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Editorial Opinion
Two Faithful Friends
Male students are soon to lose two good friends in the
administration
Both Harold J. Perkins, associate dean of men, and
0. Edward Pollock, assistant to the dean of men in charge
of fraternity affairs, have announced they will be leaving
the campus at the end of the school year. Perkins will be
come administrative head of the Wyommissing Center and
Pollock will take up the post of dean of men at Union
College, Schenectady, N.Y.
Perkins has served the University since 1949, first as
fraternity adviser and after Pollock arrived, handling stu
dent disciplinary cases. As fraternity adviser, Perkins
worked with student leaders in Initiating Greek Week
and in starting the Interfraternity Council's workshops,
two currently successful projects.
Perkins now has the big task of handling student
discipline, which includes everything from patching up
occasional ruffles in town-gown relations to keeping an
eye on all student courts and their decisions. Perkins also
has handled Orientation Week for the last two years, and
under his leadership it has gone off well.
Pollock is a fraternity man, and he has never forgotten
this fact in his position as fraternity counselor. He has
worked constantly for the cause of the fraternity system
at the University, and has been at once an able administra
tor, a wise adviser and a loyal friend to fraternity men.
Pollock has kept tab on the personal problems of every
one of the University's 54 fraternities, problems ranging
from financial difficulties to keeping the house's physical
plant in shape and its members out of trouble. He has been
available 24 hours a day to help fraternity men in any
way he could.
Both Perkins and Pollock have been valuable admin
istrators to the University and faithful friends to the stu
dents. Penn'State owes much to their counsel and leader-
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of illness, E. S. Krug, assistant
University physician, said, "We've
had practically every bed filled
up.//
Earlier this week Krug said
there had bee nan outbreak of
tonsilitis and "mild influenza"
cases, but he pointed out that an
increase in these cases is common
for this time of year.
Krug labeled the influenza
cases as "Influenza B," a milder
form of "Influenza A," better
known as Asiatic flu.
The widespread outbreak of
respiratory diseases in 1957 was
a part of the sweeping Asiatic
flu epidemic which crippled the
nation that year. At that time the
Hitenour Health Center was over
crowded with patients, forcing
many of them to receive treat
ment in their rooms.
Special "sick lunches" were
prepared for distribution among
the stricken students who were
unable to go to the dining halls
for their meals, At the peak of
the outbreak, 7700 such meals
were distributed in one day.
The Lost Horizon has been
found—by politics, revolt
and the 20th century.
Such is the tragedy of
Tibet, that besides the hor
ror of bloodletting and the
inhumanity of Chinese rule,
there is the frustrating disap
pointment of
Tibet as the
symbol of the
end of ro
mance,
This is not,
of course, to
minimize the
death and dis
placement re
sulting from
the ruthless
ness of Com
munist rule
there.
F INEMAN
But James Hilton's Lost Hor
izon is one of the masterpieces
of romantic literature and to
see the exotic land of the story
smeared with the blood of our
"progressive" 20th century is
TODAY
TOMORROW
MONDAY
et cetera
One Tragedy of Tibet:
Last Lost Horizon Found
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Students Asked
To Study Plan
TO THE EDITOR: Several
weeks ago a petition signed by
over 700 students was put be
tore All-University Cabinet,
requesting that the new Stu
dent Government Association
plan be placed on the ballot.
Cabinet granted the request,
To better inform the stu
dents about the new plan, the
Reorganization Committee and
several others have planned
various methods of discussing
SGA principles. One of these
was a special open reorgani
zation meeting last Wednesday
evening.
Four of the committee mem
bers waited in the meeting
room for 40 minutes after the
meeting was scheduled to be
gin. Not one person showed
up!
Perhaps the 700 persons who
signed the petition completely
understand the reorganization.
This is fine—but doubtful.
It took the committee over
a year to derive the principles
of SGA, and Cabinet took over
a month to become acquainted
with them.
Displays in the HUB and
Waring lounge, explanations
on closed-circuit TV, two more
open meetings and an elections
call y are planned. Since the
students asked to vote on re
organization, it is their duty to
learn as much about it as pos
sible.
Otherwise the vote they have
is useless.
—Walter Darran, '6l
member, Student Government
Reorganization Committee.
to see possibly the end of real
romance.
There is little that is roman
tic in literature today. Perhaps
Broadway is the last outpost
of romance, which is unfortu
nate indeed. For this kind of
romance finds its subject mat
ter in the most unseemly
places.
I cite "West Side Story" as
a well known example of mod
ern romances (no pun intend
ed). The show romanticizes, of
all things, the gang problem
in the slums of New York.
This, and other such exam
ples, show the futility of mod
ern writers who attempt to pen
romance.
True enough, we should be
realistic, for how can literature
(and other art) be a true imi
tation of life if it is not real
istic. But there is always a
place for romance, although I
am certain this place is not in
the gang wars of West Side
New York.
But to return to Tibet (as if
we ever really could, even
through Hilton, with any hope
or conviction at all).
SATURDAY. APRIL 11, 1959
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Reader Blasts
Hospital Rule
TO THE EDITOR: Why are
women prohibited from visit
ing men patients in the Uni
versity infirmary? This aston
ishing rule was brought to my
attention last Friday afternoon
when I went to visit a friend
during the 2-hour visiting per
iod and learned that "mixed
visiting" is not permitted.
I explained to the hospital
representative that the patient
I wanted to visit was an Equa
dorian school administrator
with eight children. Since my
friend does not speak English
well, I knew he would he glad
to see me. For a foreigner
away from his family and in a
strange country a stay in the
hospital can be a very lonely
and unhappy experience.
There must be some reason
for this strange policy. As a
medical employee in a number
of hospitals, I have never
known of an instance where
members of the opposite sex
were forbidden from visiting
their friends during visiting
hours.
Wouldn't a more liberal pol
icy be an easy way to improve
this situation?
—Elizabeth Renner
EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Herbert
R. Glenn, director of the
Health Service, yesterday said
the policy is as old as the
Health Service its elf and is
necessary because "we have
difficulty with boy-girl rela
tions under these circumstan
ces." He said, "It's more a mat
ter of discipline than anything
else." But he said exceptions
can be made and the case in
point "might have been han
dled a little more diplomati•
cally."
by Dave Fineman
Ringed by until-now im
penetrable mountains, the
country has always been con
sidered a far corner of the
earth. Kipling, a while back,
wrote "The Man Who Would
Be King," which was a story
of Tibet. It was such a mys
terious place at the time that
whatever he said was accepted
in a matter of course as truth
and the exotic picture he
painted of it stuck in the minds
of other adventure writers.
But the image is lost now.
The final stroke was the recent
news that what Tibetans are
still alive and in power will
take their problem to the Uni
ted Nations, a most unroman
tic forum.
I do not lament this pro
posed act on the pdrt of Tibe
tans, for certainly the rest of
the world has an obligation to
preserve the sovereignty, and
more important, the lives of
the Tibetan people.
But I merely add my voice
to those who lament the turn
of events in modern times
which has made the destruc
tion of romance so necessary.