PAGE TOUR f«hll«hd Ttfcr»«gfc Hstsrday morning* daring th« l'ni«rriil) y*ar IK# (>»(ty ( ollegUn U a itadfnl* op# r a l*g n«*stiit»ii Fnt*re<| a* mat<*r July 4, 1«4 at tKa St*l# College. P*. P M t Offic* ander MIKK KKINSII.BKH. KdiUr MIKK MII,I KK. Ai.crl.l. Kdll»r STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Nancy Shows Iter; Copy Editors, Ed Duhbs, Terry Leach; Assist an',-., Joe Boebict, Jim Kopp, Elaine Huberman, I’at Evans, Barbara Martino, Clark Polak. Hell Week Code: No lialchet, But Patch It Wc a-n-.e that the Inlerfi atei mty Council fit e initiation lode pi at tu es committee is ie ti,using to the mad to reality in its revisions of lie u-ele-., code which was presented to IKC on Monday flight Changes in both the spirit in which the code was given and taken and in the provisions in the code are sorely needed if the code is to be a workable and useful document. A .statement that the (.ode will be enforced bv IK,’ -. Horn d of Conti oi u necessary. Without tin . the code <an be adopted and forgotten In dna'ions am that such a provi am will be tn < luded if, the final diatt, which wiU go before pm.i'biil-i of fratoi nitie. on Monday night. 'Dies will be able to sugge-t changes from the fI.VM The suggestion of Wilmer E. Kenworthy, director of student affairs, to outlaw practices which ignore the basic principles of human dig nity—practices which are widespread in Hell Weeks as they are now conducted—is another essential provision. An obvum loophole who h should be plugged i, the -tipulation that "all pre-mitmUon prac tice,, not rituah-.tic in nature, -.hall be conduct ed at all time, within the individual fraternity Inn, i ' What i.s ”i itualutie in nature”'.’ Will it he po ~-ib!e for fraternities to carry on as usual simply bv pleading that what thev do out of dnoi , is old n.-.tabli,-.hed custom'.’ Obviously, lilt- cl,him' in the code needs sharpening. The fouith provision of the mile would have the name "Wink Week" substituted for "Hell Week” m "all wiitteu doeument.s.” A change in nomenclature dues uut mean a change in f.u t. A "Wink Week" can be as vicious, sadis tic. and unde .li able as Hell Weeks of old We will urge lhal a three-day limit be placed on Hell—or Work—Weeks or any other period of intense pledging. Ignoring studies for any extended length of turn can he dungeiou.s for any student. Pledges who fail out of school do no good for them selves or fraternities. Many men do fail or do make the lowest averages of their college ca reer- during pledging. Intense pledging periods, therefore, are un fair to pledges. And they are stupid if frater niti* s desiie to keep their pledges. Time limits to Hell Weeks are necessary. A final suggestion for the committee’s con sideration is to require fraternities to register their Hell Weeks with IFC. This would have the effect of reminding fraternities, when they launch their Hell Weeks, that there are bound aries within which they must stay. Gazette INTKH VWISITY riIfUSTIVN KRI.I.OWSHIP. 7 M p.m er. m i m.,1,1 Nl‘\V\t\N Cl V* It Party, H pin, Stmloot Center NKSVMKN Cl.l'tt St»U‘>n <*f tl««* l*rmn. 7 pm, Church CnlvfMitjr IliMpltal Jamc* Cnmstr. William Km, Rnhcrt Km*#, Sanford I.it'htiMnt.’in Muni l.von, VUutetu* Milchnll, Joaeph Popa rt ic*. l.eiitlil Kct-rt, Nathan Kuh+o. John Sirtcravage. Samuel Paul Weavet. ami Carl Rv*rn»ei*ter. Student Employment The following THinpa will i»t«?rvu*w at th# Student Service, It* Old Main. Plea*? aißii up in a<l vamv for an appointment. CVMP I.KNOUK, MaAsachuActU March 28 CVMt* KON-O-K WKK, IVnnnvlvanU -April fi-f t \S\V CVKIUOO. Maine April 7 t \Ml* CONRAD WVDSF.It, ivnnaylvantn - April CUADI.K UKACH CAMP. New Yntk -April U Perpetual Griping Won't Keep Pledges Alive TO THE EDITOR: I would like to commend you for the wonderful services you are providing the University and its student body as editor of The Daily Collegian, There are, I am sure, very few college editors with as broad a back ground in the many diversified fields into which you delve. Your soul-searching “Evaluation of s Demagogue” was, without a doubt, a very enlightening expression of opinion. Even bet tor was the very intelligent evaluation of the recent sales tax! "The power to tax is an es sential power of any government." Bravo! That is a profound statement. And with the knowl edge you have of court systems I firmly be hove it would be a great service to the student bodv if you were to present more editorials on legal theorv and court establishment. No use hiding yourself under a bushel. After all, we are interested m the letter of the law, not the monthly. That’s what courts are for—right? Yes. Mr. Foitisiiber. we are a fortunate lot. What would