PAGE FOUR Editorial Those Powerful ' Cooks The fraternity system has a strange breed of individuals Called cooks. No one could envy them, for they must perform a serv ice -for a generally unappreciatiVe group of men: They re ceive few compliments, but let one thing be wrong with a meal and they really hear it. The cooks generally deserve more compliments and mare consideration from fraternity men than they now receive, but they should be put in their place. The Inter fraternity Council Purchasing Association— a wing of. ITC designed to save fraternities money by volume guying—has not been able to attain its utmost effectiveness. One of the main reasons is the cooks. Too many fraternities are allowing their cooks to oppose this organization which is designed to save fraternities (and fraternity men) money. One of the main reasons some cooks oppose IFCPA is habit. Many of them have been buying their meats and food stuffs from the same store for years and years, and they dislike changing their well-established sYstems of buying. Another reason for their opposition has been advanced. This is that some of them are allegedly receiving "kick backs" from merchants. IFCPA has the support of the University and supposedly the support of the Interfraternity Council since it is a wing of the council. However, less than half (24) of the fraternities have joined IFCPA. And only about 18 (or about one-third) of the fraternities are supporting the association to the fullest. IFCPA, because it is based on the principle of volume buying, can never become fully effective unless it has the utmost support of all fraternities. Fraternities should investigate IFCPA. Mrs. Christian Arnold, manager, and other IFCPA workers will be happy to -explain to fraternities just how they can benefit from IFCPA. However, it is the fraternities themselves which must put the cooks in their place and remind them they are hired employes and that the members of the houses have the right to sad• where food is purchased. After all it is the fraternity members' money the cooks are spending. New Look for Schwab In January Schwab Auditorium will begin the year with a new look. On the inside, that is. For during Christmas vacation modern upholstered seats will be installed to take the place of the present wooden ones. And perhaps later, if funds are available, new drapes will be added. So Schwab, at least in construction, will assume the rola of an auditorium. For years Schwab has been the catch-all quarters of University activities. Now it is used primarily for Sunday church services, ROTC classes and theatrical productions and concerts. Although the re-decoration may not be conducive to Sunday worship, church services will in the next few years be held in the proposed main Chapel. This Chapel will be added to the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Memorial Chapel and will seat approximately 2000. Schwab now holds only 1200. ROTC classes will undoubtedly be continued in the auditorium for an indefinite length of time since classroom space is at a premium and will be for quite a while. But we doubt if the ROTC men will object or be incon venienced by the plush seats. Most important Schwab will better accommodate special events such as the Artists' and Concert Series and Players' and Thespian shows, and so on. This is almost a necessity for it will be many years be fore the University can afford -a new auditorium. Editorials are written by the editors and staff members of The Daily' Collegian and do not necessarily represent the views of the University or of the student body. A Student-Operated Newspaper zwi l k Bath' Toittgian Successor to The Free Lance, est_ 1887 rahlished Tuesday through Saturday tueraina during the University year. The Dan! Cottogiaa Is a student-operated newspaper. Entered a.e second-elan natter .ialy 5. 1534 at the State Cellete. Pa.. Pant Office leader the an of March 3. 1672. Setheatatieo Print: 33.00 per seasoner SIM per year ED DUBBS. Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor. Dirk Drams: Cony Fditor, Barb Martino: Wi Uttar. Da Fineman; Assistants, Cathy Fled., Marcia Kengor, Lucy Thiessen. „Mar am Weiss. Ban Hvansteta. aqa STEVE MGGLNS. Bus. Mgr. