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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Roger Seidler; Copy editors, Tammie Bloom, Baylee Friedman;
Assistants, Dave Bronstein, Anna. Saylor, Margie Blank, Mickey McMillan. Ad staff, Cindy Manarin,
Tod Adams.
Hat Societies Get a Brand New Job
Hat Society Council's decision to change the
role of the batman in freshman orientation is
•
long overdue.
The council last week decided to give hatmen
the job of counseling freshman men during
Orientation Week next fall. The council also
decided hatmen, as a group, would not take
part in freshman hazing. This second action is
of prime importance.
The idea of giving hatmen the counseling
job, instead of the hazing job, is one of the best
moves since customs began. After semester up
on semester of - repeated criticism of hazing by
hatmen, hat 'societies themselves have finally
seen the light.
Since the return of freshman customs after
the end of World War 11, hatmen have had the
unpleasant job of enforcing customs upon the
frosh. Hatmen were given the job to encourage
upperclass enforcement. It has encouraged en
forcement. But those who developed this idea
failed to consider the amount of harm it could
do to whatever prestige hat societies then had.
Giving hatmen the job of leading customs
enforcement has so lowered hat societies in stu-
Those Major Objections to FMA
Tomorrow the Fraternity Marketing Associ
ation is expected to begin the sale of meats to
member houses at prices ranging from 5 to 10
per cent below that now paid by individual
buyers. In addition, FMA is now offering can
ned goods at an 8 per cent saving and furni
ture at a 27 per cent discount.
Despite all this, however, only 27 fraternities
are participating in the program. This is more
than 50 per cent, but it leaves 24 strong mem
bers/ of Interfraternity. Council who have not
found the savings tempting enough to over
come their apparent distrust, or dislike, of the
organization.
What are the main reasons for not joining
the group? First seems to be a feeling FMA
has not proven itself and may fail financially
at any time. But, FMA has attempted to remedy
this feeling many times by sending speakers to
non-member fraternities and by Promotion cam
paigns designed to acquaint all with its suc
cessful operation. Yet, prospective members
still worry about losing money if they invest
in the program.
Actually, all FMA can say - will not con
vince its doubters. The best suggestion for
doubters is to look at the record. Growth of
FMA from a few fraternities cooperating to 'buy
a truck-load of potatoes to the group we see
today—incorporated under state law, buying
not only potatoes but canned goods, meats, and
The Campus Green: That Animal Plea
The return of spring to the University means,
among other things, that the keep-off-the-grass
campaign will soon be getting into full swing.
The campaign is an annual affair, sponsored
by Alpha Phi Omega, national service frater
nity. Its purpose is self-evident—to save as much
grass as possible from extinction in order to
preserve some semblance of a green campus.
Annually, Alpha Phi Omega valiantly at
tempts to save grass from its seemingly. pre
destined fate while students and members of
the administration and f a cult y work un
consciously in the opposite direction.
Obviously, something must be done. Alpha
Phi Omega tackles the problem with probably
the most logical method yet devised. The group
constructs, erects, and maintains signs—signs
saying "Please keep off the grass" in a number
of highly creative ways. For example, sign
makers in the past have come up with some
gems as "Don't Tread on Me"; "Ouch, That
Hurts"' ' and "Remember, You Were Once a
Gay Young Blade."
The signs are placed at strategically located
areas where the grass faces complete' extinction
unless something is done. These signs do in
form those who persist in taking the shortest
routes across campus, regardless of the grass.
But informing is all the signs can do. There
are no stiff penalties for violation; and it is
unlikely penalties for violators will be enacted
in the future.
Hence, it is the individual's responsibility.
He alone can make or break the campaign by
merely heeding the pleas of the signs or ig
noring them completely.
According to figures released by Walter W.
Trainer, supervisor of landscape, construction,
and r-alrtenance of the University physical
plar•%>, c - .vor 53500 will be spent this .spving in
turf rejuvenation alone. This is over and above
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dent eyes that many batmen are ashamed to
wear their hats in public—and perhaps rightly
so. The customs situation has done much to
cancel out all the good works •of hat societies.
It will be some time before hatmen lose the
stigma of "frosh-beaters" and regain recog
nition they deserve.
Giving hatmen the job of helping orient fresh
men is much better. Most hatmen have a
healthy attitude toward the University. This is
something to be instilled in new students. For
recognized campus leaders to spend spare time
hazing freshmen makes no sense:
In September, when hatmen take over their
new roles, an evaluation of freshman customs
may prove them unnecessary. Hatmen, admit
tedly, have been the driving force behind the
program. Now that this drive, as an organized
power, is removed, there will be question as to
how successful the program will be. Upper
classmen must take up enforcement as they
never have before, or the program will flop.
The change in hatman status will help make
freshman orientation more successful. It will
help raise hat society prestige. But it may kill
customs. This does not seem such a bad risk.