we do without you to keep things at Penn State in their proper places. I will have to sav though, I do feel sorry for Mr. Bullock and Mr. hand. The two “crack-pot logicians.” Those two guys might have been going ground today feeling they had made a step in the right direction had you not straightened them out. You fixed ’em. didn’t you? They did ignore that one simple fact. “If an ‘accident' happens, a pledge may be dead.” (If I walk, across the street tod-ay, I may be a dead brother. And brothers have been killed crossing streets.) SJfy? iailt} CnU^gian * of tfe* p«p«r tfc# ftadent M;. * Ihf Uaiv*r«ity S>««oor U THE TREE LANCE, nt IHI Safety Valve THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ROGER VOCELSINGER. Bwineu M*n»(*r Registration of Hell Weeks should make en forcement by the Board of Control more feas ible. Presently, when an indignant iownsperson calls up the dean of men's office complaining about "those fraternity men" singing songs in the street at 4 o'clock in the morning, nothing can be done about it. No one knows what fra ternity should be disciplined. As a result, criti cism piles up against all fraternities. If this ccntinues. all fraternities may someday have to answer to the accumulated criticism of townspeople, faculty members, students, and persons in the administration. But if fraternities were required to inform the IFC when it starts its Hell Week, action could follow complaints. One out-of-line fra ternity would not make all fraternities suffer. If registration is required, penalties for failure to register should also be considered. liven more important than a new code is a new attitude on the part of fraternities. They must realize that thoughtlessness sometimes latches up with the thoughtless. Very often. Hell Week is enforced by a sadistic few who want to take one last whack at a pledge before thev are graduated. Fraternity members who have doubts about the value of Hell Week all too often are willing to let their doubts go unexpressed and let the few who want Hell Week carry on. We hope that all fraternities and all frater nity men will re-evaluate pledge policies in lheir houses. We hope they ask themselves what the purposes of Hell Week are and whether they are being best accomplished under present policies. If this were done in the past, we doubt if a Hell Week Code would be necessary today. Self-control is always the best form of control but it was often lacking in the past. Likewise, self-control on the part of IFC is better than control on the part of the adminis tration. We hope that on Monday night IFC doesn’t adopt a code so weak that control will still be lacking. Less for Less The Greek’s big weekend is almost here. Tive annual IFC-Panhel Ball with Les Eigart playing will kick off the fun at 9 tonight in Hoc Hall. Bui unless fraternity men and sorority wom en gel behind IFC and Panhel and turn out well to the dance the annual affair may have io go by the boards in the future, according to Edward Pollock, assistant to the dean of men and advisor lo IFC. The dance has been a money-losing proposi tion for too long and unless it at least breaks even this year it may have to be discontinued, thus eliminating one big weekend from the Uni versity calendar. In an effort to encourage attendance tonight the sponsors of the dance have discouraged the giving of corsages to lighten the financial load ou those attending. This is a good idea and one long practiced at many other colleges and universities. We would encourage the sponsors of other dances to take like action. The IFC weekend should continue. It costs three, four, or five dollars less Do you really think these two “crack-pot logi cians" believed a mimeographed paper would satisfy aroused public opinion? Does this code not create a hook on which to hang offenders? No one has said ihe adoption of this code or sny other code will exclude accidents from happening. Accidents will happen and people will die contrary to the idealistic dreams of college newspaper editors. No one wants to kill anybody. Still, why allow a few very unfor tunate incidents start a conflagration which might well result in the total destruction of the fraternity system. Who is going to rake from the coals the few glowing embers that remain? You? If tradition is wrong (we all seem to agree that it is wrong in this case) why must we burst headlong into some drastic actions which none of us know will, help. The founda tions have been laid. Contrary to what you may think ihe thorns in your side. Mr. Bullock and Mr. Land, will not be around to corrupt the IFC. Who knows, maybe some young man may come along patterned after the great Mr. Fein silber who will