P,^TTT» (iUie iilatlg Collegia it Suceujor ta THE FREE LANCE, eat. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive luring the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegia?) •f The Pennsylvania State College Entered as second-clasa matter July a. li>34, at the State College. Pa.. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Collegian editorials represent the viewpoint ot the ” writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un signed editorials are by the editor. Dare Pellnitz • Franklin S. Kelly Editor Business Mgr. Managing Ed., Andy McNeillie; City Ed., Dave Jones: Sports Ed., Jake Highton; Copy Ed., Bettie Loux; Edit. Dir., Mini Ungar; Wire Ed., Chuck Henderson: Soc. Ed., LaVonne Althouse; Asst. Sports Eds., Ted Soens, Bob Schoellkopf: Asst. Soc. Ed., Lynn Kahanowitz: Feature Ed., Barry Fein: Librarian and Exchange Ed.. Bob Landis: Photo Ed., Brucr Schroeder. Asst. Bus. Mgr., Richard Smith t. Local Advertising Mgr., Virginia Bowman; National Adv. Mgr., Alison Morley; Circulation Go-Mgrs., Gretchen Henry, Kenneth Wolfe; Per* sonncl Mgr., Elizabeth Agnew; Promotion Terese Moslak; Don Stohl; Classified Adv. Mgr., Marty Worthington: Office Mgr., Mary Ann Wertman; Senior Board, Nancy Marcinek. Ruth Pierce, Betty Richardson and Elizabeth Widman. STAFF THIS ISSUE Editorial staff: Night editor, Chuck Ober ' tance; Copy editors, Mary Lee Lauffer, Bill Jost; Assistants, Byron Fielding, Dolores Spathis, Dorothea Bourne, Bob Dunn, Nancy Van Tries, Joe Beau Seigneur. Photographers, Arnie Rosen berg, Bruce Schroeder. Ad staff: Bob Potter, Kay Carr, Faye Hidin ger. College, Athletes Have Fine Records Penn State’s boxing, gymnastic, and wrest ling teams brought back a total of eight indi vidual championships to the campus, following their competition.in the Eastern contests the past weekend. It is indeed interesting to reflect- on all the criticism that has come up about the lack of athletic scholarships at Penn State. It has been said that the reason we do not get our athletic teams in the spotlight is because other colleges out-bid us for the top-notch high school players. Although it may be true that other schools out-bid us for top players, since scholarships for athletes ai Penn State usually amount to fee scholarships, it seems that our athletes are making a good name for themselves. - The wrestlers won' the Eastern Intercolle giate championship, the boxers placed third, and the gym team managed to get four indi vidual titles. With this record, we can certainly be proud of these three teams. We can be proud, also, that such a record has been obtained without excessive use of subsidized athletes. If this record can be obtained under a plan such as .we have at Penn State —where very few full scholarships are given to athletes students should not have any gripes about Penn State’' 'failure to secure outstanding athletes. An athletic program is an integral pari of a college program. And it does serve as one , of the main items for advertising a particular school. We should like to lake this space to commend the College and the three athletic teams for their ouslanding records. The stu dents at the College, although they may not turn out in thousands at the pep rallies, pride themselves in the records made over the past season. Word to the Wise Should Be Sufficient Last week an unfortunate situaton arose as an indirect result of a college engineering frat ernity’s initiation. The event occurred at Clemson College, S.C. A group of initiation candidates had been taken four miles north of Clemson on the Seneca highway. They were blindfolded and told to walk back to Clemson. However, the wives of two of the men learned of the plan, drove to the spot, and offered to drive the men back. One of them had removed his blindfold and was standing beside the girls’ car, when he was struck by another auto. He died of injuries he received in the accident. The wives' intentions were certainly good ones, but an accident came about anyway. Such immature initiation duties have long outlived their value. We have learned from experience that duties such as these can. and do, result in some kind of damage. It is events such as this one that have a tend ency to place fraternities in a bad light. If Penn State fraternities continue to steer clear of such play, as most of them do. they will be on the safe side. Even more, we feel that the fraternity sys tem that "talks down" such practices is one step ahead of any other system. The college • youth of. today, it has been said, like's to have fun. But, such practices as the Clemson event are out of the realm of fun, when the result proves that the fun can very definitely be im paired. > Since accidents have occurred throughout the history of the fraternity systems in colleges, there can be little harm in once again repeating, “A word to the wise is sufficient.” —Mimi Ungar M.U. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE'COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Spring Week Load Must Be Shared .Plans for the 1953 Penn State Spring Week are now well underway. Beginning with the coronation of Miss Penn State May 11 and end ing with Senior Ball and houseparties May 15 and 16, this year’s Spring Week promises to be the best ever. One of the most popular of Spring Week events in the past has been the Spring Carni val. Last year, helped for the first lime in four, years by nice weather and a student holiday, the carnival netted over $lBOO for the student scholarship fund. Few who attended the carn ival last year will forget the crowds and gen eral good fun which pervaded the crowded parking lot behind the Sigma Chi house; In an effort to thin down the crowds which last year thronged the aisles so badly that it was almost impossible to walk, and to alleviate the problem of bad weather, the carnival this year will be held two nights. Booth applications for the carnival must be submitted by April 1. In the past, fraternities and sororities have turned out in full strength to provide variety and gaiety to Spring Carnival. Because of the close-knit character of the Greek system at Penn State, it is relatively easy for these groups to get together some kind of booth attraction. Independents, on the other hand, because they are so spread out, find it more difficult . to get a booth ready for the carnival. The only way to combat the problem seems to be to have several dorms in the Niitany-Pollock area or a floor in one of the large dorms com bine to set up a booth. Such an action might even be helpful in the long run in drawing the independents together to form a stronger group. But only two weeks remain for groups to sub mit their booth applications. According to Spring Week rules, each application must give some idea of what the booth will be like, and the application submitted first will be given preference in the case of idea duplication. The., best policy is to get applicatons in as soon as possible. The bigness and success of Spring Week in general rests in the capable hands of the Spring Week committee. But the success of ~ the fifth annual Spring Carnival will lie chiefly on students and the organizations to which they belong. It will be hard to live up to last year's carnival, but it is not impossible. The students must do their share to make this —ar's Spring Week "the best ever." College Placement Starting today, notices of the College Place ment Service, usually found in the Gazette, will no longer be run. Because of mechanical limi tations, the Daily Collegian has long had the problem of trying to give the Placement Ser vice as much space as possible without taking out other sections of the page. The result has been • a dissatisfaction on the part of the Placement Service with the notices as they have been run. A complete list of place ment notices is available at the Placement Of fice in 112 Old Main and each school bulletin board contains most of the notices concerning / graduates in that'particular school. Students in terested in job interviews should check these bulletin boards for information concerning the dates of scheduled interviews. Gazette... March 17, 1953 ACCOUNTING CLUB, 7 p.m., Alpha Chi Rho fraternity. BELLE LETTRES, 7 p.m., Northeast Atherton Lounge. CAMERA CLUB, 7:30 p.m., 305 Horticulture. COLLEGIAN BUSINESS CANDIDATES, 7 p.m., 1 Carnegie. COLLEGIAN 7 p.m., Carnegie. COLLEGIAN JUNIOR AND INTERMEDIATE AD. BOARDS, 7 p.m., 9 Carnegie. COLLEGIAN PROMOTION BOARD, 7 p.m., 11l Carnegie. EDUCATION STUDENT COUNCIL, 8:15 p.m., 103 Willard. FENCING CLUB, 7 p.m., Rec Hall. FRESHMAN CLASS MEETING, 7:30p.m., 10 Sparks. FROTH’PROMOTION STAFF, members and candidates, 7 p.m. HOME EC. CLUB and FORESTRY SOCIETY, square dance, 7 p.m., TUB. LIEBIG CHEMICAL SOCIETY, 7:30 p.m., 105 Frear. LION PARTY STEERING COMMITTEE, 7:30 p.m., 302 Willard. PENN STATE CAMERA CLUB, 7 p.m., 305 Horticulture. TOWN COUNCIL, 8 p.m., 103 Willard. WRA OUTING CLUB, .7 p.m., White Hall game room. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Oliver Bonnert, Patricia Collins, William Free burn, Bruce Gretz, Walter Hoopes, Gatelle Kane, Nancy Kepner, Emerson Laubach, Caroline Manbeck, Sally Meredith, Roger Owens, Bruce Parize, Donald Rehm, Edward Rizika, Hannah Ruttenberg, Gloria Tieger, Ronald Velosky and Lee Myers. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Camp Conrad Weiser, Pa., will interview March 17. Boys wanted to work for meals on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, for the rest of the semester. Summer resort seeking three or four piece combo. Camp Redwing and Wiiuiicut. will interview March 18 and 19. 