PACE FOUR r _ Paohound I fteadat thrum/0 botordar morning• during taw thin, rear the Daily Collegian ia a student operated neurrnaturr 25.00 per rear &stereo as wcond-elass matter July a 1924 at the State College. ea. Post Office ander MIKE MOYLE, Acting Editor Asst Iluoineoo Manager. Deanna Statist kcal Adv. Mgr., Sue Cont.:in, Managing Editor: Ed Dub 4 ., City Editor: Fran Arnold Hoffman; National Adv. Mgr., Janice Anderson: FartUrri, Sports "Attar; Beek. Zahn', opy Editor; Vince o-Cirrutation Mgrs.. Ann Caton and David Ponca: Promotion t *roves, A-•:•rant Snorts bitter: Evie (boss, Features Editor; Mgr., Arthur Brener: Personnel Mgr.. Jo Fulton; Office Dave Raoar. Photograph. Editor. Mgt— Harry l'aserbatien: Classified Adr. Mgr.. Barbara - Shipman; Secretary. Ruth Rowland: II It and Records Mgr., Jane Croft. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Paula Miller; Copy Editors, Pat O'Neill, Larry Jacobson; Assist- Jack Nlt:Arthur, Rigg:, Griffith, HannahYashan, Paul Shedder, Joan Miller, Ken Ishler. FMA Stands at the Crossroads . The Fraternity Maii.eting Association Mon day night opened a di ive which will probably end either in substantially complete fraternity support and participation in the group, or in disbandment of the organization. FMA's campaign is a fight for its very life, and for the principle of joint buying, which has been given lip service time and lime again, only to be denied effective support through action. FMA is the direct outgrowth of a joint buying committee set up in 1950 by the Interfraternity Council and the Association of Fraternity Coun- selors to put such a program into action. Since its inception, FMA has demonstrated, as best it could with the limited active support of the frajernity community, its ability to ef fectively serve fraternities and lower food costs to its members. At present, FMA membership comprises little more than half the existing fraternities at the University. Apparently, the time has come for fraternities as a whole to decide whether or not they want a joint busing program, such as has successfully been operated at colleges in Ohio, Michigan and Oregon. Some houses have shown a reluctance to join the program. possibly because of discounts now offered to them by merchants. What they gen erally do not realize is that most of these dis counts have been offered as a result of pressure brought about through the presence of FMA, and that. if FMA dies most of these discounts will probably die with it. Harold W. Perkins, assistant dean of men and president of the F.MA Board of Trustees, has summed up the advantages which every fra ternity may enjoy if "all fraternities join in the effort:" Customs Good—Let's The customs program this year has been a definite success. comp:,red to those of the past few years. However, still more could be done to make customs more stimulating. This year both upperclassmen and freshmen took an active part in the program making the cheers and songs ring over the campus. We commend the spirit and enthusiasm and feel that the entire student body, particularly the freshmen benefited from it. Because this year's customs program has been a success is no reason for students to be lax about improving next year's still further. Only by looking ahead and making constant changes and improvements can such a program remain a success. We feel that it is mole than desirable that the program be kept alive—it is a necessity. With the increasing size of the University. there will be fewer and fewer programs which involve, the spirit of the entire student body. Customs should remain the major program of this type. Only by concentrating a great deal of effort on customs and its improvement can it remain an annual event. The workshop on Penn State's future at the Student Encampment took a realistic look at the problems facing the University in the _next few years. One of the suggestions the group made was that the "enforcement of customs be returned to the hat societies." The group felt that the enforcement by hat societies would "put new Safety Valve .. • Are We Governing Ourselves? TO THE EDITOR: Three days ago I read that the official body of student representation, All- University Cabinet, unanimously approved the Penn-Penn State half-holiday. I also read that at a meeting of the nine deans of the colleges and Provost Lawrence Dennis. this decision was vetoed. I question the attendance of 10 partici pants at this meeting. However, if there were 10 people at this meeting. this is not a significant number to decide finally on an issue that had the previous evening been unanimously accepted by the chosen representatives of 13,000 students. Many students are angry, I am sure, about the classes they will have to attend (or cut). How ever, a great deal more are concerned about a thing we call student government. For three years I have heard wonderful praise for our great student government here at Penn State. In all the country there are few educa tional institutions which have as much student representation as we have. This all sounds won derful but I'm afraid we are being just a trifle naive. HORNING WORSHIP SERVICE. 