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ED DUBBS, Editor
A**t~ Bo*. M zr~ Sue Mortenson: Local Ad. Mfr., Marilyn
ManMinr Editor. Ju4y Harkwon: City Editor. Robert Frank- Eliu; A*»t Local Ad. Rose Ann Gonzales: National
lia; Sports Editor. Vince Carocri: Copy Editor. Ann Fried- Ad. Mgr,. Joan Wallace: Promotion Mcr.. Marianne Maier;
fee i*; Assistant Copy Editor. Marian Beatty; Assistant Sports Personnel Mfr., Lynn Glasbbum; Classified Ad. Mgr.. Steve
Editor. Matt Podhe«ek; Make-up Editor, tiinny Philips; Pho- Bilhlein; Co-Circulation Mfr*., Pat Mierntcki and Richard
tofraphy Editor. George Harrison. I.ippe: Research and Records Mgr.. Barbara Wall; Office
Secretary. Marlene Marks.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor. Dick Fisher; Copy Editors, Denny Malick, Barb Martino; Wire
Editor, Paula Miller; Assistants, Linda Segar, Anne Ruthrauff, Barb Hodge, Marie Russo, Marcel
Van Leirde.
A Rotation Plan That Doesn’t Rotate
John Morgan, president of the Association
of Independent Men, is to present a substitute
plan for rotation of fraternity and independent
affiliation for class and All-University officers
to Cabinet tonight. Cabinet should vote it down.
Morgan at the April 11 Cabinet meeting
moved to table a rotation plan suggested at
Student Encampment last year and brought
before Cabinet by the All-University Commit
tee. The plan was tabled.
Now Morgan asks Cabinet to approve his
plan.
In his report to Cabinet as printed in the
agenda, he makes one mistake from the start.
He says freshman class officers have "no af
filiation." Of course, this is incorrect. All fresh
man males upon matriculation to the University
are automatically members of the Association
of Independent Men.
Most freshman class presidents, admittedly
go fraternity during their second semester. But
for most of their terms and more important,
when they are elected, they are independents.
No one at the University has “no affiliation.”
The Elections Committee plan, which Mor
gan opposes, goes like this:
The All-University officers would rotate year
by-year among fraternity members and inde
pendents. For example, next year’s All-Uni
versity president and secretary-treasurer would
be independent and the vice president, fra
ternity. In 1959, the All-University president
and secretary-treasurer would be fraternity and
the vice president, independent
The senior class president would always be
fraternity, the vice president independent, and
the secretary-treasurer, fraternity.
The junior class president would always be
Legalized Horse Racing: Means Revenue
The horse-racing referendum faces a muddy revenue go to neighboring states?
track in the state House after its “by-the-nose” Opponents to legalized horse racing generally
win Tuesday in the Senate. The referendum use the mortality argument: Men will go to
may not even place. the track and lose their pay checks while their
"If I have anything to do with it, it will stay wife and children—small children—go hungry,
in committee.” said House Majority Whip Allen This argument is the same used by the Wom-
M. Gibson (R.-Warren). en's Christian Temperance Union in opposing
“It’s an also-run as far as I'm concerned,” drinking: Alcoholic beverages are bad im
said Rep. Adam T. Bower (R.-Northumberland), moral; therefore they should be banned.
veteran GOP power. .• Alcoholic beverages—and horse racing are
We would like to see the horse-racing referen- not bad or immoral in lhemselves. There is only
dum win. one criterion for judging whether alcoholic
Pennsylvania is surrounded by states per- beverages are good or bad. That is sensory
mining pari-mutuel betting. West Virginia, taste.- The one criterion for judging horse races
Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York is whether it’s a good card,
and Ohio all have legalized betting. The WCTU and opponents to horse racing
Pennsylvania in the center does not. mean to say that men are not perfect That
Anyone from the Philadelphia area knows men do not always know their capacity for
that many Pennsylvania residents from that holding alcoholic (beverages. That men do not
area go to Atlantic City and Garden State tracks always know how much and how often they
to play the horses. Many Pittsburgh area resi- can afford to bet on horses,
dents go to Ohio and West Virginia tracks. This does not make drinking and horse rac-
These residents—and there are thousands of ing bad or immoral in themselves
them—leave the state every year to bet And There is no doubt that the state can use
these neighboring states tax the money they more revenue. Horse racing is a way of obtain
earn in Pennsylvania to bet on horses. ing revenue.
