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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Roy Williams; Copy Editors, Marnie Schenck; Joe Beau-Seigneur,
Assistants, Marilynn Zabusky, Ginger Hance, Tom Smith, Ned Frear. Ad Staff, Arnie Hoffman,
Bob Allison.
What Value Is FMA to Fraternities?
(This is the first of two editorials explain
ing the workings of FMA.)
Any fraternity man will readily admit that
food is the biggest expense in his house bill.
And we doubt if anyone would object to lower
ing these prices.
There is a way this can be accomplished—
through the Fraternity Marketing Association.
Yet only 26 of the University's 53 fraternities
are ,articipating.
We wonder why.
Perhaps an explanation of FMA is in order.
FMA is a cooperative buying program which
coordinates the buying power of fraternities in
order to reduce operating costs and house bills.
Fraternities may buy meat, canned goods,
potatoes, frozen foods, and furniture through
FMA at current discounts of from 3 1 / 2 to 8 1 /6
percent.
FMA operates in this way:
Any fraternity wishing to become a member
must petition the Board of Trustees of FMA
for membership. When the fraternity is ap
proved. it must pay a deposit of $lOO to FMA.
This deposit works similar to a checking ac
count and commodities which the fraternity
buys are charged against the deposit.
At the end of each month, the fraternity
must restore the amount of purchases to the
deposit.
When it joins FMA, the fraternity must con
ODK: What Does It
(This is the first of two editorials about
Omicron Delta Kappa, men's leadership
honorary fraternity. Tomorrow's article
will discuss what ODK would mean to the
University.)
The statement that plans are being considered
to bring Omicron Delta Kappa on campus has
provoked a great deal of uncertainty among
students about just what the organization is and
what purpose it would serve to the University.
According to Benjamin Sinclair, he and about
20 students have been studying the organiza
tion since September and plan to submit a con
stitution to the Senate Committee on Student
Affairs next week.
In the meantime the nature and purpose of
ODK need clarifying.
By definition, ODK is a national leadership
honor society for men. Active membership for
each chapter is broken down into three parts:
a 60 per cent minimum .of junior and senior
men students; and not more than a 40 percent
membership by faculty members and alumni
of the chapter.
The stated purpose of ODIC is threefold: to
recognize student leaders and inspire others to
try for conspicuous attainments in campus ac
tivities; to bring together leaders in all phases
of college life to help mold the sentiment of
the university on questions of local and inter
collegiate interest: and to bring together stu
dents and faculty on a basis of mutual under
standing and interest.
Program activities sponsored by the various
chapters include such things as meetings for
discussion of campus interests and problems;
leadership conferences for student officers,
committeemen and faculty advisors; freshman
counseling programs and orientation; Home
Borough Streets: Canals of Venice??
•
February thaws, hurried drivers, and local carry this campaign throughout State College.
street conditions are combining to make life Conditions as they are now are not only
miserable for the unfortunate pedestrians who dangerous safety-wise, but they are also a big
venture out. The chances are better than fifty- eyesore in an otherwise attractive community.
fifty that the walker will come home spattered The complete lack of modern drainage facilities
the length of his street-..,ide or at least have in some streets and the inadequate systems in
a shoe full of muddy water. others cause surface water to collect there
The situation has been created by the past throughout the year.
few days of extremely warm weather—for This is bad. In winter snow packs and ice
February—plus the local drivers and streets. forms, making the already too narrow passage-
Bright sun has melted the drifts of snow and ways drivers' nightmares. In the spring and
caused torrents of water to stream through the fall, rains and thaws leave the streets running
streets and gather in pools at the gutters, with water to be splashed on walkers and flood
Little can be done about the snow and the crosslwalks. In the summer, showers fill pools
sun. They are part of unchanging nature. In which stand stagnant and stinking as they
fact, we doubt students would want cloudy days evaporate.
again after enjoying yesterday's warmth. There seems no reason why a borough sup-
Something, on the other hand, can be done posedly as advanced as State College should not
about the drivers and the streets. The drivers accelerate the job of providing proper streets
can change their ways immediately. All we ask for its citizenry. Even with the financial burden
is that they take it easy when traveling through it will incur, it should be done because it must
State College's inundated streets and thus not be done. Until then, drive slowly.
splash those traveling on the sidewalks.
