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DIEHL McKALIP Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Sue Conklin; Copy Editors, Roy Williams, Mike Miller; Assist
ants,
,Ginger Hance, Marion Beatty, Ginny Philips, Lenore Hamilton, Joan DeLacy, Pat Tomlinson,
Vince Carocci, Rosemary Bass, Bill Eisenberg.
AA Voting: Sour Note in Elections Results
Today is April Fools' Day. The ones who got
fooled are the candidates for offices in the
Athletic Association.
Women students were free to vote for these
men whose organization is governed by a con
stitution stipulating only men students may
cast ballots. This came about when the auto
matic voting machines used in the elections
were set up in such a way that the keys for
AA officers could not be inactivated when
women voted.
It is too late now to attempt to fix the blame
for this undesirable and complicating mistake.
We can only hope it does not happen again.
Also, we can wonder what will happen in the
Association now.
There should be a re-vote. Not only is this
ballot unconstitutional, according to what we
have been told, but it is not fair to the can
didates. Any of the nominees can loose on votes
cast by women.
The All-University Elections Committee,
which assumed the responsibility of executing
the elections, is taking a poor attitude in the
issue. Opinion is -that the members ran an elec
tion, and the Association can take it or leave it.
If the AA wants a new election, the group can
Short Rush Period Is
Panhellenic Council's move to shorten the for
mal sorority rush periods to ten days next year
shows lack of wisdom. In an effort to save
sororities time and expense of the new pro
gram (which calls for two formal rush periods)
Panhel has created an even more unfortunate
situation than the one it was trying to remedy.
Formerly the formal period lasted two weeks.
Under the new code, it will last ten days—one
week with a weekend included at beginning
and end.
Ten days of formal rushing is not enough
time for sorority women and rushees to make
selective decisions.
The reasoning behind shortening the rush
periods next year apparently centers around
finances. Proponents of the new code maintain
that sororities could not afford in one year two
periods including the functions in this fall's
program—open houses, coke dates, at homes,
parties, and coffee hours.
As a result, the at homes have been cut from
the new program, and coke dates (which incur
the least expense) have been extended to 9:45
p.m.
Further attempts to compensate the shortened
period are the firesides and panel discussions
:on sororities in general that Greeks have been
..holding this past month with freshman women,
- .. and a series of open teas scheduled for this
,Safety Valve
On Publicity--
-TO THE EDITOR: In the past the Daily Col
:legian has always played an important part in
- elections by giving non-partisan information to
'voters, but this year it appears to have shirked
* its duties.
The poor voting turnout during the All-Uni
versity elections was due largely to a lack of
:publicity in the Collegian. During campaigning.
-the only mention made was in reference to the
-campaign schedule for that particular day, and
:this was very dry reading.
Candidates' pictures did not appear at all
'even though they had been taken for that
,pur
.pose. No election headlines were used until
voting had actually started. Even editorial dis
cussions of the elections were at a minimum.
• It appears that the Collegian motto "For a
:Better Penn State" has been forgotten when
-there is so little support for one of the most
important events on campus.
—Stuart Horn
•
Lion Party Candidate
for All-University
Vice President
•EDITOR'S NOTE: In the 1955 spring elec
tions, 203 inches of editorial material were
8 rtm: in the 1954 spring elections, 190 inches
of editorial material were run. Nine pictures
dealing with elections were printed this
spring. 56 last spring. The 56 pictures were
chiefly of candidates: pictures of this year's
ce.ndidates were distributed thoroughly by
the parties themselves.
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run its own, the story goes.
Elections Committee obligated themselves to
run a satisfactory vote for AA officers when
they set up the machines with AA candidates
included. This obligation is not fulfilled until
winners have been obtained according to the
AA constitution. This was not achieved in the
two-days voting, and therefore the committee
should conduct another election.
As it stands now, the results, unknown and
sealed in an envelope, have been turned over
to AA officials. It has been left up to them to
declare the findings valid or void. They dare
not, and if they do, the candidates would surely
protest the fact they are winning or losing by
illegitimate ballots.
In an otherwise peaceful, though surprising,
election time, this fiasco strikes the one sour
note. It is made all '.he more aggrevating by
the Elections Committee's indifference to the
situation. It is truly shirking a duty assumed
two days ago when the polls opened with the
AA officers on the voting machines.
Today is April Fools' Day, men who ran for
AA offices, and Elections Committee is attempt
ing to fool you. It is attempting to do this by
giving you an election that is nearly a farce.
In the bargain it is also trying to fool the voters.
Backward Step
spring.
Theoretically, these are to provide the initial
get-acquainted opportunities left to the formal
rush period in past years. Again theoretically,
sororities are to gather recommendations over
the summer on potential rushees met at these
teas, and freshmen are to consider information
offered, as a basis for deciding whether they
wish to become sorority women.
These innovations admittedly are advances
in the Panhel rush program, but can be com
mended only as 'a supplement to an extensive
formal period. In no way can they pass as a
substitute.
Panhel should reconsider this new code it
has passed. In doing so, it should remember
the complaints that its members themselves
have voiced against the shortness and super
ficiality of past periods. It should remember
the confusion and the drop-outs from the pro
gram by rushees in past years because they
"just didn't have time to make up their minds."
