PAGE FOUR ruolisheo corn i n g through 4otorday mornings during Batts Collegian the linivereity rear. the Daily Collegian us a student gneroled newgnower 9 to rna PREZ LANCE. eat. NO Entered es second-elites nutlet Jul 6 1934 sit SW. Coll . • DIEHL McKALIP. Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Nancy Showalter; Copy Editors, Ted Serrill, Sue Conklin; As sistants, Ginger Hance, Don Barlett, Ed Dubbs, Ginny Philips, Pat Tomlinson, Rosemary Bass, Roger Alexander, Jean Dahl, Gladys Woodward. Ad Staff Diane Hallock, Arnie Hoffman. Women Still Subject to Old Drinking Rule Women students may not partake of any students through questionnaires whether they alcoholic beverages according to a Women's would cooperate with a modified drinking code Student Government Association rule now in and if they would support student enforcement of its provisions. force. From here, it looks • like this modification This should be noted by all women students calling for a disapproval of drinking is in or to avoid confusion over the discussion in WSGA der, if 'WSGA rules are to agree with the Sen- Senate of possible modifications in the existing ate Regulations for Undergraduate Students, code. Proposed changes suggest drinking would 1954-55 version. In Section W of this code, be disapproved and the checking for the finis- drinking is not prohibited except on University use of alcoholic beverages would be put in the property. Otherwise, the conduct at all func hands of students. tions attended by University students must Specifically, the "Drinking Code for All conform with the laws of the borough, common- Women Students," (under Freshman Regula- wealth, and nation. tions in the WSGA handbook) states: "Drink- Thus, it seems necessary that a modification ing by women students is against the University be made, since the University Senate rules are regulations as well as the WSGA regulations, theoretically given precedence over WSGA and and violations are dealt with by the Judicial other codes. Also, it is a good thing if students Committee as well as by the University ad- can handle responsibly their own enforcement ministration." of the system. , It should be noted, and we emphasize this, It must be remembered, however, the Uni that the above rule is very much in effect even versity may allow no laxity in its handling of though Senate has proposed a substitute rule women students or soon the ratio would be and even though no mention of the rule is made greater than it is now. in the new WSGA constitution. A change is needed and WSGA is on the right Officers of WSGA point out this will not be track. Meanwhile, however, the old rule is still modified overnight. Plans are to ask women in effect. IC CB ' S etg Pace: Why Stop Now? • Intercoliege Council Board took a flying leap Wednesday night when it "denounced" the compensation its members were receiving from AU-University Cabinet. Unfortunately, ICCB stopped short before it accomplished much. ICCB members agreed they (the college council presidents) should not be receiving the, $l5 each paid to them from student activity fees. But in the same breath, the members decided not to make any recommendation to this effect to Cabinet. The board seemed to feel that should it ask to be dropped from the compensation list, Cabinet would be only too willing to go along with it. At the same time, however, the rest of the Cabinet members would still be drawing compensation, even after ICCB had been dropped. In short, ICCB apparently feels that so long as the other officers are being paid, why should it pull out? 1 The answer to the predicament might be found in withdrawing all compensation—or at least re-listing just who would and who would not receive compensation. But any recommenda tion to this effect would undoubtedly bring down the wrath of Cabinet and ICCB seems a Safety Valve— On' Frosh Dance TO THE EDITOR: If the way. the Freshman Centennial Dance is being organized is any indication of how future affairs of the Class of 1958 will be run, what do we have to look forward to? To begin with, the date for the dance has been set three times . This has caused some confusion. especially. to those who have in- vited out-of-town guests. Secondly, don't you think that tvio days be fore the dance is a little late to announce it is going to be informal, after many weeks adver tisement of a semi-formal affair? Calvert Heads Air Force Unit Donald Calvert, sixth semester mechanical engineering maj o r, was elected squadron commander of the Harry Armstrong Squad ron of Arnold Air Society Tues day night. Other officers elected are exec utive officer, John