FOJR euolislieu luesday through Saturday mornings. during the Uhiee.esitY rent. the Daily Collegian is a student speratee newspaper. Entered ao second-class matter July 6, 1934 at the State CoSens. Pa. Post Office ander DIEHL McKALIP, Editor Managing Ed.. Mary Lee Lauffer; City Ed., Mike . Fein ,ilber; Copy Ed., Nancy Ward; Sports Ed., Dick McDowell; ildit. Dir., Peggy McClain; Radio News Ed., Phil Austin; Soc. Ed., Marcie MacDonald; Asst. Sports Ed., Herrn Weiskopf; Asst. Soc. Ed., Mary Bolich; Venture Ed., Edmund Reiss; Ex change Ed., Paddy Beahan; Librarian, Bill Pete; Photog. Dir., Ron lhieopos ; Senior .Board, Bee Dickinson, Ann Leh. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Ted Serrill; Copy Editors, Dottie Stone, Phyl Propert; Assistants, Tom Smith, Bill Eisenberg, Dale Williams, Alice Grubb, Tom Shiels, Tom Mears, Dodi Jones. Ad Staff, Mona Signorino, Esther: Donovan, Claire Murray. Party Chartering: Long Overdue It is a slow mill, but it grinds exceedingly The political pot has been boiling at a fast rate since the student government set-up as we know 'it today began to evolve prior to World War II with the beginning of All-Uni versity Cabinet and the implimenting -party system. Since then the entire program has grown and improved rapidly and the mill was not able to keep up with it. In most cases this rapid growth was not bad. The components of the governmental system were under charter of the University Senate or they were directly responsible to the, student body. Thus all moves made were legitimate and all progress was towards a better Penn State. A lone exception to this pattern developed, however. This was the complete freedom al lowed in the development of political parties. It was left to the students controlling them to channel their efforts along democratic lines and to make them part of a progressive politi cal science laboratory for students. • For several years this worked. First the building of political machines was retarded by the overtones of World War 11. After this they were kept within student influence by their instability and the number of new groups crop ing up each election. These included, besides the now-present Lion and State, the Nittany Independent, Campus Key, and College. They Students Arrested • The imprisonment of 65 university students by the Argentine government last month has strengthened *opinion that Argentine President Juan Peron has set up a fascist regime in that country. The action was denounced by the International Student Conference in Istanbul as a "pattern of suppression of academic free dom and university autonomy" and distortion of free educational practices. ' • The 65 students were accused of plotting ter rorism and have been held by the government "at the disposal of executive power," under arrest for an indefinite period without trial. Un der the existing "state of internal war" regula tions in Argentina, this form of administrative arrest is possible. The trouble started on Oct. 5 when the En gineering Students' Union of Buenos Aires held its annual meeting and presentation of awards. The Union is a faculty member of the Feder acion Universitaria Argentina, the recognized national student organization. The Peronist re gime in Argentina has long been antagonistic towards the FUA, having itself set up the of ficially sponsored Confederacion General Uni versitaria. Police intervened at the meeting of the En gineering Students' Union and attempted to arrest the union president. A series of student strikes and demonstrations resulted. After six days of student 4emonstralions, government posters appeared accusing student leaders of plotting terrorism, being shiftless and immoral characters and being paid agents of the Com munist Party. By Oct. 25, FUA reported, 61 students had been arrested by the government and held in definitely without trial. Among those students arrested were most of the union presidents, in cluding the heads of the social sciences and medicine unions. One union president escaped to Uruguay, where he is reported to be in touch with those FUA leaders who have gone under ground in Argentina. As a result of the arrests, a general student strike was called in Argentina, followed by a "sympathy" strike by students in Uruguay. For the Best LAUNDRY service Send If To ➢ENN STATE laundry and Cleaners 01le Efatig Collegian Sueoesoor to THE FREE LANCE. oat. 18117 TO STUDENTS LIVING IN THE HARRISBURG AREA! PENN STATE INTERCOLLEGIATE BALL Monday, December 27, 1954 West Shore Country Club, Camp Hill, Penna. 9:00 to 1:00 - Dress Optional Music by Maynard McKissick and His Orchestra Sponsored by The Penn State Alumni Club of Greater Harrisburg All alumni and undergraduates of all colleges and their friends are invited Undergraduates . . $2.00 per couple Alumni $3.50 per couple Buy your tickets early! - For tickets call or write: MRS. S. DOUGLASS WHITE 2008 Mulberry Street, Harrisburg, Pa. - Phone 6-4278 THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK CHESSMAN. Business Mgr. Asst. Bus. Mgr., Benjamin . Lowenstein; Local' Adv. Mgr., Sondra Duckman; National 'Adv. Mgr. William Doye': Circulation Co-Mgrs.,' Richard Gordon, Gail Fromer; Pro- Motion Mgr., Evelyn Riegel; Personnel Mgr., Carol Schwing: Office Mgr.. Peggy Trozell; Claisified Adv. Mgr., Dorothea Ebert; Sec., Gertrude Malpezzi: Research and Records Mgr.. Virginia Cookery. were often pressure .organizations for campus groups and led short political lives. Our two present-day parties emerged from all this, probably through passing the test in a survival-of-the-fittest battle. They proved them selves strong and versatile parties and-had the student support because 'they offered what the students wanted. With the fight for survival won, the party members then found , time for internal manipu lations. There was little way to block this since they were not responsible to anyone through charter and this freedom enabled them to write constitutions, better-called organizational codes, which put them outside pressure from the stu dent body. The result was the self-rightous parties today who think themselves above im provement. The parties are arrogant. This is shown by their failure to comply with All-University Cabinet demands that they revise their organ izational codes and presenting ones containing provisions specifically prohibited in the Elec tions Code. Again