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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. ,
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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.
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51-IE'S GOING TO BE
FORTY YEARS OLD
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