PAC,, FOUR
Editorial Opinion
Scholarship or Bust
Edward Mintz, Intertraternity Council President, made
a tellint; point when he said in commenting on fraternity
vacancte, that "fraternities must sell the idea of fraternity
lite to rushees" before they sell their individual houses.
Thole are many vacancies in fraternities this year, and
tlivto Indy be many more if the Greeks don't start doing
somethin.; about making their way of life attractive to
prosbecm e members. And the first place to start: scholar
ship.
Ths students of today are a different breed from any
this country has ever seen before. They've been subjected
to so much pressure on the values of education, in terms of
both world survival and personal gain, that they are
almost to the man intent on making the best of their
college days.
And anything that seems to detract seriously from this
goal is going to be rejected by a large number of today's
fi tshmen and the fi eshmen of the future.
Fraternities have proven they serve a social purpose
—they can hardly be matched on this ground—but they
are often slow in showing that they have any other merits.
The_ fraternities' vacancies show this clearly: many of
the absentees have either flunked out or left the fraternity
to try to bolster their averages.
And the all-fraternity average has hovered around
the all-men's 'average for too many years—hardly a com
mendable record, since the all-men's average is strongly
affected by the large number of academic casualties in
the freshmen class.
The move toward better fraternity scholastics should
start with the IFC. The council has a scholarship commit
tee now, but it is hardly emphasized as it should be. Fra
ternities should set up a central program which could pro
vide a working theory of higher scholarship rather than
just a helpful hint program, and along with it sufficient
impetus to group fraternities behind it. If fraternities
worked together, and with enthusiasm, they could bring
the average up in a hurry.
And if they did this, and then made rushees conscious
of their scholastic achievements, it would help—the prob
lem of filling houses would vanish and the fraternity sys
tem would be healthier. -
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STAFF T H IS ISSUE: Copy Editor. Diane Meek: Night Editor, Neal Friedman;
Wire &Dior, Jim Moran. Aasistanta, Judy Rosenblum, Rona Nathanacin, Barbara
Greenwald, Silvia Eberly, Katie Davia, Joel Myers, Arlene Katz, Nancy Kling.
Steve Milner.
Little Man on Campus by Dick Sibiu
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"—So I asked him why he put me on the third team s
an' he said: 'Because we don't hays a fourth team."
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ROBERT PICCONE
Business Manager
Analysis
West Faces Two Alternatives in Berlin Crisis
By HERB ALTSCHULL East Germany. West Berlin is an tempt by the West to force its
BONN, Germany (A)—Three escape hatch for East Germans way to Berlin would be "reso
months ago to the day, Soviet fleeing Red rule. Economically lutely rebuffed." They have re-
Prem i e r Nikita Khrushchev booming West Berlin is a bright marked that their 22 divisions
lighted the fuse to the dynamite- capitalist island in a drab Com- are not in East Germany just to
laden issue of Berlin. munist sea. play games.
The fuse sputters angrily now, The Soviets say that by May 27 The West is therefore faced
the halfway point in the 6-month they will end their role as joint with two alternatives: Knuckle
breathing space IL lirushchev occupiers of Berlin and turn over under in some way and allow the
gave the Western Big Three to all rights and responsibilities to East Germans to . regulate the
accept his formula for We s t the East Germans. flow of supplies to Berlin or re-
Berlin. The Soviets say that the West- fuse to knuckle under and force
The formula: The Soviet Union em powers then will have to deal •
its way to Berlin.
is dissolving the World War II with the East Germans on the
4-power agreement for occupa- supply routes to Berlin. Many Western leaders, partic
tion of Berlin. The U.S.. British The West does not want to do ularly in the United States, fear
and French garrisons must get this. It considers East Germany, the eventual loss of their posi
out of Berlin, 110 miles behind a Soviet puppet and refuses to tion in Berlin if they start-deal
the Iron Curtain. West Berlin recognize the regime. But in the ing with the East Germans.
must become an unarmed, so- Allied capitals it is well-recog- Other leaders, notably in Brit
called free city, under some sort nized that to refuse to deal with .
am, would prefer to take the
of UN supervision, the East Germans might mean
The Soviets want all Berlin war. position that the East Germans
incorporated into Communist The Soviets have said any at- are only agents of Moscow.