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furniture, and showing no signs of stopping its
growth—shows the. progress FMA has made.
Its volume of business has grown in proportion
to its fields—from a few hundred dollars pur
chases' to a total that may top $15,000 a month
with the addition of meats.
The only other reason for opposition is pres
sure put on hotises by their cooks. Many frater
nities will admit their cooks said they could
equal or better any discount FMA could obtain.
But. why should this keep the house from
trying a plan that may save it money? Who is
paying the cook and running the house? The
FMA feels it can prove its intentions and make
its statistic,s,, apply,, to any house if given a
chance. The cook should . be willing to go along
with the plan and give it a test—that is, unless
he is profiting personally under the present
plan., ,
Thies, the two. objections some fraternities
nave put forward are absurb. The records of
FMA speak, for themselves and, under the sys
tem under_Whidli FMA operates, any investment
is safe.
Any influence from a non-member of the
house, while not .to be. ignored, should be tried
against what FMA, can produce. The only way
FMA may Move from a satisfactory organiza
tion to a sup.e.riOr, organization is with 100 per
cent partic,ipation from •University fraternities.
—Diehl McKalip
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the general maintenance totals of the physical
plant.
This total actually represents a loss, of. $3500
due to unnecessary damage and misuse of the
grass from individual indifference. We wonder
if it is worth the price.
More than. 20,litt.le signs will start appearing
on campus 'this week. The signs represent -a
I ,l •>,a—the rest remains with the individual.
—George Bairey
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Interpreting the News
Meaning Cloaked
Duties Speech
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
Foreign diplomats were. in a. rush Tuesday to learn just what
Secretary Dulles meant by "united action" in his New York speech,
referring to Indochina, in which he said it was necessary to run great
risks sometimes in the search for peace.
It is doubtful, however, if he really had anything definite in mind
at the moment
The secretary. is a man who. is
quite precise about the use of
words. When he is discussing atti
tudes,• it is not always, safe to at
tempt to project his phraseology
into possible future action. He has
said repeatedly in recent
,days that,
an important part of American
strength will lie from here on out
in the very inability of the cold
war enemy to determine in ad
vance just what reaction will be
in a given situation. He has been
even more insistent that the ene
my should know just at what
points there will be serious re
action.
That was one thing he did• in
his New York speech., He said the
United States was not going to
permit the Communists to take
over Indochina. That could mean
a determination that, if all else
fails, the United States would in
tervene directly in the war, call
ing upon her United Nations allies
to help.
It is doubtful if thinking has
gone that far. Rather, the ref- .
erence is probably an effort to:
impress the importance at
tached to Indochina by the Uni
ted States.
For one thing, people in the
United States have gotten the im
pression from various official
statements, made largely in an
swer to congressional expressions
of fear, that American interest in
Indochina falls short of war. It
would be almost as dangerous for
the American people to feel too
sure of- that as it would be for
Russia and Red China to feel too
sure of it.
The secretary, also, undoubtedly
was preparing America's Euro
pean allies, particularly France,
for a stand at the Geneva con
ference next month against any
thing which runs the risk of turn
ing Indochina over to the Com
munists.. •
He was warning France not to
run out on Indochina just as
much as he was warning the
Chinese Reds not to run in. To
France he was also saying that
the United States would stand
firmly with her, whatever the
consequences of a non-appease
ment policy at Geneva.
This maneuvering hardly seems
•designed to prepare an advance
position for a time when an ex
pression of attitude might need to
WEDNESDAY, MARCH '3l. 1954
By Bible
be translated into direcf action. It
is more of an effort to see to it
that such a time does not arrive.
Certainly there is•no present in
tent on the part of the State De
partment to ask for a United Na
tions action against the Commun
ists
. such as was produced by the
outbreak of aggression in Korea.
Nor does there seem much likeli
hood of an Allied statement, such
as followed the Korean confer
ence, that such and such develop
ments would produce a resump
tion of united action.
Allies Return
North Koreans
To Homeland
CENTRAL FRONT, Kore a,
Wednesday, March 31 (JP) —The
first of 120,000 farmers driven out
of North Korea by Red Armies
went back yesterday across the
38th parallel to start life anew on
900,000 mine-studded acres 'guard
ed by Allied troops.
Their desolated land was close
to the front lines of a war. • now
halted by armistice.
Deep-throated Allied artillery
thundered in practice while 'each
family, was distributed 600 board
feet of lumber and two' and a
half sacks of cement. •
This would build a new home
in the sliver of North' Korea be
tween the 38th parallel
.and the
battleline demarcation z o n e, a
land where there are no homes,
only rubble.
Only the burial mounds of long
dead kin had been left by the
criss-crossing paths of war to re
mind the refugees of the past.
Some of the 120,000 had fled
when . Russian occupation troops
moved south to the 38th parallel
in 1945 at close of World War 11.
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