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA iSafety Valve Reader Backs `Aptitude Tests TO THE EDITOR: Your editorial on Saturday stated that a state university, such as Penn State, cannot and should not "take just the top 10 per cent—the cream of i the crop" of those who apply for; admission. And this is certainly, true. But the Student Encampment, Academic Atmosphere Workshop: did not hai , e such a limitation ini ;mind when it recommended that: the University admissions policy' ! be studied with emphasis on the; ,possibility of requiring scholastic; ;aptitude tests for students who apply for admission. It was felt that if such en trance examinations were re quired for all students it might aid them in realizing that on a scholastic level Penn State does compare favorably with other institutions (e ve n state-sup ported schools like' Cornell) which require either College Board or State Regents exams , for admission. Such an entrance examination might afford a greater opportunity; for entrance to a good student' against whom the present admis sions policy might discriminate. It is in this connection that the Workshop also recommend ed that a merit rating system of high schools be re-established at the University to be used in con junction witji entrance exams. Because the quality of 'various high schools differ widely it is possible that a student in the second fifth, or even the first fifth, of a relatively inferior high school might be less well prepared for college than a graduate in the third fifth of his high school or preparatory school. An entrance exam in such a case might eliminate this discrep ancy, as well as it might give the total effect of providing more r3pable students who can realize their full potentials as they meet the challenges which will encour age them to reach their fullest development—which is the goal for an educational system'as Prexy has so ably outlined, and you yourself cite. —Robert Nurock, Chairman, Academic Atmosphere Workshop Gazette Initiation of Freshman Senators. II:30 p.m sreon.l .(1.0 , r study lounge McElwain. :New I.lassrisn SeMahplatters, 7:30 p.m., 1 White Building. Newman Club. Novena, p.m., Our Lady of Victory Church. 'Newman Club Lecture Series Cake. 7 n,m.. tut Program Center. 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TONIGHT ON WHEN 6:0: Sign on and news: 7:00: Telephone 'Bandstand: 7:50: State News and National Sports: £:00: Jam Panorama; 9:00: Local, National and World News; 9:15: At Your Service: 1:30: Musk of the People: 10:00: News: 10:05: Virtuoso; 11:30: News and Sita•otL TODAY Professor PLACE3IENT SERVICE Little Man on Campus by Dick Bib Interpreting the News Z hukov' s Closer to By THOMAS P. WHITNEY AP Foreign News Analyst Nikita Khrushchev's ouster of Marshal Georgi Zhukov can increase the danger of a third world war. The Soviet Communist chief badly needs to do something drastic to consolidate his power. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles yesterday pointed up the danger to the rest of the world. He said that when a great nation has internal troubles such difficulties sometimes lead to external acts. Therefore, he said, the free world must be on the alert for possible foreign moves by the Kremlin. Apparently Khrushchev has become dizzy with his success in getting rid of his rivals for supreme power in the Kremlin. He's a gambler who has been winning and is evidently con vinced his winning streak will continue. The abruptness of his action against Zhukov, taken while the latter was outside the Soviet Un ion, indicates that Khrushchev is also acutely aware of the insta bility of his position •which now .seems to be approaching absolute, but unconsolidated, dictatorship over Russia. Zhukov's dismissal must come as a shock within Russia. It was one thing to demolish the author ity of the hated secret police chief, Lavrenty Beria. It was not hard to destroy , the reputations and influence of Georgi Malenkov, V. M. Molo tov and Lazar Kaganovich, who had dirtied their hands, as Khrushchev himself did, in Sta lin's crimes. It's another thing to demolish the Zhukov legend. the legeird of a war hero who is a symbol of victory in World War IL of the integrity of the _ IVE ALWAYS BEEN FM OF 56 EYES,- . C t 4 1. eilei 0 1 / -A) WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1957 Ouster: War? Soviet army and of Russian na tionalism. Khrushchev perhaps can do this, given time. But in one sense he may not have much time. if he gives Russians a breathing t. spell from external and internal tension he may be courting trou- Ible. As Soviet people get over their immediate shock at Zhu ikov's removal they may realize that the condemned personality 'cult is being revived—perhaps al rso rule by police terror. Their discontent could come out into the open and shake the foundations of The regime. The logic of Soviet politics in dicates that one possible course of action for Khrushchev would be to create a crisis so acute that Russians will rally around the flag and forget everything except the national danger. This crisis already exists over Syria— and the Kremlin has helped create it. Khrushchev may ,feel that to solv e his internal problems he needs to make it still more acute. Grads to Hear Sorauf Dr. Frank J. Sorauf, - assistant professor of political science, will speak on "What Is a Scholar?" at a meeting of the College of Busi ness Administration Grad Club at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at Phi Mu
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