PAGE FOUR Editorial 0 • inion Throw in the T-Shirt The trouble of the T-shirts moves to its crisis today. , Nittany Area residents will take to the polls to decide whether Nittany Council's ban on T-shirts in the area dining hall will stand or fall. A two-thirds majority in the referendum will be needed to rescind the ruling, which also requires that suit coats or sport coats he worn at Sunday meals in the Nittany area. Much outspoken criticism and fanatical opposition among some Nittany residents has greeted the new 'regu lation. The forces of resistance—and we hope they repre sent only a small percentage of Nittany 'residents—have come forth to defend their stand with some of the strangest and most witless logic we have seen in some time. Apparently the chief point of protest over the ruling is its infringement on the rights of the students involved. Some have carried this to the absurd point of saying the rule is contrary to the United States Constitution. Has it occurred to these civil liberties fanatics that our basic rights are often adjusted to conform to particu lar situations? Rules set up in the University community are often more sti ict than the Constitution—rules such as hours for women, dormitory drinking regulations, etc. The University community cannot be run as a state or a nation—it is a unique situation, and if a student objects to the rules of the situation he can resort to his basic rights and quit. Another top complaint of the dissenters is that the Nittany council representatives had no right to pass-the T-shirt ban without consulting Nittany residents. This argument quickly disintegrates under close inspection. The basis of representative government—such as the Nittany Council—is that representatives have the power to act for their constituents. If a representative had to consult those ho represents before agreeing to any legis lation. the system' would fall apart under its own clumsi ness. Nittany residents elected these men— they shouldn't have put them in office if they doubted their intelligence and good judgment. They do, of course, have the right to overrule these representatives by referendum, and it is gratifying to see that the council stepped in quickly and set' up this referendum to test student feelings. The T-shirt ban is sound rule. If a few students can not conform to basic rules of etiquette and decor—and they will have to if they expect any success after graduation then the majority of students should see that these rules are upheld. , A Student-Operated Newspaper Oht Bally altailtglatt Successor to The Free Lance, cit. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Dolly Collegian is e student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July I. 1031 at the State College, Pa. Post OM* under the ad of March 3, 1310. Mail Subscription Print 03.00 per semester MOO per year. ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor 1011 ff," City Editor. David Fineman: Managing Editor, Richard Draynet Sports Editor. Loa Prato: Associate Sports Editor, Matt Mathews; Personnel and Public Relations Director, Patricia Evans; Copy Editor, Lynn Watd; Assistant Copy Editor, Dick Fisher; Photography Editor. Robert Thompson. Credit Mgr., Janice Smith; Local Ad Mgr.. Tom Hockey: Asst. Local Ad Mgr., Robert Pirrone; National Ad Mgr., Delay Brackbill: Promotion Mgr.. Kitty Bar• gert: Personnel Mgr., Mickey Nash: Classified Ad Mgr., Rae Waters; Co. Circulation Mgrs.. Mary Anne First and Murray Simon; Research and Records Mgr., Mary flerbsin; Office Secretary. Style Johnson. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Hobbi Levine: Copy Editor. Lolli Neubarth Wile Editor, Bill Jaffe: Aasictatits. Judi Wharton, Elaine Miele, Mai Wo!ford lohn It Dave Anthony, Alice O'Donnell, Nancy Schiffnian, Sandy Slossen, rat Garen. Cordie Lewis. Interpreting The World Still Is Not 'Safe for Democracy' By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst Forty years ago yesterday there fell a strange silence over Western Europe. From the North Sea to the Alps the guns ceased pounding for the first time in four years. The "war to end wars"—the war which the United States had so blithely entered "to make the world safe for Demo cracy"—was over, or so people thought. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager . The Western Allies had won, and that f i r s t Armistic Day their peoples celebrated like madmen. In later years the celebration became a tribute to the men who had done the winning. But the "war to end wars" hadn't worked, and there came other wars, and more winners. The anniversary was renamed Veterans Day, in honor of them all. The 20th Century, which had been expected to produce a Letters News Policy Is Questioned TO THE EDITOR: Just what do you consider news? Yesterday's Collegian gives front page cov erage to such current and news worthy events as a 3-day-old football game which Penn State was picked to win and only tied, the sell-out popularity of Shake speare, the sale of Pitt football tickets, and grad English exams. Then we find six pages of such vital topics as residence cloth ing customs, Mardi Gras prizes, party plans, etc. Finally, on page eight we read that Canon Bryan Green, one of England's most famous speakers and internationally popular campus lecturer spoke on "Love, Friendship, and Marriage" in the Hetzel Union Building ball room Monday afternoon. Of course no mention was given to the fact that only a small group of more than 1100 students' jammed the ballroom, overflowed into the doorways and lounges, and made it neces sary to turn on all the loud speakers on the first floor of the HUB in order to accommodate everyone. According to reports Gazette TODAY AIM, 7 p.m., 202 BUR .. Alpha Lambda Delta. 