GAGE FOUR
Editorial Opinion
Doors Closed to Coeds
Eighteen fraternlties were Ibted in yesterday morn
ing's C'iflegtan as approved for the housing of imports
th:i
Yet while innumerable imports will enjoy fraternity
hospitality for the semester's first "big weekend," this
hospitality will be available to no Penn State coed.
The only reason for this policy, Dean of Women Pearl
Weston told The Colleg:an yesterday, is that fraterni
tw; probably would be swamped for so many requests
fo:- ‘...eekend housing of coeds that they could not provide
auequateiy for imports or fairly for coeds.
Someday, she said, when fraterniucs have larger
hour -,e), pernaps they will be able to open their doors to
coed, o•;ernight on special occasions.
A careful study of the problems involved might indi
cate an arrangement whereby fraternities could host both
imports and coeds for big weekends now. Perhaps an
arrangement could be worked out whereby imports would
get first preference and coeds could fill up any vacant
spaces in the order of their dates' fraternity seniority.
In any case, the Interfraternitv Council and the
Women's Student Government Association might study a
plan whereby coeds could enjoy the same "big weekend"
hospitality now provided imports.
Lifting the Limits
All-Univercity Cabinet has lifted the campaign spend
ing limits from political parties.
This long•overdue action not only will enable the
parties to stage campaigns on a more realistic basis, but
it will help to provide for the extensive campaigns that
will be necessary under a revised student government.
The unrealistically low debt limits have long been a
ti.orn in the side of the student political system. They
have not allowed the parties to conduct campaigns large
enough to attract the attention of enough students in this,
the 11th-largest university in the nation. And they have
contributed to the delinquency of party chairmen, who
have resorted to double-billing and other under-the-table
methods to get around the limits.
It should not be understood, however. that the parties
will spend ridiculously large amounts of money on future
campaigns, nor that a candidate will be able to buy his
way into office.
For Cabinet also provided that total amounts of cam
paign expenditures be reported and that the parties be
limited in their spending by the amounts in their treasur
ies, thus eliminating another old curse of Penn State
politics, the dolitical bad debt.
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Interpreting
Dulles' Illness
Reaps Harvest
Of Kind Words
By J. M. ROBERTS
Assoctated Prep New, Analyst
Secretary of State John Foster
Dulles is reaping from his illness
a harvest of kind words to which
he is certainly not accustomed.
Working in a field which very
largely involves the future, about
which anyone can have an opin
ion but no one can be positive,
nearly all American secretaries
of state have to toughen them
selves for widespread criticism.
Working in times of crisis such
as have existed ,since World War
IL few secretaries have been so
wide open to this phenomenon as
Dynes and Dean Acheson.
Yet both are among the best
qualified men who ever held the
office.
The European press has been
the source of some of the bit
terest criticism of Dulles. Yet
now when the chips are down,
and the dangers of losing his
leadership during the Berlin
crisis are openly recognized,
the expressions of good will are
almost unanimous.
Dulles has irritated Europeans
in various w;tys. Since the war
the good will of the American
secretary of state has become a
necessity to them. That in itself
is irritating.
Dulles in some cases has been
too tough for them. He has used
American economic and political
power to slug them into action
when they were dilatory, as when
he threatened nolicy "reapprais
al" while the Allies dallied over
bringing Germany into the West
ern defense picture.
In personal conversation
Dulles reveals a slogan which
he does not voice soecifically.
He wants to be right within
the moral principles by which
he was raised, but realizes he
must also work within the
bounds of expediency.
This mixing of morality and
business is sometimes disconcert
ing to European diplomats. It
knocked them off their Pins, and
helood knock Anthony Eden out
of office, during the Suez crisis.
They may not like him, but
they don't want to lose him. And
they are made wary of their own
dislike by the fact that he is most
unpopular in the seat of their
worst enemies, the Kremlin.
Gazette
Arnold Air Society. 9 a.m. to S p.m., 214.
15.16 HUB
4-H Club Committee, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.. 213
HUB
Gymnastics--Michigan 8 p.m., Recreation
Hall
Student Movies, 7 p.m., HUB assembly
hall
WSGA Screening Committee, 1 to S p.m.,
217 HUB
TOMORROW
Alpha Nu. 710 p m., 218 HUB
Christian Fellowship, 2 p m., 2.1t1 HUB
Ed Student Council. 2 p.m.. 212 HUB
Future Teachers of America. 1 p.m.. 217
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FLUB
Grad Bridge Club, 7 p m., 214-15.18 HUB
Newman Club. 7 p.m.. 218 FLUB
Stamp Club. 2 p m. .
