PAGE FOJR
Pubtb Tuesday through
Saturday mornings, during
the University year, thi
Daily Collegian is a student
%oersted newspaper.
&Meted as second-class matter illl7 6. 1.9:41 at the Stan; College, Pa. Post Office tinder
DAVE JONES Editor
:STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Tammie Bloom; Copy editors, Phil. Austin, Marcie MacDonald;
Assistants, Bunny Kaplan, Anna Saylor, Joy Sponsler, Mike Moyle, Ed Martinez. Ad Staff, Tod
Adams, Cindy Manarin.
Dating Policy: Some Cold. Hard. Facts
(First of two editorials on the University's
new fraternity dating and drinking policy.)
Now that the initial shock of the University's
new dating and drinking policy has passed, if
seems a good time to look into that policy, its
advantages and disadvantages.
It is hard to understand why so many stu
dents, and particularly fraternity men, were so
upset by release of the new dating and drinking
policy There were several indications the new
policy was on the way. A realistic student could
have guessed just about what it would mean.
The new policy marks a move by the Uni
versity from a position of prohibition to dis
approval of drinking. Senate Regulations for
Undergraduate Students were never fully en
forced.
Their claim that alcoholic beverages
could not be served at student functions was
hollow. The new policy proposes redrawing
those regulations.
Briefly, the new code revokes the unchape
roned dating code and proposes a classification
of fraternities in two categories. ,Houses "dry"
by charter and practice may have women guests
until 8 p.m. daily without chaperons. "Wet"
houses may have women guests until 8 p.m.
daily, but chaperons must be present. All fra
ternities must have chaperons for dating until
1 a.m. on weekends.
The new regulations were drawn to improve
the drinking situation and prevent much criti
cism of unchaperoned dating in fraternities.
Good Sing Rule
The move to prevent non-members from at
tending fraternity and sorority sing practices
is a wise action to preserve the amateur stand
ing of the Interfraternity Council-Panhellenic
Council Sing.
The rule will prevent enlistment of profes
sional instruction or advice by Greek groups.
It is aimed at maintenance of the sing as com
petition among students—fraternity vying vrith
fraternity and sorority with sorority on the
basis of group singing ability.
The rule prohibiting outside aid does and
should apply only to rehearsals, and not to
musical arrangement, because the latter re
quires specialized knowledge.
Group singing is a part of Greek life as exem
plified by fraternity serenades and sorority
singing during rushing. The IFC-Panhel Sing
should pitgroups with relatively equal musical
knowledge and ability against each other.
To allow a group to obtain professional help
would be to undermine the basis of the sing.
Competition could center about the acquisition
of expert advice rather than amateur singing
ability and the ability of a group to follow a
chosen amateur director.
The majority of Greek groups have sufficient
ly large memberships to assure at least one
member of each group will be qualified to act
as director and to instruct the group in harmony
singing. A group which lacked anyone with
musical ability probably would feel unqualified
to enter competition even if it could secure
expert direction.
The IFC-Panhel Sing is a fair form of compe
tition among Greek groups. The new rule is
designed to maintain an equal opportunity for
each to win.
Found: S,e,irit
The basketball pep rally in the borough early
Monday morning was a spontaneous burst of
student spirit, unseen at Penn State in recent
years.
About 2000 students and townspeople met
Penn State's victorious masketball team when it
arrived home about 2 a.m. The pep rally was a
student idea, a student plan, a student success.
This type of spontaneous rally shows Penn
State has not grown too large for school spirit.
Apathy which has plagued students So often in
the past was not evident Monday morning.
Aside from Penn State's 1948 Cotton Bowl
bid and wrestling coach Charlie Speidel's reign,
this may be the most national recognition a
Penn State athletic team has achieved. The
student body recognizes this, and gave the team
a rousing welcome. This type of appreciation
can mean more to the team than the national
acclaim they have received. . . .
We who have said Penn Stale spirit is dead
may well be wrong. Let's hope so.
Gazette . ..
