PACE FOUR.
O'lle Batty Collegian
Sucetonor to THE FREE LA.NCE, sot. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian
of The P..nr4vlvania State College.
entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934, at the State
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STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor: Tammie Bloom; Copy editors,
Dick McDowell, Lynn Kahanowitz; Assistants:
Jeannine Vandeuren, Mary Bolich, Byron Field
ing, Chuck Berryhill, Clare Yenney, Bill Sny
der.
Advertising staff: Barbara Bohrer, Laeh Koi
danov, Ed Steel.
Fraternity Decision
Is Important One
The legal pledging date, at which time men
will be able to pledge fraternities, will be an
nounced by Interfraternity Council shortly after
the start of next semester, when this semester's
grades are made available.
The decision whether or not to pledge a frat
ernity is one of the most important decisions
a man will be asked to make while in college.
His life in school and after graduation will be
greatly affected by this decision. Too much
thought and consideration cannot be given be
fore deciding whether or not to join a certain
fraternity.
While in school, this decision will primarily
affect the student's scholarship and social life.
Later in life, he will be influenced by the
friends he has made in college and just how
much he has benefited from his education,
both from the classroom and his outside life.
Men, especially the, freshmen, cannot be im
pressed too much with the importance of get
ting a rounded picture of fraternity life. When
considering a particular fraternity, a man
should think of all aspects of the house. He
will find houses with strictly an attitude of
scholarship. And he will find those with the
"country club" atmosphere. Either kind, if he
pledges, will play an important part in shaping
his later life.
The attitude that members in the house hold
toward pledges should also be considered. Some
houses have real pledge-beaters who have the
attitude, "Let the pledges do it." This attitude,
in any house, will use up much valuable study
time or take time from the social life of the
pledge.
Before pledging any house, a man should
learn provisions made for study hours, general
house average in scholarship, house policies
on dating, work required from pledges, (hell
weeks are no small consideration here), finan
cial requirements, rooming arrangements, frat
ernity activities, and the general house rating
on a national scale.
The biggest benefit offered by fraternity
life, so the advocates of the fraternity system
say, is that it takes away the impersonal
technique of modern education which is now
placed on an assembly line basis. This is done
by supplying social contacts and fellowship
not usually found in college dormitories. Be
cause Penn State's fraternity system is ranked
very high nationally, the houses here should
be representative or superior to those on other
campuses and offer everything those on other
campuses can offer.
Rushing is well underway now. Hundreds of
men will be invited to houses to get informa
tion on life in the house and to give members
of the house a chance to meet and know them.
Bids will be sent to those that house members
think are best suited for their house. Men not
rushed or given bids at this time should re
member that most fraternities will continue
rushing throughout the spring semester.
Those rushed who are considering fraternity
life should as k themselves these important
questions: "Is fraternity life the kind of life for
me, what can I do for this house, and what
can this house do for me?" Think it over. Espe
cially freshmen. It's important!
Wading in Mud!
Students are so much in the habit of cutting
across Holmes Field on their way to and from
classes in Temporary and White Hall, that they
continue to take the short cut, despite the
fact that tractors have already begun grading
the ground, in preparation for the new Student
Union Building.
If the habit continues, (and college students
aren't prone to change their way of doing
things), the contractor may be forced to put
up fences;' or if "traffic must be maintained,"
then hire traffic cops, put up signal lights, or
perhaps construct a temporary bridge over the
project.
As the excavation for the new SU continues,
better allow more time on your way to Tem
porary, and wear boots!
—Chuck Obertance
—Jim Gromillex
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Women to Suggest
Mortar Board Roll
For the first time since the establishment on
campus of Mortar Board, senior women's hon
orary society, junior women will be able to
suggest who should belong to that group. A poll,
conducted by board members, will obtain a
cross-seetion of opinion on who should be
tapped for membership. However, the poll will
serve only as a guide and-not, be binding in
final selections.
Because only sixth semester women are
eligible for membership, only those women
will -vote in the poll. A list of scholastically
eligible women will be submitted for women
to select from five to 25 for society member
ship. One requirement for membership into
the boxiorary is an All-College average of .3
higher than the All-College average of women.
This is the main requirement and the one
which has this year kept membership in that
group down to eight.
But, perhaps as a result of this poll, the board
will install a capacity of members. Certainly
there are more senior women with an average
- high enough who deserve recognition for their
attainment in scholarship.
The sad thing at this time is that only eight
women from the entire senior class are getting
any recognition at all for achievement in school.
And this/ achievement is their scholastic aver
age. Thus, no women who are outstanding in
campus activities or who have served the Col
lege in some way during their junior year can
gain recognition unless they have been able
to maintain a high average besides.
The only recognition for women's activities
at Penn State is gained through the junior
and sophomore hat societies. Women are
tapped during their freshman and sophomore
years, thus leaving active junior women
without a high average out in the cold. These
women deserve recognition, and the only feas
ible way at this time lies in the establishment
of a new senior women's hat society.
Although a proposal has been made to Hat
Society Council, nothing was done except talk
ing about it and forgetting about it. There is
clearly a need for such a society. Here's a chance
for the political parties this spring to pick up
a red hot issue, one that deserves support.
—C. 0.
Audience Enthralled
By Forum Speaker
Friday night's Community Forum audiences
were treated to what was probably the most
entertaining and at the same time most inform
ative talk in the Forum's last two years. Even
staunch Democrats had to admit the talk was
an excellent one, even though the Truman
Administration's foreign policy in the Far East
drew plenty of barbed comments from the
speaker.
