GE FOUR 53 Years of Editorial Fret iom rahmhed remota, through Saturday earnings daring Ohr enitrogiatt the Claleeralty year. The Mil, Collegian Ls • fussiest. Successor to THE FREE LANCE. eat. *BB7 *oersted aeospaper. $3.01 per semester $5.00 pet yeas !Entered se ateotid-class smatter Jelly 6, 1031 at the State College, Pa. Post Office ander ED DUBBS, Editor Aut. Bus. Mgr.. Sus blortensoni Local Ad. Mgr. Marilyn Managing Editor. Judy Harrison; City Editor. Robert Frank. Elias; AuL Local Ad. Mgr.. Rosa Ann Consales; National ha; Sports Editor, Vince Caroccl; Copy Editor. Anne Fried• Ad. Mgr., Joan (Valises: Promotion Mtr.. Mariann• Maier; berg; Assistant Copy Editor. Marian Beatty: Assistant Sports Personnel Mgr.. Lynn Bias/burn: Classified Ad Mgr.. Steve Editors. Matt Mathews and Lou Prato; Make-up Editor. Ginn, Milstein; Co-Cirrulation Mgr... Pat tdiernield and Richard Philip.; Phoineraphy Editor. George Harrison. UMW; Research and Records Mgr— Barbara Walls Office Secretary. Marlene Marks. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dick Fisher; Copy Editor, Pat O'Neill; Wire Editor, Ralph Manna; Assistants, Ted Wells, Marie Russo, Mary Fran Cowley, Jeff Pollack, Tom Eggler, Norm Lockman, Barbara Greenwald, Maria Pariser, Sonny Leitz and Neal Friedman. What Price Political Pie? When a student candidate runs for an All- University or class office in an election he is re quired to pay his own campaign fee. This fee, which usually runs from SIO to $5O according to the importance of the office, is used to defray the cost of the party campaign. This policy was opposed by the workshop on student government at September's Student Encampment. It was opposed primarily because many stu dents who are interested in student government offices cannot afford to pay the fee. Party campaigns cost money and money doesn't grow on Penn State trees. In the fall elections each party is allowed to spend a maxi mum of 5150 on the campaign and in the spring $4OO is allowed. This money is collected within the Varty— from the candidates and the steering commit tee Members. Many capable students stay out of politics simply because of the cost. Collecting money to finance the campaign is probably one of the biggest headaches during an IV. The Winner Names the Age (In the last installment of Lillian Smith's June Commencement speech at Atlanta Uni versity, the novelist mentioned that uncon trolled freedom, even in democracies, can be dangerous. 'Today she discusses some of the possible controls which stilt would preserve our civil liberties.) A powerful control is contitutional law. A democracy can't do without it. But it will work only if the people believe in law and respect its processes. But the two strongest and best controls come from within a free man's own mind: his con science and his reason. Both of which—to stay healthy—must be nourished on civilization's great and germinal ideas. May I name a few? Just to hear the music of them? For they sing to the civilized mind: •The idea that every child has a right to grow: •The idea that every one in, the community has a right to be protected from violence; •The idea that all people can speak out and say whit they think; •The idea that a man has a right to be dif ferent in looks, beliefs, interests, and talents if lie does not injure others; •The idea that truth is a search that must never stop, that both reason and imagination ore necessary to that search, that the scientific method is necessary, too, and cannot be inter fered with except when human life is jeopar dized or profound human values cheapened; Today ANGEL FLIGHT, S p.m., 203 Hetzel Union COLLEGIAN ADVERTISING STAFF, 6:45 p.m., 9 Carnegie COLLEGIAN PROMOTION STAFF. 6:30 p.m.. 202 Willard DELTA SIGMA PI, 7:30 p.m.. Pi Sarnia Up.iloo ,IDLLEL PROGRAM ON ROSH HASHANAH, 7:15 p.m., WMAa SOME ECONOMICS MARSHMALLOW ROAST, 6 p.m., Mort Woods 3NTER.COLLEGIATE CONFERENCE ON GOVERNMENT. 7:30 'lO4 LAVIE ART STAFF, 6:45 p.m., 201. Temporary Elected to Their T ask By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 0)). This is the season when congressmen, in broadside and in person, ex plain in detail what wonder ful statesmen they are to their lucky constituents. But one congressional dele gation needs only two words to sum up its work for the eight months Congress was in ses sion: "NOt yet." For ttie gentlemen from Alas ka, two senators and a repre sentative duly elected for jobs that don't exist, haven't got to first base on what they came down here to do: Bring Alaska into the union as the 49th state. Yet the senators-presump tive, Ernest Gruening and William A. Egan, and the quasirepresentative, Ralph J. Rivers,.. area% .discouraged.... THE DAILY COLLEGIAN election. And many a clique chairman has said to get it is like pulling teeth. When the Student Encampment workshop op posed the campaign fee it also recommended that All-University Cabinet allocate slloo— for two parties during two campaigns —each year for the elections. If Cabinet could finance the parties, there would be more students interested in the offices. Also there would perhaps be more students taking an active part within the party if there were no money strings attached. During the campaigns the clique officers and steering committee members could concentrate an .getting the vote rather than filling the treasury. This year the campaigns will have to continue as in the past since even if the Cabinet fiancing were adopted, for student government bud get has been established for 1957-58. The recommendation, however, will go before Cabinet this fall. It should be given serious con sideration. •The idea that the way a thing is done, the means used, are as important as the end sought; •The basic idea: that God is the Ultimate Concern beyond all men, that He is the supreme symbol: not the white race, not the communist party, not capitalism, not any authoriatarian group: and that his laws of love and brother hood and mercy and compassion must be obeyed. When men stop believing'in these great ideas, when they silence their conscience and trample their reason, when they make their own image their god—or their