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MIKE MOYLE, Editor
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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Maggie Lieberman; Copy Editor, Jim Tuttle; Wire Editor, George
French; Assistants, Carole Gibson, Mike Maxwell, Les Powell, Walt Shepps, Barb Hodge, Mary Fran
Cowley, Sherry Kennel.
Effective Student Government
The four class advisory boards have found
a method to make student government more
effective.
Each board has started out with one or two
projects which it traditionally handles for its
clan. In addition to this, each of the boards this
year has taken up other responsibilities in the
interest of the students.
The Freshman Class Advisory Board did not
get underway until November because the elec
tions for the sophomore and freshman classes
are held in the fall instead of the spring. The
board started off by planning the freshman class
dance which was held recently.
More recently the board has started research
on the extension of women's phone hours. It
has not had any results as yet, but it has started
looking into the matter.
Perhaps the most useful of all its projects, as
far as the student is concerned, is the work it
has started on the book lists for the downtown
stores. Members of the board have called each
dean and several other people to find out how
the lists of books for courses are sent to the
book stores. They hope to gain some information
which will enable them to make suggestions to
help with the problem of text shortages in the
stores before all the students have had a chance
to buy their copy. We hope they have success
in their investigation into this very important
matter.
The Sophomore Class Advisory Board has
presented a progress report on the results of its
work in giving out registration changes. Mem
bers of the board worked during registration
to' inform students of closed sections, new sec
tions. and any other timetable changes. On the
day before the first day of registration and at
the end of each of the first two days lists were
distributed to the Hetzel Union Building, all
dorms and all fraternities. This job was a service
to the students and to the registration officials.
It led to efficient and faster registration.
In addition to this the sophomore board stu
dents are holding a dance for their class and are
Safety Valve
Same Old Saturday Night
TO THE EDITOR: Two years ago the ban on
freshman cars was put into effect; last year the
rule against freshman drinking was imposed.
Now the Interfraternity Council wants to keep
freshman out of the fraternity houses for their
entire first semester. This seems to be leading
up to, in effect, a ban on freshman dating.
The deferred rushing has undoubtedly been
adopted from similar plans used at such schools
as Cornell and Lehigh. At these schools the
plan has been successful. Here the situation
is somewhat different.
Cornell. for instance, is located in the town
of Ithaca. N.Y. Ithaca is considerably larger
than State College and has much more to offer
in the way of entertainment. In addition to this,
the minimum age for drinking is 18. This allows
freshmen to take their dates to a tavern or even
a nightclub to show them a good time. Lehigh,
a men's college, is located in Bethlehem which
is also quite a bit larger than State College.
If the proposed plan is passed by the IFC, the
freshman coming to Penn State next fall will be
in a frustrating situation. He may take his date
to a movie or a sports event and then what?
These usually last until about 9:30 leaving him
three and a half hours with nothing to do.
At present he may take his date to a fraternity
house in which he is interested and may dance
or join the party, as far as the latest IFC restric
tion permits. If this privilege is taken away from
him, the only alternatives are the Hetzel Union
Building and Waring Lounge every weekend.
Freshman women are just as fraternity-minded
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conducting an investigation of the University's
parking facilities. The students hope to show
that some of the parking lots are not being used
to their fullest advantage and that spaces could
be rented to students.
The Junior Class Advisory Board has corn
pleted its two traditional functions—the Junior
Prom and the Christmas party for the children
of the faculty and students. In addition to these
it has been doing research on possible changes
in the structure of Junior Week. It also did
research on the length and desirable dates for
the Christmas vacation.
The Senior Class Advisory Board will have
the major annual project of the Senior Prom
and all the events connected with and including
commencement. This in itself is a detailed, long,
complicated and difficult job which takes a
great deal of planning and coordination. In ad
dition to this the board did some of the first
work on the Supreme Court issue and the
Christmas vacation conflict between All-Uni
versity Cabinet and the University.
Members of the board spent some of their
time discussing the Hungarian students and
what could be done to help them. They have
also discussed a senior gathering for the entire
class which they hope to plan definitely.
Perhaps the senior beard is best known for
its work on senior exemption from finals for
honor students. It has met with little success
yet but is still interested in the project.
