PAGE FOUR - Parriseners raeselay *roachEditorials represent umsatafdq Satardsy mornings Jonas ..1 ili ll Elattil en/ /Pan viewpoints of the writers, the University rear The not necessarily the policy Rally Collegian as • Modena Sareassor to THE FREE LANCE. est. 1887 of the paper. the student snue eonrapaper bed.? or the University $3.00 pet semester 35.00 per year . —— 'Entered es second-clam matter /sly S. 1131 at the State College, Pa. Post Office ander the act of Mirth I. 1819. MIKE MOYLE. Editor Deanna SoWs. Asst. Bus. Mgr.; Steve Higgins, Local Adv. Sae Conklin. Managing Editor; Ed Dobbs, City Editor; Fran Mgr.:* George Shambatigh, Asst. Local Ado Mgr.; Marilyn Farmer'. sport. Editor: Becky Zahn' Copy Editor: Eels Elias. National Ad. Mgr.: Don Stahl. Promotion Mg..: Anne Onsa Assistant Copy s'ditor; Vines Carona. Assistant Sports Caton and David Ponca. Co-Circulation Mgrs.; Jo Fallon. Per- Editor: rat Dante, restores Editor: Dave Savor. Photos- sonnet Mir.; Harry Yaverbanm. Office Mgr.: Barbara Ship tau*. EtUlm man. Classified Ad Mgr.; Ruth Howland. See.* Jane Groff. Research and Records Mu. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dick Fisher; Copy Editor. Pat O'Neill; Wire Editor, Dave Fineman; Assistanls, Pat Evans, Anne Ruthrauff, Gary Young, Edie Blumenthal, Sheila Miller, Wayne Schlegel, Ellen Oosterling, Judy Berkowitz. Money—NSA Does the University get its money's worth out of the National Student Association? Dues alone for NSA are $6OO, part of which goes to the national and part to the regional_ This is the beginning cost. On top of this there is the cost of sending delegates to regional and national congresses The national is only once a year, and there are several regional confer ences each year. Another cost is the supplies end general expenses necessary to run the NSA office on campus. Most NSA advocates agree that the University should not belong unless she can send the full number of delegates (seven) and the full num ber of alternates (seven) to each congress. Peo ple usually feel this way because they say that we cannot get anything out of NSA unless we Join fully and try to get our ideas across at meetings. It has also been said that the University should keep its membership in NSA because there are faults in the organization which Penn State students should try to cure. The fact remains that it is an expensive proposition and that the University has gotten very little out of it in her several years of mem bership. It seems unfair to charge Penn State students so that delegates can be sent to NSA to cure its ills. This is much like giving to charity, and we feel that there are many finer charities than NSA. Considering what the University has gotten out of NSA its money has been virtually a gift. It would seen. that there is very little the Uni versity could do even if it did send 14 students. The organisation is so nebulous and difficult to understand that only those students who have been familiar with it for years can understand it. By this time they are usually ready to grad- Sorority Problem Pressing Sorority membership may become rationed in the next few years unless the University al lows new chapters of national sororities to be established on campus. At the present time there are some 3000 worn en on campus-900 of whom belong to sororities. For the last several years approximately 800 freshman women have been admitted to the University: but next fall 1300 will be admitted— a 40 per cent increase. With this expected increase next fall, 600 women instead of 360 will likely rush the 23 campus sororities. In the past, the sororities have been able to accommodate the number of women wishing to pledge, but prospects for their being able to do so in the future look pretty dark. Raising the present sorority quota of 50 to one Today AC ENC CLUB, 7 p.m., 105 Ag Eng. CHESS CLUB, 7 p.m., 7 Sparks FORESTRY CONVOCATION HOUR. 11 a.m.. 121 Sparta GRANGE. 7:15 p.m.. 100 Weaver IitILLE.I... concert. a p.m., Rine] Auditorium LECTURE. Prof. A. Case, 7 p.m.. 104 Eisenhower Chapel NrITANY GROTTO, 7 p.m.. 121 Mineral Industries PHI UPSILON OMICRON. 6:15 p.m.. Home Economics Living C. 'ter RIDING CLUB. 7 p.m.. f.. 17 Willard THETA SIGMA PHI. 8:30 p.m., Alpha Chi Omega ■uita New Democra By .T. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Ana/yist Over on the Gold Coast of Afri ca they're christening a new na tion today, called Ghana. It's all very definitely in the American tradition. A politically immature people has been schooled by its British former masters to take up life on its own. It is a token to the skeptical part of the world that the British Empire is no longer imperial, pre ferring instead to pose as the mid wife of liberty. In appreciation of this token. which relieves some of the em barrassment the United States frequently feels because of her close alliance with the colonial powers of Europe. Vice Presi dent Nixon is at Accra to join representatives of 55 other na tions at the birthing. The British are sponsoring the Ash Wednesday Rites Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, will be observed with the distribution of holy ashes after the 6:30 and 8 a.m. Masses and at 3:30 and 7 p.m. today at Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. P DAVE RICHARDS. Business Manager uate. PrObably if the University sent 14 dele gates to the congress it just more of a wasted expense. The delegates that went at the end of last summer are just now getting a report out. They found that they had so little to contribute that one member could give the report for the en tire group. Is this the fault of the delegates? We would say that it is not. It is the fault of NSA. During the past year NSA has done several things of dubious worth. It gave the Campus Chest committee ideas on how to run the cam paign. The failure of the drive in comparison with what it should be would indicate that this, one of the original NSA projects, was not an asset to the University. . NSA has looked into several things such as a student discount service, transportation facili ties in the vicinity, improving All-University Cabinet's public relations situation and the Leadershp Training Program. The discount re search was ruined by the incompleteness of the report and the bad relations that it caused. The committee found that nothing was needed in relation to transportation facilities and has made only minor progress in the area of public rela tions and leadership training. The committee suggested that a course syllabi be set up. So far nothing has been done, but there are possibilities as this seems, to be the most valuable of NSA's contributions. In any case, there has been a small reward for $l2OO or more. Basically NSA is a toy for a few people to play with while thousands of students are paying for it. _ - Until we see some concrete evidence that NSA can contribute something to the University, we would suggest that membership be dropped. of 60 has been one suggested approach to the problem. This would ease it, but would not solve it. The residence hall expansion program will, within ten years, allow more women to enter the University. A simple quota extension—allowing each sorority about three more women in each class—is not sufficient. Women who wish to join a sorority should net be turned down simply because there is no room for them. It would be better to have no sororities at all than to make them a sanctuary for a "select" few. Some of the nine national sororities not rep resented here have expressed the desire to found a chapter at the University. These groups should be given a chance. Gazette WOMEN'S CHORUS. 7 p.m.. HUB Assembly Room Dolores Acri, Herman Biesterfeldt, William Bliss, Larry Byers. David Caum, Peter Cooke. Maeario Corales, Dorothy • Craig. Eugene Curattl, Clair Dennis. Sara Dietrick, David Fine. Edythe Friedman. Jacquelyn Greenberg. Thomas Grimi son. Doreen Hayward, Robert Holzinger, Robert Koch, Nancy Marchese, David Nash, Francis Paolone, Vincent Paparella, John Parke. Harold Pitzer. Walter Poplarchek. James Riad maki, Paul Rod.enberger. Janet Schneider. Murray Simon. Ira Starer. Kenneth Stuthers. Anthony Thomas. Mary Toohey, Richard WeigeL Y Born in Af new nation in much the same spir it that the United States has spon sored the Philippines, and that, other West African nation, Li-1 beria. . Ghana, like Pakistan but unlike some of the other relatively new nations, has already made her choice of the Western side in the cold war. She is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, for merly known as the British.Corn monrvealth. She made this choice as freely as Burma decided to go it alone. Amid all the celebrating, it is presumed that acme of the of ficial .midwives will tell new little Ghana today that this is a hard world for small nations, and large ones as well. Her of ficials have become, well aware of it during the period of lute. lage. They, in their happiness today, Law Dean to Give Talk Pi Lambda Sigma, pre-legal fraternity, will sponsor a talk by Morris L. Shafer, dean of Dick inson Law School, at 7:30 p.m. to morrow in 102 Willard. The speech is open to the pub lic. —Sue Conklin —Judy Harkison University Hospital ica will not stop to think that the or ganization of a new national state is itself a contradiction of the trend toward internationalism which historical philosophers think they see. In Europe and in a vast African area to the north of Ghana, France is even now trying to promote