Evidence that the audience was somewhat
overwhelmed by the Republican Congressman
from Minnesota, Dr. Walter H. Judd, was the
noticeable lack of coughing and shuffling of
feet which often mar the Forum speeches
after about an hour. Still further evidence
was the fact that only a handful of the
audience left before the question and answer
period, a popular feature of the evening.
Usually about half the audience takes its
leave at the end of the speech.
The effectiveness of the speech was such that
several professors were heard to remark that
they had never heard Far Eastern policy dis
cussed so lucidly and capably. Dr. Judd cer
tainly fulfilled the promises of the committee
in charge of the Community Forum this year.
Unfortunately, all too few students have rec
ogniz-ed the value of the Forum's program. The
committee, in selecting its speakers for this
year, tried to meet all the desires of the stu
dents, It provided a light program in Elsa Lan
caster's "Private Music Hall,"- and it chose
speakers who were known for their speaking
ability.
If next year's program is as good as the
present one, students will find few better
uses for the $3 a season ticket costs.
Gazette ...
Tuesday, January 13
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diate boards, 7 p.m. Collegian office.
COLLEGIAN editorial candidates, 7 p.m., 2
Carnegie.
ENGINEERING STUDENT 'COUNCIL, 7 p.m.,
107 Main Engineering.
FENCING CLUB, 7 p.m., Water Tower.
FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS OF AMER
ICA, 7:30 p.m.
NI'TTANY BOWMEN, 7 p.m.; 202 Engineering
B.
OMICRON NU, '7 p.m., Hame Economics Liv
ing Center.
PRE-VET, 7 p.m., Delta Theta Sigma, 126 E.
Fairmount avenue.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB, 7 p.m., 318 Willard.
SOPHOMORE CLASS meeting, 8 p.m., 121
Sparks.
TRIBUNAL, 7 p.m., 201 Old Main.
WRA BADMINTON CLUB, 6:30 p.m., White
Hall gym.
WRA OUTING CLUB, 7 p.m., White Hall
game room.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Boy to do janitor's -work from noon until three. Seven day's
a week.
Little Man on Campus
WISE AND OTHERWISE
Student Draft
Due to Tighten
It is becoming increasingly evident to college students that,
unless there is a drastic improvement' in the present manpower
situation, the college student draft deferment system will he changed
before this school year is out.
The Defense department has issued a call for 53,000 draftees
in February, 6000 of which will be from Pennsylvania. About 300,000
men will be drafted from January
to June. There has already been
a call for 48,000 men this month
and 50,000 are expected for March.
Selective Service will draft about
470,000 during the 1954 fiscal year
and 600,000 the following year.
All of next month's draftees will
be assigned to the Army.
In many cases, this all means
local draft boards will have to
dip for the first time into the
19-year-old • age bracket for
draftees in March. And it also
means many local draft boards
will have exhausted their sup
nip of 1-A men by August. At
this rate, young fathers and
college students should not be
surprised at a reclassification
sometime in May.
The Defense department. had
not expected to change the pres
ent deferment • policy until 1954,
but Draft Director Lewis B. Her
shey had warned it would be nec
essary. The heaviest' post-Korea
draft was from January to March,
1951. Those draftees are now fin
ishing their 24-month hitches and
must be replaced. About 1 million
men are now deferred because of
dependency, and 190,000 college
students are also deferred. These
two groups afford a promising
pool of potential 1-A men. ti
Some observers still believe
college students may be saved
by the Eisenhower administra
tion. These observers feel the
Republicans will oppose tighter
student deferments before Sep
tember, 1954. It is obvious, how
ever, that new administration or
not, .the manpower pool is
shrinking and men must come
from somewhere. College stu
dents are perhaps the most logi
cal source.
Under the present deferment
plan, students may seek defer
ment by having high class stand
ing or by scoring 70 or better on
a college draft -deferment test.
Students passing the test are not
assured a deferment, since de
freinent itself is up to the local
draft boards, but their chances of
deferment are considerably higher
than those who have flunked or
not taken the test.
Some officials have favored in
creasing the deferment test pass
ing grade to 75 as, one means .of
increasing the manpower pool.
Many students who have
flunked or not taken" tlbe tes
TUESDAY,. JANUARY 13, 1953
By Bibler
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By DAVE JONES
College Offers
Short Courses
In Ag School
Students may enroll in the
dairy farmink and the livestock
farming short courses to be held
Feb. 4 to March 4, A. L. Beam,
director of short courses, has an
nounced.
The dairy farming short course
is intended to train dairy herds
men, dairy herd improvement as
sociation supervisors, and will in
clude other agricultural activities
requiring knowledge of dairy
farming. Five purebred herds
will be used for practical study.
Pasture and grassland manage
ment are among subjects in
cluded in a four-week course.
Instruction in breeding, feed
ing, selection, and management
of livestock with special empha
sis on practical applications will
be included in the livestock farm
ing short course. One of the sub
jects included is practice in judg
ing market and breeding hogs,
sheep, beef cattle, and work
horses.
The seventh annual pest con
trol short course will be held
March 3,4, and 5, Dr. Hubert
Frings and D. E. H. Frear, joint
chairmen, have announced.
Dr. Hamilton Lauclani, U. S.
Department of Agriculture lab
oratory, Savannah, Ga., will dis
cuss the biology and control of
ants.
Further information about the
short courses may be obtained
from any county agricultural
agent's office or , from the ,direc
tor's office at the College.
Block and Bridle Club
Block and Bridle Club will meet
at 7 tonight in 206. Agriculture.
C. V. Hess, associate professor of
agricultural economics, will;speak.
are now being inducted, and a
few draft boards are, even calling
students who have passed the test.
This is an indication the student
deferment system is in for_ a not
too-far-off overhaul.