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MIKE MILLER. Associate FAWN'
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dick Hufnagel; Copy Editors, Larry Jacobson, Barb Budnick; As
sistants, Jim Kopp, Jim Tuttle, Hannah Yashan, Lynn Ward, Pat Evans.
Segregation: The Answer to Women's Woes
Now that the women are all in an uproar
about choosing rooms it's a good time to make
some concrete suggestions about how to improve
the who3e housing system.
It seems a shame to make pledges move out
of one dormitory into another, then still have to
walk half way across the campus to get to their
suites.
So we suggest that a future room assign
ment procedure allow the sophomore pledges
to- move into the dormitory where their suite
is located and let the sophomore independents
move into htherton, the ultimate effect being
to segregate women according to sorority af
filiation rather than by class status.
Making this separation in the beginning of
the second year might meet with the disap
proval of women who like the kind of living
together with "all the girls", but we believe
the change would strengthen both groups.
It should tend to promote a greater feeling
of unity among the individual chapters and
among the whole Panhellenic organization. It
should also give the independents the help they
need to overcome their geographical diversity.
As it is now with Greeks and independents to
gether in the same dormtioxy units. Women's
Student Government Association elections usual
ly boil down to a race between the two soror
ities in the unit, and independents are seldom
considered.
If all the independents were in Atherton they
would be competing only among themselves
and would have more delegates in the WSGA
Rouse of Representatives.
The nature of this proposal is such that it
can not be out into effect right away, but if
the Dean of Women's office will work 'on the
Today PSYCHOLOGY CLUB. 2:30 p.m.. 214 Wetzel Union
effil4F.S. 4 p.m., McElwain Lonna.. University Hospital
DAILY COLLEGIAN Senior Board Business Staff. 6:45 Susan Alsop, Mary Bortz, Edwin Browning, Harriet
p.m.. 111 Carnegie Felder. Richard Hunter, Joseph Kirk. Anne Klein, Robert
NEWMAN CLUB Lecture. 7 p.m., Old Main Labar, John Les sig. Joseph Melnick, Donald Shaner, James
NEWMAN CLUB Legion of Mary. 14:20 p.m.. Student Center Short. Thomas Smallwood, Lois Snyder. James Spongier,
NEWS AND VIEWS. 6:45 p.m., IA Home Economies James Tipton. James Walsh, Carl Wolfe, William Kirk-
PHILOSOPHY CLUB. 7:.20 p.m.. 209 Hetsel Union patrick, and Michael Foresisky.
Today's Issues: How College Editors Stand
•President Dwight D. Eisen
hower should be reelected to a
second term.
•United States policy to
ward Israel is inadequate.
• Extensive federal aid to
education is desirable.
•Desegregation in southern
schools will come about de
spite efforts to evade it.
"'The campus press should
feel free to comment on na
tional issues.
• American college students
display a lack of interest in
national political affaifs.
•Fraternities and sororities
do not have an undemocratic
influence.
These are the views of a ma
jority of 47 college and univer
sity campus newspaper editors
who participated in the fourth
annual opinion poll of the edi
tor's of the nation's collegiate
press. The survey is conducted
by New York University's
School of Commerce, Accounts.
and Finance journalism depart
ment.
The editors who participated
represent large and small, pub
lic and private institutions of
higher learning in all parts of
the United States.
- The Daily Collegian partici
pated in the survey.
Fifty-five per cent of the
campus editors chose President
Eisenhower as their favorite
candidate. Adlai E. Stevenson
was preferred by 26 per cent.
Expressions of support were
recorded to a lesser degree for
Chief Justice Earl Warren,
Sen. Estes Kefauver. and Gov.
Averell Harriman. Five of the
editors- indicated that they
were still undecided.
While 26 of 43 editors agreed
that the "peace and prosperity"
theme would make as "potent
an issue as GOP leaders claim."
all except four cited other_ is
sues they though warranted
discussion in the coming cam
paign.
Low farm prices and high
agricultural surpluses headed
the list with 17 votes. Foreign
policy was listed 13 times and
civil rights nine times. Federal
aid to education, taxes, and the
„influence of business on gov
ernment also were included.
-However, only three of the
-.editors considered the Presi
doors health an issue sutra
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ciently important to influence
voters.