Today
LAKONIDES, 6:30 p.m., White Hall
NEWMAN CLUB DISCUSSION, 7:30 p.m.,
Catholic Student Center
NEWMAN CLUB SOCIAL COMMITTEE, 8:30
p.m., Simmons Study Lounge
OMICRON NU, 6:45 p.m., Home Ec Living
Center
PENN STATE BARBELL CLUB, 7:30 p.m.,
102 Willard
PSCA OPEN HOUSE FOR GRADUATE STU
DENTS, 3-5 p.m., 304 Old Main
PSCA "RELIGION AND THE ARTS" SERIES,
7 p.m., 304 Old Main
PENN STATE GRANGE, 7:30 p.m„ 100 Hort
PERSHING RIFLES, 7 p.m., Armory
alle Batty entirgian
Suceezoor to rHE FREE LANCE. eat. 180?
.ti'',:' , .
—Nancy Ward
THE DAIIY - COLLEGIAi4 STATE COttEG'E rI'ENNSsaVM4IA
VINCE DRAYNE. Business Mgr.
Thus, they are designed to affect both wet and
dry houses. Some dry houses have complained
observance of the no-drinking regulation has
done them no good. But with the new policy
aimed at both drinking and unchaperoned dat
ing, this complaint may not be justified.
The University has the new policy a
"more realistic approach," which indeed it is.
The old code, which Interfraternity Council
agreed to enforce, was a joke. The new policy
is far from a joke for fraternities. It will go
info effect Sept. I.
The new policy is obviously designed to en
courage fraternities to employ housemothers.
In houses where housemothers are employed,
dating may continue until 8 p.m. during the
week and 1 a.m. on weekends.
Fraternity presidents and a large number of
students have expressed disapproval of the new
policy. The IFC president has conferred with
President Milton S. Eisenhower on the matter.
Opposition by students 'is most certain to bring
compromise on the new policy. The Senate com
mittee on student affairs, which brought forth
the new policy, certainly expected to compro
mise.
Changes are needed in the new policy, but
students must motivate them. The Senate com
mittee will not suggest compromises it is will
ing to make. Some points in the new policy are
illogical and unnecessary. Those points, and sug
gestions for improvements in the policy, will
be presented here'tomorrow.
Safety Valve
Sinclajr 'Dictatorial'
TO THE EDITOR: Last semester I appointed
Ben Sinclair clique chairman of the Lion Party,
and at that time I felt he would do a- com
mendable job, not only for the Lion Party but
for Penn State politics as a whole. Never have
I been so wrong.
Sunday night's Lion Party meeting was. just
the climax of the dictatorial politics on the
whole that he has carried out for the past two
semesters . . .
... I do not feel that it is right for the chair
man of a party to demonstrate such partiality
as did ; Sinclair in accepting a nomination for a
candidacy of such importance as the
All-Uni
versity president.
There has been evidence of Sinclair's dicta
torial policies previous to Sunday's meeting.
He, along with his steering committee, passed
a ruling that only the clique chairman could
appoint members to the steering committee,
who in turn, would elect the succeeding clique
chairman . . .
In other words Sinclair has succeeded in
establishing a one-man party which is a dis
grace to Penn State student government.
a Letter cut
More About °Salesman'
TO THE EDITOR: I have been trying without
much success to figure out the policy of a daily
newspaper which circulates five mornings each
week around the campus of Pennsylvania State
University. You notice that it circulates around
a university and not Eliza Kazan's School of
Drama Study. It has now, since Friday morn
ing's publication, become inconceivable to
understand why this college newspaper prints
the opinion of• the poor man's Brooks Atkinson,
Edmund Reiss.
When reading his "critic's" review I was a
bit leery as to whether ,r not we both saw the
same play. "Death of a Salesman" is a moving
character study of a pitiful Willy Loman whose
hopes take him so far from realism that they
finally lead him to a tragic end. Morton Sla
koff, in the leading role, was not a 20-year old
amateur, he was Loman . . .
How can this truly amateur student be per
mitted to pass judgment on a near professional
production? . . .
°Letter cut
TO THE EDITOR: Since arriving on this cam
pus last September it seems every write-up
that has appeared in Collegian concerning cam
pus productions, both musical and dramatic,
has been derogatory. . _ .
The most recent write-up, appearing in (Fri
day's) Collegian had nothing, save one para
graph, good to say about the Players' produc
tion . . . "Death of a Salesman." Let's give
credit where credit, is due. In my opinion
Players gave an excellent perform'ance, all
things in consideration. It seems to me the group
should be given credit for attempting such a
drama, and encouragement to perform more
like it in the future.
