PAGE FOUR Editorial 'Protection' We Dislike Nurriin..-es of butil political parties are campaigning on platforms approved by the powerful All-University Elec tions Committee. What's more, the committee can dock an unlimited number of votes from the nominees. Elections aren't just managed by this committee. The committee CGMCS closer to controlling elections. Why should any group be allowed to censor the platforms of political parties? This power means to us that the committee and All-University Cabinet, under which ft functions, look upon the student voters as not qualified to think for themselves and to vote intelli gently without the "protection" of a censoring com mittee. We believe one of the main purposes of campus poli tics is to prepare students to assume their responsibilities as voters on "the outside." But this is not done at Penn State because student voters are "protected" by a com mittee. This committee decides what Penn Staters should bear during a political campaign. So the students are "protected." And. therefore, the campus poliiical fiascos boil down to nothing more than personality contests. We are not teaching Penn Staters to think in elections but to vote for personalities. Cannot Penn Staters see through an infeasible plat form plank? We think they could—if given a chance. Be sides, it is the job of the opposition party to point up the fallacies in the other party's platform. And why should this committee have the power to dock votes, especially an unlimited number? It's lust something the committee can hold over the parties and nominees and say: "Now you be good and obey our reg ulations or we'll take your votes away.". Aside from the ethical end of the question—whether any group should throw out votes which you, the voters, ,cast—how can the committee say this infraction will cost so many votes and that infraction will cost this number of votes? The committee is now studying vote-docking but has not come up with a recommendation to date. We see the Elections Committee as a group which should do little more than coordinate elections and at tempt to get the students to vote through publicizing elections. The committee, of course, should be in charge of running the polls. It's time, we think, that the Elections Committee and Cabinet stop "protecting" the students and make them think for themselves. It's also time campus elections mean something. The Brothers Don't Dance The IFC-Panhel weekend will be a lost weekend this year if fraternity men do not provide support for the dance now. This ultimatum was given to the Interfraternity Coun cil meeting Monday night. It will be taken back to the fraternities so that they may, if they wish, underwrite the IFC-Panhel Ball by buying one ticket for every three house members. Without these pledges there will be no dance. Last year the dance suffered an $BOO loss since it was attended by about one-half the number of persons who attended the Junior Prom. IFC cannot afford this. Cancellation of the dance would mean elimination of 'wig weekend" privileges such as import housing and extended hours for coeds. In addition, there would prob= ably be little incentive for Saturday night house parties. Fraternity men should consider the consequences and „remember that the biggest and final event of "Greek Week" is essentially for the "Greeks." 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 011 r Battu Tallrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 faridished Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. Tha Daily CoWatts* t• a studentwperated newspaper. Entered as second-dues matter July 1. 1934 ek Iths colots College. Pa.. Post Office under ths act of March 3. 1979. Elabeeriptissa Pears 113.011 per samestsr SLOB per year ED DIMES. Editor STAPP THIS ISSUE: Night Editor. Pat Earley Wire Edt:or. Barb Martino: Assis tants,. Linda &tar. Colby Fleck. Lucy Thiessen. Margaret Weiss, Marcy Murphy, "Alin Berger. Marlene •k-7.*:* >, STEVE HIGGINS, Bus, Mgr. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Safety Valve The Etiquette Of Applause TO THE EDITOR: There is, and' should be, more to a "college edu-I cation" than endless preoccupa tion with the tradition of "classes,, homework, and blue-books." One' facet of a well-rounded education' is provided by the marvelous Ar tists Series which is made possible by the interest and support of the student body. However, an ex-I ample of deficiency in this aspect! of the student's background was provided in Schwab auditorium l last evening: I am referring to the, between-movements applause of-1 fered to the performances of the. Hungarian Quartet. Ironically enough, applause. which many persons interpret . as an indication of the audi ence's pleasure at a perform ance. when of fer e d at ill portuned moments, can create the impression that the audience wishes to please the performers. Naturally we do not want the artist to think that we do not recognize a good performance when we witness one: but one rarely observes a critical audi ence applauding movements. (Granted that one should not' applaud movements, how can one. tell when to