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Editorial Opinion
Greek Get-Together
The Interfraternity Council yesterday held the first
encJinpment, a day-long session of workshops and
talks patteL ned after the annual Student Encampment
held at the University's Mont Alto Forestay School.
'file WC encampment was held at the civil engineer
ing camp at Stone Valley, and was attended by fraternity
piesidents, IFC officials and workshop chairmen, and
some administration members.
From first reports the encampment seems to have
been a success. The program was well-planned, and out
side speakers discussed subjects which are quite pertinent
to fraternities and their future.
'1 he IFC should be congratulated for initiating and
carrying out the encampment program. A number of prob
lems cut rently face the fraternity system at the Univer
sity. Sessions such as this, where fraternities can build
unity and understanding, are invaluable in solving these
pt oblems.
The encampment was particularly apt in view of
the defer red rushing program which has gone into effect
for the first time this year. A system such as this could
pi event a mountain of problems for all fraternities, and
unless the rules are set and the difficulties anticipated
the new rushing program could prove very troublesome.
One of the workshops yesterday was devoted exclu
sively to deferred rushing, where a number of interesting
opinions and, ideas were dis - cussed, ideas which may help
in initiation of the program.
Other topics discussed included public relations, schol
arship, organization and administration of IFC, the Junior
IFC, and the IFCPA. The ideas which came out of the
workshops will be written up and sent to all fraternities,
and will eventually reach the floor of the IFC meeting.
The first IFC encampment seems to have been very
profitable. We hope it will become an annual event, and
that the IFC will continue in this line and schedule more
such informal and educational meetings.
Sampling College
A series of seven Orientation Week lectures for new
students will begin with a panel discussion this afternoon
on the subject "Creative Thinking: Where Does an Idea
Come From?" The panel will include seven faculty mem
bers, and all the tickets for this first event have already
been picked up.
A look at the topics and lecturers on schelule for the
next six programs indicates that the series will be profit
able and enjoyable. The subjects range from archaeology
to modern art, and the speakers are all prominent faculty
members.
Freshmen and transfer students are fortunate to have
the chance to attend these free lectures. Admission is by
ticket, which can be picked up at the Hetzel Union desk
—but new students have been urged to come even if they
are unable to get a ticket, as seats which aren't claimed
five minutes from the scheduled starting time will be
available to anyone without a ticket.
We hope the enthusiastic response to the first lecture
indicated by the ticket demand, will continue through
the next six events on the program. The lectures seem
likely to provide, as the Orientation Week Guide says,
''a sample of the intellectual experiences which lie ahead."
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of the Daily Collegian and do not necessarily represent
the •leer• of the 'University or of the student body.
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Interpretation
New Formosa
May Rise When
Chiang Is Gone
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
There's a deal of meaning these
days in the saying that if you are
not confused, you just don't un
derstand the situation.
Take, for instance, the situa
tion with regard to Red China.
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles says the United States is
about to go into detailed diplo
matic negotiations with a gov
ernment with which it has no
diplomatic relations.
That's a minor matter. Whether
the negotiations would go any
better if there were diplomatic
relations is a hypothetical ques
tion. Britain has diplomatic rela
tions with Peiping but her rep
resentatives there seldom seem to
get to first base.
About all the_new negotiations
will prove- on this point is that
by ignoring red tape relations
can go on without relations,
Some people- argue that if the
United States had recognized the
Peiping government long ago, and
Red China had been admitted to
the United Nations, she would
have been subjected to public
pressure which might have, as
' sometimes seemed to be the case
with the Soviet Union, affected
her actions for the better.
That is probably true. But it
would have involved the UN sta
tus of Nationalist China, long
time ally which the" Western pow
ers have not been willing to con
sign to outer darkness.
Yet there is a strong feeling
among students of the subject
that when Chiang Kai-shek is
gone, a solution will be found
through the rise of Formosan na
tionalism, something he had to
subjugate when he established
his headquarters there.
