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Published Tuesday through
Saturday mornings during
the University year, the
Daily Collegian Is a student
ed newspaper.
Entered as second-class matter July l, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office ander the act of March 3. 1379
MIKE MILLER, Acting Editor .070., ROGER VOGELSINGER, Acting Business Manager
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Rog Alexander; Copy Editors, Sue Conklin, Nancy Showalter;
Assistants, Pauline Metza, Jim Nevine, Mickie Cohen, George French, Hannah Yashan, Pat O'Neill,
Dave Bronstein.
IFC Spring Week Plan Deserves Approval
Spring Week is supposed to be a gay week. allow them more voice in the matter.
It is not. This idea has much merit and Cabinet should
Spring Week is supposed to be a time when approve it. It is difficult enough to put on an
students can be lighthearted and carefree. It original show, but doubly difficult• to do so if
is not. restricted to a theme which may not suit the
talent available. There should be some room
Spring Week is supposed to be a good time.
It is not. for originality.
Another recommendation of the IFC commit-
Rather, Spring Week has developed into a tee is to eliminate the Ugly Man and Mad Hat
king-sized headache to student participants. It ter's contests from the week's program.
is overly expensive to participating organize- The Cabinet committee would modify the
Lions and is disastrous to the scholarship of Mad Hatter's contest to restrict the number of
student participants. entrants from one organization, but makes no
In recognition of these facts both All-Uni- mention of the Ugly Man contest.
versity Cabinet and the Interfraternity Council The Mad Hatter's contest, if restricted to only
earlier in the year appointed committees to one or two entrants per organization, as the
review the Spring Week program, Cabinet committee suggests, would be much
The report of the IFC committee was ap- better than the previous contests with hundreds
proved by that body Monday night. Cabinet s of entrants. To eliminate it entirely would be
will consider its committee report tomorrow unnecessary if only a few people were involved.
night. But the Ugly Man contest is quite time-con-
The recommendations of the two committees suming, not only for the entrants, but for their
are similar in that both recommend a one— backers. This contest would be • better moved
instead of a two-night Carnival, although the out of Spring Week to another time.
Cabinet committee has also drawn up an al- A float parade, which is not recommended by
ternate program with a two-night Carnival either committee, except in the alternate pro
schedule. gram prepared by the Cabinet committee,
It is essential that the Carnival be cut to one should not be included in the Spring Week pro
night. The shows produced by fraternities, gram.
sororities, women's living units, and independ- The borough has refused permission for such
ent organizations are too great a strain on study- a parade on Monday night since stores are open
time to be carried over a second night. then, and any other night would detract too
The only drawback to a one night Carnival much from study time or other Spring Week
is that the revenue realized by the admission activities. The unpredictable spring weather in
charged to the shows has been a big money- this area also makes such a parade -impractical
maker for scholarships to deserving students. as has been demonstrated in past years.
But this factor does not outweigh the harm The remainder of the program to be suggested
done to the studies of the great number of by -the Cabinet committee to that body tomor
students who collaborate to produce the shows. row night would provide for a greatly improved
In fact, it is a strange paradox that the scholar- Spring Week which would still offer as much
ship of the few should be enhanced .while that fun as ever but without the heartache. These
of the many suffers. proposals should be accepted.
In an attempt to make a one-night Carnival But IFC's recommendation should be incor
as successful financially as possible, the IFC porated into. the. Spring Week program for this
committee has proposed that more publicity year. As is suggested, the fraternities should
through posters and advertisements be given be permitted to pick individual themes, the
to the Carnival prior to its start, in the hope Carnival should be limited to one night, Ugly
that people will reserve the Carnival night for Man should be eliminated, and Mad Hatter's
attending the shows. eliminated or modified.
Another radical change proposed by the IFC The fraternities are the backbone of Spring
committee is a recommendation to allow fra- Week. Without their support there would be
ternities to choose the theme to be used for nothing. Their requests should not be denied.
their Carnival show themselves, or at least . —The Editor
Safety Valve •••
Reader Protests Mississippi Concept of Law
TO THE EDITOR: Having noted with interest
your story on the grand jury's refusal to indict
Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam for the kidnapping
of Emmett Louis Till, the young Chicago Negro
who disappeared while on vacation in Missis
sippi as compared with your story concerning
Mr. Smoot's opinion of the advantages of the
NSA, I protest.
I suppose the one-column inch devoted to
the Till story and the more than eight inches
given over to Mr. Smoot's `raids' is an indica
tion of what your readers want to read.
Sad isn't it?
Sad that few of your readers seem to know
who Till was, much less care where he went.
Personally I would be inclined to agree with
you but isn't there something to printing oc
casionally what they ought to read and ought to
be interested in?
It might be well to ask a few questions at
this point. For example, if this body which
lies in a morgue in a small town in Mississippi
isn't Emmett Till—who then is it? Assuming,
of course, that the people in Mississippi aren't
given to leaving bodies laying around un
identified. And, if it is Till, his mother says
it is, who killed him? Must we assume again
that Bryant and Milam didn't, just because a
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS AND SO-
AMERICAN MILITARY ENGINEERS. 7:80
CIETY OF
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DAILY COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF INTER.
MEDIATE BOARD. 6:30 p.m., Collegian Office
DAILY COLLEGIAN EDITORIAL STAFF CANDIDATES,
7 p.m., 1 Carnegie
ANDROCLES, 7:30 p.m., Tau Kappa Epsilon
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SOCIETY, 7 p.m., 219
Electrical Engineering
NEW BAVARIAN SCHUHPLATTLERS, 7 p.m., 111 Tem-
porary
NEWMAN CLUB CHOIR PRACTICE, 7:80 p.m., Our Lady
of Victory Church
Answer --
The Jazz Club's Stan Kenton
Concert !
