WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1952 Ot Batlli 4C,tategiati Suoseimes t. rSE PR= LANCS. eat. UM , Published .Tuesday thrOugh Saturday mornings inelttalve the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of Tho P*Nitagloaala State College . Entered as oteortd-elass matter July I. 1634, at the state Collette. Pa.. Post Office under the act of March E. 1879 CoOman editorials. represent' the .ieVrpOinl of lair wrltess not neeessarib the policy of the newspaper fro signed editorials art br the editor Dare PeUnits - Franklin S. Kelly Editor , • Business Mgr. - Managing Ed.. Andy McN eillie City Ed.. Dave Jones: Sportsw Ed., J ake , "Richton . Copy Ed.- Bettie' Loux : Edit Dir.. Jim Gromiller : Wire Ed. Chuck Henderson; Soe. Ed. Ginger 0 poczenski : Asst. Sports Ed.. Ted Soens : Asst. Soc Ed.. LaVonne Althouse : Feature Ed., .Julie lbbotson : Librarian and Exchange Ed. , Ikcaner Luetzel. STAFF THIS ISSUE Night editor: Lu Martin; Copy editots: ,Mary Lou Adams and Bob Schoellkopf; Assistants: Peggy McClain, Ed Reiss, Bill Snyder, Joe Obester, Joan Packard. Advertising staff; Sondra Duckman, Eli Aren berg, Ethel Wilson, Eleanor JJngethuem. New Hat Society Wouldn't Be Castoff The chief Stumbling block to the - forination of a new senior women's hat society seems to be the requirement that a woman initiated. into the group shall not have belonged to either Cwens, sophomore women's hat society, or Cbimes, junior women's hat society. Another argument against the proposed group is that women would regard the new hat society as merely a castoff from Mortar Board, senior women's ,honorary. It would seem that the second viewpoint is merely rationalization on the - part of. some wo men who aren't particularly anxious to see a senior women's hat society formed. The require ment for membership appears to be one way of making the "castoff" idea seem authentic. There is absolutely no reason why a new; hat group should be considered inferior to Mortar Board. In the first place, Mortar Board is pri marily a recognition of scholastic ability, with leadership at the College considered as a sec ondary point. The new hat group would recog nize the many other senior women who have been active on campus, but whose scholastic averages do not meet the requirements of Mor tar Board. These women deserve this recogni tion. The requirement that a woman shall not have belonged to either Cwens or Chimes seems like an attempt to present the new group as a castoff. It should be a recognized fact that few women, if any, become active in any field once they have passed their junior year. On the other hand, a woman who has been active from her fresh man year on can be recognized once—perhaps in her sophomore yearand hever receive rec ognition for • the things she might accomplish in her junior or senior years. Under this requirement, for instance, a wo man active on a student council might, be tapped fora hat society in her sophomore,year. Later on, she might become president of that council, and perhaps from there go on to an even more important student position on campus. But be clause she had already been tapped by a hat society, she can get no other recognition for her accomplishments since that time. By removing the controversial membership . requirement, what happens? The •cream of the women tapped by the other two hat societies become available for the new group, making it a very impressive group. It would be com prised of the top women on campus, whose av erages are, perhaps, not the best, but who have played an important role in building the status of women at Penn State. The women insist that 1.5 be the minimum average for admittance to the new group. This will undoubtedly keep some deserving women from the recognition they ought to get, but at least some headway is being made. A new women's hat society is almost a reality. With sincere consideration on the part of every one concerned, this "almost" can be wiped out. TRANSPORTATION NOTICE CHRISTMAS VACATION Take a Tip and. Make Your Trip by GREYHOUND For the convenience of PENN STATE STUDENTS, SPECIAL BUSES will he provided for the Christmas Vacation and will leave from the PARKING LOT, SOUTH of RECREATION HALL at 1:00 p.m. SAT URDAY, DECEMBER the 20th, 1952 RESERVATIONS for the SPECIAL BUSES will be made with. the purchase of your ticket at the qREYHOUND POST HOUSE. AL L RESERVA TIONS MUST BE MADE BY 10;00 p.m. FRIDAY, DECEMBER THE 19th. GREYHOUND POST HOUSE 146 M. Atherton St. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA All-Veteran Dorms Could Prove Bad The turning down of the proposed plan to set up veterans' dormitories by the Dean of Men's student advisory board perhaps seemed strange and unfair to many people, especially to the vets themselves. One of the chief reasons for the decision was the fact that surveys conducted in :the Nittany- Pollock areas showed only slightly more than 50 per cent of the ex-G.l.'s in those areas were interested in moving to an all-veteran dormi tory. Of this 50 per cent, there were probably some who didn't care one way or another, but decided to vote along with their friends on the matter. The other chief reason for turning down the proposal lay in the concern over the effect of this move on the vets themselves s_and on the other men in the dorms. Many