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MIKE MOYLE. Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Carole Gibson, Copy Editor, George French; Wire Editor, Anne
Fritdberg; As-utants, Wolf Alber, Denny Mahck, Joan Bransdorf, Bobbi Levine, Han Johns, Marie
Russo, James Wolfjnger. Sheldon Caplan.
LA Council: Don’t Stop Now
After a rousing start it now looks as if the
Libera! Arts Student Council may suddenly dis
continue its proposed "investigation” of the
College of the Liberal Arts.
The story on the front page of the Feb. 7
Daily Collegian ha? raised up quite a storm
among both council members and administra
tions in the College.
As might be expected the folks in the Liberal
Arts College are upset over the possibility that
someone might be challenging the standards of
their college. The LA Council members' who
were instrumental in giving the plan its start
are violently protesting that they were mis
quoted (but of course!) and that they never
proposed such things as appeared in the Daily
Collegian following last.week’s council meeting.
This latter protest can be easily cast aside
as being the "old story" which all newspapers
hear after someone failed to realize the mean
ing of his words or actions or after someone
came to the sudden realization that things
always look strangely and, at times, shockingly
final in print the morning after.
The consternation m the Liberal Arts office
can be understood, although at this time no one
can say the protests are fundamentally justified.
However, the effect up in Sparks was so great
that someone began talking of libel suits. Surely
the content of that Feb. 7 story was not so ter
rible as all that. Especially to a College which
has supposedly little to fear as the Liberal Arts
College has.
For the benefit of those people who are not
familiar with this story up to date it concerns
a discussion last week by the LA Council which
ended in the formation of a committee to in
vestigate (we hope that this is not a nasty word)
the College of the Liberal Arts.
Everyone has heard the stories and jokes
about the Liberal Arts College being made up
of nothing but so-called "snap courses." Also
there is the legendary LA student who carries
incredibly few credits and hours and does noth
ing but play golf, attend parties, and go to
Whipple's.
In simple words the crux of the whole thing
is whether or not the LA College is up to stand
ards and whether or not it is a test of the stu
dents within.
The LA people say yes. LA Council showed
some doubts last week, but seem to have been
simmered down a bit either by LA officials, by
reading of their startling deeds in the news-
Rushing Brings Turmoil
About 300 freshman women are leading the
life of Riley. Or are they?
Actually they are not. Sorority rushing can
be one of the most hectic or heartbreaking events
of their college life. With the proper attitude,
however, the rushees can gain a great deal, be
sides a sorority membership, from rushing.
They have a wonderful opportunity to meet new
people, make new friends, and gain an insight
into an entirely different type of social at
mosphere.
- Some will find it stimulating and fascinating
and others will find that they would prefer not
to be a part of sorority life. Each girl should
form her own opinion and should realize that
there is no must involved. Of the 300 women
who are rushing there are many personalities,
and each should find among the 23 sororities
one that will be compatible with her interests.
The important thinq for each rushee lo remem
ber is that she should go in the group where she
will fit the best. She should make her own
decision and not be susceptible to influence.
Today
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PEI
paper, or by a combination of both.
Virgilio Volpe, chairman of the committee,
said that the newspaper account of the meet
ing gave the idea that the committee had al
ready assumed that there were grave ills with
in the college and was going to correct these ills.
The committee’s real intention, Volpe added,
was to make a study to see if there were existing
deficiencies and. if so, to try to correct them.
This is a good defense and a good statement
of the committee's policy as regards the status
of the College of the Liberal Arts.
However, we te id to believe that the com
mittee must have smarted out with some pre
conceived notions of deficiencies or the whole
thing wouldn’t we been brought up.
Dean Ben Euwema will attend the next
Council meeting to straighten out any trouble
concerning the whole matter. According to Volpe
this talk by Dean Euwema may rule out the
necessity for any kind of committee.
Why is this? Will Euwema tell the Council
how good the College actually is? Is the College
this good? Are the criticisms and jokes true
to any extent? We realize that it is probably
difficult for any university to keep up wonder
fully high standards in a Liberal Arts College
where most of the courses are survey courses
and deal with material of a more general nature
than those in technical curriculums. All these
difficulties we grant are stumbling blocks to
high academic standards.