This is the main argument used by persons The state legislators can at least put the
favoring legalized horse racing in Pennsylvania: issue befdre the public in a referendum vote
Why should the state allow all this potential —The Editor
Still More in Stone
The All-Service Revue with emcee Jan Mur
ray. to bo presented tonight in Recreation Hall,
will for the first time bring nationally-known
entertainers to the campus in the form of a
Spring Week indoor music festival.
Murray will present 26 trophies to the win
ners of the Spring Week events—a fitting cli
max to the University's biggest social week of
the year.
It is hoped that the All-Service Revue will
increase the annual Spring Week donation to
the Penn State Student Scholarship Fund.
Last yea; $l2OO was donated to the fund,
and the year before, $lOOO. If students fail to
support the Revue tonight, the expenses of
the Revue will have to be deducted from carni
val receipts.
The 61 men in the Pensacola Glee Club and
the 17 men in the Army “Showboat Jamboree”
will be housed in fraternities—a sign of spirit
and cooperation among the participating groups.
Psychology Profs
To Give Papers
Three faculty members of the
Department of Psychology will
present papers at meetings of
the Mid-Western Psychological
Association today and tomorrow
in Chicago.
They are Alec J. Slivinske, as
sistant professor. John F. Hall,
associate professor, and Lee B.
Seehrest. assistant professor. Wal
ter Katkovsky, associate professor
of psychology, will also attend
the meeting.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
STEVE HIGGINS, Business Manager
independent, the vice president fraternity, and
the secretary-treasurer, independent..
The sophomore class president would always
be fraternity, the vice president independent,
and the secretary-treasurer, fraternity.
Freshman class officers would always be in
dependent.
Political parties elect seven seats on All-
University Cabinet: the lhree All-University
officers and the four class offices. Under the
Elections Committee rotation plan, during one
year independents would hold four of these
seven seals and fraternity men three of the
seven seats. The next year it would be the
opposite.
Now let’s take a look at the Morgan plan.
The rotation of the All-University officers is
the same as that suggested by Elections Com
mittee.
A similar rotation plan would be used for
the senior class offices.
However, the junior and sophomore class
officers would not rotate. The junior class presi
dent would always be independent, the vice
president fraternity and the secretary-treas
urer, independent. The sophomore class presi-
dent would always be fraternity, the vice presi
dent independent and the seeretarv-treasurer,
fraternity.
The freshman class officers, as already men
tioned, would have •‘no affiliation.”
The Morgan plan looks good on the surface,
but it really doesn't rotate. It means that inde
pendents will always hold four of the seven
Cabinet seals elected through political parlies.
If Cabinet wants a rotation plan, as it has
shown, it should approve one that really rotates.
—The Editor
Spring Week is the lime of the year, when
students, as a group, can put their heart into
something creative. Each participant must de
cide whether it is to be a method of awakening
school spirit, of presenting a united effort on
the part of the students and of laying a founda
tion of favorable publicity in the future.
So far the week can be termed a success. But
it should be carried through to a favorable
finish—showing the same group spirit for the
All-Service Revue tonight, and for the Senior
Ball tomorrow night.
Today •
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION. 7 p.m.. 204 Helen
£akm Eisenhower Chape]
FOLK DANCE FESTIVAL, 8 p.rn.« Hetzel Union Ballroom
University Hospital
DonaldI J. James Addis. Laura Ball, Stanley
Burd» Phyllis Caplan, Donald Davis. Lota Henderson. John
Hets. Sudhir Kumar. Richard Poole. Ira Starer. Bomma
kunti Saatry, John Williams. Barbara Ann Wrajnr.
Parttime Employment
Students who are interested in
parttime jobs may apply in per
son at the Student Employment
Service office. 112 Old Main.
A variety of jobs are available
including garden and lawn work,
window washing and other odd
jobs.
Hexner Lecture Postponed
A lecturer by Dr. Herman Hex
ner of Washington, D.C. on “Com
mon European Markets,” origin
ally scheduled for tonight, has
been postponed..
Editorial* represent the
viewpoint* of the writers,
not necessarily the policy
of the paper, the etudent
body, or the University.
the set of Hmrcb I. 1679.
