the College year by the staff of rhe Daily Collegian
of The Pennsylvania State College.
Estate/ as seeond-elass matter July 8, 1984, at the State
College, Pa., Poet Office wilder Übe ad of March' 8. 1879.
Collegian editorials represent the viewpoint@ all. writ.
ars. not necessarily the polity of the newspaper.. ihudgner
editorials are by the editor.
Mary KrasnanskY Edward Shenker,
Editor . .—.amwr - ' Business Mgr.
Managing Ed., Ron Bonn; City Ed.. George Glazer;
Sparta Ed.. Ernie Moore; Edit. Dir.. - Bob Fraser; Makeup
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. Joan
Kuntz; Exchange Ed.. Paul Beighley; Senior Bd., Bud
Fenton.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night Editor, Mimi Ungar; Copy, Editors,
Dick Rau, Dave Pellnitz; Assistants, Chiz Math
ias, Phil Austin, Sally Sapper.
Ad Staff: Bette Agnew, Ed Steel, Gail Shaver.
NIT Rejection
Now Justified
Although there was some complaining, among
the student body when the College turned down
a feeler for the National Invitational Tourna
ment, Thursday's acceptance of a bid to play
in the National Collegiate Athletic Association
basketball playoff further justifies the previous
action of the College.
We supported the College's stand on the NIT
feeler on the grounds that the good gained
from Penn State's participation in that tourney
would be offset by other factors.
Among the factors we felt would hurt the
College were that participation in the NIT
would come right on the heels of a season
which had left the team physically exhausted;
that the NIT was a strictly commercial venture
with an outside promoter getting a large share
of the gate receipts while the NCAA was a
tournament sponsored by a Collegiate athletic
conference of which Penn State,was a member;
that a bid to the NIT might be followed by an
NCAA offer and that the hours athletes may
spend off campus is limited by the College
regulations; and that participation in the NIT
might necessitate the cancellation of a regu
larly scheduled game with Irucknell. r
With a good rest behind them, the team
should do a better job of representing the
College in the NCAA's than it could have
done m the NIT.
Pechan Hysteria
Begins Snowballing'
In Scranton recently, the pay check of city
employees were held up until they took the
loyalty oath. If an employee was ill and could
not pick up his check, someone authothed -to
administer the oath was sent to the person's
home, where. the oath was given and the check
handed over.
In another city, an elementary school teacher
told her class during a history lesson that
American troops at the battle of Bunker Hill
during the Revolutionary War had been forced
to withdraw from the hill and that the British
took it. Within three days, a delegation from
the American Legion, called on the teacher to
see whether she was a communist. It seems that
one of the children in the class had gone home
and told his parents that the teacher had said
the British had won the battle of Bunker Hill.
These are only two of the reported instances
of , the mass hysteria which seems to be sweep
ing the state, and they don't sound to us like
the type of democracy we've been used to in
the United States, or the kind we've been
preaching to the peoples of the world. We've
got to be careful that we don't let happen
here what happened in Germany before World
War IL The first loyalty oath required by
Hitler there demanded only that the German
teachers keep faith with the Fatherland and
honor the laws and constitution. The next one
demanded allegiance to Adolf Hitler. •
• Actually the oath proves nothing. Many of
those who voted for its passage, did so only
because they feared for their political futures
if they didn't, not because they really believed
in it. Many who have to sign the oath will do
so only because they don't want to lose their
jobs, and they will do so regardless of whether
they are communists or not. Many who aren't
required to sign it will do so only because it
seems the thing to do.
For instance, Joseph Clark Jr., mayor of
Philadelphia, called the oath "a lot of un
necessary red tape that will do no good in
routing out subversives in government," but
stated he "supposed" he would get around
to faking it "one of these days.' Being an
elected official, he is not required to take
the oath.
On the other hand, Richardson Dilworth,
Philadelphia district attorney, branded the oath
as an "outrageous" procedure resembling , meth
ods of the Spanish Inquisition which is only an
attempt to "force people to' conform to .some
cockeyed, unknown standard of ' behavior with
the knowledge that if they deviate from it in
some way they're going to get walloped." Also
an elected official, Dilworth refused to have
anything to do with the oath.
Now that we've got the loyalty oath, there
seems to be nothing we can do about it. But
for our own protection, we've got to see that
it goes no further.
—Dave PeUnita
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNBYLiAMA
Bad Publicity
Can Hurt Greeks
Yesterday we saw another example of how
fraternity shenanigans can get out of hand. The
case involved five University of Pennsylvania
students who were arrested on a charge of kid
naping. What, actually had happened was that
the "victim" was a pledge at a-fraternity where
a few of the brothers were out . for a little fun.
