PAGE FOUR Paiadhshed Titeadas through Saturday inornings dorint the Ilaseereety rear. the Dan, Collegian Ls a etudes'. operated aewspoper. 011..11MEMI MU par arrester UM pee Pair EMIIMIMMIMINIMEM lEatesed as setvaCelass =attar Judy P. [43411 at Me Mats Calera. Pa- Plat °Mc* eadimi "la *et .1r Mardi 34 1111". ROGER ALEXANDER. Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Judy Harkison; Copy Editors, Joe Cheddar, Lianne Cordero; Assistants, Jack McArthur, Jane Klein. Fraternity Scholarship: Some may say this is a poor time to deal with fraternity scholarship, but what better time than immediately before finals. Then too, with fraternity scholarship flound ering in the depths, anytime is the right time. If fraternities are to survive and prosper at the University, they will have to make a gar gantuan effort to improve their scholarship. Three houses were placed on probation this semester for poor scholarship, and there are many more whose academic rating is in a dire state. What is the cause of poor fraternity scholar ship? Evidently, too much emphasis is placed on the social aspect of Greek life, and not enough on the academic phase. Technically, the over balance is way out of proportion to the apparent lime devoted to each facet. Fraternity nien who can buck the ratio .do the majority of their dating on Friday and Saturday nights. This leaves approximately five days which could be devoted—for the greater part—to study. But that's where the fallacy lies. There are always rushing smokers, sorority dinners, extra-curricular activities, house meet ings, and fraternity activities to take up a fra ternity man's time. Where then is the time for study? Study 'hours are very definitely curtailed by these time-consuming affairs that go hand-in-hand Alas! Poor Serrill, We Knew (The following "scene" was received as a letter to the editor following the Collegian drama critic's review of An Inspector Calls.") STRANGE INTERLOPER A Tragedy in Forty Lines The scene is New York's Barrymore Theater. A play is on stage: "An Inspector Calls," by J. B. Priestley. As the lights dim and brighten again we find entering, from stage right, the mother (played by Helen Hayes`, and daughter (Susan Strasberg). On stage already are the father (Lee J. Cobb), son (Marlon Brancio), and prospective son-in-law (Barry Sullivan) en gaged in earnest, if wordy, conversation with An Inspector, played by Ted Serrill, the drama criticizer, who was hastily summoned from his free seat in the fifth row upon the unexpected collapse of Raymond Massey. (Massey, on hear ing that Serrill was out front, quietly fainted.) DAUGHTER: But mother, don't you realize who this is? (Aside: I almost wish I didn't know myself.) MOTHER: I won't listen to another word. (Aside: He does have an awful aura about him. I cower.) DAUGHTER: He's come to tell us what we are. (Aside: I'd just as soon not know. He has that opening-night leer on his face ...) FATHER: Nonsense. Nonsense. Nonsense . . (Aside: Its just the way that Shaw used to look. You just know he's going to start smash ing idols.) Chbose Not an Extreme TO THE EDITOR: I am amused by the banter ing between the forces pro and con rock and roll. It is my opinion that many of these in dividuals have neither an appreciation or under standing of music. Music is fundamentally an art of expression of human moods and emotions. When people are happy their music laughs, when they are sad their music cries. Most people are not static mechanisms with static moods, static emotions, static music; rather, they are ever in a state of change from one situation to another. The music of the moment should not be dictated by preconceived ideas of one group or another as to what is the "only music." Rather it should be flexible so that it may conform with the de sires of each individual as he wishes to express himself. Factions of thought which insist on a neces sity of choice between paired opposite extremes as rock and roll vs. classic tend, in their ex tremes, to sterilize that on which they are forced. The reality of life of any art lies be tween and in various combinations of the ex tremes as the situation demands, so the values of each are not lost in a hash but are instead enhanced through a united and coherent inte gration. Block and Bridle Club To Hold Annual Pie - nic The Block and Bridle Club will hold its annual picnic at 2 p.m. Sunday on Farm 5. Transportation will be provided at the rear of Armsby Hall, The Block and Bridle hayride will leave. from the rear of the Stock Pavilion at 9:30 p.m. Satur day. Ohr %lig Culitgiatt Sucesamme is THIL nt.'s LANCL. est. tilt Safety —Joseph P. Kondis ADS Elects Officers Kim Rotzoll, junior from Alli son Park, has been elected presi dent of Alpha Delta Sigma, pro fessional advertising fraternity. Other officers elected are Pat Palmier, junior from Brookville, vice president; Paul Nelson, sophomore from Palmerton, sec retary; and John Molloy, senior from Doylestown, treasurer. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. •PENNSYLVANIA fr.. DAVID RICHARDS, Business Manager New Type Ratio with fraternity. Time must be taken from these weekday activities. Admittedly, the social obligations other than dating are not wastes of time. They help mold a student's general personality. But this is where the time must be taken from, for it wouldn't be fair to ask a student not to date on a weekend. This is the time he should be letting off excess steam. Here's where we hit a snag. Because of the great importance fraternity men place on the social reputation of their houses, they are rath er reluctant to give up time from weekday social events. But fraternities must realize sooner or later— preefrably the former—that a good social repu tation doesn't help one graduate, or keep a fraternity from being put on probation. A balance must be obtained. Weekday social affairs and fraternity business should be limit ed to give the student every opportunity to pull a good average. This does not mean fraternity men should hibernate. But with a little moder ation, fraternities at the University could have their cake and eat it too. A good social average is not studies and less All too many Greeks laugh when told they should study more. The three fraternities now on probation laughed too. Valve Him Well SON-IN-LAW: I have nothing to hide. (Aside: Who could hide anything from those piercing, piercing eyes? He's the Devil's messenger, for certain.) SON: Why don't we all shut up, and let him talk? DAUGHTER: Yes, why don't we let him speak? (Aside: We should be glad there are still some Iconoclasts left in the great tradition of Shaw. Mencken, and the rest. He'll put us all in our places.) ALL: Go ahead, Inspector. We're ready. (Aside, all: Knowing that with one word, • he can ruin us all.) INSPECTOR: (quietly, calmly,and with an air of Great Authority): A play has died tonight . . . (Long pause while he consults his notes which prove to be written on the fly leaf of a book entitled: "Acids, and How to Throw Them, A Do- It-Yourself Handbook for the Rank Amateur) . . . A play has died here tonight . . . solemnly) AND . .. YOU .. . ARE . .'