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MIME FE.INSII,IIEIt. Editor
MIKE 11411.1..E1t, Associate Editor
Co-Asst Rem Mars.. John Rattle, Dorothea Kiddy*: Loyal
Managing Editor, Rose, Seidler; City Editor, Don Shoo. Adv. Mgr., Jerry Fried: Nlliollllll Adv. Mar.. Estelle Caplan:
maker: 1 opy Editor, Dottie Stone; Sparta Editor, Roy Wit- Co• Circulation Mars.. Israel Schwab, Christine Kauffman:
home: Editorial Director. Jackie Disdains; Assistant Sports Promotion Mier.. Delite Hoopes: Co-Personnel Mars.. Aletta
Editor. Fran V Photogrsphy Editor, Ran Walker; Mantreck, Connie Anderson: Office Mar., Ann Kemey;
Claaai-
Senisr Board. Ran Leila. Ron Gatehouse. lied Adv Mar., Peggy Davis; Secretary. lit Melts: Research
and Records Mgr.. Virginia Latahaw.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Becky Zahm; Copy Ed!tors, Mike Moyle, Ed Dubbs; Assistants,
Lou Plato, Jllll Kopp, Dan Rodili, Hannah Yashan, Jane Klein, Mickie Cohen, Audrey Sassano.
1
Have Youad Your IBrain Washed Lately?
Wont to win sloo' It's easy, All you have Commented Harvard historian Arthur Schle
to do i, play counter spy on your least favorite singer, Jr.: "It es characteristic of the state of
pi oft-e ,ot
mind of the country to encourage tattling and
snooping . . This illustrates the typical con-
The ,I art' the term, of a nationwide 'research servative idea that snooping is the way to get
project" which is being sponsor ed by National personal freedom"
Ili view , a new• magazine of conservative beliefs. National Review, then, apparently disturbed
What National Review wants you to do for by the reaction to the ISI idea, immediately
its hundred dollars is to report to it "whether launched its own—on exactly the same level
teachers are engaged in indoctrinating their Since there were objections to students being
students." And if so, how? And, who? asked to spy for ISI, the magazine apparently
The magazine a,k, students these "for ex- reasoned, we will solve the whole problem: We
ample" cite. teon, "Does your economic, teach- will ask students to spy for National Review.
er take a position on right to-ww k legis- It made two changes. It offered two $lOO re
lation? Dor, your teacher of sociology urge a wards to 'the students who submit the most
particular interpretation of man and his be- revealing material." And it wrapped the scheme
havior to the exclusion of competing interim , - up with a pretty name; it calls it a "research
tetions' If so, through what techniques' Does pioject"
your teacherof politic, insist on or press a "One can therefore safely assume, "National
particular idea as to the desirable relationship Review says, "that everyone involved will wel
betw•een the Executive and the Legislative?" come any intelligent effort to determine wheth-
In its Dec. 29, 1955 issue, National Review er indoctrination is actually taking place—or
asks students to mail "research material on whether conservatives are unnecessarily alarm
this important question." By now, retu r n s ed and the teaching profession vindicated . . .
should be pouring in. We imagine that every If such a project is ridiculous, silly and trivial,
junior McCarthy on campuses everywhere is why then so is freedom of research in general;
having a field day, crowding the mails with in which event the case for academic freedom
"research material ' on subversive professors, is weakened, as far as we can see. In any case,
If the "research project" is ridiculous, the we shall seek the truth and endure the conse
circumstances from which it sprang are in- quences"
credible. The idea was born after the Inter- We need not wait breathlessly for results to
collegiate Society of Individualists, a right- realize this "research project" is a fiasco. A
wing organization which floods the mails with research project, to be effective, should be ob
what it chooses to call "anti-collectivist" litera- jective, one would suppose. But National Re
ture" stumbled upon a strikingly simi I a r view does not even ask its agents, the students,
scheme to be objective. Yet the question it is seeking
As National Review itself explains: to answer through its "research" is whether
"Some weeks ago, the Intercollegiate Society professors are objective in their classes!
of Individualists, sent out a chatty letter We also question National Review's basic as
to its membership asking for news of college sumption: that professors are supposed to at all
happenings 'What, for instance, have your pro- times be objective—and therefore unopinionated
f,essots been pushing at you?' a member of the —when talking before their students. Is this
staff of the ISI wrote. 'Have any of them desirable? Is it possible?
notably associated themselves with collectivist Both the ISI and the National Review pro
thinking" (The incidents are important, not the jects illustrate conservatism at its very worst:
names." a never-ending suspicion of subversion here,
The ISI spy-on-your-prof-through-the-mails
scheme immediately boomeranged. ISI, which
dumps a considerable measure of its tripe on
thi — Penn State campus, became the subject of
criticism from faculties and college newspapers.
