-’■'OF P'OTT'R ulta Satly Collegia ti Successor to THE FREE LANCE, tst 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inelosiT* luring the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-cJass matter July 5, 1934, at the State College, Pa.. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879 Collegian editorials represent the viewpoint of th» writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un signed editorials are by the editor. Dare Pellnilz riSSKSio franklin S. Kelly Editor . Business Mgr. - Managing Ed., Andy McNeillie: City Ed.,' Diive Jones; Sports Ed., Jake Highton; Copy Ed., Bettie Loux; Edit. Dir., Mimi Ungar; Wire Ed., Chuck Henderson; Soc. Ed., LaVonne Althouse; Asst. Sports Eds., Ted Soens, Bob Schoellkopf; Asst. Soc. Ed., Lynn Katianowitz; Feature Ed., Barry Fein; Librarian and Exchange Ed., Bob Landis. Asst. Bus. Mgr., Richard Smith; Local Advertising Mgr., Virginia Bowman; National Adv. Mgr., Alison Morley; Circulation Co-Mgrs., Gretchen Henry, Kenneth Wolfe; Per sonnel Mgr., Elizabeth Agnew; Promotion Co-Mgrs., Tercse Moslak, Don Stohl; Classified Adv. Mgr.» Marty Worthington: Office Mgr., Mary Ann Wertman; Senior Board, Nancy Marcinck, Ruth Pierce, Betty Richardson and Elizabeth Widraan. STAFF THIS ISSUE Editorial Staff: Nigh-t editor, Marshall Don ley; Copy editox-s, Bill Jost, Chuck Obertance: Assistants, A 1 Munn, Clare Yenney, Dick Angle stein, Bob Dunn, Ed Reiss. Ad Staff: Faye Hidinger, Kay Carr. New Hat Society Nearing Formation Although it’had a slow beginning, the pro posed senior women’s hat society will be organ ized and ready to select members by the end of the spring semester. However, before details in the constitution can be worked out, there is one bone of con tention that must be resolved. And that is the clause concerning the question of just who will be eligible for membership in the new hat group. The original constitutional requirement stated that oustanding senior activities women with an All-College average of 1.5 and who had not' been recognized by either Cwens or Chimes would be eligible. Among the reasons offered for the exclusion of former hatwomen were: (1) several worpen do not participate in major activities until their junior year including transfer students; (2) several women deserving recognition reach their senior year without be ing honored by any hat society—probably be cause of unavoidable loopholes in the groups tapping system; (3) there would be enough sen ior women who deserved to be recognized who were never hatwomen before; (4) once a girl has been tapped by a hat society, she has been sufficiently recognized for her activities work; and (5) the selections committee may be swayed to tap a former hatwoman since her gray hat is the symbol of work in activities and the new society is to recognize just that. Those members of Hat Society Council (the council is almost evenly split) who oppose the original clause feel that restricting the mem bership of the new hat group is to put two strikes on it before it starts. They contend that eliminating former hatwomen from the list of. eligibles for tapping would (1) mean that the seniors chosen would not necessarily be the top leaders on campus; (2) cut incentive for women who have already been tapped by Cwens or Chimes and can’t possibly attain the average for Mortar Board; (3) put the new group in direct competition with Mortar Board and (4) probably be considered a “cast-off” honorary society since the members had not been tapped until their senior year. (Of course, this would be erroneous, but the opposition wants to elim inate any change of popular error.) Therefore an alternate clause has been pro posed that states: no more than half the mem bership of the new hat society will have been members of either Cwens or Chimes. This com promise would assure that top leaders would be chosen, at least half of whom had never been recognized by any honorary society.. Hat Society Council has decided to let the final outcome depend upon the opinion of the women students themselves. The problem ■wjill be presented to dormitory units, and the women will vote on this issue concerning membership. What happens during this birth stage can de termine the .success or failure of the new hat society. Thus, it’s up to the women to learn the pros and cons of the controversial issues so that the “growing pain” period is over quickly —and the new women’s hat group is on its feet by spring. Best Food in Town CLOTHES SPIRAL NOTEBOOKS MAKE ' Last Weekend! nviu»vwiw PEINIV TH E MA N GEORGE BERNARD SHAW’S Hard and Flexible Covers STATE Take the best care of .. MAJOR BARBARA „ Narrow or Wide Lines T\TTVnnT> your shirts by having at Center Stage ' .. . 