PAGE FOUR Published Tuesday Waugh Saturday mornings during the University leer. the Daily Collegian is • snidest operated newuessliet. Ilittered as ssessd.slass Issesas July e. 1114 at t Oats Collase, Ps. Post Ottles ender MIKE FEINSILBER. Editor Managing Editor. Mike Miller; City Editor. Don Sher Co-AsaL Rua. Mgrs.. Roger VogeMincer, Dorothea Hold's; Local Ad,. Mgr., Faye Goldstein; Nationa Ad,. Mgr., Jerry maker; Copy Editor. Dotty Stone; SPorts Editor. Rol Wig- Fried; Co-Cirenlation Mira., Milt Lintel, Christine Kauffman: Hams: Editorial Director. Jackie Dodging: Society Editor. Promotion Mgr., Delfts Hoopes; Co-Personnel Mgrs., Aletta Ines Althoase; Assistant Sports Editor. Rogow' Seidler; Photos.- Mathes*, Connie Anderson; Office Mgr.. Ann Healey; Classi fied Adv. Mgr., Peggy Davis; Secretary. Lil Melko; Research raphy Editor, Ron Walker. and Records Mgr.,, Virginia Latshaw. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Nancy Showalter; Copy Editors, Don Barlett, Ted Serrill; Assist ants Jack Williams, Ginny Philips, Ned Frear, Rosemary Bass. 4000 Penn Staters No Longer 'Guilty' Penn, State men are no longer held suspect protect loyalty to the American tradition," by the United Rees government. Neither are Howard Mumford Jones of Harvard • University basic Reserve Officer Training Corps students wrote in 1951. "They do not in the least help to detect the traitorous or the criminal. Every all over the nation. lawyer I have talked to assures me that exist- The Department of Defense has rescinded its ing laws are ample to punish those who would loyalty oath requirement, according to the - betray their country or perjure themselves for American Civil Liberties Union. Since most treasonable, purposes or otherwise be untrue to land-grant colleges and universities require all their American heritage. male students to complete two years of basic "There are seldom occasions, indeed, when ROTC in order to be graduated, the law—had an oath is a proper and impressive ceremony, it stood—would have affected every man going but the oftener oaths are required, the hastier to these colleges. This year, some 4000 men en- the ceremony, the less impressive the oath, and rolled in basic ROTC at the University were the greater the temptation to regard the oath required to sign on the dotted line proclaiming as a minor and meaningless legal convention. their loyalty and swearing they were not mem- "Loyalty oaths today are hampering govern bers of any 248 listed subversive organizations. ment, weakening education, and restricting both The effect of asking a man to declare his research work and the distribution of the fruits loyalty is an unhealthy one. It is in conflict with of research among the peoples of the earth." some basic tenets of democracy. It violates the Requiring loyalty oaths of college students principle that a man is innocent until proven induces cynicism in the intelligent and blind guilty. It weakens the effect of every other boy- ' obedience in the uninterested. Both effects are ally procedure of • the United States govern- harmful and work against, not for, the country's meat. It requires the signer to blindly be loyal best interests. rather than allows him to find true reasons We are glad the Department of Defense has through education to uphold American democ- come to realize this. re TM beauty i of our democracy is that it does not require blnd loyalty, that it survives scruh nixation. Only when there is something wrong with it must a system be shielded from study. "Loyalty oaths neither create, nor prove, nor Sour Grapes Are Out of Season Spring semesters always end the same way— ters'-end low on the popularity pole, sudden showers and sour grapes. In the minds of intelligent men and women A lot of the students who worked hard all seasonal gripes have no place. So what if the ° logical man for the job was not chosen to be year hoping to be rewarded by big positions All-University Blue Book Improvement Corn were disappointed after the last list of corn- mittee Chairman: mittee appointments was released. Maybe the student who was selected is better There are many reasons why a particular qualified—more experience, better leadership student did not get the position he wanted, but ability, and a higher average. if he is questioned, he will probably say, "They And if he isn't—a disappointed student is not just didn't like me. And I didn't really want it justified to cut off his nose to spite his face. anyway."lf a person is really interested in working, After he has a chance to think it over, he he can volunteer to be a committee member, might think the selections committee really or just an individual worker for the particular made a bad mistake when it gave the chairman- project. ship to someone else, but he certainly won't go But