;E• ' r Tuesday through Saturday mornings. during the University year. the Daily Collegian is a student anent ter , newspaper. Entered as second-elasa matter July S. Ina at tie State Colleg e , Pa.. Poet Office alder DIEHL IvIcKALIP, Editor ST ri. - FF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Ted Serrill; • Copy Editors, Carole Gibson, Joe Beau-Seigneur; Assistants, Don Bartlett, Ned Frear, Anne Friedberg, Barbara Budnick, Elizabeth. Mined. New Advisory Committee: Commendable A step forward in effective. student govern ment was taken this week when sophomore class president Sam Wolcott set up a sophomore student advisory committee. • This is, to our knowledge, the first such com mittee established on our campus in recent his tory. It is an initiative well taken and offering great potentiality. The committee is, essentially, like cabinets ap pointed by national Presidents. It was started by Wolcott chiefly as a personal aid in helping him keep in the closest contact possible with the opinions and problems of sophomores. Committee members were selected according to Wolcott's knowledge or familiarity with their ability to serve in such a capacity or on recom mendation of other students. According to Wol cott, the present list of members will be sub ject to any changes necessary during this or next semester. The committee will prove a distinct advant age to the class president. As he himself pointed out, he is relatively new on canipus (having come here last February) and could not possibly know the qualifications of every member of the class. In the same light, no single officer can be certain of the opinions of each member of the group he represents unless he establishes some media of communication with these . mem bers. It is commonly accepted that in• a university On Fraternity Policy The United States Supreme Court recently refused to review a decision given by a special New York court that said the state university could bar national fraternities and sororities. It said no federal issues were involved and that the original contentions of the Greek groups had been settled in earlier court decisions. So, the 1953 ban on national social groups imposed by the trustees of New York State University stands. In addition to barring the national affiliations, the moverequired the elimination of "artificial criteria" in the selec tion of members. This point was aimed at ending racial and religious bars by social organizations. The fraternities and sororities affected con tended the ban deprived them of civil rights, encroached on their freedom of assembly, and denied them equal protection of laws. Un successful, the 21,000 students affected now have until 1958 to sever the national ties of their groups. Before we go farther, let us say that we do not feel qualified to comment on the New York ban on national fraternities and sororities al though we think national ties are quite im portant. Also, we certainly are not in favor of discriminatory practices involving race and re ligion. We do feel, however, that the Empire State trustees were aiming too high when they attempted te dictate how a group of indi viduals will evaluate another. Happily, here in the United States we have not reached the place where it is possible to control the workings of man's mind by law. The elimination of a written rule will not cause men to stop choosing as they please. They will follow selective rules, written or not, since their agreement with it is indicated by their prior willingness to join the group employing the rule. Assuming the point of the last paragraph is known by those in New York state too, we find only one other reason for the move. These men and the institutions they act for want to be able to point to the record and say they have no discrimination in their schools. What ap pears on paper. will not be so in practice, but who will know the difference? Also, if memory serves us, the National Inter fraternity Council several years ago started a move to end formal discrimination in the con stitutions of its member fraternities. This seems to have made part of the New York action use less unless it was trying to end the ill in prac tice, too. Men's minds can not be controlled, and dis crimination in men's minds can only be elimi nated by years of education, not by force. We feel the above mentioned trustees have bitten off a big bite. On. NSA Talk Students who have been asking for concrete information about benefits of National Student Association membership will have a chance to hear such facts for themselves tomorrow after noon. The National vice president in charge of national affairs of NSA will "explain, defend and give reasons why" the University should keep and support its membership in the or ganization. The talk , will be given to All-University Cabinet tomorrow