kAG6 POUrt Published litcids) through 3»lord»y morninn during the llniTeniltj rear. th« Daily Colleilin u a stndent* •persted nfwipaper Catered as second-class DIEHL McKALIP Editor Managing Ed.. Mary Lee Lanffer; City fid., Mike rain- Aut Baa. M|t. t Benjamin Loweastefn; Local Ad?. Mgr* •liber. Copy Ed. Nancy Ward; Sports fid. Dick MeDowell: Pay Goldstein* National Ado Mgr. John Albrecht; Clr- Edit Dfr.. Peggy McClain: Radio News Ed. Phil Austin; Soc. eolation Mgr. Richard Gordon, Promotion Mgr. Evelyn Ed. Marcie MacDonald; Asst Sports Ed. Harm Wetskopf: Riegel; Personnel Mgr. Carol Sehwlngt Office Mgr., Peggy Asst Soc. Ed.. Mary Bolich: Restore Ed.. Edmond Reiss: Troxell Classified Ade. Mgr.. Dorothea fibertt See., Gertrude Librarian-Exchange Ed., Ann Leh j Senior Board, Phyl Pro- Matpeisl: Research and Records Mgr.. Virginia Cookery, pert: Photo*. Dir., Ron Hoopes. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dottie Stone; Copy Editors, Don Shoemaker, John Lawrence; As sistants: Joe Cheddar, Ned Frear, Dodi Jones, Marilynn Zabusky, Marion Beatty, Phyllis Shivery, Elaine Huberman, Julia Matras. Clique Chairmen Must Not Get Voting Seat Let’s take all government check off campus political parties! Let the cliques compromise their ways through nominations, campaigns, and elections, and embark on a general policy of “appeasing” the crushed incentive and muf fled voices of our student politicians. That's about the gist of the elections com mittee's proposed amendment to give clique chairmen voting seats on the committee. Fairly logical reasoning has been offered for such action. Apparently, factions of the com mittee feel it is not a completely impartial group, in that it tends .o lean in the opposite direction from party interests. To be blunt, the committee has been informally charged, from time to time, with not particularly liking poli tical parties in general and trying to stifle party action rather than channel it. Frankly we doubt this. It's probable the com mittee often has been opposed to the trend general party actions take. It follows that by trying to censor some of the less desirable ones, like mudslinging and indecent campaign lit erature, the committee will be tagged with the reputation of disliking campus parties. However, this not necessarily a reflection on the personnel of the committee. It is imple mentation of the policy and duties set up for tiie committee to follow. Those students feeling • the committee has too much control over the parties should direct their complaints against the constitutional au thority given the committee, not against the composition of it. As the committee and the elections code now exist, they are a watchdog—sort, of device over Hell Week Control: Necessary Move Where does the responsibility lie for control of the so-called fraternity hell week? In the light of the Inlerfralernily Council hell week committee report of Monday night, two schools of thought have formed on this issue. One says the IFC should establish and enforce the policy for the entire fraternity com munity while the other maintains it is the re sponsibility of each individual house. Hie staunch defenders of house rights de clare there is no room for IFC to step in and dictate internal affairs. The way a fraternity conducts its hell week and what it is called is the business of no outsiders, they contend, as long as it does not break civil laws. Proponents of a strong IFC claim the council should have the perogalive of setting regula tions and procedures for its member units since they see fit to invest it with governing power. The only way the fraternity system can quiet its critics, it is pointed out, is coordinated action under the guidance of IFC. As proposed, the hell week code is not too unreasonable. It asks the establishing of a stand ing hell week procedure committee, that pre initiation practices be restricted to solely with in the fraternity, that it be called Help Week, and that a minimum of five hours sleeping and three hours studying time be alloted each day of the week. This code would be enforced by the IFC Board of Control through an amendment to the council constitution. Presently the board handles the social checking and judicial action for the fraternity system. It seems about time IFC lakes a strong hand in dealing with hell week practices. This must be done to halt the critics of this practice and to turn the high point of pledge training from a possible period of farce and destruction _to one of construction. The IFC is not butting in- Gazette... Today AIM JUDICIAL, 7:15 p.m.. 213 Willard COLLEGIAN SOPHOMORE BOARD. 