PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Names Make News? For many years it has been the policy of the Univer sity to withhold from the public the names of studepts who have incurred judicial action. This long-standing policy apparently is based on the misguided theory that whatever judicial punishment is meted out to violators is sufficient without their having to take responsibility for their actions before their fellow students. This reasoning is contrary not only to the principles of American Jurisprudence, but to common sense as well. First, just as the citizens of a community have the right to know who among them have committed criminal offenses, so the student body has a right to know which of its members have violated University regulations. Knowing what a violator is accused of, and being told the disposition of the case is not enough. Second, public knowledge of what a person is doing breeds responsibility toward the public. This is one of the basic axioms of every democratic system, whether it is applied to a court trial, a legislative session or a board meeting. Names make news; they also Make responsibility. Third, the extent to which the administration has blindly insisted on the enforcement of its policy can be more significant than the withholding of routine news. It can result in a radical change with no explanation in the status of a prominent student, whose acts are news worthy not only in themselves but in relation to how they change his attitude and position with the student body. Such a situation resulted last week when a well-known student was dismissed from the University for a campus offense. Fourth, the no•names policy results in a double standard between offenders whose activities are confined to the campus and those who are picked up by downtown police. The Daily Collegian prints—and will continue to print—the names of students who have been picked up downtown, since these names are a matter of public record. The judicial reorganization plans to be presented this spring should include provisions for public disclosure of the names of student offenders except in cases involving mental illness. For by blindly following the no-name policy, the ad ministration and the student courts not only are protecting students who Iv' their acts have sacrificed any right to protection, but they are ignoring reality and their respon sibilities to protect, inform and warn the rest of the student body. Citizenship Education Two student organizations are holding intercollegiate meetings concerning public affairs this weekend. The 24th annual Joseph F. O'Brien Inter-State De baters Congress has been meeting since Thursday at the University. The Central Region of the Intercollegiate Conference on Governmerit is meeting in convention today at Millers ville State Teachers College. Both groups are discussing public affairs through the media of mock legislative assemblies, Successful participation in these meetings like successful participation in all public affairs requires of the students a great deal of preparation in knowledge of both national and world policies and of parliamentary techniques. Students participating in these meetings cannot help but become better educated in American citizenship. Fifty-four Years of Student Editorial Freedom Olp 'Daily Trairgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian Is a student-operated newspaper. Entered cos second-class matter July 6. 1931 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 8. 1878. Mail Subscription Prlre: $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year. ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor <D>l City Editor. David Fineman; Managing Editor, Richard Dieyne; Sports Editor, Lou Preto; Associate Sports Editor, Matt Mathews; Personnel and Public. Relations Director. Patricia Evans: Copy Editor. Lynn Ward: Audatant Copy Editor. Dick Fisher: Photography Editor Robert Thompson. Credit Mgr., Janke Sntithr Local Ad Mgr., Torn Ruche!: Asst. Local Ad Mgr., George &work; National Ad Mgr., Betsy Brackbill; Promotion Mgr., Bitty Bur ger*: Personnel Mn..r Mickey Nash; Classified Ad Mgr., Rae Waters; Co• Circulation Mgrs., Mary Anne First and Murray Simon* Research and Records Mgr. Mary Uorbeint Office Secretary. Mills Johnson. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Copy Editor, Neal Friedman: Wire Editor, Jim Moran: Assistants, Nicki Wolfotd, Gretchen Harrison, Susie Linkroum, Edith Beck, Steve Milner, Joel Meyers, Olive Rim e% Margie Colfax. Barbara Laney, Lea Gabe, Bar. barn Foster and Jane Trevaskis. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ROBERT PICCONE Business Manager Concert Is Called Off (Continued from page one) that they would rather wait a few weeks than accept one of the alternate acts which the booking agency had offered. The committee was then meet ing in the lobby of Schwab Audi torium because Feldstein was in a rehearsal there. Its members later moved across the street to The Daily Collegian offices to place long- distance phone calls. It was believed that the trio could be contacted at a' hotel in Durham, N.C., where the group had been appearing. The call proved fruitless and set off a chain of more than a dozen long distance calls by Miss LaSpada. She was constantly telling the operator how important the calls were and thanking them for their patience. The Durham hotel referred the committee members to Statesville, N.C., where Guard pile's there. Finally they found had been. There are two hos• out that Guard had taken a plane for New York. - The next call was placed to the hotel where the other two members of the group were stay ing. They had split up and checked out. One, Bob Shane, had gone to visit his fiance in Washington: another, Nick Rey nolds, was in New York, and Guard was on a train to New York. Attempts to reach Guard or the trio's road manager on the train failed and Miss LaSpada then be gan calling Yale and Princeton Universities, whefe they were scheduled to be today, to find out whether they would appear. Nothing could be found out there and it was then that the calls to the trio's manager and agents in New York were placed. Gazette TODAY Arnold Air Society, 9 a.m., HUB assem• hly hall Cirri*lo Cultural Iberoamerlcano, 7:30 p.m.. Latin American Education Center Gamma Slams Sigma, 12:15 p.m., 217 RUB Graduate Student Music Appreciation, 2:80 p m.. HUB assembly hall Outing Club, 1-5 p.m., Stock Pavilion: Beaver Dam project. 