if working doesn't appeal to him—he may out of his way to help the new chairman, as well admit his ego is the only driving force Perhaps all these reactions are justified. and the desire to do something constructive, an Anger and disappointment lie at the root of unimportant factor. hundreds of historical events. They have been To criticize the work of a competitor and be the motivation for many projects, some worth- little his position might put the "little man on While, but many destructive. campus" in the public eye for a while, but a Milton was disappointed with the restrictions respectable and lasting reputation can not be on the press when he wrote his- famous plea built upon bitterness and the childish sour for freedom of the press, the Aeropagetica. grapes attitude. Glenn Cunningham was disillusioned when the doctors told him he would be handicapped for the rest of his life. His reaction was not self-pity or grief—instead he turned all his en- Gazette •• . ergy toward achieving something' worthwhile. He became a record-breaking miler instead of a disappointed hypochondriac. Political disappointments have caused many local 'little men on campus' to make fools of themselves in past weeks. The subtle ones have quietly ridiculed the worth of the position they didn't get while the hot-tempered ones are shouting 'dirty politics' to the selections committee that overlooked them. And campus politics is again at their semes- Chess Team Wins Intercollegiate Title The University Chess team won the Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Chess title Saturday by defeating th e University of Pennsylvania team. The University team had pre viously defeated the Altoona Cen ter chess team, winning the cen tral Pennsylvania title and be coming eligible to compete for the state title. Members of the team, which is selected from the cress club, are Howard Kalodner, senior in edu cation from Philadelphia; Harry Spayde, freshman in electrical en gineering from Shamokin; Byron La Van, freshman in business ad ministration from Philadelphia; Frederick Kerr, freshman in sci ence from Allison Park; and Ron ald Dietrich, freshrhan in elec trical engineering from Hamburg. Club president, Kerr, said the club hopes to enter a team in the national competition next year. Pollock Council to Meet Pollock Council will meet at 6:30 tonight in Nittany Dorm 20. Pr &dig Collegian Successor to TIIII MUM LANCS. est. ISst New Philosophy Head Named Dr. Ernest H. Freund, associate professor of philosophy, has been named head of the department of philosophy for a three-year per iod. The appointment, which will become effective July 1, was ap proved at the May 13 meeting of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Freund has been acting head of the department of philoso phy since July 1 when he was ap pointed to fill the vacancy creat ed by the leave of absence ex tended to Dr. John M. Anderson, professor of philosophy, Born in Berlin, Germany, Dr. Freund received his doctor of philosophy degree from the Uni versity of Freiburg. Dr. Freund has served on the faculty at Penn State since 1946 when he was named assistant pro fessor of philosophy. Ag Council to Meet Tonight The Agriculture Student Coun cil will hold its final meeting at 7:30 tonight in 105 Agriculture. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA JACK ALBRECHT. Business Manager We are glad men will no longer be treated as if their loyalty was questionable. We are glad to find another indication that the nation is leaving an ugly .era of suspicion in a false attempt to trap the disloyal. —The Editor Today BUS AD STUDENT COUNCIL, 7 p.m., 107 Willard COLLEGIAN AD STAFF, 6:30 p.m., 111 Carnegie COLLEGIAN BUSINESS CANDIDATES, 7 p.m., 217 Willard COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF, 7 p.m., 217 Willard FRESHMAN COUNCIL, 8:30 p.m., Commuter's Room, Woman's Building "S" CLUB, 8:30 p.m., 916 Sparks STUDENT HANDBOOK BUSINESS STAFF, 7' p.m., 208 Willard UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL David Cochran, Eugene Hanlon, Gretchen Hauser, Anita Horvitz, Robert Kamps, Ha Ju Kim, Robert Petosky, Jona than Plaut, Paul Pritchard, Andrew Schoerke, Ray Stewart, Irwin Weiss. Musical PrograM Slated by WDFM Campus radio station WDFM will broadcast three hours of con tinuous music from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. from Saturday through June 8. The three-hour program will consist of one hour of popular music, one hour of semi-classical music, and one hour of classical music. Morton Slakoff, station man ager, announced yesterday that applications fo r station candi dates may be obtained from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. weekdays, and 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. on 'weekends. Parmi Nous Elects