• ALL GUILTY . . . (repeats) . . . YOU . . . ARE . . . ALL . . . (gasps, chokes, falls to floor, dies) . . FATHER: Poor chap. He's gone . .. Too much acid on the stomach; It'll get them every time. Our Sinks Don't Work TO THE EDITOR: Why is it that the coeds in McAllister Hall are required to pay the same amount for room and board as those in Thomp son when, (1) the bathroom facilities are in tolerable because only two out of the four sinks work effectively, and the tile in the shower has deteriorated to the point where the shower and bathtutrare no longer useable; (2) only two irons are available for the entire dormitory's use: (3) the metal cots are poor substitutes for beds; (4) the lighting is inadequate for working and studying, and (5) the loose metal strips on the stairs have caused innumerable mishaps. We agree that the atmosphere is more pleas ant in a smaller dormitory, and it is more con venient to eat in the same building in which we live: however, we believe that these ad vantages are outweighed by the disadvantages. —Susan Black Catherine Davis Gazette AIM. Annual Banquet, 5:45 p.m., Hetsel Union dining room C FRENCH CLUB, 7:20 p.m.. Hetze/ Union amembly room University Hospital Janet Bean, Frank Ehrenfeld, Syl•ia Fish, Mercedes Conan°, Sandra GuskY, Donald Rimier , John Mia° 4ll, Juhn Thalimer. &filen*ls represent the viewpoints a tie writer*. sot neressarib the pellet et ti. paper. rib* student body. or tiss University. reputation, plus a good house unheard of, and with more distractions, both can be had. —Larry Jacobson —Gilbert Aberg Car Removal Requested For West Halls Dance The Dean of Men's office has asked that all drivers remove their cars parked in the Recrea tion Hall parking area by 5:15 p.m. tomorrow for the West Halls street dance to be held in the area from 5:15 to dark. ittle Man on Campus dubbs-za-poppin' Mrs. Lucus Wants Her License Back Mrs. Florence Lucus wants her driver's license back. The correspondent for the Bellefonte Centre Democrat has had a run-in with the law, so we understand, and the state has taken away her license. Mrs. Lucus is fighting for her license back—using the power of the press. Below is reprinted one of her atacks on the "crooks in Harris burg" who won't give driver's licenses back to "good, sober, and industrious people." "If the election goes Republican then in three years them crooks of Harrisburg don't need to look for their re-election in Harrisburg, as they hain't filling their prom ises in giving back all those good licenses, for as far as we have learned no parties got their opera tors licenses back yet. AU they think is that money shark business and lie until they are black in their face. Well in three years they'll find out that voters won't go to the poles. "They are sick and tired of their black crooked laws and red tape law for operators licenses. Many are quitting going to the poles to vote for candidates that runs them offices in Harrisburg. "They better get around now and give all those other good, sober and industrious people their operators licenses back right now. ,, Honest. nothing was changed except the paragraphing. She had it all in one paragraph! * * A newspaper printed on edi ble paper ... a newspaper with all pages numbered "one" . . . a newspaper with no headlines and one with all headlines and no stories .. . using Chanel No. 5 in the ink for society pages ... These were some of the sugges tions made by newsmen over the weekend on how to improve our newspapers. The newsmen met at the Nittany Lion Inn under the sponsorship of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers' Associa tion, the Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors, and • the School of Journalism at the Uni versity. The suggestions listed above are a few of the many tossed out in rapid-fire succession in a "brain-storming" session. Newsmen pointed out that they wanted quantity not quality in the suggestions (they got what they wanted). The suggestions will be reviewed at a later date to pick out the ones which might be the answers to the industry's many problems. One newsman summed up the session in good journalistic stvin. He said: "I think the storm was clog- WEDNESDAY. MAY 23. 1956 By ED DUBBS ging the newsmen's brains dur ing the session." Thoughts While Daydreaming in Class—Why did she have to leave San Francisco? . . . Too bad the Armed Forces Day parade was rained out . . Our poor Phillies —those lucky Pirates . . . Our Man Bavar's (he's photog editor) statement when told to get pic ture of snake in Nittany area: "Do you want a long, skinny pic ture?" . . . See you in the fall unless Old Man Probation catches up . . . Thirty . Ward Chosen (Continued from page one) An Old Lady." She used large hand gestures and facial expres sion to tell her story. After the contestants - were judged in the three divisions the five finalists were brought on the stage individually to answer three questions. To the first question, "What do you consider are the qualities that an ideal man should possess?" Miss Ward said, "One who has great ideals, who believes in a Christian love-life, has ambition, is kind and considerate, who loves children, and is very very kind." In answering a second question she said -that the three qualities that an ideal woman should have are Christian ideals by which she can try to live the best life, should be a good companion to others, and should have the kindest_con sideration for others. Miss Ward answered the third question regarding how she would use the money in the scholarship fund by saying she would use it to fulfill her ambition to attend an art school. The first three finalists will go to Altoona on Friday night to compete for the title of Miss Cen tral Pennsylvania. Tonight on WDFM M./ MEGACYCLES 6:46 Sign Os 6:50 ___.... 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