PAGE FOUR fublisltei! Tuesday through Sot- '/VT livrt .-it - - /■& -I I . Collegian editorials represent urday mornings inclusive during Lflillr TjhJJI YI 1 | Wl .if* ! III £l*s the viewpoint of the writers, the University year by the staff | * •*•*! \\ IV&4V no t necessarily the policy of the of The Dally Collegian of the | ' v newspaper. Unsigned editorials Pennsylvania State' University. | Saeccmr to THE FREE LANCE, «t I*B7 are by the editor. Entered as second-class matter July fi. 1934 .at the State College, Pa. Post Office • aa< DAVE JONES, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE:,Night editor, Don Shoemaker; Copy editors, Marcie MacDonald, Tammie Bloom; Assistants, Sue Conklin, Nancy Gray, Inez Althouse, A 1 Klimcke, Ted Serrill. Ad Staff, Sylvia Smith, Shirley Musgrave. Bus Strike: A Personal Problem? Although the threatened Greyhound bus strike did not materialize prior to Thanksgiving recess, many students were struck by a com ment they felt was the University’s attitude to their travel dilemma. In announcing no plans had been made to begin the recess early, a member of the ad ministration said he felt the situation was “a personal problem for a small number of stu dents.” Because the strike was delayed, it is hard to appraise the full effect this statement could have had if the strike were called. More than a few students were concerned with the statement. Those concerned were not only those who planned to take busses home, but others who did not like what they felt was the wrong attitude. But students who were disturbed with the statement did not fully or correctly interpret it. The statement was a personal opinion, not necessarily designed to voice the University sentiment. Then too, the speaker had no auth ority himself to say what action, if any, might be taken. The thinking student, therefore, should have realized this inability to speak for the University. The University attitude was perhaps best expressed by representatives of the food serv ice and department of housing. They indicated dormitories would remain open for those stranded, v Although the strike would have affected a Customs Revision: Commendable Start The Freshman joint Customs Board made a limited but commendable start on customs re visions two weeks ago when it lifted frosh dating restrictions and proposed centering cus toms enforcement in the sophomore class. The need for revision of the dating code was obvious to anyone who observed the large num ber of violations, by both frosh and upperclass men, of rules against freshman dating and talk ing to members of the opposite sex during cus toms period. Little needs to be said on this matter. . However, a great deal of controversy migh. well arise over the proposed switch of enforce ment from an all-University activity to a soph omore class activity. Under such a change, sophomores would be chiefly responsible for enforcing the program. Upperclassmen could participate in enforcement if they wished, but their major role would be that of spectator. The new plan would prob ably divorce hat societies from their delegated power as major enforcement agencies. It would also probably call for revision of the customs board. The ideal function of the sophomore-centered On Falsification Hat Society Council has been asked to in itiate a new rule by which an applicant to a men’s hat society would be automatically drop ped if he falsified activities. This is a mild shocker to those of us naive enough to th”-’’ those not quite qualified for hat societies would not resort to forging. Under the new rule, activities would be checked by a screening board to determine which are valid. This move comes on the heels of another hat society move to re-evaluate ac tivity point values. These two actions illustrate that Hat Society Council this year intends to get something .accomplished. Individual groups within the council have often been attacked for inactivity. Activity eminating from the council itself will perhaps be the first step toward increased hat society work. A re-evaluation of the point system for hat society membership is an admirable, but dif ficult task. Present point values are far out moded. Those involved in making the re evaluation, however, will see it entails some bitter experiences. No one will agree on the. decision. Today ACCOUNTING CLUB, 7 p.m., Sigma Chi. ARNOLD AIR SOCIETY, 7:30 p.m., Delta Tau Delta. BELLES LETTRES, 7 p.m., Northeast Lounge, Atherton. Hall CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 6:45 p.m., 304 Old