PAGE FOUR EclitorLat Opinion IFC's Errors in Logic I)f some tu Hie contrary, the debts a student owes ins fraternity have no relation to his right to receive his diploma. In the same connection, the Um veiMty 1-. not and should not be a collection agency. However, the Interfraternity Council last night took action toward enabling a fraternity to ask the University to withhold tne diploma of any member owing the fra ternity money at his graduation. The rule will have to be appioved by the University before it will become effective. The question of whether any fraternity will be willing to lgnme the impassioned pleas of a delinquent brother and turn him over to the University is in doubt. Still an other questionable point is whether the University will consider uwlf responsible enough for the fraternity sys tem that it will consent to withhold the diplomas. But above these practical considerations rise two points which can he inferred from the new ruling: That a diploma is a certificate not only of academic achievement hut of financial solvency, That the University should disrupt its normal dipioma granting procedure in order to help fraternities where the fiaternities cannot or will not help themselves. Neither of these points makes much sense. Nor does the new lulmg. Can Johnny Write? The University passed some sort of an educational milestone last week when it ruled that students failing English Composition 0 no longer can repeat the course. English Composition o—better known to most students as “Comp Zip”—is a no-credit remedial course. It is re quired of students who cannot qualify to enter English Composition 1, the basic composition course. It is bad enough that many college students cannot communicate effectively enough to enter a basic freshman course. It is appalling that some apparently are not quali fied to enter such a course after a semester of remedial work. Henceforth students who fail “Comp Zip” will be able to retake the final examination, although they will not be allowed to repeat the course. The day cannot come too soon when the course is abolished altogether. The mere existence of English Composition 0 indicates that a good many high schools are not doing a good job of teaching young people to communicate. Perhaps it is an Indication of the general sickness which seems to be afieetmg a large part of American high school education. At any rale, it should not be the University’s Job to leach high school English. The University has a duty to keep its standards and to insist that its students meet its entrance requirements. Artistic Accomplishment Pena State may not be a leader in art circles but . . . we're coming along. The University has made quite a showing in the annual exhibition of water colors, prints and drawings at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Five art instructors and seven former art students at the Uni versity have work entered in the show, an exhibit which has been highly rated by newspaper critics. For a university not yet accustomed to prominence in the field of fine arts, the Philadelphia showing is an encouraging sign. Fifty-four Years of Student Editorial Freedom Sail# (EnUegratt Successor to The Free Lance, est 1887 Published ititsdny through Saturday morning during the University year. The i)aily »8 a student-operated newspaper Entered ao second-class matter July 5 l*nt at the State College. Pa Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. M»tl Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester - $3.00 per rear ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor City Editor. David Fineman; Managing Editor, Richard Urayne; Sports Editor, liOti Prnto; Associate Sports Editor, Matt Msthsws; Personnel and Public Relations Director. Patricia Evans; Copy Editor, Lynn Ward; Assistant Copy Editor. Dick Fisher: Photography Editor Robert Thompson. Credit Mgr Janice Smith; local «\d Mgr., Tom Buckey; Asst. Local Ad Mgr., George Me lurk; National Ad Mgr.. Betsy BrackbiU; Promotion Mgr., Kitty Bur gert; Personnel Met.. Mickey Nash; Classified Ad Mgr., Rae Waters; Co- Circulation Mgr*. Mary Anne First and Murray Simon: Research and Records Mtr., Mary llorbem: Office Secretary. Myla Johnson. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Copy editor, Denny Malick; wire editor, Lianne Coideio; iisahU'iK Jeff Pollack, Jim Strothman, Brenda Pezzncr, Stevie Estreicher, Kathy McCormick, Sue Ebctly. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ROBERT PICCONE Business Manager Interpreting Policy Changes On Neutrality By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press New ? Analyst The announce ment that the United States will ship arms to Indonesia comes as something close kin to official recognition that there is a place for neutrality in today’s upset world. Whether this will become a rec ognizable part of American policy remains to be seen. In 1955, at the Bandung confer enc, many Asian and African na tions displayed strong suspicion of the West, based on its record of colonialism. They included the United States because of her al liance with Western Europe. Their neutralism carried strong over tones of tolerance for the Soviet Union as another nation trying to emerge from Western repression. The Washington administration, in considering the problem, got itself all confused. The United States, since the be ginning of the cold war, had been attempting to consolidate herself in Europe and with