PAGE FOUR rehtreititt teradal Weigh haft:miry waraiasa dating the University liar, the 194 J), 1 alleglaa la a atailleal. *aerated arwspaper. lgol•red as second-ease matter SUSS S. 1934 at the Moto College, Po. Post Office ■ndrr YEINSIIMER, Editor MILLER. Aeeoriale Editor M•osaing Editor. Roger Benner; Citr Editor. Don Shot- Ado Mgr.. Jerry Fried: National Ado. Mgr.. Estelle Caplan: maker r opy Editor, bailie Stone; Sport , . Editor, Roy Wil- ('u-Circulabon Mgrs., Israel Schwab, Christine Kauffman: two% Editorial Director, Jackie Hudgins: Assistant Sports Piontotion lgr., Delite Hoopes; Co-Personnel Mgrs., Aletta lditor, tran rsnurri: Photographs Editor, Ron Walker: Manbeck, Connie Anderson: Office Mgr.. Ann Keeney.. Classi iterii,iir Ito. rd. Ron Ltd.. Iron I.atehnu... lied Ado Mgr.. Peggy Davis: Secretary, Lil Melko: Research and Records Mgr., Virginia Latahaw. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Sue Conklin; Copy Editors, Larry Jacobson, Vince Carocci; A. „ Joe Bot•Itt et, have tiron , ,tein, Pat Evans, Barb Martino, Pat O'Neill. Presenting: Really a Wondrous Person f)...“ Pre ,ctiviit of My Furonte Hat Soc , ety: cufi.•>tder ihti my appiwattou for /nem ber,h,p ur brO Ur hat I'7ll 71 real fpnni we, / rrn ur ilt:t about ceerythirtU eleept fprur Hat Smiety Fret tapplthle tioniti example of an appheation to a nri!e hat ~ octety, whsle •“Jrne.....hat exaggerated, t,rs't too far Icroovcd from ~ otne of the cotn uunu hat :mwto,-, lequebt and teceive evei v lttd until the; -piing, when a new system foi finding members Of hat societies goes into effect, any male student who wanted to wear a hat had to :,tibject himself to the humiliation of tapping out such a letter. Undei the new system, adopted this week by Mit Society Council for all men's hat groups and .dated to go into effect on March 1, male , audents may fill out cards listing their acttvi tie, in their freshman year. A. the student acquires new activities, he will be able to add them to the list on his card which will be kept on file at the Hetzel Union de..k Then, when the tapping system comes, presi- Scoffers: Like to Play Tennis? Ttio.,e who would scoff at student govern ment received a setback early this week. The announcement Tuesday that student rec reational facilities will soon be provided on the golf course where the present varsity lacrosse arid soccer practice areas are located is the direct result of student recommendations. The 1955 Student Encampment Committee on Recreation and Social Aspects proposed this very action in the fall. Previous to this pro posal the Association of Independent Men and other student groups campaigned for such ad ditional recreation areas. The student groups who are largely respon sible for the sown-to-he-provided recreation areas contended that such facilities would.less en the liklihood of panty raids and other stu dent demonstrations in the West Dorm area. Such demonstrations have become almost an annual occurrence in the spring and have re sulted in much adverse publicity for the Uni versity and the suspension of several students. Safety Double Jeopardy: Hasty? TO THE EDITOR: Granted we have the system of double jeopardy present in many of our in stitutions of life, Granted that Penn State has this syAem. However, there is one important factor overlooked at State. The rapidity with which justice is dispensed by the University concerning an outside civil action tends to indicate that there is very little or no time taken to determine whether or not the offense was detrimental to the good name of the University, This may be good for the University's record but it is hardly fair to the student involved. Setting up standards of punishment for cer tain type:, of misdemeanors is an efficient and admirable means of dispensing justice but it is mote admirable to be certain that the mis demeanor M question has brought discredit to the University and its student body before pa:,sing sentence. What About the Ratio? TO THE EDITOR: A few years ago, because of the obvious inequity of a situation in which a fraternity man would oppose an independent in an All-University election, the precedent was set to run three independents and two frater nity men for the five Cabinet posts in the spring election one year, and to reverse the ar rangement on alternate years. Last year. because of inabiltiy. incompetence. or downright lack of initiative on the part of the clique officers, this procedure was not fol lowed. It was explained that "they just couldn't find