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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
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writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un
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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;
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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.
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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
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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.
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Couple without" children wanted for. summer iob near State
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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
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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. ~
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