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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.
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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
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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
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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