'Camp Skycrest, Pa., will interview boys March 18. Camp Sinking Creek, Pa. will interview boys March. 18. Couple without children wanted for summer employment near State College Boy with experience wanted as linotype operator. Waiters wanted for permanent work in fraternities. Interviewers for survey. EDITORIAL CANDIDATES. little Man Oil Canipub "Do any of you remember where I was when my lecture was interrupted I've given it so many times I wasn't listening.",. >reting the New: Interi Allied Same to Britain and "the United States under Eden and Dulles react the same to Malenkov’s peace talk as they did under Acheson, Bevin, and Morrison to Stalin’s peace talk. They ask for the proof of the pudding. ... _ .. For a country with the recent record of Russia, .the diplomats would consider themselves way out on a limb if they took any other attitude, Foreign diplomats in Moscow generally look a more optimis tic attitude. They thought Mal enkov might really mean some thing when he says all trou blesome issues between Russia and other countries were sub ject to peaceful settlement. The reply, as usual, is "sure they are. On Russia's own unacceptable terms." . There is another factor in the present situation. Over and be yond the possibilities of actual settlement, making another con ference with the Russians look more profitable than those of the past have proved. For one thing, there is need for exploring the possibility that an actual change is taking place in Russian policy. The Allies have always supported their military program with the idea that it would one day force a change in Soviet policy. It would be foolish, under the theory, always to pro test that no change is possible. It would be just as dangerous to forget that such a change un der any form of totalitarianism is extremely unlikely, or to think’ it could be depended upon for any considerable future even if it did occur. 200 Princeton Professors Protest Loyalty Probes A protest against the “inquisi torial” methods used in the cur rent political investigation of universities was signed by 200 professors at Princeton University Sunday. The professors, members of the Princeton chapter of the Ameri can Association of University Professors, warned that there was danger not only from avowed enemies of the-country, but from misguided friends within the Uni ted States. They suggested that the fitness of a teacher should-be determined by .other teachers in accordance with principles calcu lated to insure a just and reason able decision. “We deplore the failure of many of our educational, religious, and political leaders to define the true nature of this growing threat to our intellectual and spiritual her- lefcction Peace Talk By J. M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News Analyst Only lime will give any per spective on the slight indica tions so far that Joseph Stalin is rapidly headed for ihe : role .of forgotten man. But the brev ity with which the Supreme Soviet kissed him off at its Sun day meeting was rather surpris ing, and his bare mention by Malenkov equally so. There is a bare possibility that when Malenkov says things may be negotiated it doesn't mean ex actly the same as when Stalin said it. fits him for anything except. an imitation of Stalin. He has been a shadow, not a leader. It is'up to the' Western -Allies to diagnose him and his policies rapidly, and they can’t do that by standoffish ness. It may be all right to demand of Russia that, before other na tions can talk to her about pos sibilities of living together, she renounce some of her long-stand ing attitudes by ending the Korean War and tensions in Ger many and agreeing to an Austrian neace treaty. This is demanding that she strip herself of arguing points at the peace table. It may be what she should do, but not what she is likely to do. itage and to protest against it,” the paper signed by the 200 pro fessors said. The paper asserted that “as a body” American teach ers have rejected the Communist doctrine, and. the 200 declared themselves ! as “loyal to the coun try and to the * ideal of free in quiry.” Interference with academic freedom is a national hazard, the paper said, continuing: “The spirit of free inquiry is not a privilege claimed for a single profession, but the touchstone of our character as a people, the proved source of our national strength. “Its defilement in any. area of our society is a threat to the en tire body politic, for we have had proof enough in our time, that liberty is most affected by stealthy ..,,, erosion, not by frontal assault.” TUESDAY, MARCH 17,. 1953 liv Bibier It is doubtful that his training
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