PAGf FOUR Editorial Opinion 'Games' for the Pledges Some fraternity brothers they like to be called fraternity men, too seem to get a sadistic pleasure out of having the pledges play “games.” This is what got Phi Kappa Psi in trouble. But this fraternity is not the only one guilty fay a long shot. Imposing stiff penalities on houses found guilty of such conduct may help serve as a deterrent. But downright abolition of hell week and the establishment of a new. concept of pledge training is the only way these situa tions can be eliminated. ► Hell week, as generally seen at Penn State, is grossly out of date. If it ever had a place, it was in the era of coon skin coats, hip flasks and goldfish diets. Today, pledges have better things to do than count the windows in Pattee Library and writedown the names strung along the top of Sparks Building. And there should be no place for mental harrassment and physical abuse, or horseplay, childish and sadistic outfits, sleepless binges and juvenile antics. But they all remain. Why do they remain? "I went through it,” some fra ternity men argue, “and, by gosh, these pledges are going through it too.” This spit-in-the-eye-of-progress is no argument and no defense. Getting work done around the house is another rea son often given. But many times, from the persons who cite this reason, you can get an admission that their pledges scrub floors with toothbrushes. Explain this. The fraterni ties yes, there are some who have made their “weeks” more of work and help weeks than hel’ weeks should be commended. Certainly not enough houses have done this. Hell week, it is argued, unites pledges. This is true. People going through any hardship together always emerge more united. But hell weeks create a negative unity. Fraternities could build constructive unity by having their pledges work together on a project for the betterment of the house or the University community. While clumsily accomplishing two goals uniting pledges and getting work done hell week does so at a high price. Hell week's high price is public scorn of fraternities and the fraternity system, neighbors who lose sleep, and the borough policemen and campus patrolmen who lose their tempers. Then all the fraternities lose respect.. And professors have long been complaining that pledges going through hell week are academically value less. Cracking down on a house which gets carried away with its sadistic “games” will do little good. The only sure way to prevent these situations from recurring is for the fraternities themselves to abolish hell week. Always Around or Nearby Whenever there's a need for something to be done, it seems that Alpha Phi Omega is always around, at the least, always nearby. The latest example: Collecting used and new clothing for Delta Theta Sigma members who lost many personal belongings in the fire which gutted the inside of their house. With the aid of radio station WMAJ. the service fraternity collected more than enough clothing just 12 hours after the first call went out. Bdttoriale a*e write*# fcy the aditora and staff ntakn af Tsm Dolly Collectan and da not necessarily represent the eiew* of the L’nireraity or of the student body. A Student-Operated Newspaper uty? latly (ftoUpgtatt Successor to The Free Lance . est 1887 PaMkkctf T«e»4*r tkrtsft £*torg*y ••rvta* dorthf du tnjtmlt? ynr. Th* Dafljr CmlUftmo it t •ta4*tt(>«ptrat«f Entered u *ec<md-cUs* natter 4ilr V IW at the Sut* Cell*** Pa. Pact Offlea «nd«f the art af March t, 1879. Mali HMtfrtrdw Price* gg.B# ptr eemester $3.9# per rear ED DUVBS. Editor STEVE HIGGINS. Bus Mgr. Manarta* Cditar. Jed? B*rkUo«; City Editoc. fiaherf Fr*nfciia; Sparta Crfitar. Time* Caraeci: Cw Editer. Uariifl Beatty; Aaaiataat Opy Editor. Balyk Majuaa; Aaeutaat Sport* Editor*. Matt Matthew* and lae Prat*: Makt-cp Editor. Ginns PfciOips: Pfcciocemphr Editor. Gconr* BtrriMo. Ao*t Baa. tlrr M &•* aiorteaaoa; Local Ad Mgr. Marilyn Eliaa; Asit Laal Ad. Mat. Rw« Ana Goauatea; National Ad W*r s Jaan tt'alUc*; Pranotioa Mar. Manaon* Maiet: Per**cw*J Mar. Lyn* GU**hen>: Oaaaified Ad Mgr. Store ttiliiteia; Co-Ores tafias Mara~ Pat Mteftiickl and Richard Uppa: Seacards And Serorde Barham S'ail: Office Secretary. Marlene Marti. STAFF THIS l&Sl'E; Kirht Editor: Dick Fi»her; Copy Editor: Denny Malick: h’jrr Editor: Morye Bomci; Amiotenc*; Sandy Ilihrr, H~n Bwnstrm, Gmny Dit toa. Kleanor D*u<i«, Slaclry McCaughan, Liana* Miei*, Maria Mona, Beveri/ Turicc. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Washington Beat Mode! Believes This Tax Man Right in Ruling By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON. Feb. 20 (Ji lt's income tax time again, and here is MarjabeUe Young saying how right the tax man was when he ruled against her. Most of us shudder when the tax collector shakes his head dis approvingly. But MarjabeUe is an extra special case. She’s the only person in the country the U.S. government has assured that she will always be beautiful. “Isn’t that wonderful,” said MarjabeUe. Six years ago MarjabeUe and some other girls formed a cooper ative modelling agency called SHY, Inc. One day the girls no ticed bow other corporations like, say. General Motors, wrote off tax depreciation each year. Now the models had only their looks. Since they were, unfortu nately, aging, why not get a de preciation allowance for fading beauty? As president, Marjabelle was dispatched to the Internal Revenue Service where, in view of the gravity of the case, she got a ruling from the commissioner himself. No depreciation would be al lowed since, he said