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Editorial
Panhel: Inconsistent Again
Panhellenic Council showed its usual inconsistency this
week when it unanimously favored eliminating the fra
ternity-independent rotation system for campus elections.
Panhel should wash its own dirty linen before it
frowns upon other systems of electing officers.
For the council's system of electing officers is the
most limited and mechanical of any in existence. A turn
at the presidency is given to each sorority and when
each sorority has had its chance, the cycle begins all
over again.
If the number of Pa'nhellenic members would remain
at 24, as it is now, each sorority would be represented in
the top office once every 24 years.
In 1953 this system was termed as "old-fashioned as the
succession of monarchs to the throne" by a Lamer presi
dent of the Liberal Arts Student Council when he was
suggesting improvements for campus activities.
Last January the council voted 19-1 in favor of retain
ing the system; however it altered it in that the president
is elected by all sorority women from three candidates
proposed by the sorority-of-the-year and a screening
board.
The council member in charge of the election last
year explained that the system was not eliminated be
cause it was felt that every sorority has a woman quali
fied for the office of president. If this is not accepted,
she said. the sorority system is defeated.
This is the crux of the matter and it is the same story
as the fraternity-independent rotation system. Maybe
there is a qualified woman in every sorority but that is
loosely using the word "qualified."
Many women could sit in the Panhel president's chair
and putt-putt along in some haphazard way. But why
risk the chance of weak leadership when there is a wealth
of individual leadership among sorority women"
The president of Panhel is an individual—represent
ing only herself in this capacity and not her sorority.
She does not carry an obligation to her sorority any
more than does the IFC president to his fraternity.
As a result, the sorority affiliation should make little
or no difference in the selection of a president. The presi
dent should be the most qualified, ("qualified" isn't
enough) woman among the Panhel groups.
If the system is to be changed, this is the year to do it.
For the vice president this year, and consequently presi
dent next year, is a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma, the
last well-established . sorority on campus.
Although Trion and Pyrose have been admitted to Pan
lel, they are non-voting members. The schism here is one
that is perfect for burying the system without cheating a
sorority out of its turn.
If Panhel knew what it was doing when it unani
mously voted out the fraternity-independent rotation
system. it should have neither trouble nor opposition
to throwing out its own.
If a new system were incorporated, the president should
be elected directly at the end of the woman's junior year
instead of serving as vice president and elected as a soph
omore.
Many women when they are sophomores have not fully
developed leadership potential. Also Panhel's structure
and business is simple and the president does not need a
year of apprenticeship.
Panhel should make the change now. For if this break
in the cycle is not taken advantage of. the system will
continue on and on and end up where Panhel often is
—in circles. -
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'Safety Valve
Reader Decries
Phone Service
TO THE EDITOR: We, of the off
campus dwellers, who desire to
converse with those in the on
campus dwellings, are at the mer
cy of the girls and women who
supposedly give communications
"service with a smile"—the tele
phone operators for the dormitory
telephones.
The diligence and care with
which they attend their duty is
truly amazing. Anytime one de
sires to contact someone in the
dormitories, all one has to do is
go to the residence hall of the
person one is seeking, ask some
one there to find the person, and
to tell them someone is awaiting
them in the lobby. '
Obviously conditions relating
to communications have not
improved perceptibly over these
in early American history.
In earlier times, those inter
ested in communicating with
someone had only to send a cour
ier through a dense forest, with
hostile savages seeking to put an
end to the courier and his mes
sage. Today, at the University,
unfortunately there are no cour
iers; indeed they would undotibt
edly be arrested for trespassing,
disturbing the peace, and inter
fering with a labor group's "right
to work."
The telephone operators not
only have achieved a powerful
hold on the University commu
nications, but are grossly - rude
and insulting, as evidenced by
one operator's comment to a
caller that "You make me sick."
That other such rude manner
isms may be brought to mind
by others I have po doubt.
I. suggest, as a remedy to the
obviously and generally recog
nized intolerable situation, that
the problem be officially recog
nized, by the University adminis
tration. This may be accomplished
by the formation of a committee
consisting of both administration
and students concerned, with the
powers necessary to draw up and
present a report to the proper of
ficials and see that all necessary
procedures and channels concern
ed are contacted, investigated,
and the situation resolved.
