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Editorial Opinion
'Hell Week's Gone'?
The March issue of Together, billed as a new family
magazine, includes an article titled "Hell Week’s Gone."
We quote:
“One bitterly cold night two years ago a young uni
versity fraternity pledge, victim of a Hell Week prank,
was abandoned by his fraternity brothers on a lonely road
outside of town. Blindly seeking his way back to campus,
he stumbled across a frozen reservoir, fell through the ice
and drowned.
"On another campus a student died of burns received
during an initiation ceremony. Still another was injured
when he fell, blindfolded, down a mountainside.
"The past is dotted with tragedies resulting from Hell
Week shenanigans. True, thousands of young men have
gone through initiation without harm; however, the few
exceptions have given college fraternities a black eye most
do not deserve.
“Until recently, however, pledging a fraternity was
something like signing up for the Foreign Legion. As a
pledge seeking active membership, a youth was apt to be
subjected to night-long hikes, paddlings, goldfish swallow
ings, and a selection of odd-ball antics which had little to
do with the ideals of his fraternal organization. The pur
pose was to show how eager he was to become a member.
“Today, however, the tide is setting strongly in the
opposite direction. Help Week is replacing Hell Week on
campuses across the country . . .”
Undoubtedly the tide is changing, as the article says,
but we doubt if it is "setting strongly in the opposite
direction." After all. the Interfraternity Council on this
campus seems to want to forget about unfavorable pub
licity fraternities received from the Phi Kappa Psi
incident.
This is the same article, by the way, which mentioned
Penn State as a school which is learning the true meaning
of brotherhood by working together. The dean of men’s
office informs us that it knows of no fraternity members
who are scraping the paint of a famous ship as the article
reported.
And the title of the article, ‘‘Hell Week’s Gone,” cer
tainly is wrong. If we were to write an article on this for
a magazine, our title would probably be: “Hell Week’s
Going But Not Fast Enough.”
The Interfraternity. Council could do much toward
abolition of Hell Weeks at Penn State if it would only put
teeth into the enforcement of its pre-initiation practices
code.
But the only reason the IFC even passed this code
last year was pressure from the administration. And the
administration must have been satisfied with something
just down on paper. This way. if a pledge is seriously
Injured, it can point to this non-enforced piece of paper
and take itself off the hook the same way. But pity the
poor fraternity involvedl
If the IFC won’t put teeth into enforcement of the
pre-initiation code and it appears it won’t the Uni
versity has an obligation to see that a system for strict
enforcement is developed.
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Letters
Simmons Food
Cause of Flu?
TO THE EDITORS: A large per
centage of the students eating in
Simmons Dining Hall are now
suffering from severe stomach
cramps and other physical condi
tions, normally associated with
the intestinal flu, as a result of
Wednesday’s meals.
When asked for an explanation,
the dieticians said that there had
been quite a few cases of intesti
nal flu and that today's sudden
outbreak was not due to the food.
It certainly seems strange that
all the students should develop
flu overnight, none having had
the symptoms before yesterday.
Could it have been that the “flu
bug” came out of hiding and last
night secretly visited the inhabi
tants of South Halls?
I, however, believe that the
students can, and should look to
the kitchen for an explanation.
Who is at fault? Dieticians or
cooks? Heretofore Simmons is
said to have had the best food
on campus. Maybe what is really
meant is that it has done the
best camouflage job.
Wednesday's supper consisted
of turkey a la king, siring beans,
cauliflower, c r a n berries, grape
fruit juice and butterscotch pie.
Was it the wrong combination
of vegetables? Was it the turkey?
Was it the sauce? Was it the way
it was prepared? Whatever, it cer
tainly showed a lack of foresight
or a deficiency in proper super
vision on the part of someone, and
the result, although shameful,
could have been much worse.-
—Name Withheld
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319 Willard
lnterlondi* Folk Dance. 7:30 p.m.. HUB
ballroom
Players. 8 p.m.. Center Stage, "The Boy
on the Beach**
United Service Foundation, 6:30 p.m,.
Faith United Church of Christ
Wetley Foundation. 8 p.m., "Idea of March
Ptrty/* Foundation
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Robert Barlett, Robert Reamer. Harry
Berkeblle. Anthony Butto. James Claypool,
Fred Culp. Virginia Flamish, James Fleck,
Mary Goode, Charles Gordon, Barbara
Greene. Belly HarrUon, Delano Hoover,
Wendell Jones, Michael Ko*s, Richard
Lewis. Richard Mills, James Kaufile, Ellen
Oosterlinsr. Josephine Rhyder, Walter Roh
mann, Kenneth Russell. Madan Sineh.