be able to, at long last, put an end to the deaths of pledges. I do not mean to treat this matter lightly. It is serious, but your perpetual griping surely is not going to alleviate this situation. Instead of meandering around in a continual void, why don’t you try some constructive criticizing. Support the campus leaders once in a while. After all, they are not endowed with the foresight and brilliance to which our editor seems to be. Ihs March S. IST*. —The Editor —Mike Miller —Phillip E. Howes Little Man on Campus V A-T - Look Who's Talking . . . About Weekends For those who think a “Big Weekend” is necessarily the best of all possible weekends we'd like to say—first of all, you're wrong. Just count the girls who wi tfiey’ve been dating for almost there’s a girl back home. Coeds don't' often revolt but one Big Weekend six of them put down the socks they were knitting to work on an ‘1 Hate Imports' poster. They hung the sign on one of their bulletin boards and enjoyed it over a dozen or so hands of Bridge un til they heard the clatter of evening slippers in the hallway. Some of these high heels be longed to imports, of course. So right around 2 a.m. they taped the poster to a second floor mir ror where ihe visting girls would be sure to see it. It didn’t do much good, though. The imports just giggled and stayed until Sunday afternoon. Another type of “Big Weekend” tragedy centers around the girl whose date does not have a girl back home, but also who does not have enough money for the big Friday night dance. They realize they just couldn’t go to the movies on a “Big Weekend”, so they don’t go out at all. The third category contains the girl who has been dating a fra ternity man whose house is hav ing its pledge formal on Saturday night. She is expected to go to two formals in a row, look radiant two nights in a row, and dance gracefully three hours in skimpy evening slippers two nights in a row. She's sure to have one fa vorite dress for the IFC Ball, but she probably will have to borrow a formal for the pledge dance. Of course she could wear the same dress both nights, but her dale might say something. Even if he didn't say something he'd surely notice. At least we think he'd notice. Just because we’ve started out with the girls in this discussion' doesn’t mean we think the “Big Weekend" is any easier on the boys. For weeks IFC has been sug gesting to the boys that they needn't spend all that money for flowers, and now the local flor ists are pounding our ear telling us that a corsage for her dress is: more than a nice gesture, it is customary, expected, and is no ticed if missing. Who is the boy to listen to? More than likely he’ll wait un til the last minute to decide. Then he’ll hurriedly order a half-dozen pink roses without even thinking his date’s dress is a bright shade of red. 1 FRIDAY. AAARCH 23. 1954 spirit?" builds frateri Jackie Hudgins ill be sitting in because the boy a month suddenly announces TIM OK's Constitution Revision Town Independent Men voted approval of the revised TIM Con stitution as read Wednesday night at a meeting attended by more members than any previous of the semester. One article concerning election of officers was committed to par liamentarian James Goodwin for further study. TIM President Robert Cole said he and several other members made 112 phone calls to town in dependents before the meeting in an attempt to increase attendance, j Cole reported talked to 15 or 1 20 men and leaving messages for i additional 30 to 40. He estimated that the calls increased attend ance by only four or five. Reaction Varied Reactions to the calls varied, Cole said. One student said he had moved downtown to get away from politics and campus | organizations. Cole continued, i Others, he said, seemed willing to attend but failed to appear. One ; student resorted to abusive lan guage, Cole said. Fred Mauk, recently appointed TIM Representative at Large to the Association of Independent Men Board of Governors, and Charles Heinly were appointed to aid the University Christian As sociation’s committee on race re lations. The committee met last night. Mauk and Heinly will aid the aid the group in determining which town rooming houses are available to Negro and foreign students, Cole said. Attendance Increase Sought Raymond David. Paul Rosen jberger and James Goodwin were l appointed to serve on the mem bership committee under chair man Lash Howes to investigate methods of increasing attendance at TIM meetings. Tonight on WDFM *l.l MEGACYCLES 7 :15 Sigro On 7 New* 7:25 Sport* 7 :30 Just for Yow 8 :S0 Weekly News Round Up * '.OO ...—. Light Classic*! 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