Charles Christiansen, junior in arts and letters from Washington, D.C., has been elected president . of Parmi Nous, senior men's hat society. Vernon Sones, junior in forestry from Butler, has been chosen vice president, and Donald Calvert, junior in mechanical engineering from Pittsburgh, secretary-treas ww. Editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers, not necessarily the polity of the paper. the student body. or the University. • set elt Nareh S. IST! —Jackie Hudgins Little Man on Campus "Darn Russia Plays Tough, Then Soft—Why? By J. I M. ROBERTS Associated Presd News Analyst A gbod many people are asking why Russia is being so tough in her relations with the Allies at Berlin while attempting to spread so much sweetness and light elsewhere. After the experiences of the last 10 years, few people are willing to make categorical estimates of why Russia does anything the way she does. Diplomats everywhere make it a point not to center their attention on any particular angle, lest they be distracted froin oth ers. Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles emphasized in his re port to the nation, after his re cent round of conferences in Eur ope, that he wasn't sure about Russia's immediate objectives. Two factors, at least, seem ob vious in the Berlin situation One is that, by getting her East German puppet govern ment into a row with the West German Republic over the use and maintenance of highways, she is seeking to establish the Eastern government as a con crete entity, an equal entity, in future discussions of the reuni fication of Germany. The other is an, attempt to dem onstrate to West Germany that, while Russia seems to be relax ing pressures in preparation for Big Four negotiations, everybody should remember she is still in a position to cause a lot of trouble if she wishes. It's a sort of warn-. ing that if her blandishments are spurned she is capably of re venge. The Russians undoubtedly re alize they are in an anomalous position. They threatened loud ly before plans for West Ger man rearmament were ratified. that such action would foreclose the hope of a negotiated settle ment of the German question. Nevertheless, negotiations look ing toward a settlement cOntiri oue, even though the hope of concrete results is slim. One curious thing is the quiet that has descended over Molotov all the threatening noises he made prior to the establishment of Western European Union. He did carry the word to Vienna that Russia was interested in German neutralism, something the West ern diplomats already had guess ed, but it was not the same Molo tov who a short tim e before had been predicting World War 111 if the Allies persisted in West Ger man rearmament. At one point he seems to have gotten off the Krushchev-Bul ganin track by agreeing with Dulles that the chiefs of state, at their meeting, might as well confine , themselves ,to a rela tively brief' genaral, discussion of issues upon which the for eign ministers and their +Assis tants *ht so to work. The TUESDAY. MAY 24. 1955 ~ , ose mosquitos at Whipphad" Kremlin now gives signs of wanting a lengthier and there- fore more detailed discussion at the top. ' Regardless of Russia's exa c t motives at any given point in all this discussion, signs appear more and.more clearly through the fog that she is just maneuvering, rather than intending to produce concrete peaceful results. 5 O'Clock Theater Presents 'Starlit' "Starlit," written by,Delores Herzing, senior/in arts an letters from Erie,, will be the final Five O'Clock Theater presentation at 5 p.m. today. The domestic comedy, similar to the Corliss Archter-type play, has Jane White/ sophomore in arts and letters from •Lewistown, in the • lead role as a 17-year-old daughter. Carole Hite, sophomore in education from Hershey; Ju dith Hartman, junior in arts and letters from Quakertown; Mark Wallace, junior in education from Bristol; and John R. Valentine, senior in arts and letters from Bethlehem; also ha v e feature roles in the play. Midge Lippy, senior in arts and letters from Arlington, Va., will direct the play. Viscose Coiporation Renews Fellowships The American Viscose Corpo ration has renewed their free grant undergraduate fellowship in the department of chemical• en gineering at the University. Thirty four institutions now re ceive free-grant fellowships from the corporation, which are dis tributed among the fields of sci ence, engineering, and business administration at both the grad uate and undergraduate levels. Tonight on WDFM 81.1 MEGACYCLES 7:21 -----: Sign On 7:25 ------.. AP News 7:38 __,_, Marquee Memories 8:00 ' . Behind the Lecturn 8:80 • .• Mule of the People 9108 Informally YoBl l, 0:15 I .leWo 9 :28 ---......--...-- ' 'X'hie World of M By Bibler
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