7 p.m., 9 Carnegie FENCING CLUB. 7:30 p.m.. North Corridor. Hoc Hall FROTH CIRCULATION STAFF, 7 p.m., 317 Willard FROTH INTERMEDIATE JUNIOR AND JUNIOR BOARD OF CIRCULATION STAFF, 6:30 p.m., 317 Willard UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL John Arnold. Richard Baker, Richard Brandt. Raymond Carlin, Thomas Grimison. Robert Hackman, Uaria Hammel, Irene Jacob, James Keehan, William Leibig, Nancy Mar shall, Kenneth McClymonds, William Murray, Marcia Rip per, Jane Schrope, Mary Ann Week, Florence Woolley, Correction Junior Exec Board Eng Society Will Meet The deadline for nominations Junior Class Executive Board The Society of American Mili to Interfraternity Council offices w in meet at 3:30 p.m. today in *ary Engineers will meet at 7 to is March 21 not March 23 as re- ,„ 7 «, narks to discuss the new " lg & th ® Mlner , al Sc . lan f e ported in yesterday’s Daily Col- 22 J SP arks t 0 me n w Auditorium. The speaker will be legian. Self-nomination speeches All-University constitution. Lt. Col. Carroll L. Buhrman, sub will be given March 21. Interested students may attend, stitute professor of air science. Now's the time to ask her to the ... AIM-LEONIDES SPRING DANCE Friday, March 18, 8:30-12:00 p.m. TICKETS ON SALE AT STUDENT UNION DESK - INFORMAL - $2.50 pm- Coupb Music by Johnny Nkolosi Sty* Sattg CnUptjtan *»JCyS •1 Dm . »ap«i CnslpaW •AMrlab at* kr th# ill Ht. Saceccsar ta THE PKEE LANCE. cat. IMt utter July t, IM4 at th« State Callcea, Pa. Pact Office nStt Ua art rf March I. 1171 (HE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA WILLIAM DEVERS. Business Manager the parties, set up to make sure party actions are harmonious with the desires of student government (namely, All-University Cabinet) and to penalize if these actions go astray. The committee is Cabinet's judicial and police body over the parties. And so long as this role is given the committee, there is no room on it for clique chairmen. To make such provision .would be like allow ing a defendant, in a legal trial, to sit on his own jury. The parties, and some committee members, claim parties do not cojnmand enough respect from the committee, that their opinions -(ex pressed at committee meetings to which they are invited) carry little weight. With a voting power on elections committee, these supporters say, party wishes would have more power over their own actions. This is debatable. The parlies would have exactly as much power as three votes to ten votes offer. Their voice on the committee would be small. The matter becomes, in this light, an attempt to appease the parties, give them some "busy work" while the committee goes about its business, and convince them they have a "say" in the regulations, vague though it will be. But if the parties cannot commandeer enough respect from the committee on their actions alone, a mere three-to-ten vote is not going to help them much. Cabinet must not pass this amendment. It's one of the most subtle attempts at compromise of student government we've seen in a long time. lo house matters; fraternities have had many years lo put their programs above reproach and have not done so. Thus they must be pulled into line sharply. Those who have cleaned house have nothing lo lose by the code. IFC is not striving for the complete elimi nation of pre-initiation practices, and many of them are even to be encouraged as shown in a survey of' practices. There is no objection to quizzes, some hard work, dressing up for class es, and a bit of fun within the house. Trouble starts when this fun goes outside the house and extends to unreasonable physical and mental punishment and practices which hurt academic pursuits. One word of caution must be forwarded to the officials of IFC. They must be as willing lo be firm with other problems inside and out of the organization as they are with hell week practices. Another recent display of the stick has been fines for not having men on door duty to control parlies. It is often easier to to be firm within an organization than in repre senting it. This code does not seem unfair inasmuch as fraternities have proved themselves, unable to police their own practices; it is not a case of an attempt to remove individual rule. In return for this police power, however, the council must work all the harder in representing those who are allowing them to make all-encompas sing rules. Safety Valve— On'Green Blobs' TO THE EDITOR: Last Saturday you mentioned (Daily Collegian) the unsightliness of the “green semi-permanent blobs” on the diagonals of