William Talbott, Michael Vignola. Thro- '
dore Wells. Kenneth Williamson, Mariann
Jackson, Linda Hamer, Jonda Riley.
Job Interviews
Companies interviewing March
28:
American Agricultural Chemical Co: BS in
LA. Bua Ad, lE, Ajrr, Psych, or anyone
interested in production work and chcm
for lab.
Delaware Power & Light: BS in EE. ME.
General Steel Castings Corp: BS MS in lE,
ME. Metal. Cer.
Haskins & Sells: BS In Acctg.
Island Steel Co: BS MS in Metal, ME, CE,
EE. Chew E. FT.
Lever Brothers: BS MS PhD in Chem E;
MS Phi) in Math for Statistical work;
PhD for analytical Chem; Jr in Chem
E. for summer work.
HUB Retains
African Exhibit
An exhibition of African sculp
ture. which opened in the Hetzel
Union gallery this week, will con
tinue until March 24.
The collection, brought to the
University by the School of Arts,
is from the Segy Gallery in New
York City.
Among the 36 pieces exhibited
are works from the Belgian Con
go, Nigeria, Liberia. Rhodesia and
French Equitorial Africa. Includ
ed are wooden masks created for
a variety of ceremonial uses,
wooden statues representing an
cestors’ spirits and used .for cult
worship; ivory and bone statues,
bracelets, and pendants; bronze
bells, weights, and bracelets; raf
fia woven fabrics, and pipes and
axes for ceremonial uses.
The exhibit was arranged by
Stuart H. Frost, instructor in art,
using canopies of appropriate ma
terials to symbolize thatched roofs
or other shelters under which the
materials might be displayed in
Africa.
Prof to Speak in Detroit
Dr. Joseph Jordan, associate
professor of chemistry, will speak
at Wayne State University in De
troit, Mich., on May 5 as part' of
an annual lecture sequence «o»
frontiers in. chemistry. . ;
TODAY
Little Man on Campus by Dick Bil
Collegian, Inc.
Board Controls
Paper Management
Collegian, Inc., the publishing body of The Daily Col
legian, is “a permanent organization whose responsibility
shall be the supervision and publishing of a newspaper
actually produced by the undergraduate students of the
.., University.”
The Collegian, Inc. Board of Directors also has the
power to appoint and remove
the editor, managing editor,
business manager and local ad
vertising manager of the staff
under its constitution.
Other powers include select
ing the editorial and business
advisers and setting their du
ties, fixing “remuneration” to
be paid to the Board of Editors
and the Business Senior Board,
and control over the finances
of the paper.
These powers are. included
in Collegian, Inc.’s new consti
tutional by-iaws approved last
fall. The by-laws were rewrit
ten to mo're clearly set down
the powers of the publisher
and the "agents” of the pub
lisher, which include the
undergraduate students filling
top positions and the editorial
and business advisers.
Collegian, Inc., in a state
ment of policy adopted this
year, affirms its belief in a free
press.
By resolution, the board has
declared the undergraduate
students shall be in charge of
day-to-day operations of the
paper. Also by resolution, the
board has set down the duties
of the advisers, putting them
in an advisory role instead of
granting them control over the
day-to-day policies of 'the
undergraduates.
However, Collegian, Inc. re
tains the power of “supervision
and publishing" of the news
paper. This means the Univer
sity is not responsible for pub
lication of this newspaper.
The process for the board's
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selecting the editor, managing
editor, business manager and
local advertising manager
considered the top four under
graduate positions—is outlined
in the by-laws.
Recommendations of stu
dents ■ for these positions are
made by the Board of Editors
and the Business. Senior Board.
Collegian, Inc. then determines
the students for the four offi
ces.
The four students, and the
advisers may be removed from
their positions “for just cause.”
Removal action, the by-laws
state,, may be initiated by the
Board of Editors or the Busi
ness Senior Board, “but re
moval shall become' binding
only upon approval by a two
thirds vote of the Board of
Directors in its entiret3 r , or
eight."
The by-laws provide that
Collegian, Inc. Board of Direc
tors shall consist of 12 mem
bers, six undergraduate stu
dents and six from the faculty
or administrative staff. Nine
members are exofficio and
three are appointed by . the
President of the University.
The exofficio members, as
provided by the by-laws' are:
Director of the School of
Journalism, the editorial ad
viser, business adviser, editor
and business manager of Col
legian; All-University Presi
dent, Women’s Student Gov
ernment Association president,
and the junior and sophomore
class presidents.
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BUSY MAWNS THIN6S WITH
TUBS OWN HANDS..
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