The belief is that a new nation
will be formed, with UN mem
bership for itself alone, and with
its security guaranteed by that
organization just as the security
of South Korea has been guar
anteed.
In the meantime, Dulles admits
that the alliance with Chiang
prevents a completely .free hand
for the United States in bargain
ing with the Reds over Quemoy
and the other offshore islands.
This is theoretical, of course,
since the Nationalists, having no
other visible means of support,
would have to drop them if the
United States said drop them.
That would, however, raise a
strong question among other na
tions in comparable positions as
to the long-term value of Ameri
can support. It would foster the
idea that they'd better be making
settlements with inter national
Communism while settlement
making is good.
The type of detailed negotia
tions with the Reds to which the
secretary refers, involving their
renunciation of force as a means
of attaining their political objec
tives, suggests preparedness to
pay them in some way.
But to pay them is to submit to
blackmail under the present
threat of force, and to weaken
the moral structure with which
the United States attempts to
buttress all of its actions.
Now, if you are sufficienly con
fused, you may be able to under
stand the negotiations if and
when they begin.
Lowenfeld Book Named
To 'Outstanding' Group
The book, "Creative and Men
tal Growth," by Viktor Lowen
feld, professor and head of the
Department of Art Education,
has been selected as one of the
40 outstanding educational books
of 1957 by the Enoch Pratt Free
Library and educational special
ists in various subject fields from
all Darts of the country.
The third edition of the book
was published last year.
Swiss Prof Joins Staff
Dr. Jurg Meier, member of the
staff of the Swiss Federal Insti
tute of Technology, Zurich, Swit
zerland, has been appointed re
search associate in chemistry.
Meier will assist Dr. Joseph
Jordan, associate professor of
chemistry, on a project sponsored
by the Atomic Energy Commis
sion. The project is titled "En.
thalpy Titrations in Fused Salts.*
ittle Man
Perhaps we should discontinue using student advisers for
the new freshman orientation program."
from here to infinity
Lensrnan Relates
Woes of Pageant
Being a photographer' at the Miss America Pageant
is a far cry from the idea probably thought of by the
average person.
It amounts to having to be a giant, capable of taking
pictures over the heads of 100 photographers; being able
to recover from a slight con
cussion when you get up from
making a shot in a low position
and hit your head on the cam
era of the photographer behind
you; and being able to see
straight to focus while a hun
dred flashes go off around you.
To top it all off, the htindred
photographers have to make
their shots while crowded in
an area 10 feet wide and five
feet long on the brink of the
stage, six feet off the floor.
The photographers have five
minutes to make the shots, with
a horde of reporters and news
r e e 1 camera
me n chafing
at the bit, to
to get their
crack at the
subject.
The photog
raphers cover
ing the pag
eant for one
paper have a
lark compared
to the photog
raphers from
the wire serv
ices. The two photographers
from the Associated Press cov
ering the pageant transmitted
more than 800 pictures they
had taken during the course
of the week. _
If you think this is an easy
task, just try thinking up 800
different ways to photograph
52 girls, The pictures not only
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have to all be different. but
have to all be different but
from the shots of the oppo
sition news photo services.
One of the biggest problems
confronting the photographer
and reporter at the Atlantic
City pageant is the set of rules
governing each of the 52 con
testants. Men are taboo.
In fact, the male sex is so
taboo that the girls are not
only not permitted to date dur
ing the week, but they aren't
even permitted to talk to re
port e r s and photographers
without a chaperone present.
This photographer was talk
ing to Miss Pennsylvania and
Miss Hawaii about a picture he
wanted, when out of the dark
reaches of the wings of the vast
auditorium came a chaperone,
who declared, "our girls don't
do that sort of thing!" I'm still
at a loss as to what they don't
do. All I wanted was a hula
picture!
Even the newly crowned
Miss America's proud papa was
barred from posing with his
daughter fo r photographers
following the crowning.
The 10 semi-finalists in the
pageant were really going in
circles after posing in swim
suits for newsreel cameramen.
The girls walked back and
forth in a small circle seven
times before the cameramen
(Continued on page seven)
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