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Published Tuesday through
Saturday mornings during
the University year, the
Daily Collegian is a student
opertaed newspaper.
Entered se second-elites matter July 6, 1934 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under
DIEHL McKALIP. Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor: Roy Williams, Copy Editors, Dottie Bennett, Ted Serrill; Assist
ants, Pat Tomlinson, Mike Moyle, Don Barlett, Cynthia Bell, Bertha Scubon, Ann Beckley, Ron Leik,
Gene Reeder, Lenore Hamilton. Ad Staff: Mona Signorino, Claire Murray.
Cabinet Appointments Must By-Pass CPIC
Thursday night Earl Seely, All-University
president, will be forced to make appointments
to two committees which will be illegal accord
ing to the letter of the law. However, next
year's qudent government demands these ap
pointments be made now so work can be done
this spring.
Specifically, the two committees to be named
and- approved by All-University Cabinet are
the Student Encampment Committee and the
Joint Student Committee on Town Affairs. Both
have pressing work to do before the semester is
completed.
Although necessary, the action will be illegal
because it conflicts with the regulations of the
Cabinet Personnel Interviewing Committee
formed in October, 1954. This stipulates a com
mittee composed of the nine student council
presidents will interview applicants for mem
bership on Cabinet appointive committees, ex
cluding chairmen.
Seely must by-pass this, however, because he
needs the committees—and the machinery of
CPIC, while thorough, is very slow and it would
take upwards to a month to have the commit
tees selected by the group.
According to the bill which established CPIC,
one-week's notice must be given before the date
of interviews, during which time interested stu
dents may apply to be interviewed. The review
ing committee must then conduct its screening
and have its recommendations ready at least
one week prior to the time the appointments
are to be made.
This means the interviewing process can take
a minimum of two weeks, but it is impossible
to run the program with 100 per cent efficiency.
A rapid job takes at least three weeks, and the
Safety Valve
Why Outstanding?
TO THE EDITOR: Some time ago an organiza
tion called the SPCA was set up: well here is a
vote for a society to prevent cruelty on the part
of hat societies. Many hopeful coeds feel they
are eligible for hat societies and are not tapped,
never knowing why. When the hat societies tap
in the spring, they announce such requiremeSts
as scholarship, leadership, service. None of these
qualifications are ever defined and interpreta
tions differ.
According to the 1954 LaVie, which to my
knowledge is the only source of public informa
tion concerning eligibility for hat societies avail
able to students, these hat societies list their
requirements as:
Mortar Board, "senior women's hat society
which honors 16 outstanding senior women"—
last year there were 13 girls tapped and this
year there are 25; "members must have a speci
fied scholastic average"—who specifies and
what basis is there for such specification; and
"service, leadership, and scholarship"—wonder
ful terms but again, what do they mean?
Scrolls, senior women's, "exceptional work
in at least one major activity"—which campus
activities are considered as major, who deter
mines what is exceptional work, and do mem
bers have to have been i'n this activity for any
length of time? When Scrolls was first being
organized, three years in an activity was stated
as a requirement; did they follow through with
this when tapping?
Chimes, junior women's, "girls are tapped
during the spring in their fourth semester"—
yet several fifth semester women were tapped
last year; "scholarship, activities, and outstand
ing service"—again these all inclusive terms.
Do members have to have a certain number or
a diversification in the activities?
Cwens, sophomore women's, "participation in
at least two major activities" and a "1.5 scholas
tic average." If those are the only two require
ments, then membership should be automatic.
Then, too, no mention of leadership is made,
yet polls have been made of the freshmen to
find whom they consider their leaders.
There is a chance these statements from the
LaVie could be erroneous, but how can a stu
dent tell when the hat societies will not make
their requirements public knowledge? Many
students, after reading these qualifications in
the LaVie, wonder why someone was tapped
while another was not and why they were not.
Now we, the women students, are seeking
clarification of the qualifications for member
ship in these societies. If they are truly set up
to honor the outstanding women in the student
body, then the rest of the students have a right
to know just what makes these women out
standing.
HEc Club to Hear Cook
Miss Yvonne L. Cook, instruc
tor in home-community relation
ships, will speak' on "Adult Ed
ucation" 't a Home Economics
Club n , t n,, at 8 tonight in the
Mir: - • lc? auditorium.