a vastly different idea—Eurafrica— a melding of the social and eco nomic interests of many countries which, instead of nurturing na tionalism, would yield a part of their sovereignties to the com mon welfare. Indeed, the lot of new nations in recent years has not been a happy one. Burma, India, Pakis tan, IndoneSia, Israel, Sudan, among others, including those formed after World War I. have serious troubles. Ghana will need the sympathy as well as the cheers of the free world. Cantor to Give Concert The B'nai B'rith Hillel Founda tion will sponsor a concert by Cantor Saul Meisels of Cleveland, Ohio, at 8 tonight in the Hillel audi'orium. The concert will be "Songs of Jewish Life." NNSYLVANIA tle Man on Campus "Mind taking that nervous boy next?" Alaskan 'Senators' Trying Old Trick WASHINGTON, March 5 (!P)—Most senators and repre sentatives have settled down in the congressional routine by now. But not the gentlemen from Alaska. Alaska's senators-elect and representative-elect still are trying to find offices within a snowball's throw of Capitol Hill. And while other Congress members worry over all sorts of problems, they concentrate on one chore Whooping it up for Alaska statehood. You undoubtedly know that Alaska, tired of waiting for state hood, elected its Congress mem bers and sent them on down here to Washington. This device first was used by Tennessee in 1796. It worked perfectly; Tennessee was a state within a month. This time results haven't been so spectacular. But Alaskans be lieve the sight of these men at the Capitol door may speed up the process of letting them in as mem bers. Hearings start on Alaska state hood bills next week. Hawaii, the other veteran yearner for state hood, gets its turn next month. So this seemed like a good time to drop around and say, "Neer= ahngaouk," which is Eskimo for "Best wishes." All three say the job of being almost a congressman is work ing - out fine. The senators-elect, Ernest Grue ning and William A. Egan, have talked with almost all the 96 full time senators. "We're mainly. interested in seeing if we can't clear up any questions they may have," Gruen ing said. "It's amazing how many misconceptions still exist about Alaska—the myth that it's noth ing but a land of snow." In case you, too, are myth bound on Alaska, here are a few temperature readings: Thanks to the Japan Current, Anchorage has January tempera tures that compare with those in Concord, N.H. Juneau's tempera ture is about like New York City's. On the other hand, Fair banks, with 20 hours of night in midwinter, has a deep diving ther mometer that occasionally hits 60 below. And if the mention of Alaska automatically brings up a mental picture of an igloo, consider this: Whittier has a 14-story building and Downtown Alaska can look pretty much like Downtown Any where, when the towns are of sim ilar size. Forestry Convocation T. W. Lauderdale of the indus trial relations division of the Un ion Bag and Paper Corporation, Savannah, Ga. will address the forestry convocation at 11 a.m. today in 121 Sparks. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 6. 1957 By ARTHUR EDSON $5OO Audiology Grant Offered Delta Zeta sorority has estab lished a ,$5OO national scholarship for a woman student in the field of audiology or an allied course. The annual award will be made to assist a qualified graduate or undergraduate woman with jun ior or senior standing. The allied field includes applied studies in speech and hearing. The applicants need not be Delta Zeta members. Application forms may be obtained by writing to Delta Zeta, National Head quarters, 3561 N. Pennsylvania St., Indianapolis 5, Ind. The scholarship committee must have the application on or before April 15. New Prof Hired For Ag College Dr. Chester W. Hitz, associate professor of pomology at the Uni versity of Delaware, has been hired by the University as a pro fessor of pomology. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Missouri and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland. Dr. Hitz will fill a position va cated by Dr. David G. White, now head of the Horticulture Depart ment of Oklahoma A&M. Chess Team Wins Meet The chess team defeated. Beth any College Sunday, Carl Deitrich, junior in arts and letters from Bellefonte; Frederick Kerr, junior in division of.inter mediate registration from Alli son Park; and Arthur Stein, soph omore - in arts and letters from Philipsburg, earned one . point each for Penn State. Michael Cesanek, junior in psy chology from Allentown, scored Yz point. Tonight .on WDFM 11E1=72711 6:50 --- Sign On 6:55 News 7:00 7:55 8:00 8:30 Music Of The People _ News Informally Yours Anthology Virtuoso News Situ Off Bibler
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