HUB Desk for $1.50 Now!
ahr Elatig Catirgian Editorials represent the
viewpoints et the writers,
not nee sssss lip the PoMI
of the paper. the student
Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. MT body sr - the .I.llthersltY.
Gazette ...
Get your tickets at the
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
jury said they didn't less than a month ago.
Will we find out? Or will the case close on
this rather sick note? Will we be able to tune
in tomorrow and find out if no one registers
a loud enough protest? -
Would you college educated, white, norther,
Christians (or Jews) like to live in the same
community with - Bryant and lam? Would
you like to play poker with them? Would you
agree with the concept that they have the
right to murder any 'of their dark-skinned
fellows who might commit what they judge to
be an indescretion? Would you feel safe in the
cosy little nest you call LAW?
I PROTEST! I protest the whole concept of
the law as practiced in Mississippi. I protest
calling this case (and others) an example of
the slowness of social change. I protest the
right to say the United "the United States
of America under law." I protest your giving
the story one measly inch when you should
have screamed it in 72 pt. type in order to wake
up the "future 'leaders of the nation." I protest
the theory that "what is is by and large good"
and the " th at's-the-way-things-are attitude."
I protest the right of inyone to call himself a
Christian who has not wept for Emmett Till.
I PROTEST! Do you?
NEWMAN CLUB DAILY ROSARY, 4:16 p.m., 209 Hetsei
Union
NOVENA. 7 p.m., Our Lady of Victory Church
OUTING CLUB. 1:30 p.m., 10 Sparks
PERSHING RIFLES DRILL (active members and Pledgee),
7 p.m., Armory
PLAYERS ADVERTISING WORKSHOP, 7 p.m., Schwab
loft
ROD AND COCCUS CLUB, 7 p.m., 206 Patterson
THETA SIGMA PHI. 6:30 p.m.. Grange playroom
UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-LEONIDES
FIRESIDE, 7:30 p.m., Simmons Lounge
Tomorrow
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB, 8 p.m., 217 Hazel Union
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"Now, lessee whose turn to • ive the nest speech?"
Photo Editor
On Assignment
One of the most interesting places on campus is hidden
on the fourth floor of the Pattee Library, known as the
Penn State' Room. We happened to run across the place
last Thursday and spent the whole afternoon looking through
Penn State nostalgia of the pest—old copies of The Free Lance
(The Daily Collegian's predecessor), Froth, LaVie, and other
records of school history dating
back to "The Farmer's High
School "
We picked out the . very first
copy of The Free Lance (dated
May, 1887) and were surprised to
find articles and columns written
much in the same manner as to
day. Some of the items we liked
best were these, lifted from a Free
Lance column called; quite ap
propriately, "Locals":
"Sam Jones says: "Next to a
pretty, woman I love' a fast
horse: We don't. When we are
next . to a pretty woman we
want a slow horse.
"Was it not .Understood that
the electric lights would con
tinue till midnight. in case the
storage • batteries should prove
deficient? If the lights are con
tinued to be shut off at 11 o -
clock. a demand for a rebate at
the close of the term would not
be out of order.
"Of the 1494 convicts in Joliet
• Penitentiary. 129 are college
graduates."
Other tidbits of knowledge we
picked •up included PM Gamma
Delta being the first legal frat
ernity on campus, followed by
Beta Theta Pi (a secret society
preceded Phi Gam but •was
promptly abolished by the facul
ty)
Grienvances of the time: no
mixed dances, faculty heating in
Old Main, . and objections to the
use of • cigarettes. We were fasci
nated by an article appearing in
the December, 1887 issue titled
"The Invincible Weed," by George
C. Butz, 8.5., and we quote in
•
part:
' "James Parton. in a disserta
tion on smoking and : drinking.
makes the following observa 7
tion: !Tobacco, Widens a man's
interest in w oman and his' en
joyment of their society. and
this is the true reaiOn why al
most every lady, of.dpirit is the
irreconcibable' foe of tobacco'."
How's that again?
*
Overheard on Widias Groov-
BILL McMULLEN, Florist
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1955
ology 54 of Nov. 7th: .. . get
your Schaffer pen, ordinarily
priced at 10 o'clock—ten o'clock?
Man, I'm sleeping! . ."
It looks that way, Fishbein.
The impression we picked- up
from the Rutgers' fans last Satur
day at New Brunswick was the
dominant desire just to score.
Nothing more. After all, Rutgers
had' scored in every game since
1944 and who was 'Penn State to
deny them a touchdown?
The Scarlet Xnights had the
option play working perfectly in
the first part of the game and
it to gain their first TD,
which, of course, sent the 'crowd
to their feet. Even the. Rutgers
Targum (student paper) :got into
the act by printing a special par
ody' issue, (called,. of all things,
"The Mugrat") . and calling for
just one thing at the game—a
score.
LaVie Pictures
TwelVe organizations will have
group pictures taken tomorrow
for. LaVie at the Penn State Photo
Shop.
The organizations and the times
they, should report are: Players,
6:40; Thespians, 6:50; Physical Ed
ucation Student Couneil, 7; Men's
Debate Team, 7:10;. Women's De
bate Team, 7:20; University Chris
tian Association; 'MO; AIM Stu
dent-Tribunal, 7:40; pusiness Ad
ministration Student Council,
7:50; . Chernistry-PhYsics Student
Council, 8; Penn Haven Club,
8:10; - Cooperative • Society, 8:20;
Education. Student Council, 8:30.
Tonight on WDFM
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