8:II a.m.. Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel. conducted by Evangelical United • Brethren Student Fellevnhip. IBMS Sr. VIEWS, 6:30 pm- Horne Bemoaning Living Cm- ter. &II Ana , and add candidatna. PENN STATE OUTING CLUB lCatsin and Trail. Division%) 7 p.m.. 317 Willard. • UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION COFFEE HOUR. S p.a.. Heirs Eakin Eiseaiiewer Limpet. .. tlie Elaiiii erittegtan Editorials represent he viewpoints of the writers, .... not necessarily the Policy Successor I. fttE PELEE LANCE est. 18117 of the paper. the student body or the University 81.00 per .emeater eiC r ''',yo Gazette THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA DAVE• RICHARDS, Business Manager "Vendors would tend to make their BEST bid for a share of ALL fraternity business and would not attempt to please both members .and non member fraternities with nearly equal discounts; cooks would be less inclined to threaten resig nation; greater University assistance in the form of counsel, office space, etc. could be re quested and the further expansion of cate gories could be undertaken with the supervision of a small but qualified staff. All of these ad- vances are vitally related to joint buying which represents all, not some, of the Penn State fra ternities." According to the FMA board, "Although fra ternities' $1 million yearly volume of business represents one of the largest single blocks of purchasing power in this area, fraternities as a whole have effected few savings and commanded no lower prices than the average consumer. "Organized properly. this purchasing power can command respect and bring tremendous savings to the whole fraternity system. FMA is the specific agent to effect such savings and to organize such purchasing power but only if all fraternities cooperate and participate." FMA now finds it necessary to enlist the sup port of its parent organizations to do what it cannot do for itself—bring about this coopera tion and participation by all fraternities. AFC, made up of the counselors to each fra ternity, is practically powerless, possessing little more than an advisory capacity. Thus, the bur den is laid squarely on the shoulders of IFC. It is up to IFC to take "the most direct and impressionable steps to enlist the full support upon which successful joint buying depends." IFC can either kill or cure FMA.-Ti mutt soon do one or the other. See Better life into the customs program without endanger ing counselling potentialities" of the societies. We agree. with the students present at this workshop and feel that hat society enforcement would add a great deal of spirit to the program. In the past when customs were enforced by hat men and women, the freshmen found something which they could concentrate their spirited at tacks on campus and at the football games. It is a good policy to focus the enforcement on particular people in the sense that it gives the freshmen opportunity for a spirited antagonism. A spirit of antagonism would add more to the program in that it would make the freshmen put more spirit into the program. It has been argued that the hat men and women do not particularly like the role of target for fresh man pranks. This, perhaps, is valid, however, they could do the program, and thereby the University, a service, by providing themselves as guinea pigs for the program. It is a small thing to volunteer services for two weeks to help the spirit of customs. We think the hat societies could do a great deal to help the program if they would take more of the responsibilities of enforcement upon their shoulders. This should be done in conjunction with the sophomore class and other upperclasses who should still enforce the program. Everyone must take part in the program or it will become a chore, and as such die out. —Sue Conklin Our beloved past president Milton S. Eisen hower conceived several years ago an institution called student encampment. Let me repeat— student encampment. The initial purpose and ultimate goal is to hear an equal voice of three University groups—the faculty, the administra tion, and last( and it seems least) the students. Here ideas are discussed concerning every phase of campus life, and recommendations are made to All-University Cabinet. It is evident at this point that recommendations made by encamp ment (ie. replacement of the floating half-holi day in the University calendar, which was recommended in 1955) are taken lightly by the administration, if this