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Editorial Opinion
College 1958 Takes Faith
The atomic and hydrogen age, ushered in with the
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki just 13 years ago,
has been succeeded by the age of space.
And this year's freshmen are the first high school
graduates of the space age, its first class to enter college.
As scientific achievements our ancestors would have
thought impossible are piled rapidly atop one another,
the college student of today faces a world that appears
drunk with the power to destroy itself.
"War is hell," Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman said,
and in his Civil War march to the sea at Atlanta, he
proved it. But if war was hell in Sherman's day, think
what fantastic violence and destruction threatens the
world today.
It is a great temptation for the college student of
today to say "what's the use," to give up living and
learning, to merely exist when at any moment the text
book may be snatched from his hand and replaced with
a rifle; when violence at Quemoy and Matsu may be re
placed by death and destruction at Quito and Manhattan,
Quakertown and Monessen—and State College.
Indeed, psychologists have indicated that the un
certain future of today's world is a contributing factor in
the rising tide of juvenile delinquency.
For many people, the uninterested and the unsure,
college is not the answer.
For others, part of the answer is an abiding faith in
Cod and in man's ability to triumph over his own inhu
manity. An ever-growing need for the trained, intelligent
mind is another part of this answer.
College study of course Is vital to the training of the
mind. We need more scientists, not to build bigger and
better bombs, but to harness the tremendous energy at
our disposal for peacetime purposes, to solve such prob
lems as population growth and food supply.
And more important, we need more people trained
to think, to reason, to talk for a free world. The world
today has too many successful scientists and too many
unsuccessful diplomats.
Whether the world of tomorrow will better remem
ber the atomic electric plant or the atomic submarine will
depend largely on the faith and ability and training of the
college man of today.
Dinner With Drac?
Class scheduling this semester has caused real prob
lems for some students.
For instance, there's the student who has classes
straight through from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. He's either gc:t to
cram lunch into his class break or into his classes—and we
suspect professors would not be particularly sympathetic
to the latter alternative.
Another solution, of course, would be to rearrange
meal hours altogether.
The student could eat breakfast at 9:30 a.m., lunch at
4 p.m. and dinner, say, at midnight, while watching the
late TV horror show. This meal schedule would _avoid
conflicts with evening classes too—at least for this year.
Seriously, while noon and night classes appear to be
necessary at this time, they bring a multitude of prob- '
lems to students who, by design or default, schedule away
their lunch and evening hours.
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Coeds Protest
Breakfast Rush
Article on Page One
TO THE EDITOR: Each coed at
this University pays a combined
room and boafd fee of $390 a se
mester. This entitles her to three
meals each day.
However, in Redifer Dining
Hall, it is possible for most wom
en to receive only two meals per
day. This is because• the small
dining room D is used for break
fast for Cooper, Hoyt, Ewing and
Cross Halls, whereas it is meant
to hold only Cooper and Hoyt
women.
Most women do pot have time
to eat breakfast, the most im
portant meal of the day, before
running off to perhaps four hours
of classes. For anyone having an
8 o'clock it is almost impossible
to eat breakfast without being
late to class.
We have heard a rumor that the
reason for only one dining hall
being open is that the budget is
not large enough to cover the
expenses in Redifer and by clos
ing a dining room, many women
will be discouraged from eating
by the long lines. Can this be pos
sible?
Having such a large number
eating in one dining room is also
an added burden for the waiters.
We feel that we are entitled to
the food for which we have paid
and would like to see the existing
conditions improved.
—Signed by 50 coeds
(Sybil Klein, Judy Kravitz, Frances
Strippy. JoAnne Coffman, Judi Wharton,
Ilelyn Stein. Mien Alexander. Carole Boa
enbloom. Mitzi Routman, Myrna Glazer,
Dixie Lee Bair, Ann Tecbmanski, Anne
Seward, Diane Schonbak, Aileen Feldman,
Lois Bromberg, Maxine Shall, Betty Segal,
Maxine Wexler, Connie Litow, Lillian
Fischer, Judy Waxman, Harriet Felder,
Sandy Feldman, Pam Alexander, Gay
Clading, Sue Sherman, Ruth 'Johnson,
Sue Smithson, Jody Miller, Nancy Kress,
Kay Krughoff, Denise Fife, Nancy Nichol
son, Judith Norton, Gay Chuba, Alice
Shields. Shirley Pittman. Bonnie Keys,
Anne Rollins, stifle Keener, Sue Sunder
land, Lucy Capella, Audrey Graham, Die
Rielly. April Mombrea, Shirley King, Peg
g/ Dimperio, Anne Timony, Donna Eck
feld.)