1 p.m. Sophomore Claes Dance, 9 p.m., HUS.ball- room Student Movies, 7 p.m., HUB assembly hall SUNDAY Alpha Kappa Pei, 8 p.m., 212 HUB Christian Fellowship, 2 p.m., 218 HUB Graduate Bridge Club, 6:30 p.m., 217 HUB Leadership -Training, 6:45 p.m.. 218 HUB Newman Club, 7 p.m., 214 HUB Student Movies. 6:30 p.m., HUB assembly hall Elnedbordlan, 10:30 a.m.. 212 HUB MONDAY • Alpha Phi Omega. 7 p.m., 214 HUB Christian Fellowship, 12:30 p.m., 21$ HUB Circulo Cultural Theroamericano, 1:30 p.m., Latin American Education Center Gamma Sigma Sigma, 12:45 p.m., 217 HUB Greek Week Committee, 8 p.m., 217 HUB 11 , C, 7:30 p.m., HUB assembly ball Leonides, 7 p.m., 212 HUB Mineral Industries Council. 7 p.m., 218 HUB UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Kay Berry, Arnold Illeiweis, Lawrence Brody. Donald Bruce, Curtis Dean. Eleanor Daniels. Richard Feldman, David Fowler. Gregory Kelley, Suzanne Kierstead, Don ald Moyer, Gerald Ryan. Rafael Santiago, Anita Elie!drake, Sandra Bilker, Heather Trecler, Samuel Wilson. Review (Continued from page one) sian woman in the Chekov par ody, used facial expressions to heighten her performance. Peter sen, as the Russian man, sipped his ill-tasting tea with just the proper amount of distaste. The second dance by Miss Mat subara, "The Wisteria Lady," is the best of her three. Because it is the story of a woman admiring beauty it needs no understanding of gestures to carry it through; the dance suffices. - A scene from the lath cen tury Commedia dell 'Arte was not as difficult to understand, as it might have been because of fine performances on the part of Miss Minkiewich, Petersen and Tillson. The other selected scenes are good. They afford the audience an interesting night of theatre going. Perhaps if the narration is altered and made more audible, the production can reach the heights of its potential. Theatre Omnibus will play at - 8 p.m. the next two weekends, March 13 and 14, and March 2l and 21, at Centre Stage. Letters Coeds' Rules 'Too Lenient'? TO THE EDITOR: The Colle gian was partially correct when (it said editorially), "It is good to know that we have a struc ture of (women's) regulations broad enough to include such major offenses (as listed in The Daily Collegian on March 5, 1959) and judicial bodies vigi lant enough to mete out penal ties to each of the wrong-do ers." However, such lenient ac tions do not solve the problem. Perhaps for the purpose of de veloping more mature ladies, penalties should be extended also to such offenses as not brushing one's teeth after each meal, forgetting to wash be hind one's ears, not having pig tails braided evenly, losing one's mittens and similar dem onstrations of irresponsibility, It the coeds should resist such necessary disciplines by making mean faces, sticking out their tongues or saying naughty words, they would automatically have their nasty little mouths washed out with brown soap. —D. Phillip Stang, '6l Reader CiteS Voice From the Grave TO THE EDITOR: In response to an ad in Thursday's Col legian: At last science has caught up with the cigarette industry! "Even Euclid had, to admit . . .", balderdash, balder dash, balderdash. Today, it's not so much the thinking man that smokes so and so ciga rettes, but the thinking ciga rette that smokes the man. We have heard of the "hid den persuaders," but now we are not only dictated to by the ones in hiding but also from the grave speaks Euclid out of context. If only science in Eu clid's time would have known the import of "The whole is equal to the sum of its parts" just think how far advanced our civilization would be to day! I guess the advertisers must have their way. They empa thize with us. They don't want us to get the wrong cigarette ... after all. And not only that —we, the public have a deep need to have exploited our gullibility. So let's lay hold of the axiom so freely given us and make a bee-line—oh, excuse me—a "straight line to the nearest pack of " and we'll find It the shortest dis tance to . . . well, here's to your health! —Bernard Bohl, '6O Little Man on Campus by Dick Bible, rid like the lights turned up a little." " SATURDAY. MARCH , 7, 1959 Reds Are Seen Causing New Mid-East Strife By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst While Nikita Khrushchev de votes most of his attention to Berlin—now backing, now fill ing in order to keep the crisis going without actually risking war—the Soviet Union with its left hand is promoting another flareup in the Middle East. This time the effort is to get Iraqi interests to help pull So viet chestnuts out of the fire in Iran, where they have been burned to a crisp by a weak country which dares to flaunt its preference for the West and particularly the United States. Just Thursday the Iranians put a formal stamp on their position by signing a military defense agreement with the United States. By doing so they accepted the Soviet threat to classify them as enemies. is dance
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