PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Only Time Will Tell De ;erred Rushing: fu deilling with the deferred rushing program, Inter frafet nay Council officers are experiencing the difficut tics of enforcing a program that is both completely new and hard to control. interpretations of deferred rushing regulations have heen handed down almost weekly since the beginning of the semester. They have covered areas from distribution of liteiatuie to pledges sleeping in a freshman's room dot ing Hell Week and have come from the IFC Encamp ment, the Boat d of Control and from IFC officers them sel‘es The frequency and complexity of these interpretations has emphasized the difficulty of administering deferred rushing. When the lnterfraternity Council approved deferred 1 ir-,long last spring it was a principle and little more. Although it still has much vagueness, lines of definition are gradually being drawn as new situations develop. But a lot more definition and specification is needed before deferred iushing will become a smooth-running program. One might ask the question, "Is deferred rushing worth the effort needed to enforce it fairly and effec tively?" Or even, "Is deferred rushing worthwhile as a principle?" These questions are not easily answered, not even by the IFC officers, who probably are most familiar with the program. Two major advantages have been attributed to de ferred rushing: • It should save money for fraternities. • It should have a beneficial effect on freshman scholarship A number of lesser advantages also are inherent in the program. These should include an end to fall-semester violations of the freshman drinking ban; a better chance for upperclass students, including transfers, to rush, and for fraternities to rush them; better fraternity parties in many cases; and perhaps a feeling of greater freedom for both fraternity men and freshmen not tied down with heavy rushing. Certainly saving fraternities money and raising fresh man scholarship are laudable objectives. And if these objectives can be obtained, deferred rushing will have accomplished its main purposes. But the deferred rushing program has or is expected to have a number of unfavorable side effects. Among those which already have been made evident are diffi culty in interpreting regulations and accompanying ,con fusion; a lessening of social opportunities for freshmen— not just in lack of access to fraternities but in difficulty in getting dates—and a sort of "segregation" of freshmen from fraternity men in general. And the program has at least one affect An upperclass independent men living in residence halls—their fratern ity triends may not now visit them between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. Fortunately the problem of "dirty rushing" has not yet come up. This appears to indicate that the fraternities have confidence in deferred rushing and intend to abide by its rules. Nevertheless, there has been no indication of how enforceable the program is, since no "dirty rushing" cases have gone to the IFC Board of Control. No one can say now how much deferred rushing will accomplish or whether it will do more good than harm in the long run. It is a credit to the IFC officers that they are trying hard to make the system work fairly and efficiently, and their hard work will aid honest evaluation of the program later. One year is a short trial period for a program as com plicated as deferred rushing. But evaluation of the whole situation next spring should produce some indication of its success or failure. And it should point the way to en hancing the advantages and minimizing the harmful side effects if the program is to be continued. A Student-Operatea Newspaper 01le Battu Totirgiatt Success°, to The Free Lance est 1887 Published ['weed*, through Saturday mornina during the University rm. TM Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper Entered as meeond-clue matter July S 1934 at the State College Pa Post Mita ander the act of March S 1919. Mali tiobarrlption Prlee. 83 00 per semeeter 15.06 pet lON ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor sM., STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Linda Sear; Wiie Editor. Bonhi Levine: Cony Editor, Lolll Neubalth. Asse.tants, Nicki Wulbid. Bill Barber, Susie Link. mum. Marilyn Wallop, Sandy l'adwai, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager Letters Reader Defends Cabinet Report TO THE EDITOR: Your editorial criticizing Jay Feldstein for de ciding to report the outcome of his conference with President Walker to Cabinet before making a statement to The Collegian seems unwarranted if we assume that the purpose of Cabinet is representation of the students. Having been sent as a repre sentative of Cabinet to conf e r with the president, it seems rea sonable that he should deliver his report to that body rather than having The Collegian re port to them and the rest of the campus. Cci tainlv the students are in terested in the senior gift, but 12 more hours seems a short time to wait for the outcome of a con versation held last Friday! —Sue Day, '59 EDITOR'S NOTE: The point of the editorial was that students might have learned the news last Saturday morning instead of this morning. Gazette