25c UIINIJCiIV them laundered at. February 20 and 21 Portage Cleaners Ticket* $1 at s.u. or * the door RY in fhg TIIR Open 24 Hours n ? s . Pugh st - , - - . DA —Baylee Friedman THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA More Care Needed In Use of Clauses A recent editorial in the Daily Collegian ad vocated the investigation of clauses, which sig nify “understandings” for membership, as set down in the constitutions of some College Greek groups and honorary societies. The editorial was prompted by a Time mag azine article which discussed the problems re lating to high school sororities in Alabama. A more current episode, the suspension of a na tional fraternity (according .to a national con stitution: to be composed of “men of white and full Aryan blood”) at Williams College because it pledged a Jewish boy, deserves serious at tention. The fraferhiiy, which has a chapter on the Penn State campus, cannot be criticized in general for lhis action; It seems that, upon investigation, men at national headquarters of the fraternity involved should take the place of some of the men in college chapters 'and get a practical education. The facts involved' in- the case are that the fraternity pledged the Jewish student last Sep tember. It is reported, that a stir was caused at the national headquarters after which three graduates and three undergraduates were ap pointed to poll the alumni and get their stand on the matter. The result: the alumni approved the pledging of the Jewish man. About a week ago, the 57 members of the Williams chapter of the frat ernity again approved their decision to admit the Jewish student. And this is where the national office came in. If suspended the Williams chapter "as an interim disciplinary action." The problem will not be taken up again until the fraternity's next national convention in August, 1954. At that lime, the Williams chapter can be per manently suspended .if three-fourths of the group uphold the national office's action. If the Williams chapter members thought the Jewish student was worthy of membership and, what’s more, approved membership for him, why does a national council have to step in and (1) make a national issue out of an ever-re cuiTent problem, (2) jeopardize the position of the particular fraternity as well as the frater nity' system in general, and (3) illustrate lack of judgment and moral standards in a world constantly trying to overcome these prejudices that have been built up through our times? If seems to us that those fraternal organiza tions which do have discriminating clauses should begin to be a little more discriminating in their use of them. An incident like the. one at Williams College, to many interested per sons. lacks any conceivable amount of logic. —Mimi Ungar Gazette.. Tuesday, February 17 'AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTI CAL SCIENCES, AND SOCIETY OF AUTO MOTIVE ENGINEERS; 7:30 p.m., 110 E.E. BELLES LETTRES, 7 p.m., NE Atherton lounge. . COLLEGIAN BUSINESS CANDIDATES, 7 p.m., 1 Carnegie. COLLEGIAN EDITORIAL CANDIDATES, 7 p.m., 2 Carnegie. COLLEGIAN PROMOTION STAFF, 6:45 p.m., 11 Carnegie. FENCING CLUB, 7 p.m., Water Tower. RADIO GUILD WORKSHOP, 7-10 p.m., 304 Sparks. -.- WRA BOWLING CLUB, 7 p.m., White Hall. COLLEGE PLACEMENT interviews can be arranged and information secured in 112 Old Main. Bell Aircraft Company will interview 8.5., M.S. and Ph.D. candidates in Aero E., E.E., M.E., Physics and Mathe- matics, Feb. 20. Bureau of Ships will interview B.S. candidates in M.E., E.E., and C.E., Feb. 23. ' Shell Oil Compan)', production department will interview B.S. and M.S. candidates in Minins: Engineering and P.N.G.,, Chemical E., Civil, Elec., and Mechanical E., Feb. 23 and 24. Swift & Company will interview B.S. candidates in Chemistry, Chemical E., and E.E., Feb. 20. Raytheon Manufacturing Company will interview 8.5., M.S. and Ph.D. candidates in Physics, M.E., E.E., Feb. 20. National Security Agency will interview B.S. candidates in E.E. and M.E. and Arts and Letters with Math., Lan- guage or General Science majors, Feb. 20. 2mest & Ernest will interview B.S. candidates in Account ing and E & C.; Also Juniors for internships next winter, Feb. 20. Atlantic Refining Company, production department, will interview B.S. candidates in Geology,. Phys.; Math., Chem. Eng., P.N.G., M.E., E.E., C.E., and Mining Eng., Feb. 23 and 24. Carbide & CaTbon Chemical Company will interview 8.5., M.S., candidates in Chem Eng./ CheriP., M.E., Feb. 23 and 24‘. ' Standard Oil Company (ESSO) will-' interview 8.5., and Ph.D. candidates in • Chem, Fuel Tech., Chem. Eng., C.E., E.E. and Me Eng., Feb. -23 and 24. . National Carbon Company will interview B.S. candidates in Chem Eng., Chem., Phys., E.E.; 1.E., M.E., - - Accounting, and Metallurgy, Feb. £4 and 25. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Couple without" children wanted for. summer iob near State College. - ■ . Camp Androscoggin, Maine will interview Feb. 19., Camp Carondowaima, Pittsburgh will interview Feb. 20. Wanted—counter boy, 9 to 12 Monday, Tuesday, and Wed- nesday. * Wanted: Graduate sti tudent —girl—care for invalid for room. Little Man On Campus "Do this paper over—Hi on a paper that isn'i n< When we picked up the current issue of Esquire magazine to read Louis Bromfield’s “The Shame of Our Colleges,” we. expected to be quite disgusted when we finished it. Here, we thought, was another instance of someone getting himself worked up over nothing. But we had to admit, when we put down the article, that perhaps Mr. Bromfield was all too right. According to Mr. Bromfield, the amount of education and cul ture the average college student gets today is “appallingly weak and small.” Many college grad uates, he says, cannot think at all. This condition, he says, is due to “our failure to discipline our children, our tolerance of down right subversion in the schools, and our emphasis on the college degree rather than the college education, ” Of the three causes given by Mr. Bromfield, his third seems the most reasonable. As he states. "There are too many young people in our institutions of higher education who are there not to acquire knowledge but to get a job somewhere, or to make a club, or to escape from their father's business or. most • commonly, simply to please their parents. There are too many who don't want to be there at all and make passing marks only because their teach ers nag them or their parents scare them." We- feel, however, that. Mr. Bromfield is exaggerating as. so many critics are prone to do these days, the amount of ‘'subversion” in our American colleges. This subversion does not come from out-and-out Communists, accord ing to the Pulitzer Prize winning author, but from professors who are driven left by such factors as ‘•his economic status, the peculi arities of his psychology, and the special circumstances of his back ground which set him apart from the average citizen.” Mr. Bromfield writes that America’s small regard for the status of its professors, much un like that of other 'countries, is one .reason v/hy so many of them turn to Marxian socialism. He contin ues, “In most cases our teachers and professors are vastly. under paid (although some considering their true capacities, are over- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1953 tow do you expect me to give a 3 teat?" The Way We See It By DAVE PELLNITZ paid). They must deprive them selves not only of all the luxuries enjoyed by the uneducated bar barian next door with three cars in the garage, but even of the comforts taken for granted by the average skilled industrial work man.” We are inclined io agree with Jhe last part of the above state- . ment, but not with Mr. Brom field's contention that these difficulties influence a great many teachers to become en gulfed. in the propaganda of the Communists. We have more, faith in the intelligence of most of our professors than that. We were also glad to note that Mr. Bromfield has little use of loyalty oaths. He says, “The an swer is not to exact oaths of loy alty, which are meaningless . . . It is not the suppression of ‘in tellectuals’ and ‘intelligentsia-lib .erals’ . as campus speakers or teach ers.” Mr. Bromfield’s answer to the problem is that the vigilance of parents, editors, legislators, school principals, and college presidents is necessary over the teachers who place emphasis on- propaganda and emotion rather than on fact and logical thought and who re fuse to give an honest interpre tation of both sides of an ideo logical question. “The professor who emphasises propaganda rath er than fact ... is incompetent and a bad influence on education and. deserves discipline or dis missal,” Mr. Bromfield writes. The famed author concludes his article with the statement that "education at its present stage in the U.S. seems to be merely messy." Unfortunately, at all too many schools, he may be right. But we don't believe that, in general, the situation is as bad as Mr. Bromfield paints it. ~ By Bibl
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