economic or political be= lievers their god—then we are in for trouble. For then, they hold even constitutional law cheap. They sneer at the high courts of their government; indeed, they say they obey only the laws they want to. When this happens, the free people with their limitless potentials for growth and for good will metamorphose into the mob. Because it is happening in our country, espe cially down here in the deep South where we live, I want to talk about the mob in more detail. There are three kinds of mobs, all alike in that they worship an idol, alike in that they have set aside both reason and conscience, alike in that they hold other men's civil rights_cheap, alike in that they value security more than sur vival, alike in that they disregard our laws, alike in that they want to hurt somebody. But they behave differently. (Miss Smith will discuss the three mobs at length in the . next installment.) Gazette LAVIE PHOTOGRAPHY STAFF, 7 p.m.. 116 Boueke‘ SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MANAGEMENT, R p.m.. Delta Upsilon UNIVERSITY CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. 6:30 p.m..Me- Elwain Lounge WOMEN'S RECREATION ASSOCIATION GOLF CLUB, 3 to 6 p.m.. Caddy House WOMEN'S RECREATION ASSOCIATION BOWLING CLUB, 6:30 D. 111., White Hall WOMEN'S RECREATION ASSOCIATION TENNIS CLUB, 7 p.m.. White Hall WOMEN'S STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION JUDICIAL BOARD. 6 p.m., 212 HUB Non-Existing Jobs, Remains Undone They are sure they will get one may think about Alaska a few swings in the batter's and statehood, Gruening is box when Congress returns completely ready for full sena in January. torhood. The curious situation, in But a question. Many states which impatient residents of a now act as if they had made territory elect their congress- a bad bargain; how come Alas men before they get statehood, ka is so redhot to be one? is no new thing in U.S. history. "Why." Gruening s a id. It first was used in 1796 by —Ri g ht now we're nothing Tennessee, and worked so nice- buta colony and no frontier ly that Michigan, Oregon and - colony and our history has got such a California tried it later. raw deal." The Alaskans have busily talked up statehood at every Here he launched :into de opportunity. tails he obviously has gone over "Everywhere we go," Gruen- , with fullfledged congressmen ing said, "People will say, 'Oh, scores of times: How not being Alaska! I've always wanted to a state causes certain automatic go there.' And it is the most discriminations, - how in freight beautiful place on earth. It has rates even Communist coun been my privilege to see the tries get a better break. Alps and the Andes, but where An example of the auto else can you get such a won- matic discrimination: Alaskans derful combination of moun- pay a cent a gallon tax on tains and - the sea? Mountains gasoline and three cents a rising 18,000 feet right_out of pound on auto tires to build the ocean?" superhighwa's every place but _ : 'roving. that,.no_ matter:what i tAlaika. iitsVl ; 1 i # 41_, -; ii s -„i STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Editorials represent the viewPainta of the writers, not necessarily the policy of the paper, the student body. or the University the act of March 3, 1879. STEVE HIGGINS. Business Manager Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler ENROLL. HE —Judy Harkison NYONE WING 11415.CA1R50 COUR% cOWENI MT H! ACTUALLY-WW( LECIUI PAPER - IF YoLl RUN INTO THAT 6 WHAT I* HERE FOR, Sand in my Shoes Even Ivy Walls Are Crumbling ... By Judy Harkison "More and more men and women students are studying together and liking it." This is hardly a startling statement on this campus but actually it is the year's biggest news in higher education, according to Newsweek (Sept. 23). The barriers of the women's colleges are "beginning to crum ble." Men are being admitted and classes and activities are being coordinated with other schools The title of N e w sweek's re port wa s "Tri umph of the Fair Coed." There are two ways of looking at it. We don't know who Was more trium phant, the m e n or the women. Out of the 3.4 million s t udents enrolled in col lege this fall, 1.17 are women. And 8 out of every 10 of the fe male students are studying in co educational classes. Many of the nation's oldest wo men's institutions, such as Rad cliffe, Barnard, Mount Holyoke. Smith and Bryn Mawr, are co ordinating classes with men's schools. Harvard has been mingling with Radcliffe for the last 14 years, but both Yale and Prince ton have hesitated to take the heap. _ Could be that the two Ivy League schools still cling to the old yarn about the superiority of men. At Yale last spring, however, a faculty suggestion to admit wo men brought protest from all ex= cept the dean of admissions, who , -ittlta-k 4 All4Wit TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1957 thought girls would raise academ ic standards. Newsweek also reported that a Princeton man recently ,asked to be transferred io Harvard. His rea s o n—"l'm absolutely sick of spending S5O evfly time I. want to see a girl. I want to be in a place where-I can buy her a cup of coffee and talk abOut Plato." We don't know how much of Plato is discussed over a HUB coffee cup, but we must admit that our situation here' at Penn State is quite desirable. Just glance at' these three manifesta tions—selected at random: Here we have community living. Might not be around ' long, but it's here. Here men do not fear academic competition. With the all-men's average of 2.41 against the wo men's 2.71 the men have given up completely. Here men do not spend $5O on a date. There isn't any place to spend it. Also no dates, some say. Bryn Mawr's president, Kath arine E. Mcßride, sums the coed situation up this way: "I think the easy, regular 'association of men and women in college is ex cellent, distracting to some, sta bilizing to others—but far super ior to isolation." Take your choice, if you can still find one. - We're not com plaining. -1,: ~.,, i _ ...1. A\ - 1 ----- m --- __._ Zl:t 5 , ;* 4 ,v; saflz
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers