PAGE FOUR r.w.aaa fuendat tbr•ultb tiatertay emoreiwg• d.riwg It. tlomennty wear. tM Dent Gliessas as a studest sottaled sewspsper. SS... per semeiter $5.1111 per yew' t g " • II • .7 MIKE MOYLE. Acting Editor Asst. Business lifnager. Deanne Softy.; Limal Adv. Mgr., City Editor. Ed Dobbs; Managing Editor. Sur Conklin; Sports Arnold Hoffman; National Ad.. Mgr.. Janice Anderson; Editor, Fran FanUCC , ; Color Editor, Becky Zaio: Assistant Co-Circulation Mgrs.. Ann Caton and David Posca; Promotion Nports Editor. Vince Caroeci; Feature Editor, Foie Onsa, Mgr.. Arthur Brener: Personnel Mgr., Jo Fulton; Office Photography Editor, Dave Haver. Mgr., Harry Yaverbaurn; Classified Adv. Mgr.. Barbara Shipman; Secretary, Ruth Howland; Research and Records Mgr.. Jane Groff. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor. Larry Jacobson; Cony Editors. Barb Martino, Chuck Dißocco; As sistants, Jack McArthur, Ken Ishler, Mary Kelly, and Roberta Levine. Take a Look-See at Cabinet Tonight- for the ['Lit time since last sprig 25 students will gather around a large table in 203 Hetzel Union. This gathering will mark the formal beginning of another year for the Uni versity's Student Government Association. The campus highest legislative body, All- University Cabinet, will make its 1956 debut tonight at its usual job—working for the stu dents. Tonight the major item on the Cabinet agenda is the proposed half-holiday for the opening football game with the University of Pennsyl vania. Who, exactly, proposed the half-holiday is slightly in doubt but the idea of having one a year has grown up during recent years and it is at the point now where students are expecting the administration to provide them with at least one official respite from that thorn in the side of all Friday night party-goers—namely, Satur day classes. This is without doubt something of vital im port to students and is a good example of what student government can concretely accomplish for the student body as a whole. Now, no guarantees can be given as to what tonight's discussion of the half-holiday- will lead to. There is something more than a rumor circulating that the outlook is bright. However, Cabinet will air the matter and make a recom mendation to the Council of Administration. Then, the entire matter is in the hands of the administration. However. you can rest assured that Cabinet will have done right by the students' wishes. Now this particular example of Cabinet at work is an easy one by which we can point directly to the good Cabinet does. The half-holiday and issues like it will not be coming up every week, however, and at times students will wonder what is going on up in 203 Hetzel Union every Thursday night. They will grumble and gripe and begin to doubt the IQ's of their duly elected student rep resentatives. We admit that at times we too have thoughts of a similar nature. Some issues which have come before past Cabinets have gotten tangled up badly due to various reasons. All Students Should Take Entrance Tests Students entering the University should be required to take entrance examinations before being admitted. Not only should a student be of good standing in his high school graduating class but he should also be required to show that he can perform well on entrance examinations. The entrance examinations should be weighed heavily in con sidering student's applications. With more students applying for admission each yetsr, and private schools taking a smaller percentage of those applying, it will be neces sary for the University to be more selective when accepting students. It would seem undesirable to cut down fur ther on out of state students as they tend to give the student body more diversity and a more rounded education. Safety Valve Advice to Seniors (To AU Senior Students:) In the past years the senior class advisory board has dealt ex clusively with senior class affairs and since these affairs are their prime concern the board has performed its duties well. . . Because it is the only means of communica tion between the senior class and its officers. I feel that membership on this board should be open to all those seniors who are sincerely interested not only in senior class transactions but also pertinent University business. I feel sure that the board will also be dealing with problems this year that are of great concern to all students at the University. Because of these problems, I would appreciate it very much if only those seniors who are interested in making the 1956-57 Senior class advisory board "a working board," would apply at the Hetzel Union desk this week. Gazette . Tftiay AIM Judicial. 7 p.m, 211 HUB COLLEGIAN Classified Ad Staff Meeting. 1, :SO P.M. COl. !avian Off ice CPA Ait Staff and Candidate. 