PAGE FOUR f»«blUh*d Tuesday throagh £il«r4ar atvrnmc* during tbf ('iiivrr»ity year, the Daily Collegian Is a student operated newipaprr. Enter'd u .eeond-rlaM m*lt,r Jnl; t. 1*34 •« th« SUU Collett. Pa. PMt Office andtr Iht »c« of Htreh 1, tB7», MIKE FKINSILBER. Editor MIKE MILLER Associate Editor Managing Kdilitr. Korcr Bcidler; City Rditor. Doo Shoe- Ad* Mgr., Jerry Fried; National Ad*. Mgr.. Estelle Caplan: atakrr; ( op; Editor. DoUir Stone; SparU Editor. Roy Wil- t'o-C imitation Men., Israel Schwab. Christine Kauffman; Itama: Editorial Director. Jackie Iludgin*; Assistant SporU Piociotion Mrr„ Delite Ifoopes: Co-Personnel Mgr*.. AletU Editor (’ran Fanurci: Photography Editor, Ron Walker: Martbrck Connie Anderson; Office Mgr.. Ann Keesey; Clrtsi* Senior Board. Ron Leik. Ron Gatehouse. fied Ad* Mgr.. Peggy Dam; Secretary, l.il Melko: Research and Records Mgr., Virginia Latahaw. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Nancy Showalter; Copy Editor. Barb Budnick; Assistants, Clark Polak, Joe Cheddar, Lil Junas. Elaine Huberman. Audrey Sassano, Lynn Ward, Lianne Cordero. Some Know One, Who Knows 300? Independent men are undoubtedly as friendly as anyone else, but wc doubt if even the most gregarious lists 300 other indies among his ac quaintances. Yet unless an independent man is “in the know” with someone on . the Association of Independent Men's board of governors he must fulfill such a requirement to run for an AIM office. The AIM constitution stales that nominations lor AIM offices may be made by any member of the board of governors or by an independent man presenting a petition to the board signed by 300 male independents. This in the constitution of a group which continually cries for new blood and more in terest on the part of its constituents. The 300-signature petition requirement for self-nomination is grossly unfair to the inde pendent students. It virtually puts the power to choose the government in the hands of a fraction of the thousands of indies. Under it the board of governments becomes AIM itself, perpetuating its boys and shutting out all others. Unless one is a member of the board or close to a member, he has no chance to try for an office. To obtain the signatures of 300 male in dependents may be possible for one man to do. IV. Culture: Draw In trying to write an ending to these articles on culture we have found ourselves at a loss because there seems to be no real conclusion. How can we hope to cuie ills many students do not consider to be ills at all? Aren't we expect ing too much if we encourage more and more organizations to bring more and more of the intelligence onto the campus if some of what is brought here already is given a cold re ception? The answer is obvious. We can “do” nothing except serve to stimulate the undergraduate’s mind, to make him take stock, if he will, of his own cultural status. If he chooses lo ignore us he can write his own "culture conclusion." He can lake his diploma and never have lo sit through another lecture in his life. He can go to any movie he ieels like and never have lo listen lo another classical record. He wili be a “university” graduate, but if being a university graduate means no more to him than a set of adequate grades and a cer- Tell It to the Six Dead Marines The six Marines who died as the result of an infamous night march through a Parris Is land swamp were the victims of murder. This is the only conclusion we can draw from reports of the tragedy. Who is guilty? Is it S/Sgt. Matthew C. Mc- Keon, who led 75 Marines into the swamp as a disciplinary measure? Is it the military system and the military leader who allow such in human actions to take place? It is both. McKeon showed an obvious callous thought lessness. a grotesque misuse of authority, and an appalling lack or judgment in marching the men into unfamiliar territory - But the Marines—and the United States gov ernment—cannot escape blame for the tragedy. They allowed McKeon to gain a position of responsibility in which he could, without ask ing, march his boys to their deaths. (The six Marines, incidentally, were young: two were 17, three were 18, another was 20. McKeon is DAILY COLLEGIAN Busineas Staff Senior Board, 7 p.m.. 111 Carnegie HOME ART INTEREST CROUP. 7 p.m., 254 Rome Kconomica NEWMAN CLUB Discussion. 7:30 p.m., 304 Old Main NEWMAN CLUB Legion of Mary. S:3O p.m.. Student Center NEWMAN CLUB TV Party. 8 p.m.. Student Center I’SYCHOI.OCY CLUB. 7:30 p.m.. 214 H.