PAGE SIX Editorial Opinion IFC Issues a Challenge Fraternity pieiiidents were asked not once but three tunes at last night's Interfraternity Council meeting to send delegates to each and every IFC workshop session tonight Ten workshops, which will discuss nearly every phase of fraternity administration, will be held only one night this year. In the past the workshops were held two nights and the second night attendance was poor. The workshop sessions are scheduled for tonight, A panel discussion will be held tomorrow on national fra ternity problems. Workshop Chairman Leonard Julius has secured 5 national executive secretaries and a national president to serve as workshop speakers and members of tomor row night's panel discussion. Other speakers include prom inent members of the administration and faculty, and a chapter adviser. The piesence of these speakers should give the work shop sessions a sense of importance in addition to having them present interesting and pertinent facts and ideas. The discussion leaders have received tentative agendas and a suggested outline to cover. They can be expected to have well-planned programs. Each workshop participant also will have a copy of the proposed agenda. Topics to be dicussed at the workshops include public and alumni relations, rushing, social programs, and schol arship; plus workshops for fraternity presidents, treas urers, pledge, pledgemasters, house managers and caterers. The rest of the three-day program will include a coffee hour tomorrow afternoon for fraternity presidents, speakers, administrators and national executive secre taries and the panel discussion tomorrow night. The program will close with the annual workship banquet at the Nittany Lion Inn Thursday. The workshops were designed to benefit all fraterni ties. The only way this can be accomplished is if each fraternity is represented 100 per cent at individual work shops, panel discussion, coffee hour and banquet. It will be a feather in the cap of the entire IFC system if this goal is reached. More Than Trusteeship Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dihvorth—who is also a Univeisity trustee—anived on campus early Sun day evening. He left about 1:30 p.m. yesterday. At 8 p.m. Sunday he delivered the keynote address of the conference on ‘'lntegration in the North." Between 9 and 10 a.m. yesterday he answered questions from mem bers of a political science class. From 10:15 to 11:15 he drank coffee and discussed northern' integration and Univeisity funds with students in the Hetzel Union Build ing. At noon he addressed members of the Faculty Lunch eon Club. How much of the campus the mayor saw during his approximate 20 hours here we do r.ot know. But he cer tainly spoke to a great number of University students, facultv and administration members. Trustees must be dedicated men. They devote long hours to serving the University, the Commonwealth and the students in manv wavs and thev receive little reward Mr. Dihvorth showed an added willingness to discuss with Penn Staters not only University policy, but other subjects on which he is particularly qualified to hold forth. V\'e hope student and faculty interest in what he had to say may serve as some reward for the time and trouble he took to talk with them. A Student-Operated Newspaper Daily (Enibgiatt Successor to Tht Fre« Lone*, est ltS7 P«kll»ht4 Ttttimj «hr»«*b S»tortl»j «a„rnlp* dirtni tilt C ti-tnlly /*«. Tilt DtiU C«ilffi»a U ■ iludtnt-optralta ntwspaptr Enltrtd aa tttMd-tlaaa aaHat Jal/ ». 1914 al tht suit Collrtt Pa Ptat Offitt andtr tht atl tf March t H 7». Mall Sabtcriplltn Prirtt lilt ft! ttanttr - H.W ft! mt ROBERT FRANKLIN _ Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: FJitor. Bill J»lf»: Cupr Editor. Jeanette Sate: Wira Editor. I.e t’urJepi. A-ai-tant*. John Root. Amr Raaenthal, Jim Serrlll, Ile-vit SeSmim-1. Brenda Werner. Ste»ie FUtreicher, ZeMa Greentpan. Chariot:* Flack, Se.ttn Hill, Janet Beahtn, Karea Swift. Jud/ Gruad/, Sail/ Hoover, Bara Vara Yuok, Karyi .dnthacei. Kra Fell. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager Letters Pedestrian Is Seen 'lgnored' TO THE EDITOR: This letter is in regard to the Campus Pattol’s attitude toward pedestrians crossing at intersections. Gener allv, the attitude seems to be one of letting the crossing pedestrian fend for himself. This was very well illustrated at the corner of Pollock Road and Burrowes Street during the 5 pm. rush hour on Oct. 15. A student who was blind was paid no attention by the Campus Patrolman directing traffic The patrolman waved one direction of traffic on and then the other direction. After waiting a few minutes the blind boy started off the curb three or four times but each tune was cut off by moving traffic. It wasn’t until the patrol man was informed by a third party that the boy was blind that traffic was stopped. I am sure if the patrolman had just looked and noticed that the boy was blind he would have stopped traffic and let him cross. But the average patrolman ha 3 developed a habit of completely ignoring the pedestrian. If the Campus Patrol doesn’t wish to change its attitude toward the average pedestrian, let’s .at least give the blind ped estrian a break. —Peter Roeder graduate student Gazette TODAY Belles Lettres, “Digging in the Near East." 7:30 p.m., Simmons lounge Blue Key, Bpm, Phi Epsilon Pi Bryan Green Foundation Commit tee, 8 p.m., 217 HUB Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m., 212 HUB Clover Club, film: “The Rival World," 715 p.m., 11l Thomp son Collegia* business staff candi date ii.3o p m.. 217 Willard Colleg.