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Editorials
Adults Who Can't Drink
Amid all the can . ,pus furor about self-responsibility and
treating :..tudehts as adults, the University is tightly
clenching a most undemocratic regulation—that of not
allowing women 21 years of age to drink.
This regulation is included in the one set by the
Women's Student Government Association stating that
no women, regardles of age, may drink. It is completely
incongruous with the state laws._
WSGA last spring approached the Senate committee on
student affairs seeking a change in the regulation, but it
was denied because it was thought that the women's
drinking rule was not enforced strictly enough, according
to Suzanne Smith, WSGA president.
WSGA was told, Miss Smith said, that if all coeds were
obeying the regulation. the ban might be lifted for women
over 21.
So WSGA put an its thinking cap and came up with
the honor code as a possible solution. It was tried, but so
far WSGA has had a difficult time gathering coeds into
the fold.
Wednesday night WSGA. decided to launch a general
clampdown campaign on all drinking. Suzanne Smith,
president of WSGA, said that a survey will be made to
find out whether women would uphold the present drink
ing,rule if they were permitted to drink when they be
came 2h
Affirmative results, she continued, would not neces
sarily mean the proposal would be put into effect. If it
were adopted, however, women over 21 would be per
mitted to drink, with control over excessive drinking
remaining.
Women students over 21 should be allowed to drink.
Whether the regulation is now obeyed by minors should
make no difference whatsoever in the Senate commit
lee's decision.
The state law draws the line at 21. And it does not tell
Pennsylvania citizens "this law will be revoked if we
catch you minors drinking." •
The question is merely one of democratic principle.
Since the University is a state institution, its regulations
regarding non-University activities should without doubt
be consistent with those laid down by the state.
It sounds silly to imagine someone saying: ''Yes, you
may drink when you are 21, providing, however, that you
are not a student. Because citizens are divided into two
categories—students and non-students. -
When a person is 21 he is 21 everywhere—at home, in
his job, or attending college. Regardless of his other
loyalties he is considered an adult citizen and, since the
state allows 21-year-olds to drink, this regulation should
be respected.
From all appearances WSGA would gladly change the
regulation, since it made such an attempt last spring. Its
pasage, however, is being blocked by higher University
authorities.
The Senate Committee on Student Affairs should not
ask for proof of the enforcement of the coed drinking
rule. This is a separate problem, if it can be considered
a problem, and should have nothing to do with adjusting
a University regulation to comply with a state law.
If good men were only better, would the wicked be so
bad?---John White Chadwick
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Coed Supports
A CD Program
TO THE EDITOR: I wish to state
my views on the matter of civil
defence courses for women at
Penn State. I would like to see a
civil defense course incorporated
in the health program as much
would be gained by adding this
vital material to the subject mat
ter normally covered.
As far as time consumption
is concerned, what is more prec
ious than the protection of
lives? We cover subjects rang
ing from the human body and
mind, to industry and science.
If we can't save or know how
to protect these things, what
good would all the knowledge
in the world do us?
Second. I believe there is the
matter of women's responsibility
to their fellow man and nation.
Men protect us either through
actual physical-combat or science.
We demand all the rights—to
vote, etc., yet is it our special
privilege as women to play de
fenseless, frail creatures and run
from the tide of disaster?
There are coeds at this Uni
versity from almost every town
in the state, plus many outside
of the Commonwealth. What a
wonderful thing it would be if
just one coed could go to a
community to assist in the civil
defense program; what a need
it would fill. It would indeed
• be little enough thanks to the
taxpayers who make our edu
cation possible.
Third. civil defense isn't used
just in war time, but comes into
practice during natural disasters,
too. How many of us know where
to get our hands on emergency
rations and equipment in our own
homes in time of danger•?
I feel civil defense has a job
to do at a place of learning.
This knowledge of self-protec
tion as well as aid to others is
a definite must. With the pace
of our present scientific achieve
ments and self-destruction, it
is imperative that something be
done and fast about offering
this material to the s t u dent
body.
If we profess to desire culture
and study the humanities. what
good is all this if we don't protect
it? Here's our chance.
Student 'Apathy'
Is Showing Again?
TO THE EDITOR: 'Wednesday
night Penn Staters had the oppor
tunity to hear Congressman Wal
ter H. Judd speak in Schwab
Auditorium on foreign policy and
the foreign aid program of the
United States. But the auditorium
was only half filled. And half of
those who attended were obvious
ly townspeople or faculty mem
bers. Thus, at the most, only 300
students were present.
We have some 14.000 students
on campus. What happened? Were I
they sick. or don't they read the
bulletin boards and the Collegian?
Don't they want to know what,
goes on in the world? Do 98% of
them live in shells?
These lectures are every bit
as much a part of a well-round
ed college life as classes and
study. It is incomprehensible
to me, that- when a speaker of
such high stature and great
knowledge of his subject as Con
gressman Judd comes as far as
Penn State to talk to us about
something as vital to our very
survival as world relations, and
all for free, that there should be
such obvious and overwhelm
ing student apathy.
The Graduate School does Penn
Staters a fine service by sponsor
ing such a distinguished lecturer.
Those who were not in attendance
missed a real treat—a sincere, in
teresting, factual and extremely
,inspiring talk.
—William W. Bickham Jr., '6O
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singer.
The WDFNI program is open
to the public. -
The Eisenhower administration has launched a coordi
nated campaign to forestall any congressional tendency to
take money out of the foreign aid program for the expanding
national defense effert.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vice President Richard
M. Nixon and Secretary John Foster Dulles all made the point
Wednesday, a day replete with,
notice to the American people
of the magnitude of the burden
of keeping up with Russia's mili ; _,
tary advances
The President stressed the
"distasteful task" of Congress to
find the money through elimi
nation of domestic services.
—Val Sigelen. '59
A d m i n i s t r a tion spokesmen
steered clear of the possibility of
higher taxes to maintain a bal
anced budget, leaving the impli
cation that whatever is not taken
care of through savings in other
fields will force an increase in the
public debt limit.
But the President said that over
the long term it was recognized
that a balanced budget was in
!dispensable to the economy and
therefore to security.
Former President Harry S.
Truman was more blunt. What
way is there to do it, he asked,
except to increase taxes.
The administration was report
ed cool toward suggestions that
Congress should enact stand-by
wage, price and production con
:trols at the next session, so that
;the President could not put the
!country on a virtual wartime
basis if needed.
With regard to foreign aid, Con
gress has displayed a tendency to
preserve domestic spending pro
grams at its expense. The admin
tile Man on Campus by Dick B
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istration lost a big fight over it
last summer, and the program
was sharply reduced.
Now it is to be defended on
both the economic and military
fronts.
In all this the West is faced
with the same old cold war prob
lem—to keep ahead of Russia mil
itarily as a deterrent, at the same
time preserving a strong economy
to prevent the Communists from
proving to the underdeveloped
countries that their's is the best
organizational system.
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