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MIKE MOYLE. Acting Editor
Deanna Solti?, Asst. Buiineu Manager; Arnold Hoffman, Local
8m Conklin, Managing editor; Ed Dabbs, City Editor: Fran Adv. Mir.; Janice Anderson, National Adv. Mgr.; Anne
Fanncri, Sports Editor; Beck> Zalim, (.’opr Editor; Vince Caton and David Poses, Co-Circulation Mgr*.; Arthur Brener,
Carocrl. Assistant Sports Editor; Erie Onoa, Fcatarea Editor: Promotion Mgr.; Jo Fulton, Personnel Mgr.: Harry Yaver-
Dave Bavar, Photography Editor. baom. Office Mgr.: Barbara Shipman. Classified Adv. Mgr.;
Roth Howland, Secretary: Jane Groff. Research and Rec
ords Mgr.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Lynn Ward; Copy Editors, Pat Hunter, Terry Leach; Assistants,
Jim Tuttle, Mike Dutko, Rocky Epstein, Sherry Kennel. Gail Boal, Marie Russo, Dolly Acri, Les Powell,
Wolf Alber, Ruth Grossman, Linda Segar, Marion Beatty, Pam Chamberlain, Dick Drayne, Mary
Kelly, Barbara Hodge, Joan Bransdorf, Sheila Miller, Randy Murray, Frank Vojtasek, Gary Young,
MarU* Moran.
Wake Up Panhel
PanheZlenic Council has been as sleepy as a
kitten.
We hive heard many complaints of the Pan
hel practice of using caidboard boxes for rushees
acceptances to sorority invitations. We feel
these complaints are justified. Invitations and
acceptance to sorority affairs should be con
ducted privately between the sorority and the
rushec concerned. Cardboard boxes set on tables
l.i the lounge could not be considered private.
Panhel should make an effort to see that the
invitation system is handled so that no criticism
is necessary. It should not be difficult for Panhel
to work through the Dean of Women's office.
If this is not feasible Panhel should devise some
system which would be more effective than the
one now used.
Criticisms have beer, rampant on the system
used during informal rushing for bidding coeds.
According to Panhel rules a rushee has one
week to answer any bid which she receives.
This is an unnecessary length of time. Three
days is a sufficiently long period of time for a
girl to decide which noup she would like to
join.
With the week's period between the time bids
go out and the time they must be answered,
sororities are put at a definite disadvantage. If
one rushee refuses after one week the sorority
can bid another girl in her place. However, with
lne long period of fime fhe girl of second choice
may have accepted a bid to another sorority.
This puts the sororities at an unfair disadvan-
The ‘Picture’ of Diligence
Collegian photographers have to take a lot
of kidding from everybody. “Casey, crime pho
tographer” is one of the favorite names students
give this group of hard workers.
But if kidding was all the photographers had
to take, it would not be bad at all. But there is
a lot more to it than meets the eye.
Many campus big shots have some sort of
"phobia" when they see a photographer. They
get some sort of satisfaction out of prohibiting
the photographer from doing his job. "Sorry
buddy, no pictures." is the favorite comment.
For seme crazy reason, they think they are
doing us a favor by allowing pictures at their
great event. They think we should be most
grateful for the privilege of doing pictures of
them. This I can not understand.
In (he first place, the privilege is not ours,
but theirs. We are doing them the favor by
taking pictures of their event. In most cases,
they benefit many times over as a result of this
publicity. In some incidents, the group is com
pletely dependent on Collegian publicity and
the success or failure depends on the amount of
publicity they get.
I can not understand why an organization will
deliberately cut off their nose to spite their face.
Secondly, there is such a thing known as free
dom of the press. I really think some organiza-
Wanna’ Buy a Corsage?
As much as we hate to throw cold water on
any phase of a gala big weekend, we still cannot
help gelling in a few comments on the question
of corsages for the Junior Prom.
Last week at Cabinet. Junior Class president
Ilarry Martini emphatically stated that the buy
ing of corsages was to be discouraged for the
upcoming dance.
Last year the Junior class presidents did like
wise. Others have done this also. However, we
still see representatives of fhe Student Floral
Agency in strategically-located spots around
campus selling flowers for the dance. If the
students have come right out and said that they
do not want to have corsages for a dance what
more proof could one want? The flower-sellers
still cannot help but to offer the temptation
anyhow.
We seriously don't think that many students
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THE DAH.Y COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager
iage. Fanhel. whose purpose it is lo represent
the sororities, should lake action to shorten the
bid period.
A third place where Panhel has fallen down
is in informing the rushees of the rush system
before it starts. Several people have told us
that rushees were not even aware that they must
attend the open houses of any sororities which
they hoped to visit later.
Rushing is certainly not easy to comprehend
iven for sorority girls who have been through it.
Panhel should treat every rushee as though she
knows nothing of sororities, rushing, or bidding.