three good independents who would run." At the time, we were given the assurance that this injustice would be rectified in this year's elections. Now we are told in a brief announcement by the chairman of the Elections Committee that both clique chairmen have agreed that, for the third year in a row, we will have three fra- Today University Marotta' Itlii.F.l. INTERFAITH SERVICE 4 p en .. Itillel Robert Archibald. Michael Kubica , Robert McKee. Robert LUMEN. sr U DENT ASSOCIATION LENTEN DISCUS- McNeil. George MacCubbin, Joan Perry, Robert. Pray. Mary SION AND SOCIAL. T p.m. Royer. Bari Schwenaleier, 1 1 101ithael Shapiro. Jakob Stekol, NEWMAN CLUB OPEN ROUSE, Z p.m., Student Center Dale Weller, and Paul Brans. allr Bugg Colitgiatt Slimmer t. THE TREE LANCE. est Is3l —Alastair Rutherford Gazette THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA 4,;00.,, ROGER VOGELSINGER, Business Msanicer DBMIED:ZE2! dents of hat societies will go through the cards in the file and consider all students as potential candidates for hats. The new system has advantages. It will allow hat groups to consider all men for member ship, not only those who go through the pro cess of writing a "Dear President" letter. Being lapped will come as a surprise to the tappee, thereby increasing, it seems, the honor that membership in a hat society is supposed to contain. Likewise, the candidate who doesn't win himself a hat will not be as disappointed as he was likely to be in the past. What's more, with a greater amount of time available to study the cards, hat societies ran weed out those who pad their cards with fic titious memberships in activities they never participated in. The hat societies will be able to check now, instead of assuming, about the honesty of the candidate. No longer will potential hat society tappees have to candidly describe that wondrous per son, themselves. And no longer will hat socie ties have to wonder just how wondrous the applicant is. • AIM, the Encampment Committee, and other student groups reasoned that handy playing fields where students could "blow off steam would be a big step toward preventing mob aatherings in addition to providing a much needed service to the student body. It is evi dent that University officials considered these student proposals logical and worthwhile. Eight to 10 softball diamonds and eight to 10 tennis courts will spring up on the present var sity practice areas on the golf course. The soc cer and lacrosse squads will shift their prac tice to an area behind the Nittany Dorms pend ing the construction of locker facilities. The tennis courts and softball fields are sure to find favor with the students who are so sorely in need of these facilities. We hope that the students will remember who was responsible for the added recreation area and recognize that their various student government agencies are a valuable means through which their prob lems can be solved. Valve Up to the Seniors TO THE EDITOR: The Library is a colleciion of books. The true University is a collection of books. Pattee Library is•lacking. It lacks adequate funds. in number of books, and in special fea tures. It is not nearly as large as the libraries of schools comparable in enrollment. Universi ties one-fourth the size of Penn State have libraries superior to Pattee. Funds for the pur chase of books for the library have been ne glected in the past and are still not sufficient to make up for this past neglect. At present the library has an opportunity to obtain a valuable and well known collection of Manuscripts. The rating of the library and the prestige of the University would be greatly en hanced by_ the acquisition of such a collection. The writings and manuscripts of Edgar Lee Masters, author of "Spoon River Anthology", if obtained would be such an asset. Masters, a native Pennsylvanian, corresponded with many leading figures of the late nineteenth century up to the present. Masters' widow teaches at Ogontz Center The Senior Class, with 510.000 at its disposal. could not find a more worthwhile investment for its class gift. Such a gift would increase the scholastic horizon and attract academically in clined students to the University. To quote a past Collegian editorial, "Are Penn State students illiterate and lowbrow?" It is up to the seniors to show they are not, —AI Jordan ternity men and two independents in these posts! In allowing this gross violation of represen. tative governrrsent. the Elections Committee is shirking its clear-cut duty to