-tie! Uninn Angel Flight Applications 62 Cows Are Drawn Available at HUB Desk For Show Competition Coeds interested in applying A total of 62 cows, one of the for membership in Angel Flight-largest number ever listed, was may pick up applications todayJ drawn Thursday night by con tomorrow. and until sp.m. Satur-Instants for fitting and showing da interested °in apptving com Pe. tltion the annual Dairy should have a 2.3 All-University Exposition on May 12. average. Coeds will be chosen by A limited number of cows are present Angel Flight members on still ava jj a bl e for use. Transpor -25 WfsS O Su& Monday ‘night. Hcttlij CnUpgtatt S,ccM4..t t. rHE PEEK LANCE. Ht ISCI Your Own Conclusion Gazette THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ROGER VOCELSINCER. Business Manager (VAist Bua Mcr>.. John Kmetx. Dorothea Kaldys: Loral but we doubt if it ever has or will be done by one man. Any fraternity man who has run for an Interfratemity Council office can verify the fact that to contact 50 house presidents to gain their support is a trying task. The difficulty in reaching 300 individuals is difficult to conceive. We cannot imagine a man who could claim that many acquaintances who could authorita tively attest to his qualities for office. So why require a man to present so many signatures? To make sure that he is really serious in his quest for office? Safeguards must be taken, of course, to screen out jokers, but the present requirement is unreasonable and serves to discourage worthy office seekers. Or is that what the AIM board of governors wants—only its boys on the ticket? In fairness, we must say that we do not think so. but that is what the 300-signature requirement serves to do. If AIM really wants more independents to take an active interest in its affairs it should move soon to eliminate this unfair, unrealistic self-nomination requirement from its consti tution. Otherwise it wili surely continue to struggle along as a largely ignored body per petuated only by a few zealots. ' tificate of course completion we can not tell him he is spoiling the connotation of “univer sity" graduate. But maybe the words "university" graduate are not supposed to have the lofty meaning we have come to associate with them. And maybe our questionable student is perfectly within his rights to usurp all the benefits that go along with holding membership in this hitherto ex clusive group of educated individuals without having lo uphold its traditional standards. These standards themselves may have sunk to be but meaningless stereotypes: and we may not be within our rights lo criticize our graduates for ignoring them. These standards may even have been replaced with far better and more useable ones. We don't know. All these things we say, not because we ex pect a sudden awakening to mass action, but to make the student formulate his own “cul ture conclusion” based on what we have found to be generally true and what he knows of himself to be specifically certain. —Jackie Hudgins 30. And they were new to the Marines, too. Basic training had started only six weeks be fore the march). “My purpose in taking the platoon to the river,” McKeon said later, “was to teach them discipline.” Instead, he taught America something of the way the Marines apparently operate. We suspect that America has a lot more to learn about this. How many other civilians lurned-soldiers have been subjected lo negli gent, dangerous, needless chances such as this? How many others have been injured with the cases hushed up? How long will this method of discipline teaching be tolerated by our mili tary leaders and by the public? “I can’t find words to express my grief,” McKeon said. High Marine brass also expressed deep regrets. Sympathetic words will not soften the blow. But angry words, coming from an aroused pub lic. may prevent future tragedies. University Hospital Harold Albrecht. Jean Hodman. Robert Bohnlng. Ralph Brower. George Carrick. Mikel Cohick. George Dishong. Frederick Cheater Janies, Robert Jubelirer. Mor ton Kaplan. Richard Liedy. John McDermott. Andrew Maretxki. Patricia Moyer. Albert Orr. Michael Ott. Da* id Patterson. Terry Rebe, James Robinson, Phyllis Rubenstein, James Sahlin, James Scastone. James Strucber, Richard Wolford. Roy Vollmer, Francis Walls, Lawrence Spece, Joseph Dudek, and Russel! MacNamee. WSGA Representatives Vote to Meet Weekly The Women’s Student Govern ment Association House has voted to meet every week instead of every other week. _ Margaret Forster, president of the House, asked members to re mind coeds to put donations in the boxes in hostesses’ offices for the