Was Edmund Reiss at the opening night, .or
did he attend the dress rehearsal?
—Harryette V. Gerhart
Ed note—Since last September, the Daily Col
legian reviewer has not given each production
a derogatory' review. Edmund Reiss attended
both dress, rehearsal and opening night per
formances.
Editonan4 represent the
viewpoint of the writers,
not necessarily the policy of
the paper. Unsigned edi
torials are by the editor.
tort oe tibareh a. 1879
—Watson K. Leese
—Judie Rubin
Little Man on Campus
NZIME
Interpreting the News
2 Asian Leaders Hit
`Asia for the Asiatics'
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
Two Asiatic leaders have now come out against the idea of "Asia
for the Asiatics" which the Japanese fostered during the war and
which has since then played so strongly into the hands of the Com
munists.
President Magsaysay of the Philippines repudiated his own
foreign office for an impromptu promulgation of the slogan. -
Magsaysay reacted no faster
than Premier P. Pibuy Song
gram of Thailand, who com
pared it with what an "America
for Americans" program would
mean.
The "Asia for the Asiatics" idea
has been used from many angles
for years. It has played a role
in practically every nationalistic
movement against Western colon
ialism.
Japan used it very effectively
in Indochina and Indonesia. It
was easily adapted to the Com
munist campaign in China.
It now plays an unexpressed
role in India, where suspicion of
the West is coupled with neutral
ism and the hope that India will
attain greater wor l d status
through a role as mediator be
tween Russia and the West.
It plays its part in the Burmese
and Indonesian decisions to keep
their skirts as clear as possible
of Western influences even at the
expense of economic aid they ser-
Aously need.
It is of extreme importance to
the United States and to the
whole Western world that the
Philippines especially, repre
senting 50 years of American
tutelage, shall not give the im
pression to the rest of Asia that
the experience left anything ex
cept mutual respect.
It is true that there is .a reac
tion in the Philippines against
foreign control of so much of their
business. This followed heavy in
vestment of Chinese refugee mon
ey after the war, producing a sit-
I uation in which American inves
tors gradually came to be in
cluded.
But the Philippines have adapt
ed American doctrine to their own
needs and established a govern
ment which, though still creaking
from the effects of political im
maturity among the people, can
nevertheless •be cited as a model
for hitherto submerged peoples
who are taking over their own af
fairs. It would be a pity for them
to cut themselves off from
_full
participation in affairs of the
world just when they are in , posi
tion to start cooperating as a truly
free people.
It would also be a pity for them
to do anything tending to open
the door to a new• colonialism in
Asia. Yet that is exactly.what the
Communists intend. And Asia does
WEDNESDAY. MARCH - 17, 1954
"Did you get ' a 3 too?"
not seem to fully understand that
the colonial policy of the Com
munists would make the formerly
dominating nations of Europe look
like a bunch of fairy godmothers.
Both Magsaysay ' and Pibul
Songgram advanced the idea of
international cooperation in the
spirit of the United Nations as
the true guiding light for Asia.
'lf they could get a campaign
like that going the whole area
would be . better off. The idea
cannot be imposed from outside.
Faculty Club
Hears Borough
Finance Talk
By NANCY FORTNA
With the use of charts and 'ex
planations, Mrs. W. Conrad Fer
nelius, president of the local Lea
gue of Women Voters, told
members of the Faculty Luncheon
Club Monday how the borough
government of- State College op
erates.
In her talk, "Do You Know
Your Borough Government," Mrs.
Fernelius discussed the elected
and appointed officers of the bor
ough and the jobs they do. She
also discussed the boards and
commissions which are set up in
the borough.
To show her audience how the
budget of $182,900 is acquired and
spent, Mrs. Fernelius used two
charts. One showed the various
expenditures of the borough from
the police force to the money
spent for the caring of shade trees.
The' second chart showed the
means through which the borough
collects money.
Speaking about the recreation
system, Mrs. Fernelius described
the facilities available to children
and adults during winter and
summer. She also spoke of plans
for future recreational facilities.
Tonight on WDFM
7:30
8:00
8 :15 -
8:30 ------ Women's Angle
By Bibles•
* I
0
MU
91.1 MIGACYCLES
Sign on
BBC Concert
' _ Spotlight on State
___ Lest We Forget
Masterwork Hour
Sign iff