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Eintcred na Pincostd-class smatter July &, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Pest Office ockilec the aet of blanch 3, 1879.
DAVE JONES, Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, George Bairey; Copy editors, Bev Dickinson, Al Goodman; As-
F istartts, Mary Balch, Inez Althouse, Claire Yenney, Joe Beau Seigneur. Ad staff: Sandra Duckman.
Customs Still Lack Student Support
Freshman customs experienced somewhat of
boost with joint enforcement day Thursday,
but the program on a whole is still sadly
!acking.
Customs began Monday and by Tuesday the
frosh were issuing the usual question: What
happened to enforcement? With the exception
of Thursday, it just isn't here.
Exuberent freshmen tramped over campus
at various times during the week, singing songs,
and enforcing customs on themselves. Many
hatmen and hatwomen came forth to enforce
the program as they have been asked to do.
But upperclass participation in general was
weak. • This is the fourth successive customs
year, and the fourth time enforcement has
been poor.
Although it'is nice to be optimistic, it seems
apparent there is nothing but gray skies ahead
for the customs program. About 600 Korean
veterans are enrolled in the freshman class this
AIM Can Get More by Asking More
The recent move by some leading members
of the Association of Independent Men to spell
out one of 'the principal responsibilities of dor
mitory and area presidents—the maintenance
of order in the dormitory areas—is one that will
help to establish prestige for AIM.
All too often in the past the sincere effort
of many independent student-government lead
ers to strengthen student government through
the recognition of their responsibilities has been
thwarted by the actions of irresponsible stu
dent government officers.
The presence of irresponsibility in student
government, whether it be independent or fra
ternity, can be traced to one defect in our sys
tem of government—irresponsibility on the part
of those who elect these per Sons to office.
Student government elections have placed
some excellent students in governmental posi
tions. However, this is somewhat off-set by the
practice of turning elections into popularity
contests. Student elections have too often
pushed the dormitory clown into office.. On
other occasions, small cliques have pushed
friends into office. In the latter case some good
FMA Is the Practical Way to Buy
This semester the Fraternity Marketing As
sociation enters its second full year of oper
ation. Patterned after a similar plan which has
worked well at Ohio State University for over
20 years, FMA enables fraternities to purchase
canned goods and potatoes at reduced rates
through large-scale buying. Present plans call
for expansion into fuel oil, coal and fraternity
laundry items.
FMA was incorporated January 1953 when
replaced the Association of Fraternity Coun
selors' joint buying committee. FMA is open
to any chartered fraternity and is compose('
of 26 members.
Any fraternity wishing to join FMA may pe
tition the FMA Board of Trustees for member
ship. At this time a deposit of $lOO is sub
mitted to the association. Upon approval of the
board of trustees, the group is accepted and
thereafter has a voice and vote in FMA affairs.
The $lOO is added to the association's capita]
but remains the property of the individual fra
ternity. The system works similar to a bank
checking account. With each order made
through the association, FMA deducts the
amount from the fraternity's deposit. At the end
of each month, the fraternity is required to
restore this- withdrawal to the original deposit.
Goods are delivered to participating fraterni
ties every two weeks and the fraternity is then
billed by FMA. The fraternity pays no money
to individual vendors, but pays FMA, which in
turn pays the entire association bill at one time.
Last semester, FMA's buying was limited to
Safety Valve .• • Calls Collegian Partisan
TO THE EDITOR: During the past weekend I
had the extreme pleasure to partake in certain
festivities at one of .our fraternities which I
deem worthy of being brought to the attention
of our student body.
This past weekend Charles "Rip" Engle--to
whom we owe our football prestige here at
Penn State—was initiated into one of our fra
terniiies.
... When one man who is nationally known,
who joins in brotherhood with two of the na
tion's best football coaches . . . to form . . . the
All-American Coaching Board, and who is in
itiated in the presence of national officers of
the fraternity, is brotherized, we have an im
mensely significant event.
