PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Daily Open Houses Seventeen off-campus fraternities held open houses Sunday afternoon, entertaining hundreds of freshmen. One fraternity held an open house early Sunday morning, but its visitors were not interested in possible pledgeship. Instead they made off with a boxioad of the fraternity residents personal belongings. Fraternity members welcomed Sunday afternoon's guests with every cordiality. This year's nearly half-dozen fraternity burglaries and the frequency with which such incidents have oc curred during the last several years seems to indicate that fraternities also have the welcome mat out for thieves. Many fraternity members are in the habit of going to bed leaving out in plain sight their wallets, Jewelry and other personal items of value. But not only personal items are involved. A good many pieces of fraternity furnishings have disappeared in past burglaries. There is no question but that most fraternities have enough items worth enough money to attract thieves. And it has become obvious that a burglar can enter a fraternity and walk off with a pile of loot without disturbing fra ternity members—and without being disturbed himself. Fraternities apparently have not learned front ex perience. Ii may be difficult to find a. way to keep out burglars during the night while allowing free entrance and exit to members, but this should not be too big a task for fraternities—or even the Interfraternity Council. Open houses are fine things for the fraternity system. But not all night every night. A Student-Operated Newspaper 011 r Battu Toilrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian Is • student.operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5, PM at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March S. 1875. Mail Subscription Prices 53.00 per semester $5.00 per year. ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor 40°' STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Jeanette Saxe: Copy Editor. Lianne Cm, tiers. Wire Editor, Bill Jaffe; Assistants. Judy Wharton, Torn Eggier, Hex Hutch• Ins, Zelda Greenspan, Sunnie Greenbaum, Suaan Hill, Stevie Eatreicher, Barbara Sunk, So Poliland, Charlotte Flack. _ A . VULTURE, PEOPLE WOULD NA MORE RESPE VE CT FOR ME.. 1 7 . ss • M!MZ3g - - - - All k r al d 1 21 Vll7°‘ : 110, • • " - Aki‘ r ce! 1\ •; fr. - ,4 • 1‘ c.C*/ • q A 11 " FRANK VOJTASEK 4usiness Manager t• - e •‘: •. • • THEN AGAiN7 MAYBE THEY WOULDN'T! A ‘jl 401 1 t 7=l • 7" II 1 _ ..‘4. 1 ~ I J UST CAN'T RED UJITH A VULTURE WATCHING ME ! 4 i d ti. ,s_. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Letters More Students Write on Nittany TO THE EDITOR: After reading the editorials and articles in your recent publications, I cannot help but feel anything but dis gust for the authors of these ar ticles. What do they know of the situation at Nittany? Do they live here? I would like to en lighten their warped minds as to the true situation of the Nit tany area. In the first place, until the T-shirt ban was brought up, only a few men would go to eat in T-shirts. After the ban on T shirts was made, this gave stu dents the incentive to go in T-shirts to meals, so they wore them just to spite the ruling. If decent dining quarters and meals w ere provided, there would be no rebellion to the idea of dressing in sport shirts and sport jackets to eat. Would you wear a tuxedo to a record hop? A person with all his senses wouldn't. So, why dress up to eat in the "Nittany dining hole." I, a resident of Nittany Hall, invite The Daily Collegian staff to inspect our dining facilities and the dress of the diners. —Dave Wolff, '62 Letter cut TO THE EDITOR: Walk into the Nittany dining hall any night of the week. Take a look around you and count the T-shirts. They are, by far, in the minority. If our crusading cub reporters would open their eyes, rather than sitting in their offices try ing to win Pulitzer Prizes, they might learn quite a bit. It is ob vious to us that when the last editorial was written the true views of the average Nittany man were not taken into con sideration. It is true that we voted down the referendum, but we did not vote down good taste. Contrary to the Collegian's opinion, we of Nittany are not simply a group of animals who refuse to wear clothes. The primary objection to the dress rules was the feel ing of mis-representation on the part of the dormitory represen tatives. The men of the area felt that they should have been consulted before such definite action was ' taken on the part of the council. This feeling alone motivated many people to vote "no". In reference to the statement of one of the coeds on the data bility of Nittany men: There seems to be an ample repre sentation of Nittany men to be seen on campus with coeds at any time. —Howard Ferrer, Steve How ard, John Elish, David Kelley, Al Rosenberg, Stu Broth, Bernie Goldsmith, Weston Brown, Har ry Saxer, Larry Dodds, Walter Potteiger, Norm Burkey, Andy Kasarda, Kenny Slagle. Frank Callon, Gary Glenn, Clarence Yeagley, James M. Cameroto, Bob Rhwenger, Charles E. My- Saiezi ers, Fred Twilla. •Letter cut TO THE EDITOR: I wislno state that I voted that the motion be upheld, but just because the motion was defeated is no rea son to call the men of Nittany a bunch of "slobs." Don't forget s it isn't our fault we live in this area and there isn't a thing we can do about it. We, the residents of Nittany, are just as good as ,any other college student—male or female. If an inspection of the dining hall would be made by the au thor of the (editorial) in Thurs day's Collegian, he would see that the conditions do not call for a suit or spoil coat on Sun days. This is our home and why shouldn't we dress as we would at home. The T-shirt and sweatshirt condition, however, is another matter. Most of the fellows are not too fond of them being worn in the dining hall, but the mo tion gave us a choice of (rules on both issues) or none. The coeds wh,o called us