On the Arab-Israeli dispute,
35 of 40 students criticized the
U.S. policy, while seven of
fered no comment. Some con
demned the State Department
for "catering to the Arabs"
while others said that the "poli
ticians are sacrificing Ameri
can interests" for the sake of
the Jewish vote. A slight ma
jority favored Israel.
The campus journalists di
vided 31 to 15 in favor of fed
eral aid to education. Minority
opinion held that "control fol
lows subsidization" and that
federal influence over educa
tion is "unhealthy." On the
affirmative side, most replies
said, in effect, that control is
not an inevitability regardless
of how much federal money is
given to local schools. Several
emphasized that the "risk" is
worth taking since education in
many areas is—as one editor
put it—"in a state of deteri
oration."
"Our school systems are not
so effective as to make the
traditional ways inviolate,"
said one New Yorker. With
several exceptions, editors from
larger urban schools supported
federal aid strongly.
A majority of the editors
maintained that school de
segregation will occur "in the
foreseeable future." Twenty
six said that not even organized
resistance could stop it, but 18
thought that the end of segre
gation would not be in sight
during "our time."
Significantly, half of the lat
ter attend schools outside the
deep South. One Bostonian
said, "If we had any courage,
we would enforce the law."
Editors from New York, the
Dakotas, and the Northwest
agreed with him_ Opinion from
Dixie was divided.
One southern student wrote:
"Not in the deep South, where
opposition is violent!!!" An
other. however, put it this way:
"Intelligent people in all states
see that segregation is imprac
tical as well as unfair. They
will win over the diehards • ..
within several years."
Some 92 per cent of the edi
tors asserted that college news
papers should feel free to dis
cuss national issues. Moreover.
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details and gradually introduce the new scheme
to the women, a more dynamic women's gov
ernment will evolve.
A Time for All
A method of selecting dormitory rooms in
alphabetical order was used for the first time
yesterday in Atherton Hall by sophomore
women.
The distribution began at 8 a.m. without as
signed hours. Naturally, because of classes, only
a partial number of students were able to take
their turn in the assumed order. The rest se
lected rooms whenever they had a free hour.
Instead of a systemized drawing, it practically
resulted in first come, first served. The students
were not pleased.
The alphabetical-order method is. good be
cause having a low initial is just as much chance
as would be drawing number one in the num
ber system previously used. Locating the distri
bution center in a central dormitory is also
good because it omits crowding the dean of
women's office.
However, if alphabetical order is to be used
efficiently, women should at least be allowed
their place in line. Having the selections during
a class day makes this impossible.
The fairness of this new method is not ques
tioned. But it is defeating its own purpose if it
is not held at a time when there is no com
pulsory confliction, 'such as an evening or a
Saturday or Sunday afternoon.
Fr.!shman room selection is scheduled next
week. Let's give them the benefit of an error.
—Judy Harkison
nearly all of them indicated
that their papers do consider
public questions. The editor of
a small women's college wrote:
"Since so many students fail
to read any paper except the
campus one . • . we feel that
we should try to keep them in
formed of current happenings.
We also comment on them to a
limited extent."
The campus editors reported
a lack of interest by students
in politics. One from a small
southern college wrote: "Stu
dents on this campus have
little concern for-national poli
tics and personalities, mostly
because of a feeling of being
removed from them."
A reply from one of the larg
est universities in the East
said: "Most college students
simply do not connect them
selves with political affairs. It
is the job of education at all
levels to teach students their
connection with the world
around them including the
political. Education has failed
so far."
The editors were asked to
comment on the fact that in a
recent survey at an urban uni
versity only 18 per cent of 1500
students could name their con
gressman, senators, and the
secretaries of state and com
merce. The editors agreed over
whelmingly-40 to 6—that this
result reflected the state of
political awareness on their
own campus.
Twenty-eight of The editors
contended that the benefits of
college fraternities outweigh
any disadvantages. Fourteen
expressed opposition to the
groups, while five had no opin
ion.
One editor summed up his
opposition in this way: "Any
organization based on exclu
siveness rather than universal
ity is . . detrimental to the
democratic . spirit. Also, some
groups still practice segregation
. . and this is incompatible
with liberal education as well
as democracy."
Those favoring the "Greeks"
asserted that the "right to se
lect one's friends" is a funda
mental democratic prerogative
and pointed out that these or
ganizations often contribute
valuable services to the campus
community. - . -- , .
Editorials represent the
viewpoints of the writers,
not necessarily the policy
of the paper. the student
Imsd.r, or the University.
