PAGE FOUR ruhustme tuantay through Saturday mornings daring die University rear. The Daily Collegian te a student• ellersrtad newspaper. $3.01 per semester 55.0 e per TM *meted u eecood.claes mattes July IL 1134 at the State College, Pa. Post Office andel the aet of March S. 1671. MIKE MOYLE. Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor. Marian Beatty; Copy Editor. Dave Fineman; Wire Editor, Jim Tuttle; Assistants, Carole Gibson, Paula Miller, Mike Dutko, Ralph Manna, Edie Blumenthal, Barb Stone, Sheila Miller, Wayne Schlegal, Ellen Oosterling, Judy Berkowitz. A Look Back at Rushing A sigh of relief and relaxation for all coeds marked the end of rushing last week. Now that it's over let's take a look at the program. The overall program was improved. There were a great. many problems ironed out, and several new ideas helped to lessen the confusion. There are still some points which could stand some improvement, but we know that Panhel lenic Council and its adviser. Mrs. R. Mae Schultz. are working on many of them already. The most obvious improvement was the ad dition of IBM machines. By using this method rather than having town women working day and night sorting and organizing the whole system ran much more smoothly. Sororities got the lists of girls who would return much more quickly: the rushees got their invitations much snore quickly. It was certainly a help to the women who had had to work such long hours. One complaint concerning the IBM system was that the freshmen and sophomores had to be on one list. This meant that a sorority could not choose sophomores individually and on the basis of how many they wanted. They had to put sophomores on the same list with freshman women. We understand that this can be fairly simply rectified. Panhel was not aware of all the uses that could be made of the IBM machines. Next time, according to Mrs. Schultz, Panhel will try to use the IBM cards with more information like semester, religion and average. This will not only make the IBM cards an improvement over the ones used in this past rush season. but it will make them an improvement over past systems. Mrs. Schultz said that the IBM system was beyond anything she had ever expected. We are inclined to agree with her. Another good point about the recent rushing program is that there was a free weekend in the middle. This gave both rushees and sorority women a chance for a breather. Before this rush period the rushees could ac cept or decline a sorority, but this lime they were able to "regret" which meant that they would like to visit that group but could not snake it at the originally-scheduled time. This was a valuable addition to the system. The educational and preparatory period was, to a certain extent, improved this year. The rushing booklet was far better and gave the rushees a much better idea of what to expect. The meetings held before rushing for the rushees PNPA Loses a Fight The fight being waged by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association to get more freedom in photographing courtrooms and court house corridors has met what may be its last rebuff. The United States Supreme Court has refused to review a Pennsylvania court decision banning such pictures. The PNPA has been carrying on this fight since they made a test case of the trial of John Wesley Wable, the Turnpike Phantom Killer. Wable was sentenced in Westmoreland County Court by Judge Edward G. Bauer Dec. 28, 1954. Pictures were taken in the corridor outside the courtroom before and after the sentencing against the implicit orders of Judge Bauer. Pictures were taken deliberately to test wheth er or not the 14th amendment would protect the press. from photographing newsworthy events. Most of the pictures were taken silently with special equipment. Judge Bauer found newsmen from the Pitts burgh Post-Gazette and the Greensburg Daily Tribune and Morning Review guilty of criminal contempt April 12, 1955. Fines and jail sentences were imposed. The jail sentences were thrown out by the State Supreme Court but the con victions were upheld. In recent years the long-time ban on court room pictures has been loosening with more and more judges letting photographers take pic tures in the more important trials. The biggest objection to taking pictures in courtrooms has been that the picture-taking process has tended to mar the orderliness and Gazette Today University Hospital CAMP CONRAD WEISER—INTERVIEWS, 111 Old Main Arthur Atkin, Benjamin Amato, John Baldwin. Franklin Block, Louise Chaplinsky, Brian Davis, Anthony DeGeorgio, MILLE.. GOVERNING BOARD. 7 D.M.. MBA Kenneth Fo'dweller. William Gordon. George Hawk, Paul LECTURE—Prof. A. Case. 7 p.m.. 104 Eisenhowar Chapel lielmbach. Patricia Hutchinson. Stanley Levine, Ntlda Lo. PHI MU ALPHA SINFONIA. 9 p.m., 117 Carnegie pea, Ronald Midi-, Amalendu Majumdar, Nancy Marchese, SPRING WEEK PUBLICITY STAFF. 7 p.m., 11l Carnegie Thomas Mascaro, Cordon Mortenson, Ronald Raught, Sandra ZOOLOGY CLUB. 7 p.m., 112 Buckbout Shaw. Ira Starer. Claude Sweet, Judith Weiss. Pick Up Your Money Or Books at the ÜBA This Week Between 1:30 and 4:00 Bring Pink gilt Elatig Catirgian Sucamsor to THE num LANCE eat THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager in an attempt to educate them to the system were fairly successful. The rushees were better informed, but they seemed to lack maturity in making decisions. They would sometimes not listen to the advice that had been given them by Panhel. Mrs. Schultz took a very active interest in the rushing, and gave it all her attention. She did quite a bit of individual counseling with rushees and was very concerned with the prob lems of each person. This gave rushees a chance to go to someone older for advice; it gave them a chance to find out many things they were not sure about. Unfortunately, many of the rushees did not listen to Mrs. Schultz-or to Panhel. They cut to a very few sororities at the beginning. Many of them did not look around, but had their mind made up ahead. As a result over 100 rushees did not go sorority. According to Mrs. Schultz it was mostly the rushees that did the cutting, not the sororities. She said that she was somewhat disappointed in the reaction