PAGE TWO It is possible to be an astute politician and still retain the essen tials of intellectual integrity, Arthur H. Reede, professor of economics and Democratic candidate for Congress in 1950, told the Political Science Club Thursday night. Reede's talk was the fifth in a series of discussions on the topic "Ethics and Politics." Spring Pledging Date to Be Set Tuesday by IFC The date of the beginning of formal fraternity pledging will be announced Tuesday, a spokes man for the Interfraternity Coun cil reported yesterday. He said the IFC must first con sult with the Association of Fra ternity Counselors and get their opinion as to a satisfactory time. The AFC will meet Monday night and is expected to take action at that time. Members of the IFC executive committee discussed the question yesterday afternoon and arrived at a tentative date, the official said. Before it can be announced, hoWever, he added, the AFC must also approve the date. IFC president Thomas Schott told fraternity men at Thursday's IFC meeting the date would prob ably be about the second week in February. It must be late enough for scholastic averages of rushees to be available to fraternities, as is provided in the IFC rushing and pledging code. Bruce Coble,, chairman of the IFC rushing committee, has re vealed that between 300 and 400 preference cards have been re turned by independent men in dicating their interest in joining a fraternity and in some cases a definite house. These cards and descriptive rushing magazines are still available from dormitory counselors and at the Dean of Men's office, he said. Lists of those showing an inter est in fraternities are now being made, Coble said, and will be available to houses next week. Lists of those asking about spe cific houses will be compiled later, the added. Coble also reported there would be no open houses for rushees until next semester,, This is be cause of the nearness of finals and the stepped-up academic tempo until then. Borough Police Probe Party Borough police are investigat ing a party held at Kappa Sigma during the Christmas vacation to find if it is connected with a rob bery at the fraternity which net ted thieves approximately $650 in clothing and jewelry. Chief John Juba said a check was on to locate the stolen goods. Original estimate of the loss was $550, but a more thorough check by members of the fraternity . showed $650 worth of clothing and jewelry was taken. The adviser of the fraternity authorized the party, an officer of the house said last night. No new developments in the robbery of $22 in cash from Theta Chi were reported. A cash box in which the ,money had been kept was found on Locust Lane dur ing vacation. 4 Staff Members Attend Conclave . Four staff members of the Uni versity attended the District II conference of the American Alumni Council this week in At lantic City, N.J. They are Ridge Riley and Ross B. Lehman of the Alumni Associ ation and Bernard P Taylor and Robert E. Beam of the Penn State Foundation. Taylor conducted a round-table discussion on alumni funds and Beam spoke on initiating an alumni fund. Read to Lecture Sir Herbert Read, British au thor• of both prose and poetry, will give a lecture sponsored by the Divisions of Art F.ducation and Fine and Apnli2.:l Arts at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in 121 Sparks. Views Politics Speaking as a practical politi cian, Reede drew the distinction between two types of political dishonesty. The f irs t of these, commercial dishonesty, is seldom tried by politi fans, he stated. Reede agreed politicians have many opportunities to use their positions for financial gain, but most are forced by their oppo nents to avoid situations which could be used for political am munition, he said. Another factor which keeps pol iticians honest in this respect is the piteous publicity centered on men in public office, Reede stated. Any misstep usually results in headlines, Reede commented. Reede then cited the second type of political dishoriesty which he called intellectual dishonesty. Here the record is not so good, Reede stated. He charged it is sometimes unfeasible for a poli tician to state exact truths be cause of the danger of his oppo nents distorting his true mean ings. Reede asked the question how a politician can be expected to adhere sternly to the standards of rectitude when his opponents are constantly waiting to turn a chance statement against him. A politician must have the right of defensive protection against the distortion of his views, Reede stated. Reede said men in public office should be expected to give up any commercial interests they had be fore election to office. He also de clared that increased . prestige which public office gives a man is adequate to offset any possible decrease in income he may suffer by taking public office. Nicolet to Talk On lonosphere Marcel Nicolet, visiting profes sor of engineering research in the lonosphere Laboratory, will lec ture on "The Upper Atmosphere" to a meeting of Sigma Xi, honor ary science fraternity for gradu ate students, at •8 p.m. Thursday in 117 Osmond. Nicolet is recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on the behavior of the upper atmos phere. He is the author of more than a hundred papers in various technical journals. Nicolet, a native of Belgium, first came to Penn State in 1951. Glenn Claims Collegian Poll Favorable to Health Service Herbert R. Glenn, director of the University Health Service, said today