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Published Tuesday through
Saturday mornings during
the University year. the
Daily Collegian is a student
operated newspaper.
entered as eeeond•elua matter Jul 6 1916 at :ta 0 • •
MIKE MILLER, Acting Editor 4030" ROGER VOGELSINGER, Acting Business Manager
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Larry Jacob son; Copy Editor, Sue Conklin; Assistants, Tony
Arthur, Pauline Metza, Steve Higgins, Nancy Hankins, Joe Boehret. Ad staff, Mona Signorino, Claire
Murray.
More Profit Means More Comfort?
The passing of the referendum permitting
the showing of movies on Sunday in the bor
ough after 2 p.m. is a good thing.
Students will benefit by having another rec
reational outlet for the weekend in the sleepy
town of State College.
The townspeople will likewise benefit by
the measure as they too will be offered another
recreation.
But the people who will benefit the most
from Sunday movies are the operators of the
borough theaters.
Two or more showings on Sunday will prob
ably increase their revenue by at least one
sixth of its present take. This will add up to a
considerable amount considering the prices now
in effect.
The theater owners should show their ap
preciation of their customers desires and take
steps to improve the comfort of. the theaters.
Because of the increased revenue that will be
forthcoming shortly, we see no reason why this
should not be financially possible.
The borough theaters charge prices compar
able to those charged by large theaters in metro
The Bum Appears
From the depths of the black lagoon an all
too familiar figure appeared on campus today.
Smiling an idiotic smirk, his pockets bulging
with cash, a disreputable bum clad in fool's
garb marched brazenly up the Mall, summoned
his confederates, and dispersed them to stra
tegic vantage points to harrass the unfortunate
students.
Unwary students were apprehended by foul
means as the dispensers of evil swooped down
on their prey - emitting shrill animal-like cries.
But latest reports indicate that resistance is
running - high. To the embattled students we
urge that all measures possible be taken to
Safety Valve...
Protests Campusing of Dorm Residents
TO THE EDITOR: Last week a Student Judi
cial Board recommended dormitory restriction
to a student. The restriction was approved by
the Dean of Men's office. In criticizing this ac
tion, we do not question the student's innocence
or guilt. We do question the fairness and just
ness of the approved punishment.
Campusing is discrimination against men re
siding in dormitories. They are the only people
that can be checked with any ease at all. These
are the only people likely to be checked by
personal contact. A man in town, if campused,
could probably be checked by phone. What is
to prevent a student's roommate from answer
ing for him in case he is out?
Suppose a person residing outside State Col
lege was
. campused. Is it likely that he will be
checked at all, and, if so, will it be as frequent
as a man in the dormitories?
We would also like to point out that frater
nity men are not subject to this same method
of restriction as dormitory residents. Their
judicial board may or may not choose to cam
pus members under their jurisdiction. If it
would, it is rather difficult to ask a fraternity
president to report a brother of his house for a
violation. These illustrations substantiate the
theory that campusing is discrimination.
It is obvious that a man in the residence halls
is in a better position to be checked. Any devi
ation from the norm is discrimination, unfair
and unjust.
What is the reason for the compliance checks?
People argue that it is only ethical to obey and
to adhere to judicial punishment that is handed
Tip Bann Colltgtan
Soteosoot to TITS PRICE LANCE. wt. HST
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
politan areas. Yet on the whole the facilities
provided by the borough theaters cannot com
pare with those of the large city theaters.
Certainly air-conditioning should be high on
the list of improvements. This is a matter that
could wait until spring and the theater owners
by then will have taken in a sizable amount of
additional income from their Sunday showings.
The borough theaters are thoroughly un
comfortable in the spring and the hot weeks of
September and positively unbearable in the
summer. We see no excuse for not air-con
ditioning the theaters before the hot months
roll around again.
Many of the seats in all of the theaters are
in need of re-upholstering and this is an im
provement that should be effected as soon as
possible.
The theater owners, should realize that they
have an obligation to their patrons who have
supported their industry and thus increased
their profits.
Some of these profits should be spent for
providing for the comfort of the movie-goers
by way of a "Thank yotL"
Gazette •••
NEWMAN CLUB BUSINESS MEETING, 710 p.m., New
Church Hall
NEWMAN CLUB DAILY ROSARY, 4:16 p.m., 209 Hetzel
Union
NEWMAN CLUB DANCE AND PARTY, 8:15 p.m.,' New
Church Hall
SABBATH EVE SERVICES, 9 p.m., Hillel Foundation
SQUARE DANCE, 7:30 p.m., Lutheran Student Center
University Hospital
Sally Barnes, Nancy Berry, George Dunn. Clyde Els
worth, James Hoover, Paul Leyda, Ronald Markiewicz, Rich
ard Rivers, Linda Salzberg, Howard Sherman, Richard
Shutt, Stanley Stirman, Lucille Smith, Dorothy Thompson,
Barbara Zatcoff, and Richard Zeller.
resist and defeat the plague.
