The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, February 19, 1957, Image 4

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IBM Decreases Time
For Rushing Workers
Work which once required 20 hours of manual labor in
the Panhellenic post office is now completed in 20 minutes
by the IBM machine which is being used this year for the
first time in sorority rushing.
“There's just no comparison between the machine and
our old way of handling invita
tions during rushing,” Mrs. R. Mae
Shultz, assistant to the dean of
women, said.
State Hires
2 Ed Profs
As Advisers !
Tv.'<> <-ducation professors were
included in a list of educational
consultants hired for short-term
duty at high pay by the State
Department of Public Instruction.;
They are Dr. Charles M. Long,
head of the Department, of Educa-I
tion, and Dr. Franklin Miller,'
chairman of the committee on
public school administration. i
Pay is SSO-a-Day j
The list, taken from the Audi-;
tor General’s payroll vouchers,;
named the two University profes-'
sors as $5O-a-day consultants to !
tthe department last year. j
The two were included in a pool
of 50 educators, many from out of
state, revealed by legislators pre- (
liminary to possible investigation;
of such hiring practices at the]
stale Capitol. j
Nothing Illegal Involved ]
The Associated Press reported
yesterday that there was “no in-;
dication” the consultants were en-;
gaged in anything illegal or un-';
ethical—the disclosure was simply]
a part of the Legislature’s budget;
investigations in Harrisburg. 1
The 50 educators were hired at
rates ranging from S3O to SlOO a!
day, the Auditor General’s vouch
ers showed. Most rates were S5O
a day.
McKinley Gets
Advisory Post
David H. McKinley, assistant
dean of the College of Business
Administration, has been elected
to serve a 3-year term on the
Educational Advisory Council of
the National Association of Manu
facturers.
The 31-man council, chaired by
Dean Virgil Rogers of the School
of Education at Syracuse Univer
sity, is composed of representa
tives of all areas and levels of
public and private education in
the United States.
McKinley represents teaching at
ihe higher education level.
The council reviews and passes
on all published materials sent
out by the National Association of
Manufacturers to the public
school systems of the nation. It!
also reviews the educational ob-|
jectives of the National Associa-i
tion of Manufacturers and ex
plores the ways by which teach-]
ers and administrators in educa-!
tion can further assist in the de-!
velopment of the Association's
program.
Leonides to Give Tea
A housemothers tea, sponsored
by Leonides, will be given in hon-i
or of all the campus hostesses at:
7 tonight in Simmons lounge. Re-'
Ireshments will be served and,
entertainment will be presented. '<
CANDIDATES
FOR
COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF
• ADVERTISING
• PROMOTION
• CIRCULATION
• BUSINESS
• RESEARCH
Those Interested Meet in Room 316 Sparks
Tonight at 8 p.m.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
Formerly, all sorting of invi
tations, acceptances and regrets
was done by sorority alumnae liv
ing in town. The women began
early in the morning and fre
quently worked 12 hours at a
time, Mrs. Shultz said. At the be
ginning of the rushing period
each rushee and each sorority was
given a large envelope. Before
each event the workers had to
sort invitations for all women
and acceptances for every soror
ity.
Machine Located in Old Main
Now the only job of the post
office worker is to take invita
tions as they are brought in by
the sororities and feed them into
the machine. The machine, which
is housed in the basement of Old
Main, then alphabetizes and sorts
the cards for each rushee.
After the rushees have returned;
the invitations marked either
“accept” or “decline,” the ma
chine reverses the process and
sorts the cards for each sorority.
Seven thousand cards can be pro
cessed in this way in 20 minutes,
i One Mistake in 35,000
Cards have been handled thus
far for three rushing functions—
;two rounds of chatter dates and
fast night’s parties. Of the 35,000
| cards sorted, only one has been
[mis-handled.
The big test for the machine
will come on Thursday afternoon
when final lists of ribbonees for
sororities will be made.
“We’ve never used the machine
! before, so we aren’t too sure how
it can jlo on matching preferential
lists,” Mrs. Shultz said.
Preferential Lists to be Filled
Before the final list can be com
piled, both sororities and rushees
must fill out a preferential list.
Rushees will give their first and
; their second choices. Sororities
[will list in order of preference the
women they would like to pledge.
According to Mrs. Shultz, the
machine can definitely perform
the preliminary steps to matching!
the lists. How much more it can
do is still unknown. What the ma
chine can’t do will be finished
by the staff of the dean of wom
en's office.
Time and Energy Saved
“At any rate, we’re certainly
saving time and energy,” Mrs.
Shultz said. "We’re also avoiding
mistakes which are humanly im
possible to catch. And we know
[that an error on our part isn’t
[making a rushee unhappy.” ]
jWDFM to Present
jMook Interview
.1 A taped interview with Dr.
.'Maurice Mook. professor of an
thropology, will be presented at 8
’ tonight on the program “Face to
Face" over WDFM.
Helen Slotta, moderator of the
program, and Dr. Mook will dis-;
,cuss the difference between the!
imusic of the Broadway play on!
j Amish life, “Plain and Fancy,” j
!and true Amish music. Dr. Mook!