the under developed nations through mutual assistance treaties requiring a united front against communism, expressed in one way or another. In the summer of 1956 President Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Dubes and Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon got them selves into a hassle when the an nual foreign aid bill came up in Congress in the face of criticism that nonreliable countries were being helped. Eisenhower made some remarks interpreted as defending countries which felt they might be in a bet ter position if attacked as neutrals than as Allies in anti-Communist pacts. The next day he explained that he meant some nations might think they were safer as neutrals, but he thought they were safer as US Allies. At the same lime Nixon had some words condoning the neu trals and saying America should deal with them as moral and spir itual equals. Two days later Dulles criticized anv attempt by a nation to gain safety bv being indifferent to the fate of others. He referred to neu tralism as an “immoral and short sighted” conception. Gazette TODAV Air Force Glee Club, 4pm, HUB assem- bly hall Agriculture Student Council, 7 pm., 212 HUH Alpha Phi Omega Rushing, 7 p m., HUB Dining Hull* A and B Angel Flight Drill, 6*30 pm. Armory Cabinet Social Recreation Committee, 5 p.m.. 21 1 HUB Christian Fellowship, 12*30 pm., 218 HUB Clover Club, 7 pm, Tvson Daily Collegian Promotion Staff, 6 45 p m , 215 Willard Delta Sigma P’l, business meeting, 7 30 P m . Lambda Chi Alpha Education Student Council, 3 p.m , 214 HUB Freshman Regulations, 12*30 pm, 212 HUB Froth Circulation, 6*30 pm, HUB assem- bly boll Home Ec Student Council, 7 pm. Living Centm Intercollegiate Conference on Government, 7 pm. 203 HUB Judicial, 5 15 n.m , 217 HUB Liberal Arts Student Council, 6 30 pm, 217 HUB Neu Bayrischen Schuhplattlers, 7 p.m., 2 White Student Government Reorganization Com- mittee, 2 p.m., 21.1 HUB Wesley Choir Rehearsal, 6'15 pm , Founda- tion: Communion. ".15 pm. Foundation WRA Bridge Club for Advanced Players, 7 p ni., White Building WSG \ Housing Committee, 4:15 pm, 103 Old Main Young Republicans Club, 7.30 p.m., 218 HUB UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Kenneth Rartlehnugh. Carolvn Brown, Betty Jo Cordell. Katherine Dietrich, San dra Drugone, Edward Dranunski, Mary Kartuch, 7 rancme (iarfinhel, Chailes Hin derhter. James Jones, Thomas Kloe-.s, Wane Mri/7»ci.o, James Myeis, Lois Smith, Bat burn Wilson. Job Interviews MARCH $ Union Carbide Plastics Co.: BS & GRADS CH K, EE. MK, CHEM. The Prudential Insurance Co. of America BS: BUS ADM, LA, MATH. Union Bag Camp Paper Co.. BS & GRADS: CH E, MK I.ukens Steel Co.: BS: IK. METAL. Pennsylvania Dept, of Highways: BS: CE, MATH, CHKM, GKOL, FOR. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.: BS & GRADS: ACCTG, ME, EE. CH E, CHEM, PHYS, CER TECH Kroger Stores: BS: AG, BUS ADM* LA* Little Man on Campus by Dick BlbUr \~d "Phsst— did ole muscle-mouth take roll today?" Take If or Leave It How Collegian Gets That Way At 4 p.m. every weekday there is a trickle of students into the basement of Carnegie Building. Some are fresh men, some are seniors, and some are in between. Their majors range from animal husbandry to zoology. These students gather the news and write the stories for The Daily Collegian. About 100 reporters cover all the events pertinent to the 14,000 individuals who make up the student body of Penn State The Collegian office, which covers about a quarter of Car negie’s basement, is headquar ters for the staff and almost a second home for many staf fers. Off icial operating hours for the paper are from 4 to llp.m, but any hour of the day will find some Col legian 1 1 e s in the office, ei ther working or socializing. miss evans The editor’s office and the sports office are favorite gathering places—sec ond only to the Corner Room for between-class breaks At 4 p.m. the city room be comes the scene ol activity. City Editor Dave Fineman hur ries in. sits down at his desk and begins putting the staffers to work. Many of them have put in time earlier in the day inter viewing administration and faculty members and stu dents. They grab one of the city / YOU JUST LIKE] (to torment) VjctLei j YOU MEAN,"SICK. SICK, SICK.!' TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1959 by Pat Evans room’s 16 typewriters and be gin pecking out their stories. Other staffers pull up chairs around the rim—a long, horse shoe-shaped table—and get to work writing headlines for the stories. In the editor’s office, Editor Bob Franklin and Managing Editor Dick Drayne decide what material will fill the next day’s editorial column. Sports Editors Lou Prato and Matt Mathews look over the latest from Rec Hall, and the sports staff begins to produce the stories for Collegian's two sports pages. The city room is a noisy place. Added to the sounds of the typewriters in the clickety ciacking of the two teletype machines the Associated Press, which serves the Colle gian, and the United Press In ternational, serving WDFM, the student radio station. Once upon a time there was a hi-fi set to add to the city room din, but owner Fineman has since removed it to his apartment. Once again the of fice sounds like a newspaper instead of a concert hall or honky-tonk barroom. And i know too' its BECAUSE YOU'RE ILL! YOU'RE ILL.ILL,ILL/ jags. I DIDN'T \ UINK THAT SOUNDED QUITE RI6HT..
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