The attack will be of short duration fO'r Froth
notoriously offers little of anything.
—The Editor
out. Would one be likely to report a parent to
the Bureau 9f Internal Revenue for manipulat
ing an income tax -report? Hardly.' The same
code of ethics applies to all these cases.
Who is doing the checking? Of course, the
men on the board which recommended the re
striction. They are not only handing out
punishment but now they are responsible for
observing the man's behavior. They are plain
clothesmen who are likely to be prejudiced
when the violator comes before them periodic
ally to have his conduct reviewed.
Why doesn't the counselor do the checking
when he receives the equivalent of approxi
mately $7OO a year to perform, among others,
such tasks. The reason is that the counselor is
not responsible for men residing off campus.
To be consistent the Junior G-Men must do the
checking on campus as well as off campus.
Passing a regulation solves nothing. There
are always other related factors. In this in
stance it is the enforcement of the restriction
and its discrimination against a few. The Penn
State judicial system was unique in that it had
many advantages over similar setups at other
institutions. PSU's judicial system has been
absolved from this uniqueness. Perhaps State
will be unique again when this fifth column,
now marking time, marches forward.
—Robert H. P. Cole
Nelson R. Seidel
John Carlson
Leonard F. Richards, Jr.
William R. Johnson
Henry Montim
Idßoris's represent the
viewpohits of the writers,
not necessarily the polley
of the paw, the student
body. er the thilversity.
• let •f March I. 181 t
—The Editor
Little Man on Campus
"How's about one of you o
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About Security
Many of today's so-celled security risks are no more than
indi
viduals who see, and think, then question what they see. But they
are called dangerous and unpatriotic to our, American ideals often
by men who are fighting to preserve what they do not wholly under
stand.
The country that relies on technological advancement to retain
its lofty position as world-leader
in an age• that tends to allow
material progress to overshadow
intellectual incentive should heed
the warnings voiced •by its
thought exponents rather than by
its committee chairmen.
The federal government has
five security programs which af
fect directly some 10 million peo
ple. They are civilian government
employees, armed forces, Defen'se
Department contractors and their
employees requiring access to
classified mtaerial, Atomic Ener
gy Commission contractors and
sailors and waterfront workers
under supervision of the Coast
Guard.
These people are subject to in
vestigation as to their loyalty—
in other words they are potential
security risks. When they are
called up before investigating
committees or for hearings they
are denied the rights of a fair
trial enumerated in the Constitu
tion. They may be subject to dou
ble, or triple jeopardy. In fact,
they may be subject to jeopardy
until they have left the govern
ment, and perhaps even after
that.
They are also denied the right
to be confronted with the ad
verse witnesses and may not even
know their identity.
And since the due process clause
of the Constitution applies only to
criminal prosecutions (which `ex
cludes security hearings) Eleanor
Bontecou, author of "The Federal
Loyalty-Security Program" con
tends there is no due process of
law in security cases.
This is our security program,
but is this the most effective type
MOTHER'S DAY
Reservations for the week-end,
May 11-12, will be accepted start
ing at 8:00 a.m. on Friday, Novem
ber 11. No telephone calls.
The Nittany Lion Inn
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1955
her guys holding
ih' ball for a change?"
By JACKIE HUDGINS
of security program for our needs?
Many critics say no.
Henry Steele Commager, pro
fessor of history at Columbia and
author of "Freedom, Loyalty, Dis
sent," said there are no guaran
tees against error, wickedness,
stupidity and mischance but if
history and experience teach us
anything they teach that all the
securities which we attempt to
erect—the legal, the mechanical,
and the material—are the weak
est, and the historical, the intel
lectual and the moral are the
strongest.
"But more important than the
direct effects of indiscriminate
charges on the individuals in
volved," Dry Bontecou said, "are
their indirect consequences, cast
ing into shadow whole areas of
activity and associations and
thereby imposing increasing re
strictions of freedom of thought
and expression in the United
States."
Hans J. Morgenthau, professor
of political science at the Univer
sity of Chicago, has, written, "De
rived from an erroneous concep
tion of what needs to be secured
and against whom, it (the security
policy of the United States) has
become a weapon of the political
purge, administered arbitrarily
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