I urge all students who suffer
the indignities of the present sys
tem to speak to the organizations
governing them, TIM, AIM, etc.,
and bring the issue to a head.
Let us not be subjected to in
efficiency
. any longer! Strike for
what is rightfully yours. Let us
get the committee established and
make an end to the disgraceful
conditions of the University tele
phone system.
—Bert Heffner,
Class of 1958
(Editor's Note: In plain words,
you're dissatisfied with the tele
phone service and want a com
mittee to study it—eh?).
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Sanitary Eng Prof
Given 2d Grant
The U.S. Public Health Service
has renewed its support of sewer
age treatment research work of
R. Rupert Kountz, professor of
sanitary engineering, with a 1-
year grant of $14,910.
He previously has held a 2-year
grant of $21,148.
Kountz's objective is to develop
an improved method of destroy
ing waste materials through the
use of self-liquidating bacteria.
He has constructed a working
model of a sewerage plant that
is designed to carry out these
principles.
Little Man on Campus by Dick Bible,
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (EP)—Confucius is supposed to
have said that one picture is worth a thousand words.
Now some government officials are convinced that one
U.S. product on display is worth a thousand pictures. Ana
they also believe that if the Russian people were given a
chance they would agree.
These officials are in the Inter
national Trade Fair Office, and
for four years they have been
busy helping American merchants
and manufacturers display their
wares, from Jakarta, Indonesia, to
Izmir, Turkey.
But the big one could come
next July, when a 6-week fair
tentatively has been scheduled
for Moscow.
Congress has put up the money
—52.2 million—and fair officials
have come up with basic plans. ,
So far, there's only one prob
lem: Although the Russians
nodded a couple of times, they
still haven't said yes.
"Right now," Harrison T. Mc-
Clung, director of the fairs, said
today, "we're having trouble get
ting them to say anything."
Still, if they'll but say the word,
this country is ready. McClung
said the Moscow exhibit would
stress consumer products, and
would include such items as a
self-service laundry and a com
plete supermarket, a smash hit
when it was first shown behind
the Iron Curtain, in Yugoslavia.
McClung has been taking in
most of the fairs in which this
country has participated—last
year it was in 14—and he says
it's always surprising how eager
everyone is for a look at Amer
ican products.
TODAY
"You have to be there," he
said. "to realize that they have
a sense of satisfaction, almost de
light."
The verdict of man who spent
his life in the advertising busi
ness before going in for trade
"New, I didn't rent it—l'm just lucky to have a
roommate who owns a tux."
It Must Be OK
With Confucius
By ARTHUR EDSON
I THOUGHT TOMY6ELF:SAY t 5
THAT CHARLIE BROWN?"BUT THEN
I TH0W,140,714AT BOY LOMS
FATTER WAN CRAZE BMW
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1957
fairs: "It seems to us that the
product of our industry is the best
salesman of free enterprise."
Starting in 1954, the United
States has shown in 55 fairs in
27 countries, with some 40 mil
lion visitors crowding around to
see what Uncle Sam had to of
fer:
Curiously, in Poland and Yugo
slavia, both behind the Iron Cur
tain, the crowds clocked at the
American exhibit exceeded the of
ficial attendance.
"It's easy to explain why," Mc-
Clung said. "Around some ex
hibits the presi was so great it
was easier to go outside and come
in again, this time next to the
rail."
Now, back to Confucious. Al
though he long has been credit•.,
ed with having said that a pic
ture Is worth a thousand words,
a check with the Library of
Congress today showed it really
was said by Fred R. Barnard in
the magazine "Printers' Ink," -
Mardi 10, 1927.
The library reports Barnard
hoped it would catch on, so. ha
labelled it an old Chinese saying,
and in no time at all it had, and
Confucius was made the author.
Which probably is all right with
Confucius. At least he hasn't sued
for libel yet.
Britton Presents Paper
Dr. Joseph H. Britton, associate
professor of child development
and family relationships, present..
ed a paper this week at a meet
ing of the National Gerontological
Society in Cleveland, Ohio. -
HE HAD A Ble ROUND HEAD ANA
SORT OF A SILLY EXPRESSION
BUT THEN I Tirif.94T
CC CHARLIE BROWN 45 BEEN
eANING QUITE A LITTIEWEria
LATELY, AND?.
I CAN'T
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