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Do We Need a New
In this final week of spring semester classes,
when most students are trying to clean up
loose ends and get through late book and lab
reports, some professors are still giving blue
books. It is hard to discover why.
There are students—not many, but some—
who are having bluebooks as late as tomorrow
afternoon. Final exams start Saturday' after
noon. The scheduling office is willing to put
itself out to avoid scheduling three final exams
for any one student within 24 hours. It seems
the least a professor can do is to advance his
bluebooks prior to the last week of °classes.
It is impossible for a' student to study for a
final and a bluebook, or quiz, at the same time.
Obviously, if he has a bluebook tomorrow and
a final exam Saturday, something must give.
It will probably be the course grade.
There is no College regulation concerning
administration of bluebooks during the last
week of classes.' In the interest of students.
such a regulation deserves thorough consider
ation. Without such a ruling, a student may
Safety Valve ---.On Discrimination Editorial
TO THE EDITOR: This letter is written in
reply to your unsigned editorial of May 19,
relating to Columbia's ruling which bans dis
criminatory clauses in the charters of that
school's fraternities.
You cited various organizations other than
social fraternities which maintain discrimin
atory clauses and stated that these were truly
discriminatory while those of the social fra
ternities were not . . . The professional organ
ization which offers itself as a reward, how
ever, acts as an incentive to those who might
be of that profession and even though they
cannot attain the required level, their efforts
benefit the people whom they serve.
Undoubtedly the fraternities can discriminate
and forbid freedom of choice for they are doing
it. A social organization, however, ought to base
its selection of associates on the candidate's sta
ture as a human being . . . Is there any other
way for a democratic and Christian people?
*Letter cut —Ernest J. Barry
Interpreting the News
On the basis of scattered
. early
returns, President Eisenhower's
explanation of the nation's 'fi
nancial position with relation to
the conflict with Russia was
better received by the country's
editorial writers than by Con
gress.
' What Congress would hear
from the people remained to be
seen.
Faced by the determination
of an important Republican
congressional group to reduce
defense spending and foreign
aid below the minimum safe
ty point which he believed his
budget recommendations had
attained, and by a concarted
drive to reduce taxes in the
face of a budget still far from
balanced, the President had
gone to the people.
He attempted to reduce the
situation to its simplest termz,
a very difficult thing when deal
ing with so many billions of
dollars, with authorized but un
spent funds to consider, and with
an explanation needed, for in
stance, of how the. Air Force can
be stronger with 120 wings than
with 143.
May 21, 1953
DEMOLAY, 7 p.m., 214 Willard.
PENN STATE GRANGE, elections, 7 p.m.,
100 Horticulture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, 7:30 p.m., West
Dorm lounge.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Ralph Brooks, John Budesky, Jose Carreiro,
John Connerton, Glenn Grove, Kent Kiehl,
Michael Kudlick, Lee Kummer, Geraldine Lalli,
Ralph Laudenslayer, Richard Lednak, Gino
Mori, Barbara Norton, Ruth Oram, Wilheim
Reudenbach, Martin Rudler, Alan' Schriesheim,
Walter Gegl, William Souleret, Wendell -Toland
and William K. Wright.
tZir Batig Collegian
Speeeenor to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
Beyond what could be safely
saved—and he said the adminis
tration's sear c h for possible
economies would be continuous
—the people would just have to
go on paying.
To many the speech came as
a dash of cold water. They
had expected, last fall, that the
new President would pull the
rabbit of tax reduction out of
the magic hat. But Eisenhower
said that in an age of danger
from a great power determined
to destroy freedom around the
world, there was no magic
hat. 0
He relied mostly on logic, but
there were stretches of elo
quence, too.. He wanted people
to feel •it an honor to carry their
heavy load in the cause he ad
vocated.
Congress flew right back at
him. The hue and cry for more
economy on the one hand, and
for fax reductions on the other,
had begun in anticipation of
the Eisenhower stand, and con
tinued unabated. Republican
members of the House ways
and means committee agreed
for the most part that they
would oppose extension of the
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Exam Rule ?
end up taking two bluebooks, a quiz and a
final exam in one week. This is not conducive
to healthy living.
There is a College regulation, however, which
states no final exams shall be given outside the
regular exam period. Some professors are not
adhering to this regulation; final exams are
being given during the last week of classes, as
in other. semesters. When student and profes
sor agree to such an arrangement; there should
be no complaint against it. However, professor
and student do not always agree.
A well planned course is all that is necessary
to prevent scheduling finals and bluebooks
during the last week of classes. Naturally, the
best planned courses may go. awry. But if the
professor sees his lesson plan is going wrong,
he can always doctor it before the last week
of classes is upon his students.
Most professors are considerate enough not
to schedule bluebooks and quizzes the last' week
of classes. For those who are not, perhaps a
College regulation is necessary.
TO THE EDITOR: "Therefore, if a fraternity
does not 'want one class of friends, it has the
right to discriminate against that group."
Doesn't this statement, appearing in your edi
torial of May 19, contradict the whole Ameri
can idea? Certainly, a man has the right to
choose his own friends. He may accept or re
ject the people he meets, on the grounds of
their individual merits; but he can miss many
rich friendships if he starts with the assump
tion that because someone belongs to a certain
"class," he will not accept that person.
Fraternities could furnish an excellent means
for persons of different cultural backgrounds to
learn to know and -understand one another.
However, discriminatory clauses make for isola
tion, distrust and the strengthening of prejudice.
I cannot believe that there are not in any fra
ternity enough men who are willing to over
come these things to offset those who •are not.