Club members may bring guests
Pe Bang Collegian
Successor to THE FREE LANCE, eat. 11181
,o". 5 11M. WILLIAM DEVERS. Business Manager
—Names Withheld
Alumnus Dies at 81
Mr. John Edward Snyder, 81,
an 1895 graduate of the Univer
sity, died in his sleep at his home
early Sunday morning.
Mr. Snyder, who resided at 118
Derwen road, Bala-Cynwyd, is
survived by his wife, a son, a sis
ter, and a brother.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
normal time required is a month. Also, CPIC
usually tries to give more than just the one
week stipulated notice so all that are interested
may have the opportunity of applying.
Blame for this necessity of stepping outside
the law con not all be blamed on CPIC. Part of
the blame must go to the failure to appoint
committee chairmen early in the year so they
could be working on their committee set-ups
and projects before the last month. This is par
ticularly apparent in the case of the encamp
ment chairman who not only has to get a com
mittee functioning, but interview students who
wish to attend encampment.
It should also be noted this is not the first
time Cabinet has been asked to ignore the rules
and appoint students who had not been inter
viewed. It was done in the case of the hastily
formed Traffic Committee, due to pressure from
the administration to investigate traffic prob
lems before next year's freshman booklets went
to press.
Because of these occasional emergencies, it
might be reasonable to keep on file a group of
proven student workers who are willing to serve
on any committee. This will eliminate the period
required for publicity and have them immedi
ately available for interviewing. They can fill
unforeseen or forgotten committee openings at
short notice but still have to go through
CPIC so the committee will still be able to serve
as a check on the All-University president.
While appointments that Seely will propose
are essential, they can be avoided. By not avoid
ing these happenings we are weakening CPIC,
a group which with improvement can see that
appointments are equally available to all stu
dents.
What Does It Mean?
The year's Academic Freedom program start
ed at the University last Wednesday night when
a film was shown and a student-faculty discus
sion was held on the meanings of academic
freedom.
Those persons who were at the discussion
could not have helped but recognize, in part at
least, the significance of academic freedom as
such. Discussion delved into the meanings of
the phrase and the various aspects it involved.
However, the number present at the discus
sion was an extremely small representation of
the University's enrollment. And this means
that in all probability there are many hundreds
of students and perhaps some faculty members
at Penn State who do not know just what aca
demic freedom means or—more significant—
what loss of academic freedom would mean.
Special "weeks" have a tendency to get lost
in overloaded civic and college calendars. This
fact alone puts the academic freedom program
on campus at a diSadvantage.
However, nothing concerns all students on
campus so much as the quality of education
being taught then—and evaluating and main
taining the very highest quality is a corner
stone of academic freedom.
A program on campus focusing on academic
freedom serves real purposes.
1. It gives recognition to the importance of
academic freedom in all schciols—it calls to stu
dents' attention the need for broad concepts and
tolerant views.
2. It helps persons understand the meaning
of academic freedom—a term which can be as
misleading and misunderstood as the Constitu
tion's guarantee of free speech.
3. And it helps persons interpret academic
freedom according to its history and relate it
to modern values during a time of universal
crisis.
There is no individual on this campus who
escapes the obligation to understand, examine,
and evaluate the meanings of academic freedom.
—Peggy McClain
Gazette ...
Today
ANGEL FLIGHT, 7 p.m., Armory
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS CANDIDATES, 7 p.m., 217 Willard
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF, 6:80 p.m., 218 Willard
COLLEGIAN PROMOTION STAFF, 7 p.m., 108 Willard
ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE STUDENT COUN
CIL, student-faculty mixer, 8 p.m., Dean Walker's home,
777 West Park ave.
HOME EC CLUB, 8 p.m., Mineral Science Auditorium
NEWMAN CLUB, Rosary, 4:30 p.m.. Our Lady of Victory
Church ; Bishop Sheen on T.V.. 7 p.m., Student Center
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
William Barker. James Bates, Paine Culp, Thomas Dominy,
Larry Gershangn, Michael Latterner, Thomas Misiewicz,
James Rose, Sally Sloan, William Stoneman. Margaret
Thomas.
Correction'
Students in Atherton Hall who
met with the dieticians and Gail
Rosenbloom, All-University Food
Committee representative, are not
members of Women's Student
Government Association, but are
appointed to act on this commit
tee.
