C.',1.3 FOUR
Published Tuesday. through Sat
urday mornings inclusive during
the College year by the staff
of The Daily Collegian of the
Pennsylvania State College.
Entered so eecood-dace moaner „Ivor 5, 1934 at the State College, Pt!. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879.
DAVE JONES. Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Anh Leh; Copy Editors, Mike Feinsilber, Don Shoemaker; As
sisoants, Mary Loubr:is, Louise Glud, Bobbie Hendel, Bob Dunn, Shirley Stewart, Marge. Pearce,
Sue Conklin.
Community Forum: Keep It Alive •
If the Community Forum series is not sue- 11,000 students and a town of 10,000 popula
cessful this year, it will be dead next year. It's lion cannot put 1200 people in Schwab Audi
torium to hear national figures. If Penn State
as simple as that. Students, faculty, and towns- is to be a place for culture and learning, here
people alike 11: - .ve failed to take enough interest is a good place to start.
in the - national figures brought here by the Poor response to the Community Forum re
forum to warrant its continuance. , calls what many have said about Penn State—
The series opens tomorrow night with a talk it lives In a world all its own. If this is so, it is
by Gen. James Van Fleet. Also scheduled to time to break the cocoon and see what things
appear this "year are Charles Laughton, Irwin are about.
D. Canharn, and Chester Bowles. Season tickets' ' Something is lacking in the educational fab
for $4.80 are on sale at the Student Union desk ric of the college community when a school this
in Old Main. large does not contain enough students and fac-
These four speakers are representative of the
type brought to campus by the forum. Each_is
oustanding in his field. Yet no one-- or - hot
enough—at Penn State care to hear them.
Some have placed poor forum response on
lack of student representation. This has been
overcome in the new forum set-up, -which in
cludes three students on the program commit
tee. Others have placed poor response to the
pocketbook. Certainly $4.80 is not a prohibitive
price for such a product.
It is hard to understand why a college of
Blood: What Happened to It?
By, late yesterday afternoon, 395 students had
signed up to pledge blood donations. The goal
was, and still is, 500 pints—one pint per donor.
To list more figures, there were about 1500
students involved in the West Dorm demonstra
tion two weeks ago. There were 1700 student
at the Bellevue-Stratford hotel last week.
, Not all of the students attending either func
lion were engaged in the malicious mischie
called by some an expression of red-blooded
youthful exuberance. However, at the West
Dorm exhibition alone, there were undoubtedly
more than 500 displaying evidence of posses
sing a goodly quantity of blood.
Even considering the kindly assumption tha
many students of the more than 900 who re
ceived minor release forms have gotten those
forms signed and have just forgotten to re-
turn them, it is still difficult to understand
why only 900 or even 1000 of 11,000 students
have bothered to pick up the necessary forms.
Certainly with the ybuthful population of the
College, it should be considered an insult that
the blood drive goal is set for only 500 pints.
Apparently it isn't.
Today
ARNOLD . AIR SOCIETY; 7:30 p.m., Theta Xi.
AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS SOCIETY, 7 p.m.,
105 Mech. Eng.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 6:45
p.m., 304 Old Main.
COLLEGIAN• AD. STAFF; 7 bin., 9 Carnegie.
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF, 7 p.m., Busi-
ness office.
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS CANDIDATES, 7:30
p.m., 228 Sparks.
COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF,
p.m., Business office.
COLLEGIAN EDITORIAL CANDIDATES, 7
p.m., 317 Willard.
EDUCATION STUDENT COUNCIL, 7:30 p.m.,
206 Burrowes.
MR t ' Collegian editorials represen:
Mfg ettitegtatt the viewpoint' of the writers.
not necessarily the policy of the
newspaper. Unsigned editorials
are by the editor.
Sueeeasar ter THE FREE LANCE, eat. 1887
Gazette ...
THE DAILY, COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
VENCE DRAYNE, filariMergi Mgr.
ulty to support this type of project.
The Community Forum has been, and can be
in the future, a prime source of intellectual de
velopment. Penn State is certainly not beyond
this development. But the College and its stu
dents will lose one chance of such development
if the forum dies.
If for no other reason than to keep the forum
alive, we must invest $4.80 in it this year. If it
dies, another expression of culture will go from
Penn State. This is an expression of culture we
zorely, need.
Although, tfie Korean police action is' ended.
temporarily at least, the need for blood still
exists. Not all the young men in the United
States were fortunate enough to receive educa
ional deferments. In the trade of blood for
)rains, some men were short changed.