However, apparently the Collegian believes
this event insignificant ...
I hope in the future the Collegian will show
a less partial attitude toward certain fraterni
ties and give full coverage to a story which
influences not just one fraternity but the entire
system
H. R. Welder Jr.
Editor's Note—The Daily Collegian did not
' Collegian editorials repro
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'writers, not neeessarifY the
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr.
year. These students are not under customs.
With more Korean veterans returning home
and being discharged, Korean enrollment might
well increase next semester or next year. This
provides a cleavage in the class and reduces
the number of frosh undergoing customs. Con
ceivably, veterans could rise to such - a number
that customs would no longer be possible.
But by far the thing most threater;n-+ +'
customs program is . upperclass disinterest; Most
upperclassmen have no interest in ct c:.
their purpose. Enforcement therefore comes
only when upperclassmen may " haze frosh
women. This does not particularly promote the
purpose of customs—to build school' and' class
spirit.
Without upperclass support—which has been,
sadly lacking this year as in the past=customs
cannot succeed. So far this week, support has
been missing and so has the spirit. If the in
terest does not soon pick up, customs should
perhaps be quickly junked.
men have been brought before the attention
of students.
With AIM expecting dormitory and area pres
idents to inspect disturbances in their areas, the
necessity of electing students to these offices
who will command the respect of the men be
comes imperative. The expectation might also
make anyone who is running for office and who
is not willing to face the required responsi
bilities reconsider.
There is more to be gained than simply put
ting someone into office who is willing to look
into dormitory disturbances. The responsible
individual who is elected to office will
than likely be the sort of person who can -be
depended upon to-act in•the same manner when
representing the dormitory in council meetings.
He will also probably .be the one who can be
depended upon to lift the dormitory into more
group activities, rather than let the group slide
into the mood: of stagnation, where nothing is
accomplished.
Only by demanding more of their key per
sonnel can AIM reach the area of accomplish 7
ment that should be within the grasp of in
dependents
canned goods and- 'potatoes, but with proper
support from Penn State's 51 fraternities, FMA
could and would handle all goods and services
essential to the average fraternity.
Since , its inception last fall, FMA has -done
over $20,000 . worth of - business with savings to
its members of from 4 to 5 per cent more than
:hose enjoyed by fraternities dealing alone.
New items could be added if more fraternities
-voice up to the savings being offered them.
f participation in the association had been corn
llete last year, fraternities •at Penn State could
:lave saved at least 12 per cent over the usua'
quantity discount on purchases.
Fraternities do an annual business of $BOO,OOO
the State College area. Although this volume
- If business represents one of the greatest buy
ng powers in the area, fraternities command no
over price than the average large consumer
loing business at the corner grocery store.
If this buying power were brought under
?MA, fraternities could command respect and
eceive tremendous savings on everything from
fight bulbs to laundry. FMA is the only way to
rganize such buying power, and the only way
'MA can. accomplish this power is with co
\peration and participation from all houses.
'his is the ultimate goal of FMA.
It is up to each fraternity to decide fol. itself
--to continue throwing away savings year after
,-ear, savings which could be put to use else
vhere—or to join together under FMA and buy
,he only practical way.
print a photograph and main substance of a
story of Engle's initiation into Welder's fra
ternity. Collegian policy does not call for par
tial attitudes to any fraternities.
Gazette .-..
Sunday, Sept. 27, 1953
COLLEGIAN 'AD STAFF, 7 p.m., 9 Carnegie.
FRESHMAN WOMEN COMMUTING STU
DENTS, meeting 9 p.m., second floor lounge
Atherton Hall.
HILLEL RADIO, 7 p.m., Hillel Foundation. Gen
eral meeting and casting
Monday, Sept: 28, 1953
COLLEGIAN PHOTOGRAPHY CANDIDATES,
8 p.m., 9 Carnegie.