Riggs, sixth semester arts and letters major; operations officer, William Trout man, sixth semester chemical en gineering major; adjutant, David Anderson, sixth semester indus trial engineerim r , major; finance officer, Aaron Denlinger, sixth semester poultry husbandry ma jor; and information service offi cer, Kent Kiehl, sixth semester arts and letters major. • John Lyon, sixth semester geo physics and geochemistry major was nominated for Area C com mander. The University is head quarters for Area C. Lyon's nom ination is subject to the approval of delegates to the national con vention, to be held April 10-12 in Vilashington. D.C. Pink and black were adopted as the University's first colors in 1837. , .0,1411. t. When ICCB has gone this far in bringing the matter out in the open, it is almost condemn able for it to back out now. The general idea would have been to knock off compensation for council presidents and class officers and probably keep those for All-University officers. Questionnaires have been sent to compen sated Cabinet members asking if they felt they should continue to receive compensation. The questionnaires haven't been compiled yet, but they reportedly indicate that they think not. This, combined with ICCB's recent "decis ion," is an excellent basis for Cabinet to re vamp the Wage-scale. We urge that Cabinet does just that. We also suggest that compensation be given on the basis 'of time spent for Cabinet activity, rather than for time spent within the group being rep resented on Cabinet. This would maintain compensation for All- University - officers. It would throw out that for all other positions. If individual organizations feel their presi dents should be paid, these groups can do so from • their own treasuries. ICCB should keep on' with this issue it has re-opened this week. Now is no time to pull out. Gazette CO-ED SWIM COUPLES, 7.t0 9. p.m., Glennland Pool NEWMAN CLUB DAILY ROSARY, 4:80 p.m., Stations of ' the Cross, 7 p.m., Church; open house, 8 p.m., Student Center PENN STATE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP, '7:30 p.m., 405 Old Main Robert Allison, James Bates, Richard Bosetti, Ronald Feigles,, James Garrett, Olga Kosarowich, Mary Ann Lewis, Kenneth McClymonds, Marjorie Miller, Sheldon Odland, Richard Rigling, Louis Schneider, Bruce Splengler. This is rather disappointing to most of the girls who sent home for their gowns and looked forward to something extra-special. Was this just a quick decision rather than an advertising mistake? We are certainly dis gusted! Donovan gxplains Elevator Failures The elevator in the He tz el Union Building was out of order three of the, first six days the building was open according to George L. Donovan, director of associated student activities. The first failure was caused by a blown fuse, and the other two were caused by mechanical diffi culties. . . HUB personnel have been using the elevator for freight purposes for several months, and have had no difficulties. Donovan request ed that persons press only one button while operating the ele vator. Local 417 Will Hear Social Security Speaker .Tohn Weigle, district manager of the social security administra tion, United States Department of Health, Education, and Wel fare, will speak on the benefits of social security and how Uni versity employees may secure it, at a meeting of Local 417 Build ing Service Employees Interna tional at 8. tonight in the Odd Fellows Hall. The meeting is open to Univer sity staff members. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA WILLIAM DEVERS. Business Manager UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Band Members Attend Festival Twenty-two members of the Blue Band are participating in the eighth annual Intercollegiate Band Festival at Westminster College, New Wilmington. Students attending the session, and the instruments they play are: Flutes: Mary Meyer, Nancy Schminky, Patricia Collins, and Elizabeth Tipton; oboes: Jeanne Maxwell and Frances O'Connell; clarinets: Thomas Mentzer, James Valone, Merrill Yohe, and Elaine Kloures. Bassoons: Charles Blechler and Patricia Kelly; alto sax: Warren Daugherty; tenor sax: Barbara Murdough; solo coronets: Roger Staub and Charles Springman; French horns: Morris Meyer, Neil Andre, William Mills, and Robert C. Jones; bass: Stanley Michal ski; trombone: Donald Fought. James W. Dunlop, associate professor of music education, is accompaning the group. The festi val ends tomorrow. It took 1500 candles to illumi nate the main building on the University campus in the 1860's. aditoreals reersootte deo viewpoint of taw writers. aot ooffloworily tin pellet of die °WON !Me editorials are by eno editor e set of Karel $. 