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Editorial Opinion
Greeks Gain Support
The fraternity system, facing a glaring need for
expansion, found last night that it has the University
behind it.
President Eric A. Walker told the Interfraternity
Council that the University realizes the need for expand
ing the system, and will study the possibilities of provid
ing fraternities with land and money at a lower rate of
interest for expansion. Walker pledged "everything pos
sible" in cooperation with the fraternity system's needs.
The status of fraternities with the University is a
perennial question: although fraternity men have no
major complaints, they frequently speculate on how secure
their position is.
But Walker's mesage should ease some fears on the
support fraternities can expect. The President discussed
at length many of the Greeks' problems, and stressed the
importance of fraternities to the University both aca
demically and socially.
Fraternities are presently in a bad spot—this is hard
to deny. With the wave of expansion that has hit the
University, fraternities may become helpless to hold
their own in the face of soaring enrollments.
For if fraternities cannot expand with the University,
they will gradually become more and more of a minority;
this will serve both to diminish their prestige and influ
ence and ultimately make it difficult for them to interest
enough students to keep the houses themselves alive.
But the cooperation of the University could go far
towards solving the fraternities' problems. If the Uni
versity will provide attractive offers for expansion, the
Greeks may be able to interest new fraternities in starting
chapters and present ones into expanding their facilities.
There are many complex problems involved in a
plan for providing a lower interest rate on land and
money such as Walker proposed; but if the University
does come up with a plan, fraternities must in the inter
ests of self-preservation be ready to take advantage of it.
Too Little Too Late?
Live, in stereophonic sound and natural color.
That was the Philadelphia Orchestra's performance
Saturday night.
Covering four distinctly different musical periods,
the orchestra performed with a skill and brilliance that
could interpret in music almost every human emotion. It
was without doubt one of the finest performances of the
Artist Series.
But as perfect as was the performance of the Phila
delphia Orchestra, it nevertheless revealed familiar im
perfections in the University's facilities.
One, of course, is the lask of good acoustics in Recrea
tion Hall. •
The other is the lack of adequate seating capacity in
Recreation Hall. .
A new auditorium is tentatively slated for construc
tion between 1966 and 1970. Its capacity has not been fixed.
Construction between 1956 and 1970 is far too late. It
is to be hoped that capacity will not be too little.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Letters
Tax Plus Fees
Equals Squeeze
TO THE EDITOR: We have
found out what it feels like to
be an orange in a juicer, being
squeezed from both sides for all
it can release.
As University students from
out of state living in town, we
are truly squeezed from both
sides, being put into completely
opposite categories by the bor
ough and the University, ac
cording to how they can get
most from us.
Although we rent an apart
ment all year in town, the Uni
versity rules we cannot be resi
dents, so we must pay more
than double the tuition that
state residents pay. However,
the borough spots a chance for
more revenue, so they can claim
us as residents and lower the tax
boom.
It is to be expected that as a
state school, the University
should charge extra fees for stu
dents who are out-of-state resi
dents. It is also to be expected
that the borough should tax the
residents of State College, who
happen to be the residents of
Pennsylvania as well, according
to most maps.
It is not to be expected that
the same people bo considered
citizens by one and aliens by
the other, whichever appears to
be more lucrative.
Such a situation seems more
than a little unjust. We feel that
two such supposedly good
neighbors as the University and
State College could be a little
more in agreement concerning
who lives here and who doesn't.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stasch, '6O
Reader Hits Action
Against Jazz Club
TO THE EDITOR: As a mem
ber of the University and the
Jazz Club, I am one who is op
posed to the inexplicable action
taken against the club by Dr.
Gazette
Agriculture Student Council, 7 p.m , 212
HUB
Air Force Cleo Club, 4 P.m, HUB a;.
sombly hail.
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Chi
Angel Flight Drill, 6:30 p.m., Armory
Career Day Service Committee, 6:30 p m .
218 HUB
Christian Fe/lowship, 12 WI p.m., 218
HUB
Commuting Women, 12:30 p.m., 41 Me-
Elwain
Daily Collegian Business Staff Candi
dates, initial meeting, 7 p.m., 131
Temporary
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p.m., 216 Willard
Delta Sigma Pl, rushing smoker, 7:60
p.m., Chi Phi
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216 HUB
Freshman Council, 6:30 p.m., 217 BUB
Freshman Regulation Board, 12;30 p.m.,
212 HUB
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Judicial, 6 p.m., 217 RUB
Liberal Arts Student Council. :30 Pau
21t HUB . .