Easy driving, however, is not the answer to
the borough's continuing problem of streets Gazette ...
running full with water and sidewalks with Today
ankle-deep puddles. The answer here is an ex- NEWMAN CLUB. Daily Rosary, 4:30 p.m., Our Lady of
tensivc reconstruction program which should Victory Church
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
be started immediately. Rosemary Bass. Edwin Biederman, Camelia Blount, Eleanor
Town-talk has it that plans are now being Brenner. Hugh Browne, Stephen Capin, Marvin Daley, Wil.
made to do something about the gutters in the Ham Detterer, George Dishong, William Fable, Elizabeth
Punk, Robert Galloway. James Griffiths, Barbara Grubs
fraternity section and progress aimed in that wicz, Eugene Hanlon, Thomas Larsen. Bror Larson, Vir
direction seems to be taking place on Locust ginia Leary, Maurine Leonard, Katherine Mitchell, Jackie
Lane where the trees are being cut down. This Mulcey, Russel Myers. Mary Neil, Oliver Sax. Barry Schri
ver, Richard Seideman. "lames Sharnbach, Donald Shaw.
is the proper move and we urge that the Bor- Robert Stiteler, William Strautser, Adolph Verolini, John
ough Council strain its budget to the utmost to Williams, Larry Young. George Sofia.
a* iiatlll eatitglatt
Sueeesser •to THE mu LANCE. sit.
Taft* WILLIAM DEVERS, Swindon Maaager
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
tact to buy either 100 per cent of its meat or
100 per cent of its canned goods through FMA.
It may buy both meat and canned goods.
At least three dealers are approved in each
category so that the fraternity has a choice of
dealers.
Orders for canned goods and potatoes are
placed every Monday with FMA. These orders
are forwarded to dealers. Meat orders are usual
ly placed on a daily basis. Deliveries on canned
goods are made on the Thursday following the
placing of the order. Meat is delivered daily.
Furniture is ordered by first choosing, the
merchandise and placing a deposit with FMA
equal to the cost less discount.
FMA bills each' member once a month for
canne goods and potatoes and twice monthly
for meats and frozen foods. The bills are paid
through FMA, which pays the dealers.
In order to maintain a part-time secretary
and office 'facilities, fraternities are charged a
service fee of 1 1 / 2 percent on each bill. Any ex
cesses above the operating budget are returned
to the fraternity at the 'end of the year.
FMA has, been in operation only three years.
In that time, its annual gross business has
grown from $lB,OOO to $136,500. As more fra
ternities participate, the amount of business
will rise, bringing even greater savings than at
present.
Involve?
coming events; charity drives; and foreign stu
dent projects. Many of the programs are not
,actually sponsored by the chapter, but en
couraged by it in cooperation with other groups.
In short, the organization, by definition, at
tempts to translate values and ideals into cam
pus activity rather than leave them as theories.
The national constitution of the organization
lists "character" as 'the primary prerequisite
for membership.' Additional qualifications are
scholarship and intelligence, service and leader
ship to the University, fellowship, and "con
secration to democratic ideals."
Scholarship demands for membership require
members to be ranked in the upper 35 per cent
(among men) in the college of the University in
which they are enrolled.
Members also must have attained distinction
in at least one of five fields: scholarship, ath
letics, social and religiOus affairs, publications,
and speech, music, and dramatic arts.
Constitutionally, new members may be elected
either annually or, semi-annually by the chap
ters; the numbes Of men students initiated in
any one year may not be more than three per
cent of the total enrollment of men in the Uni
versity that year. Essentially, election is by
members' votes, with a specified number of
`blackballs" (relative to the number of mem
bers) disqualifying a candidate It is specified
by the national organization that no candidate
who is unquestionably eligible and publicly
considered "shall be barred for personal rea
sons or because of campus politics."
Included in the list of schools somewhat com
parable in size to the University and having
chapters of ODK are Florid State University,
George Washington University, lowa State Uni
versity, and the University of Pittsburgh.
—Peggy McClain
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set .1 lianas 3. 1873.
—Dos► Shoemaker
le Man. on Cam
"I must tell a convincing story—l told him my
father . owned a big horse ranch."
Criticism of the Moderns
Singing In
The Wilderness
"I've seen better things in a kindergarten class." "This looks like
something my kid brother did, :except - these are people, and he was
doing cows:"
Such were the comments we heard while
art exhibit in Main Engineering. We
. looked
discussion, and were forced to admit that
group gathered around it was
pretty well accurate in its implied
criticism,
We waited there a while hoping
that some member of the art fac
ulty would come and explain the
merit of the picture to us, but as
none volunteered the service, .we
began thinking over the matter.
Any artist, whether painter,
writer, or musician—must com
municate to his audience. This is
a fundamental requirement, and
if a work does not communicate,
it has no purpose, no value and
cannot be termed a work of art.
The critics of the cow-like people
picture realized ,this, and since it
did not communicate to them,
they could not appreciate it.
Any sort of experimental art,
whether modern painting, free
verse, or allegorical symbolism, is
fine so long as it is sincere, but
we are afraid that too many sup
posed works of art are artificial
and not sincere. It is not rare at
all to find a creator thinking that
by being vague, and confusing,
people would rate his work highly
since they
• Could. not understand
it. When ope creator copies '(or to
use the nice term, "Is influenced
by") the form or style of another' . s
work; he is taking only the idea
but perhaps does not have the
capabilities to use this form in a
meritous manner (a common hap
pening.)
When several writers of today
take the "instress" and shortened
words of Hopkins or the "stream
of consciousness" of Sterne and
Joyce, they might try to use these
to the best of their abilities. Still
the form is not enough, for what
a writer says cannot be limited or
governed by it. If it is, the word
is usually not .very good.
Similarly, if a .painter looks at
one of Jackson Pollock's success
ful creations (these are the things
that look as if a bucket of paint
was spilled on a canvas and all
the artist did was spread out the
paint into streaks) and then de
cides to do a similar thing him
self, he is offended if his work
is not well-received and further
the viewer is ashamed if he can
not truly appreciate it.
Rather the case oftentimes
should be that the viewer should
feel insulted that someone has
tried to pull the wool ovet; his
FRIDAY.. FEBRUARYII:I. 1955
B$ B ibiler ,
By EDMUND REISS
looking at the current
at the picture under
perhaps the laughing
eyes, and the' artist should be
ashamed of himself for trying to
use . fraud to make himself success
ful. •
Certainly, the public is often
wrong in its appraisal of the
worth of a work of art. It must
be realized that something does
not have to convey a picture or
story to be good. There is such a
thing as feeling or , mood to be
found -in art, but when this feel
ing or mood seems too forced or
when it seems contrived or arti
ficial, we may justly feel insulted.
The, only way to be able to
judge paintings is to look at many
of them, and then on a compara
tive basis decide whether one ar
tist achieved a better result than
another artist using a similar
style.
The artist , certainly is not al
ways right, and the public is far
from being 'always wrong.
Forms Ready
For Draft Test
Applications are now available
in the dean of men's office for the
April draft test.
In order to be eligible to take
the test; a male student must be
a selective service registrant who
intends to request occupational
deferment as a student. He must
be • satisfactorily pursuing a full
time college course, undergrad
uate or graduate, or leading to
a degree, and he must not prev
iously have taken the test.
Scores on the test alone will
not determine eligibility for de
ferment. They will be used by the
selective service local boards in
considering the eligibility of reg.
istrants for deferment.
The test will be given April
21 at the University. Applications
must be poStmarked no later than
midnight March 7.
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