Main. COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF, 7 p.m., Busi ness Office. COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF, 6:30 p.m., Daily Collegian Office. COLLEGIAN PROMOTION STAFF, 7 p.m., 11l Carnegie Hall. LAVIE SOPHOMORE BOARD, 7:30 p.m., 405 Old Main. PENN STATE FENCING North Corridor Rec Hall. Tomorrow PENNS VALLEY SKI CLUB AND OUTING CLUB, 7:30 p.m. 109 Agriculture. PHI EPSILON OMICRON, 6:45 p.m., Home Economics Living Center. Gazette .. • CLUB, 7:30 p.m., THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA VINCE DRAYNE, Business Mgr. small number of students, several hundred would have been in a dilemma. The major student concern, it seems, was elimination of classes. Perhaps criticism of the statement sprang from the desire to have classes end early This is not a realistic idea, since students prob ably would not have had too much trouble getting professors to excuse them from class. It is disturbing, however, to find some may really believe such an event a “personal prob lem.” The student body is expected to attend classes until a specific time. A bus line adver tises special busses from the University. Many students plan to take those busses. When these students suddenly find themselves without a way home, it is far from a personal problem. That it was hot a personal problem was illus trated by indications that the dorms would stay open. The University need not cancel classes early to recognize this was not a personal problem. If such a situation is a personal problem, then also a personal problem is student conduct dur ing the Pitt and Penn football games. These games are held during vacation periods and though sponsored by the institution, are no less connected with the students than the bus strike situation. It is not a personal problem when many stu dents are stranded at the University without a way home. Penn State is large, but it need not be as impersonal as that. program would be stronger enforcement of cus toms. In comparison with all-University enforce ment, that centered in the sophomore class could be more easily achieved solely on the basis that a single class is more effectively appealed to, and coordinated, than an entire university. The sophomore class seems to be the best enforce ment agency because of its relative proximity to the frosh class and ordeals of customs. Immature and time-wasting as any customs program is on a university campus, strong en forcement of the existing program is necessarily :he main goal of that program's coordinators. It is perhaps a shame that the sophomore may be “stuck” with this burden of enforcement, but there is also that possibility that such a group can inject into the program some humorous spirit, and even a bit of value. If nothing else, it will give the class opportunity to pass on any mock revenge it has stored up from its own ’•’stoms tribulations. On Christmas Cheer A week before Thanksgiving recess, Santa Claus was being sprinkled into many towns throughout the nation by helicopter, airplane, sleigh, and parachute, for all we know. And this has some of us wondering whether last week’s vacation was for Thanksgiving or Christ mas. Bui after all. il wasn't hard to figure out. It is all part of the unorganized but definitely intentional process of getting Old Saint Nick Into the town so the merchants may begin sell ing Christmas gifts. And viewed from this angle. Christmas is becoming more unpleasant every year. There was a time —they say—when Christmas was a holiday to celebrate the birth of Christ. Now it may be more of a celebrated time to spend, or make, money. The next thing we know, the Easter rabbit will be rearing his head during Christmas re cess. And then things will be really fouled up. Maybe the first Christmas is so far away that we just cannot capture the spirit on an assigned day. Someone else was puzzled about this once too, when he wrote: Christmas cards confuse me so . .. Why the kittens? Why the doe? (Why not) something simple now and then. Saying just: "Good will to men." Lyle Barnard, Richard Bruce, Jack Calde rone, James Davis, Francesca Dickey, Yvonne Fino, Elaine Focht, Richard Guzikowski, Fran cis O’Brien, Nancy Ann Peiz, and Gay Sheley. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Waiters wanted on and off campus. PLACEMENT SERVICE The companies listed below will conduct interviews on campus. Schedule interviews'now in 112 Old Main. WHEELING STEEL COMPANY will interview Jan. B.S. graduates in Ch.E, Chem., CE, EE, lE, ME, Fuel Tech, and Metal, on Dec. 3. ' BENDIX-WESTINGHOUSE (AUTOMOTIVE AIR BRAKE CO.) will interview Jan. B.S. graduates in ME on Dec. 3. M. W. KELLOGG CO. will interview Ph.D. candidates in Chem., Ch.E expecting to receive their degrees in 1954; M.S. candidates in CE, ME; and Ch.E who have completed at least one semester; and B.S. Jan. graduates in Ch.E in Dec. 7. ATLAS POWDER CO. (CENTRAL RESEARCH LAB.) will interview Jan. B.S. graduates in Chem., Ch.E, Mining E, lE, CE:' M.S. candidates in Ch.E, and Chem. who have completed at least one semester; and Ph.D. candidates in Ch.E and Chem. expecting to receive their degrees in 1954 •» Dec. & ler Um set af Uarcli 3. 1879. —Peggy McClain INFIRMARY ittle Man on Campus 'Now that we've boiled your paper down to this relevant ma: ! think you're ready to re-write." Interpreting the News Fate of EDC Rests on Big 4 Official statements in Washington and London indicate there is no longer much question about whether a four-power conference on Germany will be held, and that Allied talks at Bermuda will center primarily around what kind of a front they will put up. The United States still feels the Russian switch from intransi gence to negotiation' is entirely a tactical matter, designed to inter fere with European defense plans rather than to reach an accord But after a couple of days in which there were signs of an American desire to further pin down Russian intentions before agreeing to the meeting. Secre tary Dulles indicated a shift toward the Anglo-French view, which was to get ahead with a meeting as the best test. “We approach, a possible meet ing with the representatives of the Soviet Union,” said Dulles at a congressional committee hear ing on another matter. Anthony Eden was telling Par liament that Britain believes, on the basis of information already obtained from the United States, that “it will now be possible to arrange a meeting . . There were reports in Wash ington that President-Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles, agreeing on this point with France and Bri tain at Bermuda, would present a simultaneous request that France go ahead with ratification of the European Defense Community without waiting either for the or- Student Paper Threatened For Its Contrary Views Two University of Georgia students, who published an editorial attacking the position of Georgia’s governor on school segregation, have been described as “little sissy boys” by a Southern politician editor. ' The editorial, appearing in the campus weekly newspaper, ex pressed a liberal view on race segregation. It particularly hit the condemnatory remarks of Gov. Herman Talmadge on several law suits dealing with. segregation in schools, now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Roy C. Harris, long-time sup porter of Talmadge and publisher of an Augusta weekly, called the involved students “a little hand ful of sissy, misguided squirts,” Writing in 'his paper, Harris went on to say: "But the time has come to clean out all of these institu tions of all communist influ ences and the crazy idea of mix ing and mingling of the races (Continued on- page five) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1,: 1953-** By J. M. ROBERTS Jr. Associated Press News Analyst ganization of the four-power con ference or its results. The New York Herald Tri bune carried a report in this connection that the United Stales, to give the French gov ernment something to work on with recalcitrant members of Parliament, would give assur ances that American troops would remain in Europe to bal ance the strength of a rearmed West Germany. The recent French vote on Pre mier Laniel’s pro-EDC foreign policy, however, led to small hope that ratification could be obtained now, even if the Russians had not revived die-hard hopes in .France that the sovereignty surrender and the rearmament of Germany might somehow be avoided. The European foreign ministers meeting at The Hague also found that it would take them four more months merely to draw up a proposed constitution for the supra-national civil control organ ization under which EDC is to operate. This gives French oppo nents of the unified army the op portunity to claim that it would be premature to ratify the army before they can see how it will be controlled. The unofficial schedule for LaVie group pictures tonight at the Penn Stale Photo Shop is: • Players , 6:30 . Thespians : 6:50 LaVie senior and sophomore board .. 7:10 Education Student Council 7:30 Collegian junior and senior board ...... 7:50 By Bible: LaVie Group Photo Schedule iterial—
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