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Published Tuesday throufh
Saturday morning* during
the University year, the
Dally Collegian is a student
operated newspaper.
Entered as second-class matter July 6. 1934 at the State Collate, Pa. Post Office under
MIKE FEINSILBER, Editor
Managing Editor. Mika Miller; City Editor, Don Bh<M- , Co-A.st. Bnj. Mgn.. Rogar Vogalalngcr, Dorothea Koldya;
_ . _ ..... ft .. , Local Adr. Mgr., Faye Goldstein; National Adr. Mgr., Jerry
maker; Copy Editor, Dotty Stone; Sports Editor, Koy Wil- Fried; Co-Circulation Mgr*., Milt Llnlal, Christine Kauffman;
Homs; Editorial Director, Jackie Hudgins; Society Editor, Promotion Mgr., Dellte Hooper; Co-Personnel Mg**., Alette
Inez Althou.e; Aaeietant Sport* Editor. Roger Beldler; Photog- Manbeck, Connie Andenon; Office Mgr., Ann'Keeaey; Claaal
p... „ n fled Adv. Mgr., Peggy Darla; Secretary. Lll JMelko; Reeeereh
raphy Editor Ron Walker. and Records Mgr., Virginia Latahaw.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Fran Fanucci; Copy Editors: Don Barlett, Sue Conklin; Assistants:
Ned Frear, Pat Tomlinson, Rosemary Arentz, Pauline Metza, Jane Hartzell, Barbara Budnick, Cyn
thia Bell. Ad Staff: Arnie Hoffman, Dianne Hallock.
Hat Societies: Do They Tap Fairly?
The charge that hat societies are corrupt in
their tapping methods is circulating campus
again, as it always does this time of year.
Is the charge justified?
Some hat societies employ a point and inter
view system for selecting new members. Ap-
Elicants send letters, listing their activities. A
oard, composed of some of the members of
the group, rate the letters by a point system.
Promising candidates are next called up be
fore another board, or in some cases, the so
ciety for questioning.
New members are then selected by. vote of
the entire group or the interviewing board.
Methods vary among the nine groups now in
operation.
This appears lo be a democratic procedure
and few have complaints about this method it
self. Gripes stem from its application.
Those societies with no apparent reason in
their tapping methods are the ones most open
to criticism. It is unfair to rejected applicants
not to inform them of the basis for decisions.
Rumors inspired by this lack of system are
damaging to the societies as well as the mem
bers who are selected.
The charge that members are chosen politi
cally—that the buddy* system carries weight—
still remains, despite the qualifying sessions
aimed at selecting the students most worthy of
wearing a hat.
The method of selecting new initiates could,
we feel, be improved on two points. Hat society
members who first screen applications need not
know the names of the applicants. If they are
selecting students to be interviewed only on
the basis of activities, as claimed.' they have to
know only the applicant’s surface qualifications:
his activities.
We feel, also, that if old members of the
When a Good Dean Leaves...
James W. Dean, assistant to the dean of men,
handed in his resignation yesterday.
So now the independents will get a new ad
viser and dormitory counselors will be headed
by another member of the administration! but
students will have to look a long time before
they find another Mr. Dean.
The Association of Independent Men has
made more progress during the two years that
Mr. Dean has been its adviser than during any
other period in its history.
According to reports from the National In
dependent Student Association of which Mr.
Dean is an executive board member, the Uni
versity’s independent student organization is
ranked second only to the University of Illinois.
First place in the NISA Week contest was
awarded to AIM and Leonides during the April
NISA convention at Ft. Collins, Colo.
Mr. Dean has morning office hours in 119
Waring Hall where he meets with resident
counselors and after lunch he may be found
at his desk in the dean of men's office in Old
Main.
All-University Officers
Schedule Office Hours
All-University officers are hold
ing office hours from 1 to 2 p.m.
Monday through Friday in the
All-University Cabinet room, 203
Hetzel Union.
At least one of the three offi
cers will be in the room at this
time daily, according to Philip
Beard, All-University secretary
treasurer. Officers are: Earl Seely,
All-University president; Robert
Sturdevant, All-University vice
president; and Beard.
HORSE SHOW
May 7 and 8
Sat. and Sun.
at the
show grounds
Pei™ RMiufl Club
Oft}? Sailg Collegian
SacMMW to THE FREE LANCE, aat- tMJ
AlKSit JACK ALBRECHT, Business Manager
Today Is Deadline
For Delphi Applications
Letters of application for
Delphi, newly organized soph
omore men's hat society, are
due by noon today at the Het
zel Union desk.
Second and third semester
men with an All-University av
erage of 1.0 are eligible. Letters
should include the name, aver
age, semester, and student ac
tivities. Letters should be ad
dressed to Robert Segal, presi
dent of Delphi.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
society—being no longer active—were on the
interviewing boards, there would be less room
for politicing. Old members might be more in
clined to think of the society itself, rather than
of close friends who are applying.
As it now operates, interviewers are just one
year ahead of interviewees. Seniors interview
ing freshmen for membership in a sophomore
hat society might have a slightly less prejudiced
viewpoint because they’d be less likely to know
the applicant personally. This, of course,
wouldn’t cure the whole problem; fraternity
brothers still are interested in advancing their
fraternity, and therefore, its pledges.