However, we would hate lo see this plan
dropped by the Liberal Arts Council.
A Liberal Arts official has been quoted as
saying he was of the opinion that students
should not be meddling in affairs such as these.
This is a typical administrative viewpoint. Per
haps a student survey could uncover something
quite useful to the College.
The way we hear it there are quite a num
ber of valid-sounding complaints about the Col
lege. Right now we just don’t know. At present
the College of Agriculture is encouraging stu
dent suggestions about any inadequacies in that
College.
We are extremely sorry if the first accounts
of this story were exaggerated or misleading in
any way. We hope, however, that student opin-
ions will be heard on this mailer and that the
Liberal Aris College will level with the Council
members and not try to save face. _
In many ways rushing is something of a head
ache for the coeds on the other end—the sorority
women. We sometimes feel, however, that soror
ities as a whole miss some of the good that
might come out of rushing. It is a time to build
a relationship of friendly cooperative compe
tition between the groups. It is usually very
difficult for sorority women to find the time
to concentrate on anything more than rushing
and classroom work.
We hope that this rush season will see a
friendly and competitive atmosphere develop
between sororities. Each group should remem
ber that part of the enjoyment of a sorority
is belonging to the larger group of sorority
women as a whole. The rushees are naive, and
the entire responsibility for the rushing spirit
falls on the sorority women.
We would like to see the responsibility taken
seriously by each sorority and by each coed,
thus making rushing light, entertaining, and
fun for all.
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Joan Winduh and Laura Ball.
Editorials represent the
viewpoints of the writers, I
not necessarily the policy
©f the paper, the itedent
body or the University
the act of March 1, 1679.
The article, called “Almus Mater,” was written by Paul
Dehn who had written to various American colleges for in
formation about living conditions and housing with an ap
parent eye to one day matriculat-1 ■
Editor | in C on these shores. Jthe fact that in England the word
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WSGA room. HUB
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Little Man on Campus
"Photography magazines? Some student in here
has them all checked out."
According to
Moyle
by mike moyle
The Jan. 2 issue of “Punch,” weekly English humor mag
azine, contains an article directly pertaining to the Univer
sity and its typically American use of the word, “coed.”
The article, written in typical (“coed” refers to both men and
British fashion, poked fun at a j women. Of course, in the United
brochure from the University, States reference to a “coed” insti
“Habitat Hints for Penn State tution is the only instance of such
Coeds.” la meaning. We usually think ot
Dehn quotei '“coed” as being strictly female.
We don’t . know why Dehn
own ouiDs wh> picked Penn State as the one uni
effect?ve P versity to chide about this usage;
Tho Amorio- unless it’s the only American uni
fusednhin) d whi No. Not Again!
reading the le; 0
let, thus maki
many of the p;
sages sound qu:
ridiculous.
He quoted
usual propaga:
ly setting and campus of the Uni
versity and then went into a fair
ly extensive description of the
women’s residence halls including
even the names of the hostesses.
The various housing rules and
other dormitory regulations
(which tend on the ridiculous at
times even to yours truly) can
be made to sound surprisingly hil
arious when seen through the
eyes of a Britisher.
The part of the brochure which
alludes to .the neatness of the
“coeds’” rooms is the highlight
of a very amusing article.
The gist of the whole thing is
TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 12. 1957
by Bib!
i Lfj
We assume that everyone by
now has noticed the latest sticker
campaign (or stunt) which has
fastened itself on all the conspic
uous doors on campus.
“The Phantom Dorm,” an or
ganization which seems to have
some dire projects in mind, has
even entered the office of The
Daily Collegian. We found in our
mailbox Sunday a notice of the
impending action of the “phan
toms."
Of course, if these sticker
campaigns keep up they will be
come passe' and will only incur
the wrath of those unfortunates
who will have to scrape them
off the doors. After the original,
C. V. Tummer, the sticker meth
ods have seemed to have lost
some of their appeal.