5:15 p.m., 215 RUB Alpha Lambda Delta pledge meeting, 5:15 p.m., 215 HUB Association of Fraternity Coansetiort, 7 :30 p.m.. 212 HUB Bryan Green Committee breakfast, 7:30 a.m., Chapel Bryan Green Lecture. 1:11 p.m.. HUB ballroom Brian Green Firesides. 9 p.m., Theta Chi; 10 p.m., McAllister lounge, Ste phens lounge, Irwin lounge. Alpha Kappa Lambda: 11 p.m., Acacia, Sig. ma Tau Gamma Chesil Club, 1 p.m., 7 Sparks Chriallan Fellowship, 11!:15 p.m., 213 HUB Dancing Class. 6:30 p.m.. HUB ballroom Polk Song Club, 7 p.m., 218 HUH Advisory Board, 8 !SO p.m., 117=2121321 212 HUD Kappa PM pledge meeting, S p.m., Wesley Foundation Newman Club Rosary and Benediction, 7 p.m., Church: Lecture Series, Prot. Case, 7 p.m., 104 Chapel; Choir Prue- Hee, 7 p.m., Church Physical Education Student Connell, 7 p.m., 1 White Hall Riding Club executive meeting 7 p.m., Captain Caisarin'shome Woman's Chefs. 6 p.m., HUB assembly hall , Women', Recreation Association bridge club, for advainced end intermediate players. 7 p.m:, White - Hall WSGA Judicial Hoard. 7 p.m., 214 HUH Zoology Club, 2:30 p.m., 113 Freer UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Nancy Remised, John llosick, John Busch, Catherine Chiarelle, Gayl Clark, Judith Cohen, John Craig, George Glynn, Laura Bowden, Patricia Kampmerier, Robert Kimble, Kathleen Lauver. Stella Mascaro, Eleanor Newkirk, Judith Stew art, Melvin Swendeen, Owen Vick. Don ald Williams, Vincent Zaino, Elisabeth Briggs, Robert Urnstead, George Val gora. Exchange - Grants Offered to Grads The International Educational Exchange Service of the U.S. State Department will offer 75 new scholarships for study in Latin America. - For eligibility, applicants should be D.S. citizens, under 35• years old, ,have a bachelor of arts de gree and have sufficient knowl edge of Spanish to live and study in the country concerned. Applications must be in by Jan. 15.. Forms may be obtained from the Institute of International Edu cation, 1 E. S'lth - St., NeW York, N.Y., until Dec. 31. new apex in the advance of civilization. began to be called "The Bloody Twentieth." , The roll of honor has grown beyond any proportions which could have been imagined by the madly happy people of Nov. 11, 1918. Now there is observance ra ther than celebration. After 40 years the world is still not safe for Democracy. In the background there re mains the long roll of the drums. this was a unique event in the size of the attendance alone. Reading further we find no mention whatsoever of the lec ture given by Bryan Green at Schwab Auditorium Monday night, where he addressed a group upwards of 1000 on "Ba sic Christianity." Just what do ' you consider news? —Jim Miller, '6O —Lee Van Bremen, '6O —Don Collier, '59 Reader Supports Letter by Rodill TO THE EDITOR: This letter is unique. I am agreeing with Dan iel Rodill's letter published (yes terday). I was very much moved by the partial accuracy of his let ter published Monday, Jan. 6, 1958, and now, I am so moved by the total accuracy of his let ter published (yesterday), I feel compelled to voice praise where it is so intensely deserved. Excuse me for adding that I am well aware that due to ig norance and apathy, our cause is futile and our efforts are of no avail. —Rodney Morgan, '59 Teachings of Christ, Marx Seen at Odds TO THE EDITOR: Reader Ro dill, unfortunately or by design, you have committed one of the most odious of , logical fallacies in your attempt to wed the teachings of Marx with those of Jews. The fallacy is that of as sociation or identification of something undesireable or neu tral with some name or idea which is sure to ring a pleasant note with the majority of your audience. The relationship be tween them is in at least two instances direct opposition, and they are in those respects not comparable or compatible. Marx taught that the new or der must be brought in by any and every form of overt or co vert persuasion or compulsion; that the end justifies the means. In addition, Marxism denies the activity of an Almighty God as a force for peace and happiness. And in both of these vital points Marx is at odds with a teaching best phrased by Jesus 'which is over two thousand years .old. , We are taught and eventually prove to ourselves by living that the only honest way of life is the service and worship of God through expressed and active love for all mankind. We know by experience' that no 'end can justify dishonest or oppressive means, and we know that no peace or brotherhood of man can long endure which is not Little Man on Campus by Dick Sikh, "Better leave him alone--he's looking for three more words to finish a 10.000 word theme.' WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1958 founded upon the strength of the Father in whom we believe. We are all often hypocritical, and the arms race is an example of f ailure to put our whole selves under the direction of our humanistic philosophy. But the failure is born of the fear of subjugation and extinction by communism of the entire phil osophy which allows us to live in dignity as individuals That Judaeo-Christian philos ophy is under direct attack by a conflicting philosophy which avowedly has no ethical princi ple to ensure an honest conflict of ideals with the survival of that which is best for mankind. I am a living American among many who are not en slaved or degraded by those around us who believe as we do. And we will not accept or tol erate any attempt of a fallacious or malicious philosophy to re place the underlying good in agape love for all men, or to identify it falsely with its own unsound and unworkable ideal. —Thomas M. Barnes, '6O ' SENDING A BIRNDAY CARD TO MY AUNT MARIAN. .ATM 51-IE'S GOING TO BE FORTY YEARS OLD IS THAT RIGAT? r I ONCE MAD A 6REAr GRA, I 4
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