PAGE KXJK PabltoliM timlii Mineth SatanUy aarainsa Series tha Unirarslty raar. Mia , Dally Calleclaa a a staSaat- I wraM nirinbw. ■etaraS aa immMw aaMat Jaly I, 1U« at tha Mata CaUaaa, Pa. Pat Of flea atn tha act W March I. 1171. DIEHL McKALIP. Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Fran Fanucci; Copy'Editors, Phyl Propert, Rog Beidler; Assist ants: Bill Eisenberg, Jane Casselberry, Becky Zahm, Barbara Budnick, Ron Arentz, Pauline Metza. Ad Staff: Peg Porter, Nancy Peterson. Revised Constitution Good But Conservative The revised All-University constitution, to be presented to All-University Cabinet tomor row night, is essentially the present constitu tion rewritten in more specific terms. It has maintained “confederate-type” student government and made two major changes: the addition of a supreme court to the judicial system and a provision for Cabinet to rescind acts of major organizations considered detri mental to University and student welfare. Other than these, the constitution generally defines terms used in the old doctrine and throws out a few verbose passages. The constitution is basically good, although conservative. It allows Cabinet and the Supreme Court the power to recommend only. At present this seems proper. It would take much careful thought to decide if Cabinet, or any student legislature, could and should have further power. But thinking of future years, We are faced with an honest question. What is a student cabinet’s capacity for assuming pow er and responsibility? The administration has slated at various times it will vest in students as much responsi bility as students show themselves capable of responsibility is to be judged. Will Cabinet, working under a confederate-type constitution, EVER have chance to show the required amount of responsibility? , There is little doubt that Cabinet will event ually pass the bulk of the revised constitution. But we urge the members to understand what they are passing. Lucky Numbers We are sorry, but you upperclassmen cannot live in the West Dorms unless you hold one of 240 lucky nurpbers. ' This is the case as the Department of Hous ing goes about the task of filling the dormi tories for next fall semester. It is a game of chance to dwell in Hamilton, McKee, Watts. Irvin, or Jordon Halls. The rest of the openings will be filled with incoming freshmen. According to the present plan of selection, anyone may apply for West Dorih housing if they will be a senior with a 1.0. or better All- University average, a junior with a 1.5 or bet ter, or a sophomore with a 2.0 or better next year. From all these applicants, representatives of the Association of Independent Men will choose 100 would-be seniors, 70 juniors, and 70 sophomores. Anyone else who wishes to enjoy the rela tive pleasures of University dormitories will be put into the Nittany and Pollock dormitories. This includes many upperclassmen, men who have given money and one or more years of satisfactory study to the University, who will be placed in these less desirable and convenient facfiilies. The reason the upperclassmen are pushed aside is to make room for the frosh. The com paratively luxurious quarters in the West Dorms are dangled as bait before the eyes of pros pective students. And it works. Often this swings the balance and brings a student here only to be pushed out in favor of another crop the next year. Suffer on, uppreclassmen; there seems to be no recourse. The frosh live like kings for a year at least. In the meantime only a select 240. select in that their name came out of a hat first, will enjoy what belongs to all oi you because of your seniority. Gain solace, if pos sible, in the fact that there soon may be good dorms for all. Hell Week: IFC Releases Survey Results By DON SHOEMAKER Results of the survey on hell week practices, taken by. the Interfraternity Council hell week practices committee, show that 96 percent of the fraternities polled feel hell week is necessary, and should be continued. This is to be expected, and perhaps hell weeks do serve a purpose. Most fraternities feel they serve two purposes: 1. They get necessary jobs done. 2. They unite the pledge class. According to the results of the survey, it seems that hell week practices are aimed to ward fulfilling one of these two purposes. The question is how well do they succeed? Results, based on replies from 30 of 52 fraternities which were sent questionnaires, show that: One hundred per cent make pledges do more house- . cleaning than usual. Forty-three per cent do work in the community dur ing hell week. Fifty-three per cent as sign pledges work during 0V Sattg ColUgian •Atari* Is m tkariMiMr! Sicmw to TBS ran LANCE, M. lUf breaks in class schedules. Thirty-seven per cent re quire pledges to do personal favors for brothers. ' These practices, we suppose, could be classified as fulfilling the first purpose—getting work done. The rest of the activities in cluded in the report seem to fall under the second purpose: uniting the pledge class. Re sults here showed: Seventy-three per cent re quire pledges to recite house histories over the phone. Seventy-six per cent use general hasing practices in: eluding quiz sessions, mock rituals, and various mental and physical ordeals. Thirty-seven per cent pad dle pledges. Sixty-six per cent require pledges to wear coats and ties during hell week. Thirty per cent require pledges to carry various ob jects to class. These include anything from goldfish to basketballs. Thirty per cent take pledges on rides out of the borough— and usually make them walk back. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA WILLIAM DEVERB. BuilnMt Manage* Specifically, we ask that they assure them selves they really want Cabinet to have the power to rescind acts of'member organizations deemed “detrimental to the good name of the University and the welfare of the student body.” We suggest at this point Cabinet'demand a definition of these terms. What constitutes a detriment to the good name of Penn State and what IS the welfare of the student body? 'We ask further that Cabinet understand the proposed court system, and realize that under it, so far as external power is concerned, the Supreme Court and Cabinet are on a par. Both can recommend only. However, so far as control or check over each other are concerned, the Court has the advantage. It can reprimand or recommend ac tion to Cabinet; Cabinet is given no say over actions of the Court. f ' Nor does the revised constitution define the court!s powers or plate any restrictions on pos sible penalties given. In short, the Supreme Court will be checked by the administration only. The revised document does not warrant cyni cism. Except for those parts pointed out above, the constitution is a , good clarification of stu dent government policy. But Cabinet and the student body must not be naive about its implications or blind to the inhibited, sort of student government it is perpetuating. Drivers: B eware ' A mental case streaked down the Pennsyl vania turnpike at 100 miles per hour yesterday. He stopped when he smashed into a tractor trailer truck the state police had commandeered and parked across the highway. Mental cases going 100 miles per hour are not the only maniacs of . the roads. So is anyone who drives a speed which is excessive for con ditions. So is anyone who even fails to stop for a stop sign, let alone a truck parked cross-ways on the highway. Also, it might be pointed out the 100 mile per hour case actually came out better off than anyone who might be involved in a minor ac cident. He did not live to have to answer for his. mistake, if it can be called that. This case might serve, too, to illustrate an other point: It proves you can not trust the other driver. There that dam truck was parked across the highway and what could the poor fellow do about it. You 'just can not count on the other fellow to do even his share of thinking, let alone some for you. So, remember, do not come anywhere near imitating this chap’s speed or carelessness. It does not take a truck or 100 mile per hour speeds to stop a faulty driver. Gazette... Today CHESS CLUB. 7 p.m.. 3 Sparks KAPPA-PHI KAPPA, 7:30 p.m., Tau- Kappa Epsilon. NEWMAN CLUB. Daily. Rosary, 4 ;80 p.m.. Our Lady of 1 Victory Church: Novena, 7 - p.m., Churcfi PERSHING RIFLE, 7 p.m., Armory. Class A Uniform - > PENN STATE BARBELL CLUB. 7 p.m., 102 Willard PLAYERS ADVERTISING CREW, 6:46 p.m., Schwab UNIVERSITY .HOSPITAL John. Arnold, Stephen Behman, Richard Brandt, James Byrne, Richard 'Coats, Helen Cunningham, Hans Gach. Robert Hackman, Maria Hammel, Irene Jacob, Lawrence Lillicotch,. William Murray, • Marcia Ripper, Jane. Schrope, Joyce Stark, Carol Turner, Florence Woolley. Under a *iermanent pre-ini tiation code recommended ; by the committee, fratem i ties would be required to confine all hell week activities to the house, with, the exception of community work projects. Sixty per cent make pledges go on scavenger hunts. Forty per cent require a pledge trip. Eighty-six per cent prac tice hasing during meals. - Fifty-nine per cent assign physical activities, such as push-ups, during hell week. Twenty-three per cent as sign pledges to participate in events outside of the houses. These events include sere nades, races, and so forth. Under practices governing hell week, the survey showed thßt: Thirty-three per cent give pledges pre-hell week warn ings. Sixty per cent assign broth ers to govern the administra tion of hell week. Three per cent require a pre hell week physical examina tion for pledges. (Continued on. page fim) —Peggy McClain Little Man on Campus . you .