For those who managed to conserve their
)lood supply over the past two weeks, the op
)ortunity to share that blood with someone who
also likes to live will be present during the
three days the Bloodmobile unit is here. Every
one who wishes to and is able to walk in to
donate blood will not be able to 'do ,so when
aver he pleases. A strict schedule is needed to
obtain the best possible efficiency without' over
working the staff or leaving them with nothing
to do. But walk-ins will be needed if Penn
Rate is to meet its obligation.
A little blood given this week may help to
convince a few people that the idea of allowing
some men to remain in the comparative com
fort of Penn State classrooms may have its
FROTH CIRCULATION STAFF, 7 p.m., 316
Willard.
FROTH CIRCULATION, old and new candi
didates, 7 p.m., 316 Willard. •
FROTH PROMOTION STAFF and Candidates,
7 p.m., 101 Willard.
INSURANCE CLUB, 7 p.m., Sigma Alpha Ep
silon.
LAVIE ART CANDIDATES, 7 p.m., 201 Tem
porary.
PLAYERS AD. WORKSHOP, 7 p.m., Schwab
loft.
SIGMA ALPHA ETA, 7:30 p.m., Grange base
ment.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Man to work at College farm Thursday and
Friday. '
Thespians Say . . .
"LET'S
• FACE
IT!"
HOMECOMING WEEKEND
An Original Musical
Comedy. Revue with
Tickets go on sale •Monday,
October 19th
You've had it if you miss
—Dick Rau
* GAGS
* SONGS
* GALS
Thurs., Fri., Sat.
October 22, 23, 24
SCHWAB AUDITORIUM
"LET'S FACE ir'
Little Man on. Camptis
"On the other hand, ifs good to have a student like Worthal in
class. It completes th' other end of th' 'curve'."
State University of N.Y.
Bans National Fraternities
In a move aimed at ending discrimination in fraternities and sor
orities, the State University of New York has ordered social organi
zations to sever their national ties.
The ruling applies only to state operated schools. Privately en
lowed colleges are not affected
Twenty-five national groups at
• lie two state medical schools and
-Line teacher-training colleges
with a total enrollment' of 13,000
will be affected by the order.
Eight thousand students at 11
other colleges are potentially af
fected. At present, they are un
affected because they do not have
any national affiliated chapters
on their campuses.
The resolution, accepted by the
Board of Trustees of New York's
State University, declares no stu
dent social organization would be
permitted to exist on its camAouses
if it had "any direct or inldirect
affiliation or connection with any
national or other • organization
outside its particular institution."
Trustees decreed that no organ
ization should, in. policy or prac
tice, "operate under any rule
which bars students on account
of race, color, religion, creed, na
tional origin or other artificial
criteria."
Scholastic and religious organ
izations are exempt from the rul
ing. The order does not apply to
state schools that are part of pri
vately endowed Cornell and Al
fred Universities.
Although, the order is "effec-
y THE SWEETEST
DEAL IN TOWN...
*Your films dexeloned in 8 hours. ,
*The finished prints returned in
a beautiful plastic album with
"Old Main" on the front.
*A FREE CANDY BAR given with
each roll of film developed 'til
November Ist.
*Leave your films at ...
The Centre Co. Film Lab
122 W. Beaver Ave.
or
The Candy Cane
W. College Ave. (between . the movies)
Films in by 10:00 a.m.
Done by 5:00 p.m.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER-.13;.1953
By,
five immediately" the deadline
for compliance has been set as
1958. This will allow groups time
to work out financial problems
arising from the change.
Dr. William S. Carlson, presi
dent of the State University, rec
ommended the measure.
Before its adoption he told the
trustees of three• recent instances
in which national organizations
had - clashed with the admission
of Negro and Jewish students.
National representatives of these
groups had tried to enforce "dis
crimination in the' selection • of
their members against the wishes
of the State University students
in the chapters," Carlson stated.
In some cases, he said, the or
ganization's action was contrary
to statements in its own consti
tution.
At New York's 'Albany College
for Teachers all 62 members of
Kappa Delta Rho fraternity had
resigned in protest against the
national group'S policy.
Sigma Sigma Sigma and Alpha
Sigma Alphg sororities were sus
pended at Cortland State Teach
ers College over the discrimina
tion issue. These suspensions were
not the result of last week's rul
ing..