recommendation does not go along with their plan of University procedure. If the administration is going to run Penn State without considering our suggestions, let them tell us so. Why trouble students with the responsibility of student government at all when the administration itself makes this re sponsibility completely hollow? —Robert Gellman VESPER SERVICE, 4:.0 p•m.. Helen Eakin Eisenhower Meditation Chapel. conducted by Young Friends. Hni,versity Hospital Chariot Beck. Gloria Bergotein, Richard Bullock. Louis Comnoi. Joan F.aalinger. Robert Green. Thomas Hart, Her. bent Hayes. Gail Kleppineer. Robert McCook'. Margaret McCloskey. Donald Mikita. John Redmond, Clare Rosa. Howard Schwartz, Robert Sommer, Donald Straub, Joliet Urban. Ronald Hartwell the act of Nardi Z. Ulf —Bob Frank/in Little Man on Campus 717, • G , "Yes, I find it's a lot easier to get dates now that I have a car." Interpreting the News Israelis Gaining In Military Strength By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst Israel's latest big retaliatory attack against the Arabs comes coincidentally with word from Washington that the Jews have regained confidence in their military capabilities since last spring's flap over the sale of Communist arms to Egypt.. The Arab-Israel situation now, however, is not quite as bad as it was last spring. At that time Egypt's Nasser ap peared to be on the verge of a dangerous adventure in national ism. Israel appealed frantically for arms aid from the Western Allies. At first she didn't get any, then she got a little—planes from France and Canada. But because Israel's skirts were not clean in the matter of her retaliatory bor der policy, the United States held back. Now Nasser is involved in what promises to be more of an economic than a military battle with the •West, but British and French troops are massed near Egypt and he is in no position to renew his threatening pos ture toward Israel at the mo ment. Jordan has thus fallen heir to the Arab role of keeping up con stant pressure for Israel, a role for which she prepared by oust ing Gen. Glubb, the Britisher who headed her army for so many years. Syria is in less active sup port. Political backing comes from all the Arab states. The latest Israeli assault, fol lowing several scattered border incidents instigated by Jordan ians, was directed against mili tary outposts rather than Arab villages as sometimes in the past, and will not arouse so much world criticism-. Since there was no attempt to occupy territory, the incident does not take on the aspect of war. Nevertheless, both sides have flouted the cease-fire agreements negotiated last spring by Dag Hammarskjold of the United Na tions, and he is threatening to re.- 1 fer the matter back to the Secur ity Council unless there is an immediate local settlement. In these cases, UN Truce Com mission decisions have almost al ways gone against Israel because her retaliatory raids are official and organized army operations, whereas the Arab incursions usu ally are guerrilla affairs, and sometimes appear to be accidents. Last spring's Israeli-Egyp tian situation produced an eve of-war tension which is not ap parent today. It could return. however, unless UN pressure can be brought promptly and successfully. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1956 by Bibler /////' PhysEd College Names 37 Students To Dean's List Thirty-seven members' of the College of Physical Education and Athletics have been named to the Dean's List for the Spring se mester. Four of the students, Patricia Farrell, Mary Rank, William Seckinger, and William Spieth, had perfect averages. The other students are Robert Allen, Frank Allender, Elizabeth Bemus, Mary Conrad, Ann Far rell, Marie Flanigan, Barbara Frederick, Thomas Hagepanos . , Shirley Hartay, Walter Hochberg, Mary Hudcovich, William Johns, Eileen Johnson, Dorothy Kellett, Chai•lotte Klippel, Otto Kneidin ger, and Ruth Kronenwetter. Also, Gail Lundgren, Robert McMullen, Frederick Marder, Shirley Mix. Mary Neel, Connie Paulakos, Judith Pendleton, Elaine Perrine, Lois Piemme, Kathleen Queensberry, Tom Rumsey, Audrey • Sassano, Lois Smith, Patricia Spatz, Robert S. Thomas and Joan R. Wilson. Camera Club to Hold First Meeting Tonight The Camera Club will hold its first meeting at 7:30 tonight in the HetZel Union Building,audi torium. Joseph Rohrbaugh, former pres ident, will speak. A tour of the club darkroom will follow the meeting. Persons interested in photog raphy may attend. Reserve Company to Meet The United States Reserve Composite Company 4-8 will meet at 7 tonight in 200 Engineering E. Tonight on WDFM 91.1 Megacycles 8:11 _—_ M Men on The Melt 8:31 10:M _ Scenario 11:111 SISK Off Sign OM The Retard Rack News As Yoe Believe Weibte Speech News in French
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