of the requests which came into Dean'Simes expressed legiti mate reasons for the desire to have a dorm for vets only. One of these was that many of the freshmen, and even some of the upperclassmen, made studying almost impossible by their noise in the evenings. The Dean's solution to this problem was a good one—have a core of vets and older students in each dorm to help calm down the rambunctious underclassmen and thus make studying possible. Both the dean and the board feared that the granting of this request would lead to similar requests which couldn't possibly be approved. The board also expressed the opinion that the veterans, who in most cases are older than the average student, must begin to habilitate them- selves to the conditions around them. They are now college students and must adjust to that type of life. Going off by themselves would only tend to widen the gap between them and the average college student. which isn't a de sirable situation. Undoubtedly there are ' special cases among the vets which should receive individual atten tion. This can be handled, however, through the bean of Men's office, without putting into ef fect a policy - which could have several bad effects. Drive With Care Friday Penn State students en masse will be heading out of Nittany Valley and home for the two-week Christmas vacation. If past weather conditions prevail, sometime during that period Pennsylvania will be hit by . its first big snowfall. We hesitate to predict the weather, but it cannot be emphasized too often that with snow and ice come slippery roads and driving hazards. Icy highways can be of special danger to college students dur!ng this time of year. Anxious to get home, there is the ever-present tendency to step a little harder' on the gas and "push it." Over the holidays a gay party ing mood prevails, and it is easier than ever to forget about safe driving. Insurance company statistics don't lie. And they indicate that more young men and women are dying in auto accidents than ever before. Let's hope the weather man spares us of icy highways over Christmas, but if we do get snow —let's remember the statistics—and take if easy. —Jim Gromiller Gazette ... Wednesday, December 17 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, 105 M.E., 7 p.m, PENN STATE BARBELL CLUB, Sigma Nu, 7 p.m, PERSHING RIFLES. Armory, class "A" uni form, 7 p.m. WRA BOWLING CLUB, White Hall alleys, 7 p.m, WRA MODERN DANCE CLUB, White Hall dance room, 7 p.m. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Charles Beattie, Jesselyn Clark, Ruth Eshel man, Barbara Felt, Robert Galloway, Alyce Grunberg, Louis Ivey, Eleanor McKenzie, Mar gery Phillips, John Rentschler, Eugene Sovira. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Roy to work evenings in local restaurant. Phone 4181 the Man on Campus ture of an admirer of mine over in the MI school." In the discussions which resulted when the local chapter of Mor tar Board was the official guest of the Bucknell chapter of the senior women's honorary society Saturday, we, as part of the former group, were impressed by two things: 1. Bucknell University does not forbid drinking by any part of the student body and has no particular drinking problem. 2. Bucknell women are very concerned over the female domin- ance of College activities and the tive positions. These two were particularly ation is exactly reversed at Penn State in both instances. .The first point needs no com ment except that the discussions which rev olved around it brought to light that as recently as ten years ago, the College had no laws forbidding drink ing. That would place the im position of the law at the be ginning of World War II when so many service men and vet erans were on campus. Concerning the second point, we were very surprised to learn that Bucknell's yearbook editor, newspaper editor, student play di rector, and other important heads were women. Women in these positions are in Mortar Board, which therefore has the potential of our. Lion's Paw, senior men's honorary society. When the discussion beg a n, State's chapter was mostly im pressed by Bucknell's female dom inance. But by the end of the con versations, we were even more impressed by the realization .that A HINT FOR YOUR PENN STATE SOUVENIRS • JACKETS • SWEAT SHIRTS • SEALS 16 I* *AIN*. 111-115 S. Allen Spices of Life GINGER OPOCZENSKI ack of men in student administra- nteresting to us, because the situ-, Penn State women work under a definite handicap. A concrete example would be that few people would venture to predict that either political party would nominate a woman for the presidency of All-Col lege Cabinet. And when, finally, last spring an outstanding wom an became a candidate for All- College vice president, she was defeated. A woman Daily Col legian or LaVie editor seems out of the question, and this year, for the first time since the war. a woman got a position as high as fourth from the top on the newspaper staff. Is the explanation just that Penn State men are better leaders than the women? We feel some of the blame is the women's for not asserting them selves and taking a greater in terest in campus politics. But we also think Penn State men are somewhat to blame for not ac cepting women on an equal basis. 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