at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house and the meeting is open to all students. Those who have not been convinced by stu dent promotion of NSA and are concerned with or interested in the factors involved in keeping membership in the group, are urged to attend the meeting tomorrow and ask as many ques tions as they feel necessary to clarify the situatior sake Battu euttrgiati Simecooster to THE MEE LAbrcs. wad. 119112 —Peggy McClain THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE' COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK CRESSMAN. Ruzirktes Mgr. the size of Penn State, personal contact between group officers and members is often foregone because of the time element involved: Such pro cedure is understandable, but Wolcott has shown that it is not . the only answer to the' situation. Wolcott's answer to the problem—establish ing the committee—can function ' quite effec tively. According to Wolcott's' plan, he will meet with the group to discuss such matters as the sophomore class • dance and other class activities and issues coming before All-Univer sity Cabinet. Selection was made in such a way that almost every living unit occupied by sopho mores will be represented by a committee mem ber. The few areas not. yet covered, . chiefly in the Nittany-Pollock area, will be represented as soonas qualified students from• there have been selected, Wolcott said. By his action, the class piesident has shown a fine interest in his position and the welfare of the class. He has taken a long needed step in combating indifference toward class actiyi ties by attempting to overcome the impersonal aspect involved in groups with large member ships. Campus leaders should keep an eye on Wol-. cott's new committee. If successful, as we ex pect it will be, many, officers would do well to follow the example being set. Safety Valve Snack Bar Service TO THE EDITOR: Service in the West Dorm snack bar during the rush hours is not what it should be. 11l feeling forms between the stu dents and the workers behind the counter because of, the poor service. One possible solution, would .be to have one worker to tend the hamburger grill. The others would send back their grill orders and would then be free to take other orders 'while this one was being made up. We think this would eliminate the usual crowded confusion that you see around the grill. • Another possible solution would be for some one to count the approximate number of burg ers sold during rush hours and then have another person begin to heat a somewhat small er amount of burgers before the crowd comes to the snack bar. This also would help to speed up service. The purpose of this letter isn't to "slam" Food Service but to let them know that' we feel there is a problem and to present our solution of this problem —John Thalimer Peter DeCuzzi MI Council and NSA TO THE EDITOR: I would like to correct the misinterpretation (error made in the Daily Col legian) of action taken on NSA at the meeting of the Mineral Industries Student Council Wednesday evening. We of the student oouncil are very anxious that our actions and view points on this question be correctly presented to the student body. The motion made concerning NSA, which originated with me, was made so that our presi dent could present our views to the students through cabinet. This motion stated exactly is, "In view of the fact that the student council does approve the activities of -NSA to the pres ent date, we are in favor of continuing the $6OO appropriation which they now receive. We do not favor the granting of additional funds to NSA until such time as they present conclusive proof of actions which are of concrete benefit to the entire student body of 'the Pennsylvania State University." On Communism-- TO THE EDITOR: I deeply resent the insinu ations that fellow student Jack Williams made in yesterday's Daily Collegian. Williams would lead us to believe only such diehard cOnserva fives, to use a mild term, as George Sokolsky, William F. Buckley, and Senator Joseph Mc- Carthy are capable of distinguishing communist propaganda from academic freedom . May I remind Jack Williams of one obvious fact both he and his idols have overlooked; you do not fight a small brush, fire by creating a forest fire to swallow it up. I see no necessity to bring .in . a.. Bolshevik type spy system into this University under the name of Students for America or _ any other suppoSedly super patriotic guise . . . The only way to protect our basic American rights is to allow the freest and fullest inter play of ideas, not to set up super-patriotic .spy organizations. *Letter cut Gazette Monday FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA, 7 p.m., Monday, 100 Weaver ndttersets • •represent -•-ttte viewpoint '.of the writers, notneeessarily.the volley