PAGE FOUP r«et<(x7 (hro«|h Hatvrdar ««rninci daring th« i'nifmtl) f*t»f tH« ( «*lifct»n i» * ktodrni •peratrtf ftr«>toßi>«r F.i.irr t4 • • Jaiy i. mi at the t»l«U College, P» Pant Office andrr the act of March 9. 1975. MIKf. KI.ISSII.HKR Editqr MIKE tttt.l.HH Ad*oci*t< tUtit'fr STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Ted SeiriH; Copy Eoitor., Ron Leik, Sue Conklin; Assistants, ■lnc ( i.. 1, Matt Podbe.ek. Bill Kims’, Joan Miller, Carole Gib=on, Lynn Ward, Jane Klein. Ad Siif! J ,< \n/ Si henbf-n;, Anita Lynch. IVmi Stale Just Isn’t v. iii-n a ttinhmai'. diinM to college, In- i nil" hi hi, mind a picture of giund of Siv. a h 'Ah.ih ha, long since faded. The image live- t■ -<t.»iiiilv- on the page-; of the woi k» of K h'.oH Ki',i!,i atid a eian of contemporary vvih.-i, inerooi ii-, date back to Kit/- t;ei aid' . e: a (■•ung to (oHt-gr today is senuu-. business •'ii;«i tin- » 1 1 ‘.l college traditions, for lie- mu>t piiil mi- no longer with us. Maybe tin- 1.-, sad M i s in- it l oi't Bui il is a fact and it's one that hasn't caught up yet with the members of the Freshmen Cus toms Regulation Board and with most members ot All-University Cabinet. for (buy -at solemnly last week and planned nc <l w.i;'; t u.'loins program. Debate centered on v. lii tle i the end of customs should come at ■hi ani.ounted time or should be kept a surprise. (\ib.m-t louldn't deride, so the customs board w.r, hand'd the vital question: Wle-ri should end” We think customs should end right away. This "old State tradition" came back to Penn State in 19S0 after bowing out in 1944. Customs returned on trial: student government, which thought customs would be nice to have, gave it a whirl. But never—not in 1960 and not in 1955 did customs succeed. This fall's program was perhaps the worst of the lot, yet, if stu dents actually wanted customs il should have .been the best. Every undergraduate class at Penn State had gone through customs. This, of course, was not true during the first trial years. If tlu purpose of customs is to promote Penn State spmt and to unite the freshman class, tin n cu-tnm•: missed its mark. The class of 1959 i’ not united. It has no more or less class spirit than prcviou- classes. If llie pin pose of customs is to give upper (la-.-men an opportunity to harass freshmen, tie n custom-, has failed. Upperclassmen's prac- Doesll Happen Here? The i ace itdations problem at Penn State is not a new one. Yet constructive action and at titudes toward solving the problem seem to he still m the primitive stages on the campus. Discrimination against Negro and foreign students in the matter of housing is widespread downtown. Racial prejudice manifests itselt in a hundred different ways on campus. Even the administration has been charged with apathy and failure to lake measures to correct tho problem where the administration can cor rect it. Three University professors—a political sci entist. a -.ociolngist, and a geochemist—will nt ti mot to resolve the question "Tuscaloosa at l con Stab I —To What Extent Does It Happen lb. ie'’” at 7 tonight in the Hetzel Union assem bly hail. Thi.-i discussion and the questions from stu dent.-, v, Inch will follow it are admittedly not the whole answer- actions speak louder than w oi d -> But it the student body and townspeople are presented with the facts of the case—what Penn State’s situation really is, and where the responsibility ties—we feel they will then be prepared to take the individual and group ac tion necessary toward the lessening of the racial discrimination problem. It !> a beginning. And it is to each student's advantage to begin assuming his responsibility. —Bob Franklin IFC's Sugar-Coated Pill TO THE EDITOR: Robert Bullock in Tuesday's Daily Collegian, nearly managed to force a great big candy-coated pill of propaganda down the public's throat! Who do they think they are kidding—tire Student Body, the Adminis tration. or Tom Clark's mom and dad? What Bullock terms as the "mature intel lectual reasoning of the persons who handled the preparations of the code," seems from all outward appearances to be a sharp political trick calculated to get front page headlines, and a last page death notice after the next meeting of the IFC. It is indeed unfortunate that no-one in the administration is willing to step on some fra ternity toes, and take positive action in such a demanding situation. • Letter Cut ®bp Hath] Collegian Su<-<e«*ar to THE FREE LANCE, «*L. —Ray Paulick THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA ROGER VOCEI.SINCKR. Business Manager Good OF Siwash Cu.-e of ignoring customs a few days after they siait i, a.-, old a custom at Penn State as cus toms themselves. Customs were created by student government on the assumption that students wanted it. The assumption was obviously wrong. How much longer are we to perpetuate this error of judg ment? The fieshmcn, too, don't want customs. We doubt it they want them now for the class of 1960. This f aU. there was ample evidence that they didn't want them for themselves. Who then wants customs? To find out, we suggest that the Freshmen Customs Regulation Board poll the present freshman class, asking two questions: Would you prefer to see customs continued or dropped? It customs are continued, will you enforce the program next fall? If more than 50 per cent of the answers are negative, we suggest that the entire customs program be junked for a year. Then, with the class of 1960 not going through i ustorns, Penn State could more realistically tvaluate the program’s worth. If there is a loud demand on campus—this time from the stu dents not from student government—for the return of customs, the program could be re stored. It would meet with renewed vigor, in that case, and would more likely be a success than the past adventures with dinks. When freshmen come to college, they expect a spirited experience. When