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DAVE JONES. Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Betty Koster; Copy editors. Tammie Bloom, Mike Feinsilber;
Assistants, Janice Laird, Paddy Beahan, Nancy Fortna, Bill Pete, Joe Beau Seigneur. Ad Staff: Bob
Carruthers, Dave Burke, Tom Garrett.
On Cabinet and the
New Penn State, students will soon find, if
they don't know it already, that most student
proposals must pass through All-College Cabinet
before they may go into effect. New students
will also find that they, and old students, don't
take much interest in what cabinet is or does.
That is unfortunate if for no other reason than
this: cabinet spends 512,000 annually in student
fees. Most students do not realize that. If they
did, interest in cabinet affairs would probably
soar.
Cabinet will convene at 8 tonight for the first
time this year. Seating space in 201 Old Main,
cabinet's chamber, is limited. It is usually filled
with students there to give reports, plus a few
interested administrators.
Tonight cabinet will consider the first of
several proposals coming out of the 1953 Stu-.
dent Encampment. Some proposals will have
only indirect influence upon the student body,
through' student government.
Many proposals coming out of the encamp-
'Kinsey Report: Let's
Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's latest book was pub
lished last week with much less of a hub-bub
than reports of its contents earlier this sum
mer. Kinsey's book, "Sexual Behavior in the
Human Female," was published Sept. 14. The
hub-bub was precipitated because the study
told us some things we didn't want to hear.
The world is still here and American morals
are much the same this week as they were the
week before the Kinsey report came out. The
book was the culmination of a 15-year study of
5940 white females, published about six years
after Kinsey told us about the American male.
Kinsey's findings showed most American
women do not live up to American moral stand
ards. These standards, he suggests, are not nat
ural. Kinsey says the human is natural, his
actions conflict with the moral code, and thus
the code must be unnatural. e
One reaction to the Kinsey report was that it
is not factual, and that it will lead the nation's
women to moral degeneration. Kinsey protected
his report by admitting the faults and saying
he is only reporting facts, not advising. And
although Kinsey's word will not be the last, his
report, factual or not, is the closest thing to fact
we know.
Many newspapers unrealistically ignored the
report. Ministers said it is dangerous and one
even suggested it be restricted to teachers and
marriage guidance experts. Such restriction
would only negatively popularize the book.
We are living in an age of unparalleled frank
ness. Young people want to know about sex
and sex relations, and they deserve to know
the facts and learn them in the proper way.
Hiding what little we know, refusing to acknow
ledge what is fact, is not the way to better
education.
Kinsey returns profits of his books into more
research and does not benefit materially from
them. He works only as a scientific reporter. If
what he reports is repulsive, it is not his fault,
but rather the fault of those he reports about.
If he finds humans do not abide by their own
moral standards, he is not advocating removal
of those standards. But when standards and
actions do not coincide, some alteration must .
be made.
Kinsey has suggested the human moral code
Coats and Ties
Pro . . .
The requirements for men living in College
dormitories to wear coats and ties to be ad
mitted to noon meal Sunday is a constructive
one, and should be accepted by dormitory men
as a requirement which will benefit them great
ly as they continue their College careers.
For students who have already incorporated
such a habit into their living pattern, this re
quirement is not a burden. However, for those
who resent an improvement in their living
habits, such a change is dastardly. "Why should
the College run my life for me?" may be the
retort of some.
However, these students simply show, through
analysis of this remark, that they lack any idea
of how the College is trying to aid them per
sonally.
Some feel a system of required coats and ties
is applicable to the West Dormitory area, but
not to the Nittany-Pollock dining hall. While
many men living in the East Dorms area rile
at the condition of the "mess hall," the require
ment should not be prohibitive. In fact, coats
and ties can provide a pleasant change of at
mosphere while men eat their meals. Although
the hall is unattractive, the requirement for
men to wear the additional clothing does not
lose merit.
The policy has been tried one week. After it
has been tested one year, a better view of the
requirement may be made and proper judg
ment applied. Until then, coats and ties should
continue for the Sunday noon meal. As time
goes by, there will be fewer gripes and more
understanding if the men can look to the future
and not at what their past customs have been.
