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Student Conduct Causes Red Faces
What do you do when four college students
are charged with misconduct because they were
apprehended squirting shaving cream and
throwing water during a dormitory roughhouse?
This is a question that bothers both the 'Uni
versity administration and the Daily Collegian.
In the case reported in yesterday's paper the
four culprits were sent to the Association of In
dependent Men's judicial board of review. After
hearing the case, the board recommended disci
plinary probation but the students appealed
decision, feeling the penalty was too harsh. The
disciplinary subcommittee of the Senate Com
mittee on Student Affairs reviewed the case
and reduced the penalty to office probation.
The problem which faced the disciplinary
subcommittee was not one involving the se
verity of the misconduct of the students—in
fact the small amount of permanent damage
done hardly warranted more than a reprimand.
Causing the stern handling of the case was the
complete disregard for the reputation of the
University displayed by the students in their
immature behavior.
We imagine the faces of those sitting on the
subcommittee became very red as they listened
to the four renegades tell of braving raging tor
rents of water swirling thrOugh the dormitory
halls as they exchanged squirts of shaving
cream in a pitched battle. Then running to the
rescue came the counselors who broke up the
duel and booked those involved. Nice conduct
Silence: Nuisance
Panhellenic Council will do away with a
needless nuisance if they decide to abolish the
strict silence period during rushing. A recom
mendation that the strict silence period be re
placed by a more liberal one was given to coun
cil Tuesday night. Final approval of the_recom
mendation will put sorority rushing on a much
more natural and sophisticated level.
The strict silence period was . effected by
council 'several years ago to do away with
"dirty rushing" as much as possible. However,
the term "dirty rushing" is rather hard to de
fine and thus the effectiveness of the imposed
measure can hardly be guaged.
For all practical purposes, "dirty rushing"
could probably be said to involve putting undue
verbal pressure on present or prospective
rushees with the hopes of influencing them in
favor of a particular sorority. 13,ut because it
would be impossible to interpret just what is
"undue" influence, council has forbidden any
conversation at all between sorority women
and rushees.
The measure has reduced any pressurized
tactics to a minimum. But it has in the mean
time defeated any good effects it might have
had by putting sorority rushing on an arti
ficial basis on which rushees must judge sor
ority women, not by their expressed attitudes,
values and opinions, but by such limited cri
teria as dress, where they are seen, and how
they stand out in a crowd.
• The tension between sorority women and
rushees has grown entirely out of proportion
during the formal rushing period. The enforced
silences are awkward, extremely unsociable,
and in many cases downright rude. The only
way in which it prevents one sorority from
gaining an influential advantage over another
is by keeping all sororities from showing rush
ees just what qualities and characteristics they
possess as a - group and as individuals.
The restriction has indeed kept tight reigns
on sorority rushing. But in so doing it has put
a noose around any friendliness that might
otherwise prevail and produced, during the
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and are in college.
Undoubtedly these four students were not
the first to engage in this sort of foolishness
and we know they will not be the last. Never
theless, every time it happens, it causes the ire
of many of the Penn State family to rise. Is it
any wonder they were penalized so harshly
for such childish action.
Then the information of the decision of the
.subcommittee was passed along to the Daily
Collegian. It is not regular news because it is
not the actions of college students. There is the
feeling the story should be forgotten because
anyone who would get into such trouble must
know no better and because of the reputation
of the University. The latter is considered be-
cause the paper is seen outside the Penn State
family.
However, the story is printed as all the other
similar ones have been—about the boys who
blew up the lavitory with a firecracker, about
the students who shot skyrockets at workmen
repairing a roof, and about the theft of a couch
from a dormitory lounge. They embarrass us,
the Univ.ersity administration, and the majority
of the student body. It is hoped other students
will read of this nonsense and not repeat it.
It is a poor reflection on the University and
the caliber of the students enrolled here when
such deeds as the shaving cream battle are com
mitted. We urge students to think twice before
they do those things which may be to the dis
credit of the University and may redden the
faces of anyone connected with Penn State.
On Campus Chest
TO THE EDITOR: During the last week, 'Uni
versity students have been asked to donate
a dollar each to the Campus Chest. We did not
contribute to -the Campus Chest this year.
We feel that freedom of choice is denied us
by being unable to designate the organization
to which our money shall be given when we
contribtite to the chest. Thirty five per cent of
the money contributed to the Campus Chest
will be divided among the University Christian
Association, the Newman Club, and Hillel Foun
dation, while only 23 per cent is divided among
eight specific welfare groups.
Thirty-seven per cent goes to educational or
scholarship funds. We would rather give to an
institution which we feel will benefit many
people, rather than to those specific organiza
tions which directly benefit only a relatively
small group of people, such as the various re
ligious groups on campus. We also feel that
religious organizations should be supported by
private contributions or by designation by each
giver, because of individual preferences.
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past few years, an uncalled for amount of mis
understanding between sororities and rushees.
Council has / come up with a much needed
recommendation. We hope their wisdom in
this :matter will carry through a vote of final
approval•
THE DAKY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
FRANK CRESSMAN. Blasiness Mgr.
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Inside, the UN
Red Delegate Says
Soviet Wants Peace
' The Soviet Union wants peace and believes that Americans and
other peoples want peace, Nikolai P. Emelyanov, a counselor of
Embassy, Permanent Delegation of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics to the United Nations, told a group of students from the
University Saturday.
The students, members of the three-day UN seminar held in
New York last week, visited the
Soviet mission. They were re
ceived by the Russian diplomat
and his interpreter, G. I. Stepa
nov, a member of the secretariat
of the permanent delegation, in
the same large council room where
Andrei Y. Vishinsky was laid in
state after his sudden death three
weeks ago.
"The Soviet Union has been a
member of the United Nations
from the very beginning along
with the United States," Mr. Eme
lanyov said.
He said the Russian people lost
considerable property during
World War II and therefore want
an international organization to
insure peace so they can continue
building up their country.
Emelanyov cr it i ciz e d the
American press for printing ar
ticles in the light that the So
viet Union is preparing for war.
This is not true and is mis
informing the American people.
he said.
Two questions on which the
Soviet Union was misrepresented,
he said, were' disarmament and
peaceful uses of atomic energy.
He said Russia supported disarma
ment and a resolution suggested
by them was unanimously adopt
ed. He also assured Russian sup
port c.f peaceful uses of atomic
energy and expressed the belief
that weapons as destructive as the
atomic bomb should be prohibited.
"The main difficulty between
the position of the Soviet Union
and some Western powers is that
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we want the declaration on pro
hibition of atomic bombs and wea
pons of mass destruction," Eme
lanyov said. "The United States
and the. United Kingdom don't
want such a provision for the time
being."
Emelanyov said it is necessary
to reduce international tensions
at this time and said he felt
there are •no outstanding prob
lems that could not be settled by
negotiations. But, he said, some
of the Western powers do not
contribute to reducing interna
tional tensions.
Emelanyov said the Soviet
thinks the activities of the Ameri
can fleet in the Formosa strait
and the alleged violations by
American planes of Russian bor
ders do not contribute to the im
provement of relations between
the United States and Soviet Rus
sia.
He said some people think Rus
sia has been making concessions
'recently because of weakness. This
is not true, Emelanyov said. Rus
sia is strong and is just facing
reality, he said. In speaking about
rearmament of Western Germany,
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