they come to Penn Stale, they don't gel it. What they get is dis illusionment. This is so because the customs program, which must be administered by upper classmen, flops. If Penn State wants freshmen with spirit, if better adopt a spirit-building, program which doesn't involve the participation of unspirited upperclassmen. Customs isn't that program. Customs customarily do nothing for the fresh men. Nothing at all would be better. Safety Valve No Room for Protest? TO THE EDITOR: The election laws, as they have been set up by All-University Cabinet and enforced by the Elections Committee, as sure the continuance of a system of student government which few students can show any preference for. By refusing any form of write in ballot, the persons who formulated the elec tions code have denied the student body their most effective form of spontaneous protest. Nowhere in the United Stales is the write-in ballot denied to any voter, in fact, one of our United Stales Senators was elected by this method in protest to the choice of the dominant political machine in his slate. The persons who formed the Apathy party felt that the only real improvement that could be made in stu dent government could be brought about only through a complete discrediting of the existing political parly system on campus. We put a plague on both party houses. A lot of people attacked us for our method of achieving our purpose, namely satire. Once again, we felt satire was our most effective weapon without resorting to outright ridicule and slander. The very name. Apathy Party, was a satire on the disinterestedness of most stu dents toward student government. The only real way to combat apathy on this campus is through the encouragement of spontaneous ac tion on the part of the average student. The present political system has only suppressed spontaneity, not encouraged it in the average student. Why were we denied our right to effective protest? Gazette Today AJR FORCE ROTC DRILL TEAM. 7 p.m.. Armory CHIMES, 4 p.m.. Simmon# l^oumce DAILY COI.LKGIAN Senior Board Business Staff. 6:45 p.m.. HI Carnegie FUTURE TEACHERS OF AMERICA. 7 p.m.. 217 Willard NEWMAN CLUB TV Party, 8 p.m.. Student Center NEW MAN CLUB Discussion. 7:30 p.m.. 304 Old Main NEWS AND VIEWS Staff and Candidates, 6:45 p.m., 14 Home Economic.# PSYCHOLOGY CLUB. 7:30 p.m.. 103 Willard University Hospital James Crouse. William Fox, Sanford Lichtenstein, Joseph Popadics. Gerald Reed. Nathan Russo, Walter Samuel Valentine, Paul Weaver, James Jami and Alice Hickerson. FdiUrisli represent tfcs viewpoints of the writers, not orrmsrii} the policy •f the paper Use student body, ai the University —The Editor —Byron Fielding ,ittle Man on Campus -»Hovs=*« STu{> £Nr "Oh when will IFC come through with that hazing rule?'* ln Civic Center Debate Washington Called Ballet City WASHINGTON, March 20 —The nation’s capital was warmly defended today as a place where culture can lift her pretty head, and where chloroform isn’t needed to get customers into a ballet. “Washington,” promoter Israel Feld said, “is one of the best ballet cities in the country.” This comes as a surprise to some of us, including Rep. Michael Joseph Kirwan (D. of Youngs town, Ohio), who doesn’t keep too well informed on news from the cultural front. Kirwan began the debate during a hearing on a proposed national civic center. Part of the plan calls for an opera house, designed for good music and good dancing. Kirwan couldn’t see the need for such a building. “You have to chloroform them to get 500 to look at a ballet,” Kirwan said. “Don’t let anybody kid you on that score. It takes a lot of good courage to sit and watch somebody go into a toe dance.” "He's wTong there, my friend." said Feld, who fetches in every, thing from Louis Armstrong and his Dixieland All-Stars to the Ballet Russe De Monte Car lo. “We have had fabulous crowds for ballet." The Feld promotions include summer shows in a 4056-seat am phitheater. Last summer the Can adian National Ballet was here for 14 performances. “We had an 80 per cent sell out, ’’ Feld said. “On many nights, we were turning them away.” Patrick Hayes, who brought in the famed Sadler's Wells Ballet from England, had a sim ilar story. Five performances in a 3426-seat theater. Every seat sold. Choice seats grabbed up at $6. And, so far as Hayes knows, little or no chloroform was used. “Ballet is good business all over the country now,” Hayes said. “Not just in the big cities either. It’s going over big in one-night stands.” Rep. Carroll Kearns (R. of Farrell. Pa.), a onetime rail- THURSDAY. MARCH 22. 1956 T '°^ "v. * • By Arthur Edson Associated Press Writer roader who became a concert singer, possibly is one of Con gresses' most loyal supporters of the arts. What did he think of Kirwan and ballet? "Did Mike Kirwan really say that?" Kearns asked. "What a delightful fellow he is. You know, we'll get him a front row seat at a good ballet. He would love it." Kirwan, by the way, put in a plug for another form of enter tainment. “I am like Oliver Wendell Holmes,” Kirwan said. “He said, ‘give me burlesque.’ He went to them until he was 90.” Hayes said Holmes liked bur lesque all right, but that the old boy also was fond of opera. “It’s interesting to note,” Hayes said, “that ballet is doing nicely in this town. It has been years, though, since we’ve had a theater showing live burlesque.” Democrats to Meet The Young Democratic Club will meet at 7 tonight in 217 Het zel Union. A discussion of the is sues of the 1956 campaign will be held. Collegian Business Staff. The Daily Collegian business staff senior board will meet at 6:45 tonight in 111 Carnegie. Tonight on WDFM 7:15 7:20 7 :25 Sports 7 :S0 Starlight Review 8:00 Jar* Club 9 :00 Man an the Mail 9:15 News Roundup 9:30 Scenario 10:30 Sign Off Bv Bibfer *l.l MEGACYCLES Sign On News Just Out
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