gallantly, there was absolutely no evidence the applicant was getting less beautiful. "How right he was," Marja beUe said today. ‘1 feel as pretty as ever." MarjabeUe says she has a for mula that helps the government verdict look good. She thinks working with youngsters helps anyone feel young. So she has a girl of her own, Jackie, aged 3ti. on whom to practice home work. And she has a unique school in which she teaches other girls how to walk, how to meet strangers, how to feel at ease. "The first time the girls come to school," she said, 'Their moth ers bring them. But the girls go home and say Teacher's pretty/ From then on. their fathers bring them. It's so cute." MarjabeUe thinks that if girls are taught young that the social graces aren't so difficult they should grow up into more relaxed adults. “From 6 to 10 is the perfect age,” she said. “Those who are 12. 13, 14 are very confused.” The woman whose looks are government guaranteed has a reason for feeling sympathy for young girls. “I was a wierd looking teen ager,” she says. Gazette College Axriettltor* Paealty Meetlajr, 1:10 - p.m., 112 Bcckhout CMmopolittQ Clsb annual ktflqiet, 6 p.tn^ at Wesley Foundation Van Zsodt, on *T be Atomic Age.** Hillel Sabbath Ere Serriee, 8 p.m., Fcrtm detion Leonide* Dior*, 9 p.m.. HUB Kt*auo Clofe Open Harm, 8 p.m.. Stu- dent Center Player*’ Production of “Borninx Bright,** 8:30 p.m.. Center SUgo Station* of th* Croat, 4, 7 p.m.. Our Lad/ ol Victory Church Wealejr Foundation Bowling Party, 8 p.m. Bee Hall UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Ronald Beard, Cecelia liilsky. Sarah Brown, Lynda Coicleater, Jack Crosby, Sarah Finch. Donald Fowler, Allen Cor don, Lawrence H/rsch. Joseph Kesainger. Warren Kraft. John Larimer. Gerald Laa m*R, Miriam HeAvoy. Wilber Muanell, Louis p. Paulick. Chester Piotrowski. Clare Rota, William Schaal, Elayne Shocbet, Samuel Showers, Deborah Sidweli. Sarah Snyder, Dan Stone. Arthur Wilks, Patricia Zadruga. Joseph Mato*, Edgar Scott. Interviews General Abrasive Co: Mar 7; Cer, Phys Kelly-Springfield Tire*: Mar 7; Aeclg, EusAdm. Eeon. Mkt, EE. ME. Chem. ChE. IE Kendall Refining Co: Mar 7: Jr* in Chem. ChE for summer employment; BS A MS in Chem, ChE Minneapolis Honeywell: Mar 7; BS & MS in EE, ME. AeroE Reynelda Metal* Ca: in ChE. Ch-m. EE, ME. lE, Metal Camp S»au lah. Feb. 22 : Camp Quini* beck, Feb 24 * Camp Mena toma, Feb. 28 and Mar. ; Clear Pool Camp, Mar. Zi Camp Mar. 3; Camp Del wood. Mar. 4 and &. Dean's List Omission Omitted from the Home Eco nomics dean's list given to The Daily Collegian were Bette Gich ner, 3.73; Leslie Shultz, 3.86; and Susanne Stamm, 3-64. Rep. James E, Mar 7: BS A MS INTERVIEWS Little Man on Campus by Dick Biblw m !/ '/ Ready or Not Security for All— At What Price? Critics of today’s college generation have said a great deal about us. They’ve said that we’re self-satisfied, leth argic, and in frantic pursuit of -security. To back up the last claim, they point to college seniors’ emphasis on security in a job. Maybe they have a point Most seniors do rate security high when considering job of fers. And when I hear them doing this, I often think of Jack. I never knew Jack’s last name, nor very much else about him, for he just appeared one late summer afternoon at the grade school playground. We were setting up for one of the PTA carnivals and ice cream socials that are so characteris tic of small towns in August. As the men were starting to haul away the swings and sand boxes, and the rest of us were deciding where to put the fortune teller’s booth, a tall,. . man limped f , we had some * work he could ] We were ■*»* P happy to give him a job.i % and although JL there were doubts as to whether he ™™ B ***™ — 11,111 could do heavy work, it was soon apparent that these fears were groundless. Later that afternoon I began talking with Jack. He was just passing through town, he said, for he spent the spring travel ing north and the fall going south to the Florida Keys. He said it with the air of one who 4 THE SAAEMQLXTOFaSESSf 15 REQUIRED TO CARRY A TEN POOND LOAD THIRTY AMIES A 5 -? TO FOSS FOR oks minute.." , / *c- s FRIDAY. FEBRUARY. 21, 1958 By Marian Beatty goes south for yachting and country-clubbing. "I work in one spot until I have ten dollars in my pocket and another ten for bus fare." he confided. Then 1 move on. Used to 90 into Canada and as far as South America by tramp steamer, but I'm getting too old for that. “I’ve been in most towns and cities in the U. 5.,” he con tinued. “Just name the town, and I’ll tell you about it. Meet some interesting people in my travels, too. "I spent some time working backstage at the Met and worked in a Las Vegas gam bling hall once. Haven't gotten that far west since I picked up this limp. That was in a log ging camp, a good while ago." Jack was back the next day, this time with stories of a sum mer spent at sea, experiences in a taxi dance hall, and a short-lived job as a zoo atten dant. “See you tomorrow at the carnival,’’ he called as he left evening. But he didn’t come the next evening, nor any day after that. I probably never would have known what hap pened to him, if it hadn’t been for the omniscence of small town natives. "11l bet I saw him in Iho bus station," the local meat cutler said. "I remember the strange ouestion he asked the ticket seller. He said, *How far (Continued on page five) HEAR SOMETHIN'S.)/ R"-*, \ CHARLIEBROWHZJ s poig?j .I'M COfIRUNS I\'FO£MT!ON' FOB THE‘NATIONAL RJSSBUD6ET FOUNDATION'! • ilsie Mae."
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