6:ti ro ea,. CPA Office in HUB DAIRY SCIENCE CLUB Meeting, 7 :00 p.m.. 117 Dairy Bldg. IFC Workshop Committee Meeting. 7No p.a.., 108 Willard RIMEL Services for Pesat of Tabernacles, a.m., BOW LUTHERAN Vespers, 4:34 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel PSYCHOLOGY CLUB, S:011 pm , 2.t4-16 HUB THETA SIGMA PHI. 11:341 p.m.. Alpha Chi Omega suite 1fIME111.201•11414110111 ansil Pulstiaief StafC. pas. ZVI Spseiss alle Datil; Cutiggiatt Soceoutor to TUB PREZ LANCE. est UST —Joseph Hartnett Senior Class President THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager "Ii" ' This kind of thing, when carried to great heights of parliamentary procedure and brilliant ora tory, are the things which tend to get above from that non-entity the "average student." This is what causes the discontent and remarks like. "Cabinet should be abolished because they don't care a hoot for the students' welfare but are all wrapped up in their own small group." These things are easy to say. However, in general they are grossly unfair. Cabinet honestly wants to consider student problems and wants to arrive at solutions which will best benefit the students and the University. (These two entities, meaning the students and the University, are at various times considered direct opposites and the same thing.) If students during the coming year feel them selves slipping into a state _of disgust with All- University Cabinet- we strongly suggest they pay a visit to 203 Hetzel Union some Thursday night and observe first-hand what is exactly going on. In every issue of the Collegian which carries a story about an upcoming Cabinet meeting there is a small reminder to the student body that all Cabinet meetings are open to the public. In the past, students have been not only re minded .of this fact, they have been urged to at tend a meeting of Cabinet. Students are wel come there. Perhaps the average student will consider himself out of place but this is the wrong idea right off. Officially Cbinet is the . . students' legislative group and no matter what happens the students should feel free to attend Cabinet meetings. For this and various other reasons students,. have always ignored these reminders by and large. If gripes and dicontent are to continue on the part of the student body concerning Cabinet action let these gripes come from students who have observed Cabinet at work for two or three weeks and have honestly found them to be at fault. These students, we believe. will be few and far between. Those opposed to entrance examinations say that as a land grant University we cannot re quire that students from Pennsylvania take the test. They propose, instead, that we eventually accept only students in the upper fifth of their high school graduating class. It is more uniform, however. to give all stu dents applying at the University the same test and so compare the quality of all students. This cannot be done with high school records as each school has different standards. It would be more fair and just to all appli cants at the University to make each one take entrance examinations and consider these in conjunction with high school standing. We hope the University will give this sug gestion from the workshop on academic policies at Student Encampment serious consideration. —Sue Conklin Let's Obey. Law The Interfraternity Council has passed a ban on freshmen minors' drinking in fraternity houses. The question of the necessity of this ruling or the object—"to put more teeth into University and state regulations governing minors' drinking" is not of primary concern now. Enforcement of the freshmen ban on drink ing is now a major problem of the fraternity men. Effective enforcement can not be achieved by the action of ' the Interfraternity Council Board of Control alone. All fraternities concerned in this ruling must insure its strict enforcement. This involves more than the vocal consent of the fraternity presi dents to go along with the new measure. It will necessarily involve the conscious assistance of every fraternity man in the houses where drink ing is permitted. The move has been made by the Interfrater nity Council. The majority vote to adopt the drinking ban must now be converted into com plete support in enforcement. Any future occurrence of freshman minors drinking in fraternities with resultant miscon duct will be greatly magnified. There is no longer a question, "Who is responsible for the actions of freshmen who have been to fra ternities?" The fraternities now have a new responsibility. Therefore, without strict adherenCe to the letter of this new law, the inadequacy of the fraternity men to resolve their own problems will be.in glaring evidence. WIMCOMING PARTY for Campus 4-H Club Members, 7 p.m.. 100 Weaver