he felt the recent medi cal poll taken by the Daily Col legian was "favorable" to the ser vice and "did not show that all students were dissatisfied with the service offered." He pointed out that although only 240 students were questioned in the poll, there were only 65 who were dissatisfied with the service. He also felt many students who gave unfavorable com ments about the Health service were not justified in their re marks because they either had very little personal contact with the Infirmary or Dispensary or had none at all. Glenn gave two reasons why the suggestion by students that the Health Service should have 24-hour service with a doctor on duty at the Infirmary at all times was not feasible. It would be al most an impossibility to get a doc tor who would go on duty at the Infirmary at all times, he said. And, to have a doctor on continu ous duty, would cost about $15,000 a year, he added. He said that under the Health Service's present operation THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, ~7'.="3::72rAlifek Need a Ring Job? New official Penn State class ring, has been changed to read ~ .. "Un i versify," ,( K : - . .,.. - l t : '2 ?,:., F , B . :1 3 e r g i e lLa . 72l n • ''''' %-*\ the inscription $ .141v-c'''N around the ~ , ,i t r. , .r... 5-„ t ilp,a W•5k,...5 1 ,.51 stone. Old rings •••• , -. \V 4 may be altered N.„ .. ( ....._ •,,,. to read "Uni versity," Crum Jenkins, d e a 1 e r in university jewelry at the Athletic Store, has announced. Cost for the change is $4.20, plus tax, Jen kins said. 2d Semester Dorm Outlook Seen Favorable No major housing problems are anticipated for the spring semes ter, according to Otto F. Mueller, director of housing. The number of rooms which will be available in the men's dormitories is about equal to the number of applica tions for admittance to the Uni versity. Mrs. Cordelia Hibbs, assistant dean of women in charge of hous ing, said she is now working on women's housing, and will be able to determine the situation in a few days. Flans for drawings for room assignments for eight-week prac tice teachers and home economic students who will be living in home management houses wi 11 probably be. made within a week, Mrs. Hibbs said. Students who applied for as signments in the West Dorm area and who have been housed in Nittany and Pollock dormitories will receive preference for rooms vacated by graduating seniors. Students who wish to remain at the University between semesters must register at the Dean of Men's,office before Jan. 25, James W. Dean, assistant to the dean of men in charge of independent af fairs, has announced. Arrangements for housing the students remaining and fees they will be charged have not been completed, Dean said. Dormitories will be closed at 5 p.m. Jan. 27 and will reopen at 8 a.m. Feb. 2. Dormitory housing contracts state that students will vacate rooms within 24 hours after their last final examination. Harter Receives $5O Alcoa Award James Harter, seventh semester architecture major, has been awarded the $5O first prize by the Aluminum Company of Amer ica in the competition for the design of a railroad station. Cynthia Palmer, seventh semes ter architecture major, and Alan McChesney, ninth semester arch itecture major, tied for the sec ond, prize of $25. there is a doctor on call 24 hours a day. If a student is sick at 3 a.m. the doctor who is on call for that particular night will visit the student. He also point ed out that the Infirmary is open to all at all times. Glenn said 'the present plan for issuing excuses is a good one for everybody and should not be changed as Some students sug gested. "While it (the excuse plan) is a Senate regulation and good for everybody, it is not our intention to put the student in the middle; any student is at liberty to talk to me about excuses if he feels he should have one," Plenn said. He added that by changing the present excuse plan we would all lose by it because it would foster non-class attendance and cause more students to ask for excuses when they don't need them "Before the Senate ruling on excuses was passed," he said, "the Dispensary had approxi- In reference to a University mately 10,000 visits a year from ambulance, Glenn said the school students not needing excuses. will definitely have one but it will People used the Health Service not be purchased until a garage as an excuse for not going to is built. class," he said. The construction of an ambul- Glenn also stated the staff mem- ance garage is included in the bers of the University Health Ser-, General State Authority plans for vice try to be as personal to the! enlargement, of the Infirmary. 'GOP Debater Backs McCarthy Influeke The Republicans do' not agree `with everything McCarthy has done, Robert Kurtz, third semester business administration major, said as he opened his discussion of "McCarthy, the fight for Amer ica?" at the meeting of the Young Republicans Club Thursday night. In his affirmative discussion Kurtz said the Republicans do be lieve McCarthy has done more good than harm. Everyone realizes the external danger threatening the United States, he said, but few realize the internal danger. McCarthy is trying to arouse us to the fact with his investigations. Most people. shout 'hysteria' when someone is brought before the committee, Kurtz said. Actually, he said, this is done to help defend the United States.' No Proven Communists David Scott, first semester dairy husbandry major, speaker for the negative