- Safety Valve
Froth ' s Suppression
TO THE EDITOR: I was rather shocked to read
Mr. Lichtenstein's article for Safety Valve in
Wednesday's Collegian.
I have always been under the impression that
freedom of expression was allowed and safe
guarded in this country. short of libel of lewd
ness. But here is a report that the Administra
tive Head of one of our own centers, here in
a school that prides itself on being progressive
and enlightened, tells the Business Manager
of one of our own publications that it will not
be disseminated to the students at his center
because he doesn't like it. I only hope that this
has been a misunderstanding and is not the
'policy of that Administrative Head.
I will be the first to admit that Froth has not
always lived up to its standards, both of humor
or of taste, but when one man arbitrarily de
cides «ho shall and shall not read it, I think
he is :tir outstepping his authority.
Let us remember that we don't always need
to look to Argentina or Egypt or Russia or other
countries to find overt and repressive expres
sion of authority that is in violation of our
constitutional and even our human rights,
1 beg you reconsider, Mr. Eiche!
—Doug Moorhead
Two Students Pay
Total $4O in Fines
Two students paid traffic fines
totaling $4O last night at traffic
court.
Four students paid automatic
fines totaling $ll, two paid $2
fines for failure to register their
vehicles with the campus Patrol,
and one paid a $1 fine for failure
to report to the Campus Patrol
office.
Fifteen students were called to
the traffic court. Three violations
were dismissed and three fines
were suspended. Nine paid fines
totaling $45.
Mortar Board Alumnae
Alumnae members of Mortar
Board, senior womeres honorary
society, have been asked to fill
out a postcard with their name
and chapter and send it to Eliza
beth Kraabel. box 246 McElwain.
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W3YA to Hold
Code Classes
The staff of W3YA, ham radio
station, will sponsor code classes
leading to a novice license in ama
teur radio.
An organizational meeting will
be held at 7 tonight in 100 Elec
trical Engineering.
Free classes will be held Mon
day and Wednesday nights. At
the end of the course a test for
the license will be given on cam
pus.
Patricia Webb, junior in elec
trical engineering from Knox, and
chairman of the training program,
said that coeds as welt as men
may attend classes.
Omicron Nu Elections
Omicron Nu, women's home ee
onOmirs honor fraternity, will
meet at 5 p.m. today in the Home
Economies living center. Ne w
members will be elected.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
ROGER VOGELSINGER, Business Manager
there, and justtabout everywhere. The investi
gations they call for do nothing to prevent the
political conservative movement from becom
ing suspect in itself.
Gazette
Today
ALPHA KAPPA PSI, 7:30 p.m., Sigma Phi Epsilon
ANGEL. FLIGHT. 7 p.m.. 211 Willard
ARNOLD Alit SOCIETY. 7:30 p.m., Alpha Sigma Phi,
Class "A" Uniform
CLOVER CLUB. 7 p.m.. 111 Plant Industries
DAILY COLLEGIAN Advertising Staff, 6:30 p.m., •
Carnegie
DAILY COLLEGIAN Business Staff Candidates. 7 p.m.,
217 Willard
DAILY COLLEGIAN Business Staff, 7 p.m.. 108 Willard
DAILY COLLEGIAN Promotion Staff, 6:30 p.m., 103 Willard
ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL, 7 p.m.. 106 Osmond
FROTH Advertising Staff. 6:30 p.m., Froth Office
HILLEL VORUM AND LIBERAL ARTS LECTURE
SERIES, 8 p.m., 121 Spark.,
PANHELLENIC COUNCIL. 6:30 p.m., 203 Willard
PENN STATE BARBELL CLUB. 7 p.m., 104 Willard
Plll. EPSILON KAPPA. 8 p.m., Phi Epsilon Pi
Student Employment
The following camps will interview at the Student
Employment Service. Interested students should sign up in
advanc.. at 112 Old Main.
PHILADELPHIA YMCA—March 7
CAMP WOODLANDS -March 10
CAMP LAKELAND—March 10
CRADLE BEACH CAMP—March 11.15
CAMP MENATOMA—March 14-15
CAMP CONRAD WEISER—March 14-15
CAMP CARANDOWANNA—March 21
UnirersitY 1 1 0444481
David RAM ford, Father BrOtzman, Ralph Eiekelheek,
Philip Hartman. Eugene Jani, John Lewin', Vincent Lu
kaeh. lnterio Mates-Prieto, Mary Nash. John Patane. Law
rence Pinnie, Anny Ries, Sally Seliellengerg. David Slay.
baugh. Leonard Topoleski, Robert Walsh, Diane Wanner.
Judith Hartman, Lorinda Causbrook, Robert Bronson, Rich
ard MeKniaht and Marilyn Kriebel.