decide on this issue. What right have these two men, who have no position in student government, to deter mine arbitrarily what the distribution of Cabi net officers will be? Editorials represent the •kwpointa of the writers. not necessarhy the policy of the paper• the student WHO or the Uni•ersity the set of March 3, 1373 John Kmetz, Dwight' Kiddy*: Local —The Editor —Mike Miller —Lash Howes Little Man on Campus Worth the Risk? Maneuvers Continue In Southeast Asia By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst Military experts set considerable store by maneuvers, especially where an effort is being made to coordinate different forces, such as now is being made in Southeast Asia. There Is a question, however, the current operation will be suf-1 ficient to offset its probable polit ical damage. Asiatics will be quick to no fice that, although Thailand is the chief operations center, only two small Asiatic nations are participating, that these have been armed by the United States, and that while Britain, Australia and New Zealand are active, 'the great proportion of strength involved is American. France did not accept her in vitation to join in, and Wash- ington sought to explain the absence of Pakistan, the other member of the Southeast Asia Pact. by saying she received her invitation too late. The ex planation came amid reports that Pakistan is wavering in her allegiance to the world anti-Communist front. United States naval forces have been active in the South China Sea along the lanes from Japan and Okinawa, in the Gulf of Siam along with British Common wealth forces and on land in Thailand with Filipino infantry. All air forces are joined. The United States also has cho sen this time for a big Marine practice attack on Iwo Jima, the island south of Japan for which the Marine Corps paid 6000 lives in World War 11. All this military activity makes the rest of Asia itchy. In India. particularly, there is a dislike of military emphasis in the cold war. Burma and India feel strongly against the South east Asia Pact, accepting the Communist line that military pacts lead to war. Red China, of course, is tak ing advantage of the oppor tunity to spread this propa ganda. In the meantime, observers are pretty well agreed that propaganda and economics now provide the battlefield between communism and the West in Asia, although the possibility of further military adventures by Red China are not entirely discounted. Thailand, South Vietnam, Cam bodia and Laos are glad of SEATO. The rest of Asia, however, is inclined to look at Western mili tary forces as part of the sur vival of colonialism, and as pro vocative to the Communist bloc. Coinciding with a sluggish con gressional reaction to the admin istration's proposals for increased and long-term economic aid pro• FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1956 By Bibl whether the military benefits of grams, this is no time for leaving any impression that the West's chief reliance is force. RW Fellowship Plans Fun Night The Roger Williams Fellowship will have a 'Fun Night at 8 to night in the Roger Williams Stu dent Center. A Lenten discussion based on C. S. Lewis' book, Mere Chris tianity, has been scheduled by the Lutheran Student Association for 7 tonight. The Newman Club will hold a Television and Scrabble Party at 8 tonight in the Catholic Student Center. The Rev. Jean D'Andre, pastor of a Philadelphia church and graduate of the University, will speak at a meeting of the Inter- Varsity Christian Fellowship at 7:30 tonight in 405 Old Main. The meeting is open to the public. The Sabbath Eve Services at 8 tonight at Hillel Foundation have been designated in honor of the opening of Brotherhood Week. The guest speaker at the service will be Dr. Robert E. Dengler, Professor Emeritus of Greek. Bicycle Accident Injures Freshman A freshman coed was struck by a bicycle while en route to the dormitories at , about 8:15 last night. The coed, Catherine Hoika, a freshman in home economics from Beaver Falls, was taken to the University Hospital where she re mained overnight. Her condition was listed as good. According to a report from wit nesses, the girl was struck by the bicycle on Pollock road and fell against a nearby car. The bicycle rider is unidentified. Tonight on WDFM MA MEGACYCLES e 7:25 • Sign On 7:30 _______ --- Just for Two 8:30 ----__ _____- - _ --__ News Roundup e:3O _______ Light Classiest Jukebox 10:30 10:4 _Thought irsorpkTodoig
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