213 HUB
Student Stories , 6:30 p.m., HUB assembly
hall
Thesplana. 7 pm , 212 HUB
MONDAY
APhio. 7 p.m., 214 HUB
Dance Clam, 6:31 p.m.. HUB ballroom
Christian Fellowship. 12:30 p.m.. 218 HUB
College of Education, 4 p.m., HUB assem
bly hail
Freshman Council, 6:30 p.m., 218 HUB
Creek Week Committee, 8 p.m., 217 HUB
Leadership Training. 8:30 p.m.. 217 HUB
PhysEd Student Connell, 8 p.m., 218 HUB
WSGA Convocation, 7:30 p.m.. HUB main
lounge
Norman Altman. Robert Cowan. C.
James Desmond, Marlin Ebert. Janke
Frank, Ann Grosa, Sharon Hoffman. Wil•
Ham Holeman, Linda Lane, Martin Lowy.
Michael l'ilaruichak, Bruce Mitchell. Eliza
beth Prideansc. Bernard Radovic. Thomas
Basra, John Snodgrasa, Michael Tamarkin,
William tipdegrove. Michael West.
Weather--
(Continued from page one)
with warmer afternoon tempera
tures. Cloudy and cool weather
is expected tonight with either
rain or snow beginning late.
Temperatures will range from an
afternoon high of 40 to a low of
32 tonight.
Cloudy skies and colder temp
eratures-will accompany the win
ner of the battle tomorrow—snow
or rain.
TODAY
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Little Man on Campus by Dkk s
"But he told ME It would leave a scars"
et cetera
McgazineSucceeds
In Many Ways
The artwork in Circa—student literary magazine
which goes on sale for 25 cents Monday and a piece by
Nick Kolumban make the periodical a fulfillment of the
promise displayed in the first Circa.
Mr. Kolumban's "Poetry in Prose" is a remarkably
good piece. It is a succession of
beautiful images, good meta
phor and imaginative personi
fication
For example, the lines: "Sud
denly the sky grows gloomy.
The wind arranges the clouds
which he collected above the
sea; the trees suspect some
thing unusual. The moon turns
pale and escapes into the dark
ness. The clouds imprison the
stars, the only jewels of the
night. The storm arrives."
"Poetry in Prose" is full of
such truly artistic pictures. An
other example is Kolumban's
dislike for the daytime:
"I hate the daytime. The - sun
is too bright, raw and curious;
he is always
after me and
glues an awk
ward shadow
to my feet.
He is impolite
t o o, because
he never, asks
if I want
warmness or
not; he just
takes my shirt
off. I cannon
understand
him: he is a FINEMAN
monotonous worker, giving
light and heat."
Charles Antalosky's story,
"Carnival," the last in the little
book, is a successful piece. It
is more poetry than fiction,
since the two characters are
not really characters at all.
They are not particularized,
but general. Which is appro
priate, since the piece is a por
trayal not of this couple's love
less love but of all such un
fortunate cases. The theme,
loveless love, is of the kind of
male-female experience which
deludes and then disappoints
the spirit. all handled well by
Mr. Antalosky.
These instances of excellence
are fortunate, since the rest of
the magazines' fiction is some
thing of a letdown.
'-'Not Quite Saturday"—the
lead story by Matthew Robin
son—displays a talent for writ-
SATURDAY, MARCH 14. 1959
,by Dave Fineman
ing and a talent for story-tell
ing. But not a talent for creat
ing a convincing and artistic
piece of fiction. There are two
characters in Robinson's story
—Musty Machelor and God,
the beginnings of what could
be a good piece. But Musty's
problem—that of an honest
guilt feeling, which could have
been but was not at all de
veloped—soon becomes mud
dled in a succession of coinci
dences. which are jarring and
unsatisfactory.
He suddenly discovers he
won't starve after all because
he finds a can of water and a
can of Spam on his liferaft
(yea): but a big wave knocks
the can of water out of his
hands (boo): but he opens the
can of Spam and it looks de
licious (yea); but he discovers
it's Friday and he can't eat
meat on Friday (boo): but he's
so hungry that he eats it any
way (yea): but he's punished
through God's wrath in the
form of a giant wave that
comes along just at the right
moment; the end of the story,
and throws Musty into the sea
(boo hoo).
It's the kind of story that
when professionalized could
easily fit into Playboy or one
of its imitators. But not the
kind to be included in a col
lege LITERARY magazine.
The magazine's cover is a
fascinating design which de
fies attempts to guess how it
was made. "It was made with
a potato," according to Circa
Editor Ruth Billig. She ex
plained that the artist used a
cut-open potato like a wood
block, pressing the potato's de
sign onto paper which was
later photographed.
An especially good charcoal
and ink drawing faces page
13—a startling black effect on
a yellow background. Other ex
cellent drawings face pages 26
and 30.
As a whole, Circa is a quite
creditable piece of work. Con
gratulations to Editor Bunt
Billig and Art Director Sever
A. Toretti. •