University Hospital Niels !Wei:sem, John Ehmann. David Ferraro. Frank Honking. Elisabeth Prougb. Dennis Rose., Russell Shultz. Carolyn Stambaugh. John Urban. Judson' Vosburis„," DunaM 'Kerte. and Ronald Faris. Editorials represent the viewpoints of lb. writers. not necessarily the policy of the paper. the strident body. or the University. —Mike Moyle —Joe Boehret Little Man on Campus OUR% CONTENT Pat' , ACTUALLY-A/09W LE""' fAPEIC IF YOU RUN. 11.1ficr5 MAT I'M WAS F = State - Views By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The State Department, considering a piecemeal approach to new disarmament discussions with Russia, is harking back to one of its broad general policies in the early days of the cold war. After a few conferences which failed utterly to reconcile the Soviet approach to postwar problems with Western principles, efforts were made to find specific points on which accords might be reached. This was one in the hope that a few small successes might help produce greater trust and lead to a gradually increasing field of accord. This policy was pursued for a while despite the obvious dan gers to the West if it began to rely on Soviet commitments. There was more fencing than handshaking, because of the very nature of the Communist—expan sion program. Repeated failures hardened the belief that there was no use trying to do business with the Kremlin—that it would never agree to anything except something detrimental to the West. The same thing has proved true ever since, in disarmament as well as other fields. Em - anations from both sides. however, indicate that disarma ment discussions, barely kept alive since the London confer ence by exchanges between Ei senhower and Bulganin. are to become more active now. Bulganin's latest letter to the President was something less than a reply to proposals. Eisenhower had indicated strongly that he was just about through with the futile exchanges. Bulganin obviously is trying to keep a foot in the door to negotiations, though without offering any real signs of compro mise. Red China has joined the chorus with a statement that she is ready for what she calls "additional" reductions in her armed forces— Russia and China both stress man power rather than actual military strength—provided . the West will accept Soviet proposals. There was some speculation yesterday that the delay in a scheduled meeting of the Red Chinese and American negoti ators in Geneva might -mean the subject was to be introduced there. None of the Reds, however, show the slightest sign of accept ing the Western view, entertained because of their almost complete display of irresponsibility about keeping commitments already made, that there must be a re liable system of security checks. The real tragedy in life is not being limited to one talent, but in the failure• to use that one talent. - - - THURSDAY, S.EPTEMBER 20, 1156 Department Past Policies Sigma Delta Chi, Journ Fraternity Elects Officers Harry Davis, senior in journal ism from .Pittsburgh, has been elected president of Sigma Delta Chi, men's national professional journalistic fraternity. Other officers are vice presi dent, Michael Moyle, senior from Winburne; secretary, Francis Fa nucci, senior from Jessup, and treasurer, John Leach, senior from Freeport. An initiation team from th e University undergraduate chapter will conduct the first formal ini tiation of new members for the Tri-State professional chapter on Wednesday at the Penn-Sheraton Hotel in Pittsburgh. Victor Reisel, labor columnist. will address the meeting. The initiation tea ni includes Vincent Carocci, junior fr orn Scranton; John Lawrence, senior from Philadelphia; Davis and Leach. They will be accompanied by I. W .Cole, director of the school of journalism, and James Markham, professor of journal ism and head of the department of news and editing. Osborn Appointed Head Of Camping Committee_ Dr. Elbert F. Osborn, dean of the College of Mineral Industries, is the chairman of a newly-ap pointed committee to make an inventory of summer camp facili ties and recommend a five-year plan for the deVelopment of sum mer camping areas. Other members of the commit.. tee are Wilmer E. Kenworthy. director of Student Affairs; Ernest B. McCoy, dean of the College of Physical Education and. Athletics; Dr. William C. Bramble, professor of forestry, head of the depart.. ment of forest management, and in charge of the School of Fores try; and. Lawrence J. Perez, pro fessor of civil engineering. WDFM Staff to Meet The promotion and publicity staff of the campus radio station WDFM will meet at 7:30 tonight in 307 Sparks. Attendance for all members is required, according to Paul H. Nelson, WDFM spokes man. 7 by Biblr
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