Iliditorials represent the
viewpoint of the writers,
not necessarily the Pelief
of the paper. Unsigned
editorials are by the editor.
• •et of M•rch S. 187 g.
Little Man on Campus
F ie'
"Someone has been spreading it around that I'm going steady
with Carl . . . This makes the third fraterni, pin I've had to
give back this week."
r. The Final
Impressions
HIND-SIGHT DEFEATS FORE-SIGHT—
As one editor of the Daily Collegian prepares to turn over his
key to his successor, he is inclined to become very sentimental. Ac
tually, it may be more the feeling that the sheet will fold without him.
Instead of a swan song, which is the usual fare, of a very drippy
type, we thought it might be better to wander through the nearly
four years we have spent in the
shadow of Old Main. We want
to see what we have gained be
side the booming average which
will not get us into a graduate
school to study history.
Speaking of this frustration.
we want to inform you readers
that this summer we are going
to make our home on an arctic
iceberg with the weather bur
eau. We doubt the icy blasts
from the North Pole will be any
worse than the crisp handshake
from retired-Woman's Student
Government Association Presi
dent Patricia Ellis after we had
mentioned the word "drink" in
the story of one of her meet
ings.
Of old memories, probably the
best is the 1952 dormitory raid
which we saw and in which all
the women's dortnitories were
raided. The most impressive point
was the way the innocent young
ladies cooperated in the venture
by opening doors and pouring
water on counselors and campus
patrolmen who attempted to
guard entrances.
Then there was the story of I
the housemother in one of the
upperciass dorms who is report
ed to have gotten so excited she
grabbed one of the attackers
about the neck and kissed him.
All this was offset, however., by
the poor publicity which cme
to the school because of it and
by the young ladies who were
very short on clothes the next
day—and payday more than a
half-a-month away.
In our third semester we had
the pleasure of covering the other
visit of Prexy's brother, the one
who plays golf. He arrived on the
old Bellefonte Central, which
normally hauls only coal and oth
er freight for the University. It
had been put into shape to receive
the only passenger train in many
years.
Both presidents caught some
time fishing And some time golf
ing before the Presidential train
returned to Washington with the
President flying ahead. Mamie
stayed over a day to crown Miss
Penn State
The next fall the big news
was the change of the status of
the school from college to Uni
versity. This was completed on
Friday, the thirteenth, and it
retained its name as a bad luck
day by throwing the area into
turmoil_ because now you had
a University in State College.
Someone slipped up along the
TUESDAY. APRIL 26. 1955
By Bib,
By DIEHL McKALIP
line and the residents of the bor
ough (they slipped the year be
fore, too, and , elected a Democratic
mayor in this traditionally Re
publican town) rejected the stir
ring name of Mt. Nittany. The
University had an ace up its
sleeve, however, and immediately
announced it was now University
Park, Pa. Now mail takes a day
longer to get to the University
than it did before.
Another event, which quick
ened the hearts of all loyal Penn
State Greeks, the same year was
the introduction of that species
of individual known as "house
mother." It was felt by the 'Uni
versity administrators that this
would inject a very homey in
fluence into the atmosphere of
the fraternity houses and would
provide someone to darn the poor
away-from-homes socks.
No study has ever been made
of the actual effect these ladies
have had on the University. We
find ours is tops in understand
ing and in trying to be one of
the members of our social closet.
It is well worth the additional
expense of the house bill and
the increased mileage on the au
tomobile.
This last year has been topped
by the Centennial Year celebra
tion and the prestige of being the
Centennial graduating class, you
know, the one which almost did
not get to graduate. Well, come
June 11,' we may be singing in
the rain on Beaver Field, but we
will have celebrated the One-
Hundredth.
Afraid this is all, but we will
still be watching the goings-on
around here; we along with the
some-2000 others who will be re
ceiving degrees. Hope you have
as much to write about when you
turn in your key.
Phys Ed Square Dance
A square dance and mixer, open
to all students and faculty of the
College of Physical Education and
Athletics, will be held tonight
from 8 to 11 in the White Hall
gymnasium.
Tonight on WDFM
91.1 MEGACYCLES
T:3O Marque Memories
8:00 Behind the Lecturn
8:30 Music of the People
9:00 Informally Yours
9:15 __ __ _ Nowa
9:30 This World of Mole
MU ----_ Thought for tile DV
Sits On