applaud? As I said! before, I am no expert in such matters but the following rule has always served me well: Never initiate the applause! The pre- ' sumption is that someone of au thority will know when to ap plaud, I have never witnessed an applause-less performance even when observing this rule. Mf - dful of the unabashed recep ti"n that many inexperienced a liences offer to musicians, some performers resort to special tricks to discourage unsolicited applause. It should be understood that the remarks above do not apply necessarily to other types of en tertainment such as opera, bal. ; let, musical comedies, and plays. In fact nothing is "hammier" than opera. Anytime is a good time to applaud operatic stars, whether it be after a death scene, a love scene, or an un usually well-sung aria. The ac tors and actresses expect (and deserve) numerous curtain calls as Rudolph Bing (and his ill fated ban on such at the "Mel") has found to some chagrin. Similarly in ballet it is well to keep in mind that many produc tions are a collection of "acts" with a thin line of continuity. A notable example is the Nutcracker Suite which presents one specialty after another with each perform er, or group of performers, striv ing to win the applause-contest. If one is confused at the appar ent discrepancies in the "applause etiquette" of performers of ballet or opera, and that of musicians, the following may help: the for mer may not be around at the end to receive the applause, whereas the latter always will. —A Faculty Member Gazette Beginners' Hebrew Class, 7 p.m., Mlle! Foundation Hillel Got erning Board. 7 p.m. Found*. tion Lalonidea. 8:30 p.m.. W.R.A. White Hall Neu Baearian Schuhplattlers: 7:30 p.m., 1 White Newman Club. 7 p.m, 104 Chapel Nittany Grotto. 7 p.m.. 121 MI Philosophy Club. 7:50 p.m.. 215-216 UUfl Riding Club. 7 p.m„ 917 Willard CCA Coffee Hours. 3 Dan.. Memorittl Lounge of the Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chanel LCA Social Committee. 7 p.m., Helen Tv' Ltin Eisenhower Chapel Lounge UCA. Residential Fireside. 7 p.m.. Tin:lmp run Lounge Kaiser Aluminum & Chem Corp: Nor 19 BS. MS an ArrhE. Arch. BusAd lAeetz. Bun:Krt. Econ. Fin. Mkt. T&T) Cer. ChE, Chem. CE. EE, Eng Sci. Geol, Ind Arts. IE. L.Mt.Rel, ME, Metal, Min, MinE. 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Interpreting the News A European Union: Germination at Work By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst Pope Pius has called upon the promoters of the European Economic Community to add a spiritual factor to their goals and produce a "real federation." That has been in the background of the movement since the beginning, with especial emphasis on ending chauvanist competition between Fxance and Germany. The appeal comes during com pletion of plans for a merger of the newly farmed common mar ket and common atomic energy programs with the 5-year old Coal and Steel Community. They will operate under an enlarged "par liament" such as the high author ity for coal and steel. Plans are being made for eventual popular election of the members of this "parlia ment," under the understanding that, spiritually, the appointees become representatives of the six-nation bloc, rather than of individual nations. As the Coal and Steel Com munity has developed, attention to human values has become in tertwined with its economic oper ations, and this is a step toward what the Pope is talking about. His call is for union "to relieve the miseries of humanity." It is a long and difficult pro cess. Ten years ago when Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet and others took up the cudgels, the world looked upon it as next to im possible. One point illustrates the slow process. . A part of the coal and steel understanding in 1952 was that. in a common market, there would have to be freedom of movement for workers. Five years later the Community has worked out the details and "labor passports" are now being PEANUTS • I CAN iIia.STILL 14EAR IT AS RAIN A. 5 DAY.. If ,4.1 HA! 14IS K cur ARE A IND i7 C DIME-A. DOZBIP Alittw\ki WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 6. 1957 I'A t: issued to members of 56 coal and steel trades. They will be able to work in any of the six countries without national labor permits as hereto fore required. A small but significant item in the program has been the estab lishment of a Baccalaureat Euro pean secondary-school diploma for graduates of the community's t school in Luxembourg attended by children of officials working with the community. . Hundreds and then thousands of graduates —w ill eventually :spread out to the universities of •Europe ,with a built-in back iground for an international cul ture. " These mixings of workers and students of all the nations offer an exciting prospect for devel opment of common thought to meet common problems. Before World War II a United States of Europe was merely a spark in the eye of a few histori cal philo3ophers. Spiritual and po litical union talk is still far behind the economic thinkers. But there is, germination at work. 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