We wonder if these boys realize that the
publicity their actions got will only bring down
more criticism on the fraternity system. It's too
bad they had to counteract in this way all the
favorable publicity given to several other Penn
fraternities earlier in the week. These fraterni
ties had changed their "hell meek" program into
a "help week" by sending their, pledges out on
constructive missions.
Since local fraternities seem to be concerned '
over the comparatively low scholastic averages
they have, we wonder why they don't seem
to realize that "hell week" activities certainly -
don't help grades any. We also. wonder if_ some
pf the ludicrous pledge activities engaged in by
too many fraternities don't drive away a lot, of
the more intelligent students who might other
wise be interested in fraternity membership,
and who would, be a great. asset to the frat
ernity system.
We hope that at Penn State, at least, the
constructive work done by a few fraternities
' won't be outweighed by the bad, publicity the
many are letting themselves in for by con
tinuing their outlandish "bell. week" stunts. '
—D.P.
NATO Wheels
Turn, But Slowly
The alphabetical term NATO has been added
to European postwar vocabulary, which is al
ready top-heavy with such expressions as Schu
man Plan; Council of Europe, Point Four, UN,
Marshall Plan. Although the term was born
nearly three years ago, its mention still arouses'
a hazy' mental image in the minds of' many
persons on both sides of the AtlantiC. •
The initials NATO stand for North Atlantic
Treaty Organization. This organization was
born with the signing of the North Atlantic
Treaty or Pact on April 4, 1949, in Washington,
C. The association was formed by 12 nations
as a regional defense grouping to protect West
ern Europe against military aggression. •
The char ter members were the United
States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy,
Portugal, the 'Netherlands, Belgium,. Luxem
bourg, Denmark, Norway and Iceland. Greece
and Turkey were added recently, and Ger
many was promised future membership, de
spite France's strong disapproval.
A very clear image of NATO is drawn- by
the Treaty's Charter. The fact that it favors
peaceful negotiations to achieve Western 'Eu
rope's security is emphasized in its opening sen
tence. Article I states: "The Parties undertake
. to settle any international disputes in which
they may be involved by peaceful means."
Article 111 was the reason for the detailed
planning at the NATO Council meeting in Lis
bon, Portugal last month. That Article reads:
". . . the Parties . . . will: maintain and develop
their capacity to resist armed attack."
Perhaps the keystone of the Charter is Article
V: "The Parties agree that an armed attack
against one or more of them . . • sh4ll be con,
sidered an attack . against them all; and . . . if
such occurs, each ... will assist the . . . attacked
. . . by taking such action as it deems necessary,
including the use of, armed force."
During the three years since its birth, the
NATO Council has met nine times. Its most
recent session in Lisbon last month produced
momentous decisions concerning the 14-nation
NATO army: the number of troops to b'e furn
ished by each member nation, the hierarchy
of military command, armament, and financial
support. ' •
The , NATO' wheels of Western European
Defense are turning, although slowly, never
theless turning. „
Gazette ...
Saturday, March 15 -
LIBERAL ARTS MINER COMMITTEE, Old
Main lounge, 1:30 p.m.
RADIO GUILD TRYOUTS, 304 Sparks,
10 a.m.
Sunday, March 16
ALPHA DELTA SIGMA, speaker and field
trip plans, Phi Gamma .Delta, 7 p.m.
BRIDGE LESSONS, TUB, 6:30 p'm.
LUTHERAN STUDENT ASSOCIATION, Dr.
Harvey Hoover sPe.sker, Lutheran Student
House, 6:30 p.m.
Monday, March 17
ELECTRONIC WARFARE UNIT 4-3, 200 En
gineering E. 7 p.m.
- HILLEL , HOUR casting, Hillel, 7 p.m.
INTER COLLEGIATE CONFERENCE ON
GOVERNMENT, s p e ak e r—Dr. Ferguson on
Civil Rights, 313 Willard Hall,
,7:30 p.m.
RADIO GUILD announcers workshop, 304
Sparks, 8:30 p.m.
RADIO GUILD engineers workshop, 304
Sparks. 4 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Adrienne Alderman, Garrett Barnes, Charles
Brill, Patricia Colgan, Paul Crofford, Thomas
Davis, Jerry Fritz, Theodore Gracia, Dorn How
lett. Howard Killian, Robert Mann, Donald Mat
lack, Bruce Nelson, John Pfrommer, Ronald'
Ritts, Audrey Rothchild, John Stoudt, Peter
Urka, Robert WWI.- - .
Little Man OxL ampus,
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'l s unnerstan 'ole Prof Snarf made so much dough on . hiS book,
'The Evils.of Capitalism; that he's writing a new one denouncing it:
Interpreting the News
West's Austrian
Resembles Germany
• By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Assdciated Press News Analyst
' One or two clauses in the Allied-proposed peace treaty for Ans.
xia make it pretty clear, although the ~diplomats say they
. aren't
thinking that far ahead yet, that tfiey are working toward political
arrangements ' there -"similar' ,to 'those which have been, made in
Germany. •
In other,words, an interim'partition of Austria pending overall
agreements with R - u sSia now
seems likely.
The Allies seemed to•recognize
the prospective• failure of • their
proposal even as -it was being
made. The U.S. State department
went so far as to issue a simul
taneous denunciation of Russia's
attitude and her ~ failure to: keep
her 1943 promise -to cooperate. in
re-establishing Austrian indepezi;-
denCe
Although Russia has agreed tb
withdraw her troops from Austria
if a treaty is
reached, she has'
always raised ob
jections at other
points to keep
that from hap
p enin g. With
drawal 'from
Austria would
also remove the
legal justifica
tion for Red
troops in the for
mer German satellites now con
trolled by Russia.
But the one main clause in the
proposed treaty which is expected
to block the whole thing before
.it ever gets started -is the one re
quiring all the 'occupying pOwers
to • surrender . to Austria all prop
erties they had claimed as former
German assets or war booty. The
Allies once agreed to. let Russia
have • some such properties, al
though technically it was merely
passing on loot which Germany
had extracted from Austria, first.
This' agreement, hoWevq, was.
Gazette....
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
•
Curtiss Wright Corp:-(Propeller Division)
will interview June graduates in Aero.E.,
M.E. and•E.E. Wednesday, March 19.
Rohm and Haas Co: will interview June
graduates in Ch.E. Chem. and Phys, Mon
day, March i 4.
' United Aircraft Corp. will interview
• June graduates in M.E. and Aero.E. Mon
' day, March 24.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.-svill inter
view June graduates in A&L and C&F
interested in either sales or claims work
on Tuesday, March 25.
Phillips Petroleum Co. will interview
June graduates in Ch.E., M.E., E.E., P.N.G.
and Metal. Saturday, March 15. '
S. S. Kresge Co. will interview June
graduates in A &L, C&F and any other
fields interested in management, Tuesday,
March 25.
Westinghouse Electric Corp. will inter
view June graduates. in. M.E.,. E.E., 1.E.,
Ch. B.. Metal., Cer. and Phys: Tuesday,
• March 26. They will also interview M.S.
and Ph.D. candidates in E.E ., 'Metal. and
--AUCIRDAY, - MARCH 115,
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/ /,
1 - conditioned on Russian_fulfill
ment, of the entire Austrian
settlement which she has - con
sistently refused to do, and so the
Allies are withdrawing the agree
merit. ,
An immutable Russian rule is
to mobilize the industries ano:lre
sources of controlled territories
for_ her own benefit, primarily
for military purposes.
That proposal practically as
sures 'that 'nothing can come
of the treaty move.
So•far, the Allies represent their
move merely as a climactic effort
to • get a settlement on Austria.
They talk of continued fou r
p6wer occupation if it fails.
The -pattern of practice, how
ever, seems' fairly clear.
- Once all hope of a peace treaty
has been ' abandoned, the Rus
sians will be frozen out of control
councils as they affect Western
Austria just as they. were-in-West
ern Germany. Whether a Western
Austrian government will be
formed, or whether some other
arrangement will be fol.md better
under local conditions, remains to
be seen.• But the ultimate effect
will be the same. '
Vienna will become anOther
Berlin, with big difference:
- the Allies will have a corridor
of their own for access between
the capital and the West zones,
something they so short-sight
edly failed 'to provide in Ger
many.
Phys. and Ph.D. candidates in Phys. Chem
.1. C. Penny Co. will interview. non.
technical June graduates interested in re
tailing Thursday, March 27.
Koppers Co., Chemical Division 'Will, in.
terview Juni graduates in Ch.E., M.E.,
and ,Chem. Wednesday, March 26. They
will also interview juniors' in M.E..,and
Ch.E. • . ,
- Standard Oil of Indiana will. interview
June graduates in_M.E. and C.E. Wednos.
day, March 26.
Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co.: will
interview graduates-at all levels in M.E.,
E.E., Metal., Min., Chem., C.E:, ger..and
Phys. Thursday,' March 27. t
Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corp. twill in
terview June graduates , in C&F,"L&L,' and
Cer. Thursday, March 27.
Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co.
will - interview June' graduates in Ch.E.
Thursday, March 27. •
Shell Oil Co. (Manufacturing Dept.)
interview graduates at all levels in Chem.
and 'Ch.B.. and B.S. and flit.S. candidates
in M.E. Thursday, March 27. ,
Weslaco Chemical Division will inter
view graduates at all levels in.Claeni. - 'aisl
Ch.B. Wednesday, Mara
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