Mortar Board Lecture Settee. 7 Pm..
HUB assembly ball
Neu Bavriochen Sehuhplattlen, 7 p.m.,
2 White
Newman Club. 7:45 p.m.. Student Cen.
ter, "Mixed-Marriage Inatructiona"
Panhellenic Council, 0:30 p m., 203 Wit-
lard
Petroleum Engineering Society, 7:30
p.m.. Mineral Science auditorium;
"Underground Storage for the Gas
Utility"
Plant Science Club, 7:30 p.m., 108 Tyson
Science Fiction Society, 8 p.m, 217 HUB
Science Institute for Teachers, 4:15 p.m..
112 Buckhout
Sophomore Class Advisory Board, 8 p.m.,
216 HUB
University Christian Association Social
Commission. 7 p.m., Chapel library
Young Republicans, 7:30 p.m., 218 HUB
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zanne Carpenters, William Ehrhart, Jef
fery Foster. Richard Gibboney, Janet
Goodman. John Hassell, David Hlai
Kenneth Hutchinson, Barry Jacobs, James
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Sherman, Hpdegrove, Heracho
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TODAY
en Govern.
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
MARCH 13
(Robert G.) Bernreuter and the W ashington
administration.
It appears to me that $lBOO in
a treasury does not constitute
an insolvent organization. This
previous statement was essen
tially the core of Dr. Bern
reuter's argument for the abo
lition of the Jazz Club. On the
basis of such an argument, I
find it difficult to substantiate
the unjust action taken by the
administration.
It has been (said) in the dis
agreement, the club's history
does show a shaky financial con
dition, but what is past is past!
This condition does not exist at
the present time. The Jazz Club
has proven itself solvent due to
its two recent, successful con
certs, The success of the club
may be measured by the crowd
which filled Recreation Building
to see and hear the Four Fresh
men.
In my estimation, any organ
ization which has done what
the Jazz Club has done for the
morale and entertainment of
University students, as well as
residents of the surrounding
area, deserves all the support
of the administration, rather
than the unjust, undemocratic
action levied against such a fine
organization.
—Murray Itzenson, '62
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Bernreu
ler has not advocated abolition
of the Jazz Club. He has ruled
that it may hold no more large
concerts until the Fall of 1960,
which action Jazz Club officers
have claimed would virtually
abolish the organization.
She Prefers Spirit
Of '76 to Boucke
TO THE EDITOR: In answer to
Robert Schimmel's letter which
appeared in this column Feb. 19,
I would like to submit a few
comments.
Mr. Schimmel seems to feel
that liberal thinking does not
contribute towards the advance
ment of civilization by teaching
an "almost dead philosophy."
Is the philosophy of free-think
ing really dead or is it only Mr.
Schimmel's apparently barren
intellect which refuses to recog
nize it as a shaping force in our
lives?
Our destinies will never be
determined by the Boucke Boys,
Mr. Schimmel. Our destinies
were partially determined quite
a while ago around 1776 when
men with liberal minds and lib
eral thoughts dared rebel against
a tyranny which was very much
akin to Schimmel's nar row
thinking. Because of these men
and the liberties they assured
us, each one of us, be he lawyer,
businessman or laborer, has the
opportunity to mold his own
life. You needn't feel so indis
pensible, then. The world would
not suddenly come to an end
were Boucke Building to blow
One of America's earliest and
most successful businessmen,
Ben Franklin, was an advocate
of liberal thought.
—Gwen Spiese, '6O
Little Man an Campus by Dick Sibiu
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1959
U.S. Once Had
Budget Surplus
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON (Al—Chester
A. Arthur and Grover Cleve
land faced presidential prob
lems that were unique, and al
most comical, by today's stan
dards.
Every president, from Wash
ington to Eisenhower, has fret
ted over the unbalanced budget.
But Arthur and Cleveland found
theirs out of kilt e r because
tax money poured in too fast--
and there was no way to shut
it off.
This was before the days of
income tax, and most of the na
tion's expense money came from
customs duties. But hardly any
one wanted the tariffs cut.
Arthur glumly looked at the
rosy fiscal picture. "Swollen
revenues," he said, lead to ex
travagant spending, "the bane
of an overflowing treasury."
Rex sees Jane and
Tom. Rex runs to
Jane aria Tom.
GREAT!
GREAT! DON'S
STOP NOW!
HOW DO YOU
LIKE IT 50
, FAR? I
GLAD YOU LIKE IT..
LATER ON TUE SUSPENSE
BEGNES ALMOST UNBEARABLE!
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