WSGA Clothing Drive, which closes Friday. Clothing collected will be sent overseas by the Friends Church. Editorials represent the ▼iewpolnta of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper, the atodent body, or the University. —Mike Miller —Tha Editor Little Man on Campus ds> "But Horiense, are you sure this is what Worthal meant when he said, 'Meet me at Chapel'?'' Middle East Stew Fedayeen. Is Nasser's Probtem To Calm. By J. M. Roberts Associated Press News Analyst One of the dangers in the Middle East is that Gen. Nasser, hav ing stirred up the Fedayeen, suicidal avenging bands of Palestine refugees, may not be able to lull them again regardless of United Nations pressure. Arab refugee hatred of the Israelites, which also encompasses the United States because she sponsored Israel’s creation, is one of the bitterest things on this earth today. Nasser has been using it, play ing on Moslem fear of Israel, hoping to solidify the Arab states with himself as their leader. The great danger lies in the fact that Israel cannot forever permit the deep penetrations of her soil—or at least soil which she claims without gradually losing her ability for defense in an ultimate time of critical need These Fedayeen raids are mostly just that—raids. But no body knows how much actual infiltration is taking place, not only for the purpose of getting fifth columns started, but also to establish bands of saboteurs and guerrillas for future refer ence. These raids, or penetrations, have heightened Israeli talk of a preventive war. Indeed, faced with progressing Communist arm ing of countries which possess overwhelming manpower, such a war might become a matter of i national survival. Despite all her pleas for arms, reliable estimates still credit Israel with the ability to do now what she might never be able to do again—whip her enemies before they can get set. By attempting it, she would be ignoring the fears of the world that war in the Middle Hast would eventually become universal. But since that is not definite, and the Arab threat is, Israel might try to take care of today, letting tomorrow take care of itself. Nobody knows just what argu ments United Nations Secretary General Hammarskjold is using in his current discussion on the ground. One thing he does not have, however, is what a great many think offers the only stop gap solution, pending fundamen tal settlements. That is notice from the Western Big Three, act ing in concert, that a war will just not be permitted. The reason such a warning is being withheld is that the Arabs would consider it a pre-judg ment of their aspirations and a decision by the West that they are in the wrong. American officials, at least, think this would hamper UN ef forts to re-establish the violated armistice pending political settle ments. The British, who have so often THURSDAY. APRIL 12. 1956 c ®-- held back for very similar rea sons when the United States pre ferred firmer action against Rus sia, favor the more direct ap proach. They think it will be im possible to get the UN to under take in the Middle East another police action such as it undertook in Korea. Aid to Be Given To 3 Ag Projects By Industry Grants Three research projects in the College of Agriculture will be aided by grants from industry and other agencies.. The Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. has provided a $5OOO grant in support of a study in the depart ments of poultry husbandry and agricultural engineering. It will be directed by Dr. Glenn O. Bress ler, professor of poultry husban dry. A grant of $3700 for a two-year period from the Pennsylvania Flower Growers’ Association will support research in the depart ment of horticulture. Dr. John G. Seeley, professor of floriculture, directs the work. The American Potash Institute has provided $2OOO for a study in the department of agronomy. It is directed by Charles D. Jef fries, professor of soil technology. Exams Added To Finals List The following additions have been made to the spring semester final exam schedule by the Regis trars Office. Ag Ec 1 May 28 8 105 Mech Eng and 219 EE Ag Ec 6 May 26 1:11 105 WH LA 21 June 1*1:10 312 Spks Min Ec 490 By app’t HI Equip 213 June 1 7 p.m. 100 Weaver Rur Soc 11 May 28 8 105 For and 305 Spks HI Ed 303 May 28 8 See List Ed 1 May 26 7 p.m. 1,2, 3 CH 100 Weaver, 105 For and 112 BL Int Und 300 June 1 8 316 Spks Collegian Business Staff Daily Collegian Senior Board business staff will meet at 7 to i night in 11 Carnegie. By Bihler
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