Forms Available
For Scholarship
Delta Delta Delta sorority is
offering a scholarship for an in
definite sum of money to a reg
ularly matriculated woman stu
dent of the University. Applica
tion blanks are available at the
Dean of Women's Office in 105
Old Main.
Three letters of recommenda
tion are needed for each appli
cant. The award is decided on
the basis of need, scholarship, and
character. Applications and let
ters are due in the Dean of Wom
en's Office by March 15, 1956.
FFA to Hear Editor •
llorman Reber, field editor for
the Pennsylvania Farmer, will
speak to the Future Farmers of
America at 8 tonight in 112 Buck
bout. The meeting is open to the
public.
Editatfafe repeal's' the
•ievpaiata or the writers.
apt arremarlia the paha
of the paper. the atsdeat
Madly es the Ualveraitr
—The Editor
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Underground
One of the things we've always wanted to do, next to climbing
the flagpoles in front of Old Main, is to explore those underground
tunnels that run beneath the campus. About all we know about
them at present, however, is that the steam pipes' in the tunnels
let us walk down one side of the Mall without slipping on any ice.
A friend of ours informed us ,
the other day that literally miles
of tunnel space—and you can
walk standing up in them—run
from the steam plant to just about
every building on campus.
He also told us this story, which,
he emphatically claims is true. HI
seems that one undergraduate a
couple of years back had a girl
friend who lived in Grange and
that both, naturally, were madly
in love. One night the fellow got
the bright idea of exploring .the
tunnels, and of all things, wound
up in the basement of Grange
Hall—much to his satisfaction, of
course.
How did he do it? He picked
up a grating on one of the side
walks, and with a flashlight
and chalk, mapped his way
over to the basement of Grange
where he spent, we are told, a
most enjoyable time (it must be
added at this point that acts of
this sort are severely frowned
upon by the University).
While he was at it, we are fur
ther told, the guy looked into
Atherton, McAllister, and a few
others. We doubt that others have
spelunked (pardon us, Nittany
Grotto; it slipped) to such lengths
—especially underground Penn
State. •
One of these days we'd like
to get up enough nerve and
have a look ourselves. But there
are rules against trying it. we
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are told. so that ends it right
there,
The Physical Plant Department
will probably love us for even
bringing the subject up in the
first place. But we just couldn't
help it. Just think of all the guys
who could bring their dates in
now by the back way.
Or rather, by the bottom way.
• • •
FRED WARING AT U of P
After Fred Waring presented
his road show "Hear! Hear!" at
Penn .on the 21st of last month,
he was interviewed by a Daily
Pennsylvanian reporter, and we
quote in part:
"A former student at Penn
State, he (Waring) said face
tiously lii a t the University
ought to keep State on its foot
ball schedule until . Penn's team
is able to defeat State. Then,
the University ought to 'wait
five' years more to , see if our
grid team can defeat Penn State
again.
Excellent suggestion. The n,
maybe our annual trip to Philly
might be more worthwhile.
"WORST MOVIES" ADDENDUM
-A couple of weeks ago we an
nounced our nominations for "The
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1956
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by ron walker
Worst Possible Movies of 1955."
But now we feel forced to revise
our list of honored flicks.
Sneak previews always catch
our attention somehow, and last
Wednesday's at the State was
no different. The sneak pre
view, "The Man Who Never
Was," was surprisingly good,
and we enjoyed every minute
of it, although our popcorn did
run out.
But the main feature—"Finger
man," or " something like that--
was completely out of it. •
Therefore, we hereby present
our ciisinguished Roscoe Benton
Snedeker award to "Fingerman."
May it never be shown here again.
DEPT. OF CLARIFICATION
Always the one for objectivity,
the Dictionary of Occupational
Titles, distributed by the U.S.
Employment Service, lists-a Strip-
Tease Artist as one who ". .
walks about the stage in accom
paniment to music and gradually
divests herself of clothing. May
also sing and dance."
Collegian Staffs
Will Meet Tonight
The following staffs of th e
Daily Collegian will meet tonight.
All boards of the advertising
staff will meet at 6:30 in 9 Car
negie.
The business staff will meet at
7 p.m. in 108 Willard. Candidates
for the business staff will meet
at 7 p.m. in 217 Willard.
The promotion staff will meet
at 6:30 p.m. in 203 Willard.
Candidates for the news writ
ing staff of The Daily Collegian
will meet at 9 tonight in 9 Car
negie.
Engineering Council
To Elect President
Engineering Student Council
will meet at 7 tonight in 214 Het
zel Union to complete nomina
tions and elect a president.
Those nominated are Edward
Klevans, Herbert Knappenber
ger, and Donald Patterson.
Tonight on WDFM
11l MIZCACYCLU
15 Site Oa
26 - Sport
30 ----- Invitation to Relax
.00 Phil Wein Show
30 • Decision
Aviculture News
•15 News
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