Old Main. Just what permanence I’m not certain, because evidence of the footsteps is faint for the most part and their unattractiveness was of short duration. Our "bad taste" was authorized by the Phy sical Plant and, while not conventional in Uni versity tradition, was not sufficiently detri mental lo the appearance of the campus to merit rebuke. The footsteps, to me, are only an example of the spirit jf a relatively small group —a spirit rare here at State. I do appreciate your holding the issue until after the Forestry Ball and the recognition of an enthusiastic publicity campaign. —Peter Dress —Peggy McClain Little Ndn on Campus "I wonder why the Signs Phi Nothing* can't learn to u*e the phone like the other fraternities do!" Centennial; Pat of Butter Leads To First Coeds in # 7l One of the professors who presided at a dining table in the first years of the University always said grace with his head un bowed and his eyes wide open He had once been hit in the face by a pat of butter thrown by a student, and he was far too wary to invite a repeat performance. Such table manners may have been in the mind of President James Calder when in 1871 he urged opening the doors of the Agricultural College of Pennsyl vania, as the institution was then known, to women students. Women Welcomed At any rate, in a report to the trustees, he welcomed the wo men as “an influence as beneficial as it is powerful in restraining those who would be rude and untidy, compensating largely for the absence of home restraints and incentives, and giving our College, in its retired location, increased society, which has long been felt a necessity.” In addition, President Calder was a firm believer in co-educa tion, having been previously president of Hillsdale College in Michigan, which was one of the first schools in the country to admit women. Indeed, the arrival of the first two co-eds on campus in 1871 was sparked by the president himself. Ellen A. Cross, the first woman to register, wrote in her reminiscences that she was in vited to leave Hillsdale “to start the women’s department at the University. ISO Guys. 6 Dolls Enrollment of women during the first year of the experiment totaled six. They lived, along with 150 men and several pro fessors in the five-story main building on campus. Their rooms were on the fifth floor, under the supervision of a preceptress. While President Calder had welcomed women to the campus for their “increased society,” a rule promptly went into effect which forbade students “to talk or ride with students of the op posite sex or to meet such stu dents in the parlor or any other place except by special permis sion of the president and the preceptress.” The lapse of a decade only multiplied the rules. One stated that all requests by gentlemen to call on or accompany young ladies and all requests on the part of young ladies to receive or accompany gentlemen must THURSDAY. MARCH 10. 1955 By Bibler be presented to the lady princi pal in the ladies’ parlor between 6:45 and 7 p.m. Time Limit Even if permission were grant ed, the time to enjoy the com pany of the opposite sex was limited, for the parlor at 9 p.m. Gentlemen desiring to ac company ladies outside the par lor had to obtain _ written per mission from the- President. , And just to seal off the co-eds completely, a last rule declared: •‘Yourig ladies are absolutely for bidden to hold any communica tion out of the windows or by means of the steam pipes.” One Condition Finally, in 1890. the co-eds moved out of Old Main into a new cottage constructed on cam pus. Simultaneously they were now allowed. to meet their “friendis” ill the parlor Wednes day evenings from the close of rhetoricals to 9 p.m. “without special permission.” Once, during this period, they were even permitted to go away to a football game—an encounter with Bucknell at Williamsport. Permission was granted, hpwever. only on condition the girls re turned to campus by midnight. Through no fault of the girls, their train 'was late, and the next year, they were not allowed to attend away games! WSGA Candidates Candidates for Women’s Stu dent Government Association elections will meet at 7 tonight in 105 Willard. Candidates for Women’s Recreation Association will not meet at that time as was announced previously. Tonight on WDFM HJ MEGACYCLES 7:95 3ifi On 7:30 Adventnres in Research 7:45 ~ As Yob Believe 8:00 . Concert Cameo 8:30 .... Just Oat 9:O0 IL _ _ . . Gaeet Star 9:15 ” News 9:39 Debate Congress 10:00 The Master's Palette 10:30 Thoofht for the Da?
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