FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1953
Sorority Rushing: Pros and Cons
With the beginning of sorority rushing to
morrow, many upperclasswomen will be forced
to chobse between the pros and cons that have
concerned them since' they began to consider
joining- a sorority.
For.some, the decision has already been made.
Others, weighing the financial and time-con
suming factors, are torn between a possible
desire for group-identification and a skepticism
of what they will receive for their time • and
money.
Membership in a cidsely-knit group affording
opportunity to work with others of differing
temperaments and ideas is the most obvious
advantage of sorority. life. Also obvious, and
going hand-in-hand, are the friendships made
and .the feeling of belonging acquired by learn
ing to know well a small group. However, some
women are not suited 'to this type of group
living and would be unhappy when forced to
pa - :•;:icipate in the -planned activities of such a
grotlp
:ers may resent, the typing they receive by
or.—iders who, frequently claim sorority women
lack individuality. Onlookers are prone to judge
a group by their acquaintance with a few or
even one member. Through this they form a
Conception of the group as a whole.
:Ft is a definite disadvantage to a sorority
woman that, despite the degree of her indi
v:duality, she will be subject to, classification.
Azirhitting this, the wise rushee will choose the
group with which she favors identification.
Sometimes the realization that there is a group
behind her is more important to the woman
than . her supposed loss of ind i viduality.
Sorority membership, in many -instances, is
a springboard into, activities through 'sisters
who already are participating. But a full ac-
To Alpha Phi Omega: Thanks
Giving directions,, tips on registration, point
ing out buildings, and running errands—these
are just a few of the many services rendered
to the College community, particularly during
Orientation Week, by Alpha Phi Omega, na
tional service fraternity.
Members of the fraternity, wearing Alpha .
Phi Omega arm bands, are generally the first
to be seen by the myriads of freshmen and
their parents who .arrive on campus looking for
a place to park where they can unload luggage,
or for information" on such soon-to-be-familiar
spots as the Bursar's office, Recreation Hall
and even the downtown eating spots.
Alpha Phi Omega maintained its information
service through Orientation Week this year
with a booth at the head of the Mall near Car
negie . Hall. Members were on duty Monday
through Wednesday. There, new and bewildered
frosh and transfer students received help on
problems varying from how to fill out the of
ficial registration card to what there is doing
in the town at night.
Tuesday night, new students took advantage
of campus tours conducted by Alpha Phi
Omega. This year the group was assisted by
Lady Engineer
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (IP)
—College girls everywhere are
trooping back to school these
days, and Katherine Stinson
hopes many of them plan to
study engineering.
For Miss Stinson is president
of the Society of Women Engi
neers, a nationwide organiza
tion of ladies who will fight
. at
the drop of a monkey wrench
any idea that girls can't be as
good engineers as men.
"Better in some jobs," Miss
Stinson said firmly.
Tie society has around 400
members, and this year it's
trying to encourage gix:ls to
enter such professions as elec
trical, mechanical, and civil
engineering. -
Miss Stinson thinks there are
two reasons why so many girls
never even think of engineer
ing as a possible career.
To many, she thinks, an engi
neer is a tough guy wearing
boots, bossing a construction
job. Yet Many an engineering
position calls for a steady diet
of desk work, at which, Miss
Stinson feels, a girl may shine.
Secondly, she feels too many
Smethport Embezzler
Gets 3-Year Probation
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 17 (2?)—
Frederick L. Seitler, 30, former
tell e r and bookkeeper of the
Smethport National Bank of Mc-
Kean County, was placed on pro
bation for three years today for
embezzlement and false entry of
$6500 in bank funds.
Seitler, whose family repaid the
money three days after his arrest,
was sentenced by U.S. District
Judge Frederick V. Follmer, Seit
ler pleaded guilty. -
The bank president, Edward
Conwell, testified that Seitler was,
a good employe.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Under Pennsylvania's new sales tax, f aisles
are taxable as unnecessary clothing. They don't
- know some of the girls we know.
Hopes for Followers
people are convinced an engi
neer has to be a mathematical
genius. Miss S. thinks that an
gle is Over-stressed. What's im
portant, she says, is a real love
of things scientific.
Oddly, there's a demand for
Women engineers, yet the
number of sweet young girl
engineering graduates is de
creasing steadily.
Women engineers are occu
pational descendants' of Edith
Julia Griswold, electrical engi
neer, New York City Normal,
1386.
After Edith Julia, the supply
of female en g ineers remained
steady, but few. Not until
World War . II was there a pro
nounced change in the pattern.
Then the demand for engineers
became so great that some com
panies even paid the tuition for
girls of promise..
The peak came in 1948.
with 191 girl engineering
graduates. That number has
fallen off until last spring
only 60 girls were graduated
in engineering.
Miss Stinson, who has a boy
ish grin that recalls the late
Amelia Earhart, is proof enough
Stocks Rise Haltingly
In Quiet Market
NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (EP)—
Stocks advanced haltingly today
in a relatively quiet market.
At one time during the day, it
looked as though the rise might
work itself into something resem
bling real rally. But, it faltered
in the early afternoon and de
scended from its best to a ragged
close.
After the climactic selling of
Friday and Monday, Wall Street
looked for a rebound of a techni
cal sort. That is what has hap
pened. So far the rebound has re
traced just about the minimum
distance expected.
tivities card for its members is not the only
function of a sorority and does - not come autos
matically with a pledge pin.