it was shown by their pre senting these farce codes to Senate subcom mittee which was looking into their request for chartering. Finally this arrogance is shown by the failure thus far of both parties to make any overt, publicized move to set up revisions committees. They feel they are above all this. They are not. The mill will overtake them. • On Christmas Parties Once again campus groups and organizations are making valuable contributions to the Christ mas spirit by sponsoring parties for children in State College and surrounding areas. These functions are to be highly commended. Parties such as these are good for two specific reasons: when they are given for needy chil dren, they offer these children the fun, excite ment, and joy their own homes usually cannot afford to provide them with. When the parties are given for children who are not especially needy, they serve to promote good will between the University and townspeople. It is seldom University students have the op portunity to associate directly with local resi dents. Greek Week projects are probably ;the only other such chance. Christmas parties for local children are an ideal way to foster har mony and have fun at the same time. The parties, of course, are not entirely fun for the sponsoring groups. They involve the expense of gifts and refreshments, the work necessary to plan programs and games, and the time devoted to the party itself. At a time when academic schedules are so overloaded and final exams loom so near, it is encouraging to see students forget personal troubles to provide pleasure for several hundred childrer- Gazette ... Today CHEM-PHYS STUDENT COUNCIL, 7 p.m., 105 Osmond DAILY ROSARY, 4:30 p.m., Our Lady of Victory Church NOVENA, 7 p.m., Our Lady of Victory Church NEWMAN CLUB BUSINESS-MEETING, 8 p.m., 303 Willard UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CLUB, 7:30 path,. 105 Agri cultural Engineering UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Raphael Belford, Paul Brown, Harris Coleman, Ellen, Cur ler, Robert Fisher, James Foyle, Sheldon Freedman, Wil :am Frengel; Joseph Held, Melford Hersey, Walter. Hoopes, largaret Hoover, Milton Koffs, Ronald Lis, Polly Moore, ;osiah Morrill, Anargiros Patellis, Thomas Popeney, 'Her -ey Heiseman, Charles Torrence, Edward Walsh, Philip Young, Marilynn Zabusky. Statements of support for the action have been made by students in South Africa, Costa Rica, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, France, and the United States National Student Association. —Peggy McClain Plan to Attend the Annual Editorials represent the viewpoint :of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper Unsigned edi. tarifa!'" are by the editor e set. of March 3. 1879 -P. M. ittle Man on Campus Who, Us? •= .-. •. . •. ' • ' : . ~ ...: ~, =_,-, - j. . ...., . . ..„..,,:,.. . Adam's. Other .Ri By PEGGY McCLAIN- Few persons are not curious about others' opinions of them.:Aß4 yesterday afternoon gave rise to a sounding board for whif__ToFeign students at the University thought of the United States: and: Perp. State in particular. The event referred to was a tea for foreign students,: - given by Mortar Board, senior women's society. Approximately 35 special students, from countries includ ing Formosa, India, Australia, England, and Belgium gave' Penn Staters a run-for-their-money' in a two-hour discussion of "Life in the new country." The men and women at • the tea, the majority of whom are working on graduate degrees, showed a somewhat pater-sal at titude toward .this country. They indicated an amazing amount of understanding of the customs and problems of the United States, and while many of them did not agree with parts of the American way of life, they . assumed the; attitude of spectators .rather than crusaders or condemners. Discussion _ started out with a comparison ,of the Penn St.a t e method of student ~ goVerinrient with that 'Of universities: in Eu-; rope and Asia.. The... Chief differ ence, the special students said, • was the restrictions placed.- on women in American'. universities , , Many of the . guests.. ;before :Com ing.. to Penn State, had • never, realized that women were re quired to be in the dorms after a certain hour at night. Another .student-- was astourided, at the number organizations,; 'fraternities, and honorary . ties in American universities.:-You students 'can't get away. from; them, he said; they get you .6Orri,; ing or going. Discussion moved from student government to universities •in general. The greatest - differenCe found between American:_arid _oth er universities was the placed on scholarship and ace-+I demic studies. American univer sities place -Much" einphasis'!!-.6ii WANTED * Student to Charter. Cab Service to Lewistown and - dther points. Leroy Toney Cab Service 112 S. Allen WEDNgSDAY,'DECEMBERIS,I9,S4 social. life,• a man from England pointed .out. Here, students save all their studies for vacations; in England, they study ;during .:the school term, and on: vacations they really "vacation." - • • Group discussion bro - ught ; out the opinion that this difference was due to the relative all-inclu sive policy of American. universi ties. In. this country, opportunity is given to students from % almost every social and economic -class; in many. of the European ;and Asian countries, only thei,lncre brilliant or wealthy men and women may attend universities. Also they said, a maximum of technical study such as engineer ing and. some of the sciences, ; has produced `a 'form of mass-produc tion edudation in America.. The guests also attributed this Mass-production method to ..the . econoniic: conditions of the coun try: The nation has risen rapidly place where it can offer education:;to almost every than; when.'.pther • countries reach this .point,.. 'they :probably will have much the same method, they said. - The "infonnality of American universities 'made a deep impres , .., (Continued on page five) Tonight, on WDFM :25, Sign On :30Sports Roundup :35 ' - - 'Y' -- --' . Stand-by :00 Open To Question ~ ~,, `!Should Schools Teach Religion" isZA ;,!.^ A .,;::::,._,Alasterworks from France :00 - " "-- -- '". Call Card :15 News :39 Light Classical Jukebox ' Sign Off 9: 9: 9 . .: 10: Realoirmige Oates ' dsevit 7-7272. or 7-3421 By Bibler 1 \\ ~ .\,\ 4 i \.,111 4EI - MEGACYCLES
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