If the question of expenses continues to block
lengthening the rush period, then perhaps.coke
dates (which cost little or nothing) be extended
for two weeks.
If Panhel is looking for an effective- rush
period next year, it has no alternative but to
lengthen its program.
On Good Taste
It is unfortunate Spring Week committee
found it necessary to put such an emphasis
(325 points) on "good taste" in carnival booths.
But the step was inevitable if carnival is to be
with us again next year.
The entire judging process for the carnival
has been revised this year. Instead of selecting
winners according to the number of tickets
taken in at the booths, judges will base de
cisions this year on a point system, broken
down into four divisions—good taste, ticket
sales, originality, and adherence to theme.
"Good taste" is the division which will re
ceive the highest number of points and hence
the strongest emphasis.
It is somewhat doubtful just how well "good
taste" will lend itself to point system judgment.
It is certainly not difficult to single out a show
or booth in "poor taste" but to determine de
grees of "good taste" is a different matter.
However. this move is a step to clean up
Spring Week carnivals. The need for such ac
tion is shown clearly in the records of past
carnivals—two years ago all booths warned
generally to keep shows above board and one
show closed because six students had alcohol
behind the booth; and last year ten of the 45
shows given warnings the first night to clean
up their shows, when a second warning would
have meant closing down the shows.
At the same time it is hoped such action will
be necessary on a temporary basis only. If after
this year it is still necessary to enforce "good
taste" so strongly or to make it appear attrac
tive by rewarding those who practice it (when
this "good taste" should exist without threat
of an axe dropping) ,hen it is time to do away
with carnival.
vey, Thomas Clear, Henry Cox, Charles Kiehl, Jane Lechner,
Marjorie Miller, David Miliner, David Nash, Rochelle Na
than, Robert Sitko, Harriet Steinman, Joseph Warnick.
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—Peggy McClain
-P.M.
Little Man on Campus
"I know you made an "A" on the test—but
you just LOOK like a 'C' student."
Ghost Walk Known
As Mystic Retreat
Some 40 years ago, the black shadows of the Ghost Walk
formed one of the eeriest and most mystic retreats on the
campus• -
For 64 years, the narrow woodsy path sheltered secrets
of untold rendezvous from students whose fear forbid them
to enter the lane.
The Ghost Walk was a path
lined with a double row of ever
green trees. It started behind the
old Botany Building, in back of
Old Main, and ran north in the
direction of Burrowes Building.
It had its origin in 1456, when
William G. Waring, working un
der the Board of Trustees, planted
a tree nursery on land now occu
pied by Sparks Building and the
West Dorms. Although the nur
sery was chiefly an experimental
project, it was also to help in
crease College funds. The trees
were to be cut and sold with in
structions for growing.
Some Standing
Among the nursery trees were
the evergreens planted behind the
old Botany Building. For some
reason, these were allowed to
stand, .while others from its sec
tion were cut and sold.
Some claimed that the ever
greens were left to shelter the
one pretentious dwelling house
on campus, Oak Co#age, from the
strong western winds that swept
directly across the house. Others
say there were no buyers for the
trees.
Tradition Is Born
Whatever the reason, the ir
regular row was left in its origi
nal position, and was soon estab
lished as a tradition of the cam
pus.
The thick branches of the bor
dering trees hung low over the
path, leaving it dark and at night
very spectral looking. In summer,
the breeze made light whispering
sounds through the boughs, but
the winter winds blew loud and
ominously along the path. And as
far back as anyone can remember,
the path was called the Ghost
Walk.
The reputation of the walk was
as fearful as the name. Mere men
rtion of the Ghost Walk sent shiv
ers down the backs of coeds. The
young women walked beneath its
trees in the safety of daylight, but
only the bravest dared enter the
'path after dark ... and then, only
By PEGGY McCLAIN
with the protection of a chap
erone!
No record was ever made of es
capades among the dark trees.
Once, in the late eighties, in the
days when great political parades
were staged, the Ghost Walk har
bored two campus politicians,
young Democrats bent on attack
ing the enthusiasm of the embryo
campus Republicans. •
GOP vs Democrats
The attack came in the fall,
when the Republicans were driv
ing bandwagons with flying ban
ners around campus and staging
a great show. George Meek, Class
of 1890, and George Linsey, Class
of 1892, who were two of the most
daring of the eight or ten Demo
crats on campus, watched ;the par
ade pass and then threw stones
at one of the bandwagons, de
stroying a banner.
The culprits then ran into the
Ghost Walk, and no trace of their
identity was left. However, Lin
sey lost his gold watch among the
leaves on the path and couldn't
report the loss for fear of detec
tion.
The next spring, Johnny Carri
gan, an Irish workman on cam
pus, found the watch and returned
it to its owner. Linsey once again
escaped punishment, because by
now his political assault had Lost
its timeliness.
About this same time, in 1893,
Albert Tuttle, Class of 1868, was
visiting his old friend Dr. William
Buckhout, professor of botany at
the College. Tuttle, who was
called "Uncle Al," was a man of
great intellectual curiosity and
had a hunch that by snapping pic
tures rapidly with a camera he
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