*Letter cut —Alice T. Doles
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Students from Philadelphia area wanted for
summer jobs in selling.
Men -wanted for meal serving jobs on and off
campus next fall.
Men wanted for garden and lawn, housework,
and odd jobs.
Men wanted for production work near- Lan
caster. Full time summer work.
Boy or girl with•medical lab experience wanted
for latter part of July, beginning of - August,
to work in State College.
Boy or girl with ability to take x-rays wanted
for first two weeks of August in State College.
Pottstown Community Camp will interview
waterfront man May 23.
Collegian editorials repre
sent the viewpoint of the
writers, not necessarily the
policy of the newspaper. Un
signed ' editorials are by the
editor.
By J. M. Roberts Jr.
Associated Press News Analyst
excess profits tax.
Senator Taft said he was "dis
appointed' in Eisenhower's fig
ure for defense and foreign aid,
and said the problem should be
studied to see if 40 billions
couldn't be made to do.
Businessmen of all classes
pointed to inequalities an d
hardships in the excess profits
tax, but the stockmarket had
discounted th e President's
words in advance and re
mained steady.
The problem 'has been build
ing up to a climax for years.
It's evaluation involved th e •
chances for war. It involved the
balance point between a sound
dollar, a sound economy, and a
safe level of military defense.
It involved not only the prac
tical but the spiritual coopera
tion of the Western Allies. It
involved the fate not only of
this nation, but of all nations.
The battle of viewpoints
promised to be bitter. None
could say who was right, who
wrong, or if there still re
mained a better middle
ground. That would be re
vealed only as , new pages of
history were turned.
Little Man on Cathpus
It's hard 'to believe that in two days finals will make this - place so
busy students will come early just to get a seat."
With
Open By MARSHALL
O.
• DONLEY
Min
Martians are fiinny people
For one thing they look like crawfish and walk on three tenta
cles and don't wear clothing (they need the sun, and anyway its a
couple million miles farther from them.) Way back in the history
of the Martian planet, everybody (or rather 'every crawfish) lived
happily in a state',of nature with every other crawfish. And they
had no wars or troubles.
Then some of the Martians de
cided they were superior to. other
Martians, so they started' to or
ganize into groups and they called
the groups countries. And each
country thought' - it' r was better
than every other country and so
Martians had wars.
Afte,r each war the Martians
observed that they were no bet
ter off than when the war started,
so they decided to think up plans
to prevent war. But every time
they planned they had more wars,
and they couldn't understand this,
for hadn't they built - up huge ar
mies and lots of weapons to pre
vent war?
After many, many wars one
country arose which claimed it
was for the rights of the peo
ple and for liberty and another
country arose saying it was for
the same thing, but it impris
oned its people and no one be
lieved it was really good. And
the first country called' itself
the United Crawfish and• the
other was known as the Soviet
Crawfish.
As the tension built up between
the two Crawfish countries, peo
ple in the United Crawfish began
to distrust each other and. began
to condemn its own people (even
when they were good). And many
factions arose within the United
Crawfish, but the Soviet '.Cr#l.V
-flsh ,remained strong. '
One of the difficulties among
the United Crawfish was that
they were very pr oud and
would argue about unimportant
things. Colors affected them in
strange ways.
For example, there grew up a
number of crawfish in that coun
try
,who had green tentacles and
the crawfish with white tentacles
began to dislike the green-ten
tacled ones. They used them for
slaves (taking advantage .of the
fact that they were uneducated)
and would not allow them a de
cent. place in the United Crawfish
society. A time came. when the
green-tentacled crawfish were al
lowed to work out of slavery, but
even then many, many white
tentacled crawfish would not ac
cept them as ,equals.
Scientists in the country proved
that the green tentacles were as
good as white ones, •hut no one
cared, for they were a proud.peo-
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pie. And so dissention swept
through ,the United Crawfish.
Some of the' white ones wanted
the green ones to be equal, and
they pointed out that even in the
I Soviet-Crawfish, color was not a
criteria for inequality. Bdt many.
of the white ones were infused
with, . dogma and prejudice and
they _would say NO and would
proclaim their right to choose
their own companions.
"We ain't living with no green
tentacled crawfish," they yelled.
! One crawfish among them
! , rose 1113 and 'said "No crawfish
' must be forced to accept -others
' •on an equal basis if he does not
wish to do so." And the masses
of crawfish thought he was
right.
And .so the prejudice grew and
the many countries who .were not
on either the United Crawfish
side or the Soviet Crawfish side
looked, at the inequality in the
United Crawfish country and
said "do they call that liberty?"
And so tension grew and soon
a big war came,' with weapons
used that were deadlier than ever,
and-all - the countries that believed
in' freedom joined with the So
viet Crawfish (for could they
join with those who were preju
diced against their brothers?) and
together they fought a terrible
war and succeeded in killing al
most all the crawfish on Mars.
After the war was over, and
• many years had passed, a phil
osopher crawfish (we have no
records to say if he' was green
or white-tentacled), who had
lived •on in the caves away from
the destroyed cities,- 10 oke d
through a home-made telescope
arid saw the planet Earth.' As
he viewed it he mused about
it and said to himself: "I won
der • if there axe crawfish on
that planet."
He decided if there were, they
would not be so stupid as Mar
tians; but would recogniie their
fellow-crawfish for what they ,
were.
Poly Sci Club to lEIOct
Political Science Club will elect
officers at 7:30 tonight in the
West Dorm. main launge: • •
By Bibler ,