—_ j g' ihe assignments for the same course when Giffon taught it in the summer.—They both give the same blue books. —Now, you wanted to take English 4..;" Wood or Splinters? Adam’s Other Rib Wooden'obstacles or platforms—which will the three political, parties come up with this campaign season? Good planks, “vote* getting” planks, or no planks at alk are the three alternatives. . The trend so far seems to be away from the plankless platform, that Lion party came up with last fall. Apparently campus politicos feel that this is neither a strong enough vote-getting device for .an AU-Univerity election nor a con crete enough pattern for potential leaders to carry into office with them. The parties may have a good point there—to the extent that specific planks would have been wasted in the fall election. Only two All-University Cabinet seats —frosh and sophomore presidents —came out of these elections. Two men could do little, on their own, in the way of legislation. Thus, plank 1 e s s platforms (which essentially were pledged to be conscientious student lead ers and support and advance good student government) were about the only things the fall elections could have hoped to fulfill. The spring elections are a slightly different story. Five Cabinet seats come from these. Five among 25 (the total num ber of Cabinet seats) does hot look particularly impressive on paper, but five "devoted" stu dent. leadenT can spread an amazing amount of influence. Thus, it seems that planks might have a worthwhile role in this spring’s campaign. BUT there,.are planks and there are planks. The iihi group may be con sidered with the greatest skep ticism. These include the "iih prezsive sounding but impossl-; ble" run of promises that , sel dom escape party platforms. They , are manufactured to at tract attention to the sponsoring party and are included on the list with little intention or hope, on the part of the cliques Or candidates, of being carried Opt. In this category were such for mer planks as revision of wo men’s hours, elimination of Sat urday classes, revision of dormi tory housing procedure, ad infini tum, all equally unfeasible for parties because they do not lie within the scope of Cabinet. or the classes. Also in this category are planks already initiated by other, cam pus groups, and promises .to “in vestigate this”- end ‘'look . Info that’’ land inevitably stop at that point). And the seemingly favo rite, type in this category is the plank to “support" L a. foregone (and more or less obligatory) idee, like Centennial, freedoiQ. or thel weather. . . The wewd category ofplaaks -1 WEDNESDAY. MARCH V, 1955 By Bibler By fEGGY McCLAIN cap-be defined only as feasible by students, fairly original, and/ meeting a current need/'. It "is" hard to dig up exdmplee> o#;., these from campus pdUticel-hi»r lory, because parties , hayu come up with very few of them in, the past . However, even this type i* of plank cannot be considers! the sole criteria for judging candi dates.and their parties.-A surplus of Votes cast for a candidate does not. guarantee fulfillment of cam paign promises. Unfortunately, or fortunately as the case may be. candidates once elected are theoretically divorced from their . parties. They are under no legal obligel - to try to put through patty planks. The only check parties and the student body has' on these elected officers is .accum ulated pressure to "do some thing about what you. prom ised." o(ten, even this gets no results. And thus, of greatest value in looking- over and selecting party planks. Prom ises, falling under , both of the above Categories, will no doubt show, up on campaign literature. - Probably the -safest rule to follow when trying to .decide ! just hoar feasible a plank is. is either check up on it or forget about it . . . or better yet. de mand that campus parties do the ..checking before the plank is published. So be it; ( Constitution Revisions by WSGA Women’s Student Govemoment Association Senate discussed re visions of the elections code and bylaws of the proposed Constitu tion-yesterday. Senate will meet at 6:30 tonight in the WSGA room in White Hall to continue discussion of the pro posed code and bylaws. Tonight on WDFM MJ MW3ACTCIM T:*6 SI«B Oa 7iU SUjU Br'li) 8 it* Opm to QsmUqb r .... ... - Nm lift;