-n promotion staff, 6:43 p.m., 215 Willard Commuting Upperclass Women, noon, back study lounge of Mc- Elwain Dancing Class, 4.15 p.m, 6:30 p nr, HUB ballroom Eastern Orthodox Society, Hallo ween committee, 8 p m., 304 Willard Economics Club. 7 p.m., 214 HUB Education Student Council, 7 p.m., 212 HUB 4-H Club, 8 a.m -2 p.m , 213 HUB Freshman Council, 6:30 p.m., 217 HUB Freshman Regulations Board, 12:30 p m.. 212 HUB Gamma Sigma Sigma, 6.43 p nr., HUB assembly hall Hillel, Beginner’s Hebrew Course, 7 pm; Lecture. “The Quaker Religion,” 7:30 p.m., Hillel lounge Intercollegiate Government, 7 pm., 203 HUB IFC, 7;30 p.m , jIUB assembly hall Jr. Prom Committee, 3 p.m., 218 HUB Outing Club skating, 7:30 p.m., 11l Boucke Neu Bayrischer Schuhplalller, 7 p.m., 2 White Phi Mu Alpha, smoker. 9 p.m, Pi Kappa Phi Pi Mu Epsilon, ‘Turning Machines and Unso'.vabilitv,” 7 30 p.m., 124 Sparks Science Institute for Teachers, "Fiontiers in Biophysics,” 4:15 pm, 112 Buckhout Sigma Delta Chi smoker, 3-5 p m., 114 Carnegie WSGA Judicial, 5 p.m., 217 HUB Young Republicans, 8 p.m., Re publican headquarters VXIVERSITV HOSPITAL Barbara Beil. Mary Davenport, Reuben n»u'sk>. Wtlltim Eckel, Michael EuMer» t*»n. Lir.da l.riffey, Rebecca Hadden, (Itorto Patsy. John Rapehak. Robert Reploscel, L-v* Startler Stone t Sue Wicks, Call Veomans, Lmda Hoi/. Belles Lettres to Hear Archeology Professor Dr. Frederick R. Matson, pro fessor of archeology and assistant dean of the College of the Liberal Arts in charge of research, will speak on “Digging in the Near East” at the Belles Lettres meet ing at 7:30 tonight in Simmons lounge. He will show slides to illustrata his talk. Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibii "He not only gives a lousy lecture but he expects ya to take note* on EVERTHING he Bays." Words to Spare Even the Times Makes Mistakes Theodore M. Bernstein, assistant managing editor of the New York Times, has written an entertaining book on some of the problems and triumphs encountered in edit ing one of the world’s great newspapers. The book, “Watch Your Language,” is billed as a “lively, informal guide to bet ter writing/’ and proves to be just that . . . and a little more, Bernstein’s book is informative, amusing, and absorbing wheth er read as a textbook or only for entertainment. The material Bernstein uses in illustrating the many points of writing he discussed come from the files of his periodical bulletin, "Winners and Sin ners " This is a bulletin of good and bad writing examples Bern stein issues occasionally and which now has a long subscrip tion list including other news papers, books and magazines, high schools and colleges and The Daily Collegian. Most of the points Bernstein covers in his book are too long to go into here, but some of the "Winners and Sinners” he has collected in the course of his Times editing career are worth noting. Samples of some “sinners”, taken from the pages of the Times: "Twelve shoppers on a crowded Brooklyn thorough fare were injured yesterday when a 65-year old woman lost control of her car, mounted the curb and ran for forty feet among pedestrians on the side walk." "Sheriff Tidwell said a JlittftltoA’HEN I 6ET\ WHAT ARE YOU GONG TO / BIS, I'A GOiNS BE FANATICAL ABOUT LINUS? ~ — ’ OH, I DON'T KNOW ..IT / I’LL BE SORT OF A \ DOESN'T REALLYMATm, FANATIC!J TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 195 S By Dick Drayne leopard had been spotted , . “A college friendship that began a year ago ended in matrimony yesterday , , . . he said that 104 United States citizens visited his coun try between 1953 and 1954.” Not all of Bernstein's exam ples are meant to point out faults in writing. He also quotes a number of outstanding bits of prose as examples of lively and colorful storytelling. Some of the “winners” cited by Bernstein: “Chinchillas, one of the few rodents that can make a wom an shriek with pleasure, at tend a mass meeting in New York last week.” "A British bank has chal lenged the widely held belief that when the United States sneezes economically the rest of the world gets pneumonia." “Britain is discovering that there are almost as many dif ficulties in laying down tha white man’s burden as there were in assuming it.” Bernstein’s book, studded with such illustrations plus commentaries on them, seems to us to be one of the most interesting and illuminating books on journalism problems to come out in some time.
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