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Editorial Opinion
Cheaper by the 54
The Inteifraternity Council Purchasing Association,
which hasn’t been in the news much of late, will try to
boost its membership through a food fair to be held on
Feb. IG. Tiie fair will be designed to show fraternities
how they can save through purchasing with discounts
through the association.
The IFCPA now has 27 members, half of the 54 frat
ernities on campus, The number has fluctuated around
this hall-way mark for some time —whenever the group
picks up a new member it seems to lose an old one. Be
cause of tins lack of full participation, the group has been
eiippled in bringing about the expansion of services it
has in the planning stage.
But undeniably the purchasing association is in theory
a good thing for fraternities: 54 can buy more cheaply
than one. It behooves any fraternities which do not al
ready belong to take a look at the displays at the up
coming food fair—they might find that the IFCPA can
meet their standards and save them a good deal of money
in the piocess.
Segregation vs. Education
Integration is distasteful to the people of Virginia, but
closed schools seems too big a price to pay in the fight
for continued segregation.
This was indicated by the successful and peaceable
integration of Negro pupils into Norfolk and Aldington
public schools Monday morning.
The schools integrated Monday have been closed
since September to avoid having to admit Negroes, but
the pressures of the educational needs of the communities
were too much and the segregationists had to give in. Most
people would rather have mixed education than no educa
tion at all.
The success of Virginia’s integration may not have
application outside of the state, for states in the deeper
south have a much higher Negro population percentage
than Virginia and may be less willing to give in to
integration.
But the Virginia situation has proved that closed
schools may postpone integration, but eventually the
people would rather sacrifice their prejudices than their
children’s educations.
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Student Would
License Bikes
TO THE EDITOR: In the last
issue of the Daily Collegian be
fore exams, the University an
nounced that rules had been set
for bikes. The most significant of
these rules stated that bikes are
no longer to use the walks.
The announced reasons for the
rules were the increased number
of hikes and the proieciion of auto
drivers and pedestrians.
Let’s examine the facts. As the
University builds new dormitory
units farther from the center of
campus, more bicycles are bound
to appear on campus, so the in
crease is Drobably not a tempor
ary fad. However, the bikes turn
out in force and create congestion
only on the warm days. The rest
of the time their numbers are
quite few. Of the many people
who do use bikes, a very few have
been guilty of some reckless rid
ing on the walks, so as a result
all bikes are now banned from the
walks.
Mass punishment is not the
proper solution to this or any
other problem. If there were a
reasonable number of streets con
necting -campus buildings, the
bike riders wouldn’t want to use
the walks. Also, there are few
times when the walks are so
crowded that there is no room for
bikes. And banishing the reckless
riders to the streets can only
cause more problems than it
solves.
There are several solutions.
Probablv the best would be lo li
cense all bikes on campus. A writ
ten test would first have to be
passed, and the license would
have lo be displayed on the rear
of the bike, so that reckless riders
could be identified and fined.
In the drawing ud of any rules
concerning bikes, the bike riders
should be represented at least by
one of their number This was not
the case in the current situation.
—Rae Hoopes, '6O
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FEBRUARY 24
FBRUARY 25
Little Man on Campus by Dick BIMm
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Capitol Capers 'n
Serious Solons
We took a trip to Harrisburg yesterday with Sigma
Delta Chi, men’s journalistic fraternity—and we found
some startling little-known facts about the government
of the Commonwealth.
First of all, in walking into the office of Gov. David L.
Lawrence, we found that the deep-piled carpeting gives
His Honor quite a charge. The
first person to shake hands
with the governor nearly
knocked him off his feet with
a charge of static electricity.
In a conference with the
Senate Clerk, we found that
the Commonwealth spends in
the neighborhood of $900,000
yearly to publish Pennsyl
vania's answer to the Con
gressional Record—the Legis
lative Journal,
In an interview with the
majority leader of the House
of Representatives, Stephen
Me C a n n, we
found that the
problem of
loitering pi
geons is so
great that six
men are kept
busy scraping
off walls and
sills of the
Capitol build
ing,
To solve the
problem of the
dirty birds. Thompson
the sages on Capitol Hill have
installed charged electric wires
all around the ledges and win
dowsills of the building.
This solved the problem for
the state buildings, but neigh
boring building owners are now
plagued with the migrants.
In a rundown of members
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WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1959
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by bob thompson
of the State House of Repre
sentatives, we found that oc
cupations of the lawmakers
vary from machinists to mor
ticians. There are also veterin
arians, housewives, teachers,
newspaper publishers, a police
captain and explosive director,
and a director of the Allegheny
County Morgue comprising the
membership of the house.
There are also 16 members that
classify themselves as “legis
lators”.
The builders of the Capitol
had their problems—over and
above the ones that sent some
of them to jail as a result of
the scandal. After a noted
sculptor spent months chisel
ing statues for the front of the
building, he spent another sev
eral months “dressing” the fig
ures. Seems that some women
refused to use the front steps
of the capitol because they
thought the statues weren’t in
good taste.
Reps. Joseph Ujobai, (R.-
Chester), and William Knecht,
(R-Schuylkill), both news
paper men. discussed the prob
lems of newsmen in the legisla
tive business during lunch and
ended up missing a session of
the Legislature.
Expecting to arrive at the
session about 20 minutes late,
(Continued on page five)
NOW, THERE,, THERE’S A
FACE WITH CHARACTER!