—Phil Austin
Siacereammor to THE FREE LANCE, mt. UV
Student Body
meat, however, will have direct importance to
the student body. A proposal for wearing coats
and ties for some dormitory meals may be
heard. Proposals for revision of traffic and park
ing penalties may be presented. A decision may
be made on Penn State's membership in the
National Student Association.
Cabinet is willing to hear a student voice his
opinion at any meeting, but few students avail
themselves of the chance. They prefer to criti
cize the College and cabinet, and are not willing
to attend a meeting where they may get all
or most of the facts.
It is wasted effort to bemoan the lack of in
terest in cabinet action. Someday, perhaps in
the far off future, students may become in
terested enough in cabinet at least to force it
into a larger room. This would be a start.
Until students take a deeper interest in their
own affairs, cabinet will have difficulty in meas
uring student sentiment. As a result, true stu
dent desires will often not be met.
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Face It
in Dining Halls:
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is unnatural. This, however, does not mean the
code is wrong. If the code were natural, humanS
would likely behave as animals. It is necessary
to have a moral code to raise the level of those
actions.
Reaction to the Kinsey report has been some
what immature. We must be able to face the
facts. Kinsey himself admits the facts may be
distorted, but until someone comes up with
something better, there is not much reason not
to believe them. Any distortion was not in
tentional.
We cannot hide from what Kinsey found. If
we do not like what he found, we can change it.
And no person can actually use Kinsey's find
ings as an excuse to be immoral.
The reaction to Kinsey by some people re
minds us of the little girl who was embarrassed
when she read a book on penguins. "I learned
lots about penguins," she said, "but I didn't
want to learn so much."
Gazette
Today
ANDROCLES HAT SOCIETY MIXER,, after pep
rally, Pi Kappa Alpha.
CHAPEL CHOIR rehearsal, 7-9 p.m., 117 Car
negie.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 6:45
p.m., 304 Old Main.
COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF meeting,
6:30 p.m., Business office.
LAVIE CANDIDATES meeting, 8 p.m., 405 Old
Main.
NEWS AND VIEWS staff ,and candidates, 6:30
p.m., 14 Home Economics.
WRA SWIMMING CLUB, beginners, 6:45 p.m.,
advanced, 7:30 p.m., White Hall pool.
WRA OFFICIALS CLUB, 6:30 p.m., . 2 White
Hall.
WRA OUTING CLUB, 6:30 p.m., playroom,
White Hall.
YOUNG REPUBLICANS MIXER, 7:30 p.m.,
State College Hotel.
, STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Two custodians to work from 5 to 7 p.m. Mon
day through Saturday.
One breadslicer and wrapper from 7 to 9 p.m.
Sunday through Friday.
Con . . .
No one would give serious thought to asking
a "skid row" inhabitant to wear a tux for din
ner, even on Sunday.
While living conditions in Nittany-Pollock
are not quite down to "skid row" level, they
are still not of a type in which you could , ex
pect students to "dress up."
There are East Dorms residents who, at Sun
day noon, return from , church and change to
casual clothing before going to dinner because
(1) the atmosphere isn't there or (2) they don't
want to get their better clothing spoiled.
Certainly there is some reason for men (and
women, too, for that matter) to ,dress a little
better than usual on Sunday, but requiring
them to wear coat and tie in the Nittany dining
hall is asking a little too much. It would be
much more sensible if, instead, the Dean of
Men's office would request shirts (dress or
sport) and slacks (to eliminate dungarees) be
worn on Sunday.
An Army-barracks-type dining hall just
doesn't seem to be the place for shirts and suits.
Even more objectionable than requiring these
people to wear ties and coats is the method of
enforcement: refusal to serve them a meal
which has already been paid for. Of' course, if
refunds were granted to those who did not care
to eat in Nittany on Sunday, the idea would
probably be greeted with great joy, and these
lucky students would most likely wear "coat
and tie" to eat somewhere with a Sunday at
mosphere.
Certainly any student dressed in decent, clean
clothing should be allowed to eat his Sunday
meal.
Collegian editorials repre
sent the viewpoint of the
writers, not necessarily the
policy of the newspaper. Un
signed editorials are by the
editor.
act of Idarcht 3, 1879
Jost
Little Man on Campus
Short 'Change
For the benefit of new students on campus and to the other
"old timers" who perhaps skipped over "Short 'Change" before,
this is a column of items found in college newspapers throughout
the country. These are, in short, items I have "lifted" because I
thought they might be of interest to you, the readers.