slobs and said we could not get dates are very wrong . . . —Earl E. Bridge, '62 •Letter cut TO THE EDITOR: Ostensibly all the downtrodden "gentle men" of Nittany dormitories find deep pleasure in voicing their defiance to the organized world in their recent referendum vic tory. Although they are apparently always being ignored, and it is only human that they should react bitterly to the decrees ,of the Powers, it seems to me that they demonstrated very poor judgment in bringing forth this university-degrading d i s p 1 a y. The story was teletyped over the country to let the world know what is happening at the "illustrious" Penn State. Now they have voiced them selves and the whole embar rassed university is reminded that they exist; embarrassed not because they exercised their newly-found referendum prerog ative, but because they hap pened to choose a very indis criminate. time for a demonstra tion. —Ralph H. Fertig. '62 TO THE EDITOR: The Colle gian's statements were made be cause Nittany residents do not wish to be obligated to wear a jacket to Sunday dinner. It is a rare occasion to see more than 10 people in the din ing hall wearing T-shirts. How ever, we will assume as you seem to, that nearly every Nit tany resident wears a T-shirt to each meal. Is it out of good taste? Is it reason for disgrace? Both of these are merely a mat ter of opinion. Albert Einstein spent much time walking around in dirty clothes and sneakers; however, he was re spected world-wide. Nittany residents make no wish to be compared with Ein stein, nor do they wish to be a disgrace to the University by dressing as "slobs." On the oth er hand, they have no intention 'of dressing up unless there is occasion to do so. I am positive that if Nittany residents were to eat with coeds as is planned, or even if there was a respectable dining hall to eat in, the vot in g would be nearly unanimous—only in the other direction. —Thomas Farr, '62 *Letter cut TO THE EDITOR: I would like to present an objective analysis of the "Slob" issue. On one dish of the balance is the civil rights and, ill-representation argument and the other dish contains the argument of "claim to decorum." The argument of civil rights stems from the Nittany men. The issue is not solely against T-shirts, which too many peo ple are inclined to believe, but one of freedom of expression. The typical male freshman has just been "let out from under the parental apron strings." The natural inclination of a person in this state of mind is freedom of expression, whe ther it be in thought, action or dress. The Nittany men don't direct ly object to "no T shirts." On the contrary, if a ruling were passed that only T shirts were to be worn in the dining hall the Nittany men would obiect there also. They believe that they have paid for their meals and their dress should not pre vent them from receiving what they have rightfully paid for. On the other hand, these men should dress in a manner con genial to college living. The freedom attitude these men have has not molded itself with society and decorum. Give these men time. They will blend their freedom with society and decor um. Only give them time. The second argument is that of ill-representation in the coun cil. The Nittany men must real ize that each dorm elects a man they think can do the best for that dorm. The elected officer goes to Nittany Council and voes according to what he thinks is best for his group. "The claim to correct decor um" side of the issue, obviously is one of conformity. I will not say the "claim of correct decor um" is heavier on the balance than- the "civil rights claim," be• cause this is something each in- TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1958 T-Shirt Issue dividual must decide for him• self. The argument put forth in The Daily Collegian and by peo ple agreeing with it was illus trated very clearly in the edi torial of Thursday, Nov. 13: "The opponents of the ban could not seem to understand that a regu lation which is passed to raise the standards of a community and preserve some claim to dec orum is not necessarily an in fringement of rights." This ar gument can't be any clearer. —Ron Hendrickson, '62 ®Leiter cut TO THE EDITOR: It seems to me that b e f ore people make rash judgments concerning the T-shirt situation in the Nittany area, they ought to understand the logical reasoning which prompted us to vote down the referendum. The main objective of the dress rule "that no T shirts are to be worn to the meals and a suit or snort jacket should be worn to the Sunday noon meal" was, as was stated, to improve the character and actions of the Nittany residents in the dining hall. In the first place, how is the dress of a person going to make a maturely acting individual out of one that is essentially a so called "slob?" If an individual is a "slob" in a T-shirt, then he is still a "slob" in a sport shirt or a suit jacket. His dress is of little importance. Secondly, I don't think the men would have gone against this rule if it had been handled in a different manner. If instead of posting the referendum on the bulletin board without con sulting any of the residents, the Nittany Council had formed a committee to talk to the men about this rule, it probably would have met with slight re sistance. I don't think the men are so called "slobs." It is only through the efforts of a few that the bad manners are displayed in the dining hall, so why label every one living in the area "slob." Let the blame fall where it is justified! —William B. Barrick, '6O 0 Letter cut Gazette TODAY Agrieulturt Student Council. 8 :30 it ni.. 214 liUti American Foundrymens Society, 7:50 p.m., 105 ME Angel Flight Drill, 8:30 p.m., Armory Cabinet Judiciary Evaluation, 9 p.m., 210 BUB Camera Club, 8:30 p.m , 121 Sparks Chemistry-Physics Student Council, 7 pm 216 HUB . Christian Fellowship, 12:15 p.m., 213 HUB Collegian Classified Ad Staff, new mem ber" only, 6:30 p.m.. 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