from the rushees after all that had been done to keep these very things from happening. Again on the negative side, it would probably be better if rushees could go to three parties rather than two. They had to cut from five chat ter dates to two parties and then also went to two coffee hours. It would be better if it were more gradual with three parties. Another problem which Panhel has always faced is that of open houses. There are many sororities and only so many hours in an after noon for the rushees to get around to them all. Although this might be hard on the sorority women we would suggest that open houses be held from 1 - 10 5 p.m. on both Saturday and Sun day. This time they were held from 2 to 5 p.m. We would also suggest that the sororities be open for a couple of hours Sunday night for the rushees to go back and visit any sororities they may have missed. Although this plan would be hard for sorori ties it would be much fairer for rushees since it would give them a chance to visit each sorority. The sororities would also benefit because the rushees would be more likely to visit each of their suites. We would like to compliment Panhel for a good job. We hope it will be even better next time. Temporarily serenity which are part of a court trial. Judges have always ruled that the photographers had to cause too great a disturbance and interfered with trial proceedings. However, with the present-day photography methods and equipment photographers have shown without doubt that they can take good pictures silently and efficiently without causing any deterrent to the normal processes of the trial. In fact. there was a case where a photographer won a judge over to his side in the matter by showing him pictures taken without the knowl edge of the judge. The judgo respected the quality of the picture and the ease with which they were taken and decided that courtroom pictures would do no harm. Apparently, the PNPA, which has payed all court costs for the lengthy judicial fight, thought that the time was right for getting official per mission from the courts rather than having the courtroom photographers wheedling permission from the judges where they could. Rights for press photographers are expanding all the time. There are two bills in the state legislature right now which ask for penalties of attempting to keep photographers from doing their job. But from the Supreme Court's standpoint it appears as if some time will have to pass and a few more judges will have to be swayed over to the modern viewpoint before courtroom pho tography becomes an accepted thing. Editorial* Imprensa the viewpoints of the writers. net neertserili the polka of the paper. the student body or' the Unlversib —Sue Conklin —The Editor Little Man on Campus "Our sorority has only ONE entrance requirement, Elsie Mae." -1 Interpreting the News Many Small Nations Adopting 'Neutrality' By J. ,M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst King Saud's suggestion to his Arab conferees that they adopt a policy of toughness toward communism at home while maintaining neutrality in international affairs is- the line followed by Prime Minis It may be the best line ti can take in their present stages of development The United States has said she will not attempt to force alliances upon anyone who steers clear of international communism, regard less of the forms taken by gov ernments if they are independent. She is even willing to help Com munist governments of the type which assert their independence of Moscow domination. In effect, President Eisenhower has said the United States will not interfere with the internal af fairs of Middle East -countries which will accept American aid while keeping out of the hands of communism. The Saud position therefore seems to offer a working ar rangement whereby these na tions can accept the proferred aid without committing them selves against Russia, so long as they are not for her. One trouble with this, however, is exemplified by India.. By at tempting to . avoid opposing the party to the world dispute which is the aggressor, a nation may be pushed into a position which appears to be benevolent and ap peasing. Then there comes a time when the chips are down, as it always comes when dealing with an ag gressor, and a nation like Yugo slavia discovers that she must be either satellite or enemy. Poland, for instance, is just be ginning to learn that, without prompt outside aid, Russian pres sures now may make her econom ic condition worse than it was under the former direct exploita tion. • More than neutrality is need ed. More than security from inter nal communism is needed. To be safe, the emerging na tions must also make sure that, in order to obtain what seem to be SATURDAY. MARCH 2. 1957 by Bibler er Nehru of India. at formerly submerged states opportunist, benefits, they do not work themselves into positions where, under fut u r e circum stances, they will not be free to go their own way. Nasser did it when he mort gaged Egypt's economic life to Russia for a few arms, obsolete or obsolescent. The arms have suffered heavy damage, but the debt remains in full force. Un til it is paid, Nasser's talk of being "free" is just so much hogwash. He may get away, for a time, with repudiating his agreements with the West which will never again try to blackjack him— though it may use some - pretty firm leverage. He wouldn't dare act the same with his less prin cipled associates. Waiters Named Editor Dr. Walter H. Walters, associate professor and head of the Depart ment of Theatre Arts, has been appointed Book Review Editor of the Educational Theatre Journal, the official publication of the American Educational Theatre Association. BX Candidates to Meet A meeting of Book Exchange candidates, tentatively scheduled tomorrow night, will be held next week. Tonight on WDFM Ha MEGACYCLES 6:60 ----- ---- --------- --_ Sign On 6:b5 ---- -----------------News 7:00 Te l ephone Ba n dstand 7:55 8:00 8:30 Music Of p The enSe 9:00 ---.------ _ News 9:15 -- ^_-______— Informally Yours 9:30 ------------ Anthology 10:00 7 _Virt u osoll:3o __ News 11:35 -------------- __ ------ Sign Off Slips
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