But, it’s our guess, while they still might
be prejudiced, they’d be less likely to be as
prejudiced as members with close ties with
applicants.
Both these steps, we feel, would leave the
hat society less open to charges of unfairness,
and, by so doing, would help the group. '
Hat societies can not merely shrug off criti
cism' by saying, "This is our society and our
business."
By their very , nature, hat societies have an
obligation to the student body as a whole,
and topast, present, and, indeed, future mem
bers. They capnot shirk this obligation to be
fair. Members are accepted by the public as
students who have been designated leaders,
and future leaders are tapped from these talent
pools. It is important that hat societies select
members with the qualities the hat they wear
asserts they have.
The disappointment some students have for
not making a hat society is keen. But the bitter
ness they display should never be justified. Hat
societies have an obligation to see that fairness
dominates their actions during the tapping
season.
Wednesday nights belong to the AIM board
of governors meeting and a few minutes every
day are reserved for a Collegian reporter.
Mr. Dean’s little office in Waring Hall is
always busy . . . usually with puzzled coun
selors, but quite often with people who just
want to talk.
A man who can work as closely with his
students as Mr. Dean does and still retain their
deep respect is worthy of highest esteem.
Colleges all over the country would do well
to have more Jim Deans. Penn State is happy
to claim the original.
Gazette • • •
Today
NEWMAN CLUB, Daily Rosary, 4:39, church; party, 8 p,ra.
student center
UNI
Gerson Alexander,
Fenstemacher, Archi
Heasley, Jay Livziexj
Tosh Pal, Douglas
[VERSITY HOSPITAL
Robert Allison, Lorraine Cobosco, Dale
[bald Gentles, Mark Goldsmith, Glenn
, Francis Markland, Samuel Mento, Asu
Pease, Kenneth Sommers, Donald Wise.
Journalism Professor
Has Textbook Published
Donald W. Davis, professor of
journalism and chairman of the
advertising sequence at the Uni
versity, has had his new text
book, “Basic Text in Advertising,”
published by Printers’ Ink Pub
lishing Company, New York.
The b00k,'665 pages in length,
as designed for introductory ad
vertising courses at college and
university level. It will be used
in Journalism 40, basic advertis
ing course in the journalism de
partment.
Mltorlnl* rapreaent tha
clowpoint of tlio writer*,
not neeMMrllj tho policy
of tho paper. Unaltinf
Miltarlol* or* bp tho editor.
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—The Editor
—Jackie Hudgins
Little Man on Campus
Look Who's Talking ...
About Leaders
So you’re an athlete!
At most colleges this« means long trips and scholarships—but
at Penn State it means just one thing—you’re bound to become a
student leader before you graduate.
i Six of the nine All-University officers for the years 1952, ’53,
and ’54 were famous campus ath
letes.
If, as statistics show, athletic
ability begets leadership ability,
we recommend the new leader
ship training program be made
compulsory for all well-known
players of football, basketball,
baseball, soccer, lacrosse, tennis,
wrestling, and golf.
Sportsminded men. by virtue
of their muscles will, without a
doubt, lead the undergraduates of
the future and it is only fair that
they be trained leaders.
The program set up by cabinet
last week will be a step in the
right direction toward providing
the university with responsible
leaders.
Of course the other solution is
to make athletes out of al} the
present student leaders to keep
these two apparently related
fields of student activity com
bined.
The secretary-treasurer for two
of these three years was cfn the
University lacrosse team. And in
the light of this discovery we ad
vise that before the two or three
cliques look for candidates for
secretary-treasurer that they
carefully screen all promising la
crosse players.
Since only one of the secretary
treasurers was a wrestler, we.do
not believe it feasible to screen
all outstanding matmen.
The only drawback to this
otherwise perfect system for se
lecting leaders for the University
is the fact that the athletic-lead
ership classification leaves the
women completely but. And since
women participate in no varsity
sports their chances for All-Uni
versity leadership are slim. The
problem is a serious one, but we
have come up with a solution.
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1955
By Bibl
By JACKIE HUDGINS
We urge women who think they
possess leadership qualities to try
out for varsity sports so that they
too may enroll in the training
program and ultimately become
campus leaders.
Dorothy Anderson, class of ’35
could very well have the the prec
edent because she is the only
woman ever to play on a varsity
team. Too bad she wasn't nomi
nated for All-University president
after her winning tennis season.
She would have been terrific!
'Expose' Issue
Of Froth to Go
On Sale Monday
The lid’s - off.’ Froth pulls no
punches in the May issue on the
“newstands” Monday. It’s tjie Ex
pose’ issue.
Learn the behind-the-scene do
ings (without phone numbers) at
Penn State in ’’Penn State Confi
dential.”
Other articles' for gossiprhungry
readers include “Clean Up. the
Town Issue” and “The Confes
sions of a Little League Manager.”
Where can you buy the m?
They’ll be bothering you in. front
of the bulletin board on the Mall,
the Hetzel Union Building, War
ing Hall, and the Comer Room.
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