It seems the ,hardest fought
election battle at Cornell Univer
sity last spring wasn't fought for
any student office. It was for a
comic strip. The present comic
strip in the Cornell Daily Sun,
"Li'l Abner," was running second
to "Peanuts." Third choice was
"Beetle Bailey," with "A 11 e y
Oop," "Steve Canyon," and Bibler
following in close succession.
Some letters to the editor read:
"Eat Peanuts. We want Li'l
Abner."
"Keep Li'l Abner and take out
the movie reviews."
"We agree wholeheartedly with
your decision to exterminate Li'l
Abner. Please replace, him with
our favorite little friend, Dennis
the Menace."
"Votes for Li'l Abner. Our sec
ond choice is for that great -Amer
ican hero Mickey "Spillane." '
Denver University has lost for
the second time its court battle
against the Colorado State Su
preme Court's decision that 'one
of its injured football players
should get workmen's compen
sation.
The University of Colorado
Daily gloated, however.' The Su
preme Court decision does not
mean that athletics at Denver
University are - - professionalized:
Professional athlete's are paid to
win."
A psychology professor at the
University of Minnesota is re
ported to have told his _ class:
"The human ear is sensitive to
frequencies for 20 to 20,000 vibra
tions per second. Some animals
can hear vibrations even higher
than this. That is the basis for
the silent dog whistles which
some of you may have heard,"
he said.
Under the title "The Baby
Shoes of Democracy" the student
magazine of the Free University
of Berlin gives a pair of baby
shoes to the member of the Ger
man parliament judged respon
sible for the year's worst oratory.
This year the contest was a
two-way draw, and a shoe apiece
went back to the winners. One
sent his shoe back to the maga
zine, but the other wanted to
know how he could earn the en
tire pair.
• Northwestern students are all
in a furor over a recent ruling
of the Associated Women Stu
dents, banning Bermuda shorts
from university buildings. Ber
muda shorts end just one inch
above the knee, Pedal pushers,
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1953
By GUS VOLLMER
which are still legal, end just
below the knee.
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"It's not a question of knees
alone," Mrs. Claudine Mas o n,
counselor to women, said. "The
girls merely wanted to have cos
tuming which shows a little more
formality."
A columnist at the University
of Colorado gave his number one
prize for absentmindedness to a
professor who gave his Tuesday-
Thursday course a lecture meant
for his Monday-Wednesday-Fri
day course.
His second prize?• To students
who never noticed the difference,
of course.
The Georgia Tech Technique
claims touring a dance floor will
convince one a lot of women are
trying to see who can get -the
most out of an evening gown.
They say at Mississippi State
College that there isn't much dif
ference in freshmen from year to
year. You can tell a freshman girl
right away because she says
"Stop," and you can tell a fresh
man boy just as easily because he
does.
Here at Penn State, have you
noticed, that all the freshmen are
wearing new shoes and freshman
women carry purses?
Here's a story from the UCLA
Daily Bruin:
"Blondes battle brunettes in
touch football from 3 to 5 p.m.
today on the athletic field when
the "Powder Puff Bowl" gets tin
der way.
"Halftime activities will be pre
sented by members of Trolls, up
per division women's disorgan
ization, and by the redheads, who
will be organized by Anne Magly,
home economics senior.
"Officials for the game are Ted
Narleski, Cappy Smith, and Hal
Mitchell, members of the varsity
football team.
"Coach for the blondes is Ernie
Stockert, and Donn Moomaw in
structs the brunettes.
"Cheerleaders Bud Zukow and
Jerry Lewis are to lead an or
ganized rooting section composed
of redheads, naturally as well as
other spectators.
"Make-up boys will be pro
vided.
"Girls on the teams report at
3 p.m. on the playing field to Dee
Rodriguez, captain of the blondes,
or Ruth Reifer, brunette captain.
"The uniform for the blondes
is pink blouse and denim pedal
pushers. Brunettes wear white
blouses • and blue pedal-pushers.
"Members of both teams will
wear tennis shoes."
By Bill