—Judy Harkisoxf
Gazette
Prof Writes Story
For 'The Authority'
Lee E. Corter, municipal repre
sentative in the Institute of Local
Government, and assistant pro
fessor of political science, is the
author of an article, “Straight
Talk about Public Relations and
You,” which appears in the March
issue of The Authority.
The magazine is one of the
official publications of the Penn
sylvania Municipal. Authorities
Association.. :
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Interpreting the News
Soviet 'Skies Plan
Poses Problem
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News- Analyst _ '
In the earlier- days of the cold war the Western Allies
would have kicked Russia out of court without a hearing on
her latest suggestion for a limited trial of the Eisenhower
“open skies” principle.
In those days every reacti
theory that Russia would never!
offer anything without a catch ini
it, and therefore easy to formu-j
late and announce quickly. The
West got a bad name among the
neutrals on some of these occa
sions.
In the current disarmament
discussions, the United States
has been trying to emphasize
the positive approach, and has
publicly credited Russia with a
more serious approach herself.
For that reason Washington is
being slow to comment, although"
Britain and France have dis
played coolness on the grounds
that the territory Russia offers to
open up to reconnaissance is not
of equal importance as the terri
tory she wishes to inspect in re
turn.
Washington is caught in a
quandary. If there is to be a re
jection the United States must
make it a carefully considered
one;
President Dwight D. Eisenhow
er advanced the “open skies”
principle jas his chief contribution
to the Geneva conference two
years ago. Few considered it more
than propaganda, since Russia
was never expected to agree to
open up anything for foreigners.
The ostensible thinking, however,
was that if Russia and the United
States could insure each other
against surprise attack, the whole
world would be relieved.
Now Russia proposes a “taster”
test which seems a cautious ac
ceptance of the principle. On its
face, it is far more realistic than
Moscow’s original suggestion for
“open skies" over a 500-mile area
on each side of the Iron Curtain,
which virtually excluded Russia.
The. new proposal will be
taken in many countries as an
indication of greater Russian
viability.
Harold Stassen, the President’s
“disarmament ambassador,” has
suggested himself that a start
might be made with tests of in
spection-operations in small areas.
The United States now must
react against a background of
two firmly-held Western beliefs,
pne, that Russia will never ac
cept any agreement unless she
obtains a selfish advantage, and
two, that no permanent arrange
ment can be expected with a de
liberately unmoral regime.
The odds are against agree
ment. But Russia has scored a
marker in the peace propaganda
WBT* r «
THURSDAY. MAY 2. 1957
by Bi
;on was negative, based on the
Finalists Named
For Dairy Title
Six finalists have been elected
by members of the Department of
Dairy Science to compete for the
title of Dairy Queen.
They are Blanche Kurtz, junior
in education from Broomall, spon
sored by Delta Delta Delta; Mari
lyn Painter, sophomore in animal
husbandry from Pittsburgh, spon
sored by Alpha Omicron-Pi; Bev
erly Rodgers, sophomore in the
department of intermediate regis
tration from Pittsburgh, sponsored
by Alpha Gamma Delta.
Barbara Stone, freshman in
journalism from Wheeling,
W. Va., sponsored by Alpha Ep
silon Phi; Charmaine 'Washko,
sophomore in education from
Easton, sponsored by Alpha Xi
Delta and Susan Cope, junior in
arts and letters from Wilmington,
Calif., sponsored by Gamma Phi
Beta.
The five finalists will be inter
viewed and the queen will be
chosen by members of'the Dairy
Science Club at 7 tonight in 117
Dairy. The queen will be crowned
May 11 at the 32d annual Dairy
Exposition.
All-U Office Hours
To Begin Monday
Office hours for All-University
officers will begin Monday in the
Cabinet office, 203 Hetzel Union.
The hours, which will be in ef
fect until final examinations be
gin, are Monday, 9 a.m. to noon;
Thursday, 3 to 5 p.m.: and Friday,
11 a.m. to noon.
The All-University officers, Ro
bert Steele, president; John
Rhodes, vice president; and Jo
seph Boehret, secretary-treasurer
will be available alternately dur
ing these hours.
Prof to Present Paper
At Nebraska Meeting
Dr. Malcom Freiberg, assistant
professor of history,, will present
a paper, “How to Become a Gov
ernor: Thomas Hutchinson,” at
the meeting of the Mississippi
day. in Lincoln, Neb.