TODAY Bible Fellowship, 7.30 p.m , 214 Boucke Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m., 218 HUB Entre Nous Mixer, 8 p m., to mid night, Wesley Foundation Hillel Sabbath Services, 8 p.m., Hillel Interlandia Folk Dance, 7 p.m., HUB ballroom Jazz Club Ticket Sale, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., HUB lobby Lutheran Student Association ' Party, 7.30 p.m., LSA Center Pennsylvania Audio-Visual Aids Conference, 1 p.m., 212 HUB Psychology Conference, 3 p.m., 218 HUB Wesley Foundation Fun Night, 8 p.m., Wesley Foundation. UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Carl Darner. David Boland, Patrick Bo tubs, Thomas Crawford, Christine Eng lund, Barbara Greene, Shirley Greenbaum, Charles Guzy, Henry James, Linda Hunt, Alan McFall, James McGovern, David Mc- Kee, Robert Moss, George Saunders, Alice Taylor, Kathleen Tumas, William Walton, Robert Zechman. Chemistry-Physics Honesty Program Planned by Council The Chemistry-Physics Coun cil has decided to continue to plan an academic honesty program. The council hopes to have a program start with this year's freshman class, possibly for the third round of bluebooks. It was suggested at the meet ing Wednesday night that the program begin with freshmen. The council felt that seniors are more liable to feel loyalty toward long established friends and fra ternity brothers. • Irving Klein, chairman of the committee, stated that social pres sure would prevent students from cheating. The Council proposed that the program be carried throughout the students' four years, thus be ing a continuous cycle. Working with seniors would mean the re establishment of the program each year. The council voted in favor of a Newsletter and will solicit adver tising from large corporations to lower the cost of publication. Dean Will Address Harrisburg Convention Dr. J. Ralph Rackley, dean of the College of Education, will speak on "The Recruitment of College Teachers" at the 18th an nual meeting of the Pennsylvania Institutional Placement Associa tion in Harrisbur: on Oct. 23. Approved Fraternities All fraternities have been'ap proved for the entertainment of women guests tonight and tomorrow night except Kappa Alpha Psi. The following fraternities have been approved for to morrow night only: Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Phi Delta, Delta Sigma Phi, Pi Lambda Phi, Pi Sigma Upsilon, Sigma Tau Gamma and Theta Kappa Phi. ~ 5 a Little Man on Campus by Dick Bible, "It's your turn to wind the alarms tonight." Take It or Leave It Rush Code Brings Dating Dilemma Deferred rushing has been examined from just about all angles = all but one, that is. It's just fine for IFC to concern itself with the welfare of freshman men, fraternity men and even the indie dorm counselors. But we want to know who's looking out for the interests of the coeds. Perhaps some girls should be invited to the IFC meetings to give their opinions of de ferred rushing. The new pol icy certainly affects their dat ing, and their dating affects the men, and it's the men that IFC is so bothered about. How does deferred rushing effect Penn State coeds? We'll begin the explanation by stating the case of Nancy, a sweet young . thing now spending her first semester at the University. Nancy looked forward all last summer to college. Like many coeds-to-be, she consid ered fraternity parties an es sential part of the college wo man's social life. D u r in g Orientation Week and freshman customs she met several very nice males—fresh men. (After all, the main pur- pose of those endless mixers was to introduce the freshmen to one another.) And how is our sweet young thing spending her weekends? Well, she and her frosh dates sit in the HUB. Or, they sit in the Corner Room. Or, they sit in a diner. Or, .when the weather isn't too cold, they can sit on a bench and reflect HOufg Ot.' FUZZY-FACE ' TODAY? YOU LOOK KIND OF DEPRESSED , 1 j w. . iii,4,- ,iti,60,1,7!...,„,.. \l l' I f ii.., .--_-__ HAS SOMETHING TOUCHED '.lZ:`" I CAN'T YOUR FUZZY Ol: HEART"? STAND IT! • S. If :i...: 'A , v/ .... _ r i . ...; i ..‘,,.„ wt. ■ WELL, NI - THERE, a' FUZZY FACE r ,, Aro Lairibb .1: ear FRIDAY. OCTOBER 3. 1958 by Pat Evans upon the beauty of the cam pus. So, poor Nancy has now spent three weekends on cam pus and has not yet set foot inside a fraternity house. And she's becoming rather weary of the HUB. the Corner Room and the diners. Many of Nancy's coed class mates have been dating upper-. classmen—f r a t ernity men. They've had a taste of frat ernity parties. They're meet ing sorority women at the houses. Life is rosy all around. Because a sizable number of frosh coeds have latched onto upperclassmen, the situa tion for upperclasswomen is grimmer than in other years, The f r osh want to party, freshman men can't squire them to parties, so they date upperclassmen who can, and upperclasswomen are left date- less. Yes, it's a sad life. We can think of just one solution. It's not very likely to succeed; but at least it's constructive. Here goes: Some enterprising students should set up a date bureau to fix up frosh men with up perclass women. Would every one then be happy? No, but at least they'd all liave dates,
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