1S? —Peggy McClain —Names withheld Little Man on Cam elk, Professor Slither, say would you bring some weighty ilosophy books over here—l'm having the darndest time select a text for this course." "H 4 phi, ing Murray Describes `Red Scare' "Bolshevism .. a baby born by the great world war already is the talk of the whole globe .. . If the baby causes such a stir, 'What will the man do?" Dr. Robert K: Murray, assistant • professor of history, takes us back to the hectic "Red scare" days of 1919-1920 and their effect on the American scene in his new book, "Red Scare: A Study in Na tional Hysteria, 1919-19200 The ' book was published last month by the University of Minnesota Press. Reading the book will prove a rewarding experience. It casts light on a past problem whicii is plaguing the nation at the present and will, in all probability, con tinue to do so in the future—a problem of which relatively few students have but a cursory know ledge. Dr. Murray has captured the essence of a formidable event and presented it in an interesting and highly readable manner. The "s car e" in the United States was an outgrowth of the Bolshevik Revolution of No vember, 1917, in Russia. Anti bolshevism soon became the motto of American economic conservatives to further their own interests, and the relatively small number of Communist supporters in the United States was magnified to such huge proportions that panic seised the minds of the American pub lic. The nation in 1919, according to Dr. Murray, was trying to ad just to a period of peacetime "nor malcy" after World War I. How ever, by refusing to face the realities the war years had weaned, an intelligent readjust ment solution was not applied. The foundation of a stable "nor malcy" was temporarily lost by trying to achieve it in an abnor mally rapid way and by the re fusal of the nation to meet the readjustment problems rationally. In an atmosphere of hyper-ac celerated Americanism, resulting chiefly from wartime propaganda, the Russian Bolshevik incident im bedded hysterical fear and sus picion into the minds of the American public. American radi cals and many liberals were con stantly harassed with cries of "Bolshevist" to virtually make them cry "uncle." Dr. Murray presents example after example of how press, sen sationalism, patriotic societies, the courts, and government officials attacked with such injudicious virulence the American radical that mass hysteria and terror reigned in the nation for almost two years, while freedom of thought practically became a criminal offense. "If there is any lesson to be learned from the Red Scare ex periences of 1919," Dr. Murray concludes, "it is a perception of By MARILYNN' ZABUSKY the incalculable injustice and intolerance that can result from defining the limi i ts of liberty too narrowly. Since it would appear from the current trend of, events that many of the same problems and fears which plagued the American public of 1919 still bother us today, it seemed of particular value to, return to that almost forgotten scene." Dr. Murray, a native of Union City, Indiana, came to the Uni versity in 1949) to teach American history. Previous to that, he at tended Ohio State University where he received his BA and BS degrees in education. He also re ceived his MA degree in 1947 and his PhD degree in 1949 from Ohio State. Dr. Murray's book has achiev ed national acclaim. It was cho sen as Dave Garroway's TV, book of the day Feb. 23. It was reviewed by Leon Pearson on "Weekend Documentary," an NBC radio show Feb. 27. Dr. Murray was interviewed by George Hamilton Combs, ABC book critic, March 15. The book was nlso - selected to be shown at the Annual Book Festival in New York City. Dr. Murray's interest in the communist problem stem 3 fkom his army life when he had the opportunity to talk with the av erage Russian soldiers in Germany and France. In 1948 he was in Washington, D.C. -when the Berlin airlift was going on. He perceived there a certain amount of hysterical thinking on the existing Com munist menace. It brought to his mind the Red Scare of 1919. and his interests developed along those lines. In commenting on the effects of Red Scare situations, Dr. Murray said, "Red Scares are aberrations which a democracy can ill-afford to indulge in. At that point we do far more damage to ourselves than an enemy can ever do." Tonight on WDFM 7:25 7:30 9:00 --- 7 --- *reek'' , News Roundup 9:30 _ Scenario 040 Thouht for the Day FRIDAY, MARCH 25 . , 1955 By. Etibl 11.1 MEGACYCLSB MV==l=l Sign Qn
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