—Jackie Hudgins
Little Man on Campus
"Good grief, we'll never get a seat—the gang's
taking HUB 412 this afternoon."
pebbles on the'shore
The Dale Drips Over
(Yesterday we found our State songstress, Trixie D.,• at the
crossroads of her life. Would the cup of coffee her greedy roommate,
Sadie, had given her work, would it return her to her old self?
If Trixie had known of the sad plight of Lillian Roth in "I'll Cry
Tomorrow," she would have been forewarned of the natural results.
But Trixie didn't know . •
The coffee was tasted—" Ugh"
—slowly downed—"W e 11"—and
polished off with a gagging choke.
Trixie was apprehensive. But not
Sadie; she was sure it would
work. Trixie was trembling, but
she soon stopped. She felt an
inner warmth—after all, the cof
fee was hot—her days of anguish
dropped away. It was strange. It
was magic. She was a typical,
care-free State coed once again.
As the days sped by, slowly a
craving for the steaming warmth
of the mud-colored drink began
to settle into Trixie's inner self.
She couldn't do withbut the won
derful, relaxing effects of coffee.
She drank it everywhere. With-
OUt it, she began to tense up, to
feel like—like a married woman.
She bought a larger handbag.
It had to be large, large enough
to hold a thermos - bottle. Yes,
although Trixie didn't know it
she was becoming a caffein ad
dict, or what was known among
State's secret addicts as a "cof-•
feholic."
She bought a contraband cof
fee percolator from an odd-look
ing fellow she met who called
himself simply C._ V. Secretly, at
night, in fact, all though the day,
she would sit in her room and
contently perColate coffee. When
ever she went out she carried the
thermos ". with her and secretly
snitched drinks in the women's
restrooms.
She never sang anymore. She
didn't care either—she had built
up a fortune from her singing
stands. She rarely--studied, rarely
went to classes. She was out of it.
Several weeks before she had
moved out of her spacious double
room and left Sadie and most of
her belongings behind. Trixie
took a small garret room—on the
top floor of Mack the Knife Hall.
Here she was content to drink.
But the world would not roll
along without E'er. One day
Trixie met a brash, bold brat
of a fellow in the coffee line of
the HUB snack bar. It was Sat
uray afternoon: He made a
play for her and while she did
not care much she went with
him.
Ten hours later she awoke from
her usual somnolescent state and
found she had been pinned. Was
it a big mistake? She wasn't sure
but he sure drank coffee with
her a lot and this she liked. He
drank as much as she did, in fact,
more. It was heaven to find some
one like this.
But their love didn't last. The
slob got too wild and started act
ing like a small kid whenever he
drank too much: - He beat her
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sometimes. And, what's more, he
kept using her money. The impli
cation was clear. They broke up.
But Trixie, who was satisfied
merely to please her stomach,
could not help trying to please
her heart—a need for male. com
panionship is the gentle way, of
putting it. A few weeks later she
fell for another guy. Oh, he was
a smoothie. All he wanted was
her, not her money, it seemed.
Suave, smart, and single—he was
all three.
He gave her his AIM pin, sure
ly one of the most important
groups on campus, she thought.
But she was wrong about this
guy. He was worse than the last.
The only thing he did want was
her hard-earned d o u g h—and
that was dwindling. She was
always under his keen eyes.
What could she do? Her marks
were suffering.
She drank more and - more cof
fee. It was the only thing she
did drink.
She couldn't stand it anymore
and ran away from him. Trixie
took to State's well-hidden Skid
Flow the steam tunnels under
the sidewalks.
How many knew that wander
ing ceaselessly through those long
tunnels were the dredges of State
Society—the Coffeholics. Trixie
knew now. She was one.
Time dragged. She lived down.
there with the others—haggard,
unkempt moles with coffee , per
colators. They only came out at
night to steal food and retire
again beneath the sidewalks. And
they were so careful to avoid the
maintenance men who occasion
ally wandered through.
There was another group, de
spised by the Pipe Men, as they
liked to call• themselves. It's
name was whispered and only
a few knew of its. whereabouts. -
Coffeholics Anonymous. Trixie
almost clambered into a pipe
one day, hoping to be scalded
to death. But she chickened out.
It was then she went for , help
' to CA.
She found its little hut squeezed
under the basement of her old
home, Mack the Knife Hall. The
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