Coeds already active on campus need not
fear they must relinquish their posts to make
room for sorority. All groups need diversity of
expression and, sororities will accept valid ex
cuses for activities missed by members busy
elsewhere.
The activities-minded coed should realize she
must reserve a portion of her time for sorority
if she is to contribute in proportion to the bene
fits she derives.
' Assuming the rushee is financially able to
join a sorority, the prime. consideration is
whether or not this is the best place for her
to invest that money.' The decision rests on the
relative importance placed on group to indi
vidual activity.
—nancy Ward and Lix Newell
It Says Here ..
According to the 1950 U.S. Census report,
women outnumber men in Pennsylvania. What
happened to Penn State's share?
Look Magazine in a recent survey found milk
was the teenager's favorite snack food. Those
teenagers don't know what they're missing!
The speed limit on some state highways will
be raised to 60 m.p.h. It's believed one-third
of auto accidents are due to speed. - Someone
wants to find out.
members of Cwens, sophomore women's hat
society, and by members of men's hat societies.
Not confining Orientation Week services to
ne,w students, ten volunteer members from
Alpha Phi Omega are each day working along
with the regular registration crew at Rec Hall
by giving information, keeping order on the
main floor, and running errands for faculty
and workers.
Alpha Phi Omega members deserve a vote
of appreciation for the fine job being done
this year, as in the past. Such projects and
services sponsored by Alpha Phi Omega, are
worthwhile, and should be continued in the
future.
Gazette...
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Carpenter's helper for permanent part-time job
Experienced clothing presser.
•
Multinth operator. •
Barber for local shop.
.- . • ' - - o • e. •lv . ornino' shif
that a girl can do all right in
the business.
Twelve years ago when she
got out of North Carolina State
.its first and, as far as she
knows, its only girl engineer
ing graduate—she headed for
the Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration.
The CAA never has hired
another woman engineer, but
the one it did hire has be
come head of its specifica
ons division.
For Miss Stinson, the path to
aeronautical engineering was
as straight as the crow flies or
the stratosphere cruiser.
To her parents' consternation,
when she was a youngster in
Raleigh, N.C., she used to hang
around the airport. She learned
to fake a plane apart, and, pos
sibly m 0 r e important, put it
back together. When she was
16, she learned to fly one.
"I always was crazy about
airplanes," she said. "Still am."
So if daughter has a sci
entific or mechanical bent
and maybe likes to lurk
arourzd hangars. let her lurk.
Miss Stinson proves it may
pay off.
Catholics Charge Reds
Use "Godless Books'
BERLIN, Sept. 17 VP) Th e
Roman Catholic Church charged
today that the two million school
children in Communist East Ger
many are being taught histOry
from "Godless books" which say,
Jesus Christ is the "m ythic a l!
founder" of Christianity.
Petrus Blatt, official publica
tion of the Berlin diocese, asked,
"when will these historic lies dis
appear from •the school books
throughout the Soviet zone?" The
..liocese embraces 663,000 Cath
-lies in both East and West Ber
lin.
—Shirley Musgrave
ttle Man on Campus
He's it' most sought-after rushee on campus—it's rumored
an cut hair and may even have a barber license."
Interpreting the News
To Have Peace,
Reds Must Go
Secretary Dulles, in his opening address to the United Nations
yesterday, came very close to saying that the suicide of Russian
type communism is a prerequisite to peace.
That, fundamental concept has often been overlooked in the last
few years as first one approach and then another has been made
toward meeting Russian aggression.
Russian - type communism, as
opposed to the socialist concept
which Mos c o w perverts, at
tempts to use the aspirations of
unhappy man as a weapon for
th e imperialist expansion of
Russia herself. It merely puts a
cloak over traditional Rus s ian
policy of expansion at the ex
pense of any and all other peo
ples. a policy which has domi
nated Russian relations with her
neighbors for 500 'years.
Among the things which Russia
must do if her peaceful profes
sions are to car r y any weight
abroad, said Dulles, is to end the
dedication of the Soviet Commun
ist party to the violent overthrow
of independent governments
That is not necessarily to say
that there can be no so-called
peace with the- present Russia.
Coupled with the secretary's
other statements about the need
for Allied strength and Allied
unity, , it does suggest that there
can be only an enforced peace of
expediency, under which Russia
will find it unprofitable to con
tinue her program actively.
• The concrete points at which
Russia could help ease world
tension which Dulles lists, in
cluding a un'ted Korea, peace in
Indochina, unification of Ger
many, an Austrian peace treaty
and liberation of the satellites,
rank only as incidental to this
one big question of attitude.
The reference to easing tension,
J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
rather than approaching a real
peace, is significant.
For years it has been obvious
that the only safe peace with Rus
sia will be one enforced by the
West's power of retaliation. And
that is not true peace.
The possibility that Russia's
rulers will make a voluntary
about-face toward world co-opera
ton is so remote as to be almost
inconceivable. To do so, and make
the world feel that it was real,
would require a complete retreat
from the idea of world Communist
revolution. It would require the
abolition of totalitarianism, and
substitution of a system of gov
ernment under which the will of
the Russian people would have
to be consulted before the regime
could entertain thoughts of war.
Russia would have to become like
other countries.
She ain't.
Clancinct _Aroun
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women have been studying the
problem of getting into and out
of the stratospheric level of the
double decker bunks. I suggest
the women might find it help
ful fo study the walking habits
of the house fly. If this fails,
wait until the snow drifts into
the rooms and walk up. If does
happen.
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