side, said Mc- Carthy has not found one proven Communist. He said McCarthy has called General Marshall a "traitorous schemer and Drew Pearson a "sugar coated voice of Russia" but has never been able to prove it. McCarthy, he said, has called anyone that hasn't agreed with his policies extremely "left," pink," or a "Communist." John Kiffin, .fifth semester arts and letters major, second speaker in the affirmative side . continued on the fact that even though Mc- Carthy has not fired one Com munist, proved this would be im possible. He said the only way this would be possible would be if the suspected Communist were a domestic servant in his house, or employed in his office or on his committee. Hi s job, Kiffin stressed, is to investigate. The fir ing is up to others to decide. He argued that McCarthy did not call Marshall a traitor, but said he was very "stupid" and was a "front man for traitors " Guilty by Association Kiffin also mentioned guilt by asociation, which McCarthy has used in many of his accusations_ If a person associates with Com munists, he may not be a member of the party but he certainly must agree with Communist doctrines. Stan Juras, third semester en gineering science major, said Mc- Carthy is trying to be patriotic in exposing Communists. He claims to be a Paul Revere in rousing the people to the fact of Communism. Actually, Juras said, the FBI, Roosevelt, and Truman knew there were Communists in the government. Loyalty boards were the result of Congressional study long before McCarthy. The four panel members then gave four minute speeches in re buttal, after which the floor was open to questions from the aud ience. student as ,is possible but the number of cases handled each day approximately 200 makes it hard for doctors and nurses to be very personal. "All persons should realize as we do," he said, "it is impos sible to offer medical service which would please everyone." He said many times complaints have come to doctors about the way in which they diagnose a case. Students have complained the doctors usually don't diag nose a case right. Glenn, in 'de fense of this statement, said it has very rarely happened that a doc 7 for has made an incorrect diag nosis, and there are bound to be mistakes sometimes when 200 cases are handled each day. Viewing the poll in general, Glenn said he felt the results of the poll indicate there is not a critical situation on campus in connection with the Health Ser vice. SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1994 By JOAN PARK 'Time' Review Recognizes Pattee's Book Time magazine called Fred Lewis Pattee's autobiography, "Penn State Yankee," "a moving story of a typical New Hampshire boyhood," but added that "Pat tee's account of his teaching life is pedestrian," in the Jan. 4 issue. Pattee wrote the Penn State al ma mater, and the Pattee Library was named for him. Time's reviewer wrote, "When he (Pattee) died in 1950, it was plain that he had done as much as any one man to end the notion of U.S. literary colonialism. In his day, he bad the respect not only of students and teachers, abut even of such a renowned professor-bait or as H. L. Mencken. - Wrote the big, ,Dad curmudgeon of the '2,os to Pattee: 'Your trea tise upon my own • crimes and mis demeanors seems to me to be a very excellent piece of work . . . Send me your portrait. Let me have it at once. There is a place for it on my wall between Cool idge and Lillian Gish'." The book remained in the li brary until last March under the title of "My World As In My 'Time." Funds for its publication were donated by friends of Pattee and the University, and his Dart mouth classmates. The fact that Pattee was a New England "Yank ee" for the first 31 years of his life, before he came to Penn State in 1894, inspired the title, "Penn State Yankee." Hillel to Hear Author Monday Maurice Samuel, author, lec turer, and translator will speak on "The Legacy of European Jew ry" at Hillel forum at 8 p.m. Mon day at Hillel Auditorium. The talk-will be a survey of the cultural heritage in folklore and literature left to the world by the destroyed Jewish civilization of Europe. Samuel has been acclaimed one of the most colorful, witty, and popular lecture platform person alities. The author of 12 volumes, including "The Devil That Fail ed" and "The World of Sholom Aleichem," he has also translated 15 books. Copies of Samuel's books may be purchased and autographed at the lecture. Student Suspended On Cheat Charge • A seventh semester student in the College of Mineral Industries has been given an indefinite sus pension from the University for cheating, Dean of Men Frank J. ;mes, announced yesterday. The student will be allowed to _omplete his examinations this semester, and his suspension will take effect at the completion of the semester, Simes said. Action was taken because of "plagerism," ha said. - The student was placed on in definite suspension, Simes said, because he had committed a pre vious cheating offense in th e spring semester last year. Indefinite suspension means a student may not apply for read mission at the end of one semes ter, as is the regular suspension requirement. 1070 Vets on Campus Of 1319 veterans enrolled at the University, 1070 are on campus, C. 0. Williams, dean of admissions and registrar, has announced. Some 249 others, largely fresh men and sophomores, are attend ing Penn State centers. Fifteen of the veterans are coeds.
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