of tine paper Unsigned edi torials are as-the iodates. . • —. e set". of Hsieh' 3; ..1379 —Peggy McClain —Lyle Barnard MI Student Council —Byron Fielding Littio Man on Campus . Fignewtons and Sourgrapes Let us give a brief pause for Gedrge E. Sokolsky,-Fulton.Lewis, Jr., Fulton Lewis, 111, and that prominent •Rooseveltophobic journa list, Westbrook Pegler who are today "crying because of the Mc- Carthy censure. It is _well they should do this. For their reputations as repre- sentatives of conservatism or even reaction depended upon McCar thy's, escaping that censure. In a way, the• senator from Wisconsin is a pain , in the neck of honest conservatives, the same as Malen kov and his fellow communists are to honest liberals. The censuring action has pro duced varying attitudes. Some have it that the action was not strong, enough; that steps should have been taken to eject Senator McCarthy 'from the Senate. Others hair& that the matter was • mere publicity; that steps could have' been taken against McCarthy without such lowing and neighing, which to some in dividuals was as sensible as tak ing your child out on the main street to spank him rather than to the woodshed. Serious journalists have held , that McCarthy really sought to root out Communism, rather than capitalizing on a popular, but valid, panic. Unfortunately, many defenses of McCarthy have been based on a guilt-by association argument. _This is not new. We have seen this happen in . America: before. The.Corninunists for their own shallow• motives spoke against segregations. American politicians and some students were against segregation, as recently the Su preme Court was. Therefore, as some would have it, all these peo ple including the Justices of, the Supreme Court are puppets of Marxism. '7 McCarthy's following and fa voring editorial. writers have un fortunately- helped this kind of reasoning. Another myth, . caused by the - McCarthy influence, is the belief in guilt by past affiliation or opinidn, 'regardless of motive at the time. This . is an inclusive field.-. This would even take in George. Sokolsky, who is an ideo ogical kindred soul to McCarthy. Sokolsky; himself, -attached ideological significance to the 1917 Revolution, until his dis illusionnient at the Kremlin political bosses drove him to the opposite., pole. It would be fool ish to call him a Communist, yet it could happen with Mc- Carthy's reasoning. And the senator doesn't seem interested enough in basic logic to find that out. Even McCarthy could not es cape such a charge, with his broad definition of Communism. He didn't seem to object to Commu nist votes- which grew out of a base attempt to break Robert La- Follette, Jr., when he ran for the Senate the first time in 1946. But, why use McCarthyism to fight McCarthy? With this in mind, let us bow out the prickarnice and bring in the Koestlers, or perhaps ten-dozen: more- McCarthys. l • ...-_ SATURI,AY:.DECEMBER.4.:I9S4 By. Bibler By WILLIAM PETE Ag Eng Gets Representation On 2 Councils Students in the department of agriculture engineering will- soon be represented on. the student councils of two colleges. Intercollege Council Board v o t,e d unanimously Thursday night to have four representatives of the curriculum on the Engi neering and ,Architecture 'Student Council. Two students already represent the curriculum on Agri culture Council. Both councils previously had discussed the problem arid this week passed it on to ICCB. Daniel Van Duyne and oh n Body, both students in agricul ture engineering, represented the 64 students in the curriculum at the meeting. The action by ICCB gives agri culture engineering students rep resentation . equal with that of other curriculums represented on the Engineering and Architecture Council. In other actions, ICCB selected April 22 as the tentative date for the spring open house : program. The annual event attracts pros pective •students to the-University so , they can learn of educational opportunities offered in the fields in which they are interested: DuPont Official to Talk At. Engineering Seminar Dr. .Yoh..-Han Pao, doctor of Philosophy and employee of the DuPont Company, will speak at the , Engineering Mechanics Sem inar at 4:10 p.m. Monday in 205. Engineering• A. His subject will be "The Role of Mechanics in Re search on Plastics." . Dr. Pao .received his doctor of philosophy degree from the Uni yersity. The lecture is open to the pub lic. Circle K to Meet The Penn State Circle K Club will hold a dinner meeting at 6 p.m. tomorrow at the Allencrest Tea Room. • This Weekend • • On WDFM • • $l.l MEGACYCLES •7:25 Sign On 7:30 __--- Sports Roundup 7:35 ________ Hamburger Stand 8:15 Prisoner at the Bar 8:45 Just for Two 9:30 Hi-Fi Open House 10:34 ..:;;;;_•;733teueit for the Dasy.:(Sisa Off)
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