PENN STATE FARMER STAFF, 7:30 p.m., 109
Agricultur,e.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Bartender, must be over 21.
Movie projection operators for campus work.
Clothes presser.
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Experienced waiters. .
—Dick Rau
—Jack Reid
Little Man on Campus
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"Say, Rip, some of the boys .feel you're makin"em 'warm up'
too long."
Interpreting the Nevis
Koreao,..,. j .. : ,Pplic)i
Proble:ths:Bse.g . in
State department consideration of policy - for the Korean peace
conference, if .one is _ever held, ,is_ just beginning.
So far:no quid has beerf:prodliced with "which to bargain for
the Communist quo.
Officials will actually get down to work in conferences at the
State department next week.:They will be searching for something
'to offer- the establishment of a unified Korea
under a freely elected govern
ment. They aren't very opti
mistic on that point.
The other chief problei of the
conference, the withdrawal. cif all
foreign troops, is considered more
soluble, but even that is largely
a matter of degree.
This, troop problem. has led—to
informpi suggestionS ;among :dip-
lomats that there is .a possibility
of covering both major objectives,
the conference.throUgh
aussian-Red Chinese Areatk - guai : .-
-mteeing the neutrality of a .uni
'hd Korea.
The one great • drwback to
this suggestion is that there is
nothing „in it for theßeds, since
they haVe nothing to fear from
Korea anyway. Such a threat
as the Koreans can' po s e is
hardly likely to cause any great
loss of sleep in the Kremlin or
in Peiping. Some sources even
credit them with a , desire to
resume the war when conven
ient, rather than shrinking from
it..
Another thought that has been
kicked around in State depart
ment circles was that Russia
might be -sufficiently interested
in a five-power conference on
general settlements to make some
New York Regents Outlaw
Communist School Teachers
ALBANY, N.Y., Sept. 24 (JP) = The New York State Board of Re
gents today listed the state and national Communist .Parties as sub
versive and automatically barred. their members from jobs in the
state's public school system.
In an unanimous action, the 15-
member board swiftly adopted
the report of its special commit
tee, which had held hearings un
der the state's Feinberg Law. The
committee found the Communist
Party teaches and advocates the
overthrow of the U.S. government
by force and violence.
The three-man group was the
first governmental unit in the na
tion to put the party itself on
trial. It heard 2300 pages" of tes
timony in 20 hearings between
last Dec. 4 and June 25.
"We unhesitatingly find there.
SATURDAY, • SEPTEMBER. 26, 1953
By:j.-14.41bRERTS JR..
Associated - Press News Analyst
concessions on Korea if that were
offered. But that idea looked bet
ter a few weeks ago than it does
riow, the Russian post-Stalin peace
offensive having died down some
what.
High-level consideration has not
yet.been given to any of the ideas
pb:)cliiced so far. In State depart
ment parlance that doesn't mean,
of course, that the policy-makers
.are not thinking, but that they
haVe 'not gotten around to con
ferring with the men who gather
the.facts and produce assessments
of the situation and the alterna
tives it offers.
Ohe; thing that hampers this
sort of work is the uncertainty
over whether there will really
be a conference and, if there is
one, whether the Reds intend
to use it merely in an effort lo
force the Allies to break it off
in frustration and so lay them
selves open to criticism through
out Asia.
The chances now are that the
Korean War will not prove to
have changed the status• of Korea
at all, except that the Chinese.
Reds have been drawn into North
Kor ea to replace the Russian
(Continued on page five)
has been presented to us ample,
sound, competent and relevant
evidence of a probative, character
to compel the conclusion that the
Communist Party of the United
States of America and the 'Corn
munist*Party of the State of New
York are each subversive as de
fined by law, in that they advo
cate, advise, teach' and embrace
the' doctrine that the government
of the United States should. be
overthrown by force and -vio
lence," the report said.
A lengthy court battle over the
decision appears likely.
By Bi!der
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