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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
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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
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Bat burn Wilson.
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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..