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TODAY
Agriculture Student Council, 7
p.m., 214 HUB '
Christian Fellowship, 12:45-1 p.m.,
218 HUB
Collegian Ad Staff, 6:30 p.m., 9
Carnegie
Collegian Promotion Staff, 7 p.m.,
215 Willard
Commuting Women, noon, McEl
wain Lounge
Delta Sigma Pi, 7 p.m., Lambda
Chi Alpha
DOC Council, 9 p.m., 212 HUB
Education Student Council, 7
p.m., 216 HUB
Freshmen Customs Board, 6:30
p.m; 217 HUB
Freshmen Regulations Boar d,
12:30-1 p.m., 212 HUB
Froth Art Staff, 7 p.m., Froth
office
ICG, 7:45 p.m., behind Old Main
LA Council, 7 p.m., 21Z HUB
Monitor, 6:45 p.m., 205 Boucke
Neu Bayrischen Schulplattlers, 7
p.m., 2 White Hall
Outing Club,"7 p.m., HUB Assem
bly Hall
Outing Club, Rock Climbing Di
vision, 7 p.m., 111 Boucke
.Science Teacher's Institute, 4:10
p.m., HUB - Assembly Room
Senior Class Advisory Board, 7:30
p.m., 308 Willard • , -
WRA Bridge Club. for advanced
players, White Hall ' • .
WRA Tennis Club, 7:30 p.m., 3
White - 'Hall -
WSGA Judicial. 5:15 p.m.,' 217
HUB •
Young Republicans, T p.m. 202
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students desiring work during
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Little Man on Cam
"I see I've lectured into your lunch hour' again."
Words to Spare
'But, Mr. Checker,
I Live Here!'
The Interfraternity Council's new deferred rushing
system has moved into full operation—although under
some rather confusing circumstances. \
The new code, which has been defined and revised
by the board of control, still remains a little foggy in the
minds of many fraternity men.
The code presents a highly con
fusing set of circumstances and
possible violations, and the IFC
hasn't yet conquered many of
the necessary detains.
The first violation carne to
the board last Thursday, and
concerned two Lambda Chi Al
pha pledges who were dis
covered catching a few hours
sleep in a freshman's dorm
room during Lambda Chi's hell
week
Lambda Chi got off with a
warning, because of extenuat
ing circumstances in the- case
—but the board of control
chairman promised stern penal
ties for any such violations in
the future.
So now the board of control
has declared all dormitories
off-limits to fraternity men, no
matter what their intentions.
However, one rather embar
rassing question presents it
self—what if tr. fraternity man
enters a dormitory because
That happens to be where he
lives?
There are a number of fra-
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1958
US by Dick Bibist
By Dick Drayne
ternities who have pledges liv
ing in the dorms. Some of theta
are men who have not made
the required average to live in
the house; some are transfer
upperclassmen who have just
been pledged.
Fraternities who have mem
bers in the dorms are at an
advantage—many times the in
itial contact with a rushee is
the most important time for a
fraternity.
This is not the only problem
which faces the new codirnor
is it the most challenging. But
this newest loophole does serve
to point up the fact .that the
deferred rushing code has not
yet been defined as well as it
must be to survives.
It seems to us at this point
the IFC has been brushing over
too many-important points. in
defining the new code, and that
too many vital questions have
been left unanswered.
_ Meanwhile . . . we hope the
pledges living in dorms will
take the matter into their own
hands and resolve to cast aside
all fears and proceed with (dr
titude into their rooms.
REALLY, CHARLIE EtMAN?
HE CERTAINLY MUST TRW
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