Gazette
TODAY
Club Habana, 9 p.m., HUB ballroom
Student movies. 7 p tn., HUB assembly ball
WDFM, 6 p.m.. HUB music room
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TOMORROW
Alpha Kappa Psi, 2 p m , 212 HUB
Alpha Nu, p.m.. 217 HUB
Christian Fellowship, 2 p co., 218 HUB
Graduate Bridge Club, 7 p.m., HUB card-
room
Junior Class Advisory Board, 2 p.m., 217
HUB
Newman Club, 7 p.m , 218 HUB
Psychology Club, 7:30 p in., 216 HUB
Reorganization Committee, 3 p.m.,
216 HUB
Student movies, 6:30 p.m., HUB assembly
hall
Swedbordjan, 10:30 a.m., 212 HUB
University Party, 2 p.m., 214 HUB
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MONDAY
Alpha Phi Omega, 8 p.m., 21.445-16 HUB
Career Day Advisory Board, 6 P.m: 2 1 4
HUB
Christian Fellowship, 12:30 p.m., 218 HUB
Dancing data, 6:30 p.m., HUB ballroom
Freshman Council, 6:30 p.m., 218 HUB
Greek Week Committee. 8 p.m., 217 HUB
luterfraternity Council, 7:30 p.m., HUB
assembly hull
Larry Sharp Tag Day Committee, 8:30
p.m., 218 HUB
Marine Recruiting, 8-5 p.m., HUB card-
EM!!!
20i. 212 HUB
University Christian Association, ' social
committee, I p.m., 213 HUB
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
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John Anthony, Donna Berman, Arnold
Bleiweis, Pamela Chamberlain, John Chot
ta, Barry Corte, Terhune Dicke', Frank
Fuller, Sally Gardner, Leslie Lewinter,
Clifford Logan, Martha Manley, William
Mendicino, Richard Morson, Nancy Nichol
son, Thomas Potter, Joseph Rapine, Agnes
Rollins, David Schappell, Barbara Shen
man, William Utidegrove, James Vitale,
Aurelia Way.
Job Interviews
MARCH It
Weirton Steel Co.: BS & GRADS: EE,
ME, METAL, IE, CE.
MARCH 20
Hamilton Watch Co.: HS: ME, EE. lE,
PHYS METAL, BUS ADM.
Pennsylvania State Civil Service Commis.
sion: 11S: ED, CHEM. BM, BACT,
HOME ECON. CE, CH 5, SAN E, BUS
ADM, PSYCH. SOC. AG.
The Trane Co.: BS & GRADS: CH E,
ME, E.E. AERO E, ARCH E, lE.
Standard Oil Co. of Calif.: BE: CH It,
EE. ME; GRADS: CH E, ER, ME, PNG,
CHEM.
The Clark Controller Co.: BS: EE, MI
SCI, ME, IE,
Factory Mutual Engineering Div.: BS &
GRADS in ENG interested in fire loss
prevention engineering.
MARCH 23
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Northeastern Penna. National Bank &
Trust Co.: BS or BA: LA. BUS ADM.
Socony Mobil Oil Co.: BS: PNO, ENG.
The Bike Kumler Co.: BS or BA: BUS
ADM, HOME EC, LA.
U.A.R.C.O. Business Forms: BS: ACCTG,
BUS ADM. LA.
F. W. Woolworth Co.: BS: ECON, BUS
. ADM. BUS MGT.
Metropolitan Edison Co.: BS: HOME EC.
EE, ME.
Blunder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc.: BS:
BE, PHYS, ENG SCI.
Ingersoll-Rand Co.: BS: ME. lE. BE. CE,
MIN ENG. ENG SCI.
Inland Steel Co.: 115 & GRADS: METAL,
CH E, ME. CE. EE, FUEL TECH..
(U.S. citizens only.)
Camp Interviews
The following camps will interview at
the Student Employment Service. 112 Old
Main. Sign up for an appointment.