All in all we feel that the four class boards
have utilized their lime to the advantage of the
students in their _class and of the student body
as a whole.
The boards have not been hampered with
financial matters as they have almost no money
to spend. They have had little interest in glori
fication of the board.
We compliment each of the boards' on their
effort to keep abreast of student government
issues and to tackle problems of immediate in
terest to the students.
A Day to Remember
Association of Independent Men President
Lash Howes last night recalled some remarks
left with the University by Dr. Milton Eisen
hower regarding "an academic atmosphere."
Dr. Eisenhower. in evaluating his administra
tion at Penn State felt that one shortcoming was
the failure to instill such an atmosphere at this
University.
•
Yesterday the University Senate passed legis
lation which will tighten somewhat the academic
standards here. With the number of potential
students swelling each year, they felt it was
time to make the students try a little harder to
stay in school.
Perhaps now the deserving and willing stu
dents will find their way into the University
and will give it higher academic standing.
Perhaps also it was a day for reform. Last
night at Cabinet Howes presented an amend
ment to the All-University constitution which
would prevent any student whose All-University
average is below 2.4 from sitting on Cabinet.
Thus She "academic atmosphere" may shift up
to the student leaders, too.
Maybe Dr. Eisenhower's hope will be fulfilled.
—The Editor
as are the men, and the HUB and Waring
Lounge offer little in comparison to the social
life of a fraternity house.
Freshmen are already handicapped enough
when they want a date for Saturday night, why
make it impossible.
Editorials represest CM
viewpoints of the writers.
not necessarily the polity
of the paper. the student
body. or the UniversitY
—Sue Conklin
—Thomas West
James Forsythe
Between 1:30 and 4:00
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Little Man on Campus
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"Hey. felled Come see Worthel's new pin-up."
According to
Moyle
by mike moyle
It was generally agreed last night in 203 Hetzel Union
that All-University Cabinet had a very good meeting. In
fact there was a little bit of time taken up at the end of the
meeting for some of the Cabinet members to congratulate
themselves.
We, too, thought it was a good meeting. Cabinet was
faced with two of the more mo
mentous problems it has been
called on to consider this year.
As All-University President Rob
ert Bahrenburg said, it has been
usual Cabinet policy to spend
four to six weeks to dispose of
the issues of compensations and
the National Student Association.
Decisions on both were made last
night in Cabinet's 2-hour session.
Not only did Cabinet act on
these problems. they made what
could be conservatively called
• wise decisions. There will be
some dissent on this, but in gen
eral Cabinet's action reflected
a goodly amount of thinking.
•
As usual the NSA question
brought forth some sterling ora
tory and many very strong opin
ions from both sides. NSA has
that certain faculty of getting the
best Cabinet has to offer each
year.
Last year NSA squeezed by on
a 13-10 vote. It looked for a while
last night if it was about to do
it again—this time the vote being
12-8-4.
However, Bahrenburg stepped
in, after a 10-minute recess ; with
one of the few vetoes All-Uni
versity presidents have occasion
to use. Bahrenburg's reasons com
pletely convinced us. We got the
idea the NSA supporters weren't
entirely up in arms about Bahren
burg's move either.
In our humble estimation, all
else at Cabinet was over
shadowed by Lash Howes' move
to raise the academie standards
of Cabinet members. This, al-
• FRIDAY. MARCH 8. 1957
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though those who were pre
occupied with Cabinet's "good"
meeting may not realize it, is
one of the best things done at a
Cabinet meeting in quite a few
years.
Cabinet showed that last week's
pannin.p in this - paper was not so
far out of line as many thought.
They thought so much of last
week's fiasco (and we still main
tain that's what it was) that they
UNANIMOUSLY voted to repeal
one bit of legislation. They must
have thought it sounded a little
bit TOO ridiculous.
Yes, all in all, student govern
ment had a lot to be pleased about
last night. We were severely criti
cized last week (as we have been
from all angles this year) for
panning Cabinet's lapse into sub
mediocrity. But this week's meet
ing was worthy of All-University
Cabinet.
Did the criticism do some
good—or was it merely a co.
incidence?
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