.will also comment on Amish cus-j
toms, home life and social life, j
Employment
Interviews
The following firms will con
duct interviews for June and Aug
ust graduates in the Placement
Service Office in 112 Old Main:
March 4:
Colgate Palmolive: BS: lE.
Federal Telecommunication Labs: BS,
MS: EE.
Federal Telephone & Radio: BS: ME, EE,
Phys.
Hamilton Watch: BS: ME, EE, Phys,
lE. Accttr. Met.
H. J. Heinz: BS: ME. lE, ChE, EE.
Chein. Phys; PhD: A&B Chem; JRS: Eng
fields above for summer employment.
Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co: BS:
Bus, LA, AjfrEc, Bus Psych, for selling.
Pittsburgh'De Moines Steel Co: BS, MS:
CE. ME. EE. ArchE.
Pittaburjrh Plate Glass Co: BS: MS:
CbE. CE. EE. lE. ME. Chem. Phys. Cer.
Acctfir: JRS: Aboxe fields for summer em
ployment.
March 5:
Joseph Horne Co: BS: LA, Bus Adm,
H.F-c.
Glenn 1.. Martin Co: BS. MS: AcroE,
ArchE. ChE; CE. EE, Ens Sci. ME. Met:
Also JRS in above fields for summer em
ployment.
RCA Corp: BS. MS: EE. ME. Phys,
EnjtSci: JRS: above fields for summer
employment.
RCA Labs: BS, MS: EE, ME, Phys;
BS, MS: in above fields for summer em
ployment.
Square D Co: BS: ME. lE. EE; MS: EE.
Union Bag-Camp Paer Corp: BS, MS:
ChE, ME. lE. MetE. EE. For.
American Cyapamid: BS, MS: Chem,
ChE: JRS: in above fields for summer;
employment.
Dudd Co: BS: CE: MS. MS: Acctg,
AeroE, ChE, Chem, EE. Eng Sci, lE, ME,
Met, Phys; JRS: Aero. CE, CE, EE, ME,
Eng Sci, Phys, Chera for summer employ
ment
Camps, Resorts
Offer Students
Summer Jobs
Summer work is available in 94
camps and 32 resorts at the sum-,
mer camp and resort employment
bureau of the Student Placement'
Service.
Students interested in summer,
work should visit the Student Em-!
ployment Office, 112 Old Main, j
Eleven camps and one resort
will have representatives on cam
! pus during the next two months
|to conduct interviews. Students
| wishing to schedule interviews
should register in advance. |
Camp jobs are available in Con-i
necticut, Florida, lowa, Ohio, West!
Virginia, Indiana, Maine, Mary-'
land, Massachusetts, Rhode Is-1
land, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michi
gan, New Jersey. New York,
Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Resort work is available in!
Pennsylvanai, New York, New!
Jersey, Maine, Connecticut, Wyo- :
ming, Kentucky and Wisconsin, j
In the service office, material!
is available concerning various!
camps and resorts along with the!
names of students previously em-i
ployed at these places. These stu-j
dents may be contacted for in-|
formation such as working or;
social conditions of the camps or|
resorts.
• Approximately 450 University
[alumni are employed by E. L Du-!
!Pont. 1
Money or Books may be
picked up at the U.B.A.
9-12 Saturday
9-5 Tuesday to Friday
February 19 to February 25
In the TV Room of the HUB
Money or Books May NOT Be
Received Without Pink Slips
Roudiez Analyzes
Rousseau's Work
Dr. Leon S. Roudiez, associate professor of Romance
j languages, said Sunday night that Rousseau, while an im-
Iportant figure in our heritage of freedom, must not be ex
amined too closely in reference to the American system of
government.
In a speech in the Hillel auditorium, he analyzed
Rousseau’s “The Social Contract”
in the second program in a series,
“The Structure of Freedom.”
Dr. Roudiez said that Rous
seau’s concept of the “general
will” can have no practical mean
ing in a two-party system or even
a multi-party system of govern
ment.
Men Must Choose
For to have the “general will,”
men, men, must make their
choices free of all influences and
pressure groups. Parties are, of
course, pressure groups, so Dr.
Roudiez explained, and they could
not be condoned in Rousseau’s
“pure” democracy or society. i
Dr. Roudiez said that Rousseau
is often misinterpreted. Many
seems to think that he had an
idealistic faith in the goodness of
!man, and in the morality of man.
| Two Misinterpretations
But Dr. Roudiez held that this
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is in error, for Rousseau believed
[that man was neither good nor
bad, moral nor immoral. Dr. Rou
diez described it as a sort of
i “amorality.”
Another common misinterpreta
tion, Dr. Roudiez said, is that
Rousseau would have rejected so
ciety. But he points out that Rous
seau would not reject society as a
whole, only at a given time, that
is, if it had not set itself up ac
cording to the “general will.
Not a Revolutionary
Dr. Roudiez emphasized that
[Rousseau did 7.0* intend his phil
osophy to be restricted to demo
cracy, for it applies to all forma
of government. For it is more a
treatise on society than on poli
tics or government, meant only
as an introduction to his “Of Po
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