Jewish Memorial Center of Altoona, Pa..
(Men and Women) •, Mar. 2.
Camp Conrad Weiser. Reading. Pa, (Men);
Mar. 3, 4.
Camp Wise, Ohio, (Men and Women);
Mar. 5. 6.
Camp Green Lane. Green Lane, Pa., (Worn.
en l; Mar. 7.
Camp Quinibeek, Vt., (Women); Mar. 19.
WDFM to Broadcast
Stereo hi HUB Tonight
Students will have an oppor
tunity to hear music broadcast in
stereophonic sound from 7 to 9
tonight in the Hetzel Union read
ing room.
Campus Radio Station WDFM
will set up two speakers in the
HUB to broadcast "Hi-Fi Open
House." The program will orig
inate from the WDFM studio and
will be sent out from both the
WDFM and WMAJ transmitters.
The Blue Band concert will also
be broadcast stereo from 3 to 6
p.m. tomorrow.
Letters
Coed Objects
To 3 Columns
TO, THE EDITOR: How proud
one must feel to sit powerfully
atop the masthead of The Dai
ly Collegian and with three
mighty swishes of the pen
blotch up three of the most
populous curricula at Penn
State!
With this I refer calmly to
your past three "editorial corn
ments," those being Dick
Drayne's dribble about the
"B ouc k a Bourgoisie," Dave
Fineman's follies on home eco
nomics majors, and Pat Evans'
errors about elementary edu
cation.
Perhaps I have been too ab
sorbed in my nebulous studies
in history and psychology to
have seen this rapid decline
of our University's purposive
ness. So busy, in fact, that I
even missed the notice about
changing your paper's motto
from "For a Better Penn State"
to ". . . a Bitter Penn State."
Strange, also, is the fact" that
in these articles the School of
Liberal Arts (Tch, tch . . . such
an indecisive name!) has been
the unwritten criteria to which
all these less noble schools
should ascend.
Could It be, dear staff writ
ers, that your supply of note
worthy material has dimin
ished and that such opinions
were expressed merely to keep
the typewriter keys from col
lecting rust? If so, there is a
sizeable amount of encyclope
dia and other such reference
material filling the shelves of
the Pattee Library.
However, I doubt that you
will take such a suggestion.
I suppose you will just keep
on trampling down the rest of
the schools as they strive for
recognition, until the day when
we pick up our copies of The
Daily Collegian to see the blar
ing headlines that read:
"There, you see? We are better
than you . . . We are! We
arel"
—Susan F. Lelia, '6l
EDITOR'S NOTE: We applaud
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1959
Miss Leila for her sharp wit.
The columns she mentions
were intended to be satires
mixed with leg•pulling. and to
be both provoking and enter
taining. Judging from the tor
rent of letters we have received,
they seem to have been at least
provoking.
She's Mastered
Trials of El Ed
TO THE EDITOR: As a molder
of young minds and a future
educator, I was a bit taken
aback by (Pat Evans') attempt
ed sarcasm in Thursday's pa
per. Can it be there are some
who are bitter because they
haven't measured up to the rest
of us in elementary education?
Don't take this traumatic ex
perience to heart, Miss Evans.
Not everyone can handle sharp
scissors and those cut-out' as
signments are tough if your
coordination is so lacking that
you can't turn pages in a book.
As for your mental block
in Music Ed, the last line in
the composition "Bingo" is
(and I quote) "B-i-n-g-o - and
Bingo was his namo." As for
visual aids, it usually proves
to be a stimulating experience
to the el ed majors. Can it be
that the' intricate mechanisms
of a movie projector were just
too much for you over-bur
dened mind?
By the way, if you ever
need a projector operator,
every sixth grade class has at
least one pupil who would be
willing to teach' you.
Obviously, Miss 'Evans, you
just do not have the qualities
necessary to become a teacher.
They include intelligence, en
thusiasm, a genuine liking for
people at large and children
specifically and most import
ant of_ all, the understanding
that methods courses in college
do not necessarily make the
teacher.
I refer to the title of your
literary endeavors - now when
I say that I'll just limy. it at
that.
—Pam Alexander, '6O
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