Panhel should, through pamphlets, lectures,
teas, and any other means try to acquaint pros
pective rushees with the sorority and rushing
program. Mock open houses which were held
by the sororities last year were excellent. More
should be done along this line. If formal rushing
is to be held for second semester freshmen, then
Panhel should set up a complete indoctrination
program to be carried on throughout the first
semester. At the end of this time a coed will
know whether she wants to rush. If she does,
she will know how to handle the very confusing
program. ~
Panhel has fallen down on Us Job here. There
has been some improvement, but it should be
speeded up.
Panhel, we would like lo see you wake up
from your nap and face some realistic responsi
bilities in several areas.
lions and big wheels have forgotten this fact.
We photographers, as members of the American -
press have the right to cover any news event
that we think the public, or the students in our
case, should know about.
For Collegian photographers, taking pictures
is just an activity. It is our job to get art for
Collegians yet to be printed. We are just a tiny
cog in a big wheel that publishes news of the
campus and the world. When someone puts
their foot in our faces, it makes one think. Why
should we take such nonsense? Why should we
make fools out of ourselves? Why should we?
The Collegian photographers feel that they
are making a needed contribution lo the world
of events here at the University. We feel we are
a part of it. But there are many who don't feel
we are pari of it and would rather see us mind
ing our own business.
Maybe we should mind our own business. I
wonder how this would affect some of the
narrow-minded campus leaders. I don’t think
this idea would be appreciated by many. Be
sides. those that have been so good to us would
suffer.
The only answer is lo be nice lo everyone
and just smile when someone shuts the door
in our faces.
will use corsages at tonight’s dance. That is,
unless they had made up their minds to buy
a flower a long time ago.
The expense of a big weekend is enough with
out spending money where you don’t need to.
The banning of corsages for big weekends has
been becoming almost general practice in the
last few years.
Perhaps these scattered flower stands don't
change many students' minds about buying cor
sages. It remains, however, that they destroy
the no-corsage attitude which the Prom commit
tee has tried lo establish.
University Hospital
Edwin Bobo. William Crane. Richard Dill. Jim** Holme*,
Andrew Moconvi. Kay Powell. Kenneth Slotnick. Sally Wen
ner. Georse McKee. Robert Bowyte.
Editors*!* represent ttw
viewpoint* of tfc* writer a.
not necessarily die policy
of the paper. tho ttadeal
body, or the University
—Sue Conklin
—George Harrison
—The Editor
“Thai’s The Breaks For You If Tlie Election
Was Being Held April 15 Instead Of
November 6 ”
Herblack*. opinions ore not npcf.serily (hose ot
this newspaper, the student body, or the University,
lnterpreting the News
Two-Sided Story
From Washington
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (TP) —You can nearly always get
two inside versions of anything going on in Washington, and
sometimes both of them fit.
A few days ago they were saying that Eisenhower was
running “scared.”
It fitted
It was not many years ago that
his party had failed to win an
election very largely because it
was overconfident.
Stevenson and Kefauver were
and are rattling the bushes for all
they’re worth.
Stevenson had forced the Re
publicans to answer some “wife
beating” questions and charges,
such as the accusation that the
administration' is not friendly to
the little man, which always
make the answerer appear awk
ward.
Close races appeared lo be de
veloping in some key states
such as Pennsylvania and Cali
fornia. The solid South really
appeared fairly solid once more.
There was considerable belief
that, while he had hopelessly out
fumbled himself politically, Har
old Stassen may have been right
in his estimate that the Nixon
issue would adversely affect the
ticket.
The Democrats were first away
from the campaigning mark and
looked they were going strong.
Then the Republicans got to
work.
Nixon, known to many in the
past as a bitterly partisan cam
paigner. look a different tack
from 1952. agreeing for the most
part that his opponents are
honorable men. Irritation of the
voters has been held to a mini
mum. In spile of general agree
ment that the Republicans had
lost some strength in four
years, independent polls and
surveys of political opinion
generally reported them still
ahead—farther ahead than Host
political observers had expected
them to be.
Eisenhower started adding
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speeches to his originally rather
slim program. His appearances,
whether as president or political
candidate, produced enthusiasm.
More appearances were added. An
effort is being made in the South.
In the first weeks after the
nominating conventions there was
no general expectation that the
Republicans would regain control
of Congress. Now, suddenly, there
has been superimposed upon the
"running scared" theory another
—that the President and his ad
visers are going to make a last
minute effort to see if his per
sonal popularity can stir up more
interest in - Republican congres
sional candidates.
Whether that theory fils or
not is another question.
'Ruddigore'
(Continued from page two)
blades is swaggeringly effective.
A dash of mystery is added by
the band of ghosts consisting of
former Barons of Murgatroyd who
come back to haunt the present
Baron. The scenery for this part
of the production is exceptionally
good.
“Ruddigore’, under the direction
of Walter Waiters, head of the de
partment of theatre arts, is note
worthy in every phase.
As a campus production it has
achieved the heretofore unheard
of feat of casting every principal
role with a person imbued with
an excellent distinct voice.
This, along with the unsur
passed lyrics and music of Gil
bert and Sullivan, makes ‘Ruddi
gore’ a pleasure to watch. It is as
good a production ‘ghosts’ of
Schwab Auditorium have wit
nessed for a long time.